skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, but "design" sofas aren't that bad. Of course, you pay for this. My modular Cor Trio sofa has a list price of 6,500€ in the configuration I own. See [1] for a simpler one.

One contributing factor is the fabric you choose. But the biggest one is labor. The wooden construction uses only solid wood too but that is the least cost either way.

What I did when buying it is that I made a list of all design furniture shops in Berlin that sold Cor.

Then I drove to each of them and asked: this is my best price from your competitors. What is yours? In the end I actually paid 4,500€. I also learned the margin is ~45% of the list price for the shop.

Which gives you an idea about material and labor prices when you produce in Europe. I.e. Cor sells this to the shop for around 3k€. That already includes their margin. I would think producing this has costs of at least 50% of that attached. I.e. 1.5k€ for labor and materials.

I just started helping a friend re-produce an old design classic of his [2] as WFH has made requests for it spike. It's not a sofa, strictly speaking, but the changes in costs probably make it worth mentioning them in this context.

When we produced the first series, ca. 2004, we had material, CNC and labor costs of around 1,000€. Without upholstery. Upholstery varies greatly depending on finish. Different fabrics and leathers have very different prices and labor costs attached.

We are now looking at over 4k€ for labor and wood (it's made of Ceiba which is difficulty to source). I.e. we have a ~300% raise in production costs over 20 years in Europe (not counting upholstery!).

If we wanted to keep the previous price, we needed to switch to cheaper wood and move production outside of Europe. At the moment we are just considering targeting a wealthier clientele. Not everyone has this luxury though.

I guess I'm saying I dunno how much these factors play a role in the enshittification of sofas everywhere. But they probably do ... :]

[1] https://www.prooffice.de/shop/cor-trio-sofa.html

[2] https://www.saschaulber.com/shop/coffy/
Like most people , I'm not making a conscious effort to prepare. But, as a father of two teenage children - I occasionally tell them to enjoy certain foods now, as crop failures might make them rare or prohibitively expensive. Like bananas. A fruit that is very sensitive to the environment and difficult to store.
IMO that URL crate is not especially high quality. I barely work with URLs and I quickly found an embarrassingly trivial bug:

https://github.com/servo/rust-url/issues/864#issuecomment-16...
Even if this was the right thing, they could / should have changed this behavior in a pre-release because that's exactly the kind of API change in the OS that will catch people off-guard. As another commenter wrote, I'd consider this either a serious flaw in Apples release process or they learned about some very dangerous vulnerability where the old behavior was abused and they decided that they rather annoy all users and vendors of Java software out there than tolerate the vulnerability in MacOS. But in this case I'd surmise that at least now Oracle would have been informed about this.
I call this "Designed in California" like some fruity company proudly says on their devices.

For software this means designed on top of the line hardware, with fast low latency internet. TFA describes the consequences.

For hardware it means designed inside climate controlled dust free offices and cars for people with long commutes to work on straight roads where you don't have to pay much attention.

Think phones shutting down if you have a real winter. Think smart turn stalks that can't signal a left turn on a crossroads that's not at 90 degrees. Think ultra thin laptops where the keyboard is so dust sensitive it lasts 3 months if you use them outdoors. Think a focus on audiobooks and podcasts because you're stuck in traffic so much.
I think it depends on whether the maintainers are actively using your packages or not.

I've noticed that I get fast merges if the package are popular
"all eyes are upon him" [or someday her]. Do you mean what is the power of perception?

Are you familiar with the story of the bellwether? Collectives may be the body of power, yet it is a daring and vulnerable few who break rank.

There is the power of the role (powers explicitly described by law, which are too numerous to recount here) and those which come by the opportunity of influence (which are many more than can even be imagined.)

Even power of the head of state is fraught with trepidation. While this person could take sweeping actions, the covert backlash of resistance would undermine all future initiatives. The greatest costs of power are not those anticipated, they are those residual which fester covertly in the minds of those affronted.

