skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I. Hate. Technology. I hate working in this field. I hate how unprofessional every company is, from the largest to the smallest. I hate how incompetent all the engineers are. I hate how no business I have ever worked for has ever trained its workers on anything but how to fill out a time sheet. I hate all the blog posts about inane technical details. I hate how people start building a solution to a problem they're not familiar with. I hate how seemingly obvious and painful problems never get solved, because nobody has ever forced the entire product team to listen to a brand new user's feedback. I hate how this affects everything, so the problems just build and build and everything just gets worse and worse.
Alright, I misunderstood you then, sorry.
I know text is still a thing in the US, but everywhere else, that's a huge no no. Phishy as hell.

Good luck nonetheless.
I’ve been running iOS and iPadOS beta 17 since day 1. It’s nominally improved stage manager window resizing, however it broke:

iCloud sync (won’t sync my photos until I restart).

Sharing (can’t email stuff unless I restart. Just stays at the “preparing” stage).

Search (both iMessage and spotlight).

Safari is incredibly unstable and tabs or the whole browser crashes all the time.
Not just Iran, but also Egypt. ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FF 70+ years of darned military junta rule. With a small 1 year break between July 2012 and July 2013.
In Praise of the Meandering Career
> Meta has already called it's software open source. And it may be fair enough.

Llama 2 is not open source for two reasons. First and most importantly, the license restricts certain types of commercial use, while open source software preserves the user's freedom to use the software for any purpose.

Second:

> "Meta using the term ‘open source’ for this is positively misleading: There is no source to be seen, the training data is entirely undocumented, and beyond the glossy charts the technical documentation is really rather poor. We do not know why Meta is so intent on getting everyone into this model, but the history of this company’s choices does not inspire confidence. Users beware."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-llm-not-open
You're a very creative & talented person!
Yes, I added "If you want to get to the point of the story" to solve that impression, should be good now :)
Would rather not have a bunch of freaky gaping mouth sex doll faces showing up every time I open youtube.
I think that introduces some problems:

- who should have access to the database linking license plates to addresses?

- what about people with vehicles other countries? Less of a problem in North America, but I recently was in Canada, and saw some vehicles with German number plates!

- what about false number plates? Or misreads? How does one defend against them?

For the last one - a hilarious example: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-58959930
Mine is $60 that bring in ±$600/mo
Many everyday interactions are so complicated and filled with so many landmines that you need a high IQ just to have a chance.
“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go”. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. After reading this as a kid, I always found this to be true. In particular, the public library pulp paperbacks on those rotating wire racks back in the 1980s.
Oh, have you seen the number of self checkout at grocery stores? I need to do the work of a checkout counter person to pay? Wtf!
Managers dont hire ex CEOs. They are afraid those will either be too good, or hard to manage.
I don’t really see US foreign policy in that era as imperialistic. That’s giving it too much credit as it implies a degree of even Machiavellian intelligence. The British were imperialistic and they were actually kind of good at it.

It was sheer idiocy, an exercise in spending massive amounts of money to build up our own enemies and negate our own supposed values, turning billions away from Western democracy and toward backward totalitarian ideologies that are in the end more hostile to us than the USSR was.

Like I said in another reply it was mostly driven by paranoid overreaction to communism.
That's really weird, since he did implement a calculator that uses a dialect of APL: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ivy
Oh yes, the world is enshittificating at an unbelievable pace. Here's one I have recently had to deal with. Sometime ago I failed my theory driving exam. The computers presented a series of 30 questions, to which you answer true or false. Fast forwarding to a few weeks ago, I found myself for round 2. The computers have all been changed. Shiny IBMs ThinkCentre with a small camera on top. The exam is supposed to start, but it doesn't. After 20 minutes of hearing someone absolutely not understanding why all the computers were blocked they suddenly are ready for its candidates to answer the questions. The little camera on top, why is there? Because if you deviate your eyes from it the quiz gets temporarily blocked until you get lucky once again and allows you to continue. WHY on earth the italian goverment has decided to spend money on this crap instead of buying simple cheap computers with a mighty reliable mouse is beyond my imagination. Ah before I forget, there was also a pinwheel in the corner whose only main purpose was to do facial recognition the same way is done in some airports. This is the enshittified world that we live in today, and it will get much much worse. Can we please stop all this BS?
I know that, you noticed the first two words were "Very funny"?

The rest of it was directed at other people who genuinely believe the claim.
It's not even the UI or the tech stack ... it's that it's tech at all.

Am I required to own a smart phone now to park? Am I required to have a credit card to park?

