skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to look into Nitrogen. It also has facilities, that allow you to not write JS.
I recall back in 7th grade I mapped out a sci-fi story about people having to abandon the Earth after it suddenly transitioned into its red giant phase. I didn’t ever get to writing the story, but I was captivated by the concept of the need for sudden evacuation.
Or is it [reaching the curie point of a magnet to switch the heat off](https://youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI)?
The Starbucks near me is only $0.65 cheaper than a pour-over[0] at my local specialty coffee store, which has (IMO) better coffee, better variety, and my patronage supports a small local business instead of a multinational behemoth.

I'm not saying no one should ever go to Starbucks, but it does bum me out that so many people I know will only go there.

[0] Yeah, a pour-over takes longer than getting a cup from the pot they already have going. Most specialty shops I've been to also sell drip coffee. I just mention pour-over to show that you can get an excellent cup for only a bit more than what you pay at Starbucks.
So if Uber buys out some small grocery store chains it could work, especially if its in major market cities.
Note how I've been DVd to exactly zero, across most of this thread.

I will choose my words more carefully in future.
> You're trying to have it both ways here! :)

I don't think so? It's both things. It's not that hard to learn the rules well, and applying the rules well is also an advantage. I don't see a contradiction here. This is the case for many many games.

> I assume you're not trying to optimize for the UX of an experienced player bullying a newbie.

Newbies should use a tutor mode! I just don't want the primary mode of the game to be watered down.

> Do you not see the distinction? Do you disagree with it?

I do see the distinction you're drawing! And frankly, you've (belatedly, sorry about that) convinced me that chess is a poor analogy, for this reason.

> Could you also grant others the same courtesy, and believe what they post about their experience with the game is true?

Yes? But where does that get us? I'm happy to grant you and others the courtesy of believing you when you say that you find the battle resolution rules super hard to figure out, but I also don't want the game's creator to think that everyone feels that way, and modify their game to be more boring and rote because of everyone commenting expressing that same feeling. Which is why I started out my first reply in this thread by saying that personally I think (some of) the changes you're proposing would be a bummer.

> The thing I really can't relate to here is you arguing against simple QoL changes.

To me, what you think are "simple QoL changes" sound to me like "the official client of the game should include a cheat-bot", which is fine and all, I just think it would be lame and less fun that way. I just don't really want the game's client to tell you "that move totally sucks, are you sure you want to make it?".

> Well, you did originally claim that the fun in the game was in avoiding blunders...

I didn't say that.

> What challenge is being removed from you?

In all games, part of the fun is in figuring out what is going to happen when you do something. Having the computer tell me that ahead of time, so that I can then not do that thing if it sucks, is the challenge being removed from me.
Small USB flash drives get the worst NAND, followed by memory cards, then consumer SSDs, then enterprise SSDs. "Portable SSDs" that are physically much larger than USB thumb drives usually contain standard consumer SSDs in mSATA or M.2 form factor, plus a bridge chip.
$4 avg increase per worker
I would contend that Dominos is a pizza logistics company rather than a seller of retail pizza (compare Pizza Hut).

https://biz.dominos.com/about-us/innovations/

They're not just selling pizza to make money - but also looking at making cars.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/why-dominos-dxp-d...

While I'm not going to claim that was a good idea, the point is that Dominos sees making and delivering pizza as one and the same business.

> 154 examples of the DXP cars were built. Along with the delivery driver, each DXP car could carry up to 45 pizzas, 12 two-liter sodas, and all the extra dipping sauces one could ever want. Add to that the fact that the car’s still held their five-year 100,000-mile warranty, were cheap on gas, and created a surprising amount of buzz, it is hard not to look at the DXP program as a success, low production aside.
> QT needs a commercial license which is pretty expensive

Are you sure about that? Most of Qt for desktop is licensed under LGPL or similarly permissive licenses that don't require you to open source your project or pay licensing fees.

Some specialized components in Qt are GPL/commercial, but those are for things like automotive use.

I use Qt/QML for desktop applications and never had to buy a license.

Check this out[1] and sort by license to see if you're actually using modules that require a commercial license. Chances are you aren't.

[1] https://www.qt.io/product/features
It will not be as big a change in thinking as Clojure, I am quite sure, but the type system usage is where the change will comw from. That and perhaps borrow checker.
remember bits are binary digits

I guess a decimal digit would be a dit

digital is simply discrete, as opposed to analog / continuous
This was felt pretty strongly in Taipei, some reports of electricity outage too. All my friends and I seem ok though.
I’m glad you responded. I’ve been reading their articles for years, and the takeaway is always - all sprawl is bad, we must consolidate on row houses or other higher density designs to reduce the cost per linear foot of road to service these suburban layouts. Well, maybe people prefer their space, and in the last 10 years, my house has increased in value by $500k. Possibly we could tax suburban properties differently based upon their marginal infrastructure costs? Nope, have to outlaw it and rip it down otherwise it’s going to degrade into blight.

