skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can definitely be used for front end testing. Just tell it to do something like a user and monitor whether it's successful or not

Here's a prompt example to try out

{ "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com", "navigation_goal": "goal is met if you see a post from basiep2. Terminate if you don't" }
> P.S. Since I bought all these products to test out of my own pocket and that I use Apple ecosystem devices, it's only natural that some of the options listed are Apple centric. That being said, I'm saving up to get some more Google/Windows related devices to test!

This is fine and understandable, but things like AirPods really need something like "fully functional only with macOS/iOS" listed in their cons, since this restriction negates several listed pros for majority of the population.
If you've lived with animals, of course they have language - it's what we would call (from a human-centric perspective) "non-verbal". My two dogs absolutely understand and can reason from certain words they learn, one I've raised as a puppy from day 0.
I now understand why people were asking for so much up front…
I would be annoyed at losing a day or so of work, if the outage was all at once - but nine hours a year is tolerable. I wish my ISP was that reliable. Hell, I wish my power company was that reliable. Where I live it's common to have a number of outages longer than eight hours every year. Last year a moderate storm caused power outages for a couple of days in August affecting thousands.
IMNSHO, latency is more important than raw bandwidth, and raw bandwidth for consumer Internet is more useful as a latency improvement (because the high speed drains the buffers that much faster) than for actually using the bandwidth.

If you've got actually decent Internet, or you actually do use the bandwidth, great! My experience is that only a few applications will max out my 115Mbit/s connection, and given I have semi-decent kit and a decent ISP using the full bandwidth doesn't have a big impact on latency so I can be streaming, downloading, and have multiple people video-calling and that's fine.

Looking at my stats, there's only been a five minute period in the past 24h with sustained speeds used of over 20Mbit/s.
Amusing anecdote - last year I tried to buy a copy of Švejk in Prague and I had the following exchange in a bookshop (in Czech).

Me: "Hello, do you have a copy of Švejk?"

Assistant: "No."

M: "Uh, OK, do you know of anyone that might?"

A: "No, no one has any Švejk right now!"

M: "I see. Is there any reason for that?"

A: "Everyone has already read it." walks off in a huff

It seemed somehow fitting. 'You can't read Švejk because everyone has already read it, and we're insulted you'd even ask for it in our bookshop.' There's a reason the Czech lands have given the rest of the world both Hašek and Kafka!
It's is but that's the issue. The term is misused and misunderstood. Meaning variety of things and activities. How the definition has emphasis on building something quickly and cheaply, can do more harm than help.

When that happens maybe it's just time to retire the term and move on. These days it's common to validate products as you build them. You can critically think what a good product looks like in your space and aim for that. Then iteratively improve from there. Not sure what the MVP term really contributes to the practice.
The former British prime minister executed a similar technique to hide his scandal by releasing search-engine chaff. He had a press interview where he claimed one of his hobbies was painting miniature red buses, and the scandal he was hiding was false and distateful ads on a (real) red bus as part of a campaign for Brexit.
I think he meant "place" as in literally "the location on the furniture" rather than the (very reasonable from context) interpretation I suspect we both had that it mean "place" in the geographic, or at least climatic sense. Which is itself important as certain woods deal with extremes of humidity better than others. In a temperate climate, just about any old wood will do, but somewhere that is very dry OR very wet, woods like mahogany and teak are best.

Teak especially is so good at dealing with water that it was harvested to near extinction in the 19th century just to build ship's decks and cabins out of it.
You’re making the claims, feel free to share the data you already have.

Oh and while doing that, also feel free to respond to the rest of comment that outlines why opening an unbounded number of TCP connections to a server might be a bad idea.
If you are ever going to be near Dulles airport I highly recommend doing the NWS tour. They have a well organized/rehearsed tour and put up with all sorts of questions. At the end of the tour they launch a balloon. I imagine other NWS forecast centers have similar tours.

https://www.weather.gov/lwx/tourrequest
Sadly I do not believe it will work in office for web due to size limits. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/cloud-storag...