Idea:

1) Park without paying

2) Get towed

3) Sue the living shit out of the municipality so that they shut down modern parking meters.
I remember 1990s California and low crime rates. Good times.
Haint Blue
You’re right. I just want to highlight that any ignorance of Chernobyl is more likely a general failure of Russia’s education than anything ideologically driven.
The state already puts a lot of resources into improving road safety, and that's one of the primary goals of the DMV, DOT, etc. There's reason to believe that driverless cars will greatly improve road safety, so it feels reasonable that the state would allow their development and have a framework for responsibly expanding their use.
It's a sad state of affairs, NewPipe being forbidden from distribution because the ad company that owns YouTube also owns the platorm's app store, and the app store being full of scammy apps including clones and malicious forks of F/OSS. No one deserves to be presented with traps like that. :-\
You could google instead of assuming, but where's the fun in that, I guess???

The US grid is 20% coal, 40% natural gas, 20% nuclear, and 20% renewables.

Natural gas plants are about twice as efficient (~50%) as a typical gasoline engine (~25%) and burn much more cleanly, producing fewer pollutants across the spectrum for the same amount of energy.

So right off the bat, you know that 80% of the energy going into the typical EV battery in the USA was produced far more efficiently and more cleanly than would burning enough gasoline to produce an equivalent amount of work.

You could also of course simply google "ICE vs BEV emissions" and read a study summary or two. They all generally agree that BEV emissions are much lower than ICE emissions on a lifecycle basis.

Serious question: why did you not do that in the first place?
Japan was the interesting case.

With Germany, you are basically asking how they managed to install a stable Western government in a Western country with a history with similar forms of government and the institutions to support them. It was probably easier than convincing the Confederate States of the legitimacy of the US after the Civil War.
Except that the very graph in your link shows 2023 as an unremarkable year. "El Niño after a few years of La Niña" practically happens every decade or so. Similar thing happened in 2002 and 2009: 2002 was an average fire year and 2009 was close to minimal fire.
Do you want democracy and capitalism to be outlawed? What ideology?
>The literacy rate for all males and females that are at least 15 years old is 86.3%. Males aged 15 and over have a literacy rate of 90%, while females lag only slightly behind at 82.7%. However, massive country-to-country differences exist. Developed nations almost always have an adult literacy rate of 96% or better.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-...

(In case anyone else read the above comment and thought these numbers sounded low.)
Best hope nobody steals your car, then.
You can practice the craft of software for money without working on horseshit. You just might get paid a little less
The worst part about this is that many places that I used to eat at have replaced their delicious black bean burgers with impossible meat.

I am not a vegetarian or vegan, but I used to love the vegetarian options and would often opt for things such as a black bean or portobello burger.

Now I just get a regular burger.
Without a cell phone I would be more concerned about other things than the parking lot, such as how people contact you when you are out?
Same experience. But in the US everything seems 99% anti-consumer while the majority of consumers keep supporting/voting for these things.

Not just parking, also banking ($ 30 overdraft fee mentioned in the article), telecom, health insurance. All of it is designed in very anti-consumer ways in the US, even though consumers should be a majority of the votes in a democracy.
> They just want to appear to be in the position of being able to hire.

Why do they do this?

> There are no jobs anymore for experienced hires (at least for us folks outside the US. In my case APAC or AU).

I am having the same trouble, but in my case potential employers seem to want something very specific. I have years of experience with Scala and the JVM, but not Kotlin? Years of experience with Postgres, MongoDB, and Bigtable, but not DynamoDB? That’s a pass. Or at least those are the stated reasons they say to my face. Maybe I just didn’t do brilliantly enough in the phone screen/interviews.

Across the ocean, I’m hearing from friends in the US that entry level positions are impossible to find too. Not a single graduate of a coding boot camp cohort has been able to land a job since February.
This is the bad place.
It is objectively measurable and subjectively it feels better than tests on a single drive for day to day activity. Objective and subjective improvement is good enough for me.

Two mirrors == two vdevs, each a mirror of two disks:

$ zpool status
pool: zroot
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0B in 02:01:39 with 0 errors on Wed Aug 16 14:08:39 2023
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
ada2p1.eli ONLINE 0 0 0
ada3p1.eli ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
ada0p1.eli ONLINE 0 0 0
ada1p1.eli ONLINE 0 0 0

In a best case failure scenario, I can lose one disk from each mirror. In a worst case failure scenario, I can lose one disk.

With one parity disk out of four drives (for 30TB usable), in a best case failure scenario, I can lose one disk. In a worst case failure scenario, I can lose one.

