skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Americans always do the right thing after exhausting all other options."

I lived in the Bay Area from 1999 to 2014. I didn't leave because of crime or homelessness; I just got bored and wanted a change of scenery. Every few years I visit.

And every time I visit, I can't believe what I see in terms of the increase of the homeless, tent cities, drug use.

But the place I live now has also changed radically in the same ways in the same timeframe, just on a smaller scale. And this place is considerably less liberal than San Francisco.

I don't think the whole "left/right" fight covers it, and prevents progress by distracting us from the underlying, difficult issues. There's almost certainly at least one more axis here that we're not considering.
Integrate Bitcoin into your business and all the arguments in the write up just unwind.
Is NFT art any good?
EU lawmakers back effective ban on new fossil-fuel cars from 2035
Yes but it would be quiet expensive infrastructure wise. Also i think numbers of website grows faster then processor io meaning one would need more and more processors with time.
EU Lawmakers Uphold Ban on New Combustion Engine Cars by 2035
Yes, as stated, just like with the side stick/yoke it’s a superficial difference - but since you were making your case with pictures - whether they look similar or not really has to do with how detail oriented you are.

Though you ignore the relevant point made about the autopilots. The entire workflow of the flight computers differs. And ask any pilot type certified in both, they typically have preferences.

I’m not arguing these need to be made more standard but there’s a continuum where at one extreme the standardization is so rigid that muscle memory transfers from type to type. That’s not the case here at all.
I wouldn't say that shuddering at open drug use on the streets indicates a sheltered world view.

Why would you? I just said that addicts and homeless people are on the street. Before covid, there was, and still is, an opioid epidemic. It sucks how we got here and it sucks that it's where we're at and it sucks that nearly all levels of government have failed to address it properly. It sucks that while some people have the means to deal with it on their, a lot of people run out of options and end up on the street. I'm happy that where you live you don't have to see the effects of it, but despite your anecdata, it's still issue and it doesn't mean the people affected by it aren't normal in some way.
I stopped using macOS when my recently-purchased M1 MacBook Pro became irreparable following a latte spill (capillary action pulled liquid into the display, and Apple refused to supply Rossmann Repair Group with the replacement part).

I’m switching to Haiku on non-Apple hardware. I am sick of being ripped off with unrepairable shiny junk, then peppered with notifications, which are nothing more than ads for Apple services.

If you add up the cost of all of Apple’s scamming every year, how many years would it take to buy a really nice CNC rig that lets you make your own stuff?
How is it a deflection? This same topic has been seen when it was victims of other demographics. Most recently there has been scrutiny of the actions where a homeless man jumped into water and drowned while talking to police, and the delay in entry for the Uvalde school shooting.

This "factoid" is not random. This is a pattern that we continue to see, that affects many demographics. We need to eliminate these misconceptions so that people know their rights and options. Maybe that will help curb the future damage, or at least allow people to make decisions based on reality.
> ...she and her girlfriends used to ride their horses up to SAIL, then went in and stole candy from the Prancing Pony.

In isolation this is a rather surreal thing to read as fact rather than fantasy.

As an aside, it seems like there was a lot more quirkiness in academia in the previous century. While the SAIL and MAC stories seem more quirky than typical for academia, it's not hard to find contemporary pockets of weirdness in any discipline.

To me it feels just another part of how the world has gotten smaller over my lifetime.
Hmm, cool project idea but if the subject doesn't know you're doing this, it is a bit weird to stalk their online footprint.

Unless you mean the person is a professional restaurant reviewer and you like their opinion.

Oh well, good luck either way.
what would be the point?

Isn't constructive dismissal just a way to get unemployment, and you would get unemployment anyways with a layoff or involuntary termination?
The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)
It became a job when companies started paying six figures to entry-level candidates. And to be honest, if I were paying that to someone, I would also like to have 4 or 5 people from my company to talk to them. Doesn't sound unreasonable.
‘Use a different wallet every time’ only works if you don’t think about it.

If you’re a company you need to pay your employee, vendors etc. Tracking down all related transactions is not that hard.

My guess is they wouldn’t even attempt to stay anonymous that way since they don’t have to and it doesn’t work anyway (for an organization like them)
> > the only way to escape this garbage system is to blow it up.

> How so? Countries with blown-up systems typically become more shitty, not less.