Some of their proposals are intriguing, but their dismissal of alternate funding methods for suburban living seems shortsighted.
It is for me too in the US. I think it's either specific stores/chains or user error.
The credulousness of “engineers” is embarrassing. The concept of a “fully autonomous” AI software engineer is incoherent in and of itself. That means it is self-debunking.

It’s just a tool that does mysterious things. It cannot take responsibility for itself or its own work. The software engineer who uses it must be able to supervise and test what it does— except modern software engineers have systematically kneecapped the culture of career testers, in favor of cutesy output checking that isn’t going to help much.

You need solid skeptical critical thinking. Good luck.
it is more than a DB UI, we have custom actions, schedulers, webhooks, flows, data events, 3rd party integrations like HTTP, Slack, SMTP
Twilio, SendGrid etc,

We also have roles and permissions, change history and so much more.

You can write custom logic, i.e raw javascript to logically render the table/details page, manipulate the forms, write custom validations etc.
That was a big one here this morning 50 minutes ago. Earthquake alert and later a rare tsunami alert. Very shaky.
AI needs the help honestly. Because it's based on training (from the past, and only what's published that it can get its greedy 6-fingered hands on), it's always going to be behind HI (human intelligence !). OP might have taught it how to make a form builder, but there are a lot other concepts at play here - a lot more than a language engine could spit out about making a form builder - which may or may not even be that accurate or relevant to the context. We'd need other engines, at least. We're in very early stages of AI, early enough that people should be excited about the [human] jobs it necessitates in order to get even close to a threatening point - which, who knows if it will even be a threat by the time that finally happens, if ever.
Haha, and I hoped you were being serious! Could have been interesting
It's probably better for society for people to frequent third-places more. More sociability, connections - the human touch. It's of course just selling overpriced sugar drinks, but there's also this aspect.
First time I've seen it, but I kind of dig it. Saves space vs "REFACTOR:", "BUGFIX:", etc
I would pay 5% more for my groceries if I never had to wait in the checkout line. I’m a kind of customer that has tried grocery delivery, and didn’t reject it because of the cost, but instead for other reasons like I want to pick out my own food, I don’t want it left sitting when they deliver it, I can get it faster myself etc. I would definitely pay money to make grocery shopping faster and more convenient. I suspect there are a lot like me.
With densely packed decimals (3 digits in 10 bits), you can reduce the space overhead to as little as 2.4% (1024/1000). The IEEE has even standardized various base-10 floating-point formats (e.g. decimal64). I'd suspect that with dedicated hardware, you could bring down the compute difference to 2-3x binary FP.

However I read the post I responded to as decrying all floating-point formats, regardless of base. That leaves only fixed-point (fancy integers) and rationals. To represent numbers with the same range as double precision, you'd need about 2048 bits for either alternative. And rational arithmetic is really slow due to heavy reliance on the GCD operation.
The "logic" was that the distinction between salaried work and hourly/daily work is far older than government regulations around worker compensation. The government did not want to do away with salaried work and convert all employment to hourly wages - maybe they should have! - so it created two classes of law.

There was always a horrible gap in this law - though less with educated workers like you suggest, and more blue-collar workers who get promoted to low-paid management. Now that white-collar workers have a more competitive job market, it is affecting us as well.
The site's FAQ makes clear that they are not asking for the developer to provide ongoing support.

Also the comparison you make isn't really accurate since the fridge didn't rely on a power generator by the manufacturer in the first place.
My pi won't phone home, Echo constantly does.
Maximising profit over the well-being of a sustainable business long-term is a mindset from the late 80s/early 90s in business world, not a law. It doesn't need to be that way, it is because of an ideology instituted by Welch and his followers spread it amongst all businesses, another ideology will take over when this one inevitably crumbles enough business to be considered harmful.

I hope Boeing's downfall continues spiraling to have a nice poster child of what this fucked up behaviour creates.
When Does Religion Start Being Art?
It may just be me, but I don’t think in terms of “real-dollars” (which are in fact fictional). The non-inflation adjusted graph[0] showing around 30% increase in the last 4 years matches my grocery bills more closely.