These two descriptions of resiliency simply are not the same. I would obviously not run the pool in a degraded state for any longer than it takes to resilver the degraded mirror.

Assuming disk failures are independent and one disk has already failed:

- 2 mirror vdevs: 1/3 chance that a second disk failure causes data loss, 2/3 chance that it affects the other mirror

- 4 disks w/ 1 parity: 100% chance that a second disk failure causes data loss.

Again, this simply is not the same characterization of resilience. Please do not mistake this for me claiming that running this pool with three disks is anything other than a situation to remediate immediately.

I take regular snapshots, and scrub regularly to ensure data integrity. Critical data is stored in at least three places, one of which is not my home.
> I'd say MS still probably has that attitude baked into their company, treating customers as adversaries that need to be protected against.

This is true of every company that sells intellectual "property" instead of material objects or labor.
> We are b2b and need to have high isolation between customers which means dedicated resources.

I'm curious - is that to avoid "noisy-neighbour" and provide performance guarantees through dedicated hardware, is it for security/privacy/etc or is it a combination of factors?
What's next, a robot valet that rideshares your car to pay the bill?
I guess they could have implemented some of the flags as aliases or rather bash functions to a preset chain of invocations. The merging of flags would be difficult though.

There are many flags that change the behavior of the file system calls that would be made...such as getting additional information.

To support all the formatting commands, the piped output of `ls` would need to be very verbose and structured too...like json or something.

They had to draw boundaries of functionality at some point.

So the unix idea of "one thing" was probably defined a bit more vaguely or more end-user use case related. Convenience seemed to be king.

It would have be nicer if they could have added a shell-like pipe syntax to C (and designed the code in a more modular and stream-like way).

In the `ls` [source code][1] you can see simple blocks of steps like:

if (!file_ignored(file)) {
...
sort_files ();
print_current_files ();
clear_files ();
}

For example the `file_ignored` function in `ls` would have made a nice reusable library (with standardized configuration params) and a cli tool (with standardized flags).

Missed opportunity to unify the shell and C, but I guess SmallTalk was kicking around at that time which went a whole lot further.

It's funny that we are still very much lacking this unification...

We don't have a high-level interpreted language that can also perform well as a system's language.

New systems languages are popping up all the time, but they are more and more hardcore (looking at you Rust). They don't embrace any aspect of scriptability.

The best effort I can think of is https://www.modular.com/.

Surely though, a native TypeScript-based language is the way. It by far has the nicest syntax out of the popular scripting languages today.

We have come so close...like with Dart...but still everyone seems to be avoiding the inevitability.

[1]: https://github.com/wertarbyte/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c
Sounds like she was working/present for 100% of the deaths/problems. The next most present staff member was only there for 10% of the incidents.

Incidents stopped after she was taken off the floor.

That's plus the ramblings scrawled on various notes that were found in her house don't paint a picture of a stable mind.

Troubling case, especially as she doesn't fit a classic cluster A, B, C etc personality profiles associated with this kind of malignant behavior
50-75% of the year I have service on my phone that only supports IP networking and does not support SMS or calls - a data only SIM.
Career choices is No. 1 conflict among divorced people: Work is an easy escape
That doesn’t sound right. It should’ve brought up the standard Google payment sheet where you would’ve had to confirm your payment method.
You can draw a line directly from the coup in 1953 to the revolution in 1979, so it's pretty fair to blame the US for the revolution and what came after.
I also live in Seattle. On iOS these QR code paylots are actually super simple and kinda nice.

I scan the code. It pops up a website with all the lot information known. I select a number of hours. I specify either a stall number or plate number. Then I pay with Apple Pay.

I have never had to download any kind of app. And definitely never need to grant location permissions.
Yeah. Don't take it too seriously, though. It's probably the same in other branches. You just happen to know this one best.

Try to concentrate on the other stuff in life, maybe.
That makes no sense. Tesla sells at MSRP, what is there to compare?

When you walk into a Tesla dealership you know what price to expect, but that does not happen at other dealerships.

(I don’t own a Tesla)
> You export your phtoshop design as a .png file and you import it into word. There you go.
> Windowed desktop programs like Photoshop and Word do offer interoperability, in the form of files.

