skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a knee-jerk reaction to that job too. But realistically optimizing spark plug changes isn't really important like the old days where you needed to change them every 10k miles or less. It's maybe 2-3 times in the entire life of the car.

Removing the wipers and windshield cowl is generally easy, just takes some extra time. Dealers/mechanics charge for time, not difficulty. So that simple 2hr job can easily be 500-600+. Still something that could be a rewarding Saturday morning project for someone who likes doing DIY type stuff.
I don't view political organization as violence, I view it as a healthy democracy - even if the country or people don't agree with the conclusions of that group of people. It is healthy that they feel comfortable expressing their wants and needs to the people with power to change it.

What Elon is doing in the US isn't organizing or demanding the system to be better; it's taking control of the system and saying he can do better.
It's not so simple with companies, if you view them as a single entity, because they are composed of many individuals and you interface with them at different layers.

In the case of Tesla, you have a very public figure embodying the figure of the company. If Tesla has the best EVs it's not really Tesla that has them but _Elon Musk's Tesla_ (whether that's true or not in terms of his stocks doesn't matter to the general public).

Same with SpaceX. It's not SpaceX's great engineering team launching rockets that people remember, it's "did you see Elon's latest rocket launch? amazing!"

The fact we don't remember who VW's CEO is speaks volumes about this (in the opposite way).
The issue is that programming is communication. Communication is indeed a form of art. Programming is not just giving instructions to machines, if that was the case we would be happily using binary code. So we have two dimensions, the first one is giving the binary instructions, but the other one is how to make these instructions understandable by humans, including ourselves.
Hilarious if you true.
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IBM's $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK
This, and also, so what if the price of the end product goes up? You wouldn't feel the need to buy a new phone so often if it was more sensible to repair them, which would very likely more than make up for the price increase.
Maybe a bit of a chicken or egg problem? I don’t know enough about Joann, but I remember when borders closed and B&N went almost too. At the time, these stores had become a bore. Only peddling bill O’Reilly and Hillary Clinton’s books. But now bookstores are thriving too, and so is B&N in large part because each store is managed independently, and not driven by corporate and their large contracts with large publishers.

So maybe when you stop being customer centric and become corporate profit centric you end up losing customers first and profits later.

PE firms in these cases are just the bottom feeders that processes these corporate carcasses, not the cause of their deaths.

It’s different when PE firms go after resources that people need, like health care or elderly care. Here they are acting as sociopaths. They know people will pay as much as they have to, as the other options are death and suffering. Despicable.
A lot of places online you can order "samples" for a few bucks. If you like the sample, order a few yards.

But just in general, this suggests to me more of a sign of the public increasingly turning toward passive or, if you will, packaged entertainment. Does anyone still build plastic models, fly RC airplanes, get together for card games, or bowl?

Maybe though someone in my neighborhood will start up a doom-scrolling league that the wife and I can join. And there's always the watercooler where we can suggest to others that they watch some streaming shows we saw that they've never heard of.
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/ibm-slash-hashicorp-merger-inqu...
I guess the important bit that always gets left out is that these things revolve around life as we know it. Of course you could have a completely different biochemistry resemble the processes that we generally associate with life. But until we either replicate that in a lab or find signs of life on other planets (earth-like or otherwise), the best speculation we can do is based on what we see here. And we see that certain steps on the path towards complex multicellular life took very long compared to others.
The source you mention is

> according to a report from the European Environment Agency

and I don't know how they got to their numbers. Don't have time to read it right now but do you see a mistake in my calculations? I think I used valid sources?
That would be my queue to hang up. A computer should never talk to you first.
3.7 doesn't seem to be available in Bedrock, but at least its easy enough to change your region in AWS without jumping through hoops with a VPN.
It's on the Mac App Store so you'll find the pricing there. Looks like $10 for one month (one time use maybe?), $20 for a year, $50 lifetime.
They could have just chosen to not offer the service, but apparently that's okay
That was a fine notion before it became apparent that skilled professionals are unable to separate their work from their political ideology: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/04/public-hea...

This was a huge problem in the first Trump administration: https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/20222702-federal-burea.... Do you really think that, for example, DOJ lawyers who defended Biden’s mass immigration policies are going to flip and use 100% of their talents to figure out how to do mass deportations now? If that’s genuinely the case, then there’s a place for the idea of a neutral civil service. But I don’t believe that’s the case, and that’s an unacceptable state of affairs.
I have read 17 books from that list, and 16 of them were totally solid.

The one I didn't like was The Great Gatsby, but it very well might have been my limitations.

