skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can probably get twice-cooked pork anywhere in Europe and in every city in the US with more than 40,000 people in it (ie: everywhere).

> [a sentence about caesar salad that disappeared]

Sure. But not at a generic restaurant; you'll have to go to a specifically Chinese restaurant. I guess you could argue that you'd have to go to a western restaurant for Caesar salad, but at least where I am now you'd be more likely to find a Caesar salad in a "european" restaurant than in an "american" one.
Starcraft was already well and truly dead by 2018. Koreans don't really want to excel at dead games. The OGs may stick around but they won't really try hard.
Would be nice to see some cooperation with geoclue2, as they now disabled location guessing for wifi as MLS shuts downs.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue
State of the Art & Player of Games are the only two I actually enjoyed. The others I plodded through begrudgingly.
> indexes often don't help.

An "index on expression" should perform the same regardless of the input column types. All that matters is the output of the expression. Were you just indexing the whole jsonb column or were you indexing a specific expression?

For example, an index on `foo(user_id)` vs `foo(data->'user_id')` should perform the same.
Visualizing the Collective Worth of London's Homes
It's worse than that, isn't it? Not only are the algorithms presumably super linear, the transistor count has been increasing exponentially, but the compute power per transistor has been decreasing over time. See e.g. [1].

Although I suppose if the problem is embarrassingly parallel, the SpecINT x #cores curves might just about reach the #transistors curve.

[1] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_... via https://www.semianalysis.com/p/a-century-of-moores-law figure 1
I have seen dozens of these things and have made a few myself.

Beyond some specific use cases, they don't seem to scale cognitively. The tangle of connections is a problem. The previous HN link from @andsoltis has a better critique than me.

Don't get me wrong. Besides being experientially cynical about these things, I'm also firmly in the camp of "one more UI breakthrough, bro and we might crack it!"

This one has some deep design that definitely attempts to extend the state of the art but still struggles with that aforementioned problem.

TBH though, the coolest feature is that widget that focuses on what you are doing. There is something there with it, I'm just not sure what the "there" or "it" is, but I do know I like it.
It's been taken over by people from third world countries running money making groups and duping poor people.
As the author said, in icy conditions it changes the day from scary to fun
A lot of Mac users are oblivious to anything outside the Apple ecosystem. To them Steve Jobs basically invented sliced bread and everything else is a copy. Good thing the industry didn't also copy Apple's OOTB window management.
Everything [1] used to be the pretty good for this on Windows. Have you tried it out?

1. https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
Nicely done.

I’ve used this before - https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show

Supports a whole bunch of different LCD displays along with touch.

There’s also this really useful site: http://www.lcdwiki.com/3.5inch_RPi_Display
The low-level high-level spectrum might not be the best scale to gauge AI by. We should kernel-trick our scale so that low and high level is seperable from multi-step planning problems. Or in other words, use a different dimension to separate these three problems.
For sure, but it feels really risky. If it's a small codebase, I would be more confident knowing what queries I was using and just switch them. If it's a large codebase, I'd want some really comprehensive test coverage, including performance tests
Perhaps not, but truly secure randomness is much harder. If someone else can measure the same thing you're measuring then it doesn't matter if it's random. If they can influence what you're measuring that's even worse. In the case of radio static, for example, your RNG could be compromised by a another compromised device simply colocated nearby.
Client of mine wanted to shift a rac cluster from some aging sparc gear into a VMware or openstack or whatever farm they had on premise; oracle demanded they pay CPU licenses for every single CPU in the cluster as each one could “potentially” run the oracle database, quoted them seven figures.

They rewrote the app instead.
https://archive.md/ss7F3
This is why people argue for fixing the earth. We already have a planet we're perfectly adapt to. We just need to keep it habitable.

My favorite fact about Mars is the soil fucks with our hormones. Children born on Mars won't be able to survive because the dust will literally destroy their ability to develop. Shit is haaaard.
It seems Christopher Columbus did more for gastronomy than thousands of chefs.
Do you mean .5 or 5 for the base bevel? 5 is quite far off the snow.
Renzo Davoli was my professor at the University of Bologna, Computer Science.
A real nerd that shaped my systems thinking!
I just didn't want the argument about the Americanity of a Caesar salad; it's a quintessential American dish, but Wikipedia would give you fodder to debate. I sort of puckishly thought I was up for that debate, and then thought better of it.

