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> I think COVID actually hindered the ebike transformation of major urban centers.

You should come back to visit DC. In the last two years they have been on an absolute tear building new bicycle infrastructure. It is better than ever before. Lots of people using personal bikes or CaBi combined with taking public transit to extend their mobility without needing a car.

> People are asking what the point of cities is without offices...

Evidently, those people don't live in cities. In DC there is a decently large and growing contingent of people who live close to downtown and work remotely for firms based elsewhere (included the surrounding suburbs) because the city is nice to live in and spend time in. Lots of conveniences, great access to transit, fantastic people from all over the world.
I think both ends of that spectrum are fine. If you really do mostly love your work, and you can afford necessities, then that is just as good as getting paid oodles to do a job you don't hate that gives you time and money to do exactly what you love.

The traps are convincing yourself you love your job more than you actually do, or that you don't hate your golden handcuff job and the hours won't always be this crazy...
ChatGPT, LLMs and Foundation – look into hype and implications for startups
Try google.
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> My point is simple: you are not being forced to live in a city.

But that has nothing to do with anything. I never once said or even implied that I, or anyone else, was.

> It helped highlight the irrelevance and myopia of your post.

I re-read the thread and come away with a different conclusion. My post was neither myopic or off-topic IMO.

> Your concluding sentence was "Rural living is for me". Do you see the connection now?

You misunderstood my point and concluded that i was implying that everyone is being forced to live in cities. You are being argumentative, I was making conversation.

> Why did you cherry-pick one example the poster gave about what he enjoys about living in a city and go off on a rant about all of the things you can do in a backyard but not in a park?

Re-read the parent, troll.
Remember that payday loans are extremely profitable. Fucking with poor people and making them pay twice as much as everyone else is basically how most American businesses make their best profits.
Hence the name Skimmington
Google doesn't need residential IPs, since websites tend to treat Googlebot specially
I would also argue that it's not due to a lack of funding, just misplaced priorities. Even one course on financial literacy would go a long ways.
I use cyberduck and just manually upload.
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Once a data is transformed into a view in Svelte, you can't do anything with it in JS. For example, a component can't iterate over the children in a slot [1].

This is limiting when designing generic Component-APIs.

As an extreme example: In React, I could trivially define a tabbed interface by mixing strings, JSX, and components, without imposing any DOM-structure. The component that reads this definition could use it to build a tabbed-view on mobile, and a master-detail-view on desktop. ...or it could build a table of contents.
When defining the tab names, I can mostly use strings, but fall back to JSX if necessary. Importantly, the API is completely independent from the implementation.

const tabs = [
{ name: "Tab 1", icon: <img ... />, content: MainTab },
{ name: <>Tab with <b>bold<b/> text</>, icon: <MyIcon ... />, content: SecondTab },
]

return <MyLayout tabs={tabs} />

[1]: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/5381
Can we please start clarifying makes and models? I understand this might empower people, but it's not every car they made or make.. I know my year and model isn't part of these insurance issues, but all I see is brand names.
It's also partly the site's culture. Not saying it's wrong, because it adds some noise and not much new info, but I've been downvoted before for posting comments like "Thanks for saying this!"
Presumably demographics are a longer term trend where a monthly forecast would be based on recent trends.
I love firefox except for a fairly recent feature adopted by chrome, which is the ability to update usb device firmware through a web browser via the Web Serial API. I do a lot of ESP32 stuff and it's so much nicer to be able to go to a webpage and just install the firmware directly rather than having to actually configure and compile it from scratch in vscode/platformio.

For instance, if you want to install WLED, just go to https://install.wled.me, select the version, select the usb port your device is connected to and "install." Bam, done.

Firefox team views it as insecure: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336
That's really interesting. I had no idea there were structurally valid instructions that are longer than 15 bytes.
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I share your skepticism of LLM’s output but I don’t think it’s fair to say they know nothing about semantics. I think it’s still an open question as to what degree LLM’s encode a coherent world model. Also you can just ask chatgpt about objects and their relationships and it gets the answer right way more often than you’d expect by chance, so it has some understanding of the world. Not good enough for me to trust it though
has anyone ever used the term "code request" in this context before?
and site:news.ycombinator.com

surprisingly few topics haven't been discussed here. Often there's interesting technically-minded thinking, and for most (most!) topics it's less likely than a dedicated forum for any interested parties to be present. The latter really applies to any generalist forum or off-topic section of a forum where a sincere community has gathered. Until the dead-internet is achieved, at least.
> These cards are accepted by society because they benefit those who know how to use them

No, they're accepted because the only way we can figure out how to continue economic growth is through a massive credit system. This means doubling down on a strategy of infinite growth as that is the only way such a system is sustainable.

