skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the explanation. I'm a simple kind of person in a small town, so to us here this is all kind of crazy. Is a city as big as SFO still governed by politicians who live in it, or at that size does local government take people from other areas? I always read a lot about SFO as being on the cutting edge of progressive initiatives usually toward humane goals. Is this common?

This gives everything I've been told or heard about SFO somewhat of a 'superficial' veneer (forgive me for lack of better words, I do not mean offense) based on the assumption that a city governed by its constituents ought to resemble them, but I'm seeing stuff like this where the words and intentions are right, but the actions and results are incongruent. Is this a mismatch between the politicians and residents or is this a "yes, but do it over there" thing?

p.s. congrats on the move! in your opinion, what makes Seattle different? I've been there before, it was a beautiful and welcoming experience. People are friendly like here in the sticks, but there's just a lot more folks.
I edited the comment — “celebrity” might be the wrong word, but I was thinking that they might care more about having a noble’s kid attend than the 45k, and, like you just implied, they’d reject nouveau-riches even if they had the money, especially if the riches came from a source that’s frowned upon.

So it’s not a very good joke, as it implies that there aren’t any other filters, despite their intense concern for reputation.
Question for Brits here - Is the UK just as divided along ideological lines as the U.S is currently?
I'm not saying "every public bathroom is for homeless people". I'm saying in San Francisco that is the problem being addressed. I have traveled to many countries with public toilets that do not have these issues, I am aware of what is possible.
I haven't used Tailwind, but from what I have seen it looks just like the old school way of writing inline CSS. But then it extracts it to a css file, no? Except that I read that it's great for writing, but a nightmare for reading. So just the same as inline CSS.

Would be interested to hear some opinions from people who have used it.
> I do not believe this type of public theft is due to incompetence, I believe it is corruption and grift

A lot of the money is presumably going into the extremely long public comment process mentioned in the article that building any sort of public works take in the US and which usually ends up resulting in paying to have projects redesigned multiple times when anyone complains. That seems more like incompetence or a failure in the political process than corruption/grift to me. Really the only people that benefit are the planners who end up redesigning stuff multiple times (but who probably don't necessarily really want to have to do that) and the NIMBYs who are able to effectively destroy any project if they're persistent and vocal enough. The politicians or local government officials don't really benefit because their projects end up getting effectively killed. While it's tempting to assume everything is due to intentional corruption, it's actually hard to point to anyone who's really successfully pulling off a "grift" here.

Actually building anything also costs more in the US than pretty much anywhere else, which could be attributed to "grift" but it's so diffuse and systemic that it also seems to fall under "incompetence" as a result of the complete lack of any process that successfully keeps the prices in check or looks at how other countries are doing things better.

Also, it seems like even other countries that have more outright bribery are more successful at actually getting stuff like this built than the US, so even if corruption is a factor it might not even be the biggest problem.
SF has something like 67 public toilets, 49 of them staffed, according to an article written two years ago. And the population of the city is about 50% greater than Zürich.
Oops :) I was so excited for the release I forgot how to read!
CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)
I think what I got confused by is the idea that a proposal that is “popular with the market” is popular because it reduces inequality and not because it has good financial returns.

Take the inequality example that you mention. Reducing inequality might require large government spending, like free higher education, or extensive government-provided healthcare. This requires funding which pushes up interest rates.

Someone in the prediction market might agree that free higher education reduces inequality but might also think that it will increase the government’s cost of financing its spending. The latter is what usually gives politicians trouble with financial markets. How would a prediction market resolve this issue?
The phrase is "information wants to be free", not "information wants to be $10/month". If this was an FOSS project anyone could access freely I would have much less of a problem with it.
The web was great back when it was mostly read-only. You could comment and share, but only via email, so only to people you likely knew. Yes, I remember chain mails from 1997, but those were rare, maybe 2x a year. You probably saw that many dumb posts in the last 5 minutes of scrolling Twitter/FB/IG.

Once social media replaced bookmarks, people went there to find new links. And eventually, when SM de-ranked posts with external links, more and more of the feed became about exclusively in-app material, which was echo chambers and arguments and abuse.
"After careful review" *implies* a human checked it. His beef is that it's quite unlikely a human actually reviewed it.
> It transforms code from its training dataset in a sufficiently vague and exciting way. That's not all of what writing is.

For the purposes of this level of the thread, I don't see how it matters what's going on under the hood, just that it can output code when prompted?

(I'm pretty directly saying "consciousness is ill defined", after all).
i am also wondering about this and happen to be in the middle of testing some L2 tunneling (etherip mostly, might also test vxlan or egre) with ipsec and wireguard in a set of VM's on virtualbox.

the SMP improvements in the networking stack caught my eye and i am in the process of trying to upgrade these vm's and re-test (iperf3). if i find anything interesting i'll report back
Or win one of the (up to 4) 100% “New Foundation Scholarships” offered to state school boys.
The view is now sorted by last created by default. Maybe most stars https://gitlab.com/traffxml?sort=stars_desc (and last created for repos with the same starts) is a better default sort?