Power is a fickle thing, and laws but give it consistency.
I recently bought a windows laptop for the primary reason that I wanted a full version of Excel, not libreoffice, and not 365.

But yea, aside from the fact that it's a lot newer hardware than my Slackware 15.0 desktop, there's really not much in the way of anything it can do that makes me go "wow, this is what I was missing out on."

Some games that don't play nice with lutris are still around, but honestly, I almost have more fun fighting to get games to run than I do actually playing them anyway.
Well, the headline is probably intentionally slightly misleading in that way. But it'll only fish certain people, because 10 million miles will only sound far if you know nothing about space.
The customer doesn't care either because a page that takes 5s longer to load on a 1W TDP SoC costs them around one-millionth of a penny. Even if you're refreshing 100 times per day it's only around 0.05 kWh per year, which at any reasonable electricity prices is a sum that's simply not worth worrying about. You'd get more savings from getting people to turn off their led light bulbs for a few minutes.
Years of deliberate false statements by Tesla about their self-driving capacity should make any rational person very skeptical of their future claims.

Having a CEO who is obsessed with posting far-right-wing political statements on Xitter over managing his actual business is also a red flag. What rational manager goes out of their way to alienate at least half of their potential customers?

I am firmly in Tesla's target audience, but under no circumstances would I buy one, if only to avoid the social embarrassment of being associated with this pathologically mendacious malignant narcissist.
Yes! I'd very much advise every young person (who can) to start a business right after school instead going to work as an antidote for the oppression ingrained by more than decade of school. Especially the kind of business that provides services for other businesses.

Seeing "grown ups" in contexts where they struggle and mess up and talking to them as equal and having ability to reject them if they want something you don't provide was very important.
How do you politely decline unending requests for 1:1 meetings with junior team members, despite when part of your job is to mentor them?
It's hard for me to decline meetings because I'm always afraid people will make wrong decisions. My job was very hard before I got invited to the meetings, as I had to run around correcting these decisions after the fact. Now at least I can catch them at inception, and minimize the damage.
I see noexcept as a part of the language that works together with exceptions, it is a valid optimization for certain (typically small) pieces of a code base that otherwise uses exceptions.

I'd imagine when people say "not using exceptions", it is about using compiler flags to completely disable the exception mechanisms from the language. And this also invalidates many of the design patterns C++ is known and sometimes praised for, at least RAII and operator overloading.
As a long time Django and DRF user I'm really happy this release finally got out. If you look at the PRs being released some of them are years old. It's true that DRF is a mature and feature-complete framework but Django is still evolving slowly and DRF must keep up with that at the very minimum. Big thanks to the maintainers for getting it out!

Here are some of my hilights from this relase:

* Default on model gets sent to API docs

* Orderedict replaced by plain dicts everywhere - plain dicts are ordered in python since 3.6 so this is a welcome simplification

* Automatic support for UniqueConstraints in ModelSerializers - this is one of the places where DRF were lagging behind. I found myself using the deprecated unique_together just to not bother with writing validators on all my serializers

* There is a new router supporting path converters instead of regexp - Looking forward to trying this out! Also long overdue IMO as this came to Django in 2017 :)
Right, but if brought up to the courts, they would handle it, since it's illegal. But someone needs to prosecute for that to happen.

So it sounds like the system works as intended, as far as I understand.
They don't care as long they are not Chinese.
> being infinite in size in the normal sense of the word.

Well, can you maybe define what this normal sense of this word is?

This is a thread about Cantor, whose whole work is based on subtle differences in the treatment of "infinity".
>I'm glad we've moved on towards becoming a serious engineering discipline

To quote the immortal Bender:

>> Oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder.
In more worried about what is lurking in permafrost…
ytdl-format=best[vcodec!*=vp9]
If, according to this thread, Samsung is so bad and I don't t want buy a Chinese phone... What are my options for an Android phone?