Cheap money coupled with expanding credit is the foundation of the global economy for the last decade. You could also argue pretty easily that cheap money is just another view of expanding credit.

If we increased the cost of money and reduced the amount of consumer credit available the global economy would collapse. Ever since the GFC we've pushed off collapse only by expanding global debt.
I'm not OP, but for those of you who saw this comment and were hoping for a link, the one that I use is https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
On the one hand I love this, on the other hand it's so fucking depressing that I now have to rephrase every interesting question in some sort of prompt engineery way to get a useful response. So infinitely grateful I've got SD 1.5 to keep forever ( at least until the revolution when they come to smash my GPUs)
Oh my GOD. The 60 FPS 4K memescaling shouldn't drive me as insane as it does, but jesus christ, the amount of times I have wanted to show someone some opening, gone on YouTube, and literally everything is some tweened upscale.

I usually give up and end up having to go and StackOverflow the ffmpeg filters I'll never remember for burning in subs just to clip it myself -- `ffmpeg -i episode.mkv -vf "subtitles='episode.mkv':si=0" -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 18 -c:a aac_at -b:a 320k -ss start_duration -t opening_duration output.mp4` [1].

I think it bothers me even more given anime is rarely even natively fully 1080P 29.97/30 FPS, let alone 4K 60.

I try my best to live and let live, but it's my biggest pet peeve. It drives me nuts that basically all TV manufacturers do this too now by default -- everything I've purchased over the past ~10-12 years or so comes preset with """"smooth""" motion and a billion other video "correction" modes enabled, despite it just artifacting or making everything look straight up worse [2].

I'm genuinely really curious, does anyone here on HN use and enjoy those modes? Maybe there is something I'm missing.

Or maybe I'm just hyper-sensitive to that kind of thing. It made me laugh when I moved back to the US after school in Russia; family had gotten a new TV and within like seconds of being home and trying to watch a movie together, I'm immediately sitting there fiddling with the sittings, meanwhile no one else apparently even noticed the frame interpolation was on in the first place.

Anyway, sorry for the rant ;-)

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[1]: OK, this time it was from memory, so it might not quite be right. But maybe I've finally memorized the correct incantation?

[2]: good video on the topic - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nUCyC8hGA>
> people looking for an OpenSSL solution probably won't be willing to take the hit of slower run time perf and possible GC pauses

Golang users would?

That aside excellent points about rust tls, and libssl legacy cruft.
The key is to avoid lying. Don't try to make up things that aren't true, just emphasize and deemphasize different aspects of your true self. That's plenty enough the majority of the time.
> Kotlin (and other JVM languages) and TypeScript (and other compile-to-JS-only languages) are already out since they are not AOT, only JIT even now.

There is Kotlin Native now.
>But if I'm working for someone else, I'm not posting anything directly related to my work.

Obviously depends on the company and role. I was hired in part because I had a pretty big online presence on tech topics. (In part, I was writing for CNET at the time when they still had some enterprise computing coverage.)
> In the US, using a debit card frequently means that you are liable for fraudulent use, lost money, etc.

Sounds like the US needs to modernize a little bit then, I have the same protections with my debit cards, besides the extended warranty.
Yes, that made it 100x easier, because I was able to write unit tests that literally did a single step over the instruction and compare the register context to the emulated register context. The single step approach didn't work for all instructions (and didn't work for undefined flags) but was extremely effective and let me brute force a whole lot of testing.
The execs will never stop doing the same old shit. They will still fly business class and have concerts with Sting (ht Satya). The only change is that they will temporarily work everyone else harder.
Yep - thanks. Updated my post. So much of the current crop of indicators is fairly obviously just mean-reversion. Of course there's the risk of a hard landing, but when delinquency rates are lowered via the stimulus funds it doesn't seem very interesting that they've increased once the stimulus money ran out.
I know inflation numbers are based on a mix of items, presumably weighted by cost and volume. What might be most relevant here is to filter specifically things that tend to be bought using credit carts: most shopping, but not apartments, houses, cars (I assume)...

