skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California passed several laws in 2021 which set general rules for housing development, and limited the ability of local communities to set ad-hoc rules.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/three-new-california-la...
Nice catch! Frankly I think this points to a real danger of any central widely used service of which Cloudflare is an example. Any vulnerability or exploitation of such a point jeopardizes far too much.
Try moving to Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, the dozen of small islands with special states from UK, US, and some other countries, Singapore... Plenty of choices and its already the case. Look at Cargill legal structure (e.g. search Cargill International Luxembourg for a good laugh)
>someone has the bright idea to make you a manager.

maybe present your own manager with a copy of "The Peter Principle" book? This seems like a literal example of it.

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence":

employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
I'd say you'll probably spend more money on medical bills I'd you were to work 18 hour days 5 days a week for any meaningful amount of time. Or one might be sorely mistaken about what constitutes 18 hour work days - does that include travel and eating time too?
I wish we could just do it for minimum levels of food and shelter at least. Lack of the most basic security creates fault lines throughout all of society.
It seems like you have more of an issue with Windows specifically, not with an OS saying "hi" on the setup screen
The carbon impacts of most jobs are huge, certainly in finance. The need for perpetual economic growth is by far the largest contributor to climate change.
My informal definition of racism is "utilizes race as a parameter in a decision making process."
The problem is these "fake productivity" sources arent clearly identified. They are just referenced and then different people assume hes a
talking about different things and no one realizes that we're all using different definitions.
I never had a reason to call people ugly behind their backs. Calling Romani Romani not a word they don't like isn't dishonest, strange, or rude. I don't know anything about the birth genitals of most people I dine with.
My team uses squash + rebase. We wanted to have a linear clean commit history and ability to rollback. But in a team of 8 When 2 pull requests are generated at the same time and if I approve the oldest first then latest needs to rebase again as the history has changed. We solve this by notifying the team that pr is generated or approved. But its not scalable. Is there any solution for this?
Except government run subways work well in nearly all countries except the United States. It's not always a red versus blue issue, but other countries don't have to constantly fight against one party that gets into government to prove government doesn't work by making government worse.
The Hi bugs me not a bit.

The "All your things are just where you left them" during a major upgrade? That gives me the shits.
Hasn't it been like 2 or 3 years since Apple has even mentioned AR at the main keynote?
> Rozy followed her back, sometimes commenting on her posts, and a virtual friendship blossomed -- one that has endured even after Lee found out the truth.

How long before all that interaction is done by AI? Pretty black mirror. Cool tech though. Maybe a little crazy.
From the Greek word októpus. So, octopuses, not octopi.
Small, inexpensive case with transparent cover and snap-in holders for plastic brackets, which are NOT sold separately. Can be used for electronics projects. There are a couple of 3D models for plastic clips, which can be customized.

Derivative design, https://www.printables.com/model/201508-bosch-custom-case-sy...

> A 9x bit holder meant to be used in Bosch Custom Case System boxes and accessories, based on https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3440818 , but a complete parametric redraw. It's a bit rough and plain at the moment, but it's functionally complete and provides a solid basis to customize off of using the (mostly) annotated Fusion360 project file attached.
Damn, this sounds fascinating! Have you shared more anywhere eelse?
> But this has been a surefire way to put your competitors on the back foot for hundreds, probably thousands of years.

So there examples of this?
Total number of people-rides delivered within x% of scheduled time with y% loss rate.

Total number of TEU delivered within x% of scheduled time with y% loss rate.

If the company is doing a job well, these should go up over time. Sure, you can add on more conditions (i.e. with z max pax/sq.m., with p max wait to board) but ultimately, if the thing is doing its job right, there should be growth. It should be getting more people to places.

Every successful subway system shows growth. Taiwan Metro and TfL are both well renowned and both show continuous growth.

Growth is Good.
Actually it's much worse. They are doing it quarterly. So if you've worked there for 8 months, you get equity vested in first 6 months only.
I don't mean to be argumentative, but this is far worse than a Sibyl attack.

In a Sibyl attack, an attacker can spend N resources to carry the weight of N people, gaining proportionate influence where proportionate influence is disallowed.

In this attack, the attacker can spend N resources to carry the weight of N^2 people.

That is, they can vote as the square root of the pool. If there's a million tokens in the pool, they only need a thousand to achieve dominance, unless someone else uses the same trick simultaneously.

This is the kind of thing that's so bad that it's hard to imagine someone didn't design this with the explicit purpose of exploiting it themselves down the line.

I'm not sure why you suggest quadric voting fixes this, as it actually makes this radically worse.

