skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah South Korea is nuts. They drink too much, work too hard, and the imbalance in their society is too wide. I met my wife there, she worked her way out of a farming village, first person in her family to get a degree never mind a PhD, almost killed her... but she did it. Gwarosa, working to literal death, it's a thing. The Japanese do it also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Joseon and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_class_theory

I love South Korea and it's people, I hope they smoke some weed and chill out soon or something, kinda worried about them ngl. :\
I’m pretty sure there is a Carl Hiaasen novel that deals with this.
I think the main issue is auto tools tries to support so many different shells/versions all with their own foibles, so the resulting cross-compatible code looks obfuscated to a modern user.

Something built on python won't cover quite as wide a range of (obsolete?) hardware.
Show HN: Generate admin apps without writing a single line of code
By page do you mean like your live website with the changes?

I've thought about this too and I think down the line the plan is to be able to attach screenshots to merge requests. However, as a reviewer you can also pull down the changes and test them against your production site locally. So you can alter between the main branch and the feature branch and compare the differences like that. The benefit of this over a screenshot is it lets you actually get to see something like the hover effect in action.
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Membership clubs can get away with quite a bit more because they're controlled access.

I notice Costco has self-checkouts now.
The quality of writing in this book is fantastic. If you're studying math or have a recreational interest I really recommend it.
> My debugging time costs many orders of magnitude more than SWE-agent

Unless your job is primarily to clean up somebody else's mess, your debugging time is a key part of a career-long feedback loop that improves your craft. Be careful not to shrug it off as something less. Many many people are spending a lot of money to let you forget it, and once you do, you'll be right there in the ranks of the cheaply replaceble.

(And on the odd chance that cleaning up other people's mess is your job, you should probably be the one doing it; and for largely the same reasons)
Where I live I'm Sam Houston ;)

The city named after me was also founded (1836) purposefully on undeveloped land and planned from the beginning to become an urban center and territory capital.

Within 3 decades of when Columbus got going, so I would have to say they both have a downtown layout that was originally designed for horses and horse-powered vehicles to begin with. And to accommodate a lot more horses in the future than there were in the area at the time.

Plus think of the gig workers. I can only imagine one of the blocks where people are waiting for an Uber today, is where early residents were once waiting for a Wells-Fargo coach. Once the Wells-Fargo startup was able to leverage being online 24/7, at your local telegraph office ;)

Streetcars came in the late 1800's and I would expect tracks were laid on what could be considered thoroughfares.

There was probably quite a bit of urban character by then and a good chance it was the rapid transit offered by the march of technology, rather than the mass transit aspect that was most appreciated by the riders. Houston already had horse-powered "buses" before this.

Next thing you know, a few decades later there's Model T's and you can really save tonnes of animal feed while helping the environment (at the time) at the same time. They all shared the roads even if it was not all horses and pedestrians as intended any more.

After years of mass-production, it would be like cars are reproducing faster than horses and taking over the place, car owners would have growing influence. Plus if for some reason older mass-transit hardware were deteriorating at a faster rate than the payer could justify reversing, there would be increasing incentive to eventually throw in the towel and let people drive themselves around.

It could happen ;)

Technology marches on but the mainstream beats the most heavily-trodden path.
Why should decline be exponential?
We tried a mix of caching as well as hubspot webhooks, but we were still having issues with data not updating fast enough and most of the data we load has to be somewhat on demand regarding tasks/sequences and outbounding features. ie you call or email someone, a task gets moved to the next task and the user wants to see that change somewhat quickly.
Any language can become a turing tarpit if you try hard enough.
The Whole Foods location nearest to me has self-checkout stations that don't even have a scale under the bagging area. You just scan, put it in your bag and go. I assume they can afford to tank the shrinkage that results from this due to their high profit margins, or they just don't consider the costs associated with the scales to be worth it.
Right, our incentive system (money) is non-binding if you have enough money to spend on avoiding consequences.

We need something different (or perhaps something additional) which can motivate those people to pull their heads out of the sand and quit chasing profit for profit sake and change the status quo.
That may be ... plus we don't really know what to make of the observations around us, with dark matter and stuff.
Yes very fair point. I just had a dystopic thought of dynamic prices (electronic price tags?) that update in real time based on information. Is the person undecided? Brand A bids to lower their price slightly. Is the person looking at the same item on Amazon? Read the price and beat it by 10 cents or whatever. Those are situations where it might benefit the shopper, but I could easily see it going the other direction also. not looking at the item on Amazon? Now you're gonna pay too much. And of course, store the complete history of what strategy works with which people so "the algorithm" can tune for your individual weaknesses.
If the workers can't afford to live the food is under-priced.

