skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah-- it's genuinely hard. I went to culinary school where we discussed this topic at length and one of my classmates (who already had an English degree) is now the managing editor for a household name recipe website, I worked professionally as a chef, I write professionally now, and aced a college food writing course taught by a long-time head restaurant reviewer for the Boston Globe, and I still have a really hard time writing recipes for people that don't have my knowledge. At first blush, it feels like a trivial task-- just like making interfaces did before I went back to school to study design-- but it requires a lot of specialized knowledge and experience that I don't have.

I get why developers are perplexed by everyone's insistence that designers take the lead in creating interfaces, but leaving Gimp aside to look at another problematic FOSS UX, consider Mastodon: folks around these parts were proudly and rightfully touting Mastodon as an interface for Activity Pub as an amazing piece of software and technological achievement, but incorrectly claiming its UX was polished enough to replace Twitter. When I'd bring up the near impossibility of non-technical users being willing to figure out how federation worked when there are free options, the dismissals were fast and furious "I explained federation to my [toddler/grandmother/nontechnical coworker, etc]: it's not that complicated", "there's a (ten million word) beginner friendly onboarding doc that explains it all." "Users don't even need to know how federation works if they just pick an instance and sign up." I'll bet a lot of friends of developers did a lot of polite smiling and nodding in those weeks, and Opera's Tweets(!) about not being able to find any of her friends on Mastodon was all the evidence you need to prove that most people's most basic use cases-- connecting with and keeping up with friends over the internet-- aren't easily satisfied by Mastodon's UX.

If my Grandparents decided they were going to branch out from "the Face Book" to try that hot new Mastodon a few years ago during the spike, the likelihood of their progressing through the "beginner friendly" wall of text on their onboarding website is about zero. If they did, the first time some mind-bending hentai popped up on their screen, they'd have taken their computer outside and burned it. They would not have taken it as an opportunity to get the prerequisite knowledge they needed to even understand what instance shopping was. My parents would have gotten further, but given how frustrated my engineer father gets with much less confusing ideas because he's used to a whole different sort of technology, I say they'd last about 5 days.

You don't get a much simpler task than making a classical French omelet. It's got three ingredients. I can do it in my sleep now-- it all seems very simple. But it was YEARS after culinary school before I got my perfect omelet success rate past like 70%. Being blind to our existing knowledge is natural. That's a good thing when we're working by ourselves, but it's murder when you're figuring out how someone without it approaches the same problem.
You can implement a single client NFSv3 server that provides stronger than expected (of NFSv3) guarantees and if you implement the "optional" companion protocols it should come closer to local filesystem semantics than most network filesystems. What would be neat about such a solution is that you can run the server either locally or remotely (same site, high bandwidth, low latency) and at the same time clients would have to a custom FUSE server or even worse load an (from the customer's point of view) experimental vendor kernel module. Upgrading from NFSv3 to NFSv4 would get you a bit closer to POSIX semantics, but of course it would still be NFS just not over a congested, jittery link to a shared server. Especially NFSv4 delegations could be a nice way to let the clients kernel buffer a lot of bursty async I/O locally. Just keep in mind how little POSIX really guarantees instead of assuming it will behave like ext4/XFS or even better ZFS on a laptop NVMe with two levels of power loss protection (big caps in the drive and the laptop battery).
Most ICE car engines are massively oversized for highway cruising (so they have power for acceleration) and aren't running efficiently during said cruising. Huge amounts of engineering goes into trying to reduce this effect but it's always there to some extent.

Hybrids use a smaller engine that is running in a more efficient operating range during cruising (i.e. not pulling a huge vacuum and moving lots of parts the whole time). The battery/motor comes in for acceleration.

Unlike combustion engines, electric stuff isn't really inefficient at low load.
Various RDMA protocols were all about that. Where are they now?
TL;DR: is this a cloud service or an on-premise thing?
> Almost all turnkey CAPTCHA services can be solved for pennies.

There is one area where even pennies can be a barrier: DDoS.

Paying a few pennies per captcha can add up to a lot when you want to complete millions of them.
I second Alibre, I am using the pro version. I bought it in 2012, and I can't remember if I've paid for upgrades to keep it current since then.

I used it to design an injection mold and I am still using it for 3d printing projects. It's a capable program and on-par with SolidWorks or Inventor for basic modeling.

I haven't tried OnShape yet, but if I didn't have Alibre I'd probably look into that or another web-based program for new hobby projects. I like the idea of perpetual licenses but it's only perpetual for as long as it runs on your operating system.
Most (maybe all?) Toyota in the US are actually made in America. If you look at the various "Made In America" indexes that take into account factories, supply chain, etc, the Camry does better than anything from Detroit
As long as the chip isn’t expected to count the number of Rs in strawberry, I don’t see why an LLM couldn’t design a better chip.
Does Regatta require a local disk sized for the entire file to support random writes? One problem I’ve seen is that we have set up instances with a modest local disk but then work with files for which we need to pull the whole file into a local cache modify some parts and then push the full result back into s3. It would be helpful to have a way to work with s3 as though it were posix without having to match the local disk size to the largest file we might need to process.
Interesting. So how about counting nociceptors for moral weight?