You seem to be reciting PR without understanding the underlying math.
Effective altruism is a joke. Your high paying finance job is terrible for the environment, creating a fake need for perpetual growth. Do something good for the world with your time, there's lots of room for positive disruption in areas where there's not a lot of money to be made.
I see lots of criticism of trans people.
Cheetah poised to make a comeback in India after its extinction in the country
That is the future. Robotic caregivers for the elderly, and AI chatbots for the mentally challenged. Humanity is about to dehumanize itself, in the name of technological advancements.
Thank you. I am thinking of refactoring my existing proof of concept to make it more portable. Currently it's hardwired for CCL and MacOS.

Then I may "ship" a release (maybe purely REPL-based) and gather feedback.
Approximately forever, although while I worked at an "ISP" in 1999, it was a two T1 ISP; one for modems, one for upstream; and then we outsourced all the modem stuff to MegaPath when something weird happened to our modem T1, but I was never trained on how that T1 worked, all just magic to me. I kind of sort of get the idea today, but ... I poked at the RADIUS server, and setup webhosting for customers. I never worked for a real DDoS target until 10 years ago (and even then it was mostly people kicking the tires with 90 second DDoS services). I'm sure it's not as bad as it once was, but it's still probably easier to get a big DDoS with UDP reflection than through botnets directly hitting the target.

Back to the topic of telco spam. STIR/Shaken should maybe get us actual caller-ids soonish, I think there's one more deadline for small carriers that service actual phone lines. OTOH, what are you going to do with a real caller id? I'm pretty sure phone companies just don't want to do it anymore, there's no money in voice calling, and it'll fall apart like landlines have.
Probably because most of the time for professional software developers aren't spent on fun things such as programming, but on meetings, scheduling milestones, planning resources, even more meetings, and so forth.

I enjoy programming both as a job and as a hobby, but there are definitely days where I wrote more code for my side project than for work, despite spending more hours at work.
You can get a machine with multiple terabytes of ram and hundreds of CPU cores easily. If you can afford that, you can afford a live replica to switch to during maintenance.

FastComments runs on one big DB in each region, with a hot backup... no issues yet.

Before you go to microservices you can also shard, as others have mentioned.
> You're telling me if a short, bald, overweight guy with a beard likes to be referred to as a tall, thin blonde woman with lustrous hair - "we" immediately stop seeing his height, his lack of hair, his girth and his beard? I don't know who that "we" is but that'd require some major training in delusion, Mr. O'Brien.

That's straw-man and snark across the board.

If that short person wants to be called "she" and to stop pointing out she's bald, those are reasonable asks.

I'm cross-eyed when I don't wear my glasses. Do you insist on pointing that out to my face repeatedly even when I ask you not to? Do you insist on gossiping about it to other people in a way that I would consider derogatory if I heard? Do you insist on a shortened version of my name that I don't like? If so, I think you're being a jerk. Ditto if you refuse to comply with requests from other people that I consider reasonable.
The solution is conceptually simple (no idea of practicality): propose an answer related to the context.

And also: give the list of banned words
I started a reply thinking this is probably absurd to do, but I realise it's probably possible. A/B test error messages, outcome are support tickets, app reviews. That's said I'm not sure if anyone would bother to setup tests for error messages, there probably more important things to do like fix the actual cause
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Bit of a mess.
Tax-inefficient income with no inflation protection. Unless it's a whole small business you're buying into, government bonds are better.
Interesting. Much like the temperature underground on earth.
I've seen studies where Google broadly 'categorized' personality types from certain time periods (e.g., a decade) and from a similar area (e.g., the US) as having very similar experiences. I know HN is a microcosm of the general public, but even here, I find dozens (maybe hundreds) of people who were exposed to the same 'input' as me tend to have the same long-term views and interests.

Certainly that doesn't help 're-imagine' someone as unique as Angela Merkel, but if her Google searches were known, maybe her humourous personality would shine through if they were combined with traits common to Germans born in the 50s? Maybe someone asking questions to a digital ghost would also have to specify whether they want to speak with Angela the person (limited information) vs. Angela the politician (lots of information)?

Much of what I've discovered and correlated on the people I'm researching would have remained undiscovered unless someone had the time to sift through literally thousands of physical journals as opposed to a month of Archive.org queries on my part. The digitization and open access to old books uncovered new connections and information. It's fascinating!
My guess is that the people randomly beating up Asians aren't doing a whole lotta research beforehand? Opportunistic, not strategized.

