skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the sibling comment, if the OP is looking for an apartment or condo, they will find exactly what they are looking for - housing with plenty of amenities within walking/biking distance. I live next to a 40k population city who has exactly that.

If they're not finding it, it's probably because they're looking for a low density housing option.
Stacked PRs: Code changes as narrative
Thanks for helping to keep the internet alive :)
There should be a sticker somewhere in the engine bay with type and quantity.
June 29, 2012 Derecho Analysis/Narrative
Copilot: Realtime programming language and runtime verification framework
I'm a person of faith. At the same time, we point out that the religion of "scientism" exists whether people admit it or not, especially when they claim that they "believe in science". Correct faith and science are not contradictory. And those people mix up belief in the unseen with blind faith without proof or evidence.
Show HN: Hacker News Lite – I made a less distracting version of HN
Sometimes UI can be distracting and I’ve found that I’m most focused when able to focus completely on the content on a page. I built HN Lite as a chrome extension to hide all information that isn’t vital to see.
It removes excess navigation, usernames, saving/reporting features, upvotes, voting tools, account access, and styling.

Essentially it’s a lurker’s tool. Almost entirely built around content consumption and exploration. Although it desperately needs dark mode.
It's fair-er. Or less unfair, if you prefer. Not ideal by a long shot for sure.
I live in a small remote town on an island, and I could not be happier. Silent, big houses, everything I need in shops and restaurants, and incredible scenery every day. I used to live in the big city when I was studying, and it was horrible. I used to have a window open just to get some air into the horrible apartment I lived in, and the windowsill would have a layer of asphalt dust.

The big city has a few things that you can't get elsewhere, but you can always just travel there when you need to/want to.
I faced the problem. I think one of the main issues with google is the modality of the results. Google is forced to create a list of links because that's the main vehicle where they drive profit. If you were to send a question like "Who is Barack Obama?" you still will get a list of links although google knows there is a canonical answer.

The problem is that if you were to build a new search engine from the ground up it will take millions in infrastructure, and a lot of time for you to test one idea. And there are multiple attack vectors to Google's business model (privacy, subscription model, modality, etc.) however you might get the change of testing one of them, and if that fails, starting again is super expensive so you might not be able to get funds to do it.

My approach then became to build something that others can build on top of.

I'm currently using common crawl but my main problem is that I need to build a small toy to test it and even processing common crawl is crazy expensive. Just a single snap are 150 Tb, so this needs to be process on metal, or you're gonna pay a hefty AWS bill.
Well having a large endowment allows you to have a larger budget and spend more on salaries, research, instruction, etc. For example, Harvard with the largest endowment had ~$5 billion in operating expenses in 2021. That alone is more than the entire GDP of more than 50 countries. So Harvard by itself spent more money than the entire economies of 24% of the worlds countries.
A new EV (or even ICE) Chevy LUV would be so cool. Something small, simple, and cheap.
No, I don’t think we did. I was thinking about this when I wrote it, too. That’s been the case in the past, present, and future.

Glad someone picked that out.
> right sorts of connections to common-sense reality

Unfortunately, I think this matters less than it should. Connection to common-sense reality does not seem to be a prerequisite for most people who engage with content on the internet.
Despite living in major US cities for much of my adult life, I do not enjoy ride shares. I far prefer walking, biking, or public transport. Even if it's hot out, or raining, or even snowing. As long as I'm not in danger of being run over by cars, I'm happy.

I don't think all cities outside of the US are utopias. I just think you can walk around more comfortably. I've taken public transport plenty, thank you, and I know it's not always as convenient as taking a car. I don't mind carrying around a backpack with items in it, or putting a pannier on my bike.

> I have a feeling a lot of this sentiment is driven by digital nomads who booked a hostel next to a wework and do nothing but go to a coworking space for half the day then sightseeing and get the impression that everyone lives like this. I've stayed in more than one world class city and if you can afford it you eventually just start taking a lot more ubers than you'll care to admit

Please don't paint everyone who wants car alternatives with the same brush.

Anyone who would stoop to the level of constant ride sharing doesn't like public transportation, biking, or walking. I loathe ride shares as much as I hate cars. They exacerbate almost all car problems in US cities.
As someone who believes in Darwinism I think this is good as it will only accelerate shifting any meaningful research into the labs of private multi-billion companies.

Will this be good for us, the public? Probably not but only the capable survive, and the current academia is not capable of survival.
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Most cars have only one person in it, despite taking up as much space as 10 people.

Most cars are parked for most of the day, which is a complete waste of space. Stores need huge parking lots, which are usually mostly empty, to accommodate the busiest times.

