skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The city should just spend $1.7M on composting toilet buckets ($22 at REI) and leave them by the dozens in areas with public defecation problems. What a goddamn boondoggle.
> The Arts Commission’s Civic Design Review committee will be responsible for conducting a “multi-phase review” of the project, like it does for all projects on public lands.

this part stands out to me, they have no incentive to say "yes" to anything (apart from a bribe) and every incentive to say "no". if they say "yes" that means projects can actually go ahead and the arts council has nothing left to do[1]. and they can say "no" for any reason they like since the standards are subjective.

liquidate the whole thing.

[1] https://youtu.be/gmOvEwtDycs?t=93
Yes, the #3. (I should have clarified that). The new CNC machines are not the same as the ones in the book the GP linked to. CNC use requires ballscrews and roller ways, instead of leadscrews and sliding ways. As a result the machine and its manufacturing process are quite different.

But you're right, the article specifies that it's computer controlled, so probably not a #3.
European cable cut may impact transoceanic routes
This is easily fixable, Copilot could do a post search prior to recommendation to see if it is explicitly copying something that is explicitly unique and not used in any other code bases.

If it only finds one, it can list it, but highlight it with the associated licenses.
I'm increasingly convinced that a good deal of our societies problem is pathological conflict avoidance.

The people we have elected(directly or indirectly) are terrified they might be confronted with the consequences of doing their job, and making a choice. I see the same thing at work, and in my church community.

I've found it's often better to have a direct conflict early, than an prolonged indirect conflict. Having the courage to deliberately engage in it is a whole different ball game though.
India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android
Haha, you are totally right. I was mainly trying to have fun with a new technology.

The email thing makes a lot of difference for me - I don't wanna fiddle with my phone any more than just pressing one button.

I'll do the rest on my computer. (Copying to Reflect.app, creating a todo, etc.)
Here's a quote of the city planners' process to remove parking from in front of bus stops, a sevev year effort worn bearing doe every single stop:

> We can't just paint 1,200 curbs, it's going to be a longer process.

https://twitter.com/aarieff/status/1582408966163660802?s=46&...

This is the method for any change. SF thinks it peaked in the 80s or 90s and any change requires community consensus lest the 50 people that use a bus stop a day are inconveniencing the single car owner that parks in front of the bus stop.
The UK doesn't quite have the same level of TV polarization. We can argue exactly how right-wing the BBC is, but the crucial thing is that most people are watching the same news. There isn't really a UK Fox daily hate channel. GBNews was explicitly trying to be that, and has completely died in the ratings.

The UK press is pretty far right and a major element of how we got to this mess, though.
Definitely. I mean check out some of the recent winners of the US National Debate Championships.

https://youtu.be/fmO-ziHU_D8?t=34
Ask HN: Is YouTube also spamming you with non-CANSPAM-compliant emails?
Woke up this morning to a marketing email I _can't_ unsubscribe from from YouTube/Google.

It's labeled as an "Important Account Update", but it has literally nothing to do with my account, it's a product announcement, which by definition is a marketing email.

Am I the only one getting these? CANSPAM unfortunately does not let individuals to sue or form classes (as I read the law), but I will be passing these to my State Attorney General and the FTC (whom are authorized to sue), and I encourage everyone else to do so as well.
Overall.. I am just running core services on openstack, I do like its project isolation. This allows me to give a account to a student group and not worry about them. this comes almost free with openstack. vSphere and Proxmox really don't do this well. the easisted to use deployment of openstack is "Kolla" and it really isn't maintaining anything outside of core services. its a real crapshoot if any of the "cloud services" will deploy at all or just explode your stack.
I think you need to read more into Thatcher and what happened under her to understand why some sections of society reacted like this.

I don't know a huge amount about Regan, but I doubt you can really compare them.

Britain in the late 70s and early 80s had huge issues which Thatcher addressed, but in hugely contentious ways, in some cases destroying entire industries and their communities.

The structural impact of some choices she made are still present in British society even now, decades later.
It just me or why can't the City just put a bunch of porta potty throughout the city and have a crew with trucks that replaces/clean them on a periodic basis. This is what construction sites and community events do all the time! It's a simple model.
You mean 'comprehensive'. But I'm curious, in what sense are British comprehensives 'problematic'?
It's not obvious to a court, at all. Two (edit: three) significant arguments against it being obvious:

1. What do our human brains do? How is that different from how a human brain may function? Our brains take large amounts of information, from all sorts of places, and boil it down just as Copilot tries to do.

2. According to courts, website scraping is completely legal and "fair use." Even if you scrape 200,000 profiles. How is this not different than website scraping, but with code? I expect that argument to also come up. And if it isn't quite the same, consider the legal arguments that allowed website scraping to pass as "fair use" - they will likely apply.

