skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. A similar thing happened in the HiFi loudspeaker industry: If manufacturers simply pursued higher fidelity they'd converge on flat (on/off-axis) frequency response, near perfect impulse response etc. making them sound more similar. This is a big problem for branding so instead you'll find intentional imperfections in speakers above a certain price point to produce a certain signature sound.
What about all my examples of how it has changed dramatically (and for the better)?
The postmortem is sort of dissolved into the bloodstream of these threads:

Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32030400 - July 2022 (116 comments)

Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026639 - July 2022 (218 comments)

HN is up again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026571 - July 2022 (314 comments)

I'd particularly look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026606 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031025.

If you scroll through my comments from today via https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang, there are additional details. (Sorry for recommending my own comments.)

If you (or anyone) skim through that stuff and have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
If consumers won't notice that they're using a dApp, then why put your stuff on a blockchain?
All I know is, he's a former M&A lawyer, unlike any commenter here.
Practical experience working with Telus has been astounding. I have never met a set of system admins so incredibly ignorant of and incapable of using any of the systems they ostensibly run.
I love broad gauge rails.

But it also brings to mind buying a house with an unusual roof. It ended up giving us tons of problems and costing a ton of money to fix and replace because it required a ton of specialist work.

The roof guy left me with some good advice: "you want a roof that looks like all the other roofs around you".
I don't think it's that simple

https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI?t=50

And just because the bay area average is 431 there are plenty of cities in the bay area with much higher densities and there are comparable cities else where that manage to have great public transportation.
I'm not surprised that trying to get kids to do traditional schoolwork at home during the pandemic has been counterproductive.

I'm not sure what the alternative would be, maybe something more kindergarten/after school/enrichment/library-like or programs to support independent learning and/or homeschooling.
Having to spend $15B as the cost for making an impulsive decision (when you can afford it) is a first world problem.
> So recently a startup with no cash, no funding came up to me to ask me to…

Why would you sign a contract with people who have nothing to protect except your work?
They are absolutely suing to compel performance at the accepted price.
I'm incredibly thankful to Flair as my flight to Montreal now costs 1/3rd what it cost last year.

It's unfortunate that I need to visit a province that discriminates against my mother with its regressive laws, but at least I can pay my respects and get out without contributing to the oligopoly that runs the country.
Its his fault. The old managment(pre-mcdouglas merger) wouldn't have to resort to this, because they wanted to make the safest plane.
Now its only about money.
I think some of the early Venture Bros. eps were too.
The model of journalism en vogue consists of telling stories that are depressing AND tell the user the problem is too big to fix, and thus absolving them of blame.

It's hard not to end up nihilistic and hopeless in a world filled with those stories.

The route around it is to ignore those institutions that have failed us, and build our own networks. HN is one of those networks. Pay attention to what people tell you, and if it turns out to be right or not in the long run. That's what I do.
Is it really the windows only policy the problem or the IT departments conformity policy? At least that is the problem in my case, you could be a developer or an accountant in my company and you still get issued the same hardware cause IT wants to keep supporting the same hardware making their lives easier.
You haven't traveled much, then.
The important thing is to use EFotJ as a guidepost. If coworker X is complaining, ask yourself if it's an essential function of the job. Generally terminations aren't edge cases, it's people who are wildly unqualified, unable or unwilling to do the most basic aspects of their jobs. For documentation ("PIP"), pick a couple of really basic metrics. If the person is good enough to game them, you can execute a second PIP with tighter rules, incl 360 perf review.
> The other side that people seem to be missing here is that it explicitly establishes a boundary past which it's perfectly fine to film the police.

vs.

" C. THIS SECTION DOES NOT ESTABLISH A RIGHT OR AUTHORIZE ANY PERSON
TO MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY. "

https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf

The law explicitly makes it closer than 8 feet, after a warning, illegal (with some exceptions). It does not supersede other laws about interfering with an investigation.
How does java equal performance ?
Their was a guy on here a few weeks ago that made 10% of all comments on 4chan using three bot accounts over the span of a month, running gpt-j fine tuned.

