skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "politicians" being referenced are the ones on the European Commission that worked on and announced this law. It took a mass public outcry to get the EC to delay the law long enough for the regulatory body (BEREC) to issue this report. The report doesn't "shut down" efforts to pass this law, but hopefully will make it harder for the EC to push through.

Complaints about the politicians who put this forward in the first place seem entirely warranted.
It’s just too expensive, pretty simple.
Thanks for posting the source article!
Oh dear lord, Xtree? That's a name I've not heard in some time..
That's quite obviously not true, because almost everyone shows up to places regularly, and some people fail to make friends. Unless you assume that all the people who are having trouble making friends are jobless independently-wealthy agoraphobic shut-ins.
This is great Serdar.

As an alternative to Chapter 2 I’ll also share https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart my project template which lets you get a Crystal (currently 1.6.2) dev environment running with just Docker. Good for kicking the tires, which is what I think your audience is probably wanting to do! And then eventually can install a binary package as you suggest.
From the other replies it sounds like it's just a typo, but to be fair, the quote isn't really a contradiction as it is written; jumping off cliffs is known to be dangerous, but it also almost guarantees that you won't die from a heart attack!
Great point.

A four lane highway costs $12M/mile, plus about $1.5M to resurface every 8-10 years. Each overpass bridge costs $8-20M.

That doesn’t include condemnation, etc.

Rail should just be rolled into the normal interstate capital funds. Separate the “meta” infrastructure from the trains and stations and more will get done.

Trains are a tough business because it’s such an old business.
I honestly can't imagine close friends not being important to me!
Cooks? :-)
> Not being able to install free apps without providing a credit card is ridicilous

you can use the App store without a credit card. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204316

>4. Enter your credit card and billing information, then tap Next. You can also choose None.
Without being apologetic, it is still worthwhile to consider your responsibility as a moral agent for causing suffering; especially so when it is unnecessary.
A Poor Man's API
As a pretty hardcore meat-lover (we had sous-vide filets tonight at home), I think Impossible is close enough on the taste and feel side for a lot of dishes that use beef (including hamburgers).

They're comically far off on the price side, but if they could get price-competitive with bulk 80% ground beef, they would capture a large amount of that market, I think.
reminds me of a parody of "killing me softly" from the era. "Killing my software with windows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYFowc1AlY

"8 megs is recommended but I've got only 5"
I was reading the description of the app, and they were talking about using it for “dive planning,” and “post-dive analysis.” This is despite the fact that it has a lot of in-dive stuff.

I suspect that they are keeping their legal derrière covered. A lot of folks will probably use them as “in-dive” computers, like a Mares or Suunto unit, but that will probably be considered an “unsupported use case.”
> Hardly anyone says "I have $200, where can I fly."

Not sure about that, there are entire industries around cheap flights for people that are location agnostic. ScottsCheapFlights comes to mind.
The first Japanese Shinkansen train went over budget by 100%, but nobody remembers that anymore. Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are.

Interstate I-69 costs more than CA HSR, has been plagued with problems, and has been under construction for more than 30 years and yet you don’t see the frothing negative coverage of that like you do CA HSR because in our country cars are normal and trains are the weird things we need to scrutinize to death.

This video is some nice coverage of this:

https://youtu.be/PwNthD-LRTQ
Well, sir, there’s nothing on earth like a bonafide, electrified, six-car…
It might not be fully comparable, since most kilometers of high speed rail will be on the countryside and not in the city. The construction costs in city centers are always much higher. E.g. "Stuttgart 21" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21) which is about redoing railway in the Stuttgart area is also in the billion € range, despite being less than 60km (> 150M€/km) - and the majority of the 10B€ for that will probably be spent on the less than 10km of tracks inside the city.

That said the Ontario cost certainly still feels high.

The ongoing construction of the new broadway extension for Vancouvers skytrain system is even more costly. They are also building around 4 miles, and the estimated cost is 3 billion CAD (https://www.infrastructurebc.com/projects/projects-under-con...).
America's infrastructure development programs are pretty pathetic compared to China's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

I'm not sure why Musk is the focus of this article either - isn't Warren Buffet & Berkshire-Hathaway the primary railroad owner in the USA today? Not exactly interested in upgrading the infrastructure or QoS on their own dime, are they?
US building costs are high, but I don't think this is a fair comparison. Ontario, California is part of the Los Angeles metro area. Building a new railway inside any already-developed metro area is obviously going to cost much more than building a railway in the open countryside. The cost also likely includes the stations at either end.
There already exist comparable EleutherAI models, I believe. Not as good, but pretty good.
Paxos and Two-Phase Commit Differ
Geodes?
> My understanding was that meta analyses were better than individual studies, since they are 'samples of samples,' so to speak

In principle and in theory .. yes.