Previously on HN[0] I broke down a grocery bill and found we were paying >40% more from 2021-2023.

0 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFXARC1M027SBEA

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38026990
I don’t get it. They bitch about overpopulation, they bitch about under population. Just smell the goddamn flowers.
A lot of house cats walking around imagining themselves to be lions.
That's the conventional thinking, but it has been proven false by this xz incidence. The maintainer of xz did not inject any malicious code into the git repo, but only in the tarball, exactly because the latter is subject to far fewer eyes and he took far less risks polluting only the tarball.
Interesting timing. The Europe side internal coffee shop at my work is also Starbucks except company run and raised prices a lot today too.
What I think is funny is that circa 2008 I had a manager who used to work at Amazon who told me that "a surprising amount of Amazon artificial intelligence is artificial artificial intelligence, low paid workers".

I heard this was behind mechanical turk. Sounds like the playbook remained the same.
> Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning. Our Just Walk Out Technology automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you're done shopping, you can just leave the store. A little later, your receipt will be available and we will charge your payment method.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Modern machines, especially those that Starbucks uses, effectively does make foam (and the shots) with no intervention by the baristas save refilling the milk.

Yes, there's a cost to the machine, but latte prices are completely divorced from their costs.
The margins of the delivery business could be razor thin because the scale at which the app can operate is much bigger than domino's. There are ~7000 domino's in US, and hundreds of thousand on uber eats. I think as more apps offer the same service we'll see a race to the bottom and have a reduction in cost, but not to the VC subsidized levels we saw five years ago.
Emad pitches for decentralized national level models [video]
Is that the right strategy for generative AI?
I don't think it's strange to be honest. Like, if you make your code available under a permissive license like BSD, it's… permissive. Companies don't have a moral or ethical or legal obligation to contribute back. AWS saw an available software, and did what they do and packaged it up and offered a service. Does it suck for Redis? Sure. But they shouldn't have used BSD license to begin with. There's a reason why FSF spent so much time focusing on their license (not that I'm saying everyone should be using copyleft license).

A charitable interpretation is that Redis was being naive. A more realistic interpretation is that Redis knew a proprietary license would not have allowed it to be widely adopted, and that only a standard permissive license would have allowed it to be adopted, and now that it's popular they can force a change due to inertia on developers' side.

I just think something like Redis has no place being open source. And we should just be honest about it instead of beating around the bush. This whole "we will spend our R&D making a free software and make money on hosting" never had any legs because the obvious conclusion is someone can also make money on hosting your software without having put in the R&D work. If yet another new company comes to the market saying "we love open source" we should just be skeptical. The business model likely just doesn't make sense in the long run.
> since you may need to work >40 hours some weeks

"Need"? Why do I need to, in some capacity that couldn't be time and a half?

In most situations where I end up working at dumb hours, the incentives are pretty perverse.
At least here in Canada: Starbucks has obvious, measurably worse coffee than most other chains.

Just order a black espresso to see. Starbucks is banking on the fact that most people order drinks, and the quality of the coffee is indiscernible among the milk and sugars.

At this point, Starbucks has worse coffee than McDonald's and is only a step above Tim Hortons (which itself is on par with truck stop coffee).
A month into ransomware attack, Birmingham city reverts to paper for payroll
There is a very good 5-part explanation from Branch Education:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6rx9p3tbsMuk0jnC-dBd...
> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

Reminds me of the "delivery robots" that weren't really automated after all, they were remotely navigated by cheaper workers on playstation controllers in Brazil and the Philippines driving them on the streets through cameras.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/they-are-cute-pink-robots-w...
> then you're set

Set for what?
Bigger Is Not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models
> "Just release server binaries" kinda implies there is a simple .exe file that an average user can run to host their own server.

FWIW in an online game i worked on recently(ish), which was BTW shut down by the publisher (thus making all the work people spent on it for years go to waste), it was really just "run a single .exe" - pretty much every developer had the server running on their machine for local debugging.
I see earthquake reports (like this one) describe earthquake depth. What is the significance of it? Is it somehow actionable?
How about we don’t?
LGPL only stipulates that users have the freedom to link against their own version of the LGPL library you're using. You don't have to open source anything if you don't want to.
The overall UI design has been consistent, what has rubbed me the wrong way is all the unnecessary UI features like soundboards, custom animated gifts/stamps, etc.

As far as UI hierarchy goes, its mostly been a challenge of the use cases for open source not fitting well with Discord. Too many channels, permission levels, and an unmanageable sidebar structure. That may just be an issue with scale of a larger OSS project, that's my only experience with it.
Looks like a great article - would catch alot more attention with more images and maybe videos of Menger sponges right at the top so people know what they are.
Are fabs knocked offline?
That's absolutely correct.