Edit: 3. Currently, ingesting large amounts of material, for the purposes of creating an AI-generated result, is considered legal, even if there aren't many cases. This is also how Stability AI, DALL-E, and others exist. Courts always loathe to shut down fledging industries because it makes them look political. Odds of success overturning that principle outright? I'd give it less than 10%.

In a nutshell, legally, it is not obvious.

Edit @belorn (stupid posting too fast limit):

There is actually a difference. YouTube uses a "rolling key" scheme, which actually qualifies as a DMCA "technical protection measure" under some courts. In which case, pardon a narrow exception granted by the Library of Congress every 3 years (say, for news reporting), your dataset would be illegally obtained - for bypassing DRM. A really, really weak DRM, but courts don't care about strength when determining these things. Which is why it isn't OK. However, if YouTube didn't do that, you actually would, under current law, be OK with training a model against YouTube whether YouTube liked it or not. Code on GitHub does not have any TPMs on it, so it is legal to obtain, and thus legal for training.
In contrast the tiny city of Zürich Switzerland has 106 public toilet facilities. [1] Some are staffed, some cost money to use and some are open 247. Does my tax money pay for this, yes, I have used them and I am glad they exist.

The maintenance of these 106 facilities cost around 6,895,000 CHF (~USD) per year. Around 40% of that is staffing costs and 23% is rent to 3rd parties.

Yearly investment in upgrades etc. is around CHF 1,796,000

[1] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/gud/de/index/gesundheitsschutz/...
This is exaggeratedly mean.

I can sort of correlate this, well, expression, with a political view. State it more crisply.
> you’re cherrypicking right-wing talking points

In your first comment you said you thought the right-wing party weren't talking like this!

No I think the problem is just as bad across all parties - hence those recent examples from a couple of moderate left-wing party members as well.

That's the worst of it - the civility and willingness to work together is down across the board so I can't see a change of government improving it either.
honestly though, public toilets are usually so dirty in my area (unless there are entry fees) that I rather use a shop's toilet instead. This is not about failed states, but a large portion of the populace not giving a shit about others... or giving too much shit perhaps =)
The title is “ Justice Department Announces Charges and Arrests in Two Cases Involving Export Violation Schemes to Aid Russian Military”

The HN headline (“Illegal Jig Grinder”) reads as excessively editorialized.
I know 2 non-technical users who use Firefox on Android and they use it because I recommended it.

Their reputation with technical users is almost everything they have left and they're doing their best to destroy it further and further. This decision looks to be a rare exception, but if you still need their dumb account effectively nothing will have changed...
But it's being used by hardcore capitalists in this case? In fact, it seems to be in the republican handbook
To be honest, I think that the fracking debacle only moved her demise forward by a weekend.
Why is it that the deepest blue areas of the country have some of the most abject inequity and poverty? It seems that there's a fine line between compassion and enablement when it comes to the deep blue municipalities of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, etc. Sure the rustbelt, deep south, and Appalachia are areas with similar problems and mixed politics, but they also somehow feel different.
Too many bureaucrats and construction profiteers, not enough good laborers.
I assume this is so people can train AI on it. It's just hard to say that outright because some people don't like the idea.
> Fixed luna88k MULTIPROCESSOR kernels booting with CPU modules installed in arbitrary slots.

An OS release capable of running on the latest hardware in 2022 is still making optimizations for a niche system from the late 80s/early 90s. There's something very beautiful about that.
It's shocking that this is a normal opinion. Taipei is a much bigger city than SF. There are public restrooms everywhere. Every single metro station has clean, indoor restrooms. Not just "available" restrooms, I mean clean, like cleaner than most gas station restrooms in the US. Parks also have restrooms. Failing that, you can probably find a private one at 7/11.

I really can't believe how shitty major US cities are, nor can I fathom how they got there and how we think it's normal. It can't be just "public funding" because Taiwan isn't exactly a socialist welfare state either, yet the cities are downright urbane.
I have service workers disabled in my main firefox profile and haven't noticed any websites breaking because of it.
https://www.collegeraptor.com/find-colleges/articles/college...

30% of our House went to a top 100 university which isn't necessarily saying much - that list includes many state universities and I'd say that's a perfectly appropriate number.

20% of the British Parliament went to Oxbridge alone.
As a concrete example, it’s completely plausible that understanding the genetic basis of cognitive ability could inform treatment of dementia.
If I hadn't met the guy and known he worked for this company, I would have had an angry phone call home after finally getting to see Office Space. The big difference though is Milton kept himself visible because he was unaware (IIRC) and this guy came in and hid every day because he figured out what happened and knew how fragile a situation it was.
You're not even exaggerating. I worked as a contractor some time back for a major Canadian telecom company that no longer exists. I remember spending hours of meetings on calls with no less than 10 stakeholders (and in some meetings senior management) "circling back" to get a decision on button position. Not a single one of these people were a designer/UX person. I'd imagine it's even worse in the public sector.
I don't know if you could have picked a worse quote to back up your point than footnote #1.

