skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science has always been driven by power. We tell ourselves it isn't precisely to hold power today and trick ourselves that there is a distinction between science that isn't politicized (which happens to agree with what I think) and science that is politicized (which happens to disagree with what I think). Making this distinction is itself politicizing science.
I went to the university in Salamanca Spain, founded 1218.

There were a lot of old buildings, but nowhere was there a Salamanca U t-shirt as a souvenir (and FYI, the Rome University sweatshirts aren't official--the biz school sells some polos, but that's it).
> Nope.

> Nope.

> None of these things "wear out".

Would you perhaps like to present any evidence or even argument whatsoever?
I think men and women just prioritize different things. Men might be willing to "marry down" in terms of finances but are probably less willing to do so in terms of attractiveness. And as a woman with a high-paying job, I would argue the problem is not entirely with women. I couldn't care less how much a guy I date makes (that's the beauty of being able to fully provide for myself and my kids, I don't have to rely on any guy's money). Without exception, though, every guy I've gotten serious has had some level of insecurity around it. They might say they are OK with it, but eventually they will have some problems with it. To be fair, this might be because of societal expectations, but it isn't because I care what they make.
Portland's government divested from Walmart in 2014, a year after the closing Delta Park location opened: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-walmart-free...

Gresham, a city part of the east metro area, repeatedly repelled Walmart Supercenters and proposed regulating or even banning big-box stores in 2010 because of the push: https://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/2010/11/greshams_new_reta...

So did Oregon City, after a 12-year opposition: https://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/2014/03/wal-mart_bail...

Hillsboro rejected a 210k-sqft Supercenter in 2003; a smaller 48k-sqft store didn't open there until in 2016, the same time Walmart closed stores in Lake Oswego and SW Portland: https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2016/01/hillsbor...

The Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, and SW Portland stores were all 40-60k-sqft Neighborhood Markets, a different format pioneered for big-box resistance and deployed in Portland throughout the 2010s. The first of those anywhere on the West Coast opened in 2012 in the west metro suburb of Beaverton. (Gresham, which blocked a Supercenter, eventually approved two.): https://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/2012/02/wal-mart_to_ope...

The 25-year-old Eastport Supercenter is 4 blocks from a 50k-sqft employee-owned WinCo chain bargain supermarket, which opened in 2016 and isn't closing: https://www.oregonlive.com/window-shop/2016/05/winco_opens_s...

It's also 8 blocks from the Fubonn food market mall, and 10 from a Shun Fat chain supermarket, all on SE 82nd. The Shun Fat took over the site of a former Kroger-owned Fred Meyer store on SE 82nd and Foster that closed in 2017, after both the Walmart and WinCo opened.

Chains have blamed closures on shoplifting for 20 years, going back to the pre-Kroger-buyout Fred Meyer closing one in Rockwood, a reputation that set back development efforts in the neighborhood for more than a decade: https://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/2012/09/rockwood_woman_de...

Bonus: A Multnomah County jury issued a $4.4M racial profiling judgment against Walmart in 2022 for an video-recorded incident in the suburban Wood Village Supercenter that allegedly involved loss prevention: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2022/08/shopping-while-b...

Walmart reports US$3B of shrinkage annually on 10,586 stores, or $283,393 per store: https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-ceo-stores-will-clos...

So the $4.4M judgment plus legal fees would be about 8 years' worth of inventory losses for both stores combined.
If they could read something other than a cooperating subject in an MRI machine, sure.
That's my point; as someone who visits it many times a day, I do not get an error on the vast majority of those days.
Just one data point:

I bought a Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo - a 1600+ euro monitor - in April last year.
It's been more than 3 months that I try to get it fixed because of multiple issues:

- random "ticking" sounds

- screen corruption when using it via DP (random glitches)

- when using picture-by-picture, via the 2 HDMI connections, it randomly switches left and right inputs, when waking the computer from sleep

- 2 dead/stuck pixels (which Samsung support said doesn't qualify for a repair/replacement - it must be more than x pixel in a certain y area!?)

(yes, I've changed the DP/HDMI cables, tested on Windows/macOS/Linux, updated to the latest firmware).

Is Apple a shitty customer? Most probably.
Are Samsung displays good? Abso-f**ing-lutely no!

I know it's just one data point, but I will never purchase another Samsung product (willingly/knowingly).
The problem someone like me has with your query is the (somewhat arbitrary) separation of "job" with "rest of life".

I seek non-monetary rewards. I like doing interesting and/or meaningful work. But I define what that means to me, and short of starting my own business, it is rare that an existing job will give me more interesting work than what I can do in my spare time.

Hence, the incentive is to maximize my spare time. Sure, I could look for an interesting project at work, but once you factor in all the organizational constraints (will not have much autonomy, must make money, etc), it's not even half as interesting as my own projects in my spare time.