Interestingly it could fit within Powerpoint for the web's limits (my guess is that's intended for images).

I have considered a pure browser implementation https://github.com/ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need/issu...
We're gonna build a self-serve UI soon! We just wanted to get it into people's hands ASAP :)

Feel free to email me at suchintan@skyvern.com -- I can let you know when the self-serve UI is live
Admin of darknet drug market demanding every user pays ransom after taking money
Not only am I a white guy, I'm an old white guy. (I'm 59.) Even worse, I'm rich too, so I am solidly in the demographic of the person I was quoting. But despite the fact that I am a rich old white guy, I don't consider rich old white guys to be my tribe. I look at the history of what rich old white guys have done (and in many cases are still doing) to racial minorities and it fills me with deep shame that I am one of them.

So I genuinely love seeing racial minorities stand up for themselves. I particularly admire what the Maoris have accomplished in New Zealand. And I especially love it when it ends up annoying the rich old white guys that the racial minority is starting to do the exact same thing that the rich old white guys have been doing for centuries. Seeing the irony and lack of self awareness lets me tell myself that no, I am not one them, despite the fact that I look like them.

BTW, the flip side of that is, "I am one of them despite the fact that I don't look like them." Which, it seems to me, is what we ought to be striving for.
Great developers in my experience are full of both humility and cynicism - it is the only logical reaction to the insanity of coding long-lived and large projects.

I think the prize is a competent team which can make important decisions through dispassionate discussions, and which otherwise trusts team-members to drive everything else independently - pulling support where needed.
> degrade just the same as the $200 leather purse you buy from a local artisan.

Where are there local artisans selling leather purses they made for $200? Are you sure you don't mean $4,000? Surely if you are buying a $200 hand made purse, it was made by hand in a low labor cost country and relabeled.
Yeah it's odd to see a bunch of people proposing ideas for cryptographic timestamps (on the blockchain!) when anyone who has worked with digital signatures should know about RFC3161.

Of course for verification it's important that the timestamp countersignature comes from a reputable CA and not some random server you set up.
It's like this in Virginia too!
The converse is also true. I’m sure people with internal monologues (I’m not one) are much more optimistic about LLMs.
The Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary
About 8 or so years ago my wife and I were really excited to buy our first “adult” piece of furniture (read, not-ikea). And we found a leather sofa we loved the look of at West Elm. But it really sucked. Thankfully we had another room that needed to be furnished and we threw it in there. But the thing was just not comfortable and the pillows started sagging after minimal use.

Since then almost every other couch we got was from ikea, since if it ended up sucking at least we didn’t pay 2-3x the cost for it. Which is sad really, I want a nice couch. I just don’t that paying 10-20x the cost wind just be a piece of junk.
In many cases it could truly be that programmers aren't worth enough for them to pony up. It isn't that they're being cheap. It's that it doesn't make financial sense. There are plenty of contexts where programmers are useful but still only worth "normal" salaries.
https://gnet.host/docs/about/overview/ - This is a very similar threading model to envoy [0] and lmax disruptor [1]. Unfortunately IIUC writing this in Go still prevents the spin-locked acceptor thread from achieving the kind of performance you could get in a non-GC language, unless you chose to disable GC, so I'd guess Envoy is still faster.

https://gnet.host/docs/quickstart/ it's nice that you can use this simply though. Envoy is kind of tricky to setup with custom filters, so most of the time it's just a standalone binary.

[0] https://blog.envoyproxy.io/envoy-threading-model-a8d44b92231...

[1] https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/#_what_is_the_disr...
Also California’s CCPA/CPRA.
> They make it easier to get closer to state of the art performace with less

Which gets us, for example, cost-effective robotic weeding, and sorting of recyclables. When each sensor only needs about a smartphone's worth of processing capacity, and cameras are cheap, they can be applied in bulk to mundane tasks.
I would rather have a hardwood bench with good thick cushions tied on. Then instead of reupholstering, you just replace the cushions.
With Starship flights it should be the right combination of cheap enough, frequent enough, and big enough to enable whole new paradigms of construction in space.

