skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't support the law, but when was the law passed? How many people have been prosecuted under it in recent years?
> you’re lucky to get an international wire done in less than 2-5 days

LOL. Money can be sent internationally in a lot of places instantly. Hell, I've transferred six figures between the UK and Australia recently as well, and never waited more than a handful of hours for the mone to arrive.

This is such an enormous non-use-case for cryptocurrency it's hilarious.
For my environment it never ramps up in that mode at all. Ambient levels are never higher than 10ppm or so.

I know the sensor works because once there was a small bin fire outside. There was no visible smoke indoors, I only noticed a slight smell. But the purifier immediately ramped up and showed over 200ppm.. So it does work.

I'm surprised it's so low as I live at the 2nd floor on a fairly busy street with many diesel buses passing.
Screen readers often read things in particular ways that non-screen readers would interpret differently. One example that I've run into is using all caps to label something, like "ACCOUNT NAME". Screen readers will typically read out each letter individually instead of as a word. There could be other things, like describing field colors or something that are not as useful when audio only.
There’s a bunch of technical auction theory and ML stuff that’s semi-germane, but mostly it was Sheryl breaking ranks with a wage-fixing cartel. Google and Apple and Pixar and a dozen other companies have been found guilty in court of various “no poach” arrangements and other wage suppression collusion, and so here comes Sheryl offering twice the TC and raising the hiring bar accordingly. FB in 2008-2012 was harder to get into than Harvard and paid better. So we were better, and the novelty of the situation created a camaraderie that had everyone sleeping at the office with the singular focus of putting Vic G out of a job.

There’s a lot of structural nuance and important details but it was an absurdly elite group of people who hadn’t been disillusioned yet and we forced Google’s jaws open wide enough that there are now 2 panopticon ads businesses instead of 1.

Antonio García Martínez wrote a great book about it called “Chaos Monkeys” if you’re a long-form reader.
This is a controversial opinion, but I’ve been generally unimpressed with the performance of real world systems written in Rust or C++.

While the theoretical performance ceiling is higher, I’ve personally observed that it usually takes several times longer to write the systems in Rust/C++ and often the “naive” Rust implementation is less performant than the “naive” go implementation.

There are obviously cases where using Rust or C++ makes a lot of sense, but I prefer Go. I can get a performant prototype up and running quickly, the “critical path” can usually be micro optimized to within +/- 10% of Rust if you know what you’re doing, and by the time the Rust implementation matures the Go implementation has already had time to iterate repeatedly on key architectural, data structure, and algorithmic choices based on real world usage.

That’s just my 2cents though and doesn’t reflect the views of all the people I work with.
Well, it looks good!

I'm pretty convinced that as long as whatever-it-is looks the part, we don't care. And it could be tech like this, white goods (which are just a branding exercise), real estate even, and then even more ephemeral things like things we are presented with on screens. For most of us, even if we are holding something in our hands, how can we tell if is fake or not?
People seem to want to move in with everything aready done, shiny kitchen, fitted carpets, etc, etc. This would be great if houses were built like Toyotas - but they're not.
distant means younger means different composition (less heavy elements), dunno if that's the deal here though
You know what happens, though, this is one fake Chinese tube amplifier but what happens if someone makes a fake fake Chinese tube amplifier? At a certain point, like with miomg (either guerilla marketing on a blog, or an actual flash card with merit, or both), you just make the real thing. Like even cheap fake watches have a real 32.768 KHz oscillator inside, which are like 22 cents. That's better than almost all mechanical watches, and it's very hard to fuck that up, because it's the cheapest oscillator by far, and making even a fake watch is actual work, and because hey maybe maybe there's a repeat sale.

I'm considering buying this fake Chinese tube amp amplifier to figure out what's up, they used their smarts to fake the tube function, but those are still smarts. Might help with IP protection, ironically.
It is unreasonable to mandate, as it invites unnecessary corruption and bureaucracy into what is and is not affordable (specifically the location aspect of it).

The only thing that should happen, if the goal is to lower prices, is increase supply and/or lower demand. The supply can be increased by simply changing zoning to allow for much denser residences.
Lol he probably uses Truth Social unironically.
Mushroom Observer is the first that comes to mind, it doesn’t have an identification api but it does have tons of training data to build your own model

https://mushroomobserver.org/articles/20
cashflow? during the time it takes to plan and build the new house, you have to pay for that in addition to the place you're still living in.
I'm going to have to give this a try. I manage multiple Google Workspace accounts for clients and have stuck to Chrome for those as I have a profile set up for each account. Yes, you can log in to multiple Google accounts in any browser, but then it defaults to the first account for new windows.

