skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> France pension system isn't close to bankruptcy.

Citation required.

Last I looked, France's national debt as a percent of its GDP wasn't exactly in happy territory.

On the other hand, if you believe that France will continue to be able to borrow for eternity to feed its increasingly large retiree population, then yes you are correct: when a banker is always ready to lend you money however large your existing debt, you can never physically go bankrupt.
Saving you a click:

"Nijmegen may be the oldest city in the Netherlands, but it punches above its weight in terms of green initiatives and sustainability."
Are they aware of the numbers of people they're killing with this measure?
Great information. Chatgpt is game changing for content creators to generate contents or for content strategies also. It helped my site "https://www.umactrack.com" to boost tremendously.
Like most news sites, LAT asks you to become a paid member for the website as a whole, but that article isn't behind a paywall. It says the same thing on LAT articles that Apple News presents without wanting the News+ subscription.
Superbugs are a general class. Each disease evolves its own resistance (though, it does get around - https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/34/Supplement_3/S78/292... ). You are creating antibiotic resistant strep in your own body. At some point, the antibiotics won't be able to knock it down to the asymptomatic form.

Antibiotic resistance isn't a joke. Take the full course.
cynical take. you need to define who owns what, otherwise you have people who assume and have expectations without communication which leads to even bigger issues and resentment. it's not unlike a romantic relationship
I am on desktop, and on a technical level, its well executed. But it was so much more exhausting to read than a simple text article with pictures.

I initially visited the site, saw how the navigation etc worked, figured it wasnt worth the read. Only after reading some comments here I figured I'd bear through it. Wasnt worth it in the end imho
Did you consider using firecracker?
And them, there is 241543903.
Generally this type of work is done on DSPs and FPGAs, because they can generally get much lower latency than a CPU. While this can get latency low enough that nobody will notice, it is still there, and there isn't room for anything else in your signal chain to also have latency and still be unnoticed.

They will still have a CPU on devices like this, but all it does is run the UI, the sound processing is not done on a CPU.
Filtering by “remote” shows a very different picture.
More details in German reporting today: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2023-03/nordstream-2-ukr...

> Das Kommando soll den Ermittlungen zufolge am 6. September 2022 von Rostock aus in See gestochen sein. Die Ausrüstung für die Geheimoperation sei vorher mit einem Lieferwagen in den Hafen transportiert worden, heißt es. Im weiteren Verlauf ist es den Ermittlern den Recherchen zufolge gelungen, das Boot am folgenden Tag erneut in Wieck (Darß) und später an der dänischen Insel Christiansø, nordöstlich von Bornholm, zu lokalisieren. Die Jacht sei dem Eigentümer im Anschluss in ungereinigtem Zustand zurückgegeben worden. Auf dem Tisch in der Kabine haben die Ermittler den Recherchen zufolge Spuren von Sprengstoff nachweisen können. Nach Informationen von ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, Kontraste, des SWR und der ZEIT soll ein westlicher Geheimdienst bereits im Herbst, also kurz nach der Zerstörung, einen Hinweis an europäische Partnerdienste übermittelt haben, wonach ein ukrainisches Kommando für die Zerstörung verantwortlich sei. Danach soll es weitere geheimdienstliche Hinweise gegeben haben, die darauf hindeuteten, dass eine proukrainische Gruppe verantwortlich sein könnte.
Remember when iSight firewire external laptop cameras had a physical iris opaque shutter?

I can't think of a reason not involving TLA conspiracy that has everyone so allergic to a physical switch that disables microphones and a shutter that the camera cannot see through. Cheap, easy, reliable, desirable. Pick any four yet nobody, absoutely nobody does it and if they do they drop it almost immediately.

Lenovo T series have a physical switch that moves the camera in the lid to turn it off, whole camera slides sidways a little but doesn't cover the lens.
You setup a strawman (perhaps unintentionally) with this sentence:

> Currency is a resource

by ignoring the context of the comment you replied to, and the rest of your comment just builds upon that.

Currency in this context is not just a resource, it's specifically resources tied into a system of microtransactions.

So that includes currency you buy directly with money and currency that is accepted alongside purchasable currency. Having Rubies, Emeralds, and Gold as three different currencies obviously doesn't mean anything special in isolation. Why would having X resource types in a game be special or predatory in isolation?

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What makes it predatory is when only Rubies and Gold can be purchased with money, and some items can be purchased with Emeralds or Rubies, and the pricing for Rubies and Gold are different... the end result is muddying the actual costs of items, and making it more difficult for players to only spend once.

The main MO behind systems like that is to make one currency more important at the start, for example, by letting it get you ahead on core mechanics. Then in the later game having content like skins and characters be locked behind another currency which you're now encouraged to buy having naturally accumulated enough of the first currency through gameplay.
Well that's just the opposite of why I wear a mask. I don't need one outside, unless I'm in a crowded place, but inside is where the chance of exposure is greatest.
Me.

