skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The network effects evolve over time because people move. As a city increases bike friendliness, it will attract people to move there who want a livable/bikable life.

As NotJustBikes has taught me, you don't have to start from scratch. Many cities in Europe were bulldozed for the car only to regret this decision decades later. Now you have bike utopias like Amsterdam.
A friend of mine was a bike messenger in early 2000s NYC over the summer, and quit before the summer was out because he'd been hit by cars twice. It's such a shame as NYC's density, weather ~9mo out of the year, and elevation change all lend themselves to extensive biking.
This regulation was put into place during the Obama administration ( I don't know if it was implemented) then the Trump administration removed it.
I sailed on that fine ship several times, before the Boeing 707 era, as a little kid. My dad was a junior diplomat at the time and so he and his family traveled "cabin class". The classes were "first", "cabin", and "tourist".

It was four and a half days from New York to Southampton.

It was some kind of fun for an inquisitive 8-year-old boy. I think I drove my parents crazy by roaming all over the place, getting into every space I could. (The engine rooms weren't accessible, but the guy in the radio room was great.)

One crossing, eastbound, was in the dead of winter, late January. Me and my brothers were in bunks pretending to sleep in a cabin fairly near the water line (cabin class, right?) with one of those circular portholes. A crew member knocked on the door, and walked in with a steel plate and four big bolts. She proceeded to bolt the plate over the porthole. She said, "storm coming, boys" and moved on to the next cabin.

Now that was a storm. The kitchen was closed (no hot food) for a whole day. It felt like we were rolling 30 degrees. I'm sure it wasn't but it sure felt that way.

The ship only lost four hours off her schedule for that voyage; she had to head upwind for an hour or two in the worst of the storm. They don't make passenger ships like that any more. But the North Atlantic ocean in winter is still that dangerous.

Once the 707 was available, junior diplomats didn't get to travel by ship any more. Faster, but much less of an adventure.
Ack, YouTube Music did this thing where it was playing random YouTube videos from people who uploaded the song, rather than an "official" release, and I fled wildly. I want nothing to do with YouTube when I load in YouTube Music; I want as close to the "official" source as I can get, and anything else bothers me. Spotify at least delivers that for me.

Did they stop doing that? I might ponder moving back to YouTube Music if so...
Paste(CTRL-V) does not work on Firefox, Edge or Chrome for me. Am I missing something? Thanks.
Anyone staying more than a year is loyal in my book. And plenty stay more than a year.
Indians software programmers are just as shoddy. The only difference is that it is much harder to see software quality than hardware quality. In hardware you can easily spot the quality by looking at the fit and finish and whether things fit together nicely. In software it's just code and the quality only manifest itself in buggy and hard to maintain software, which can be years later.
To the suits we're just a translation layer between the business requirements to deployed code. And they'll be happy to reduce the work to story points and neo-Taylorism, so they can try to treat each person as an interchangeable unit of production, and then minimise costs.

In an era of trillon-dollar megacorps and multi-billionaire CEOs, Marx was ahead of his time:

> He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. [...] As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself
> Maps are fine

No, that's started sucking too.
> The amount of people that are looking at their lap

It's uncanny. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. That half cocked head, the periodic glancing up, one hand out of view. It's the posture of like half the drivers out there.

It's new normal.
That's true. But I think the critical mass wasn't there yet, those features weren't used much outside of business circles.

> The UX of those phones was pretty poor though.

That... really depends. Having physical buttons was nice. I could write on those numeric keypads about as fast as I do on full touchscreen keyboard today, except I'd make less errors and could do it without looking at my fingers.

Which brings me to one piece of feature phone UX I strongly miss to this day: fixed latency. The firmware/OS was pretty much (or maybe even de facto) a real-time OS. With few rare exceptions, every interaction had consistent, fixed latency. Because of that (and physical buttons), I quickly learned to operate my phone without looking at it, or even pulling it out of my pocket. Unlock, menu, down, down, OK, [wait 1 second], down, OK, start typing... - these kind of sequences quickly became muscle memory.

All that was lost with switch to smartphones, as both Android and iOS have randomly changing and unpredictable UI latency, and the UI itself isn't fixed in space either.
"Was I not supposed to fire everyone I caught handing out a union card?"
Catalytic converter thefts surged in recent years elsewhere in the United States and also in the United Kingdom and France. Those places didn't get a new "no chase" law. Either the state of Washington has an unusual reach or there's a different explanation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64057742

https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/video-vols-votre...
Sorry to hear about this, being let go is always a demoralizing experience, but I just can't identify with this type of histrionic response towards being laid off at a company. It's not like you're losing a loved one, and if you properly built up your friendships with your coworkers, they'll still be meaningful relationships even after you're gone. All the lessons and skills that you acquired are still persistent as well.

