skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a European, I am reading this and my reaction is mixed. I can’t deny all the “inefficiencies” happening in Europe, but what you see in the streets of Sf, you only see in the worst suburbs of European capitals
I don’t know, sure plenty would die, but I’m hell of a lot more likely to re-discover how to hunt and cook it on fire vs building a goddamn air-conditioner, and the two is not even comparable.
> Every definition I know of includes a sense of existential angst, a feeling of regret, of lost potential, of questioning identity, of a fear of mortality.

Oh, then that one started for me around 30. I've successfully managed to bottle up those thoughts for now, which is probably why I'm facing a mother of all burnouts right now.
I have really enjoyed using https://phind.com, which includes attribution in its responses.
> $2000 for a 50 sq. feet box makes your economy bigger?

Isn’t real estate generally cheaper in the US than in Western Europe in PPP terms?
Unlikely related. Fat and sugar cravings are pretty basic. I would argue it makes eating healthier things a little more exciting because seasonings and aromas can cover up an otherwise bland meal of tofu and rice.
Austerity means to spend less on public services and infrastructure. Doesn't that mean the US was in near-constant austerity prior to Biden and the IRA?
And if you don't trust mozilla sync service you can connect your own.
2013 film The Congress predicted Hollywood's current AI crisis
>More to the point, this theological business of determining where the expectations of privacy are is exactly the business of declaring what is and isn't private that you're asking them to work out

I'm asking for clear-cut hard cases, as opposed to ad-hoc divinations. Oh, and that those clear cut cases not be based on vague premises like "expectation".

It should be "these cases are private, enforcing what our society -as represented by lawmakers- believes ought to be kept private". Versus guessing what some founding fathers or amendment authors meant when they said "expectation" and whether this or that place should be "expected to be private" or not.

>where "unreasonable" is a term of art that effectively means "it's up to the judiciary".

Sure, and this is the problem I'm pointing. "Unreasonable" is an open ended term, that doesn't settle anything, and keeps people guessing. In 2023 this person went to court without knowing whether their car is allowed privacy or not. That's not a 21st century law, that's like some ancient oracle prophesy that can be read 20 odd ways.

You know, like that other term of art, about a "millitia", that has lead to centuries of theological arguments about the number of well regulated angels that can stand on the top of a pin.
also I should note for being a consultant to make any sense you should really make twice as much as a permanent employee since you have to take care of your own pension, vacation, often have to pay for meals where employees get them paid for, and have the chance of going some months without work when a contract gets over.
I concur, that was one of the more obvious weak spots in the entire plan. Raptors are freakishly strong engines, their total energy output must have been mind-boggling.

At the same time, we really benefit from hindsight. There might have been 100 other, less known issues, that theoretically could have bitten but didn't.
The economic engine of Germany was always sort of interesting to me. Where we in Scandinavia went full aboard the outsourcing of the production, Germany kept theirs. They did so in a way that was very “inflated” from a Scandinavian point of view, because it relied to heavily on very low paid labour, which obviously couldn’t be maintained forever. You can say the same about our outsourcing adventures now that the world has changed, but at one point it seemed reasonable to pool production together so multiple buyers of things like vaccines could contract the same factories. Well, maybe that was also kind of stupid, but anyway, Germany kept a lot of their industrial might going and unless you looked too closely at how they did it, it looked good.

It’ll be interesting to see how that strategy works now that we live in a new geopolitical reality. Unlike us in Scandinavia who will have to start from scratch, sort of, Germany already has the means of producing and an infrastructure in place to expand it rapidly. It’ll take some readjusting, but once the non-EU competition gets hindered political means, there is no reason the wages shouldn’t increase. Especially because the steam was already running out of the cheap labour schemes.

Maybe it’ll turn out Merkels bet on keeping industry was even further reach than we thought.
Of course goals can vary, for many, myself included, the fact that for most things you can _imagine_ there is a quality package on PyPI is a major draw of the language.

I probably wouldn't use a fork that is 2x as fast and has 10% of the package coverage.
> nucleation site for infections and cancer.

Asbestos is like that. It's not inherently carcinogenic, but there is some kind of mechanical process associated with asbestos fibers that activates cancer.
I think that at this point this is a discussion about semantics, just as this other commenter pointed out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758407

Yes, you can do something in C that somewhat resembles encapsulation. You could also do it in Python with a decorator that inspects the caller. You can also do inheritance and virtual functions in C. You could do anything in a Turing complete language. But usually when talking about "X language has Y" refers to whether the language has Y as part of the specification. In this case it isn't encapsulation as part of the specification (that's why it comes with all those downsides/extras) but as an artifact of other aspects of the language, that's why I say it's not really equivalent.
Thoughts on Standard ML as of 2023
Arif Patel Preston Claims Digital Transformation May Expansion of the Oil Sector
Oil and gas firms are investing heavily in technology to improve energy exploration, production, transportation, and distribution. Words like automation, datafication, and digitalization are becoming buzzwords in the industry as businesses seek to maximize performance and save costs. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, according to Preston Trading firm founder Arif Patel Preston UK Dubai, is about to start as digitization transforms how we communicate, work, and live. And we ought to put more effort into altering our perspective on how we conduct business in this new normal environment.