So I optimize for spare time.
> None of these things - AI, software to remotely track users, etc needs to exist.

Overfishing doesn't need to exist either, but unfortunately we live in a world where it does.
The https://mathstodon.xyz/ instance loads mathjax in the web interface which allows people to type latex math in their toots.

I would really love it, if there was push from Mastodon, to get app developers to also load Mathjax or similar parsing library within the app itself.
The article talks about charging the content creators. I wonder if there is also a market for charging the content consumers where they get Chronological feed or the ability to use custom clients.
Right, a better solution would be to package demand-stimulating legislation like FHA with supply-stimulating legislation like reductions in zoning restrictions.

The results of stimulating demand (FHA and similar) without changing supply is econ 101.
Now who could have ever possibly imagined that?
That's assuming you do not want to save anything, or a medical emergency does not wipe you out.
Or a car crash. Or any other utterly forseeable common event.

This is called precariousness, not comfort.
Yet, year after year, C++ loses market share in distributed computing and CNCF projects to Java, .NET and Go.

Google OSes only expose a JavaScript/Browser userland on one, and a Java/Kotlin on the other one, with a very castrated NDK. Where folks like Termux keep refusing to accept that the world has moved on from POSIX.

Office is already managed, it runs on Azure and on the browser, the native version is slowly eroding from most Microsoft shops, as WinDev loses political power against Azure business unit, and everyone else rather ship WebWidgets and Electron, than whatever WinDev with their love for COM put out. XBOX is probably the survivor here.
> aligning a pointer on an X/Y axis and pressing the correct button within a time window

Heroes of Might and Magic III are somewhat older than 20 years but they are super different than that.
> Can they build a demo on earth? Maybe reshape a small hill-side into something fun or pretty with "Autonomous Restructuring". That would be fun to watch.

If you are restructuring an asteroid, containment isn’t much of a problem; if you want to do it to an isolated site on earth, it is more of a concern.
> Everyone wants to make a good product

Well, most do, but certainly not everyone. What almost everyone wants to make is a profitable product.
just speculation but I think ...

it would kill the series for most but some happy whales and have docents of micro transactions and would be celebrated as huge success by EA management and biggest failure ever by everyone else
The popups are cheap enough to implement, and don't meaningfully affect functionality of the site once you get past them; they're, at most, a minor annoyance.

This scenario is different, though, if websites with non-EU-compliant AI backend can offer additional features. Which is practically a given.
pretty common

as someone who's been a hiring manager for software engineers in finance: your problem is likely getting past the initial HR filter

they sadly care about all the things you listed
Firing employees like Jim Baker and Vijaya Gadde who censored lawful content in order to push a biased political narrative absolutely helped. Good riddance.
And interest rates went from 20% in 1980 to 2% in 2021. Like fashion bags and NFTs they were financialized. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Seen China and the massive building there, but it didn't lower prices... they're higher than SF or NY!

It's not just housing. Look at bare land or abandoned buildings in CA. Those also grew by similar amounts or even more! Why develop it when it goes up in value? Why not own multiple empty homes when they "only" go up in price. Well, welcome to higher interest rates and likely a less deflationary world (deglobalization) with non-wage inflation that prevents the Fed put.
I had this happen to me too. I started researching a solution for a different department and was told to stop and get back to my own work.
Is this related to Illa somehow? The UI builder looks very familiar.
Medieval universities were in many ways similar to the higher education part of medieval madrasas. Both started as religious schools that expanded to teach a wide range of subjects. The difference is that the university tradition thrived because Europe prospered, while the madrasa tradition stagnated because the Islamic world fell behind.

The real question is a matter of definitions. Is a university a insitute of higher education that follows the university tradition? Or is it any institute with a similar role in the society, regardless of its traditions?
You worked assistant wrong here and on your website.
If I was in their shoes I'd probably aim for a "serverless" Postgres experience where you get a connection string and you know nothing else.

I think RDS, Crunchy, Aiven and others aren't quite there yet.
> that are low in nutrients and high in calories

What exactly does this mean? The potential energy in food measured by calories is in its macronutrients. No macronutrients, no calories.

