skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To help illustrate what this means, my team recently rebuilt an entire next.JS app in React native using almost identical code apart from a few browser-specific components. Since the next app was tied to the router state, we had to rewrite quite a bit of that logic in React native land, but for no added benefit to our app. It was just extra work and now extra maintenance. We tried to share as much code as we could, but that becomes an effort of its own eventually.

It seems like Solito could have prevented a significant amount of work, reduced code duplication, and let us release our mobile app a lot sooner.

If Solito does what it says well and porting to it wouldn’t be difficult, I wouldn’t be surprised if we made the move. This is a very compelling pitch to a team with a next.JS app and a React native app sharing the same business logic.
What’s delusional? You support Russia taking Ukraine by force? Or you don’t care?
This makes me wonder if the petrodollar system will end soon. It would be trivial for Russia, India, China, and Saudi Arabia to create their own version of CME and list oil futures in terms of a neutral commodity like gold, or even something like BTC.

A lot of countries are nervous about what has happened in Russia, fearing they may be next. Creating an alternative petro system will derisk sanctions, and remove the need to have dollars as the reserve currency.
> Mesoamerica, South America, Mesopotamia, Indus/Ganges, and China (all of which are also clearly independent origins of civilization)

I don't think it's settled that these are independent. Especially Mesopotamia and Indus Valley, and Meso and South America.
How so?

Want to meet with somebody: take your laptop with you in a backpack. Just make sure you have mobile connectivity wherever you're going.

Want to party: just ask somebody to take over the pager for the evening.

If you have <=1 page per rotation, then it's really not annoying.
> On Sunday, China ordered all of Shenzhen's 17.5 million residents into a seven-day lockdown, with three rounds of testing. All public transport is halted and all businesses, except essential services, will be closed until March 20.

As a result, Apple supplier Foxconn has shut two of its plants in the area and relocated production elsewhere.

The lockdown and outbreaks threaten manufacturing and tech production in Shenzhen, known as China's Silicon Valley. It's home to Huawei and Tencent, and is home to one of the country's key ports.
> exemplified by Git

The predecessors, SVN and CVS, also do not use a locked checkout model. The "C" in CVS is "concurrent": people working at the same time in multiple checked-out sandboxes (of a central repo), picking up changes with "cvs up", which merges.

Nobody in their right mind used version control with central locking in the last 35 years.
Americans are more reliant on driving than Europeans.
I'm for the fixed avatars. We are all born with certain unchangeable aspects.
Ask HN: Where should I live?
I'm looking to make a move from Brisbane Australia (not from there) and have the privilege of being able to look for a job and move pretty much anywhere. Where should I live?

Wish list:

1) Very warm climate (Brisbane has this)

2) Decent tech scene (or in a near enough timezone to enables remote work for US or EU employers) (Brisbane barely has this)

3) ACTUALLY diverse and cultured (Brisbane has gotten a lot better in the past ten years, but falls well short here IMO)

4) Non-car centric with good public and alternative transport opportunities (Brisbane falls well short here too)

The ultimate city for me would have the huge population and excellent public transport of Tokyo, the diversity of NY, Miami, London and Paris, the climate of Singapore and the non-car centrism of Amsterdam.

Short list so far:

* Barcelona?

* Lisbon?

* Miami?

* Austin?

* Tel Aviv?

* ??? Any Latin American or African cities I'm missing? Maybe Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador Bahia, Lagos, Dakar ???

Cities like NY, Toronto are diverse and have lots of opportunities but are too cold. Also not that great on public and alternative transport.

Sydney, Melbourne and Vancouver are too cold in winter and not that diverse. Also not that great on public and alternative transport.

Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen are very non-car centric but too cold.

Yes, I'm too picky and probably asking for the impossible =) but would love to hear more suggestions
> destroying its living standards is the way to support Ukraine and combat Russia

It’s about degrading a volatile enemy. Shrinking Russia’s economy degrades its war machine. (The claim that impoverished Russians will revolt is crap. Starving, broken people don’t lead rebellions.)

If we had literally any better solution, we should take it. But we don’t. So we hope Russia weakens enough that it can’t invade Latvia while encouraging it to become a vassal of China’s.
Wow, I didn't realise ML was developed so early. Is there a history of the early work in the 70s? What machines did it run on?
You seem to imply that the supply chain issue and the resultant inflation would not have happened had your government not borrowed so much?

What's more likely:
- Prices went up because there was a short supply of tangible things that actually (somewhat) respect the supply-demand curve

OR
- Prices went up because there was an "excess supply" of money from "printing" that arguably does not respect the supply-demand curve
Indeed. As a professional freelance consultant, I use the laptop provided by the customer. Guess what? They're always running Windows.
Where did I make the claim that you need to sell your car and go bus-only?