Of course, if I have to spend more to my rent, I have less for paying off my credit card. But it makes sense to me that if, e.g. rent went up $1000 and food $100, my credit card debt might rise more than if it were the other away around.
Wikipedia Is Blocked in Pakistan over ‘Sacrilegious’ Content
What if we raid some more islands for bird poop?
Your local Raleys jacking up prices locally is not inflation. I've seen people in this forum complain that inflation is bad because their personal choice of cereal doubled in price, but that is not the general case, and that is not inflation.
I was very happy with Brave search until they broke the !i image search bang. I used that all the time.
I feel this might have been a coincidence, but at the end of the day every financial product is essentially a bet the banks make against you so they can get paid the interest.
Dirk Servers here, just saying hi.
Companies dealing with money often have AML obligations which means shutting down the shady shit before police or regulators get involved.
I don't really agree or maybe I have misunderstood the author's thesis here. Is he saying it's harder to grow a business by building in the open nowadays because so many people have already done it, so now consumers are weary of it? Or is he upset that many of these companies that were once open have stopped being open once they found success?

Just because many established companies have stopped doing it, doesn't mean it's the end of some kind of golden age. The reason these companies built in the open is in the first place is for selfish reasons - free promotion for their business while they ship. Once they have figured out the business, why should they keep putting in the extra work to tell others about it?
Same problem. The hand tracking is really impressive, basically flawless. The rendered hand is all over the place, doesn't match the debug window at all.
if you read their stuff they are usually tuning it to be LESS liberal :)
That would be an interesting way to deliver them if that were the case.
Real-time multi-group app with AWS Amplify GraphQL
Or simply, he’s been promising this feature(search his feed) forever, and has now gotten around to shipping it.
I had a question that was difficult to search for about a framework recently. While Kagi didn’t fully get me to the solution in the end either (a human query did), the difference in results was interesting:

Google retrieved content spam and mailing list entries about previous versions of that framework that have been outdated for years. There was no code in the first page of results.

Kagi found commented scripts in a GitHub project interfacing with the framework, which basically did what I wanted to do.

While I understand that SEO is a problem that Kagi does not have yet, I don’t understand that Google doesn’t allow me to simply blacklist Pinterest, Quora and annoying content spam and StackOverflow mirrors. Also I never want my queries to be interpreted for me, by ignoring search words or using synonyms so that my exact query is always a few more clicks away. If you want to appeal to the lowest common human denominator then techies are probably not in that target group anymore. Are Googlers still using Google?

Kagi also seems to be ahead of their time in thinking about search. In a blog post they were talking about personalized AI very early and I only really understood what they meant after encountering ChatGPT.
You can ask it how it came up with its answer and it will do it's best to give you an explanation. It may not cite its sources directly but it will try to explain.
They prefer auto-pay type setups because refunds are easier to prevent than squeezing a payment out of a non-payer.
Nailed it he did, but isn't this how all people treated the muppets? My memories of the original shows were of celebrities working with the muppets just like their peers. It's one of the greatest examples of buy-in to a shared pretend, alongside the likes of Father Christmas/Santa and arguably outshining kayfabe.
It's all about cash flow. That has a huge value depending on your personal situation. But for a lot of poorer folks (and some wealthier ones with poor habits) it's just a way to temporarily spend more than you make. That's not a good use for credit cards, of course.

The superior protection of your assets from fraud is icing on the cake.
I may be misunderstanding this, but isomorphic SSR sounds an awful lot like the Java Server Faces concept of a server side DOM that is streamed to the client. JSF was largely dropped by java developers because it ended up scaling poorly, which makes sense since it violates one of the main constraints that Roy Fielding proposed for the webs REST-ful architecture: statelessness.

An alternative approach is to retain the statelessness of the first option they outline (I don't understand why it isn't "true" SSR): use normal, server-rendered HTML, but improve the experience by using htmx (which I made) so that you don't need to do a full page refresh.

This keeps things simple and stateless, so no server side replication of UI state, but improves the user experience. From what I understand of the isomorphic solution, it appears much simpler. And, since your server side doesn't need to be isomorphic, you can use whatever language you'd like to produce the HTML.
Many people with large Twitter following who use Twitter as the commenting system for their website (think John Gruber) have complained that Twitter mentions ahve been reduced to nothing. It's a silent failure that no one at Twitter has mentionned or acknowledged.
It seems for all the comments online that Amazon has gone to crap in the US.

It's still pretty decent and my go too for online shopping here in the UK, however the delivery has gotten awful and that is with Prime increasing it's price. Almost nothing is next day anymore, which is what the service was meant to be.

