skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean statistics may, if someone spent enough time, show that things are generally where they feel best being because a human like you put it there. also you have about a 50% give or take winning anything so leaving it to odds feels better than trying to push one way or another.
Plenty of people who work in the city of Berkeley, as well as for the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley live in Solano County. I have a family friend who works for the city of Berkeley and lives in Fairfield for example.

It's part of the Capital Corridor so it's commutable to both the Bay Area and Sacramento, the schools are decent, and the houses are nice and new.
Yes, this is definitely it. Even in Canada, one of the more similar markets to the US, Discover seems to be extremely sparsely used - not even talking about the rest of the world. On the other hand, Visa and Mastercard can be used essentially everywhere - they're ubiquitous.
To a newcomer wanting to establish themselves, volume is irrelevant, reach is everything, and Discover is accepted pretty much everywhere in the US that takes cards at all.

Abroad, they have "roaming" agreements with many other large networks such as JCB, China UnionPay, and Diners Club.
Your fish dotfioes are a lot more extensive than my extremely small .zshrc file. What have you configured it to do?
How bad is mcdonalds food?
3 reasons well known in Real Estate: Location, Location, Location. California is the only state you can build a brand new city that is only 60 miles from SF.
Pro-union sentiment is the highest its ever been since 1965 and growing.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-hi...
Half Moon Bay is the Bay Area though. Plenty of people live in HMB and commute to San Mateo, Belmont, Palo Alto, etc to work.
> And you think there was no corruption in the ruling communist class?

Real-socialism/communism failed for good reasons and deservedly. I shed no tears for that period.

My point is that what came after tended to be even worse - the post-downfall period, the breakdown of intra- and inter-block trade, the looting by criminals and corrupt (former) elites and other destruction and the resulting brain drain had consequences that have held or taken the affected countries back in development for decades.

Of course the elites were corrupt. But there was a marked difference in corruption when there still was some sort of government that held them a bit accountable, or when the government essentially vanished and the criminals became the government. Russia is the easiest example (because it's best documented, information on the Balkans is pretty scarce): Your average Russian "elite" back in the USSR era, he maybe had a couple villas and Western cars, that's it. Your average Russian "oligarch" (or to put it better, kleptocrat) today? Buys a soccer club for billions of euros, has multiple luxury yachts and stashed away many billions of dollars more. Hell, the billionaire Russian oligarchs alone have a net worth of over 500 billion dollars [1] despite the war, and that doesn't include the millionaire mini-oligarchs. Imagine where Russia would be, had that wealth remained in the hands of the nation, and its leaders invested it into education, social cohesion and modern industry?!

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-billionaires-...
That would not be in the interest of a variety of powerful people not interested in being subject to arbitrary search.

Moreover, you're just making the colorless argument that anything will be interpreted to increase rather than constrain police power, despite historical evidence to the contrary. The current composition of the Supreme Court has a tendency to do that, but the two Justices most inclined to do it are also the two oldest.
Great post, thanks, also 'duf' was new to me, like it.

One question: I have 2 ntfs drives and they show as type "fuseblk". They don't show now with the new "mount" alias. I tried removing "fuse" from the list but no change. How can I bring these back to displaying when I enter "mount"?
Is Apple Pay a separate payment network or does it piggyback on Mastercard? It requires special software on the PoS terminals.
It would be better if they were GPL compliant
What does revenue have to do with network effects?

On the contrary, if Apple wants instant and almost ubiquitous merchant acceptance, it would make much more sense to buy a low-volume but wide-reach network than one that's generating lots of revenue from fees, simply because it would be much more capital intensive to finance.
> 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California

Sounds like it’s already a utopia.
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Y'all, the original post was edited, but the quoted bit about being able to make money by buying things was indeed wrong, you don't end up with more money by buying stuff this way. GP seems to have edited their post to talk about buying at a discount instead, as was suggested by this post you're all now bagging on.
And you also don't pay into the general issues in the country which are shoved off to the less fortunate home owners.
It’s not new, the first Kindle was released in 2007.
I use bash and also have no patience for configuring tooling. Your fish dotfiles are more complicated than my bash ones. I used to work on a team where many of the other engineers used fish. I never saw it doing anything I couldn't do in bash, although it looked a little fancier. But the annoying thing was when they asked me for help, and none of the commands I gave them worked in fish. It made for very slow troubleshooting sessions.
> On topic: I agree that 3rd party binaries are not a good solution to this particular problem. That is the type of solution that works in a closed environment like a corporate CI system, but it should not be the default.

Why?

