skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a high-performance open-source RPC software framework based on the HTTP/2 transport layer protocol. It provides an application programming interface (API) design method for managing and configuring network devices. gRPC provides multiple programming languages, such as C, Java, Golang, and Python.
gRPC can be used together with telemetry as a data transmission protocol to monitor the running status of network devices in real time, at a high speed, and accurately. In addition, gRPC provides the configuration, query, and capability obtaining methods, which are used by devices connected to a collector for reporting device data.
These gig workers can be shareholders themselves. These jobs give them flexibility normal employment doesn't provide.
Text of the ordinance is at https://seattle.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=62149...
Point is a record type here. Record types seem to be like Scala's case classes.

The distinction between fields and getters is intentionally blurred because these are immutable value classes.
Modernity has made us allergic
Because the remaining content is also garbage (probably even worse garbage gauging by the trends I observed before I started ignoring CNET altogether)
Seattle is not in California.
No, it never meant that. "Middle class" is a USAmerican invention, and an incoherent one at that.

Class is defined by one's relationship to the means of production (e.g. whether you work in a factory, or own the factory where people work)
Yes, Tasks has recently been improved, because it has asorbed functionality of Reminders.

You can create Lists of tasks, and thus group them upon creation. You can also reassign them to another list at any time.

As long as you are working in the Desktop version of Tasks, you can create and manage complex subtasks for every task. This has a title, details, and a date/time, so if your master task is composed of, say, five steps, then you can create five subtasks with separate deadlines for each, and mark them off as you go.

Tasks can repeat, so if you have an annual routine you do every July 31, have at it! Want a simple reminder to eat your Wheaties every morning? Make a daily recurring task! You'll receive a Calendar notification for it, where you can mark it as done, or delete it or whatever.

A limitation you may need to know is that Tasks won't work across accounts. So if you're managing some tasks at example@gmail.com, they won't appear for ejemplo@gmail.com, won't be able to share them or enable collaboration on tasks. In this case, I would recommend using Calendar Events instead, because these do have such features.
This is a good point. Gig workers enjoy being summarily fired by a robot with no explanation or recourse, now they will have to move to another city in order to keep doing so. I would hate to be a gig worker in Seattle today and see that the people that pay me to work have to give notice before banning me from their app.
I am highly certain it involved both and more.

For example, say someone wanted to run their botnet distribution server. Now, unless you’re a state actor working for North Korea or some such, that generally gets a rather angry knock on your door in a rather short period of time.

Being able to hide your IP/traffic for $5/mo is going to save you a significant amount of trouble.

I’m certain AWS and other hosting providers keep track of any activity that’s too strange, and the authorities will have your hosting provider give you the boot even if they can’t figure out who you are exactly.

Developing a reputation for allowing, if not quite condoning such behavior will quite quickly get you shut down as a business. Even if they can’t “prove” anything, you’ll get hassled, harassed, and investigated to death because your existence goes from being a nuisance to being a problem.

Some guy torrented a few movies on your VPN? Whatever. Some guy used your VPN to break into their local government’s servers? If they can’t find him, they’ll take it out on you.
The message sorting is not RCS. It is another Google Messages feature which can be disabled in Settings->Message organization. It has been available for quite awhile but not the default. Possibly they decided to make both features the default at the same time. As a side note, it actually does a pretty good job of categorizing my messages.
> So do we all have to keep reinventing these wheels, but only after a production outage?

We live in a world where programmers' "consensus" is that checked exceptions are bad and we need to remove them from Java. People generally just don't care anything except the happies path.
I feel like they presume I'm a gullible person they need to protect who is just on the Internet for shopping and watching entertainment.

Wasn't the point of them tracking us so much to customize and cater our results? Why have they normalized everything to some focus group persona of Joe six-pack?

***

Let's try an experiment

Type in "Chicago ticket" which has at least 4 interpretations, a ticket to travel to Chicago, a citation received in Chicago, A ticket to see the musical Chicago and a ticket to see the rock band Chicago.

For me I get the Rock band, citation, baseball and mass transit ticket in that order.

I'm in Los Angeles, have never been to Chicago, don't watch sports, and don't listen to the rock band. Google should know this with my location, search and YouTube history but it apparently doesn't care. What do you get?
Sounds like the sort of noise complaint that you can talk to the neighbor, the landlord, or the condo association but legal avenues are probably going to get you laughed at.
Wait... what? As someone who's always tried to target the oldest Android version I can which Google Play will still allow uploading (for a long time, Android 2.3), this is alarming. Why don't they run now? I don't actually play games on Android myself.
When I worked at $MAJOR_VENDOR, we had an internal-only archive of product installation and documentation ISOs for old versions, discontinued products, etc. It didn't go back forever (although apparently some even older stuff was archived offline and could be retrieved on request), but it did contain product versions that had been out-of-support for over a decade. A lot of older material which had been removed from the public website was contained in it.

