skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US anecdata:

I also live in a small town of around 2000 in rural Massachusetts. Within the same walking distance I have: full elementary school (kindergarten through 6th grade), public tennis and basketball courts, a public indoor gym, a grocery store, several restaurants, several bookstores, several banks, a pharmacy, a bowling alley and a few more misc stores. We also have public transport to the nearest big town but it is only a few times a day.

The only reason my town is dense and walkable is due to geography. It was settled 250 years ago and it is nestled on a river between two "mountains" (really just big hills) so once all the available space filled up 100 years ago it just stopped growing (my house is on the outskirts of town and was built 115 years ago).

In comparison I grew up in a sprawling small town in the US midwest which has embraced even more sprawl since I moved 30+ years ago and I hate going back. Its just souless and unwalkable as it has endless land to expand into and no plan to keep it human scale.
We have something that has been dubbed a "divergeabout" which is a hybrid diverging diamond intersection with roundabouts chucked on both ends. I'm pretty sure these work based entirely on fear and confusion. Fortunately this particular intersection is not really in a pedestrian area. We have roundabouts in our neighborhood and I had the same concerns about crossing when my kids were younger and walking to school.
Just build more nuclear lol
It's fun until you try to add Wi-Fi to the mix :) OpenWRT seems to have patches and better out-of-the-box configs for hostapd and related packages.
Researchers develop stretchable OLED display
The best subscription or nothing.
Yup; definitely a cultural/generational component (as well as upbringing/personal preference/development); my dad's generation, born and lived in Eastern Europe, and all of them have a physical reaction to breaching certain topics - they will literally push back in their seat trying to physically run away from discussing mental health, inner feelings, social norms & progress, etc :-)

I too was born in Eastern Europe but live in Canada now (and for majority of my adulthood). Took me, dunno, 10-15 years to change some of the subtly ingrained cultural perspectives and open up.

(I still get a deer in headlights look sometimes, but that's just me and my social awkwardness:)
It should support most things that linux knows
> one side of the Mediterranean is far drearier and cloudier than the other

Is it talking about the famously dreary countries of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc?
From a GDPR or commercial confidentiality perspective, it doesn't matter what OpenAI say they'll do with your data, you can't share it with them.

Let's say your doctor enters sensitive info about you, and despite having told OpenAI not to train data with it, they use it anyway due to a bug. A year from now, ChatGPT is generating personal information tells everyone and anyone about your sensitive info.

Would you exclusively blame ChatGPT?
The only thing forcing a driver to “wait for nothing at 3am” is their own lack of pragmatic judgement.

Maybe the light enforced meditation time would assist drivers like that in reëvaluating their life choices.
There was a bug where chat history of some users were visible to others
also sometimes called "Et commercial" in french, so "commercial and". The official name is esperluette which has a nice and probably similar history as ampersand.
Traffic signals are perfectly capable of switching their operation to avoid needless waiting at 3 am, though many don't.
There's nothing wrong with nuclear power, but it's not an either/or question. We need all the clean energy we can get.
I have the impression the one at Pleasant Hill just isn't long enough between the lights and needs the sequencing adjusted to accommodate the incredible quantity of Atlanta-area drivers who were never taught not to block the box or that it's not a mere suggestion to stop at a red light.

It has succeeded in reducing my trips to Microcenter tho.
I don't have an account, looking at the YouTube frontpage (which is presumably designed to appeal to some notional average user) is a seriously depressing picture of people/society.
It usually is a matter of driver support
Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
While I agree in the specifics the overall message still stands IMO: Update your KDF going forward if you care about this kind of security.
Finley (YC W21) is hiring to automate capital markets processes (US remote)
Can we stop with the false dichotomy? More nuclear is good, and more solar is good too.
> Biology, the science, makes it clear that such cells are alive.

In 1951, a 31 year old African-American woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. A tissue sample of her cancer was cultured in a laboratory, and that cell line survives to this day, having been adopted by numerous research labs worldwide. Those cells are alive, and they have human DNA (albeit with an abnormal number of chromosomes). Is that human life? Does it have the same moral status as a zygote/embryo/foetus/baby?

I think your approach to this issue is completely wrong. Science can’t (in itself) answer moral questions. It can provide us with facts which can be combined with moral principles to produce moral conclusions, but it can’t tell us what are the right moral principles. I know people on all sides of the abortion debate like to claim that science is on their side, but I think they are all making a grave error, in failing to appreciate that moral questions are inherently beyond the power of science to answer.
" CBC does not meet those criteria, Mar argued Sunday, because it is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all MPs"

We get our money from the state but we are _not state sponsored_. /s
What pre-installed Amazon app? That's old news. Ubuntu doesn't include anything like that.
Would you mind explain 1) why you want that and 2) who decides which voices do matter?
As you might have noticed, nuclear power is not free of any downsides. But neither is wind, solar, fossil fuels, but especially with nuclear there's about 40-50 years of momentum against them in the public opinion, rational or not.

