skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, Liquid Death makes it a point to have zero plastic: https://liquiddeath.com/pages/death-to-plastic
Cans are lined with plastic though. Now you could make an argument that less plastic is used but your water is still touching plastic.
If you do the right kind of searches you'll see people are working on using cellulose as a chemical feedstock and for plastics. That sort of research was dead since after WWII until recently.
Way back on Oracle 9i, we had a mystery stall problem. We couldn’t saturate the network, the CPU, or the fiber channel links. We were stuck at ~50% and stumped. Some fuckery was going on and we had to call in a professional.

Turned out 9i could only run queries that currently resided in the query cache, and some idiot (who was now my boss) had fucked up our query builder code so that we were getting too many unique queries. Not enough bind variables.

So it’s clear Oracle was using a shared cache back then, but like other people here, I’m scratching my head how this would work with Postgres’s flavor of MVCC. Maybe share query plans when the transaction completes?

I feel like that would get you 90% of the way but with some head of queue nastiness.
(Available in the US too)
Takes like this miss the forest for the trees. The overall point is that automated programming is now a target, just like automating assembly lines became a target back in the day. There will be kinks in the beginning, but once the target is set, there will be a huge incentive to work out the kinks to the point of near full automation
The soul moved the pen, and broke it: Flaubert's emotional style
Or people who aren't depressed find it easier to stick to a healthy diet?
Love the lingo:

“Prepaid billing allows API users to pre-purchase usage.”

I just hope the guys who write their documentation are not the same who RLHF the upcoming AGI.
Unfortunately video codecs love to crush that fine detail.
You can feel your head for them. Even if you have one attach, Lyme is really only concern after 72 hours of attachment (other things can be an immediate concern). You should be quite itchy and notice it before then. A single dose of antibiotics is a highly effective post exposure prophylactic. Lyme is a concern, but not as bad as many in the media make it out to be.
I had a realization a while back: nobody sells products anymore. Even the products are part of a marketing campaign. Think of this. Burger Joint comes out with a new burger. They advertise it endlessly, you go to the joint and buy one and give them your money. Would they take your money without giving you anything at all if they could? Of course they would, but that doesn't work. They have to give you something.

The "product" is nothing more than the last mile of a marketing campaign. They don't care about the product, only the revenue. Almost no product is created today that is designed solely to meet an existing market need, they're all crafted as part of a holistic marketing campaign. The product doesn't matter, only that you give them money. People naive enough to not know this and start with creating value are probably laughed at inside marketing and MBA circles worldwide.
Office Jargon Pinball
> they just ban you if they don't like you, or at random for no apparent reason, and you have no recourse.

The ban recourse problem is the opposite.

This is the "keep recourse": "this video is obviously bad, but google doesn't feel like taking it down, and there is nothing I can do about it". Now there is, and it can actually go to a court with a judge in the end, if Google is obstinate.

You didn't have a right to be hosted on Google before, and you don't have now. Of course they can ban you as they like. The thing is, they can't host you as they like, if you're breaking this rule.
https://archive.ph/oO06Z
Internet businesses have physical locations somewhere. Even if they are drop shipping than someone else is paying the land value tax for the warehouses they are shipping from. The land use exists somewhere at some level of the value chain and that somewhere would then be taxed.
Yes, even just using UIKit will take you a decent way for a11y, and if you try to use parameterized fonts and colors where possible, replace image assets with SF Symbols, and fill in accessibility labels it’ll take you into the home stretch.

I’m still not perfect about it but have trying to make a habit to do these things and will periodically test apps I’m working on with e.g. large fonts enabled in Settings, which doubles as a layout robustness test and improves the experience for everybody since it prepares for edge cases that’d otherwise been missed.
This brings back memories of my initial foray into the Internet, when I was part of establishing a modest ISP. We used a satellite link, a Cisco router, and a couple of Sun workstations. Oh, and I mustn't overlook the 33.6 kbps modem server hooked up to a bunch of analog phone lines. Configuring Sendmail, Qmail, Bind, and web servers (specifically a Netscape server), along with CGI programming using Perl 4, was part of the experience. I also delved into learning about IPv4 static routing, followed by BGP, among other things. That was fun.
Now ask the canaries how they feel about the use case toward which they are employed. Takes on a bit of a grim tone in that light, don't it?

Though I won't lie that ADHD hasn't given me a gift for figuring out where institutional structures and processes are egregiously creaking.
It sucks to be disabled and this is why it sucks. People shouldn't be wasting lifetimes of time to so that visually disabled people can be slightly more convenienced to browse the internet or play with an app. Especially with alt-text. Minimal effort is fine. Well structured HTML is all that should be needed.

