skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I’m sure there’s something better that can be done with the Tempelhofer Feld site than currently (even trees in the grass between the runways would make it better, IMO), the large number of green spaces — including Tempelhofer Feld itself — is one of the things I like about Berlin.

Separately, given the large mostly empty expanse of Brandenburg surrounding Berlin (and the really low house prices I see there on immobilienscout24), I think improved transport connections are more critical: improving connections to the surrounding area makes the surrounding area more available for commuting. For example, there are routes from Eberswalde or Frankfurt an der Oder to parts of Berlin which are faster than reaching those parts of Berlin from elsewhere in Berlin, so improving existing routes would enable lots of the existing room outside the current city to become more city.

I have no idea what the political issues with this might be, not just with “would people like this?” (I can’t even determine that effectively in my original country) but also with “can this even be done, given Berlin is a different state?” (I have yet to learn anything beyond the most superficial about German politics).
“She said Apple had begun trying to reassign her after she complained”

This is called retaliation, and is illegal. It’s not happenstance that she got re-orged after complaining about underlying issues.
I've never had a manager who "owned" anything, let alone to an "extreme" degree. It's ICs who are responsible for shipping quality work on time, sometimes at the expense of their health and personal lives. And it's ICs who take the heat when projects go off-track.
Cher is a real employee, but anything more I'll leave unsaid out of respect for her privacy. Apple employees can easily look up other employees, and there are easy ways to tell whether someone is an Apple employee should they choose to reveal some of those things.

Also I don't know whether she's remote or onsite, but there are multiple orgs with offices in Seattle - one of my friends just got hired as an engineering manager onsite for Apple in Seattle.

Some of these comments could use some fact checking of their own :) .
The War on Drugs is a well known example of systemic racism. Many police departments are known to target non-whites as a matter of policy.
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It’s not, this is a CGI implementation. WSGI is an in-process API and can support multiple requests in flight. Kind of weird to call this a gateway interface instead of something like wasm_cgi.

> Wagi is an implementation of CGI for WebAssembly.
> what's the problem with rabble-rousing?

Nothing. Taking a job with the intent to rouse rabbles, on the other hand, is dishonest.
For every company I've worked at, the CI system basically had admin access over our infrastructure. It has to in order to do infrastructure as code.

As the article states, accepting public pull requests and letting them run on your internal CI is a big mistake.

Public CIs are fine though. Ones that literally only do code builds, tests etc
The argument of the empty apartments in Berlin comes up all the time, but it is a myth. Maybe in London it is different, for various reasons, but in Berlin, that is not the reason for the issues. [1]

Even if only new luxury apartments are being built, it is more housing that takes pressure off the market. The wealthy people can move into those apartments, freeing their old less luxurious apartments for "poorer" people.

And there is no "free market" for housing here - it is very difficult to build, with lots of regulations.

And who wants to invest, when the government will seize your assets as soon as you are successful? Last year they introduced a hard cap on rents, that applied no matter how much you paid for the house you wanted to rent out, and no matter where it was located.

In two weeks, there will be a public vote to seize thousands of flats at "way below market value" (quote from the voting sheet) from corporate landlords. These are not conditions where a "free market" can do its thing.

As a matter of fact, only big companies have the means to build under such conditions, it is much too risky for smaller entities.

But then, sure, blame the evil capitalists for the issues your socialist government has created.

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/wohnungsnot-leerstand-in-...
If the sleep is used to retrain your neural network with data accumulated during the day and clear this short term memory then you're clearly a new person every day.

But assuming the new data set is consistent with previous experiences then you are probably converging to some local maxima or oscilating around some point and you change less and less every night as you get older.

In that sense decompensation or PTSD would be symptoms of some retraining with some inconsistent data and having the network diverging.
If you've used a phone in last decade you would know that they have options to hide notification details behind lock screens and it is in most cases the default setting.
The trick to Bing is (on bing.com) to change your regional settings to the US. (Bing.com > burger menu > settings > Country/Region > United States (English))

This small change will greatly improve the quality of the search results.
Just tried this with my Apple Watch, hands free of course. Didn’t work. Do you have to enable this?

Edit: nm I had to be away from my phone for my watch to pick this up over my phone.
That is not a realistic concern for GP. The scanned exams won't even involve any Postscript.
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Baden Würtemberg is introducing a modified land value tax. It's probably the biggest political win of the decade.
The pay is so low that if you’re not an idiot, you’ll automatically fill out the form randomly. Any data from mturk cannot be trusted.
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From the paper:

> While human aptitude questions focus on a specific range of patterns that are relatively easy for
people to identify, we also want to test the predictive abilities on the OEIS test set sequences
which showcase more sophisticated phenomena.
The LSTM embeddings yield higher accuracy in
that case.

