skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said, it's obviously not zero issues with Apple either. But this particular issue is an exception imho, my own experience and everyone with a Mac around me is saying the battery lifetime is much better than any other brand they tried. Also, 1.5 years is below 2 years of warranty (in EU) - if you're around here, try to have it replaced. I had only good experience with Apple customer care - much better than HP, Dell and Lenovo. Again, while it wasn't always perfect and sometimes required visiting again, at least they really wanted to help - unlike the other vendors.

BTW you're saying it was 2018 model, and employer issued, so if I'm correct in assuming it was a top model Intel CPU, these really were chewing through the batteries because of the heat. It's very different with i5, less powerful i7 and Apple Silicon.

I really don't think anyone is claiming that Apple is perfect - it's just that the experience with other vendors is so, so utterly bad. For example ThinkPads - nice performance and cheap, I give you that. But the non-existent customer care (for consumers, not enterprise), the build quality, the bad sound and displays and the absolutely terrible touchpad make me avoid it. Also Windows - and I never got Linux properly working on a ThinkPad as well as MacOS does on a MacBook, even though they claim it's Linux certified.
Having just spent the year in Manhattan, my experience was that most (every?) Starbucks there no longer have public bathrooms even with purchase. I was surprised to discover that the only free public bathrooms were at Sweet Green. It changed my perspective of them as a company- it’s a real commitment when the trend is going in the other direction and I want to support them financially as a result.
> As another point of comparison, around 550 gigatons of CO2 is released (and absorbed) by the planet "naturally".

So we are currently within 20% of what the planet does naturally, which seems not that bad actually.
It's just a physical key. Like the keys for operating train equipment or fire safety they're not intended to prevent malicious access, they're a social signal - this is for people who need it. You're not clever for figuring out how to abuse it, you're just a bad person.
Indeed. A lack of regulation in one area doesn't meant it's not lacking elsewhere.
Change "protect employees and property" to "limit exposure to liability" and I'd agree.
I can attest that Shake Shack have purchase-only bathrooms. And even after a purchase they seemed annoyed…
> This all strikes me as a passive-aggressive reaction to FUD about homelessness and "out of control cities".

No, it is just that very, very few people want to clean and repair bathrooms.

I would rather work at a restaurant that has no public bathrooms, so that I never have to clean them. Hence I am willing to work for less compared to a place with public bathrooms, hence my employer has lower labor costs.

Pretty sure that goes for all the keyboard warriors too. It’s pretty well known that almost any job where you have to deal with the general public is worse than a job where you don’t.
The article has one good point: there’s diseases and conditions that cause people to need the bathroom, and even if you don’t have this upset stomachs are common enough that at some point it’ll impact you. Parents with young kids realize it too. So this is everyone’s problem.

However the article misses the point with statements like this.

Quite simply, Lowe was right: there is often no place to go.

There are often many places to go, it just might not be a public toilet. There’s restaurants and coffee shop, gas stations, stores. Don’t confuse no public places to go with no places to go.

Public toilets are one of those things where all it takes is one person to mess up a good situation for everyone else.

There’s no incentive for people to treat them nicely. There’s an asymmetry, people want to use public toilets but who wants to clean public toilets? It’s always “someone else job.”

I see no problem having a little friction as a way to help control it. A small charge to use the bathroom or social capital of asking can be enough to remedy the problems of misuse.
I love X.com, I enjoy seeing a massive almost fullscreen ad of some practically naked anime girls. Thanks Elon!!!

/s

for the record im definitely not the target audience for that, as for personalized ads or whatnot
There's a slew of bot-army template comments from new-ish accounts, getting comment credit to work up to voting rights for a spruiking up-vote spree.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xzxa https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hsag https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kidfkj https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linkjp https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lndsh https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mnjksd https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bhjgjy https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bjgiusg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jhkug https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dfgdgf

etc. etc.

Once you see them, they stand out like dog's bollocks.
What rust is that? Nightly?
There are lots of discussions in the last few weeks about the exact same topic. This video was posted 2 times with the short and now with the long YouTube URL. None are flagged or death. It seems your conspiracy meter is of the hook.
And how did Trump's ham-fisted approach to China work out for us? Lost an export market for American farmers, put supply chains in havoc - and this was before the pandemic.

Chaos is not good for business.
They're not required to let you, but I just ask politely if I can use their loo and have never been refused. There has indeed been a steady decline in the number of public toilets, though.
I love Quarto [0] and use GitHub pages for hosting.

Quarto works nicely with several IDEs, and works out of the box with both Python, R, and Observable JS. Typst support was also just added, but I haven’t explored that yet.

The documentation is also extensive. Here is the link to setting up a blog [1].