We'll be able to design modular space telescopes that benefit from economies of scale, so that we'll be shipping up the sun shield in separate pieces anyways so if any particular one is lost that's okay we'll have an assembly line to produce more.
Perhaps this Wirecutter article can help: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/buying-a-sofa/
Class Action Against General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions [pdf]
lol, well yes I guess :D.

I guess I'm really just spoiled. In the last 10 years I think I've only really experienced like 1 or 2 outages caused by my current ISP and they were resolved within the hour. My assumption is that like most people, all the ISP equipment is buried so the only things that can really go wrong are either at the colo or the home (like a router that dies). Having a line cut is simply a hyper rare event.

On the other hand, my overhead powerlines have caused most of my outages. An idiot crashing into the telephone poll has made my power less reliable than my internet.
I had a suspicion these services actually do more harm than good, even if they're well intentioned and not actively running a data collection scheme.

But this is really a chicken-egg situation. How do you tell companies to delete your information without telling them what identifies your information? It's in these companies' interest to make this as difficult as possible, so a solution based on data hashes is highly unlikely to appear out of their good will alone. This requires strict regulation and high fines.

There's also the issue of proving ownership of the data requested for deletion. Even in the EU with the GDPR, which is arguably the most progressive data privacy regulation we have, companies routinely violate this by requesting even more personal information from the requester.
Watch these vultures frame it as clever vertical integration.

They control the supply (the sites with your info) and the demand (the sites you can go through to request it get taken down)

/s, obviously
Turkish Rathergate?
One would think...all of the above.

I think, really, the emperor has had no clothes for quite some time.
But -- now that we are here, the optimal path is towards open standards.

All historical business acumen points straight to black-box profit bubble.
The enormity of what "Useful Robotics" will bring about has got to transcend that.
I read a book about chairs a few months ago, and one bit from it is

> Eighteenth-century furniture was expensive. At a time when a journeyman joiner earned three livres a day, a good-quality armchair might cost as much as a hundred livres.
Elvis’ manager did this with ‘I hate elvis badges’.

It’s not quite comparable though - this is deliberately deceiving a market into acquiring a service they didn’t need, which is basically racketeering.
Datasette is built to serve SQLite databases. For querying purposes, not bulk download.
According to my calculations, the most approximate Pi ISO day expressed literally is 311/9/11 = 3.141414... Of course 311/11/9 also works

132/3/14 = 3.142857142857143. Not bad!
It sounds interesting, could you please share the links if it is open sourced?
I (and at least couple thousand other people) are still running code I worked on in 1987. Maybe we should do something for the upcoming 40th anniversary...
I’m in the Netherlands. To be clear this is what my gp has told me, I haven’t cross checked what he said (They’re generally quite knowledgeable about what insurance covers and doesn’t. Also to clarify I’m talking about the insurance covered one, not out of pocket treatment.)
> The formatting is ridiculously bad, which makes it extremely hard to read: Subsections within subsections within subsections with approximately zero indentation.

This is standard practice in the legal world because the nesting gets so deep if you indent you'd run out of page.
> Push too hard and you are likely to see degraded product quality, and eventually employee attrition. Don’t push hard enough and you’ll run out of money before you can acquire enough customers or raise your next round of funding. Either extreme can be fatal.

Ehhh. I would go so far as to say, pacing in general is not something management really has any control over. I don't recall ever in my career that a manager "pushed" a team to appreciably increase their real productivity.

