skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sure, you can dismiss the perpetrator(s) of the recent trolling attacks on him as not really being "woke", maybe it's even an "anti-woke" person just pretending to be "woke" in order to make "woke" people look bad. We don't really know what the perpetrator's motivations are, all we can do is guess, and maybe one guess is as good as another.

But what about Amanda Marcotte's vicious public attack on him? (And many other less well-known figures besides). She's now a senior journalist employed by Salon.com, I don't think she can be so easily dismissed as just a "troll"
We don't need more features "engineering", we need subtractive solutions. There's a lot of money to be made in wrapping trees in some new contraption, not so much money to be made in building sidewalks and getting people out of their CO2 producing cars. Obviously we can do both at once, but we need a lot more thought leadership aimed at subtractive solutions.
I always assumed the Mac cursor is black just to be different from Windows, but the narrator in the video prefers it black, so maybe it is just another small thing that Apple got right and Microsoft didn't.

btw. random fact: the Mac cursor stays the same when switching to dark mode. Just something I checked just now (I don't usually use dark mode).
Crime at the societal level is measured at those rates because most places have no murders for decades, whereas the most dangerous neighborhoods — basically all full of “marginalized people” — have staggering rates of violent crime.

Violent crime affects 100% of the residents of North St. Louis, I assure you, and is constantly front of mind.

And there are far more poor African Americans living in high-crime neighborhoods than there are people worried about gender-affirming care. Frankly, it’s not even close and it’s a sign of something very goofy and broken that this is even a question.

And crucially, even if this weren’t true, it’s no justification for pooh-poohing concerns about crime. It’s evidence we’re dealing with a culture-war-poisoned weirdo who believes concern about crime is some kind of fake right-wing issue, when poll after poll show that it is a primary concern of marginalized people living in high-crime cities.

It doesn’t mean those other things aren’t important; it just means that this was written by somebody who doesn’t understand the relative prevalence/importance of these issues within literally orders of magnitude. So how could they possibly make reasonable inferences about the causes of related social issues?
I don't live in Cupertino, but it's right across the street (or several streets). I follow a lot of this on NextDoor.

Cupertino isn't some random city; it's where Apple has been since the beginning. They contribute massively to the traffic around here, and they could easily afford to buy the empty Vallco site and build housing for their employees, who could then walk to the Spaceship. Only now are they even talking about building teacher housing there.

Cupertino lets them get away with it because of all that money they're paying. I always thought a Chicago Move would be for the city to go to Tim Cook and say, looking around appreciatively at the Spaceship,

"Nice building you have here, Tim. What was it, five billion? Very nice. Be a shame if we had to close it down for health inspections."
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now so huge and permanent a thriving ecosystem
>Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.
I like to label the first "allies" and the second "friends". The "allies" category should be explored by writers as much as friends.
Precisely! And neither can generating a handful of unit tests. As EWD would say, they only prove the existence of one error. Not that there are no errors.

If we want more programs that are correct with respect to their specifications we need to write better, precise specifications… not wave our hands around.

However for a lot of line-of-business tasks we’re generally fine with ambiguous, informal specifications. We’re not certain our programs are correct with respect to the specifications, if we had written them out formally, but it’s good enough.

I think most businesses that are writing software that needs to be reliable and precise are not going to benefit from these kinds of tools for some time.
PayPal Demands Phone Numbers
Right. But it requires some starting point for the password in the first place.
One Surprising Theory Why the Philippines Has Very Few Mass Shootings (2022)
There is a contagion component here. A lot of mid size and larger VC funds raised funds specifically to invest in smaller VC funds. While poor performance of these smaller funds won't affect the return profile of their primary funds, it will drag on overall performance from the LPs point of view.

A lot of "fine" mid size and large VCs are going to have much less appealing overall profiles.
Their “whoopsies, sorry we ruined your Christmas” mea culpa email was full of corporate horseshit and essentially no real changes, so this is pretty unsurprising.
What I understood was, it's not really about the moon at all, just that "the sky" is lighter than "the ground", and roughly orienting based on that works as a heuristic. Light & dark hemispheres, not the brightest spot.
> They've got non-trivial standards for what gets excepted into their source trees

The Wireguard drama in FreeBSD debunks this myth.
> Ford Fiesta

Retired: https://www.ford.com/cars/fiesta/

> Mazda2

4 door
Thank you. I was really confused by the article. This makes a lot more sense.
It works using a buried fiber optic cable, a technique known as Distributed Acoustic Sensing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_acoustic_sensing
Ask HN: What explains the exceptional performance of LLM?
Is there an updated theoretical framework that explains the performance of LLMs ? My understanding, which may be outdated, is that they are somewhat poorly understood from a theoretical perspective.
If so, that's quite the case study on the difficulty of cloud migration!
Why would you think artists will be able to sell licenses at a sustainable level for their voices? The whole point of these generative AI models is to avoid paying for human labor so the industry will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do so. We have already seen all of these projects actively avoid paying for their training data, either by just not caring about copywrite or by using only fully open source training data.

