skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Yank but my wife and daughter went to Nashville to look at Vanderbilt University - and they loved it, both the University and Nashville. From what I've seen Nashville is beautiful. I've even thought about relocating or longer term retiring to the Nashville area but I have this little voice in my head always saying "but it's the South..." and frankly, stories like this tend to amplify that voice.

P.S. I'm really into music and Nashville's music scene is very appealing, despite the state politics. So I'm definitely conflicted.
Driverless car-sharing service uses remote human ‘pilots,’ not AI
I will second this with my own "I hate working out" example.

In my case, I've figured out that what I actually "hate" about working out is the fact that I'm doing physical activity that seems to have no immediate purpose. I've often said you probably won't catch me running, unless I'm actually running away from something.

I didn't actively seek to accomplish this, but getting a dog is what's lead me to start enjoying a moderate amount of physical activity. She needs to go outside every day, rain or shine, about 3 times a day, and, ideally, needs some time to literally just run around. Walks take up the first need, and trips to the park take up the second. And, when I'm at the park, you can bet you'll see me running around with her, loving every minute of it. :-)
My first question I thought of before reading this was how to actually display characters out of it.

Quite a mess, IMHO. (Not that I'm blaming the author).
The terminal is on life support. Is it worth saving?
I wonder if it's old enough to compile against GNUStep...
Maybe the book "Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking" [1] is what you are looking for:

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3931154-ratio
Given that the goal of venture capital is to make blockbuster amounts of money, it seems problematic to have this discussion without numbers on what the return on investment is for these companies.
You remind of those developers that say “You have a Rails monolith? Let’s just tear everything down and rewrite it in microservices!” When in reality it takes years to move small parts of the backend into standalone services.

Now imagine dismantling the whole industry with its R&D, supply chains, people’s pensions, etc.
> So when dang wholesale dismisses the idea that improvements can be made (essentially, a claim that HN as it is today is 100% optimal)

What an incredibly weird exercise in mind-reading you're doing there. Really, an extraordinary mis-extrapolation from his actual statements in that thread. The irony, it burns.
Is this even feasible? You’d think the latency would make this idea a nonstarter.
This is pointless cynical thinking.

No government institution is going to be 100% effective at what it does, but the EU has shown that as far as large organizations go, it is remarkably effective at pushing certain actions that it's member states cannot do.
can't end worse than it did in our current system
Corporate powers in the US have a relatively quite strong ability to push back on government requests compared to most other jurisdictions.
Can it use other Unicode character drawing glyphs? We now have PETSCII, ATASCII, 2x3 mosaics...
I fully expect Amazon's lobbying arms to be able to exploit that sort of ideological split.
Ursula Le Guin’s writing guide Steering the Craft reviewed
yeah, and please talk about social issues and that you have a partner of the same sex! just like in family meals that's going to go down super well! /s
+1 from me, but also add on "go to bed at a reasonable hour."
Yes, because pi is not measured but mathematically defined. Same is true for all other constants, that are not measured.
I can't imagine any servers being set up in AJK or Ladakh in the near future.
I think we're talking about different things. Yes, I agree that a carbon tax is needed, and would change individual behavior. But as you say, the biggest hurdle is will, which we have been sorely lacking. I'm talking about, how can we change what people _want_, which would include as a consequence creating the political will which allows us to take such decisive action.

So far, lots of places have not chosen to implement any carbon tax because they value the environment less than their present access to goods and services to which they are accustomed. And even the carbon taxes which have been put in place don't actually address the real externalities of emissions, suggesting that even if the polity there values the environment _some_, it's still less valuable than buying cheap stuff.

EU carbon taxes vary wildly between countries, from €0.07 in Poland to €116 in Sweden. Sweden's tax is at the very low end of recommendations from a 2018 UN report, which gave the extremely broad range of $135 to $5,500 per ton. And only now is there a _proposal_ for an EU border tax to account for emissions in goods entering the EU. So even in Sweden, where perhaps cultural values made a comparatively high rate politically feasible, no one has yet paid a carbon tax which actually addresses the externalities of emissions, because of imports.

