skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who would be capable of proposing a fix are the ones who benefit from bleeding the system dry.
I think the meat substitutes, such as Impossible and Beyond, taste fine; the spicey sausages are actually desireable, though I don't think anyone would confuse them with high quality sausage.

But how are they nutritionally? They have the hallmarks of junk food - endless non-food ingredients, ultra-processed substances that are not recognizable as their natural sources or anything real.

Instead of faking meat, why not develop some real protein sources - better beans, peas, nuts; better foods derived from them (better tofu); and just better recipes, possibly deployed through restaurants. If you could come up with tasty, desireable (as in, 'I have a craving for ...') products, the public maybe could be exposed to them via McDonalds or Starbucks or the like.

That seems much healthier and cheaper.
Wasn't pretty much every country in the world established as a result of war, or one group taking it from another at some point in the past if you go back far enough?
>just letting people use

don't dismiss the value in simply making them accessible. they're providing a platform to access these works, which is great.
Current Chevy Volt driver, have now written off GM from my list. Was considering an Ioniq 5 for my next car until I heard about the issues where a minor scrape on the bottom could require a $60K (Canadian dollars) battery replacement: https://youtu.be/EEXieo06ta8
I'd put it differently - programmers of all levels tried to get into companies where their work is a "profit center", where product of engineers adds to profitability. And not a "cost center", where company sells something else, but spends some of their profits on IT.
Latter positions usually associated with a lot of horror stories and uphill battles. Naturally one would avoid them if they can.

So, when outlook is not so great and even profit centers started to cut their OpEx-es too - there is a surplus of engineers on a market and higher competition over positions that are left in profit centers (and those are compensated less).
But I don't believe cost center companies actually gave up on IT, they may found different ways to close the need, but they still have some form of IT, either in-house or outsourced/off-the-shelf products.

But it's indeed of humbling moment in time for some engineers, to realize that they were in very very premium position compared to many. And got used to it too much - why build networks and stay in touch, when one receives 10 inbounds from recruiters a day, why keep skills up to date and stay sharp when the moment you're on a market - there is a queue to snatch you off the market, why part your ways on good terms instead of burning the bridges, when there seems unlimited offerings in front of you, so you never want to look behind...

Well, now we know why - to get through the "thin", until next "thick".
Oh the joys of the joule thief.

Low drain battery powered devices should be required to drain batteries to a state below 1% charge (varies by chemistry) rather than simply cutting out below a working voltage, because they are simply "razor blade" battery eaters otherwise.
Evidence: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/siri-getting-dumber-wol...

Siri could answer questions it no longer can.

When I ask it to play a specific song in the car, it plays a song at random. This has been a known issue for 3+ years: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253216090?sortBy=best

Literally the only two things I can successfully use it for is setting timers and reminders. Nothing else works robustly.

You say you've worked in the Siri team for 14 years?

Print this out, roll it up, and bop your managers on the nose with it:

YOU'RE MISSING THE BOAT.

You haven't bought a ticket, and you're not even at the pier!

While you guys are still "thinking" about generative AI integration, millions of your users like me have switched to using the Open AI app because it actually understands what I'm saying and can answer usefully.

Just the voice recognition part of Siri alone is being absolutely blown out of the water by demos thrown together by individuals, not entire teams of people working at what is soon to be the former biggest company in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfvLIEHwiyo

If I get a message from my Mum that's not in English, Siri used to say some hilarious verbatim English pronunciation of the words. Total gibberish.

The big improvement now is that she'll just say: "A message in a foreign language" or something to that effect. Simply refusing to do anything useful. The Open AI app can read the same text out loud to me, no problems.

How is that "improving over time"!? What are you guys doing over there? All I see is regressions.

PS: It seems that there aren't even that many people in the Siri team: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/03/apple-siri-amazon-alexa-hirin...

PPS: Zuckerberg bought 350,000 NVIDIA H100 accelerators. https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerbergs-meta-is-spending-bill...

Does the Siri team even have access to a single H100 card? A few dozen maybe? I haven't heard a peep about Apple buying anything from NVIDIA in the last year...
I suspect it's just the opposite.

There is no bureaucracy tasked with building.

Instead there is an executive committee tasked with supervising consultants who are supervising construction firms who are contracted to do the work.

There is no professional project management class in the actual government because "we don't need them when we can save money hiring consultants."

https://www.google.com/search?q=consultants+to+run+infrastru...
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This Chrome and FF add-on colour-codes UpWork job posts to help you focus on the ones you havn't seen yet. It saves me from looking at the same jobs appearing in different categories.
Because they're a widely available part of the culture and are effective at enacting mass violence by those who want to, they've been used in what seems to be an endless stream of tragedies.