[0] https://quarto.org/

[1] https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-blog.html
What is the current best LLM for coding? I am using Claude Sonnet 3.5 free and it's so good. I am not making anything serious and LLM is perfect for that.

Which current models are better than sonnet for code (plain old html JS is my use case btw)?
do you work for them? if not what took you to do free tech support? ... honestly this looks a little insane
I suppose the usecase would be a "poor man's IPMI", a separate chip dedicated to monitoring the main system, with the ability to power if off and on.

Sadly most(?) x86 systems don't offer a non-visual way to access BIOS/UEFI settings (like ARM boards usually do with uBoot over serial), so the utility of such monitoring without video input is limited, but just being able to remotely reset a system via a built-in chip would be very useful.
*when potty crime picks up /joke
Window Defender don't allow the download of this file:
ruxguitar-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip.
Detected trojan :
Script/Phonzy.B!ml
False positive ?
I made a bunch of Mastodon search tools that are available free and free of ads at https://mastogizmos.com/ . (You can use the site on your phone but it works better on desktop.)

If you're looking for people to follow or interact with I recommend Hashtag Harvest, which will give you results for a hashtag search but also show you related hashtags and users associated with those hashtags. There's also Wikipedia-Mastodon Thing, which keyword-searches Wikipedia for articles which have associated Mastodon accounts or instances.

(I only started learning JavaScript a couple of years ago and I made MastoGizmos about a year ago, so you don't need to tell me it's goofy looking. I'm going to revamp.)

Also, I found that when I was wandering around the web I would see Mastodon people I wanted to follow. I made a little bookmarklet for ease of following-while-browsing. It's available here: https://github.com/ResearchBuzz/Mastodon-Follow-Bookmarklet .

Hope this helps. I'm researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host ; if you have an intro post tag me and I'll give it a bounce.
I'm blessed to remember fondly of my childhood where my grandmother, mom and aunties made kimchi altogether as a family, put them in large pots, men dug holes in the ground and put them in. Then, we took some out for tasting in a middle of cold snowy winter. The memory alone makes me salivate today.
You first need an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
I have been recently in a trip through Japan and I have been very impressed by the abundance and the quality of the public toilets.

On the other hand, in Japan there are extremely few places with public trash cans. Those few that exist are typically associated with vending machines for beverages.
A decent and competent version of Uber would be meeting such needs.

As things are - other companies can make national headlines by caring about human needs of drivers:

https://www.today.com/food/news/chick-fil-a-break-room-rcna7...
the same time new showed up here, on wechat tiktok clone (moments i think, in English) was showing animations of the usa air traffic maps and how the tech blackout affected it. from those images i that it was huge.
I have no idea, probably it varies by location. If no paid public toilets are available and dispatch centres with toilets are not a thing they can always strike a deal with local businesses I guess.

Also, they need to eat and the places they eat are probably also the places they use the WC.
It tells you that the fish stinks from the head
Nice. I also really, really love the visual execution of your blog post. Of course, not every article i read should copy this, but here it seems to be perfect.

I envisioned a similar look for some video shots from my office. I know, lighting setup is key here, but which camera did you use?

Specifically the gif / video-loop with for "waiting".

Really well done everything.
There could be edge cases, but fine tuning doesn't normally concentrate on a single specific feature. With positive and negative examples you could definitely train the eyes, but it's not what people usually do. Fine tuning is widely used to provide a specific style, clothes, or other larger scale elements.
The Thomas Midgley Jr of software.
when even jsDevOpsv can see the king is naked....
Leave the spin to the PR people. Their customers pay a great deal of money for 24x7 service, and this wasn’t even a code change but a definition update – a process which should be as well defined and tested as McDonald’s making a hamburger. You wouldn’t excuse getting E. coli from your lunch with “the cook just wanted to go home for the weekend”, and this is a much more expensive service.
Honestly speaking, that's an incredibly difficult issue to try and optimize for. There are a ton of different measures you could implement to try and improve ambulance travel times, but they're the same street design choices that we know drastically increase accident rates and fatalities for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike.

Wider travel lanes on normal streets? More signalized intersections with overrides for emergency services instead of roundabouts, stop signs, or other measures meant to decrease intersection accidents and fatalities? Removal of speed bumps, raised pedestrian crosswalks, etc.? Additional lanes so ambulances have space to pass other cars?

Sure, they could all ostensibly improve ambulance travel times. But they'd do so by dramatically increasing the number of fatalities on our streets. Not to mention the workload on those same emergency services. So while it can make sense to consider the impact on those services, they probably shouldn't be the driving factor. Or even a main one.

