skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In person conversations could be required to be recorded with a portable voice recording device (like a tape deck or phone). Same for phone calls. The regulatory authorities exempt those communications for now, but it isn't clear that there is any kind of consistent standard / reasoning.
We’ve used this tool to subset a decent sized database (~1500 tables, mostly 5th normal form) with success. The UI is pretty good for exploring the database and getting a configuration up and running.

The resulting configuration is in plain text which makes it very easy to commit to source control and even batch edit.

Extracting data can be done on the command line without running the UI and is thus well suited for pipelines.

We had a few questions and the author was very friendly and helped us understand how to solve our issues.

Big +1 from me.
I've been through the process a couple of times with things that are supposed to radiate, and it was a frustrating and expensive process that I'm glad my employer paid for.

Its super annoying, and sets you up for an extra couple thousand dollar NRE per product, mandatory minimum cost to be 100% compliant. That cost is the other side of why I'm hesitant. I've got access to tens of thousands of dollars of test equipment at my employer; I don't really have those resources in my basement.

Its a shame that there doesn't appear to be much real testing to see if a device is operating on bluetooth/wifi responsibly, because it is possible to be completely compliant with relevant FCC standards, but then have such a shoddy bluetooth implementation that its still disruptive to everything around.
~1 mln per 10 days, ~100 mln per year? Thats not so much, but its only Norway.
> Arnold Schwarzenegger is 6'2" and weighed 235lbs at contest (30.2 BMI) and 260lbs in the off season (33.4 BMI).

I understand what you're saying, but I think a person that wins Mr. Olympia seven times is clearly a severe, severe, severe outlier. For a decade he was THE most well-built body on the planet. Literally ONE in 5 billion.

Obviously no measurement is "perfect" for "everyone", but BMI is a very good indicator for an extremely high percentage of the population.

For the average person that isn't doing something radical with their body for a specific goal (powerlifer, bodybuilder, olympian, etc.) BMI is a fantastic first pass indicator of how things are going general health/weight wise.
You ignored the lifespan of a train vs a Tesla vehicle. Maintenance is also a big cost factor. You can run a train for decades with very low maintenance costs, which is just not true for a car fleet. Your average car would suffer from some critical, perhaps non-repairable condition, at 300,000 miles. Train cars last for decades.

> Of course, you can sardine people into trains more than you can squeeze people into cars, but we've ignored the cost of rail, larger tunnels, and large underground stations needed to run subways, and cars can handle load variance more cheaply than trains, which often run near-empty.

It seems that you are really concerned about personal space, but anyway.

"Larger" tunnels and stations are needed for several reasons, one of them being able to handle passenger volume and accessibility. What you are saying is, essentially, that underground train infrastructure is "more expensive" because it is just better: it can handle more passengers, has to comply with safety regulations, and needs to be accessible.
Not sure if you're being factious or not. vim is an open source project and he wasn't the only person working on it. The future of vim is fine.
"He’s still disgruntled by an incident last weekend in the Richmond District, during which an autonomous vehicle entered the scene and parked between a fire engine and a vehicle on fire."
Rust in Jupyter Notebooks: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/getting-started-with-rust-jupy...

REPLit for Rust: https://replit.com/languages/rust

For general REPL and rust appears there are a few options.

I don't think getting rid of Python completely will happen. But current approaches _typically_ looks something like:

- Jupyter Notebook for custom parts of EDA

- Jupyter Notebook for testing new libraries or learning new methods

- Pipeline (replaceable with Rust) for standard EDA

- Pipeline (replaceable with Rust) for data quality

- Application/pipeline for product development
Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of changes made to his books to update them for more modern audiences? His books were the first I heard of being updated for that reason and I'd like to see what was done, but I can only find news articles listing some changes.
I suspect this is very regional. My Amazon deliveries come in a marked van, clean enough, with a uniformed driver. They have been just as personable as the UPS & FedEx drivers, they don't walk through my lawn, they all deliver packages to my doorstep just the same. But the Amazon guy does take a quick picture. Can't really just toss it and walk away.

> Reminds me of fast food employee who simply hands your meal out the window, no greeting, no thank you, no smile...

That's a sad place for sure. I don't eat a lot of fast food, but our closest restaurants are usually courteous. But that might also be partly how I address them. I decided many years ago that common courtesy just made the whole world a nicer place, whether in person or driving down the road. Even if you start out forcing it, as your mood improves so will the moods of the people you interact with, and it spreads. Bad attitude also spreads. So I don't choose that.
Yeah, this post doesn't have merit — and thanks for linking, was interesting reading some of the comments.

As an aside, I bet many of HN don't see much value in Touch Bar as it likely has a higher propensity of touch typers than visual/hunt-and-peck typers, for whom Touch Bar really did shine. Not a feedback loop worth fulfilling, however.
Edit: they added the line back again -_-

They just made another edit and removed the line.