BTW The repo with the specification seems to be https://gitlab.com/traffxml/traff and it contains a presentation with more context https://gitlab.com/traffxml/traff/-/blob/master/TraFF%20Pres...
Kinda sounds like the spending is stupid, not the taxation.
Use of that group by behavior is a bug, nearly every time I've seen it. (Though usually I'm seeing it in MySQL.)

Columns that are not part of the group, an aggregate of the group, or a functional dependency of the group aren't stable — there are multiple rows that could supply the value, and they needn't have the same value.
I wonder what precautions will be taken to make sure that toilet doesn't become either someone's residence or a "shooting gallery."
Yep, a "stock" openstack install will tend to use OVN or VLANs -- Most public clouds throw that out completely since they are going to use their existing methods for networking. its a shame, I've not found a public cloud that supports something like OVN.
Reverse Engineering Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity Framework
Hacker Beats is a collection of energizing and ethereal instrumental music to design, develop, build and game to.

The playlist is currently stationed on Spotify. I may add a YouTube version in the future, as well as a custom URL (I recently purchased hackerbeats.com).
There are all sorts of processes to say to her that this was a bad idea. She ignored them. It's a very Chernobyl kind of process: in order to run your experiment, first ignore all the safety alarms.

And, of course, very Brexit.
I agree, it's a huge problem. Generally for services that are "free" - I highly recommend finding alternatives for anything you consider important, either paying for it or running it yourself.
FastMail works wonderfully for me, and I self-host Mastodon for myself and Synapse(Matrix) for communicating with my family.

I don't ever want to be trapped in a Kafka-esque trial by corporate automation!
Besides power vs performance, there's also the cost of buying into the platform, AMD's latest chips aren't selling too well because cost of entry is pretty high with expensive motherboards and expensive RAM (plus enthusiast gamers waiting for the 3d stacked cache chips coming next year).

Intel is seeming likely to have the pricing advantage this time due to their compatibility with DDR4, IIRC slightly lower prices and support for existing motherboards.
If wokeness is the biggest problem a politician sees at the moment (which is the implication if that's the platform they're running on), then no - they are not serious.
The UK government also has an excellent civil servant corps. In reality it’s the civil service, that continues across government, that keeps the UK govt running. The elected officials are limited to providing high level directions.

One of the major mistakes made by Kwarteng as chancellor was firing an extremely senior civil servant which spooked not just the civil service but also the markets, because it indicated that elected officials would now be more active in running the business of government. That’s something no one really wants.
OpenStack started out with AWS EC2 API compatibility. I believe you still have the option to run that. Also the terraform provider is actually quite good, so I don't really think those are the reasons its failed. Here are some reasons it lost IMO:

- It doesn't follow the "normal" OSS process of submitting pull requests. Their CI/Repos/Bug tracking systems are different enough that a lot of people probably don't bother trying to contribute

- The docs are not great and sometimes do not get updated.

- You basically have to run the control plan in containers to make it realistic to deploy. Kolla-Ansible and Openstack Helm are pretty good here

- The APIs are pretty slow since they're all in python

- You also have to deploy Ceph to get storage, which is itself an entire beast
Can't measure it that way, or probably at all, but there's no way it's the worst. There are countries with corruption out in the open.
There is a lot of spam you don't see that affects you: bot rings that push topics in trending and lastest tweets that end up in your time line for example. Or voting bots that reinforce the outrage culture. Scam bots that prey on weak users in popular accounts (read any elo musk tweet responses for a sample). And bot oushing empty publication to hashtags that makes parsing it with a python script terrible.

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't make the experience worst.
Another slightly more general approach, which turns the string into a tuple of numbers and then uses tuple comparison, which gets "1.2.3" > "1.2" right, but does yield "1.2.0" > "1.2" which may or may not be what you want:

v1 = tuple(map(int, v1.split('.')))
v2 = tuple(map(int, v2.split('.')))
return (v1 > v2) - (v1 < v2)

(In Python 2 days, the last line could have been `return cmp(v1, v2)`, but sadly cmp() and .__cmp__() were removed in Python 3.)

And both of these implementations demonstrate an advantage of using someone else’s library: it has probably had more care put into it. And implementing these sorts of things yourself often leads you to compromise on functionality—though at the same time, using a misfitting library also leads to compromises. It can always go both ways.
Hi there! I'm one of the tech writers working on the docs - along with the marketing information. ;) We are always looking to improve. Just so I'm clear... do you mean the few paragraphs on the Kill Bill GitHub landing page (https://github.com/killbill)? (There is also a readme on the killbill/killbill repo, which is why I'm asking.)