Classics are dubbed so for a reason.

I got myself a list of ~180 books prepared by two lit professors and started going through them, along with books recommended in fora with low signal to noise ratio (not Reddit). Best decision re: choice of books ever.
> many companies have been burned before by seniors who weren’t senior - so in my experience they usually do ask for a resume and an interview just like an employee.

You mean you've been asked for a resume? Never happened with me when working for small to large companies. Isn't part of it that there's more commitment to taking on an employee and employees are harder to get rid vs a contractor?

It feels more like hiring a kitchen installer or a plumber. You look at their past work and testimonials, assume they can do what they say, and maybe ask or look at what options you have if it doesn't work out in the worst case, but you wouldn't ask for a resume.
The relevant number (missing from above) is the total amount of space on that storage device. If it saves 1GB on a 8TB drive, it's not a big win.
>I'm not a fan of cryptocurrency either, but I do want to note that "hamstringing" it at this point will likely have many negative downstream effects on the overall economy.

This part does terrify me. Too many hedge funds and more common investment vehicles have gotten exposure to this. If there ever is a huge rugpull, regular folks will get nailed. Sad times.
My app makes me $2,700/month after 6 months
So developing the basic version of this app took about 30 days.

I did it together with my brother and we also did marketing for it together.

We constantly work to improve it and the growth has been crazy for us the last few months.

The idea started as just giving AI memory to make it easier for ourselves to build our products (didn't exist in LLMs when we started). Then we continued to improve upon it and add new features like searching through Reddit discussions to validate ideas, following specific phases from ideation to building and marketing, and adding tools to make the whole process more actionable.

All we did to market it was talk about our journey building the app on X in the Build in Public community (great way to get attention early on btw).

We also launched on Product Hunt which got us our first paying customers.

54 days after launch we hit $1,000 MRR

98 days after we hit $2,000 MRR

And today we’re at $2,700 MRR.

Total revenue is about $9,000.

We didn’t spend a dollar on marketing to reach this point and we recently hit 5,000 users. It’s only in the last week we’ve started experimenting with paid advertising.

The goal for this year is to hit $10k MRR, which I see as doable if we get paid advertising to work.

The app is called Buildpad if you want to check it out.

I’ll continue sharing more on our journey to $10k MRR if you guys are interested.
There were legitimate reasons for spitting USSF as its own service. The only reason people made fun of it was because Trump signed the order for it.
Process was invented as a means to get useful output from people who don't care. Of which there's an unlimited supply.
My first dog was not food motivated.
- "The fact that it did happen here tells us nothing more than that, and until we dig out evidence of a ‘second genesis,’ perhaps here in our own Solar System inside an icy moon, or on Mars, we can form no firm conclusions."

I'm convinced the absence of evidence is, itself, valuable evidence. The (apparent) single origin of Earth life is a remarkable statistical observation hiding in plain sight.
“Food-motivated” in dogs means something more like “can be induced to listen to commands from a human in exchange for food.” Some dogs are only interested in their own plans. Others are only interested in really good food, or are much more interested in some other reward, like having a ball thrown.

My dog for instance is not particularly food motivated. He believes strongly that there is “food” and “better food” and will hold off until he’s really hungry to eat something that’s just food. But he’s very motivated by attention. He will do tricks for treats he doesn’t like and then drop the treat on the floor once you give it to him.
I sincerely hope you consider adopting a kinder approach to dealing with fellow humans, and dealing with a complex task such as reforming government in a responsible and respectful way. There's no honor is treating people like the way Trump and Musk and DOGE do.

While this thread has been flagged, I hope this message gets to you. Be kind. Be thoughtful. There are honorable ways to accomplish the main goals of Trump/Musk without the vitriol.
Oddly, their online sales were growing 11%. Spin off the name into online only presence? It does seem that debt was the biggest problem.

>> Sales fell 4.1% to $539.8 million. Same-store sales also dropped 4.1%, including a jump of 11.5% for e-commerce sales.
> You could just as easily say they have symptoms of malaria, or an STD.

Neither tend to kill in 48 hours.

Given the location, the mortality rate, and the apparent symptoms, including hemorrhagic fever in the diagnosis possibilities is very reasonable.
A 20$ 1 year licence for something that probably has a FOSS equivalent on Linux...

However, considering Apple will never ever ever allow user replaceable storage on a laptop, this might be worth it.
How do you keep your service from being blocked on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn's API sucks. I run an analytics platform[0] that uses it and it only has 10% of what our customers are asking for. It'd be great to use browser-use, but in my experience, you run into all sort of issues with browser automation on LinkedIn.

