skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundamentally, consumers and producers are at odds with each other in certain ways. For instance, it's best for customers if every shop was open 24x7, but absolutely horrible for the employees needed to make that happen.

Walmart is the extreme end of satisfying consumers above all else. Customers get a single, climate-controlled location to take care of nearly all their shopping, with good prices; but it comes at the expense of the employees, local community, and factory workers. Unfortunately, most customers don't know or care about those downsides because the experience is catered so heavily for them, and it's hard to get people to sacrifice material comfort for benefits that appear so abstract.
> Solving Disinformation/Information Pollution for the BBC

This isn't really a complex problem; it is an intractable problem. It is very easy to solve disinformation - have a good editor who notes the quality of the evidence clearly.

The problem comes in to play because once there is a reliable brand, partisans/corporate suits/do-gooders/hacks see value and set around corrupting the brand to extract value from it. It doesn't matter how good the solution is, eventually someone will decide that reality is pulling in a direction they don't like and bam! disinformation and censorship.

The BBC is not in the business of neutrality. They are a reputable front for British propaganda. Seems likely that one of the reasons the quality is so high is someone is purposefully keeping the channel clear so they can nudge the debate more effectively. Especially after we discovered what the US agencies were doing in social media with the so-called Twitter Files - professional government disinformationists embedding in media outlets is obviously the done thing.
From my understanding Sam Walton was a pretty quality leader, the company went to shit went he died and his kids took over.
I'm sure that 20W the whole panel generates every few days for an hour or two will offset the cost
There's nothing great about small towns. All of this is waxing of people who don't live in small towns that think it is oh so nice to be able to go to a cute little store on vacation at 11:30am to get a muffin on Saturday. Never mind that the store itself is closed Monday to Friday.
Any thoughts on type2 scd, when loading Postgres data into snowflake/bigquery? We use fivetran’s “history mode” for this and it’s been very useful.
Aye, I lived in Ithaca, NY for a while, and they had a local law that the only businesses within the town center could not be franchise stores, and had to be independently owned. Chain stores could open, but had to do so down the highway about ~2 miles away.

It is _incredible_ the difference it makes on town culture, and _how much better it was_
I took the opposite route, accepting defeat and embracing systemd. My purist self doesn’t like it, but my pragmatic self is happy and cannot be bothered by all the people complaining about it.
Indeed. I have better luck, though, with "The map is not the territory".
no doubt Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Yes, in fact in my opinion this work can be useful mainly to learn about completely forgotten photographic works and imagine the colors that might have been there but no one obviously knows exactly what the colors were like at that time...
What's the difference? The point is that when the Walmart closes, the small town becomes a hellhole.
I can think of a few examples over the past 3-8 years where this would be a useful syndrome to have named and in the popular memory.

Oh well, Stockholm Syndrome is catchier.
I'm not sure it would that's like going "he owns a car he could have used it to speed"
I’m sorry this is happening to you. The job market is very bad right now by tech standards, but people are definitely still hiring. A few things I notice from my very-myopic view as a backend engineer at a large-ish tech company:

- Hiring has ground to a halt for generic FE developers. The general strategy seems to be that we should have enough FE people to move around to get new features done. No more big UI rewrites that would require an expanding FE dev force.

- Hiring for specific roles is still good, but I guess the applicant spam has gotten crazy bad, and now most hiring moves through direct recruiter interaction and other side channels. We’re still hiring a good number of backend distributed-systems devs, specialized mobile devs, and tons of the ever-popular “ML Engineer”.

- The finance industry is apparently having a great time right now because their recruiters won’t leave me alone. Multiple people we laid off on my team landed at cushy or high paid jobs in banking or finance. All backend engineers tho.

My probably worthless advice would be to start spinning your resume differently and target a new position. I suspect FE rolls are really taking a hit as companies seem saturated. Start reaching out directly to recruiters. If all else fails, consider a career move or even the classic “go back to school to weather out the downturn”. Good luck!
But how can I do that if I like Archlinux for the rest but everything around is based on Systemd, and most other distros also do that?
I don’t think anyone would argue you can’t do both. But it does seem that people in this thread are arguing that you can further free and and open access knowledge more effectively by disregarding the potential copyright infringement. If someone feels that by disregarding the potential lawlessness, they are able to do more good overall, would you consider it unreasonable for that person to support a project like scihub?
Huh. Since learning more about systemd my frustration with IT related tasks has gone way down.

Unit files are far more functional for the same amount of effort as SysV scripts.
https://www.photopea.com/ started as a hobby project of a single guy and is surprisingly close to at least the core functionalities of Photoshop, certainly better than most open source applications.
Thanks. That's certainly worth looking into; I switched to freelancing a decade ago and am now at the ceiling as an Engineering Lead and despite still being very effective as a hands-on engineer (coding for 30 years does that) am far more effective in a more strategic role.