On the other hand, even if speed bumps and other measures cause minor delays, other changes might be able to balance them out. Dedicated bus lanes, for example, are basically exclusive express lanes you could choose to route emergency service vehicles down with potentially significant time savings.
That's a concern I have: The pain of writing boilerplate used to make people improve their architecture and frameworks. If the Java ecosystem hadn't been so painful in the early 2000s, would better languages and frameworks have gained traction? Would good refactoring practices have gained traction?

Sometimes refactoring doesn't even cut it, unfortunately. When stuck with a language and/or framework that simply requires lots of boilerplate, there's only two options: Migrate to something else or use/build code generation tools. I've done both with good success. Not sure I'd use a non-deterministic tool (like an LLM) for this, but since deterministic tools are harder to build, we might be looking at a future where a lot of working code is rewritten with automation that introduces subtle problems.

I'm optimistic though. There's always been a lot of terrible software somehow kept under control with high development/testing resources. And then there's always been carefully built good software. I suspect we'll continue to have both.

We'll probably have good software because some managers manage to hire good devs _and_ give them the right direction and support to do good work.

We'll probably have lots of bad software for the same reasons as in the past: Incompetent management, competent management pragmatically sacrificing software quality and/or maintainability, incompetent (or really just impatient/rushed) developers.

I don't think LLMs change the equation that much. Good devs will use them well (or perhaps not at all). Bad devs will use them badly. Good software can give startups an edge, bad (enough) software can bring down incumbents.
Why don't we have programming languages that use this as their fundamental design principle?

It would be great if programs were collaborative out of the box.
It's a physical lock-and-key key: https://shop.disabilityrightsuk.org/products/radar-key.

Living in a country where it's the norm, the concept of (any) locked bathrooms is wild. When travelling I always always find restricted access (either by key, or payment) public facilities extremely jarring.
Take whatever monetary incentive you like, the point is that it's more likely that there are real risks that people who work in these places know about than that it's all FUD and OP's anecdotal sense that there is no real problem is reflective of the reality on the ground.
Yes, I'd be interested to hear that. From initial reports, it sounds like under-investment in QA because of over-confidence in automated QC.

It's an example of a "black swan" or Bertrand Russell's chicken - the same process has worked many times, leading people to make the false conclusion that the risk has become neglible. There's a successful trial period in which the beancounters reduce headcount with no negative consequences. So the trial becomes permanent, people become less careful. And then boom.

They miss that a 1 in 10000 occurence is going to happen eventually, and that "unnecessary expense" which was previously there to mitigate it has now been removed.
In other words, isolationism and pandering to an ever-shrinking market. There's no growth and no future in such a scenario. The hilarious thing is that these SV CEOs believe the US can adopt these policies and it won't affect their business abroad. It just shows they're not half as smart as people make them out to be.
I'm also using Sonnet to work on a library in Mojo and I've had pleasant experiences!
I’m a runner and public water fountains seem to be as well. Is there some sort of website that maps public water fountains in your city? I run pretty far and I don’t want to carry water.
We all pee and poop. Every. Single. Human.

There is no place for “business”.

It’s the literal definition of a public good and such the role of the government.
Has that changed? I remember always creating a swap partition that was meant to be at least the size of RAM
I've been finding Typst a great tool for ~90% of my use-cases — in the other 10%, I'll still reach for LaTeX for the extra power (tikz, pdf images, tagged pdfs (!) (this is becoming more and more of a requirement when publishing/submitting academic texts, and AFAIK Typst does not support it yet), but that's okay. Excited to see where it goes, as LaTeX is very beginner unfriendly and I'd love to see the barrier to entry for typesetting lowered so my more non-technical friends can share in the power of pretty texts & CVs.
(Thanks for responding.)

How can this not come from a self-hosted, secure and privacy-respecting, analytics tool?

Even their existing normal HTTP/HTTPS Web server access logs give them all of the things you listed. Even at almost the start of the Web, they did.

Google Tag Manager is a surveillance tool for the benefit of Google. And they pitch it to companies as:

> Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications

That's the first blurb on the first Web search hit. It's targeted as a tool for marketing people who brag about the large size of their ad spend on Google AdWords, and then need to make Powerpoints to justify that.

And who are often mimicked by people who don't know any better, but think it's best practice, because they saw a grownup doing it. Or they copy&pasted it from somewhere without understanding.

And when it's on a gov't public information system, it's leaking data about citizens to a private company known to snoop on everything it can, even secretly and against reasonable expectation of privacy.

(For example, in this case, who would know that by using a prominent Web site of the federal government, their behavior on that site is leaked to Google, who, due to other snooping, can attribute it to them personally as an individual. Like, if they walked into a Federal building, to consult an official, and Google had placed hidden cameras and microphones, that it controlled, throughout the building, and even followed them to and from the federal building.)

