skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry! as long it doesn't happen again, it doesn't need to be a problem.

Obviously I can't know what happened off the site, but to judge by what I'm looking at in the data at our end, this exchange was obviously not organic, nor was this the first evidence of collusion that I found.
I was replying to a bullshit claim that they cannot retain for more than 30 days no matter what.

That's hiding behind the T&Cs instead of owning their decision not to even try because there is nothing in it for them.
I thought the same. I was pretty much getting slowly convinced I had to get out before I threw my laptop out the window. I both loathed and dreaded the thing.

And then Stability dropped Stable Diffusion, with all the messy and impressive effervescence that followed. And OpenAI released Whisper and opened access to text-davinci-003.

Now I feel like a kid again. All the new things I can make, that before would have taken ages and required to catch up on tons of boring domain expertise. All the new interfaces and UXs possibilities that have just opened. It’s almost magic.

It will probably become my new normal, I guess. By It pretty sure there will be something else by then. I just have to make sure I’ll still have an open and curious mind when it happens.

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
The CNET Fake News Fiasco, Autopilot, and the Uncanny Cognitive Valley
I used Heroku’s free tier for small projects/prototype. I continue to use their cheapest offering for new projects because it saves me time. If a project grows, I can reevaluate my choice. I don’t think anything in Heroku is a pain to migrate away from. I would miss the intuitive/familiar UI.
PA has random pockets of new development, like on Alma St & Page Mill across from where AOL was.

Mountain View has much more around the San Antonio Shopping Center where it's starting to look like SF.

I'm wondering if there will be random developments that will sink property values because big city blight comes with : homeless camping, property crime, and so forth.

Palo Alto is unique in California in that it is/was legal to dwell in a vehicle because it wasn't criminalized since the law had to be rolled back due to a Ninth Circuit ruling about another law in LA.
From the thread it seems like the company specifically took procurement away from the CTO and pushed it down to the individual departments and so there were a whole group of "final desks" that needed to agree on a collective purchase but didn't.
> and potentially stagnant growth

Shouldn't growth not matter where the money is.

$100,000 gaining 6% is $106,000, gaining 6% is $112,360.

$25,000 in 4 different accounts gaining 6% is $26,500 in 4 different accounts, gaining 6% is $28,090 in 4 different accounts, or $112,360.
PayPal lays off 7% of staff
You can save files in the desktop folder but you can’t see files on the desktop area.
> People make these decisions on purpose to cause their employees this much pain

Do you actually truly believe this?
Ask HN: What do you think about growth through collaboration?
A group of friends and I have participated on a hackathon. We want to make a product out of it, and we already have the basic stuff working for individual accounts, and we're currently polishing for validation.

If it was you. Would you invest time in the beginning to build collaboration and team features? It feels like a great opportunity to grow, etc

Also, would you build it yourself, or would you take any shortcuts using a framework to manage access, invites etc.?

thoughts? thanks
I second that.

We moved from Manhattan an hour north into a rural area. Our town clears our road continuously during winter, while are property taxes are low single thousands. We get three trash pickups per week and other trash removal services included.

We woefully underpay for those services.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597070
> Are you allowed to inform paying customers that you are going to do this?

I can't be the only one who's basically completely blind to emails from major companies, including SaaS providers, because they're so fucking spammy that the SNR is like 1:99. Notifying me by email, for one of these places, is functionally the same as not notifying me at all.

[EDIT] Sorry, didn't mean to imply the parent wasn't paying attention, just that I'd fully expect a very high percentage of their users to miss the warning in all the noise even if they emailed everyone—even if they emailed them a couple times, actually. That's the cost of every company sending out tons of "join our online seminar on [product]!" and "hey, look, it's our newsletter you never read!" and "it's time for our weekly TOS modification!" emails.
Might be better to store outputs and implement a way to detect it within a larger piece of text. Think like a reverse Shazam but for text.
You obviously have a chip on your shoulder against lawyers because your framing of this is incredibly weird.
In my opinion, many of the safety systems while flawed, have an advantage over a human in that their attention never falters. Their judgement might be 25-50% that of a human's but their attention is 100%. AEB isn't going to get distracted with the radio, spilled drink, or dropped phone under the seat.

I think they're an augmentation that can make drivers better.

I also think Tesla's FSD is too lax and allows drivers to be worse.
I imagine reliability means that with the exact prompt, seed, cfg scale, model checkpoint, blah blah and on the same hardware, they can continue to get an image that they consider close enough to the original.
If you're going down the slippery slope of libertarianism (on a strange collective/communist level), then who are the rest of us to stop an individual property owner from selling his lot to someone that wants to build 5+1 multiunit housing?