Pretty cool to think that we might be able to use computers to spot elusive patterns in sequences in the (not too distant?) future. Kinda feels like asking an alien for help with a tricky problem on a math problem set. Many fascinating areas of math research originated from spotting patterns in sequences (best example I can think of is how the monstrous moonshine was discovered [1]); it would be nice to have a 'sixth sense' of sorts to help with that.

I don't know much about ML but I'd be interested to see if this ever gets applied to slightly more abstract mathematical objects like group presentations, knots/links, (co)homology groups—but I guess none of those have training sets even comparable to the OEIS...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine#History
My comment is not a critique of the post at all; the post just made me think of this.
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Haha, this also happened to me.

Although in my defense, I was actually thinking of leaving the company before becoming lead. In fact I probably stayed longer than I would have otherwise due to the opportunity.
Thanks for this non-insightful comment and derailing a post about Berlin into yet another SV rant.
I assume it’s also because the military assumes that during wartime, some officers will be killed, thus the organization needs redundant people who know multiple roles and can rotate in as needed. That’s obviously less of a concern in corporations.
Do the touch hot chip diagnostics a lot. Mainly for the faked pineapple II. Cannot afford intel memory chip then and has to settle down for Fujitsu memory chip.
It's really critical that you don't have to litter every single function call and conditional in your code with "if network error." There's plenty of "one in a million" corner cases beyond network errors that an industrial strength program needs to handle.

Exceptions let you put a single error handler higher up in the stack for the one in a million errors, like network errors.
Interesting. I guess it’s a more high end rental? I don’t know the High end markets in both places that well, but I know it’s much more expensive for students and others with low income to live in Munich (which has risen recently, indeed) than it is in Berlin. But the gap might be closing nevertheless.
I ran a shop, that, when we were finally disbanded, after 27 years, the person with the least tenure had a decade.

Our work was far from easy. It was developing cross-platform image processing pipelines in C++. Lots of whacky stuff, like leveraging hardware threading, cache optimization, etc.

Each engineer had strengths in various areas, and we were able to work together to develop some stuff that worked nicely (it wasn't always packaged especially well, by the application implementation team, but our stuff was great).

We were a US shop that fed into a Japanese organization, and the Japanese wouldn't even acknowledge my engineers, until they had been there at least a year.

I'm not really a fan of "Programming by Dependency." I understand that it can allow relatively unskilled and inexperienced programmers to create some pretty ambitious works, but I feel the cost in quality, performance, resource usage, licensing, and future maintainability are too high, in many cases.
I have a feeling 0 more tech companies will hire her now that a quick Google of her name will attach her to this sort of activism. Even if you agree with some of her points regarding Apple, do you really want her coming into your company and looking for a story to tell?
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> Admit when you were wrong.

Not this one. This one has no plausible opposite. It's just going to lead to weasel-y debates. You can't remind someone else to admit that they're wrong, because they don't think they're wrong.
You mean, handling all the corner cases and making sure your code is correct?

There are moments when the experience of programing in Haskell feels like "pleasing the type system". Those are few and far in between, and most times they are still because of a bad error message that converted your bug into a complex type error.

If your experience on the language gets those all the time, I suggest you get some more experience, because you are clearly still unable to design your types very well.
Titanium dioxide a.k.a. titanium white is a different white pigment.

Most white paints used nowadays contain titanium white.

Nevertheless, many white plastics contain other white pigments instead of titanium white. Titanium white itself is inert, but when it is exposed to the sun light it can catalyze the destruction of organic substances like plastics or paint binders that have not been selected to be resistant to this.

So when using titanium white outdoors, the white paint must be specified as UV resistant.

I have not heard about paper that uses titanium white.

That might be due to the higher cost of titanium white, which might be too much compared to the cost of paper.
> Twitter suggests that "Cher Scarlett" is located in Seattle. (This would make them a remote worker for Apple).

Apple has a large in-person engineering office in Seattle, which is easy to determine from a Google search for 'apple seattle engineering':

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=seattle-SEA (scroll down past the retail jobs)

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/signs-point-apple-making-seatt...

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-announces-new-office-s...

https://goo.gl/maps/qhjMUiC9M3HMGMQs7

I'm not sure I understand the rest of your argument. You think this person a) doesn't exist b) doesn't work for Apple c) does exist and works for Apple remotely, because there is no Seattle office d) works for Apple in the critical path for security reports and bug bounties, and is therefore why Apple is (allegedly) not responding to them because she's spending all her day tweeting e) works for Apple in an unknown capacity, which you cannot figure out f) tweets too much g) doesn't tweet enough about a specific security "mindset," which all people in a security role have?