If the RIAA takes openAI, et al to court and wins then we may see licenses for this, but given the pittance that spotify pays now for streams, we should expect any license revenue to be utterly minimal for all but the biggest artists.
I would be very interested in hearing/reading more about the Indian definition of a friend VS North American. I've seen what you describe, but for me, I personally relish the opportunity to be the person someone calls when they need help, and also to show someone what I enjoy about a city. I'm much less good at just hanging out or reaching out.

For what it's worth, I lived for a while in Russia and friendship is different there, too.
Bash is a good gateway to coding. There’s a good free Bash course on Youtube where I learned the ropes.

I’d look into Python as a next step.

You can get cheap but good courses on Udemy as well.

Oh and ChatGPT can explain things to you too
What about those things? They're just glittering generalities, and an appeal to them is frequently used to justify adding ever more complexity to software.

The vast majority of startup web apps don't need anything more than a decent MVC framework (seriously, just use the web as designed) and a fast database. Keep a warm spare of your application running if a box goes down and you need to cut over or something. No, it's not sexy. No, they probably won't invite you to speak at Re:Invent. But your shit will work and it'll be cheap and FAST.

I've seen way too many basic CRUD apps, written by developers who mean well, needlessly overcomplicated in the name of things like "scalability" and "reliability". And guess what? They were some of the least scalable, least reliable applications. I'm talking applications where low double-digit requests per second for basic web pages caused the entire thing to shit itself.

So no, you don't actually need your own mini cloud provider to run a solid service. You just need to know what the hell you're doing.
Yeah, what I said isn't completely accurate, because I didn't take into account the tax rate. But the factor is still larger than 1, assuming you have any revenue at all, because in addition to what you payed them in salary you have to pay tax on the 4/5ths of their salary you couldn't deduct in the current year.
The Psychology of Customer Perceived Value
One of the primary uses for computer technology today is displaying ads at any cost to society. This isn't what those who worked in the field in the early days envisioned. You can't blame them for being mad about it. I wasn't even there and I'm mad about it.
Well, you could add pedestrian traffic lights around a roundabout, I guess?

Though I guess a zebra crossing would be simpler.

> Simplicity is a virtue, and it's why traffic signals still reign supreme at least here in the USA.

Roundabouts are much simpler, aren't they? They don't even have any moving parts.
I'd have preferred "Draculi, Ranked" for a title
> HN needs to just drop this notion that anyone opposed to density is a caveman.

I totally agree with that. I've been a city dweller (in Europe) for 45 years or so and hated every second of it. I then lived in suburbia for 5 years and liked it much better.

I then just spent one year in the countryside in a very remote area and loved it. I knew my neighbors (but we all had big plots so it's not as if we could see each other) and already have made friends there.

Now I'm back to european city life and not one of the worst city (Luxemburg) and yet I hate it already. Shitty miserable apartment life, stacked on top of each others like ants "because density".

Just fuck that.

I'm going back to the country side as soon as I can.
What’s the alternative? This seems like a non-issue as both Apple and Cupertino are just following the law as written.

A better article would be “big companies bring in more sales tax to the cities where they are located” and that seems as expected.

While imperfect, tax based on the location of purchase is most likely to be accurate. Would you tax where the person was physically located when they purchased, so vendors have to get customer geolocations at time of purchase? Where the data center is located so it depends what portion of the cloud was processing the db write? The residence of the customer so vendors have to know home address and non-california residents would pay no taxes?

This seems like the author is finally growing up and learning that taxes exist. I remember a friend called me when they got their first paycheck and said something like “hey, there’s like 45% missing” and they got to realize that taxes are substantial.
>Thanks. Those are good points. It's fun for me to see people not use to a trackball attempt to use mine. It definitely took me some time to find it 'natural' with FPS games. It makes sense for you to target a larger audience of potential buyers.

Haha I know what you mean, it's also fun to see people trying a vertical mouse for the first time. Even though it's a more natural position, they get so confused.