So either you go right wing and you have no right to restrict developers on land they legitimately procure

Or you go left wing and you have no right to impose (?accidentally...ish?) racist, classist, and generationalist zoning results on people.

Or you go centrist and point out that population growth, livability, and cost for practically everyone is raging out of control because of zoning laws.

Now, that's all policy reasoning on idealistic grounds, which of course matters not at all! The real political calculus is rich (landed) vs the young / middle class / poor (priced out).
HOAs vary a lot. My mom is in an HOA because they shovel the snow to her front door in window. Really she lives in a 4 unit apartment where everyone has separate entrances and they are allowed to paint the walls and otherwise change the interior as they want. Which is to say for her needs she has the best of both apartment living and single family house living at the same time. The HOA does all exterior maintenance, and is a good deal.

There are also HOAs that place a lot of weird restrictions on what you can do. It really depends on the HOA, some are good, some are very bad.

That said, for the place where I personally am in life, a HOA is bad and I refuse to live in one.
I'm trying to avoid getting into a discussion about exact definitions of democracy, but what I see here is that you're arguing that the bigger a government is the more democratic it is and thus it is justified in imposing its will on other democratically elected governments by virtue of its size and I don't think that those things follow one another.

If you want to say that of course a higher (which is typically defined by size, but I guess also potentially authority or ability to enforce rules or some other concern) level government overriding a lower level government could be anti-democratic then we're just arbitrarily picking and choosing what we believe is democratic or anti-democratic which ties back to effectively expressing moral statements of good and bad.

Leaving aside natural rights, and the complexities of state sovereignty in the United States specifically.
Thank you!

That seems to show 65% of the homeless population of LA County were living there before they became homeless - others travelled within state or from another state to be there.

That wasn't quite what I expected to see based on the stats cited above, but it's useful info. Thank you.
I wonder if there is any "natural" language which has the precision of programming language, Perhaps there are efforts to create one?

I believe a language like that could be truly globalised without any cultural aspects
These renters mostly live in rent-controlled apartments, so they don't have the same interests as people who might want to move there.
How Was Instant Ramen Invented?
Death With Shelly Kagan (Philosophy 176, Yale)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...

I don't know why, I've listened it through more than once and enjoyed it a lot.
> They need to tax the shit out of added saturated fat and sugar so it slowly dies off economically like cigarettes.

What is the appeal of the nanny state? Why would I want or need big brother to tell me what to eat?

I wholeheartedly disagree with everything about this. Let the government ensure that nutritional data is accurate and robust enough to empower me to make healthy decisions. Provide us with the necessary education to be able to read these warning labels. However, why is it the government’s job to prevent a grown adult from making unhealthy choices?

If I want to eat ice cream for breakfast, deep fried cheeseburgers for lunch, and have a 6-pack of beer for dinner, why can’t I? Who am I harming other than myself?
I mean, maybe it's a high rise. When the builder's remedy went into effect for Santa Monica, developers proposed 15- and 11-story apartment buildings [0].

There is a massive amount of demand for housing in California that is being choked by restrictive, ruinous zoning. Meeting that demand is going to take some big buildings.

[0]: https://www.planetizen.com/news/2022/12/120313-first-full-bu...
This has nothing to do with creating housing for the homeless. Homeless shelters already exist. This is about creating affordable housing for people moving into an area that can't support the population it already has. Until all the appropriations that were made for creating additional reservoirs start actually seeing results there shouldn't be ANY new construction.
problem isn't zoning but design regulations. A lot of street design is dictated by being able to fire engine equipment in and turned around. Hence no new alleys are being built.
> Like cleaner air, safer streets, less traffic and a better place to raise a child and/or dog with backyards and privacy.

So, like in European cities.
As far as I can tell, commas are inserted either to reduce ambiguity, or to indicate where a pause would be in spoken English (which are also frequently related to reducing ambiguity).

So the colloquial patterns of use are pretty deeply dependent on understanding the rest of English, so you can notice where it becomes ambiguous or starts to feel like they could almost be different sentences but the person who is communicating with you is ignoring that because their personal dialect doesn't have those pauses and you kinda just have to deal with that when it happens.

Every other rule-set I've heard has to be accompanied by so many exceptions, and has so many competing schools that disagree, that they're just dogma, not description. And they're extremely hard to remember. So they're more about socially signaling that you're part of the well-educated upper-crust than they are about communication.

And yes, I'm an Oxford Comma user. It reduces ambiguity.
According to their Github, it hasn't progressed much since 2020-2021[1]. Apparently, there is still a Gala issue and bugs related to Plank Dock/Wingpanel holding it back[2]. There's also a proposal for a Wayland Dock for Elementary OS 7[3] that doesn't seem to have advanced much.