I have friends who work in the M&A world (doing due diligence, C-level advise etc) both here in NL (you'll probably know them) and in the US/CA (in identity/credentials), guess I should have a chat with them :-)

But first I'm going to spend a few months doing something good - seeing if we can actually fix interoperability in healthcare in the EU. Lots of interesting things happening in that space ;-)
Maybe don't strew pallets of junk in the middle of aisles if you want to go upmarket?
Banking and financing is a big part of it too. Good luck getting Chase to give you a loan to start Monky General. I believe that’s a big part of why you see so many franchise chains. The loan officer for an out of town bank can probably find a hundred similar Subways or whatever and have a good idea of what the financials will look like. On the other hand he has no clue how well or poorly a locally owned business will do so he wants no part of it.
> Practically everything I do on the web involves authentication and a login and an identity.

How about using HN to make this comment? Even if you use your real name for it, you add some traffic to Tor, which helps.
and also it really is better— and quite stable already!
> You can't use a browser out of moral principle but happily use stuff from countries where there's a death penalty for being LGBTQ+.

You should tell iPhone owners this. Certainly, they would put down their phone made by slave labor to focus on something more important than fifth wave feminism or eating vegan.
This time of year I'm almost always listening to classical music as it's Proms season.
Wait, the biometric information are only used for the creation of the wallet, not the later usage? Then isn't this scam? What is the actual value of using biometric for this?
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Different way to look at freely shared online work: It's not giving your work away for free. It's an ad for your services. And because it has wide utility, you get seen by lots of eyeballs, possibly including exactly the people who can make a hiring decision about you.
No, it does what I want well. It never surprised me.
Not exactly what you're asking, but I fine-tuned llama 65b on my texts and it knows a LOT about me. When I ask it about specific situations where I've talked a lot about the subject, it brings in other seemingly unrelated details I don't think would show up in a vector search: https://airic.serveo.net (I scrubbed PII from it and it's only public-facing for a few days)
that is very interesting, sort of collides with the notion of soft bigotry of low expectations applied to cities. It's almost as if there's this implicit thinking and perception of the small town in terms of imagining them as these static, non-dynamic, unchanging homogenous entities which they are not. Kudos to Sam for challenging how we are to think of the small town and break out of these odd assumptions that have collected and are obviously out of date.

It's like anything with life, cities are comprised of people, people don't just stand still, being contemporaries in any generation you must necessarily survive and do what it takes to progress. There is no formula in any generation that you turn the crank and things just work, life takes work, and its non-formulaic and full of surprises.
Not yet! For that you would need to install an app that would basically relay the notifications from the virtual smartphone to your smartphone.
And we’ll only use it if it comes at nearly zero cost in performance and convenience. It’s as simple as that.
I'm curious what tools and supplies you use to do it (besides the obvious needle and thread).
> What WalMart hates the most is that they can’t get people of affluence who want to save money to shop at one though.

Inflation is doing the trick[0]. For several quarters, they've reported marked increases in the share of higher-income shoppers, especially for groceries.

[0]: https://www.axios.com/2023/05/18/inflation-walmart-prices-ea...
California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
> Diet - Seems like Glaswegians have forgotten Fee-fi-fo-fum In certain parts of the country

No idea what "fee-fi-fo-fum" is supposed to refer to, but it seems you're suggesting that Glaswegians simply choose to have a poor diet and therefore suffer poor life expectancies as a result. In reality there are myriad social and health problems that come from having a shitload of deprived areas - can be seen in the link Arethuza posted - and all of these contribute in some way to a lower life expectancy.

If you're going for cheap "Scottish people like alcohol and deep fried food" laughs then, ok fair have your fun. But know that there isn't that much difference north and south of the border on that, so if you're searching for a serious answer you would need to dig deeper.
DNS protocol is too complex, and software implementations need to be better
Interestingly, I've seen the exact opposite. Platform is the team that they see, and they do a tremendous amount of the total work. I guess maybe that's the difference; the teams you worked on didn't write much useful code.

What I've seen is platform being the "elite" place to work, or at least the one where you can do cool things. Otherwise you're working with "cookie cutters". Most specific content, in our case written for individual customers was not as important! There are many customers and projects, but theoretically only one platform. Projects come and go. However, platform being responsible for most of the code that determines basic functions, puts you at their mercy.

The infrastructure and base code was a huge deal. The other teams were fat... it does cut either way though.
We won't get the data from the link without the pasteboard or fingerprinting. The app is a blank slate on first open after installing: we lose the context from which we came.

It's important to note that this is not an issue for apps that are already installed: we get those links and their data; this is just a first-ever launch issue.
I'm curious what alternative you make use of.