> 20,067

Because it’s the smallest number not in any of the sequences they describe. It wasn’t worth the ride.
Then just ban it. Sin taxes are dumb, regressive, and the cost is paid by people who have no control over their situation. Someone who lives in a suburb and commutes to work in the city because that's where affordable housing is just loses money for no gain.

If the person affected by the tax doesn't have an actionable alternative to avoid it and the plan is "vaguely make people worse off so that <random corporation> will make an alternative happen" then you have a bad candidate for a tax and you should do what places are actually doing which is "banhammer for new ICE cars incoming in 20xx, figure it out car manufacturers."
That's if you have enough salary to save enough for retirement. Which is not the case for a lot of people unfortunately. Hence a government lead system where wealthy people are required to pay more to help less wealthy have a somewhat acceptable retirement.
I work in consulting and this is literally the use case that every single client wants right now - the ability to ingest a corpus of documents into ChatGPT or similar and then have it generate responses based on natural language questions. Right now most people are faking it by running the search using some other tool like Solr/ES and then taking the snippets that are returned and assembling them into a prompt that gets passed to ChatGPT.
I think it's more that stuff you deal with in normal life brings along substantial training in favor of fairness.

Dividing a shape means "divide fairly", because that's what you've done thousands of times. Drawing some lines means "in an aesthetically pleasing way" because that's what you've seen a billion times. Etc.

Math / what's possible doesn't care one bit about that though. It takes work to train yourself to move past other training.
Salesforce Ventures Launches $250M Generative AI Fund
Never heard about based, slaps and twink.
Thanks for responding - just to reiterate, I am a big fan of this original post, and indeed your other writing - my only critique here is that I'm looking for ways to make the insights in them more transparent to, particularly, people who aren't well-positioned to analogize how to apply Haskell concepts to other languages.

I see you read 'narrowing type conversions' rather literally in my statement - that might be my making my own analogy that doesn't go over very well. I literally mean using 'constructive modeled types' is a way to create true type-narrowing conversions, in the sense that a 'nonempty list' is a narrower type than 'list', or 'one to five' is a narrower type than 'int'.
Bloons TD 6+

One of the most fun tower defense games I've played in a long, long time
Ask HN: Problems with iOS Weather?
The darksky api and website is something that’s come up a few times on HN. Darksky no longer functions as a standalone service/product as it was purchased by Apple. It was mentioned we can utilize the darksky functionality through the new iOS weather app.

I recently updated my iPhone 8 to new iOS and among other things was very much looking forward to the “map view” of weather - which I formerly would access through darksky’s website.

In the iOS weather app I can see a map tile showing weather. But when I tap on this tile to view a full-size map view the weather/precipitation overlay does not work.

It shows a map but no precipitation overlay for my region.

Is anyone else having similar issues?

Mostly posting this in frustration because a service that used to work perfectly is now not functional at all - despite doing what Apple wants me to (use the app they provide).

It’s possible this is due to an older device but it seems like a software issue more than a hardware issue.

For the most part I now use ventusky to view weather map data. It would be nice if the iOS weather app worked as expected, though.

Any thoughts or tips are appreciated cheers.
How much time and effort went into producing that? I'm curious how such a project got put together and why.

Video games are really becoming way too exploitative.
"super mario run" is another mobile game by nintendo, you pay 10 dollars and it's yours forever. plenty of content, extremely well crafted and fun. I download it in 2016, and i still use it to this day.

but people criticized it for having to pay up front. and it was a commercial failure.

so, people gets what they deserve i guess.

(btw, "super mario run" is still updated, if you have kids just buy it, it's well worth the money)
> (Edit: you also require that users have Google Play or the App Store.)

This is incorrect. You don't need Google Play to use Signal on Android. You can download the APK from https://signal.org/android/apk/

Then verify with SHA256 and you're golden.
It's great that you figured out how to do it, congrats. A true computer guy
While video needs more CPU power, it can tolerate higher latency than sound.
The great thing about this is it doesn't matter if the cause is correlation or causation. Either way, companies will be incentivized to make their food and customer base healthier.
Benchmark is open source - https://github.com/qdrant/vector-db-benchmark
You are welcome to fork it and make your own measurements, if you suspect something.

Benchmarks like https://big-ann-benchmarks.com/index.html#organizers are good for comparing algorithms, but not engines. They are focused on a single use scenario and do not cover variety of possible applications. Like, for example, how filtering affect the performance.
> changing your code that can get automatically deployed in production without any other checks.