There must be some kind of cult of personality phenomenon that applies to companies as well as people. I hope that the one good takeaway for this person is that unless you're a majority stakeholder or have ownership in the company, one should learn to be detached about where your paycheck comes from.
> The point is that pre-230, no one knew who was liable for comments, and 230 clarified.

That's not really true; pre-230 there waa a pretty clear idea of how, absent additional legislation, traditional publisher and distributor liability would apply to online services, and what incentives that created with regard to offering, moderating, and engaging with such services. Section 230 was very much intended to alter the economic incentives, not just to “clarify” liability.
If someone puts up a tent and someone else purposely burns it down, is the first person partially at fault for not rebuilding it when everyone gets rained on?
Regardless of what these object are, there's no reason for the government to make photos of them public unless they need them for propaganda purposes.
SIP has been here since 1999, telecommunications also adopted it, lots of stable software, smooth cooperation, lots of suppliers.

Some thought that by introducing a new protocol they could generate better business/profit. I see no other advantage in Matrix.

There's nothing important in Matrix that can't be done in SIP, and there's nothing in Matrix that's much more deserving of a new protocol. There are many standard extensions for SIP, and if you're still missing something, it's easy to add.

Disclaimer: I am a SIP fan and I hate reinwenting the wheel
Is OpenBSD moving away from program loading and dynamic linking? Even many embedded systems allow software updates these days…
I could not get into the site, so from archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230214134248/https://rob-turne...

A little bit over my head, but an interesting read.
This happens all the time and the downstream effects of hazardous layoffs are often not seen or felt until Jim the resident container expert isn't around to restart the critical containers that all of your other services need, so you start losing a lot of money and time as John the replacement scrambles to figure out how the system works and what to do.

Or they get hired back as a contractor for 3x-4x the hourly wage as you mentioned.
You know what would make this even better?

A regular dump, say yearly, of the entire content into a torrent. It's probably several TB but I'd dedicate a disk to it, because the info is solid gold, and it would be an incredible loss if it got taken down someday.
If you are on Kanaries homepage (kanaries.net), the language setting is on the top right corner near login button. The language switch button icon looks like this one: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/language_4509733

If you are on RATH product page (rath.kanaries.net), the language setting is on the left bottom of the page.
I understand from your replies that you are a person who is always right, and that's OK. I'll answer your question and then let it be:

> Where are you getting this information?

For every business big enough to serve enterprise, there are hundreds of small businesses who serve the general public. It's common that they don't list their prices.
Discord? Kopete p0wns Discord using 1/16 of the resources.
Facebook also has OPT, which is one of the largest public pre-trained models
Reality: It is true that EVERY organization is broken in some way or another.

You have to find the one that is broken in the way that is tolerable to you.

Arguably the closest we know to a panacea in terms of engineering culture and best practices is Google. And what are they now known for? An inability to ship anything meaningful anymore. Spinning around in circles launching and re-launching new chat apps.

These are not unrelated. High engineering standards are always in tension with product delivery. As a security engineer once told me, "the most secure system is the one that never gets launched into production."

So while Dan is right, and all the examples are right, and things like non-broken builds and a fast CI/CD pipeline are totally achievable, don't learn the WRONG lesson from this which is that when you arrive to a company and notice a bunch of WTFs, the first thing you must do is start fixing them in spite of any old timers who say "Actually that's not as bad as it seems". Sometimes they're wrong. USUALLY, they're right.
You can both feed SQL data sources into Excel and expose Excel as an ODBC data source (natively, usable today and used by a lot of companies!)
This. I was born and raised in Portland and recently moved to Austin, having cycled and driven in both (though primarily in Portland). Both are often celebrated as being bicycle friendly, however in both cities, taking public transportation gives you a view into people's vehicles while you pass by and it's scary just how many people are texting or scrolling their social media feed while driving.

I think Austin is a bit more dangerous because 1) there are far more oversized pickup trucks driven by city people that reduce the driver's visibility (part of the whole "Texas identity" thing) and 2) the city finds it acceptable to allow/encourage cyclists onto streets where the speed limit is 55mph which are basically highway speeds (sometimes there are painted bike lanes, sometimes there isn't).

