skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link to the WSJ article referenced in the article: https://archive.ph/hUmyv

Summary:

>> The testimony revealed business desperation, but don’t expect help from Seattle’s politicians. In response to a business owner’s question about how to address gun violence, City Council President Debora Juarez
said, “I don’t have an answer for you” about “what’s going to happen to stop people from getting a gun and coming into your store.”

>> She admitted that black Seattle residents want some assurance of safety. But she added that “to be frank with you, I don’t also believe that hiring way more police or addressing every issue with a gun and a badge works either. Because we know who gets affected the worst. It’s people of color. They get killed.”

>> In other words, as criminals terrorize Seattle, its leaders still think police are the problem. The lawlessness will persist until Seattle voters stage a revolt.
How do you protect customer data from US government if you process it (not just store) in AWS/GCP/Azure?
Do you lose convergence guarantees if you minimize "sum of squared distances from the centroid" using your other-than-Euclidean distance metric?
Regardless of the underlying technical implementation, Google is offering an unsolicited Order Now feature to its users under the restaurants' brand.
If you find yourself running "make clean" because it is "too dumb" you've built your Makefile wrong. Usually it means you've tried to manually re-create the inherent Make rules and have gotten it wrong somewhere. This is incredibly common, since the inherent rules are not always the same across various versions of Make and people don't always trust them.

IMHO, this is the primary weakness of Make. The standardization efforts never really happened so you have various forks of 1980s code with annoying incompatibilities. BSD Make is missing some of the implicit build rules from GNU Make (only able to compile simple single source file applications without an explicit rule), and Windows Make tends to be extremely primitive. Worse, Make still in 2022 can't handle spaces in file names, like c:\Documents and Users\.

I would be so much happier if everybody could standardize on one flavor of Make. Probably GNU Make.
A fair amount of my own confusion with GCP's offerings comes from their decision not to use proper names for their services.

AWS may have arbitrary names that don't follow any patterns, and Azure may have names that are grandiose, but at least you know with both of those clouds that they will always capitalize the name of all their service/product in documentation. There's no confusion if they are talking about a load balancer in the abstract, or their specific managed offerings.
I'm glad that buying used cars has worked so well for you, but that's just not what a lot of people do.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/research/auto-lo...

This is more of a structural problem with how we set our cities up. There's no reason we shouldn't have quality public transportation, along with much denser cities. There's so much space just dedicated to parking, which could all be reallocated if we had better transit.

This doesn't even go into the needs of those medically unable to drive.

Then again, where is this magical place where you're finding cheap quality cars. I've only lived in expensive cities, so maybe I'm missing context
You're right, nothing is stopping anybody from putting these modules on Pypi. If somebody's already using Pypi dependencies, then another is no big deal.

But there's a really big jump from "This tool is self-contained" to "This tool needs X from pypi". It ripples into deployment, source-control, everything.

I try very hard to make tools that don't need anything except for Python's stdlib. That's based on a perception of trust: that the stdlib will be supported, and represents Python's only stable dependency.

Once the team starts to erode that trust, Python's compatibility story will start to break.
This has already been done. I have friends and loved ones who never got to work from home. They were not living in a dystopia. You are just using extreme language to further a political point.
Where i come from Corona is now just another disease, ie. it does not get any special attention anymore.
I haven't seen anything but git in the last probably 10 years, except in the public sector

Are there really any SVN instances of import in the private sector out there any more?
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No, it has not.
Interesting research question: how much did the fear of air travel resulting from 9/11 reduce the rate of CO2 being released into the atmosphere?
They get a say through trademark law. If you show the KFC logo or even name on a service, you have to seek KFC's permission to do so.
Thanks to Maddie for giving such thoughtful answers.

I too share the initial concern of introducing GMO trees into the ecosystem, but I appreciate that they don't seem to be taking this concern likely.

I have a few questions regarding the commercial viability of the trees for lumber. It looks like one of the trees you are starting with is Douglass Fir, so presumably we're looking at construction grade pine.

Do your trees produce wood that is of equal quality (comparing physical properties like strength)? Do the heavy metals retained in the wood present a hazard to either the end-users of the wood products, or to the workers milling or cutting the wood? Will the consumers shy away from wood "tainted with toxic heavy metals" even if it's safe?
This is low key the Developer Relations playbook! I heard about Oxide thru the awesome On the Metal podcast y'all started :]
From the drug selling, I wonder how much this guy pays tax on the sell. I wonder what his power bill is.
I've heard the grease thing quite a few times, especially with hamburgers, but... tbh it hasn't ever happened to me. And my past two apartments haven't had a range hood at all (just a microwave with a fan we never use).