Is there any Android phone brand/model that is not exploiting its users?
It still is compromised, but somehow we have normalized the idea of our own systems being compromised by our OS and system app developers.
I think everyone has something in common though - they all think testing is a waste of time until all the sudden things start not working at all and it isn't!
How to Win Connect Four Every Time (2013)
Re: downvotes — I never ask when I get them, and I didn't vote either way.

(I think even asking that is frowned on?)
Slackware 15 was the jump from basically nonexistent bluetooth support unless you really put it in yourself, to right out of the box everything that I've tried so far working just fine.

I was getting really close to looking for an alternative for a bit over it as I got more and more bluetooth accessories, but am quite pleased that things finally caught up.

Can't speak to Fedora, but am surprised that it may be behind Slackware, if only because Slackware is predominantly a one man project...
Sounds misaligned, why would you agree to mentor people if you don't want to do that? Alternatively, if you want to mentor people, why would you decline their requests for meeting them?
JavaScript A Nightmare
Are his books (the one about Systems Performance and eBPF) relevant for normal software engineers who want to improve performance in normal services? I don’t work for faang, and our usual performance issues are solved by adding indexes here and there, caching, and simple code analysis. Tools like Datadog help a lot already.
They really should add these to the main docs website.
Setup a secure SMTP Mail Relay on Debian or Ubuntu Servers with OpenSMTPD instead of Postfix for relaying Emails from (Web) applications to Email providers like Google Workspace or Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or Office 365, ZOHO Mail, Amazon Workmail (AWS) and others.
> So in what sense is either one longer?

Neither. That's my point. Literally any definition of something infinite can always be reduced to a procedure that recursively transforms or observes some prior state. To say that one of these functions can produce more distinct states than another is pointless, because the procedure that produces the most states will always be the one that you ran the most times.

There is nothing observably infinite, since it would take infinite time to observe that any given thing was infinite. The only possible proof of infinity would be a machine that runs infinitely quickly. e.g. https://qntm.org/responsibility
What a beautiful website on mobile. The font, the colors, the layout.
Wasting a register on comparatively more modern ISA's (PA-RISC 2.0, MIPS64, POWER, aarch64 etc – they are all more modern and have an abundance of general purpose registers) is not a concern.

The actual «wastage» is in having to generate a prologue and an epilogue for each function – 2x instructions to preserve the old frame pointer and set a new one up, and 2x instruction at the point of return – to restore the previous frame pointer.

Generally, it is not a big deal with an exception of a pathological case of a very large number of very small functions calling each other frequently where the extra 4x instructions per each such a function will be filling up the L1 instruction cache «unnessarily».
Yes it is. Thanks?
I am speaking of company property in only the narrowest sense, ie. physical objects and IP (and I guess property but I've been WFH for a decade, so,..
'apt install yt-dlp mpv'

then put this in '.config/mpv/mpv.conf' to twart hw requirements

ytdl-format=best[height<=?720][vcodec!=vp9]/bestvideo[height<=?720][vcodec!=vp9]+bestaudio/best[vcodec!*=vp9]/best

and pass url's to it (i use 'play-with' ff extension)
Kaizen – Constant improvement as the winning strategy – Spica
You may be thinking of the return stack buffer. The shadow stack holds every return address.
Other than a mild winter, there has been no coverage or news on a tangible impact to either agriculture or extreme weather events, merely speculations on what could happen. It would also mean that as far as a real impact, the system is self balancing and we should not worry too much?
Having only a facebook page and forcing people on that toxic platform, is a strong indication that they do not value freedom (of the web) and ethics. Again a good filter for business / people I want to avoid.
There were a number of regular season games on Thursday night carried exclusively by Amazon Prime. I watched them through my Roku devices and the quality was not great but then there can be up to three TVs streaming through their respective Roku devices at once here and our download bandwidth is limited to 25Mbps.