I’ve never worked at a place that didn’t have at least 2:

Code review checks

Qa checks

Automated testing

If an edge case breaks the code, then great! The developer can fix it (if the tool can’t). Even if 2% of the time, the system fixes it properly that’s 2% of the time the developer didn’t have to roll up their sleeves.
Those dehumidifiers make these places uninhabitable for me. Constant low humidity is really unhealthy. Without them these ultra insulated homes have major vapor and mold issues. Being highly insulated is good but at a point it's just silly. I'd rather see efforts to insulate old trailers, manufactured homes, etc. Rich people experimenting with zero energy homes don't need a credit.
No, you're betting that their always will be a government and other people who pay taxes and social security fees.

If you save for yourself it's likely that you lose.
Based on what you're describing, I suppose you could have any number of pieces. Imagine you've got a 2D sheet of paper and you just fold it in half many times, and then cut through all the folds. You could have as many pieces as you want.
They have this via Jira Work Management
You could write it in such a way where there are constraints.

In California you can register a kit car. These cars are not compliant with many regulations. However it’s limited to 500 a year. Which is nothing.

Ferrari now makes 13k cars a year. The previous boss put the cap at 9k iirc. They don’t make as many as they can sell. Neither does Porsche.

These companies can do just fine with production caps that are completely reasonable environmentally.
The art of ansible is knowing when not to use it. I'm guessing that ansible to K8s is an example of when not to do so, but I'm no expert.
> It's also interesting because this style of API is portable more or less unchanged to just about any programming language, from C# to Idris.

Yep I think a declarative syntax is quite portable and can be reimplemented easily in other languages.

On the portable note, where portable we mean swapping dataframe implementations, it's even conceivable to write "agnostic" logic with Hamilton and then at runtime inject the right "objects" that then do the right thing at runtime. E.g. the following is polars specific:

col_c = (pl.col('a') + pl.col('b')).alias('c')

I think with Hamilton you could be more agnostic and enable it to run on both Pandas and Polars -- with TYPE here a placeholder to indicate something more generic...

def col_c(a: TYPE, b: TYPE) -> TYPE:
return a + b

So at runtime you'd instantiate in your Driver some directive to say whether you're operating on pandas or with polars (or at least that's what I imagine in my head) and the framework would take care of the rest...
Super Mario Run was also always-online for no reason, you couldn't play without an internet connection.

And it wasn't a particularly impressive game. There's no shortage of endless runners on mobile, and Nintendo didn't do much to differentiate themselves, so it's no surprise nobody bought it.
Find any M series MacBook even if you have to raise your budget a little.

The price to performance ratio, the durability of the hardware, the portability, the ease of use, they are all unmatched. It’s the best deal in laptops.

If you get your average $500 windows laptop, you will be buying another one before the MacBook shows any sign of age.
This warping is equivalent to using a curved knife.
Brilliant. I’m actually surprised to see, nine years later, that this isn’t on track to make it into the next version of the C standard.
Okay but who is writing code like this instead of using `use`?

Also this is an no-win situation. C++, Ruby, Perl, and others have used `::` as module-scoping syntax for decades. If Rust does something novel, it's penalized for being unfamiliar. If Rust uses syntax for which there's ample prior art, it's apparently line noise. If rust used a `.` as a separator, it's unclear if you're descending into modules or calling a function chain.

There's literally no way to win.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but it's not hard to guess in this case. The entire topic is the opposite of what HN is supposed to be for.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935
And it took many paragraphs to reach this conclusion:

“The most rigorous clinical trials show that when people replace sugary drinks with artificially sweetened beverages like Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi it helps them avoid gaining excess weight.”
I love to buy up old corporate laptops. Your money goes really far. In most urban areas, you should be able to find "a guy" on Facebook or Craigslist who specializes in refurbing and dumping corporate machines that come off of the lease.

My personal favorites are the Thinkpad T series which are super practical and still built like tanks. But any old corporate Ultrabook should do you pretty well.
Yeah! So I'm not an expert with domino, but looking at it, it serves a slightly different purpose.

DAGWorks is an opinionated way to write code that allows you to abstract it away from the infrastructure, whereas Domino is more about making it easy to deal with infrastructure, manage datasets, etc... Also has a large notebook/development focus. Nothing in is built to make it natural for the code to live for a while/keep it well-maintained, which is the problem DAGWorks is trying to solve.

The idea is that we can allow you to plug into whatever infrastructure you want and not have to think about it too much when you want to switch, although we're still building pieces of that out.
> Handling banks is normally a tedious affair for programmers, but NESFab handles it for you. The compiler smartly allocates code and data into banks, with the gritty details abstracted away.

Killer feature, but is there a cost to bank switching? Could abstracting it result in a lot of performance cost?
Troy weight is used for precious metals. It's important to the standard trick question "which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?"
> The investors however were insulated from much of the cost overruns.

