skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a long winded way to dance around nihilism.

Nihilism is much like a hidden tarpit on the philosophical journey. Easy to fall into and get stuck. Necessary in a way, but not the place to dwell. A primary thing to point out is perception of meaning is flexible and not static, and things don't need "to matter". Meaning is an emergent phenomenon of relationships.

As an example: Doing meaningful computer work is about the relationship between the coder, the computer, and the emotional/physical rewards of completing the work. If you define the relationship of "computer work now" vs "computer work in 20 years" that edge in our meaning graph is going to have a value bending towards not mattering at all.

> what's the point of humans having a replacement rate when a smaller population can be a lot richer and better off?

Sidebar: this is also probably wrong as far as I understand. Modern wealth is built off of leveraging large populations / economics of scale and has this implied requirement of growth to maintain stability. Until things are completely automated (AKA we have robots capable of matching a human's productivity) a smaller population would imply a population collapse which would not be good in the short term.
I've played Overcooked 1 and 2 with my girlfriend, just played the Plate Up demo with her, and I think you're right. Mario and Sonic games prob look the same to ol' gramps up there, too.

Overcooked has specific arcade levels each with their own infuriating gimmick. You either can beat it or you cant.

Plate Up, despite having similar mechanics (place food onto stove to cook it), is quite different. You have to take orders yourself, clean up after customers, and you win money that you use to upgrade the kitchen. That alone makes it a very different game than Overcooked's arcade levels.

I'll probably buy it.
There’s a comment I read on the other article where someone said
> that dude is a wizard wielding c like a brain surgeon wields a scalpel.

I’ve decided that’s the analogy I’ll be using for someone who’s really good at something
Almost like they wrote a blog article about it so others could learn from it.

If it were available to all android apps I don't know why Uber would go out of their way to reimplement it. So it must not be available to all apps and exclusive to Google maps and Waze
It costs to comply with GDPR even if you are doing no tracking.

1. If GDPR applies to you and you are not in the Union you must have a designated representing in the Union to receive GPDR requests (both from individuals wishing to exercise their GDPR rights and from regulators). So right off the bat you have to engage some service in the Union to handle that for you. There are such services that aren't very expensive, but it is something you have to deal with.

2. IP addresses are personal data according to many GDPR experts. Normal logging that is done by most web servers leaves you with a GDPR burden to deal with. It seems likely that storing this would be allowed without the need to obtain explicit consent because there is a legitimate business interest to that logging, but you still have to deal with requests from people to delete their data. So more hassle.

3. You will have to keep up with developments as regulators rule on the meaning if the tons of subjecting things in GDPR.

If you are not in the Union but people who are in the Union use your site GDPR applies if either you are:

A. offering goods or services to them (free or paid), or

B. monitoring their behavior as far as their behavior takes place in the Union.

For A you have to envisage offering goods or services to them. The mere fact that they can reach your site and use it is not sufficient.

If you aren't monitoring behavior in a way that makes B apply, then whether or not GDPR applies comes down to whether or not you envisaged offering goods and services to people in the Union. That's a fairly subjective thing and I don't think there have been enough cases involving that yet for it to be clear just what that means.

Blocking EU visitors makes it clear you did not envisage serving them saving you all the aforementioned hassles and annoyances.
Title is excessively editorialized. Here is the ONLY thing said by anyone at Google about the subject, "Pichai revisited Google's plan to find efficiencies wherever it could, citing their plan for a 'simplicity sprint' and even discussing a possible reduction in headcount of up to 20 percent."
> pigeonholing people into roles, making sure people know their place, and don't ask too many questions.

This has to be one of the best descriptions for religion that I ever read.
Chase: email

Ally: email

Citibank: phone app
Sorting could be anything. If it's a storefront, then the first page will definitely change from time to time.

Paginated pages are about as linkable as properly implemented infinite scrolling.
> If digital goods crowd out physical ones

why would digital goods crowd out physical ones? You're assuming some zero sum game - which isn't true in economics.