The two final things that would get me off Chrome entirely:

* When I'm using my external USB microphone in a web-based conference system (mostly Cleanfeed but I've also seen it with Streamyard and Jitsi) my audio gets extremely robotic after a few minutes and it somehow impacts my entire system - I have to unplug the microphone to fix it.

* Dropbox, for some reason, hangs at 1 second left when uploading larger files (appx 60MB or so)
> Is this a thing in the United States? If not, why not?

So local entities govern building in the USA. I know that where I live, Boulder, has a requirement for affordable housing to be built in any new development, but also allows for the developer to pay cash in lieu of building the affordable housing. The cash is then used by other entities (non-profits, the city) to build affordable housing.

More here: https://bouldercolorado.gov/unit-cash-lieu-calculator

I don't know what other cities/local governments require, though.
I'm not in zoning, so no idea if this is already done, but it would be great to have a (probably national-level) standardized formula for calculating a transit credit for a development that could be applied to decrease required parking spaces.

I.e. having a light or heavy rail stop within 2 miles gives an X credit, having a grocery or mixed use commercial (food and services) within 2 miles gives a Y credit, having bike storage and lanes gives a Z credit

Essentially, attempt to quantify the holistic experience of residents, when talking about parking requirements.

If we make the kind of housing / communities we'd like to see cheaper, developers will start building it naturally.

Edit: From the linked Reddit post: "In January 2013, LA enacted its first major parking reduction, essentially giving developers the option of replacing up to 15% of their required residential parking with bike parking if they are within 1500ft of a major light rail or metro station. However, these bike spaces must be “long term” spaces, which require locked cages, a dedicated bike servicing area." (But also notes some requirements around the bike spaces that increase the cost of making that trade-off)
Most people who own homes either A) have most of their net worth tied up in it or B) have a levered position in its value via mortgage. And many people who don't own homes, especially younger people, have pretty much given up hope on being able to own their own home within their lifetimes. The rapid rise in housing prices and rents over the past couple decades means a lot of people are moving - their rents go up and their wages aren't keeping pace.

So, it's somewhat of a luxury to be able to form an emotional attachment to your home, without worrying about its effect on your finances.
You can get that salary remote in a LCOL area, but you do have to be in either "big tech" or a healthcare/energy/finance company.
The hard part about flat-packing walls of space habitats isn't the mechanical connections, it's the seals to hold in atmosphere. I don't see that addressed in the story.
No, cool projects in Github that are written in Rust but abandoned after some time.
If Apple and Sony couldn't fight RED on this, I doubt Nikon can either on the merits of these patents.

Of course, Nikon likely has an arsenal of camera patents with which to negotiate with RED so that might be different.
Not super familiar with Redis performance - is it much better than FDB for single machine?
Building your own housing usually means living either in the middle of nowhere or at the sprawling edge of suburbia. None of the places I would want to live have much, if any, empty developable land. So that would mean a tear down and rebuild of an existing house, which is a lot more expensive than just buying an existing house. Also, relatively modern building codes and zoning rules like setback requirements put new construction at a disadvantage compared to existing housing.
For species native to Europe there's the ObsIdentify app as well. It identifies not only plants, but birds, insects, mushrooms and other species groups too.

(disclaimer: I work there)
Ignore-sync: a command line tool to build and synchronize *ignore files
Genuinely curious on this—with port numbers only being 16 bits, how is it possible for one machine to ever handle more than 65k concurrent connections?
I'm a bit concerned that the free trial mentions "compute up to 1 vCPU / 256 MB"

Why would I need to worry about this for a serverless database provider?
If you had $100k to fund IoT research what would you fund?
It's only banned for the free tier.
I'd support of a constitutional amendment that makes housing (any form, from a farmhouse to a high-rise) a by-right land use across the entire United States.
Transporting X Joules of heat around by pumping water is definitely a lot more efficient than transporting the same heat energy around by blowing hot air. So pumping losses are much smaller.
I knew Patrick well and he was as far from a sadistic individual as one could imagine.

Yes, there are many dysfunctional organizations, but even if you work on a road crew, being able to speak clearly and have good ideas will help. You may not speak the same way a prof might speak at a faculty meeting, but people you’re speaking with should be able to understand what you’re talking about.
I don't really understand this. Is there much more to it than a new login in terms of network effects?
Zoning laws seem like the easiest single lever here. Government can change one thing and get out of the way (yes I'm naive here..)

The cities of the world that don't feel like they're enveloped in a housing crisis have opposite zoning restrictions to those that do - namely they restrict single-family homes and high rises, and permit that middle-sized building and also for existing single family homes to be converted into multiplexes.

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...
I genuinely do not understand where the money comes from for the number of very new BMWs, Mercs, Audis and Range Rovers on the roads comes from. It seems way out of step with my impression of "normal" salaries (in the UK).

