skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No matter what, I say go Uber! Uber-like services are desperately needed in countries like Turkey. Taxi monopoly has an impossible to break grip on the state. Many state officials own medallions that were granted more than 30 years ago and owners still obtaining substantial money from taxi drivers. They block Uber like systems immediately. They are above law. It is so ridiculous you have to live there to comprehend the scale of this utter BS.
I think there's a lot packed into that at all cost phrase at the end. I'm realizing that with development of technology or the pursuit of truth, anything that detracts from some main objective comes at some cost. When political angling arises, or maintaining the status quo, or whatever extra objective is added and overlayed onto a project which is not directly aligned with the outcome of the project you expose your development to getting lost in the weeds of suboptimality. How deep can those weeds get? Who knows, but trying to maintain face or balance a lot of other accessory details can occupy a lot of time and attention.

This kind of harkens to the optimality surrounding meritocracy based systems.
Progressive Stamping for Mass Production of Sheet Metal Parts
Don't forget friendlier business conditions both in taxes and bureaucracy.

Few of my friends that launched startups, despite being based in Europe, working from Europe, and everyone being European, incorporated in Delaware anyway.

US is simply friendlier to ambitious and greedy people. You can be so anywhere in the world but you won't get the same benefits you get in the United States.
While life is typically associated with biological systems, intelligence doesn't necessarily need proof of life. A hive, swarm or network can be intelligent as long as it shows self-awareness and has agency.
Rich Iranians fleeing the revolution with their money and becoming rich Britons or Americans is not exactly a fairytale. Just because someone is an immigrant it doesn't mean they earned everything by their bootstraps.
Great work! Public CAs have done a wonderful job making HTTPS easy for public websites, but private networks feel under-supported and we're often stuck with legacy tools. I'm really happy to see people building here.

I've been working on getlocalcert[1] which explores this problem from the other end; how can we make TLS certificate management and trust root distribution easier? There's lots of interest in using certificates issued by public CAs for private domains. Especially the free ones from Let's Encrypt. This completely avoids trust root distribution challenges and concerns about trust roots being used to MITM traffic. My local DNS management story is admittedly currently a hand-wave[2], but I really like your approach. I was hoping we could pair our tools, but I think mDNS is for .local only, so we won't be compatible.

I'm curious about the trust root you're using. Lots of tools will create these without any nameConstraints, which is reasonable as client-side support has historically been poor[3], but restricting the root and any intermediaries to *.local can reduce the risk that a stolen trust root is used to MITM unrelated sites like google.com.

[1] https://www.getlocalcert.net/

[2] https://docs.getlocalcert.net/dns/

[3] https://alexsci.com/blog/name-non-constraint/
I used this as a slacker (Slackware user) for a year or so. I really enjoyed the aesthetic overall, and while I've been using Fedora KDE for a while now I have debated moving back to XFCE and would certainly reinstall this theme if I did.

I've got a screenshot somewhere of using this theme while playing the dos game Jetpak Christmas in dosbox with Xsnow running, it was fun.
> wth does “first cousin once removed” even mean?

First cousin means they share a grandparent, second cousin means they share a great-grandparent, etc. Once removed means they’re offset by 1 generation, so one person’s grandparent is the other’s great-grandparent. There is a directionality; the person who is “once removed” is the one whose parent is first cousins with other other person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
Yeah that’s just not true. You can just get good scores and grades, with the caveat here that “good” means atleast 99.5th percentile.

Under those conditions I’d estimate your odds of getting into at least one Ivy (or equivalently good school) at around 50%, which might seem low but remember 99.6% of college students do not attend an ivy.
Damaging results of mandated return to the office: it’s worse than we thought
I have the same experience. I've used nothing but "Firestarter" sticks - cheap ones from RadioShack, amazon, wherever and up to nicer branded $50 ones and dont consider myself more than average at soldering. I got a TS-80p because I have a personal push to get everything on USB-C for power that I can. I will say it lives up to the hype around it - heats up super fast, can solder things even my 100W auto soldering iron can (10 gauge wires on to thick metal) without breaking too much of a sweat.

Yes it has firmware, but I haven't had to mess with it yet in the two years of use.
“The cathode material determines the capacity and power of a battery, typically composed of lithium and other battery metals.”

Also, the cost of a battery cell isn’t the cost of a battery pack, let alone the cost of all the associated equipment, land, installation, etc needed for grid scale batteries which is what matters here.
I agree. I didn’t want to suggest specifics in my comment, but I think our mistake all along has been top down solutions.

People drink and eat and smoke because they’re hurting and seeking distraction and numbness. There are some anomalies where people fall into addiction more easily, but stronger family and community safety nets seem like a far better insurance against the potential outcomes of this than virtually anything else.