> How can buying a specialty browser solve a problem of a blind person needing alt text for images?
If a picture is worth a thousand words you're never going to get the alt text right. There can always be complaints it's not good enough. Look at what happened to Dominoes. They made efforts but it wasn't good enough.
> I walked into a grocery store and the reality of what that store represented absolutely floored me.

During a state visit to Johnson Space Center Boris Yeltsin decided to make an impromptu stop at a supermarket. He was floored by the selection and prices. Apparently that was the moment that inspired him to leave the communist party and begin economic reforms in Russia.
I don't see stores continuing to stock items that don't sell long term and this product has been around long enough for the stores to realize this and stop stocking a non selling product. So in saying that I have to disagree with your observation.
I’m outside a lot. Live on a farm in mid-atlantic US. I’m not opposed to chemical solutions, but I have a pretty effective mechanical approach to ticks [1]. Basically it takes advantage of a tick’s inclination to walk upward. Tuck your pants into socks and shirt into pants. Wear colors that contrast with the tick body and CHECK YOURSELF!

1. https://hedgerider.farm/blog/ticks-go-up/
I don't think Waffle House has locations in any major Urban location.

I really wish we had them in Boston also. It is an experience that even other diners don't really replicate.

Especially the price, I am always shocked when I go to visit parents just how much you get at Waffle House for multiple people for what I am used to spending on just myself.

But it is more than that. The size, the layout, the code words for how you want your hash browns, etc.
As We Debate TikTok, We See CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media Against Their Gov
How does the causality run, though? I can imagine someone becoming depressed and, as a result, losing interest in good food. Same with exercise etc. Not to say it can't run both ways, of course.
Someone at Azure thought of this[1]

[1] https://github.com/Azure/fetch-event-source
They have at least two weeks worth in storage.

Waffle House running out of any particular ingredient should never happen, barring serious supply chain malfunction or mis-management.

I briefly worked at one before getting into IT and it was neat to learn how tightly controlled the operations of a restaurant can be. Glad I have those memories.
> LLMs can write the code the solve a sudoku

It’s literally part of its training data. The same way it knows how to solve leetcode, etc.
You should invest as much into accessibility as you do into scaling.

Meaning: you should think about it early on, and design for the need, but not over invest in it too early.

If you're at the the stage where you don't know if your idea will work, you shouldn't be polishing accessibility, just like you shouldn't be denormalizing your database schema to increase performance.

However, you should be thinking about accessibility, just like you should be thinking about how your database queries will scale if you get increased load.

So for example: if you're making a database of images, why not add a field for alt text from the start and start populating it now? If your app needs drag and drop, why not start sketching out an alternative flow for people who can't drag and drop now?
Do you wear glasses? HoW many people do you know need corrective lenses?
But the original owners of those pictures, images, fanfic, all still have them, so stolen seems like the wrong use of word.
I did not see anywhere that the cans do not have a plastic liner...unless I skipped it in the video.
> built an effective marketing apparatus which entices people to pay a premium for their canned water.

And they did that by calling it Liquid Death. Never makes sense to me, but I guess I'm not the target demographic.
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746915
I can't stand it being called "hallucinating" because it anthropomorphizes the technology. This isn't a conciousness that is "seeing" things that don't exist: it's a word generator that is generating words that don't make sense (not in a syntactic sense, but in a semantic sense).

Calling it "hallucination" implies that there are (other) moments when it is understanding the world correctly -- and that itself is not true. At those moments, it is a word generator that is generating words that DO make sense.

At no point is this a conciousness, and anthropomorphizing it gives the impression that it is one.
If the animations shown are representative, then the mesh output may very well be good enough to use in a 3d printer.

Looking forward to experimenting with this.
When I saw Liquid Death on the shelves of WFM, I thought maybe it was targeted at health-nuts and non-alcohol-drinkers wanting something to drink in social situations when people were drinking beer, without "just water, thanks".

With what people are conditioned to pay for drinks at bars and restaurants, paying for water substitute is easier. (Not everyone wants to burp club soda.)

As for bottled water in general, I never would've considered it until a few years ago, since city tap water used to always be fine for me... but personally I'm now drinking and cooking with bottled water exclusively, after repeated pipe incidents in my old apartment building made my usual Pur tap filters inadequate.

Also, based on how quickly stock of 2.5gals of Poland Spring and other brands seem to move from local store shelves, in neighborhoods of student doctors and scientists living in dodgy old buildings... I suspect I'm not the only one who decided that plastic byproducts (and the occasional injury from shuffling around 2.5gals) seemed safer than drinking out of some of these old building pipes.

(Also, there's conditions like Detroit's tragic lead problem. Even the local water authority for my HCOLA recently had a problem with PFAS.)
Yeah I originally thought it was carbonated as well when I first saw it (which I drink a lot of). Never had the misfortune of buying one though.
When I finally got my own set of Gage Block, I finally deeply realized how important they were/are to worldwide precision product design.

