skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would expand this to the curse of the software industry. You spend 10+ years studying and specializing in computer science and technical matters only to have this be underestimated in the industry by structuring the organization such that moving up the ladder means conforming to company values and increasing managing tasks and people at the expense of practicing your technical specialty.

This is implicitly making a statement about the practice of software engineering, in that it has a kind of a ceiling that orgs expect people to reach and after reaching that ceiling the only way to continue growing in productivity is to manage others to do the same work. From my perspective this is a fundamental misconception that keeps the quality of the software artificially low such that it can be worked on by an army of low-level engineers. Instead of scaling software by using more software, which would require experienced engineers, orgs like to scale software by hiring new engineers that lack the domain context and so the org is doomed to constantly re-write and reinvent the wheel (within the business domain) over and over.

I wish the software industry appreciated the potential of software a lot more. If they did this, every year of experience within a domain would come with expectations to have less bugs, faster iterations, and so on, instead of more "leadership" which is often just a way for companies to get people to enforce the status quo company values. It is no surprise there is a subtle hint of cult thinking in all these large companies, and people are not valued for their skills and output, but rather for their ability to adhere to the rest of the org. I agree with the proposed solutions, which are starting your own company or finding one that will let engineers do what they do best.
Did you last buy a couch in 1982?
It wouldn’t be instant. But eventually Friday would be a weekend and people would no longer be expected to work on Fridays. Just like when the five day work week was passed.
I hope this is where sustainable agriculture focuses it's attention in the future. Genetically modifying more energy-efficient organisms to be nutritionally useful to humans, while having free reign to make them taste however we want, seems like the way to go to me, instead of trying to grow beef in a lab. Lab-grown meat solves the ethical issues, but I imagine for a while it will be prohibitively expensive for the people who need nutritious food the most, while also being very energy-intensive to produce.
But 'taste' the same
It doesn't matter where you are as long as you serve someone in the EU.
So, if you are in the USA, but your website is serving cookies / collecting logs for the visitors, and one of your visitors is in the EU, you must comply with GDPR. GDPR also requires explicit consent to collect information such as IP addresses (logs) or tracking cookies.

I have seen sites just banning all the EU IPs, but I don't think that would work anymore, as California & India have similar laws. I am sure a bunch of other jurisdictions have it by now, as well.
Corollary: If the change is going to make it harder to effectively make changes (and figure out changes that need to be made, i.e. manual troubleshooting), it's probably a bad change.

(this corollary might be most applicable in robotics?; dealing with the fallout of kubernetes being forced onto robots by cloud-oriented folks)
I never understood this. Cows make protein from eating grass. I assume that we can do much of the same.
Honestly I think such bills are an immediate answer to the problem of more of the workforce being automated. And at if we get to a point where technology has reduced the need for labor by 50% they are almost inevitable. In such a scenario, mandating a 20-hour work-week for example would be a reasonable solution to what would otherwise turn into mass unemployment and poverty.

I don't think it's the best solution, but it's a decent one that requires less of a fundamental shift to society.
The other thing you can do is glue-and-screw instead of just using the screws. I’ve had a bookshelf or two break due to the screws blowing out of the chipboard during a move. Using regular wood glue/PVA meant that that never happened again although it also means you can’t disassemble it. Disassembling is kind of overrated though, the screws don’t ever go in as tight the second time, especially after it’s been sitting loaded with books for a few years.
The quality of IKEA budget products is far higher than you should expect for the price.
"Balanced" meals are not necessary and probably not optimal anyway.

Balanced diets are important, but your digestion and satiety are almost certainly better served by varying what they're tasked with for individual meal.
You misunderstood. Moderation is the price you must pay if you want to operate an online business because it is often the law.