Here's the edit history going all the way back to March:

- 4/1 https://www.diffchecker.com/dCuVSMnp/

- 7/1 https://www.diffchecker.com/Zny4Rjqw/

- 8/7 https://www.diffchecker.com/ER0RHSdb/

- 8/8 https://www.diffchecker.com/RLiqgAaA/
Unsurprisingly, highly regulated sectors like banking where entering is extremely hard display cartel like behaviors. There is no incentive coming from the competition so why would anyone lower the net interest margin. In this context, I think a windfall tax somehow makes sense. Then again, I'm pretty sure it's going to be misused by the government. I would much rather see regulation forcing banks to raise interest rate on deposits but well at least this goes somewhat in the right direction.
“Unsmiling” is not “unprofessional”.

Smiling isn’t about courtesy, respect, or professionalism. It’s a US cultural habit that is not universal in the rest of the world, ingrained into service industries, in service of demands that workers subsume all emotion in favor of providing “service with a smile”. Covid masking protocols were looked upon fondly by service industry workers specifically because they didn’t have to fake-smile anymore.

Don’t hold your breath for the return of fake-smiles, and don’t confuse the absence of a smile with the presence of negativity, discourtesy, disrespect, or unprofessionalism. It’s just a neutral face, delivering a neutral package to a neutral stranger.
Canada need to do the same!
Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)
SMS is no longer available on Facebook Messenger
As far as my understanding goes, there are 2 main reasons:
1. The very specific nature of the OS, which aims to be (in theory) very modular
2. You need to partake on a very clear idea of what software freedom means, in every sense of the word

I don't use Hurd, but I do get it. I feel it's quite simple.

Just because it isn't there yet doesn't mean one wouldn't want to hack on it from time to time
Still have a hard time understanding people who refuse to look at the data and benchmarks myself. Chatgpt was a game changer and let the cat out of the bag, but it’s not far ahead anymore.
Case in point: The ongoing Covid-19 inquiry request for access to government WhatsApp messages: https://www.ft.com/content/208263bf-b6bb-4ea6-8e6b-ee2e522ac...
> Mexico has it's problems

Like being completely compromised by the drug cartels and effectively a narco-state?[0]

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-s-former-defense-...
The reality is no matter how genuinly your delivery driver ask "hi how can I help", he/she does not care about it. There is simply no time for him to care about it. Otherwise, you will see your delivery fee increase since.
> The better example is a store that sells counterfeit goods (and continues to sell it even after being made aware).

The (frustrating) argument Amazon would make here is that they weren't "aware", there was just an "accusation", and since the accuser didn't supply evidence...
> anytime i see some random person on the internet that i do not personally know recommending anything, i immediately assume they are paid for that "recommendation"

Yes, and doubly so if they say something like "this is not sponsored".
I think the first Rust ML framework to gain massive traction will be the one that supports quantisation out of the box.

At the moment there's no Rust ML library that does what llama.cpp or ggml can do.
You can still connect to Gopher server using "proper" Gopher clients, so the parent commenter is still right that Gopher is not going away. But then Gemini too is not going away. These niche protocols will always have their niche communities using their niche clients so they are probably going to survive even if they remain obscure.
On the order of years - we also cleaned that up at some point.
> The US has a range of subway construction costs of $600 million to $2.6 billion per mile. The US median price cluster is $800 million to $1 billion per mile.

68 miles would cost the city around $50B, if past trends hold true. Contra, Vegas Loop is being fully covered by private funds.

In defense, one subway mile is likely worth more than one Loop mile.
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I do like Gemini but still question whether the development of a protocol was necessary. Couldn't you replace it with webrings and a crawler to index them?
There's tons of corroborating evidence online, it's hard not to be convinced.
Building a ChatGPT-Like App from Scratch with React and Llama 2 [video]
Hey HN, I've been live coding some projects this past month and here's the recent one. I'm making a ChatGPT-like React frontend for Llama 2 (deployed on the huggingface inference endpoint API)

Also wanted to show how to set up a react from scratch seeing as there's a bit of an over-reliance on bootstrapping frontends these days in education.

Enjoy! Ask me any questions about the implementation or how to fine-tune Llama 2 (have some other streams where I do that w/ LoRa/QLoRa)
Deep Work: Why calendar blocking is difficult
Tesla doesn't have this problem. I think the approach of progressively autonomous non-geofenced driver assist software is better than geofenced driverless.

Tesla has a fleet of millions of cars, collecting 1m+ miles per day of real-world data. When Cruise encounters a novel situation, it halts traffic. When a Tesla running FSD does, the human takes over, it gets reported as an edge case, edge cases are labeled and bucketed by frequency and tackled in that order, failing unit tests are written, the entire fleet is queried for data on similar situations, the models are trained, the edge case is fixed, and an update is pushed to the entire fleet over the air.
I suspect most business logic can handle 25ms for authz and that’s the right trade off. I think Google’s Zanzibar is also centralized but leverages extreme caching to get lower latencies?