I would like to add "measurement" to high precision as well to these lists. Our ability to do accurate measurements allowed observation of phenomena otherwise hidden. (e.g. with a 4.5 digit DMM, you'll get a solid, stable reading. With a 9-digit DMM, you'll see a 'random walk' in the LSDs - caused by all sorts of interesting phenomna)
I am 6'4" (193 cm) and 240 lbs (108 kg). A big boy. I require supplementation at 5000IU to maintain ~48 ng/mL, which is just about normal.

It is impossible, at my latitude, to obtain adequate exposure to sunlight. I tried that.

My doctor said "hmmmm your vitamin d is 9... maybe that explains the all-appendage tendonitis and muscle soreness" and recommended supplementation. I really like being able to spend 10¢ per day on D3 and K2 from Amazon instead of paying for 200,000 IU injections every month or two.
Diffuse isn't the most important bit, the main point is that they happen during the next election cycle.
I see no reason why all people would be on board, and so, I don't think that this is an angle that is worthy of exploration. I feel like it's the same utopian, or draconian kind of thinking that failed when implemented countless times in history.

What you're right about is that we might try, nevertheless. I mean, we have things like the Geneva Convention or the United Nations, however debatable their effectiveness is. We wouldn't know unless we tried. But it's important to note that even though these things exist, violating them is always just an inch away. And then we're basically back to where I started: what you can decide is what part you want in the thing. But I don't think you can make the thing go away.

But I mean, it's not that I invented this myself. It's basically the concept of Pandora's box.
>hacking N64s RSP is a tricky beast of a chip due to all the oddities of it being essentially experimental 3D hardware at the time

It was basically trimmed down cost reduced SGI hardware, noting too exotic or revolutionary.
Whoa! That is awesome. I get chills whenever people tell me they've actually used something I've built. Hoping I get the chance to write more about the stories from my time building Digital Envoy. Congrats on your startup too - I hope it is/was wildly successful!
Every activity carries risk of one form or another.
So....the more problems we ignore, the less anxiety and depression we will have, and the happier we will be!!
Default, or center?
> The high contrast of font to background requirement is so extreme that most major sites and even ADA related sites fail.

Why don't they just use high contrast? Why is readability so unfashionable?
So those combination vitamin D, and K products are scams?
Exactly. Custom software is currently very expensive. Making it cheaper to produce will presumably increase demand for it. Whether this results in more or fewer unemployed SWEs, and if I'll be one of them, I don't know.
>Waffle House goes from nice to war zone and back again

Saturday Night Live did a skit about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3LZGleMBQ there are some talks about stars like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_104 .
Rather it's a system for encoding orders and tracking their state through the process using the materials in the process itself. It enables chefs to plow through orders without having to keep state information in their heads, and probably (I've never observed a Waffle House kitchen in action) makes it possible to swap out chefs without having to describe everything or even interrupt the process.

It's genius as it is. Adding writing to it would only slow things down.
I will admit that I haven't specifically checked on the exact composition of their packaging, but "fuck plastic, we're all aluminum" is a marketing message I have heard from them many times. It's possible that they're making that up, but I would assume they'd get in trouble for lying so blatantly. Maybe that's naive of me.

I don't buy it for environmental reasons, so I've just taken them at their word.
I would be massively impressed by anyone who could build a death star. Imagine what someone like that could accomplish if they put 10% or 1% of their ability and output towards something good.
> Now, public health care (Germany does not have universal healthcare) and social security are not taxes

If you don’t count these as taxes (you should, though), US comes out even stronger. At $200k/year, your effective income tax rate in Maryland is 23%. At $500k/year you’re still at just 33%.

For comparison, if you make in Maryland equivalent of 50k EUR/year, your effective tax rate, including social security and Medicare is just 21%. If you make $55k/year, your job typically offers some health insurance, so if you include employee side premiums for those, you will end up with something like 25%.

And that’s all before we even consider Germany’s 19% VAT vs MD’s 6% sales tax rate.
I know people are making fun of this brand because most engineers think they are above marketing and people should only buy the constituent product.

What liquid death has done is to provide water in an environment where everyone else is drinking a hard drink. Also the can and branding makes you feel you are having more than water. It is a market need and it is being filled by this company.

That is why the founder will make more money than many FAANG engineers will make in their lifetime combined.
Just the way they setup the restaurants is enough to quell a certain level of chaos in a typical dennys. Usually they are pretty sprawling on the inside. Plenty of space between booths. Kind of dimmer/hotel lounge aesthetic in the more recently renovated ones (don't ask me why I am so familiar with short order breakfast chains). Same with ihop only they lean heavily into the kid friendlyness, with posters of decadent sweet pancakes.

