skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> look at UI kits or dribbble for inspiration. Search for the purpose of your page and then just copy the design.

This is great.

Any recommendation for a TL;DR on designing on a grid?
LOL nearly everyone. The term has negative connotations but technically it refers to "a person who follows the latest trends and fashions."

Traditionalists, people with bad taste, or generally uncurious folks don't motivate large amounts of people to change behavior. But large groups of young people trying new things and inventing new experiences do.

SF, NYC, LA, even Miami real estate booms are all because of hipsters. Young creative people make the place interesting, then richer but more boring people crash the party and bid up prices. It gets too expensive for young creatives eventually so they leave, and then the cycle repeats.

Geography on its own isn't enough. NYC was a disaster in the 70s; only when the young people started moving back did it become desirable, hence valuable.

So you need hipsters. Without them, the place you live is just a boring bedroom community. Could be anywhere, likely not valuable.
Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
Patreon takes so much of a cut. I don't think this is the route, neither do I think letting Microsoft/GitHub take over the space is the alternative.
> Aside: I was reading earlier today about how Uber heavily uses microservices. I wonder if Uber could be a monolith running on one machine given the right architecture and implementation.

Throughput-wise, that might be possible for all I know.

For latency reasons, you'd probably want to have at least one monolith per city. Similar objections apply for redundancy and resilience.

Splitting your system into individual services ensures that there are well-defined interfaces between the different parts.

In principle, you can always wring more performance out of a system, if you are allowed to break down these interfaces. But that makes maintaining and further developing these systems harder and harder to do for mere mortals.

Have a look at how much of a kludgy mess our genome is for an example.

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In principle, you could write something as individual services but compile them into a single binary that runs in a single memory space on bare metal (see unikernel architecture). A sufficiently strong type system could make sure that any one service being buggy wouldn't bring down the rest of the application.

You could probably even work on a system like the above that still allows you to replace individual parts without restarting everything else.

This could be much faster and smaller than traditional micro-services that live in separated processes or even machines, but even this utopian system would still be hampered by the conceptual walls between services that can only talk to each other via well-defined interfaces. (Even if your compiler is smart enough to do a lot of inlining etc.)

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The discussion reminds me of exokernels. Have you heard of them?

Basically the idea is that traditionally operating systems are supposed to have at least two functions: abstract hardware, and safely multiplex different uses and users.

Serving two masters means serving neither of them well.

So the exokernel people say: let's just use libraries for abstracting over hardwarde, and let the operating system present the hardware as raw as possible and concentrate on safely multiplexing.

See eg https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2019/winter/3310...
The best knife sharpening method is the one you actually do.

This isn't about efficacy but rather sticking to it. A diet you hate is, just that, a diet not a change in lifestyle.
The last in the trilogy was 2007, so eleven years before the article and fifteen years ago now.

I didn't see the later movies, but their reception made me think the format had changed.
> people of race A will get treated as if

I think you've just described racism.
Just happened to me. Now I'm trying to find a way to make an internal transfer happen or decide how long to stick around before applying elsewhere.
"And so when I hear, for example, folks on college campuses saying, “We’re not going to allow somebody to speak on our campus because we disagree with their ideas or we feel threatened by their ideas,” I think that’s a recipe for dogmatism and I think you’re not going to be as effective."

- President Obama, complaining he can't be a bigot.

https://www.thefire.org/obamas-abc-news-interview-transcript...
It's called a "fragment", and it's never sent to the server in HTTP requests. It was originally intended to have an HTML anchor as its value. Like when you click on a section or paragraph and you see the URL in the location bar gets "#<anchor>".
we can start by ending the current corn subsidies
> Want to hang out with your friends? Good luck on agreeing on a place to rent that's in budget for all of you if you have £1m+ in the bank.

What? Is the wealthier person in this scenario too much of a snob to stay in cheaper accommodations that everyone can afford, or pay a little more than their "fair share" to help book nicer ones that everyone can enjoy?

I would not want to be friends with that person.
And yet: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1102995474/supreme-court-opin...

How do you explain that?
That's an interesting perspective to consider.

From an individuals perspective, there's a difference between letting my money sit under my mattress or letting it accumulate interest in an account.

I can only spend it once in the end, but the money did different things for me while I was still waiting and deciding.
I think you answered it for yourself.