So there's that.

The bigger problem is we only want things without downsides, which don't exist.
How generative AI is changing the way developers work
I suppose you're talking about development teams that have no knowledge about what other development teams are working on.

My sense is that it has become a bit more lax since Apple has grown and, well, let's face it, Steve is no longer with the company.
I think GP meant not noticed any such listings in the last 12 months, not that they were advertising a post with a duration less than a year.
But remember you have to get WET (write everything thrice) before you get DRY.

I apologize for my dry humor.
While we are at it, let's tax the fridge and the oven, maybe even the car. Those doors that open automatically? Definitely getting taxed.
As much as I like hatchbacks and wagons, when a CR-V gets the same gas mileage as an Accord, I'm going to go with the CR-V. More stuff, more ground clearance.
I saw a proposal for an oval system, ie more like an elongated stadium. No left turns. If you are coming onto this system and want to turn left, you actually turn right and go to the end where you turn around.

Or if you want to leave by turning left, you first go to the end, turn around and then turn right on the way back.

There are more lane changes in this system, so that's a minus. But traffic lights might not be mandatory. It would be possible to have a continuous central barrier etc.
Improving messages and types in GDB’s Python API
Aren't sliding keyboards dust traps?
How to buy Stripe stock given the latest valuation?
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However, I am not sure how to go about buying Stripe stock. Can anyone provide guidance on the steps I need to take to invest in this company? I am particularly interested in knowing if there are any restrictions on buying stock in private companies like Stripe.

I also want to express my belief that access to economic growth through taking on calculated risks is a human right, not only the narrow purview of the favored few. As much as Patrick Collison himself said in his interview with journalist Ezra Klein, I believe that everyone should have the opportunity to invest in companies that they believe in and share in the benefits of their success.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions on how to invest in Stripe stock.

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Thank you! :]
I used it for a few months, canceled it and put it on a shelf with other knickknacks, like my 2002 iPod. Something to show kids.
Removing the Chicken Tax in addition might be good.
Nuclear Disasters
Text-Conditional Contextualized Avatars for Zero-Shot Personalization
People are super lonely in NYC.
Unpopular opinion, but AI should be taxed per use like with current tokens. No VAT schemes, but straight to a sovereign wealth fund's account. There will be disruption, we will need new bodies regulating this domain. We don't want existing institutions overseeing AI - this is a new domain. We can only do this credibly if we secure new sources of revenue for this reason.

Ultimately, AI tax should contribute to a SWF only to be redistributed as UBI. I wasn't keen on the idea of Basic, but it makes sense in an AI-augmented sci-fi society.
Ask HN: Techniques for Efficient Debugging
HN: I'm curious what tricks and framework/checklist you use when digging down on why your code isn't behaving as you intended.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_study
A roundabout, then?
They're fine for most use cases. Probably wouldn't trust windows or MacOS against state actors.

Fedora defaults are adequate but depend on the strength of your password.

Simplest setup is actually to just enable SSD password in bios. All SSDs these days are encrypted by default - they just store the password in bios and don't tell you they're doing it. If you set a password there is zero perf overhead.

A basic linux setup is unencrypted boot and encrypted root partitions.

You can encrypt boot using a small grub partition to chain load boot/root but all it's preventing is someone swapping your kernel/bootloader configs out without your knowledge. If that's not a concern you can skip it.

While using bios level encryption is simple it limits my options as far as controlling decryption with keyfiles on USB or yubikey which I like in some situations.

The bigger problem I have with encryption these days is ensuring my automated backups are encrypted despite being always on.
I would disagree with your assumption on their intelligence wrt knowledge of the tech. No matter how poor your technical education is, you are likely to learn details about the thing that is central to the secrecy of your organization if you have any sense of self-preservation.
>Bring back the more efficient sedans.

Is that a type of wagon I am unfamiliar with?
You should review the psychological literature around sense of purpose. Basically every study ever conducted on humans has concluded that mental health is more or less impossible without a sense of purpose. The experts in this field say it's very likely that "helping them get over it" is either impossible or close enough that we'll never figure it out.

If, as you say, lack of purpose is inevitable and unfixable, many decades of research says humanity is doomed.
A story from 10 years ago providing services to the education sector:

I did exactly what you suggested, even leaving extra time (a full weekend!) for the DNS changes to propagate. What happened?

Turns out local authorities don't all respect DNS TTL settings and we had a major outage. I had to on-the-fly learn how to configure iptables to act as a proxy for the new server.