Thanks!
Any founder based in SF pays a minimum of 3 business taxes to the city of SF so yes it is highly relevant.

Take your libtarded vax-passing bucket of no brains back to reddit.
Not "all software on GitHub" because most of that is proprietary. To run it yourself it generally needs to be [free software](https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/).
And is presently open and pretty cool actually, most notably the way the transbay buses have a direct link to the bridge. And I believe the full price tag included the park on top of it, which remained open (though vendors did not) during COVID. I don't have a strong opinion about whether it was all worth $2.4B, but at least it wasn't quite as much of a disaster as you are portraying.
I completely missed the sell off from NPR to Automattic. Glad to see this news as a good omen. Hard to believe but I've been using this same app for 11 years now.
I was looking at it for a small VMWare cluster replacement (3 servers or so, couple of dozen VMs, but should grow larger over time) for internal use at our small electronics company, but it sounds too complex. Proxmox looks easier (and probably more suited to this tiny scale?) so I’ll probably try that.
I think this misses a much larger issue, which is that running your own datacenters (or just your own hardware) is becoming very unpopular. OpenStack could have all the features in the world, but at the end of the day you need a team to run it.

Having worked with large footprints on both OpenStack and AWS, it’s also clear that there are just inherent difficulties with running your own hardware, especially in your own data center. Even if you make the investment in a good infra team, it’s cost prohibitive to get anywhere near the experience of something like EC2 in terms of hardware availability and hourly billing. Not to mention they’re literally inventing their own hardware for things like high-performance storage and ARM servers.
I now see you're confused about how exactly co-pilot actually works. I recommend learning about statistical machine learning and not getting wrapped up in AI hype. Brains don't work like co-pilot and that argument won't work in court. Co-pilot is a statistical encryption scheme, nothing more. Carrying this argument to its natural conclusion means that homomorphic encryption makes all data fair use for profit with no need to respect the licensing terms of the original data set.
I agree, but public pay toilets are illegal.
If you don't have overseas allies, then you don't need a large merchant fleet at all.

As it stands - merchant fleet of US allied nations is strong enough for US to not need one at all.
Seeing what the 7950X does even when limited to 65W is pretty exciting, and it will be very interesting to see what AMD does with their mobile line of processors come January!
Looking at American politics from the outside, I feel like (in most cases), you're lucky if your elected representatives know how to spell the names of common vegetables and know that the US doesn't share a border with Afghanistan.
I think this is only a little bit of incompetence and poor city leadership, and a lot of Baumol's Cost Disease[0], which the bay area suffers from the worst case I have ever seen.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
But Stripe should provide timelier service than Twitter precisely because there is real money on the line.

If Twitter suspends my account, I wouldn't expect much considering it's a free service with tens of millions more users than Stripe. They're definitely going to get more things wrong.
It came across well, but should do as opportunities to congratulate Boris do come up regularly.
Effects of Physical Activity on Aging&Mitochondrial Function in Adipose Tissue
I had Paris syndrome for SF real bad because of how it was described by people and portrayed in movies and when I finally went there it was uhh.. not somewhere I would live forever. I'm sure it's amazing if you live in the rich areas but I got an apartment in the mission which was sold to me by some of my native friends as one of the good semi-affordable areas for young professionals and it was culture shock.
Happy to hear that people are offering courses for Blender.

I skimmed through the course and will do the tutorial later on my machine.

The combination with jewelry is nice even if I didn't know such use-cases exist.
My company still uses locally hosted SharePoint and I am grateful that I am not the one who has to administer it because it is a nightmare kludge.

I cannot even tell you what we use it for anymore, other than storing certain files that should really not be stored there but are for legacy reasons. Anything I personally had to use it for has since been merged into our internally developed system to much rejoicing.
Most people use abstractions so they don't have to.

There's a difference between someone using an ORM who knows SQL and someone using an ORM so they don't have to learn.

The fact is, most people use these abstractions so they don't have to understand it.

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Back in my day ... it was accepted that you needed to understand atleast 1 level of abstraction below where you're working at. Nowadays, that attitude is only used by older developers.
> Law firm Hausfeld, which represents Hunter, said on Thursday that Amazon has breached competition law by using “a secretive and self-favouring algorithm” to promote its own products through the “Buy Box” feature on its website.

> Hunter said in a statement: “Far from being a recommendation based on price or quality, the Buy Box favours products sold by Amazon itself, or by retailers who pay Amazon for handling their logistics. Other sellers, however good their offers might be, are effectively shut out.”

