skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been following the Deno community super closely; do you know if people have converged yet on a go-to web framework, similar to Express? Does this stabilization play into that progression at all?

Last I checked there were several promising-but-fragmented options, so I'm hoping the community has or will pick a "standard" answer for "I want to make a web service", since that seems like one of the headlining (the headlining?) usecases for headless JS

I'm also, and this is more off-topic, but I'm wondering if there's an answer for NextJS out there on its way. The latter is eating (a portion of) the world a little bit right now, and could singlehandedly keep some parts of the industry on Node.
How many working hours are they doing for that? How much will their cars last? Car rental companies keep cars generally for a year, are they factoring that in?
Don't the 100F+ temps sort of prevent walkability in Arizona?
> the user's iCloud [edit: photos, not all of iCloud] is encrypted at rest against Apple accessing it.

This is false. They present a web interface showing the photos. The UI isn’t locally generated entirely using JavaScript to decrypt the data. They only way this can happen is if Apple has the decryption keys.

iCloud Photo Library has never been private. Apple has always been able to view your photos.
I just wanted to see the folding concept at the given resolution, just bigger, like God and my pinch gesture intended. No cigar.

Opening the image in another tab then zooming then I suddenly wonder why on Earth this is required. I know it's not malice, but there must millions of people with sub 20:20 vision who don't want to enable the screen magnifier when pinch is ALREADY A THING.
> As I understood it, the US had laws necessary to administratively enact export restrictions during emergencies.

> I suspect the EU didn't have the same leaver it could just magically pull.

it was given these powers after it was obvious it had lost control of the situation:

https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/eu-gets-new-power...

then it attempted to use the new powers against the UK

this backfired badly: if it had been enacted it would have created a border across Ireland, when the EU had spent the previous 5 years arguing that a border of exactly this type could never be created any circumstances

at which point it was forced politically to withdraw the measures
`npm uninstall foo` simultaneously upgrades all the _other_ packages.

Experienced developers they are not.
Let me flip this around.

Non-governmental subsidized transportation infrastructure is and always has been a race to the bottom. Taxis are mostly only profitable with extremely low overhead and only servicing high traffic areas like Manhattan or other major metropolitan areas.

Uber's thousands of engineers and SF HQ disqualifies them from being low overhead anything.

In the 1890s in Chicago when massive subway and interurban train networks were built out by private business, they either failed financially or succeeded only by real estate speculation around where they built their lines. Eventually all of those lines were acquired by local governments or shut down. Mass transit lines in LA, NYC and around the country followed similar trajectories. Look up the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in NY, or Charles Yerkes and Sam Insull in Chicago.

These days modern suburban subdivision companies don't bother with creating mass transit, they just fund street construction and install public works lines like gas/sewer/water/electric, and let the city deal with the traffic and the inevitable deferred maintenance that clashes with their low tax philosophies.
The mainstream republican party does not say any of those things. You are taking fringe positions and making them emblematic of the party.

On the other hand, the democratic party openly and literally claims there is no distinction between male and female.

There are dumb policy positions all over the board. No one denies science as a whole. Everyone picks and chooses.

Consider my state of Oregon... they're literally removing the ability to do math and read as graduation requirements and the GOP minority is left asking 'why'? How can you honestly make the claim the democratic party is uniquely the party of science
I consider all my priors, not just a single one about the source.
Take my money. I hate these banners, among the other common GDPR violations.
Thanks for posting, this is interesting. It also reminds me of the file format and simplicity of the REST Client VS Code plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
I don't really see anything addressing the heat issue of the location (AZ). In most hot environments people tend to minimize outdoor time, moving quickly from one AC'd zone to another. How do you get places while staying out of the heat in a neighborhood like this? Tunnels?
Culturally significant art was created for money in a different way than a global brand like TikTok creates content for money habibi. They are not equivalent no matter how hard you try to fit your square block in the circular hole.
you are right, it is 50% or more...

learn the mediallion's history.... most of the yello cab drivers (at least in nyc), see a lot less than the 50% of the fare. That's why they are exclusively immigrants, as they are only the ones to put up with it.

1. Rent permit, 2.Rent Car. 3. Other fees...

For some reason there is the naive thinking that yellow cab drivers are owners of their cars or permits, which is not the case. A local mafioso, is getting more than half of each fare.
I lived in all sorts of properly rural places with no public transport of any meaningful kind. If you needed a cab you phoned a minicab office and an operator would give you a time slot.

