skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i live in a rural one-stoplight town and all of those things are the same distance if not closer. even if i lived in an outlying suburb none would be more than 15 min away or maybe 30-45 min on a bike. 'nature' is about a 90 seconds walk from my doorstep.
there certainly isn't much of a nightlife though.

it feels like the whole NIMBY/YIMBY dichotomy loses sight of the fact there are other development models besides midtown manhattan or the exurbs of tuscon.
People are not working collaboratively in libraries. Offices exist for people to work collaboratively, otherwise they could work at home.
I've read that the dating prospects for men are a lot better ( number of single females to males) not sure if that's accurate but may be a consideration
On the Night Side of Life: The Malady Spreads, the End Is Nigh
"Apply to local companies, not just remote ones."

This should be emphasized more. I have a remote-first job but at a local company. The best of both worlds in my opinion because I can be in the office when I want and have the flexibility I want.

I also think local companies with less than 500 employees are more likely to care about location than larger businesses.
Thinking about my favorite libraries, this is what strikes me most: many people before and many people after will find inspiration in the same place. The people will change, the books will change, but the culture of respect for quiet (and thus concentration) will (hopefully) live on.

This idea of the place inspiring beyond ourselves is wonderful.

So, why not find ways of inspiring their employees beyond that particular job? ... What if more companies found ways to inspire people in very honest ways?

I don't particularly like corporate-speak on the walls or vague mission statements. But if there was a way to remind people of the following message, I think it would go a long way: "People will work here for varying lengths of time. While they are here, treat each other with respect. Let's share the best of ourselves. When these efforts align, our organization thrives, and we can keep working together in ways that we can feel good about."

The corollary, I think, would be "If we have to treat each other like sh*t in order for our company to be successful, what the heck are we doing here?" I somewhat prefer the negative phrasing.

Apologies for the idealism. Ultimately, messaging is only as good as its authenticity and follow up. If a company says e.g. "Come to Hooli to do your best work" and then offers ineffective working spaces, it is time to add an asterisk; e.g. "* under the constraints of having to work in a loud, unproductive, distracting environment."
It's not even just batteries. Every laptop I've ever owned comes with a AC to DC converter. Every laptop I've ever owned has outlived that AC-to-DC converter. Every converter that has failed has failed in exactly the same way: the plug/cord connection at the laptop end becomes unreliable.

And every single one of them, across a range of manufacturers, has had the cord not be detachable from the brick. So what could have been a simple $5 replacement cord is now "replace the entire converter" and is now $30 if you try to find a third-party and pray they're not a fraud, or $50 from the manufacturer. Meanwhile at perfectly good converter (sans cord) is landfill.

But lo and behold: the brick-to-wall cord is detachable. And funny that, that one never breaks…
randomly grabbing the first thing on tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/1123711

I don't think any book could give the feeling of transitions as the webtoon format can, yes, its only a panel (or less!) at a time, but the artist can give a halting thought-by-thought feel of a man on his deathbed, or roll out an entire red carpet of flourishes to introduce a character of nobility

You can't go super transition-heavy in print, because well, printing and pages cost. and people need to move their big hands to flick the pages, there is an expected consumption rate for that effort put in, so even if cost wasn't an issue, people would get fed up with the transitions anyhow.

so yeah, 1 panel at a time, is a bit of a downside, but IMO its also an upside in that one can give each panel its own treatment and such. an infinite vertical strip as one's canvas

- - -

of course, getting all the bits into the right places with the right breathing rooms and the right flow is a true skill in of itself, but, I dunno, is it better to read 1 super good comic, or 100 entertaining enough ones? the bar is lowered by all of this, yes, but is that a bad thing?
I can't find it now, but there's a piece by some writer where he interviews a New York City art critic. It takes some wheedling and wearing down, but eventually he gets the critic to admit that if a particular piece of abstract art weren't presented as "by so-and-so the Famous Artist," the critic wouldn't consider the work notable, valuable, or really very appealing at all. By itself, the work isn't very good. It only has value when attached to a brand and the according social expectations.

That's what I meant by context and social cueing.
It's just very expensive there, unless you have a job somewhere in the city making >100k a year then paying the $2.5k+ rent for a apartment the size of a closet isn't worth it to me.
This sounds very appealing.

Our IDS solution outputs zeek/suricata info to s3 as dns.1234.log.gz, http.1234.log.gz, etc.

Can these files be handled automatically?
What are the companies in this space doing the installations and system integration?

What are the bottlenecks on rollout other than prohibitory regulations?