You need so remarkably few people/PR agencies to outnumber active humans.

Its such a problem creating a social media account is actually quite hard, often you need a phone number and a separate IP address.
Any startups will have a hard time except maybe crypto ones. Because crypto startups need time to develop or polish cryptographical stuff and all others need mostly investor's money to keep living.
Barbie Typewriter (2015)
Which has nothing to do with the ottawa protests? Are we pretending that they suspended the charter because of that single event in manitoba now?
I find it nuts to think productivity can even be a consideration when it comes to how long I sleep. It's a biological function! Am I supposed to also think I should drink less water since I lose time and focus on peeing. I should also eat fast because time spent on eating could be spent working.
....sometimes. You can still hear them from a mile away.
They demonstrably decided generics are not needed for Go at release, or for the following 5+ years, I don't know how that could be seen as false. If they had thought generics are required for Go, they wouldn't have released the language before they had them.

What is often claimed instead, and is indeed false, is that they believed generics should not exist in Go. This is a position that many Go proponents take, but the designers of the language never did.
I didnt know that. Might consider going through their loop in the future. Thanks!
Not necessarily. Trucks are one of the most expensive parts of a train car, but can largely be interchangeable. As I understand it, they essentially have to be custom made for the BART.
Same is true for windows, but due to prevalence of windows and the effort of MS (certified for windows program), most hardware tries to make itself work on windows. It also makes sense given that Windows still has 78.5% share in the market.

So, it is not that linux does not work with a lot of consumer hardware. It's that most consumer hardware cannot be bothered to work with linux and invests itself in working with windows.

There is also a factor in-kernel vs out-of-kernel drivers.
What I don’t understand is why Boeing didn’t work with the 757 instead. It’s a much newer design already comparable in size to the A321, and a new 757 variant would have had commonality with many airlines’ existing 757s and not run into the limitations Boeing has had literally “max”ing out the 737.
I really want to like Vox's video format but just can't. Which is a shame because they have lots of topics that are quite interesting.

I can't pin down which part that I hate most, the "stylish" presentation with random SFX and virtual pen circling around, or the fact they always insert some super low quality video conference footage instead of just letting the narrator paraphrasing (I get it they're the domain experts, but still..).
Which cops will absolutely be doing. After all, if the arrestee refuses, the cops can just beat them up a little more and claim they were also resisting arrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap,_Crackle_and_Pop
It is unfortunate, but that was the only way Generics could ship at the time in a backwards compatible way. But I don’t think it is fair to call it awful, especially knowing the context. Also, when it does show up as a performance bottleneck, it is trivial to fix.
Social media is fracking societal bonds for profit. It's not some evil conspiracy, just an alignment of incentives. We're in the timeline where SkyNet didn't send back a T-1000, they sent back Mark Zuckerberg and the like.

::: THIS ::: Is the AI apocalypse. We'll figure it all out, and route around the damage, I hope.
That requires all clients to agree to some kind of standard.

Better to teach people not to trust email and to check the source of truth themselves. In this case they should check their bank account and verify they received a transfer (or their venmo/zelle account etc).
I agree that it'll continue to happen, but I don't think we should allow that to desensitize us to attempts to further criminalize basic civic behavior.
to save money, although it ended up not being significantly cheaper than extending mainline BART
I was hella bored.
PaSh-JIT: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Scripting
I screwed this up so bad. The first time my son lost a tooth, I put $5 under his pillow. But he was a squirmer and ended up pushing the bill down the back of the bed.

He wakes me up the next morning, "The Tooth Fairy stole my tooth!!" I of course am completely confused, so I struggle out of bed and into his bedroom, see the bed in chaos, immediately realize what happened and go directly to where the bill would be. Apparently, in my sleepy state I didn't sell the performance of saying, "Oh, look! Here it is, silly!" He looked at me slyly and took the money. Later I learned that's when he knew the whole Fairy thing was bunk.