The "proxy" was still receiving requests 2 weeks later.
I second Merlin's recommandation, it's just the right amount of stock+custom features I want for my day to day. Rock solid for stability.
EU turns to Elon Musk to replace stalled French rocket
GL.inet devices are convenient and user friendly, but they run (by default at least) an outdated fork of OpenWRT and have issues with overheating.
If you think hard enough about tag systems you end up with the idea that the unix filesystem is a nearly ideal way to tag data.

My hierarchy of tag systems goes something like

key, key=value, hierarchical key(the unix filesystem), hierarchical key=value(oh shit you found ldap, abort, you went to far)
> Past proposals have suggested that North African energy projects could meet as much as 15 percent of Europe’s electricity demand.

It's a significant chunk, but obviously needs to be supplemented with more solar/hydro/wind/nuclear in Europe to cause a significant reduction in CO2/kWh. https://twitter.com/european_grid is always an interesting read, seeing how much the generation method varies between neighbouring countries.
I think an unencrypted boot should also work fine with GRUB, as that too will let initramfs do the volume unlocking. I was hoping to get encrypted /boot to work.

I still need to get secure boot to work but dealing with it seems like such a pain, especially since I use various DKMS modules.
This paper by Meta researchers demonstrates a system that would let users of a ‘metaverse’ platform create personalized avatars from text descriptions. It’s an interesting example of how generative A.I. mixes with virtual worlds by greatly speeding up ‘game development’.
Here’s a solar resource map of Europe showing a bit of North Africa. A picture is worth 10,000 words. https://solargis.com/maps-and-gis-data/download/europe
If somebody thinks an LLM is coming for everybody's coding job, I'd say this article is a great counterpoint just for existing.

You could tell someone from decades ago that we now use a very high level language for complex tasks in complex code ecosystems, never even mention AI, explain that the parser is really generalist-biased, and this article would make perfect sense as an example of exemplary code by a modern coder working for a living.

That's code in there, the stuff Xu Hao is writing.

And also, that's not even getting into the debugging part... Which will be about other code, that looks different.
FWIW, with a bluetooth keyboard it is pretty shocking how complete the keyboard support in iOS.

I have a K480 at the office for those random times I need to respond to something on my iPhone and don't want to deal with the crippling restrictions of an onscreen keyboard, and I hugely recommend it. With the keyboard almost every norm of macOS is supported.
Also, you can be banned from Uber. It is rare, but it can happen, and then what.
The "omg, if the state has everybody under 24/7 surveillance, imagine how many terrRist attacks we can stop! omg!"

take is just wrong.
Yes, I have this problem with a lot of the “urbanism” community. I totally understand that there are significant issues with American urban design, but urbanists seem to suffer from the “when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail” syndrome, with increased density and walkability seemingly being the solution to all of the world’s problems.

If anything it’s, probably irrationally, turning me off to urbanism concepts. I think that when something becomes so trendy and so dogmatic, I subconsciously start to feel an aversion to it and assume it’s snake oil, whether that’s true or not.
I started a bit of an exploration around prompts and code a week or three back. I want to figure out the down/up-sides and create tools for myself around it.

So, for this project (a game), I decided "for fun" to try to not write any code myself, and avoid narrow prompts that would just feed me single functions for a very specific purpose. The LLM should be responsible for this, not me! It's pretty painful since I still have to debug and understand the potential garbage I was given and after understanding what is wrong, get rid of it, and change/add to the prompt to get new code. Very often completely new code[1]. Rinse and repeat until I have what I need.

The above is a contrived scenario, but it does give some interesting insights. A nice one is that since here is one or more prompts connected to all the code (and its commit), the intention of the code is very well documented in natural language. The commit history creates a rather nice story that I would not normally get in a repository.

Another thing is, getting an LLM (ChatGPT mostly) to fix a bug is really hit and miss and mostly miss for me. Say, a buggy piece comes from the LLM and I feel that this could almost be what I need. I feed that back in with a hint or two and it's very rare that it actually fixes something unless I am very very specific (again, needing to read/understand the intention of the solution). In many cases I, again, get completely new code back. This, more than once, forced my hand to "cheat" and do human changes or additions.

Due to the nature of the contrived scenario, the code quality is obviously suffering but I am looking forward to making the LLM refactor/clean things up eventually.

On occasion ChatGPT tells me it can't help me with my homework. Which is interesting in itself. They are actually trying (but failing) to prevent that. I am really curious how gimped their models will be going forward.

I've been programming for quite long. I've come to realize that I don't need to be programming in the traditional sense. What I like is creating. If that means I can massage an LLM to do a bit of grunt work, I'm good with that.

That said, it still often feels very much like programming, though.