The one playoff game that was carried exclusively via Peacock was the wildcard game between the Dolphins and Chiefs. I also watched it through the Roku devices and I thought the picture quality was fine, better than Amazon Prime had been.

Would I have ponied up $5.99 if it weren't the Chiefs as they're the local team? I don't know. Perhaps next year I'll have to make that decision if they carry another playoff game that has teams I don't care that much about.
Yep, you build a shack and charge the users the price of a starbucks latte per month because "it's just a starbucks latte".

Then you wonder why the solo founder saas has no customers.
This is missing one of the most important reasons though: Silicon Oxide.

Silicon Oxide is almost perfectly lattice matched to silicon, but completely insulating. Which means it's incredibly easy to grow features onto polished silicon wafers because the oxidation product of the material is exactly what you need in order to build up insulating features - i.e. MOSFET junctions, capacitors and conductive paths.
Yes, but whatever starting March 2023 is much more extreme than climate change in the last decades has been, it's a very different scale than even that XKCD.
On Apple platforms, there is often an interpretability problem of another kind: Because of the prevalence of deeply nested blocks / closures, backtraces for Objective C / Swift apps are often spread across numerous threads. I don't know of a good solution for that yet.
Not convinced at all.

Clearly a quick and poorly written article.

Short and not elaborated.

Clickbait.
This is what I have open in my other tab: https://ferrilab.github.io/ferrilab/bitvec.html
Sounds like you’re on the right track. Persistence is key.
Friction Isn't Velocity
Not sure it's that hard to explain the basics. Passkeys are like very big passwords that password manages store for you, only with extra features. I don't think you need to touch on the public key encryption side of it.

Big Tech don't insist on their solutions, they just default to it which I think is fair.

Also WebAuthN is passkeys from what I understand. Not a previous effort.
every yt video is available as x264 but vp9 is cheaper (smaller) and has better quality
At least for depression, the chemical imbalance theory has long been disproved, a recent summary of the evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/20/scientists-q...
100% - our daily stand-ups are a waste of time usually, but we have fantastic team camaraderie and I think us shooting the breeze for 5 minutes every day is a huge part of this.
US centric electricity prices view :)

Also, it's not just your site. It's every site. And the customer pays all those millionths of a penny added up out of their pocket. And all those 5 second delays out of their lifetime.

Edit: btw at a quick glance you underestimated cell phone soc TDP by a 2-4 factor.
> nuclear energy couldn't be used anymore because there wasn't enough water in the rivers for the process anymore

That's a deformation; production had to be reduced (not stopped), not because there was not any water anymore, but because the exhaust water temperature would have been over the threshold for ecosystem stability. The plants could have been run at full power if we were OK with toasting the shellfishes.
But this investigation literally has nothing to do with privacy rights
robustness is only wasted if you're lucky
In my experience, it was decent for simple CRUD interfaces, but anything beyond that turned the development into a nightmare.
Could be just ads that adblocker tries to block. Google is trying new ways all the time to bypass adblockers.
regarding 2., are you sure you're referring to the Camel book and not the Llama book? To me, Programming Perl (Wall, Camel) is closer in spirit to K&R than Learning Perl (Schwartz, Llama)
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Booting a modern laptop, something I do every day, is the anti-low-tech paradigm.

Just my motherboard BIOS is 50348032 bits. And it doesn't provide many options, I think the other way around, it hides many options on purpose.

Then there is an i7 processor... a whole beast itself against simplicity. With its Intel Management Engine, it's microcode updates, etc.

Secure boot? UEFI? VT extensions? TPM? NFC? graphics initialization?

OK, so far, we've code and material to fill the whole life of an engineer, and we didn't reach still the OS bootloader.

Ah, the bootloader, who remembers lilo... here we go with grub. Go read it's source code, and return back to explain me everything that is in there... see you in 3 months only for this.