You can drive your car to the bus that drives to your work. The reverse trip (work -> bus -> car -> home) works out the same way.

This model gets you with only one transfer, and your car only partially drives to work, cutting down on your gasoline usage significantly.

Its pretty much how a lot of people I know use the rail / subway stations too. Especially because parking outside the city is far cheaper (usually free) than parking inside the city, so you end up saving significantly on parking prices (even if you spend part of that on subway tickets).

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Bonus points: a lot of these "transit hubs" (where many bus-lines meet) are in locations with ample parking and many different bus lines. This makes it feasible to carpool to a transit hub, instead of carpooling to work (my neighbors don't go to my job, but there is a chance that my neighbors will benefit from a carpool to the same transit hub)
This article makes some assumptions I don't see holding up.

> Putin seeks something much simpler: a buffer territory between him and NATO.

Putin wants, to borrow a term, to Make Russia Great Again... which the path he is taking is having the opposite effect. I think I'm this aspect he has already lost.

It is quite unlikely for Russia to split Ukraine in two, as the article suggests, or be able to maintain any long-term control of Ukraine. More likely he wants to install as much federalism (state power) and remove central govt power. That way he can chip away at Ukraine.

I think this is down to a test of endurance between Russia and the West, each sides willingness to pay attention to the war and maintain their posture. Hard power vs soft power. Certainly Ukraine will out endure both
Yes he is. We’ve been printing absurd amounts of money for years praying inflation didn’t show up in meaningful indicators and now that it shows up it’s some big surprise. We should have been raising rates the last 8 years or so instead of juicing the economy and stock market nonstop.
How is it ineffable when he just described one?

Of course gov printing had an effect, but supply chain is prob the biggest. Do you not agree?
> Some commonly repeated advice is that firms should focus on their "core competencies" and outsource everything else, but if we look mid-sized tech companies, we can see that they often need to have in-house expertise that's far outside what anyone would consider their core competency unless, e.g., every social media company has kernel expertise as a core competency.

I wouldn't call Twitter or any other unicorn a "mid-sized tech company".

I believe the larger a company is the more it makes sense to do stuff in-house. You need a certain amount of people to focus on your core competencies, but once you have that and still have more money than you can ever spend, it makes sense to spend it on doing stuff in-house, as that might lead to better quality and/or lower costs and removes the risk that an external supplier might not be there next month anymore.
Not sure what GP is talking about.

Housing is the biggest component in CPI: something like 40% IIRC
Huh, interesting. I would second MtF transgender. I've worked at places that will interview so they can appear what you might now call "woke", but then not hire based on their dislike, not skills or personality.

And there are so many MtFs in tech. I'd love to see statistics, but it feels skewed.
They might be forced to restructure if this goes for long enough.
Do you have paragraphs at hand to share? I would like to see if company I work for is compliant with those laws
The idea that Ayn Rand influenced the outcome of the 2016 election in Trump's favor is conspiracy theory territory.

And you seem to have forgotten about the tech bilionaire who brought us good electric cars and cheap access to space.
The only thing I can figure is that it was Tillerson's input as Secretary of State that Trump was passing along. Tillerson, being affiliated with US energy interests, may have wanted to encourage Germany to import more from us or our Middle Eastern allies.

Trouble is, the summit took place in July 2018 and Tillerson was fired by Trump in March. (From Tillerson's Wikipedia article: "... Trump allegedly suggested a tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, which would cost trillions and take centuries. These reports were denied by White House officials and by Trump after which individuals familiar with the meeting told journalists that Tillerson either called Trump a "moron" or a "fucking moron.")

It's not clear why Pompeo would have pushed this particular agenda item, only that Trump likely didn't come up with it on his own.
> Progress, at the very least, has a logarithmic component. It could be an arctangent. Where there's a long build up, a rapid rise, then a long tail.

Or as someone here once said, in the real world all hockey stick growth is eventually sigmoid.
> The Fed's target in 2019 was 2%. 7% is high, but if it weren't for Russia and decreased in 2022, I'd argue they did a decent job.

This is “broken clock” logic. The only argument behind giving the Fed credit for the 7% rise in prices is “they’ve been trying really hard to do so”.
This same article was posted previously, so I will post the same response I posted on the other thread:

Elasticsearch until recently did not nudge you to set up a username or password by default. I noticed the last time I installed it on a fresh instance that on completion of the install it gives you a warning about this and tells you what to do to set a password. That is a small improvement.

Most people would not have the service bound to a public interface, but for those who do for whatever reason have a set up where they are accessing it remotely, at least now there is a tip off that it is completely open to the world by default. This is different from pretty much any other service you might install. MariaDB for instance by default does not allow remote root login even if you change the config to bind it to 0.0.0.0.

