skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is a very clear baseline of functionality that works in every Bourne/POSIX descendant

Where is the best place to learn what this is? I'd love to make sure I'm writing portable shell scripts when I do have to.

There's also the issue that "shell scripts" often involve using binaries which you might not even realise are binaries (is "echo" a shell builtin or a binary? I forget) and which may differ from system to system. I've been bitten by grep issues before writing scripts across Ubuntu and OSX.
Here’s what desktop computing in 1974 looked like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_2200

Despite all of the hardware limitations, real businesses found things like that useful for work which wasn’t selling desktop computers.

The future was visible, too:

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1974/

The Xerox Parc Alto was “a groundbreaking computer with wide influence on the computer industry. It was based on a graphical user interface using windows, icons, and a mouse, and worked together with other Altos over a local area network. It could also share files and print out documents on an advanced Xerox laser printer. Applications were also highly innovative: a WYSISYG word processor known as “Bravo,” a paint program, a graphics editor, and email for example. Apple’s inspiration for the Lisa and Macintosh computers came from the Xerox Alto.”

The key thing to remember is that while desktop computing had huge places to go, it was useful almost instantly. In contrast cryptocurrencies have been globally available for almost a decade and a half, with only self-imposed drawbacks – nothing even remotely like the limits on early computer hardware or usurious network pricing — but despite that nobody has found them useful enough even at the level of a small company replacing a typewriter with a word processor. Almost nobody uses them instead of PayPal / Venmo, the few licit businesses which still accept them almost always immediately convert to a stable currency, and when these major players fail it has almost no real-world impact. That’s actually astonishing for a globally-available technology with billions of real dollars in funding.
How does a study that isolates the air around the stove in order to measure the emissions translate into the levels of pollutants that end up in the average home with a stove?

I should definitely fix my vent hood though.
Disclaimer: I'm working on an app to solve the impending wave of generative content, so I'm somewhat biased.

As I'm sure many of us did, I tested out the app here on GPT-3 output. Unmodified, it detected it was GPT-3. Great! However, I added about 10 additional words to the output provided by GPT-3, and it shot up my "human" score by like 60 points, and determined it was human-generated.

This is going to be the problem underscoring _any_ model that is trying to identify "AI" generated text. A human can modify it slightly, or subtract words, and it throws the entire thing off. There are other paths that we need to explore to this problem.
We're really discussing user experience which has gotten worse.

When trade-offs are being evaluated what are they in service of? I'm going to suggest it's something other than a great user experience.
We host a small apartment. It is the same price as a hotel room in our city, and has a private yard and a full kitchen. It is in a residential neighborhood down a long driveway instead of on a busy street. It is a much better deal. If there is no value to the listing, you should definitely pass.

We are much cleaner and more reliable than any hotel I have ever stayed in, but I understand that no guest could know that beforehand given the problems with some hosts on the platform.
While it’s true that the cloud providers offer the same primitives, storage/network/compute, their implementations are different enough that it matters when you’re building any complex system. A Terraform provider that attempted to provide an abstraction layer over the major could services would end up having to either encode assumptions about how the user wants their infrastructure or it would have to be overly verbose in its configuration. In practice users want neither of those.

Terraform also aim to create a single workflow for all clouds, rather than provide a common abstraction over the clouds.

So, it’s a combination of that’s not what the tool was designed to do, and that’s not what people want in practice, given the current state of the major clouds.
Despite being a public park, managed by a governmental entity, there is an entrance fee. Likely to restrict the access of poor people, since it doesn't seem to be lacking funds (the data is public).

There is also a rumor that prince Dom Miguel used to hunt chineses for fun nearby the Chinese view [1][2].

It is a beautiful place and worth visiting, thought.

[1] https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.ntu.edu.sg/dist/f/1912/f...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8mkpO2d-U
> but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit

I know what you're saying but being constrained by dedicated buttons, I would argue, forces you to think very carefully about the controls/user-interface. That discipline likely often leads to a better "interface".

Give a designer a touchscreen and they can add buttons, menus, nuanced features without restraint.
UPS has a good union. It is usually the same driver on the same route and they know what they're doing. I don't know what happened with FedEx and their union but it always seems to be a different driver who is not confident. For residential service anyway. Amazon pits multiple local 3rd party carriers against each other in a race to the bottom in both quality of service and labor quality of life. Really shameful behavior by Bezos IMHO.
Honestly, I haven't seen anything like that level of issue recently and I strongly suspect the issue here is Civ Six itself.

The last multiplayer game I played was Halo infinite. It went great. Did exactly what it's supposed to.