Even if there's finite available energy, it won't crowd out physical goods - people would choose to spend their dollars to achieve maximum utility, so demand for physical goods would still be there, even if digital goods grow in value.
A serious water crisis like this can be attributed to lack of funds, a series of unfortunate events, and/or incompetence. Flint was incompetence but more like intentional criminal acts. If the Corps fixed the Jackson issues in a day or two, then those state/local officials are not fit for their jobs. Right? What am I missing?
Never had a chance to play with it, but yes!
Online banking is everywhere.
Anything outside of Mail, CRM, Expense, Recruit, and maybe Desk is hair-pullingly terrible. They promise that all of their "apps" are interoperable, but these integrations are either half-assed to the point of uselessness or so full of bugs you can't rely on them.

Zoho Projects is the worst of the bunch—most of our teams are keeping secret Asana boards on the side just to avoid using it.
The last "take the time that you need, as long as it's bulletproof" job I had was in the late 90's. The concept of sprints introduced a drumbeat that precludes solid engineering, imho.

> Not having any sort of IDE tooling does sort of tend to force you to be a lot clearer about what you do.

True, but then I wouldn't be able to play whack-a-mole with pointer symbols during weird code-pairing exercises.
Apparently saved by military component work if you trust NCD.
Sounds like a memetic black hole.
Ash HN: How do you distribute or shard Stable Diffusion?
A lot of HN has been having fun with stable diffusion. Do we really need 1 x GPU with 10GB of RAM? How do you distribute or "shard" a model you're training? Could we get this running on the raspberry pi clusters we all have? Hook it up to OpenFaaS too.
My apologies. I just wanted to give examples that those data structures will be useful for ordinary engineers like me. By "you" I meant anyone not you specifically. Certainly didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I guess this is really bad writing, for which I'm sorry.
1. It's ancient code but sure

2. They're fundamentally not compatible approaches. This is worthless to them
It has everything but zoning laws; parking minimums are enough to ruin a city's land use.
Zoning generally can be modified either by the local planning department, or by ballot measure.
How much does it need to "scale"? It just has to be fast and correct enough for the a CLI to work.
Given how many Android phones already have this, maybe you could borrow one and compare? I want to know the answer.
I assume the pipe leading in and out of the building have a maximum capacity that was designed for office (i.e., no showers, washers, kitchens).
Eye-opening but probably not "best": the Nullsoft Installer, circa 2002 (https://github.com/kichik/nsis). Its goal, besides being an installer, was to produce a small binary. So the source was remarkably pithy, which taught me a lot about being direct and to-the-point rather than aiming for beautiful abstractions or reusability.

Similar with Notch's Left4KDead, which implemented a fun zombie game for a Java small-code competition. A mirror of the original source is here (https://github.com/codingcampbell/Left-4k-Dead). I rewrote it in JavaScript as a Chrome App, in the process refactoring for readability (and sacrificing some of the code's beauty). https://github.com/sowbug/ChromeLeft4kDead
Was just in an Uber in Miami and the driver was telling me how the service stopped working for 3 hours a week ago. It seemed to be local to the area around Miami only, though. Anyone know if this is true?
> it's quite obvious

it's not. You are defining "more useful" using your own personal viewpoint. The truth about what is useful can only be determined by the buyer (paying money).
Me but with Flask and its cohorts like Werkzeug. I always found the amount of security advisories with Django vs that to be something alarming. I might still use it once in a while for something like prototyping.

Python is easy to write but writing it "right", in a way that doesn't compromise performance, is a thing.
Agreeing to disagree is the death knell of our social system
> Returning to culture-wars territory, the claim that “our public schools are full of … teachers who abuse their positions of trust to engage in political activism and political indoctrination,” as Kevin Williamson wrote earlier this year in the National Review, strikes me as an insulting exaggeration.

the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teacher's union and largest union in the US, holds explicit left-biased activist stances and officially advocates for social justice agendas - https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/racial-social-just...