1775 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

(I'm not saying anything one way or t'other, just pointing out a
little history)
'Napalm Girl' at 50: The story of the Vietnam War's defining photo
That's what makes it so hard. If I had to describe what "the real problem" is today it's that the capture of the state by powerful interests undermines the legitimacy of the state and limits the state's ability to face hard problems like climate change.
They are closed source and don't participate in the community any more. We're working on our own multiplayer functionality that will hopefully be less buggy and more flexible.
If you get NULL, you are supposed to call GetLastError to get information on what happened.
Part of the difficulty you're dealing with is just learning how a new system works. There are reasons for this friction, you really dont want your inhouse CA to mess up and issue an invalid cert, you want to make sure that each of your several thousand VMs are running the correct up-to-date OS and are on the correct hardware. Once you've learned how to negotiate the new environment a lot of this "friction" will be less painful.
Solar, Powerwall, Megapack, Autobidder?
I think you have a problem with understanding any kind of nuance. "There are sometimes you should get consent before treatment and sometimes you don't need it" != "treatment without consent is fundamentally flawed"
A strong tendency to split seems to be a feature of the left in general.
>This is said a lot online, but I'd like some concrete examples.

I think that really depends on which policies you're considering to determine how liberal or conservative a country is.

If you're looking at things like Universal Healthcare, Reproductive Rights (which you mentioned, interestingly- but skirted over the fact that they are likely being rolled back to being illegal at any stage past fertilization in many states- much more conservative than other countries), College tuition, universal basic income or workers rights, the US is objectively conservative.
> * Treat others as you would like others to treat you (positive or directive form)

>* Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated (negative or prohibitive form)

Funny, that's a "highest law" similar to the Wiccan Rede(1) and a sensible life goal as well.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan_Rede
Your comment said:

> Likewise. If their co-whatever wrote all the code, they sound like the employee. Bosses, visionaries, and founders typically don't write code, they delegate it to people who do.

I think it is a fair criticism to your comment... the comment made it sound like writing code precludes someone from being a founder/owner. Pointing out examples where founders/owners wrote code shows the statement isn't true. The fact that the other cofounder wrote all the code has no bearing on whether they are a real founder or not.
Did you consider using Flutter? If yes, what made you choose against it?
> But surely you can see that the latency question is a question of letting the Moore's law equivalent of cloud commoditizing infrastructure take its course. If it's not good enough today, then wait 5 years and check back again.

Wait, speed of light also improves exponentially?
Do you have any plans of open-sourcing the UI framework?
You are very welcome. Although in my haste I mixed my metaphors up!

Not sure if Atom was a fruit that grew into an orchard or a seed that grew into a garden. How about both?
Part of the beauty of BigCo is you are being paid to deal with the inefficiency. You have two options sit back, rest and vest or try and streamline things (often a political rather than technical endeavor).

Both can be lucrative journeys.
We plan to compile to WebAssembly that writes pixels to a WebGL canvas.
I agree with the core of your argument but I think it's more complicated. If SS weren't important criminals would move onto something else. If you stop going after criminals would there be more or less SS theft?

If the solution is to phase out whatever criminals are using against people then you'll just be on a different path that never ends.
That's a really good point actually;

Nothing prevents us using alternative interpreters for rc.d, ones with hooks for process supervision, hooks for something akin to cgroups, centralised logging and so on.

But as a user who makes init scripts: you can do anything, which is pretty liberating when you really think about it.
Can This US Artillery Stop the Russian War?
If only Republicans would use their nearly infinite influence to do something we can all get behind
Also want to second this. The team behind the code is much more important than the code itself.
No, the real (not topsy-turvy) logic behind GPs statement is "garbage in, garbage out", or "you can't trust a statistics unless you know how reliable the inputs are".
Good start mixing together communism with socialism (which can nicely coexist with capitalism).

And then let me add a nice data point that won't fit your nice narrative: Sweden.
While not quite as socialist nowadays compared to maybe in the sixties, but it is still quite a lot more socialist than the US and is actually a pretty decent country to live and work in.
To be clear, I want these militias for defence against external invaders, not to protect people from the US government.
Credit card numbers aren't supposed to be private, are they? We use them all the time to send money. It's the expiry date and the CVC that should be kept secret, but even then 3dsecure is a thing.
Actually, you're kind of off base. The first responders couldn't have been nicer. The firemen, EMTs, and policemen who responded were very kind and courteous. They didn't restrain me in the ambulance or anything. I thought I was being rescued and taken somewhere safe. I was not. It was the mental health infrastructure that was abysmal, not the first responders.
If this is a breakup situation, it's also possible to highlight that the OP would not be effective in the new company - and that maintaining the existing corporate structure would be suboptimal for the other founder.

Now, there is a separate question here of why the other founder wants to use this code in their new venture. Are they interested in the branding etc. from the OP? Is the staffing agency truly orthogonal? There might be "interesting" arrangements to be made for a new corporate structure via affiliate marketing etc.
> no upside for you to let it get you angry, which hurts no one but you.

I agree there is no upside to allowing it to create stress or upset. However that does not mean there isn't a common good upside to taking action to dissuade such actors.