Which is OK, really, I disliked lying to him like that. All those crazy imaginary characters - Santa, Easter Bunny, Jesus, Tooth Fairy, etc. - are just silly and guaranteed to cause tears, disappointment and a sense of betrayal. I only played along with the holidays so he wouldn't be the only kid who didn't get a visit from magic land.
I hope that we do not destroy ourselves.

Whether we do or do not, it is sombering to know how much time our universe will spend without life, dark, bleak, and pointless.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
Firenvim: Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird and Others
"E. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY"
MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. QUESTIONING A SUSPICIOUS PERSON.
2. CONDUCTING AN ARREST, ISSUING A SUMMONS OR ENFORCING THE LAW.
3. HANDLING AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED OR DISORDERLY PERSON WHO IS
EXHIBITING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR."

And if they approach you to conduct "law enforcement activity" on you, you're effectively exempted and allowed to film. https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf
"For any reasonable business purpose" is different from 'any information you think is reasonable'. I would presume (guess) that Musk kept asking for more info until he found a point where Twitter stopped responding just so he could argue this clause was broken.
I did not study computer science so anything I know I learned from reading what was available in textbooks and on the internet itself. I learned DNS exists because the number of hosts was growing too quickly to keep updating a HOSTS file. The HOSTS file permits me to assign semantic meaning, i.e., names, to IP numbers. I can name hosts however I choose, and in practice I still do, because I like very short names. A simple analogy perhaps might be assigning names, images, sounds, etc. to different stored contact numbers on a mobile phone. The owner of the phone can control the semantic meaning assigned to the number, rather than delegating all control over this to someone else.

DNS, as I see it, lets someone else assign the names, i.e., the semantic meaning. Thus, assuming I am an internet user in the pre-DNS era, with the advent of DNS, I do not have to keep updating a HOSTS file when new hosts come online or change their address. This reduces administrative burden. The semantic meaning was already controllable pre-DNS, via the HOSTS file.

Many times I have read the criticisms of IP addresses as justifications for DNS. For example, IP addresses are (a) difficult to type or (b) difficult to remember. I simply cannot agree with such criticisms. As time goes on, and the www gets continually more nonsensically abstracted, I like IP addresses more and more.
Major ratchet and clank vibes
That’s a VPS offering only, they don’t do dedicated servers here.
So my hunch that this could lead to him going broke isn't completely off base?

I figure he ends up having to pay $10E+10, and everyone knows it, so he gets short-squeezed in Tesla stock, then margin called on any loans against his stock... then POOF
Does this include Meet vs Teams? Because Teams is the absolute worst piece of technology I am forced to use regularly. And this includes WebEx!

Also, and I'll never get tired of saying it, if you have both a personal and a business-managed Microsoft account you better give up computers and be a hunter gatherer, it'll save you a world of pain.
Newspaper of the 21st Century https://nsource.news
this website needs to be renamed to conjecture.com
>Wiby is being barraged by a nasty spam botnet with thousands of constantly changing IPs.

Short of having a private beta like kagi, how else could those bot nets be excluded? How difficult is it to create a white list of uninfected IPs?
I'm sure this state rep is a scumbag in general and all that, but what the law says is:

* bystanders can't record within 8 ft of the police questioning a suspect, arresting someone, or dealing with a mental health case.

* the person police are interacting with is exempt and can record unless that interfere with the police operations. I.e. no guarantee you can hold your phone while handcuffed.

* the driver and passengers of a car pulled over are also explicitly exempt.

I think the opposition to this is a knee jerk over reaction comes across as just ... not rooted in reality.

