skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police are revenue generators. It's the same in both big cities and small towns.

A town of 300 people I grew up next to, always had their one cop ticketing every car that didn't slow down from the posted 55 mph (but honestly, it was always faster) to 30 mph, or accelerated over 30 before they passed the city limits sign.

The city government loved that guy, because he brought in thousands of dollars every week.

When the NYPD threw a fit over de Blasio, they famously refused to arrest anyone unless "it was absolutely necessary". Why? The police union wanted to hurt NYC's[0] budget.[0] It's the same reason why civil forfeiture is so prevelant.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/the-ben...
Google was a good place to work as an SRE. I think the software devs (SWE) were also pretty happy. Most of the backend work at Google is designing, scaling, and running very large systems with a lot of requirements. Every product has to at least have a plan for serving billions of users around the world which means GDPR and local laws and the privacy and security requirements of being the biggest target for governments, hackers, and spammers. The tooling (build systems, linters, static analysis, profilers, tracing, deployment, monitoring, security, storage, and libraries) is fantastic.

From what I saw, everyone was quite intelligent and most were also very kind and well-rounded people. Every engineer you talk to will have a strong grasp of algorithms and data structures, usually strong math and statistics background, and plenty of language, kernel, and operating system authors and research scientists will be your (extended) coworkers. I felt like I was somewhere around the 40th percentile in ability/outcomes which is a big change coming from smaller software companies or IT where Google-level engineering skill is rare. Imposter syndrome is a thing when your best efforts fit neatly into median performance with a lot of other high-performers, so expect that and don't let it bother you.

Growth at Google means ability to grow in the global SWE/SRE market; you have to be in the top ~0.001% percent of engineers worldwide to get into very senior technical roles. There are still lots of rewarding roles as a L4 or L5 individual contributor.

I left because it's much easier to get promo by interview (with another company) than through the perf process and after 4 years the stock grant cliff without promo was a bit more stark than it is now, I hear.

If you can manage it, get hired in the U.S. or transfer once hired. London and other non-U.S. salaries are quite a bit lower, very unfortunately and unfairly in my opinion. Global labor markets are weird.
I can't tell if you're suggesting that my edits were simply bad, and typically I would accept that is a possibility; but, even then, it was the fact that I was threatened essentially with being swatted. There was no feedback on the edits that I made. Just unfounded assertions that my IP address was involved in something "unsavory" and that I would face severe consequences if I continued such edits. It made me feel very unwelcome and I assume many other people have the same experience on Wikipedia.

I realize the futility of trying to convince you that my edits were warranted, I guess. The article has since been updated, however, and the non-neutral tone that I'd tried to fix has been removed, so apparently somebody else ultimately did succeed.
I think that's a strange way of arguing actually, you would say the speed is illegal and the car and driver behavior just needs modifying. Google analytics would by analogy be closer to a car that can go a certain speed.

But the question is if the law says that any car that can go that speed is no longer street legal, then it is a problem because it is probably difficult to modify the car. Just as there are structural issues about Google Analytics where GDPR is concerned that makes altering it really difficult if not impossible, and if you can't fix GA to make it legal it is de facto illegal.
Transitioning from car-centric to human-centric cities is not about sacrifice. It is about understanding how cars actually keep cities from being places that could be much more enjoyable to live in.

Having finding trouble an apartment? Without all the wasted space for cars we could have much denser cities. Problem solved!

Want to have a place where children can actually play outside safely? Again, ban cars and you don't have to move to the country or suburbia.

Tired of how loud cities are? Oh boy, do I have a solution for that.

I am not preaching sacrifice, I am saying if we change some things we can achieve much better living conditions for everyone, a plus in living standard.

So it is more of a matter of getting people to be conscious about how things actually work.

So no, I am not Utopian. The point still stands that Tech wont solve the issues. It is sink or swim for humanity.
Why is it an issue that wealth is not as insulative as it once was against crime?

What about those who want wealth but can't acquire it but also do good in a community to prevent crime? What if we were forced to make communal change instead of buying our way out?

Children across all spectrums of wealth have engaged in vandalization or theft for the entirety of humanity, whether for social media points or other variations of clout.
Is someone even in the domain if they aren't seeking or having an affair?

The advice comes off as "best way to avoid being robbed is to never have anything of value".
Another beautiful cathedral around Paris is Amiens.

It's a more recent cathedral than Notre-Dame, and consequently higher, nearly as high as Beauvais in fact, but this one didn't collapse (even if she needed a very costly iron belt to stay that way).

It's also located near the quite nice Saint Leu neighborhood with tons of restaurants near the main canal. And right next to Saint Leu, you have the Hortillonnages (crisscross of waterways and small gardens) which are also worth a visit (it's possible to rent boats to visit them).