My original comment mentioned Tesla as an example of how to get people to actually want the greener goods more than their alternatives. People that really wanted a Tesla wanted it more than any ICE car. They still wanted it after Tesla hit the tax break cap in the US. They perceived a Tesla as smart, glamorous, futuristic, and conveying status. This is qualitatively different than someone who lives in a place with a carbon tax who can be convinced to take a train trip rather than a regional flight, or buys a home which is better sealed and will be cheaper to heat/cool.

I would claim that aside from typical corporate marketing activities which center around a given product or brand (which is what I was thinking of when I referred to a "portfolio of expensive one-offs"), the other primary precedents for getting people to want differently have been religious evangelism and state propaganda, neither of which ever yielded an engineering discipline of predictable, well-understood mechanisms.
I mean, 70s and 80s was the peak of the troubles. Things didn't really settle down until '00.

I have to wonder how much the violence of the last few decades impacted ireland and the nations ability to just accept "the other".
What data point have you that tells you that sanctions are not effective?
If you were an academic studying traffic accidents you would talk about reduced traffic, relative risk of having an accident, and covid/wfh/shutdown would be a great context of why those things had changed.

For example, if covid reduced number of cars on road and thus absolute number of accidents. Your saying you'd determine it's safer to drive because covid. However, in a relative sense, maybe pre-covid you had a 1% chance of being in an accident and during covid you had a 5% chance of being in an accident. What caused that? You can't just said covid made everything screwy and caused it all. You need to dig deeper. Are people running red lights because there are fewer cars on the road? Are people distracted because TikTok? Are they racing around trying to find toilet paper? Sure covid did all those things, but simply blaming covid is not really a useful analysis except in casual conversation; not academic research.
Isn't it an app for that??
Nothing wrong with just following a bunch of recipes. If you do it enough you'll start to internalize common things and techniques, also play around with modifying them and substituting similar ingredients.
Its the type of thing used in propaganda for promoting war.
I highly recommend Masterclass to get into cooking. The Gordon Ramsey and Thomas Keller videos jumpstarted me into serious cooking last year. 10/10 would recommend.
We have seen with existing electrification measures that once certain tipping points are reached entire industries roll over to new technologies. No reason to think it wouldn't apply for this either.
> We pretty much need to be global carbon negative by 2030 to have a fighting chance.

I have a feeling being all radical and alarmist about it doesn’t achieve the desired effect. Too much emotion that doesn’t convince people.
I believe it's both, but mostly accessibility. Access to internet is seen as limitation on growth for the large companies. Bandwith is certainly factor though when considering AMZN's media empire.
Agree, this is how I somehow ended up using bash/vim for all my needs. I realized it wasn't "normal" when I saw my boss' face as he watched me typing. And it keeps compounding :)
The strategies and mathematics of taking penalties
Very nice API guys! thank you! I've created account to try it, but what about pricing?
Thanks Peter for posting about us.

Hi HN,

I’m Zach, the author of the post and founder at Warp—a blazingly fast Rust-based terminal.

TLDR; The terminal isn’t built for how modern software engineers work. Software development moved to reusability, composability and collaboration years ago. Terminals are still inherently single-user, linear, and ephemeral because the terminal-shell interface was built during a time people were using physical teletype terminals. This makes it hard for teams to effectively collaborate on production issues, track what actions people are taking, and recall prior events. The terminal-shell interface, which hasn’t changed since the 80s, needs to be rethought if we want to bring the terminal into the modern age.

At Warp, we’re holistically rethinking how the terminal should work to bring it into the modern age. To start, we’ve built shell integrations into Bash, ZSH, and Fish as an additional interface between the terminal and the shell. This interface allows us to group commands and their outputs together, allowing users to take actions on “blocks” i.e. copy/paste, scrolling, sharing. We currently have integrations for bash, zsh, and fish.

