skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the rest of the comments, I was wondering if I missed something. I use awesome-rss firefox extension [1] to discover RSS feeds on firefox. I maintain a list of feeds using elfeed-org and follow them using elfeed on Emacs. It's clean and extremely fast - especially while searching. Granted that it isn't really beginner friendly. But there are nice beginner-friendly alternatives like liferea too. Here are somethings that confuse me while reading these sorts of articles and discussions:

1. I don't see why they say browsers killed RSS/atom feeds. The only casualty was the discoverability of those feeds (like the discontinued live bookmarks on Firefox). But it is easy enough to restore it using extensions like awesome-rss, if you care enough. And I find a lot of dedicated feed reader applications catering to all sorts of users.

2. I don't understand how twitter and firefox killed RSS/Atom feeds. I find it extremely tedious to search for meaningful information with them. These sites are full of material designed to hold your attention captive while frustrating your efforts at finding worthwhile material. In contrast, RSS/Atom is information dense, easy to search, narrow and archive.

3. There is no dearth of RSS/Atom feeds on the web. Every good news website news site seems to host one. Almost all the blog engines and static site generators automatically generate them without any configuration or intervention. I find my feedlist growing very large overtime.

4. It also appears like many people associate RSS/Atom feeds with an online service like feedreader or (the dead) Google reader. My understanding is that you don't need an online service to aggregate feeds. An intermittently online desktop/mobile client can do it just the same. I haven't noticed an RSS/Atom client ever failing to aggregate a feed. The only thing I found missing was an automatic way to share and synchronize the feed list itself - though it's easy enough to implement with something like syncthing. Am I missing something here?

For me, twitter, FB etc are inferior to RSS/Atom feeds in every conceivable way - with the exception of lack of a discussion forum. I too find the death proclamation of RSS/Atom a bit of an overstatement.

[1] https://github.com/shgysk8zer0/awesome-rss

[2] https://lzone.de/liferea/
U.S. pundits: Please stop trying to concede on Ukraine's behalf
didn't echonest used to do this?
The existing replies to this comment of yours make it apparent why “/s” is still necessary :)
>you get oil processing plants built next door to elementary schools

Do you have any examples? This doesn't seem likely to me.
> Don't you pay something like 60% taxes for this?

Noone pays 60% tax, the UK taxation is at a similar level to the US for most people, they will pay between a 20% and 30% effective rate although there are progressive bands.
Highly recommend Nand2Tetris. I completed it a few months ago as a relatively non-technical person (I had only taken CS50 as my first CS class ever in 2020) and learned a ton.
The state finally letting teens sleep in
Already done. Long ago.

Within two months of Starbucks' big attention-grabbing press release about public bathrooms and charging points, the Starbucks where I lived installed keypad locks on the restrooms and bolted metal covers over all of the power outlets.

Recently, the Starbuckses where I live have removed all of the seating, and now refuse to give water to homeless people.

Starbucks' increasing hostility toward human beings is the reason I no longer go there for myself. Only when I'm picking up something for my wife.

There are even Starbucks locations now that are drive-through only, with the sidewalk-facing side just a door for the employees and a lot of blacked out glass where a cafe should be. Great way to destroy a neighborhood, Starbucks!
Gas prices hit $5 national average after rapid rise
I missed your other response!

That one and this one are both quite interesting to me - my focus isn’t signals and systems. Thanks!

I was just thinking that the (3D) vector approach would be a good start along the path to mathematical maturity in linear transformations.
Depends on where you are in the country. Some states, particularly ones with executive-style county governments, have started making these stronger forms of government, and in others the spread of the transit network is functionally tying municipalities together more strongly in a similar way.
That's confusing.
It would be interesting to know how much was the Google cloud bill at the end of the computation.
How the housing market is yanking the ‘American dream’ increasingly out of reach
Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. Rates have been rising and are widely expected to continue rising. If that is the case then home prices will fall over the next few years.
Sorry; I know it can be done because I've seen systems (live CDs?) do it (they even had a nice menu where you could click the wm you wanted IIRC), but I never learned details.
I think there is a deeper truth behind this observation. At least we know that smarter people often have larger brains, better control of alpha-rhythm, better fronto-parietal gamma synchronization, longer dendrites.
It is plausible to hypothesize that all these differences add up to larger representational capacity and better separation of concept representations, which subjectively could feel like less brain fog while performing demanding mental tasks.
Yeah, I was aware of these and while it’s pretty crazy, I also used to drive with a radar detector detector detector[1] so it’s not like electronic warfare with the police is an alien concept to me. I just thought Britain was too polite to literally threaten people with SWAT teams over unpaid TV licenses.

