skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a boss who had an inbox with literally hundreds of thousands of unread emails. A good chunk of those emails were "success" messages from batch processes.

It's quite correct to send a "success" message when a batch process is completed successfully, but it's quite wrong to send that message to a human. It should be sent to a machine that should translate a missing success message into an error message/alert for humans to respond to.

For example, I have a set of nightly backup jobs. The last step of each backup process is to send a success message to my monitoring system. I only get a "Missing Backup" alert when the monitoring system detects that it didn't receive the success message it expected for a particular backup.

My old boss didn't seem to understand the concept that people don't generally notice missing messages. Or he was too lazy/incompetent to use a monitoring system that could translate gaps in successes into errors.
Cue also the people who are shocked at how terrible it has gotten, and how that means it can be blamed on the people they were already very inclined to blame!

I've lived in San Francisco more than 20 years at this point. Some things get better, some things get worse, but overall I'd say it's about the same. I used to work a couple blocks from there, and I just ran past it on Sunday, and the neighborhood was always kinda sketchy. And just a couple of blocks away is a pleasant, upscale grocery store, Harvest Urban Market, that has done just fine.

So I suspect this is something more about Whole Foods than any surprising change. E.g., did the pandemic and the resulting drop in the downtown population in the area put a whole in the store's profitability?
It's not clear that "cognitive science" will be our savior here.. though I'm not opposed to them trying.
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I’ve seen this technique be a way big companies put government agencies on notice. That one missed the list. ;)
Are you expecting to get into a quick draw shootout at the walgreens or what.
The opposite is also true, and much more frequently. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perc...

Making you feel unsafe is a specific political tactic: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/25/fox-news-crime...
For anyone wondering, there’s no connection between the Roman Garum (a sort of fish sauce that was very common in Roman cuisine) and Garam Masala—-I believe Garam simply means ‘hot’ (as in ‘hot spice’) in Hindi, and so bears no etymological history with Rome.
Has anyone here successfully learned any programming languages with the help of ChatGPT?

I feel like we might be entering a new era of education with these LLMs, who will patiently tutor you and answer your every question (not perfectly yet, but we're getting there).
Walmart Announces Closure of Four Chicago Stores
Anyone planning to make a browser with native support for HTMX (instead of a full JavaScript runtime)?

I only ask because I kind of wish such a thing existed.

I still can’t find a happy medium between no JS and “browser as an entire OS”.
People don’t need security all the time. What we need is like an Uber for armed security.

Although to generally protect the community, maybe there’s a way we could do like an Uberpool for the whole town? If only there were a way to get everyone to chip in.
Reading the comments that I think you're referencing, it sounds more like most people are talking about different facets of broadly-the-same facts.

I don't think it's fair to go from "people have different perspectives" to "people have different truths" in this context, at least not so easily. If I discard the handful of patently unreasonable takes, I just see people sharing different information that isn't necessarily mutually exclusive.
It’s unclear if it penalizes discussion of Ukraine equally though.

There have been many stories that have come to light in the last few months. Merkel and Macron admitting the Minsk agreements were used to buy time for CIA and British to arm rebels since 2014 was big story. Large amounts of money the US has supplied Ukraine and lack of oversight to where this is going (the total US aid now surpasses Russia’s entire military budget per year). But this same poster (aakashg0) claims these stories have been suppressed, even though they would be counter to dominant narrative in western media.

I think algorithmic moderation on a particular topic is hard; you still need someone in there boosting the stories you want people to read and downplaying the stories you don’t.
Versus the push that we should draw the conclusion that it's a nothing burger? It definitely highlights that Twitter is happy to categorize and treat Ukrainian content differently which is insightful to know.
For reference, the azure client, opens a browser for the login, which redirects to a dns address that equates to "localhost" on a port that will effectively get the final auth tokens to the local instance, which then persists and shuts down the service. Should be able to do very similar.
I'm not in SF, but the police in my city are openly quite quitting because they know the staffing issues mean they're completely unaccountable. They legitimately do nothing except sit in their cars and respond to shootings sometimes. About as helpful as a rock when it comes to property crime. I would not be surprised if police in SF are similarly unhelpful.
To anyone?

Everyone knows how a button looks, and in case you’re sure that that is a button, I invite you to explain every flat ui to my older relatives, using only words.
Nothing released by Walmart mentions crime or safety - only profitability, while the news about this whole foods does.