What is the reasoning for the government prohibiting solar in “Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin”?
Seed 23478978945674839578275983475348957348597345984375345834753498 produces 0.4444444444444444, am I insanely lucky in my keyboard spam or is this a common output?
This has nothing to do with multiplayer. This was a single player game that vanished as soon as you played it; even if you liked it, still had the disk and a computer to run it in, it was gone. It was sold as an ordinary computer game, not as a concert that happens exactly once. (Even concerts are given dozens of times in a year, rather than one single time.)
I LOVE trackpoints but unfortunately they are terrible at irritating my hands wrists and elbows. be careful
UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock displays Internet's first router
Pft, and capacitors leaking, and the lack of security patches and defects from coil whine and thermal expansion...

This is the tip of a very large iceberg. I'd love to see it fixed, but id rather we don't forget the other problems just because we're taking about the battery issue...

(And while we're on that one this covers electronic cars as well. But I guess some people believe that replacing a car every 10 years is somehow green efficient and makes up for a whole new car being ripped out of the ground somewhere in the 3rd world)
Ok, waiting for cuneiform now
But what if the digital cloning process happened while you are under anesthesia/asleep, and then you’d be euthanized while unconscious?

Could that situation be interpreted not as a “fork”, but as a simple continuation of the stream of consciousness, more or less similar to waking up the next morning, except this time in a different “body”?
Small companies need to sue big companies more often.

Apple would not be alive today if they hadn't tried to squeeze the giant.

This, coupled with antitrust action against Microsoft, created a more diverse tech ecosystem and opened the gates for Google, Apple, and others.

It needs to happen again against today's giants. We need more companies doing more things, not the same giants with overlapping markets soaking up all the capital through platform rent seeking.
The ping has been around since '83.
Yet another "this won't get us to AGI" post that won't take a stand about how AGI should be defined. It also commits the other standard fallacies in these pieces:

- endless argument by analogy that makes no falsifiable claims about the actual problem

- comparing the training costs (energy and data) of an ML model to the operating costs of an individual human
> But lo and behold: the brick-to-wall cord is detachable. And funny that, that one never breaks…

Yup. But that shows they're willing to pretend to be recyclable...
re: "prohibiting solar" -- many utilities are able to convince their public utilities commission or legislature that it's in the best interest of the state to prevent competition to protect their natural monopoly.
Thankfully USB-C charging on my laptops has made that less of an issue. Of course the good chargers are like $80 instead but still.
Apply at startups until someone is desperate enough to hire you. Break as little as possible as you learn. Bounce as soon as you’ve reached a point where you’re no longer learning.

There is no better teacher than experience. You can experiment in a homelab extensively, but it’ll never replace experience in a live distributed systems environment.

I cannot stress that tests and peer review are crucial for high availability delivery. Use checklists, ask for feedback, it’s cheaper than outages.
Been thinking about this a lot recently, I guess the hurdle to clear is probably convincing Walmart to let you put solar panels over their parking lot. I wonder what the economics of it would be if Walmart did it themselves?

Tangential, the reason that we have so much parking space (as the article mentions) is that it is dictated by law in most places how many spots are required based on the building size. https://www.strongtowns.org/parking
Braun seem to have the charging circuitry and battery sizing perfected now, my toothbrush is approaching 10 years old now and still works like new.
Recent Macs have cords that come in three parts: brick-to-plug, brick, brick-to-laptop. It’s one of my favorite changes in the newer MacBook models.
A lot of workers have contempt for their bosses it doesn't invalidate their job.
Humre A human-readable regular expression module for Python
It isn't just you. I couldn't stand having my monitors facing other people when I had to work in an open space, even though I only ever had work on it.
I’m not saying don’t fight. I’m saying don’t let your opponent define the rules of the game.
Where is the list?
Depends which model you’re talking about. M1 Pro is two external, M1 Max four external, each in addition to the built-in. Nice try, though.
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Dyson are the worst, their BMS is terrible and just disables the pack with minimal cell voltage variation.
> They're trading on the reputation they earned decades ago.

This is obviously not true. People love the products Apple makes - it's really that simple.
You should definitely come check it out and see if you like being here for a couple of weeks. You can definitely do a lot better than $5k, check out this street easy link[1] at the time of posting it has 173 apartments in neighborhoods in Brooklyn that are all really nice and under $4k/mo with no broker fee. There's actually a LOT of good cheap food here, depending on where you are and your tolerance for eating while standing. Entertainment costs vary, but I saw an excellent show a few weeks ago for $20 and paid I thin $8 for a beer at the venue.

I've been here for 7 years and love it, it's actually very pleasant most of the time.

[1]https://streeteasy.com/for-rent/nyc/price:-4000%7Carea:321,3...
This is very well written. 1-3 describes my experience of tinkering in Pharo except I haven't actually built anything with it.
There is such a thing as "soft tyranny". It can be just as insidious and demoralizing to individual rights as a hard tyranny.
I think this is a common observation in the art world. But we're not bound to the art world's perverse economic incentives, and Works Progress are in particular was created with consumption by mass Americans in mind.