I think you are comparing apples and oranges here.
Maybe if Photoshop and MS Word used the same dedicated underlying binary/application to read and process the png, then maybe it would follow the UNIX philosophy a bit closer?
> the lot has three signs hung up with instructions on how to pay, because every single lot in town supports one to five different competing parking lot apps

Competition sucks when it's a race to the bottom. Those systems usually look like some early 1800s dude's idea of a parking lot system. The technology to make them secure AND nice to use has been there for at least a decade.
Japan, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine. Technically Iraq as well, although I don't think the Iraqis were particularly happy about that.
12.5%! Take that, dad, you said I'd never be an artist.
http://www.noahide.com/infiltration/greenpeace.htm

There are plenty of sources online. There are several videos on YouTube of them ramming ships.
'Metaverse' is a joke everywhere.

No serious person believes in that.
Maybe some crypto bros.
Earlier comments contain some good links to current situational info, so I'm tossing these online wildfire map links into the mix:

Canada:

BC Wildfire Service's Wildfire Map:
https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/map

BC Air Quality Health Index:
https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/epd/bcairquality/readings/find-sta...

NWT Live Fire Map:
https://www.gov.nt.ca/ecc/en/services/wildland-fire-update/n...

Alberta Wildfire Map:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/3ffcc2d0ef3e4e0999b0c...

USA:

WA & OR Fire Map:
https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/firemap.php

ID Fire Map:
https://idfg.idaho.gov/ifwis/maps/realtime/fire/
I imagine that's partly because the obituaries are written soon after the deceased's passing. Someone in the group of people close to the deceased has to write it, and probably someone less emotionally destraught by their passing. So it ends up colder than if someone more emotionally invested had written it.
Enjoy the fact that you still keep control over your life
Today, I literally spent 10 minutes downloading, installing, creating an account, and adding payment methods to an app so I could pay $0.40 to park for 30 minutes because the meter didn't have a coin slot and the credit card reader was broken.

I was going to a local store to buy something. Amazon will probably get my business next time.
I don't think you do, not when you get the bill and it's for way more than you would have agreed to.
The is the kind of delusional thinking that has NATO forcing Ukraine to use western strategy and then getting slaughtered for it.

The US has never defeated a peer army since WW2, in which the USSR did most of the work. Russia has fifth gen fighters, the S400, and very capable EW and artillery. To pretend they would roll over is pure fantasy.
There is a big difference in the law between persons and chattel property. Imagine leaving anything but a car on the side of a public roadway.
For a desktop drive, it shouldn’t matter since you’re probably not going to RAID it, right?

(I guess it might be slower for big transfers, but since you’re probably going to keep frequently-accessed files on an SSD, that shouldn’t be a huge problem either)
Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs
There's far more room for improvement when per capita is high than there is when per capita is low.

And the climate certainly does care about cumulative CO2.

Would have, could have, should have. But didn't. Trying to hold others accountable without getting one's own house in order just comes off as the blatant hypocrisy it actually is. Until we do better ourselves, we are in no position to call others out.
As someone who has lived through many hurricanes and tropical storms, the tropical storms are often surprisingly bad. They can dump even more water due to being slow-moving and sitting in the same spot for much longer.

If you’re in an area that is unused to this sort of storm, you’d better take it seriously. It may not end up being a severe weather event, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.
Love how when someone overpaid in coins the next one parking there could take advantage of it while now the payment is instead tied to your license plate.

Actually, I don't love it at all.
US escalates trade dispute with Mexico over genetically modified corn
I haven't had any trouble with PayByPhone in San Francisco.

The ParkMobile app I recall using in Monterey and it was fine too. Reminders around when to top up etc., which is nice but it was fine.
Confirming Firefox issue here too
Ukraine used to be one of the most prolific black market military arms dealers.

We should absolutely avoid sending Ukraine any modern equipment. As soon as the war is over, they'll sell it on the black market to countries that will gladly reverse engineer what we've built.

And as an aside, I have no interest in funding proxy wars with my tax dollars. Let's not return to a Cold War era. Entering this conflict was absolutely absurd.
I mean, everyone is (supposed to be) presumed innocent. But point taken about the special privileges.
What's your school, BTW?

I've done a bunch of ULM test flights at LEIR and LEMT, and I've always been curious about getting at least an ULM license...
What is my incentive as a car-park owner to agree to your federated system when scummy company X has just offered me $1000 to exclusively allow them to collect fees for my car-park?
Sometime soon you will discover ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot, and your life would never be the same ;)
Yeah, I've seen more than a few public parking facilities that got rid of their existing payment terminals (which take credit card, and sometimes cash) in favor of smartphone-based payment.

I struggle to understand what would motivate it, from the perspective of the parking lot owner. I would presume the up-front cost of the old terminals was already paid off. And they certainly are more user-friendly.

Is it that the new smartphone payment providers are taking a smaller fee? That they are easier to switch between if the fees increase? Or what?