My Echo devices go further, and can even provide a slice of Internet for the Alexa-enabled TVs that my neighbors may think have no network connection.

...and I'm OK with all of this. :)
Assuming the data set is proprietary, else please share the repo
My gorgeous sister in law laid down some initial constraints, back in the day. My initial solution worked (just) and was good enough.

It failed later and me and my brother may have conspired a little bit ...

Dealing with your nearest and dearest can be quite tricky. I think we got this right ... this time!
Literally not true. neither Whole Foods nor Gelsons weigh anything you scan.
another 6.5 earthquake after 10 minutes:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9gc...
How do you think they can sustain growth in bad/volatile/uncertain economies? Raise prices...

Starbucks' NET is down from just two years ago (~2%). If we examine headcount over the past 5 years, you can also see incredible growth there (read: increased costs).

So, we pick a particularly unstellar year for Starbucks then lambast them for doing better the following year. We'd have to dig into their financials deeper to understand why 2022 was so poor in relation to 2021 and 2023... but the cited YoY Net Growth is not unreasonable for a company that has locations in nearly every nation, and access to enormous working capital.
The Atom editor played a silent audio clip to disable throttling in Chromium:

https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/9485/files

It could be the same as whitespace Unicode or periods in build files: the encoding of "nothing" or "not-meaning in a context" as data.

However, interpreted in an outer context, gives rise to clever ploys.
At what point does the hardware at the end of the fiber become the bottleneck (or is it already?) Are splitters required to branch of certain wavelengths or whatever to discrete networking hardware to process that volume of traffic?
I wonder how the Ladybird [0] project handles Quirks mode. Since it's more of a hobby project, it might not be fun to get pages designed for IE6 running well in Ladybird. I'm fine with that, especially as time goes on and less and less of the well-trafficked web is using these old undefined behaviors. Perhaps now would be a good time to start working on projects to build an HTML5 compatibility layer around the old stuff, kind of like the Ruffle [1] project.

[0] https://ladybird.dev/
[1] https://ruffle.rs/
Report from the Taiwan agency:

https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/EQ/EQ113019-0403-075809.html

And a list of all recent earthquakes, showing the aftershocks:

https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/index.html
this is going to be impossible to prove or disprove, but given the state-sponsored nature of the attack (which seems fairly likely at this point)... I also wonder if maybe there wasn't some tips pushing Andreas Freund down the path of discovering it too.

like let's say you're the NSA and you know Russia (/china/etc) is trying to do this backdoor. maybe you send Freund an email through one of your cutouts and say hey, I've been looking at the ubuntu RCs and we noticed some performance regression in the postgres tests, etc... do it from some corpo email from a "friend" at some bigtech company that legitimately uses postgres/ubuntu and it's completely 100% deniable and innocuous.

it'd be interesting to see correspondence to/from Freund on his mailing lists too, see if there was anyone that (in retrospect) might have been tipping him down the path of discovery too.

(which is not to diminish in any way what he did... chasing a tiny perf regression in core library functionality back to root-cause is no mean feat. especially when it's code that is actively trying to evade detection - watching for debuggers, etc. Although that heisenbug nature might have also made it more compelling to these sorts of people ;)
Alabama, not Midlands.

Is there Baltimore in Alabama?
There absolutely is a need for a robust cross-platform rendering/multimedia solution, more in a similar vein to SDL than Unity or Unreal. The offering of Unity, Unreal, and perhaps Godot is just abysmal when considering that for all of the man hours put into the game development space, that is basically all we got. There should be hundreds of viable cross platform game engines catering to a wide variety niches that continually stretch the bounds of what a game actually is and how it can be represented. Game libraries such as Monogame, Heaps, Raylib, Love2D, etc just wouldn't be that popular if Unity and Unreal are the be all and end all. Adobe Air was once a popular choice (a very large number of top 50 app store games were built with Adobe Air) and I'd wager still would be if it didn't collapse under its technical weight.

Currently it is the low level, cross platform layer that is the most complex and the biggest hurdle towards making a game engine viable. If it wasn't so insanely complex, and the technical barrier towards making your own engine is reduced, the tired cliche of "don't build an engine" wouldn't hold as much weight, and it opens the doors to building a bespoke, fit for purpose engine for every game you create. Don't underestimate what an individual or small teams can produce if they are operating on a solid platform that facilitates a rich ecosystem of tools.