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How about we just stick with the dystopian hellhole narrative and not encourage anyone?

kthxbai.
> In December, mere days before I began my house hunt, Assembly Member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, introduced legislation that would limit security deposits to no more than one month’s rent. This reforms a decades-old state threshold that permits landlords to charge tenants security deposits that amount to two months’ rent.
Sounds like the best way to win at this game is not to play in the first place.
Lots of people get tripped up by limitations of web browsers.

https://hyperview.org/ should be held up really high to show what’s possible if we think outside of the browser. It looks like it’s optimized for Material UIs, but we can imagine what it might look like for other UIs like Apple, etc.

Apple has given us a glimpse of that with Apple TV Markup https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tvml. While it’s not a hypermedia client, it does show us what UIs are possible via markup.

https://native.live/ is another glimpse, though the financier of this project has said on Twitter that his company is strongly incentivized to keep it “Elixir only”, so I’m not sure where it puts that project with respect to a SwiftUI hypermedia client.
It’s the exploitation of animals. So chicken eggs aren’t vegan but eggs are unfertilised.
> Indeed, I now hear acquaintances on the right referring to them derisively as the 'alphabet mafia.' I wonder if maybe it's gotten meaningless when there are so many letters.

Is Christianity also meaningless then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denomination...
Nix builds binaries. You don't need nix to run binaries built using nix. Just like you don't need Cargo to run binaries built using cargo. This is about developer tooling.
I mean isn't that kind of underselling the problem? It's unlivable if you don't want to surround yourself with that kind of problem.

Why pay to be near something unpleasant?...

> The United States of America is a country between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The land has a total area of 9,831,510 km² (four million mi²) and a total coastline of 19,924 km (12,380.2 mi). This land area is about 1.3 times the size of Australia or 2.3 times the size of the European Union.

Plenty of other places to live in America.
The issue about AM being low quality is a bit misleading...

In Europe the audio bandwidth of AM is almost the same as FM, especially with the BBC stations. And likewise in Australia, the gov ABC stations still transmit high quality audio on AM BC.

The problem is that most cheap radios were designed for the USA market, where most AM channels broadcast talk shows, and so their receivers are fitted with narrow IF filters.

The proof of this of course is to listen to any decent radio which has a narrow/wide switch. Back in the day, the hobbyist magazines would often publish designs for HiFi AM receivers. And many of the modern SDR receivers have a selection of IF filters which can sound quite amazing on AM.

There are even a few stations still transmitting Stereo AM, and most of those sound as good as FM on a decent receiver.
It’s not voluntary. It’s people communicating and doing each other a favor that works for everyone. It’s not far fetched that a VP and a distinguished engineer would have a meeting at least occasionally.

Just stating a lot of people are jumping to a conclusion without any facts.

Look at it this way.

VP: I have to come up with a list of people to let go. It’s a large amount and you have worked across many teams maybe you have some insight on some teams that we should look at first.

DE: … gives some advice. You know I was planning on leaving soon and maybe this is a good time to leave. I can help you hit your quota and you can give me a decent severance package.

VP: I hate to see you go but would be glad to help you out.

I have had almost this exact conversation.
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Even with that, it's still down by 50% from a year ago.
These wasps are tiny
Let’s hope my wife never sees this article or she might stop eating altogether.

I know there is all sorts of insect stuff in food but as long as it’s measured in parts per million then ok just don’t think about it. There is a lot about food that it helps to not think about. ;)

Believe it or not but before Gordon Ramsey was making a name for himself as a professional a-hole he had a really great show in the UK called F-Word which tried to educate people about where their food came from, and it would often follow various food animals from birth to slaughter to being prepared for a meal. It was very informative and one of the best things he has ever done, it’s a real shame it doesn’t translate well to US audiences.

(And probably most US audiences would be horrified how food animals are raised over here - no green pastures nor doting farmers tending their herds and flocks)
I want a 5K 27 inch monitor but they aren’t affordable sans getting an iMac. I did buy my own 28” 4K (and we got my wife a nice 24” 4K) for work, but these are fairly affordable.

I wish I could do the same with my laptop, WFH would be better, but it is against security.
Such a fascinating artifact.
Seinfeld was the first good sitcom.

The only good thing about sitcoms is that there are only like 5 good ones, so you won’t waste too much time watching them.
Putting your obvious bias due to affiliation with ClickHouse aside, this is quite disingenuous.

Comparing OLAP and OLTP is usually just a waste of time. They solve different problems.

