skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This App is designed exactly to create videos for loved ones based on what people have said they wanted to know about deceased parents.

: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recordmenow/id987986634

“The questions have been selected from 5 years of research into what people, whose parents died when young, wished that they had known. Use them as a springboard. You can select the questions you want to answer and/or add your own. Answer what you like, in the order you like. Ignore the questions you don’t like. Come back to others.”
About 10 years ago I went shopping at Furnitureland South, mentioned in the article. The selection was a bit overwhelming, but we picked out a solid wood bedroom set from a manufacturer in Canada. It's held up great, as has my kids' IKEA bedroom furniture.

I've purchased couches from West Elm, Restoration Hardware, and a few other well-known places, and they've all been disappointing. From now on I'll stick to Furnitureland and IKEA, but I don't know if I have the energy to go couch shopping at Furnitureland.
Imagine telling a grown adult that they aren't allowed to look at the nipple of a consenting adult or the state will intervene. Absolutely wild take.
West Elm has a bit of a reputation in that regard
I was thinking this too. I’m very thankful to live in the EU and have the right to have my PII data deleted.
I would love to see a comparison of the major PostgresQL services such as Citus, EDB, Crunchy, Neon, and some OSS distributions/packages
I see, I did misread it!

But I don’t think I can agree with what you meant then - why would our brain mostly ignore it in real life but not in video games?
Where is the transition from something feeling real (in an immersive way) to us not liking it because it feels awkward, and why does it happen?
I’m imagining a “perfect simulation” game which is like real life in ways that matter/don’t get in your way in terms of gameplay - I think everyone would be awed (of course this can be argued though). What would need to degrade in terms of realism for it to seem awkward/not be immersive anymore?

I agree with the movie example, but in a game you don’t have to watch the mundane - it’s just background “noise” to make the world believable.
This is a good dig into changes in design and manufacturing trends, which makes sense for Dwell, but I suspect we'd see more people complaining about their furniture quality these days even without manufacturing changes because many people are like 50% heavier than the people in sitting in couches 50 years ago -- and often more likely to collapse into a sofa than to set themselves down upon it.

So it's actually kind of a two sided loss in quality: the designs are flimsier even while the engineering requirements have become more demanding.
I ordered a dresser once from a local store, they bought some cheap crap from Amazon and passed it off as "shipping from storage". It arrived broken and I couldn't get my money back, which I probably would have if I got something similar through an online retailer.
Darn I was hoping pottery barn would be reliable..
A young engineer must know that getting stuck on a legacy project is a career-limiting move. Happened to me when I got stuck on a old Ada codebase for a legacy aerospace system (unemployed in 2008, you take whatever job you can get), and it took years, and a good chunk of my spare time doing projects/studying, to find a company willing to give me a chance working on something modern again.

Now, someday when I'm in my 60s/70s, and you have some legacy system written in some defunct language nobody under the age of 50 has any experience with, sure, I'll do it. But it'll cost you.
Recently talked to a DOE program manager. I confronted them with the question why we do things like machine learning or quantum computing in academia, when there's no hope in matching industry for those things. His answer was that from an official perspective this isn't the goal, but future workforce training for national interests and security. NSF might differ slightly, but I think this makes sense.
Around ten heavily-updated (50-400k updated rows/min) tables ranging between 500M and 5B rows,
with a couple tables over 40B rows each (5TB each IIRC).
I am happy with my Lovesac sofa, too. It was expensive, but I can't think of another product I could expect to be as happy with, so Lovesac seems to be in a class of their own and can demand whatever price they want.

In particular, it's comfortable, well built, but not bulky. I can take it apart move it in my regular sized SUV if needed. I move a lot, and eventually grew tired of bulky things that were difficult or impossible to move without professional help.

I also tried a Burrow sofa which has the same modular properties, but it was not comfortable at all and I had to return it
Am I the only one finding the layout of this blog distracting? Kind of disappointing from a UX company. The images are also massive, the page was 42.21mb!

Good article none the less! Always appreciate when companies like Figma document technical challenges.
Did anyone notice at around T+30:16 the cargo door was almost shut when it looked like it popped out of place. Then the view suddenly switched to an external camera.

Am I wrong?
Right after the engine cut-offs for the second stage from the first burn you can see at least one tile missing and during the burn before that I also saw some dark flecks fly off.

It certainly looked like there was either a fairly continuous firing of the cold gas thrusters, a stream from the second stage engines, or some atmospheric effects from being in such a low orbit.
I've edited the text above to say "days or even weeks".
I've had CitusDB running across 68 bare metal machines (40 vCPU, 768GiB ram, 20TiB of storage each + 40GiB network links) and it ran decently well.

Not sure what your definition of massive is, I think Spanner would easily beat it.