Is it saturated fats or something? Burgers are definitely a rarity for me, but I cook plenty. It's just generally lean meat and veg/oil/etc.
British tech champion Arm to slash hundreds (15%) of jobs
To be fair it’s their app and their platform. Blame content creators who use the app rather than the platform.
I have never seen appealing to personal responsibility drive change at a large scale. Like all creatures, humans are driven by a balance of incentives and disincentives. If you want to drive change, systemically alter the balance. I think the approach of the policy discussed in TFA is aligned with this view.

I’m not sure exactly where we our disagreement lies, but I think it’s a mistake to dismiss small degrees of sentiment as those small degrees manifest as purchase decisions, which collectively manifest as multimillion dollar industries that are supported by those individual actions. Additionally, asserting that someone either cares or doesn’t care and that there’s not some continuum is a false dichotomy.
Pardon me; if your goal is to prepare kids to be software engineers working in C-like languages and Rust, then that may be just the thing.
Came to post that there is something incredibly soothing in the small illustrations that the author uses to end their blog posts.
I'd love to be on a team that's reading 10TB per hour and has to explain that huge bill to executives!
Freeman Dyson wrote a paper in the late 70's discussing "carbon-eating trees" as a way to buy us more time to get off of fossil fuels. I'm glad people are working on such ideas.

I just wish we would incentivize burying these trees in the deep ocean to help remove the excess carbon from the carbon cycle.
Billing is one of the highest costs for telcos.
Yet he knows what the agenda currently is. It would be an incredibly incompetent director if he had no idea where their weapons will end.
There are even attempts to teach textual programming to students who already learned Scratch, by translating blocks to javascript (Scratch-LN, Blockly).

I remember someone building a whole environment for making Slack look professional, by providing a text syntax that could nevertheless be programmed like Slack by adding and connecting typed blocks in the text structure (though I can't recall its name).
Golden Cove has 6-wide decoders (that should be using massive amounts of resources).

Of course, it doesn't help that Intel lists laptop chip turbo frequencies to use either 95w or 115w and Anandtech's laptop review of one had the 12900H hitting those numbers with sustained power draw at an eye-raising 85w. That's 2-3x the power of M1 Pro and only 20-30% more performance.

That laptop also showed that cutting power from 85w to 30w roughly halved the performance. On the plus side, this means their power scaling is doing pretty well. On the negative side of things, it means their system gets worse multithreaded performance at 30w despite having 40% more cores.
> Port of LA pre covid, 90% of ships were on time, now only 10% and there is a backlog.

Where can I find this information?
I dunno; e.g. IL doesn't look pointlessly long to me, and it's certainly nowhere near COBOL level of verbosity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIL_instructions

Mostly it uses well-established terse mnemonics - e.g. for branching or arithmetic - but stuff related to CLI object model and other unusual things are spelled out more fully.
Obviously, like OP said, he should be committing tax fraud ("gladly pay people under the table") instead of petty theft. That's a respectable crime.
A question I have idly wondered - how much space does it take to feed a country? If you had to feed 100M people with a nutritionally complete diet forever, how small of an area could you manage to generate the food? Using current or near-term feasible (<5 years away) and leaving ethics off the table (Soylent Green, etc)? How many months/years could you stockpile?
Not that it isn't good for the M1 but is such a setup really something other companies are attempting to pull off? It seems like GPU makers just put more cores on a single die.

Does this tech apply to discrete graphics? You can't really connect separate cards with this, right?

Are you saying this is a blow to Intel's graphics? Or maybe you're implying it's a way for integrated graphics to become dominant?
Canadian physician here: yeah, this is hell for us trying to reach patients through the hospital system, which is "unknown" by default. Straight to voicemail and you can't really leave a message.
Totally agree though, this problem is very time consuming, if only for the time it takes me to look at my phone and decide not to answer the call - a few seconds of my life each time. My worst day was a few days ago; 7 calls.
Those are some pretty great glyphs!
Well, there's a lot to comment on here, I'll address just your last sentence.

If you owned a deli or corner-store would you be willing to hire someone with criminal record?

Would you be willing to hire someone who doesn't have a home?

Keep in mind that not having a home means they probably have no way to consistently keep themselves clean. And what do they put on the employment application for their address? And how good of an employee is someone going to be when they don't know where they're going to sleep at night?
Tech always recovers better after recessions. But you have to live through the recession and hopefully the business survives it.
As someone who grows interesting tree species as a hobby, inject this into my veins! This sort of biotech has so much room to grow (ha) and I'm frankly surprised that it's not being researched as much as possible.
Google does all kinds of stupid things like this. They constantly change how they interpret data and punish anyone who doesn't (or can't) follow the new rules.

They'll suddenly require X to be valid against a specific standard, but the maker of the product you sell doesn't follow X. Oh, and omitting X is the same as having an invalid X.

