skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the concern but from the user perspective what’s the solution assuming I want the one week release cycle of dozens of apps?

In the end I think the idea that apps install elevated but run under lower user privs is now completely outdated. One can’t and shouldn’t separate the idea of the user and the application maintainer.

> Also, using AppData to store entire apps is just plan wrong - that's NOT what it was meant for.

It doesn’t seem conceptually wrong to use program files for system wide (not per user) executables and localappdata for per user program files, regardless of whether they are program binaries or program data. Since they aren’t roaming and typically not backed up, what’s the harm in having teams.exe in there?

If chrome dumps large volumes of program binaries into app data\roaming (does it really?) then that sounds really bad. Similarly for any system that would roam anything outside of appdata\roaming.
> Collaboration on something like the Euro makes small countries more powerful and effective, and thus more sovereign ...

Effective, yes – just like a single party system is more effective than having multiple parties and democratic processes.

more sovereign – how? I really can't see how Spain is more sovereign managing their unemployment issues when they can not control supply of their own currency, and thus investment?
Like the thirteenth chime of a clock: not only is it wrong in and of itself, but calls into question everything that came before.
I feel like this is misusing the term "enshittification" that Doctorow coined, which mostly described the phase where a popular product has to start generating value for its investors and starts exploiting its users.
Some people optimize for the noise, and not performance, for the same reason people stick racing decals and put a spoiler on a car that doesn't really need it.

Heck, some people will literally drill a hole in the exhaust to get that noise, for absolutely no performance benefit whatsoever.
I have a PhD in Physics and got a little lost in the abstract myself, so don’t feel bad! It’s very dense sentences with pretty technical jargon. After a few re-reads and spot checking some forgotten condensed matter terms of art it made (some) sense.
Not while Apple is the main investor in TSMCs leading edge nodes, plus, X86 still has a lot of backwards compatibility cruft keeping it back.

Eventually the gap will narrow as Apple already picked the lowest hanging fruits with the M1 design, and as we saw the jump to M2 was no longer as impressive, so we just have to wait.
Motorcycles too. Around here idiots revving and redlining their engine is a relatively regular occurrence. Much more so than cars, although that also happens from time to time.
Yours or theirs? Elaborate.

If the point is they want more revenue, I understand that point - I think the decision will have the opposite impact.

If the point is they care about community, I can’t find a single through line that makes that true.
Police officers can pull those people over and issue citations for vehicles that are too loud. You could create similar justifications for using these systems for monitoring Wrongspeak in the same way by citing PTSD, the children, or people who just want to enjoy life without being put through thought pollution when someone's thoughts are contradicting the Cabinet's thoughts.

It's better to not have this technology deployed in the first place. It's very easy to have an officer pull someone over if their vehicle is too loud, issue a hefty citation in place, and then let word get around that you will get pulled over for exceeding the local decibel limit for your vehicle.
> One of the reasons XML (and XHTML) fell out of favour is that they are unforgiving. Miss a /? Your site is broken. Forget to close an element? Your site is broken. Incorrectly escape something? Your site is broken. Mismatched elements? Your site is broken.

Isn't unforgiving and being strict a good thing?
It's pretty, does anyone know if it is accurate?
> Grug solves problems.

Well, except for the problem of too much grug.
Really depends what you’re optimizing for. Currently I’m trying to get cholesterol down and lose weight. Egg yolks are extremely high in cholesterol.
That is a very strategic and appropriate use of this pattern, and it's not even "microservices" - it's just goddamned "services"!
> How many Americans, younger or not, would raise an eyebrow if invited to go camping around Hanford?

You're grossly misrepresenting the facts. The Russians who were digging trenches in Chernobyl were a part of a full blown invasion force directly organized by Russia's regime from the very top. Russia's plan to invade Ukraine and dig in and around Chernobyl was specified from the very top of the chain of command, and enforced throughout the whole chain of command way down into individual orders sent to the Russian grunts in the ground.

These were no average randos who just felt compelled to dig a hole in a camp site.

It's entirely absurd to pretend that Russia's top echelons were oblivious to Chernobyl, and it's outright stupid to misrepresent a full blown invasion force executing battle plans as random people camping somewhere who just felt like digging a hole.
In 1781 Franklin was not an elected official but already appointed ambassador to France. It is a lot easier to write satire if you don’t depend on the masses for their votes and have to stay on their good side.

Also, a look at classic literature will show that the degree to which scatological humor is accepted, varies with time. Chaucer, whose work was massively respected in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, made jokes about farting and ass-licking that seem appalling to readers today. And I think a lot of HN readers already know about Mozart’s work Leck mich im Arsch.
Even just applying for US companies who are looking for remote-in-US sometimes works if you have all your ducks in a row (if they don't have to do much to get you on board). I would say opening a one-person company is enough (it is in my experience). Personally I go for a little more complex constructions because it's often quite hard to optimise for tax with the one person structures in the EU (as far as I know them here). Besides signing all kinds of contracts (under US law), I haven't seen many issues.
Great repo. I've always wanted to build a transpiler from TS to every other language. We have so many languages but all syntax is so similar in the end.