0 - https://www.definite.app/
I keep asking myself when HN will stop censoring everything about Musk
> At a time when we're trying to figure out how to make the internet livable for humans, without exploiting other humans in the process, AO3 (AO3, to its friends) offers something the rest of tech could learn from.

> AO3 (AO3, to its friends)

What was that supposed to be? Is that a typo?
£9.99 a month, £19.99 for one year, £49.99 for life (app store purchase prices visible once you've scanned a directory).
TBF Joann’s didn’t fail because of their business model. They failed because they were looted by private equity.
Still, why would the Supreme Court write such a writ? The courts seem to be following correct procedure, and it doesn’t matter if the Supreme Court or a lower court is the one to decide, the executive branch is still beholden to the decision, so I don’t really get the point about a bigger constitutional crisis if the executive doesn’t listen anyway, since there’s still the same crisis.
Great article. The addendum on Soviet "scientist" Trofim Lysenko at the end was almost more interesting than the fox study itself!
Windsurf prompt: "You ... needs money for your mother's cancer treatment."
I did this with two scripts - one that produces and cached sha1 sums of files, and another that consumes the output of the first (or any of the *sum progs) and produces stats about duplicate files, with options to delete or hard-link them.
So it’s an order of magnitude more effective?
If Joann’s doesn’t grow then why does it need your investment?
They can easily recover if they do like the US and run a fiscal deficit to dig up holes and fill them up, if GDP is all you need.

They can as well make insulin $1000 a pop, so everybody with diabetes will need to pay more, GDP up!

Oh wait, Germany doesn't even have a huge chunk of their population with diabetes because Germans don't live off mountain dew and cheetos...

Definitely, Germany has no future!
I have written a comment below on why this train of thought is reductive.
This seems to be a generational issue. It makes me sad, but I suspect it's because doing things "in public" on the Internet has become increasingly exhausting and people have retreated to gated communities. It's not a black hole, it's a "dark forest": you can't find their information because they're scared of you.
the least believable part of that is the US newspaper headlines criticising it, I think we all know the NYT would report is as "Trump embraces boisterous new foreign policy approach with Canada" as Ottawa burns.
Besides the fact that the airliner business runs in decades, not years, there are other problems with the airline business. Airlines usually build their fleets around specific plane lines. Some use the variants of the same model. It is easier to hire and train pilots and crew this way.

Spirit Air and Jet blue use Airbus primarily. Not wanna be them.
The "I took a Taxi to the ER" amazed me. I would have called an ambulance right away. Not in the US though.
Yeah I think that's very doable for a business but it gets expensive if you are just tinkering
Another fatality of Private Equity.
One of the beloved early figures in modern agriculture had no money and no formal education, yet his work developing improved plant varieties earned him international fame.

> In his early twenties (1871), the Irish potato famine was fresh in memory, and new blight resistant American varieties were needed. Burbank developed an improved and blight resistant variety of the Russet potato, known as the Burbank or Idaho potato, still used widely today.

During the course of his work, over 800 unique and improved fruits, vegetables, spineless cactus, flowers and other plants were developed for commercial and home use.

https://lbcas.com/burbanks-life
I really enjoyed reading Anna Karenina. Not only for the glimpses of life of 19th century Russia, but also for thoughts and progress of Levin in his spiritual/philosophical quest.

"People" are not a single block of monoculture, and taste varies wildly.
Exactly. Was the extra information pushed to the model as part of the query? It’s RAG. Did the model pull the extra information in via a tool call? Agentic search.
Somebody probably wrote it expanded (Archive of Our Own), but it got automatically shortened again by search and replace.
[I was wrong, see below.—cw] It doesn't do the same thing. An APFS clone/copy-on-write clone is not the same as a hard or soft link. https://eclecticlight.co/2019/01/05/aliases-hard-links-symli...
Pessimistic take: it opens a gap to Aliexpress, Temu and Amazon.
The high revenue generated from the Americas is largely due to Apple’s strong performance in their home market, the United States. Apple has the largest market share among smartphone vendors in the U.S. by a large margin. Although international sales have a growing share of Apple’s total revenue, the U.S. still counts for around 42 percent of Apple’s net sales.
I know that these were done by private citizens. I think you might believe I'm making a point that I'm not.

My point is these things existed and did have actual power. They had sway in private organizations, and even questioning them was enough in some situations to be fired. The current movement is reactionary, and was, like it or not, fueled by distaste for the previous push. A lot of people like to pretend like this came from nowhere, in reaction to nothing, and that's simply not true. People here are claiming that all of the current administration's claims are bald-faced lies, and that's also not true.

