skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that they are 'brutal' (your word) towards evangelical religions, which does make sense if they want to protect their culture that is linked to the Russian Orthodox church. I don't imagine they are 'brutal' towards Buddhism, for example, which isn't evangelical (i.e. doesn't send out missionaries and only teaches its religion to those who express an interest by themselves).
The people themselves rarely create the opportunity. Take the Bay Area/SF for example, the opportunity is the digital economy and not the people who are mining it. That is, you can have a bunch of software developers (or miners), but if there is no gold to mine, they'll just sit idle (and eventually disperse).

Most cities around the world (except some cities in the US) are "strategically" located near a river or on shore. Because of that, pretty much the whole world live near a river or sea. The most strategically located cities "become" a trading hub and these days have become large cities.

It's well worth mentioning, however, that if the people in the city (who where strategically located for trading) didn't adapt to the changes in the world conditions, then these cities simply disappear or become much less relevant. Many cities of the world would have lost this privilege due to digitalization and the sea becoming safer.
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The examples on https://node-postgres.com/features/queries clearly show how to use parametrized queries. Of course you /can/ concatenate strings, no library in the JS land will prevent you from doing that. But the examples are pretty clear how to do it correctly.
Why are you still relying on alt+tab in 2023? I haven't touched a windows for more than 5 minutes in a long time, aren't there a function to show all windows like in most Linux DE and Mac OS ?
That would restrict access to early investment deals and opportunities for regular folks even more (today you have to be a "certified" investor) in turn increasing wealth inequality and social mobility.
Only Detroid school! Mocks should be banned (unless they mock external system). London-style tests cargo culting is one of the reasons why OOP got bad name.
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I wouldn't say they had everything, but they surely had more. It's basically like in 1984. If nobody has chocolate and you have a little, you already feel richer.
you should try living in a big city in a 3rd world country, richer people have to survive too and also feel helpless to do something about this kind of thing
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I think the era of the TV talking head is over too. More have audiences less than the big podcasts.
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While that's definitely the long-term trend, the last few years have been, ah, not great there either.
But it's not the users fault if the question is correct and unambiguous. To continue with the hammer analogy, that's like landing a perfect hit on a nail and the hammer's head somehow falls off and richochets into the user's eye.
Free markets and capitalism are hardly Siamese twins. Managerial incentives and worker incentives can work under collective ownership too.

Markets are efficient, and technology for demand awareness and supply management can make them more so. But capitalism (as currently implemented, since the Commies threw in the towel) is IMO increasingly totalitarian. The state religion of the US of A wants to shove its nose into every nook and cranny of everyday life. If there's something that doesn't have a price... well now, to be "realistic", shouldn't it ??!
Also keep in mind, in Japan people are much tidier and space efficient in their lifestyle than Americans are. What seems like an unlivable amount of space to an American is plenty comfortable to a Japanese person (and to those who move there and adapt to the lifestyle), especially considering that people don’t tend to spend all day at home unless you’re a shut-in, nor do they typically host gatherings at home (you meet with people outside). It’s a different lifestyle and people adapt to it just fine, I personally prefer it.
Perhaps, Google would have more success by branding the way LVMH does to their products. Google this-and-that is basic or essential, not premium luxury with Apple's margin.
Animal is an interface: it has no "common functions", they're just definitions.

If you need a common function, what you want is another structure, say Pet, and use structure embedding

type Pet struct {
func IsCute() bool {return yes}
}

type Dog struct {
Pet # note how it is not named
}

func (Dog) MakeNoise() {
fmt.Println("Woof!")
}

func main() {
d := Dog{}
d.IsCute() # yes

# A third party lib
type Chihuaha struct {
Dog
}

c := Chihuaha {}
c.IsCute() # yes
c.MakeNoise() # Woof!
}
They do disincentivize and thus reduce the investment in the area though. An area which helps the economy grow and in process creates good services and jobs for everybody.
>It didn't hurt at all

Sounds like you got local anesthetics. You probably just didn't see the needle due to the angle.
In virt-v2v we eventually enforced that every module file also has a corresponding interface file: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/blob/master/check-mli...
Sounds just like a typical US city.
> Coming to Go from more dogmatic OOP languages is such a breath of fresh air.

