skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A majority of Americans (57%) say they would prefer to live in a community where “houses are larger and farther apart, but schools, stores and restaurants are several miles away,”

I would rather have enough distance not to have to hear/see my neighbors than have stores and restaurants within walkable distance, at least in this point in time. If you are a quiet-loving person this is really your only way to get what you need.
A few years ago I made this exact tradeoff. Moving from my townhouse in a urban-suburban neighborhood that was closer to my work and the major urban center to a more a big house in an isolated suburb that was ~15 minutes farther away.

Having a bigger house is good when you have kids like I do, but I definitely prefer the former, where it wasn't exactly living in a big city but still had a lot of the benefits. I just hate having to drive more and how much time it takes up.
To spare you the animated ads, direct link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06373-1
We intend to keep it up as a service to the community. No current plan to take it down. Why?
AI-Ready Data Centers Are Poised for Fast Growth
I'm an American. My parents are 1st generation immigrants. I spent a lot of time in Europe visiting grandparents growing up. I don't think one way of living is better than another, just personal preferences. I enjoyed my visits to Europe, but for my own life I prefer living in the US. Public transport in the US just isn't a priority and never will be outside of large cities. Scooters and eBikes are great in cities, but awful for suburbs. I wouldn't risk riding one outside my neighborhood on the larger/faster roads.
Forgot to mention - if you were doing anything new, plan to spend months getting that in on-prem. They're going to run an RFP, deliberate ad nauseam, try to build a business case the tool, procure infrastructure to host it, do five year usage projections so you can measure how you're going to capitalize - it just goes on, and on.

Our organization spent two years going through these gyrations for elastic search. They failed. It never happened. No other solution was brought on board, they simply couldn't justify the cost. All told they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to come up empty-handed. Meanwhile my new team had a project where elastic search was the obvious component as part of the solution and we simply used that service on AWS. Done.

It's been a while since I've worked at a startup or a mid-cap company, but for any company in the Fortune 500? Cloud is a godsend!
Just a note that Firefox's password manager can also fill passwords into Android apps.

(I also think that its devtools are really good too, but I imagine habit is a large part of that. Of course, it's also an option to open Chrome only when you need the devtools.)
Not all feature phones are KaiOS, and no, not everyone can develop for KaiOS anyway.
I asked GPT-4 what it knows about hallucinations.

“ Yes, in the context of AI, “hallucination” refers to a phenomenon where a machine learning model generates or perceives something that isn’t present in the input data. This can occur in various tasks like image recognition, natural language processing, or generative tasks.

Hallucinations in AI models may result from biases or artifacts in the training data, or from the model overfitting to noise or unimportant details. They can lead to incorrect or misleading outputs and are a subject of ongoing research and concern in the field of AI. Ensuring that models generalize well from the training data to unseen examples is a key challenge in preventing hallucinations.”
Haha, yeah, that's not a bad comparison. Adults intoxicated to a helpful degree behave kind of like children before the modern world grinds away their joy.
It is highly unlikely that Android, Chrome, and Analytics can be viable businesses on their own. I can perhaps see a viable path for analytics if a lot of things go their way but those three are almost entirely successful because they are subsidized by the other businesses. Youtube, and the other ads business can probably survive okay on their own but Chrome and Android I suspect can't.
The plumber generally exploits one or two employees. But otherwise your point stands.
That’s right. I moved to a single family home in the boonies because I want to be insulated from people, not pollution. I don’t want to constantly hear my neighbor’s music or their fucking at 4 in the morning. I don’t want to smell their awful food. I don’t want to be part of their domestic drama when their ex-boyfriend stomps up out shared stairs, angry. I don’t want them up in my business whenever I do something right outside my home. I want to see them occasionally, waving from a great distance.
Show HN: Driving AI Conversations on the Road
We believe that navigation should be more than just getting from point A to B; it should be an experience. That's why we created GeoVox – to transform every journey into a story.

We are preparing for a beta launch soon and have opened a waitlist. We'd love to get your feedback and suggestions.
Oh man that's funny. Only because something similar happened to us. Hired new cleaners circa 2001. Got into the office one morning and all the PC cases were open. All the RAM and CPUs had been stolen.
The bad guys did win. Cloudflare is used by everything now. They're becoming a single point of failure.
I've a friend that did that and got completely fucked because he was stock picking on Robinhood with the HELOC money. It worked for 2020 and 2021, once 2022 rolled around he learned he wasn't smart, just lucky.
Kafka Messaging with Python and Polylith
This article isn't about Franz Kafka or his great novella The Metamorphosis, where the main character one day realizes that he has transformed into a Human-size Bug.