What specifically makes it so the pain neurons cause pain and the pleasure neurons cause pleasure? Supposing I invented a sort of hybrid neuron, with some features of a pain neuron and some features of a pleasure neuron -- is there any way a neuroscientist could look at its structure+chemistry and predict whether it will produce pleasures vs pain?
Well TIL I must be illiterate or mentally unwell.
Can't a lot of the phase change energy in distillation be recovered by using incoming water to cool/condense the distilled water vapor?
I think that "owning the storage" is such an important part of this. I'm excited that folks who use this will continue to have access to their data directly through S3, so if they ever decide to move off of Regatta, all their data is still right there. This is also important at large companies which already have compliance and governance workflows that connect to data in S3 -- Regatta enables them to continue to use those workflows without having to think about another primary storage system.
Seems like a non bug to me.

The first mistake the developer made, was that he wanted to create a different user experience between keyboard and mouse. Stick to what you get by default and design your components so they work for both usecases. Don't try to be smart when it comes to accessibility.

What he ended up doing is what I would have considered a hack. A solution that inevitably breaks or has side effects.

The reason there rarely are good handles to do things differently in accessibility context, is because it's not something that's meant to be handled differently.
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It’s good to develop standards even if the vast majority of people won’t adopt them, so the small minority who care build on one good protocol instead of many bad ones.

Ex: ActivityPub. You have many different people making social networks, and they all can interact with each other. These “many people” are a tiny fraction of those who use HTTP, but their numbers are enough to form many thriving communities.

At the same time, ActivityPub and its services (Mastodon, Lemmy) have serious flaws in discoverability, permanence, and inefficiency. If someone were to invent a new protocol (perhaps AT, perhaps “ActivityPub 2.0” or “ActivityPub+”, perhaps something else) with a way to interop with and migrate old data, it could be very beneficial to those communities.

Furthermore, one day the world may change enough for a new standard to take hold. And perhaps it will be sudden, and/or developing a “good standard” takes a long time, so we wouldn’t have had time to if we didn’t start on a random day like today.
> we don't want electric cars to become a culture war issue

Too late. I'm happy to be proven wrong at some point.
Unlikely. Putin is a product of russia, not the other way around.
I dunno if this is considered off-topic, since it's commentary about the website, but that's twice in the past week I've seen a launch website that must have used a template or something because almost all the links in the footer are href="#". If you don't have Careers, Privacy Policy, Terms, or an opinion about Cookies, then just nuke those links
> One of the best understandings of inflation is to use the mathematical concept of "equality" on those. They're two ways of phrasing the same thing.

They're not quite the same thing. All other things equal, if a price increase is "just" inflation then it takes the same number of hours of work to buy the car (or equivalently, the car is worth the same number of loaves of bread).

The alternative is that car prices have increased relative to other goods. This could happen through higher-quality/more featureful/bigger cars (which would be removed from the inflation calculation), or it could come because of some idiosyncratic feature of the industry like the car-chip shortage during covid.
Relevant Penny Arcade comic responding to the proposal that micropayments will save comic artists -
https://pennyarcade.fandom.com/wiki/June_22,_2001
I wonder if we are tracking if there are new species emerging? With a sudden rise of 1.5C in temperatures, I'd imagine life would find it hard to adapt in the extremes. Especially in the ocean where reefs are getting bleached.

We are slowly boiling our grandchildren and their ecosystems to death. Drill baby drill!
Unfortunately shutting down air traffic generally does not result in zero excess deaths: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3233376/
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This is a managed cloud service. If you're interested in using Regatta on-premises, I'd love to hear from you -- shoot me some mail at hleath [at] regattastorage.com
Before regulations, other engineering disciplines have far more objective decisions and calculations than software engineering.
Consider a mechanical analogue of DRY: choosing between reusing identical parts to make design, assembly and repairs simpler or designing similar but different parts because they are worth optimizing (e.g. a whole IKEA cabinet with interchangeable screws or with short and long ones).
Unlike next month's shifting software requirements the cost and performance of this kind of alternative can be predicted easily and accurately, without involving gut feelings or authority.
Symfony 7.2 can work as a micro framework, believe it or not: https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-2-simpler-single-f...
Appimaged, where were you all this time?
Great call out -- we'll get that done. Thanks!
Muammar Gaddafi was a terrible person. But when he died, things in his country got even worse.
All those options and appearance packages just become liabilities as the trucks age. None of it ages well.
Discussion (289 points, 3 days ago, 408 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150443
> the left over salt/minerals

There is a commercial market for salt -- and for stuff like treating roads in the winter it doesn't have to be very clean.