[1] The completely new code issue can likely be alleviated by tweaking transformers settings

Edit: For the curious, the repo is here: https://github.com/romland/llemmings and an example of a commit from the other day: https://github.com/romland/llemmings/commit/466babf420f617dd... - I will push through and make it a playable game, after that, I'll see.
It's absurd that income generated from productive work is even taxed at all while there is such a wealth of rents to tax - land, intellectual property, etc. Especially land.

Tyler Cowen would be one of the least likely economists to ever acknowledge this though.
Yeah but that doesn't say where the product is marketed. The copy can be the same, context matters a lot.
The N810 keyboard was quite nice, too. Better than on the N900. Of the mobile devices I’ve had, only the Psion S5 had a nicer keyboard.
That really means maintaining device tree files and complicated CI runners for every combination of device and distribution. There's a reason OpenWRT is so popular.
In Australia, there is speed and light cameras everywhere.

Crossing a red light, sometimes even to make way for emergency cars, will earn you 3 demerit points, which gets you over 23% to 13 points and losing your license.

Now it might not seem so dumb to wait 30 seconds, even if it is 3 AM and the road --seems empty.
Is it limited to English? I made a few queries in French and Italian and got either no results either a couple of irrelevant ones.
The trust ecosystem of the AI community - most every breakthrough was published publicly until OpenAI decided to take advantage of that.

Besides that, this comment contained a ton of statements on what “would” have happened had Google not published. Interesting but worthless way to defend openAI’s actions.
Don’t write CRISP, write PERFECT.

Plain, exciting, refreshable, fast, entertaining, code (with) tabs.
I feel you're just trying to find any reason to dislike a phone keyboard.

This one hides away, so the "takes valuable screen real estate away" angle is not valid.

So instead, beware of dust!

Anyhow, have no idea why they would be dust traps. People's cases are far worse for that.

(I don't use a case)
Well, it's more of a very elongated roundabout.
> The lowest priced options also require pre-purchasing, which ties up cash. They're rarely worth it for a business with typical cash flow.

This is probably where our experiences differ: I’ve dealt with this at large organizations where cash flow isn’t tight and the accountants have never had trouble working with the prepayment concept since they do that for tons of things.
Higher margins? At least for those who qualify
I'm familiar with the chat during (harder for the faster pace ones, though, another reason I prefer casual pace) and parking lot afterwards. If I have to turn back at or before the halfway point for most of these I imagine I'd be waiting a while in the parking lot for them to get there, though. Also from social pressure (and feeling embarrassed of having to turn back) I'd want to try to do the full trail and I'd regret it afterwards, most of the time.

I'm aware I could start my own. I once was the admin of a different type of Meetup group that had over 1000 members. It's just more way work than I have the time and energy for anymore, and also pretty expensive if done on Meetup.com nowadays ($200/year). For as infrequently as I'd host meetups it wouldn't be worth it.

I could also try to become a co-organizer of another group, but that would probably require me being able to go to enough of these for them to trust me to be a co-organizer.

It's certainly not impossible, but it's more hassle than I want to go through, for something that I can do on my own whenever I feel like it (and with my dogs).
I've always been curious about how search engines seed their scanning and index programs. Like how do you know what domains, ips, etc.. to start scanning and where is the origin?
One of the most important non-technical contributions is probably domain knowledge, experience, and contacts in the industry/area you're working in and selling to. Health product => health system or medical experience, etc.

1. Depends what they're bringing to the table.

2. I'm doubtful, but don't have relevant experience.

3. Are you selling? Identifying markets? Talking to customers? There are many non-technical contributions.
What have you done? I tried to cut back on Reddit, but this seems like I could go done a rabbit hole for a few hours per day.
Fine, just start. Find a place that has willing neighbors, then spend 10-20 years building it and plz prevent cost overruns. It'll be ready too late to contribute to our near-term (2030) goals. But not for the later goals of course.

Good start building ASAP anyways, but not at the expense of things that are faster to deploy.
True, but then you also get times when somebody who should know better implements a "in current financial year w/ special cases" function 3 times.

Then your tester says it isn't correct in 2/3 places, you find out you've only updated the function in 1 place and either abstract those the other 2 cases out or update it in those 2 places aswell.
> Seems to work well enough [...] for France

I am not so sure about that. At least not if you ONLY rely on nuclear.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/electricit...

France massively profits from being part of the European grid. While the above is about a year time frame, France is frequently an importer. That's why there's big grids with different producers, consumers, and forms of storage, like pumped-storage.

Having just nuclear power would be really dumb. Just like just solar, just wind, etc.
Doesn't fit the narrative so is omitted.
Steve Ballmer on the release of the first iPhone:

“And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.”
I had a kid that could read at 3 or so. When she reached the age to learn reading at school, she was forced to do the sounding out bit. She frankly found it all an amusing, though a bit ridiculous, charade. Kids will put up with a lot though.