This "technical analysis" doesn't seem to hold up, and I don't see any particular reason to suspect this person doesn't exist. I suspect the journalist's due diligence was more sound.
How is it that there are "luxury apartments without renters", yet landlords get away with " rent[ing] out shitty apartments at abhorrent prices"? Why don't the people who can afford those shitty apartments move to the empty luxury ones instead?
It's a funky version of relativity. From the perspective of the original consciousness life was terminated as soon as the machine started up, from the perspective of the duplicate on the other end, you continued without any issues. Make a hundred copies, and each thinks itself as the original.

Of course if you instead build a transporter that uses some funky form of a wormhole, you simply move from one frame to another. In that case you are still the original.

Maybe it's not so much a paradox as a headache inducer.
If you give real estate developers too much of a free hand, they will plaster over every bit of common space with cramped flats or other abominations. There's even a word for it in Polish - "patodeweloperka". It's most prominent in Cracow (alleged ties of real estate companies with local officials), also in Warsaw and its suburbs. In Gdańsk, it's suspected that many old unused buildings in attractive areas had an "accidental" fire.
Oh wow, I hadn't heard anything from Ellen Pao since her husband's Ponzi schemes exploded[1][3] and they started trying to divorce[2].

I guess they are close to finalizing the divorce and she's looking for a new place to sue for sexual discrimination.

[1]https://nypost.com/2015/03/26/ponzi-schemer-stole-60m-from-i...

[2]https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/buddy-fletcher-and-ellen-paos-...

[3]https://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletc...
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I am no expert on air warfare either, but, in support of your arguments here, I think it is worth pointing out that in the early years of WWII, despite the much-advanced air-warfare technology, neither Germany's bombing of Britain nor Britain's bombing of Germany had the effectiveness that was expected. It is true that Germany made effective use of airplanes in its early invasions, but it did not save them at Stalingrad or Kursk.

One cannot seriously discuss the advantage new technology will bring without considering the opposition's response, which often quickly nullifies the initial advantage, e.g. gas -> gas masks, submarines -> convoys.
> it would clearly be wrong to pass a law that raises taxes on one person by name

What do you mean? There are innumerable such taxes, globally. You definitely need to tax various people & businesses differently, it’s the only real solution.
The big thing I see missing is the management piece, which is what makes Tailscale compelling. If you're just running Nebula as an individual user, or for a small org, there wouldn't be much overhead. Otherwise, for larger deployments, you need to "roll your own" solution to manage configs outside of Nebula itself.

You'd also want this to be self-service in some way - so road warriors can rotate their own certs, with auth backed by some kind of central SSO system. The last I looked, Nebula didn't offer this stuff.
If their disability is no concern for their own privacy then sure.

Voice control might be a need, Alexa voice control shouldn’t be.
We do have one kind of wealth taxes -- property tax.

They have many problems as well, but that's a wealth tax.
The problem is: who gets the cheap housing in communal ownership? Supply is limited. So if you don't pick the person who is willing to pay the most, who do you give the apartment to? Who gets to decide? Are you sure you want to live in that kind of world, where some political elite gets to decide your fate?
Private in what sense? Is it just a company not within FAANG promising to protect your privacy or is there some actual security?
The convention in C# is to make two versions of the method: GetFoo that throws, and TryGetFoo that returns a bool and places the result in an out parameter

For example, with the C# dictionary, you can either do: foo = dictionary["foo"]; Or: if(dictionary.TryGet("foo", out foo))

If Option<T> is your preferred pattern then you should use a language where that is supported.

Trying to recreate Option<T> in languages without compiler null checking has issues because either there's a risk that the Option<T> is null, or the value inside of it is null.
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Maybe eFood could help that person a bit, maybe they could arrange a meeting to see what's wrong. What the hell is HR for ?

Unless... ah... yeah, eFood is here to make money, no to grow a work force... How could I forget :-)
If somebody reading this has never been to Tempelhof, I would recommend (please allow me) to think of it as a Park. It is a big area for leisure, with some portable stands for coffee, community gardens, small sport courts, bbq area and grass. And the old airport runways right in the middle of it to run, skate, ride the bike, etc.

On one side it also has the actual airport building. They have very interesting historical tours there.

You can see a couple of representative photos here.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/634394533/the-site-of-the-ber...
Adding on that though some people can come through a PIP and fix whatever problem they were having it usually is a pretext to being fired.
"I live in Florida..."
You might want to try reading the article. All the hospital is saying is that if you request a religious exemption based on the use of fetal tissue, then you should also avoid similar products.