Here it goes, the kernel. A thing that normal users don't see or touch. More than 30 Million of lines of code more. I won't talk about complexity here, but this project can really say it's "batteries included". The same you get an old obscure filesystem/protocol nobody uses, than proc/mem/i-o/netowrk schedulers for supercomputers. Blobs, firmware, more graphics stuff, observability, wifi, storage, a whole word in itself and everything comes up in microseconds.

There is such initram thingy, which is another "mini" (not mini in lines of code) operative system. Busybox? xD look at that.

Now, here it comes... the low-tech king: systemd! our love-hated init system (only init? well you already know).

Now, here we can start the operative system (which may not bee too simple), we could be talking for years, of each of the micro-components that help to launch the base OS services until you get to the login page.

Depending on the distro... we're skipping a hell of complexity (it's not the same the ps aux of an ubuntu desktop, than the ps aux of a minimal system). Let's skip it, let's skip hundreds of software components and phone home stuff.

The auth part, gives for a few years more of reading code, talk about, skipping plugins and optional stuff.

Then you can get a window manager or a desktop environment (so a week or some months of code more), running over Xorg (do you think it's simple?) or Wayland (you can devote your life until you own this part).

And now... let's launch a "web browser". I will stop here, we won't finish if we go deep into the browser complexity.

Modern hardware, software and engineering, are a big ball of snow. The more it advances, the bigger and out of control it gets.
No, "npm install" doesn't actually do that. In the situation you are talking about, "npm install" and "npm ci" behave the same.

It makes sense that they behave the same here right? What is the point of a package lock if just installing packages on a new copy of a codebase updates the dependencies?

Package locks aren't just about deploying: As a developer, I need to be assured that the code I'm running is the same as my coworker.
I'll be trying Asus since they have been the best when it comes to laptops. They also have lots of nice hardware like Aux ports.

Google Pixel 5a... The last Google product before they went full Apple.
a used laptop that can play youtube videos can be had for about the same money
I'll take the Linux method any day -- it lets me put custom commands, including command line args. Could I just write a script and point my shortcut to that instead? Sure.

At the end of the day, making things idiot proof can be how some software developers go -- personally I can't stand it when it's done, however, as it makes actually accessing configuration options more bothersome than it frankly needs to be. Personally I can't stand MacOS, Windows is a time waster with a lot of how it does things, and most of the mainstream linux distros in the past few years (especially since the advent of systemd) have been moving scarily in the same direction.

Thank Bob for Slackware -- if Pat ever gives it up it may need to be a move to BSD for me.
Disability is the one most likely to crop up. If you really have difficulty getting to an office but are otherwise capable in your role then a court may see this as discrimination.
Dell could just make exceptions for capable disabled staff.
I guess I'm pretty cynical, but I presume you need to be aware of when attendance is taken in all of these contexts. The big townhalls are obviously ego trips for the senior leaders with little to no operational information of use to the peons. But if you get known as someone who doesn't attend them, then you'll probably be known as someone who doesn't respect leadership.
the web is a pile of horse shit why is this even news. the best part is how all the SJW apple tesla cloud smart tech yuppies in tech dont care about how 99% of the world who cant afford to buy a new machine every year have an experience on their product worse in every way than dial up as they force every formerly paper transaction onto web. just opening firefox with blank home page can take deciseconds and even minutes. even opening a new blank tab is unresponsive and lags up the UI. on anything but mid-high range desktop hardware.

how does this even have 200 upvotes? i cant count more than 1 or 2 websites that doesnt have infinite bloat for useless nonsense like the cookie popup social media whatever 10 meme frameworks and 100 js libs injected into the page. HNers just read "bad stuff bad", respond "yup" like a zombie, and continue doing bad stuff
It's interesting the 6b model outperforms the 33b model. I wonder if it means the 33b model needs more training data? It was pretrained on ~1 million C programs, compared to DeepSeek-Coder, which was trained on 2 trillion tokens, which is a few orders of magnitude more data.

I'm also curious about how this compares to non-LLM solutions.