Digitalization in the oil and gas industry also makes it simpler to address the problem of change management by allowing organizations to implement new technology. It also facilitates improved communication among multiple departments and stakeholders, while streamlining business processes. It improves communication, cuts costs, and increases response to market changes overall. Patel is not only a remarkable businessman but also a philanthropist. He feels that helping others is the most fulfilling and passionate emotion there is. Arif Patel London, another city in the UK where he prospers as a businessman, is the place that inspired him to pursue philanthropy because of its variety. He began his philanthropic activity and received a great deal of support in London. Patel is drawn to philanthropy by his desire to benefit society, and he now firmly believes that the oil and gas business will have less of an adverse influence on the environment as a result of digital automation and technological innovation.
HN discussion around this quote, around 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378013
A purist would support removing strcpy, etc... but that wouldn't go well, so adding an improvement is acceptable.
The lack of support for TouchID for WebAuthn has been bugging me to no end. Making WebAuthn more accessible is such a big deal to help stop phishing. It also looks like there’s no priority for moving forward with passkeys.

I’m still using Firefox on both desktop and mobile but this is the issue that has me doubting my choice going forward.
True AFAIK, but I would like to see some experimental results made accessible to laymen.
Median income is not a better measure because it is blind to changes in population composition over time. Series of median income figures doesn't actually track anything.

For instance, a country that accepts more lower-skilled immigrants will see its median income figures grow less than countries that accept fewer of those immigrants. Is the immigrant-accepting country poorer as a result?

The only way that median income would be a valid measure of wealth or QoL would be if you isolated the cohort of those considered "median" in 2008 and tracked their wealth over time.
A wooden tool will be decomposed and the material content will be part of other living things. An iron tool can also be recast.

Burning up trapped carbon that slowly accumulated underneath for millions of years in a hundred years is definitely not anything like the above.
Developing reliable AI tools for healthcare
The original claim was that "The way real wages are tracked also undersell this trend"; they are calling CPI into question. Personally, I don't really have an opinion on whether CPI is effective here, but saying "CPI-adjusted wages have increased" is clearly a stupid argument when somebody questions the efficacy of CPI
> I don't think any EU city can compare to the US juggernauts such as NY and SF in terms of housing shortage and inflated prices.

Zurich, London, Paris and Munich

Also median income in SF and NY is much higher (with the exception of Zurich) so it should be much easier for an average person to afford a home in NY than in Munich.
> people quickly learnt that unless the remuneration was increased in proportion

I mean, not only is this my experience, but that's the trope, no? You get fired and then hired back as a consultant for twice the cost? Regardless, if that isn't happening, this doesn't seem like a problem we should be fixing using government. No matter how you are classified, you need to make sure the net compensation you are receiving for doing the job is worth all the costs (which includes not only any time and materials you are supposed to be bringing to the job yourself, but also indirect stuff like occupational risk exposure).

To put this story in reverse: somehow in the United States we've pawned off the problems we SHOULD be solving using government--stuff like health care, retirement planning, and disability leave--to private companies to each separately manage for their individual pool of employees, which has resulted in a system that privileges larger companies that can have larger and more amortized employee pools and has created this ridiculous idea that there is this concept of an "employee" that must be mandated and enforced. It is all a massive misdirection that helps lock in and prevent collective action.
There'd have to be a legitimately fundamental personality and behavior split depending on your platform of choice in order for that to make sense. At a certain point, the numbers work out.
Well doesn’t matter where one stands then, if all is in flames.
On that logic, I'd be happy to sell you an iPhone for triple the price.
Because arrays start at 1, offsets start at 0
Vscode has this built in: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py
The people most at risk would (one would think) be people that have a cellphone glued to their ear all day. But these people would (or: do) also end up with damage to their hearing, so maybe that tempers behavior ?
Sounds like a tough job, maybe he should pay someone to steal it.
This is false. In Germany there are Universitäten and Hochschulen.
Hochschulen are more practical, at one of these you have programming assignments or projects in nearly every subject.
Universitäten are more about the theory but they still have some programming assignments, maybe one subject every semester.
At some Unis CS is just a part of the Mathematics department so that is also a factor which makes them even more theoretical.
That car would be illegal to operate on public roads in the EU. You can't pass the annual inspection without working brakes. The inspector will also ask you to wait outside while he checks the brakes, suspension and other stuff under the car. If he can't start the engine himself - the inspection will be over.
> I’m not twelve

Not yet, anyway.
Yes if the host's behavioral protocol and the rules of the game were specified (deterministically or even probabilistically) the problem would be well-posed. I assume you mean the problem statement proper were to be amended, and not amending just the "solution", i.e. add and move the requisite givens from the solution to the actual problem statement.