But these tragedies are not something any given person in the US is likely to ever encounter first-hand. It's a real big country and your frequency measure is more "geez, don't you thinn we should do something?!" more than "whelp, let's hope I don't get shot today"

As far as geographic difference and the prior commenter's statement, the biggest relevant difference for you would be that you will probably never see someone bearing a gun in San Fransisco and will almost certainly see many people doing over the course of any stay in Texas.

That's an internal cultural thing, and involves a combination of regional regulations and regional aesthetics. Both states are safe, though.

Frankly -- if this is an otherwise exciting opportunity for you, you really shouldn't let the gun thing get in your way.
> told lawmakers the project has $28 billion dollars on hand, but noted it was still a few billion dollars short to complete the Central Valley segment between Merced and Bakersfield. Depending on how long the segment takes to finish, it could cost between $32 Billion to $35 Billion

California will spend tens of billions and multiple decades connecting two cities in the middle of nowhere. And in the most conservative part of the state, where people didn’t want high speed rail to begin with. And then the project will get cancelled because no way this thing is ever getting built. Truly excellent trolling.
Yeah but you'd have a train that runs.

Part of the issue is that the transit lobby seems allergic to private sector investment. The golden gate was funded privately via bond sales to bank or America.
Lava is patented as well, can I offer you magma?
The entire CA transportation budget is $21 billion per annum (not counting federal funds, which were elevated at $8.8B in 23-24).

That includes DMV and CHP as well as the city/county road funds, state highways, transit programs, bridge retrofitting, general maintenance, and existing rail programs.

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804
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Meanwhile - Brightline, Orlando to Miami 125 MPH, $6B and 4 years.
https://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/stuart/bright....
The main value of the race detector is enabling it for tests (go test -race), and then writing sufficiently exhaustive unit tests to cover all code paths.

I do think most gophers, instead of tests, use a combination of prayer and automatically restarting crashed processes when they inevitably panic from a race, which seems to work better than you'd expect!
Thanks. This is kinda of information I look for. Could you give more specifics? Why were they shit shows? If the tables are naturally shardable, say by user ID as described in the Figma's case, would the situation be different?
And "dd conv=sparse" to fix the other problem.
Thanks! Totally makes sense re: who this is for. What we’ve seen work well is that the engineering team does the initial setup, and then after setting up the guard rails and look and feel, non technical folks can come in and manage the system from then on.
I asked for something that is equally implausible. So I take it you think people feeling non-binary is equally or more implausible than the biblical flood? Do people not identify as non-binary? Or are they lying about their feelings?

Don't give me the "contentious" spiel. I don't care what some reader of Conservapedia may think. I'm asking you.
There’s written records of the relationships of Nero and Elagabalus as having a same sex marriage ceremony/relationship.

Some people discredit it for various reasons, but there’s zero direct evidence either of them are false, so by default we’re stuck assuming them accurate. This may bother you personally but ignoring evidence that you disagree with is living in a bubble of your own devising.

> Maybe you should read the Torah. Sodomy is listed as a mortal sin. You sound like an anti-semitic bigot.

That’s a very strong response to a simple factual statement, you may need to seek professional help.
Batteries are not a solution, and probably never will be. If you buy and install a Tesla Powerwall, it will cost you $11,500 to store $1.65 worth of electricity. It’s literally ~ten thousand times more expansive than the energy is worth. It’s practical to time shift for a few hours at most.

The world needs much cheaper energy storage: compressed air, pumped hydro, and hydrogen electrolysis.
The point is the "RAV4" and similar SUVs sit on a sedan-size wheelbase. A bit heavier than sedans but similar dimensions:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-corolla-2018...

The proposed Australian laws misleadingly highlight the massive American trucks as the focus of the new fees. But if they follow Paris as the reports said, the "RAV4" will be caught up in the new fees simply because of WEIGHT, not physical dimensions that impact parking spaces.

The RAV4 is nothing like a Ram 1500:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-rav4-2019-su...
Except the freeways actually get built and people use them.
Aka taxation!
I'm happy about every new Matrix client! It would be cool if they would release it as FOSS so it could be used generically. There's a painful lack of (average, non-technical) user friendly Matrix clients.
Well, both hats ostensibly are at least doing real work (finding vulnerabilities).
can you buys shares in a private company with an IRA? Do you have to be an accredited investor to do that?
The quality of the frame makes a big difference.

About 3 years ago after moving into a new house, I needed a new couch and wanted something that would wear reasonably well without getting into the higher end ($3k+). I found one on Apt2B which they were touting was built around an robotically-welded steel frame, lending to consistent durability. After reading many sofa reviews mentioning buckling particleboard, that sounded pretty good. There weren’t a ton of options due to pandemic shortages so I went for it, which cost me $1500.

