skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've bought a lot of bikes in my lifetime and only twice have I opted to build a bike from scratch. Both times I was working on a bike shop. It was really the second time when one of our dealers had a "bike shop deal" where you could get a frame/fork setup for like $300. The Fox fork on the frame was worth around $700 so it was a really good deal.

The one thing I realized right away was all the stuff you take for granted on complete bikes that add up super quick. Oh you got some sweet disc brakes? You need brake lines, and brake fluid and have to know to set them up and bleed the lines, and you need brake levers. Oh, nice wheel set, you need tires as well, and you have to get the wheels trued before you put them on. You need a crank set, and pedals, and a chain and handlebars and a proper stem and grips and the list just goes on and on.

It took me about three months to get all the parts together. I kept everything in the box at the shop, in the basement. Once I got everything together, myself and two mechanics who love building bikes, sat around the shop putting it all together which took quite a while.

It was a pretty big wakeup call that yes, you can build a bike from scratch, but you also need a huge amount of knowledge and patience to put it all together. Even after I had put my bike together, it took several attempts to get the disc brakes dialed in which I've never had to deal with on a floor model. Same thing with the drivetrain and getting both derailleurs dialed in.
When I am forced to use a phone or tablet of a brand and size I'm not used to, everything seems wonky and out of place. Yet I can adapt to a different brand and size of car in a few minutes. Replacing tactile memory with skeuomorphism, is like a prosthetic arm that can extend 10m to replace your sickly feely biological one. I'm always up for advocating for more arts & crafts as part of interaction design.
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I like tools to have defined roles, not multipurpose.

I mean the top post is a ~200USD “smart” pomodoro timer. I’m not even close to that.

I use my phone for communication, quick photos/ notes and sound. It carries my cards. I want it to be completely locked down because it gets used in public and could be stolen.

I use my laptop for personal business including coding. I want it to be secure and streamlined.

I have a gaming PC, it runs widows and gaming rootkits and all kinds of questionable software. I don’t want my sensitive data around that computer.

I do art on my ipad, I want it to be about art. I dont need the phone stuff there. I don’t want my personal stuff there.

> flashlight too

lol I actually carry a flashlight with me always. Phones are absolutely garbage compared to a modern High CRI flashlight. I also have a FF camera and take it with me very frequently.
Nice product, I built a similar (but less flexible) system for an "ON AIR" sign that I have in my home office, as both my wife and I WFH, it is nice to have a visual indicator when one of us joins a call.

Software for Linux and Mac is here [0]. There's also an ESP32 for the sign, but that part is trivial (MQTT -> LED)

[0]: https://github.com/davidventura/on-air
Thank you for such patient and rich response. I didn't realize that's how SearXNG works.

Fully agree with you that mobile experience is the highlight of your project. It feels... not present. They way it should be - clean, intuitive and focused on results, not the tool.

It really makes me want to add it to things I self host.
That sounds like it could be very dangerous when the LLM gets it wrong...
> it’s a power purchase agreement from something that may never be built! No different from Microsoft’s previous fusion power purchase agreement

A frequent complaint from utilities has been AI companies refusing to sign PPAs. They want the option of picking up and leaving if someone else offers a better deal down the road, leaving the utility stuck with overbuilt infrastructure costs.

> virtue signalling

This term has lost whatever meaning it ever had if we're using it to refer to binding contracts.
React started as a library.. at this point it has server side components, and a world of plugins.

As for anything that has patterns of building with, will argue it's a framework.
> shop prices are absolutely disgusting

Do you think they are high because that's what it takes to pay for labor and rent, or are they high because the owners are greedy and are getting rich?
If the event-driven 'fixing problems' part of development gets separated from the long-term 'feature development', you're building a disaster for yourself. Nothing more soul-sucking than fixing other people's bugs while they happily go along and make more of them.
What fascinated me was that a driver for their demise was the rise of the department store and automobile hurting their mail order business.

Nearly 100 years later, the department store has demised because of the rise of a slightly faster form of mail order business.
I've just noticed that the timestamps on the page are clearly from a different episode. The planned obsolescence section actually starts at 57:42.
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Neat article - I know the author mentioned this in the post, but I only see this working as long as a few assumptions hold:

* avg tenure / skill level of team is relatively uniform

* team is small with high-touch comms (eg: same/near timezone)

* most importantly - everyone feels accountable and has agency for work others do (eg: codebase is small, relatively simple, etc)

Where I would expect to see this fall apart is when these assumptions drift and holding accountability becomes harder. When folks start to specialize, something becomes complex, or work quality is sacrificed for short-term deliverables, the folks that feel the pain are the defense folks and they dont have agency to drive the improvements.