There are only a few (two?) dogmatic OOP languages in common use. Every other language that supports OOP has better OO support than Go, as well as:

> If you just need a struct, you can have a struct. If you want a package scoped standalone function, you don't need to invent some made up "class" to attach it to.

While I like Go, a lot of Go code could be simplified by having keyword-supported OO (a 'class' keyword, maybe).

It's better to have inheritance and not need it, than need inheritance and not have it because it is applicable in a lot more places than "composition over inheritance" fanboys would have you believe.
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In Germany, a wind farm is dismantled to make way for expanded lignite coal mine
Just the suffering from the lack of it.
While I agree with the sentiment (and motivation) the layout (and hence the readability) suffers: the hierarchies are off (for example the gigantic "Colophon" at the end), section titles too big and there is visual noise due to "permalink" scattered around, etc. All this could still be fixed without adding elements or styles but just by choosing the correct weights and slightly better rules.
Ferries technically have a barrier, which you'll appreciate once you're on the water.

The Berlin F24, on the other hand...
Pretty much! To the actual case at hand it probably is irrelevant.

People do use the LAION dataset for something of course. Originally maybe just for image recognition models, and now of course for image generation models.
That’s going to hurt them over time. Current RE values assume abnormally low interest rates in their valuations. Over time, reversion to the mean in both interest rates and valuations will eat away their equity.

Further, not letting the property go to market is just bizarre. It’s saying they think they can’t get a better deal by letting more people bid on it. That’s categorically false unless the seller knows the value of their property is below current market conditions. Being that they’ve probably not transacted much in the current market this is erroneous. Let the property go to market and take in bids over at least a couple weeks.

Any bidder saying their bid evaporates if the property goes to market is not worth believing.

Of course, maybe I’m wrong and there are serious buyers who make true highest offer off market. But that probably signifies something truly and even bizarre - and possibly a tendency towards market failure.
Or Github (nothing against it) can just be a form of nerd social media, where most people opt out of putting everything in public view for various reasons.

For example, I've been participating and trading in prediction markets as a form of income during the pandemic. It was originally just a hobby but I was between jobs when the pandemic hit. I imagine many employers would be turned off by this (and still have no idea how to present this as I'd like to get back into tech). If only due to a lack of understanding as it is still a very small niche.

And most code and projects I produce aren't really worth the extra effort to present publicly and would only serve as a noisy hiring signal. Would anyone really think it's impressive to see dozens of hastily written disposable web scrapers for very specific details from niche data/news sources? Or some code to browse a dataset in Pandas? Probably not.
I once (badly) did something similar as a student [1].

Unfortunately it's in Matlab so I can not run it any more.

[1] https://jo-m.ch/posts/2015/01/hack-the-spectrum-hide-images-...
You could probably do this in userspace now with userfaultfd.
Sorry. I'm glad I clarified. Almost everything I write should come with a red label above it that says: Gallows Humor. I get taken seriously way more often than I expect to, or should be, around here.

Although it's a little weird that we're on a board where someone could seriously mean what I said and people wouldn't think it was a joke. e.g. the "You let your kids use calculators, don't you?" crowd.
Thanks for that, its brilliant. Me and my kids salute you!
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In an effort to keep myself on top of the latest development when it comes to AI and LLM's, I set out to work on a personal assistant, which serves as an replacement to journaling for myself. Throughout the day, I spend an hour or so talking to the assistant, and the results have been quite good!

It has access to n a huge amount of personal notes and previous journal entries. The prompts make it "introspect" together with me and talk more deeply about my day and a wide range of topics. Then when the day is finished, all conversations are summarized into short paragraphs, along with the topics discussed, and some counter topics as well as counter arguments are added to the ongoing chat summary history. The next day, then these counter topics are in the mix of the entire history the assistant has access to (as vectors), and conversations start to steer away from the "bubble" which I usually journal and think in.