Your best bet is to just get in tune with your team's pace, then plan based on that. Good managers don't "push", they prioritize.
It's been going on for years https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/12/mugshot-e...
Идй на хуй придурок.
Finger jointed hardwood is not a nice material. It’s short bits of knotty new-growth wood chopped up and glued back together.
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
Many business analysts use SQL, have for a long time. They are probably not your target audience. With the problem being code specific, you'd likely want to start there, with devs. Most SQL users are not going to understand these things

This sounds similar to the goals of my hof tool (https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof), lift type definitions out of code so they can be defined in one place, then generate the code for all the places. Is that sounding like what you are after?
Wikipedia has certainly not solved the problem of getting huge groups of people to get along (especially when the people aren't getting paid and are instead presumably motivated by ideology). However i don't think anyone else has either.
Seems pretty relevant.
what would you propose instead? would you keep it the same?
we've been doing this for 20k databases with mysql for the last 10+ years. It solves more problems than it creates.
Migrations are trickier, but you get sharding, data isolation and easier backups that way.
From the complaint:

> Plaintiff did not want OnStar services and so he did not push the blue button "to get started." The email provides no mention of OnStar's Smart Driver Program.

…

> In or around January 2024, Plaintiff received his requested LexisNexis consumer disclosure. The report, as of December 18, 2023, had 258 recorded driving events under the "Telematics" subsection. Each driving event included trip details that show the start date, end date, start time, end time, acceleration events, hard brake events, high speed events, distance, and VIN.

…

> Plaintiff had never opted into any insurance program that would have allowed his information to be shared.

Related: "Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666976

And if you own a car made in the last ~5 years, here's how to request your "Consumer Disclosure Report" from LexisNexis: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/ . According to NYT, LexisNexis receives at least some data from GM, Ford, Kia, Subaru, and Mitsubishi.

Or from Verisk, which receives data from at least GM, Hyundai, and Honda: https://fcra.verisk.com/#/
1. They mention that the largest tables ran into several TBs, and they would have soon topped the max IOPS supported by RDS. RDS for PostgreSQL peaks at 256,000 IOPS for a 64 TB volume. For a multi-AZ setup, this costs ~$70K/mo.

2. Let's assume the final outcome was a 5-way shard with each shard supporting ~50,000 IOPS and ~12 TB data. For a multi-AZ setup, this costs ~$100K/mo.

3. It took 9 months to shard their first table. Since it required application changes as well, let's assume this was 9mo * 20 work days/mo * (3 DB engineers + 2 app engineers) = 900 work days. Even at $100K avg. annual pay for an engineer, this is ~$400K.

4. A PostgreSQL-compatible NewSQL like YugabyteDB should cost ~$15K/mo to match top-of-the-line RDS performance. So Figma spent ~25x ($400K/$15K) to implement horizontal sharding in-house, and is still on RDS which costs ~6x ($100K/$15K)
You can drop way more than $1k and be stuck with something that's really kind of crappy.

You have to know enough to know who is actually building the good stuff, and who is building good-looking marketing.
Checking Causal Consistency of MongoDB
Great way to look at it.
What does that mean? What’s your point? I’m not sure those facts matter much.
Yikes this guy needs to slow down on the ketamine.
git? not sure exactly what you're trying to say here, but you could do some stuff with git

have a local repo of your own notes, a hosted repo serving as the communal ref. if you want to make updates, commit and push --, you can cherry pick the sections you want.

i recall seeing something like mediawiki (but it stored articles as plaintext) a while back, you could use that for a web-based portal too
I was introduced to him via a BBC radio adaptation in the 1970s (80s?). Around the same time as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe".
My parents got one 15 years ago and it's still in great condition with no real effort on their part. I have no idea what has changed at Ekornes in that timespan though, for all I know they got acquired by private equity and turned to crap.
I was on the wait list for a while too (I think my place in the waitlist even went backwards) and someone from HN wat nice enough to hook me up with an invite.

I'm happy to pay it forward, the only caveat is that I think the referral code has to be sent via a chat method that beeper supports. Feel free to email me (HN username @ big G's mail service) with a GChat/WhatsApp/SMS address.
This is the most believable discussion that I have seen, identifying Hal Finney as Satoshi [1]. By no means conclusive, but certainly believable.