The incentives for folks on defense are completely different than folks on offense, which can make conversations about what to prioritize difficult in the long term.
ROC is Taiwan I believe.
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Is it that difficult?

I'm 36 and have had 0 cavities, or anything I've had to have done to my teeth.

I just brush, floss, and antiseptic mouthwash twice daily and get biannual cleanings.
I asked the same on Reddit, and majorly opined that having free users is good, especially at the initial stage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1g3e211/how_do_yo...

With the logic provided, I tend to agree with that.
Assuming it is worth it with modern memory sizes (I think not), could this present a negative on NUMA systems? Forcing contention when a simple copy would have been sufficient?

I assume there's something optimising that away but I'm not well versed.
the linkedin profile linked to in footer doesn't exist.
#redflag
If we're going to be pedantic, the capital-R Reconquista name for the process of the -uh- re-conquest of Spain was introduced in the 19th century. And it was used throughout Latin America in elementary schoolbooks at least in the 1980s. Franco might have wanted to do some propagandizing with the term, but it was mainly seen as a non-partisan propaganda because Catholicism was a unifying force in Hispanic cultures rather than a partisan and divisive one.
I don't follow your sums. 50GWh of battery cycled once a day for a year is: 18,250 GWh

So you seem out by around 100x.
WolframAlpha is my go-to for one-off calculations involving either durations and units.

For your example, the WolframAlpha query "time in London at 1:39 pm MST on October 13" returns the correct answer, "9:39:00 pm BST | Sunday, October 13, 2024"[1].

While WolframAlpha's natural language processing is hit-or-miss, its responses clearly state assumptions made in the face of ambiguity. In this example:

Assuming "MST" is a named time zone
Assuming "time" is referring to a calendar computation
Assuming month/day
Assuming Mountain Time (United States; no observed DST rule)
Assuming London (United Kingdom)

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=time+in+London+at+1%3A3...
I just got back from a short vacation on Amtrack. It was my first sleeper car experience -- I slept poorly, but the dining was not too bad. Much better than airplane food and with an excellent view of the fall foliage.
Having enough battery capacity to back up enough energy for a few minutes let alone days would require a lot of resources.

I think scaling nuclear power would be cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
It sounds like they're talking about the difference between baseload power and intermittent power. Replacing fossil fuel baseload power plants can be done now. Replacing them with variable renewable energy sources would require some sort of breakthrough in energy storage technology.
Your poor I$.

The fact of the matter is outside of GPU drivers and poorly designed GUI applications, that's an extreme statistical outlier.
It's the cosmic scale equivalent to Mike Tyson's saying about everyone has a plan. Life finds a way, until your sun explodes.
> Rust has stellar tooling

I came for the job opportunities.

I stayed for the tooling.

> Haskell and OCaml are great but after I spent half an afternoon trying to bring in a dependency in a little-more-than-hello-world Haskell program

I had a similar experience trying to make Haskell's LSP work in test files. After ten years of using Haskell for academic and hobby projects, I still couldn't make the red squigglies go away in test files. With Rust I struggle similarly when dealing with cross-compilation and a complex set of feature flags on Nix. But at least this is not "Hello World!" failing.
“Wild plants” - riiight
The answer, of course is that it does depend, and you still need nutrients and water and light to increase as the CO2 increases for all the cellular automata to ramp up together, also c3 vs c4 plants which are efficient at different temperatures , 25vs35c but in general, a warmer wetter world has more bio mass, see: rainforests. That isn’t to say that climate change is good since moving farmland is bad. Coastline loss is worse and creating fertile soil (eg in the north) takes thousands of years. Not to mention a billion people living in places that will become too hot for humans
How to make your life super easy if shopping for a bike:

- 1 1/8 steerer tube, or maybe tapered

- Threadless a-head headset in any common SHIS type. Threaded ones won’t last as long.

- QR or common thru-axle

- Any common BB standard (threadless ones are actually fine but require a well made frame, and you’d be surprised how many expensive frames are not well made)

- Always a round seat post and get 27.2mm if you can. Bigger if you care about dropper posts

- Rim brakes are fine unless you are doing serious off road. If going disc, hydraulics offer great performance for the price.

- Flat bar shifting components are much more interchangeable and better value that drop bar!

- If going drop bar, consider older 2x11 speed mechanical equipment. It’s much cheaper and it was competitive at a pro level not so long ago.

- External cable routing!

