skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stores here are open during the morning and late night when the temperature is not outright deadly. You're not wrong that some older people don't have anyone to fetch groceries for them and do not have the money to pay someone.. but this is a very needlessly hostile way of saying it?

I'd also clarify that by "older" I mean retirement age. Not 30 year olds who definitely won't die on their way to the store if they don't have a severe underlying condition. Also, I've never met anyone who thinks 30 year olds are old and should die that wasn't a teenager.
/me cries in Django

Kwargs everywhere, often only defined for a type at runtime by spooky voodoo action at a distance metaclass shenanigans...
Ask HN: Is WhatsApp leaking group metadata?
Recently my friends have been reporting Chinese trader-type scam messages where the sender knew their first name and one of their friend's first names, and they're only really connected through a WhatsApp group. It seems to have happened to different friends with different common groups. Is this a known problem?
100% - 62% = 38%
I can't grok "receives an action".

What does "receives" mean?

Looking at the example, I can only see that the active voice variations have:

- The action after the subject
- The action closer to the subject than the passive voice variation
- The subject earlier in the sentence than the passive voice variation

Can a sentence specifically be active or passive voice, or are active and passive on opposite ends of a spectrum where one sentence is said to be more active or more passive than another sentence?
I'm using a Kobo eReader to run XCSoar, to act as a moving-map/flight computer for a sailplane [0]

It's fantastic, as it has a big battery for all-day battery life, and the display is eminently sunlight-readable. It's just a little bit of a bummer that it's tricky to ensure elements always contrast well against the map with the greyscale colour-scheme.

[0]: https://www.xcsoar.org/
Their Business Practices & Ethics page is also an interesting read: https://www.brentblack.com/pages/aboutus_business_practices....
No, Automation will Apply to starbucks...

I do not shop at starbucks but if they ever open a fully automated one I might...
They do need standing water to breed. That might explain the fog of mosquitos near a major water source like a creek.
Probably, it's the result of schizo-histerical tech decision process happening in some companies "we need fancy tech and NOT THAT XML".

Sometimes it's for OKRs and power/politics balance between departments and teams in an enterprise. "If an existing tech like XMPP is used then no serious development could be needed" fear (which is not really true). It can lead (and leads) to a huge waste of resources and overspending.

But it's a bit similar to building a luxury house. Not because an owner needs it. But because he can afford it.
You see this from a foreign, money-centric view, which may work for some locals in US maybe?

For many Japanese local government, what they want is for the outsider, that includes people from other parts of the Japan, to come, and blend in to the community.
So it's not home schooling, it's setting up a school without appropriate training or licences.
> We know "unlimited time off" is a guilt-tripping farce

Alternately, treat minimum time off like accountants. One cannot cook the books alone indefinitely if there's a week you're not there and somebody else has to do your job. Similarly, only having one guy that can fix specific issues that nobody else can touch means your sprawling Fortune 500 has a bus factor of 1 - which even executives can see is not smart business.
Chat GPT is a game changer for a lot of my work. I make it write stored procedures in MS SQL along with the calling code in .NET, C#, and Dapper.

The generated code will likely have a few small issues, but it still makes me way more productive. It allows me to work ~10 hours a week less and enjoy my life.
Yeah I definitely thought they were physically separate - I thought that an AZ might span multiple data centres too (could be wrong) and I thought they had to be at least 10km apart.
You have to be careful reading the charts. The author of that tool doesn’t do the best job clarifying that most of that chart is showing L1/2/3 cache speeds. That tool could definitely use some TLC. I don’t see any that get anywhere near that once your out of cache range.
That’s pretty good. The only feedback would be to use the browser’s built in API for showing the share sheet. It’s part of the standard

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
If you like approximations, there is also https://xkcd.com/1047/
This!

I wonder if it's a language difference thing (I use C# mostly), but my experience with Copilot has been nothing short of mind-blowing.

It's not writing every line, and when writing truly new feature code it's less useful. But here are two patterns that I've noticed it is especially and consistently good at as a potential place to look for initial value if you are skeptical:

- If you have any kind of repeated pattern, even very complex ones, like performing a set of operations on a set of objects, or initializing a set of things, or whatever, it will guess everything else after the first line 90% of the time. This stuff is almost always plumbing/wiring/boilerplate-type code, so pure time gained. Think about Excel filling incrementing numbers down a column, but for pattern-matched lines or blocks of code.