I mean, OS distributions making available whole catalogs of prebuilt binaries is a time-tested solution solution that's in place for decades. What leads you to believe that this is suddenly undesirable?
It'll probably be a cookie community similar to the ones springing up around Lathrop and Tracy. Now that long distance public transit has become better in Northern California over the past 10-15 years thanks to Govs Brown and Newsom, that border area between the Bay Area and SJV will see a lot of construction as both the interior Bay Area and Sacramento have become much more expensive.
> what is /dev/shm? I thought /dev is already a synthetic FS?

/dev/shm is a tmpfs mount. It's not synthetic. It's basically "/tmp but it uses your RAM so it's not essentially-unbounded, so we didn't put it on /tmp because then stupid legacy programs might OOM the kernel."

It's mounted under /dev presumably because you can think of "a tmpfs mount" as a system facility for "named shared-memory allocations" — in the same way that e.g. /dev/audio is a system facility, or /dev/random is a system facility. It's a facility that presents itself as a virtual filesystem, but it's still fundamentally a "low level system API" meant for consumption by the systems programmers writing e.g. glibc, rather than something the user is meant to see and browse into as part of the filesystem abstraction. (I believe that /dev/mapper is another thing that ended up under /dev for this reason.)

Also, /dev was a synthetic FS for a little while — devfs — but this long post-dates the creation and conventional-ization of these other mountpoints inside /dev. Until 2009, /dev was just a directory in the rootfs, with special-device inodes created manually during rootfs creation with mknod(8).

These days, under udev, /dev is once again "just a directory" — just one with a daemon that automatically creates and destroys the special-device inodes in it to match what's actually available on the system.
I know, I know, I can talk all day about being rational but then I REALLY want an RTX 4090 (to learn machine learning of course! Trust me bro! Then I just play video games on it and oh why not upgrade the rest of the computer, as an aside proud of myself I got an NVIDIA RTX3080 used for $400 instead) and there’s no way my wife would be okay with an $1800 expense on the debit card but she might not notice 6 months of $300 payments.

It’s easier to fight back when the loan terms are explicitly laid out, “okay you’re getting a one year loan and it’ll be $1000 loan and $300 you’re going to pay in interest”. And I’m like “okay I’ll wait and just save up”.

The lesson I learned growing up with a single mom was “spend the money immediately or else stepdad will spend it on drugs, money is a liability, you’re better off having things, harder to pawn vs cash”.

And credit cards just makes that highly dysfunctional mindset that’s burned into my brain even worse.
> Aren't they slower or about as slow as C++, which is notorious for being frustratingly slow, especially for local, non-distributed builds?

Yes. Significantly slower. The last rust crate I pulled [0] took as long to build as the unreal engine project I work on.

[0] https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator/
Nobody takes discover, as evidenced from their market price of 1/20th of that of Visa.
I see. What frameworks do game developers use? Are they custom and different for each game?
It will be like Santana Row in San Jose, a walkable area without any homeless.
And what evidence do you have to support this claim?
I know this isn't really the point of the article, but to me it's mildly depressing to see so many companies jump on the Buy Now Pay Later bandwagon - you see it everywhere nowadays. Almost every "Add to Cart" button or checkout process is now adorned with "Pay in installments with <company name>".

To me, it indicates the decreasing purchasing power of the average consumer, combined with the desire to still buy all the new things. Using the screenshot from the article as an example - if you have no other option but to finance a $125 pair of shoes over the course of two months, buying them is probably not the best financial decision at the moment.
The only public transit option for me is commuter rail which would require me to drive to and park at the (relatively) nearby station. (I'm well outside the city's local bus and subway transit system.) It takes 60-90 minutes to go the 50 miles depending upon whether I need to connect to the subway at my destination or not. It runs no more frequently than hourly and the last couple of trains at night are more like 90+ minutes apart. It's utterly impractical to take in for an evening event.

(And it's about $30 round-trip with parking; I do take it in the rare times when I'm going in for the day to work because driving in and back at rush hour is awful.)

The commuter rail is "fine" but its schedule doesn't really work outside of commuting hours--and even that is significantly worse than pre-COVID.
There are multiple metrics to optimize for when optimizing.

FWIU, from the diagram in the photo in the linked tweet, which is similar to a diagram on page 16 of the TabPFN paper [1], on the OpenML-CC18, TabPFN has a better ROC Receiver Operating Characteristic after 1 second than XGboost, Catboost, LightGBM, KNN, SAINT, Reg. Cocktail, and Autogluon after any amount of time, but Auto-sklearn 2.0 required 5 minutes to reach ~ROC parity with TabPFN.

1. "TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second" (May 2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01848

2. "Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data" (Aug 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08945
Blaming the oil companies is misplaced. They provided what we wanted.
The integrated Ethernet switch is only as useful as its software stack - I say this after an excruciating decade with TI's Sitara devices (and the built-in CPSW ethernet switch.)
Let's see if the Rust community learned anything from the actix-web fiasco.
> Data cannot be transmitted or stored but via physical phenomena.