The Socratic method claims to find inconsistencies by asking questions. Thus, these questions are not questions of curiosity, but questions with an underlying line of reasoning. This in itself leads the answerer to feel that the questioner is disingenuous in the conversation. They could walk away from the conversation, rendering the questioners entire effort futile.
The intellectual mistake of once-and-for-allism
5.13 is pretty recent...in fact any 5.x is super up to date, still tons of 3.x and 4.x kernels running out there in the wild, wild real world.
This is one of the main visible outcomes of AGW in the finance sector. We've had this presented as a future risk (loss of insurance) but now, we're having people who didn't heed the financial risk loose their business to un-insurable (re-insurance) liability: Insurance was always going to walk away from what is now pretty well understood to be un-remediable change in the risk for these properties. No amount of federal or state funded work is going to manage this risk, the expectation of an "orderly exit" probably hits the financial realities before the queue for the door starts. I mean sure, the US army corps of engineers can re-invest in levee building. Thats decades, for ongoing annual flood risk now, and we haven't begun to talk about the lawsuit opposition from ecology groups.

Banks will be asking home owners if they have insurance for the banks exposure. So this ripples out: existing homes are not only un-insurable, they are potentially un-sellable. Their value plummets. When land and property values catch up, the rates the local government can charge drop because they're usually on land value. So income in the local area to remediate loss of utilities, keep roads going, you-name-it goes away: The money to mend or even build sea walls and levees has dried up, just when you need it.

Sometimes, Government has to step in with either "go away" money to fund people to move on, or some kind of limited offset on insurance costs. I think the former is sad, but necessary. The latter is a huge mistake: it just buys future problems because the resiliency any one property can build in, is less than the exposure to risk across all utilities, roads, unrelated public burdens, hospitals, food.. you name it. Keeping people in unsustainably risky communities isn't sensible, if you can relocate. But you have to be willing to handle all the relocation costs. Mental health, loss of community, heritage, culture.

It's also happening in Australia with fire and flood risk. The industry is saying up front, it can start to help fund remediation for some things in planning, but that the wisest longterm choice is to move people away from risk, because at volume they can't afford to remediate each individual property. People are talking seriously about moving town centres (which happened in the Lockyer Valley)

Some towns do build permanent levees. Some build infrastructure for temporary levees. Some things, you just can't fix: people want to live close to water, even in a pole house there's going to be that one flood which overwhelms the 2 storey lift you gave the home

(in our recent flooding, my Unit complex in West End Brisbane was electrically offline for 10 days, and flooded it's basement. We stayed in place, and we remediated for about $300,000 of shared costs mainly in cleanup but there might be the same spend again to make our power circuit resilient, and our insurance premiums for water damage are going to be much much higher)

Warren Buffet always said Re-insurance was his mainstay. I wonder how he feels about future profits in this space?
It's one of those "limited consumer choices to ensure best experience" things. Using an SD card and it's slower I/O speeds would meaningfully degrade the video and burst capability, blackout free still shooting of the camera, so might as well enforce a higher standard tk ensure a uniform experience.
His point was they are/were using chemicals regardless of if they understood the chemistry at a low level or not. When ancient people/(or modern) used dung to fertilize crops they are using chemicals. With that being said I think when the power of modern chemistry / genetic engineering and modern economic agricultureraly forces collide caution is warranted.
Nevermind assembly, you guys were literally writing the bits by hand.
Small Tables with Go generics
>> The two-party system is largely to blame

The two-party system is created in election law in each State by R+D in each State legislature. State ballot access and funding is in each State election law, and there is a harsh difference in 'major' or 'minor' party designation.

In short, the system is designed this way at the State level.
Which cut?
Or, “Well, think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate doughnut with some of those little sprinkles on top ...”
You're dancing around it. Climate change is happening because human activity is causing it, and human activity can change to reverse it, just like we reversed our effects on the ozone layer. I know you know that's true, so don't lie about it saying it's the weather and make jokes about moving when it gets bad. You don't need to inconvenience yourself, keep driving that Dodge Ram 1500 for all I care, but don't fucking deny it because the government needs to deal with this shit and deal with it now.

For what it's worth, the effects of climate change are much worse than the rising of the oceans, focusing on that was a mistake of the climate alarmists. We'll have famine and war much sooner than the rising oceans will affect the rich.

Well that explains at least some part of it, you have absolutely no idea what the protests were about. They were about the police brutality that stems from the incompetency of officers bred from the American policy on police training. MJ singing about racism has almost nothing to do with that.
I've shot the z9 and it's pretty amazing but definitely not perfect. The teardown was pretty cool, always wonder when they put it back together if it still worked.

Shooting sports side by side with a D5, pro level mirrorless has more to improve upon. The pro dslr's canon 1Dx series and Nikon D4,5,6 series are big and heavy, but that size all translates into a single battery that shoots 3000-5000 shots and numerous custom buttons to quickly change a variety of settings fast which is important. Most have never experienced shooting with these bodies but are quick to whine about every aspect. When it comes to getting a shot they are indispensable with sports, wildlife, events because they just work. Especially in poor weather conditions.