It’s held up well so far. Cushions are showing some wear but nothing out of the ordinary, and the steel frame is indeed solid. It might even be worth reulphostering at some point down the road.
Why not just outlaw data brokers entirely?
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They're not mad at Elon because of this, they're mad at this because of Elon. If Elon was seen eating a burger, some people would become vegetarian out of spite.
the US

I would caution against lumping everyone else in with California. There are definitely functional states in the US that can finish projects. California, however, is not one of them.
A while back I copied from somewhere this script that does the job nicely.

#!/bin/bash
# Dependencies: tesseract-ocr imagemagick scrot xsel

IMG=`mktemp`
trap "rm $IMG*" EXIT

scrot -s $IMG.png -q 100
# increase image quality with option -q from default 75 to 100

mogrify -modulate 100,0 -resize 400% $IMG.png
#should increase detection rate

tesseract $IMG.png $IMG &> /dev/null
cat $IMG.txt | xsel -bi
notify-send "Text copied" "$(cat $IMG.txt)"

exit
> So far as I'm aware there is nothing on the market where I live that won't constantly spy on you with no option to disable.

Kia EV6 has a telematics toggle in the hidden engineering menu. Vehicles sold in Massachusetts have it disabled by default to protest the state's "right to repair" law, but in other regions you can disable it yourself.
I'm very pro train but this is ridiculous.
> multi billion dollar transit terminal in the middle of San Francisco, that is not connected to all major transit operations that exist in the city

Are you talking about Caltrain? Caltrain is highly used.
> a single physical piece of hardware that will show its limitations if too many large or active tenants happen to be on the same shard

Shopify has pretty much mastered this https://shopify.engineering/mysql-database-shard-balancing-t...
It's called corruption and is rampant in the US.
Pollution isn’t the problem the tsa lines are the problem because they double your trip time
Also makes it a lot harder for devs to do some footgun and leak data across domains.
Around 5 years ago I tore down my sectional sofa to the sticks and completely rebuilt it. This was around 5 years old at the time, and was a cheap sectional (at most $600, possibly less, I don't recall), my wife convinced me to go cheap because "the kids will destroy anything we get".

I will agree with the upholstery person in this article: it's not going to be worth it to pay someone to do it. I ended up reupholstering ours for around $500, but that's because I did all the labor myself. An amazing amount of work.

It was made with a lot of OSB, some of the most curved pine I've ever seen, and lots and lots of staples.

I fixed the frame by adding a variety of supports and glue and screws. The frame went from being barely sufficient to quite solid. I doubled the webbing and springs, and completely rebuilt the cushions. To an extent I used the existing fabric as the patterns for the new fabric, except: my wife wanted the cushions to have piping (that was a huge effort), and originally it had the back cushions built in and stuffed with polyfill, but I wanted to make them removable so I had to redesign the back and custom design the cushions.

The biggest mistakes I made were the foam I used for the cushions was way too firm. If I were to redo it I would do something like a 3 layer: firm, medium, maybe latex or low density memory foam. I'd also probably have used a leather considering all the effort I put in, largely to keep the cats at bay.

The real down side is that we're thinking of getting rid of it because it's really too big for our space, and unless I redo the cushions it's way too firm to use without additional pillows. But, despite all the work I put into it, I'd be willing to bet that we could't sell it, and probably couldn't give it away (selling furniture on craigslist is so frustrating).

End result: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q8DMxQU7L9AggCBDA Starting reassembly: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rQRJfmYmSLew3rSN8
It's actually 7.5cm wider, about the length of your index finger. In other words, negligible.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-corolla-2018...
One definition of “rich” is how much work you can get done with the money you have. Maybe Americans are not really rich given that it takes $100B+ to build a train line? Maybe a dollar is not really worth much given that it take so much of it to do anything valuable?
This country isn’t centered on doing big things anymore. Its core morality is “get rich as you can.” Government projects are perhaps the single best way to get there.

Companies doing space travel don’t care about exploration. They care about being the ones to capitalize on space first.
I set timers for 49 minutes frequently because Siri will hear 15 instead of 50
I see the push back on bureaucracy all the time in ways that imply government is the problem. When explained, what it ends up perpetually looking like to me is rent seeking middlemen who are really good at pointing at every one but themselves while they line their pockets.
The only part I had to rip off was the bottom dust cover.

Installing new is pretty cheap and easy - $10 roll and a staple gun. Or just leave it off
Many of the special interests that benefit from the status quo have a stranglehold over narrative. How would a consensus ever emerge to strip labor unions of their power in the current social landscape for example?
Large scale projects? Give even one example. Isn’t the big dig in Boston still going on 20 years later?
But a bike dui is dumb.
Canadian revolution fake anonymous website for real gov honeypot
I loved this book growing up - I’ve read it many times and remember it being really funny. I only read it Russian and have never seen the words “Švejk” or “Hašek” in non-Cyrillic. Also! In Russian, “the good” is translated as “the brave”.
Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security
For my fellow Windows-using plebians, the official Microsoft PowerToys add-in [0] has a feature that does this (it's also been added to the stock screenshot tool, but I personally find the one keyboard shortcut in PowerToys more pleasant to use).