Pretty much every heavy cannabis user, alcoholic, or other addict I’ve met has had deep family issues. It starts early. Regulations and education might make a dent in outcomes, but the only way we’ll have happy people who don’t want to ruin themselves is to make it so they aren’t crushed under the misery and fear of taking on the world in the first place.
I do not know if your POV is that of somebody who actually attended an Ivy League school. If so, it is understandable that you see through your lens. You got a high SAT and got in. If not, it is still an understandable view. Everyone you've heard of that got in had a high SAT.

Here's a different view. More than 2 million people take the SAT each year. The top 1% score between 1550 and 1600. They number more than 20000 people each year. You can have straight As K-12, achieve a 1570 on the SAT, be president/captain of three clubs/teams, play two musical instruments, be a National Merit Scholar, serve on the board of some national organization, win 12 state championships, and still not get accepted to an Ivy League school. Or you can have a B here and there, score a 1500 SAT and get accepted.

My point is that it is not as simple as getting a high SAT, applying, and getting approved for a loan.
thats not how it works. you just dont accumulate or lose time off so theres no game playing about how much you have. if your sick, you take off, no stress about how many days. have an appointment, you just go, it doesn't eat into your vacation time. the time off still gets approved.
Fair points, and I'm not saying it's 100% the woman's fault. But to be clear: the big pig is not designed for you to go near it. The woman had to climb through the channel where periodically a ton of water comes through, and pretty much shimmy under the rebar to get to it. But that said, obviously another few pieces of rebar could have prevented the incident.

Here's video of the big pig in action. I think I overstated, maybe it's a hundred-ish gallons of water, rather than hundreds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDac5uSxLlg
There was no one who would be willing to fund their research into a room temperature semiconductor? Even though they had a sample that passed the basic tests?
There was one research into "broken window theory" which has been used to widely report it's "debunked" (it couldn't be that the research was flawed, badly done, or had some points to score).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/first_cousin_once_removed
It's amazing we don't have good personal content filtering yet. I would pay so much for an all-encompassing blocker.

There is so much content I would block if I actually could. Completely disable YouTube Shorts on mobile. All snarky/sarcastic/political/ad-hominem takes filtered.
My wife and I “nomad” 7 months of the year and I travel for work occasionally. We don’t own cars. We spend around $900 a month on Uber and we have been to 18 different cities in the US over the past year.

I have never had a problem with Uber.
I recently chose to go with FreshRSS[0]. The UI isn't the slickest, but it's easy to install with Docker, and it's fast.

0: https://www.freshrss.org/
Some more discussion a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30398662

Anything new in the project?
An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age
https://github.com/umlet/pwk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25178949
I'll stand by the Mermaid Party until the day I drown!
Seems like it kinda has Sum Types, so Nim passes the litmus test for respectable static type-system in this day and age.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-object-variants
Where in that article does it say it's illegal to gather ethnical data in the EU? You're talking nonsense, I lived in 2 EU countries and government had ethnical data on citizens.

From where I read the article, it it says the contrary, Germany has racism and discrimination on the labor and housing market, but it can't be proven because it gathers no data.

So having no data actually makes the problem worse since racism and discrimination will continue to exist in practice (humans gonna be tribal) but you can't prove it because you have no data because you don't wanna be seen as racist.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy. You're just turning a blind eye on racism while touting yourself as a crusader against racism.
What Do You Do When You Suddenly Have $1B?
I think normal spacing (instead of justified) would make it even easier to read.
Thought vector models ?
Yeah, seems racist, why do it?

Never understood the fixation in US of breaking every stat by ethnicity or skin color.
https://findsight.ai is my project, written in Nim

I gave a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNrRU12xRc including some more intense use of Nim (for inline PEG grammars and data-parallel processing with Weave)
> I remember a consultant telling me “you don’t get it, the point of our app is that you can build ANYTHING the customer withs it”. Well, so is the point of, say, Python.

Yeah. The idea of generalized, reusable platforms are kind of a siren song for business types.

1. Executive notices the company has 5 apps that sit in a similar place in architectural diagrams. In a meeting, she says: "we have 5 different apps that are creating outputs based on various inputs according to business requirements. She declares, we should have ONE platform to replace those 5 apps. Savings!"

2. Platform team gets stood up. Starts to build the that app according to the new executive strategy.

3. Result: you get a shitty programming language (implemented as "configuration files") with a shitty transformation language. Turns out your platform was actually Java and XSLT, and your previous 5 apps could be understood as "configurations" of that platform.