My issue has been that getting an alternative set up was just painful enough that the related learning doesn't fit into a very full schedule.
> That path is kindness: get a job, don't feel the urge to commit a crime, avoid prison to be sure you live a good life, and abstain from crime if you are poor. Crime continue to exist because selfish people put selfish needs ahead of sociology and human rights. People refuse to change their behavior, and, because (not "so long as") they refuse, there will be no end to crime of any sort. Sure, there are edge cases of accidental theft or something else non-criminal, but the vast bulk of cases are from irresponsible criminal behavior.

I'd wager the guess that a lot of crime committed by poor people is committed because they are poor. Think of a single mother stealing food for her and her children. They are putting their "selfish needs ahead of sociology and human rights", but I don't think people would call them unethical. You're proposing too simplistic a framework.
Being good at making money with Walmart has nothing to do with whether Walmart destroys small towns. Number of small businesses destroyed is probably a positive metric for Walmart.
Understanding Embeddings
Let different people shop at different stores depending on their preference for return policies or credit cards. Heh, let one store try to differentiate itself by accepting crypto payments. Or sell only products produced within 100 miles of the store. Or only employee people shorter than two meters.

Just because there are 8 stores doesn't mean that everyone has to use all 8 of them. It does mean that anyone could use any of them. Sounds like a win to me.
One of them is a core component of the system with access to internal apis and the other one is an sms app.
You can't be vague and make your point here. I explained a category of "mistakes" and you simply repeated your point.

To be clear my point wasn't about who made the mistake but that some categories of mistake aren't fixable. Oftentimes people conflate "don't change it" with "it wasn't a mistake".

Found an "I made a mistake" that is very explicitly self owned. Finding counterfactuals is nearly impossible so going to leave it at that without more specificity.

> Unified function call: The notational distinction between x.f(y) and f(x,y) comes from the flawed OO notion that there always is a single most important object for an operation. I made a mistake adopting that. It was a shallow understanding at the time (but extremely fashionable). Even then, I pointed to sqrt(2) and x+y as examples of problems caused by that view. With generic programming, the x.f(y) vs. f(x,y) distinction becomes a library design and usage issue (an inflexibility). With concepts, such problems get formalized. Again, the issues and solutions go back decades. Allowing virtual arguments for f(x,y,z) gives us multimethods.
By that notion my home kitchen also has something for everyone because I have a tomato in the fridge. Where's my HN praise for being so culinarily flexible?
I believe there will be a major city (p. > 1,000,000) lost within the next decade due to a 1-2 punch of extreme heat and extreme weather. The only question remaining is if the uppercut will arrive as fire or flooding. Katrina, Harvey, and Sandy were the warning signs to 'get out now'.
If you have any entrepreneurial tendencies, starting a simple LLC and selling your services to local businesses can be a solid option right now.

Industries outside of VC-backed consumer technology are making money and need technology generalists to amplify their businesses. Just protect yourself with contracts and you’re good to go.
And some of the fired devs go to work for the competitor or start their own business. This is a natural lifecycle of software. Slowly rot and let others grow.
I hope someday she earns a Nobel prize. By inventing a paywall-proof electronic printing press she has the impact of a modern-day Gutenberg.
Real engineers use macOS: not a manifesto, just a casual thought
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I've ported dozens of services many production critical over to SystemD over several companies. The only thing I've ever had issue with is systemd-timesyncd. Otherwise, its been rock solid. What the hell are you doing that gives you so much trouble with SystemD
The DMV experience in a small town versus a big city is night and day in the small town’s favor. That’s true for pretty much all government services from the Post Office down to the County office.

The main benefit of small towns is that social capital matters and reputation matters. Of course those are disadvantages to misbehavers.
It's crypto, and it's Peter Thiel and Sam Altman, but definition it's a scam.
Is gas more expensive because of natural market forces or because of government manipulation of the market?
I wonder what would happen if you somehow managed to find what coffee shop the hiring manager was working from that day and sat down next to them striking up a conversation. Obviously most of the ways you could do that are super creepy if not illegal, but then so is most of what FB and crew make.
Try Artix Linux instead! It's essentially Arch, but with an alternative unit system.
An immediately useful application of this is in roombas that can not just clean the floor but effectively avoid/move obstacles. All the vaccums i have gotten generally get stuck or suck in paper/usb cables and get stuck in corners. There are two planning aspects here

1. Choosing a workflow(i.e. a series of general steps that can achieve a goal)
2. Generating low level policy actions given a state(i.e. sensor data).

