skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it did not appear that way to the writers who took to Twitter to point out that the books in the library were written by human beings who were often poorly paid and not benefiting from this free information at all.

Kindly ask your publishers why they pay you so poorly.

> [An author of popular books for young adults] wrote in a 23-post broadside on Twitter that offering up free books to an audience that could afford to pay for them was, “at this point in history, cutting into our money for hospital and/or funeral bills.”

Kindly ask your politicians why the US still has no socialized healthcare.
I think what the author is pointing out is that the cost of tax is detached from the price of rent in similar houses in similar locations.

That is, he is pointing out that in the highly regulated market of housing (not even close to a free market) that Prop 13 does not help renters and instead favors long-standing owners mightily.
I wonder how much it would cost to fill my office with helium/oxygen mix to maximize my productivity.

Would sound odd during calls, though!
S3 Backed Full-Text Search with Tantivy
whats the alternative? Trump? I'll take the sleepy senior over the unstable senior any day. Besides its not like the president sets the economic plans these days. Their only influence is on government spending. Fed controls the interest rate which affects a broader segment of the economy.
American driver here, I don't know about others but my small hatchback gets between 30 and 35 mpg. If I am driving on the highway, I can get up to 37 ~ 40 mpg depending on what speeds I use and how hilly it is. NE Georgia.
I wish I was better at thinking in handwritten notes. I've been using computers my whole life, so typing feels very natural to me, while handwriting feels slow and cumbersome. I've become pretty proficient at thinking in code and moving things around in text editors, but whenever I try to do something on paper with equations it feels like there is a mental block there. This has prevented me from learning as much math and physics as I would like to have learned.
To those who write plain SQL in Python, what do you use for migrations?
I was pleasantly surprised to realize my little part of town is getting quieter and quieter because more and more EV are getting in.

It's a delight.

Even if it were polluting just the same forever, it would be a significant improvement.
In other words, "it's the economy, stupid"

(That phrase was used by James Carville to help Bill Clinton get elected in 1992)
If they don't want outsiders driving demand for local housing, than the should focus their efforts on being hostile to outsiders. Attacking developers that are helping to soak up that demand is just going to make housing even less affordable.
David Holz’s journey to Midjourney [video]
> Mobile browsers might zoom the content as if it's an image, scaling the entire viewport, but desktop browsers very much do not.

What browser are you using? If you zoom up this very HN page in Chrome or Firefox it will grow the content without spilling over the readable area. This works just as well with pixels as it does with rem.
To be clear, I dont mind zoom using data from their service to train "their AI models", particularly where these are transparent and specific.

I was more concerned about the wording, which implied they would give themselves the right to use the data to train "AI models" more generally.

I have few problems with them building a better noise cancelling solution for their platform, but lots of problems with them selling it for improving third party surveillance and fingerprinting.
> I find Collingwood to have more helpful insights for language and communication in general than Wittgenstein, because language as Collingwood explains it includes bodily gestures and, although he doesn't by any means neglect the spoken and written word (which are still important to him), he emphasizes the importance of other types of language too.

I'm a big fan of Collingwood as well, but did want to clarify that Wittgenstein also discusses and included body language and gesture in his writings. For instance, he wrote quite a bit about pain and emotion and links those to his own ideas on language. At the most basic level, Wittgenstein argued that language was behavior after all.

> There is a story that Buddha once, at the climax of a philosophical discussion, broke into gesture-language as an Oxford philosopher may break into Greek: he took a flower in his hand, and looked at it; one of his disciples smiled, and the master said to him, ‘You have understood me.’

There's even a anecdote about Wittgenstein that is similar and was, at least according to the anecdote, very influential towards his work in PI. Wittgenstein was talking with Italian economist Piero Sraffa and discussing some of his work on language. Wittgenstein wanted to ground the entirety of language in a question of logical form. Like in TLP, at this time he was still a disciple of the picture-idea of language where "a proposition is a picture of reality". Sraffa made a gesture, that a lot of Italians will know as meaning something like disgust or contempt, of brushing the underneath of his chin with an outward sweep of the finger-tips of one hand. And he asked: “What is the logical form of that?” This form of body language was a revelation to Wittgenstein who quickly thereafter left his picture theory of language.
> My point with the personal anecdote is precisely that you can write bad or good code with both. however that an ORM can allow for more consistent experience across many more people.

I find it interesting that you say that; my takes is that it's the other way around!

SQL join statements look the same no matter what programming language the reader is used to, but each ORM differs in the way the join looks to the reader. The EF method of filtering your results set in C# looks very different indeed to how the ORM for Python would do it.