It's only ~1 hour away from Paris (Gare du Nord) by train, and definitely worth spending a day there in my opinion. Just don't be afraid by the sight of the tour Perret when exiting the station at Amiens ^^.
Why NLP? Reading (hand-written) receipts and identifying field contents is a machine vision problem, not an NLP problem.

Anyway this is a much easier problem than either NLP or handwritten digit recognition and the solution is already known, so there's no need for machine learning. Ordinary, manual programming can do the job just as well. For a bit of perspective, industrial robots are programmed by hand and they don't build stuff with legos.

Edit: so what kind of non-lego application would you expect of a model that can put together lego assembly plans from lego assembly manuals? I'm curious.
https://www.theverge.com/23277797/mark-zuckerberg-meta-faceb...

'Crack' is the sound that is commonly associated with 'a whip'.
Nethack taught me a lot of things, including to not to pick up a cockatrice corpse without gloves on. Also: Don't throw it above your head without wearing a helmet. Don't slip down a hidden pit of spikes, and fall on it. Don't step on a landmine and drop it on yourself without wearing boots. Don't get hypnotized by a wizard, have him pick it up, and then touch you with it.
That is going to be a pretty fuzzy rabbit hole.

I've seen accounts of industrial equipment where the original microcomputers from the '70s/'80s have been replaced with modern microcontrollers or single board computers like the Raspberry Pi. Does it count as a "firmware update" if the new firmware comes with a new embedded computer to run it?
I think your view is skewed towards living in a city. your solution doesn't work for a number of reasons. if I wanted to go somewhere I would call an Uber and they would drive 20 or 30 miles to pick me up and then 40 or 50 miles more to drop me off and then the reverse would happen when I wanted to go home Rather than me just driving the 100 miles there and back You have additional overhead of somebody having to come pick me up doubling the miles driven. That person has to get paid which makes it even more expensive. And there are still cars! I'm just not allowed to own one. if I'm sharing a ride which is unlikely it will take up way more time which is also an expensive drag on the economy.

delivery here is unreliable and expensive. if I'm picking out wood I have to go through dozens of boards to find ones that aren't fucked up. I need to find ones that are suitable for the job that I'm trying to use them for. A delivery guy would just grab whatever and throw it in the truck. It's not like I'm ordering an iPod off of Amazon. no mileage savings would be had because it is unlikely that anybody else would be having something delivered in the middle of nowhere.
Not sure if map thing is supported but PixelFed is good alternative to Instagram in general.
They're sort of sane, educated, privileged business elites writing for other educated priviliged business elites.

To most lefties that gives a slight right-wing bias, even if they aren't ranting demagogues going on about foreigners.

To less sane and educated right wing people, that makes them seem like "the liberal elite" and so they see them as left.

They do seem to have pivoted towards an American audience somewhat more recently, which means they're sucked into the whole anti-woke thing, which these articles veer worrying close to.
Agreed, python may be a contrived example here. It is possible to pull this off in a few languages where object relocation isn't a problem and mutating a collection during iteration is natural.
It’s not, but many people feel like it is. In order to uphold this via remote you have to make a concerted effort, which to people, makes it different.

I’m not arguing against work being only a part of life, but that most remote jobs cannot be broken down into pieces like an assembly line where socializing is unnecessary. Jobs cannot be completely compartmentalized.
> rogue editors [...] power

The problem is that this takes SO MUCH time and energy. Most give up.

Taking time out of your day to voluntarily improve a free resource is already energy intensive without also expending that energy battling with zealots.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying providing proper references takes too much time, I'm saying that having to fight with people to be permitted to keep content while building references takes much more energy again.
OpenStreetMap data is better for routing than it is for location lookups.

In the US, there will be the occasional problem where some local street detail is wrong, but things like inter-city routing work great. You can do it on device with several different apps, and there are several different providers selling route calculation as a service that use OpenStreetMap data.
> Right, A Chinese company standing up to the CCP.

It's not a matter of if they willingly do it (or even knowingly do it). The only rational position is to assume that any data which is a) desirable for intelligence or competitive reasons, and b) located in (or transits through) China, Russia or any of the western 'Five Eyes' countries is being intercepted. This remains true whether the company agrees or even knows about it.

The only weird thing is that all the companies (including FAANG) don't just come out and say this. Hell, they can even add that they do their best to secure their data and that 'to their knowledge' it's not happening but knowing the capabilities and history of large state actors, it would be naive not to acknowledge their systems may be compromised. The only difference between western based companies and China/Russia based companies is that the western ones may mostly be intercepted for intelligence purposes and less frequently for extra-judicial (warrantless) domestic law enforcement.
It is not necessarily a problem with progressive income taxes: the wealthier still pay more.