Also, it's very use-case dependent, you can't "just use" Citus for everything, it's not quite as flexible as a bog-standard pgsql install due to the way it's sharding, you have to be a tad more careful with your data model.
I imagine holiday inn is all custom built to spec.
thanks! great to know, just emailed you!
This is the research I come here for.
Thats a separate topic. The issue is that people claim that Microsoft does not respect privacy, while [insert their favorite electronic brand here] does.
OT:

I can’t read the site due to a massive “We value your privacy” pop up informing me about the 1532 data-harvesting “partners” they sell information to, and there’s only “Allow All” button accessible (which is illegal by GDPR).

They really value my privacy, for its resale value.
I think a lot of this is attached to a puritan-based work ethic. If something isn't hard to do, or require a lot of time and energy then it's not of high quality or worth having.

It's probably a signaling thing too...
I'm saying if you could fold the grid fin, the surface area presented may be as high or higher than the surface area presented when unfolded.
Jumping in with the pro-IKEA crowd. I've had a KIVIK since 2017 that has survived me, my wife, and friends incredibly well. It's moved with us 3 times and still is in great shape. Easily the best value piece of furniture currently in my home.
I have two pre-WWII Gispen chairs with thick foam seats, and only recently (last couple years) they started to dry out (become 'crispy' at the top surface). I suspect it is because I am not actively using them anymore, rather than because of their age.
A different kind of CT log
Money is (almost)* never sucked out of the economy with crypto, real or not because with every transaction, money comes out from the seller’s side. Same goes for real estate, stocks, and commodities.

*Exceptions:

-Broken stablecoin smart contacts or stablecoin wallets with lost private keys.

-Many bonds, for example: I-Bonds.
Our kids at school are using https://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/ for an introduction to Python and it seems they're making good progress (age 11 to 14)

It's available in German (and maybe other languages), too.
After a lot of digging a few years ago, I settled on the IKEA Finnala. So far it's held up pretty well.

It's not as well made as quality pieces, but I worked from the assumption that any couch I bought would be trash. Some of the nice things about a buying into a system like the Finnala are that when an arm, cushion, cover, or whatever fails, I can just replace that piece; there are aftermarket covers and legs; if I move it can be disassembled; and if a new place is smaller, the whole thing doesn't have to be trashed.

I love quality furniture, but it doesn't always fit the bill for a society where people can't afford a single family house or put down roots. (Note: that still doesn't necessarily justify all the items being sold today that are destined for a landfill in a few years.)
My sugestion is to write a blog post about calculating the first 5 or 10 digits, and at the bottom add a link to your app. This may get more traction here.

Which method are you using? A long time ago I used 1+1/3+(1x2)/(3x5)+(1x2x3)/(3x5x7)+... but I wrote a program to make all the calculation.
> If you can't tell how good a programmer is by his resume, then....why the does everybody use resumes to try to do it???

I'm wondering at this point if you've ever hired for an engineering position before...

Lots of assumptions here, but we don't use keyword filtering.

> you'll filter out all geniuses who decided that 4 years at Amazon is enough for anybody and wants to make a move.
Geniuses with 4 years of experience are probably working at Google for 400k+ salaries and are outside of our hiring range.

You have to prioritize time and when you get 500 people with < 5 years experience and 499 of them are not geniuses, it's not easy to find the needle in the haystack.

> I hate to put it in such stark terms, but if your assessment is ruling out good programmers and letting through bad programmer(s), its worthless. You need replace it with something that actually works.

It's a difficult balance because if it's made easier then it lets through more bad ones and if it's made harder it potentially filters out more good ones.
> lest you hear about inconvenient facts that aren't approved by the official government narrative.

Bullshit like this is exactly why they're avoiding it.
I don't live in the Bay Area anymore, but once great thing about living there was the amount of secondhand West Elm / Williams Sonoma furniture for reasonable prices that you could buy from rich people. Most of their quality is a crapshoot but at the right price you can find good deals for some of their items.
Facebook stock grants vest every three months, so it's as good as salary, so a senior engineer will be getting >$50k in stock every three months from day 1. Google is the same, except it's monthly. Not exactly the same as cash, but close enough for budgeting purposes.
I was 13 once too.
love it. no need to make it more complex than that!
> What is the line from The Social Network? "Its not cool to be a millionaire, its cool to be a billionaire" or something along those lines. I think a lot of people aren't happy with being just very wealthy I suppose.

I think the founders of those companies would be fine with the millionaire outcome, as it beats crashing and burning in pursuit of billions.

The problem is the VC mindset.
Because people don't want to pay for good plywood, proper webbing, and quality fabrics. Real furniture weighs a lot, and doesn't make sense to ship around the planet.

Thus, people get foam, OSB, and cardboard in a fake canvas bag.