We’ve also:
* Replaced the prompt with a full-fledged editor
* Added Visual menus for history & tab completions
* Built a Command Palette to discover and access all shortcuts
See a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0LzWAVlOC0

Speed is our top priority and so we chose to use Rust and GPU rendering. See our engineering post for how we built Warp, including how we co-built our own UI framework for Rust: https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/

Our terminal model code is based on Alacritty’s model code; we’re grateful that a few of the collaborators reviewed our early design docs. Huge thanks to our collaborators: Atom co-founder Nathan Sobo [1], Nushell co-founder Andres Robalino [2], and Fish shell lead developer Peter Ammon [3]! We hope to open source the client soon.

Ask me anything!

[1] https://github.com/nathansobo
[2] https://github.com/andrasio
[3] https://github.com/ridiculousfish
Europe is ready to lead the way

Which will be close to useless if China/India don't follow.
20 years ago would have been great. Not doing it for another 20 years would be worse.

Let's take the victories where we can.
Usually where you're processing it, not where you're storing it. That's when you need to do something with it.

Encrypting the data at rest has the major benefit of making its physical location completely irrelevant. Transmitting the data while encrypted has the major benefit of making the physical location of all the nodes through which it passes completely irrelevant. Hence the only thing that matters is the geographic location of where the data is processed, because that is where you decrypt it. All privacy laws should be written with that understanding, but they are not. They are written by people who are ignorant of this simple logic, because they don't understand how Internet works, how encryption works, how routing traffic works and how little it has to do with borders of countries, etc etc.

Healthcare privacy laws in my country, for example, have this exactly 100% backwards. They force me to store data in my country, but say nothing about where it is processed. And of course there's no hard requirement to encrypt data at rest. It's hard to imagine how you can get this kind of law more wrong.
It would be very easy for Bezos to divest WaPo or tilt its coverage more conservative to buy off an anti-trust issue.
Been there, helped build an open source decentralized product. Rhetorical demand higher than actual demand.

Of course it's a ridiculously difficult nut to crack. But people like the idea more than the reality, and it's hard to blame them when the product typically has some serious (and likely unavoidable) tradeoffs.
Probably good to have both: SV and a few other mega hype environments and rest of the world for everything else.
In fact this is a way for the EU to introduce eu wide taxation through the back door.

This is power that countries have always had, and it’s now moving into the EU realm. It’s more centralization and more eu control.

So it’s a step towards what you want.
Depends on if this proposed program is voluntary or involuntary. I suspect the folks to self-select to sit down with a random family to cook and share a meal may not identify with the demographics you point out.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/07/13/tennessee-top-v...

They shared a memo stating that they could vaccinate minors without parental consent.
Storybook 6.2 added support for Webpack5. Might want to give it another go https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-for-webpack-5/
That’s what the carbon taxes are for.
Hopefully the border tariff includes the CO2 cost of shipping. If the tariff is high enough then this might actually encourage local production, instead of shipping partially finished products 10 times around the world.
Is that much different than chat rooms or Omegle?
As kid who grew up in countryside I would love to have one of these to talk to my cousin as we didn't have computer or internet, the year was 2004 and we used to send tons of SMS but were always short on credit
When did this happen?

Genuinely curious
we have known for some time since well before the Tiktok ban in the US, that the world wide web was heading to the fractured web.

It started with china. The moment the world accepted their firewall conditions, it was the moment that we said we are OK with letting you earn the benefits of the web, without the cost of openness.

Open countries could set a marker on this issue. Either you are open or your are not. And if you aren't , you will be dooned to rot in your protectionist web.