4. New leadership takes over. The new "platform" gets de-platformized, because it sucks. Now the new platform will be built on the cloud!
Lol I got a soldering iron just to play with this firmware. Only used it a few times though.
The financial services company I work for employs 5k people. Everyone has HM chairs.
Bayesian inference is mathematically sound as it is based on a very generic postulates and allows to compare probabilities based in the current information and made a decision accordingly. With the proper approach the errors are automatically accounted for. I.e. if the errors are large, then one will see that probabilities are too close each other to make a sound decision. Still if one must made a decision, then one can just use the answer based on Bayesian reasoning.

The problem in practice is that accounting for the existing information is hard with guessing of priors etc. But that is the problem of applicability of Bayesian inference, not the problem with the principle itself.

I.e. Bayesian inference is a good answer to the philosophical problem of induction. It is sad that the article has not even touched on that subject.
Was less impressive for me. Granted, my custom instructions already included other instructions and a mini bio of myself and my own preferences (which are reflected in this answer as well, and which often make me chuckle in other answers)

https://chat.openai.com/share/6def2b09-4a39-4d25-8dd5-482f61...

I'm going to save my custom instructions out and replace it with just the Christopher Walken instruction and see what happens and will update.

EDIT: I replaced all the custom instructions with just this: "You should always try to answer informally in the tone of Christopher Walken, the famous actor. You can absolutely express varied opinions on things."

Then I asked it some things: https://chat.openai.com/share/0a05bcfe-fdf7-4722-9781-b095e2...

A little better, but not much. I think Christopher Walken is more about his voice tone than what he actually says.
Thanks for the great recommendation! I can already tell I'm going to go through the whole series.
In fairness, I think the idea is that you would create this from concrete structures that would be built regardless and used in other ways. Adding extra capacity to the grid for "free" would good.

Of course, this is a press release and they usually consist entirely of breathless exaggerations and wilful omissions of limitations.
I have not, because most often I don't have the experience to evaluate the response. That is, I don't trust it to know what's what, so I'd have to do an in-depth evaluation anyway.

For discovering the options it's probably ok, but the value I got from newsgroups and IRC were the experiences behind the opinions, potentially saving me from doing in-depth evaluations.
Go had full time engineers designing the language, tooling, docs, etc. Nim has never had huge industry sponsorship, so comparing the languages on age alone is hardly fair.
New alliance promoting the interoperability of 3D content
You didn't deserve to be down voted for this comment.
thats actually not to bad. is the work really inconsistent then, so yearly your not making that much
How do they force you to tip them?
Both of your assumptions are completely incorrect. One should _never_ "monitor" a system like that. Fortunately, the wise Unix wizzards of yesteryear already thought of the solution: uptime counters.

An uptime counter counts the number of milliseconds a process is alive. So if it resets to a value lower than the previous recorded one, it's a blue star thats impossible to miss.
Where Does Grounded Electricity Go?
I'm not disputing that. I just think that intelligence or 'sapience' is not something that requires reverence on our part.
Why would they do that? If you automate the drivers then suddenly Uber needs to buy and maintain a fleet of thousands or millions of autonomous vehicles and their costs balloon astronomically. Kiss any profit out the window for another decade at least.

The current system is GREAT for Uber. No vehicles to purchase, maintenance is the burden of the driver and you only need to cut off a small slice of your profits for the driver in order to keep the whole thing going. If you need more profits you simply raise rates or lower driver pay.
It's not particularly fast (or maybe this video is more recent and they have taken your advice), but obviously when you're talking about hundreds of pounds, the pinch point doesn't have to be fast to do damage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDac5uSxLlg
Yes, the permutations are endless, and verifying each one is a bit expensive (up to extremely expensive, depending on the complexity of the material).
Even inside tech we have a tendency to artificially inflate complexity: if only to self-aggrandize, increase job security, and/or source more capital.
It’s hard to blame him for that, tbh
Except it's... not quite correct. getent performs NSS resolution, not DNS resolution, so its output depends on the value of the hosts field in your /etc/nsswitch.conf, which could be set to something fun like LDAP or something else.

I don't know Kubernetes, so it's very possible that Kubernetes enforces that name resolution is always DNS and only DNS (a "hosts: dns" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf, without any additional stuff like files which would mean resolution via /etc/hosts), in which case getent is indeed correct, but in the general case, there is no system-intrinsic tool that tests DNS only, and you have to use something like dig.
Project Leyden: Toward Condensers
Could be a fun python alternative

Questions:

- value/object semantic: i peeked at some code, and i can't tell what is a value, and what is a reference type, is everything heap allocated?

- tooling: what's the state of their language server? does it work with all of their language features?

- debugging: does gdb/lldb understand nim's types and slices?

And finally: is a no-gc mode available?

I'll play with it later today, it's always been in my todo list of languages to try, now is the perfect time
We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office
Anecdote of 1, but with inflation, even though I could technically afford it, I just can't bring myself to pay it anymore - it's just too insane. With delivery fees, up charges, taxes and tips, it's easy to pay like $40 bucks for a pretty simple meal where I live.