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
A fix to what? The people who would have to propose the fix are the ones benefitting the most from it not being fixed.
Dirtbag.
> High speed rail make sense in corridors that have a large number of big population centers that are just far enough where driving is not a great solution

so exactly SF Bay Area (7.5 MM people) to LA Area (13.5 MM people). Distance 350 miles or 560km.

1 hr flight is inefficient with starts/landing/checkin/checkout/TSA/infrastructure costs/getting in and out of airports etc

Proper high speed rail like Shinkansen could do it in 2-2.5 hours easily. (same distance as Tokyo to Osaka, which is the OLDEST Shinkansen line)
I got 1 gig fiber to the home just this last year thanks to a an electric company fiber co-op. Couldn't get DSL before because the lines were so degraded and no one offered it. Until now the only available internet was wireless in a highly forested area.
With any of the ID verification SAAS solutions that already exist?
I made a Lego table out of one Lack end table, four Lego baseplates and some rubber cement. The baseplates cost about 2x what the table did.
The project is too profitable for it to end. Why would anybody at the trough be against stretching the timeline and budget in perpetuity? Yum yum, unless you're a CA taxpayer.

The $1.7M toilet feels like a steal in comparison to this.
Yes when you have no concept of private property, environmental protection, or workers rights, stuff gets done faster. Comparisons to China aren’t helpful because the US has chosen a fundamentally different path than China.
Isn't mautrix/signal supposed to work on the cloud? Or is there some work that has been done to make it work on the phone?
I've helped to launch two weather balloons, one at south pole and one at summit station in Greenland. The one in Greenland was quite difficult to launch due to high winds...
> Looking at how much high speed rail China has built, and operates, then you look at the USA who cannot event get a train built between to major cities it's quite crazy that this is such a struggle.

One such rail line just opened up going to my friends hometown [1]. Now instead of a 3 hour car ride from the major airport it's 45 minutes by train. The route is roughly half the distance of SF<>LA and wasn't even fully approved till 2019 [2].

[1] https://english.news.cn/20231226/ee2fd2183517440eb11427d25ae...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu%E2%80%93Zigong_high-sp...
In the context of a culture that doesn't see anything wrong with that kind of "disorderly" behavior, yes it would be dumb.

However Japan is not such a place and its laws reflect its culture.
Not the OP, but the beeper client looks better and has native GIF support, among other niceties that more "normal" users would prefer over other clients.
Interesting. Durable Entities strikes me as closer to Cloudflare's Durable Objects (both in name and in design as actors backed by persistent storage).
There is something to say that the US gives high priority to individual rights and private property owners. A big part of why developing countries can build so quickly is by steamrolling citizens who aren't politically connected. In China, they simply force everyone to move and bulldoze huge swaths of existing real estate to build new highways and trains.

I agree the pendulum is too far in the wrong direction here. But if my city told me I had to move because they were destroying my whole neighborhood to put in a new train, I would be livid - "I thought this was America!" It would take an enormous sum of money - many times over what my property is worth on paper - to make me feel properly compensated for all of the memories, sentimental value, and how much I like my neighborhood.
To piggy back on the same quote, I wonder if iron lungs should really be considered obsolete.

I used cpap for a while and fitting a mask to your face is just a total pain. The default ones would scab my nose, even with foam ones I had to strap is so hard to avoid leaks that it left red marks on my neck for hours after I woke up. You have the change/clean the masks. You risk problems like the recent Phillips one where a component was disintegrating, going into people's lungs and giving them cancer.

The iron lung not having to go over your face would avoid all of those problems so I'm surprised it completely disappeared.
There is a utility available for macOS that extends beyond simply opening a document in Preview and attempting to select the text: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

I like the author.
I take it you haven't been from Tamien to Gilroy. Those tracks are worse than everything else from SJ-SF. (HSR would likely cut over somewhere around Gilroy, so taking those tracks up would make sense, but they would all need to be redone.)
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what do you consider "at an airport"? depending on the size of the airport, the area might be significantly larger than you might expect. especially so if you happen to be in a line of approach which can extend hundreds of miles out. as an example, I launched a small balloon west of Abilene TX, and had to notify DFW ATC (Abilene to DFW is ~175 miles).

if you're going to launch any kind of something >400', you should do the responsible thing and contact ATC. if they say you're fine and no further contact, then great. they'll ask the size of your balloon, the size of the payload, the expected altitude, expected flight duration, and if you have any radio beacons they can listen to, and similar question. they didn't even ask me my purpose. it's a really simple phone call to make. the last thing you want to see happen is some sort of incident involving your balloon.