(I also think they're basically unknown to ordinary Americans, ironically, making the social cueing you're describing even more difficult.)
It’s easier and simpler to supply the country specific brick-to-wall cable (either IEC 60320 or IEC C13 to local) than it is to manufacture county specific power bricks.
Neil Gaiman Knows What Happens When You Dream
https://archive.ph/L7GVQ
JetBrains MPS [0] is worth a look for inspiration. Like some of the other projects mentioned here, it's an editor on top of an Abstract Syntax Tree. You can use it to make DSLs that have different UI/UX projections.

I'm not sure anyone's actually using it, but there are some good ideas in there.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
I get what you're trying to say, the point I was trying to make was your mode and manner of messaging has ostensibly changed in recent time. E.g., just now way too casually you've in broad strokes implicated democrats to be behind duplicitous and conniving schemes in which they treat Hispanics and minorities as mere pawns in their games. Uh okay mayyybe someone at the DNC or a blue think-tank thinks like this and has said something along these lines to their fellow counter-part, but it's not how the regular run-of-the-mill liberal on the street or the average liberal on HN is thinking.

To win hearts and minds either here in this little corner of the internet or out there in meat-space, it's not worthwhile or productive to say such a thing, if you do then in their view you're making a strawman so you lose a potential sympathetic ear and indeed the chance to win hearts and minds. Maybe qualify your statements differently, say "the heads at the DNC" instead of using indiscriminately general labels like "Liberals" or "Democrats" which tends to make the message start sounding adversarial.

By the by, is running for any political office in the stars for you? (I pose the same question to you, Thomas. Frankly I wish both of you would consider it).
How about we mandate user replaceable batteries (with some kind of wording to make it easy enough for normal humans with no glue and connectors that don't snap easily). Once upon a time I had an HTC Evo 4G that I could do this with.

Mandating that they admit the death date seems to be baking in some level of stockholm syndrome.
This reminds me — what was that human readable “man” tool again? I think I had come across a homebrew package back in the day, that let you read command docs in a sane language, but lost track of it.
I grew up in NYC but moved to DC years ago and enjoy it a lot. Cost of living is noticeably lower, still no need for a car (though having one isn’t prohibitively expensive like in NYC), and it’s got a better vibe than people give it credit for (At least if you’re not in politics). A bit slower paced but you can also Amtrak or Jet bus up to NYC any time you want.

NYC is incredible, but when it came down to value… it was hard to justify the $5k+/mo rents. Delis are great but its just not worth it

That said, if you are interested in NYC, I wouldn’t look in Manhattan these days. Brooklyn or the more accessible parts of Queens are where I’d look for a better vibe and good values
This is somewhat common to see in Arizona, since covered parking is very appreciated where it exists.
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As someone living in Jersey City, this is complete bs, my friends in the city proper visit frequently.
> the dating prospects for men are a lot better

This is very real. There was even a YC backed startup to fly people between NYC and SF to help them with dating.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/the-dating-ring-is-raising...
Check out the moldable tools idea, e.g. Tudor Girba's https://gtoolkit.com/
It's worth it if there's something you value there that you cannot get here, and you accept the tradeoffs.

Is it important to you to eat some of the best food on Earth at the expense of living in a smaller, older apartment? Do you prefer social diversity to a temperate climate? Are you generally an indoors or outdoors person? Are you a single straight male?

These are the types of questions I'd be answering to help decide. That said, I haven't lived in NY, so take this all with a grain of salt.
This was a great rec, thanks. Really enjoyed it.
qdirstat - https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
One of the objectives of GraphQL is to replace REST, so yes, you’re right, it’s re-inventing REST.

I’m not going to argue whether one is better than the other implementation wise. That’s purely personal preference.

GraphQL has one super power though. I have access to an API directly and can save bandwidth by only querying and returning what I explicitly want in the data. That plus the allowed query rules stuff comes free in Apollo GraphQL now. At scale, this is huge for our bandwidth cost savings.

A second big win is federation of many GraphQL schemas under one giant god schema. This is useful when you are a big company, merging two architectures with different API’s together under one umbrella. You can define the mappings from the child schemas to the god schema in another spec that has no code, just a federation schema. Again, you can do this in REST too with layered API’s, but GraphQL arguably makes it somewhat easier to do this with just config files.

I also find that out of the box, the type safety guarantees of GraphQL are a lot cleaner/batteries include than the REST work I did the many years prior.

It’s all do-able with either tech and you are correct in feeling like it’s re-inventing the wheel. It is, and that’s purely a business decision to make money pivoting devs to a new library/environment.