- Aluminium is uncool, but it represents a sweet spot in terms of weigh/cost/durability

- Tyre volume, not frame material, is the most important factor in comfort

- Never buy a bike that doesn’t fit you

These tips won’t get you the best bike (in terms of absolute performance) but it will be reliable, easy to fix and good value.
Estimating economy sizes and growth before a couple hundred years ago is at best an exercise in educated guessing.
I'm a developer advocate at Metabase and you can visualize data super fast without needing deep sql experience. You can use our query editor and even see the sql its building behind the scenes. If it's helpful here is a link https://www.metabase.com/features/query-builder
> Replacing them with variable renewable energy sources would require some sort of breakthrough in energy storage technology

No, it wouldn't. Batteries + renewables is proven and it works. The problem isn't a technological barrier. The problem is we need batteries for a lot of things and production can't ramp up fast enough.
Codes of conducts are political weapons to be used against those disfavored by the powers that be and ignored when the elect violate them.

Drupal and Larry Garfield years ago, and most recently Python and Tim Peters.
https://archive.ph/AQ98p
No one has the "right", as you put it. The learning of and using Rust was approved by the employee's superiors.

If anything, companies expecting employees to know their specific tech stack on day 1 of the job is much less common an expectation outside of Software engineering.
This is not accurate. Everyone knew the Earth was round and had a good knowledge of the Earth's circumference, as this can be determined with geometry and some basic measurements. What was not well known at the time was the size of Asia, and specifically the distance from Asia's eastern coastline to Japan's easternmost islands, due to the lack of surveying data. Columbus grossly overestimated the size of Asia such that Japan would be approximately where North America actually is.
After reading "Why Nations Fail", which I really enjoyed, I wondered whether we could develop an LLM with a wide enough context window where I could input the lessons from such books along with data and metrics about a specific country. Then, the AI could prescribe tangible solutions and policy recommendations tailored to that nation's unique situation. I'm curious what an AI system like that might look like. I also wonder if it's possible to experiment with a smaller-scale version of this concept using today's technology.
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I had a similar issue, which was remedied by getting a larger cuff. In retrospect it makes sense that one size does not fit all, and apparently my biceps are on the larger side.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Purchasing_Commissio...
How many universities are run by the conservative/evangelical wing of the US political spectrum?
Its so disappointing to see Win 10 getting sunsetted. It's been hands down the best Windows OS experience for mem, and I've been onboard since 3.1. I've had the displeasure of having to interact with Windows 11, both pro and home, recently, and it feels half baked in so many ways.
RSC was marked stable in Mid 2022 and this major change is still in the process of unfolding through the ecosystem, because of course these things take time. And even though react might be the future, I have a hard time understanding a client side framework that currently becomes more of a server side framework being stable.
Meh, these are just examples of the inability to correctly root cause issues. There is a good lesson in here about the real cause being lack of testing (the teammate’s DOM change should have never merged) and lack of monitoring (upstream mail provider failure should have been setting off alerts a long time ago).

The changes only had adjacency to the causes and that’s super common on any system that has a few core pieces of functionality.

I think the core lesson here is that if you can’t fully explain the root cause, you haven’t found the real reason, even if it seems related.
Wow. I sit corrected - I had no idea it could impact so far north, but I see maps show flooding there potentially! Thanks for teaching me something new.
> rarely, if ever, read pro-nuclear saying that they aim to replace oil, coal and gas. It's always "wind and solar is unreliable"

People picked tribes and decided it's all or nothing. I agree--that's stupid. There is a historical alignment between renewables backers and anti-nuke activists (see: Germany) that caused nuclear to polarise away from renewables. That doesn't really exist anymore. But you see its artefacts in the debate.
So, what are my ideas?

- static banners (non blinking, no transitions, esp. no vertical transitions that are designed to force you to lose focus – I've come for the content, not the ads)

- no tracking that exceeds maybe, if you have seen the campaign already. Preferably hosted by the website (who is responsible?).

- also, no targeting. Ads once were supposed to be consumer information. Public information is meant to be public, so I would enjoy leaning about what is out there (in the big world). Not just being reminded of what I bought last month, over and over again. Consumer products are part of (ephemeral) culture and I'd like to be part of it. (Reminder: you can always select/target by content and context, not just per user profile. This is technically feasible, as demonstrated by earlier versions of the Web.)

(This is also valid for recommendation and content presentation algorithms of all kind: I generally feel like desperately gasping for air, while being strangled by algorithms that only allow for an ever narrower bandwidth of the ever same. – E.g., is it really true that there are just three videos uploaded to YouTube per week? How do they make a profit? So you say, there are millions? How I'm not going to see them? Even a text search is littered by out of context reminders of the ever same…)

– moreover, ads should be more expensive for the advertising party. There should be less in total and the revenue for content providers should be greater (remember the thriving blog scene, we once had, when bloggers could make a living?)

