skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the reality is that an animal is usually an asset. It costs X to feed and maintain an animal over its life to achieve Y amount of profit from its sale or the sale of its products. If X plus medical costs is greater than Y, you're losing money on this animal.

Tripling the amount you pay the vet does not increase the final profit margin of the animal, so you simply do not. If basic treatment costs more than the animal will generate in its life, you don't treat the animal.

Thinking that any random farm animal is worth infinite medical resources is completely detached from reality. The animal is not worth it. There's not one single reason to pay more to maintain an animal than the money you get out of it. Not in this context.
It's a fair comment, but I want to note that insurance in business and insurance for individuals operate on a rather different basis. Insurance companies are better behaved when they know they have to be, and businesses as a class are able and willing to pursue their interests in court.

The great success story for underwriting is consumer electrical devices, where Underwriters Labs was responsible for many decades in which such devices didn't burn people's houses down. That's been undermined by lax global trade policies, I no longer even trust that a UL logo on something means UL was involved, it might easily have been added in China.

It's worth reading up on the organization if one hasn't already. It makes a good case that we need less regulation and mandatory, ubiquitous underwriting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization)

It's understandable that many people hear "we need less regulation" as "corporations should have more carte blanche to screw everyone over", but I sincerely believe this would both reduce friction and cost for business, and maintain or even improve the standards for safety and the environment which regulation is intended to provide.
This seems to be a wire-protocol proxy for mysql -> SQL.

The default proxied database is dolt. I'm guessing this is extracted from dolt itself as that claims to be wire-compatible with mysql. Which all makes total sense.
works on mine (m2 max) but steals controls and no idea wtf I am looking at.
Anecdotally, whenever I keep a journal through difficult times, my handwriting's so bad that I can't read it after a while, and the journal ends up being "write-only" as well. I wonder whether the ripping-it-up would be more cathartic.
Hahaha that’s awesome. Witnessing the formation of a mini-cargo cult, so-to-speak.
Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU
That feels like evidence for my point? We have causal evidence that safety regulation works. Sometimes we relax those rules. Often new technologies require adjustments. Still largely seems correct?
I agree, and would prefer to have a separate Spotify Podcasts app, but Spotify is one of the rare podcast players that supports multiple platforms (iOS, Android, and web/Desktop).

(Google Podcasts supports all mentioned platforms, but it's being replace with Youtube Music, which is no better than Spotify, at least based on reviews.)
what was the dave berry line, something to the effect of: in the 1950s you could be a manly man simply by having a scrotum and wearing aftershave. By the 1970s you had to have chest hair and a chin. by the 90s you needed to be He-Man, and by 2008 you needed to be a metro-sexual
1. This should be tagged (2011)

2. Agree with the title and that cleverness should be avoided.

3. Do not agree with the last sentence: “Instead, my lesson has been: write Python code like it was C.”

Python should be written like Python.
I would prefer woodworkers pay more for table saws than I have to pay for their reconstructive surgeries via higher health insurance premiums.
Reflections of a bird collision monitor
As opposed to what else in the US? I’d argue the public transportation is top 3 in SF and I can only think of NY and Boston as contenders.
Generally I've provided this as a homework task, with the ability to email me and ask specific questions to help guide the candidate over a period of whatever time the candidate wants.

There are definitely degrees of correctness and completeness and depending on the candidate experience and level, certain solutions are acceptable. For example, a totally naive implementation in golang that doesn't quite hit the scalability requirements would be a good conversation starter and would pass a mid level or junior candidate.

A senior or above "badass" candidate would be expected to hit the scalability requirements.

An incredible candidate would teach us something new about this problem that we don't already know.
this is the kind of strong interaction I like to see on this website
Complexity is the natural consequence of software becoming more efficient, addressing more use cases and avoiding edge cases. It's not problematic intrinsically, it's just hard, because the problem space is hard.

