skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some way it makes sense. The poor are driven by high property prices to live far away. The more affluent can choose to buy property in the heart of the city and use bikes in the city.
A well-balanced and nuanced representation of the subject.

/s

But really, I come to HN for quality content. Regardless of topic, posts tend to lean towards the direction of intellectual honesty and good-faith arguments.

This post isn't that.
Pizza Hut (and papa johns) are sit-down restaurants in Nicaragua. You can even get stuffed crust on personal sized pizzas, which historically is not possible in the US.
IP in more hands and not locked away is the thing that led to more competition.

In regards to advancing competition, licensing's role was to be an obstacle that needed overcoming.
“World-changing” LK-99 Superconductor explained quickly [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXn01PbAss

Hey! Don't settle for walking.
Mandy Moore has a net worth of $14 million. Kamil McFadden is worth $5 million. Kellee Stewart $3 million. William Stanford Davis $5 million. In fact Jana Schmieding is the only person in the article who isn't a known millionaire. The amount of privilege these people have is unreal.
Hopefully instead of just jealousy this prompts some thinking in those of us wwho don't get residuals about why the systems of the world favor having money so much more than having the product of labor. Or rather, if you do the labor, you don't get to have it.

Only a few people (like here) have had the ability to negotiate an ongoing right to the output) at all.

But the world is built so that if you have the money, you expect to be able to perpetually benefit from things you put it towards. Sure, you might lose investments sometimes, but you have limited liability so you likely aren't losing everything. And you can also lose your ability to do more labor in certain jobs, so it's not like the risk is higher if you're an owner. And the expectation is that you just work work work work, and you'll get snarky shots fired at you from the other poor suckers out there if you try to challenge that.
Cyclists in NYC are positive menace. They don’t need to be but they choose go the wrong way down one way streets, routinely ignore all traffic signals, ride on busy sidewalks and eschew bike lanes to weave in and out of heavy traffic. Well under 50% wear helmets.

As a pedestrian in NYC I feel far more endangered by bikes than I do by automobiles. There is room for cyclists, but there has got to be some compliance with rules.
What's the alternative, an empty string?

IMO the problem (at least in this case) is not NULL in the DB, but NULL at the application level.

If NULL is some sort of Maybe monad and you're forced to deal with it, well, you're forced to deal with it, think about it, etc.

Empty string, whatever NULL string is in your language of choice, or some sort of sigil value you invent... not much of a difference.
Wait till you meet a doctor, such as the one I met last night, who gets into anti-vaxx conspiracies, as in wholly subscribing to them. An actual board certified, practicing doctor with a diploma from USC. Working, of all places, in _hospice_. I don't even mean the high-minded ones that pretend to scientific justification, but it's almost as if doctor mode switches off and q anon conspiracist switches on like a light.

I hope this guy was bullshiting me, and I really didn't want to drill down further under the setting and circumstances, but the venue being a Beverly Hills entertainment biz mixer it's entirely likely that he was not.
> I wrote a basic session cache using GET, which fell back to a database query and SET to populate the cache in the event of a miss. Crucially, it held onto the Redis connection for the duration of that fallback condition and allowed errors from SET to fail the entire operation. Increased traffic, combined with a slow query in Postgres, caused this arrangement to effectively DOS our Redis connection pool for minutes at a time.

This has nothing to do with the redis server. This is bad application code monopolizing a single connection waiting for an unrelated operation. A stateless request / response to interact with redis for the individual operations does not hold any such locks.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."
Time for the usual reminder that there is a search function on the bottom of every single YC page.

Air gradient has been extensively discussed here multiple times already.
> Leaving out the obvious cities (NY, Boston, DC Mall), I can think of half a dozen cities off the top of my head that have great walkability: Denver, Boulder, Portland, OR, Seattle, Chicago, Portland, ME, etc. I have wandered for hours in all those cities.

I don't think any of these cities have great walkability. They have acceptable walkability in certain areas, but great? Not even close.

A lot of Americans just have really low standards for what they consider walkable. Even in the core of larger US cities, walkability is often worse in practice than random little villages in, say, Germany.

Like, I live in the Seattle area now, and when I head to the denser areas, walking is okay, sure, but it's not especially pleasant the way it is in Munich. Walking in Munich was just nice, compared to a city like Seattle there's just typically wider sidewalks, more 'pedestrian plaza' type areas, more buffer between walking areas and cars, fewer cars, slower moving cars, roads are narrower and easier to cross, more pedestrian islands, more walk/bike cut throughs, fewer pedestrian 'beg buttons', the list goes on and on.
An interesting argument I've heard recently (but haven't yet come to a personal conclusion on, so don't take this as an endorsement):

Emphasize math for older kids when their brain is better prepared for abstraction (some even argue age 10+!). Emphasize language and character for younger kids, especially because at _very_ young ages that's really what they're soaking in anyway.