I won’t judge you for wanting to stick with REST. It’s tried and true methods that will work for many many use cases. To each their own!
id prefer they didn’t

for now society has voted with their dollars to support my preferences
I’ve also heard they’re going to use 4680 cells for their newer batteries.
Honestly, because a quarter of the typical company is management whose main job is talking all day. In pathological situations, they spend more time talking up than down, to the point where my boss "sees" me for about 1.5 hours a week.
and because jails has such low adoption, there will be fewer identified issues. Unlike docker, so many people use it, they will find many issues.
It might seem as if regulations did the change because the gov cares about its people, but it might be just the market working. There were alternatives, the economy suffered from people choosing Australian imports and losing trust in local products (and the gov, to a degree). Companies may have realized they shot themselves in the foot and already stopped putting asbestos in baby formula, but someone had to take the fall to restore optics.
> We implemented a heat map, and it was often shocking how much a seemingly innocuous aspect of a material could impact ray counts.

Definitely. I think that "you don't know until you profile" applies just as much to optimizing renders as it does to optimizing code.

> Of course this was pre-pathtracing, so it showed up differently.

Yep, I remember those days of distribution ray tracing. There were all sorts of tricks to keep the ray trees under control, like lowering the number of glossy or shadow samples the deeper you were in the tree. I don't miss them. Pathtracing made things so much easier to tune.
That's so fucked. Straight up slave labor in almost all of the cases.
A tale as old as time.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1549527752763588608.html
If you've ever seen the movie The Fifth Element (1997), there is a flying car chase scene. In the scene there are many levels of aerial streets, very tall buildings, and the ability to fly into a building many stories above ground.
The Dynamics of Industry-Wide Disclosure
Or to cover up the fact that they couldn’t balance the load during peak solar production and don’t want to make investments in the grid…
It really is not. Genetics account for much of behaviour, sure, but not a majority: environment and conditioning account for most behaviour. (biochemist)
Very much this. We were in the middle of designing and installing a total solar array for our farm when the state ended every single subsidy and electricity buyback plan. We could install all the solar panels we want, but any electricity we pump into the grid is done for free (we don't get paid) and any power we take from the grid we pay 100% for with no credit for any power we pushed upstream.

This forced us to increase the panel array size by another 25% to 30% to make sure we had more coverage, increase the battery storage we needed, and increased the breakeven point to more than 30 years.

We decided to not do it. For a world that needs more renewable energy (I sort of hate that term) politicians work awful hard to make it not happen.
Stop trying to make hardware last forever. Who here would like to use hardware from 2017? iPhone x anyone? The lifetime of these devices is defined by the reasonable update schedule of the consumer, which is based on moores law. 5 years is a reasonable update schedule. Then put one in a museum and live in the now. You get this much time forget the nostalgia https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/months.html
Manahattan--and I guess Brooklyn these days--are somewhat unique. I'd definitely try them out for a couple of weeks to see if they're something you can handle over the long term. Cost is a factor but it's also just the overall intensity. As a visitor who likes the city, I couldn't stand living there--albeit as a student in the 80s.
What are you talking about? There is a ton of apartments under 3k in Manhattan: https://www.zillow.com/new-york-ny/rentals/?searchQueryState...

Though as someone who lived in both cities (not recently) I’m not sure what you’re hoping to gain by moving.
Live in New York City once but leave before it makes you hard.
Generally speaking, no, it is not worth living in NYC unless you have family or a network of friends already there. You can have a bountiful social life with good transportation in many smaller-than-NYC cities in the U.S.
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Could you drop your HTC Evo 4G in water and it still work?
So indexing all the components and finding out all the interactions between them. This is exactly what class browsers do, they index all the classes and messages. The interactions could be described using an example/documentation.

This reminds me of Pharo which does all of the above, indexes classes, messages and has a rich documentation support.
This is a great idea, but as the article says it’s the kind of thing that doesn’t happen because the incentives and expertise don’t align. Moreover, big box development is usually designed on a mere 15-20 year lifespan, and very cheaply built, so a major capital project like a solar installation on the roof or parking conflicts with that model.

It’s also almost certainly illegal in many municipalities, most of which basically say “no” to everything by default and only allow development that follows strict land use and aesthetic rules; yes even for parking lots.
And how much larger would they be?
We don't need to refer to a librarian that way. Yeah, I know, Seinfeld did it. It isn't funny or interesting. It is a cliché. Let's try to choose our language so that our history and language can hold onto meanings that matter.

There is a Star Trek TNG episode called Darmok that describes a culture that only speaks in metaphor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok

Surely we have a better metaphor for a meek but powerful librarian than ...

> Who will be the library nazi that kicks you out when you talk too loudly?
The rare case where China gets something right.