It is about a different kind of Kafka: Apache Kafka, with examples on how to get started producing & consuming messages with Python and Polylith.
"Science isn't correcting itself!" - they say as the scientific community corrects itself.
I think it's half bad, half good. It would be nicer if we could have a proper upgrade path for the system but this downside pushed some very clever solutions which are making Android the most secure platform which exists right now in my opinion.
US preterm birth and maternal mortality rates are alarmingly high
Not to be a bummer but by far the most likely outcome here is that we don’t currently have a room temperature super-conductor, we never pull a consequential amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, and we don’t get significantly workable sustainable fusion in a timeframe that makes a difference.

You’d need a bunch of jackpots to come up, in a row, immediately, at this point for technology to provide a way out of the current debacle.

To paraphrase Paul Lieberstein’s character on the Newsroom:

If we stop drilling globally right this second

AND

Everyone stops driving their car and starts biking everywhere

AND

We invest immediately in clean renewable energy

THEN

I still don’t see a way out of this.

edit: found it on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds
> try using !sp instead. Startpage takes Google’s results and proxies them

Ahh, this is an EXCELLENT tip.
I have lived in quite a few cities in the US, and people who live in the city are still driving a majority of the time. There are not that many US cities that have the appropriate biking and transit capabilities to match their size.
Graphene Gives 3D Graphite Twisted Powers
Place to Hangout for Developers?
Hi HN,
I'm a junior web developer, but I have interest in computing in general. In my geographic location, I have a hard time finding people with similar interests as those that I have seen in Hacker News, which I believe are similar to mine.
What would be a good chat/conversational community to join? I have heard of Discord and other services, but I have never used any of those before. Thanks.
We are talking about browsers actually. The grunge that web developers have against App Store is baseless because its what saved the open web so far.

Check out the linked article, the moment Chrome have its way into iOS, the web will die because Google will have IE level dominance. The web as we know it goes away, the browser becomes an AppStore where everything is optimised for data collection and ad serve. We already have an AppStore, let's keep having a WWW.

And about the anger towards the AppStore? Well, you should be able to overcome it by drinking some herbal tea.
It also said he only wrote hundreds of lines in 35 years. So maybe one line a month. Either he's a wizard that spins gold from straw or "mastered" is being used ironically. Given that he could be replaced by two juniors I'll assume the latter.
This is the real reason I put moderate effort into staying current: I've interviewed too many guys with 15 years in the field who can't write actual code at all because they only have written a few dozen lines ever. They are a sad lot and it's embarrassing to even interview them.

If I could be guaranteed I'd have the same job forever with the same tech then who cares, but I've never met anyone for whom that was true. The people that don't learn either retire early or are forced to switch careers.
I have a great concept of walking in a city. I enjoy the walkability of NYC. When I am there I take transit everywhere and it's great.

I live in Florida. It gets into the high 90's with 80% humidity. At the same time NYC is in the 80's with 50% humidity.

There are places that just aren't walkable certain times of the year.
I agree with you.

Lived alone and in different countries myself, and not eager to isolate like that again cause it started to suck after some time. Also the racism i've experienced and the cultural differences don't help much, but idk right now.
Great, because I am a grey dog, born in the 1970's, first generation after the Portuguese dictorship, still experienced the leftovers of it, and don't belive in giving human attributes to capitalist corporations.

Where can I collect my $10?
I have 6 stitches in my left hand from such an offering.
Firefox dropped support for PWAs. :(
Coffee shops are not "the living room of the city" anymore, now they're "the office space of the city", people quietly working on laptops.
Getting in Touch with “Your Future Self”
GOTO originally allowed one to jump across functions, into the middle of the loops, etc.

And nobody stops you from writing in assembly! You'll just spend more time on writing (and debugging) your programs but sure, go ahead, it's not like your time on Earth is finite.
The cloud is DRM. Its popularity is primarily due to the ability to conveniently attach a recurring revenue model and decisively prevent piracy.

People expect local software to be free or very cheap, but in reality complex software applications with good UI/UX are extremely expensive to produce. The UI/UX aspects are often far more costly and time consuming than the core of the software. Basically computers are intrinsically hard to use and it takes tremendous effort to pound them into a shape that non-computer-experts can deal with without pain.

Lack of an economic model is why local software is nearly dead. Local is better in virtually every way except paying the developers.

You get what you pay for. If you won't pay for local software but will rent software in the cloud, you will only get cloud software.
Or more likely it just shows that if you ask someone "hey would you like a bigger house?" they're very likely to say yes. I don't think it's some profound statement on the promise of suburban living.
> "consent extraction"... can only be used when the device passcode is known or not set.

I doubt it'll be used like that.

Does a legitimate user really need this? Apple already backs most local data (basically photos) to cloud anyways.

Frankly I was wishing for a jailbreak. Haven't used iPhones in years because rooting is hard, and no custom ROMs to provide future updates. (Btw custom Read Only Memory is such a weird oxymoron lol)
It’s called “recapture” and it’s worse than I described:

https://recapturetexas.org/

The money doesn’t even go to education in rural areas, not completely. It just goes into the general state budget.