> Ironically, I've found that using weaker tools can help with complexity. It's hard to write a complicated C program because it can't do very much.

I can't say I agree with this assessment.
> How consistent and reliable is the extracted structure?

That's the $100B question.
I have never in my entire life seen a relevant ad.

You know, one that encourages me to spend quality time with my family, or one that brings to my attention techniques I can use to achieve inner peace.

Instead, all I get are uniformly unnecessary and unpleasant entreaties to purchase things which I don’t want or need, which I already know about, or which I could find out about with minimal effort.
They look like custom batteries.

Why did they not use a standard battery like a 18350 or 16340 for the case? Other advantages too (easy to find alternative chargers and can keep a charged spare).

I presume size constraints would make it difficult to find a commodity battery size for the earbuds?
Isn’t the claim that the issue is long term safety?

Saying “there is no immediate safety of flight issue” kinda dodges the question.

Perfect PR language
What if their definition of "toxic" makes me want to leave a discussion, are they moral enough to close down the entire thing?
I really like this side to AMD. There's a strategic call somewhere high up to bias towards collaboration with other companies. Sharing the fabric specifications with broadcom was an amazing thing to see. It's not out of the question that we'll see single chips with chiplets made by different companies attached together.
That's great, we're trying to filter out engineers who can't learn new things quickly, and who lie about their experience level and the sort of work they can do. People do this a lot, unfortunately.

So... we actually ask them to demonstrate to us that they can learn new stacks quickly. That's the point of the question. If somebody doesn't know Golang or the stack directly, that's awesome. They can learn it quickly and show us.
I hope it pairs well with Optane modules!
Quite right. Hopefully they’re canny enough to provide that.

I love my AirPod Pros.

They may not have the best sound but having noise cancelling headphones I can keep my pocket is transformative.

I love that there’s no cable to pick up mechanical noise as it catches on things.

What I don’t love is buying more Apple stuff or knowing their batteries can’t be replaced.

When my AirPods break I’ll be in the market for these.
If I have a 0day for your backend stack, or you fail to upgrade a dependency, I might get RCE on your backend server and install an exfiltration system, but I would not necessarily be able to pivot to changing the frontend bundle on the static CDN without compromising the CI/CD and code review system, which (hopefully) uses isolated credentials and has strong audit logs. A threat model where even a persistent or long-running infection on backend servers allows user content (if not metadata) to remain opaque can be useful.
Sounds like a complaint about a chair in the sky...
https://youtu.be/8r1CZTLk-Gk
TikTok is pushing brands to post photos instead of videos
I think most points on creativity here would have to go to making a case for "helping social networks sell more ads"!!
"a fix for a bug" <laugh emoji>

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Star Trek : TNG "Skin of Evil" Tasha Yar's funeral.

I don't remember seeing this the first time around, however it cropped up and I found it very touching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY3nY8SAnXs
> You live in a market with $800k houses down the road but your apartment is $1300/mo?

Yes that is correct. Ladd's Addition in, Portland, OR. The floor for fixer-upper houses within a half mile might be $500k but I see $800k+ very regularly. I'm sure you can find something to quibble with here though.

Somehow in my 40-year life I've always managed to find small, cheap, shitty apartments in good neighborhoods. I guess either I am the luckiest person alive or most people aren't excited to live in small, shitty, and cheap apartments?

> But then you go on to claim you have a lot in investments, or something along those lines as it wasn’t clear. Your story’s dots aren’t connecting.

I put a few thousand into index funds each month. I could easily buy a house with cash in a place where I'm not excited to live.

But why would I? I don't want a house. I like my cheap small shitty apartment because it's in a great neighborhood. My money's growing just fine. I have enough.

> And now your justifying your desperation with this flawed idea that renting is somehow cheaper.

You're wrong.

I said that renting can be an attractive decision despite having no home equity at the end.

I understand that owning a home can be an attractive decision as well.