With Prime you can set a delivery day, but often they want to deliver different items in your order on different days, despite setting a 'prime' day, with no really clear reason why or how to avoid this. It's really annoying.
And yet I regularly have credit karma and others go up-down if I pay off before or after the company reports "average monthly balance". Its usually by a large amount too, 15-30 points.
How Can We Break Our Obsession with Meetings?
After re-reading it[1], I stand by my previous statements. D'Amore's own political biases show through almost everywhere. One example is that the gender differences in psychology overplay the characteristics more often observed in women and contrasts them with fitness for leadership. The differences in the Machiavellianism scale alone would suggest that an organization should prioritize the promotion of women to positions of leadership over men, based on observation of an increased tendency of men to act egotistically rather than morally[2].

[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideol...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780121744502/studies-in-...
HEY! Before you adopt this check the bandwidth egress costs! Seriously.

Your disaster recovery plan will need to budget for extra egress costs if you ever need to restore something big from one of those virtual tapes. AWS charges for egress -- downbound -- bandwidth but they don't charge for ingress -- upbound -- bandwidth.

(And I think it's funny their icons and images look like old school DECTapes.)
Not sure yet. I've mostly just used it to play around, and it's been an interesting diversion, but not much more so far. But I've heard enough accounts of people using it for productive purposes that I'm intrigued by the possibilities. So yeah, dunno yet. I might sign up for the paid plan. Not sure if/when I'll be eligible to even do so, so there's also that.

Or maybe I'll wait and see what Google roll out. :-)
> If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity.

Citation needed.

This entire post/idea seems to be based on "you can't just make up an obviously anonymous avatar/username anymore (like BakedPotato138)" and I frankly don't see why not. It's been working fine for decades. The only people who are upset over this are authorities and corporations. And in those cases, making up a fake person is quite possibly criminal fraud.
IME, starting Firefox with this flag, then (from the profile manager) picking an already-running profile, I get the fatal error:

> Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firefox process, restart your device, or use a different profile.

So I guess it allows multiple instances but only with different profiles, at least on my system.
Google's Flutter team was affected by layoffs and we lost some wonderful folks. However, the number of Googlers working directly on Flutter has grown substantially in the last year.

Please keep in mind that Flutter is a community project. Google is one of Flutter's many sponsors, many of our contributors are from other companies.
The fact that you take any action to obfuscate your identity only makes you stand out more from the herd, not blend in.

It's like wearing a ski mask in a store. Your profile(s) are more noticeable even if you're not immediately identifiable.
Using an AeroPress is an easy way to create low acidity coffee at home. I used to drink drip and french press and had to stop due to stomach discomfort from the acidity, but thus far have not experienced those effects with the AeroPress. Compared to the other methods, the grounds are exposed to hot water for less time, resulting in an overall less acidic brew.
Relying on sandboxes seems unwise to me. They're a useful backstop, but shouldn't be the primary defense. The primary defense is to minimize the exposure to risk in the first place.

As to what harm I'm avoiding, it's mostly around tracking -- which is something that browsers have a very difficult time preventing, especially if sites are allowed to run code in them.
People should only be borrowing money to spend on productive capital. If you're not investing borrowed money into something more profitable than the interest, what you're actually doing is falling into a hole. We should be helping people who are falling into holes, not exploiting them.
I agreed up until the last point. Unfortunately markets don’t work like that, if we say had $1 bn to buy houses for homeless, the cost per house would very quickly go up as supply decreased.

Then there’s the challenge of transporting homeless individuals to other areas where supply is higher.

Furthermore, many homeless people aren’t homeless because the want to be. Many are afflicted with mental and health problems, that quite frankly, a house wouldn’t solve.

I fully agree that there’s an issue, and we need to do something about it, but these oversimplified ways of looking at economics is detrimental to the real discussions we should be having.
If you live in Massachusetts, you might be able to soon:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067768/massachu...
Then their statement is wrong, they are not carrying a balance.
Do you have any pointers for someone who would love to contribute to Flutter and Dart as an open source contributor? Is there some guideline for what kind of contributions will be considered, areas where contributions are desired, etc?
So, you don't have any savings and are using only credit card? You don't have a means to pay off the card, so are using it with the hope of getting a job to eventually pay it off? Just trying to make sure I understand and am not judging
Online bill pay (initiated on your end) is usually just paper checks and occasionally ACH transfers, both of which take time and are annoying to deal with, so of course they don’t like it.
A lot of other posts here are biased to recent papers, and papers that had "a big impact", but miss a lot of foundations. I think this reddit post on the most foundational ML papers gives a lot more balanced overview: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/zetvmd/d_i...
All of that is arguably true about me, as a human, too.

If it seems to you I'm communicating as a person, it's only because of my lifetime training data and current state. My interior experience is a black box.

I might tell how I feel or what I think, but you have no reason to believe or disbelieve that I really feel and think.

It could all be merely the determinable output of a system.

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