There was a defined process for customers to request access to it – they'd open a support ticket, tell us what they wanted, the support engineer would check the licensing system to confirm they were licensed for it, then transfer it to an externally accessible (S)FTP server for the customer to download, and provide them with the download link. There was a cron job which automatically deleted all files older than 30 days from the externally-accessible server.
It's been quite a while, but CNET has never been the same since CBS acquired them in 2008. They drove the site to become SEO fodder, almost like a ZergNet for tech. And their most recent acquirer is diluting whatever integrity remains by pushing out a slew of "lifestyle" content.

It's a shame because CNET, surprisingly, has retained some really great editors that are as knowledgeable as they come in their respective domains. David Katzmaier and Brian Cooley come to mind.
From your wiki: "In its revised form, it is similar to the Assimilation Model, which holds that modern humans originated in Africa and today share a predominant recent African origin, but have also absorbed small, geographically variable, degrees of admixture from other regional (archaic) hominin species"

> Most people consider the multiregional origin theory highly motivated reasoning

As if the Out of Africa theory isn't highly motivated?

> and also completely garbage science.

But genetic evidence has proven that we all have different hominin dna. Science backs the revised multiregional model.

This reminds me of the clovis theory. The agenda driven people always front run any criticism of the clovis theory because they were on the wrong side of history and science.
"Are you deleting content from your site because you somehow believe Google doesn't like "old" content? That's not a thing!"

I guess that Googler never uses Google.

It's very hard to find anything on Google older than or more relevant than Taylor Swift's latest breakup.
Or have protections that aren't related to work.

We can't have it both ways with utter flexibility on the business side and no support on the social side. Cutting flexibility on the business side is an option, the other is to increase the support without an employer paying for it.
You're completely off the mark with your last sentence. Migrants make up almost 1/5 of the US civilian labor force, and Hispanics are a half of that [0]. If that's a "small percentage" of migrants, then I guess the has more migrants than citizens.

Also from that source

> Foreign-born men continued to participate in the labor force at a considerably higher rate in
2022 (77.4 percent) than their native-born counterparts (66.0 percent).

You simply couldn't be more wrong.

[0]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf
CaseViewer.app
Ask HN: Replacing social events with video games for virtual conferences? Which?
Hi everyone. Cobbling together an international event with millennials, few gen z folks. Nothing can quite replace face-to-face interactions, but I am determined to try. So I am looking for games that have that party atmosphere but translate well to online interactions (obviously) with a dozen people or less. Or could be broken up into smaller groups. Everybody is relatively tech-savvy, but not everyone is a gamer or has a super powerful machine, so casual games that are accessible to beginners are needed.
No they can't. Do you really think someone who is working multiple gig jobs just to make less than minimum wage can decide instead of paying rent or putting food on the table they'll instead allocate that money to their brokerage account and buy shares? Get real.

Gig work is a modern form of indentured servitude. Instead of a person with a whip telling you to work or die it's an app.
There should be a way to codify law that requires companies to provide compensation for the trouble. Companies far too commonly assume guilty until proven innocent. It puts all the responsibility on the consumer because they want to avoid liabilities.
I love your HR comment. It's HR's literal job to interview / hire people. It's not the job of the candidate to interview for a position. Deluded, self-important lunatics.
> some funded by US interests

Most of it apparently!

> Donor information that was leaked from the GiveSendGo campaign—which has raised more than $9.5 million—revealed that more than half the donations going to protest organizers have come from the U.S.

> An analysis of the data by Newsweek found that California, Texas, Florida, New York and Michigan topped the list of the highest number of U.S. donations by state.
>It baffles me that people think that employees should just put up with whatever horrible environment an employer produces and be grateful for the job.

I don't think people do, but the issue is that they lack the bargaining power to do anything about it.

A tech worker making 6 figures? They aren't going to pushed around as easily as someone who is living paycheck to paycheck just for rent. they can forget to empathize for those who literally are chained to a job.
You can run some of the (right combination of smaller and/or quantized) models on consumer laptop/desktop GPUs and even more can be run (if slowly) on CPU with plenty of RAM, but, yeah, beyond a certain point in model capability/performance, you are going to own, or rent, datacenter GPUs.
A bunch of folks mentioning ARMsid, but there are a number of FPGA-based implementations as well:

FPGASID - https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product_info.php?produ...
reDIP SID - https://github.com/daglem/reDIP-SID
Of course they do. To these people, nothing exists for any reason other than to be fed to the machine (LLM/profit/etc).