The logic here being efficiency. An older child can learn in a week what a preschooler may drill for months. Cover some math facts in primary school to build a strong foundation, but strong language skills compound against _all_ education and should come first, with a heavier shift to advanced mathematics later in schooling.

Again, don't know if I ascribe yet (I was accelerated in math at a young age myself) or how this really looks in the real world, but definitely an argument that wise people make in good faith.

Probably impossible in a standardized school setting. :)
One scenario is that Whatsapp and Apple leave the UK market, another is that nobody going to do anything about the "law", which is rubbery enough to be ignored. I'm quite curious how it's going to go down.
NYC bike messengers. And rollerbladers. Not sure how it is now, but in the late 90's they were exactly as the other poster described. Fail to yield, swerving in front of buses and flipping off the drivers if they honked. Utter contempt for everyone else. I was in far more danger of getting injured by them than any vehicle, and this was Manhattan traffic.

Plenty of stories of grandmas getting knocked down by rollers and bikers in Central Park back then too.
If the device worked with ZigBee, I would get it immediately. However, it seems to support only WiFi, which means if someone gains physical access to the AirQuality monitor (which isn't exactly difficult since it is placed outside), they can potentially extract the WiFi password and gain full access to my network.
> I don't understand how Disney and Netflix and HBO decide it makes financial sense to strip major series like Westworld off their streaming services because the residuals are costing them more than the series is earning

That's not exactly the sole explanation:

"Warner Bros. Discovery plans to license the series, and several others, to free ad-supported streaming television services"

"On top of that, it'll be able to fully write down the future amortization costs of those series."

https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/12/22/westworld-no-longe...
right but it's still not crazy like $150 for 1 person. I spend around $200 a month for one person, so it's not like I'm not cheap :) . I almost never eat out except special occasions like a birthday or the holidays.
It's a setting under playback "Autoplay similar content" if you want to turn it off
In my projects I usually put colored tape, for one I know the keyboard/mouse combo, and it also make it easier to pull using that tape from say a tiny SBC buried deep inside the robot.
You can, and that's better than 99% of places, but my ideal is denser still.
A Day in the Life of an Ethical Hacker
Yeah I can turn off notifications in slack too. What are the defaults? If they’re all on by default it sets the expectation of online availability 24/7.
It’s interesting seeing the first three comments; from scarface_74, jrockway, and causality0. Movies are often their own corporate entities, with actors investing their time in hopes of a good return. When you choose to work at a startup, you invest your time, and take a lower cash salary, in hopes that your equity will make it worth it. Same with actors.

If you sympathize for the founders who get screwed out of big returns because of the machinations of others, the situation isn’t that different here. Hence the strike, and this story.
Well they provide the Mastodon federation with what seems to be a large instance and people working on it.
This is the worst wikipedia article I've ever read.
"Muni trains close their doors and pull one foot out of the station just to wait at a red light"

What is the reason for this? I see it all the time in metro areas, and it always blows my mind that traffic lights aren't synced with the tram schedules.
You just made me think that Fourier analysis is like your crooked timber stacks: add an increasing number of properly chosen’crooked’ functions to one another and you can get arbitrarily close to something very different.
Aggressively reclaiming the notification/reminder area in the existing smartphone appears to be working for me.

I uninstalled intrusive (android) applications and moved to web equivalents. Anything that tries to gain space in the notification/lock-screen is uninstalled or if not viable (cabs, etc) are banned from showing notifications - and I poll when required. In my country, applications are increasingly intrusive (food apps piling on food offers, cab services pushing ads for cabs - wth, I'll book a cab if I need one, who advertises using push notifications for cab booking?).

I access web-versions via Firefox for Android with UBlock Origin enabled. These include socials like twitter, instagram. The setting provides a richer experience thanks to fewer ads. I noticed instagram cached videos to ensure smoother experience in doomscrolling (prefetch some recommendation buffer starting segments). The web version makes doomscrolling clunkier than a native-application (which works in favour of the dropping agenda). Most of the times I forget to enter the doomscrolling app because no reminders in the notification area.

My banking application was pushing loan-deals I did not want and stealing notification space. Unlocking my bootloader caused it to cry about security, now I use web-version there as well.
> But the notion that the military's 'objective' is the "continuous exploitation of lower level persons" is utter nonsense.

Is it?

> The objective of the U.S. Military is to fight and win wars.

Is it?

> The most effective leaders care for and inspire their subordinates, which yields more cohesive teams and higher productivity. The military teaches this constantly.