If you insist on getting up in arms about Arizona's contempt for the first amendment, I encourage you to go burn a flag and dare them to arrest you for violating https://www.azleg.gov/ars/13/03703.htm
In terms of urban rail transit SF can’t really be considered #3

SF is #5 in total ridership and significantly worse than that when you look at ridership per mile.

I think with a mix of subjective and objective measures I can declare with some confidence that most people would take NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, and Boston over SF’s transit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_rapid_tr...
If the police officer is questioning you as a suspicious person, "NOTWITHSTANDING SUBSECTION A OF THIS SECTION, A PERSON WHO IS
22 THE SUBJECT OF POLICE CONTACT MAY RECORD THE ENCOUNTER IF THE PERSON IS
23 NOT INTERFERING WITH LAWFUL POLICE ACTIONS,..."
> At what point do you think taking a step back in seniority is worth it?

If you don’t get offers at the level at which you feel best matches your level of experience it may be time to adjust your expectations. If you apply for a position and the firm feels your skill set is better suited for a more senior role then your all set.

It’s not personal. Management loves hiring competent people for the positions they need filled and don’t like hiring people without a skill set that can make their team meet expectations.
meanwhile the peninsula joint powers board (caltrain) had the option to kick freight off their right of way and opted not to. and spends hundreds of millions of dollars building grade separations to freight standards (low max grade) while getting the rails destroyed nightly by heavy badly maintained freight cars
And 'jerk' has to be kept below a certain threshold for humans to find movement comfortable.

It's not strictly a matter of threshold -- people might tolerate a higher jerk if it's for a much shorter duration, for example. In practice it doesn't much matter which metric you minimize; you'll end up with similar results. The simplest option is to minimize the mean absolute jerk, which has the side benefit of utterly confusing any non-physics-literate people listening in. (You want to do what to whom?)
Nice interface indeed. It is build in SwiftUI or UIKIt?
Actually trying to write a parser with this was something else for me, the kinds of types i was looking at seemed impenetrable. It looks very nice, but usability, at least for me, made me wash my hands and just roll my own parser.

I've used nom successfully in the past, even when it was macro-hell. Part of that might have been the greater amount of available combinators though, making getting really into the weeds less likely.
Good try, Mr Lenin :D
The fingering question is being researched in ML. One such project is linked here: http://eita-nakamura.github.io/
What's the definition of "success" here? Popularity?
From what we've seen so far, I doubt the Twitter board would do that. I guess they are suing because that's what the shareholders are pushing for.
Love rails, hate ruby. A rails framework written in Go would be pretty cool.
Several previous submissions. Only one with a modicum of discussion, 7 years ago, 7 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9972860
Read it, then:

https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf

You can't record as a bystander within 8' of law enforcement activity, defined as "QUESTIONING A SUSPICIOUS PERSON.
33 2. CONDUCTING AN ARREST, ISSUING A SUMMONS OR ENFORCING THE LAW.
34 3. HANDLING AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED OR DISORDERLY PERSON WHO IS
35 EXHIBITING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR. "

If you're the subject of activity, e.g. they deem you as a suspicious person and move towards you, you may record.
The paid-for “Google Workspace” does mark emails that look suspicious. It also uses the well known Gmail interface.
Ohhh. Gotcha. Agree. Agree.

Though... I've also read at least one "interesting" postmortem with complex operating scenarios and thought to myself (partially joking) that their failure isn't what they thought it was. The failure was having an unnecessarily complicated architecture in the first place, with too many abstractions and too much bloat. ;-) I would have "just" written it in C++ on Debian... ;-) (I'm exaggerating)

(I know that "my way" is fantastic.. until you need to scale across people)
It's somewhat hilarious to think that even if Twitter were to settle modestly for $5bn, that would be more than double of all profit that Twitter has ever generated as a company.
Show HN: I Created ESLint Plugin That Finds Invalid HTML Nestings in JSX
They're not viral in rust - you can always replace the generic with a concrete type in super types.
Custom, I guess (edit: that was an overstatement—let's say partly custom). We upload a snapshot every 24 hours to S3 and incremental updates every few kb (I think).