Frankly, it's ridiculous. We have to have an entire paid position just for dealing with Google's bullshit.
China being China and playing games so they can push their agenda.

It would really suit them to acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor who have invaded a friendly European country.

This could very well lead to sanctions towards China if they keep it up.
You think NATO ex-U.S. would fight better than the Russians? What would the order of battle be like?
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But for a desktop chip like the M1 Ultra which will always be on wall power I don't see why Apple would be uncomfortable pushing the thermal envelope of the M1 architecture.
>>Learning syntax as a filter

>Syntax is one of the most universal things about our psychology. The idea that some people have it and others don't seems a little absurd to me.

Sheesh. Care to put any more words in my mouth?

I said nothing about whether or not someone _could_ learn the syntax of a programming language. My comment was specifically about the difficulty of learning to program while also navigating arcane syntax rules (in the sense they're unfamiliar and rigid) that come with most programming languages.

If you want to write code you'll probably power through it. If you don't, you might decide it's just not worth the trouble.

This isn't a value judgement on the individual. I'm saying it's a pretty good indication if someone has the temperament for coding. If you're unwilling to understand syntax errors, how likely are you to debug your program?
In the Phone App, under Settings -> "Spam and Call Screen", there are bunch of Spam and Call Screening options.
By "the kind of person who would have been homeless were it not for a government program" you mean someone who chose their parents badly and was homeless at 14, a literal child?
Microsoft proposes type syntax for JavaScript
Has AWS ever done this?

To my knowledge they have not, and this is the third time (at least) that google has done this. Managed Kubernetes and Google Maps API are the other 2 that I know of.

I only ever remember seeing AWS lowering prices but I am curious if there are instances I am unaware of.

This continues me wondering how anyone can think going with google cloud is a good idea.
No paywall link: https://archive.ph/0YKbE
> We didn't even understand basic things about trees till like a few decades ago

'We' don't even understand basic things about trees now, because we're operating on old information.

I'm hearing soil scientists griping and sniping about their peers dragging their feet in acknowledging new research. The future is here, but unevenly distributed.

Elaine Ingham has a sometimes-awkward dislike for actinobacteria (formerly called actinomyces, because it looks like a fungus but turns out is not). She has complained on more than one occasion about people still calling it actinomyces. They are a useful microbe, but from a soil metabolism standpoint bacteria tend to be in the 'minus' column and fungi in the 'plus' column. If you've ever done a budget and put something in the wrong column, you know how quickly that can screw up your conclusions.

> If trees needed to photosynthesise faster they would already be doing it.

I recall someone discovering a while back that chloroplasts have a defense mechanism that reduces photon absorption when transpiration can't keep up with waste (heat?) production from photosynthesis. If they stayed on they would fry themselves, so they shut down by degrees. Whether that's a global optimization or a local one I couldn't say. But if the leaf is the bottleneck, then plants could in fact be photosynthesizing faster. At least during midday.

If someone could select or engineer more efficient pathways, then it could stay 'on' for longer. A chloroplast that produces less waste heat. A more efficient capillary system for bringing water and removing sugars. Maybe even something as simple as min-maxing soil moisture so the leaves have as much water as they could ever want.

Or, it could make a tree that cannot reach the canopy in an established forest, because it's overtrained for full sun.
TikTok has become a dangerous breeding ground for mental disorders
This is the number one quirk I hated having to work around. This is a good change.
I see a bulldog with a flat top haircut (or old school phone) on it's head.
Sure, at some point. A guy who's just flipping stolen goods going to prison though is just totally stupid. You'll accomplish the opposite of your goals - you will increase crime with that sort of policy. And it'll cost you more.

edit: To elaborate, the "at some point" is like... where a person has to be removed from society because they're an imminent danger to themselves or others.
Because it makes it most lucrative to sell and show ads to the very people who pay to avoid ads.
> Wages have been rising for software people since long before COVID

Inflation is "solving" this problem. No way are companies going to give across-the-board 8-10% (or more) cost of living adjustments this year. And it's a safe bet inflation will still be high next year.
I found it weird that the article states things without any single data point, study or proof. They say media got it wrong, they claim the increased death are due to street design without any clue where they got that conclusion from. I'm weary of this, because sometimes people want to push agendas.
That's fantastic. And here I thought that Intel's vendor ID of 0x8086 was cute.
Having been a CISO, I would also add that this really depends on the company.

Some companies want to be technically secure (Google, Facebook, etc.), others want to be compliant to regulations (do the basics, check the box and move on) and a few just want to have a figure head for IT security to fire when things go wrong. So finding the right company that fits you and understanding their culture is important.

If you are hardcore CS/ECE and very technical, you'll want to work for the first type of company. If you did business/management/audit then perhaps the second type of company. I would not encourage anyone to work for the third type.

