skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you did some kind of shell game with 5 different people all passing around their items, then you don’t get charged correctly is it theft?

IANAL but I'm confident the legal answer is "yes", the same as if someone was using sleight-of-hand with objects at a cashier-and-conveyor-belt checkout station.

Whether charges are brought and how easily the case can be proved is another matter, but the intent is what makes it a crime.
I mean, obviously it’s not the average user experience. For most people Apple products are not perfect but overall very solid and reliable.

Also, it’s not bricked. Just needs to be wiped:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211078
> . 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

So they just outsourced the cashiers to India
They're a tool specifically for incorporating inflation.

Dollars don't live in wallets for years on end. They live in markets. They live productively in bank accounts and in investment vehicles. And generally you're buying food out of your paycheck, which is also going up over time. Look at median wage. [1]

They myth of the idle dollar needs to die.

The question isn't how much your one dollar sitting in your wallet can buy (that's separately answered in CPI) the question is how much of your take-home pay as a percentage do you have to spend on food. That's what this series offers, in both nominal, and real dollars. The point is to compare the change in burden over time for the median individual. Comparing nominal prices isn't interesting and plays to humans poor ability to deal with exponential series.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881500Q
How he set it up some he's leasing the jet from his own private family trust LLC fund sounds so sketchy, it reminds me of the WeWork self-dealing by Adam Neumann.

> Under a deal reached in November 2020, Canoo reimburses Aquila Family Ventures, an entity owned by the CEO, for use of an aircraft. In 2023, Canoo spent $1.7 million on this reimbursement — that’s double the amount of revenue it generated. Canoo paid Aquila Family Ventures $1.3 million in 2022 and $1.8 million in 2021 for use of the aircraft.

> Separately, Canoo also paid Aquila Family Ventures $1.7 million in 2023, $1.1 million in 2022 and $500,000 in 2021 for shared services support in its Justin, Texas, corporate office facility, according to regulatory filings.

sound familiar?

> The 11-story office building at 88 University Place was leased to WeWork and co-owned by Neumann, the company's co-founder and CEO. It was one of many buildings that WeWork leased from Neumann. Critics called the leases a conflict of interest for WeWork and an example of self-dealing by its charismatic leader.
There's a lot of chaff in the comments, but put bluntly - you aren't going to find a good tech co-founder randomly, online or through some hypothetically attractive matching services...

Matching services are weak at best and should be treated like online dating sites; The vast majority aren't those you're looking for and frankly, some of them are bunny-boilers.

If you're serious - use and exploit your own network, reach out to people you know and discover those who others value and might be interested in your hypothetical (or proven idea) backed by data, science, experience and value.

I say this having experience co-founding multiple businesses; 1 IPO on LSE/NASDAQ, several trade sales and a bunch of failures (which really really hurt). The most valuable lesson being that the failures teach you more than anything else!
Both my jobs have indefinitely axed co-op and new grad roles due to Co-pilot.

It isn’t just AI, as entry level people have always been poor value, but at this point we basically just want entry level to be a favour for employee’s kids.

I’m an overemployed Senior SDE, one at a unicorn and one at a generic company.
It can be a very long wave. If you have a coastal area that is mostly at or very close to sea level then that entire area could now be 3m underwater which is very bad.

Also, even under normal conditions the type of wave you would see at the beach with a height of 3m is insanely powerful. I think the highest I have body surfed in was maybe 2-2.5m and if you get caught in the break of the wave you are literally powerless and get dragged under water and spun around for quite some distance. It is a bizarre experience and doesn't really match the basic intuition of how powerful it should be.
Because people can build this stuff at home or on small underground labs, militaries around the world will research it in secret, so how do you police it ?
How do you get people to adopt better road design? American drivers don't want this, and they'll vote against anyone who tries to push it (in most localities, not all).
Think of it as a 3m tall bulldozer the width of the country with effectively unlimited pushing power. Watch some videos of the Japan tsunami, it's basically an unstoppable force that gobbles up everything in it's path. Very uncool.
>if you get the SMART data with smartmontools/smartctl, you can inspect Percentage Used.