While it is likely true [0,1] that the mean/median of one group is more genetically intelligent-capable than the mean/median of a different group, the variance is going to make it so that there are extremely intelligent outliers in both groups. And if we're focused on intelligence and its products, the potential of those outliers being wasted due to slavery/poverty/racism/etc is the travesty being pointed out by the quote.

[0] Intelligence capability obviously relies on genetics. In the most obvious way, the genes of ursa americana result in a much less capable brain than the genes of homo sapiens. So, unless maximum "intelligence-capability" is the thing most strongly selected for (doubtful), genes that cause higher intelligence capability are going to be correlated with other genes that developed at the same time. But actually measuring that, in some objective way? I'd say you're better off focusing on the other end of trying to define what "intelligence" even is, at the computational level, and then the organizational level, before you can even think about judging the contributions of the biological substrate level.

[1] The reason this is generally ignored or even rejected is that it's an utter red herring. At most you can say it influences individual outcomes by a tiny bit, while being overwhelmingly swamped by the larger issues of culture, nurture, environment, access to resources, and overarching personality. Meanwhile, less intelligent people love to reference their race as evidence of their own intelligence/virtue/etc, because happenstance attributes of their existence are their primary "accomplishments". So it's best to not add fuel to that fire.
It really depends on a place. I used public toilets in Europe without much issue.
I suppose the built-in iOS voice recognition would be better for that.

I haven't really compared those two properly. Wonder how much better Whisper is.
I would hope not, considering many major cities are serviced by multiple major airports.

NYC - JFK LGA EGW

PARIS - CDG ORY

London - LGW LHR

Tokyo - NRT HND

SF - SFO SJC

If someone starts refering to a city by the airport code I'd be completely lost because most airports and their codes don't reflect the name of the city they service.
my project :)

https://doggos.com/add-business/

when you submit this form, a PR is created with githubs pull request API and a build is triggered on vercel. but the site is static and has no backend otherwise. if building the PR passes, the new link is aliased to production
Nice to find Kiwix again. Shameless plug, I made my own Kiwix alternative for macOS: https://github.com/technusm1/kiwings
To further drive the point, almost everyone seems to be conveniently missing a great benefit of libraries: they tend to be greatly battle-tested, most of the successful ones.

The moment people start realising their own (and most likely crappy) implementation to solve problem Z and discover they didn't consider X or Y or W scenario and haven't even tested for those, most of them will hopefully understand what "balance" and "trade-off" actually mean.
"Mandate" is a convenient fiction for political commentators. We should talk only of power. They are in power and will remain so until they choose to exit or 2025.
Aside from the cost, the broken thing here is that the process requires so many layers of review and approval, but _everyone_ disapproves of the status quo of feces on the sidewalks. The bathroom needs an environmental review, but sidewalk feces don't, even though they get mixed into storm drains.

You're saying this process arises by trying to not make people unhappy, not leave concerns unaddressed, having layers of accountability. But people are not happy, concerns (ongoing feces) are not addressed, and given that there isn't a person to blame for the ongoing situation there is clearly insufficient accountability.
The easiest way to learn a quite large number of pi digits is with mnemonic poems like this one I've known since I was 10 or so (French):

3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5
Que j'aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages
8 9 7 9
Immortel Archimède, artiste, ingénieur,
3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6
Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur?
4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9
Pour moi ton problème eut de pareils avantages.
I'm not sure I agree exactly but riffing on this idea...

How many times have we written code to solve a problem, got a new job at another company and come across the same problem and ended up writing very similar code. That's not even copying code written by another person, but still potentially copyright violation (depending on how similar that new version of the code is).
Well an expert system is an AI system. It's "true" AI in the sense it's not solving a constraint optimization problem, but rather querying a knowledge database like a human might do.
The thing is, you can look at this headline and know immediately that it's hiding information. You can read the opening paragraph and tell that it isn't an article that's actually seeking to inform anyone about anything. It's not news. It's not really hard to figure out why public discourse is so broken when this sort of shit-shovelling churnalism is treated seriously.
Reminds me of their $2.4B bus terminal, which opened in 2018, closed a month later when they noticed structural cracks, reopened in 2019, then closed in 2020 for covid19. Had to walk under its unfinished skeleton every day going to work.
the title has been editorialized, HN posts are required to use the title as it appears on the submission.
Safari on iOS has supported content blockers since iOS 9.