Good upholsterers are hard to find, often eccentrics, and usually will not tolerate cheapskates. If you own something pricey like a boat or restaurant, than most are happy to get something that will last. Even a few yards of period correct fabrics or leather is more expensive than the typical Ikea living room set.

One needs to learn these things if you want to stay married. lol =)
> I assure you no one's mortgage here is $850 a month

That doesn't surprise me, but it doesn't change my point. Your math is just slightly different.

I'm not super familiar with NOLA housing prices and such, but I can't imagine that it's on par with SF or LA. That means you can work for a lower base comp and still have the same amount (or more!) left over after meeting your basic needs.
In a nutshell, we did it to ourselves by excessively promoting the novel over the course of many decades.

Starting with the avant-garde movements of the 20's, through the communism era (Hasek was a socialist and a communist) to this day, we've been essentially saying Svejk characterizes the true nature of what it means to be a Czech. You literally hear school teachers tell their students a drunk devious simpleton is considered a role model.

The topic is quite complex, there's more history and politics involved, but I'm not going there.

Disclaimer: By no means am I criticizing the book or people who like it.
Are you sure it's "Americans" or is it the Internet? Our experience of Americans may not be identical. Even just my co-workers and family seem to rarely if ever be aware of the same things on television I care about, granting I watch far more nature documentaries than anything else and had no access to broadcast networks until they launched streaming services in the last couple years since I cord cut around 2011 or so. The only thing from the past 15 years I can think of that seemed widely at least known about to most people I talked to was Game of Thrones, but even that was far from universal. My HVAC guy commented that I looked different because I had long hair and a ponytail the last time he saw me a few years ago and I said it was because I grew my hair out for Khal Drogo cosplay and he had no clue what I was talking about. He'd never even seen Game of Thrones or probably any other television. I actually remember that about two of my ex-girlfriend's dads from when I was in my early 20s. They were both small business owners and had no knowledge whatsoever about pop culture. They were so focused on their businesses that they never watched any television or saw any films.

In any case, even though there is nothing on television I watch with any regularity currently, I would still rate my sofa as a fairly important piece of furniture. Not as important as my bed, but it is the largest piece of furniture and the centerpiece of my largest room. My kitchen/living room is open floor plan townhouse and I cook quite a bit, and I can't just stand all day, so that's where I rest, even though I'm just listening to music when I do so and not watching television. When I lay down to read a book, that's also usually where I do it. If I take a nap during the day, it's typically on the sofa. We usually eat dinner there, too, even though we're not watching television, just because it's more comfortable than any other place we have to sit. I even work from my sofa pretty frequently.

But I've got no complaints, personally. I paid $300 or so at the PX when I joined the Army almost 20 years ago and bought my first house and still have the same sofa. It certainly didn't fall apart on me. It's moved with me four times. My wife and I debate getting a nice one but always decide not to because our cats are going to tear it up and puke on it all the time anyway.
- Allow to remove the pairing after a timed delay, say 30 minutes

- Require authentication including a second factor to initiate and confirm the removal

Assuming a mugger isn't likely to sit there for 30 minutes given the chance someone could walk by. If this is the only way to remove the part such that it can be paired with another device, doesn't it solve both problems? I get the feeling Apple is being a bit disingenuous with their "risk to consumers" claims.
I use this https://artificialanalysis.ai/
At best, you'd still need at least a square meter of reflector for every square meter of target unless you were willing to accept significantly reduced output.
Going out on a limb here, wouldn't code written that long ago be almost impossible to hack with modern tools? (not to mention still using the old hardware.)
The basic assumption at play here is that data about you that you don't control is likely going to end up being used against you, which I think isn't unreasonable. Flawed risk metrics, even if they are only used to benefit those who are flagged, may still turn out to be unfavorable for some employees (eg for the false negatives).
I look through the antiques subreddit often and lots of really nice quality furniture is hardly valued now because it's out of style. A good quality sofa should be able to be re-foamed and fabriced forever but I think we're all just too mindset on cheap and disposable since that's the easiest route.
Did they remove it? It says the researchers provided a notebook that they used to verify the attack.
This whole notion of epic being the little guy is just dumb. These platforms were built and supply a value. Epic tried and they give away games no stop to entice users to use the platform. It’s not great, steam is better. Instead focus on making better games and content that push me to buy.

It just comes off as greedy and whiney.
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Yeah, seems like something that needed to be closed even if it were on the cool side of the reentry.
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> Organizing a wiki effort, just to spite the original won't work, because that's not enough, and not the right kind of fuel to last for such an undertaking.

Can confirm firsthand. The wiki project I founded was pretty niche (no overlap with Wikipedia) but took hundreds of hours of page creation just to get off the ground. It has to be a labour of love.
Huh? I'm not talking about papering over it on the TCP or HTTP/2 level. I'm talking about the actual physical radio protocols, and my message could not be more explicit about it.