In practice some can be "publish or perish" pumped papers that are thrown out at speed at lack deep insight when comparing apples, pears, and oranges.

They're also rather notorious for having been quoted during the recent pandemic years to support every COVID claim you care to mention (ie. vaccines good, vaccines bad, masks good, masks bad, horse dewormer good, etc. )

A good meta study paper is a mine of useful infomation, a poor one is grist for conspiracy mills.
Ah yes, the AI Effect in action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
I might try unixtree.org..
Making a public graphql api was a huge misstep.They barely had an internal graphql api when they released the public api.
I think you're mistaking me for Abraham Lincoln... I can't impose policy on the beef industry. Comparing the actions I took to the actions a historic US president took is not really appropriate commentary.

Millions voting with their pocket books can have the same impact; causing the industry to change because of reduced revenue. Especially if we can reach the tipping point where beyond/impossible becomes less expensive than beef.

In this analogy, Mark Rober would be your Abraham Lincoln, his video helped tip me towards eating more plant-based burgers, and has been seen 54M times.
I used to think so too but have long ceased to believe in its effectiveness. Industries love saying they need consumers to lead though.
That panic was unfortunate…
What is the alternative? Apple exits the country and we use.. android? Is that a better, more privacy-respecting, government-order-rejecting alternative?

Edit: The alternative is Apple doesn't comply w/ government orders and leaves the country. That is the alternative.
> Could you elaborate what I can do in C++ that I can't do in Rust (using unsafe, if I must)?

Cuda :(
From what I've seen, AI generated images tend to be locally-consistent but holistically-inconsistent.

Which works, because most people on the internet tend to be detail-oblivious!
Robot Zen Garden
> providing some value to the world in the form of liquidity and loans.

I'm trying to avoid coming across as blaming or rubbing salt in the wounds, but I just wanted to say that the rates they were offering during times of such low interest rates in general, were really be a huge red flag.

However you feel about cryptocurrency in general (and it's safe to say I'm a sceptic) you have to look at that and think either that something fishy was going on or they had to have an exceptional business model.
> the market for applications is entirely separate from the market for hardware.

This seems like a matter of opinion, and one that Apple has disagreed with for decades as far as I can tell.
If I've learned anything from Bell Labs and Frank Capra, it's that blood is pretty similar to seawater.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08QDu2pGtkc
"A dental X-ray will not provide you with all the details necessary. Here, look at this photo, which shows amazing levels of detail."
Epic literally said 'screw you' to Apple store policies on in-app purchases, then went to court after they got pulled down.

Valve doesn't have anything in the phone space AFAIK.
But and hold has been corrupted into HODL, and cryptocoins enthusiasts / meme stonks will wreck people because of it.

Buy a stock so that you keep holding it for 10 years is good advice, but not in the context of today's mania. It's advice that is supposed to mean 'buy safe things', not 'buy that thing with exponential growth that might be worth 1000x it's current value in 10 years.

I do think that blogs / advice like what this post does is overall a good idea and good advice. But I find it difficult to discuss in practice due to the HODL corruption.
How likely is it the the DD team didn't catch it?

Or

How about if the due diligence team did find issues. And, over an internal team call, the VC partner told the DD team we are doing this.

What's more likely? Saying we did everything possible looks good on a press release but seasoned accountants know how to sniff for trouble and they know what trouble looks like.
> my friends taking them while we were growing up had pretty negative outcomes.

Or - hear me out - maybe severe ADHD, the kind that leads to diagnosis and treatment with stimulant medication at a very young age, is correlated with negative outcomes in general. You know, like a disability.

The number of people willing to believe - contrary to actual peer reviewed studies - that stimulant medication is harmful to people with ADHD, based on nothing more than a gut feeling, is astounding. People don't assume they can just intuit the proper treatment for other medical conditions, why do they think they can do that with mental health related issues?
The real question is why use a social media that would put stuff like this in your feed. It is like having an RSS
reader add random crap blogs outside of your control
Also, people who can't afford bread can eat cake. It's a simple change in behavior.
That mobile app you mentioned was Snapchat right? Worst discoverability of any mobile app I’ve ever used.
Ask HN: How to overcome regret by missing out on opportunities to get rich?
I definitely had some character flaws that I didn't fully overcome until my late 20's. Basically, I was incredibly insecure and this led me to always try to do things on my own. This didn't really change until I started jiu-jistu.

Anyways, I was able to get my first job out of college at a top university. I met some amazing people there. But really held back from socializing much, because I wanted to do well at my very menial job.

