skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory this kind of "controlled" backwards compatibility break is good, it lets old apps work whilst encouraging developers to keep up with platform changes. In practice it has the nasty side effect of preventing the scaling of the software industry, and with it, industrial society. Therefore Google should drop this policy and allow old programs to be distributed forever.

With near perfect backwards compatibility, the amount of software that society can consume is in effect unlimited. The number of software developers is finite, but the amount of software they can create isn't: only the growth rate is finite. Thus society can benefit from an ever-expanding library of programs which increases overall wealth. Indeed, tool creation is the only way to increase wealth in countries with a flat or falling population (productivity * population = gdp, more or less). In this mode, software is like knowledge. It accumulates and compounds.

With imperfect backwards compatibility you are forced to engage in continuous maintenance of all existing software. Suddenly there is now a fixed limit on how much software society can have, it's a function of how many maintenance developers there are. You can literally reach a limit where things can slide backwards. Problems can become un-automated. In this mode, software is more like oil. It can run out.

Google want to force continuous maintenance because the Android team justify their existence with constant change, and if a platform is full of unmaintained apps then it will feel old and tired compared to a platform full of apps that have the freshest new looks and features. But that often doesn't matter, especially for non-consumer or specialized software used only by a small number of people (but for high leverage impact). Because Google and Apple are unapologetically consumer focused cultures, they care far more about things like how apps look and stuff that's irrelevant in business contexts (consumer privacy).
> Yugoslavia (and all the violence that happened during and post it's collapse) is not a good example of what happens in a heterogeneous countries once the dictator was out.

But it is a perfect example of a highly heterogeneous society being quite prosperous (relatively for the Eastern bloc and their starting position, which was a pretty much destroyed country), held together by nothing but a dictator.

> Belgium and the two main areas/languages of it only came to harmony after the prosperity, and it mostly functioned like two countries within a state with almost all the powers to the two separate regions

It started functioning as two separate countries within a state to an extent only in the 1970s, which is hardly "post-war". Before that the Flemish were discriminated against quite heavily.

> Ethnic minorities did exist in Europe before the wars, but in the post war period most countries kicked their ethnic minorities out.

Yes, this is your premise, but as I said, it's flat out untrue. Spain didn't kick out Catalans; France didn't kick out Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, various colonial descendants, or the Corsicans; Belgium didn't kick out the Flemish; Yugoslavia didn't kick out the Bosniaks; Italy didn't kick out the Austrians in Tyrol; Bulgaria didn't kick out the Tatars or Turks; Romania didn't kick out the Hungarians, etc etc etc.

Your premise is somewhat true in a very narrow geographic region, namely Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, where mass population transfers occurred. But trying to generalise it to an European wide thing and link prosperity to it is wrong, and yes, does sound like a racist dog whistle, but not because I don't like it, simply because you're trying to link kicking the "others" out to prosperity which is what many far right parties and persons have promised.

> The immigration to France was almost entirely from Algeria, not multiple colonies. And that too didn't go well and the immigrants faced tons and tons of discrimination

It was mostly from the Magrheb, including Algeria, but also Portugal. And yes they did, so France wasn't homogenous yet was still hugely prosperous?

> You also state something as simply untrue yet cite nothing to back such strong claims.

The strong claims of basic demographics in multiple European countries? Wasn't aware a source was needed for them, here you go as a starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tyrol?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France (Immigration after WW2)
Arguably that is what the Foveon sensor did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor

There is a book called The Silicon Eye about the history, and not coincidentally Carver Mead also wrote a book on neuromorphic analog neural network implementation back in the 80s.
You can, you just choose not to
See also: the Prolog AI hype
In general, yes. Specifically the people we're discussion here: No.
>Anyone who has had several kids and worked at home knows you can’t do both unless you leave the house or have a nanny / partner / grandparent watch the children while you work.

Anyone who has had several kids and worked at home knows that it's much easier than when commuting to work. Even if you can't have one partner (or parters alternating) to cater to them constantly, and need a nanny, it's still much better, you can help much more, doing little errands, tending to them, be there for whatever small emergency and so on, than when stuck in some office 10-50 miles away. You also have the extra hours you'd be commuting to be with them.

And that's when they're babies and need constant care.

When they grow enough for school? It's not just much easier than commuting, but unbelievably better too.

Except if one goes for the "out of sight, out of mind" angle. Then sure, tending to your career in some office while the nanny or your partner takes care of the kids is better.
No coffee after 1pm does some
Magic. There are many other difficult variables too but this one is easy
You don't think Cloudflare will have a vc catchup moment where they jack up prices when they have a certain reach? Or they won't get purchased by a bigger entity or the US military?