And, technically, it introduces an additional security weakness, by loading and running code from some site not under gov't control. Which, as we just saw for the nth time yesterday, is almost never well-placed trust. And for no good reason; only mistaken-at-best reasons.

That's just an example. Most other techbro "best practice" third-party requests have similar problems, or even worse, and are similarly unnecessary.
Neat project!

I've been using TuxGuitar for years and I hate the UI so much. The ergonomics around basic functionality like "loop this section" and "speed up / slow down the tempo" are so bad. I feel like it was designed by people who are only interested in writing tabs. The user experience for practice is so crappy. I'm sitting here with a guitar in my lap and I absolutely cannot be bothered to navigate some really poorly-laid out drop down menus just to do basic stuff. I want to have keys on the keyboard do all the basic stuff so it's just a single tap with one hand.

I looked into TuxGuitar's Java source...it's incredibly complicated for what it does. I literally had no idea how I'd alter to make it better or even extract part of it to make my own UI.

If the author reads this: more power to you! And one thing that would be very useful is to make the font REALLY BIG so that players can read it very easily. Squinting at TuxGuitar's default tiny font size sucks so much.
PEV2: PostgreSQL Execution Plan Visualizer
Literally the first and main point on Sticky website (and a homepage of their app) is:

PLAY GAMES
Loads of fun games in one app
Free to play & no ads

I bet HTML5 games also totally overshadow both the other claimed use cases in time-spent and UI-space metrics.

They just made an app for HTML games despite Apple telling openly for years that this isn’t allowed on iOS (whether this is a good or bad policy is a different question).
This feels like a mix of markdown readability with latex control. I'm not sure yet that I need that middle ground. Currently I'm doing docs in markdown, reports in Python generated tex, coupled with hardcoded preambles. That seems fine so far.
stop the pandering. you know very well crowdstrike doesn't offer good protection to begin with!

everyone pay for legal protection. after it happens you can show you did everything, which means nothing (well now this show even worse than nothing), by showing you paid them.

if they tell you to disable everything, what does it change? they're still your blame shield. which is the reason you have cs.

... the only real feature anybody care is inventory control.
Will they really not let you use the bathroom?

The same idea exists in the US, and often bathrooms have a PIN code to enter or a special key only the shop owner has.

I’ve never been turned down when asking politely. Most people are rather sympathetic when someone needs to use the bathroom for legitimate purposes.
Rust has always had a fair number of supporters on HN. Certainly since 2015.
Xwax is amazing. But what was more amazing to me was that the magic external box with Final Scratch was actually just a sound card and the rest was all software. Dunno if I am over simplifying but it was amazing to see that the time coded record and the software like xwax was all that was actually needed.
Nate Silver joins prediction market startup Polymarket
Sonnet is the best at the moment. GPT-4o is within a margin of error in capability. Use both.
reminds me of Snow Crash, where the US federal government is reduced to a software entity.
Tell him he’s banned from the establishment, and report him to the police for trespassing if he returns? Seems like you took the nuclear option right out of the gates.
No Uptime Hosting (2006)
This is already a thing in Europe and it’s awful. Paying a euro or two just to go sucks.
How do you deal with persistence with the various solutions? What do you actually have to serialize to a db?
2. From what I understand most of the talented people left during redfall's development.
It depends on what you are doing with your markdown files. For example, if you are using them as the source for a statically generated website typst won't do much for you.
You have more control over the style and structure. If you use markdown + css, that's a different story.
> For this conversation, I'm staying focused on Ukraine.

You could had agreed or disagreed but you chose to divert. Because you like what Israel does in Gaza, what USA did and continues to do with countries on other side of the world.

> The addition of one simple word - "the"

You still don't get it? It's not Russian who added 'the', it's the one who actually use English language every day.

> Keep in mind, Russia has an illegitimate permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Oh lol. By your own logic everything the Soviet government did should be returned back to pre-USSR times. Including Crimea and Lwow.
Correct! And about 120km end to end (depending on what you choose to define as "urban")

Driving from the southern tip of WA to the northern most point takes over 36hrs of continuous driving (~3600km)

All this is to say its pretty fucking big
> (gasp!) XML

I must be missing context here but I thought we were past side snarks out of mere generational antagonism. If not, please enlighten me ;)

Anyway, comparing XML against a compact syntax a la markdown or typst (AIU!) is besides the point: XML is just meant as canonical SGML syntax for delivery to browsers while full SGML has all the additional features for editing, such as short references (custom Wiki syntax token mappings for eg markdown support), tag inference, and LPDs (restricted element and attribute transformations), that together deliver quite powerful authoring and content app capabilities without turning into a full-featured programming language. HTML, without doubt the most important markup language, is based on it after all though the vast customization features of SGML really favors building your own project-specific Wiki syntax that's then mapped to a rendering vocabulary such as HTML).