For example refusing to use the services of companies which have treated you badly, either as a customer or a candidate.

For example 2, publicly naming and shaming companies which are profiting off tragedy of commons social goods which polite behavior typically falls.
well..rumors of 1 way bus tickets to LA...

Small town police departments are notorious for running "undesirables" out of their town...redlining and zoning keeping certain people from buying real estate...things like that.
Warning: personal rant first, maybe helpful point of view at the end:

rantish story

I work at a BIG Co (think 700k+ global employees) and we work for other Big(ish) Co as more or less data & code wrangling consultants.

How did I end here? I worked for a small(ish) agency with around 500 people. We moved fast, we build cool stuff, we already to worked for the Big Companies and Banks in our market (Germany). We were at a point were quite a few more formal processes would have been necessary to put into place to fulfill compliance regulations of different markets (think banking or automotive - these require a lot of stuff in terms of compliance from their vendors).

But we got lucky (?) and bought because BIG Co was not able to build their own agency - so they bought a lot of agencies to build a new one.

In the "good ol' days" I knew whom to ask to get anything done. There was an official process and the ones in the know knew how to navigate the short cut. Ask the right person, receive special treatment and be on your way flying fast.

OK - it made the process longer for the lowlies who didn't know the right people. And that is exactly the problem. There already was a two class society of workers. Because we already were too big for "no process" and too small for BIG Co process (and that drags us down nowadays). But the people following the process unbeknown to them got blocked by us knowing the shortcut.

So yeah - it feels shitty and slow and probably as if someone wants to gauge ones eyeballs out with a hot branding iron.

maybe helpful POV

But think of it like this:

Try to transport a 20 foot container on a high power speed boat. The speed boat will be way faster, more agile, more flexible. But if a somewhat bigger wave appears it will crash. And it will also not be able to deliver that much impact (containers) as the big ship once it arrives in the harbor.
It would be awesome if we could get to a point where with some combination of GPT3+Dalle2/Imagen we could feed it a task and it would spit out a game version that accomplished that very thing.
Be handy if it import my pocket data.

I like pocket, and I pay for premium, but it's really only link/content storage, it doesn't do anything smart so I am looking for an alternative that indexes/links the info in smart ways.
They did release a paper where they said there are more important measures of AI than minimizing error, and that was ease of use and real world impact.
Maybe you aren't looking at the loss of $11M earning potential in your career. Trauma can end a person for all practical purposes.
People will like it, but i’d not use that format: it’s cumbersome. Instead, you could try eg.

COLOR r,g,b

Or add CSS like functions:

COLOR rgba(…)
CPU inference, even of large transformers, is usually cheaper and is viable with enough strong CPUs.
> "Groups under a certain size (Dunbar * ?) can be managed socially with personal reputation and shame and shunning and all that."

You're just trading one hierarchy for another; an official and overt hierarchy traded for an unspoken social popularity hierarchy. Like students in highschool, officially everybody is on the same footing with each other. But in reality the pecking order exists and is rigidly enforced through 'personal reputation and shame and shunning and all that.' Nasty and manipulative people often rise to the top in this sort of environment.
Much fewer users though... If Dwarf Fortress magically had the UX they are working on now back in 2012 it would be worth at least $50million+

Now, the fact they skipped working on the UX until now allowed Tarn to implement very difficult crazy features Z-level fortress layers and Fluid Dynamics.
That’s been one of the strategies to help me cope with my ADD: turning my most visited services into standalone apps, and forbid to open links outside the domain in those apps.

I use Fluid in Mac, although IIRC there was a non trivial way to create them using Firefox.
Without Tesla we would have not much better than a Nissan Leaf or a Renault Zoe.
> In the US the commercial competitors would have sued the government for anti-competitive practices if they had sponsored Blender.

Can you give an example of where this happened?
Perhaps not all BigCos are the same? Mine is by no means a startup but stuff like internal SSL certs and similar are mostly self-service and instantaneous. On the other hand if you wanted to delete an unused parameter on a revenue-impacting code path you'd be in for a fun couple of quarters.
Sugar biochemically induces gluttony and laziness
There has recently been a lot of great work on making homomorphic encryption more practical for particular applications. We definitely stand on the shoulders of all that work!

One reason homomorphic encryption has a reputation as absurdly slow is that people typically talk about “fully” homomorphic encryption, which essentially means that you can compute an arbitrarily large function on the encrypted data. This involves a very expensive process called bootstrapping, which incurs a roughly ~15 ms cost per binary operation evaluated. As you can imagine, that adds up.

This work uses “leveled” homomorphic encryption, where we only perform a function of ‘bounded’ size (that is, the homomorphic dot product). So, we do not have to perform bootstrapping, and thus avoid some of the more extreme costs.