Ontario teachers' union implements controversial weighted voting system to increase minority representation. The new system will ensure that Indigenous, Black and racialized teachers always represent 50 per cent of the votes at the bargaining unit - https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-teachers-union-...

California Community College Promises to Pre-Screen Job Applicants to Ensure They Are ‘Anti-racist’ - https://www.yaf.org/news/california-college-adopts-anti-raci...

Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first - https://alphanews.org/minneapolis-teachers-union-contract-ca... (Or as NPR more delicately put it: "The new contract has a clause designed to protect teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs." - https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120798679/a-new-minneapolis-...)

> An especially corrosive feature of these bills is how they erode trust in public education itself.

As I hope the above sources make clear, public educators are eroding trust perfectly well on their own.
Why is that controversial? Chromium is often cited as a well-written large codebase.
>If you get rid of materialistic attachments you also get rid of meaning.

Materialistic attachments are the only things in which you find meaning? Damn.
My constant response reading about Bellard is "woah wait, be made that too?".

It's a bit of a bummer he doesn't seem to like interviews, since there's probably a lot that could be learned about his serial FOSS-entrepreneurship.
Why would I ever want to work at Google if the management setup tolerates this sort of organizational flotsam? What a poorly managed place it must be if there’s no chain of accountability for senior employees.
> The free market is orthogonal to other measures of freedom like democracy.

To the extent it is, it’s a failure which erodes or prevents those freedoms from thriving.

> A free market, to be a free market, does not put people in prison for improving their lives.

I was going to invite you to learn more about labor history in the US, but…

> as China has demonstrated.

Never mind, you clearly already understand the point that a state which has mass forced labor camps is compatible with what’s called a free market. But you certainly can’t say no one’s imprisoned with a straight face.
One way to do it is to produce more bioavailable nitrogen to encourage more plant growth, then have animals and humans eat the plants. Now the carbon is stuck in the animals. As long as those animal populations remain constant or grow you have a good carbon sink. You can even use the animals for food, as long as the animals never decompose it's fine.

Or another one, as we move to renewable fuels, we might just have a cycle that traps a significant portion of the carbon dioxide in the fuel between use and creation, so the added carbon would be part of it's own separate cycle, and we could keep using it for energy storage ad infinitum.

Why bury it? We can use it. As long as it's utility is high, we would only wind up with a slightly higher co2 concentration than baseline. If we bury it, then we have to take co2 from the natural carbon cycle that the biosphere needs to store energy, which means reduced biomass. But if we create a secondary carbon cycle for energy and food that only interacts with the natural one in the air we can store energy and food without impacting the biosphere as much.
Yeah I fail to see how two incidents in different cities years apart spells some sort of trend about water in the US. We have thousands of cities. What country has 100% water uptime?
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. Oh wait, I'm not laughing. The old icon was unmistakable. The new one looks so vanilla I might never find it.
Rather than Lazy/Work hard it might be more speculate/save. In a bull market you are trying to throw more money in. In a bear you are trying to save. It is self reinforcing too.
So that's what Dynamics is...thanks for that; I feel like I never hear about any ERP software other than SAP which I found weird, though not as weird as the fact that I've never met a developer at SAP, only implementation consultants...
Not public domain,m but free for download.
Usually subsidized by companies
https://freecomputerbooks.com/

Links to Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books all over the World
Also covered by NPR, in case you don't trust Alphanews: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120798679/a-new-minneapolis-...