Pretty simple.
Why should I choose your service instead of one of many other established players on the market like UptimeRobot, Cronitor, Uptime.com, Checkly to name a few ?
There are more than 80 countries in africa. I cannot follow them all. I have no doubt there are more.
Scientists Hit 301,000 Gbps Internet by Tapping New Fiber Wavelength Bands
A good thing about living in a small house. I can hear when my rice cooker is done (plays a tune), when my washing machine is done (plays a tune), when my dryer is done (plays a tune). :) (note that that hasn't prevented me from hooking them up to smart plugs the way terrence did)
Should add a RSS feed!

I like the simplicity of the style
That's the problem though - $0.05 is a LOT to a grocer, that's all they keep on a lot of products. Barcodes are free since they mostly go on labels that are being printed anyway. They could push for source tagging, but the vendor would pass on the cost, and grocery is a very price sensitive industry.

For apparel, on the other hand, source tagging is common - even before EPC on higher end goods, Calvin Klein used to sew magnetostriction tags into clothing. Apparel just has so much more price elasticity and loss prevention is a huge part of that industry. Tools are another industry where EPC and source tagging are common, once again, high dollar items with a lot of theft.
It's actually very easy to convince an LLM to output perfectly natural text, it's just that their default mode is that verbose corporate boilerplate speak.

You can request responses in some specific style by the name of a popular author, or just provide a bunch of examples for it to copy.

I like responses in the style of an "Encyclopaedia Dramatica article", which tends to be both hilarious and also a bit less guarded and hence more honest.
Right. Way too much coincidence. Jia Tan found out that it was about to become public and threw a Hail Mary. How did he find out?
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From this study I don't think it's even clear why or under what conditions higher REM latency is better, or that increasing it in an individual can necessarily be considered an improvement.

(I also don't think that's what the study was for; I think they were mostly trying to validate the methods against established results.)
Of course it's not a serious suggestion; it's just a pointed way to state their case.

And almost every country does wildlife management by killing some animals. I feel their point of "okay, so we can't do that according to you – then are you going to take care of the animals?" was well taken.
My goto for a while has been - https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens

This seems quite good, but I'd rather a terminal app.
They do, and they also make that a profit center too by allowing you to pay another $3 to ensure a nonstop point-to-point delivery to you.
They've gotten a bit more advanced, but that can be bypassed too, you just need to know where the cameras are.

Or shop somewhere where they have all that turned off.
His page [1] is pure awesomeness!

He posed such an uncomfortable questions in his (and his students) reseach.
When I cook rice I purposefully take the lid off and add 10 extra minutes to get that delicious crispy bottom.
you irc to slack, or you use a bouncer with slack, or both?
Do you mean Piss Elm? I've never heard of an oak with that quality.
But… but… I thought Bitcoin was a commodity with inelastic supply and so would act more like gold when both interest rates and inflation rose?

Gold is still going up? Why has Bitcoin dropped?
Marine Cloud Brighting geoengineering test in California
I realize it's not really that comparable since these tools don't support SQL, but a more fully functioned CLI tool is - https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

They are both fairly good
The way python's run time literally executes code when you import a module makes it seem pretty easy to taint things from afar. You only need to control a single import anywhere in the dependency hierarchy and you can reach over and override any code somewhere else.
This is actually not too far off from how rudimentary vaccines work.

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

"Vaccine" is actually a pretty broad term and loses usefulness in these conversations outside of its use as a rhetorical tool. Yes MRNA vaccines are vaccines and yes they are different from other types of vaccine such as Live-attenuated vaccines, conjugate vaccines and others.
People who spent the money on a Vision Pro are the most likely people to try to convince others it's some amazing future device...

VR has been around for years and years, and still has not become mainstream. The core issues remain, and Apple did nothing to resolve them - nor do I suspect they are capable of resolving them.

Untold fortunes have been thrown down the VR rabbit hole by some of the most heavily invested companies, and still today it's a mediocre experience after the novelty wears off.
So? You made a claim that you had actually seen “lots and lots” of positive discussions, yourself. That’s not just a question with an implied direction. You claim to have seen the evidence with your own eyes. And yet when asked produce it you immediately began protesting that you didn’t have to.