This blog post linked within your gitlab issue is quite impartial, relatively speaking, and disputes most of these claims: https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-i...

This also similarly matches my experience operating properly tuned instances.

Lastly, regarding the following

> Specialized codecs like Gorilla[3], DoubleDelta[4], and FPC[5] lose to simply using ZSTD[6] compression in most cases, both in compression ratio and in performance.

I'd love to see some data because this is a very broad generalization that has never remotely been true in my experience. At comparable block sizes, with proper tuning, double delta can absolutely smoke zstd. In fact, while zstd can achieve quite impressive compression and performance, I almost never reach for it as it's rarely optimal when I benchmark, compared to lz4 or xz or snappy or even sometimes gzip. It depends on many factors -- what data, how much data, block size, disk or storage medium, network.

Your whole post puts a rather sour taste in my mouth about ClickHouse.
so many nice subtle details
He was writing in the context of Windows vs Mac 20 years ago. At that time especially, the overwhelming majority of people who really cared deeply about UI design used and designed for Macs, despite the overall small size of the Mac market.

For some evidence of design’s importance on the Mac (and now iOS), Apple has been awarding Apple Design Awards for many, many years. Winning one is considered by Mac/iOS designers and developers to be a high honor. I’m aware of no equivalent for Windows or Android.
That site is a mess on mobile.
San Jose has about the same number of homeless people as San Francisco (~7000, according to recent reports).

This article says that San Jose is also the more expensive city to rent in.

Can we please redirect our ire toward San Jose as the out-of-touch, overpriced, misgoverned city that no one sane wants to call home?
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Acid rain was an enormous problem, and is no longer because a large number of countries passed emissions regulations to curb emissions that caused it. Places like London used to have so much air pollution, going outside on a rainy day was hazardous to your health because the fog was toxic.

The hole in the ozone layer is repaired because a large number of countries passed regulations prohibiting many uses of ozone-depleting substances, and consumers voted with their wallets as well.

Unfortunately, we're not seeing anywhere near the commitment required to slash CO2 emissions, and a huge amount of damage is already done.

It's not just climate change, but in the last fifty years, something like 2/3rds of wildlife has disappeared. In barely one generation we've wiped out two thirds of wildlife. That is mind boggling and if it doesn't count as a mass extinction, I don't know what does.
"Your browser does not support playback of available video formats. Please install Adobe Flash player or upgrade to a more modern browser."

...Okay?

I found the videos on youtube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiZc0n6COY&list=PLruBu5BI5n...
Sorry, but that is ridiculous; the diversion airport for a Vandenberg launch (the equivalent of the TAL abort mode) was Easter Island, which NASA had to upgrade at huge cost. Past that there would be enough energy for an abort to orbit. There was no 'land 1/3 of the way across the planet' shuttle abort mode and no way to get the thing home if it had.
The USDA has ruined our food system. That is no exaggeration.

I am a small farmer, and I hate them with a passion. Their regulations have made it virtually impossible for me to sell my meat to a restaurant, because we are now down to around a dozen USDA processors in the entire state of Oregon. Those processors within two hours of me are already booked out until 2024, so my only choice is to sell whole/half animal shares processed through non-USDA facilities. Such meat cannot be sold in restaurants or stores.

This status quo is directly due to regulations pushed by big meat, designed to be anti-competitive and help put small producers out of business. This was not an accident. The USDA architected this disaster hand-in-hand with big ag.
This seems like a weirdly envious take, people are paid what the market will bear it's simple economics. If an engineer produces $2 million worth of net extra value for a company than a 200 K salary is a pittance.

Also having studied medicine, a lot of what doctors do is rote memorization , heuristic and pattern matching to produce a statistically likely diagnosis. You'd be a fool to think that that job is somehow going to be exempt from the AI singularity at some point.
Classic story of bullshit unrealistic expectations being leveled on folks from high up above
It's fiction.
You hit the nail on the head. Google’s problem is business model, not technology. They need you to not know things so their advertisers can pay to inform you. A high quality LLM is exactly the opposite of what works for Google and their advertisers.

I think Google has three choices: 1) reorient their business model to be about making money by providing direct value to the user, 2) pivot to be about ad-supported entertainment rather than productivity/information, or 3) cut costs, run as a cash cow, throw off as much profit as possible before obselesence.
There's a story from the introduction of the potato into Germany. People would not eat the 'new' potatoes as dogs would not eat them.