CrystalDiskInfo[1] can be used for this purpose over on Windows. Some vendor-provided utilities like Samsung Magician will also provide this data with appropriate drives.

[1]: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
a 3-meter high wall of water is not really good either, due to kinetic energies, if no significant tsunami coastal protections, that water flow can reach far inland
I've shopped at Amazon Fresh's London stores occasionally, mainly for the convenience and novelty. And sometimes I've had Amazon orders shipped there for collection. But never really felt the desire to do regular daily shops there because the prices seemed higher than Tesco etc for roughly the same sort of products?

Aldi has also been trialing the same "just walk out" shopping model at their Greenwich store in London[1]. I always suspected that theirs had some manual intervention involved because of the variable time it takes to get the bill. Sometimes I'd be charged nearly instantly after walking out of the store, other times it would be hours later. Aldi's one is more compelling, IMO, because you get the regular, competitive Aldi prices.

[1] https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/shopandgo
And both salt and baking powder are normally sold in cardboard tubes -- not plastic.

But these numerous little exceptions don't invalidate OP's observation, wherein: Our needs have broadly changed, and thus so has our packaging.
I wonder about putting some sort of camera-readable code or even a wireless signaling device (passive/reactive?) on the packaging, even as stickers, a modern equivalent of barcodes for their readers.

Amazon would have to add the stickers for now, but it could revolutionize retail. IIRC I read that a bookstore chain revolutionized their retail industry by putting barcode stickers on all their books, allowing computerized inventory, and now publishers print them by default.
I built an easy conversational AI API that allows you to turn surveys/forms into SMS conversations with your users (all in a few lines of code). With the API you can easily pull structured data (just like the output you expect from a traditional form) while still retaining the authenticity and high engagement rates tied to a conversation.

With structured and consistent data, you can easily build logic to filter and analyze survey data. Most companies we work with set up moderately complex surveying systems in less than 1 hour.

Use Cases for the API (that we have seen so far)
- User surveys: You can survey segments of your user base by triggering an API request based on certain actions. For example, if a user upgrades or downgrades, you can text them asking more specific questions etc. This is easier to integrate than an in-app survey and does not disrupt the normal workflow of the application.
- Waitlists: When someone signs up for a waitlist you can easily reach out to them (after a period of time) and ask them more qualifying questions. Since we output structured data that is consistent (boolean, numbers etc.) you can write code to automatically take people off the waitlist based on their survey responses.

For early access to the API, you can go on the site.

Fun fact: We actually use our product to streamline/automate our sales pipeline
I think it’s a big one. They are always in tune.
How else would you write that? Would this be better?

"Thus, no, we can't just offer full Node."

Is it the use of "so" that is off limits?

Or is simply providing a concise conclusion inappropriate?

I don't see what part of that quote is "snotty".
I've been hearing of scams labeled "pig butchering" — fatten the pig and then slaughter it. The euphemism is pretty close.
It’s not very expensive to being with, but it’s magnitudes more expensive than a print tag. Print is either free (a package being printed anyways) or extremely cheap (sticker).

Materials alone provide a huge challenge.
Given how severely the last two coal plants were botched at every step of the way I doubt it.

Slightly more optimistic about the safari 1 reactor replacement project though. Which btw produces around 10% of the worlds medical isotopes so would be good to get a replacement sorted
Try adding to your "worried4future" list "Decay of the moral norms that make society work."
It's generally very bad, but it also depends on the shoreline. If your city is on the coast at sea level with no real barrier, it's devastating. If there's a big cliff and everything is at higher elevation, you can ignore it.

Unfortunately, people tend to build settlements at sea level.
It's really good, best in the world, specifically on the leading edge.