I guess either it's a dangerous amount of finance or I'm just very underpaid. Not that's I'd buy a new car anyway, I'll let someone eat that five-digits depreciation thank you.
They do. And they die then.

I was at one in 2010 that did this - we found out before Christmas our salaries were getting cut in half, to ease burn rate while we found a buyer for the company.

In four months they couldn't even pay us that anymore.
A 7k-ton Broadway theater was hoisted 30 feet
Hi didn't mean to ghost ya. I should have given the disclaimer that I'm work at Bloomberg LP too.

I've seen & heard that percentage figure internally, especially as it's increased over the past decade. But I can't seem to find it in 10minutes of searching public documents.
Same! In retrospect I really should have sprung for the flight deck room
You’re forcing private businesses to take on contracts that they may not want. Totally unreasonable.

The only way to do this is to zone things certain ways. For instance, pass a law that says any building in a certain area needs to be a certain height and contain n% affordable units.
Yeah but then you don’t have to worry about the state getting out of sync which is one of the biggest problems. Also versioning is a pain
NASA's idea for making food from thin air just became a reality
Mozilla sells its users to Google, so no thanks

I'll stick with Chromium
It is inefficient, but it makes cheating much harder (but unfortunately still possible, it will never be possible to prevent it completely).
It's not really about preferring SF, but preferring it at twice the home price (or whatever the actual gap is). It's hard to justify that if not forced to live there for work
Before it's adoption with the scientific community, Python still had a place as "Better perl for scripting" and "Dynamic language for webapps if you don't like Ruby". e.g. Reddit, YouTube and Eve Online are notable apps written in Python before scientific Python was a thing.

Reddit and Eve are interesting in being largely stuck with the now-dead platforms they built on too, in the form of web.py and Stackless Python. YouTube I presume the original Python application is gone in favour of a bunch of Go and Java microservices by now.

It's interesting as someone who was in the Python for web development camp as Python for scientific computing took off as the two camps were both oblivious to the existence of the other in many cases.
I think the trade offs of a stateless terraform would be favored by many
GraphJin – GraphQL to SQL Compiler
There is no level of pm2.5 that is considered safe to breathe, and it is easy to find out levels in your area so make your own call based on that.

It will be a placebo if your home cannot be isolated from outside air or if you don't make an effort to keep windows closed when air is bad.

Also, many expensive purifiers are overpriced junk compared to even simple DIY solutions like those found on particlecounting Tumblr and similar. Ideally the first thing to do is get some reputable air quality monitors.
Another example in Colorado:

http://theairplanerestaurant.com/index.htm
> whether it can be more flagrantly wrong about finance or distributed systems research

It's funny, because cryptocurrency 'investors' often seem to occupy the intersection between those naive on economics and those naive about technology (particularly distributed systems and databases).
It's only you: in Russia developers build huge amounts of affordable housing (good mass transit availability, small/tiny units, high rise buildings) and get a lot of criticism for that.

Critics focusing on poor aesthetics of high/wide buildings, lack of greens and parking spaces, overload of civil infrastructure such as child care/schools. But it's quite obvious you can't have all of that taken care of and keep the existing price tag. Speaking of which, a basic studio apartment on the outskirts of SPb could cost you as few as 20k$ a few years back, especially if bought early in development cycle (which does carry some risks).
For those unfamiliar with Rust, the Rust language and a lot of the foundational ecosystem are dual-licensed with MIT and Apache. For any Rust project, this is not a surprising default for the licensing choice.

Here’s a good discussion on it: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rationale-of-apache-dual-l...
> Valgrind is easier, but for real-time applications I've found that it takes a huge performance hit for some reason, at least the last time I used it.

It does, because it runs the app in an emulator.

What I did in the past (around 2005) was to write replacement malloc/calloc/realloc/free calls, put them into a libmymalloc.so, and then set LD_PRELOAD to point to libmymalloc.so.

This way I could switch between my malloc routines and the system malloc routines without recompiling the program.
> I'm starting to see broken sites

> Our only hope is Mozilla takes their head out of their arse and start working on their browser

Are you reporting these to the webcompat project? Mozilla is absolutely funding QA testers and engineers to check what's broken and triage issues that affect specific browsers and not others.

They've handled 103k issues: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...