Is it some kind of reference to micronutrients, phytochemicals, and the like which are reduced by processing activities like blanching?
I'm going to plug Coolify, an open source Heroku alternative (with Docker support too) that I'm using on a cheap $5 Hetzner server which is a lot cheaper than the equivalent Fly or Render etc service, and it really doesn't have much upkeep from me even if you add in the time setting up the server initially, which is like an hour, and afterwards, it Just Works™.

https://coolify.io
I’ve always thought a great weapon for the opening days of WWIII would be firmware updates that blow the battery packs up. There are probably billions of Chinese made devices plugged in across the US, in homes and offices, and the flip of a switch could easily trigger a fire. Now that China has entered the fray and is providing lethal aid to Russia, I suspect such a development isn’t just something in the kooky conspiracy theory realm, but that it’s a realistic possibility. Just imagine the damage to the US and other NATO allied infrastructure if, suddenly, every home and office building “burned down.” And there is no way to prevent this possibility or mitigate it.
I was once at a meetup where a previous Twitter CTO gave a talk about their first rewrite. It was back in the day when Twitter was going supernova and their old Rails architecture was beginning to seriously struggle.

The CTO came up with a new architecture, by complete fiat, and ordered that it be done HIS way.

After one year of rewriting, the team realized that their new code would simply crash right away under load. Thankfully the CTO had some humility, learned from this, owned up to his mistake, and got another go at it.

This is not going to happen with this doofus. There is a point in the life of a big company where a complete rewrite is basically business suicide. Might as well shut the whole thing down. Twitter is WAY past that point.

And, obligatory Joel Spolsky link:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Almost like Brazilian food
Until we're allowed to muzzle humans or lock study subjects in a room for 5 years straight and carefully monitor/manage everything someone eats, it will always be hard to study something like this.
If they called it an academy, would that be better?
The 'pointlessness' is what attracts me. I dislike playing according to other peoples goals, achievements, rules. I'll make up my own, thank you very much. And I will change my mind whenever I feel like it.

How does one plan a city indeed! Why would you want the answer?
The EU regulations need a lot more enforcement and agencies really need to go after companies trying to exploit loopholes.

For example, consumers are entitled to return goods and services purchased online for 14 days, with some exceptions. Almost all app stores include some weasel wording how that 14 day rule doesn't apply, or they employ some kind of intermediate currency to get around the rule (eg. you have to buy Minecoins to buy content in Minecraft).

The result is that a lot of digital markets are a wild west where the consumer protection rules don't apply (eg. if you buy a fake mod in Minecraft, you just lost 5€ and there is nothing you can do about it)

Another way companies get around the 14 day return policy is to just not offer services starting today, but you have to buy services 14 days ahead of time, so when the service starts you no longer have a right to reverse the contract.
It's surprising seeing this piece of Russian propaganda coming from the UK defense ministry. Spetsnaz using shovels in hand-to-hand combat is something of a heroism trope in Russian circles. Interesting spin that it's because they're running out of ammo. My hope is that they're going use the shovels against the officers sending them to slaughter but you can't expect much from people who believe themselves to be the real rulers or Europe.

With the risk of spreading more Russian propaganda, here you go: http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/01.html:

"The spetsnaz soldier loves his spade. He has more faith in its reliability and accuracy than he has in his Kalashnikov automatic. An interesting psychological detail has been observed in the kind of hand-to-hand confrontations which are the stock in trade of spetsnaz. If a soldier fires at an enemy armed with an automatic, the enemy also shoots at him. But if he doesn't fire at the enemy but throws a spade at him instead, the enemy simply drops his gun and jumps to one side."

These reeks of WW2-style propaganda. It's laughable to think that 'the enemy' would drop their gun when facing someone armed with a shovel.
But it isn't better in 99% of use cases. Lots of use cases are rendering an API response or HTML page that involves multiple database requests. Therefore the distance between database and app server is more important than the distance between the client and the app server.

Edge compute can be helpful for static or quite cachable content. But often this is handled as well or nearly as well by a caching CDN.

So that leaves a few cases where edge compute is useful. Where you are globally distributing the data itself (and ideally moving the data around as your users travel or move) which is incredibly rare and expensive to build, and when you need pure computation that needs no request to your backend and if 50ms of latency is important for a pure computation most of the time you can just move it to the client. In my experience these tend to be rare. I would estimate that edge compute is actually helpful for 1-5% of projects, not 99%.
It looks like there are a couple of those, though I haven’t tried them yet.

https://github.com/hamsolo474/stable-diffusion-gimp-plugin

https://github.com/blueturtleai/gimp-stable-diffusion/tree/m...
> Explaining how to more easily understand people might have a greater benefit than berating them about their shortcomings. And would show social competence.

Author here. That's a great idea. Maybe I'll tackle it in the future. I do have a post about how to engage with people when you don't know them that uses a technique I've found helpful: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/02/25/use-a-conversa...

Sorry if this came off as berating people. I have been the person overly focused on tech in the past and wanted to make it clear to readers that, at the end of the day, the people the tech is helping really matter. Appreciate the feedback.
"But now, if she buys a home, she needs housing prices to keep going up to make her decision financially sound. And not just go up, but outpace inflation and — almost certainly — wage growth. Otherwise, she's cost herself hundreds of thousands of dollars. For buying to be worth it, she needs the price of her home to double."