The other reason this work is practical is that we ‘tailored’ our construction to the particular problem of private information retrieval. When people try to apply homomorphic encryption generically to their problem, they typically end up with disappointingly slow and expensive results. Cool work on better ‘FHE compilers’ so in progress, so hopefully that will also help!
Glad to see that someone remembered FreeHand. It was much better than Ilustrator, this is why Adobe killed it.
Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module
> Groups under a certain size (Dunbar * ?) can be managed socially with personal reputation and shame and shunning and all that.

In the absence of a (strong) state, those sorts of groups will just become clans/tribes that act like a proto-state. Just look at the problems of governance in Afghanistan.
Why use and editor when you can use an operating system? Really love all the editing options. It's a good time to be a developer.
> Treating someone with mental illness effectively requires compassion. If being put on a psychiatric hold is a unnecessarily traumatic experience, you prevent some short term harm while causing long term damage. Not only do you add additional trauma that complicates recovery but you teach those in need of help to hide their suffering as long as possible.

This is where you demanded perfection.

Empathy and compassion are not the only values and the result of treating them as such is negative.
Isn't Donald Trump a Republican, and a real estate developer? He's the kind of guy who can "deal with homeless" in a very real way, by building stuff - and make a profit while doing it. Win-win!
Welcome to the real world. We don't have cookies, they were cut as a part of a cost saving package signed by the corporate.
No, it's not. Estonia solved it by issuing ID cards with a private key that signs for a public key identifier. [1] Then proving your identity requires the presence of the physical token rather than just the identifier. Unfortunately most Western nations are so embroiled in bureaucracy that this obvious solution will not be available for a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card
On the current macOS, the screenshot can be edited/annotated when it's previewed on the mac or on a nearby iPad where it automagically appears (with edits propagating back to the mac).

Something similar is available in the more modern Windows 'snipping tool' feature (win-shift-s) but without the tablet magic.
> Linux, generally speaking, has a much nicer upgrade story. FreeBSD's works, but having to reboot and run freebsd-update multiple times during a major upgrade is annoying.

This also annoyed me so I implemented one reboot way with ZFS Boot Environments - described here in details:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/upgrade-freebsd-wi...

Sometimes its even possible to upgrade without reboot as beadm(8) supports the 'reroot' feature. If you kernel did not upgraded - then you do not need to reboot - just reroot:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/zfs-boot-environme...

Regards.
I feel that we were well on our way to a cross-platform, web-based future before mobile smartphones arrived around 2007. Also CSS and frameworks like Angular and React really derailed browser progress because they convinced everyone to use recycler views by hand instead of just making tables and the DOM itself more performant and memory-efficient in the browser itself.

I may be wrong in the moment, but I base my arguments on trends. Processing power, storage costs and bandwidth are always improving. So human productivity should always take priority over efficiency as time progresses.

I'd vote for a real Web 3.0 based on first principles like declarative and data-driven programming, idempotence, immutability, one-shot scripting (perhaps even a Turing-INcomplete DSL) for initial render without side effects (like CSS variables but for HTML), dynamic element loading with something like HTMX, secure server-side includes, distributed databases using Paxos/Raft, even distributed computing with a real Docker that provides an actual secure sandbox and repeatable builds of untrusted secure/private code (maybe with something like homomorphic encryption). I can go on and on about what real (not phantom) tech looks like. And it looks nothing like SPAs.

Also I think a lot of people recognize the need for this stuff, so ideas aren't the problem. The problem is, always has been, and always will be funding. In fact, my single greatest disappointment about the modern web is that stuff like advertising and eBay got coopted so there was never a viable way to make enough residual income to live on after the Dot Bomb around 2000/2001. The closest things we have are Uber and donating plasma. So we have a generation of highly-effective programmers spending the most productive years of their lives at a day job making rent, which is why rent increases. Hustling without understanding that the hustle itself is the failure when viewed through this lens.

Blah I dunno why I write this obvious stuff anymore. It just ain't never gonna happen. It may as well be impossible. Or I should say, it may take another 20 years to get here, and I just don't think we have that long anymore.
For sure, re: Access and a relational database tool being important. If somebody ever manages to make a web-based Microsoft Access clone (that actually works) they'll make billions.

It's fun help a "savvy" Excel user understand how a relational database can reduce their byzantine VLOOKUP-based fever dreams into simple joins. Typically if somebody can grok VLOOKUP-fueled nightmares they can grok SQL pretty quickly and will actually appreciate what it can do for them.
Their “customers” deal with monopoly, that you’ll be imprisoned for life or killed if you’d like to challenge it.

There’s 0 value in comparing police to tech workers.