Though NPR couched it in much more delicate, far less direct words (and a largely uninformative title): The new contract has a clause designed to protect teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs.
That looks like a nice solution for a hobby-like thing with that free tier. Thanks.
https://darkreader.org/ might be useful to you.
Guaranteed Income Spreads, City by City
This makes me so happy. It looks like the lovechild of AIM and Encarta.
Thanks. Looks good. As I would be messing about as a hobbyist I like the free offerings, but for a commercial thing I would keep it in mind.
Hopefully one day I will be able to contribute to it!
Uber acquired a startup around 2015. It was that startup that was using shadow-matching and particle filtering to address the problems mentioned in the blog. The startup was founded by a bunch of UCLA PhDs who studied the problems, so I guess they had something innovative.
Discussing worker productivity somewhat misses the point, the worker doesn't care about company productivity at all, they care about being able to provide for themselves. It's quite plain that corporate profits went up and cost-of-living went up, but wages did not. There's no avoiding the working being disatisfied with this circumstance.
> Commercial mortgages make it nearly impossible to change a property in this manner

that's a contractual issue, rather than an engineering issue. This can be fixed with a stroke of the pen.
Seems like they ultimately failed, youtube-dl is available freely as a pip package, anyone with scraping intent would have been able to use it.
You could technically pull water from the atmosphere, if you have enough money to burn

https://us.watergen.com/commercial/gen-m/
I don't remember this guy ever being positive about a movie, so that's some serious enthusiasm.
> I thought I wrote good Perl code until I read the Perl core modules. Like night and day.

For some reason the 2nd and subsequent editions of the O'Reilly Perl book completely altered the layout and presentation that Larry Wall had set up. The first edition of Programming Perl is the most *lucid* programming book I've ever read.
The Flint crisis started while the city was being run by a state-appointed emergency manager, not an elected Mayor.
"one miner warned that when it comes to the transportation sector, domestic resources for lithium may not be sufficient enough to meet some of the most ambitious targets."

"The Biden administration, for instance, aims to cut sales of ICE vehicles to 50% of all new purchases by 2030, to which the source says “Yes, we’ll [eventually] have enough, but not by that time,”"

This article is all over the place. It immediately undermines the title for a few paragraphs and ends with the buried real story, where it seems like the real complaint is that US lithium project permitting takes too long and that Australia is faster. Journalism can go take a long walk off a short pier.
A lot of other examples given in other comments are quite the opposite. Clever code in long functions with single character variable names. Chromium shines in consistent naming, structure without much overelaborate uses of design patterns and general aim for maintainability and readability. I'm not saying there aren't those things in Chromium too (I've seen them), but they are well contained.

I've also seen a talk at CppCon (2019 I think) that spoke somewhat negatively about the code base. Can't find the reference, sorry.
There's a value to having slack. Most novel ideas come from having one's mind wander, not by being constantly busy with coding.

Obviously, there needs to be a balance between being constantly busy and just slacking all the time.
e.g. FB create a search for their website, apparently this is because browser's don't work like user's need. sometimes, I find there are 3 different search box on one FB page, I should remember which one is it...
YouTube PM: We need to stop youtube-dl.

Engineers: make half arsed attempt.
Customer rarely knows what they want until they see it. A designer building for himself and a designer building for the customer are the same thing, right up until the point the design is released.

The premature optimization here, is not trying skeumorphism again, because of a feeling.
FLP is an SDK available on Android devices with Google Play Services (https://developer.android.com/training/location/request-upda...). According to the blog post, it should theoretically be rolled out to any phone with Android 8 or later.

The Uber blog post is from 2018, and Google's implementation came in 2020.
Flow? Forget about flow, I have no earthly idea what it is that you could possibly be trying to say.
So would every other source ;)
Ask HN: Android now forcing App updates?
Any other holdouts who were still clinging to manual-update of Android apps?

I'm seeing all apps updated yesterday, and auto/manual selector nowhere to be found. Android One v11.
Use your best judgment. I know I will.
Then I build a circumvallation around it. When the bells and whistles try to sneak back in, I build another circumvallation around that one and fight the siege on both sides!
> This is perfectly expected if you understand the causal factors here.