> I love it overall. My thumb joint does get a little sore/tired after long use (nothing compared to wrist pain). So I have considered switching to one that relies on your fingers instead. Also it works on any surface so it's great if you want a 'full' mouse with a mobile device.

Ah interesting. I wonder if with long term usage the thumb soreness gets better or worse. I hope the former! Good point about the surface.

> I would definitely recommend exploring it as an option down the road, though I'm guessing it's still a relatively niche market.

Great to hear this, I'll definitely keep it in mind.

> Here's wishing you success finishing and launching your product!

Thank you!!
Yes, the charged objects here are strings and membranes.
The "rod from space" just need to deflect the orbit of an already existing large asteroid doesn't it?

Which would hopefully be detected in time to "solve" the problem, but still... ;)
> pitch perfect AI singer

Just don't actually have it sing in a pitch-perfect manner. That's uninteresting.
IMHO Americans might like these if they ever got a chance to buy them : https://www.autotrader.co.uk/cars/citroen/berlingo.
Super practical. Not exactly beautiful but hardly worse than a lot of things that cost 4x the price. Take tons of stuff around with you. Fuel efficient. Affordable new, without a huge income. What's not to like? Well, apart from some people being anti-French, they aren't sold in USA presumably because US car-makers and lobby groups have kept them out.
Wasn't Jobs' Mercedes-Benz technically a lease? Because that probably made slightly more financial sense than to outright buy one every 180 days.
Preface: I say this as a leftist who believes in reparations and cooperative ownership of capital.

When I hear fundamentalism I think less about the proseltyzing aspect and more about the divergence from the core ideology. Fundamentalist is probably a misnomer, maybe "radical" or "sectarian".

For example, someone sufficiently "woke" would understand that the slave and sharecropping economy of the rural south impacted the majority of whites negatively and that racism was a tool used to prevent them from developing class consciousness.

With this knowledge, any discussion about anti-racism w/ respect to the US south needs to also be explicitly anti-capitalist to help the "poor white trash" understand that their economic anxiety is being redirected unproductively. These people do benefit from white privilege in some ways, but solidarity should be the primary message here as there is a spectrum of victimization going on.

A concrete example of how you could respond to someone saying "immigrants are taking our jobs" is to reframe it (correctly) that US immigration laws are being taken advantage of by employers. The immigrants and workers have no leverage in the system and the decision-makers are the capital owners. It is not productive to call this person a bigot and leave it at that (even if it is true).

People who want to fit into the cultural zeitgeist but without the fundamental understanding of the system they criticize will just use these people as a punching bag, which doesn't help anyone. These types of people are easily co-opted into positions of power that don't fundamentally challenge the system. The head of a DEI initiative at a college does not challenge the existence of legacy admissions or donations from war profiteers and oil companies. They are smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds them.

There's also a purity aspect to it. When there's no solid basis for the ideology you can just start measuring people against their purity level. "No true scotsman" and all that.
I use the free plan to access a little raspberry, opened the link with a bit of fear... Read the first phrase "The free plan....." :CRY: "....is expanding from one to three" NIIICE don't need any more user but I am happy that it's staying
For moms there is the Peanut app (https://www.peanut-app.io/) which my wife has had a lot of success with setting up playdates. Doesn't appear that there is something similar for Dads, though.
Reminds me of the quote by Kent Beck (allegedly):
"Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast".

First throw something together that works, then refactor it to make it "right" (clean, readable etc). Finally optimize it if it's necessary.

Like the author of this article describes it "Write more bad code. [..] Get answers. Learn as much as you can about the problem you’re trying to solve [..] it’s much faster in the long term to write bad code then make it good, than to try to write good code in the first place" https://medium.com/swlh/coding-faster-make-it-work-then-make...
>counts

Haha
This is what I thought -- but I also haven't heard the song.
Elon Musk Full Interview Part 1: AI, OpenAI, Google, TruthGPT, Twitter
Yeah this is my experience too. Especially, once you have kids, it is so hard to align everybody's nap times, classes, etc.

And if you somehow are able to get whole group together, then too many preschoolers around is just chaotic. Heard it will be easier once kids are older.

But for now, we usually hang out with one or maybe two families at a time.
I did it! For every two numbers, calc.shpakovsky.ru has a static(-looking) webpage showing their sum (or difference, etc). Together with links to several other pages. The only limitation I know of is 4k URL length. Interestingly enough, major search engines are rather smart about it and cooled down their indexing efforts after some time. Guess, I'm not the first one to make such a website.
Where did I say we shouldn't do this? Was it perhaps in this comment where I said we should do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35610696

My problem is in calling this a "fix." It's not a "fix." It's an incremental step, at best, and one that will make no difference unless we have massive, worldwide action.

Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the comment guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Ghostface Killah is yet to sue Action Bronson.
This BBC article from 7 years back is a great read [0]:

For its part, Airbus Safran does not envisage making Ariane 6 recoverable, not in the short term.

Mr Charmeau believes that different market conditions apply in Europe and the US, which means there will not be a single, winner-takes-all approach.

He cites, for example, the restricted procurement that exists in all major political blocs, which essentially bars foreign rockets from launching home institutional and government satellites. Nowhere is this more true than in the US, but in Europe too there is an "unwritten rule" that European states should use European rockets.

Mr Charmeau added: "And we have other specificities in Europe, such as the technology of propulsion, which is much better than the US one, both in solid and cryogenic propulsion. This allows us to launch [two satellites at once], which is another factor for competitiveness, maybe much better than re-usability - we will see in the future. And one characteristic, for example, is that we have only one (main) engine on the Ariane 64, whereas our competitor is going for re-usability because he is using much more engines. (The Falcon 9 has nine engines on its first stage.)

...

"I could talk for two hours about the advantages or disadvantages of re-usability. Is it appropriate for the European situation? I don't say 'no'; I don't say 'yes'. I just say 'we're discussing it'; we're looking into it in detail.

"But just look to your daily life: you are buying returnable bottles or one-way bottles, and obviously for both there is a market."

Two satellites at once - just imagine! Always worth keeping in mind the ability of intelligent, powerful people in positions of leadership to confidently state absolute laughable nonsense which is treated seriously up until the moment it's proved invalid by cold hard reality.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35435108
Partition alignment also depends on the file system options you plan to use to format it. Eg: depending on cluster size you choose, the size of the FAT differs, which in turn shifts the start sector of the first cluster. So, really, partitioning and formatting NEED to be done cooperatively and not independently. That’s the purpose of this tool, really.
> "The training of generative AI using our artists’ music [...] begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation."

Ironically it's been shown that the fans can also be on the side of AI. Some of them will happily download or train a LoRA based on their favorite artist and use it with Stable Diffusion, often to generate images the original artist would never draw (because of limited commission slots/doesn't take commissions at all, lack of experience/interest or explicitly stating they will not take commissions for certain genres).
"Ok say goodbye to $2B in annual tax revenue, we're moving to Redwood City!"
The Tupac hologram was not a good idea
Bash is industry agnostic
Are we reading the same article?

“Early this morning, a vendor-supplied firewall went down and connection to some operational data was unexpectedly lost,”

They're blaming the vendor and absolving themselves of any responsibility. If losing a connection causes catastrophic failure, who's really at fault?
Now all c/c++ need to be modern languages are some package/library managers/repos.

In all seriousness, huge work again from Collabora.
Hmm, "getting started with react" yields the following as the first match:

"https://frontendmasters.com/courses/complete-react-v5/gettin...
Getting Started with Pure React - Complete Intro to React, v5 | Frontend Masters
The "Getting Started with Pure React" Lesson is part of the full, Complete Intro to React, v5 course featured in this preview video."
When all you have is a Heroku, everything starts to look like a nail.
In general, what I think worked is asking "Are you interested in this?"

And living with "Not really."

That left more time for things they expressed interests in.

From their early adulthood, it is clear that the most effective means of exposure was allowing them to participate in my meaningful work.

Or saying "Come here and let me show you what I am doing."

"Here's some more homework related to my interests," was mostly ineffective in the long haul.
I'm going to get my son to use the three user plan when he runs a minecraft server and has a friend log in, it's a better answer than screwing around with the NAT, DMZ and all that.
"Here they go investing money on useless long-term infrastructure, when the private sector could be fleecing them for a fraction of end product..."
GitHub joins industry commitment to curb cyber mercenaries
> I would have to deal with my dad wondering why I would waste money paying people to cut my lawn

That can't be the problem that comes to mind when dealing with a parent. I love my parents, but if that's the extent of your annoyance, you got off real real easy.
Techies has conquered human intelligence (at least the creative part of it) and they have the right to use it however they choose.

It's as good as a right as an artist
Considering the discretion police can exercise, which is in practice far greater than laws would suggest, knowing who the individuals involved in such decisions is even more important. Keeping bad decision makers out of positions of responsibility is crucial to competent policing.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. "Fast moving companies", from a Europeans perspective, often comes down to: ignored all the regulation, at least some of which was there for a reason. And now look at the mess that was left behind, it'll take decades to clean it up.