Since covid I skipped the canon 1dx3 upgrade and after shooting the z9 will skip the r3 now. Still sticking with Canon but will wait for R1 in hopes the EVF is flawless when panning shots.

Spot on that these are not hobbyist camera's, but when do you get shoot with them everyday they definitely serve the intended purpose well.
I'd prefer that they had done something like unexec to allow loading some arbitrary set of modules into a bootstrapping image, then dumping a runnable executable that would launch with all those modules already present. The old Emacs approaches are now mostly busted, but there are alternatives.
I can't speak for the author, but it would seem to me that some kind of mutex or whatever can be used in situations were you need them.
Hint: water is a chemical.
I think we're finding that tech oligopolies don't lend themselves to healthy markets. The barrier to entry to becoming a full service public cloud is massive. The established players know that there is little chance of an upstart coming out of nowhere to eat their lunch, so they compete (or don't) appropriately. Getting cutthroat on pricing would only hurt everyone's bottom line.

Smart phone apps are the same story. Android and IOS developers have to deal with draconian rules and exorbitant fees. In a healthier market other companies would swoop in and improve on those huge fees and arbitrary moderation, but creating a new smartphone platform is ridiculously difficult, which means that the two established players can basically do what they want within the law.
He's not, you're just feeling triggered.
Not an exact match but Ex Machina touches on some of these ideas.
No, I'm not based in the valley :/
That's kind of the point. The movies were directed by two stunt men who had worked with Keanu Reeves on The Matrix. To me it feels like an American version of a movie like "The Raid"[1], though not quite as grounded.

I think it's praised because the kind of "down to earth" action movies like the first John Wick are pretty rare these days. Superhero movie fights are generally about the spectacle of superhumans shooting various lasers at each other. They are also often entirely CG. This makes John Wick fee more much more "real" by comparison. More Die Hard and less Man of Steel.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raid_(2011_film)
This line of research is a chapter in a book I’m writing: Why We Play.

What if certain kinds of play and the generation of games among children is a universal aspect of the human experience? Remember how fun the perfect game of Hide and Seek was? Are we motivated to play these sorts of games? And what does this tell us about ourselves.

Hint: Nonzero-sum games, sociobiology/psychological evolution
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I've recently started a firm that mostly recruits international applicants in Asia; does anybody know of a payroll provider that can assist me? Tks.
The term originates from the concept of receiving a free horse and having the audacity to check its teeth so as to judge the quality and value of the gift as that was the means at the time of judging a horse's age, longevity and health.
> there are no signs of any intelligent thought there, it’s all gibberish that just happens to match patterns it was trained against

I meet people that regurgitate what they’ve heard on Facebook all the time, are you suggesting there is no intelligent thought there either?
Well i wasn't really alive back then, closest i can do is tumblr
What experiences do you have to the contrary? I’ve moderated a few community spaces and this has been the way it’s gone every single time it’s come up for me.
Come on. Converting to all-organic at once having failed by no means suggests that slowly phasing out to get to organic wouldn't work.

Switching suddenly, and by means of a ban -- what could go wrong?

A free-market gradualistic solution would be to cap pesticide and fertilizer imports and auction licenses to buy them.
The note in exception design is interesting.
This allow more contextual information to be embedded.
I didn’t say he was talking about progressives today, I said what he talked about is applicable to progressives today. When Popper uses the word “tolerance” he’s talking specifically about people who don’t tolerate a free society with free debate, not people who express intolerant views. For example, the Trump voter who is intolerant of immigrants isn’t “denouncing all argument” about immigration. It’s progressives who do that.

I didn’t say Popper would entertain free debate with a Nazi. My point is that, under Popper’s framework, there’s a huge incentive to declare anyone you don’t like to be Nazis, and reframe speech as tantamount to threats to physical safety.
I have no idea where you could possibly infer that I conflate liberalism with communism. That’s kind of a weird and unfounded statement about my internal state.

I’ll clarify: I think the author intentionally uses language to communicate how clever their opinions about Star Trek are (and how they should be received.) That was the whole post.
Is Seaweed the Next Big Alternative to Meat?
>He's referring to a painting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

Most people don't know about this painting nor do most people know French... I'm sure you and him are aware of that.

It could be that whatever the painting represents fits his point. But you have to look deeper then that because he is fully aware that most people on this site don't know about that painting nor do they know French. So why post it at all? His intent definitely wasn't communicating anything understandable to anyone here.

I'm Chinese, so if quoted some famous quote from Confucius, and to top if off I wrote that quote in Chinese, then of course my intention isn't communication. I know most people on HN can't read Chinese, so then why would I include the quote?