I could be wrong though! Anybody else have actual intel on this? I'm just going off the chatter on /r/sanfrancisco and /r/bayarea.
For years it seems like dialog has been quieter. When you turn it up to hear the dialog, the explosions and everything else is too loud. I've seen this on at least 20 different tv/sound setups... it is constant.
“You can always be thinner, look better”
Good point. I never thought of the blog posts as documentation.
First time I've heard of this series, but it sounds like something I'd really enjoy - thanks for the tip! I guess I'll know the episode you're referring to when I come across it.
I think anyone who would accept the statement "It is good that there are perpetually growing companies" will also accept the statement "It is good that there are perpetually growing companies and exclusive-luxury-segment non-growing companies".
Unfortunately the people that care (like HN people) are less likely to spend time organizing protests and riling up an internet mob
There's a lot of risk for new nodes and less for old ones. Exactly how much, I'm not sure.

I guess let me put it this way - I think it's entirely rational for them to be cautious. There's currently not a lot of upside to being more open, so it's usually not worth it even if the risk is small. Programs like this are great because they hit both sides of the equation: increasing demand for open PDKs while lowing the perceived risk by building a track record of successful releases.
That plus carbon emission. The result won’t be the perfect indicator but we really need a simple numerical indicator for people to care, sadly.
search: >'Erectile Dysfunction (ED) SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='Erectile Dysfunction (E...>
Devs don't love copilot. I don't know any good dev who uses copilot more than a novelty.
ReCaptcha does a similar tactic but rather than unsolvable it's a stream of the most annoying captcha -- "select all of image until none are left". Fail one and you're back at the start. You do have the option to cycle captcha, but 9/10 times it'll be this one. Eventually you'll get locked out of captcha entirely. Anyone who has used Tor on Google has probably experienced this.
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Part-time prefered but... negociable
- C++
- HFT
- Crypto
- Computer Vision / NLP
- Unity3D
- So, yes, C#, Rust, some react, golang you name it...
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All those pictures of influencers and not one of them is at a Subway. What is happening in Korea?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdYFhzVCDM
I believe the idea is that society is prejudiced/biased, so training an AI using data from that society would perpetrate that bias. So there needs to be some manual correction.
Personally I don't defer to past practices as absolute wisdom. I've worked in waterfall environments and don't really want to go back. I like to be able to take vacations whenever I want and not stress about deadlines or go through crunch again.

The problem to solve is defining partial success as ok. If your product needs a whole set of discrete features to be releasable instead of an MVP set of discrete improvements and quality checks against regressions then something is off in the management and testing structure of the project.

The nightmare scenario I want to avoid is a user base that needs improvements and those improvements being done but releases blocked on things other users need. You don't want to delay things that can be valuable today once they work - that's bad for everyone.
Fellow Smalltalk Groupie from back in the day here. I jumped out of the balloon just over 10 years ago.

I used to feel that I too would love coding forever. I looked up to those that did. I wanted to be like them. I still do. Of late, I feel like I’m waning. I’ve spent the last 10 years “using the right tool for the right job”. I became a polyglot. Because Smalltalk alone wasn’t where it was at. So I’ve become proficient with one tool/language or another for just about everything except front end web development. And…

I just feel tired of late. What I’ve worked on has been successful. I’ve played a key role in watering literally millions of agriculture acreage (well maybe more 100s of thousands, but there isn’t a good single word for that). And yet…

I’m tired. And it doesn’t feel fun anymore. I can’t find the sense of community I used to feel in the Smalltalk tribe. I loathe the types of non technical management that seems to oversee software development more than ever (I like them as people, I just hate the ineffectiveness of their roles). Where simplicity and elegance used to seem a laudable goal in software, it just seems to be an attractor of complexity anymore. Complexity attracts more positions, more roles, more process, and the extra cash that has sloshed around for the last 10 years just seems to soak that right in.

Curious if any of the “still loving it too” here, have any good advice on how to right this ship of enthusiasm before it founders.
>(and is what most people have in mind when they say "MITM" anyway)

Forward proxying isn't what I have in mind when I think MITM. Forward proxying means changing your browser settings to format the request in a new way and intentionally send it to a proxy which will then forward it to the destination. MITM means the browser attempts to send it to the destination without any formatting change, but a MITM inserts itself in the middle through some mechanism (modifying DNS, modifying IP routing).
Are there some specific Unicode ranges that HN filters out? I recall being able to use other alphabets and various special symbols with no issue.
More evidence they are either grossly incompetent or attempting to destroy the US economically. Take your pick.
If we eliminate gender as a social concept, what will we be left with to categorize people? Back to where we started?
I thought assets give positive return in the long run. Why should they not pay appropriate taxes for an economic system that increases inequality
This comment was f-in poetic.
I offer no defense of Github's choice. What do you think was the reasoning for their decision?

I can understand the concern about powerful organizations imposing a viewpoint surreptitiously via a widely-used piece of software. That is definitely a reasonable fear, and if we allow concentrated power (MSFT here) to behave in that way, then we are in for trouble.