I often wonder how much of the code we write is actually doing something not possible in another language. Like runtime-specific, or low-level stuff. Most of the business logic...loops and if statements are rather similar.
I believe floppy 5.25" diskettes with 1.2mb predated the harder but eventually more common 3.5" 1.44mb ones. 5.25 were my first diskettes on a 286 at with 16mhz TURBO whee :-)
I regularly lie awake as some idiot is racing round residential London streets in the distance, in densely populated areas it must be in the thousands of people that are being disrupted by a single person.
So X might be removed from Appstore / Google play?
there is some abuse around long term employees acting as contractors in some parts of europe to get tax benefits. it depends on the country but generally speaking it is more beneficial to be a contractor because of high taxes on employee income in EU.

in germany for example, afaik, you can be considered employee if abusing this by providing services long term to a single customer (hence being considered dependent and not a free acting contractor), in austria the taxes for contractors are the same as for employees, this is my current experience.

in slovakia where I'm originally some people setup 1 person llc's and pay themselves dividends instead of drawing salary as an employee (dividends are taxed with much lower rates than salary income + there is no social or health care deductions on dividend income)
Most of the changes I have seen in software engineering over my career have not been for the engineers but have been in service of a nervous management that are desperate for numbers and reins.
It’s actually ridiculous the level of noise some people drive around making. People buy “pop and bang” ECU tunes that when combined with a aftermarket exhaust make their car sound like a howitzer. I live on a main road, and there are some cars driving around at night that I can hear half a mile away or more. The cops or council should seize the cars and the owners should have to pay to have the mods undone before they can get them returned.

The other thing I don’t understand is how in the UK these people are passing MOTs. Either they are colluding with a garage to get fake passes, or they are on fake plates, or they’re undoing the mod every year when they need to go get an MOT.
To be honest, I’m not sure as I haven’t followed the case closely, nor am I aware of the evidence.
If that were the case though, it would be horrible.
However, angles of death are still terrifying!
> Microsoft is working on a new Outlook for Windows app, that will replace the built-in Mail app in Windows 10 and 11, and replace the Outlook desktop app.

Thank you, I hate it and prefer the web version for this reason!
Do you have an existing city in mind as a model?
Life causes cancer. Which causes death. Not living life also causes death. In short, don’t fret about it. Enjoy it while you have it.
I don’t understand how micro services prevent a system from “going down”. I pushed an infinite loop to the auth service, oops. Now nothing works. How did micro services prevent this?
While we're hoping, let's get something for the tilted up headlamps as well.
Squirrel doesn’t have any installation gui or specific process. It downloads and installs version N+1 in the background. Next start will run that version. Any decision to show even a notification that this happened is entirely up to the developer. I think it’s even near impossible to show an “installer” in the traditional sense for the initial install. You can show a splash at initial install that’s it.
As far as userland installers go they are all (almost by definition) the same in the end
Pretty sure it is: https://twitter.com/i/status/1692614589416915093 , another example/ad for what looks like the specific product. Highly recommen the links in the imgur comment as well.
Here is the company: https://www.chooch.com/

It is even worse than you think, if your phone has wifi on, they augment that data with facil recognition and payment data at big box stores like walmart and target. Those cameras are not just for shoplifters.

Not only is the tech there (has been for roughly a decade at least imho) there is a ton of money in it and not just for big box stores but for ad networks/companies (including and especially google) that want to prove the ad they show resulted in a spend of explain why you are a legit target for it. Spaces out and stared at the baby food section? Well that's why ads for baby formula makes sense for you!

This is one of the reasons I firmly believe in a legal fundamental right being passed that enforces the people's right to engage in direct commerce without the use of a third party like a payment processor (bearer token payment as i call it, another term for cash equivalent). Even if you ban face and wifi tracking, gait will be hard and they can always make everyone agree to being tracked before they enter the store like click on a touchpad before they enter and nothing you can do about it if all of them are doing it.
Round homes without sharp corners fare better than rectangular homes in hurricanes probably because the wind shearing force is lower. Deltec Homes sells round, radial homes: https://www.google.com/search?q=deltec+youtube+hurricane

Hempcrete on structural forms like LEGOs another type of CEB Compressed Earth Block: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_earth_block

Radial blocks make turning corners with various radii easier; so that the wind doesn't grab the ~K'Nex cube of the structure and shear it under the roof and around the stairs.
Japan being first makes the results somewhat doubtful.
Windy is definitely the ideal weather app for geeks. My favorite feature is the ability to switch between the 6 forecast models or even see all of them at the same time.
Sure, but that makes it less relevant as an example in a comment on a story about London.
Cloud Tenancy Types to Suit Everyone (2019)
My 1200 petrol car is so quiet you can't actually hear the engine from within the car, and there's no sound damping under the bonnet (no top engine cover, no padding on the bonnet itself despite the mounting there for it), so petrol cars can absolutely be quiet.