Chicago is a large city and none of these are really downtown. There used to be a small walmart that was actually downtown, but that closed a number of years ago - I do not recall why. There aren't really a lot of Walmart stores in Chicago - there was some kind of fight between the city and company around needing to pay living wages to get the approvals.

Of the closing ones I know the Lakeview store, it is a small/neighborhood store and in a fairly wealthy/pricey location. IMO it was never a great fit for the area's typical resident - there are many other higher end options within walking distance or with parking (which this walmart did not have) - several grocery stores, trader joe's, walgreens, target, whole foods, etc. Without parking or being that close to the subway, it was never the the kind of store that would serve a large area. I'm not at all surprised this one is unprofitable and closing.
I think their strategy is to promote and sell their proprietary *aaS solutions
The graph shows clearly that sea level rise did not change at that location, and thus cannot demonstrate the exact opposite of what I claim. The Y axis isn't particularly compressed and changing it wouldn't reveal anything, as should be clear from looking at it. But feel free to replot that gauge with a different Y axis and show us the results if you like.

Your belief that sea level rise accelerated in the 90s comes from splicing of two divergent datasets. Up until the 90s sea levels were tracked with tide gauges which say ~1.5mm a year on average although it varies depending on measurement point. At the start of the 90s TOPEX-1 started tracking sea levels from space, but the rate of rise measured by satellites was 2x the rate as measured from the ground. Rather than resolve this disagreement they simply cut to the satellite data from the tide gauge data and pronounced the discontinuity an "acceleration".
Wordle for Math from NYT Introducing Digits
Super cool, works well on mobile
Chips have a 5-7 year lead time. Apple has been shipping neural chips for years while everyone else is still designing their v1.

Apple is ahead of the game for a change getting their chips in line as the software exits alpha and goes mainstream.
It's a false equivalency to equate the war on drugs with a city failing to maintain public safety.
History books are heavily, heavily edited.

Source: currently reading a book about the American Revolution from the opposition’s perspective.
Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
I’m not sure there’s ever been a merger in history that lead to more jobs being created after. These expensive deals get sold to investors by claiming “synergies”.
Sure but only because he offered to. He always wanted to buy it. He just wanted a better price when the entire stock market tanked shortly afterwards
I should have put GPT-4 in the title of this hacker news submission. Now no one will click it or know what it's about.
DALLE2 is boring because pretty much everyone at OpenAI has been busy developing the next GPT model. It was simply not a priority for them. And when GPT4 leaks (or is reproduced) they will most likely have GPT5. In this race it’s far more important to be the closest to AGI than to make money now.
> security guard... risking their physical safety for $18 an hour

I never understood what's the point of hiring security at a miniscule wage. Noone sane will risk any physical confrontation for that money.

If they get stabbed, need 6 months to recover and get a $100K surgery, is employer paying all the bills?

I see this in many places - like a few badly behaved teenagers will jump over the barriers at the tube and the employees are not willing to challange them.

Like do I only pay because I am well-mannered?
Brutaldon is an alternative FOSS client for Mastodon that does not use JavaScript:

- Brutaldon: https://brutaldon.org

- Source: https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon

Because Mastodon has an open API, you don't need to use the official Mastodon web client. Twitter upset a lot of users when it limited access to its API because many alternative Twitter clients were rendered useless.
Neither of those statements were statements. They were pure algebra with placeholder suppositions not declared values. There is nothing in them to contest except the definitions of the terms. Unless you are claiming they used the word "if" wrong or something there is nothing to prove or disprove.

If you want to claim the algebra is wrong, the "if this then that" is broken, then say what you think is wrong with it.
Discussion of why crime happens is multifaceted of course, but there is a significant part of it that is essentially forbidden to address in circles where the discussion matters. You end up with wishy-washy "dogwhistles" that get shouted down as x-ist, or at best, shrugged off and blamed on generational poverty/oppression/trauma. All of which can be true, but that doesn't help solve anything.

There is no solution, other than a vast cultural shift towards a refusal to stop glorifying cultures that glorify criminal behavior. This includes the suicidal grimy juggalos and trailer park meth cowboys, the brand- and status-obsessed inner city wannabe crip, and the fuck you I got mine and the fuck you I want yours mentality prevalent across the country (world?) equally.

I repeat: there is no solution to crime. There is only mitigation and reaction.
Highly trafficked? Yes. Prestigious? Not once in my lifetime has that part of Market Street been prestigious. I know there was some lingering optimism going back through the previous decade that things might be looking up, but since then the crime and grime has only expanded further up Market Street.