The military programs people, like hypnosis + operant conditioning, to respond instantly and consistently to stimuli.

There are higher levels of leadership that use more sophisticated mechanisms, and there are great leaders in the military no doubt. For sure I can say this. Some of the most intelligent, mindful persons in leadership hold advanced military positions.

However, the majority of military is not in the upper echelons of the power hierarchy. And the majority of leaders in the military do not fall in this category of exceptionalism. This is to say, the majority of people are located at or near the bottom. And guess what happens at or near the bottom? "Continuous exploitation of lower level persons."

And when those persons leave the military and are given leadership positions in corporate institutions, guess how they lead? You already described it: "... overworking subordinates, threatening troops, and other intimidation tactics have terrible consequences in the long term."
Unless they used No Support Linux Hosting [0] (RIP)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201109003408/https://www.nosup...
I don't think you were being a little shit. I think that's a perfectly reasonable reaction to being asked to jump through arbitrary hoops that were meaningless to you.
Anyone recreate all of the results with un"contaminated datasets"?
Richard Feynman: “Los Alamos from Below” (1975) [video]
What a horrible person Dawkins has become. His early writing surely has its flaws but it was always intellectually curious and in good faith. Neither characteristic is on display here. Dawkins pins his terfy colours proudly to the mast.
I'd be a buyer if you had an indoor unit with a radon sensor.
Pretty much it was that way in the late 1960s... until... we got a computer programming class, but this is about math: In Berkeley, they had a program called 'Seed' that had a great idea, give middle school students access to PhD math students. It was going fairly well, until Dr Steven Giavant stepped into a classroom and wanted to teach the students the frontiers and history of math. ( look this guy up! Genius at Math, Super genius at education. ) I know that besides me, 6 other students got degrees in math, and we suspect 2 more. Absurd. The norm was 1.2, even for Berkeley. He shared his enthusiasm for math, and the children got it. We only found out about it by accident, when my Abstract Algebra professor said that they were in Berkeley Math at that time. ( 15+ years later ). And the second influence was Michael Griffin, who taught computer programming, when I asked him "How do I get to actually learn Calculus?" he basically laid out the curriculum that led to my degree. With two more break throughs, I now can use this to inspire sucess in math. Thanks Steven, and thanks Mike. https://www.facebook.com/MillsMCS/posts/1920193231575804
> I was in far more danger of getting injured by them than any vehicle, and this was Manhattan traffic.

Sorry but the stats just don't bear this out.

I've lived in dense cities my entire life. Stories, anecdotes, etc. do not reflect the reality of what is more likely to cause you harm.
"advances in computing power, parallelism, and JIT technology would be more than adequate to accommodate an interpreted scripting language."

While this is true, game consoles + iOS/iPadOS prohibit JIT and in some cases prohibit script interpreters, so people resort to stuff like 'we wrote a compiler for C# that turns it all into C++ source files' in order to pass review and collect Fortnite Money*.

* I'm using Fortnite Money here to represent 'the kind of money you can make if you're willing to sell lootboxes to teens on the App Store'
The photo library on a Mac can be in any local drive. You could put it on iCloud Drive but that would be redundant.

You iPhone or iPad take photos and store them in a local cache that syncs to iCloud. It is separate from iCloud Drive but the storage comes from the same iCloud capacity that you have subscribed to.

On your Mac the files are stored in a library folder that can be on any local drive. Those files can be backed up like any other file. Any changes you make to those files, like in the Photos app, are synced to iCloud Photos.

The photos in the local library are accessible but they are not really meant to be accessed. The meta data about the photos is stored in a database, not the files. There are original files, modified files, and thumbnail files.

If you want to you can export some or all photos to separate files and do what you want with them.
> It clearly has some level of intelligence

Absolutely not, this is not remotely "clear", and it's a very strange thing to assert.

> The hallucinations don’t make it less intelligent because it’s not “trying” to avoid them, as you seem to know already

What? No. What does "as you seem to know already" mean in this context?
Good to know. Any pen stylus will do?
I can't think of a single time where a customer support bot was ever useful. Not one. They're incredibly annoying and I categorically avoid them these days. At least companies should make it clear that their bot basically just links to the FAQ, then the rest of us don't have to waste our time.
Loved that book/movie!

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
If you scrolled down in the link provided above, it mentions with BOTH Standard and Advanced data protection messages are end to end encrypted, it’s just with advanced data protection the encryption key also ends up being encrypted too, but I’m positive even this has changed recently. You can try looking at logs when you turn on messages in iCloud and see that your messages are encrypted.