The appropriate pork analogy would be pointing out that if you are avoiding pig products, you probably also want to avoid eating bacon ...
The ClearURLs addon [1] also gives you the in-browser option to copy "clean link location," as they call it.

[1] https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon
I'm not sure why I would need to talk to a customer service person in real life at apple. If I did (and I don't think I ever had) need to communicate my preference would be via email, or perhaps real time text chat. There's no reason someone who's deaf couldn't be on the end of those.

I did however cancel a £1000 order with currys because they didn't provide anyone to talk to - by phone, email or even text chat (which only worked on some browsers). The only form of communication was 'fill this form in to cancel your order'.
Any idea when this started?

Asking because my Firefox at work (on macOS with O365 installed) suddenly switched to Bing as the default search search engine about 2 weeks ago.

And frankly, I was pretty pissed about it. Figured it was MS pulling some underhanded bullshit yet again.

Note - all search engines except DDG and wikipedia were removed (and have been again), and Firefox does _not_ have permission to run studies on any of my computers (work or home).

So, if this really was FF pulling this crap, they have some questions to answer.
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One should always assume a company’s <insert color> efforts are posturing.
Seems to be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28574175
When you aren’t willing to pay for quality labor, I wonder what you get?
Doesn't that make communication slower? When I want to buy something, I certainly don't want to start chatting on a tablet

Calm down. Breathe. You're buying something at a store, not performing surgery.

Five minutes of your time is not necessarily more important than depriving someone of their livelihood. If you were that important, you'd be driving an ambulance.
More precisely, the “no-cloning theorem” of quantum mechanics implies that one cannot replicate the exact quantum state of a clump of matter in a second clump of matter (although it is possible to “teleport” the exact quantum state by transmitting its information, provided one is willing to mess up the original).

However, although no one knows for sure, it seems likely that the operations of consciousness are purely “classical” in the sense that the exact quantum state is not needed (Roger Penrose’s ideas not withstanding).
ASGI is the replacement for WSGI. Honestly I never noticed insane latency with WSGI.
Saab already has a lot of cooperation with BAE Systems (British) and the GE engines were built by former Volvo Aero (acquired by British GKN)
WASM "processes" need not be the same as OS-level processes. So I don't think this would have the scalability issues of plain CGI.
So, are there decent lower-level (e.g. C++ or even C) libraries for doing this, which this library wraps? Or does this actually do the nitty-gritty PDF innards itself?

As for myself, I've not had to automate work on PDFs, luckily; for manual manipulation and annotation I've found Xournal++ sort of useful (https://xournalpp.github.io/). Inkscape can also be used with some questionable PDFs.
Not really. The issue is that you aren't the same from one moment to the other in the natural world either. You constantly change, large parts of your body even get rebuild regularly. So demanding 'quantum level perfection' of a copy just doesn't mesh with the ever changing mess that is the real you.

As long as the copy is 'good enough', which can be far away from the uncertainty principle, it really shouldn't make a difference to the though experiment.
Well of course once they start interacting with the environment they will become 'different people' - surely you don't think I think twins are essentially only a single person.

How is that a paradox that people develop differently when making different experiences?

The question is what happens at t=t0?
Yep. The increased leverage that low-wage employees had during the pandemic due to enhanced unemployment benefits gave them a taste of this as well. Lots of people being able to say “take this job and shove it” led to very real labor shortages in certain sectors.
There is already communal property in Berlin and all over Europe. Its not some grim socialist dystopia. They serve under the same conditions as private companies just don't have to completely bend over to shareholders wishes. Vienna the city for example is the biggest landlord in Europe.

Obviously we need more housing but until then we also need to ensure that people with normal incomes can also afford to live _in_ the City.
Do you mean like an index sheet with links so you can then go to the specific page?

We might have something for you…
Her role was not PR, it was about actually trying to implement fair trade supply chains for rare minerals.

Regardless, you are free to assume PR posturing as an uninvolved commenter on HN - meanwhile, we’re discussing an actual person’s job and complaints therewith.
Hmm, I guess I never checked satellite for that example. Part of the motivation there was improving the simulation. While vehicles are moving through the intersection, they grab a lock and prevent conflicting movements. A huge intersection takes longer to cross and was causing unrealistic backups here. But that was only because of the wacky lane-changing model (can only change between those 4 northbound lanes in an intersection, where conflicts are modeled) and poor lane placement at the time. Some of that's been fixed, worth revisiting the shape.
How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption?
They're human beings.
I think the goal with this one was to be zero-friction and allow any WASI module to serve requests, without requiring language-specific bindings.

It's obviously not a great design, and a more serious standardized version would use interface types. But that still seems quite a ways off.