I just think that people who are fanatical about how bad a decision renting is are generally wrong.
Yeah OpenAI's head of something (CTO?) said late fall, if it's safe enough. Gonna be awhile until us normal people get our hands on it.
Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.
I think with Sora, "general availability" will be a much more expensive higher tiered sub with a limited number of gens per day, and I have my doubts that you'll just be able to sign up for this sub through the web, I wouldn't be surprised if it's an invite only partners thing.
Isn't creating dataset for this the most easiest? we have source text of html and how they are rendered with all the intermediate info about tags, css layout etc available from most modern browsers.
I live in Oregon where the deposit is $0.10, and while plenty of citizens will toss cans, there are also plenty of people who will go through trash looking for them to return.

It's not difficult to believe that increasing the deposit 150x would correspondingly increase return rates.
How much of this is a long-term bet that the US DOJ's antitrust case against Apple (at least the iMessage-specific argument) will result in the forced opening up of the platform, such that Beeper (now Automattic) will sustainably function?
I have two pairs of perfectly good wireless headphones I don’t use anymore because the batteries are screwed. No replacement method, it’s just ewaste. Basically $200+ destroyed.

I have since bought a phone with a headphone jack and stopped buying wireless headphones.

Old generation, wired Bose in-ear go for under $50 on eBay. Sound quality is better too.

The wire interfering with my jacket took some getting used to again.

EDIT: oh yeah, the batteries don’t die while you’re using wired headphones, either. No more 1-ear’ing so there’s always a bud with battery.
Please, improve the conversation, another thought terminating cliche is beyond boring.
In a similar vein, the "Confrérie des Charitables de Saint-Éloi" was founded in Béthune (France) in 1188 during a plague epidemy and is still active today.

Edit: spelling
BTW, Portland is a bad place to have single point-of-failure data centers. Portland is vulnerable to Cascadia subduction zone quake. The probability is 37% over next 50 years. Which is low each year but risk needs to be considered. It will knock out all local centers and power may not be restored for months.
Q6600 is the spiritual successor to the ABIT BP6 Dual Celeron option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6
IMAP working fine for me.
InSpectre Gadget: Inspecting the Residual Attack Surface of Cross-Privilege Spe
I like to say that Ansible is a CMS (Configuration Management System).

For me, infrastructure as code, is another thing. The things you can "touch" with your hands.

How do I get a new physical rack, new server, new router with a new IP range, new switch, plan or segment the network layout(s), how do I connect the cables, how do I add disks, how do I install Debian, etc. As code.

For Hosting or Cloud providers, Iac (Infrastructure as Code) is easy. They need pools of resources already deployed, waiting for you, and an API.

For home... it doesn't make too much sense to have pools of public IP ranges, pools of datacenters, racks, routers and switches with SDN capabilities (Software defined network) servers waiting, storage servers waiting, load balancers waiting, and 200x software X/Y waiting...

Maybe the most similar thing of IaC you can do at home, is a PXE install server.

Or, enter the vIaC concept, Virtual Infrastructure as Code?

That you can do, you can define as code switch VLANs, Virtual Switches, Virtual interfaces, DHCP/NAT/bridge, etc, Virtual Machines, Virtual disks, Virtual Hosts (in balancers and webservers already running), and of course, you can cosplay IaC with containers, qemu, etc.

Ansible excels in the area of *configuration management system*. I want X part of the operative system (user, file, package, etc), to be in this state, and I wan to track how it evolves over time, ensure that it continues in such state, or analyze the delta.

IaC -> helps with things that previously were done with the hands

CMS -> helps with things that nobody can touch with the hands, and run inside IaC elements
Complexity is the mind-killer.
>The question is, how fast does it need to be?

I don't know - the marketing material actually says 5 milliseconds. That's the crux of the problem and I don't believe you can actually move the saw fast enough to not cause serious damage to the human without damaging the saw. The problem, as I understand it, is stopping the saw. The saw actuator only makes sense if it moves fast enough and given the saw stop works on detection, I'm not convinced you have that much time.