We didnt set the marker, so here we are.
Me too, about half that. But I'm painfully aware it's no longer getting me anywhere (I completed the 'tree' hundreds of days ago) - what I really need to do is sit down with my textbook in order to progress further with the grammar, and widen my vocabulary beyond what's in Duolingo. But that requires more time commitment, so I do it much less often, and do Duolingo instead.. fairly pointlessly - sure it probably helps stop me slipping backwards.
> (in theory)

Yes, exactly.

> Facebook is accountable to nobody

Except when I hop off their platform.

> it don't even have any competitor in social network business.

True-ish I like https://peakd.com/ and https://flote.app/.

They're not as popular just yet, but they're excellent distributed alternatives.

Further, and most importantly, I can withdraw my support from Facebook. I cannot withdraw my support from the US government.
I wrote Random Forest in VBA. Programming is what you make of it.

That said, VBA is slow.
Ask HN: Tell me about your painful vendor migration
Hello! I'd like to ask if you'd be willing to talk to us about painful vendor migrations that you've experienced.

I've done tons of messy migration work in the past (ERPs, credit card processors, shipping/warehouse services) at large companies. I'm thinking of striking out on my own and forming a company to focus on just that: automating away messy work that normally require consultants.

Can you tell share your horror stories about vendor changes that stick out in your mind as painful, or required consultants, or that you want to change but feel stuck?

Here are some examples:

- Shipping and logistics. For example, supporting both UPS and FedEx, changing shipping couriers, using a 3PL, changing warehouses

- E-Commerce. Switching from Squarespace to Shopfiy, or from brick-and-mortar to online. Supporting both Seamless and Doordash.

- Content. Wordpress to Contentful, or Squarespace to Wix.

- Payments. Adding PayPal support, or moving from PayPal to Stripe. Migrating away from Vantiv, or on to Authorize.

- ERP. Moving from Quickbooks to Netsuite.

- HR. Moving from ADP -> Gusto. Culture Amp to Lattice. Fidelity to Vanguard for managing defined benefits.

- BI tools. Adopting Looker. Or shifting from Postgres to Redshift.

- File storage. Migrating from S3 to GCP. Moving your org from Google Drive to Dropbox.

- Productivity. Monday to JIRA. Confluence to Notion.

- Cloud infrastructure. Cloud migrations: multi-cloud deployments, or changing your containerization deployment strategy. Moving from GCP to AWS. Consolidating your domain registrations.

- Communication. Gmail to Outlook. Mailgun to Sendgrid. Hipchat to Slack.

What was painful? Where did you start looking for consultants to do the work? What migration made your team start looking for new jobs? Where do you feel completely stuck but it's too much work to move?
What are these concepts?
> isn't being sold as an alternative for air conditioning

That's where we disagree.
The counterpoint is that Telsa managed to emerge from nothing in that time. Incumbent ICE car companies had no incentive to start the transition so it's necessary to introduce an artificial constraint.
Galaxy Watch 4 Amazon listing
I can speak for the bank I worked at - this is true, but the base pay level was very low to begin with and the increase is nowhere near competitive for the most talented engineers. Also, the experienced engineers at those companies are salty about new hires making more then they are.

Again, this stems from the culture of financial institutions where tech workers are viewed as support staff, not strategically critical, despite what financial institutions say publicly.
Better SSH Authentication (2019)
I would love to read more in this vein. I've complained that so much of Twitter is talking to the crowd by nature of yelling at people. I did not know the term oratorical.
Yeah, certainly any workout-worthy ride needs cream and proper shorts.
Spending money on marketing MIGHT lower prices when looking at a single company.

For a market like pharmaceuticals where patients are prescribed by Dr's and are going to be subscribed one thing or another regardless, the lack of any marketing wouldn't really reduce the amount of volume in the industry as a whole, might just switch around which drugs/companies it goes to.
I dunno, I kind of like having a second volume control at the wheel, which isn't easily compatible with having a physical potentiometer. Just make it a digital control that you can spin quickly (also let me push it for instant mute).
Now expand your thought experiment to 4 people, standing in a 10 meter square from each other. They each have their own 10x10 and 20x20 plates, and their own targets.