I'd argue that we wouldn't end up with tyranny, but rather feudalism. There are other powerful organizations that can push their own viewpoints, surreptitiously and overtly. It then becomes a game of who has the most resources and control over the flow of information. But while I prefer "feudalism" to "tyranny", I don't disagree that if propaganda was the aim here, it would be a bad thing.

I don't agree that GitHub's aim was to impose a viewpoint. I believe the aim was to avoid putting this tool in the middle of a very politically charged issue. For example, how do we know GitHub didn't make this decision like this: "We don't want 8 genders popping up in a <select>, because that will offend the 50% of the country who only believes there are two". We are seeing some evidence of this (and the other 50%) in this thread.

Finally, maybe they are trying to prevent people from spamming their learning model with politically-charged content. If that were the case, you could argue that they are just trying to prevent their programming tool from becoming a political warzone, with competing sides trying to train their viewpoints into the model. I admit I know very little about ML in general and Copilot in particular, so you'll have to bear with me if that sounds naiive. In any case, social media is an example of a tool that has become a political battleground, even though that wasn't the initial purpose. If preventing Copilot's politicization is GitHub's aim (and I have no evidence that it is), then I'd say that's a reasonable thing to want for product if you don't want it to become unpleasant-to-use before long.

So we have three hypotheses:

1. MSFT believe there are more than two genders, and want to impose that viewpoint

2. MSFT believe there are only two genders, and want to impose that viewpoint

3. MSFT wants to avoid having politically-charged content in their code-generation tool.

How can we point to one of these being more correct than the other?

I don't have any evidence to support any of the three. But 1 and 2 each make three assumptions (MSFT has one viewpoint on issue X; this viewpoint is Y; they want to impose it). Hypothesis 3 makes two assumptions (Gender is politically charged; let's avoid that in our product). That's all I can think of this late at night. I could be missing something.
Love the project and the spirit of it. Brings be back to playing FFT.

Question to all C/C++ programmers out there. Why are your variables so terse? I have no idea what td and dt mean and why they are both in the same function. I'm genuinely trying to read your code and have no idea what is happening because there is seemingly a desire by the author to keep variables as short as possible. Why?
It's a healthy balance.

Watching Ali Abdaal and dissing all productivity techniques is like watching a Crossfitter and dissing all forms of physical exercise. Yes, some people take exercise too far, but most people do nothing and that's a much bigger problem.

I see him as trying to push the envelope and give you a wide range of ideas. I don't try to copy everything he does, but he puts out a lot of ideas and usually some idea will stick.

I do believe there's always a better way of doing something. I especially believe in the productivity techniques to increase self reflection and "leverage" like the "daily highlight" and "five minute journal". It doesn't matter how productive you are if you haven't sorted out your priorities.
Reminds me of a rewrite I was a part of years ago. During the rewrite someone put a humorous picture of a coworker as the 500 page. In development it was amusing but we didn’t hit too many 500 pages so we didn’t see it often. When the launch came no one remembered we had this picture as our 500 page. Customers were not amused to get a picture of some nerd as an error page.
linking to relevant terms

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

Seems established and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising#Regulation_a...

May be a case for this imo ianal
That's a fair criticism but it neglects two realities I'm familiar with.

The first is that automated testing usually doesn't exist to the degree that you need it to be done. That's an engineering problem in and of itself, but manual QA still exists and always will.

The second is more important which is feedback from the marketplace. If you release infrequently you are harming the ability of the business to adapt and increasing the risk of what features people care about. This is something I see every single release cycle - more frequent repositioning is more stable and that's only possible with customer feedback. And as far as I know it can't be captured in automated testing.
Very interesting proposition.

Is there any further info and any similar work on this subject?
Weird, that never stopped property tax. Why can't one have a wealth tax too.

Maybe we can tax only productive assets. And you don't need to sell a small proportion, just let the government own that tiny bit
The paper defines what it considers a catastrophe quite well, you should read it! As a climatologist I always appreciate more investigation into the possibilities of future climate, even those I consider unlikely.

What I did say is that a lot of bad effects are already happening. Talking about climate science used to be like being the mythical Cassandra. But now it’s worse: the mass deaths and migration has already begun, and people still deny the evidence all around them that the predictions have already come true.

If there was an industrial accident where a chemical got released and a million people around the factory all died, that would be a catastrophe, right? Okay, a million people scattered around the world die from air pollution every year. Does the point source make it somehow a bigger tragedy in the first example? Yes, I know that without energy even more people would die, but a million deaths that we have all the technology to avoid is still a catastrophe. Regional famines leading to civil war and migration have already happened. Heat deaths in the thousands in Europe this year. Maybe I’m weird that my threshold for catastrophe is so low.