Issue is now probably bridges/ roads and other interlinking logistics - if this stuff holds up supply chain/ stops people getting to and from work that's an issue.
This looks like a tool for Google/Alphabet to use to improve ads or make it more difficult to use unapproved browsers under the guise of 'privacy'.

An astroturf feature not unlike ManifestV3.
Anyone have a link to a video of that sweet Tuned Mass Damper (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tuned-mass-damper-of-tai...) in action this time around?
I had fun spoofing friends' email addresses (only for harmless jokes). Amazing to think now that there was a period when anyone could convincingly and effortlessly send an email as anyone else, and it wasn't widely abused.
For server-side business logic, we have workflows that basically can do any server-side business logic, you can write conditions, run custom SQL logic, make 3rd party integration calls through HTTP calls, send mails etc.
Feature set looks very impressive, even compared to Django-with-extensions. Good luck!

(at the moment the demo app not letting me in with the default credentials though - reset maybe?)
Consensus app was the other one. Thanks! Wow, there are a lot.
I’m also in Taipei. It’s the worst one ever I’ve felt in my life. Staying on the 7th floor with noway to escape in time is probably the worst feeling
I wonder if it could be solved with a decentralized system. You'd still need a way to vet drivers and handle refunds. I'm not sure other delivery apps bother with the former until bad reviews come in, and maybe the latter could be just between the customer and the store? Would be a big win for customers and gig workers if you could get past the obstacles.
First human case of bird flu in Texas detected
Interestingly, he also had a lawsuit at his prior company for excessive use of private jet use on personal travel:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...

> Aquila Commits Misappropriation Of Solera Assets And Resources

> After execution of the Separation Agreement and Omnibus Agreement, Solera confirmed that prior to his separation from the Company, Aquila had misappropriated Solera’s resources and money by fraudulently claiming that certain flight and hotel expenses were for Solera business, when in fact, Aquila incurred these expenses solely on personal, non-Solera business—including fundraising for his intended new investment venture.

> Specifically, Aquila used a private jet chartered by Solera (Gulfstream IV- SP-N910AF) solely for Aquila’s personal business, but nevertheless charged the flights to Solera, between November 2018 and May 2019—i.e., when Aquila was still Solera’s President and CEO. For example, Aquila had Solera pay over $700,000 for 45.8 hours of flight time for Aquila’s trips to, among other places, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Bulgaria, Qatar, Kuwait, and France, as well as thousands of dollars for certain hotel expenses associated with certain of these trips. These trips were not for Solera business. Aquila traveled for personal purposes, including in connection with his position as the Chairman of the Board of Sportradar and to fundraise for his new “Founders Select” venture.

> Solera is continuing to investigate Aquila’s pre-separation activities with respect to any further instances of fraud, theft, misappropriation, or other actions of Aquila giving rise to claims that are not released under the Separation Agreement.
In the OP, many of the links (e.g., "first, innocuous patch") lead to mail-archive.com. From there, click the button with the name that appears after "Reply via email to", and it will open your email client, with the To: filled in with the email of the person.
I was disappointed that the lab assistant is not named.
Thank you so much!

I put so much effort into that and you are probably the only person on earth who has actually read that thing in its entirety (aside from my poor, ex-midwife, mother who has no idea what I'm talking about).

> but am wondering if you're planning to apply the same techniques to traditional designer working files.

I would love to. When I discovered the JSON trick I felt really confident that this was the inevitable direction of the project but after writing a few plugins I'm not exactly sure how practical I really think that is now. It's great for primitives but I'm apprehensive about anything that starts to get into the no-code territory. I think it's possible but there's some mathematical and UI challenges I've got to overcome.

To make something more complex than a TMS system I really need to make the schema language a bit more robust in a way that is probably beyond my engineering skills. I need to find someone who actually knows how to write compilers and understands category theory (not me haha). I think this could be applied to something more general like figma/sketch though and I hope it's a first step for someone smarter than me to fill that gap.
This is where LLMs really shine.
If the code in PROD was fine before the rollout, and there is a bug in the newly deployed code; then I was saying above to undo that deployment going back to the previous version then replicate the bug, preferably locally.