I also added some automation (morning and evening schedule) and randomness (5% chance of challenging my point as much as possible, 30% chance of telling me that it doesn't want to discuss the topic I picked to discuss, and that I should pick another one). I'm building this locally with Langchain, Redis & n8n and the OpenAI API and learning a lot through it. I have rewritten it completely twice now, and am slowly starting to see limitations and issues which I did not see previously.
When you simply say an opinion that a lot of other people genuinely hold there's no way for sarcasm to come across
Norway reused plastic bottles until sometime last decade (now we only recycle) and I think that in my childhood in the 80ies we reused glass bottles as well, but I am not sure about that last point.
At https://metrik.one/ we developed an advanced analytics app for Mailchimp customers and we currently experiment with a LLM powered natural language interface, which allows to define queries w/o having to understand SQL or to rely on predefined charts. LLM integration into analytics will IMO be the norm quite soon, since it can be a massive timesaver and makes otherwise static analytics applications really versatile from the users point of view. We're still in a POC phase but hope to beta-test the feature soon.
I agree, besides, there's really no getting away from abstractions to manage complexity.
Vice was good as long as it was edgy. But now a days it is mostly far left progressive trash which you can read on Buzzfeed, NYT and 15 other major outlets.
Good question. There's obviously a line somewhere. But I think it's ultimately almost always down to what's technically achievable. Poverty causes suffering in so many ways. I don't think we'll every be able to fix all of them without fixing poverty itself. My point is not to make someone happy by medicating him with a drug causing him more harm. Suffering people already do that with actual "recreational" drugs. And we have a lot of data on the side effects of those substances and additional harm they do, not because they alleviate suffering, but because of all other effects they have.
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I am glad that this is the top comment.

Imagine you build housing such that 5 Million more people can move to Boston.
Imagine that housing prices do not go down, and do not go down in other cities either.

That implies that that 5 million more people are now earning Boston-level salaries and 5 million more people were able to make the personal choice to move to Boston.

These 5 million people are on average doing higher-productivity jobs than before, which means economic growth.

Yet at the same time, these 5 million people now have a lower ecological footprint than they would have had if they stayed where they lived before.

These 5 million people are arguably better off, and the rest of society is also better off.
Kids sleep pretty soundly.
This would greatly help projects like postmarketOS. Plenty of old devices that have already been partially ported to pick from: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Having an existing community may also be useful for figuring this stuff out.
These days they aggressively get rid of fake accounts, they're doing everything but requiring id.

So the only effective thing would be to put it behind a government id check.

The reality is we've relied "on the parents" to police devices and it hasn't worked at all.

it's too much to ask them to do, the internet is too vast and too chaotic. The onus needs to be put onto the companies.

Requiring a government id is all there is, it's the solution.
Solidarity with the striking writers.

The film industry has evolved over many strikes and many decades into a powerful industry that sustains many workers in well-paying jobs. The wealth of the studios is built on the backs of the writers and all the other roles which keep this machine running.

Workers in the video game industry should learn from Hollywood and take a larger share of the billions made from their labor.
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My parents and grandparents were forever traumautized by this experience leading them to leave objectively worse lives. Instead of actual leisure they'd spend their free time working on their car in the garage (because there are no car services), working in the garden (because food supplies aren't too diverse and you can't just go to the store to buy jam), or doing something else. They still feel weird about me ordering apartment cleaning once a month.

My grandma would continue working in her garden until she was extremely old because she was used to this, even though we could have bought any veggies or fruits to her. This likely affected her health in a negative way.

Living in a pre-industrial society isn't "good". It doesn't bring any advantages.
> Most criminals in the US aren’t desperately poor or anything. They mostly just do it because they enjoy it

You got a source that most criminals aren't poor?
Just think of all the lunatics living next to banana plantations! Or having banana trees in their back yard.

And their children playing under those trees!!

Monsters!
Thank you. :D
Considering the number of large corporations that go bankrupt, I think it's pretty good they can't plan a proportion of the economy.

They aren't planing anything, they are responding to the environment. Sometimes they get it right and profit, other times they get it wrong and fail.
>Washington DC, for instance, is an artificial city with top-down planning, but it was built at a time when people had different ideas about what made a great city, and it doesn't really seem to be a failure.

As I recall, DC was designed by George Washington himself (probably with help from his friends), back in the late 1700s, but the city as a whole was not: what they designed was the Federal district only. The Capitol, the White House, the National Mall between them, etc. Over time, this grew with the additions of the Smithsonian buildings and many other things.