Especially since all I need to do is the teeniest amount of planning ahead, e.g. I'll just call ahead for pickup somewhere and plan it around times when I'm driving anyway.
Google didn’t lose billions of dollars before becoming profitable. They were definitely profitable at IPO
it's the case at least in france

https://www.insee.fr/en/information/2388586
>Obviously the point is to save time by not going there.

A benefit that was, in my experience, significantly outweighed by all of the other negatives with the experience (higher prices, mismatched or missing items from menu, dogshit customer service, cold food upon arrival, items missing from order upon arrival, etc.). In point of fact, that it would take 90+ minutes to have to wait for my food when I'm hungry (I had the unique experience of watching my driver on DoorDash's app and saw him drive by my house with my food to go to other stops further away from me one time, and he didn't make it back to me for another 45 minutes) didn't actually feel like it saved time - the more time passes, the hungrier I get, which only encourages frustration with the process.

Directly contacting a restaurant and picking up from them, in my experience, almost always results in a 10-25 minute block of time for the food to be ready depending on the restaurant, in my experience. With these apps, it's far, far longer and never consistent, and to your point about kids, if my kids are hungry, waiting for some driver to futz around for an hour only to show up without the one thing my oldest wanted most is only going to make the situation worse.

>It’s also huge if you have kids since loading them in the car and making them wait at a restaurant is a pain.

Anecdotally, I'm also a parent (3yo and 1yo) and don't really experience this issue. I time my restaurant pickups accordingly, and I've never had to wait around with my kids for our takeout - it's always ready to go as soon as we arrive, and I can check the order either right in the restaurant or in the parking lot in order to rectify any errors with it immediately. My kiddos (again, anecdotally) also enjoy going to restaurants to eat out and usually do well waiting when we're there, or if we're in a long line for fast food, or whatever - but at least in those instances I can usually guesstimate with decent accuracy how long the wait will take relative to how patient or impatient my kids seem at the time, and decide whether or not to proceed accordingly - delivery apps don't give you that flexibility, they're just an overpriced coin toss in that regard.

But I do recognize that our experience here is our own and likely doesn't match what other parents experience.
I wouldn't say that a society has a moral duty to even accept immigrants. I am one and am eternally grateful that I get to live in Canada.

But take a country like Japan - they have near zero immigrants and they seem to like that.

If you have an open society with a flexible identity like the US, Canada, Australia, and maybe others, then you get the benefit of ambitious immigrants coming to grow your economy. But this isn't doable by or desirable to every other nation.
Ok checked some info and, in summary:

Your linked article (the official source from Google) states "November 2021" [1], which by date would correspond to API Level 32 aka. Android 12.1.

Android 12.0 might also have the feature backported on some devices, according to some reports such as seen in the issue report for the feature [2].

Finally, the feature has apparently not been backported to Android 10 or 11, according to a blog post I found about this topic [3].

[1]: https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/dns-...

[2]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/140786115

[3]: https://www.esper.io/blog/android-dessert-bites-26-mdns-loca...
For the hyperrich, setting aside 10 or 20 admissions for "idiots who bring new science buildings with them" seems to benefit literally everyone at the school.
This is why sharing books is universally good.
> it's only suitable for a particular kind of question, the kind of question with a clear and authoritative answer.

So it's only useful for trivial questions?
This might be less bad - being part of the protocol, browsers might implement this with much more obtuse UIs that hinder adoption, causing it to fail and the ecosystem to move on. Whereas putting the capabilities under flexible software control like Google's treacherous proposal allows for this slowly-boiling-frog dynamic we've already experienced with IP and browser leak based discrimination. (Like these days even Amazon is hitting me with CAPTCHAs to search products. sigh)

But every remote attestation scheme is fundamentally an evil attack on personal computing, couched in legitimate sounding language like "security". The actual dynamic is that of a villain in a story arc who starts off with good intentions, but just wants increasingly more power to implement their desires, causing them to actually be evil.
I maintain auto-generated bindings for my C libraries for Zig and Nim (and Odin and Rust - although the Rust bindings definitely need some love to make them a lot more idiomatic).

I think looking at the examples (which is essentially the same code in different languages) gives you a high level idea, but they only scratch the surface when it comes to language features (for instance the Zig examples don't use any comptime features):

Zig: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/tree/master/src/examples

Nim: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-nim/tree/master/examples

Odin: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-odin/tree/main/examples

Rust: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-rust/tree/main/examples
That may be the case for undistinguished applicants with no particular outstanding qualities who need to set themselves apart from the rest of the crowd. Everyone I know who attended an Ivy came from an underrepresented background of one kind or another, and got in simply on their credentials.
It attests the server, not the client.