I work on an IAM system that is sub-ms p99 for our authz checks, with policies and keys pushed to each network edge instead of running a centralized system. The biggest perf hits are crypto verification and logging to the fs. We fail-closed to last known policy state when we have partitions, data loss would imply the application service or datastore proxy is lost. We measure policy deploy times in minutes though, and it’s eventually consistent.
Flame: Self-hosted startpage for your server
It would be cool if there was a neighborhood watch but for projects and/or money. Like, a couple dozen people in the community who watch that specific money like a hawk, to make sure it benefits the community and moves along at a good pace and the actors don't take advantage.
I hope it does help stop these disruptive events. F1 (and other sports orgs) come in and tout that they drive business for local businesses and city councils just lap it up.
How many are using laptops from their employer (possibly with mandatory OS)?
After what happened to hong kong, its hard to believe that.
I really like the file `meoweler-fe/src/lib
/cunts.json`

Tells me there are 39105000 cunts in Japan!

//I think I'm reading this data correctly…
I think health care might be one of the areas where I'm least worried. This will drive people back to expertise, though. I might google symptoms to start, but I'm not going to take anything seriously unless it's from a reputable health-care organization like the Mayo Clinic.
> I would much rather see regulation forcing banks to raise interest rate on deposits

Regulation that increases competition would be even better. It seems like that would be the underlying problem.
How much sense does it make to use Gemini as compared to just keeping your HTTP implementation and your web pages markup as minimal as possible?
I'm always confused by the framing of these articles. Are companies supposed to help unions form against them? If they supported unionization efforts, why not just save everyone the time and money and listen to employee demands without one?

It's like, you can love your wife as much as anyone, but you are not expected to help her get her own divorce attorney.

Yeah, companies are going to be against unionizing. That's the point of unionizing. That's the bar you have to reach.
> I wonder why they chose the country with the second worst electricity CO2 wise?

Chip fab locations are about water and talent. Electricity sources are pretty fungible. The former not so much.
Apparently you must register to vote. You can opt out of the extended register. [1]

Not being on the electoral register is a huge pain too. It affects your credit quite significantly.

[1] https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500328/voting/6470/regist...
Most of that high cost isn't due to the use of specific tunnel boring machines. In Europe they pay 1/6th of the US cost and still dig much wider tunnels with multiple tracks that support higher-capacity trains and safety features that the Vegas tunnels lack.
Argue against me please: da Vinci's real Mona Lisa is not what's hanging in the Louvre; the original was never recovered. (This is one of my favorite conspiracies)
Color me skeptical of a San Francisco bureaucracy pleading for more time to process approvals against the backdrop of a plebiscite. It's fair to say we need to speak to San Francisco's police and firefighters to get them the data they need to craft cooperation agreements. (For example, an emergency navigation override.)

But absent even a single policy proposal or timeline, and considering the Taxi Workers Alliance board member's involvement, it's difficult to craft a compelling case for why safety is actually--versus theoretically--impeded.
Please, please, please for the love of everything, stop with these 1000 question 10 minute-long onboarding surveys with fake loading screens that lead you to the payment page (or worse, an email form) regardless of your answers.

These things are an insult to your users.

I don't care if some marketer from noom wrote a pdf about how it "increased conversion".

Just stop it. It's a horrible dark pattern.
The terminal emulator is one of the places where I actually expect coloured emoji support.

Granted, that it's supposed to emulate a teletypewriter but I think that ship sailed a long time ago.
That's the planned Project Connect, not the current line.
Economic hardships cause emotional distress, and you can't rationalize feelings. Your civil expectations probably match your income level, but not that below you.

E.g. Not getting enough sleep because your poor neighborhood is a ruckus provokes bad mood, chronically.
I know it might be asking a lot, but it would be great if someone could put up a HF space so I could try all the various flavours/sizes.
How is the experience worse if it works?

The other explanations imply that it may not work due to hard coded paths.
I think the requirement is basically only in areas that have high rates of people complaining about things not turning up, and even then, Amazon doesn't really seem to care.

For a while, my home had very poor labeling of its address on the building, and getting anything delivered was always a crapshoot of drivers giving up and just picking a random location to leave it instead. They would happily take photos of them having left it at a home that was not mine, not remotely mistakable for mine, and Amazon didn't treat that any differently from the cases where there were no photos at all.
We're in a time where these tools have replaced face to face conversations -- and those previous conversations never required record keeping.
As I understand it from my own tuning career, octave stretching is more about correcting dissonances that result from equal temperament than correcting anything about the dynamics of a physical piano. When you tune with octave stretching, you will also widen the high octaves, which are the correct size to hold a standing wave on almost every piano with standard "piano wire" strings. This helps to bring the 2nd overtone of a string more in line with the note a 12th above at a cost of making the 1st and 3rd overtone (one and two octaves up) slightly imperfect.