Within the first few months of moving to Austin, I had a middle aged woman aggressively cut in front of me while I was riding down a hill and yell at me for riding in the street (which is not only legal, it's required for cyclists). Then follow me home in her pickup truck and try to call the police. Police never showed up, likely informing her she was in the wrong.
> the company was seeing an accuracy percentage in the low-80s when it was really hoping for around 95% accuracy before a wider rollout

95% accuracy means it will fuck up 1 out of every 20 orders. That will be several people every lunch rush at busy locations. Do they really think that's acceptable?
Ok, we can use the first one (I tweaked it slightly). Thanks!
Seeing a lot of hate for Spotify's implementation of podcasts; does anyone here regularly use the app for Podcast listening?

I do, and it's fine. It doesn't blow me away, and I expect they're trying to, but it's not like... unusable or anything. My one complaint is that it plays episodes in the opposite order; like, if I discover a new podcast, I want to start from the beginning, but it only wants to let me play backwards (older and older episodes). It lets you sort in reverse order, but I don't think it plays them in that sort order (or it didn't last time I looked anyway).

But yeah, a lot of "Spotify generally sucks" or "what Spotify is trying to do sucks" but not a lot of "I use Spotify for podcasts and I don't love it".
Not sure if that's entirely tree. CUDA has 85% or more of the market share last time I checked, intel's OneAPI and AMD's ROMA? are so behind that made their Machine learning hardware totally uninteresting for ML related purchases, sadly.
So how are those underwater pyramids formed naturally?
Bard was potentially "correct" though.

The JWST was indeed "the first telescope to observe a exoplanet [etc]".

That planet was LHS 475 b.

The interpretation of "a exoplanet" as "LHS 475 b" would make it correct. The interpretation of "a exoplanet" as "any exoplanet" would make it incorrect. We cannot know what it's intention was with the meaning, and arguably it was a bad answer if it was this ambiguous.

Just wanted to point out it may technically have been correct.
Hjalmar here, founder and CEO at GRID.

Yes, one of several things we do in post-processing the raw generated results is passing them through validation to make sure it returns valid results. There hasn't been a lot of hallucination in terms of entirely made up formulas and such, but they sometimes become a little "creative" in the syntax. We've more or less reined this in :)

In fact this works amazingly well. It is however still an "assistant" rather than an "expert" so users should make sure to double check the suggestions before accepting them.

Would love for people to try it and give us feedback.
Why in the world would Twilio take somebody who is this loyal to their culture and put them out on their ear?

This person was a true believer. They stuck with the company for 9 YEARS.

If you want to shift the company, then do that -- and take your true believers WITH YOU.

This isn't leadership on Twilio's part. This is a scared company. They aren't making smart decisions. They're just cowing to investors.
Ok? But it won't just converge to 0,0 because everything isn't equal and opposite, there will be some sort of bias that will move the bean away from it's origin.
not anymore because someone vouched for it, but all their other posts
You 100% need a google account on Android. Recently, for a month or so, Maps had been malfunctioning for me -- it wouldn't show any maps. It would still do turn-by-turn directions, but not maps.

It turns out that I had logged out of my google account and forgot to log back in. Once I did that, I could see the maps again. Not that I really want to -- those sponsored locations are much too annoying to tolerate. So I've switched away from Google Maps and logged back out of my account.
I broadly agree with the thrust here. I find it funny because as a hardware engineer I know hardware languages literally don't work for hardware. You can write almost any crazy valid HDL (insert any systemverilog testbench code here), but there's no chance it'll map to something reasonable in your target device. Maybe you're targeting FPGA, maybe ASIC, whatever. The language let's you express anything, but what you need to express is legal. As such, what you need to bring to the table is a clear understanding of what you expect your code to map to in whatever device you're targeting.

The same is true in low level software, if you're really interestied in performance it doesn't matter if you express yourself in Rust or C++ what you're really doing is trying hard to point the compiler to one best solution- a solution
you know through either experience or experiment. If you care less about performance, pick a higher level language and trust the compiler more. If you're just trying to solve a problem and don't need performance at all (any python script, or building the worlds most popular code editor) just stick to python or javascript or something.
See this is where I think this kind of conversational AI is a bit late to the game.

If I go to McDonalds I just place the order directly on the app, it remembers my previous orders, knows where I am and has my payment details saved. It can be as little as a click or two to get ordered.