If you don't understand something, it'd be more productive to ask questions than just make shit up like that.
We tend to charge per request our users send us.. although the exact amount depends a lot on the exact task you want to run. Want to send Skyvern on a 40+ page journey to answer a question? It's a bit more expensive than just navigating to a page and extracting information

I'd love to chat about your use-case. Happy to follow-up over email (suchintan@skyvern.com) or over a quick call (https://meetings.hubspot.com/suchintan)
The FUD begins
piocodollars per byte https://www.tarsnap.com/picoUSD-why.html if you want to scare all your non technical users.
Miles east of Long Island, the U.S. has its first large offshore wind farm
Sounds really interesting! I have ~4 years of experience with java & distributed systems, I'm not really active on github. Can I apply?
And while 2-4 people are playing pool, where's everybody else? On various sitting furniture. I think we need to go one step further, and revive the conversation pit. (aka, the supercouch)
LA Dodgers extends $0 contract for 6th time so player can keep health insurance
We bought some sofas secondhand when moving into our first home. They were great, and they held up well for many years. But ultimately we sold them and bought new ones because we didn't know if they had the fire-retardant chemicals that used to be mandated in CA (until they were discovered to be carcinogenic). The new sofa (from Costco) seems good but the sofa chairs (from Wayfair) are not so good.

It seems like the frame in the back has some sort of support that is made out of a material that is closer to cardboard than wood. When our kids run into it, the back of the chair deforms a bit and has to be bent back. I have no idea why the frame of a chair would be made out of something so weak. I expect we'll have to replace them in 5 years or so, and we'll aim for something more old-school.
My leather sectional cost as much as a decent used car and it hurt to write that check, but it's definitely well built.
What does acceptable use of their own land look like to you? What would meet your specific approval?
It definitely is.

For ADHD in particular I think you have to zero in on executive function. It does bring along a lot of friends, but poor executive function is absolutely the keystone of any ADHD diagnosis

If you don't struggle with that, then you can probably safely eliminate it as a suspect... Or at least put it much lower on the list
There was only a shortage because it wasn't a free market, i.e. nobody wanted to make the dick move of raising the price of bread or toilet paper, because it would cause hardship.

If the prices had been allowed to rise, supply would have equaled demand very quickly, and the shelves would have been stocked as ever. Of course, some people wouldn't have been able to afford them, so we needed some external, non-market mechanism (rationing) to keep prices lower.
There's not even a one-year cliff anymore at Meta or Google.
Who is CIG?
First of all, wonderful work. I'm gonna be using this for sure. I can think of many use cases. What would be nice though is a simple API. I send you what I need, you send me a jobId that I can use to check the status of my job and then let me download the results when I'm done.

I played with the Geico example, and it seems to do a good job on the happy path there. But I tried another one where it struggled... I want to get me car rental prices from https://www.costcotravel.com/. I gave it airport + time of pickup and dropoff, but it struggled to hit the "rental car" tab. It got caught up on hitting the Rental Car button at the top, which brings up a popup that it doesn't seem to read.

When I put in https://www.costcotravel.com/Rental-Cars, it entered JFK into the pickup location, but then failed to click the popup.
It’s impressive how well the T5 family of models has aged, even compared to newer LLM architectures.
Wayfair is largely dropship trash.
> It looks fake and everyone knows that.

Sometimes I wonder if being fake is seen as pejorative as it used to be. I mean the whole "social media influencer" thing is super fake, but people seem to eat that shit up and a depressing number of kids aspire to be one.
I have a very old linkedin account that has 10 years-outdated info. The company I'm supposedly working for does not exist anymore.

As soon as I would even touch one word in my profile, a pile of recruiters would be triggered instantly. From experience I know that these recruiters have zero added value for me and often even their customer. On the contrary even, they have a tendency to try to fill any job with any qualification, because when they succeed, they hit a jackpot.

Job vacancies are present on job sites like 'Indeed'. It is very easy to set an appropriate filter and just start sending out your CV to companies.
To add to this, my father started (France, in the 1990s) allowing my brothers and sisters to drink alcohol from our 12th anniversary on, some beer or wine. He'd stave curiosity, monitor and teach about the effects and there wouldn't be much in the house anyway. No one batted an eye. Same for the cigarette. You want to try? Here, this is the poor people's stuff (awful awful cheap tobacco...) and now let me tell you about how much it costs every week and what we can't afford because I can't stop, and now let's talk compound interest and cancer and teeth, and... there was no mystery or edginess in all this. The price of modern life, he would call it.
You broke the HN guidelines repeatedly and egregiously in this thread. We have to ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

Please avoid tit-for-tat spats in particular. They're extremely tedious and definitely not what HN threads are for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
TLDR is use mistral models on deep infra. Maybe now Mistral updated their prices too.