On the lower, wound strings, the thickness of the string causes the string to also hold a standing wave at the fundamental frequency in the short length that the string has, but it amplifies the higher-order harmonics and adds some secondary effects that cause the note to be less "clean" sounding. It doesn't cause the frequency to change.

By the way, I am not a fan of octave stretching on my own piano, so I usually ask piano tuners not to do it. It's completely optional.
The weird step for me is the expansion of regulatory authority from published memos, to all written communication like texts and chats. I get it and don't really object to the end result, but it seems like the law should be updated to match what society desires to be regulated, rather than just relying on a generous interpretation by regulators.
> Rust's safety guarantees are great and I like the language, but the type system is a barrier for learners, especially people who aren't full-time devs.

This surprises me. Hasn't everyone working with data (even at an "enthusiast" level) had to understand data types in the context of databases?
The better question is at what level customers start treating service employees like real human beings.
there is an archive.is link posted in the comments and at least firefox has extensions for circumventing paywalls.
Sounds like this is less about Signal/WA and more about them not archiving methods.

They could in theory run _e.g._ `sigtop` every couple of months and encrypt it (e.g. age or veracrypt).

It's a complicated workflow but I imagine they have a pipeline for emails that isnt much less complicated, but also isnt E2EE.
IMHO the problem with Gemini is that "a subset of the web's functionality" is a very broad definition and it's hard to find consensus on whether that subset corresponds to 1% or 99% or something in the middle

I think the ideal project starts closer to the 99% but allows for graceful degradation down to 1% with little beyond a TUI, some colors and hyperlinks. That requires creating the right infrastructure for servers to offer a "stack" of content built something like (text + (hyperlinks + (images + (css + (video + (animations + (...)))). Clients can then be developed to handle whatever portion of that stack they want to.

This at least has the advantage of lowering switching costs for users who want to explore this "new web" while also allowing nerds like me to experience the web "the right way" with no distractions

However, the elephant in the room is that is is hard to imagine content creators would be in any way incentivized to think about their content in terms of that stack. Reddit just wants to force everyone to use their app, text-and-hyperlinks be damned. There's a reason RSS feeds have died.
We could trivially fix the "80 hour weeks" piece by increasing the number of places available in medical schools and residencies, but the AMA intentionally keeps that number small to maintain the status quo of intern hazing and high salaries.

It takes similar effort and abilities to get a STEM phD, but the researchers working on drug discovery or mitigating the climate crisis or whatever other socially-beneficial thing make 1/3rd what an MD makes. The power of the AMA in guiding the entire healthcare system to the benefit of MDs shouldn't be underestimated.
Chat with your data using OpenAI, Pinecone, Airbyte, LangChain
Windmill: Turn scripts into workflows and UIs in minutes
Reduce pure quartz, get pure silicon.
Trading Security for Convenience: A Closer Look at the Faustian Bargain of SaaS
(Also from another recent HN discussion on Gemini I was left with the impression that the project's direction was defined in a pretty heavy-handed way, and I think its chilling effect has likely further diminished the chances Gemini has to succeed)
According to BMI I spent years "obese" and am now "overweight" bordering on obese.

I'm about 16-18% body fat. I'm definitely muscular, but hardly in the .0001%. If I'm wearing a shirt, you can't really tell that I lift.

Hardly world class.
> You don't need laws to enforce this change or behavior, you just need the Amazon drivers to show solidarity and unionize. They can demand (and get!) far more change than the government will ever legislate.

The problem is, with jobs that do not require more than a driver's license and the ability to read names you are a fungible cog in the giant machinery of Amazon. It's a job that virtually everyone with a half working body can do: no need for special training, certifications, not even language - here in Germany, it's been reported that the Amazon phone app their delivery people use has like at least half a dozen languages.

Fine, you go on strike with your colleagues? Your official employer won't pay as he can't because Amazon pays shit, barely enough to keep the lights on. You keep striking. Amazon will just terminate your employer's contract. Your employer shuts down. Amazon finds someone else willing to start up a "delivery company", and that person finds another bunch of people desperate to make a pittance.
Great! Delivery fees are already unsustainably low.

Getting a product to my door cannot possibly be free! That cost is simply being borne somewhere.

And since the cost of products isn't rising (or wasn't until COVID), then those costs are being borne elsewhere, and that very much includes the workers who are seeing lower salaries, longer hours, and worse working conditions.

So I say yes, please, bring on the shipping fees. And if that means my delivery person smiles while dropping my package, and then goes home a wealthier, healthier person, then absolutely I am all for it.