A lot of people are just totally unaware of this issue. When I read about database leakage, I generally assume 90% probability it was elastic, these days. Defaults are so important.
Okay really new to me that code reviwers are not always running the code. I think it depends on the kind of project and ease of checking out the branch and just running it but I'd argue it always make sense to check it out.

The main indicator of how easy a review is is for me simply the number of changed files and commits. We try to enforce smaller differences, even if it is not possible to make features that small. You can always merge it with feature flags into production.

Also urging developers so self-review the code makes a HUGE difference already as well.
I don't even know how I would identify a good toaster to buy, nowadays. Electric kettles are a problem, too.
It's the distinction that autocrats are all whining, pathetic losers - they torture their political enemies because they feel justified doing so - but it doesn't make them less dangerous.
It's not only that, it's also reducing our dependence on an untrustworthy counter party
This is impressive.

I'm wondering about a few things:

- "I decided to leave the XIP cache to do its thing, and select a few small areas of hot code or data to promote to RAM manually"[1]: I understood this as you leaving the XIP cache activated. But this seems at odds with "16K of flash XIP cache, that we’ve talked about, but decided not to use."[also 1], which I'm interpreting as "decided not to make use of the XIP cache (i.e. turn it off)" (maybe I'm misreading).

- I thought ARM32 has 12(-14) usable registers (compared to 14-15 in x86-64), so why these mentions of "scarce Cortex-M0+ registers"? (Does FIQ mode reduce the number of usable registers?)

- "not good on a Cortex M0+ where the overhead of a function call is generally 30-40 cycles, with the corresponding loss of most of your precious “in-register” state": are function calls disproportionally slower on Cortex M0+? (Certainly 30-40 cycles seems high.) Why is that? (Registers r4-r11 are callee-saved[2], thus not lost; mutable data might have to be re-read from memory, though--just like on other architectures, but maybe CPU caches are faster on those.)

- "These OR values can be stored in a lookup table indexed by higher bits in the sample position, and thus the 8x space savings can be realized without needing any branches in the code!"[3]: Cortex-M0+ has a 2-stage pipeline[4], I'd hence expect the cost of a jump to be just 1 additional cycle, for the re-processing of the 1st stage for the next instruction (maybe I'm wrong), which would be the same as a memory access. (Maybe multiple jumps can be saved this way, though.) Did measurements show the lookup table to be faster?

[1] https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/speed_and_ram.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_convention#ARM_(A32)
[3] https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/sound.html
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortex-M0%2B#Cortex-M0+
An incredibly good investment for anyone that can afford it in the USA is a house. The government subsidizes your mortgage by fixing the rate. As inflation increases rents, you pay the same amount. It’s an amazing handout for even the slightly wealthy.
> the supply chain issue and the resultant inflation would not have happened had your government not borrowed so much?

Probably not. Instead, we’d be in a depression amidst mass unemployment and bankruptcies.
gf2p8affineqb: Bit Reversal (2020)
Is it name and shame time? Cause I know Walgreens doesn't even have the option to allow you to request deleting your online account. Not an online option nor even calling them on the phone.
It's naive to pretend that when supply goes down and demand goes up, prices don't go up as a direct result.

Printing money also causes prices to go up, as does war.

Anyone thinking that the problem was that we didn't give people enough money, hasn't taken a look at the explosion in homeless population throughout the country. People are still hurting and it is obscene ti complain that your savings account is worth slightly less when people don't have have a roof over their heads due to the worst pandemic in a century.
That's so much theorizing just to fit in the "money printing caused inflation" theory
Artifacts at the edges are due to occlusions. An occlusion is a part of the scene which wasn't visible to the original camera. You see these if you move far from the original camera in VR to look behind something. This is a really hard problem for 6DOF. We've been improving the quality of occlusions over time, e.g.:
* v1: https://lifecastvr.com/demo_maui.html
* v2: https://lifecastvr.com/kalalea_fire.html
* v3: https://lifecastvr.com/hubner4.html
Version 3 now uses a 2-layer representation which has an image+depthmap for the background layer, which is drawn to fill in the occlusions. This background layer can be precomputed in a variety of different ways. For example, here is a CGI synthetic scene where we can construct the background layer perfectly:
https://lifecastvr.com/liferay.html
However, making up the background layer for real-world content is more challenging. We are on version 1 of that. We will improve this with machine learning in a future release. We can also substitute a "plate" 3d scene for the background in cases where the camera doesn't move. We have also experimented with using data from other frames when the camera moves. This will improve over time.
Microsoft TFS has exclusive checkout and this is exactly what happens. Someone locks a file and forgets about it.
It actually depends on a ton of factors. [1] How long you plan to stay there, opportunity cost of capital, annual salary, deductions, inflation, taxes, closing costs, HOAs, maintenance, etc. It can be! But it isn't always.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
On-call is just fine as long as:

1. There is a rotation.

2. There are few pages, preferably the median should be 0 per week.

3. Spurious / non-actionable alerts get fixed right away (with very high priority)

4. You're not up more than 1 week per 1-1.5 month.

5. You subtract middle of the night pages from your next working day, with bad nights resulting in a day off. Being on-call doesn't mean working overtime.
There's a significant difference. American society is largely built around the use of cars. Large parts of the US are unlivable without a car. In Europe, this is much less common.
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I cant really call Brisbane subtropical, Townsville is brownsville, so this means cairns, darwin, weipa or charters.
I think what will really blow the top off of the CPI and inflation numbers are if the dollar loses reserve currency status.