The really fucked up thing is that local ISDs are intentionally underfunded because of this policy.

Stick the liberals with the pollution, kill their public schools, take their money and spend it on vouchers for private religious schools.

Oh, and gerrymander the fuck out of their districts so the suburbs and ranch dwellers have all the say, all the time.
> Mozilla won't earn me as a user until their CEO is removed

So use LibreWolf like me:

Up to date, based on Firefox, but without Mozilla getting a cent.
Nonsense. Taiwan is a political hostage to two great powers. The USA is only "protecting" it for as long as it takes to get its local fabs booted up ..
Maybe - but I don't have to. I'm happy enough as it is to not have children. I don't need to loose a leg to enjoy going for a run either.
I'm not clear on this post? What do you mean?

They have 90% of the audio book market, likely. They do not have exclusives on that much, though. I'd hazard that 90% of the available book market is through the major publishers, still. At large, this makes sense, as most books are still written with upfront payments from publishers.

I would also not really shed much of a tear for Audible. I just don't understand the idea that getting rid of them moves us further from the old style. Seems more likely that the publishers would brow beat any future entry into the market so that it was much closer to how things were in the 80s and 90s.
Younger people switching from Android to iPhone on Samsung’s home turf
TIL: IRC is still around
Zelda, 'Mario' boosted Nintendo to record profit in first quarter
Yeah, in addition to the recurring revenue aspect a major drive of cloud adoption is escaping your IT department.

This suggests that the way corporations do IT is radically wrong and actively harmful.
You have to have enough in the first place that trying to support yourself isn't betting 100% of your wealth.
One of my favorites is the Rich library, making it simple to develop nice-looking CLIs.
I live in NYC, love it, but roof greenhouse gardens are hard to come by to say the least. Same with garages for that matter. And any shared space has all sorts of considerations with where you store things etc.

An example: I want to sand and revarnish a chest of drawers we have. If I do that inside the apartment I'll have dust everywhere and then the stink of varnish will pervade the space. There are also no suitable shared spaces for me to use.

It is what it is, I accept it as a price of city life. But it's definitely a downside.
Oh, but we have that construct in our modern high-level languages already, it's just customarily been called "catch block" instead.
I'm going to ask a 'self-taught' question, so my terms may be incorrect.

Has anyone solved the compiled libraries / dynamic libraries / linking problems for multiplatform apps? Everything works just fine with these python>native app tools until you hit some esoteric library that's not pure python.
How? If I own a windows machine it comes with Edgium. If I own an apple machine it has Safari. If I use a desktop Linux distribution, it likely comes with Firefox. If I use a Chromebook, it comes with Chrome(which is highly integrated into the OS itself). Google isn’t imposing anything. Sure when you navigate to a Google site, it may nag you to download Chrome. Microsoft does the same on a Windows box. There is no imposition or compulsion involved.
Question for people with more expertise here. I just switched to Android recently because I don't fancy getting mugged again for a huge pile of cash for an iPhone. So I've got a Pixel 6A. It's pretty much loaded up with MSFT software and some very well known high profile apps. What risks do I have if I stay out of the play store gutter?
No. (Shame).
But I did just download “UNIX: A History and a Memoir”.
> It was not much

Not a big deal and not something I would point our normally but it lacks punctuation and lands a bit soft for my tastes.
Inside Apple's India dream
In addition to what Kiro said (Hugging Face's organization UI is hard to parse), the text on this Organizational Card is written in exactly the same word-salad style, just with even less information.

I prefer the full press release, especially since it already has the link to Hugging Face for those who want it.
Seems like this is a rewrite of https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/oxfordshire-roma... (which, to be fair was linked to towards the end, although not as prominently as it should have been) with some added color and removed details.

It was not a puppy according to this quote from the Telegraph article:

Maiya Pina-Dacier, an archaeologist with DigVentures, said that this dog was fully grown when it died and so tiny, it must have been “adorable”: “In previous periods, you don’t get evidence of pets like this. But, when the Romans arrive, you start finding signs of smaller dogs.”
That, plus you'll pay penalties (10%) if you draw on a retirement account like an IRA/401k before retirement age.
Before it was called "local first" it was known as "subsidiarity". Seeing the principle applied to food, politics, software is exciting to me.

"Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Political decisions should be taken at a local level if possible, rather than by a central authority".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(Catholicism)
Favorite from the Python builtins is Pathlib and the caching abilities of functools.
> A big part of wanting to live in a big house far away from the place you go is
I can not recall the last time I held a physical calculator.
Well now most places are asking for a 20% tip for ordering at the counter hah.
This sort of scheme is fine as long is there a way of overriding any particular piece of logic on the implementer's side.
Based only on what you and I can know about the current situation, I'd say the Cuban missile crisis was approximately 900 million billion times worse.
Perhaps the rest of the mentioned amazing advancements are the hallucinations...
This probably comes down to my lack of skill and knowledge, but the RP2040 has been a far more productive platform for me to just get shit done.