They overstate this. All she needs is for rent to continue to rise for it to be worth it. With most sane mortgages the costs are fixed for the life of the mortgage. Rent is going up. Always. Well, almost. With the regulatory costs of new residential building in most of the West stifling growth, there will be no over-abundance of new rentals hitting the market any time soon.

That said, how did I do it? My wife and I knew we didn't know how to do it. So we asked someone who had made a lot of mistakes and was finally successful at owning property. "Take a Dave Ramsey class", they said. I didn't want to take the class, but I finally realized that I didn't know what I didn't know. It was shortly after someone I know well said something like, "suck it up buttercup!"

That was 9 years ago and our dream was to own a modest home on about 5 acres. 4 years later after changing our entire outlook on spending we bought a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on 8 acres. Living through a pandemic on 8 acres was way better than the postage stamp we moved from. It was a blessing. My recommendation: Buy now before the next "Good Reason" to live in the country hits the fan. Look an hour to an hour and a half away from downtown in good traffic.

Have Fun!
Rachelmanija – Hopefully viral post requesting help for Crestline
Well, that's one way to look at it.

Fly's been many things over the course of its lifetime [0], but I believe their latest pivot (on what they call "Machines") is pretty darn good. I've been using Machines since Oct last year, and things have gotten better week-over-week. Like with any platform, Fly has its own idiosyncrasies, which don't take much to get hang of. That said, I am the only person in my tech shop that deals with Fly. Some orgs with larger teams and heavier apps that deploy frequently or run DBs / disks on Fly (I don't) have had a rough few months; so that's there too.

[0] Ex A: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13985940
Accruals are revenue and costs that are not yet formally accounted for, I think (just looked it up). FY is financial year.
At that point, would a cheap VPS not work instead?
Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
(Neon CEO)

We are launching our paid tier March 15th and will be production ready shortly after. We are running 20K+ databases and measuring reliability and uptime.

Generally reliability is a function of architecture (we are solid there), good SRE practices, and a long tail of event you live through, fix, and make sure they never happen again. The bigger the fleet the faster the learning.
The article itself makes a very good point about Established Truth vs Provisional Truth that somewhat contradicts this notion.

Established Truths are generally as close as proof as any statement, scientific or not, may ever be. Episthemologically speaking they ARE proven truths.
There are mDNS repeaters that can in some cases make bonjour work across different networks. In my experience I spend more time fighting with mDNS than I do enjoying it.
AoT with periodic profile-based re-optimization (like the latest Dalvik / Android Runtime provide), perhaps also with dynamic re-optimization/on-stack replacement seems ideal. As long as you're ditching Dalvik's earlier use case for hybrid interpretation/JIT, a compact SSA-based format (like Michael Franz's et. al.'s SafeTSA) seems better suited as an intermediate format.

In any case, pre-generating/caching the native code with profile-guided optimization seems ideal, giving you more time to perform expensive optimizations and also avoid repetitive re-compilation when nothing has changed about your usage patterns.

Platform-independent binary distribution formats with profile-guided optimization seem like clear wins for most applications that aren't currently using hand-written assembly. Re-compiling every time the binary is launched seems wasteful. In some domains, there's also a compelling case to be made for making the garbage collector optional.
I'm guessing that downvotes come from those who see the macro environment changing. With increased rates, borrowing to purchase companies may make less sense.
When have adjustable rates for the same property and money down been higher than fixed? They'd sell approximately zero adjusted rates if that ever happened.
Thanks! I was looking in https://opencorporates.com (for Georgia) but I didn't know what to look for.

Super interesting: "Today, there are over 1,100 HDFC coops that make up a significant part of the fabric of New York City's affordable housing stock. "
https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/hdfc.p...

"5,578 NYC Co-ops and Apartments for Sale"
https://streeteasy.com/coops/nyc

Though many of these might be from giant projects, it's still interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Lama_Housing_...

This is what you can do if you don't delegate all the management of the housing market to the Fed.
Let’s stop calling web sites “apps” RIGHT THIS INSTANT.
Technology Forcing with the Enervee Score
If you value tech skills and want to get certain standards implemented, you need to be able to navigate the people side of things to get agreement. If you strongly believe a certain tool should be used to solve a particular problem, your success in getting that tool selected is directly proportional to your relationships and ability to navigate in the circle of folk who can get that accomplished. If you want your new architecture implemented, you have to know how to sell it up the chain of command. It's not that the tech doesn't matter. Far from it. But those ideas have to be sold in a context that other stakeholders can understand. If you want to have that level of influence on your career so that you're not suffering unduly, you need to put yourself into a position to influence organizational level decisions. Otherwise the decisions will be made by the people who can navigate those circles regardless of their technical ability.