Waffle house is cramped, brightly lit with harsh fluorescent light, and nothing but hard surfaces. A few drunk people talking is enough to fill the entire restaurant including the exposed kitchen with sound. If they start throwing anything it quickly hits everyone in the restaurant including the line cooks. I've seen probably four people vomit all over the place in a waffle house. I can't say I've seen anything quite the same in the dennys, usually its truckers and the elderly there not people showing up after last call at the bars.
Not exactly. In electronics, on smallest techprocess most important source of failures, single failures, but on large techprocess, more important become total dose.
Caffeine by itself does not taste good so you’d be right. I don’t know how to describe it other than metallicy and funky, neither of which are very helpful. But it doesn’t taste much like anything else I can think of.
I read this as "catching a thrown chair is the only way to [earn] shares in the org..." which seems kind of fitting, to be honest.
> 9 times out of 10, when I hate something, it’s covering up for a
lack of knowledge and fear around it.

Good point, I've experienced that. Equally I've experienced great
frustration at things I can't understand, not from stupidity
or lack of trying, but because the information is guarded or lost.

Interestingly we're getting back to the roots of why Stallman
first set out on the Free Open Software mission.

The OP mentioned difficulty with opaque/obscure proprietary systems.
I wonder if that's a factor at play?
That page doesn’t actually claim they don’t use plastic in their cans though, just that plastic is bad.
See also, economic policy of the last 100 years or so.
I first saw this at McDonald's. Drink lids (everywhere) have those little bubbles that can be pressed to indicate what type of drink as well. Diet, Sprite, etc.
Right exactly, much like p hacking with studies. Publish enough research papers and you get significant results by chance, and it gets into a headline as "Science shows..." and people believe it.

Unfortunately in this space the amount of deepfakes we can create is massive, so even a system thats 99.999% accurate will leave a lot of fakes through and grant them credibility.

I think we have to focus on an alternative path where we assume any digital content can be fake, unless its creation is provable through some verified sources or methods.

Maybe it's possible to embed some kind of digital fingerprint into images? So as to say, this image was definitely taken by this camera. Pretty sure something like this has been done.
I'm fairly sure IHOP/Denny's have similar problems with patrons these days, they have plenty of high/drunk foolishness to contend with, unfortunately.
No more kitchen presentations Jensen? I wanted to see him pull more stuff out of the oven.
They're different in magnitude, sure.

But even if I grant you the argument that the same system that bans child labor necessarily leads to the neoliberal brainworms of "let's create a 3% tax credit for businesses that used to be car washes," I'm still very happy we addressed the real problems. And I'd say that government intervention worked, even if some of the laws they pass are stupid or trivial.
So the proposal is that people should never be able to use the land they own for their own purposes without the threat of being dispossessed because strangers are willing to pay more for it, even if they don't want to sell?

That sounds like a horrible situation, and it seems clear why real-world tax systems don't take this approach to its ultimate conclusion.

There's also something very objectionable about attempting to use taxation as a tool to manipulate behavior and engineer outcomes. Where taxation is justifiable, it is justifiable solely as a pragmatic means to fund the necessary operations of government, and never as an end in itself.
You may want to look into Peñabots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot
I can't believe how it is working in such a big structure with just GitHub alone. GitLab with groups/subgroups and also integrated sourcegraph seems such more practical at this scale.
More people have died from wind turbines than in all the nuclear accidents combined.

Here’s some data from just Scotland: https://scotlandagainstspin.org/turbine-accident-statistics/
100% yes. So many things seem like magic.

Big things, like big mechanical things or carpentry, I get.

But the incredible precision that we’ve achieved at the microscopic scale with CPUs and such always confound me. So many things happening perfectly in sync at mind boggling scale and speed.

And yeah, even the mundane products that we can produce at incredible scale. CAT-6 cable by the mile, seemingly effortless. Glasses and contact lenses curved to a perfect shape by the millions, no problem.

The corpus of thought and work that’s built up over the span of human endeavors is really pretty impressive.

How To Make Everything was a great series on YouTube. It really did a good job of capturing how incredibly difficult it is to go from nothing to even a primitive existence.

Thanks for your post!
Title is a bit clickbaity. Using AI in videos is not 100% a blanket issue. It's only for "videos containing altered or synthetic media that could be mistaken for real".

This is obviously to target things such as deepfakes.
compare Cowslip's Warren in Watership Down (1972)

> "Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!" —Bigwig (RGA)
Chandigarh is connected to HP's water system. There are multiple dams just a couple miles away of CH.
It shouldn't be a problem for about a decade [0]?

What's your hit rate for the fallback?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSocket
>I don't think Waffle House has locations in any major Urban location.

Columbus, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia both have Waffle Houses. I don't think it's universally a rule that they stay out of cities.
When I said "UX designers often take this from granted", what I meant was "literally every single UX designer I have ever worked with professionally has taken this for granted".