Of course, it would then just reduce to a simple rote calculation, instead of bait and switching.

Another issue is that it is impossible to objectively agree on the "right" problem statement, given the ill-posed problem statement. An ill-posed problem statement is really a set of different problems each with their own answers.

If you decide to do this, I highly recommend providing multiple fixed problem statements, and explicitly indicating the distinction from "the" Monty Hall problem, yet the connection to it: make sure each fixed problem statement is compatible with Whitaker's original sequence of described events.

Make sure the reader understands that "the" Monty Hall problem does not in fact exist. Double check you don't use "the Monty Hall problem" anywhere, as even the name reinforces the idea that we are talking about a specific and thus well-posed problem and not a set of distinct and thus ill-posed problems. (I assume I probably did somewhere use the phrase in the thread above... sigh).

If your medium allows comments etc. make sure the reader is immediately aware of this, otherwise the comments will probably fill with readers unintentionally re-mansplaining the "proper" solution of "the" Monty Hall problem "under standard assumptions" set by the Ministry for Standardizing the Interpretation of Certainly Not Ill-posed But Just A Little Understandardized Problems.
> If countries hate the idea of 1 person shop contractors they can still ban the “shadow employment” via higher level laws. If they don’t I don’t understand how this is a problem.

They do. The problem is deciding whether you are a contractor or an employee under such laws, and the risk that the tax man (and employment insurance system including health care and pensions) will retroactively deem you a factual employee, thus creating a large set of potential liabilities for all involved.
Upgrades are a necessity if development goes on.

And HN is full of developers.

On a related note, the new EU Cyber Resilience Act will make upgrades a necessity even in the most constrained environments like pacemakers.
McDonald's workers speak out over sexual abuse claims
Sure, that was so obvious to me that I forgot to add it to the list. I'm using that laptop now with an Ethernet cable. Why should I want a laptop with a dongle connected to it all the time? Also internal WiFi and Bluetooth, no dongles for that please.
My favourite one is already on there:

https://openbenches.org/bench/5849

"Nina Theresa Jenkinson 4th of May 1959 - 5th May 2017
She took pleasure in annoying the fisherman by feeding the ducks"

(it's by a private fishing lake within a public park; I don't know if she just liked feeding the ducks (but she could've done that many other places nearby) or if it was a passive aggressive demonstration against catch and release fishing, or against having a private lake there, but either way I find the inscription is memorable)
>That being said, the policy of austerity implemented during the Euro crisis was pretty catastrophic and arrested growth prospects for a whole generation.

It was an austerity policy in name only given government debts have only continued to increase since then. There's a demonstrated correlation between high government debt and lower growth.
You are not a car person, you don't know someone who owns a car, you don't understand the car culture and yet you are commenting on it.
Having first read Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, I suspect that this and similar works have been twisted into unrecognizable states vs. their bases in the glories and depravities of antiquity, whilst under the custody of 2000 years of Christianity (regardless of which English translation we choose).

The gods and titans are made so puny and pathetic that Odysseus the mere mortal can outwit them and best them by strength. Odysseus blinded the son of Poseidon and lived at sea for years without being brutally struck down, Poseidon being so pathetic himself as to be held in check by Zeus.

That said, agreed that picking a readable translation is key.
Don't pretend that you wouldn't do the same thing if you had a net worth of multiple billions. =)

I certainly would, if the license plate would offend my aesthetics.
To some extent but the stark difference in pressures makes it inherently a different problem.

It's actually easer to build a balloon than a compressible can.

0.5mm hole in a space craft is a slow leek you can fill with epoxy (it's happened). The same in a sub at the depth of the Titanic, there is no fix and it's not a 0.5mm hole, it's an implosion.
Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC
There's some recent good news about this in a GitHub issue: https://github.com/openbenches/openbenches.org/issues/232
Yup, java just didn't actually do it very well.

Or java was too heavy for the computers at the time to get people to use "applets" for everyday things (i.e. go to a new website a do a thing on it)

Flash et al also failed to catch for long.

The web browser's success might have something to do with neverending feature creep as opposed to "this can do everything but as such it's broken and vulnerable".
It would certainly be a very violent shift towards a very different societal equilibrium.

Few, if any, people who currently have power, would be able to absorb the sheer amount of hitherto hidden distrust or resentment that their subordinates harbor towards them.