>The things have neither smell nor taste, not even the dogs will eat them, so what use are they to us?

https://www.berlinexperiences.com/did-frederick-the-great-in...
Yeah, but if the teams developers had been fixing those bugs, they wouldn’t have been able to build this AI-powered teams premium. /s

As a daily user of teams it’s pretty obvious that the way teams is built is not informed by UX experts or user feedback, and mostly is focused on checking off as many boxes as possible to sell the product to C-level. It has a bewildering set of features, and they’re usually either kind of broken or kind of hard to use, or both.

But I have no doubt they’re eating slack’s lunch, for the same reason my employer switched from slack to teams: convenient licensing, bundling and deployment.
haven't paid much attention to the deepfake community. but this one is debatable. one of their linked forums has a section for flagging uncredited videos or work.

so, deepfake authors want credits for their work. that's perplexing.

what's more, this is happening while they seem to be ignoring the ethical concerns raised in the issue. citing that people can do whatever they want with the tech.
Really? How concerned should I be, I just ate some cordyceps yesterday, what problem would that cause?
Raspberry would often have insects (including what I guess are stinky bug larvae), salads, persimmons, grapes, abricots, plums, chestnuts to name a few fruits that often carry either worms in the fruit or over.
He talks at length in this post and the follow up about him being able to understand why some people prioritize things other that UI design and experience. He says that having other priorities is reasonable. He’s pointing out that _his_ priorities (and those of many others, myself included) are not well-met by Android apps.
I was taught about the eras with the bronze and Iron age. I think one of the reasons is that teachers have a lot to say about which parts of history they want to teach. This is because the history curriculum (læseplan) is more built up as a series of goals about understanding, than knowledge about specific historical eras.
Yes figs are pollinated by a species of wasp that literally dies inside of it. There are a few varieties of the common fig that self-pollinate so if you don't have a dead wasp in your fig that's actually rather uncommon. To be fair though the males are the ones that die and they're rather small so you likely wouldn't notice it. Just a small protein boost

It's actually quite a striking example of coevolution. There are hundreds (855 according to the Catalog of Life) of different species of figs and almost just as many corresponding species of fig wasps for each species.

Makes me wonder if we should think of the fig wasp more like an organ of the fig than a separate individual. Just like we do with mitochondria which at some point were a separate living organism and still maintains a separate set of DNA
I’ve been happy with Google’s Firebase Hosting. It’s confusing branding, but almost a drop in replacement. https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting
I think you raise some good points, as I've noticed that it seems like average people, decades ago, used to be a lot more capable of handling various things that today it seems like they're not. I think personally it was because, back then, they were basically forced into it, or just didn't have so many things distracting them.

Still, when Grandma won't update her computer because clicking a few buttons and typing a password is too much work, we can't point to the past here: she wasn't updating computers in her younger years either, and usually wasn't using a computer at all. Even middle-aged people now are using computers and smartphones, when in their younger years they didn't have those things.
What Do You Mean There Are Dead Wasps in My Figs?
So basically a slightly less malicious version of how photographers started faking drama by placing children's dolls/toys into the rubble for photos of ruined buildings? Which became a meme in the terrorism era and some TV shows/movies satirized it.

It all started after a real story won the Pulizter (or photo equivalent) of an Elmo-style doll in some building rubble and photographers decided to create their own versions.
I read it as they're not requiring citizenship, they're requiring clearance, which requires citizenship.
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i dunno how they do the animations. Haven't watched enough to see if it repeats, or it is generated dynamically.

The script is probably written by just asking chatGPT (for a script). Might even have some prompts that seed the script.

Then the output of the chatGPT is fed into a TTS (text to speech) and played.

I think the laugh track is randomly played (or played in between different scripts that GPT generates). And i can't tell if the music is generated, or just repeats and is only for some scenes.

Quite genius actually.
No one believes the gospel of syntax, simplicity, and inline styles more than me [0]. I made that before Svelte was a thing and the Vue creator actually asked if he could borrow multiple ideas from that as he was making it.

But idk what React codebases you've been in, the bog-standard, overwhelmingly popular bootstraps and guides since way before Svelte ever existed had some pretty nice style solutions and at the minimum importing CSS.

React has some of the most gorgeous style solutions around (I should know having built the best one) and has since forever ago. Svelte is less popular than many React starter kits with I'd argue much nicer DX.