I don't care for removing spam, but funny enough, the most moderated platform allow you to go table to table peddling your wares, for a cost.
Interesting. We've decoupled navigation and extraction for specifically this reason, but I suppose decoupling selector with input could let us use cheaper smaller LLMs to "select" and answer

We've been approaching it a little bit differently. We think larger more capable models would actually immediately improve the performance of Skyvern. For example, if you run it with LLaVa, the performance significantly degrades, likely because of the coupling

But since we use GPT-4V, and it's rumoured to be a MoE model, I wonder if there's implicit decoupling going on.

I'm gonna spend some more time thinking about this
An architecture that gives users full control of their smartphones (2022)
Every one of these arguments were made when the five day workweek was introduced. Turns out the economy adjusted.
Conspiracy theory? I was under the impression it's very well documented. Might not be everything, but you can see how a few million posts from troll farms/bots would sway the narrative to more extreme, and even the real people disagreeing might be doing so because they read a few too many of those posts.
Small Phones Are Dead and We Killed Them [video]
Thanks! Is there a good primer to this terminology that clarifies these terms on various popular database and cloud platforms?

It seems there is good potential for confusion unless we use the same terms consistently when discussing architecture and design across teams.

Even the term RDS (Relational Database Service) is sometimes said to be inaccurate since it is a "Relational Database SERVER as a Service"

A few related terms that cause confusion:

"Schema" could refer to a Database Schema or in some contexts, a single table's logical data structure. (Or a single data set's data structure -- or a standard for one, like JSON Schema)

Data Catalog products like "AWS Glue Data Catalog" which only store the metadata or schemas of the table they crawl ... refer to the entities they store as "Databases" and "Tables" (but no "Schemas") and documentation includes guides talk about "creating a database"[1] and "creating a table"[2] in AWS Glue. There has to be a better way to refer to all these entities without using the word schema with so many meanings -- or calling both physical tables and their metadata as "tables". Otherwise this is needlessly confusing and hard for beginners.

---

EDIT: even more madness. This StackOverflow discussion [3] has more examples of confusing usage:

> On Oracle .... A Schema is effectively a user. More specifically it's a set of tables/procs/indexes etc owned by a user. Another user has a different schema (tables he/she owns) however user can also see any schemas they have select priviliedges on.

> MySQL: database/schema :: table

> SQL Server: database :: (schema/namespace ::) table

> Oracle: database/schema/user :: (tablespace ::) table

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/define-database.h...

[2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/tables-described....

[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/298739/what-is-the-diffe...
This is going to sound more snarky than I mean it but... You're not skeptical of the part where they're going close to 200mph on a beach?
Just in general interest, I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, why would you want, as a vegetarian, food that is like meat? Or even tastes like meat?
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39670192
Please give us an update on how stuffed pillow guy is doing these days.
Thanks, that does put it into perspective.
I replaced my iphone 8 screen and battery at a third party repair service.

What is great is that the repair was done in front of me while I waited. I didn't have to upgrade my OS or backup my data (though I did).

It was fast and inexpensive.

But... The automatic screen brightness no longer works. I have to manually adjust the brightness (which is sometimes challenging with dim screen in bright sunlight)

I think the ambient light sensor must be calibrated, and only by apple.

wonder if it can be fixed in oregon?
It's very reasonable.

I should wrote somehow "feel" expensive because :

This data only used when we have a complaint case. Most of the times it just overwritten with new data without a single person ever see the video.
I like they raised the broadband minimum upload speed from 3 to 25Mbps. Spectrum's 300 Mbps broadband is only 10 Mbps up. Let's see how fast they change their statement that "an upload speed of 3 Mbps is enough for most households" [1].

[1: https://www.spectrum.com/resources/internet-wifi/what-is-a-g...]
I don't have town sewer but being without water is very rare. Being without electricity for maybe the total of day a year? Not rare. (Though semi-rural albeit on a major road.)

ADDED: I don't. But people having backup generators in snow country is not a weird thing.
The DSL network piggybacked on the analog voice network which, at least in this country, was built to a higher standard. But I don't want to go back to the days of the 1990's where I was paying $40/month (around $100/month in today's dollars) for an analog phone line.