ETA: I am on Windows... At a cursory glance it looks like changing the download region fixes an issue you encounter in MacOS after updating the operating system. Apple being an also-ran platform for desktop gaming is a long-standing issue completely independent of whether we're in the era of cloud and patching.
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From what I can tell, per Drew's own characterization of the requests[0], this is wildly off in all aspects. Most repos are hundreds of KB. Large repos are a dozen MB. Per the other guy's characterization[1], his repo was less than 8MB, right in line with what I see in other repos. He saw 4GB of traffic split up across "more than 500" requests. And as Drew said, these bouts of activity aren't sustained even across an entire hour. To top it off, the cost of AWS bandwidth is about the least representative example you could have picked. You've wandered off the path at nearly every available opportunity.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-78531...

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85107...
Sure, but lawyers need to be bar certified to appear in front of a judge generally.
How do you explain the cancellation of the same program in 2015 then? Also, why would the powerful lobby care to help out after the deal is signed?
FWIW Steam is the same.
Many readers probably grew up during the (long) development of the F-35, and there were a LOT of problems (as is common for such complex projects). Unlike private projects, a lot of those issues were publicized. And of course it went vastly over the original budget, when it was billed as the "low" option to pair with the "high" F-22 (similar to the high/low F-15 & F/16 pair before).
Proper wok cooking requires gas, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. Flat bottom woks will nearly always warp at high heat, rendering them nearly useless on non-gas cook tops. There is a reason most asian home cooks and restaurants use gas stove tops.
True story: a friend of mine was working at a program that was creating lists for layoffs (he was working at the same company as me, although in a different city. we went to the same college). At some point he himself got laid off. I never learned (and probably neither did he) if he was laid off by his own creation.
Worth to note that it actually should use the base62 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base62

It’s the same as base64 but w/o "+" and "?" symbols.
Lateral thinking puzzle champion right here
As I understand, FedEx Express are FedEx employees and paid properly. FedEx ground is “independent contractors” who are poorly paid.

I do not understand the logic behind devaluing the FedEx brand like that, especially since a FedEx express driver will not pickup a FedEx ground package and vice versa. They expect customers to keep track of this?
I have no idea what to do about it, but there's a huge bias for those with negative opinions to be more vocal about their opinions. I don't appreciate the original Nixon-ian context what-so-ever, but the idea of "the Silent Majority" seems ever more and more real, that the majority of those with anything to say are only there to throw shit & rake muck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority

Actually, I have one idea, which is to do some basic sentiment analysis and try to get some positive vs negative analysis of how people post, such that folks can start outright disregarding the negative forces.
It's like trying to emulate "normal old school" The New Yorker prose, which is usually pretty... wordy I guess (but not in a bad way!). But it ends up failling pretty hard at doing that, so it just makes the whole thing sound weird.
Wait until the famous international music label 88Rising[0] (based in the US and hosting massively popular artists such as Joji or Rich Brian) finds out about this. When will those asian "white supremacists" stop dogwhistling, am i right? lol

On a serious note, this might sound a bit aggressive, but get real. If you suspect that Canadian government made a decision to purchase 88 fighter jets specifically (to the tune of over $1bil) just to hit the "special dogwhistle number", then I have a bridge to sell you.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88rising
>It has donated more money to Ukraine compared to Canada

It has 10x the population, of course it has. It's not going to give up it's position as world leader overnight. But it's also probably not going to get involved in foreign skirmishes as often as it has in the past.

>Meanwhile, the US is currently fraught with crime rates, illegal immigration, low wage, fear of recession, etc...

This is precisely why I believe the previous statement.

>Maybe, it is better to spend money on Climate Change and Science than on the military.

Ironically some of the greatest innovations of the century have come from military spending. The internet, nuclear power, GPS...
They do, as I indicated below: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/990
I don’t mind touchscreens in cars, but there are just some controls that are used all the time and should be buttons. I think most car manufacturers are figuring out that right mix…except perhaps Tesla who is insistent on removing ever tactile button for a touchscreen or capacitive touch button.
They need consent, but to your point it might be buried in some document. Some will provide compensation for it: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/pricing/stock-yield-en...
Electric stoves still use electricity produced by coal.
Another reason your analogy fails is it makes sense to always put your seatbelt on when you get into a car, regardless of if your initial intention is, for whatever reason, to remain stationary in the parking garage: typically one gets into a car and immediately begins driving. It's a very good idea to 99% of the time have your seatbelt on when you're in a car. The habit of putting your seatbelt on when getting into a car, and only taking it off immediately before getting out of the car, is a very good one to have. Given that the downside of wearing your seatbelt is essentially nothing, the added "cost" of wearing your seatbelt the 1% of the time you're in your car and it's sitting in a parking garage is well worth it. Plus, you're eliminating the risk of driving off and forgetting to put your seatbelt on, after sitting comfortably with it off and immobile for however long.
Per year? What length of time are you referring to?