I'm scratching my head and trying to figure out how this is illegal or different than what every other retailer can do. Are store brands not a thing under UK law? Are stores required by law to only promote the lowest price?

As a consumer, I certainly don't want Amazon promoting random third party marketplace items over ones actually fulfilled by Amazon.

It's also hard to feel sorry for the kind of businesses hurt by this. Amazon's generics are for product categories that are woefully generic - they source from the same manufacturers as everyone else. And it's not the manufacturers that are suing, but other middle men who are reselling their own white-labeled junk from China.
> it's not nearly as rosy for DM or dire for MOND as you imply

According to that one paper, perhaps. There are lots of papers published in this area of research. If you want to say the jury is still out on a final resolution, yes, I'll agree with that.
nope, check the most recent polls lol
What are the “in-app purchases”?
I try to convince them to keep stuff simple at my work, but we still go creating a shitshow of epic proportions. If our app was done the traditional way it could probably run on a Rasperry Pi. Instead they are pushing for microservicces, one database per service has been mentioned. A SPA app for the frontend. All for what amounts to a standard crud app that sends some jobs to the cloud.
And anyplace without a major airport is "flyover country" often to the chagrin of people who live there.
I don't know what value that would add to the conversation — surely you don't expect a random guy on a forum to propose a comprehensive military strategy?

I can only share my personal preferences. If the choice is between living and not living, I would choose to live — unless it entails living in constant physical pain. If the choice is between living in a country taken by an aggressor and not living, I would choose to live. If the choice is between living somewhere in the world when another part of the world has been taken by an aggressor and not living, I would definitely choose to live. Therefore, while I don't quite know what I would do in the scenario outlined in the question above (run? hide? appease?), I know what I wouldn't do — I wouldn't agitate for a nuclear war. With a possible exception that there is an absolute certainty that the invader, when he comes, will kill or physically torture me, because then it's all the same.
Almost all the major Brexit leaders were upper class publicly educated twits. (Johnson, Rees Mogg, Farage).
ahh yeah the good old days of getting a library from SourceForge
The Paris sanisettes were controversial when they went up. Using the same damn arguments against them. Everyone cares so much about what the homeless and drug users might do and care very little about the millions of others who also use them.

And they were unfounded. The self-cleaning and maintenance schedule does not attract homeless. I've literally watched a drug user argue with one because the door forcefully opened automatically after 15 minutes and he marched off to finish his business elsewhere.
So with all information, they must be expert as a how to steal from common man in a more sophisticated way? I mean it just gets more advanced each decade. How they distract via what PM says or do, it is soo good that I admire now.
It's basically a batteries not included problem.

Say you create a new React app. The fact that you do is an indicator that the core tech (web tech in this case) does not satisfy your needs out of the box. So you grab a framework from "user land", one of many.

React though is not self-contained. To even get it to build anything, it depends on various other projects that each have deep dependencies. Webpack, linters, a choice of CSS framework, etc.

At this point, you app itself has zero functional dependencies. You haven't even produced a hello world, all of this stuff is needed just to get it to do anything at all.

As you'll then start to build actual functionality, you'll notice that React doesn't have facilities or an opinion on the most basic of stuff. Loading data, managing forms, standardized UI, the essentials are not there. So you go for robust/popular libraries for each of those gaps, which in turn have their own dependency trees.

This way even the simplest of apps require thousands of dependencies. It's not due to developers too lazy to write "leftpad". It's a tech stack issue where nothing is standardized or included out of the box.
> It appears a lot of my impulse buying was caused by my trust in Amazon return policy :)

Better to get it cheaper and less counterfeit/crappy the first time. Since delivery time from Amazon for non-Prime people has slowed to a crawl, it's a good motivator to discover best-in-class ecommerce sites rather than the mediocre-at-everything-but-sometimes-the-mediocre-thing-arrives-the-same-day-you-order-it site.

Sites that aren't paying the price of Amazon marketing, or charging an Amazon premium, so usually the prices are better. You might find that you usually use Amazon 95% of the time for just a few classes of product, and you're better served buying those from three other sites and leaving the last 5% of spontaneous purchases for which you don't have a good source with Amazon.
A culture shift, yes.

Back to the idea that public servants are indeed servants to the public, and their entire purpose is to spend the public's money in a way that benefits the public.
1. Human brains aren't above the law here either. When producing code that is substantially the same (especially if it's a character for character match of large swathes of an existing work) it's presumed that you copied it unless you can prove one of a few exceptions like that the code itself wasn't copyrightable (moot point in context), or that you likely hadn't ever seen the original (which copilot explicitly has).

2. Scraping by itself is probably mostly legal. What you do with the scraped information is still subject to copyright and other laws.
> We literally have a real world example

I'm not a mind reader - what is it?
Whole foods doesn't have the mass appeal of Korger/Albertsons.