It was reliable, so reliable that "as reliable as dial tone" was something to aspire to, but also costly and limited in capability. Even if I could get DSL today, my fastest speed would top out around 12mbit/sec due to my distance to the CO, which doesn't even meet the current definition of broadband.
Same i do that and then just wipe/reset the container when i've fixed in my app whatever was wrong
Did the homes really have to be that close to each other?
Ireland's Referendum Results
if you have postgres, just use https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB
> Profit protects you from your ego

the whole thing was an ego trip.

the profits pay to host the page.

this is far from the first braggadocios piece out of there.

clearly much protection is needed.
The glue will probably be the strongest part of it, but finger-jointed hardwood isn't that terrible. Any decent wood glue is crazy strong.

The problem with knots is that they resist drilling and screwing. The problem with new growth is that the pith is the weakest part of the wood, and new growth has the most pith.

Still, it's not a weak and terrible pos wood-like material like 1990's MDF, it will probably be ok for most uses as long as the grain direction is respected in regards to shear direction (typically you want the grain direction to run perpendicular to the shear forces) and everything is properly braced.
Me? I haven't bought a couch. I'm on the same couch I grew up on at my parent's house that was bought circa 1978, so essentially, yes. Solid wood frame. Re-stuffed cushions. My couch can be found in those "If you recognize this, you're old" memes. AKA, I'm old

Edit: re-reading almost reads if I'm still at my parent's house couch surfing. I'm not a zillenial. I'm in my place with that furniture from back then.
actual article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839322...
>And he would understand that he has no power of coercion.

You'd be surprised. Some get friends literally by being bullies. Others then want to be their friend to avoid being their target.
Yeah, I’m not particularly handy (I break out in a cold sweat whenever anything requires more than trivial assembly), but I’ve never had any issue with assembling Ikea stuff.
Man, I hate living in a nanny state like Texas where big government is reaching into all parts of peoples lives.

Parents really need to stop putting iPads in toddlers hands and actually start, err, parenting.
Quantifying Reputation and Success in Art
Literal, exact, precise interpretations are for machines, not for men. And even with such precision we still often fail to communicate with machines.

Qualifying words are an oft overlooked tool in language. Especially when someone is presenting an idea you disagree with.

Humans often use analogies, exaggerations, representations, examples, and other linguistic tools to attempt to convey their points. But speech is far form simple. If you interpret words as they are, you will always fail to communicate. Words are an attempt at conveying the thoughts in one's head. Never trust the person that is bold enough to claim that they are impossible to misinterpret, because they are an immutable force and the main character in their own reality.
Any updates on the project?
I’ve had a consistently good experience with room and board so far and I am very anal about construction quality (as perceived by myself, anyway, I’m not a furniture expert).
> In-person seems like it should be a hard requirement

should but yet online sales of furniture is not a small market
i've sometimes heard that the JVM had best in class tooling for server troubleshooting. How does go compare to it now ?
Curious, are you allowed to place an RV on your property, hook it up to your sewage system, and sublet it?

What about an ADU in your backyard? What about tearing down your house and build a triplex?

Or has your peninsula achieved the platonic ideal of density as it is now? If so, you must be very lucky to live in such a place.
That said, raw mushrooms don’t taste great anyway, so… I’d recommend frying them, and skipping the hydrazine issue altogether.
eevblog 1595

neither new nor useful
I have a really hard time understanding people that don’t get how to assemble furniture of that kind in general.

Instructions or no instructions, there’s only so many ways you can put a bunch of planks together.
Chip Titan ASML Suffers New Strain of 'Dutch Disease'
There are many reasons one might choose to be vegetarian beyond disliking the flavour and/or texture of meat.
SpaceX Starship 3rd test flight considered a success
Well, the wiki format isn’t really theirs: https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb
> Maybe the worst case scenario for a typical British Columbian is that a backcountry enthusiast could find a potential activity limited by some FN that seeks to limit access to their lands.