Cars are a horrible way of fulfilling human needs. Going shopping? The corner store next to your apartment should have everything you need for daily life. Work? It's 2022, most people can work from home. Socializing? If it involves alcohol, you better not be driving.

A plumber's van is the only valid use case for a car you listed. City streets should be restricted to commercial vehicles and public transportation only.
This doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. What's the big deal? The boss wants to know what people think.

Just answer them in job-appropriate tones.

Anonymous feedback generally matters at a time for criticism.
Everything can be used to harm someone. Every knowledge can be taken out of context to bolster someones agenda.

So stop publishing anything because you can't prevent harming others inadvertently.
Yes and yes. Here is how it works:

1. FLEXIBLE SUBSCRIPTION. You can subscribe on the website using Stripe. Soon after, you receive the onboarding email with a link to a dedicated Trello board. The subscription plans are flexible, you can pause or cancel anytime. There's no lock in.

2. DESIGN REQUESTS & DELIVERY. You can submit your design requests right away. One of our designers picks up the requests the same day. Your designs are delivered one by one in the priority you choose, on average within 24 to 48 hours. We design with an iterative process and even for larger projects (i.e. a mobile app with 20 screens), you can see new iterations and new screens added every 1-2 business days.
Dont worry. Don’t be sincere. Just write what you are “supposed” to. That is what a “good worker would” write.
There can be value to tracking macros & water intake - someone working out to gain muscle will want to monitor that they're getting enough protein, and someone with a family history of diverticulitis or Crohn's will want to track dietary fibre & water intake.

That said - you can get to that information through the free app as well. Just tap on the Dashboard and tap on the Macronutrients graph, and you can get through to daily & weekly breakdowns.

I've often tried upgrading to Premium, but for some reason a Play Store bug keeps preventing my subscription from completing (and somehow they haven't noticed, for months?) I don't need cloud sync anyway. I wish they just had a paid app with a local database, and a CSV export feature so my data isn't locked up. Like when we used to track this stuff using diet tracking apps on Palm Pilots....
>His proposed solution is a 50 cal riffle to the brain of the adult female. IDK

One of the most fascinating episodes of mythbusters I've ever seen was watching what happens to bullets (even up to .50 cal IIRC) when they hit water. They disintegrate within like 1m.

Disclaimer: I vehemently disagree with the idea of shooting the killer whales.
I’ve noticed the AWS Forums does this too. In practice it just means I avoid using it.
Heroku support answered my support ticket within a few hours (so good on them) with a canned response that pointed me to the article I had already referenced to them (not so good) and some hand waving "we're working on it." How they deploy this without figuring out a migration path first is beyond me. Someone... must have brought this up internally and been shot down I guess?

The issue they say this was to mitigate is this CVE https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-145-138-121... which seems extraordinarily difficult to exploit (oh, and they don't address in already active databases... so....).

Very much throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Plus the "we're shutting down all your stuff" message today makes me scrambling for another service.
So the bakery relies at least partially on car culture to survive?

And there's always services who will pick up bread from such locations and deliver it. With or without the bakery's backing.
(I’m the author.) That’s the version I’m running.
that's a damn shame, just as I was starting to investigate using it more frequently as well...
There's plenty of influence plays there. If I worked for Cloud Provider X, I might nudge people toward using that cloud instead of a competitor. If I'm a developer of Software Y, I might say "Software Y makes this much easier" and boost sales.
I love my car and I love driving to work every day. Cars enable privacy, freedom from bias and judgement, and a place to think. Also freedom from getting murdered on the Caltrain. "Loneliness is dangerous" is easy to say when you're on top of the social hierarchy with a job at Vox. Also, what a misleading lie of "a majority prefer to live in cities, suburbs, towns"; the survey "cited" gave 6 options, and 31% chose rural areas, and the "majority" comes from the other 5. I find it more surprising that 30% of Americans actually prefer to live in the woods.
Some other people have mentioned this in child comments but most of this, for me, comes down to having a good night's sleep.

If my kids woke up in the middle of the night or were up early, I'm distracted pretty easily. With a good night of sleep, I power through my to do list.

I also wonder what the shape of my "productivity / hours slept" curve looks like. In my case, I feel like I am more more productive than most people if I have 8-9 hours sleep. However, I feel WAY lower than most other people when I only sleep 6-7 hours. Not sure how I could ever measure or confirm this but I would love to know if this actually the case.
TSMC announced its new Phoenix Arizona fab would begin mass production in the first quarter of 2024.
Regenerative braking is not Engine braking, which itself is not at all like using brakes other than it slows the vehicle down. Though it is probably most commonly used to spare brake wear, the importance of it is to help the driver maintain control of the vehicle. Active use of engine braking by shifting into a lower gear helps control speed while driving down very steep and long slopes, and to maintain better control in serpentine curves while at high speed.