The American way.
That's an "I don't know if Webpack will be a popular choice for greenfield projects in 5 years" (which is stating the obvious and should be equally true for Vite or turbopack at this point and very far from what you wrote).

Culture difference behind the misinterpretation maybe? The lack of self-inflation, exaggerated confidence and exceptionalism we might expect from Americanized presenters shouldn't be taken for insecurity or doubt ;)

I'd listen to what they say at face-value rather than trying to read the lines applying the wrong lens.

> Regarding TurboPack, we'll see. So far it's not very popular outside of Next.

It's very early still, in alpha, and isn't recommended for production use outside of Next, where most of the focus on integration and tooling has been so far AFAIK.
genuine question - do Polars and Duckdb overlap in the problem space ?
I doubt that much - if any - of the cost overruns and delays are related to the nuclear portion of this public works project. Governments and their contractors at all levels are not known for their ability to accurately forecast these things, and they're generally not incentivized to care during the work order, as they're not held accountable.
Is this simply a consequence of exponential growth in CS publications driven by machine learning or is there something really going on here?
As a counter, the fact that finance options have increased to 48, 60, and 72 month options. Anyone concerned about the overall cost would never choose 72 months, but the majority of people only care about that the number for each month. So while they are getting a lower monthly payment, the overall price paid for the car is much higher.

Sometimes people make "unrational" choices solely because of something more immediate to them.
You can't install WireGuard outside of MAS because the VPN entitlements will not be granted by Apple for self-distributed apps; i.e. Macs have certain APIs that are already App-Store-only.

Imagine having to ID yourself to be allowed to install and use privacy software. What the actual fuck? "Privacy is a human right" is about as sincere as "don't be evil" these days.
Gigi Sohn Withdraws as Nominee for FCC
Yeah, we totally did and actually Corey has been playing around with a POC for backing with firecracker. It's likely the next revision of this will use firecracker.

So it wasn't so much disqualified as decided it wouldn't be the v1 solution. We wanted to get something out and get people on it and get feedback. So weren't afraid to spend some more computer dollars to do so.
Back in the 1990s, David Brin was arguing that privacy was going to go away, and we were going to end up with a "transparent society", and that would be OK, because people would learn not to freak out over stupid crap.

Hasn't happened yet. At least the not freaking out part hasn't.
If leadership is affiliated with whoever commissioned the Georgia Guidestones the plan is as follows:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.

3. Unite humanity with a living new language.

4. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.

5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

8. Balance personal rights with social duties.

9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.

10. Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.
You can also work there and do the bare minimum until you're fired, cashing in some nice paychecks in the meantime.
Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring
All of the code is already in Github (aka Microsoft).
I don't have a problem opening other *.dev sites. I should note that I couldn't open the link on iOS Safari over LTE.
The reason for discrepancy between productivity growth and wages stagnant is because the productivity initiatives were created by a few people that benefited handsomely, not by the masses employed in call centers / coffee shops / warehouses. I think one probable reason for this change was technology - technology made spreading knowledge and controlling processes among thousands of entities a lot cheaper.
Who are these few people? Most likely you will find them in corporate centers. These people constantly fine tune processes, haggle with suppliers, diversify their suppliers, create new machines, lobby for legislation to make off-shoring easier, etc...
I had the opportunity to work 4 years in Amazon as Financial Analyst. None of the cost savings initiatives came from call centers / distribution centers. Even more to the point, as part of ACES program, bright motivated individuals in call centers / distribution centers would be picked up and brought to HQ so their initiatives can be applied to the entire company.
When I worked as Financial Analyst with Starbucks there was only one cost saving initiative that came from a store manager - that store manager figured out how to use less milk for the lattes. All the other cost saving initiatives came from HQ.
> 93 ohm coax

ooo nifty. be on the lookout for vampire taps. they never truly die.
Far from bizarre, it follows directly from the intended use of this site, and the users who flagged it were correct to do so. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935.
It gets better:

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1633176820072816640

"Turns out the disabled Twitter employee who Elon publicly ridiculed for asking about the status of his employment sold his company to Twitter for ~$100 million, and the deal was structured in a way which requires payment for the entire deal upon his termination—whoops"
>Retirement plans the way they work in Western Europe were always an absolute con, very much like a ponzi scheme (new players pay for the earlier players)

That's pretty much how families worked before retirement plans, the kids payed for the parents.

This just got transferred to the whole society. And it worked as long the rise of productivity led to a rise of wages.
I am a Mac user but believe the best “budget” laptops are commonly said to be running Linux on a Lenovo/thinkpad machine.

Hopefully folks can chime in on specifics of models etc. but for this price point my first assumption is used hardware may be relevant.

I’ll post relevant links if I can find then
I still have my Voodoo 2 - I just moved and stumbled on it recently while unpacking. What an era.