[1] https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1761111031928033749
There are two different changes here:

(1) The chemical change that produces CO2 and liberates energy, and

(2) the physical change of diffusion as concentrated CO2 is diluted in the atmosphere

If you have concentrated CO2 in one place (say an oil refinery or power plant) you can inject it underground. To produce concentrated CO2 from the atmosphere you have to overcome change (2) but that has nothing to do with change (1). Now someone who wanted to keep using old engines in say 2060 might want to use an e-fuel where (1) is reversed too to synthesize a fuel. The US Navy likes the idea that it could use water, air and energy from a nuclear power plant to make jet fuel.

The main theme in that article is building a coal burning power plant that captures CO2 and never releases most into the air.
It's the trade-off with Prince, as Susan Rogers explains in another comment I made, where he needed to get his ideas out first and foremost. There were a lot of stunning-sounding albums around at the time!
Yes, exactly what I want. I want to be able to have it code robust Cypress tests for e2e testing.
4 nines is reasonable, 5 nines a good target. ISPs have become utilities, especially since covid.
It is imposible to meaningfuly evaluate these different protocols against each other without considering the "use case". For example, if someone is requesting 100 pages from a site, all hosted on the same domain, and nothing else,1 then HTTP/1.1 is the best of the three. The requests can be sent over a single connection. HOL blocking is not an issue. I have tested this exhaustively outside the browser for over a decade. (People promoting HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and HN commenters submitting snarky replies every time I mention the utility of HTTP/1.1 pipelining, apparently have not tested this at all.)

1. This is text retrieval. The www is not a handful of browsers controlled by companies that seek to profit from advertising. It was and still is a facility that provides for (hyper)text retrieval.

HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 come from an advertising commpany and a CDN that expect ads hosted on different domains in every page. That is what _they_ want. Is that want _www users_ want. We do not know because www users were never asked. We do know that www users do not like ads. When given the choice, they say, "No."

The advertising company keeps repeating this HOL blocking as a problem of HTTP/1.1, and now it gets parroted everywhere, and few even know what it means. HOL blocking is not a problem if the www user is not requesting ads and tracking from different domains. How many www users actually want to request ads and tracking and particpate in telemetry. The so-called "tech" company might try to argue that all of them do, or more commonly that, "They do not care." Meanwhile its own employees call ad blocking a "right of passage" (direct quote from a reply I got on HN).

The truth is that when evaluating these new HTTP protocols, it matters what the www user is trying to do. Many users are simply trying to retrieve information as text. But the advertising company believes that www users only want to do what is in the interest of the advertising company: let the advertising company's browser automatically send requests for ads, tracking and telemetry purposes. (Except for employees of so-called "tech" companies profiting from the sale of online ad services. They exempted and are free to block the ads and tracking.)
If you don't have income, you don't pay taxes. Unbelievable. A scandal.
Women? Porn sites also have men. And men dressed as women and women dressed like men.

Who do you want to protect again?
In many cases it's easy to make the distinction. Many will not hesitate to admit that they suppress things because of the effect they fear it will have on the audience. Not just the effect it will have on the appeal of the venue, or the image of the company, or whatever.

And I'm not even saying all censorship is necessarily wrong. There's one very obvious case where you keep people from seeing things because you fear the effect it will have on them (which is censorship), but it's generally accepted, and that is when the people in question are children.

Yeah, it's hard to judge people's sincerity. Do you really just worry that your space will be overrun with nazis/terfs/communists because you don't want to see that shit yourself, or are you afraid that they'll convince others? But that doesn't mean the distinction isn't worthwhile. Most of all, it's necessary to apply to yourself. It's a critical question you have to ask yourself, if people trust you to moderate for their benefit.
Wiring Party
A good thing as far as security and reliability are concerned, if you ask me. Not so much if you are aiming at real-time garanties of course.