Interestingly, there might be two very different end stages.

Either a very open society where people at the top are selected to be non-narcissist and stoic, or a very closed and oppressive society where the absolute ruler is kept in power by a bunch of truly zombified and obedient warriors whose loyalty is real and unshakeable, and who will kill anyone whose brain entertains any rebel ideas too much.
A lot of that ability to pull out of recessions is due to a central bank that can lower rates more than other countries without risking inflation. I suspect this is due to the USD’s status as world reserve currency, if we print too much there’s a whole global market for dollars. If we inflate a little bit, we take not just from our own citizen savers but from governments and citizens all over the world. It’s like we get to tax the whole planet and spend at home.
The adapter pattern in Go
I remember looking at Janet and quite liking it, clean neat and small.

...but then, I'm heavily invested into Python and it wasn't clear to me where Janet is materially better, for system scripting-type of issues. What am I missing?

I'm not saying Python is some pinnacle of language design. I'm learning Rust, because it's very obvious how it fills gaps that Python cannot cover. What's that gap for Janet?
That's the point. People used to be able to memorize 7 digit numbers and now we can't because we don't have to. Where the brain is a muscle, it's atrophying. Those parts of the brain aren't being exercised and used, so we're getting dumber. Individually and as a society. The fear is that this will become an impediment to progress.
People who don't want to mess around with low level configuration. For me, using an Arduino is the equivalent of prototyping a software in Python instead of doing it in C.

I haven't used any Expressif product, but is easy to find a problem or a bug while programming a MCU if you're new with it, and you don't know exactly what registers you need to edit to configure to set up the hardware correctly, or if there are hardware details, like the use of multiplexing in pins, to deal with.

With Arduino you can forget a lot of the smaller details, and you only have to know what pins to use, how you want to use them, what devices use, and the simple functions Arduino gives to you to use them (which are commom across most of boards).
Rustc Trait System Refactor Initiative Update
> Maybe. I would think it more plausible that a vehicle that requires the operator to actively engage in its operation would, well, keep the operator engaged, and therefore their overall reaction time would likely be faster than a typical driver.

While I believe you are right on average, an attentive driver not fighting their vehicle is going to have better reaction times than an attentive driver who does.

But to support your point further, reaction times for each of us on the road differ depending on the circumstances (personal, vehicle, road and traffic). Safe driving is when we are attentive enough to react to common "failures" in traffic and avoid any catastrophe.

"Common" as in there is no fast enough reaction time when someone decides to eg. head-on you at the last second in regular traffic conditions as you are passing them in the other direction on a two-way street. Or someone jumping in front of you at exactly the moment you are passing by (even driving at 20 mph is enough to kill a pedestrian jumping in front of a moving car, even with the driver breaking as quickly as possible). It's useful to remember that we are all participating in traffic (and life) together, and we rely on general sanity of each participant to avoid disasters.
Blocking domains that aren't iCloud, gmail, etc would mean blocking business users. Do you know of any services doing that?
A rather naive take that ignores a lot of history.

I drive a diesel 2016 VW Passat. A very "average" car by UK standards. My car does not qualify for the ULEZ and I'd have to pay the toll. I don't drive a giant gas guzzling truck. Not do I drive a 20 year old banger. I drive a "responsible" family sedan. Yet this is not enough to escape the toll.

When I bought that car, diesel cars were heavily favoured as the more environmentally friendly option by the government. People were encouraged to buy them, there were subsidies and various incentives to buy a car like mine. Then Dieselgate hit and everyone went running away from diesel.

Now consider that the government is extending the ULEZ to cover a huge area including millions of people. Those people are all being told "cough up £12.50 EVERY DAY or buy a BRAND NEW, expensive car". Well, not everyone has 20 grand to drop on a new electric, so they're just shit out of luck. 12.50 is an hour of their salary post taxes. That's an HOUR every day that poor people need to work extra, just for the privilege of getting to and from work.

How angry would you be if you were forced to work an extra hour a day just for the privilege of getting in and out of your own neighbourhood?

Also, regarding your take on public transport; public transport is great in central London. If you go to any of the neighbouring towns, where the ULEZ is being extended to, it's a different story. Train lines only go one direction: towards London. If you're going from town A to town B and public transport is your only option, you may find yourself needing to go into London and then back out again. That takes a long time and is very expensive. People need cars to get places in those towns. Also, as someone who recently became a parent; public transport and infants do not mix well.

In short; it's a tax on the poor (doubly so for people with small children), with a side order of revisionist history punishing those made responsible purchasing choices 5 years ago.
I am sure there are lots around in the UK though. Tiles are everywhere.
No not really, it was just an observation
Finding Undocumented 8086 Instructions via Microcode