- For any reasonably testable class, if I write the name of the unit test, Copilot will write the entire unit test perfectly 90% of the time, down to variable names and //Arrange//Act//Assert comments that I stylistically prefer. Seriously, it's sort of scary how good it is at this.
"You can acclimatize"

This attitude is what causes deaths due to heat exhaustion. It really ought to be a criminal offense for landlords / builders to NOT install AC in such regions. Not having AC is literally a death sentence in places with wet bulb events, including countries like Vietnam, as well as cities in the US like Seattle, Houston, and Miami.
With a carbon tax there is nothing to exchange with other people. If you buy gasoline or coal, you pay a tax and the money is evenly distributed to everyone. People who have existing coal-fired power plants don't get free credits to allow them to sustain their operations, they just pay the tax and then become uncompetitive with non-carbon generation methods. So they go out of business as fast as alternative generation methods can be constructed. In the meantime ordinary people have the refund to compensate for the temporarily higher price of electricity.
Disappointed to discover that this link does NOT take me to plans for an open source washing machine...
Dry heat is easy mode, assuming you have plentiful water.
> For derivation of TNT-hiPS cells, the day 7 reprogramming intermediates were transitioned to naive medium (t2iLGoY) instead. When dome-shaped colonies were evident 5 days later, intermediate cells were collected using Accutase (Stem Cell Technologies) and reseeded onto a layer of iMEFs in naive conditions.
> Sorry, but some people in some place have no other choice but to go to the store while it's open or face starvation, and when you live in a place where nobody gives a rat's ass if you live or die (because we all know that everyone over 30 should just die because they're worthless, right?), you have to go to the store.

Do these places not offer grocery delivery?
It depends. When I was young I could spend hours coding and it felt amazing and like a great use of my time. Now in my 30s? No way, writing detailed code and spending all my time in front of the screen feels like I’m throwing away my life. All that minutia, whether useful or useless, is repulsive.
But "hecto" (gram) is not used as a synonym?
UU sounds awesome. Their 4th principle, the “free and responsible search for truth and meaning” sounds particularly enticing when I think about what their sermons would be like. I’d expect the pastors to draw from an expansive set of sources to support that search.
Absolutely looking forward to those steaks, ribs, burgers, etc.
Except the eternal problem with all "AI" so far is edge cases. A product that is 90% correct may as well be useless, honestly.
Living here for more than a decade, spent first five years just working myself to death. Then I managed to finally settle, bought a car and started exploring the country. The difference between Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya and the country-side is stark.

I don't think that's a bad thing, "Abandon" is the wrong word, we simply "return" the land we no longer use to nature. We only borrowed it in the first place anyway.

As for making cities more crowded, I don't think that's a bad thing either. Tokyo is pretty nice, you can pretty much get whatever you need within walking distance, I lived there for 5 years before I had a car, and I explored the city and its every corner within that 5 years on foot, bicycles, trains and buses, never felt any inconviniences.
Death and birth are evolved. Micro-organisms don't do it. A few multicellular organisms don't either (e.g. there's a kind of immortal jellyfish, but what it does is periodically revert to an amorphous mass and then grow back into a jellyfish.)
Intel 'Solar' Chip Nears Light of Day
"Intel learned a lesson last fall: Don't try to be too clever with your demos."

For something built in 2012, it's amazing that the public lost interest.
Mosquito nets have been a thing for a very long time
I knew a Chinese girl whose parents, surnamed 吕 and 郎, wanted to give her the combined surname 吕郎. This was not allowed, so formally she was surnamed 吕 and given a three-syllable personal name starting with 郎.

There are a couple funny things about this:

1. A personal name of three syllables is stranger than a surname of two.

2. Double-syllable surnames are unusual, but definitely not unheard of. This girl told me that she hadn't been allowed to receive the double surname 吕郎, because it was too long. I asked what would have happened if her double surname had been 司马 instead. "That's different!"

(If the government of China tried to pick a legitimacy fight with the name 司马, it would lose, and everyone knows this.)

So this almost looks like an example of the kind of thing you're referring to, except that the database scheme has nothing to do with it. A surname that was nontraditional but within the technical norms was rejected in favor of a personal name that was both nontraditional and well outside the technical norms.
Are grasslands that have permafrost under them really the grassland that has been taken over by agriculture? I would imagine the grassland mammoths can restore is different from grassland bison could restore. I'd also imagine the places cold enough for mammoths would also be places there aren't any people.
Wombs aren't entirely universal but Elephants and Mammoths are closely related enough that one's womb might work as a surrogate for the other.
Evidently, THEY are calling the following API misuses:

"To evaluate the API usage correctness in code, RO-
BUSTAPI detects the API misuses against the API usage
rules by extracting call consequences and control structures
from the code snippet, as shown in Figure 2. The code
checker firstly check the code snippets to see whether it is
a snippet of a method or a method of a class, so that it can
enclose this code snippet and constructs abstract syntax tree
(AST) from the code snippet. Then the checker traverses the
AST to record all the method calls and control structures
in order, which generate a call sequence. Next, the checker
compare the call sequence against the API usage rules. It
infers the instance type of each method calls and use the
type and method as keys to retrieve corresponding API us-
age rules. Finally, the checker computes the longest common
sequence between the call sequence and the API usage rules.
If the call sequence does not match the expected API usage
rules, the checker will report API misuses."
This “ac is bad” seems to be a frequent thing, not just on HN but in general.