Who cares about what the author/artist/originator person wants, our machine eats data, and we own the web, so we’ll do whatever we wish because you exist at our behest. Peasants.
They almost always do have a website and self hosted stuff. That no one uses. So the government and companies also try to reach out to platforms where they people are. Which was once TV and radio. Is now social media.
Uber still provides a better service for me in areas where I can use it. It's not as cheap, but in the cities I live and travel to taxis are still sketchy and unreliable compared to Uber.

Edit: honestly what is the rationale for the existing regulation?

I see the arguments for regulation around employee protection. But a lot of the licensing regulations seem designed to enforce artificial scarcity and restrict competition. The medallion system in NYC comes to mind. The value of an NYC medallion was insane pre Uber, there's no good reason for that.

Some of the licensing was clearly regulatory capture by existing taxi companies.
Depends. This type of vulnerability is probably fairly valuable to state actors, for example.
1998 if i recall correctly...
> They were loading up encampments with propane and diesel fuel [1] mere feet from the Parliament buildings.

You make it sound like the fuel was intended to blow up Parliament or something. Clearly it was meant to keep their trucks running and the propane was for cooking and heating the people within the encampment. This was a completely non-violent protest.
The spring framework is by far the ugliest code ive ever had the displeasure of trying to understand.

Just an absolute horrific mess of nonesense from top to bottom.
Thanks for that! Never heard of the phrase immutable distro before, excited to check a bunch of them out.

https://itsfoss.com/immutable-linux-distros/
True. Stroustrup's first implementation Cfront [1] was a C++ to C translator:

> Cfront was the original compiler for C++ (then known as "C with Classes") from around 1983, which converted C++ to C; developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT&T Bell Labs. The preprocessor did not understand all of the language and much of the code was written via translations.

cppfront [2] aims to do the same for translating C++ to C++:

> Cppfront is an experimental compiler from a potential C++ 'syntax 2' (Cpp2) to today's 'syntax 1' (Cpp1), to learn some things, prove out some concepts, and share some ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront

[2] https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
I don't disagree with most of that, and I generally try not to use Uber or Lyft these days, but "replace a crappy service with a crappy service with better UX" is... not a bad business model. Almost every time I've taken a normal cab, the car was worse than every Uber I've ever been in, they tried to bully me into paying cash, and half of the time there was a screen in the car showing me ads non-stop, and it still cost more.

I had essentially sworn off of taxis, or even visiting cities where I would need to get a taxi. For all of their supposed regulation, there was almost no other industry I wanted to interact with less.

Uber had a really low bar to clear, and even at increased prices, I'm unsure if it would drive me back to cabs.
What a fantasy. It does not show any sign of profit decrease. How would a company die with $279.8B revenue, steadily increasing yearly?

At one time both buggy whips and Philco radios had hockey stick growth charts, too.

You must not bet old enough to remember when people thought MySpace would always drive the internet.
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Yeah the law should be gig work is illegal and the OP should have been classified as a part time or full time worker who would have been paid for the entire time on the clock during the work day, including the time wasted while the company toiled to resolve a customer dispute.
I agree with all this. "Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems" (2001) is another good read if you're facing problems in this vein. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28750103
Oh thank you for the update, that's great news! Agree with their position 100%.
A nontrivial full time job, a wife, a toddler, an infant, a mortgage, and my own fatigue.

I will, eventually, have the capital to continue.
I didn't mean MY language. I meant "what laws are being interpreted wrongly"
I feel like the jump from "obscure corner case + bug in some script led to bad consequences" to "k8s is an absolute horror show" is not really warranted.
Why is there not more ambition in the developed world? Say we wanted to boost ambition by 2X. What’s the actual constraint? What stands in the way?

Here's a guess: where it once was possible to be a one person wunderkind in scientific discovery or business, it no longer is.

Great achievements have become team sports. You need multiple experts in disparate skillsets to achieve a huge business or great discovery.

Anyone smart enough to have that kind of ambition is also probably smart enough to realize that it's a huge undertaking, and huge enough that they can't do it themselves.

It also likely comes with the parallel realization (or fear) that what drives their ambition is maybe not enough to get others to join their team.

I know that holds me back in my ambitions. It's hard to convince others you have the right ideas, and that they are worth working on.
I agree, but I don't think an application with an embedded DSL is the same thing as an application written in a home grown language.
What IS "cool"?

It's that moment just before something becomes uncool, lol.

Software developers are glorified teenagers. Once something goes from upstart to widely used, developers get bored with it or else frustrated with the issues that arise from actual professional use. Then they go looking for the next fashionable upstart.