Cloudflare will not be the same in 10 years. I doubt it will exist as the cloudflare we know today.
Check your credit card statement. It’s $13-19 now and steadily rising every 6 months.

And that’s on top of the in-content sponsorships and merchandise most creators are selling.

Nah, happy to steal from Google, the creators are fine.
> Such articles are… really laughable

On the other hand, wrong takes on something everyone feels they have expertise in are what cause the most comments here on HN.
They marketed it at the time as being "unlimited", which at the time was a reasonably fair description
They could be building a dense city because it's a good investment opportunity to provide housing in an area that needs it and density can increase the return on investment, not because they themselves want to live there.
Well, show me one.
What do you do when inheriting from a base class with a defined __init__ ?
> Like pretty much anything involving malaria, I'd say this is a temporary victory at best. Malaria has a long history of developing drug resistance. And vaccine resistance could well prove similar.

Combination therapies like this one with multiple mechanisms of action are far less likely to develop drug resistant strains. They’re increasingly used to treat HIV, cancer, STDs, and other diseases that are even more adaptable than malaria.
just anecdote but even in twitter days we saw tons of impersonator accounts that named themselves similar to a bank's official handle.

they used to respond the fastest to customer complaints (better than the real customer service team), politely apologie on behalf of the bank, and ask for PII over dm or provide a link.

this was for banks in India, so twitter enforcement of shutting down impersonation and scams was not very prompt / effective
I'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years.

I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.
Critical Concepts: Creating Responsive and Cross-Browser-Compatible Websites
1-2 hours of walking every day and regular daily exercise (stretching in breaks + functional training) can solve the problem of pain in the back. You may also need to change your mattress or bed.
…have you used next?

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/data-f...

Spoiler: you don’t get an api.
A decrease in the consumption of wine can be fixed with a decrease in the price of wine.
In many places, it’s legal to take fruit. No cutting required.

Seeds don’t require cutting, and can usually be picked up off the ground.
excuse me, "mafia" ?
I don't think anybody resonanbly claims you can do remote work and care for children at the same time.

But not having to commute gives more time to be with your children. Being at home let's you see them briefly on breaks (if you have a partner or in home care caring for them at home). Makes it easier to bring them to/from daycare or your
Absolutely. Before I was WFH full time, I tended to buy whatever chair seemed nice enough, but never spent over $200 USD. About a week after our companies WFH order I realized it was really causing discomfort after long work session. I went with a Secretlab gaming chair. Despite the "gaming" part, it's pretty solid and I've been very happy with it. Several friends and coworkers have purchased them on my recommendation and have been happy with them as well.
DAC? Trees? Which sequester CO2 underground? Hey, by all means, I think eventually its inevitable that carbon outputs become a commodity that people want to buy for industrial uses. As it stands, there are natural processes that do a good job of this already, there is a lot of reforestation in areas everyone was worried about not long ago. To your point on fuel production, even if you are powering this with solar, you again have an issue with areas that work with solar, and those solar panels are only marginally better than fossil fuels over their lifetime, its not some magic bullet. Its nuclear or bust, I'd buy it for 10c on the $ if you said it was backed up by nuclear because at least we are having a serious conversation; solar is only useful as a hedge against environmentalist policy causing an unstable grid -> me.
A rule I set is that I don’t ever lie down on my bed unless I’m sleeping which means you don’t relax and use phone. Better if you don’t use your bed ever for any other activity than sleep and f’ing
I think what GP is saying is that with explicit kwargs you can't express variadic signatures, i.e. "this function takes one int positional, and then any number of key/value pairs where the values are lists". The variable length is the important bit.

It's certainly debatable whether doing that is better than passing a single argument whose value is a dict with that same type, but many people do prefer the variadic args/kwargs style.
Mozilla is using a mix of Bugzilla, Jira, Github Issues, and $DEITY knows what else, depending on the team or project in question. A good rule of thumb is that for any major system (code hosting, bug tracking, chat, wiki, CI, etc) Mozilla has at _least_ two- one homegrown and/or OSS, another a proprietary service- and a simmering battle over which should be used.

Most of Firefox engineering was still on their fork of Bugzilla (https://github.com/mozilla-bteam/bmo) when I left back in 2021.
We don’t even have to go back to the 80s to find this kind of impermanence.