Why the bias against cooling technology?

No one seems to complain about the environmental impact of home heating in cold climates.
It's interesting that the page says that Afrikaans was derived from Dutch in the 20th century, but the two languages are so different.

Dutch: Ik kan glas eten. Het doet geen pijn.
Afrikaans: Ek kan glas eet, dit maak my nie seer nie

The truth, of course, is that Afrikaans split off from Dutch centuries earlier, but it wasn't a "prestige language" until the 20th century.

The page comes from a more innocent time, when the internet hadn't hit critical mass, and you could get away with stuff like that without pedants fact-checking you to death.
Ever been to a Top Golf in Texas in the summer?
There are a lot of "strains" that happen (current inrush, mechanical shock to drives, heat shock to parts) that happen on a system, particularly after a full power off and power up cycle.
doubly so if you're a black dude in a majority-white church. (this happened to me.)

it's very uncomfortable.

you're also a prime target for any and all volunteering activities. great if you really love the church; unbelievably awkward otherwise.

i went to a mega-church once. (hillsong nyc in 2011.) it was a weird experience that i didn't want to do again, but they definitely put together a really nice product, and you could absolutely hide in plain sight.
> The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

There are also multiple Chinese/Korean NPPs that have each released in one year multiple times the amount of radiation contained in the Fukushima annual release plan (22 trillion Bq). This isn’t because of any incident they had, these are just normal operations for these plants. These moves have very little to do with science and are just East Asian political posturing as usual.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushim...

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-...

https://japan-forward.com/china-and-south-korea-too-release-...
I assume people did back before air conditioning was invented
Not wishful thinking.

China is hiding bad economic data and everyone should be aware why it is to protect their investments.

Additionally, it's about 1,4 billion people and China is acting very aggressively against the West for decades under Xi. There is more to come.

If something happens, most people had an indication of it.
yeah insect screens are pretty ubiquitous in the US. Also any home ive been in that was built in the 80s or earlier seemed to have a whole house fan, or at least be setup much better for airflow. Such building features seemed to be lost since AC became the norm and not the exception.
Several years ago I knew an epidemiologist who studied elephantiasis in Egypt. It is acquired by living in unscreened house and being bit by mosquitoes hundreds of times each night. Victims end up in truly awful situations like having to transport their testicles in a wheelbarrow. Completely serious.
Hate Gen X? Get in Line (Behind a Gen X-Er)
> Once it reaches 100% you don't have a job. You realize that right? It's halfway their to taking your job and you're underwhelmed. The bias is on your side.

What this study looked at was feeding StackOverflow questions to LLMs and then looking at the quality of the code. If you think a programmer's job is just turning an english-language description of a function into isolated code that never gets modified, I don't know what to tell you. In my opinion, anybody like that should not have a job today, never mind the future.

A proper professional programming job involved AGI-level understanding of human users and their needs as embedded in a social context. Plus the ability to create novel solutions. Plus the ability to use code as a collaborative medium to make a code base that is sustainable over the long term by their colleagues.

LLMs are not even 1% of the way to replacing professional developers.
Meh. I started coding professionally in the age of AI. My productivity is way higher than it should be. I don't let the AI "write" the code for me. I use it as a companion that I asked question of and suggestions.

It suggests solutions to problems, I add the complexity. So far my code has been both clear and performant. This should not be the case at my level.
Or, ‘The 6 Deadly Sins and Myriad Minor Mistakes’
Better for marketing, better for tourists.

So often the DS9 joke comes to mind here: "Would you want to buy a book called 'The Suggestions of Acquisiton'?"
https://archive.is/U4iq7
I don't think it's overkill for most apps anymore. The performance gains are non-trivial and actually more of a reason these days for me to use SSR than SEO.

I guess keeping frontend and backend decoupled is a matter of preference. I don't mind coupling my backend and frontend, and think it's a huge developer productivity gain to colocate components with data fetching.

If you already need a server to serve data, I actually think it just makes sense to use that server also to serve html.
To add more context, the [1] policy has been around since last year.

> Today, as part of Google Play’s latest policy updates, we are taking additional steps to protect users from installing apps that may not have the latest privacy and security features by expanding our target level API requirements.

Starting on November 1, 2022, existing apps that don’t target an API level within two years of the latest major Android release version will not be available for discovery or installation for new users with devices running Android OS versions higher than apps’ target API level. As new Android OS versions launch in the future, the requirement window will adjust accordingly.

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/expanding-...
That was a great exercise when I was starting out. Thanks for designing it!
There you go. But even before that 8 years ago, ConvNets, AlexNet, etc were getting all the hype and then came the adversarial images and issues which weren't addressed and then that hype fizzled out very quickly.