Oddly, I feel like PostgreSQL is on it's second cycle through this loop now.
I think one of the most interesting things about space flight is how inflexibly your maneuvering actually is compared to how it’s portrayed in TV and film. As an example, in a given orbital altitude you cannot really speed up or slow down without changing your altitude. You can’t really move side to side at all without completely changing your orbital trajectory.
Has anyone managed to get LogSeq to sync across Apple devices?
I don't think that's the case, or all of the case.

Windows might download patches and update components but the core OS design, is there for over 15 or more years, and ditto for most of the userland, when it doesn't go back to Windows NT times..
>Even without a union having enough people just walk out because the company doesnt respect them will crush the company. Rightly so.

it's a prisoner's dilemma, and the risk for a minimum wage worker walking out when it's not enough people is the worst case. they get fired, nothing changes, and it may even discourage others from trying.

You can only walk when you either have a next step or the result makes no difference. Many don't have that step and it's not QUITE so dire that food stamps are better than working. It's getting close, though.
Americans don't have a constitutional right to food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education, employment or to not get shot in the street, and you want the constitution to guarantee everyone an email address?

I mean, the real issues here are labor and consumer rights, and the arbitrary power that American capitalism gives to corporations and employers, but God forbid Americans take either of those seriously, that would be communist.
>Starship progress is a little ways away from proving this adage wrong

Yeah, and will perennially be so
Dylan604…

Would that by any chance be a reference to Apple's flavor of Lisp and a version of the PPC?
What is the difference between a true vegan and a guilt meat eater
Submit this with any College applications and for any computer work while in school.
Same. Filed under haunting things you can never unknow.
So, I work as a full time employee for a "big tech company located in downtown Seattle", my employer can terminate me anytime, on the spot, for any reason. But if I was a uber driver, I'd receive some "protection", why is that?
Or mayhap Google et al could realize and understand that having old articles in archive shouldn't penalize your ranking.

I will not be surprised if in my lifetime it is not possible to Google anything by William Shakespeare.
The US has no legal authority within China, or any other country, which is why the State Dept website says "You must follow the local laws of the country you visit".

It's pretty much a negotiation. The State Dept can try back channels if they think you've been unfairly denied an exit visa, but other than than, there is nothing they can do.
no. different project https://tinygrad.org/
I'm more of a creative application of wasp nest that just happens to be right where he turns around kind of guy.

In my head anyway. Apparently I'm more of a "well you can't look at any other part of my house and call me fastidious, so whatever my front yard has permanent trash" kind of guy.
The Jesuit order is in charge of the Vatican's astronomy and astrobiology projects.

A few years ago, I attended a talk by the Director, Brother Guy Consolmagno. The first thing that struck me is that he's a rare non-ordained Jesuit. They're a priestly order, and so most men answer a dual vocation, with the intention of becoming a priest. Anyway, Brother Guy had some great speculation on extraterrestrial life, and what this would mean to our faith, and how today's discoveries have already molded our faith in amazing ways.

Pope St. John Paul the Great wrote that "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth..." https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/d...

The Vatican Observatory is really fun to follow on LinkedIn. They publish an active Podcast as well, which is cross-platform - even RSS! https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/podcast/

I once visited the Palomar Mountain Observatory in the 1980s, and we learned all about the 207-inch Hale telescope, how it was designed and built, how it was transported, and what they were discovering thanks to its gigantic girth. Of course, the Hale mirror now pales in comparison to the latest stuff. But it seems that the VATT's primary mirror is a relatively modest 1.83 meters.

My sister is more of an astronomer than I am, but I definitely love this equipment.
CalcPy: Calculator and advanced math solver in the comfort of your terminal
This article is merely summarizing a longer article at Bloomberg, in case anyone would like to read something more substantial.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/stability...
Sure, but that's somewhat unavoidable. It's not as if cab drivers didn't discriminate on their fares before Uber, or inflate/make up prices via all kinds of underhanded means.

Uber and the like are getting worse, but they're just coming down to the level the taxi industry has been at for most of the last century.
A year from now AI will make it real. Reschedule movie night.
I can confirm this, mlc is shockingly fast on my RTX 2060.

The catch is:

- MLC's quantization is somewhat different (though I havent run any perplexity tests yet)

- There is no CPU offloading (or splitting onto an IGP) like Llama.cpp yet (unless its new and I missed it).
> It is, essentially, implicitly assuming artificial superintelligence has not only been achieved, but is already widely acknowledged to be achieved, and thus that it is simply trivially obvious and unimpressive that the systems involved should be able to do well at language tasks that humans have done in the past with their less-advanced tools.

More like a recognition that structural text generation doesn’t need artificial superintelligence, and so what we’re left with is a text generator, and… well so what?
You're neglecting to consider that many companies consider their office buildings to be a real estate investment, expecting big returns.