Like lets say the Workflow is to clean the room. Now there is a big chair in the way and a USB wire there too, the robot could just decide to move around the chair but it could pick up the wire and place it on the table and clean the area. Generating policy actions this way seems to be very much in line with simple VQA based things proposed in the paper, or so it would seem...
https://amiunique.org/fingerprint gives some insight into what is used for fingerprinting, if you want to randomize your profile.

This one overestimates uniqueness because it doesn't consider stability (e.g. it uses your current battery charge level as a uniqueness measure, which is obviously not stable minute-to-minute let alone day-to-day).
I know it's not a fair comparison, but still, GTA 5 cost $265M to develop, while GTA 4 was "only" $100M.

https://gamerant.com/grand-theft-auto-5-development-cost-bud...

furthermore:

"GTA 5 has made nearly $7.7 billion since its release in 2013"

https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/how-much-money-gta-5-made-si...

You can also look at Valve, they are profitable too.

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I'm not sure what Zuckerberg's idea of a successful operation is, but all this research and development leading to a legless 90's looking VR ecosystem is absurd. It's probably a good indicator of how efficient Meta really is, it feels like headless chickens running around aimlessly.
it is very sad. i personally would much rather someone walks through their problem solving approach and identifies shortcomings/edge cases than to regurgitate a memorized algorithm.

it's really easy to identify code that is not optimal at code review time. it is far more challenging to have a conversation with a algorithm-regurgitating robot that their entire approach was wrong because they misunderstood the abstraction or that their code wasn't needed because Larry is refactoring that part of the system to a separate service already.
Yes, this is an issue that I can only partially bypass at the moment.
What does it do as an init system that is too much?
As said people using multiple ec2s to process the data but the biggest reason is so I don't have to run it all in one go. Rabbit is used by a few of our services so is always up, means I can run for a few hours then come back to it another day.

Also error handling, if one fails I just don't ack the message, after everything is processed I only have failed ones. Can slowly process the messages to see what is wrong
Why should I trust a random git repo more than wikipedia? I don't think the format the data is stored as (git vs wiki) says anything about the reliability of the information.
> standard allusions rants

Oh, I see, you just want a hostile battle and don't want to do any sort of actual conversation around knowledge you refuse to learn on your own.

> "proves the collateral exists" means who validates the asset doesn't have a standard run of the mill contract/lien/etc?

I don't understand this line at all.
That's because the Walmart opened.
This is hilarious, because it misses one of the core issues with wicked problems. Wicked problems are wicked because they are nearly impossible to theorize about.

You cannot know if a solution is viable unless you actually implement the solution. So you won't know if you're right or wrong until it is too late.

You can collect all the data, interview all the people, see all the things, and still do the wrong thing. And you won't know it until you've tried. Sometimes you won't know if you've failed or not for years afterwards.

There are no good ways to approach wicked problems in general, because each has its own complications.

So while it may feel good to feel like you've done something here, I question whether anything was actually done. Because there is no way to know if any of these proposed solutions are actually viable or effective.
> Why even own a lawnmower at this point-- just pay someone to mow your grass for you.

The lawnmower is so cheap that it is the same price as two mows.

It is indeed wasteful, but that isn't a problem you deal with directly.
(2021)

c'mon
I don't know, but I imagine it would make testing substantially more difficult (right now they have fully tested images available), and it would be impossible to implement their distro update thing (you can update the entire .iso backwards and forwards, the config will be reapplied).
> I'm sure that 20W the whole panel generates every few days for an hour or two will offset the cost

You can—and it's usually safe to, in the translation from actual researchers to PR departments—ceertainly doubt the viability of this claim, but the whole article is devoted to at least explicitly claiming that they're aware of the obvious problems, and can overcome them:

> … the efforts to collect energy from falling raindrops have faced a technical hurdle that has made the concept inefficient and impractical. … as one might expect, the amount of power per raindrop is incredibly small. …

> Now, a team of researchers says they have found a design and configuration that greatly reduces the coupling capacitance issue and one they claim could make energy-harvesting rain panels a practical reality.

One key seems to be that, although you're obviously meant to think of rooftop panels, it seems more to be about large-scale installations:

> “The peak power output of the bridge array generators is nearly 5 times higher than that of the conventional large-area raindrop energy with the same size, reaching 200 watts per square meter,” Li explained, “which fully shows its advantages in large-area raindrop energy harvesting.”

(I do notice on re-reading that it says "… may lead to the development of rooftop, power-generating rain panels", but (1) one can freely claim that anything may lead to something else, and (2) one can claim that anything may lead to anything else, so I prefer to go by quotes from the researchers themselves.)
In Europe there's eIDAS. You install an app on your phone that can be used to identify yourself. This is used to sign documents, payments, single sign on to other apps / websites, etc. During onboarding you will need to verify your identity with the help of the government, banks, or other recognised authorities. Afterwards it's just the app. It works very well.