Last year Safari on iOS gained web extension support. There are orders of magnitude more Safari extensions on the App Store than Firefox on Android.

I use Dark Reader, AdGuard, Vinegar, and Sponsorblock.
For your "local" deployment of openstack, look into "Devstack" -- For the cross openstack terraform, the only main issue I ran into was images for the VMs you are going to use are going to differ a bunch, same with networking. as everyone has their own take on how networking should work in their openstack.
The reason the network setups do not really match between public OpenStack cloud providers is that most of them significantly change that part of OpenStack. My knowledge is very outdated but I remember that the networking part had significant scalability issues that pushed every provider to introduce their secret sauce.
> What we are really saying is that it’s okay to eat that cholesterol-raising food, just take this to make that number lower.

Realistically this is what most people want. I spent years watching people choose to go on medications rather than make simple lifestyle choices. Habits are powerful.

It’s not possible to treat the cause when a patient wants the easiest solution. So yea, we have a bunch of medication‘s that treat symptoms. Causes are sometimes impossible to know, the body is complex enough that we don’t even understand how some medications work at all.
this one does
http://ceres-solver.org/features.html
but maybe that's not what you were referring to?
> The key point is that SQLite is very forgiving of the type of data that you put into the database. For example, if a column has a datatype of "INTEGER" and the application inserts a text string into that column, SQLite will first try to convert the text string into an integer, just like every other SQL database engine. Thus, if one inserts '1234' into an INTEGER column, that value is converted into an integer 1234 and stored. But, if you insert a non-numeric string like 'wxyz' into an INTEGER column, unlike other SQL databases, SQLite does not throw an error. Instead, SQLite stores the actual string value in the column.

wtf. who would ever want that?
I was very interested in Openstack for a homelab. I tried to wrap my head around it several times. It was just too difficult. Too difficult to install. Too difficult to understand the concept with the given documentation and resources.

With K8s you have all those opinionated distributions like K3s, minikube etc. which lower the bar considerably. There are countless guides on YouTube.
What is the Probability Elon Musk will buy Twitter?
> If you can find a way in which Lambda CDM does not observe the known universe, then you will invalidate Lambda CDM

The paper I cited does exactly that, quantifying the extent to which CDM and MOND predict or must be adjusted to fit over 30 different observations via extra parameters.
to be fair, stripe has thousands of businesses and real money on the line. they are going to get some things wrong. My experience (in one of their target markets of b2b SaaS) has been flawless.
Say you do that and I DDoS the easylist.html. Cloudflare will start applying their DDoS mitigation. Now everyone's app receives the Browser Integrity Check instead of the list.
Looks pretty cool, the UI is certainly a lot better than Cloudinary's.
why do you split the strings instead of comparing them directly ?
Thinking through this more. SF Parks and Recs managed toilets have all been fine from a sample size of about 20 uniques and maybe 80 visits. About 75% of those visits are weekend days in the mornings.
They still have low class diversity so they had no idea how to combat brexit rhetoric.
I've been thinking about these tradeoffs lately. There's an argument one hears that you can "future proof" by buying top of the line and then not having to upgrade as often. I think that's always been a bit flawed, but it feels like with the massive thermal tradeoffs these top end parts are making it less true than ever.
People simply don’t like admitting that they are not fully in control of themselves.
> Tories themselves aren’t saying things like this either

Maybe not, but pretending they are better while ignoring the homophobia, racism, sexism and offensive class warfare from the like of Boris Johnson seems disingenuous.
Related: $2M bathroom in New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfAE5emMCs8
It already does - everything from the technical stack exchanges to the sites on cooking and gardening :)
> A lot of `if (input == null)` checks are because you're just not sure whether the argument being passed in will have a value, and it's too much work for your small feature PR to refactor the whole codebase to resolve it.

Null checks are totally fine, but it should be clear whether or not null is a valid input to the method. If the answer is 'no' then you should throw ArgumentNullException (or whatever's appropriate for the language), not silently ignore the bad input.
It's a different kind of turmoil than we have in the US.

I subscribe to The Economist which would like to support the Tories but has had nothing but contempt for Teresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

Some people say that the Democrats in the US are like the losers in professional wrestling but the complete incompetence and inability of Labor to get elected makes it possible for conservatives to get elected by pandering to a particular segment of the population. Voters have no interest in talk about redistribution if they think they think the people who talk about redistribution push policies that will leave people with nothing to redistribute. Jeremy Corbin did nothing to push back on the perception that he wanted to turn the UK into Cuba, and by not providing a viable alternative the Tories became useless. Corbin hoped that the fall of the Tories would lead to the rise of Labor but oddly it doesn't work that way.