Physical phenomena are not physical objects.

> And such broadcasts are very much not protected from government monitoring.

The government can't monitor their contents when it's encrypted, and in either case can't meaningfully exclude people in the US from receiving the transmissions, which was supposed to be the rationale for the search.
Maybe local governments should clean up their cities then. Id rather live somewhere clean and safe.
> zsh felt like it fought me every step of trying to configure it to be halfway decent.

oh-my-zsh is a lifesaver here. I have a very small dotfile that delegates most of the config to omz, which I have in a bare repo that I clone onto each new machine. It took maybe an hour a few years ago to settle on the plugins I wanted and put the repo together, and each new machine now takes 5-10 minutes to get up and running.
Or we could do something crazy like respect democratic norms rather than descending into a plutocratic hellscape.
You just named two of the most heavily regulated industries. In the case of SUVs there’s a compelling case to be made that they’re the direct result of regulation.
Interestingly, I've been thinking it would be a good idea to brush up on my C skills, because while there are serious contestants to its throne, a gig based on Rust today often means being at the cutting edge of tech, and will probably come with a lot of buzzwords like GraphQL, React, Typescript, monorepo, AWS Lambda, daily standups — things giving me symptoms of burnout just writing down.

Whereas a C gig today probably means embedded, or subsystem far away from the frontend churn. If I'm lucky they have unit tests. The Lindy path you were talking about.
I've honestly been asking myself if this is because of so many aging drivers who are trying to compensate for vision loss, when they should probably be staying off the roads at night? There can be a lot of denial in accepting one's reduced capacity.

Or, is it people who have become so accustomed to automatic-everything that they don't really know or think about the light controls? This could also explain the reverse problem of people driving around a night with only daytime running lights or parking lights.

Or, is it really just selfish jerks like those who want massive tanks to crush their opponents? They would like to give others sunburn, if possible. This could also explain those turning on fog lights in all conditions or those who attach off-road auxiliary lights to their trucks but use them on the streets.
> But, like in most big organizations, I suspect the web people and the company data people don't talk to one another.

Sounds like you're trying to assume good intentions, but you sound extremely naive as a result.

The issue is privatized utilities. They are an ordained monopoly. Their failure to "talk to one another" is not a failure at all. They have no reason to even consider the problem in the first place. You're still paying them, are you not?
>>So do you think anything should be legal on the roads by default?

yes

>>I think there is a clear and obvious justification for why we don't let anyone drive anything on the roads: safety.

Safety, the drum beat of the authoritarians for all of human history. Safety is often used to limit freedom, rarely is safety the actual reason for laws and regulations, even rarer does safety increase as a result of the rules

In this case there is no safety issue even being claimed, people are annoyed by them, they believe they take away from other public transit aka they are politically opposed to them, or a wide range of other non-safety issues.

If there is a safety issue that actually endangers others we have many mechanisms to check that including legal liability.

Further with safety you get in the "if it saves one life" debate as well. In short if safety was the only goal we would have no freedom at all, life is about risk management, not ensuring absolute safety. I have no desire to live in a "safe" society where safety first is the goal

To misquote Mike Rowe.. "Safety Third... lots of things come before safety"
It's like amway or other MLMs but instead of locking them in with proprietary products to sell, they're locked into proprietary ways of doing business.

In a way, it's a lot like a franchise model.
Because Sites usually have an input box to enter the store address / zip code, otherwise you'd never be able to look up for another location. Probably the case here too
Crazy idea, if they actually built multi family homes to tell the NIMBYs to kiss it, this could be extremely profitable.

Maybe put space for some offices from the big companies as well
If you think that 2% are going to that service, it's you who doesn't understand the math/economics.

Out of, let's call it 3% of blended-rate merchant fees for simplicity, about 2% goes directly to the issuing bank, who (at least in the US) passes on 1-2% to the cardholder in the form of "rewards". The fact that issuers can do this shows that card payments are priced extremely inefficiently.

That alone is quite ridiculous and has no bearing on the overall efficiency of Visa and Mastercard as global payment systems.

In the EU, interchange was recently capped at 0.3% for credit cards (i.e. at 1/10th of the US value), and most stakeholders have come out alive – the only thing that went away were these ridiculous rewards schemes, which effectively constitute a tax on people with poor credit and/or financial literacy.

The marginal cost of providing secure online payments probably lies somewhere well in the sub-1% region for domestic payments and a bit more when foreign exchange is involved.
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VCs are obviously not funding this through their funds. These are private individual investors.
I think there's a very obvious distinction between the kind of "3rd party" that is your chosen OS distribution and the kind of 3rd party that is "some person on github or crates.io", and I didn't feel the need to clarify this as I thought it was obvious.