A couple times colleagues tried to include me on projects, but I politely just focused on my work. Now many of them are leading very successful startups that I could've likely been an early employee at.

I ended up working at 2 failed startups (I got from cold applying), and have failed about 20 times building a side hustle of my own.

I feel like I needed to go through some struggle, but I can't help but regret my choices. I need a win badly. I have worked very hard and built nothing. I also lost a lot of money gambling but have since quit.
I assume they just never bothered to name it.

And I'm not too sure how useful of a feature is it. Transit tunnels are useally built in places that are so built up that land is at a premium. They actually want the tunnel to start underground, because they want to install the station underground too.

So you have to build a shaft anyway.

And also, they are trying to minimize elevation changes for efficiency.
C is a way better language in that regard than C++.
It could be correct that the number of trees total is increasing in America, and that would be excellent if true, but healthy forests require trees that are left to become mature. It also means a complex forest ecology made up of more then a few select species of vegetation. Most of the trees that are planted each year in Canada, are planted as crops, to be logged for industrial use, before being able to reach full maturity. Although there are some companies which are making efforts to log, and manage forests, in a sustainable way. This research is interesting to me, because if we were able produce organic materials such as wood fibre in a lab, it could reduce our dependency on harvesting natural resources, and the impact it has on forests.

Although I don't agree with the sentiment that "At that rate, some scientists predict the world’s forests could disappear in 100 to 200 years.", I would argue there is a distinction between a primary forest, a secondary forest, and a crop.

https://www.globalforestwatch.org/blog/data-and-research/pri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_degradation

"Since 1990, it is estimated that some 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through conversion to other land uses, although the rate of deforestation has decreased over the past three decades. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year, down from 16 million hectares per year in the 1990s. The area of primary forest worldwide has decreased by over 80 million hectares since 1990. More than 100 million hectares of forests are adversely affected by forest fires, pests, diseases, invasive species, drought and adverse weather events.[3]"

I think the 'utility of trees' may not be controversial, but people may have different perspectives on what they view as the 'utility of trees'.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/16/canada-floods-...

https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/map-reveals-british...

https://veridianecological.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/bcs-o...

Although this research is interesting, the use of drones for reforestation may be more immediately applicable. Treeplanting is normally a process which is done by hand. Through the 70's there were a number of innovations in the process, planting via drones may provide further possibilities. Not to mention the application of drones in sites surveys.
> Simple things can be complex.

I’m sorry but I consider complexity and simplicity to be antonyms - and so does the thesaurus! https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/complex

> billing systems only need to serve the needs of business after business has already figured things out

Billing is a fundamental part of your product and your GTM. Getting it right gives you an advantage, especially in terms of trying different approaches. Getting it wrong can be a burden on the business, especially if you find out that you need to re-price.
This is a great post. A few immediate thoughts.

Friends become harder to make (mostly for men) as you get older and have children. It simply takes more effort and you'll have less time, but having friends that you see regularly is probably more important when you are 40+. It's worth the effort and easier to systemize.

Following up & reaching out can be a big blocker. I just decided that I'm always the one to reach out and I even built myself an Airtable tracker to do this.

Vulnerability is trending up (for lack of a better description). Writing this post was vulnerable and it's #1 on HN. Finding the right way to open up, make it interesting and not seem needy is an very valuable skill.
IMO it does. I would rather have a generally good product with concessions as opposed to no product at all. If apple, google, everyone exits out of protest, what is left? Chinese-developed tech that is 100,000% susceptible to the same government orders. At least with apple they know what they're getting.
> I think it's difficult to make an electronic sensing device that logs data locally but isn't a little DIY. There's not a great standard for passing around data on a local network. Perhaps the best way to do this from a consumer device would be to log to a USB stick.

I was a bit surprised by that, but ultimately guessed at the same thing - even ignoring the (IMHO repugnant) cloud-based business model, there isn't one obvious way to record data off-device in local-first way that would be useful for non-tech / non-industrial users. It's kind of similar to the problem of transferring files between two computers: there are so many ways you could do it, with different requirements and tradeoffs[0], that there is no one universal way everyone can rely on. See also [0].

WRT. DIY, I don't mind extensive software-level DIY (especially that I'm DIY-ing the data storage, analysis and reporting side), but I currently want to avoid hardware DIY.

Thanks for your thoughts and the links; I found your analysis under[3] particularly useful and insightful. I'm actually looking into this space for health reasons - we don't have regular wildfires where I live, but I do have allergies, and now children with allergies too, so I want to better understand and control our indoor air.

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[0] - https://xkcd.com/949/
https://archive.ph/6nJRQ
Now define irony!
There are still some things that C++ can do that Rust can't. A few of the larger and common examples would be, specialization, placement and variadic generics.