You can’t produce the evidence, because there isn’t any. You made your claim without regard for evidence, because even a trivial search for Apple related material shows an overwhelmingly negative view of Apple here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
How to use an Encryption Key per NVMe I/O (2023) [pdf]
The devil is in the detail and nothing obscures details like complexity.

Same reason why I don't like TypeScript in its current form. It's not worth the extra complexity it brings.
Oh yeah, that's a fantastic point.
I don't know why, but this reminded me of going to school in the early 90's, we'd go through the university's voicemail system inputting random phone numbers and trying the default password, '0000', which meant the voicemail on that number had never been set up. When we found one, we'd record a song as the greeting. We then posted notes by the various public phones on campus for our 'dial a song' directory so anybody could enjoy a song, like a big public jukebox.

The entire thing worked well for a semester, until some killjoy updated the phone system default to disable voicemail for unused numbers and blew away all our songs.
Google shills, presumably.
I can stomach any separator as long as the order is right ;)
...And for the "other 9,999" part: https://xkcd.com/1053/ and https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousan...
I work with ML CV industrial systems, and they can certainly do accurate and detailed analysis and identification very quickly. The systems that do this are also necessarily very, very expensive -- much more expensive than any grocery store could possibly justify.

Of course, costs change with time, but right now I don't see how this sort of application could approach being financially feasible.
Are you on Bluesky?

Would love to follow. But not, you know, over there.
Ask HN: How to choose the desktop platform and tech for desktop app development?
I am looking to create desktop app for one of my projects(The project is a video-creator app for musicians- https://vinlo.co ). The reason being I feel somethings are just not for the web. It takes a lot of time to perform FFMPEG operations on web. I want users to have a seamless experience and web is limiting in that sense.

I am well-versed in web tech, C++, Python. I have done my research and here's what I arrived at. I would love it if HN people weighed in.

Mac: Users are used to paying for apps. Swift looks good. But very low market share compared to Windows.

Windows: Too many ways of doing things and too much options(C# WPF, Winforms).

Cross-platform(This would be best for me): Electron/Tauri/Wxwidgets/Qt. Electron is a whole browser. Tauri uses the default web view but that means I'll have to configure for every platforms. And also Tauri is not great with documentation. I am weighing between wxwidgets and QT but QT needs a commercial license which is pretty expensive. Wxwidgets is at least native. But looks almost dead?

I would appreciate any personal opinions. Thanks!
- People didn’t care about power usage as much

Also, with OLED monitor screens becoming more popular maybe they will make a comeback? My OLED TV has a screensaver.
Just wait 2 years it’ll be on your phone.
If you don’t trust your partner enough to go to the lengths of hiring some random dodgy stranger to hack them… you either need help for trust issues or need to leave your partner anyway - no hacks necessary!
This probably varies widely, because unreadable bash is absolutely not considered normal, nor would pass code review in any of my projects.

On a slightly different note, unless the application is written in python, it grosses me out to think of writing scripts in python. IMHO, if the script is more complex that what bash is good at (my general rule of thumb is do you need a data structure like an array or hash? then don't use bash), then use the same language that the application is written in. It really grosses me out to think of a rails application with scripts written in python. Same with most languages/platforms.
This. I think it used to be a productivity power tool that they since incorporated into the core editor.
Apple Got Caught Censoring Its Own Regulator Lina Khan
You've left out the fact that one is a physical commodity with intrinsic value, and the other is the right to say you have the solution of a useless math problem.
Paula Vennells may have known about allegations Horizon could be remote accessed
One of my favourite movies!
It's just a tech-illiterate journalist who can't seem to understand the difference between "annotators watching and labeling videos to validate the model" vs "people watching the videos live to remotely decide the cost of every user's purchase".

Or maybe they do know the difference, but wanted to bait audience.
In the demo they clearly have a wysiwyg app allowing them to drag in the icon, so the project is already set up for "live demo". If i'm a non-technical reviewer, like a designer (their target market I believe), I shouldn't be expected to pull down changes and test locally (unless that part can be automated and made super easy to do without fuss).

Figma kind of already does this (visual diff) with some of their tools for designers, although i'm not sure how well that can be integrated into a full fledged web-app who's changes and reviews could be shared by designers and engineers.
There were also changes to systemd happening around that time which would have prevented the backdoor from working. See the timeline article by the same author linked in this one.
[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
> The point is that we can allocate this work in a way that minimizes the amount of time everyone has to spend doing undesirable work.