America is huge. There is American food, universal throughout the 50 states, but almost definitionally anything that's 3,000 miles successful is going to be popular outside of the US as well.
You can use Mozilla's Regrets Reporter extension to refine your Youtube recommendations: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/regretsreport...
Always 'Everyone', everywhere, while trying. Then off. (Also trying other choices out of desperation briefly. I was anticipating OS version, hardware and other exotic remote troubleshooting and explanation attempts actualy, not a flick of the choice available right in front of you...)
After 41 years, Microsoft adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
The save files were available on Google Takeout, I successfully transferred my save into steam for Into the Breach, for example.
OVS seems great but it doesn't seem to garner much hype these days. Does it carry too much connotations from OpenStack, or why isn't it the defacto solution for all L2 bridging/virtual networking for containers/VMs/routers/etc?
It doesn't just affect performance, blunt edges make skiing down icy patches impossible. The effect is so pronounced that if you do enough skiing in a day you'll notice a difference even at the end of that day.

The effect of a newly sharpened ski is noticeable immediately even if you're an absolute beginner. Even moreso if you're on a snowboard.

Source: 30 years of skiing and snowboarding.
> kid in rural Africa with only 8 years of schooling could learn how to be a software developer

Small and private does not necessarily imply exclusive. There are such communities where you can easily join or lurk.

> or where people could naturally find and join communities too small to have a local presence

And that still works for me like that. They might not be visible on the first results page but once you start to research a topic in depth you can find them.
An AI model creating an App to write employee reviews [video]
would be neat if ladybird ended up depending on and helping fund servo. that would fit both projects' missions - servo could continue focusing on the rendering engine and ladybird could get to outsource effort on that part of the code.
Statistically we actually know this is false, the pre-Covid 6pm internet surge window has actually stuck around as the new baseline normal internet traffic post-covid.
I guess you’re protected.
Anyone else having trouble with that web vscode he's using?
The question is whether this is a good model for an actual ski on ice. What you describe might be a good model for an absolutely perfect carve, but that basically never happens in reality. When it does, it’s on softer snow where the tuned corner of the edge is a negligible part of the overall interaction with the snow.

I agree with the quoted skier in the post, tuning skis doesn’t matter. I am someone who puts 400+ days on one pair of skis before replacing them, I ski pretty rough terrain and hit my share of rocks, I’ve gotten maybe 3 ski tuneups in my life, I couldn’t tell the difference after any of them. The only things I did to care for them was to store them dry and wax them once per season.
I have to wonder...

The article shows edges and the effect of sharpening.

However, I would imagine corrosion makes much of the surface of the ski more abrasive and that could explain the grabbiness.

Is there any science behind the edge assertions? almost all of it is anecdotal.

I can't help but think of overengineering and a/v systems.

For example, I can't tell any difference from different speaker wires (except bad cables), but I do notice hiss in amplifiers. And I think OLED might be superior, but honestly dark scenes are horrible during daylight hours unless you have blackout curtains in the room with the panel. No review or marketing ever talks about these practical details. Same with reflections with glossy screens.
Every single blog post I've read from Ken was mind blowing. Love his work. Keep it up man!
House Tech
No, it’s not. Wine is not just a fancy drink but a craftsmanship tradition, thousands of years old. It’s not just the sophisticated people drinking it, but also the countless people involved in its making and cultivation! Have you ever been to a vineyard in a French, Italian, or German vineyard wine region? The people there live for this; their yards have been passed on for generations, and will continue to be. Planting a new grape means making a 30 year bet, with that much commitment you have to be all in.

I could go on about the entire villages built around wine, the historic efforts required to get the grapes we have today, the unique chemical compounds making for the aromas, and more.

And you’re telling me you want to seriously compare thousands of years of agricultural tradition to a mere hundred years of stimulating Coca Tonic that accidentally tastes pretty good?
No it’s not. Restricting access to the general multicast space (“Internet2” and friends) is very intentionally done on completely NAT-free networks.
Sounds like most/all of these issues would be solved by validation at the app layer.
In the event your adversary knows so much about your procedures that they can tune into the radio used to generate randomness, presumably it would be much easier just to steal the piece of paper the pad is written on.

Which does kind of further your point that one time pad makes more secure the parts that are already incredibly secure, while not helping the real weaknesses of cryptosystems i.e. the human element.
I use one of the small plug'n'play displays (well, nearly – you run a script) for my Pihole RPi to show stats and state. For mere interactive work, I have found that tablet displays packaged in a case from Aliexpress work nicely.
> the most populous country on earth, won't need to build a single home, for the forseable future.

This is probably not the case.

There are whole cities in the middle of no where with no prospects or jobs that are stuffed with tons of housing. There is also a small problem with the quality of some of these buildings (tofu dregs).

Im not sure how much of it is going to be there in 10 years...
They didn't "simply shut it off", they gave everyone a full refund + $300 voucher.

And I guess they sold so few that this just made more sense to refund everyone than keeping maintaining the servers.
In fairness, quantum doesn't really help against normal crypto (of the type that is being discussed - symmetric). AES-256 will also laugh in the face of QC.
A key difference with Everything is it's not a weighted search, it just returns all matches sorted in whatever column is active, so less useful as a launcher (though a tip: if you press Enter it will skip to the most previously clicked result).