[1] A radar detector is used to detect police radars, which are used to catch speeders. Police responded with radar detector detectors, which detect radar detectors, which are legal but police don’t like them. The citizen countermeasure, built into your better radar detectors, is the radar detector detector detector, which detects radar detector detectors and can additionally protect your radar detector from itself being detected. I am not aware of the successful invention of a radar detector detector detector detector.
I don't want to be that guy, but with all the things Elon is saying and doing, why does it feel like this is a coordinated attack against Elon?
This does not reflect my experience with autopilot. I've found it to be incredibly reliable and convenient.
Make good friends. The beauty of a university campus is subject matter experts on anything are close by.

I used to think that Internet would make this easier but it's not the same as running into friends(with diff expertise) on campus everyday. You share your day to day probs. They share theirs. And connections across knowledge maps stored in different chimp brains happen.
It's also the question of what the burned CPU cycles actually buy. Cycles burned on testing buy us less buggy programs. Cycles burned on your CPU that do stuff like out-of-bounds checks or garbage collection also do that.

But most of them are burned on layers upon layers of abstraction that do not actually do anything useful safety- or correctness-wise; they're there solely because we've turned code reuse into a religion. Which wouldn't be bad by itself, if that religion had a firm commandment to not reuse bad solutions - yet that is exactly what we keep doing, again and again, patching it all with the software engineering equivalents of duck tape and glue to keep it all from falling apart. Why is C still at the bottom of virtually every software stack we run? Why do we keep writing desktop apps in HTML/JS? Does a simple app really need 20 dependencies of uncertain quality?

JavaScript is a good example. It's not a bad language because it's high-level - to the contrary, that's the best part of it! It's a bad language because, despite being high-level, it still gives any user ample opportunities to mess things up by accident. We need something just as (if not more) high level but better for general-purpose software development.
If you dump some stat points into Inland Empire then you're pretty likely to think just about anything could be sentient, even some horrific necktie.
If I didn't have showdead, I'd have no idea about videogrep or PainfullyNormal's comment (which I cannot vouch for to comment in thanks, or upvote, its just [dead])

Admins - Get rid of whatever behavior gets random people on blocklists, or at least make it finite in duration. I was told by Dan to stop mentioning this when I see it (which is unethical in my opinion), but its just sad how often it happens now. Even an asshole is right sometimes (not saying this guys an asshole).
The issue with everybody saying "just add housing" is that SF is becoming unappealing as a place to live for other reasons too. Rampant crime and homeless are big issues. Nobody wants to move to a city with the level of crime that SF now has, when that city is also seriously talking about defunding the police.
See the GP's comment about SGI- SGI cases were still some kind of box or tower, but usually with curvy accents and bright colors at least. Otherwise, I wish I had managed to pick up a NeXT when they were not as rare as they are now. Apple of course didn't make any regular-looking towers or desktops while Steve Jobs was in control. Sun tried a bunch of different form factors in the Sparcstation line, but they were generally all beige boxes of some sort or another. In IBM-compatibles, there were... not many I can recall that stood out. IBM themselves had some slightly unusual designs in the PS/2 series, like the model 25, but nothing that was particularly nice-looking.

Curious what other people have to say about other IBM compatibles in this regard. I have a lot of computers but haven't seen everything yet.
It is but a given task may easily benefit from placement of its central tools on the primary monitor and subsidiary components on adjacent monitors.

Without workspaces this means re-arranging even more windows yet to accomplish this task switching.
> I'm on the opinion of, if you need a house, buy a house - because you do need a place to live.

If you have the luxury of being able to live anywhere (e.g. 100% remote work, or no need for work), there are some exceptionally affordable places to rent housing until the market cools and it's a better time to buy. I don't think it makes sense to buy high unless you have very limited options.
emacs with org mode helps me run an org
Pretty sketchy article there, bud.
My concern with these is that for commercial use, they're generally designed to be brighter and more eye-catching, so it's hard to get that "picture frame" look like the Samsung Frame has when it's in standby mode (I still honestly don't know how they do it because I've experimented with all the backlight/contrast/other settings on other displays and it doesn't look anywhere near as good, whereas with the Frame, people are often legitimately surprised that it's a TV). I'd also assume that commercial applications also aren't interested in low power consumption. Some of the "digital signage" displays I look at are like 200W where the Frame claims a 0.5W standby.
not necessarily. A lot of demand many areas is due to people paying in cash , such as the Bay Area. Also, real estate did well in the 90s despite rising interest rates, same for 2007-2018.
If it had been anyone else I'd agree. But Blow is very much the strawman depicted.
> Home prices will also continue to rise over time.