There’s another Whole Foods on Market, which for now is open and seems to be doing everything right across the street from a Safeway that’s been doing everything wrong—more so since the Albertsons acquisition—but to be fair my perspective is limited only to their evening hours when things seem fine. Some of the restaurants that opened up between the two areas are also already gone, either shut down or moved locations. They took their temporal location-based tax benefits to the end of their life and moved on.
I think you're trying to translate to japanese ?

anyway this is what i got

実際に翻訳のためにGPT-4を使ったことがありますか？本当に、使ってみたら簡単に明確な意味だけを伝えるという話は消えるでしょう。
Sure. In the same way that I have Olympic "capability".
In a non-interactive language, you need to create a "harness" (aka, a program) to run your lower level functions (here I mean in the "top-down" sense of functions at the bottom of the call tree) independently. A test framework could accomplish this, and so you'll see people who do a more TDD-inspired approach will have an easier time conceiving of how to develop their program from the bottom-up. If you don't have a test framework or other framework assisting you then you end up writing "throwaway" programs (I often don't throw these away, they become utility programs when I'm done, though more for diagnostics and testing than for end users). People see that as wasteful, so they don't do it even if it might speed things up for them because it gives them earlier validation of their design and requires less rewriting if they find their design is invalid.

Interactive systems like CL and Forth (as it's commonly implemented) give you that framework for free, it's already written. So why not take advantage of it?
I don't understand why that population is something they did not plan for. The neighborhood has been sketchy for 25 years at least. I get that the Whole Foods vibe is deeply suburban, but surely this all crossed their minds?
The Walgreens CEO was forced to admit on a public investor call that they had completely fabricated all of their concerns, that these closures were simply planned because San Francisco has far too many drugstores (in some areas there might be 3 walgreens within 2 blocks in each direction), and that they continued to suffer after closing the stores.

I’ve lived in SF almost 20 years, and Walgreens basically exists as a large corner store for people who want gatorade or doritos, and every single in-person pharmacy experience I have had in SF has been awful, sometimes an hour plus wait with 2-3 people in line. Often there are pharmacists behind the counter who simply refuse to talk to anyone.

These days I use Alto, and most people I know who don’t use some sort of online delivery service. In-person pharmacies suck unless you need a prescription with absolutely zero notice, and then they still suck at doing that.

As for the whole foods, anyone could have told folks that was a really stupid location for any sort of retail. That area has been struggling for a long time and the attempted solution was basically, “Bring a bunch of rich people to the area and hope all of the ‘problem’ people get locked up as a result.”

Shocking that did not work.
The Case of the Fake Sherlock
ASN degree still have some value. Decent technician programs for Engineering Technicians (not car repair or similar). The only way to get a real electronics technician nowadays is through a two year degree program.
> It's known that `git` is not entirely friendly

Yeah I don't get that, it is fine for me.

But if your tool works for you, that's great too :)
godot ticks at that rate, but if you don't transform UI things, they don't get redrawn.
so maybe the framebuffer is switched every frame, but draw calls shouldn't be reissued unless needed.

also, I think it is possible to make it not tick from time updates, but only from input event updates, or maybe an animation actually running. similar to what the editor does.
I'm just amazed that no social media has really attempted to put what you view in mostly the control of users.

I put forward this suggestion to Twitter, I doubt they will use it, but it is currently ranked 4th by up votes.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1363
Your finger is the safety. Glock pistols have never had a safety. They have no higher rate of negligent or accidental discharges than pistols with safeties. If you are qualified to carry, a round in the chamber is what saves your life. Racking the slide(improperly) to load a round is the number one cause of jams. Nervous people tend to "ride the slide" which is pulling it back, then easing it forward. It should snap forward to strip the round from the magazine and chamber it properly.
Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair
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my hope is that, at some point, the browser developers notice htmx and decide to fold its functionality into HTML itself, which is where most of this stuff belongs
Thanks, and yes, the title caught me off guard until I realized it was fish sauce as opposed to the hot spice (garam masala).
Walmart has ever turned a profit in Chicago.