So lots of confusion in this thread, my advice for Apple would be make it very very clear to users that your data is safe. I mean they are threatening to back out of UK, so it’s against their core principles and also probably very technically expensive to undo they end to end encrypted system.
Good idea, extend this to codebases as well. Certified 100% organic spaghetti for me, please.

And when it's undercooked I want the confirmed(tm) human to soothe me.
Psychopathic tendencies help some people succeed in business
You didn't tutor my cousins' kids. Fresh out of high school, they can barely read and write and they get anxious if they're more than 10 feet from mom. I would never imply that homeschooling is uniform, but it definitely has risks of very bad outcomes both socially and academically.
Related threads below. Have I missed one? Surprisingly little over the years.

Newer cohorts don't always know the classics/perennials*, so the occasional thread is a good thing - but should we change the link to one of these?

https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html

http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.7.dos.txt

http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> The warrant also recounted how witnesses and co-workers informed investigators that the engineer had allegedly “sold radios and radio equipment, worked odd hours, was arrogant, frequently lied, displayed inappropriate workplace behavior and sexual harassment, had financial problems, and possessed [Arnold air force base land mobile radio] equipment”.

> It added that a colleague had reported him twice due to “insider threat indicators” as well as unauthorized possession of air force equipment, according to investigators.

There isn't a timeline provided, so hopefully those insider threat reports were relatively recent?
I think with e-bikes we've entered a new equilibrium that will take some time to shake out. It used to be that the fastest bikers on the road were usually the most experienced, this is no longer the case and as a street biker I have noticed it causing more danger.
A while ago I picked up Fanatical Prospecting as an audiobook and I would recommend it if you’re getting started. Its all about the mindset needed to thrive in sales. One thing it will do is help you decide if sales is for you.
One problem in the United States is that transportation planners apparently think that buses are for the poor and people won’t ride them. Instead they want to build expensive light rail or subway when a good bus system would be much better, flexible, and affordable.
This looks nice!

I frequently am putting together complex chains of prompts and found microsoft guidance to be quite nice. Have you looked at it?

It feels like the abstraction I'd like the most is some way to combine few shot prompting, voting and chain-of-thought.

I have to create a prompt chain like this fairly often: write a description for this thing, given these previous input and outputs as examples (few shot). Do it N times with high randomness, maybe with expert personas, then review the solutions one by one with pros and cons (chain of thought) and then use all that to create a better description (final answer).

Right now, I always have to write out and connect all the steps, but its fairly rote and I think other prompting chains have a similar repetitiveness to them.

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
I don't think you've been to NYC in the last 5 years or so if you think that bikers aren't routinely failing to yield to pedestrians. The worst and most dangerous culprits are the people whizzing around on e-bikes with a complete disregard for pedestrian safety or traffic laws.

The drivers in NYC are comparatively safe. They drive relatively slowly (compared to other parts of the country), pay attention to pedestrians, and obey traffic lights and signs.
Depends on what you mean by quality, how much you're willing to pay for it, and what's actually available.

If quality means low latency and low jitter, and you can get T1/E1 digital telephone service, circuit switched end to end, that's almost certainly the lowest practical latency and jitter. It'll cost real money and you might not like the 8000Hz 8-bit sampling. ISDN calling is pretty much the same thing, but you only get two voice lines instead of 24 or 25.

If that's not an option, but low latency is still important, a solid wired connection with g.711 SIP is pretty close, but packets are 20ms of samples, so that adds to your baseline latency. G.711 is basically the same codec as used for t1. And internet jitter is probably not zero, but if your connection is well provisioned it's often not that bad.

If you want a wider audio band, maybe try to get SIP with G.722.2 (AMR-WB), this is the same codec used for 'HD Voice', and I don't think it adds too much delay.
https://archive.ph/tkn97
Weird complaint because it says a lot about political dysfunction in American society when a (mostly) self-driving car costs about $40,000 but a reasonably decent house in those cities where those cars are built cost about 15-20x at around $800,000. Let’s get rid of arbitrary suburban zoning codes that keep the status quo that makes density and walkability a low priority for “neighborhood character”
Missiles with integrated guidance systems are in every modern inventory. I mentioned the possibility of the loss of a single turbine to one missile and left it up to the reader to extrapolate the consequences if the one firing the missile had a large number of missiles at their disposal. Satellite data available allows one to pick high value targets with high precision.

I hope that conflict between Taiwan and China never happens. I enjoy reading about new technologies coming into production and if these nations go to war, a lot of this productive capacity will shift to production of tools for war instead of tools useful for solving problems that we have brought on ourselves over generations.
But if one does something that breaks ToS then both will be banned, no?
The USAF tested starlink before before it's private beta
Elon Musk’s X Rebrand Is Toxic Catnip to the Press