I would have included it to make myself look intelligent, educated and well versed in Chinese philosophy. This is basically the gist of what's going on here.

The alternative is he just didn't have the brains to realize this is an English site and most people don't speak french nor do they have an understanding of French paintings.

I would say the former reason is much more likely then the later.

That's why I said it's almost like a cartoon. I'm talking about elitism in movie tastes and here someone tries to counter that claim with a carbon copy circus act of exactly the snobbery I'm talking about. I don't think he picked up on it, and hopefully this explanation helps you realize what I'm talking about.
The "small town vibe" is what holds back the value. It's undesirable to modern young people to not have a vibrant creative atmosphere. Obviously this is a generalization but it's clearly true on average. That's bad for the town no matter which way you look at it -- top young talent leaves at first opportunity, so no companies invest because no ambitious talent pool, so no dollars flow through local economy, and it becomes a death spiral. Don't pretend like locals want this.

If the town has great real estate, someone should help it find its maximum value. Sure some locals will claim to dislike the change, sort of like those old SFers that complain about the good ol days of Haight Ashbury. But they did OK if they owned. And this is what capitalism is all about -- if it's empirically good, it gets bid up with higher prices.

To pretend like small towns have precious virtue on their own or want to shun value appreciation is naive.

Small town home owners should love to find out young people moved in and made their home worth millions. They can cash out and go hide somewhere forgotten if they really want. Either way, if they pretend they have some right to not have their land value improved, they misunderstand how capitalism in America works.
Given Professor Twinkie's experience I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't. We're finding more and more that for overweight people losing weight (and keeping it off, hence "what works for you") is the single best intervention they can do for better health.

ETA: obviously I'm not advocating eating only sugar or twinkies. The point is that adherence is an crucial factor, more so than is often given credit.
Chicago startup companies to watch in 2022
> a raspberry pi can pretty much serve 100k req. / second. An average dev laptop should be able to handle 1M req. / second without much issues

How big are these requests? If you're returning more than 1kB including all the headers, you're not beating 100kreq/s on a standard consumer-level 1Gbit link.
remote.com
deel
papayaglobal.com
usemultiplier.com

All of those offer international payroll, compliance, etc.
I don't think most people who are using Go really want to write their own contains method for slices every time: it seems antithetical to being productive and doing what you actually want to do and it is most definitely a shortcoming of the language. Fortunately with generics people can hopefully need to do that a lot less!
An AI printed a phone mount for me... I used a 3D printer.
I think what it is is that nobody wants to force more responsibilities and complexity on Developers so they hire DevOps people. Then the DevOps systems are so complex that it needs a ultra high quality engineer to run them.

The whole seed of the DevOps movement was that developers needed to do more or the company would fail. Over time, management lost their conviction when developers push back and didn't want to risk losing devs so they "outsource" the devops skills.
Yep. Being able to get Apple support wherever you are in the planet is a big plus. You don't need to buy from a local retailer, as long as you have an Apple product you are covered. That being said, I had a 2018-MBP that its battery failed just one year after the warranty and Apple response was to replace all the motherboard/keyboard at a price close to a new one. So...

Also, I think the professional Dell series has a much better build quality than the regular one's. This one is, at least, quite decent.
Well, technically you could write a chrome extension and leave the extension and computer running over night...and automate the clicks to block the user once it appears again.

I did something like this in the past but facebook updated their design so my extension meanwhile is useless. A former friend of mine's account got compromised and was spamming me (via email) every time their account was online. This was the only way to get rid of it.
Agree on a blog and self-hosting it. I do the same and has been very satisfying. Static site via Netlify and static site generator like Hugo works very well. Make sure archive.org can find it so that your pages are preserved. Self host so that noone does a bait and switch on you like Medium, or shuts you down when they're doing a pivot. The internet needs more quality content that is written because people find it interesting and want to share with the world. Build it without the cruft, trackers, newsletter popups, etc that bog down the modern web.

It's refreshing when you find these interesting websites and articles, and it's also encouraging to know you're part of the solution when you build them.
> The base model's slower SSD speeds were not mentioned in many (any?) embargoed reviews of the notebook, as it appears that Apple provided many reviewers with a 1TB configuration for testing.

Not cool, Apple.

For me, the question is: What will the MBAs have? Will the 512 MBAs have better performance, like the 512 MBP does? Or will they neuter all the MBAs to make them comparatively less attractive than the high-end (and very expensive) MBPs?
What is 100k 1983 yen in todays equivalent?

An Apple Watch sits at ~50k yen today.
Amazon isn't that good now but eBay is still miles beyond horrible