Right now inflation is relatively contained because everyone piles into USD as a safe haven asset, which allows the US to purchase a lot of imports since the dollar is strengthening when that happens.
Yes and Cloudlfare and Netlify and S3, etc. but this is not the point of this service. This software is to roll your own static site hosting (or use theirs)
This is really really cool! Good job
Sure, sure, you can encode difficult computational problems into markets in convoluted ways, but this is uninteresting unless you're into that kind of thing.

When people usually say that markets aren't efficient, they don't mean that optimal resource allocation is a computationally intractable problem. They're saying that they see, clear as day, obvious inefficiencies that aren't being corrected. They're saying that there are easily noticeable inefficiencies that aren't being corrected. And finding easily noticeable inefficiencies isn't NP-hard, by definition of easily noticeable.

A better version of the efficient market hypothesis would be that markets are inexploitable. There is no easy action I can take that corrects a market inefficiency and makes me money. This is the version that comes up in cocktail party conversations and it's also the one that Dan Luu is talking about. "If XXX is systemically undervalued by the market, why can't I start a company that specialises in using XXX?" The discussion following this question is much more relevant and interesting than encoding 3SAT into economic models.
The lesson is don't use Google search in a browser where you have their login cookies. Set up an extension that wipes their cookies when a tab is closed. Restrict logged in Google activity to a separate browser or profile that won't be used to build a behavioral profile.
A part of the problem here is distinguishing which articles are worth reading. I may know that a Dan post is probably good, but if I saw this exact same headline taking me to a long article on <random tech news site>, I'd probably skip it and skim the comments instead, since chances are the article itself is near worthless.
Got to say I would prefer a robot then a possibly disgruntled human to prepare my food.

That being said I hope we will see some kind of UBI in return for all the money that will be saved once robots take over these menial jobs.
At some point you need to make a decision in life. I myself am self-made wealthy and I didn’t do that by putting all my money in index funds and renting.

Have conviction - put down roots - commit.
Or start investing decarbonization, power2x, green and nuclear energy.
Sometimes browsers ship bugs of the "this API just does not work anymore" variety.

When people want to get their work done, opening another browser while the original one is being fixed (which might take a couple weeks), for certain applications, is extremely reasonable for business people just trying to get their work done.
So I just got my hands on a couple of Picos. I was so excited to find a RPi board in stock, that I forgot to check if it has WiFi or not. I would like to run some form of OpenSprinkler on that (even if not OpenSprinkler, I can use cron jobs to control the sprinkler relays by hand).

Any tips on how to get WiFi working on Pico?
I also was expecting to see some sort of SSR, got clickbaited
Fame, fortune and the rush of being on a moral crusade are a powerful cocktail.

Academia and media have essentially set up an alternative justice system which is currently being misused to settle grudges or for career or financial benefits. Once it’s there though, it can be creatively misused and let loose on all sorts of undesirables. Whistleblowers, people not criticizing Russia hard enough, government critics, etc, etc.
>Or, in other words, how can I learn to be alone without feeling lonely?

Being misanthrope works perfect for me.

A note of caution - I'm from the country which is currently all over the news. Hating a better society should be more difficult.
Great idea! I think products in improving the twitter feed can be really good.

I thought there is some TOS from Twitter about that products are not allowed to change the actual twitter behaviour or the original twitter UI, do you know something about that?

Also removing suggestions from topics, lists, retweets, etc. can clean up your Tweeter feed so much!
Who said donations have to be the only source of income?
High prices were here before the war in Ukraine (one of numerous global wars underway, despite what you'd believe if your only source of information was legacy media) which started only a few weeks ago. Our incompetent response will certainly make things worse, but soaring inflation was already here to stay regardless of the situation in Ukraine.
Why not both? There is good discussion being held on both topics in this thread.

That’s the benefit of nested comments, to allow different top-level discussions where others can discuss what is being shared by top-level commenters.

My original point was to not be “depressed” by others choosing to not take the time to read the article, and have a discussion on the topic rather than the subject.
The idea behind the article is not that everyone is making junk these days. The idea is that we often have no way to find out which products and services are junk and which are good quality. How are you going to find a contractor to remodel your bathroom? How will you even know if they did a good job?