When the war between Ukraine and Russia first started, energy prices in Europe skyrocketed, causing several utility companies to cancel their customers’ existing fixed-rate plans, to instead pass on all expenses.
where is the pushback ? can you share any links.

all i see is the hype cycle.

also, the title is click-bait. I was expecting a list of pushback articles. and whats the deal with developers curating such lists and posting on hn ?
The UK is a big importer of French wine
I just mean don't take the remote work idea too far. Raising children is affecting the ability to do any professional work and because of that people deciding to have children should receive various forms of support and protection by social institutions and employment laws. Pretending that you can take care of children while working from home is very harmful idea imho.
Dragons, obviously
Office workers didn't like the commute for 100 years and employers didn't do anything about it.
Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education [video]
MODS

It is “protobuf” with a T, not “profobuf”.
I know the typo is in the headline on the original article, but it is bad to spread it, and it looks bad on the front page here.
Their point is that genuine Apple devices used circularly polarized filters so this isn’t an issue.
Prepaying 100 years to secure your digital legacy hinges on the sad premise that no one else will bother to keep it going.

Like a swan song that lasts way too long through sheer financial will.
Century Milestones
> I stopped caring for large NGOs when I found out how deeply corrupt their management is, including middle management.

This happened for me at a bar in Seattle when I was sitting next to two women when were literally giggling about how the Gates Foundation paid them $300k a year for nothing.
Prepare for disappointment.
Autopilots have been able to fly for decades? My High School friend went to Rockwell Collins and worked on them. They could fly a route from 20 feet off the tarmac to 20 feet from the landing strip. That limit was there because of regulation. The autopilots could also take off and land if allowed.

I guess we're talking humanoid robot here. But what a cost! That enormous hunk of robotics. Or an autopilot built into the plane (which expensive planes already have). Gotta be a narrow market - smaller planes but not too small.
True, but there are a couple of mitigations available: you can express the types of selected kwargs (by leaving them out of the * residual), and you can use typing.Union/| to express product types for values in the residual as well.
When I was in the military, I learned about the Combined Federal Campaign, which aggregates charities and allows federal employees to contribute through payroll deductions.

https://cfcgiving.opm.gov/offerings

One tool they offer is a calculation of AFR, which is the Administrative and Fundraising Expense Rate. It basically measures the overhead you're talking about. You can look it up for any charity that's part of the CFC at the link above.

The EFF's AFR is over 30%. The Red Cross's AFR is a touch over 9%.
screwdrivers are a very good example of the Lindy effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
> Like pretty much anything involving malaria, I'd say this is a temporary victory at best. Malaria has a long history of developing drug resistance. And vaccine resistance could well prove similar.

We certainly shouldn’t give up on new research but I wouldn’t be so quick to reach the pessimistic conclusion. Vaccines are more robust than drugs and these cocktail approaches are good for requiring multiple favorable mutations to escape.

I do wish Intellectual Ventures had invested in the mosquito laser for more than a TED talk, though: there are plenty of bad things other than malaria and nothing evolves resistance to lasers.
You burn bricks before they are assembled into a building, not after. In the American Southwest you do encounter prestige buildings from the end of the 19th century proudly proclaiming they were built in brick when the rest of the village was built from adobe.
There Will Be Screws.

(and rivets. Joints. Pipes. Flanges, if we're unlucky)
Not sure about Africa but in the US the problematic mosquitoes are non-native. In the Florida Keys they’ve been piloting releasing genetically modified males. According to the article when they mate the offsprings are male only. FYI, the males don’t bite.

[1] https://fla-keys.com/news/article/10845/fkmcd-oxitec-mosquit...
That implies a complete freedom from all attachment. What if your job is in the worse town? What if your aging parents are?
How? There isn't even a 4 or an x in the name.
WFH just makes middle managers redundant
How weird to make this a fight against hypocrisy.

If X causes Y, and you like Y, then it might boost your support for X. But if not, that doesn't make you a hypocrite. I mean, what if X is a bad thing for other reasons?

Why not just say "remote work increases fertility" and let people judge for themselves?
Asahi Fedora with Gnome works fine on my M2.
Note: Judging from the timestamps, this seems to be about three weeks old.
Llama 2, CodeLlama, and GPT-4 performance: recent LLM developments and research
This is one of the major differences between digital and paper: digital requires constant upkeep.

If you'd replace the inscriptions on pyrymids and obelisks as well as the various old documents with their digital equivalent we'd have lost them long ago. And they will still be there long after their current digital equivalents have turned to dust. The only defense that digital has is boundless copies, in the hope that some of them survive. But the chances of any particular copy surviving very long is nil and even if it does it is probably going to be unreadable so you need to keep copying.
I’ve also had hetzner take down my serger for 1.5 months.

Not a good company if you’re relying on it for anything important
> For Musk, its a prohibitive opportunity cost for him to have babies of his own vs enabling hundres of others doing the same.

The guy can almost field a basketball team with his kids from a string of different women. He obviously has no qualms having kids. Raising them on the other hand, seems to be too much of an opportunity cost to the self-proclaimed titan of industry.
Boo fucking hoo.