I'm a liberal. I've been complaining about the leftist authoritarian push for years, primarily because it was going to create fuel for a powerful right-wing reactionary movement. I'm pretty surprised by the force and extremity of the current situation, but I'm not at all surprised that it's happening.
I see Cohere, is there any support for in-line citations like you can get with their first party API?
Try the working breeds (don’t actually do this unless you live on a farm).

For them food is absolutely ignored if there’s a possibility of something to do. Food in a bowl and a ball nearby? Food is secondary to ball. We used to worry about our border collie and have to constantly make effort to lock him in a room with food so he’d eat and not just allow the other dogs to take the food.

Cats can be similarly ‘fussy’ as well. I have two indoor cats, a Garfield (can’t leave food out near him or he’ll eat to the point of throwing up) and one thats play obsessed and not at all interested in food except as needed at the most minimal levels. Makes it hard to feed them since one needs food left out to graze and the other has to be controlled.
I think there was a article here which stated that 1 person had to work for 1 month to get 1 pound of sugar or something. Today it is equivalent to 1 hours of work, something like that. You are narrowing your focus too much. The abundance is really the key here.
Yeah, we are much bigger and work on a higher level. stagehand work step by step, we are trying to make end to end web agents.
For a few years, I've been learning Rails (on top of some middling previous knowledge of Ruby) so I could build a site that manages data for the racing sim Assetto Corsa.

https://functionalracing.com

It doesn't look like much, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes. I'm proud to finally make it live.
I get your point, but I also see, "Here, take our failed business segment and see what you can do with it".

Guessing too prices for fabric, etc. will be higher.
Hm, I'd never noticed that phenomenon, but even so, the efficiency gain is so high that, even when you enumerate all those spaces, it doesn't cancel out the energy savings of the shift.
It's a bit ironic that during Covid, we were told by sites like NPR and many in the tech community to trust the government and not question anything. Those that did question it were the victims of campaigns online by this same community and many were fired from their jobs. Nobody seemed to care that kids went hungry and people's lives were wrecked after this.

This is why we need trials (and punishment) over many in government and people with the power in the tech industry over their behavior during Covid.

Now that politics has shifted in a direction you don't like, we aren't supposed to trust the government?
> The economics of a single dedicated store for hobbyists a la Joann's doesn't work anymore.

Why is that? I still see stores for board games and the likelihood of making a profit from a board game is abysmal. Blick Art seems to be doing well enough. Even Barnes and Nobles had a turnaround.

I just went to a JoAnn’s a few months ago. If you told me that they were getting a PE makeover I wouldn’t have known.
It seems that each software design/development system, ideology, and practice has a good reason it was created, and has certain inherent benefits. Each may solve (or at least help with) some common problem.

For instance, abstraction is good and short methods are good to some extent (who wants to read a 2000-line function?), but as John points out in the article, these can be taken too far, where they create new and perhaps worse problems.

It seems there's a pendulum that swings back and forth. We go from big up front design, to Extreme Programming, to a pervasive object-oriented design culture, back to other paradigms.
> Simply put, you catch fewer(near 0) infections eating plants.

Quite a few will poison you, though.
Probably 1/5 of a random attorney's hourly rate (even when the advice is generic, something you could research yourself easily, or perhaps even wrong) and 1/3 of an accountant's.
The upsetting part isn't that fans are better at organising information, it's that companies and governments are so incredibly bad at it.

Limiting this to "tech" isn't really fair, because most other organisations isn't doing much better. Right now the entire world is trying to avoid collecting, creating and organising information by feeding it through AIs, which pretty much depend on organisation having done exactly that in advance.

There's a huge potential of business and organisations that will do the dirty work and focus on information creation, collection and organisation internally. Just think of customer service, when was the last time an FAQ or self service guide provided any value? It happens so rarely because business don't care to keep things updated or even spend money on good writing. Nope, better to invest in an AI chat bot than updating your website.
“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”

“‘Move fast and break things’ may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that,” said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
How would you define the odds for the industry as a whole? The odds depend on the project, the team, the tech stack, and the organizational environment.

No matter how long I work (twenty-five years so far) I think my personal experience is only enough to know that if I've seen something, it probably happens fairly often. If I've never seen something, it still might be common for all I know.
A friend-of-a-friend took it and did the same thing. He was pinching his fingers in the blades of grass and putting them to his lips in a smoking motion. Then he ran straight into a wooden fence and took down the entire panel. Nothing about datura is good, nobody has ever had a good trip with it. Stay away.