I think the thing with motorbikes is everything is so much more exposed, and they rev higher in general, so the sound thing is probably a harder problem.

I am actually of the belief that motorbikes and scooters should be encouraged in cities, because they are a lot smaller, and more efficient in general than cars (so long as you don't have a massive bike), and take up a lot less space when parking. Do most people really need a 1.5 tonne car to go to work as opposed to a 200kg bike?
Have you heard of tosdr.org?
As a frequent lights and sirens passenger I'm convinced that they cause such a huge adrenaline spike that surrounding drivers act completely irrationally. Drivers will see us and then slam on the gas to dart in front or sometimes just stop in front of us. So many close calls where our engine almost gets hit by a human driver who seems completely committed to hitting us. Or we'll be turning onto a street (sometimes we have to swing wide to take a tight corner) and there will be a driver trying to squeeze by and making the same turn as us.
To expand on this: We have a fragment of an inscription from Caesarea[1] that says:

...S TIBERIÉVM / [PO]NTIVS PÌLATVS / [PRAEF]ECTUS IVDAE[A]E / ...É...

This hints that his contemporary title was "preafectus" and the title "procurator" from Tacitus "Annales" (15,44) is not accurate. It is even disputed among experts whether the passage containing this note is a younger Christian interpolation into the "Annales" and the title itself is a backward translation of the Greek ἡγεμονεύοντος (hegemoneuontos ~ "ruler") that the gospel of Luke uses as a title for Pilate (3:1) as well as for Quirinius/Cyrenius (2:2).

[1] Here an image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caesarea_maritima_BW...
Everything you need to know about Chrome can be summarized by the fact that ‘cmd-q’ doesn’t quit Chrome.
There is not a constant stream of delivery trucks under most people's windows.

Furthermore it's likely easier to bring the hammer on delivery trucks if and when they become the primary issue, as those tend to have registration and responsible companies.
I've been using the Android app (with a subscription) all summer for sailing. It's good enough to help me decide 72 hours in advance which day to go out and on what body of water. Also helps determining if I'll need to have another meat bag onboard (beside my own) to keep the mast pointing up during gusts, so I have a time to make phone calls.
GP's example is just to give a hypothetical instance of why qualitative analysis needs to be considered as well.
Blame Jeremy Clarkson and the car culture he fostered. For decades, new and old cars were judged by their ability to spin their wheels around a test track, and by the loudness of their exhaust heard inside a tunnel.
This is why I'm disappointed that more OSes didn't steal the contact list from Windows Phone.

The WP contact list acted as a shell for all person-to-person communication programs, showing a unified history feed of all communications you can read from a given person. Like RSS but for humans.

It seems like the obvious way to do "lots of small programs" on the phone -- one single place for managing your communication with a person, whether it's Twitter, email, StarCraft, phonecall, chess, WhatsApp, teledildonics, etc.
Even though what you describe has, for some reason, become much more common lately, many exhausts are just loud for no good reason. Think Harleys or even the Yamaha TMax with the Akrapovic exhaust. They don't have the "pop-pop-pop" sound related to detonations, but are still absurdly loud.

> There's plenty of motorcyclists who do the same though.

What's funny is that in my neck of the woods, it's motorcycles with bad aftermarket pipes that had been making that noise for a long time. So now, whenever I hear a car making that noise, instead of associating it with some "big mean engine" as their owners probably hope, I associate it with some overworked 600cc.
I think the hot trend these days is to bash on microservices. I hear that a lot here, random blogs, youtube videos by self proclaimed top guns.

If hacker news is correct, microservices is the #1 worst idea of software engineering.

And whoever promotes them is either a kid with no experience or a complete moron.
Throughout his adult life, Ben Franklin was dead-serious about the important things, but evidently he didn't take himself too seriously. This particular essay, he composed in response to a call for scientific papers from the Royal Academy of Brussels while he was the US Ambassador to France. Quoting from the essay's introduction:

> I have perused your late mathematical Prize Question, proposed in lieu of one in Natural Philosophy, for the ensuing year...Permit me then humbly to propose one of that sort for your consideration, and through you, if you approve it, for the serious Enquiry of learned Physicians, Chemists, &c. of this enlightened Age. It is universally well known, that in digesting our common food, there is created or produced in the bowels of human creatures, a great quantity of wind. That the permitting this air to escape and mix with the atmosphere, is usually offensive to the company, from the fetid smell that accompanies it. That all well-bred people therefore, to avoid giving such offence, forcibly restrain the efforts of nature to discharge that wind.