It seems like it was scheduled to be released by version 7, but priorities have changed. Let's hope they can polish it for 8.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/12

[2] https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-W...

[3] https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/99
At which point can we start patenting query prefixes??
> In that case Tesla usually disables it before putting it back on the market.

To do this is a really interesting business move. At first glance, they are throwing away revenue (because a 2nd hand car with FSD presumably sells for more than one without). But they might be able to sell it as an addon or a subscription to the new owner... But the chances of that are probably low to those buying 2nd hand cars.... But also by artificially restricting the numbers of cars available on the market with FSD enabled, those which do have FSD enabled will keep their value better... Which may in turn help with sales of the feature with brand new cars...

I bet there is a really big spreadsheet written by an MBA to make this decision...
My house is worthless to me if they put a batch asphalt plant next door, as my whole purpose for my house was to raise my children in. They tried to get a variance. Luckily I come from California, so I am not adverse to raising friction and gathering a coalition and was able to get enough people to the planning meeting to keep zoning rules enforced and not allow that exception.
I have. It's all about "I've sent all the formally required emails. Now preparing the popcorn and going to polish that bombastic blog post". If he didn't find the correct person and correct words, he hasn't done his job.
It's relative. Go is more like an automobile that often pretends to be a cart for the sake of simplicity. Compared to a horse cart, that's definitely innovative. Compared to other cars, not so much.
I feel I have lost my "hunger" and was wondering what went wrong (if any) along the way.
I dunno why this is being downvoted because in my experience this is spot on, and I've heard such things from my neighbours. (maybe people are uncomfortable with the truth spoken so plainly)

Most of all people want exclusivity. Only having a handful of neighbours is something that is hard to buy. It's easier enforced through regulation.

Established neighbourhoods push for regulations to keep people out.

In the past it absolutely was for racist reasons. Today more likely economic ones. Apartments means renters which means less wealthy people. Exclusive detached home areas are pretty much guaranteed to have a high floor of wealth.
You’re a good person that’s awesome. Sometimes it’s necessary to guide people to the water (but ultimately it’s their choice what to do).
> Leadership.

Cringe.

Apparently most managers can’t even manage properly. Most of the time this “ship” word is tantamount to stolen valor in the workplace.
Hey! Dev here :)

For external libraries, it requires you to mount the libraries with WASI when running the python.wasm module. Another option we're exploring is to use wasi-vfs[1] to include some common modules in our pre-built binaries. For example, Ruby does require some extra libraries for common workloads (like JSON parsing). This is still on the exploration phase, but we may do something with it.

[1] https://github.com/kateinoigakukun/wasi-vfs
CS364A: Algorithmic Game Theory taught by Tim Roundgarden.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_QFmQU_VA
> Maybe because children don’t play on the street at all in the city.

They absolutely do
It's perfectly fine to be a weird dude who advocates that we need exponential growth of humans and that all climate scientists are chicken little. It makes life more interesting and magical to see people trying to logically defend getting us closer to ending modern civilization because it lets me know people are truly free to be whatever they want
I'm in Austin. I believe there to be inconsistency in zoning here because I'm on the top floor of a 10+ floor residential building looking down on a neighborhood park, single family homes, a motel, and smaller apartment buildings.

The building occurring downtown is insane. I haven't seen anything like it since the booms in Shanghai and Dubai.
The EU wants to be a military power independent of NATO, hence the EU army that Remain campaigners insisted wasn't a real thing, was misinformation and would never happen (reality: it was the primary topic of discussion at the first EU leaders meeting after the Brexit vote).

The EU army isn't very plausible post-Brexit because only the UK and France had decent militaries but it's technically still EU policy.
The data does not in any way support that improving food safety "bolsters those numbers" if by that you mean they're keeping fertility rates up.
SSH Port Forwarding in Go
use of auto to deduce types, use of range based for-loops? seems like fairly modern c++ to me.
To the other tech companies that didn't irresponsibly add massive headcount over the last few years.

We slowed hiring because it was impossible to hire above a certain skill threshold within realistic comp structures for a year or so there. Turns out most of that equity given out in competing offers ended up being largely worthless
> I'm sure at town meetings there are plenty of unsavory things said, and people with prejudices show up in disproportionate numbers. It's just not accurate or OK to imply that all property owners seeking to keep their neighborhoods from rapidly changing to higher densities are doing so out of prejudice.

Perhaps not, but it's the people who attend town meetings and complain (more often than not for prejudiced reasons, IME) who influence housing policy. City planning leadership reacts to and votes on the opinions of those people primarily, not the people who don't show up.
Sure. Three or five total zoning designations is still not fine-grained enough, especially if they're exclusive.
Can someone say if this is good or bad and for whom?
Curious European wants to understand.
> I can't even imagine what work would be required to properly verify ones flagged by this classifier.