(In other words, role it back to the early 2000s and I'm fine with that. Essentially, before Google ads went on steroids.)
> this is also a very specific and usually ephemeral situation - a small team running a disproportionately fast growing product in a hyper-competitive and fast-evolving space.

This is basically how we ran things for the reliability team at Netflix. One person was on call for a week at a time. They had to deal with tickets and issues. Everyone else was on backup and only called for a big issue.

The week after you were on call was spent following up on incidents and remediation. But the remaining weeks were for deep work, building new reliability tools.

The tools that allowed us to be resilient enough that being on call for one week straight didn't kill you. :)
DHH has responded on Twitter: https://x.com/dhh/status/1845887043748221421
Only time I ever recall a nurse that insisted on doing BP measurements wrong was .. in jail. And not like all the nurses there, just this one person who did not care about anything besides flirting with corrections officers and getting the hell out of there ASAP.
This is a law of averages argument. There is no rational argument for bloat in order to protect software from bloat. This is like saying that it doesn't matter that we waste money, because we're going to spend the entire budget anyway.
Note that various ham bands have limitations on what types of emissions are allowed. For example some only allow RTTY and data, so no phone or image. And some allow phone or image but no data. Even if the type of information is allowed there might be technical restrictions prohibiting some forms of modulation.

So before using something that was designed depending on some non-ham part of the regulations for its legality, such as part 18 (ISM) in the US, on a ham band I'd want to look into the details and make sure it is not doing something under that part but not allowed under the ham regulations.
>The fact that people can decide they’re not trans is not particularly material. This is very uncommon.

You really lost us with this.

Many, MANY people dally with the idea of being trans and decide it's not for them. This is extremely common, and is probably the overwhelming majority outcome for all people who are ever trans-curious.

Show your research please.
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/free-internet-hurricane-h...

There's an offer here for free service from Verizon. Is it meaningfully false if they aren't giving free phones?

What about Starlink direct to Cell?

Apple's SOS?

https://www.homedepot.com/p/STARLINK-Standard-Kit-High-Speed...

That's 349 at Home Depot as an example

Another thing you've missed is activation isn't required for use.

> 2. Tweets with no primary sources

As opposed to news authors who don't know how the service works?

And it's not only this author

Look at this one

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/starlinks-h...

Cited someone on Reddit. If he didn't we'd have just taken the claim as fact but when you go and check, you find out that unlike me she's not a starlink user. And when she's called out and admits she knows nothing about it she refuses to retract her claims. Just like in the comment section of the article, several people insist only FEMA rather than SpaceX and several other orgs have delivered free dishes to help. I'm sure you can find an article to buttress that claim but it's not the on ground reality

That person on Twitter is the one that asked for free service. As I pointed out he already had the equipment.

>The $400 for the hardware is highway robbery and an opportunistic cash grab.

The only way this would be true is if they increased the prices just because of this Hurricane. It's exactly around the same price as a Jupiter dish from HughesNet too. And you can sell it too. It's your property.

I don't need articles because I've installed the stuff. When you get a new dish you have one hour unlocked Internet to activate your service. Now that's 30 days. Talk about auto enrollment into some contract is easily avoided nonsense.
No.

The intended targets were very badly poisoned but survived.

The novichok (concealed in a perfume bottle) was discarded in a litter bin. It was then found by a couple of passers by. One of them died, and one survived.

The potential consequences of this were appalling. Can you imagine the consequences of a couple of thousand chemical weapon casualties in a Nato member, clearly identified as originating in a fairly hostile nation state
Waiting room for someone playing doom on it.
Kind of, but you're implying Raleigh's changes will have more impact than that. What makes you think so?
This isn’t a binding contract like Elon Musk agreeing to buy Twitter. Google may be bound in some way to buy power from a future unbuilt powerplant that doesn’t yet exist in prototype form. If Kairos fizzles, more likely than not, can Google seek damages? Will Microsoft seek damages from their binding contract when Helios isn’t grinding out fusion gigawatts in 2028 as promised?
Lot of transportation dining was luxurious at the first half of 20th century. Ocean liners were of course famous for their dinners, afaik zeppelins had at least decent food available, and airplane travel had some glamour too.
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Battery manufacturing capacity is greatly underutilized in China. That was battery cell prices there fell by nearly 1/2 in the last year. There is tremendous room for expansion of production.
It would be great if we could get rid of all the neurodivergent people in tech, they’ve been far too comfortable in digital spaces.
To add to this, ego is always a thing among developers. Your defensive players will inevitably end up resenting the offense for 1. leaving so many loose ends to pick up and 2. not getting the opportunity for greenfield themselves. You could try to "fix" that by rotating, but then you're losing context and headed down the road toward man-monthing.