Clearly the 10x10 plates are lining up (modulo curvature). But the 20x20 plates are not, they're overlapping. So when I shoot through a random location of my own 10x10 plate, there's a chance that I'll hit a target from somebody else's 20x20 plate. Sum up those additional chances, and they'll cancel out the 4x difference you found.

This feels like it would make a nice puzzle, your phrasing makes for a great misdirect / sleight of hand.
The terminal is only on life support if you aren't using it. Adding a command palette won't fix it, targeting Mac-first builds? Forget it, your project is already deader than the terminal it replaces.
I may not know much about recruitment, but the one thing I know is that it requires cultivating relationships with employers, since they're the clients (this goes for pretty much any B2B endeavor, really).

The three approaches I see most often are: mass marketing (e.g. what indeed/ziprecruiter/etc do), bringing in clients from your networking connections (presumably one would have a decent amount given 5+ years experience) or cold calling (basically everyone and their mothers in linkedin). "Build and they will come" isn't that viable of a strategy </two-cents>
The Logfile Navigator (https://lnav.org) supports glob patterns and does what you want by default:

https://docs.lnav.org/en/latest/usage.html#viewing-files

So, you would just run it like so:

$ lnav 'mylog.*'
The grand canyon was likely not the result of little drops but rather huge deluges - over time.
Did a startup writing a terminal replacement write this?
This makes sense. It is a competitor to Amazon's Windows Desktop environments. Microsoft should beat AWS's offering here because well, they make the OS that they are virtualizing.

I can see this working for a lot of places where you want good information security. You can never get the data out of the cloud except via screenshot.
The food lab by j Kenji Lopez alt is another cooking book (with lots of recipes) that really helps you understand why and what you are doing rather than just telling you a process to follow.

Highly recommend anything Kenji does (previously he was the main force behind seriouseats.com) and also does a lot of first person point of view cooking videos on YouTube where he explains why he is doing things while he is doing them.
By that logic everything on TV is a pale imitation of something else.
I loved the Daredevil show, especially as a big fan of Punisher
Considering where car manufacturers are now with their electric platforms I think 10 years from now would be ok and 5 years possible. Sometimes you just have to rip off the plaster.
Just to be clear, I didn't assign blame when describing my little scenario. The slow driver is creating an avoidable problem that increases the impact of the poor driving behaviours exhibited by the other drivers (going too fast, too close). All three are doing at least one thing wrong.
I’d count the central cell as distance = 0 for the purposes of board game mechanics, and use c=2πr rather than c=πD, but I guess that would make the formula fail my definition of circumference.
Yeah, but geographically it is quite east of even Japan.
Shipping is highly efficient per product. I can't imagine this would have much of an effect.
wait you asked IT to use something other than Access and they turned you down :rolleyes:

I am on a mission to eliminate Access... the day i can distribute office with out Access will be a glorious day indeed

No IT Dept should be telling users to use Access.....
Terminals have no subscription model, closed-source backend, or telemetry. Gotta fix that.
The orbital launch will follow a curved path through succesive spherical shells. The percentage of the spherical shell occupied by the 1000km satellite is not 4x larger than the percentage of the spherical shell occupied by the 2000km satellite.
Nashville is a really blue dot in a red state that is Tennessee. If Nashville isn't liberal enough for you, then perhaps best to stay on the coasts. I actually feel Nashville is turning into the thing and ideologies I fled (California and San Francisco) with all the people moving here from Illinois, New York, and California.
Of course, what you've said is true as far as it goes. But, consider this: if your employer has a product with any sort of search capability, your hobby/side project search engine then falls under the heading of things "relat(ing)... to the employer's business."

If you work for a big enough tech company, like, say, Google or Facebook, it's likely that a lot of things will "relate...to their business." And, note, too, that there's no requirement that you actually know that it relates to a part of your employer's business.