I wanted to love the ESP32 because it seemed objectively better, but despite trying, I couldn’t get my tool chain and process to be reliable and productive. Admittedly, part of that is probably due to working on a Mac. That hasn’t been an issue with the RP2040 though, and neither has anything else, really.

I sometimes feel silly using either of them because the stuff I make could work fine with even less power and certainly less IO. We’re spoiled these days. In my case though, I’d be fine with plenty of boards; the nicest development experience just happened to be on the pi.
I am Mr. Westbrook. AMA.
Generating code is fine, if the generated code strictly never evolves independently of what it is generated from. For instance generating libraries from .proto files (or other declarative schema definition solutions) works really well. If the schema changes, you throw away the old generated code and generate brand new code, no problem.

But if you want to make even a single tiny modification to one of the generated files, you're busted, you need a different solution.
> Due to Google Policies, AnkiDroid 2.16+ may no longer access the /AnkiDroid folder when distributed on the Play Store and (re)installed. AnkiDroid will be removed from the Play Store if these changes are not made. Due to these policies, your data is at risk in AnkiDroid 2.16, regardless of whether you migrate storage

This means if you are a new user, you don't sync to web, you uninstall the app and 'delete app data' is checked, you'll lose your collection. Previously it was left in /AnkiDroid. Worth knowing.

Interesting that the delay was due to this new file permissions system. I guess apps can only write to virtual FS now. I'd rather Google didn't keep idiot-proofing android at the expensive of huge amounts of developer time, but oh well. Thanks to the devs for their hard work.
Fear of the material consequences of social stigma is part of how shame in culture constrains behavior. It may not always involve the subjects of those consequences sharing the cultural indoctrination on which the shame is based (though, contrary to your description that tried to nearly separate it, LGBTQ people being closed often did—and still does, that phenomenon isn't purely in the past).

So is people imposing those material consequences because shame also attaches to those in social proximity to the trait to which society attaches primary shame, such as family members of those openly tolerant of it. Which is a big part of the source of the fear of consequences.
Why Open Source Matters
When I was in Korea in the 90s you could get LG RAM for about half what it would cost in the US. I had a scheme to buy a bunch of it to sell when I came home, but in retrospect it would have been the nerdiest case of "guy goes door to door trying to sell rapidly expiring meat".
Net Load Ramps: How Texas and California Incorporate Renewable Energy
There's nothing inherent no, just that javascript webpages, if some CDN doesn't load fast enough, or the dev uses some bleeding edge function not in all browsers, etc, will not end up having the text in the page. Whereas actually having the text in the page always has the text in the page.

JS sites almost always fail very badly when it fails (a relatively common event). Text sites cannot fail even when they fail.
Bit of a threadbare post
Anyone have an estimate for how many servers that takes? That's atleast 15M req/sec.

PowerDNS Recursor docs[1] mention thousands of requests per second, so maybe they could do 15M = 15K × 1K servers?

Between possible implementation improvements, clustering overhead, regional endpoints, and overprovisioning for peak load it gets fuzzy quick.

[1] https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/performance.html
TOTP is a standard; if your vendor supports it, that _is_ them agreeing on something.
> When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside.

What do you plan on doing about emergency vehicles and their sirens and construction? Those are by far the biggest sources of noise for me in a city. Normal car traffic is omnipresent but usually has a fairly low ceiling that doesn't go through walls all that much.
We have those numbers. We reduced our costs by over 70%. We got the project approved claiming we'd reduce costs by 30%.

Obviously YMMV and the savings are going to be dependent on each project, but we've had enough solutions that we've had on-prem that we've shifted to AWS and show substantial cost savings that the business is comfortable with our taking new projects and just starting out in AWS.
So to give some insight, I've been working as a virtual employee for 6 years. I've never been to an actual office location and don't live near one. Every offer/contact I've had has been for virtual location. In my employee portal it's always listed virtual as my location.
With that said, we're now being forced to relocate to wherever our senior leadership (directors etc), people we've never met or spoken to, work out of. For example, if your leadership works out of Seattle, that's where you need to be.
Only options are relocate or voluntarily resign. No severance. And it appears no unemployment options.
I have no words to be honest and would genuinely appreciate advice.
I do not know. I just know that this model I found and used is very excellent:

Vicuna + Wizard - Censoring:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Wizard-Vicuna-30B-Uncensored...

Seems to be based upon this: https://github.com/melodysdreamj/WizardVicunaLM
Google has evolved to a size and point where they really can't (and shouldn't) be trusted to manage their own vision and direction. Critical infrastructure like this should belong to and be beholding to the people.