I've clarified it to "upstream-provided 3rd party" in the original post.
> there is a point where we can say that “safety” has gone too far.

Everyone's safety is the Number 1 rule in avionics. How or why is the motor vehicle industry exempted from responsible design?

The best-selling vehicles in the US are trucks: pick-up trucks as urban transport! The motor-vehicle industry is also building trucks as passenger vehicles with more seats. The marketing term is "SUV".

The further absurdity of making large-battery electric truck-passenger vehicles is squandering the opportunity to make smaller, efficient EVs and reduce pollution. Over 1.3 billion litres of petrol are burned in motor vehicles in the US every day.[1]

Of course, any category of product that depends on the petroleum industry is unlikely to be part of an environmental solution, even if we were just hoping to have less pollution in our communities. The annual loss of life due to motor-vehicle accidents is a frightening figure (30K/year in the US, 20K/year in the EU). Double that number for estimated deaths related to pollution from burning petrol.

But don't blame the industry, it's your own fault and personal choice to breathe the atmosphere. /s

The sustainable community response is not to demand that "car park providers [...] think of new ways to accommodate larger cars."

Governments seem afraid to pass crucial legislation and Industrial accounting nationalises this heavy annual loss by merging it in the "personal freedom and incompetence" column.

[1] _ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/use-of-gasoline...
Isn't Irvine, CA a corporate-owner and planned city as well?
They aren't legally protected, but they can be practically protected by encrypting the data.
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Wanted to email someone for startup advice, but thought about posting it here first

Hi

At our startup we're doing well, our revenue now covers our expenses and more(1M+ annual), but we feel stuck. The problem that's being solved is real, our customers keep using the product even when it doesn't work properly, and when it doesn't work they think they lost money (sometimes they do :)).

Now we keep iterating on the product, making it more stable, adding features etc... but we know that it's temporary, and the problem will go away soon. Even if the problem stays, it's very niche, our numbers are usually stable, no growth, just some temporary spikes now and then.

And I think the problem is that we don't have a vision for the future, we just stumbled upon a problem, solved it well and got this far. But the future is very unclear.

I'm sure you've encountered cases like this, I'd very much appreciate it if you could give a pointer in the right direction.

Thank you
There are various ways government and private ownership can provide accountability. I lived in a town where the property lines met on all sides, including through what appeared to be the roads. Each lot was encumbered with an easement which granted every other lot owner the privilege to travel over the easements so everyone can get to their houses. Taxes were mostly used by the town to maintain those roads (actually easements) and for police and building inspections. Importantly the town did not own the roads. The police enforced typical driving rules, but anyone who dug deep could find out none of it was really enforceable because it was private property. No parking on roads was enforced by a tow off the private property.

If local government acted up against the wishes of residents, it would be a simple matter to repeal taxes and do the road maintainenace ourselves. The town had a calm neighborly feel and people were respectful of each other. It worked great, and local government always knew the people had the power.
Ad blockers should not be considered "non standard".

Even if blockers do count as non-standard, random scripts not loading should not be capable of bringing down your site, and this should've been clear even before the npm left-pad debacle.
True.

However, it seems to work quite well in the US, where people grow up with several credit cards in their wallet. I always wondered how far you can push that. Looks like we're about to find out.
> except people LOVE free shit. But no techbro gives shit away for free.

Self driving cars are cheaper than regular taxis to run.

The incentives are aligned.

The whole point is that self driving cars will be cheaper than regular taxis.

This isn't some crazy complicated social media business plan. Instead the business plan is simply.

Costs of running taxis go down, therefore complete with regular taxis with lower prices.

So yes, this is all good for consumers.

And not everything can be refuted by referring to a pitty viral article that doesn't apply to the right industry.

> all so you don't have to ride in icky 'public transit

Cars aren't going away. There will be lots and lots of places that still use cars, for a very long time, regardless of how much additional public transit funding a couple cities add.

And yes, this means that cars self driving are a benefit.
I thought the term was Smart City. Why can't we stick with terms? Why must people get rid of them at the slightest bad publicity or refuse to use them to say it will be completely different this time? I think this article should explain the project in terms of other Smart City projects.
Then extrapolate "random guy trying to follow dtolnay's lead."
> This project would include a new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space

There are many similar places in North America and Europe. The main differences are that they don't want to be "cities with thousands of new homes" and they usually are not owned by investors.
Not to hijack, but also consider xonsh[1]. It's Python based, and all your scripts can be Python (or hybrid-Python). I've been using it for both Windows and Linux for over 5 years.

[1] https://xon.sh/