Every ORM looks different, which results in a very inconsistent experience for people, especially when you bring in a DB expert to figure out why there's a slowdown somewhere, and he cannot just visually inspect the EF/SQLAlchemy code and say "Well, here's what's wrong".

DB experts can usually very easily do that just by looking at the SQL, no matter what programming language was used.
too late, it aready used user data.
Diesel cars?
Etanol cars (and the sugar price would skyrocket)

Some ugly accidents with batteries catching fire?

Prices would increase as more batteries are needed (so, increasing the price of some goods)?

Solar power generation would increase and become widespread, and prices would decrease as competition would become higher?
I dont think its fair to classify code review and test coverage as “the google way.” Should evaluate more by the unique things google does or the things they specifically invented (not code review and testing).

And of course volunteers working on open source projects have lower standards. Lets instead compare Google to companies which say “we arent google.”
Based on the screenshot it would seem they do have hashed passwords, specifically it looks like bcrypt hashes with a cost factor of 8. Not sure why the cost would be so low, or indeed why the hashes are available at all.
As I understand it, Rust originally had support for garbage collected objects. It was removed because the community avoided it as a general practice to ensure that libraries could work without the optional GC runtime, due to its popularity as a systems language.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130607161259/http://pcwalton.g...
Game of Life using WebGPU, written in Rust
Not at the moment it isn't. It's looking quite precarious right now due to the deflation threat.
IPv6 Security Risks: The Complete Guide [2023]

https://nira.com/ipv6-security-risks/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34478810
I was too until they strayed from the more Standard ML-like syntax to Rust-like syntax all for trying not to alienate the Algol crowd and Rust aficionados. For popularity. I like APL, BQN, and J so I'm not swayed by it.
San Francisco streets clogged as line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill
Having to re-think and rebuild our communities definitely feels like a bigger lift. At least in the US
The real problem, as was so cogently noted in "Queen of Outer Space", is "how could they aim it"?
Sure, in this specific case nothing has happened yet that implies the rule of law has entirely broken down. The real problem driving the national outrage is the long pattern of the justice system not sufficiently binding government employees to the law. If this violent gang was not also employed as police officers, then we'd expect arrests and charges within a week or so. So that's around when we can say that the justice system will start to diverge based on the perps being in a different class.

And actually I'd say this substitution of different crimes is definitely part of the problem. Having a parallel set of laws that apply to government employees is still preserving this notion of a two class justice system where cops are immune from regular laws. If anything, the perps should be charged with both the various color of law framings for the damage to their institutions and for the straightforward crimes of their personal actions outside of their lawful employment duties.
I believe regenerative braking does help with some PM2.5. Tires are still an issue (perhaps worse than normal due to higher weight), but less brake pads friction is a big deal as well.
Erlang has a well defined and clear layer for integrating with C code, including functionality to help you ensure the code you plug into will be thread-safe and work with the VM's underlying concurrency models: https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html

Erlang does not have low-ceremony ways of calling C from Erlang, as I believe Python has. It could be done but that would be frowned upon anyway, because it would defeat the preemptive and fault-tolerant guarantees of the runtime.

So I guess it depends on what you mean by great. FWIW, Elixir has no problems integrating native code from XLA, LibTorch, Polars, that also powers equivalent libraries in Python.
I'm guessing the British Indian Ocean Territory doesn't have a lot of administrators to handle trademark claims. According to Wikipedia, "the only inhabitants are British and United States military personnel, and associated contractors, who collectively number around 3,000 (2018 figures)."

Darn that global Internet, allowing people to use unauthorized chat clients with impunity!
1. All that can be said are the statements of natural science.

2. The most powerful LLM is the sum of al that has been said.

3. No LLM can transcend the statements of natural science.
I just finished the first version of the application, and wanted to have feedback as soon as possible.
If feedback is positive I#ll but a more professional spin on the appearance.
Then it's not a layoff at that point.
Love this. Nothing better than coming to a go codebase and bumping the go version knowing everything will work fine.

One thing I worry about is that the type system can’t get improved significantly without breaking changes in the “this was wrong and wont compile now" sense. Although I'm not sure theres interest for this stuff in the golang team at all. But there are many low hanging type system improvements in go that are major compile time robustness wins for folks, with no language additions.

1) reporting unchecked nils, might require formalizing [T, nil] | [nil, err] so err != nil guarantees T (obviously concurrent pointer access makes it tricky but thats special code with special considerations, not the 99% case)

2) unchecked array access

3) inferring types of nested struct literals. Writing nested GRPC calls is such a damn pain go, this is literally only one layer of type inference... its in the damn function signature I'm calling!