At least variadic generics isn't really a performance thing, it's just an example of a rough edge you run into here and there. Specialization and placement can be pretty important for performance though!
// The preceding line is lying.
I mean look, I can see it with my own two eyes. The gauntness in their face, the effect it has on their emotions over years of use. Knowing someone and seeing them go down hill and struggle, and then be better during the summers when they are off it.
We often don't consider the impact our current age has on our experience.

Making close friends is easier the younger we are. When we are young we have fewer responsibilities, and we have fewer hangups.

As we get older, we have old life experiences which stand out and leave lasting behavioral impacts. Plus, we have real and immediate responsibilities which have priority - but which we may not announce all the time. The other party may not know the circumstances; they merely don't get especially magnetic interactions from us.

My caution to those of us who are analytical and want to understand how life works is that we do not discount the significance of age and circumstance on matters of friendship and human connection.

Minor edits for clarity :)
>independent contractors are supposed to set their own rates

I am missing this point. Uber drivers can set their rates and not take the rides that are below those rates, can't they? Or do you mean they have to be able to make exactly the rate they set, e.g. the driver's rate is $21.25/h, Uber offers only $30/h and more and the driver takes Uber to court saying he could not set his desirable rate and had been paid more?
Is it local but fully delegated to Apple, or local as in I can actually get my hands on raw data and the control plane?
Storj – Storage. Decentralized
If I am not mistaken, the temperature parameter controls the amount of randomness in the output. A temperature of 0 will always produce the same output. It is not caching as far as I know.
Says the guy who sold products to the Chinese company (Baidu) and tried to sell more to china in the early days. Such hypocrisy. http://web.archive.org/web/20190805191959/https://scale.com/
I would definitely agree if we’re talking leaves on the org tree. Once you start building new layers you really need people that have been there and done that (more aligned to use case/industry than specific tech) or you end up with thee we blind leading the blind.
Around here (Cambridge, MA) when it's on sale, maybe it's only 50% higher than ground beef's regular price. It's normally 250% the price of ground beef, with Impossible being even slightly higher priced.
It also reminds me of the late days of every failed technology, like 3D TV.

They might have to get the price down, the taste better, or better marketing/management.
Yeah. EKGs are easy, cheap, fast, universally available and risk-free. I can't think of a reason not to do one.
Hybrid (or PEV/BEV) car's electric A/C is heavily underrated feature compared to pure ICE cars. Idling engine only for A/C seems to really inefficient. I think every police cars should be at least hybrid, but still not here.
Just a minor note, beyond burger was always subpar compared to impossible meat, which according to the article, is doing well.
Kathy Acker’s Art of Identity Theft
Good defaults and good options are not mutually exclusive.
To add, Americans average around 60 pounds of beef per person per year.
I would counter that by asking how someone who is not blessed by the almighty advertizer-friendly algorithm can ever be seen. I suggest that the internet is healthiest when anyone has a real chance of gaining a following because they organically went viral or were upvoted by users like frequently happens on mastodon or even hackernews... even if the content is not advertiser friendly.

I understand what YouTube is quite well. The product is providing the most addictive advertiser friendly content possible that ignores all mental health studies. The product is cigarettes and like cigarettes, their use will only be reduced when enough people are educated on the harms and reject the second hand smoke in our public places.

Humans are capable of simply searching for things and subscribing to things like RSS. RSS was peak internet and ActivityPub is the next generation of this. We can go back to that, while maybe adding unbiased, open source, and provably fair user voted topical discovery engines.

https://odysee.com/ is getting close with an open source system with community voted content discovery and creator support via microtransaction tips. You do not need to be advertiser friendly to succeed there, and we all get the same view of the world.
Can't you just add a compiler conditional to use one function if macOS < 12, and the other function on macOS >= 12? How is this different than any other API migration?
It's nice that they exist, but these workarounds are only necessary because Go isn't a very expressive language. I don't really consider having to use a third party tool to generate boilerplate as part of a multi-stage build process to really be a great thing, but I guess it's better than not having those tools if you choose to use Go for some reason.
As I recall from grad-school-ish times (1/3 of a century ago ... geez), there was a nice discussion of this in Goldstein's Mechanics text.
Clear cut according to a definition absolutely nobody uses any more. There's no longer a Soviet sphere even if you wanted to use that definition and the post-soviet sphere has diverged dramatically.
Old github would have been amenable. Current github has to convince a product manager who barely knows what an api is.
It doesn't, it's just the standard generic "C++ is complex and bad" post that people love to read so much. Every C++ related post will have at least one of these and they are always totally unrelated to anything being talked about.