$14,200,000,000/27,855,050[1] = $509 per tax filer (regardless of tax contribution)

Also, the bottom 40%[2] of Canadians pay $0 in income tax, so every Canadian that actually contributes to the national revenue has paid nearly $1,000 just for this purchase.

I support defence spending but let's not sugarcoat how much it really costs.

[1] # of taxfilers in Canada in 2020 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/478908/number-of-taxfile...
[2] https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/trudeau-is-...
What you experienced is a classic Airbnb scam where you book a place, the host cancels when you show up, and then the host tries to get you to go to another property. The host will have you pay them directly so Airbnb doesn't get a cut and they make more money. They're grifting off Airbnb as a funnel for clients to their illegal/shady short term rental. Make sure Airbnb knows you were told to book another property at checkin.
I wonder if you can get them to cite their sources too?
Yes, otherwise customers are just handing assets to someone and hoping for the best. That lack of assurance sets the stage for bank runs...
"Traditional" as in... British? Because the definition of middle class is quite a bit different in the US.
Did you see where a host of hotels cancelled on their guests because a Taylor Swift concert was announced?
> Besides issuing a prompt refund and hopefully banning the fraudulent host, what exactly is Airbnb supposed to do in such situation?

I think the ask is that they do these things at a bare minimum; at the moment, it appears they do neither with any reliability.
Regarding video games

> This is objectively a worse experience than I grew up with (and it costs a whole lot more too.)

This is objectively wrong. Inflation-adjusted Nintendo console launch prices have been trending downward since the 80s. Games are cheaper too. I remember saving up to spend $40-$50 for NES games in the early 90s, which would be in the $100 range in today's dollars. That's significantly more expensive than the $60 first-party Switch games today.
If you ask it to do a query that it doesn't actually know how to do does it say so or just give the wrong answer?
Also high off bore sight missile launches.

100% right, f-35 can launch amrams with data link from AWACS, red team gets the radar lock warning about 5 seconds before they are dead.
Survivorship bias. Games that couldn't be patched were better if they worked on your architecture. Otherwise you were just left out in the cold or you bought an entirely new PC to play them.

Consoles were better because (after the Crash) the vendors guarded them jealously and put the developers through an absolute hell of quality control to confirm they shipped a working product on the cartridge. Of course, the consequence is that they had massive editorial power over the games that existed in their ecosystem.
FYI, AirBnb "insurance" and "guarantees" for hosts is just as bad, there's plenty of horror stories around it. Why commit fraud on one side of the marketplace if you can double-dip and screw both sides?
Sue them, or find a lawyer who's starting up a class-action.
This sounds about right. I once had an experience just like yours where they did a switch up the day I landed for a month long stay. Or the several times that half the features don't work properly (like no wifi, or the 'kitchen' had no sink, or the front door had no lock!), or the two times when the entire place was is not quite the entire place...
You take your life into your hands when you book with Airbnb. By the numbers I have had better luck using Craigslist than Airbnb (which is surprising, but maybe Airbnb automates enough that scammers can get by while Craigslist lets you run proper due diligence).

I'm just going to post a link to Paul Graham's bragging about Airbnb since this is his website and he backed Airbnb from the start, and I would like to think that someone around YC would have enough pride to fix this mess:

http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnbs.html
> OpenAI can never run ChatGPT at the scale needed for massive usage. They would drown in debt.

They have access to Microsoft's billions and the compute powers of Azure. The other day there was a HN post [1] about Microsoft has build a top 5 super computer. That computer is probably the computer OpenAI used to train their model on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307951
The bias of an industry trade group arguing against the ban of their product notwithstanding, it’s a bad argument.

A natural reading of this defense quickly gets bogged down in the squishy ambiguity of corporate ipsum. Banning one type of cooking appliance will address air quality. That’s the whole point of the regulation.

The most charitable reading is that it’s making the perfect the enemy of the good. It won’t solve the problem, sure, but air quality will improve if every single gas stove is replaced.
Yep... radio, AC, all the lights etc. should always be physical buttons. Reseting TPMS settings can be done on a touchscreen too.

Sadly, even stuff like radio and AC controls in some cars have moved to touchscreens, and that sucks a lot.
There was an era maybe 10-15 years ago where so many PC games were just these semi-automatic ports from the Xbox version, and they were just awful and lazy. That pretty much killed PC gaming for me. I remember it got so bad that Borderlands 2 specifically marketed on the fact that the PC version was not just a lazy port. They actually advertised that you could change the FOV.
When will there be a platform that protects the buyer from this kind of hassle? Food delivery apps are just as bad. They can turn up absolute rubbish to your door, and there seems to be no force in place pushing back so that they focus on doing a decent job… it’s like the app doesn’t even have that expectation of them. They just want more options on the platform.
It's so true:

* I can't even install Netflix on my Iphone 7+ anymore (the phone practically brand new, it is less than 6 six years old!)