The only thing changed by uber is that the minicab operator is now an app, and pricing is less predictable
What is ironic is I've had uber drivers do just about all of that in recent history. Want to go to the airport? The 15 drivers circling nearby on the map ignore you since its too long of a drive, the one driver going the opposite direction on the freeway 10 miles away from you snipes your ride, and now you wait 25 minutes for them to circle almost blindly around the city and hope they don't cancel on you and make you have to repeat the entire process while trying to make a flight on time. Then airport rides are apparently special and now cost $80.
> Can't help but notice that the Sound indicator's dropdown doesn't line up with the icon above it. But the fact that a single UI glitch

I think it was meant to be perhaps not necessarily noticed but at least deliberately positioned like that, and not a UI glitch. Look how it's situated directly between the microphone and speaker indicators on the top bar, and the screenshot appears in a section that says, "the indicator now shows both input and output devices right in the popover".

> I think I actually like elementary's evolution of the UI styling (from when it started as a pretty direct clone) better than I like Apple's

I'm a lifelong freedesktop user who doesn't even own a Mac but will nonetheless defend OS X's UI, from around the time of Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion or so, as the best visual design ever with respect to graphics for a conventional desktop operating system and utterly timeless—with some notable exceptions. One of those exceptions was Apple's longterm insistence on its terrible tab look—with tabs shown detached from the content its associated with and attached to the window chrome above.

It's really irking that Elementary copied that tab look, because absent any admiration, it's basically indefensible. Elementary's copying it strikes me as an example of the kind of irrationality that originates from conservatism-for-the-sake-of-it mixed with how people come to take pleasure in idiosyncrasies and other incidentals. (Similar to how when Pluto was designated not to be a planet, it led to people sort of staking their identity on choosing to insist that it be treated as one and publicly aligning themselves with "Team Pluto" for the quirkiness.) It's one of the things that they should have deliberately opted to break with the influence in order to be "better than Apple's".
Not catching up. But reaching the destination. That's limited though, as space expands. And any place is reachable that the photon is able to reach as these parts* are not expanding faster than the speed of light.

* The whole space between start and destination, of course
That doesn't seem that crazy. A couple can easily split a one bedroom and many jobs in service sectors are paying above $15/hr now so it's approachable for the average worker, and following your implication that it'd be higher end, I'd expect wages even for local service workers to be somewhat higher than the regional average as well (plus no commuting costs).
I'm quite anti-ORM, though I've never not used one professionally (just because it's already been there / not my decision), so that might be different if I did for a while. I do think something's necessary though, and it maybe is a bit arbitrary where we draw the line for what's an 'ORM'?

For example, I really enjoyed using rusqlite for a little side project/personal thing, but found apart from anything else just the repetition of `(?,?,?,?,?,?)` any time I wanted to insert something was annoying, for example. I started working a bit on [0] .. I don't know if I'd call it an ORM, just so I didn't have to do that, and could write `Model { ... }.insert(&conn)` instead. But still write plain SQL queries, I just want easy mapping between db table and language 'model' struct/class; column and field/attr.

[0] - https://github.com/OJFord/rusqlite-model
Bloody hell. This is the problem with the American system of "assume safe until proven otherwise" rather than safety studies before commercialization. Other countries do the latter, which makes more sense.
Taxis charge more.

And if Uber had their way, then all the taxi companies would go out of business because Uber is so much cheaper. And then Uber would raise their prices up to what the taxi companies were charging. It worked for WalMart. It worked for Amazon. Unfortunately for Uber, I think they may have missed their window. People aren't starry-eyed about tech like they used to be.
That may be the best argument that I've heard so far, but after thinking for a minute, it sounds not like "Uber can never be profitable", but rather "the legacy taxi market is an upper bound on how big Uber can be in the long run". Couldn't that be profitable? That's still a pretty big market, even if middle-class people are no longer using it for 10-minute rides.
Google cutting wages of some who work from home
Compared to Windows and MacOS it's a secret. I don't consider Ubuntu's desktop environment as pure GNOME, otherwise why would https://ubuntugnome.org/ exist?
doing the real work right here!
By "self-hosted" you still mean still running on AWS hardware? I don't understand. Why would anybody pay EBS rates instead of S3 rates, to get data stored in the same place by the same people?
Yeah, unfortunately power density is not exactly where RTGs shine.
How in the world did they get a trademark for something as generic as culdesac?
There is a story that has information direct from the horses mouth on how Apple will approach this as opposed to how Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and the rest already do.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...

Highlights:

Unlike Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the rest Apple has not been scanning your online data (iCloud) for the past decade.

When this is turned on, only images you attempt upload to iCloud will be scanned.

If you turn off photo synching to iCloud, nothing will be scanned.

If photo scanning shows that many images on your device match known kiddie porn images (not just one), a human will review the data to make sure passing it on to the authorities is called for or if there have been multiple false positives.

If multiple images do not match known kiddie porn images, nothing happens.
Hellen Keller's writings may interest you. Her recollections from a time when she did not have an internal language is very interesting.