I will "8 and skate", be it a remote or in person job. They dont pay me for overtime, so I don't donate it to a for-profit enterprise.
Yes, not talking about the Japanese who got bombed or the miners who suffered from uranium mining is understandable from the point of a movie focused on Oppenheimer and Los Alamos. The one thing that I think is relevant is when people criticize the line in the movie that "nobody lives here [site of Los Alamos] -- there is just a boarding school and some Indians who come here for ceremonies". This wasn't true. There were farmers (mostly Hispanic) who were forced to leave their lands.
You have missed my point, I'm not going to retread it, but I'll answer your post. No one is seriously angry about the environment, you might be angry about your environment, you are not angry about my environment which is a daily battle against nature to keep it from kicking my door down. Take a look at the US on google maps, notice the west half looks like a desert, yea, that's where all this activism seems to come from.
What made you say that?
It's interesting in this day and age to see a platform degrade at the speed twitter did in quality, stability, user experience, etc. I suppose what's the most surprising is that it seems it was intentional. I wonder how much Musk has been sandboxed at Tesla and SpaceX? Perhaps he was encouraged to do the twitter deal to get him away from the other two companies. Like a shiny object to occupy him and his time.
Not true! Most urban environments, anything from the public path is fair game. And for good reason. The sun, air, rain aren't personal property. And the right-of-way is for everybody.

And in the US in national parks, picking fruit for daily personal consumption is also allowed. No hoovering up the entire raspberry patch to make jam at home! Just during your visit.
Theft? Of course it's theft, if I reduce to what is happening - you're using their services for free with no compensation. That is the definition of theft.

I would agree with you it's ok if there was no way to _otherwise_ pay for the service. If they push a only ads-supported version, and I have no choice but see ads, and I don't consent to the impact of ads on my brain, it makes a case for blocking ads being ethically correct.

But since there is a choice on how to pay, I find reasoning is no longer ethically right. You can choice to pay with your attention and brain, or to pay with hard cold cash, so the argument of ads being shoved down your brain no longer holds. You can choose to not see ads and pay for the service, and you chose to steal.

And you can make the argument that stealing is ok since you steal from the bad guys, but then you don't get to complain when others may steal from you - we're all "the bad guy" for somebody else
> "Employers believe offering remote work... hurts team building, communication, and workplace culture"

* team building = observation & control, attendance & attention monitoring i.e presenteeism.

* communication = verbal. i dont want to put myself at liability [because i often am] by putting things in writing

* workplace culture = lmao. the bs we use to justify paying you less and/or guilting you into working above your compensation.

also remember all those zoom recordings that got shared online of people being fired by some sociopath ceo. yeah we dont want that to happen again.
It's not completely fused together, more like loose aggregate held together by fused bits. It appears to be very brittle rather than stronger than the original wall.
I shudder to think what happens in another 5 years or so when the min target is bumped. We have an app built with about 6-8 Jetpack Compose libraries that is already flaky (even after using BOM) and only a magic combination of library versions ensures the app runs across SDK versions.

If you think developer libraries provided by Google for Android are stable, battle-tested and you feel this is akin to first-party "platform code", please be advised that it can be a hellscape with you fighting Google's build tools and the IDE/dev env on one side and zero help on SO to debug device-specific issues with lengthy stacktraces on the other. You end up landing on an Android issue-tracker where some kind soul mentioned the device name, only to find that issue in limbo asking for a working reproduction.
Hmm all I've seen about Foveon is just stacked RGB sensing. Ie there is no computation involving multiple pixels or anything like that.
This is what flatpak solves
People online were talking about zen and minimalism as being pretty trendy in 2010, so back then I had predicted that probably by now maximalism or something would be trendy as a response. I don’t think simple cyclical trends is a great model anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

I searched that page for "oppos" and could not find anywhere it suggested or stated that libertarians "actively oppose [liberty] of others". Your assertion seems to be very antithetical to the very views that libertarians hold dearly.
I'd like to imagine we'd be domain-less in 100 years

Obviously cannot envision what would replace it by then but our interfaces will be completely different, not just full effortless voice interaction with AI but probably gestures and anticipation analysis.

Imagine the computing power in a penny sized node and the battery would be your body or radio frequency airwaves or solar or kinetics, everything it can absorb.
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There’s not a shred of evidence to support that except for the lawsuit brought by the investors. I would wager this was the fair market in action and these billionaires paid the price that was given by people who needed a large incentive to sell. Anything past that is the old rich person game of “free market rules for me but for thee”
Nice try though
I got stung by a stingray (2021)
Had an ancient neighbor in downtown San Jose, would totter up and down the street stealing plants, putting them in her garden. What could you do? She was like 97, registered number 5 or something on the national Widows of the Veterans. Her father had fought in the US Civil War.
Probably better off covering building area, to save double, by reducing the need for AC.