1. Not all work is equally undesirable and the way people are paid is not related to that in any way (in fact isn't usually inversely related)

2. Minimising the undesirable work done in total means some people end up doing almost all of it and some basically none (or, if you consider all work undesirable, some people do only the worst and some only the least bad work).

If before, for example, everyone would spend half an hour of their day to cook for themselves, which might be inconvenient but is overall not a big impact on your quality of life, now we have overworked and underpaid restaurant and related staff doing intense work for crazy hours, which is is a devastating hit to their (and their families') quality of life.
The sum of human effort spent on cooking may have gone down in this example, but instead of everyone being a little annoyed by it, some people are living like kings and some are slaving away for their convenience (obviously this wording is exaggerated, but if we look globally, this is basically what's happening).
1. Pretty neat to switch encoding in the middle of the URL. It does look like it works and it does look like a better encoding. This is cool.

2. I'd have called this base-1000. It's using 3-digit numbers encoded into 10 bits. Base64 doesn't encode into 64 bits, it uses 64 characters encoded into 6 bits. And this encoding uses 000 to 999, encoded into 10 bits. But that messes up the title when you compare apples to apples, 1000 > 64 is just obvious and true.
There's a number of people who openly admit to "self checkout discounts" as part of the "payment" for doing the work for the store.
One of the "perks" of my Walmart+ membership is scan-as-you-go. I think I've used it twice. Both times, I only had a few things and the store was packed solid with spring breakers. It was a decent experience but I still like the normal self-checkout the best.
Optimized with binary search (can't figure out why ycomb formats my code all ugly)

var speed = 500;

[rin, bin, gin].forEach(col => {
col.valueAsNumber = 7;
col.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));
col.score = 0;
});

async function tryit(col, value) {
col.valueAsNumber = value;
col.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));
submit.click();
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, speed));
var res_text = result.innerText.split(/[ ()%]/)[4];
if (res_text === "Splendid!") {
throw new Error("Finished - Found correct combination");
}
col.score = parseInt(res_text);
return col.score;
}

async function binarySearch(col) {
let start = 0;
let end = 15;
let mid = 7;
let startAccuracy = await tryit(col, start);
let endAccuracy = await tryit(col, end);
let midAccuracy = 0;

while (true) {
mid = Math.floor((start + end) / 2);
midAccuracy = await tryit(col, mid);

if ((end - start) <= 2) {
const max = Math.max([startAccuracy, midAccuracy, endAccuracy]);
if (startAccuracy == max) await tryit(col, start);
else if (midAccuracy == max) await tryit(col, mid);
else await tryit(col, end);
return;
}

if (endAccuracy > startAccuracy) {
start = mid;
startAccuracy = midAccuracy;
} else {
end = mid;
endAccuracy = midAccuracy;
}
}

}
async function findOptimalCombination() {
for (const col of [rin, gin, bin]) {
await binarySearch(col);
}
/* rounding */
for (const col of [rin, gin, bin]) {
const mid = col.valueAsNumber;
const score = await tryit(col, mid);
const left = await tryit(col, mid - 1);
if (score >= left) {
const right = await tryit(col, mid + 1);
if (score >= right) await tryit(col, mid);
}
}
console.log("Optimization complete");
}

await findOptimalCombination();
Prices can certainly have more decimals that cents.

If you just store cents you can't represent them. You either have to guess at the beginning the smallest unit or store the precision along with it.

Just use strings, it's much simpler.
Having used the UK/US type self checkout machines while travelling, I must say it is so nice to live in Northern Europe where the self checkout machines are largely just based on trust, with randomly sampling ~five items of every 100 shoppers. There is no weighing at any of the stores.

If you don't get randomly selected for inspection, there is nothing stopping you from just walking out with groceries you didn't pay for worth a hundred dollars easy. People just don't. Another benefit of having a proper social safety net I guess.
Nevermind that, I'd like to see the Color of Magic. With VR headsets it should be possible: display a different color in the same position for each eye, maybe cycling between yet more colors each frame.
This is probably an adequate answer to that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/3w03pj/comment/...
It's entirely a sketchy/nice dichotomy (though the local nice grocery store is tuned too damn high, I avoid that one).
I'm sure all those fired, new job seekers jn India agree fully with you.
> I disagree

Glad to hear it. That means you don't have a problem (at least for some of the points raised).