Just my personal opinion. Hope it helps someone.
Busting the myth that Apple doesn't do User Research (2014)
It’s so easy to get a driving license in the US that this should not surprise anyone?
Algae make more oxygen but they don't store it (unless you count them being eaten by progressively larger fish until the last one drops dead somewhere deep in the ocean). Make mangroves instead, best of both worlds.
> Did not back them up at the UN or these news headlines about China not helping Russia with this or that?

Both.

> From what it seems, China is absolutely helping them in actions,

China is helping Russia just enough to ensure the Russian state becomes a client of China. This is a major reshaping of their relationship and a huge strategic blunder on Putin's part. He really screwed up here. This was the entire thrust of my original comment, which you don't seem to disagree with?

> India, supposedly a US ally in the region

India and Russia are closer allies than India and the US, at the government level. They have a "special and privileged strategic partnership". There is no surprise, here.

> Turkey, a NATO country, also buys weapons from Russia, and openly refused to implement sanctions.

Erdogan has been more friendly with Russia than the US for a few years now. The war in Ukraine seems to have strained this relationship, though. It seems Erdogan is trying to play the fence, here.

https://www.reuters.com/world/erdogan-says-too-early-comment...

> The West will of course down play all of this, but it seems the unipolar days are history.

I don't understand your point here. Are you saying Russia is fine and the west has screwed up? What did the west do wrong, here, in your opinion? What did Russia do wrong? Should Putin have expected any negative consequences for his actions?

AFAICT, the US/EU alliance seems to be a lot stronger than Putin thought, and the condemnation globally has been much harsher than Putin planned on. I don't know or care about "Pax Americana" or what have you - I'm glad Biden has let the EU take center stage in responding to a war of aggression in the European theater. Putin has strengthened the ties of the west, it's just sad it took him murdering Ukrainians to do it.
Always coming back to that one, the visual are great to quickly remind me of what a given pattern aims to achieve.
Google Forms New API Using Node.js
I recently tried Natron. I work on Linux/wayland. It was constantly crashing on me, I rebooted to Windows and tried the Windows version, it was crashing, and it was getting stuck a lot.

IMO Blender can do the same job and do it better.
The supply chain crisis is very, very real, but we are blessed with absolutely terrific operations folks coming from a wide range of industrial backgrounds (e.g., Apple, Lenovo, GE, P&G). They have pulled absolute supply chain miracles (knocking loudly on wood!) -- but we have also had the luxury of relatively small quantities (we're not buying millions of anything) and new design, where we can factor in lead times.

tl;dr: Smaller players are able to do things that larger players can't -- which isn't to minimize how challenging it currently is!
> How did he convince the moon and space station to perfectly pose together

The negotiations were tense, but in the end, the Space Station agreed to stop calling the Moon "crater face," and the Moon agreed to stop talking about Flat Earth Theory.
You want to become as self-sufficient as possible. You want your own success and survival in life to be a function of your own agency - not controlled by a bunch of opaque institutions whose success has nothing to do with you.
Learn to grow food, cook well, repair your own home/vehicles, etc.
Physical commodities are also very valuable when the economy is in a downturn IMO - 500k worth of stocks is nifty and all, but you can actually _live_ and _survive_ in a 500k home, for instance.
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Want to go into the experience that is the near by Target?
Their best developers are employed to make money for the company by shoving more ads and gathering more insight on you, google ain’t a charity.
> With over a decade of modeling experience and building data science products I have never seen a product ship that relies on k-means and never seen analysis that isn't coming form someone junior in the field that relies on it.

I used it exactly once, and it worked quite well :) But that was because I was clustering 1-dimensional data, which has a globally-optimal solution and there was a fast implementation for it available (see my post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675594). So it was okay in that instance to brute-force check a lot of different cluster numbers and then post-process the results with some heuristics.
The walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating  “Change Password”
I had to do a deep dive on all of this and I found the actual letter of the law to be readable and in some cases surprisingly well written. You're surely looking for a quick one way or another answer and there's lots of comments with their own takes so I won't rehash any of that.

Just a plug for reading the actual law like you would read the source code. There are entire sections you can skip about requirements the regulators are under and you can focus on the burdens on data processors and controllers which is effectively what you would be classified as.

Have fun, it's really not so bad.

https://gdpr-info.eu/
The person they describe in the article is providing nothing to society. Only taking handouts and not using those handouts to better themselves, but instead continuing their life of crime and theft. No amount of extra help will lead them down a better path other than a long term mental institution (which we dont have anymore). They have betrayed the good will of the public providing those programs and jail is the only thing that will stop them at this point from continuing to lead a life of crime and theft.
I accidently submitted the github repository page an hour before the author submitted this. There are a few more comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30646371.