4) Exhaustive enum matches

But now I'm curious, is there any interest for these changes in the golang community? None are adding "features" (like say generics) but would be huge robustness wins and seem pretty easy.
Why does it need to be either/or? Some youths might be inspired by watching non-astronauts in space, some may be inspired by this climate activism. Others may be inspired by watching re-runs of Futurama. The important thing is the inspiration, not what triggers it.
Are we thinking about the same Urs? His reputation was not particularly good when I was in the TI group at Google recently. He also had nothing to do with this book.
People keep arguing about the left without thinking that this degree of income inequality is unsustainable. Liberals should be ashamed of what they have become. There’s no liberty when there’s a de facto Royal class, which are the extremely wealthy.
High-rise depression is caused by the architectural design. Rental apartments in a high rise are for-profit, and 99.9% of the time a developer is maximizing the rentable amount of square footage and minimizing the amount of non-rentable square footage. This eliminates all common spaces that might foster inter-personal interaction and relationships with your neighbors.

Anecdotally, a 1:5 relationship is about ideal, for every x5 700 square foot apartments, there should be 700 square feet of common space. Think 5 doors attached to one courtyard that itself is about the size of an apartment.

From a for-profit point of view, this is a waste of construction cost.
You're confusing software engineering with corporate product support. You can have top-notch ongoing lifetimes for trash products. See for example SAP or anything Oracle.
Early on, this was a motivator for me to contribute to StackOverflow.

I'd look at questions that I sort of maybe knew the answer to, but the question was a reasonable excuse to dive into more details and understanding so I could better communicate and answer the question. It was great way to get some arcane details about how things work.

It's also related to that phenomenon of the process of writing out a sufficiently detailed question to a problem ends up answering the problem for you.
While scuba diving, nitrogen narcosis stops the instant you ascend a bit (the typical recommendation is to reduce the ambient pressure by one atmosphere). I don’t think there is anything in this study that indicates the effect lasts more than a few minutes after exposure ceases.
It would be fascinating to see some data on grayed messages. I know in my case I look for them so that if I feel they are unfairly downvoted, I can vote them up. I would bet 50% of them I end up voting up, usually because they were downvoted for having an unpopular but not invalid opinion. If there is anybody else out there like me, then the gray could be a net positive because it prevents unfair downvotes from killing a comment unfairly.

But I could also see myself being in a minority and the effect of the gray is compounding. So seeing some data would be really interesting.
In reality what do you pay for energy? a 25% hike sounds blissful compared to northern Europe last year.

Just checking this isn't another situation where gas went from 8c/l to 11c/l and every lost their minds.
Really. live in rural china and compare that life to rural US, you will not be singing that tune.

China now has a lot of economic issues, also economists are now saying it will no longer overtake the US as the largest economy with in 10 years as originally forecast.
It's 2030, sales of gasoline-powered passenger cars have been banned in California because of their immeasurable impact on the global climate. You've been tasked with replacing them:

1. Make cars, but powered by electric batteries! Don't mind me, just driving my 2000 lbs of batteries to the store and back! If I hit someone they'll suffer grave injury, I require monopoly access to city roadways, a parking lot that dwarfs the land use of the building I'm visiting, direct regular contact with the government for licensing, and a long list of negative externalities. Check it out though, less CO2 maybe?

2. Anything else?
The eternal paradox of tools is that they make those who don't need the tool more efficient and tend to inhibit learning in those who do need them.

Take a pocket calculator for example. If you already know arithmetic, calculators make you more efficient, but they are a terrible way to teach arithmetic.
Just curious, is this responsible for any of the effects of hyperventilation?
wow, you just did a whole thing there by yourself
>along with the whole "and that's why Warren Buffett pays less taxes than his secretary!"

This is incorrect. The claim was always pays a lower tax rate (federal), because the tax rate for capital gains is less than earned income.
I am fortunate enough like most HN users to be working in tech, and although I can't speak for everyone in this field, we seem to be better off than most. Inflation's hit me hard but knock on wood if anything was to happen, I'd be okay.

However, my brother, who is just starting his career works in IT and has a $50,000~ a year salary. He lives in a Tier 3 city in Florida and the median rent for a studio there is $1,500, up from $600 five or so years ago. After taxes, car insurance, car payment, food, and a night out here and there, he barely can save anything after his student loan payments.

This is ridiculous. I can't imagine what others are facing when it comes to the cost of living crisis that is ongoing here. (And for other folks across the pond in England, it's even worse from what I hear.)