Glad to hear I'll be priced out of home ownership for the rest of my life! Hopefully zoomers will be okay with living in tents and vans
Autopilot doesn’t merge or change lanes on it’s own. That only happens with “Navigate on autopilot” which is a FSD feature not part of basic autopilot.
It is the best time to buy if you got a lot of cash.
Yes, it's the worst time to buy a house. We're at the peak of the bubble, and things are about to start heading down hill. I anticipate that people who bought within the last 6 months will probably end up under water within a year or two.
It seems pretty clear that I was advocating a position of nonaggression, not nonviolence. I think extreme escalation of violence is the most effective response to aggression.

> people you deem unworthy

I'm not deeming anyone "unworthy". I'm just pointing out that humans who act literally like dangerous animals should be treated as such. To me, humanity is a mode of behaviour, not an irrevocable trait.
Plenty of room (and bbq) down here, we'd be happy to have y'all.
To be honest, I was always on the “AirTags are harmless” side until reading your perspective. You are probably right that making the UX so simple and coming from a trusted brand will enable many more people to misuse the technology.

Ultimately, I think it comes down to the question: is this harmful enough that we should regulate it? Answering that involves weighing the benefits against the harms.

AirTags have plenty of legitimate uses and benefits. Stories such as this article show a very real downside to the technology, but isolated stories are not a great way to make an evaluation. Doom, gloom and death will always make a more compelling story than a million people saving 5 minutes finding their keys.
Ask HN:How come Git clone defaults to be all commits instead the last
How come git clone defaults to be all commits instead of the opposite one, only download the last

How many percent the success chance of app. build if use the last commit only, isn' it as well perfect as 100% too ?

How to contact and tell, ask feature the Github worker/authority to set it to default to the last
There's value to generational continuity, though--again, particularly for marginalized communities. One of the ways gentrification makes its way in is during these kinds of estate liquidations. I think it's reasonable to assert that there's value in not fracturing those communities any more than is necessary.
>In his time and for a few hundred years after, Newton was consider the closest thing to God humanity had to offer.

Gottfried Leibniz may have disagreed.
A system that requires self sacrifice isn’t ideal, especially in a heterogeneous society like the US where cohesiveness is lower than say … Japan.

Crafting the message, targeting the various groups, etc. Yes, there are folks like you who may do it, but convincing the majority is an uphill battle.
This is just a completely amateur opinion.

Society has made promises decades ago about returns that would be delivered in the future, which would then translate to people being able to procure labor/services, especially in old age.

Without those returns, actual quality of life will not meet expected qualify of life (which is and has been happening for decades for greater and greater portions of the population, hence all the political turmoil).

Typically, this growth was easy to achieve due to almost all women having 3+ kids each. Then, advances in technology picked up some of the slack from decreasing birth rates. But seems like advances in technology are not able to make up for the decreasing birth rates since a while now, especially in non US countries.
I liked it also.
Right, the hell is the plan for folks just being born?
The most disappointing part: It's done with a closed-source program. Just like almost all pi records in the past decades.

The authors of the programs refuse to open source and instead opt to just release free binaries. Their reasons are that their algorithms are secret.

I suspect they don't want their program forked and don't want someone to take credit for a computation done with their program. Surprisingly, it has worked so far.
It's hard to imagine a situation where property values rise would kick me out of my home, were Prop 13 repealed. If the home is going up massive in value, a 1-2% tax on the value of the home is dwarfed by the increase in property value. Refi or whatever to take care of it. The tax portion of a mortgage isn't that big anyway.

And if property values are rising so quickly that I even notice an increase in the property tax, then every single renter is completely screwed by comparison.

The only way that property value increases could cause somebody to lose their house is if they are completely financially incompetent, as far as I can see.
We need to look both backward and forward, because the past still has so many useful lessons to teach (which is a far better way to learn them than making the mistake that prompted them in the first place!). The problem is blindly repeating the past, not looking into it.
My parents bought their first home in 1981 with a 30-year fixed rate mortgage of 16% interest. Imagine essentially putting a house on a credit card. They refinanced a few times and just kept plugging away at payments their entire working lives. Seemed fine to me, but I was also a kid and have no idea how much stress they actually went through. This was a $65,000 house with two incomes of about $6/hour each. Not sure how that compares to today's market.
It would be incredible if someone came up with a 3D-printable IBM 5100 RPi build.
If it were created today rust might be a good option, although in the early days of rust, it probably wasn't mature enough. Although, it does require some amount of memory management, but to a lesser degree than c/c++.

> Go offers a nice balance between performance and platform agnosticism

I don't disagree with this. It's too bad the language itself has major problems (which I won't get into here).

> I'm on the opinion that a DSL is better

The two aren't mutually exclusive. What I want is a DSL embedded in a full programming language, like chef's dsl in ruby.

> You want your infrastructure declarations to be easily readable and supportable.

Absolutely.

> Anyone who has used Terraform can read any HCL; your Python code doing the same could be terrible and unreadable by anyone not already on your team

It's possible to write terrible and unreadable HCL too. I know because I've written some.