I'm considering the physical reality here - if the saw must be yanked down quickly, how much force must be applied to the saw to move it, and then can that equal and opposite force be applied to stop it without damaging the saw?

>Look at the incentives, you'll find the truth.

This is true of any safety device? The SawStop inventor created his company after trying to license it and eventually won in the marketplace after nearly 30 years. Surely his competitors would have released an actuator based solution if it is was possible rather than ceding marketshare of high end saws?
United basic economy does not give you a free carry on or checked bag, and United economy does not give you a free checked bag. And it has been that way for 10+ years.

https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/inflight/basic-econo...

>Carry-on bags are not included unless you're flying to Canada, South America, across the Atlantic or on an international flight across the Pacific.
This is a great idea. Nice work!
I think the US nuclear program has a much bigger budget than Disney, and if they need something, they just get it.

The movie industry had cheaper options, so they went with those.
thanks for sharing your app. Please do consider including a license file in the repo to tell others what rights you grant to them
And for anyone who doubts it, just think about how effective marketing is on altering human behavior/perception.

Imagine if all that effort was directed towards a different intent.
That's indeed what a purpose of companies are. Organizations that do not want money are registered as non-profit.
Helped out with the drift on my DualSense, now I don't have to trash it, thanks man!
Businesses benefit because they can find customers.
"Remove the ads from this page"

I can't wait for AI to become the ultimate ad-removal tool.

There might be an arms race, but the anti-ad side will win as long as there isn't a unilateral winner (strongest models, biggest platform).

There will be enough of a shake up to the current regime -- search, browsers, etc. -- that there is opportunity for new players to attack multiple fronts. Given choice, I don't think users will accept a hamstrung interface that forces a subpar experience.

We basically just need to make sure Google, Microsoft/OpenAI, or some other industry giant doesn't win or that we don't wind up living under a cabal of just a few players.

I'm already hopefully imagining AI agents working for us to not just remove advertising noise, but to actively route around all of the times and places we're taken advantage of. That would be an excellent future.
and they're rewriting Beeper in PHP as a WordPress plugin!

Kidding of course, but on a serious note what's the strategic value of Beeper here to Automattic?

From the post:

> Automattic is doubling down on chat after their acquisition last year of Texts.com, a messaging app with a similar mission. Our teams and products will merge, and I will take on the role leading the team as Head of Messaging. It will take a bit of time for us to integrate and combine forces under the Beeper brand. We’ve got big plans! I’m really excited about the future of chat

Why? Are they trying to eliminate a competitor (standard big tech co move)? Do they think texts.com doesn't have a bright future? I'm not trying to be negative (in fact I have a high opinion of Automattic due to their great open source work), just trying to figure out why this makes sense for them.

Is chat a diversification effort for Automattic, or does it tie into their overall strategy somehow?
I missed the posibility of integrating it in the business webpage.

Perhaps you can try posting that link instead.
Thanks - I didn't realise shade losses could be so significant. I did find panels designed to avoid shade losses due to a single cell in a string being shaded but such panels appear to be uncommon or expensive.
That's funny, I was just thinking about how affordable things are nowadays; we should really make them pricier.
We have enough data now to confidently say the impact of computer technology on socializing has been a net negative.
Stumpy Nubs absolutely did once run his hand through a saw; by your ridiculous definition he is absolutely qualified to have an opinion.
All the dev work at AMD is on our own hardware. Even things like the corporate laptops are ryzen based. The first gen ryzen laptop I got was terrible but it wasn't intel. We also do things like develop ROCm on the non-qualified cards and build our tools with our tools. It would be crazy not to.
Why do you think their work is irresponsible? Is it still irresponsible if they're right? Should people only engage in anti-racist inquiry, or do you think they should just self-censor if they get the 'wrong' result?