The simple fact of the matter is it is not possible to engine brake in an EV, because it is not possible to reduce to a lower gear. EV is better than ICE in nearly if not every other way, but let's not take it too far. The driver of an manual ICE vehicle will be able to have better control at faster speeds than an EV on curvy, non-flat roads solely due to the ability to engine brake, but this probably isn't legal driving.
I hate the dead internet and I think search that filters it out would be the best way to avoid it.

Why don't we have that? Isn't bullshit content relatively easy to detect using ML technologies?
And today is the day I will no longer use heroku. There's goes their free tier.
Positing ideas that can be disproven is science. It's also how thinking works.
Some US states have an 'enhanced drivers license' which allows travel to Mexico/Canada via car or boat. However, you need a passport to fly into those countries.
I'm assuming you're referring to Facebook groups or similar walled-garden web presences? If so, I'm assuming indexing those is an explicit non-goal for OP, and I'd agree with that. The walled gardens are very hard to index (often actively hostile), which means the returns would be rather low. Plus, most such places have searches of their own if you're really interested in finding something there.
> If you didn't want to read them, you wouldn't have signed up.

There are many use cases beyond what you're stating. Often I need to sign up for a web site temporarily ("Sign up to get our free ebook!") ("You need to sign up to place an order") In those cases I simply ignore the emails.

If I sign up for a newsletter with the intention of reading it, I'll keep an eye out for it and whitelist it. It's not hard.

> Your quarantine will be full (even more than "Spam"), and you won't know (necessarily) what the from address looks like.

I've been using this system for 3-4 years now, and this so far has not been a problem. I still monitor the quarantine folder as I don't expect everyone to go through the hoops to get to me. It's just a much smaller burden than having it all show up in the inbox and I can check it at a different pace (e.g. once every few days).

And even if I somehow forget to whitelist your site, what's the worst that will happen? I won't get messages from your site. Of all my worries in this world, this just doesn't even register.
I think a lot of anti-car people underestimate how much people like their cars. People spend way more on their car than they need to. It's another thing they can customize and personalize.

I'm in central Texas and cars are somewhat necessary because of weather. Not enough businesses have employee showers, so biking or walking is often not a realistic option.

I also think if real self-driving cars are developed, it's going to fuel sprawl like nothing before. We will look back on cities of today and think they were decently dense.

These days, I'm pretty much in the pro-car camp. In my 20's I didn't like them and chose to live in pretty small places as close to the heart of the city as I could and I got by with a bicycle and small motorcycle. Then I had kids and we moved to the 'burbs for all the usual reasons. Now that my kids are at college I think my wife and I would like to move further out of the city where we can have a smallish house with enough land for things like a big workshop, greenhouse, gym, sauna, etc... When we get old enough that we aren't as engaged with our hobbies, maybe we would head back into the city for the closing chapter of our lives. I don't think that type of arc is all that unusual. People want different things in different parts of their life.
> because of personalization or analytics features

That's not the architectural reason for message queues in my experience.

Primarily, a message queue is used when there is a potential for a bottleneck in the overall application throughput where there is high cost of reacting to some event so instead of reacting to the event synchronously, you queue the event and react to it asynchronously.

Some very common use cases:

1. Your UI. Operating systems use a message queue to capture and forward inputs. Your mouse and keyboard events are all queued in a message queue.

2. Webhooks. Many webhook origins have timeouts on responses and your application must respond within a given window or it will be throttled or downgraded. In this case, the best practice is to queue the event to be processed asynchronously (that queue can be a simple database table with your own logic and wrapper around it or something like AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, or Google Pub/Sub).

3. Mitigating Throughput Bottlenecks. Most applications have a read/write asymmetry so it makes sense to optimize your architecture to scale for reads. But what if your application occasionally has to handle a burst of writes? Should you size your infrastructure for that case? One approach is to proxy the writes through a queue so you can size the infrastructure for a maximum throughput that is managed by the queue. For example, instead of 1000 concurrent writes per second, a queue can capture the write mutations and trickle out only 100 concurrent writes per second. Instead of sizing your application to scale to handle 1000 writes per second, you only need to size your queue to handle that scale.

4. Resiliency. If a message fails, it can be retried according to whatever heuristics make sense for the domain. Sure, you can use a simply loop to retry, but every message queue provides some mechanism for handling retries, failed message delivery, and so on. If you decide to roll your own and log a failed call into a database to try it again later...well, you've effectively captured a message in a custom queue.
The end of the internal combustion engine is near and with that the end of either manual or automatic gear shifting.
This whole "having good intentions" as justification for anything scares the living crap out of me. I really believed we for once learned from history. Even letting the non trivial problem of defining what is "good" aside, intentions and results are very very different things. Intentions describe your own story for your actions. Its about how your see yourself. That has no impact on the result in reality. Valuing intentions instead of outcome is actual insanity.