Otherwise, disolve it into the local waste water stream and discharge it back into the ocean.
Exceptionally well-armed NATO + JEF members, and Finland well within distance to use conventional artillery to turn St Petersburg to rubble. This is a public-awareness and support-building exercise rather than a real concern. This is like the RAF frequently issuing press-releases about intercepting Russian jets.
It's a shame that the Bolt got discontinued. It was a great EV. I would have bought one if I didn't have exposure to Tesla first.
Florida - that's where Trump is staffing many folks in his cabinet. They banned the words "climate change" and "global warming" from being mentioned in any official document.

Florida - also where there are $100B+ disasters every year.

America is now the Florida of the world!
To be fair, there is technically concurrency. But it’s not what you would really expect. But as someone pointed out to me 14 years ago, if you need concurrency in your web request you‘re probably doing something wrong.

There is some very impressive work going on to define how Generics will work in PHP. It’s a matter of when not if Generics come to PHP. I‘m expecting a new RFC for Generics to be created some point next year.
Oddly enough, my memory of IPX/SPX was that it "just worked" by default whereas when we switched to IP we started having to manually configure IP addresses and make sure no one chose the same address.

That said my first LAN party was 1996 and we were running Windows 95 by that point, which probably helped.
The point about the insurance GPS is that they will eventually use it against the person. 'You were going 5mph over the speed limit before the crash...' that kind of thing. Giving them more information will just lead to the consumer being hurt. Oh, and they will clearly sell that info to anyone they can get to buy it of course. That part isn't great either.
Sorry no. One interpretation, especially on this site, is that the problem was some kind of database bug, maybe where the same location was entered twice and a tiny location error ended up creating two locations.

I expect that out of any random sample 500 million literate and mentally healthy English speakers, more than 450 million of them are totally unaccustomed to thinking about nautical miles ever. Even people in science, or even who might have dealt with nanometers in school do not typically think about nautical miles unless they are sailors or airplane pilots.
This is a really interesting effect.

I have observed similar in Team Fortress Classic, way before the client-side prediction was added. Players who were able to master the sniper on dialup wound up being incredibly hard to deal with at LAN parties. They were really good at dragging that server-side red dot across the players. Forcing players to endure substantial amounts of latency seems to create a certain degree of prescience.
We need both. There's plenty of wealthy people that can afford to go solar and could arguably have a bigger environmental impact if they did since they often also have large homes, big cars etc. If they don't feel strongly about doing it for altruistic reasons then subsidies are a useful tool to get them to take the plunge. Without subsidies there's really no economic argument for them to do it since the break even times are long and they probably aren't too worried about utility costs.
Podcast app lets you chat with any episode you've listened to
Does anyone deliver anything except people via "busses"?
That wouldn't explain why US democracy seems dysfunctional today, though.
Nevertheless Infiband exists.
I think this is exactly right, but there are lots of people who don't want to manage their own NFS servers -- that's who we're targeting with Regatta. Notably, I think that v4 delegations gets you close but not close enough to the performance that we're looking for. For example, you can't get a delegation for a directory (which means that you're still doing round trips for CREATE and UNLINK), which seems to be the case even with "nocto". But, I need to spend more time playing around with that.
People don't want Leafs because they come with too many compromises.

Small battery, slow, weird and phased-out charging port; list goes on. It's a first-gen EV through and through.

However, Nissan's second EV, the Ariya, is selling much better! Crossover CUV (which America wants), bigger battery, fast, stylish, starts at $39.5k.

We also now have sub-$30k used Tesla's out in the market too.
Is that the case? I'm not the most knowledgeable, but I was under the impression that Putin is only capable of his level of influence to his KGB background. He definitely seems like a lynchpin to me, but I'd be interested in hearing more.
I use it for a JavaScript-free CAPTCHA, works well, but it only sends the x and y of mouse click upon clicking on it.
The incoming administration has shown contempt for programs created by the "other side". They're strongly against renewable energy in general, and their patrons are oil and gas people.
Hey! I know it’s muddled but that’s not quite correct. SOCK_STREAM is more general than TCP; SOCK_STREAM just means the socket is a byte stream. You would need to add IPPROTO_TCP on top of that to pull in the TCP stack.

UDS using SOCK_STREAM does not do that; ie, it is not using IPPROTO_TCP.
(I meant 16GB)
> Yahoo instead of Google

TBH i never understood the Google hype: i grew up with Altavista and Yahoo. (and astalavista.box.sk FWIW)
> For example, you can't use Mountpoint for Amazon S3 for random writes to existing files, appends, or renames.

Can you support these operations with the expected semantics and performance?