I don't find Levitt and Donohue very persuasive, but Levitt does seem very data-driven.
This guy is standing in the correct place (clearly experienced) but is pushing with the wrong apparatus and technique.
> some manner of universal connector

Sounds like you want usb type c! In addition to Audio Adapter Accessory Mode which allows it to drive a couple pins with analog audio exactly like the 3.5mm jacks (and therefore enabling completely passive adapters to support devices with 3.5mm jacks), usb type c also supports charging, high speed data, and video. That's a lot more universal than some silly jack that can only support audio.

Unfortunately it looks like at least the fairphone 4 didn't support Audio Adapter Accessory Mode and I haven't found information on whether the fairphone 5 supports it. Definitely a mark against the company if they don't support Audio Adapter Accessory Mode.
Or say “hey google disable ad blocking” and triggering it. Then google learning of this and doing it all the time behind your back
Unreliable compared to wireless?
... right.
Fake news... Such as the fact Lula is a socialist and a communist? I have videos of him calling himself a socialist, that should be good enough proof for anyone. Yet the judges censored it as fake news before election day. Care to comment on that? How about the fact he appointed a communist to the supreme court to act as a judge? I believe his words were something along the lines of "we finally have a communist in the supreme court". You're gonna gaslight me by claiming that's fake? Maybe AI generated? Some guy asked this new judge point blank if he was a communist, I remember his reply was "thank god", as in, absolutely. But according to the authorities it's all a conspiracy theory and there is no communism anywhere in this nation, right? It's all fake.

Fake news... Such as the fact Lula is friends with the Venezuelan dictator? You know, the guy the US charged with narco-terrorism? Fake news, right? Lula wouldn't be so brazen as to literally roll out the red carpet for this guy immediately after the election, would he? He totally did though. Must have been seeing things I guess. Yeah that must be it. I literally hallucinated the entire episode.

Fake news... Such as the fact Lula was implicated in, convicted of and incarcerated for the biggest corruption scandal in the history of this country? And also the fact these judges just threw out the whole case on some minor technicality? Pulled him straight out of jail just in time for the election? You're gonna tell me that I'm delusional, that I'm misremembering things?

The way I see it, literally everything they censored as "fake" turned out to be true in the end. So what's the penalty for the truth ministers when they turn out to be wrong? Maybe they should sign the order for their own arrests? Are they even allowed to be wrong? Does reality have to bend and conform until they're right? Maybe they'll redefine pi as 5 and arrest the mathematicians who prove then wrong? I wouldn't even be surprised.

Not to mention the fact Lula and his communists get constantly fact checked on Twitter/X. Every other day I run into some hilarious presidential tweet saying some dumb thing and the fact checking proving the opposite with source links. Latest episode was some official claiming that TikTok had already been banned in the US. So where's the censorship for these guys? Why hasn't the president been arrested for spreading fake news yet? ... Oh I see it now. That's why they hate Twitter/X so much.
Discussing nominal profits when comparing various businesses' "profitability" is almost never productive.

Any business needs a certain amount of cushion to counter volatility, and to earn a return for shareholders. If you had a business with $1M of revenue and $20k of profit, surely you would not expect $20k of profit when you hit $2M of revenue (because 2% profit margin is objectively very low. I have yet to see of successful businesses operate year after year on less than that, and at 0% they become a charity).

Hence profit margin is almost always the relevant figure, especially when you get down to the low single digit percentages.
We're talking about the architecture, not the hardware model. What people want is to have a new, faster version in a few years that will run the same code written for this one.

Also, hardware has a lifecycle. At some point the old hardware isn't worth running in a large scale operation because it consumes more in electricity to run 24/7 than it would cost to replace with newer hardware. But then it falls into the hands of people who aren't going to run it 24/7, like hobbyists and students, which as a manufacturer you still want to support because that's how you get people to invest their time in your stuff instead of a competitor's.