Yet.
Live by the sword die by the sword
Speaking as Xe, I'm not sure why my articles are so loved by people here either. I slightly loathe it at times because people can be _so toxic_ because I have had fundamentally different life experiences that have lead me down a different path than most other people have. It does happen enough that it's a meme among my friends and my husband is no longer surprised when it happens (he's more surprised that I'm surprised when it happens). I think this is just my curse as a writer.
When are US cities going to ban cars? My guess is 0-2 in the next century.
I don’t know what you consider unbiased but for stuff like energy use the numbers are very evident. https://financeguru.com/news/new-york-energy-rates-consumpti...

“New York residents were using an average of 572 kWh a month in 2017.” NYC is so efficient that: “New York ranks 50th out of the 51 states and the District of Columbia. The only state with a lower per capita consumption is Rohde Island at 176 million Btu (MMBtu) or 51.6 MWh. The total 2016 U.S. consumption per capita was 301 million Btu (88.2 MWh).”

It’s consistent across different countries, here’s UK’s data: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49639003
I'd bet that money and humanpower would have fixed the problem, but they didn't have enough of either. The problem was that Elementary OS was a very ambitious project, but they didn't have the same people and money resources that an Ubuntu or Red Hat has. Has that's changed? (I don't know.) And maybe this is a communication issue on their part. They innovated with adding a payment button on their downloads page years ago, which ruffled a lot of feathers. Maybe they should have gone bolder and added larger payment tiers. "Want free upgrades? Click here to pay $600,000 to fund a team of 3 for two years!"
I actually agree with you, but I think that's not what people complain about. I think people mostly complain about a lack of cohesion that Windows/macOS have.

But then again, their design language has recently started to be less cohesive too (or more precisely, mix of older and newer design systems are apparent).

Like, it's generally difficult to get something working/looking nicely and consistently on Linux. A somewhat exception to this rule is GNOME, but even then there's issues with KDE/Qt app theming sometimes.

Like, until 2021 (I think) I lived with a broken looking inkscape and Krita (used it as a hobby) because I gave up trying to figure out how to fix the theming, since none of the fixes suggested online worked. Then one day after some random update it started working

So, there's a lot of space for improvement and better cross compatibility between these "subsystems"

Granted, though, it's getting better. But I assume not at a pace an average user can perceive. So, i thinking that's where people get frustrated.
But, but... leadership?
I doubt many will see this comment now but...

In my local community (rural area) the county changed zoning laws on people's residential properties. It's a damned nightmare. You can't rebuild a home or get approval for anything. According to the wording of the law, the county can sell the trees on your property (and you have to allow any heavy equipment on premise to allow this to happen) and they can supercede any water rights you have (water is not scarce here like in the SW). To be clear those last two points haven't been used...yet.

The funny thing is that this happened along class lines in a 'progressive' county. Richer people have MUCH more forgiving zoning and many live right down the street from poor people who essentially don't own the land they live on anymore. The equity they used to have was wiped out almost entirely because nobody wants to buy their property due to zoning (!). Think they can get a loan now? What do you think happened to property values for the rich people?

I'm honestly surprised somebody at the end of their rope hasn't gotten violent about this, it's outrageous.
But what about the person who argues that you should want to win every debate!?!?
It seems to me that compliance was fully aware of what was going to happen and wanted to set an example. An expensive example, but apparently still spare change for the company, so it was well calibrated.

Don't fuck with compliance I guess?
That sounds like a chatgpt prompt lol
> Wonder if the MFM acquisition factored in this

How so?
> I’m waiting for (probably far off) day when System76 makes its own laptops instead of using Clevo hardware. I just can’t deal with that keyboard & trackpad quality.

oh, i never knew that! i thought they made everything.

for real though, who thought that having pgup and pgdn as mini keys on top of the left and right arrow keys was a good idea? and how did that get through quality assurance?
On one hand, it is great to have different options.
On the other, think about the amount of effort wasted away.

Sometime I wonder what can they pull off if KDE team, Gnome team, XFCE team and now Cosmic team got together.
I dont like noise, light pollution, or crowds. I'd like nighttime to be silent and pitch dark, and the daytime to be mostly silent as well.

I go on trips and need to be able to load lots of stuff in and out of "my" or "a" car without living in terror of all of my stuff getting stolen while I'm inside.

Where should I live?

Note: I lived in three different boroughs of NYC for 25 years
Show HN: Rootless-personio: Personio's API without admin tokens
A Go library and command-line application for accessing Personio.
Schools are funded by the state government in germany, not by districts. The concept of a school district doesn't exist.
I think the primary reason in 2023 is to keep housing values high and rising, not racism.