I'm reminded of Musk's antics. I wonder what Ben Franklin, were he alive today, would post on Twitter -- I mean, X.
The article is pretty average, and goes to great lengths to say very little, with some questionable analogies and examples.

But near the end, there is a gem, which is the introduction of the Hub and Spoke design.

Now Plugin architectures aren't new by any means. But they've not been discussed as much nowadays, and I think the idea of "Hub and Spoke" describes it very well.
I don’t know about that. I have an older sport quad ATV. Loud AF with custom exhaust the last owner installed. I have full control of the fuel delivery with the carb mixture/jetting/etc, and there is no nothing other than preventing backfiring/popping that has any effect on the noise. I even tried repacking the “muffler” with new stuffing—- didn’t help.
This is my observation as well. I lived for a few years with one of the lowest obesity rates in the world - Vietnam. The diet isn't necessarily that much more healthy - it's super carb heavy.

But portion sizes are very small. Workers doing heavy construction work will have a large bowl of pho for lunch. That's like 400-500 calories. They are super lean and muscular.
From the article https://fortomorrow.org/explore-solutions/sargablock ::

> I adjusted a machine designed to make adobe bricks so that it can process a mix of 40% sargassum and 60% other organic materials for the Sargablock. The machine can turn out 1,000 blocks a day, and after four hours of baking in the sun, they are dried and ready to be used
We need them badly in Haarlem (close to Amsterdam) as well. You have to pause conversations because of the car and bike noise.

I hate that noise pollution in general isn’t a higher priority as it really impact people’s lives.

But the biggest issue is motor bikes, not the cars. It’s as if bikers are truly anti-social scum, and I’m saying this as a former biker.
Blaming Clarkson for loud cars is like blaming videogames for mass shootings. Car yobs, and the tuning culture, existed way before Top Gear became popular entertainment, but is nearly as old as the invention of the automobile.

Also, here's some AI generated Top Gear to give you nightmares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYWCIJgw610
None of those things require you to introduce network calls.
thanks, this is what I did when invoicing to the UK. For W-8 BEN do you need to report income from sales of services in the US along with income from dividend / capital gains?
Don't force them to fix them. Just crush them with zero warning. Word gets around quickly.

I'm in favour of banning all modifications to vehicles as well. Seen several cars with turned in wheels and appendages which are clearly affecting traction and aerodynamics.
No clue, maybe they performed too well :p
Unless I have other context to assume ill will, I've fought for years to train myself not to assume it. Whenever I can, I try to interpret something in a light where the other person means no offense.

Certainly sometimes I'm wrong. Most people are assholes sometimes (myself included), and some people are assholes most of the time. But I've found my conversations go best when I try not to assume assholery about someone for as long as I possibly can.

In this case, assuming someone's worldview doesn't take monogamy for granted, and that they've also noticed how sexy my partner is, is how I avoid being offended, even if they frame the request in a somewhat crass way.
Germany is going to legalize it, so expect for the practice to spread.
A lot of motorcyclists just like the noise and they pass it off as a safety device (because they’re assholes).
I’d blame the people doing that, not the one who makes a show, it is not because I like cars and like to run them on tracks I am responsible for those who drive modified cars in urban areas
Coming from a major metro area in the Midwest, on my recent visit to San Fran you could get to MANY more useful things in a 15 min walk. Because of its density, I don’t think San Fran has a real transportation problem to speak of (for those who live in the city proper). For those who live outside of it, sure. But that’s just par for the course rush hour issues at any major metro.
Because they don't want companies using it as a way to avoid the responsibilities that comes with real employment. The rule is to my knowledge however intended to keep companies in the same country from using it.

In Denmark(same rule) I contracted for a single foreign company for years and just got lump sum into my personal account every month, after which I paid the corresponding taxes. I specifically called the tax authorities to ask and that's how they said to do it.
It was my dad in my house by miles, but my grandma was like that to my mother, so I'm pretty sure that swings both ways.
Thanks.

> npm and gem behave like this

No, `npm` has a couple aliases like "i" for "install", but you can’t use "in", "ins", "insta", etc. It has "view" and "version" but "v" is an alias for "view".

`gem` does work like this (#TIL), although it has some hard-coded aliases: while its help page says "Commands may be abbreviated, so long as they are unambiguous", `gem i` works as `gem install` even if there’s a command "info". If you try `gem in`, it does complain that it’s ambiguous.
Wow I thought this was satire but wow

Didn’t they buy streamlabs as well
> Not while Apple is the main investor in TSMCs

It's not inconceivable that Intel might catch up and surpass TSMC. I mean they were in a somewhat similar situation they are in now back in the early to mid 2000s.