It seems like there a misunderstanding about what I wrote or there is a misunderstanding about how kube works and the misunderstanding isn't mine.
Hmm, I do see the use case for this after playing with the demo, but I guess I need to play around with the API to really see what I can build with it. Who are you currently working with and what are the results like?
Scanning each yogurt individually is usually required for cashiers too because otherwise people scan similar items under the same barcode.
I have been using Autosleep now with an apple watch 6 - for 3 years daily.

The learnings and the gamification are huge for me. I got my deep sleep up from 1.5h to consistently over 2h.

Learnings:

- early to bed makes more deep sleep. Huge difference from 10pm or 12am

- magnesium doesn’t help at all

- sauna before does help, but hard to do daily

- deep sleep less than 1.5h makes for an awful day with angry mood

- cold room: biggest lever. Haven’t pulled the trigger on an 8sleep yet. But that wouldn’t be my next thing if sleep wouldn’t be so great.

- also, as weird as it sounds: having something exciting to work on improves sleep by a lot.

YMMV
Get a flexible job and spend a couple of those daylight hours active.
Target, Walmart and all other big chain stores just gave up after the pandemic in 2022. I saw people came and just grabbed whatever they see fit, including a TV or a PS5 out of the door. I understand employees were trained not to intervene but even police were told by city council as well.

Target now puts every valuables behind steel doors, not even a cage anymore. That's fucked up to think about how our society has turned out.
Not the biggest fan of sending a lot of texts to users (could come off as spammy), but I guess for high volume use-cases maybe? Do you have data on how people (as in real users) actually engage with this?
I mean sure, welcome to technology - low skilled jobs are gonna vanish via some method.
I dunno, the new Microsoft / OpenAI computer is named “Stargate,” that’s a pretty solid name.
Would you say cloning a complex saas startup in a week with payments integrated after letting AI just scrape them (or uploading screenshots of their app) is creating value?
I guess I failed to set the context correctly given that you presented solutions for Clojure and Python, where it isn't as much of a problem since from the start the language fails to provide compiler guarantees you usually come to expect out of a SQL driver wrapper in typed languages (even though Clojure macros are probably powerful enough to allow this).

As a comparison, DX-wise this is no safer and is indeed very similar to the usual idiom in Go for example, where you just concatenate (pre-interpolated) SQL strings. But when you actually want the compiler to prove the correctness of your queries even in a rudimentary way, these .sql file solutions usually (if not, everytime) fail to provide the necessary external checker that processes templates and uses an accurate model of your database and SQL to verify that all used combinations make sense.

The closest thing to a proper take on this I've seen is https://github.com/andywer/squid with https://github.com/andywer/postguard which, although the SQL is inlined in the code, it uses the right approach for verifying correctness as far as I could tell in the little time I experimented with it.
Very nice, though the categorisation as a “Productivity” app is maybe questionable… :-)
almost all the cost of doordash is overhead, they still aren't paying anyone that actually delivers food a decent portion of their take.
I do. With the app and a deal that still >$5, which isn’t bad, but no fries!!
REM latency is good because? I find I feel more rested with more REM cycles which generally means REM starts earlier.
The point is that games already rely on ongoing support. I admit my analogy isn't perfect, but I was trying to work off your analogy which completely ignores why these games break. It isn't directly because the developer went bankrupt. It is because the developer stopped providing a service that they previously provided for free.
I'm in Kaohsiung (southwest Taiwan) and this woke me up around 8am. I'm on the 15th floor and definitely felt the building shaking. It was more excitement than I wanted that early in the morning.
The Nisqually quake in Seattle was a 6.8 but it was 57km (35 miles) deep. It was also on the other side of Tacoma sort of in between Tacoma and Olympia.