CSS needed drastic changing too, and I think if you looked on average total CSS knowledge is higher than ever, you're just seeing frontend become popular and wide, different types of sub-specialties at this point.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=HHTYHm6qLFY&t=19
Well, there are plenty of parts of SF with a low homeless population, for example where I live. Even some of the high density bits are quite nice. It's really unfortunate that the union square/powell street area can feel sketchy, though even there it isn't much worse than say NYC which is currently seeing surging demand
The various little radios based on the new Silicon Labs chips (Si4735 and similar) have an amazingly low current draw.
This is nasty but these wasps and the fig trees that are their home are the subject of one of the best nature documentaries I've ever seen, The Queen of Trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM

If you can locate a good HD copy it's worth waiting and watching that. Ian Holm narrates the stories of a bunch of different animals, from fig wasps to other bugs and larger creatures like bats, monkeys and even humans that rely on the tree. It has some of the most horrifying but also incredible imagery I've seen in a nature show and some real groaner lines from Holm to boot. My friends and I watch it every year or two and it never fails to amaze me.
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Why does everyone in Jerry's kitchen use the microwave?
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2M bill that caused it to quit the public cloud
Store bought varieties of the common fig are likely a self-pollinating variety but the wild variety of the common fig, as well as most of the rest of the 800+ species of figs, are not self-pollinating
Seems to have been hugged out of image bandwidth, cache at https://archive.is/5X83X
I use my iPhone for productivity. I’ve never felt the need to filter notifications.

It does seem like a nice feature. But “nobody would put up with it” is pretty hyperbolic.
It's quite possible you've eaten wasps even from store-bought figs. The wasps are very tiny
Extremely happy to see tech startups engaged in religious services
We've gotta warn bill wurtz that the robots are coming for him!

Really though, this seems like something straight out of one of his videos.
Seems fair to identify this as PR folks doing PR. You do PR where you need it, and they need it.
FossTeams, an open source client for Microsoft Teams
I don’t think it can be really improved as long as Microsoft can sell this slow unstable piece of crap into all the big corporate by shameless bribing.

I used to work in a big corporate, suddenly all teams has to change to MS team even the current software works just fine. I just decided to quit.
Rest assured, my opinion on the utility of a semi-auto .308 for hunting was very much obtained first hand across several guns. Hence my comment on the suppressor. That was on a friend's Norinco knock-off of an M14, the difference the extra weight on the end of the barrel made to recoil control was very noticeable.

But as much fun as it was chucking $40 of ammo downrange as fast as I could, it was obvious that semi-auto offered no advantage whatsoever over bolt action for hunting when trying to hit the hilar[0] of a red deer at 200 yards.

Oh, and I should've mentioned the heat issues that .308 being fired rapidly cause to a barrel.

[0]: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz/f17/hilar-shot-55370/...
AI has transformed several industries, but none more so than the standard business practice of contract lifecycle management, which is prevalent in every industry. Contract lifecycle management software is increasingly being used by organizations with contract portfolios that are rising in both volume and complexity in order to reduce human errors and boost efficiency.
When people say free labour, the mean how much you're paid. Even slaves have to be bought, housed and fed so they have a cost, but they're pretty much the definition of free labour.
I mean, I think $2100 only gets you a studio in “the city” (probably in/near tenderloin) or maybe a 1br in sunset/Richmond.

Where are all the sub-$2100 places that make this the average? Are they counting rented bedrooms?
California's almond industry is notorious for the devastating effects it has on honeybees and the diseases it spreads. By that definition, California almonds are also not vegan
Peak HN right here. University? Outdated and overpriced. Boot camp? Low quality and exploitative. Burger flipper? That’s where the real untapped technical talent is!
If you were to surely like what falls in it wouldn't be "opening" the brain.

It would be a safe "gimme more of what I like" thing...
They also dissolve by the time you eat the fruit
As a longtime fan of Seinfeld I found that very insightful and accurate. Thanks
Evaluation, shmevaluation. That's what dead-bug construction is for.
You mean the spider is chilling inside of the grape? Why would the spider do that, wouldn’t that make catching bugs harder?
I don't think you want to go too far down that road. It ends in a cave.
There is a new documentary about this on hbo
The series Cadillac Desert is available as one 4-hour docu on YTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR2BSGQt2DU

or in several shorter chunks starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmCAz5oSXVo

Watched this series a while ago. The video's not too good, but it's an interesting look into the many points of view on the dams topic. Included are some lengthy comments from Floyd Dominy (project director), as well as others on both sides of the question.
Anki and GPT-3
It's a joke about the plot of The Last of Us, which pins the zombie outbreak on a fictional cordyceps variant that zombifies people (inspired by ones infecting ants or spiders).
The other way, does every registered company have a legal right to claim the infinite domains that contain their name somewhere in the middle?