While the programs from this thread (at least those I'm familiar with) score results by relevancy.
SPQR: Stateless Postgres Query Router
I'm just glad there are browser extensions that remove all that Youtube dross no questions asked.

It's interesting to me that somebody would try and curate their experience in this shitshoveling assault on the nerves that is Youtube recommendations.
> Intercoin.org isn’t the point of my comment, it isn’t even linked in there. Why would you zero in on it?

Because you mentioned it. It would be sleazy even if it was a casual name drop for any other self promo. The crypto part was not what put me off in particular.
No idea why this is downvoted. It's pushing a bowling ball through a narrow opening, it's REALLY painful. You sh*t yourself, bleed for ages, risk your life, seriously harm your body, you become a milk supplier... Then you need to become a mommy. If a woman isn't 100% with her children then there's constant judgement towards her as a "bad mother".

The reward is motherhood which is a 24x7 thankless job filled with dread about your kids. I'm obviously exaggerating and am happy with my kids, but I 100% get the people who choose not to have any. It isn't a bad choice.

Up until recently, many women felt they have no choice and the clock is ticking. The "you'll regret it when you're older" stuff, can be partially solved by freezing eggs (I know a lot of older mothers and we only started at 32).

Furthermore, in recent years there are many inspirational childless women who show it's perfectly acceptable to not go through that.
Do you consider pleasant and cynical as mutually exclusive?

I had a chat with a former politician and he was definitely pleasant, but extremely cynical, he pointed out instances of corruption everywhere. Although to be fair he was probably just being realistic not cynical. Cynicism is a good filter against dumb trends, hustler types and "emperor's clothes" situations.
Show HN: A fun website for dev rants
Hey HN,

I've seen and experienced some wild things in the field, and I'm sure you all have too. To give us a space to vent, laugh, and share our experiences, I created a website called preachingdevs.com.

This fun little side project had been sitting in my backlog for quite some time, and I finally brought it to life this weekend.

You can rant about anything dev related - positive or negative. Whether it's a hot take, something to brag about, a spicy complaint, or just something you need to get off your chest, feel free to come and preach!

Would love to hear your stories and thoughts!

Cheers!
It’s an apple to fruit comparison, then: More apt would be picking carbonated soda drinks, maybe. Or pick out a single kind of wine from a single vineyard.

I’m just a bit salty on comparing such a giant category like European wine or beer to a single company‘s soda.
Skincare Meets AI
I honestly don’t agree with most of the doomsayers of the Internet.

Sure, there is way more advertising and bots these days but there is WAY more content available today than 10 years ago or 20 years ago. Definitely way more diversity of content too.
Your phrasing implies you blame high tax rates, but I'd first attack this from the opposite end: the market for housing has not been leaving enough in your pocket, with capital (whether morgage lenders with interest rates, or, more likely, landlords) soaking up any excess gained by your pay increase
Short and long presses of the power button are the STANDARD ways to control the power of a device, be it a PC, phone, tablet, or even random things like my sous vide cooker or an aircraft GPS.

Reliably being able to determine and set if a device or computer is running is a critical aspect of making sure that machines serve their users. If a device is doing shitty, undesirable things, I want to know that I can quickly and easily power it all the way off. That includes if the screen becomes unresponsive or otherwise damaged.

Considering that Google Assistant (and Gemini now, I guess - the distinction isn't clear) have somehow managed to get LESS functional and useful as time has gone on, I found it extremely irritating that some promo-chasing PMs and engineers at Google tried to hijack this basic, established device control to push a garbage product which I KNOW is getting discontinued, migrated, or cancelled in the next few months.

I'm not even much of a zealot for free or pro-user software, but this is an insane idea from Google that speaks to a deep misunderstanding about how much control I think they should have over my phone.
I came to a similar conclusion. There is so much information and training out there, for free, that anyone motivated would have already taught themselves. This isn't to discount junior or beginner devs altogether, as everyone has to start somewhere, but discounting the idea you can magically mold them into something different.

When I got my start, I was the only engineer in a call center location. About 5 people a year would ask how they could do what I do.

What I learned after writing a long essay, with YouTube links and book references even, is that people just like the idea of it, without the work part. Not one did any of what I laid out.

After that, anyone who asked I just mumbled something about college, even though I never attended one.
Cool! I wonder if it can automatically colorize old photos?
Should be able to bill the process for working hours..
however they did say:

That’s because, in a rush to move to touchscreens and display-based electronics, every company has let go of the simplicity of buttons.