The depth of that quake made it a lot less severe than it could have been, only killed one person, but estimated it cost $1b to $4b in damages.
Given that they got 12% with GPT-4, which is vastly better than any open model, I doubt this would be particularly productive. And powering compute at full load is going to add up.
Not just arsenic but also to remove the starch. Most folks don’t cool down the rice before eating so it’s preferable to remove the starch before eating.
Got it, thanks. Not what I was expecting.

To me, this reads like the intersection of "Web Components as Wasm" and "The Browser as an OS" - almost something analogous to WASI as browser APIs that are delivered via Wasm ABI instead of JS/WebIDL. It's an interesting take, and as long as it can operate alongside existing code, I'm all for that.

There are strong parallels to what we're building - small modules of Wasm graphics code that can interoperate across a common interface.

Check the repo for the GPU integration - it's like a super trimmed down version of wgpu, where graphics data is copied out of Wasm linear memory and a host specific API (WebGPU/OpenGL/DirectX) takes care of the upload to the GPU. There is a wasi-webgpu WebAssembly L1 proposal that I am involved with in the works, driven by Mendy Berger, and at some point all of this will be tooled on top of that with wgpu as a backend.

For renderlet the company, the goal is to build developer tools that make it easy to build renderlets and these kinds of applications without having to write raw Wasm code. The meta-compiler in the video is the first step in that direction! The runtime itself will always be open-source.
That first one with the leaning building...have they not seen footage from 9/11 or any disaster movie about how far the debris field can travel in an uncontrolled building collapse? That's a definite nope from me.
> The "famous labs" you describe but don't name are _labs_, and the innovation that came out of them was a result of people with ideas and the ability to execute.

and, crucially, extremely successful parent companies that could afford to throw millions at long shots that might not pay out for a decade.
> 3.2% is absolutely disgusting

You’re being dishonest here.

You can’t count temporary residents, especially after the Liberal government recently announced that they’re going to cancel many temporary residence visas to bring down the TR population % to 5% (from circa 7.5%). The current federal plan is to effectively expel around 150,000 TR visa holders from Canada each year.

Canada’s permanent residence immigration target is set at 500,000 plus Quebec’s 40,000, for a total of approximately 540,000 permanent residence grants per year. 540,000 of 40 million is 1.35% per year. That’s perfectly reasonable, and in line with historical population growth peaks.

Once you subtract the 150,000 planned TR visa holders’ expulsions per year, the actual immigration rate per year comes down to 390,000 per year. Which is less than 1%.

The biggest problem is NIMBY controlled municipal boards restricting new housing development. Every recent problem Canada is having can be traced back to housing cost. High housing costs have a “trickle down” effect of driving up the cost of basically everything. And this is a solvable problem. Just build more housing.
Saasfly provides a complete solution for building SaaS quickly and easily
Demo Server1 (Location: Washington - USA): https://show.saasfly.io

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This is a weird take.

Cheap wages? Both of your examples paid decent wages, especially in the example of Uber.

It was just an unprofitable business model subsidized by VC money or Amazon corporate profits.

That sounds like a good thing?
One surprising feature of "enterprise" class drives is that they often have a faster fail than their consumer class counterparts. the idea being an enterprise class drive will be found in a drive array, and the array will be much happier with a hard fast final failure than a drive that tries to limp along. While the consumer with their single drive is a lot happier when their failing drive gives them every chance to get the data off.
Still using my Model M from 1988 via a no-name PS/2-to-USB adapter. It came with the 386 PS/2 PC my father bought for business use. I long ago accepted that it's older than some of the people I work with.

I have a backup 1993 edition I got when my University decided it didn't need the ones it had anymore about 20 years ago. Back when I had a private office I took it in to use there, but it seemed rude to take it to the open office desk I had back before the pandemic.

These days I work from home and can clack loudly to my heart's content.