Throughout my travels of America, anecdotally, I am seeing more families making long term accommodations out of motels and we seem unwilling from our governments to even address this. I think it's going to get much worse until it gets better unfortunately...
Any calculation on cars that does not factor in commercial trucks is flawed. Over the past two decades, we have seen an enormous increase in commercial freight traffic. The last numbers I remember from [1] estimated that cars account for 40% of tailpipe emissions, whereas trucks account for ~60%, and this was estimate from before the pandemic. I am certain the ratio is more skewed in favour of trucks now.

To the point: 73% of what exactly? 80% of total emissions? 40%? 10%? Given the externalities, it may mean the difference between worthwhile or irrelevant.

[1] Sustainable Energy: Without The Hot Air: https://www.withouthotair.com/
> A lot of the overall goals of cloud are more ambitious than AWS offerings.

In what sense?
India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years. Here are the results
What did Lexx's musical episode innovate? There were musical episodes before.
With your example of optimization, I think anyone who is able to make this optimization could certainly also implement it on top of an ORM.
What happens at big companies is that they will build a custom ORM over time , and it will be way shittier and more vulnerable than if you had just used one in the first place.
One part of the article says that there will be a single flat fee for low income residents, but later the same article says that the there will also be a variable charge based on usage. So which one is it?
Some people can treat their ADHD using stimulants, and your reaction time tends to be better in that circumstance (citation needed though, I guess).

IME, too much stimulants causes hyperreflexia, but I'm not sure if it's because of a decreased reaction time.
Exactly. I would also add josevalim creator of Elixir, who I actually Ctrl+F for on Elixir-related threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=josevalim
Smaller cars and diesels are more common in Europe, which probably helps statistically. But I imagine the method of testing mpg between Europe and the EPA in the US could be different and is likely contributing to some of the discrepancy. Also didn't VW get caught lying about their numbers?
> > Zuck and Bezos also built off government research and funds... the transportation and communication networks. So what?

Nope. AT&T built on top of governmental transportation and communication network,
Zuck built on top of AT&T , his billions are less tainted because they are further removed
from the horrendous practice of pointing guns at taxpayers heads to finance the centrally planned economic project du jour such as the Apollo rockets or the LHC or the Bubble telescope which won’t ever yield anything for the poor shmucks who financed it
AFAICT without being an expert:

1. The state constitution says it's got to provide a clean environment

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/Constitution/IX/1.htm (so short I won't provide a quote)

2. The Montana Environmental Policy Act in Montana has some exceptions written into it and in subsequent revisions

https://leg.mt.gov/content/Publications/Environmental/2021-m...

3. One of these exceptions is that it limits the scope of environmental review for some energy projects (Cmd-F "energy" in above link)

4. I didn't read the case docs so I don't know which particular limit or if something else was it violated the constitutional thing but something did according to the court.

I don't know what the things are that the folks are fighting against, but if it is one of those "everything must be environmentally reviewed" things that's used to stop windmills and nuclear plants from being built, then I'm on the other side of the kids. The article is that it's over fossil fuels, which sounds like the right target, but if someone else has details then please do share.
found this comment thru google's "filter by latest 24 hours" search

currently logged on a google account, indeed the "google stock" search shows "Your search - google stock - did not match any documents"

it happens with other searches, too; not all of them, but some.

no solution found at the moment except logging on another account / not using an account. no extensions installed either.
For most months, this would raise my bill by 50%. Easy solution though, I simply won't tell my electric company what my income is. Surely the government won't hand over this info, right? Right?
Well, you do at least encrypt your backups yourself, right?
Ok, so taking the difference between the second lowest band (which is probably the fair price) and the highest, that’s $62/month extra for rich people to pay.

That’s $744 a year. The incremental cost of going full off grid vs. solar + batteries is about $20K. So, if this were the only way PG&E screwed over you, it would take 26.4 years for a full off grid system to pay for itself.

I’d guess the true time to ROI will be under 10 years if this passes. At that point, the grid will probably start a death spiral, just like the landline phone network.
Do you have something to add?
You're assuming the average person would rather have breathable air than another kitchen appliance from China that they won't even use, which is a wild stretch of the imagination from the people I know.
Ashes 2063 Doom II mod
GitHub is owned by MS?
I recently explained Google's perf process to an employee of the US federal government, and was told that the performance review and promotion processes in the government were simpler and less wasteful.
> Imagine if climate change was a myth, and the only thing we got from all this effort was air that was safe to breathe. Wouldn’t that still be worth it?

Such a great sentiment! ICE cars don't only contribute to global warming, they pollute the _local_ environment. And not just the emissions, noise too. Neighbor bought a hybrid. In the mornings, they zoom away to work. Before, they'd wake me up with the rumble of the einge. Nothing to do with global warming, but a very real increase in quality of life.