Many believe that animals do not have an "I" the self reflective "I", that they are not aware of themselves etc etc. This runs contrary to my beliefs, I have had several conversations/arguments on HN along those lines, but lets not dwell on mere beliefs.

What I find interesting is what test/experiment can one perform that can demonstrate that a human, who is not allowed to communicate linguistically, has the attributes mentioned above. If we cannot design such a compelling experiment that shows are inability to detect those attributes in animal even if those attributes maybe present.

We need the restriction of no-linguistic-communication so that animals and humans are on the same playing field. Hellen Keller, when she did not have language she would have been on the same playing field.

My position is that if I cant even prove/demonstrate to others that you are sentient in the senses described above, how can we even claim that animals aren't sentient. We have no way of demonstrating it even if they were.
i got to say, the one prominent black guy in the model seems more robotic looking then the rest of the people. It kind of jumped out to me too. Maybe it's just that he's so close to the camera.
Yup, my comment got flagged for no reason.
It's very similar when your ISP choices are Comcast and AT&T or insert other horrible ISP. If they don't do an about face on this I'm pretty much done with iPhone forever. Yes Google loves my location/search data, but what are my options? It's so frustrating.
Self-Hosted Cloud Pricing API
Once you get more comfortable with Vue, I suggest you start looking into making the project a PWA so that it may work offline and can be "installed" by the user (if it suits your use case).

I've written a fully statically served, backendless PWA, that uses the browsers local storage for persistent data, meaning that the data is fully private and owned by the user. If a user needs to sync their data between clients, they can connect the app to their Dropbox or Google Drive. There's even a chat implemented with WebRTC which allows users to communicate directly with each other, without a backend.

If you disregard the JS haters on HN, you'll realize you can do some amazing things in the pure browser runtime nowadays.
The author is mixing political arguments related to public transit funding, unionization and classification of workers with an analysis of Uber's financials and strategy, and I think it weakens the argument.

Travis understood that Uber doesn't deserve its multiple without self-driving cars, he thought it was such an existential problem that he conspired to launder trade secrets from Google in order to jumpstart his program. His reasoning, I think, was that Uber's business model precludes it from being the exclusive platform for drivers (because of their IC status), meaning that he could never raise prices past the point where it entices a new competitor, nor can he lower payouts to the point where drivers abandon Uber. Uber has to do the heavy lifting to convince local jurisdictions to allow ridesharing and then any newcomer can swoop in and compete if Uber gets too greedy. Uber's greatest asset is that it's first and has a massive userbase, but for a cheaper ride many would compare prices in a new app without much thought.

This doesn't mean that it's not very helpful to consumers to have on demand ride apps! I'm glad they exist. I live in suburbia and the other day I had to travel to a train station that was about 20 miles away. Public transit would have meant an hour and 2 bus transfers, Uber got me there in 25 minutes for the same cost. Lots of criticism of Uber compares it to dense urban areas with a taxi fleet, but there weren't taxis here before Uber, there were only car services at much higher prices.

From a consumer standpoint, we should be happy that these platforms exist at relatively low cost, we end up getting rides via a very convenient app for only a 25% markup on what the driver grosses per ride (less including tip) -- and that middleman fee is likely to continue to get squeezed.

The author presumably gets that they are popular because their very popularity seems to be an issue -- it's argued that the public is less likely to want to invest in public transit when Uber is available. One can't also argue that the general public is ditching Uber. It's sort of a Yogi Berra argument -- "That place is so crowded no one goes there anymore."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... is great
> "language models don't really understand anything"

I have a sneaking suspicion that, if blinded, the crowd of people saying variations of that quote would also identify the vast majority of human speech as regurgitated ideas as well.

> I see no reason that this technology couldn't smoothly scale into human-level intelligence

Yup, the OpenAI scaling paper makes this abundantly clear. There is currently no end in sight for the size that we can scale GPT to. We can literally just throw compute at the problem and GPT will get smarter. That's never been seen before in ML. Last time I ran the calculations I estimated that, everything else being equal, we'd reach GPT-human in 20 years (GPT with similar parameter scale as a human brain). That's everything else being equal. It is more than likely that in the next twenty years innovation will make GPT and the platforms we use to train and run models like it more efficient.

And the truly terrifying thing is that, to me, GPT-3 has about the intelligence of a bug. Yet it's a bug who's whole existence is human language. It doesn't have to dedicate brain power to spatial awareness, navigation, its body, handling sensory input, etc. GPT-human will be an intelligence with the size of a human brain, but who's sole purpose is understanding human language. And it's been to every library to read every book ever written. In every language. Whatever failings GPT may have at that point, it will be more than capable of compensating for in sheer parameter count, and leaning on the ability to combine ideas across the _entire_ human corpus.