And it only got worse once i realized that this isnt some kind of horrible stupid accident but people do this to deal with an utterly horrible reality they cant cope with anymore. So they just gave up on reality and instead focused on a story they can tell themselves to feel good despite reality.

edit: Just to point it out, even if both of those very obvious fundamental problems would be addressed, what would be left would be "the ends justify the means". Its utterly horrific from which ever angle you look at it.
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all appears like the classic playbook of "Acquisition by a big company who predominantly has an enterprise sales GTM which then kills the self serve channel as they cannot evaluate the value it brings". in a few years said company goes, "why have we lost our acquisition funnel and aren't relevant to the developer community and why is X new service taking share from us?"
My main critique to effective altruism is that, because it is based on utilitarianism, it is a perfectly good framework with 0 ways to apply it practically. For example, show me the calculation where they take into account the probability of climate solving technology comes from supporting schools in Detroit. The amount of ALL small likelihood events with large impacts need to be taken into account. I emphasize ALL because otherwise you can just pick and choose the events you care about. Then, the next problem is quantifying the probability. Again, it is mostly assumptions and these assumptions dictate what you believe. If you believe "AI is the highest risk to humanity", utilitarianism doesn't matter as you are already deciding the probabilities. At that point, you are just doing performative art to make your belief feel legitimate.

I do think that people should be encouraged to donate more (and should be progressive by income, not a fixed 10%) but I also think the organization misses the whole side of volunteering or personal actions, although they have "altruistic jobs". For example, converting to veganism would greatly outweigh 10% of a median salary to the most effective climate charity.
Doesn't have to be an apartment. Just has to be a house without a 40ft setback on a giant lot. I live on the right side of a duplex and there's plenty of density to support a grocery store in walking distance.
I see that you've announced that your understanding of the world is revealed to be deep by the joke you made regarding the religion-based murder, organ extraction, and jailing of millions of people, in something the UN describes as a genocide and a holocaust.

Typically, if you have to congratulate yourself on how deep you've shown yourself to be, that's because nobody else will; if nobody else will, typically, that's because you actually aren't.

I wish I could make commentary regarding the original statement, but HN was sufficiently disgusted with you to remove it.
I don't wish Salesforce the best of luck with anything.
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> Although a team should have exactly this as a goal: improvement of the product/service

Your personal goal should be to satisfy whoever writes your performance review.
Ask HN: Which OSS codebase can I learn that'll remain relevant after 20 years?
I am a software developer for many yrs. I've written some opensource projects but they're not popular... only 10-20 stars, one or two bug reports in a year. I've made contributions to large OSS projects but I feel like small fish in large ocean there. There are much bigger fish and whales in OSS who understand the codebase so well and they can extend that code and help others in ways I can only dream of.

For sometime I'm having an itch to learn some open source codebase really really well, go deep into it. I want the satisfaction of knowing one open source project deeply. But this takes time and focus. I get such satisfaction in my day job working on proprietary codebases. I want to find the same satisfaction in an OSS project. This could become my weekend hobby. I'm looking for suggestions. What I'm looking for:

* Very well established libre/opensource project

* Something that will still be relevant and still be around after 20 years

* Something that has a community of users around it (it is okay if it is a niche community)

The "still be around after 20 years" is important because if I'm going to spend many weekends learning some codebase it'd better be on some codebase that is going to be around after 20 years so what I learn does not go entirely waste. Thoughts? Suggestions?
Most of this seems wildly unenforceable at a practical level. And yes that's all really bad and non-secular and society will be harmed because people, even with the best intentions, will try to filter facts. The two terminology clarifications they make I don't mind though: sex vs gender and race vs biological lineage. I think society would be better off with very clear and precise usage of those terms.

I mentally flip a table every time I hear someone colloquially say "sex is a social construct" (they mean gender) or get hesitant about describing the sex of their gestating baby because they want to leave it ambiguous or on the flip side want to have a "gender reveal" party. People care about the sex of your baby, not their gender. And it's totally fair to study the effects of biological lineage on modern humans instead of treating all humans as the same biological profile or reducing the question to tribally relevant characteristics like skin color (race is a social construct, but biological lineage is not).

Consequently this is why the zeitgeist is so weird. Everything is about e.g. racial identity but race is a social construct that by definition you can't apply based on biological attributes (just like gender) so... ... ??? ...
The stated, overt goal of that theocracy was to save the souls of individuals. I’m not sure this distinction is as real as you state.