If the application makes a one-byte change to a giant file and calls fdatasync, what happens? Do you re-upload the entire file to S3?

How do you handle a rename? Applications commonly do this for atomic replacement on POSIX and expect three properties from this operation:

* fast.
* destination always points to either the original or new afterward (on success or failure); no scenario at which it's lost/truncated.
* no extra storage used (on success or failure).

Do you guarantee any of those? How? I don't see an obvious way from the S3 HTTP API.

Given that POSIX API doesn't support things like arbitrary per-operation deadlines/timeouts, do you think it's suitable as a distributed filesystem API at all? Why?
> Doubt it. The expenses are going to be mostly capital and operating ones that can't be avoided.

This suggests to suspicion you've never worked in or with local or state government agencies and have spent zero time in a water treatment facility. I've done both so here's a couple of things that might help form a more robust picture of the situation:

1. These organizations are typically operating with budgets below the minimum requirements necessary to maintain the systems they're responsible for. This is why municipal bond initiatives are so common for water system maintenance and expansion projects.

2. Private contractors created this situation. Local and State government agencies contract out all of their IT projects and do not have personnel on staff capable of performing the work under discussion.
Pluto has a way to publish as HTML, even with some interactivity, via SliderServer. How is this different?
they understand that weight and efficiency is the only way forward

not like Tesla selling 3-ton vehicles that pretend to be green
For compatibility with the Web content, the `click` event has become a device-independent activation event. Sites can't be expected to listen for events from every kind of device, so instead all devices send `click`s.

They care, because focus for keyboard-controlled screen readers sending "click" should behave differently: an element inside the menu should receive focus, even though it's not the element that has been clicked. Otherwise if focus stayed on top-level menu bar, screen reader users would be lost, and had to navigate to menu's content themselves.
> Are there any highly developed nations that allow complete strangers with any nationality to buy and use a mobile phone without showing a national ID? I don't know any, or they will all soon be gone.

I regularly (1-2x per year) buy prepaid SIMs in Canada, USA, and Japan. None of them require an ID and I often even pay cash.

I'm sure you are right that they'll eventually be requiring ID, but you are wrong to imply that these countries aren't highly developed.
> The west advanced just fine without "brain drain" in the centuries prior.

Centuries prior they had a global slave trade going on. The wealth of the West is build on colonialism.

Culture just reflects the underlying material conditions that people live in. There is nothing inherently superior about Western culture. Wealth is cumulative and first mover advantages are strong. And if anyone threatens the current hegemony, there is always the use of force.

But yes, you are right there has been a stagnation since the 80s and things are slowly changing ins favor of countries like China and India.
Even if nobody died, it depends how you want to classify intentionally swatting someone. 50 counts of attempted murder? 50 counts of inciting violence? 50 counts of assault?
> The postal service also has costs

I don't know about you but even with this cost about 90% of the physical mail I receive is junk mail.

> Sensible ones, if every spam email or login guess costs even 1 penny it becomes prohibitive for most fully automated spam applications.

Do you have a solution for transaction costs? How do you pay a penny without having to pay more than that for the transfer of funds?
I just can't get into the web based ones...I don't know why but they all seem slow and clunky to me. One thing I didn't like about alibre is the lack of Linux (or Mac) version, as I plan on ditching MS once my win10 box is unusable - I have no interest in that new AI crap MS is adding.
> Currently, only the us-east-1 region is supported. Please contact support@regattastorage.com if you need to use a different region.

Bold choice, given what I know about us-east-1
You've taken this discussion entirely off the rails. This started by you facetiously asking for an explanation of how Israel is a colonial power despite knowing fully well that it is one. When it was explained to you, you didn't try refuting the colonial accusations but instead tried to push the blame on the rest of the world. This is unacceptable; Israel is responsible for their own actions regardless of who they answer to.

Surely you must understand how this entitled anecdotal "whataboutism" doesn't revise or justify the nationalist actions Israel took. You haven't denied or even expressed regret at any of the relevant accusations made in this thread; if the UN Ambassador of Israel acted this way, their peers would probably take it as an admission of guilt.
That feels like a weird category to use IMO. People who brandish are armed but not all armed people are brandishing.

More to the point, if you went to your local PDs website and watched body cam from the last 10 shootings, how many do you think would be involve law abiding gun owners with CCWs using guns in a way consistent with the 2nd Amendment vs people brandishing or using their guns in a criminal and/or dangerous way?
That's actually a bad solution. Weapons weren't much less brutal then, mostly just less precise. You'd have people accidentally shooting bystanders in armed conflicts.
the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, and Putin may live longer than world peace can be maintained.

plus several in his inner-circle, and his likely replacements, are just as hard-line, in some cases moreso.

"si vis pacem para bellum"
QUIC is not trying to solve the same problem as Ousterhout is. End user networks very different from datacenter.