They even mentioned that in their press release today regarding these closures.

https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2023/04/11/walmart-an...
Anyone who thought the merger would result in T-Mobile’s balance sheet getting worse, doesn’t understand how businesses work. The ONLY asset Sprint had by the time it was a carcass of its former self was the spectrum. It was economical for T-Mobile to transition Sprint devices/customers to T-Mobile, but certainly it’s not economical to keep, say, retail and customer support staff around.
Its not that. I want elon to fail, because he tried to ruin that cave divers life by claiming that he had a childbride in thailand.
I want elon to fail, because he gives voice to Russian war criminals, because he is a union buster, because he fired most of the twitter employees and made the rest work long days.
It's pretty telling that all you've linked to are news stories with zero direct quotes about underwater highways or an "ice free arctic" and very little context to the alleged claims.

The point being made, that many people have been largely misinformed about the science and what it predicts by media that misrepresented those things, still stands. The good news though is that even if James Hansen did run around telling everyone wild theories (and some argue that many of his predictions have held up remarkably well https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...) we don't have to depend on anyone's comments to the press, there is actual research being reviewed, modeled, and reassessed constantly that just doesn't get the attention alarmist news stories or interviews by authors trying to cash in on climate fear will generate.

That isn't to say that scientists don't get things wrong. Some scientists are just plain bad at their job, some scientists get paid to falsify data and bury results unfavorable to the person signing their paychecks, and some just make mistakes, and those are all things we should be working to minimize, but I'd be shocked if our best understanding of the impacts of our changing climate hadn't changed several times over the last 35 years.

Scientists getting things wrong isn't some gotcha that proves science is broken, it shows that science is working. Getting things wrongs is just one step of the process. All science does is provide the tools to give us the best understanding of something we can get with the information we have at the time. The more we learn, the more data we have, the more our understanding will change and evolve. People don't like uncertainty and some might wish science was all about dictating indisputable truths that cannot be wrong or questioned, but that's never been what science does or what it's for.
Your solutions have been tried many times before in many cities.

The problem is that by putting petty criminals in jail they get exposed to career criminals and have their lives permanently uprooted. So often when they leave they simply fall back into crime especially when you don't have solid rehabilitation programs.

And how is the US war on drugs working ? Or is it a little more complex than endlessly arresting every drug dealer that pops up.
One (very small) nitpick on mobile: it’s very hard to press the ‘Sort’ button, as the ‘Fork me on GitHub’ logo covers most of the button. Other than that, this is great!
I would bet anything Holmes has hired one. Or several.

I have a feeling she will not do as well inside as Martha Stewart did. Too much ego.
> If they get stabbed, need 6 months to recover and get a $100K surgery, is employer paying all the bills?

Almost certainly. That’d fall under workers’ comp.
You are ascribing zero agency to multibillion dollar corporations. They are deliberately closing stores in vulnerable neighborhoods to maximize the political blowback against labor gains. Chicago just elected a union leader mayor, who committed to a program to address crime's root causes. He dared to mention poverty and inequality in his campaign.

Walmart doesn't want this. Walmart thrives on the price-sensitivity of the impoverished and deliberately undercuts local businesses to funnel every cent of profit to the Walton family. They are playing the long-game here: demolish Brandon Johnson's appeal by depriving the neighborhoods that voted for him access to groceries, and keep their chokehold on their non-union workforce in an era of rising living costs.
Negative. Just a converter.
I live in one with more than 2 million people and it's something that I have to think hard about to remember the last time I heard one go off.

Longer if I have to think of one that went off and wasn't some form of 'oh shit oh shit oh shit, wrong button' reaction from the person trying who accidentally turned it on.
Respectfully, fuck that. Beauty matters the first time you use it, whereas functionality matters every single time.

Or, in business terms, beauty has terrible ROI.
> "overall job market is hot"

isn't it the opposite?. All I see is doom and gloom in the news.
WP is WP. They interviewed me once about firearms. They either misquoted or misunderstood everything we spoke about.
Use a browser other than Safari. Firefox for iOS doesn't show them.
I'm working on several RN + Supabase projects and it just works !

There were a few kinks initially, like URL polyfil being missing from RN and the need for AsyncStorage alongside supabase.js but they've all been rectified by the team or made more clear using their Expo instructions in the docs — Although maybe it'd be clearer for people that the expo guide is for RN? People who haven't started using RN might not know the connection?

It's such a pleasant stack, we're experimenting currently with edge functions in place of an API in certain places, so far it's just to use Cloudflare Turnstile to insert contact form records into a database, but it's super trivial.

Excited for the future of edge functions!
It doesn't, it's two clusters in replication. It's like the least insane engineering?

Are y'all not running your stuff highly available?