That's already happened. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/joffre-lakes...
Ok, what risk? Cockroachdb is already proven technology and costs marginally more (if you use their serverless setup, it's free until you hit real scale). At the startups I've been at that hit scale, scaling sql was always a massive undertaking and affected product development on every single time.

If you don't want downtime, don't use databases that require downtime to do a migration?

Netflix, roblox, every single online gambling website all use cockroachdb.
I can't say I fully agree or disagree:

https://www.mattressclarity.com/blog/bed-bugs-by-state-city-...

It seems to be related to population density, at least in America, and only somewhat ameliorated by climate.
Those are also:

- More expensive than Starship, or

- Took longer to develop than Starship, or

- Are significantly less ambitious than Starship

(and those are definitely not exclusive ORs)
Google twenty one pilots lore explained. There's few hours worth of videos on the topic :)
This, seriously. The long-term maintenance, tribal knowledge & risks associated with this giant hack will be greater than anything they'd ever have expected. Inb4 global outage post-mortem & key-man dependency salaries.

There's no virtually no excuse not spinning up a pg pod (or two) for each tenant - heck even a namespace with the whole stack.

Embed your 4-phases migrations directly in your releases / deployments, slap a py script to manage progressive rollouts, and you're done.

Discovery is automated, blast / loss radius is reduced to the smallest denominator, you can now monitor / pin / adjust the stack for each customer individually as necessary, sort the release ordering / schedule based on client criticality / sensitivity, you can now easily geolocate the deployment to the tenant's location, charge by resource usage, and much more.

And you can still query & roll-up all of your databases at once for analytics with Trino/DBT with nothing more but a yaml inventory.

No magic, no proprietary garbage.
Or unless you care about maintaining muscle mass, which should be either #1 or #2 on your list if you care about lifespan and healthspan (the other one being cardiovascular fitness).
Data centers use electricity generated elsewhere and due to inefficiency convert a sizeable fraction of that electricity to heat.

Sending the electricity generated elsewhere directly to the district is a much more efficient way to heat the district.

The idea of a data center heating a community would make sense if a data center generated power instead of merely consuming it inefficiently. Building infrastructure that used heat from data centers would have diminishing returns as data centers become more efficient.
~1000 US school districts have adopted a 4 day week because they can’t retain teachers otherwise. The future is already here for these parents, and this will only grow as the teacher shortage persists.

The fact that the US refuses to subsidize childcare is unfortunate for sure, but a distinct issue from a 4 day work week.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1211632901/schools-across-the...
Where are you getting your information? Are you just assuming everyone salaried is married to someone who is hourly or something? Because the bill does not do anything for salaried, overtime-exempt employees.

A more straightforward approach would be to completely eliminate the pay gap for tipped employees and raise the federal minimum wage, which hasn't seen an increase since the 1990's.
I know nothing about the legal system in Japan, so I am asking: why several courts rule independently on the same matter? Is there a supreme court that decides or not? What are the next steps?

And the other question is: what is a marriage in legal terms in Japan? In Europe marriage was originally a religious thing, officiated by priests and managed by the church; then the states stole the term to use it for a civil contract, officiated by civil servants (usually the mayor) with laws and courts managing it. For Japan, which one is in the courts?
Because you like the taste, but don't want to exploit animals.

It's also a good way to start of with veganism, because you don't need to instantly replace all of your old recepies.
I am a bit curious about the tax benefits that the article mentions in the end. How does it work?
can you run grpc over it ?
> They do not need engine relight capability to reach orbit - plenty of orbital rockets exist that cannot relight their final stage.

I don't think SpaceX is interested in having uncontrolled Starship re-entries. It's large enough that (even without a heat shield) debris will very likely make it down to surface.
> I’m sure people with internal monologues (I’m not one) are much more optimistic about LLMs.