The thing is, no one lives there. That district is entirely devoid of residential areas in fact, and with very little commercial stuff if any. All that stuff is mostly to the north, and I don't see any evidence of it being planned top-down at all, except maybe the original street layout which is largely a simple grid, with lettered streets running east-west, and a few interesting things like Dupont Circle (which probably came later).

DC is definitely not a place I'd call a "master planned city" or "artificial city"; it's evolved far too much in the last 300+ years.
These days, here in Norway, every bottle is flattened or chipped as soon as it has been recognized and sorted by the rvm machine in the shop.

Also key actors in the system are rewarded (or maybe punished less?) based on recycling percentage.
Be careful, the price is deceitful.

It is not $100 as it may seem, if you look closer it is $1500.

I wouldn't trust them after this.
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Tintin was in Peru with the Inca though, not the Maya. Although maybe the Inca also knew how to calculate eclipses, I don't know.
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People have deep and meaningful conversations with their cats, so I'm not hopeful that people will change their attitudes to chatbots.
That’s just structural typing..
I don't see how the current title is any less linkbait, in fact the original would have never made me want to check it out.
I don't know where EFF got the information from but I just checked the Congress website and this bill package wasn't approved yet:

https://www.camara.leg.br/propostas-legislativas/2256735

EDIT: they might vote the bill today: https://www.camara.leg.br/noticias/955642-projeto-das-fake-n...
> "We" here being the hard working members of society that don't turn to crime, and would rather not be victims to it.

It's not worth signing up to be victims of a police state either. I get that you think guilty people should suffer, but why should the innocent have their every moment tracked and their personal data handed over to third parties, the local police, and the state? We'd solve a lot more crime by putting cameras in people's homes too, but maybe let's not.
Having read through the old version I cannot recommend that one either.
No, before I had “a problem I don’t know how to solve” and now I have “a solution I don’t know how to maintain”. Both may be suboptimal in some contexts, but one results in my application having a deploy pipeline.
You’re accusing the comment author of something they didn’t commit. How perceiving condescension in a given paragraph of text is having “a dislike of the author” and “projecting”? If you didn’t detect something that somebody else felt, how does that invalidate somebody else’s opinions or feelings?
Seems sensible, wish they did that here so I didn't have to keep moving dirty bags between bins.

I recycle correctly but one apartment in the block is being used as an AirBnB, every week there is random waste in every recycling bin.
I agree the crime situation is a problem, but what has that to do with 3rd world status?
Can anyone explain what this is?
Tried them. None worked.

Did you hallucinate these?
I would venture to guess that decent number of those also work on modern technologies. Or whatever the more active people in team happen to successfully push through. Or did in past.

They are getting paid reasonably well either way.
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It's also high noise and air pollution, so you'd want it to be far from the city.
Ha, I've found this attitude from a bunch of people in other parts of our extended company.
Cloud means 'AWS', apparently.
Servers only run Linux, supposedly.

btw, Windows Clusters can do a good job, albeit an expensive way to resilience, but not something understood from many of the Linux-only crowd.

We need more openness and less closed views, for sure.
> Despite his stature and success, Tolkien has largely been ignored by literary critics.

Is that really true? I mean, even outside of the Middle-Earth books, I thought Tolkien's translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" [1] and view on Beowulf [2] had a very impact on the literary world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knigh...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf:_The_Monsters_and_the_...

> Just as England was already occupied by the Celts before the arrival of the Germanic tribes, so too does Tolkien hint that the Shire — a land everyone associated with hobbits — was once populated by another people.

Isn't that true of much of Europe?

> If the Shire is meant to represent Britain shortly after the migration of the Anglo-Saxons,

The Shire has clocks and tobacco.

> The culture of Rohan, like that of the Anglo-Saxons, revolves around family, loyalty, and bravery. In life, they fight for honor and glory.

Isn't that true of basically every culture?
How you get a vacation in a capitalist country: you earn enough money and buy it.
How you get a vacation in the USSR: most people just don't earn enough money to buy it on the "open market", so instead you apply for one. And the supply is very limited. So you need to know someone, pull some strings, provide something in return to the people who make decisions and maybe you get a subsidized tour. The people making these decisions have an additional income (not always monetary) through the power they yield.