* Screens in cars replacing usable buttons, are a disaster. give me buttons and knobs.

* the TV takes 15 seconds to start up??? and takes 10+ seconds to select a youtube video to watch. back when I was a kid, tvs turned on right away and you could change the channel in less than a second.
Agreed! Big rubber controls! Designed to last 20-30 years. If you lean towards “buy things that last to reduce your footprint” and don’t commute a massive distance everyday, it’s a good and reliable car to keep in your driveway
I’m a big proponent of doing difficult things regularly.

If we habitually do hard things, then we generally have no problem, stepping up to the plate, for when it’s showtime.

Same reason that musicians practice scales, all the time.

I write code, every day. I walk 5K, every day. I solve problems, every day (detect a pattern, here?). It makes showtime a lot less stressful, and folks seem happy with my work.
No, it was an emergency booking because of fires, and I think they just didn't think of it because there was some rather frenetic back and forth to get it booked. The work was painting going on outside, but it blocked the balcony. I wouldn't default to most problems on airbnb are scams. It seems too cynical to me given my experiences and those of people I know who use it a lot, even if there are some known problems.
Twitter agreed to Lu them a certain severance. Any amount less than that is indeed paltry.
Google Search was better 10 years ago.

Linux is better, OS X hasn't been as awesome as they focused on emojis and stuff, Windows seems to have improved in many ways but regressed in others.

Car interfaces are going to hell with capacitive buttons and touch screens, instead of simple and reliable old tech that works.

Services instead of owning games/apps.
How many cars are actually like that? I only know a few people with newer (2020+) cars and all of them have physical controls as well as touch screen controls. They're all Asian cars so maybe that's why, but anecdotally I've never seen a car completely controlled by a touchscreen.
I can't speak for large games but the Bevy build-run loop is quite fast for smallish games (say 10k loc). Certainly more pleasant than say Python or JS where it starts fast and then you spent five iterations fixing errors Rust's type & ownership systems would have caught.
I have an 08 corolla that seems indestructible.

I sorta want to replace it, because I don't really like driving my children around in it, but new cars seem incredibly complex. I'm just trying to drive here, man.
Or we go for the competition
There is a very real risk coming up in a few years of China attempting to invade Taiwan. 250,000 people in Ukraine and Russia are killed or wounded because Russia was not deterred to invade. The difference in distance makes it difficult to project power in defense of Taiwan, without programs like these. China is making more progress than the US on closing the military differential.
Nazi germany limited itself mostly to the same continent…
The extension to this is shareholders have made everything worse. Instead of a company making a product that does what the customer needs driving purchasing decisions and thus revenue, companies are now being held hostage to be constantly driving revenue number growth. This is easily done by implementing subscriptions or implementing hardware technologies with a limited lifetime.

For example, companies weren't happy with just having to replace your phone every 3 or so years so they removed the headphone jacks from phones to drive the sales of Bluetooth headphones that have built in batteries. Those batteries have a limited lifetime before the device has to be replaced, while a pair of wired headphones could theoretically last decades if cared for or repaired.

On the software side any device or software that has to connect to a server to work properly is merely a rental dependent on how long a company wants to continue supporting it.

Now, I'm not against this in cases where it is only realistic to use it for a limited period of time and the cloud provides meaningful usefulness, but there is no excuse for why many devices have any sort of smart or cloud connections.
Subscriptions for MS Office is nothing but a money grab. It is not useful to me. Maybe it’s useful for enterprises. But I use word and excel a couple times per YEAR. I don’t fit the subscription model, but there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years.

So I’ve mostly moved to Libreoffice and Google Docs.
> I am a startup founder, I understand these types of situations has probably zero affect on your bottom line. So you probably never prioritized the need to spend engineering time "fixing" it.

Airbnb is no longer a startup, it went public so it's a regular business. Airbnb owns no property and will always be biased in favor of the hosts. Guests don't matter, there will always be people who need an accommodation somewhere...
You might have helped students cheat...

But wow, the second response was pretty exciting. I wonder if chatgpt can get present-day authors to up their game?
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https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

The domain says it all.
It's not stealthy, particularly when loaded with munitions. So it fills a much different role.

However, it is a bonkers airborne munitions truck that can carry a loooot of missiles and bombs.

A common bit of speculation is that eventually what you could see is the F-15EX used in conjunction with stealthier fighters like the F-35 (and/or drones?) in mixed formations. The F-35s only carry 4 missiles in the internal bays. The F-35s can scout and relay targeting information to the F-15EX, which can then deliver the hurt from a safe distance.
Yes it is, you're making his point.