Can I ask why you're "sure" about this? I have an internal monologue and I'm quite skeptical of the LLM hype.
Sqlelf: Explore ELF Objects through SQL
Apple is not the only hardware manufacturer and there are millions of consumers of non-apple hardware that will gleefully welcome this legislation.

I agree that consumers are the real problem but government intervention provides a much needed safety net to keep these oligopolistic practices at bay while users slowly figure out why right to repair matters.

We should be happy for any and all help we can get on this front.
Open Source Inference Engine Baseten Raises $40M from IVP, Spark and Greylock
Ørestad looks nice on street view. Give it some time, maybe?

I think you're right that decentralised planning will create a more diverse cityscape, but your example seems fine...
...and male, obviously!

> consume it in lieu of putting their sexual frustration to good use by looking for a wife

> consume it while depriving their wives of sexual contact

These are astounding ideas which, empirically, evoke laughter and/or revulsion in honest women.

> A huge amount of porn production is downstream of major personal and societal tragedies;

This clause sounds reasonable. But Texas has shown zero appetite for addressing the personal and social tragedies that lead some people to the porn industry. So, I am very skeptical that caring for the common (wo)man is part of the true motivation.

> all of the viewpoints I've described here are very sincerely held

It would be naive to believe that people cannot sincerely hold beliefs which are simply perpetuating of a self-serving narrative. In fact I'd say it's the norm.

Sincerely held, but bonkers, is still bonkers.
In your browser of choice, install the "Stylus" plugin. This is a plugin that will let you write custom CSS styles for any and all page(s). If your browser of choice does not have the exact "Stylus" plugin it will have a plugin of another (similar) name that will do the identical task.

As it seems from your post that you may not be extremely familiar with CSS, here is a ruleset that will do something close to what you wish. Font is set to 26px, not 14. You can easily change that.

Make it valid for "Everything" and it will be valid for everything but those sites that are extremely convoluted.

*, html, body, section, article, div, span, p, i, b, strong {
font-family: "Libre Sans" arial, helvetica, sans, sans-serif !important;
font-size: 26px !important;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1.5em !important;
background-color: white;
color: black;
}
pre, code {
font-family: "Libre Mono", Courier, monotype !important;
}
a {
text-decoration: underline;
}
Various dishes are designed with a meat component, where the texture or flavour works well. Pulled pork for example would have the same flavour blended into a soup but wouldn't work as well for burritos that way.
> you must comply with GDPR

The EU doesn’t have jurisdiction over American companies, there’s no way to enforce this. If your company has a European legal presence, that legal entity may see enforcement, but if you’re an American site operating under American jurisdiction, the EU cannot compel you to do anything. America is a sovereign nation that is not subject to EU laws.
That's such a bizarre take. Innovations are coming out every day that enable the creation of entire new markets. Go invent something.
I was surprised to see this wasn't already on HN given Sarah Guo is attached and the Truss project seems pretty cool
Not the beach part, they range from soft sand to hard pack tidal flats:

MADMAX Race Team set fastest ever speed at Pendine sands in a 1200hp Porsche Turbo @ 210.33mph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendine_Sands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgkXqedYr4

https://www.pendinesands.org/history/land-speed-records/

... but I'm highly skeptical of 200 mph in a steamer in 1907.
There are still rules in place, indeed, just not for zoning.

So I don't see how getting rid of zoning rules there suddenly gives those areas any more power to sign sovereign treaties than it would to any other area in the US that decided to have lax zoning rules.

It's not really that complicated of a concept that you can deregulate one specific thing, but keep all regulations outside of that in place.
Room and Board sells great sofas that are made in the US. We've been very happy with ours.

It's made from solid wood and stuffed with real feather down. It's several years old now and has shown no signs of aging.
You can if the price is right.