What are the causal factors?
Someone may write a technical book for a niche community. The book may help others, build a portfolio etc. It doesn't need to earn lots of sales to be satisfying or useful.
If the map and the terrain disagree, then something needs to change. A target needs to be blown up, or the map needs rewriting.
That's reasonable, but it's still substantially about human behavior not some abstract algorithm that can be inferred. That's my main point.

There's no certain number of years or something that causes it. It's human behavior and real world limits, like Peak Oil.
It's well documented, and effectively simple merge conflict resolution ala any version control system allowing for simultaneous edits. Wikipedia, however, does not perform any automatic merging. Any concurrent change must be resolved.
Other than VFX, it's a terrible movie.
Plateup at the top level is a simple cooking and upgrading your kitchen game.

It can also quickly turn into a Factorio-type game once you start automating the cooking of the food. Which sounds boring, if all you’re doing is serving, but it then turns into a game almost similar to Guitar Hero once you get into the overtime rounds because you’re having to put into muscle memory all of your actions with higher intensity in the later rounds.

Then there’s the insanity of automating cooking /and/ serving.
Sounds like you’re to get best buck for your bang. Best of luck and fortune to you!
Nice. Getting back to the blood-soaked bandages part any day now.
Do other developed countries have these kinds of problems?

I get the impression that governments in the US are unusually corrupt, at least by the standards of the English-speaking world.
Ok, that's a "tired light" theory. It fails because that process just changes the frequency of photons, but not their density in space. The background radiation is (to extreme accuracy) blackbody radiation. Blackbody radiation has a spectrum, and an intensity, dictated by physics. The expansion of space preserves both aspects of "black bodiness"; tired light does not.

Tired light also doesn't explain the observed stretching in time of supernova light curves with distance.

Ned Wright explains this at his web site:

https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm
Rad is definitely the word.
Has this ever paid off? Can you tell any good stories?
As an Indian I'm proud of what Zoho has achieved. Mainly the founder Sridhar Vembu is down to earth & thinks for the well being of employees and society along with keeping customers in prime seat. Breaking conventional wisdom Zoho opened offices in tier 2 & tier 3 cities of India. Which made it possible for smaller cities to see growth induced by high earning employees of Zoho.
But in this case wasn’t it the zig community bringing the drama? (quite literally in that it was the VP of community )

As far as I can tell, the heated nature of the discussion stems from that?
Imma need an aquatic one for a particularly nasty hole...
Satellite messaging is also for "more casual uses" as was clearly noted in the keynote. Probably should have watched it.
They can - but that requires both parties to the contract to agree on modification.

If I'm a bank holding a commercial mortgage, it's very finely honed to minimize my risk; as part of that, I contractually limit what can be done with the building.

Why would I, as a lending institution, throw that security away for something much riskier? If the emptying out of commercial buildings that we saw during the pandemic accelerated, that might have provided the incentive. But it seems like that trend line isn't going to continue in force.

I think converting high density commercial properties to residential is a great idea in a lot of cities. But ultimately it's going to be done almost exclusively in buildings that are mortgage free.
LEGO bricks, not the building materials.
I really don't care that you already had this feature.
I'm no fan of centralization but if you think that it makes any difference to the FBI, you're mistaken. The tiniest providers are obligated to do the exact same thing. This has nothing to do with domestic pressure.
Compelling, thanks for posting.

tldr: wetlands->peat->coal
Sounds like a version of what I've heard called "talking past eachother".
I didn’t get that involved but was told it wasn’t a matter of cost. There were very limited hookups that could be moved slightly for the sinks. Bathrooms could not be moved or modified in any way. I assume it’s a limit on the overall building in/output.
According to Apple, the following carriers in Greater China support eSIM while all iPhones sold there don't support eSIM:

Hong Kong

1O1O

3

csl

China Mobile Hong Kong

SmarTone

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Taiwan

APT

Chunghwa Telecom

Far EasTone

Taiwan Mobile

Taiwan Star

Truphone

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Macao

CTM