Also, giving every kid the same treatment is a good idea in general as it reinforces the idea that they should be treated equally.
Consolidating languages has such a huge ripple effect to CI/CD, QA and Security efficiency. Just hard to convince a team you buy or whatever that they should rewrite everything.
Of course, I'm just saying that there are more fart jokes, memes, and makeup tip videos than political ones on TikTok at this particular moment in time.
You sound like you're being sarcastic, but certainly it sounds like the things he was trying to divulge are some of the most important and fundamental aspects of global economics, and they are aspects that are poorly understood by the Argentine public: producing more is good for everyone, it is bad if the country is in a [trade] deficit, and if we export more it helps us all. (That's my translation of the Spanish.)

I don't know anything about his qualifications.
Within the context of this comment thread ("freeloaders" copying the R&D of the "inventive ones"), it seems like the opposite is true for global innovation: inventive ones are being punished by freeloaders copying their work and being able to offer it for a lower price, due to not having to recoup R&D costs/investments (among other factors).
Desktop Linux and non-Facebook user, here. Can confirm.
Melville. Faulkner. Spider-Man: Have Comic Books Officially Entered the Canon?
Europe has ASML
I know just what you mean. It sounds like a dream or at least an exaggeration with deus ex machina overtones.

When it first happened and I got over the initial shock, the part that freaked me out the most was the fact that the driver didn't pull over. That lent credence to my interpretation that it was some sort of supernatural intervention -- a guardian angel who appeared and then vanished.

Over the years I've polyfilled a better explanation: the driver saw the scene unfolding and realized he/she could help, but didn't want to be bothered with (literally) cleaning up the mess. Also, assuming they were local, they probably also knew the dog's nasty owner and wisely fled the scene to avoid starting a feud.
While South Korea is throwing out giant numbers, the number of South Korean and Taiwanese companies who are announcing plants contingent on the CHIPS Act recently makes it seem like what the US is doing is very favorable (these companies have announced plans of SK Group $22b, Samsung $200b, Globalwafers $5b).
Hello WhatApp!

In my family that is how pictures of grandchildren get to grandparents.

It is a closed loop. The only people that care about each other are in the loop and there are no random gawkers.
TikTok is a national security threat. It’s more than just hubris.
I wonder how that compares to using a big dehumidifier on humid air.

3M acre-ft = 3.7e12 L.

At 2L/kWh, that would seem to take >200 GW 24/7. Kind of makes sense... Who would bother with desalination if a dehumidifier would suffice?

Is 4000 L/kWh for desalination right? Online I find 285 L/kWh for RO, yielding... 6 GW!
Nikon fan here.

My first camera was a D3100 in 2010ish, which I recently sold to a friend of mine for $100 and they are still taking fantastic photos with it.

I have a D750 I bought when they were new and that fucker still works fantastic, taking gorgeous photos with the right lens.

Even bought a D3500 cause I missed the little guy. Same sensor as the D750 (expeed 4) just DX format and worse AF. Weighs like a third of the D750 too!

Nikon makes fantastic bodies and lenses.
an underappreciated one.
> but I sort of agree with the US government that it's crazy to give that much of (mostly) your youth's attention to an adversary.

In a way Europe has been doing that for many years. The US does not have any privacy protection of foreigners, the NSA is only not supposed to capture data on US citizens.

Only now are we seeing Google Analytics banned in many European countries. But it's a very small step.
Yes, it’s a really a breakdown of civil society as a whole. Any individual person is going to through their hands up at the whole thing and go along with it because it appears there’s nothing to be done.
I agree, but most people like to pretend inflation is only caused by increases to the money supply.
Show HN: A switch case syntax for Svelte
I created svelte-switch-case, a Svelte preprocessor that enables writing switch case syntax in components

Inspired by Rich Harris talk Annoying Things About Svelte
https://youtu.be/dB_YjuAMH3o
I'm a Dalio guy. He believes in this: https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/sustainabl...
In some religious circles the mere thought of someone else is adultery. (Like you can get a divorce because they looked at others at the beach too often.) Which seemed extreme to me even when I used to believe.

Oh and if you're single and 'lust' after someone else then you're also eternally damned. That always made ~dating~ [courtship] awkward.
I've actually worked for a couple of companies that had a tilt towards bidirectional loyalty. Maybe that was because I was senior. These seem to be the exception rather than the rule, though. Another company, only one VP/CxO out of the several demonstrated any.
Interesting, do you have a link to the documentation for this (or even a paper describing the design)? Does Clang/LLVM have something similar? I wonder would adding STM to Rust be more practical in terms of performance (or does the question even make sense given it already guarantees data race freedom)?
Only three leading questions? Go on, ask a few more. Or feel free to make a point.
The all-star dreams of Uvalde's biggest José Altuve fan
Just a guess, but probably because Wikipedia does not contain AdSense, so there is no money in putting it to the search results.