Now the AI bros here are attempting to sell us their new snake-oil in the form of a stochastic parrot which promises to be the solution to everything.

Well, unsurprisingly it is another unexplainable AI black box which still requires the human to check every single output so that it doesn't hallucinate something incorrect, which it does almost all the time with a lack of transparent explainability as to why it hallucinated.

So the fact is, it is already overpromising and under-delivering for serious use-cases. Just like FSD (Fools Self Driving) was when that was over-hyped and with little to no Tesla Robo-taxis on the road.
Last thing I want is Go types tbh. Trying to figure out what implements a given interface is difficult without a sufficiently clever tool.

Funnily enough, Python has Go-esque types also, Protocols, and they have the exact same issue. I only use them when I really really need structural typing to reuse code in a typesafe way.
But look out for signs of sleep apnea; I only get it sleeping on my back, which I rarely do. Possibly in some cases sleep apnea might be part of why it doesn't feel comfortable to sleep on your back. The other issue that is worse for me when I end up on my back is my mouth drying out (not good for teeth).
Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’
For walmart it would be easy

1. Automation.. More Self Checkouts, more Kiosks, etc

2. Reduce local services. Many of them would become unprofitable anyway. This would be Deli, Custom Meat cutting, Fresh Meals, etc etc. This would be either outsourced or replaced with Regional Service servicing many stores to reduce head count

3. More Outsourcing. Manufacturers will stock their products on the shelfs not Walmart employees, Contractors will clean the stores not Walmart employee's, etc etc. Walmart will quickly become not the largest employer, and 100's of new small businesses that are likely under the threashold to be covered under these new laws will popup up to supply walmart with labor.

Some of this is already happening today as labor costs raise in the market, increase unionization will accelerate this.
This link is being copied to slack channels everywhere with “I told you so” statements and something about “You kids and your GPTs” and “Back in my day”

Meanwhile copilot is becoming a superpower to those who figure it out.

And it hasn’t even been a year! I’m going to need a lot more popcorn.
> Engineers will be replaced by those that use AI

So 10x engineers will replace normal engineers? Although this seems plausible, the advent of the 10 or 100x engineer isn't something new (and it didn't put millions of engineers out of work, although it created the biggest corporations to ever exist).
Yes, GPT is an aid not a programmer. You should still be doing the programming while ChatGPT gives you quick solutions to problems without having to look up Stack Overflow.
Seems inspired by the Manhattan project that came too late to be used against Germany and cost unprecedented amounts.

Considering the period it's not exactly science fiction.
> Chinese workforce becomes smaller

A question on workforce reduction due to decline in birthrate.

In west, we seemed to have solved the problem with immigration. Is it possible China can also adopt the same policies? Essentially bringing in migrant labour class workforce from South East Asian countries with much less per capita income such as Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar etc.
Looking into this, thanks.
From grassroots to government, Singapore takes lead in tackling e-waste
> Copyright terms have regularly been extended by Congress and they are astoundingly long now.

There has been no appetite for extending terms in recent years, and things are entering the public domain again, including _Steamboat Willie_. I think there is an understanding that the CTEA will end up as the final extension and that further extensions are unlikely.
If you're not cognizant of what's going on you can cause mold issues by carelessly using swamp coolers without any venting of the humidified air.

Some people button their place up thinking they want to keep the hot air out, but the evaporative cooler becomes ineffective once the air is too humid, and you start getting sticky. Do that enough year after year and you'll get mold in the walls.
Just as AI is being overhyped. There seems to be an equally silly trend on HN to undercut its obvious and massive impact.
All these traditional cooling techniques will reduce the temp by a couple of degrees Celsius right? When you're facing 40C can your body even feel the difference?
> A union being an unrelated 3rd party should have no say in that kind of business arrangement.

A union is, in fact, a related second party. It is comprised of employees of that employer. You seem to be under a grave misunderstanding of what a union is. I recommend learning about what they are and put the koolaid down.
This might fit the UK or Netherlands, but not overall Europe.
Adding more complex loading states than spinners takes work and it’s not free.
my favorite of these not on the xkcd is that there are pretty close to ~5e5 + (5% of 5e5) seconds in 365 24-hour days (a very naive "year")

That's to say, 500000 + 25000 is very nearly 525600. It's only off by ten minutes!
You get 10% inflation and the union gets you a 7% raise , of which the union take 5% for "dues" if you are lucky, if you are unlucky, you get 10% inflation, the union gets you 7%, and takes 10%, so after unionized you are doing the same job for a reduction in purchasing power of 13%.

yea Unions
Good catch. You're right that rent is cheaper in Germany than Mississippi, which I did not know.
I used NetBSD as my daily driver at home, 1995-2001. Loneliest experience. Almost nobody runs NetBSD, even though it's really solid.