All available through an API.
This whole thread was censored by the mods. They're very troubled and sad individuals.
Okay. See you in 20 years then! Just don't raise the bar and tell me it's 40. Currently I have 18 months experience thinking about this.

In the meantime, I am not an expert and am quite willing to be informed. I generally assume that other people in a general discussion audience are not familiar with diabetes treatment or biology at all. If you are, that’s great.

I have not heard of healthy states of hypoglycemia before, other than that many people naturally experience it during sleep. I have a friend whose mother suffers from hypoglycemia and she suffers the same ill effects as it how 1 diabetics commonly experience. I am aware that other metabolic causes exist for blood glucose levels to be reduced besides insulin.

Do you mean metabolic ketosis, the type that people try to achieve intentionally through diet? I am aware that states of ketosis exist without acidosis, such as that one. I’m not intimately familiar with the biological details.

Yes, I am aware that ketoacidosis is caused by a complete lack of insulin, and the complete lack of insulin leads to hyperglycemia, not some other causative relationship.
Actually that is not 100% correct.

We now have things like platform attestation that - unless your adversary is a state actor - stops some physical attacks.

(Not available rpi right now, but maybe in 4-6 years?)
What is the extension store shitshow?

I have a couple of personal extensions in the store but haven't really used it much. Just wondering what your experience is
> would be a slamdunk antitrust case

If a not-profitable company is raising prices to not go out of business then idk how well that would play out in courts.

Would a court force uber to go out of business instead of raising prices?
Topic Subreddits tend to be joyful, but there are things that can turn communities very toxic. It could be the demographic the topic appeals to. It could be that some moderation decision for the subreddit is festering and creating a lot of hurt feelings. It could be that there's some underlying issue that the community is uncomfortable with, or divisive, and a loud minority are dominating the discussion.

I have two examples of this from otherwise extremely positive communities. /r/factorio and /r/satisfactory (same genra, but I like this genre)

/r/factorio initially had no issue with self promotion of videos and series. This caused a ton of consternation and all kinds of other subjects turned very very negative. Moderators created another subreddit dedicated for self promotion of series, and the community stayed angry about everything for about 2 months, before things regressed to /r/factorio's mean, which was very positive.

I saw a similar thing happen in /r/satisfactory. Before the game was released people on the subreddit had nothing to talk about for the most part, and satisfactory announced that it was going to be epic exclusive for 6 months before release. Given that many people really hated Epic, and because we didn't actually get to play the game, anything that didn't talk about the Epic exclusivity, was subject to the conversation. Eventually moderators placed dedicated threads for epic exclusivity discussion but still, the whole subreddits tone was extremely vitriolic. Even on things that didn't have anything to do with Epic Exclusivity.

Then the game released. And that toxic discussion was totally wiped out by people actually playing the game. The subreddits snapped to positive tone instantly.
Apple (and the other FAANGs) do not employ average Silicon Valley dev teams.

In general, a company at that size would approach this problem by figuring out who in the company is willing to take on an unsavory challenge like this and then forming a skunkworks out of them, slightly sequestered from the rest of the company.

I'm not saying Apple has done it, or that they're incentivized to. But it's trust-turtles all the way down. Either we trust them to say "No, you can't use our tech to harm our users," or we don't.
How can snark not be intended?

The point of the statement wasn't to badmouth developers for not making a Linux binary, it was to criticize the state of application deployment on Linux being so terrible that a developer didn't want to bother making a binary for it. That's true regardless of the cost of the software. Linux Desktop doesn't get to be all "please use me, I'm great!" and "well, what do you want for free?" at the same time.
> As a recent grad, so many of my friends are heavily invested in TikTok and have been since quarantine began, some of them for a bit before. The amount of time they spend there is absurd. Consuming 30 second content for three hours can't be good for concentration, right? It helps add to the 'always online' mindset that has grown more popular with social media and smart phones.

How do they keep on it for 3 hours?! I've doomscrolled FB quite a bit, but I find even the less doomy stuff on TikTok much more exhausting to watch, like one of those Japanese game shows or shouty YouTube video game meme channels. I can maybe do 10 minutes at most until I need to put the phone down.

Maybe I'm just getting old.
> federally funded child care in the US.

Indeed... As my mother was told by her principal in her inner city school for poor minority kids... "We're just here to watch them until they go to prison".
I've heard the Scots version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is really well done, and is fun to read even as an American. That said, I have no experience at all with Scots, so my opinion should have very little weight!
Just for the sake of argument, what would you think of using notifications and gamification to get people to, say, work their way through trigonometry problems or foreign-language practice?