This is kind of maddening. Tesla is the worst. Their recent cars have very. few. buttons. They have NO stalks, and what hasn't gone to the touchscreen goes to a few touch buttons in the center of the (rotating) steering wheel. They "control" turn signals, wipers, lights, etc. It guesses the gear shift (forward or back).
The author acknowledges normal users rarely power off their phone; but goes on to mention that they are a tech reviewer and constantly switching phones, applying updates, restarting to reproduce glitches, etc. So it is not a real problem.
The whole PowerToys suite looks useful. I'm trying to find some time to get familiar with it all.

Also want to get going with komorebi (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi) as I've looked at the Linux tiling window managers for years with envy.
Yup, agreed. In many places I'll end up with a 2- or 3-bedroom Airbnb for only myself and my wife, and it's comparable or cheaper than a hotel. So much more room, and a full kitchen, to boot. Rare that a hotel room even has a microwave, let alone a stove, oven, etc. in a dedicated kitchen space.
I've recently had to move a few dozen MBs over Bluetooth and it took several minutes, so this barely counts. AirDrop is artificially limited to Apple devices, as is Google's thing to Google Android. Basically a brick.
> I knew it was time to migrate when my non-programmer wife was becoming familiar with Mongo shortcomings

That part was so relatable
https://archive.is/rvoK5
They clearly never had a cat
> "You will not survive" is not only a frightening idea.

This article has a tone of a giant, unacknowledged fear of passing that is using some notion of "the Internet" as a demonstratory puppet. "The Internet" too shall pass[0], and it should be the most obvious and neutral thing in the world; the overdramatizing part of this article does makes no sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
“Refrain from going to bed late” makes me think of an alternative solution, not going to bed at all.

Then again, I could reframe the goal and be more specific, e.g.: “go to bed early”.
I finding reading other people's rust generally delightful because everyone is the same machine controlled style guide (cargo fmt + clippy). It's definitely reduces the mental burden of reading code.
Harold McGee (the food scientist) seems to think so:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html
Personality Basins
I’m not so sure I share your cynical view. I can see how in the west most people people might be unaware - and I don’t think I can blame them - but in the east people are very aware. As for any level of agreement with the genocide — that’s just crazy. I’ve never come across a single person that supported what’s happening to the Gazans.

You do know that current estimate have that between 6-7% of gazas population are either dead or as good as dead even if a ceasefire went into effect today? Who would have any level of agreement with that?
> it doesn't benefit me to have tourists come to my city

That's unlikely to be true. Any city with tourists benefits from increased economic activity that helps fund city services through hotel or short-term rental taxes, as well as tourists spending their money in the city and paying sales taxes.

Cities with a healthy tourist economy can also support more museums, bars, restaurants, and other kinds of amenities; without tourists there just isn't the customer base to support as much.
I don't get why having a modal for each tool asking for consent is too hard.
Harold McGee, the food scientist, would agree:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html
"The guilty plea would brand the planemaker a felon and could complicate its ability to sell products to the U.S. government. About 32% of Boeing’s nearly $78 billion in revenue last year came from its defense, space and security unit."

Well that's a fun little fact
"Skip to the end to play around with the final app."
Other people are reporting that they can feel it with ice. Do you ski much on ice?
Show HN: I built an "aesthetic" font generator with ChatGPT
I'm not a developer, so AI comes in handy when I have an idea that requires coding knowledge. I built this site in an afternoon with lots of help from ChatGPT. In short, I told ChatGPT my idea and asked it to code a custom WordPress plugin to achieve the necessary functionality, and then to tell me what steps I needed to take to get it up and running. Start to finish, it took just a few hours.

As for the project itself, it's simply a site that transforms any text into various unicode characters .

It was a lot of fun to build and I now have a greater appreciation for AI and the doors it opens to non-devs like me.
The Economist also offers a monthly subscription and some free trials. But honestly, they're simply worth their money.
I 100% agree with you but the main problem is retirement which is what they're seeing in Japan and China. The younger generation is too small and can't sustain the older generation. When you pay social security it isn't actually saved, it goes to pay for the current older generation. The assumption is that when you grow old the same will happen too...

This is further complicated by modern medical science which is prolonging the life expectancy of people and making the overall cost even heavier. That's why countries are trying to raise the retirement age.

The solution should be a major leap in productivity coupled with a more progressive taxation system. Neither one of these seem to be happening right now, I hope this changes.
That's not inherent to AM/PM, it's cause for some reason the AM/PM switches on the boundary of 11 to 12, not 12 to 1. To fix this while still having AM work with 24hr time, it should be 0 instead of 12
You can see in this video that the interaction of the ski with the snow is much more than just the edge of the ski. I really doubt the fine tuning of the edge matters that much.

I don’t think there is any objective way to settle this debate. I think if you enjoy tuning skis, go for it. I like sharpening knives and tools so I get it. But I don’t bother with my skis.