No one would officially admit this, of course, but whenever I see that Google prioritizes X over Y, X is usually a type of thing more likely to contain AdSense than Y.
Thats the abortion ruling in a nutshell - return it to the states and let the voters decide. However at the same time we have rulings saying gun rights are a federal issue and a state cannot regulate how permits are given out the way they want (although there are many nuances there), essentially making it a constitutional issue due to the 2nd amendment.

So in other words if it's the will of the country we need to pass an amendment, and if not then move to a state where your ideals are embraced. I know I've heard this story somewhere before...i think back in 1860's...
Shiny for Python
> My rough and ready sums put 30,000 pounds of petrol through the lifetime of an average ICE car.

My calculation shows ~50,000 pounds. 200,000 mile lifetime at 25 MPG = 8000 gallons * 6.30 pounds/gallon fuel density[0] = 50,400

Also keep in mind that gasoline is a refined product.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Density)
> They figured out a way to show you exactly what you're interested in, without you giving them any specific input

They optimized their primary user interaction to provide specific input!

By distilling user choice down to {watch time} or {swipe}, and preferentially promoting short pieces of content that generate more swipes, they get unambiguous and frequent input.

Which isn't to lessen their achievement, but is to highlight that they engineered their entire experience to provide their algorithms more and cleaner feedback.
This is similar to the open access citation advantage (FUTON bias):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_citation_advantage

Articles on Wikipedia and in open access journals are more accessible than paywalled sources, which means that people will read them more often.
Keep in mind that this isn't just a handout to business, but also a national security issue. Having 90% of our chips made in Taiwan means we have to spend a bunch of resources protecting Taiwan.

The long term plan here is to bring this manufacturing back into the US so that we don't have to protect Taiwan anymore.

(Please note I'm not stating my opinion on if this is good or bad, simply stating the end game they are going for).
I was under anesthesia a few years back and it really opened my eyes to what death actually is. You don't dream. You don't experience anything. It's not scary. You just... stop being.

I went under and then next thing I knew they were wheeling me back to my room. No pain. No fear. I was simply transported from one instant to another.
I wonder about the option of having an unlocked dedicated development machine that has no or very limited access to network resources but minimal security software in addition to a locked down laptop for email, slack/teams, etc...
1. Note that this is a news aggregator for tech startups. Tech startups in large cities tend to hire most of their experienced engineers from FAANG companies. So, it's in a tech startup's interest to critique FAANGs.
2. You could want to be a great startup founder or early engineer as an ambition. Probabilistically, your most straightforward path to this goal is to go to a FAANG next. Golden handcuffs, most people come in with this ambition then don't leave because there's so many pleasant aspects. Think about point #1 again.
3. If you are trying to get into a more respected tech community and are limited by visa issues, which companies tend to solve more often than individuals, it's probably in your interest to find a company [1] that will clear this hurtle for you and [2] that has a brand you can leverage. FAANG is a subset of companies that would provide that option.
That would be a big win for me if people feel this way. I'm delighted with the comments the artwork is getting so far, great insights from everyone!
I will check the logs in the morning (UTC timezone here) and will get to the bottom of this.
Also, when education funding happens on the county level we end up having wildly different standards of education depending on if your county is where rich people live or not - everyone wants to demand the best for their own children, but I think it's pretty settled that children, who don't have freedom of movement and aren't viewed as fully rationale agents, should have access to good education regardless of who their parents are and where they choose to live.

Differing county education funding was a real and evident problem when I was growing up in Massachuesettes in the 90s - some areas (like Wellesley) had extremely well funded schools due to local taxes while other areas had far too many students for the funds they collected. This, in part, lead to a whole big thing involving student busing[1] which was honestly pretty awful for the students that rode several hours to attend suburban schools - even if they did end up in a better funded district it was a cheap patch that avoided the real issue.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/boston...
That’s one way to look at it.

Another way to look at it is that crypto is strengthening the dollar’s foothold in Argentina and weakening the state’s ability to manage their own currency, to extremely detrimental effects.
> States Government don't have the taxing power of the Federal Government.

Sure they do (except stuff like tariffs). They just face competition from other states on how much they tax their citizens.
It sounds to me as though that would be closing the barn after the horse has bolted.
Ford Q2 2022 Earnings [pdf]
Not everyone is allowed to acquire 200 USD per month; only people with legally declared jobs, which I think is less than half the population now. The government policy is that dollars are only for the rich.
> Tiktok has nailed the delightful "stumble upon"

I didn't understand the appeal of Tiktok until just now when I read your comment. I was a StumbleUpon.com addict in 2006-07. I spent hours a day on it, saw really interesting content and even made some IRL friends.

I have no idea why they killed that site. I'll give Tiktok another try.
you've got to break a few eggs..

Seriously tho it seems like a pretty major feature to be introducing. Why not do it right? Surely the complexity should be concealed rather than out front being dealt with in user space.