> In any case, there's cdktf now, you can mix and match terraform with cdktf.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to look too deeply into it yet, although I definitely want to.
Probably, because it kinda is. What is more upsetting is that this treatment of cars like software was ok until now. It only now that he is on the 'wrong side' that there is a threat of him getting slapped. It is annoying, because it ( misrepresentation of what autopilot is to the customers ) has been going on for years now..
Listen nerd, there are lots of kinds of nerds in the world. Embrace it. The article has a lot of good information, it’s clearly not clickbate. It’s just catering presentation to the audience that’s interested, and that’s good because they’ll probably not hurt themselves and might actually do a handstand.
Writing better by answering why, what, how
It highly depends on location. Not everybody lives in the US, I find it odd that Americans rarely post their country, and just assume the location of others.
Chrome extensions can be detected by fetching their web-accessible resources. These are files inside an extension that can be accessed by web pages.

Vytal has no web-accessible resources so it can not be detected.
That looks interesting. Does the code use XUL as a framework and is XULRunner still being maintained?
What is sketchy about it? You mean to say Wikipedia Co-founder is lying?
No one knows. The fed could give up trying to contain inflation and buying now could be a good move. Reversion to the mean is more likely though, and if that happens it would make now and the near future an absolutely terrible time to buy.

Owning a home is a complex decision. No one can tell you without knowing more about your desired market, your career and life trajectory, your financial situation and your life goals.

One thing you should not do though is to let FOMO drive your decision making process. Old folks like me remember 2006 and how strong FOMO was at the time. It seemed like most folks were going to be permanently priced out of the market.

Right now looks nothing like 2006-08. There aren't a lot of ARM loans at risk and the risk from mortgage backed derivatives is much less. That said, we face an equally serious, if not more so(!!!) set of risks that could see the US GDP decline for a while. Generally, market corrections overshoot, and given the miscalculations of the Fed over the last few years I see no reason this time will be different.

I am personally looking to buy a home and start a family but I am waiting despite being able to finally afford (barely) a house in my desired market. I think the market I'm looking at will correct at least 10% in the next 6 months. I may still delay the purchase even then just because of poor financial conditions overall. I may be wrong. I think probabilities are in line with my view, however.
And using a "virtual environment" with a specific version of the interpreter is a common workflow for python, and sometimes ruby
What this software engineering leader learned working at an Amazon warehouse
Take the money in your retirement account and divide it by 10, and that's how much money you would have left. Your money wouldn't grow anymore, and it's growth due to stock appreciation is responsible for roughly 90% of its value.

I would learn this stuff, pretty important for your retirement...
Also if you don’t want to kill people don’t have a seizure or a brain infarct or a stroke or such while driving.
Vintage Computing
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Everything in that photo inspires a rage deep inside me that I had not known to exist until now. The off-center mount, the single monitor attached to that mount, as well as the its-1-by-1-but-not-1-by-1 aspect ratio. Seriously hope this is one of those things that the mediacorps want to be a fad like 3d-tv's that just fade out into their well deserved obsolescence and obscurity.

4:3 or 1:1, pick one.
I got mine for 500 pounds. A comparable jacket should go for between 2k and 3k.
The UK's tax rates are much closer to the US than the Scandinavian countries.

High earners in Sweden for instance pay nearly 11% higher effective rate compared to the UK.
> Interpreters also don't need to be all that slow; I guess this guy's never heard of Forth?

Well, for one thing, once you get to subroutine-threaded code (which is often the most efficient way to implement it on modern architectures), it's arguable whether still counts as "interpreted".

But even then, FORTH is still several times slower than equivalent native code. Which is better than most naive bytecode interpreter, but it's also why industrial FORTH compilers do native code inlining and other optimizations to reach the desired degree of performance. At which point, what's the fundamental difference with C?
There are super affordable places to live if you compromise a little.
Modern autopilots can autoland a plane. The systems have enough limitations that they are usually not used except in extreme low visibility situations.
I read the book as a teenager and gave me some thought on financial literacy from a very young age. As a starting point with a good story its a decent book. Unsure about the rest of the series.
I haven’t worked on most RL teams so I can’t say precisely, but I get the sense these problems are endemic of the whole company, not just RL.

I would add that I feel respect for my coworkers and managers, I think the problem is bad incentives and the games that they lead to.
What do you mean, you just awk for the third curly bracket after the first square bracket after the eighth appearance of “items”, excluding the time it appears between four opening and closing curly brackets.
How would you know it's an infinite series if you're only computing a finite number of digits?

(Also Pi is irrational, so this won't happen.)
A gymnast does a handstand very differently from “normal” people. Due to multiple reasons. Learning how to do a handstand like a gymnast is like learning how to jump like a cat.

Source: breakdancer in my younger years, used to practice together with gymnasts.