I much prefer something that gives clear quantitative choices rather than something that tries to understand natural language or intention with all the potential for confusion that entails.
I look forward to having two Senators again in 2025. Feinstein votes reliably but hasn't said anything of note for years and seems generally disengaged from anything. Joe Biden is a whirlwind of energy by comparison.
Who Was Dinosaurs Made For?
The paintings in the article are mostly 15th century, which is only early renaissance. The understanding of light in painting was still somewhat limited in those times. I think in the case of almost all of these paintings it's more a matter of technical competence rather than artistic intention (exceptions include "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints" where I reckon the shadow ends early for compositional reasons). It's interesting to look at this to get a sense of the various ways people can get something wrong before someone gets it right.
Interview: Anders Hejlsberg, creator of TypeScript, C#, on programming languages
Your sentiment is nice in theory, but in reality it's just a recipe for getting taken advantage of.
Maybe this article was generated by an AI system?
It seems to list a bunch of directories. It is slower on Windows.

It may also make sense to cache some search data and ping some network resources, because those dialog boxes don't just show directories nowadays.

Surely I would prefer them to do those asynchronously, but the UI designers seem to all disagree.
> This is pretty basic C++/computer architecture stuff.

Well, it would be if they'd written it correctly—that should be a multiplication, not an addition. As written, it would certainly be very mysterious, but mostly just because it isn't true.
The entire article is about how it's not.
according to gptzero AI detection it: ".. text may include parts written by AI"
Rather, the point is to illustrate how the default state of the employer-employee relationship is to be as unfavorable to the employee as the employer can get away with, where slavery is merely the extreme end of the scale that employers aspire to.
Pydantic models also have a model.construct(*src) form which skips validation. According to Pydantic's docs [1], this makes it 30x faster.

[1] https://docs.pydantic.dev/usage/models/#creating-models-with...
Getting money from society doesn't come with a grant of immunity to it's rules. Are you saying that it should?

If you use your money to start a business involving a giant tire fire in your back yard then society will, rightfully so, have something to say about it.
nothing helped me paint light and shadow more than doing 3d renders and seeing how light bounces and bends in an isolated environment.
From a business point of view, performance and reliability (and code quality) are irrelevant. The most important thing is that the product has a market to explore. We can see this in many products.

I've been working with software since 1999, I've never seen any developer or manager worry about performance. I've seen a religious battle over formatting or using a Java library, or "it's not the Ruby way".

I never participated in any performance or reliability meetings, or projects, or religious battles.

In general, performance is only fixed in very extreme cases. For example, I worked on fixing code that generated a few megabytes of SQL. Or code that uses all of the server's memory.

And it's hard to get permission to fix some extreme bugs. The code that generates a million stored procedures after a few months still exists at one of the places where I worked.

At another company, I fixed a problem (infinite printing) that had been around for 20 years (I even made a birthday cake for the bug), under pressure from the biggest customer who couldn't use a report and no workarounds worked anymore. 20 years of workarounds.

You are sometimes seen as a radical if you try to fix the most absurd bugs. Today I document the bug and wait for the prioritization. Sometimes you fix it after 20 years...
> You can't get that emotional attachment form generated voices.

Vocaloid managed to turn people’s emotional attachment to generated voices into a billion-dollar industry

(I’m actually crying right now, just remembering the emotional impact of The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku — a song written from the perspective of a piece of voice synthesis software which is in the process of being uninstalled, and performed at a speed no human singer could match, as she tries to squeeze in one last goodbye T_T)
Like, Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc...?

Snark aside, yes, that's true to some degree. It's also stifling to not be able to get stuff done.
There's a film out there - https://www.ssusc.org/made-in-america (ssusc is for SS United States Conservancy).

Chapter 2 is about the speed record.
> But they can also directly sample the water to figure out if the HCL levels are dangerous for human consumption or contact, and I've seen no reporting to suggest that is the case

But they have not yet done this, and tests are a week out. FEMA hasn't provided food or resources to residents of East Palestine. Churches in Youngstown are traveling en masse to provide any kind of support. There's videos of entire coops of chickens dying out. But oh, this is all just a misunderstanding? Sorry, but are you f***ing kidding me? When are you gonna start looking with your eyes rather than listening to what people with clear conflicts-of-interest are telling you? I bet you thought there was nothing to be done about Uvalde too, huh?
> There's also sorts of nasty stuff that gets shown to kids on social media, not just porn but violence as well.

I remember writing much the same in a letter to the editor back in the late 90s, while I was still at school[0].

Only difference is, I was pointing out how weird it was that 16-year-old-me was banned by law from seeing acts that I was allowed to perform[0] while at the same time outright homicide was a thing that sometimes got included in cartoons specifically deemed suitable for young children.

[0] the UK age of consent is 16 but the age to go into adult shops or see adult films is 18… or at least it was when I was 16 myself, I've had no reason to check if it still is or not.