We use rsync for log files.
the old monotonically growing reading list. I must figure out a way to organize mine better
But there is lying as in “not telling the truth in a technically correct way”* and there is lying as in “committing a fraud”.

Musk would need to show the latter, not only the former. And that carries rather stiff penalties. As opposed to reading the rules very precisely and only effectively lying. Which is what lawyers are for

* always remember that Bull Clinton technically didn’t lie. He in fact asked his lawyers before that hearing and was told that “no getting a BJ, according to the law, does not constitute a sexual relationship”. In didn’t end up mattering because him staying president is a _political_ decision. Unfortunately for Musk, public opinion does not matter here
Somewhat unrelated, but when I first moved to Latin America I had a job that consisted of taking enormous, empty suitcases to Miami and spending a week buying to order at the clothing outlets and end of season clearance sales. The upper class Latinos who ordered the clothes obviously paid a premium (and wouldn't be caught dead in the very convincing counterfeits that were available in the local street markets) as the whole operation paid my expenses and "wage" and made it worthwhile for the guy who I worked for.

Later I freelanced, doing basically the same thing with laptops although I would limit myself to 5 per trip just in case the customs guys got curious (they never got curious).

The global economy is really screwy, particularly with import taxes factored into the equation. I still have friends who will buy insurance write-off cars in the US online, drive them south (often with an undriveable one in tow), fix them up (so that they are salable but not strictly roadworthy) and still manage to make a living.

Then there was the whole thing about Mexican gasoline (which is state subsidised) getting smuggled over the border and sold by roadside vendors by the gallon.

It really is the purest expression of the "free market" - any tiny arbitrage leads to a clandestine industry springing up. For a while there was a boom in smuggled fresh eggs.
Well if you think flat region of Switzerland exists please check the map again.
Even the northern part which is not "in" the Alps is fairly mountainous, with hills and all kinds of natural obstacles
Imagine running a website that earns you millions and millions of dollars and it all gets taken out by a couple disk failures? Amateurs.
Go's issues are mostly not performance related, so more monomorphization will really not solve a significant portion of them.
Maybe because CG starts out as "perfect" whereas the real world is already filled with imperfections, details and texture.
If Amazon doesn't hold money in an escrow (which, apparently, is not the case), the scammers get a free loan and they can run away with the money at some point. Also, I think some % doesn't return counterfeit items, even the most garbage ones.
100%

Miami is the only city where I've been offered cocaine randomly on the street. It's Shadytown, USA.
I wouldn't say Einstein was wrong. It is a sad story that he never got to see the work of Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger on Quantum Field Theory, or the contributions of other Nobel laureates like Frank Wilczek. Switching from a particle-centric theory (like Quantum Mechanics) to a field-centric theory makes all the QM paradoxes disappear, and problems like locality, the double-slit experiment, etc., become trivial. What we have been calling particles are instead oscillators in fields. The Schrödinger equation is a wave function, but Quantum Mechanics has been using it to represent a probability distribution instead of an actual wave. Why is that? Because of the focus on particles. If everything has to be a particle, then of course we have to use a wave function as a probability distribution. But why force that view? We know how to describe fields since the days of Faraday and Maxwell, yet after Copenhagen all we want to do is to force wave-describing partial differential equations into a probabilistic model full of paradoxes.
> Are their any good alternatives to reddit at this point? That provide the same sizable community…

Reddit is I believe in the top 20 sites worldwide with respect to traffic so the list you seeks isn’t that long.
Video. YouTube. That's is the successor of Flash. Not fully, yet, it is.

But yeah, with Flash, web was like a magic. It was much easier to do something extraordinary and UI like games have.
Do you have any sample images that showcase the qualities you are talking about? I can probably search it up myself, but if there’s anything you would like to showcase. Thanks!
"You can lead a horse to water..."