A great number of the issues that Mozilla contractors and employees investigate that are reported via the webcompat project actually turn out to be the site owner's fault. They're not using standardised web technologies, not testing their work in multiple browsers. Mozilla employees and contractors will try to perform outreach to these site owners, but they're often not interested.
I have to spend all day trapped in meetings and arguing with people and get to spend very little time doing what I enjoy

The only "have to" in life is death. I've been in situations like you describe as a lead, choose another role or choose a better story for yourself. Lead positions are hard for the very reasons you describe, they don't offer the immediate dopamine hit of typing code into your IDE or lining up commits throughout the day. It does take an extra degree of learned faith to understand your impact on the team. As the saying goes "manage it or it will manage you." Do you block off 1hr on your calendar every day to do things you want/enjoy like coding or skill improvement?
A connection is the tuple {source_ip, source_port, dest_ip, dest_port}
> we really integrated S3 into the storage

Will it be possible to use something else in place of S3? I'm thinking on-premise or what some would call a private cloud.
Depends on the use case. If it is a GUI library project then yes.
It's water. Or, if you want to be pedantic, a mixture of water and glycol as a fungicide and antibacterial agent.
These are the types of regulations that backfire with unintended consequences. Off the top of my head you're going to probably reduce the amount of home builders off the bat. Even if its just upper-end builders, less options at the top of the market will cause high end price increases and then buying down the ladder ultimately raising the price for all housing.
They are older, so they had less time to produce heavier elements. Additionally lighter stars live longer, so it may be that the heavy stars just burned out in nearby galaxies.
They already exist. The market for SAAS Jupyter is already crowded. Azure Notebooks, Github Codespaces, Kaggle Kernels, AWS SageMaker, CoCalc, Datalore, Binder...
Projects that don't pencil don't get built. Constraints are costs and reduce the number of projects that make sense. There is only one way out of our housing crisis and it's removing constraints to construction. The biggest of those constraints right now is zoning law and the planning approval process that it creates.
Connections must have unique IP:Port pairs between client and server. You're limited to 65K concurrent connections for the same client. In practice, no one is opening that many connections from a single client.
This is a lot of fun. I discovered that you can click-spin the inner gear to rotate it in place without drawing (so you can keep your place to start with a new radius hole).
I use Musikcube a lot, it works great on macOS and Linux, and is snappy even on very cheap or old systems. It has very good mouse support (if your terminal emulator supports it), it's the first time I saw a TUI app with a right click menu, or that you can scroll through.

My one major complaint is that there is no way I know of to import/export playlists: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/issues/141

Another similar program I use when I am unable or unwilling to install musikcube for some reason is cmus: https://cmus.github.io/
Thank you for explaining. There must be a better term than serverless though. "Auto-scaled cloud database" would be more accurate, for example
> setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device

I think you're underestimating how lucrative spyware is.

Remember, Google is basically funded entirely by spyware and 'spyservices'. Data is the new gold. Unfortunately it's your data and someone else's gold :(
> The final piece is the code and the sensing that’s allowing these tiles to detect their own status with their neighbors and to make decisions around whether they should be staying together or separating.

I wouldn't want my house on land to have a built in "just fall apart, lol" mechanism that can be activated by software, and I certainly wouldn't want one when floating about in space.

It seems to me that self-organisation of space habitats is putting the cart somewhat ahead of the horse when humanity only has two habitats of any kind, one is scheduled to fall to Earth within the decade and the other one is Tiangong and I don't see any imminent red carpets to other nations there any time soon.
Even with an infinitely fast client computer, the server shouldn't accept infinite ticks from one player before processing ticks from another.
A lot of people get a new car as a company benefit. And you can get a new BMW from like £27k they aren't that expensive.
Keeping existing generation capacity is the very problem. We had blackouts because we kept the existing capacity.

So your proposal of not doing anything and waiting it out will not work. Especially since we need to phase out all that natural gas as soon as possible.

Stop mining is not performed for lithium. Slavery is not required for it either. There have been concerns about child labor for cobalt, but that's not a concern for LFP batteries that would be used for stationary storage.

And even though you say your proposal isn't to stop renewables, you say priority #1 is that we do research rather than deploy our current technology, and trot out easily solvable talking points to avoid taking action.

This sort of status-quo bias is the exact problem in California. Keeping existing infrastructure is causing the problems. Keeping the same infrastructure doesn't mean keeping the same quality of life when the climate is changing, it means worsening quality.

The magnification and amplification of any flaws in a new system, rather than properly weighing it against the massive massive harm kf the current system, is the very heat of California's bad decision making.
Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers?
Mostly discussion on personal views of some of the big names in the industry. I found it interesting to see both sides of the opinion. Thanks for the link!
that explains how it was possible for the developers of Diablo 1 to turn the game from turn-based to real-time in a single afternoon :)

yes, originally it was developed as turn-based and I often wonder if that's one reason why the animations are sooo satisfying. But could be that they simply had great animators.
While I am inclined to personally agree with your sentiment, I don't think I have better insights than Richard Sutton:
http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."