skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English is a great example of a language with huge influence from other Germanic languages and the French language. It wasn’t isolated in any meaningful sense: there were local Celtic tribes that lived there before Anglo-Saxons, then there was Danelaw, then there was the Norman conquest. Icelandic is a better example.
Soon as you add in connectivity, battery life dies. RF is expensive.
If they wanted to level up the UX they could explain why they need/use location.
Yes, and perhaps backends could work in a similar way, too?

One other thing was that I was thinking whether these plugins really need to be local. A remote gRPC server could possibly work as well, I guess? Again, pure personal speculation.
>Also, really? Sugar? People need carbohydrates to live, and sugar is a carbohydrate.

Heart disease is the leading killer in the U.S. you believe the arguments are "wishy washy" because you are believing rhetoric someone else told you. Likely someone paid to do so from a specific political party.

People may get "wasted", they also do this with everything else. Food and porn is most common, as is psychological abuse of others. These are physically addictive highs with far more harm.

You also forgot to address the "harm" part. You're using narcotics buzzwords and assuming green is the same as heroin.
People who can buy iPhones by and large have access to banks - even to get them on a payment plan you have to pass a credit check.
Yes, yes. It just works, but if I need to I can pop open the hood and shell in, and then I'm back at home with Linux.
I switched to primarily JVM (Kotlin mostly, some Java) a few years ago and this feeling has for the most part gone away. Having actually stable, actually good tooling/compiler/build systems makes a world of difference to mental health.
> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

That's the process of "Enshittification" by Cory Doctorow. And it's blatantly obvious by your comment that we're in stage 1, "good to their users".... except people LOVE free shit. But no techbro gives shit away for free. This is 'buy-in' and training data.

It ONLY gets worse from here.

And 100 cars on the road is still 100 cars on the road, even if only carrying 100 people. It's a waste of energy, waste of resources, and climate-destroying by fact of all that asphalt and resources to make said cars... all so you don't have to ride in icky 'public transit', cause that's what the "poors" take.
You’re right that the vast majority of the time it’s low effort but it’s hard to identify those cases with high specificity up front.

The issue in medicine is there is huge class imbalance, 90%+ of encounters are essentially “negative” or normal. It’s easy for something/someone to look accurate or safe because of pretest probability. The hard part is getting above 90% and why we spend so much time in medicine training.

I hate the word but there’s something in medicine called “clinical gestalt” which is the overall impression one has from certain things in history and exam and doesn’t fit into a decision rule or algorithm, until we find a solution for that I’m not keen on adopting something that distances the patient from the physician.

We’ve tried that with mid levels at my hospital and it didn’t really work out.
Agree with everything you said. If I didn't have to write /bin/sh compatible scripts for work, I would switch to Fish for similar reasons. From a UX point of view it's indisputably ahead of every other shell and it isn't even close, to the point I'm surprised it hasn't been adopted as the default by an OS like Mac yet. I can walk my family members through terminal things with Fish and nobody gets frustrated or quits. I can't say that about other shells.
An interesting point missing from that XKCD is the 1990 IPCC report that says the following[0]:

> Thus the observed increase could be largely due to this natural variability: alternatively this variability and other human factors could have offset a still larger human-induced greenhouse warming. The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more.

In 1990, the IPCC was saying it wasn't yet discernable that humans were particularly influencing the wider natural change of climate.

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/ipcc_90_92_a... (section 1.0.5)
No, GR is expected to work fine in this regime since there is no expectation of any quantum effects.

A quantum theory of gravity is only needed when we expect there to be significant quantum effects, for example maybe in a neutron star and definitely in situations where our measurement results depend on a superposition of "spacetimes". The reason we don't have a consensus on a quantum theory of gravity yet is that gravity is so weak that it's usually only detectable in situations that involve huge amounts of matter, and it's very rare to have huge amounts of matter together and still have the system behave in a way that requires quantum mechanics to describe it
> There are political trends on HN but they don't necessarily fit neatly into left/right, especially given that defining those terms is extremely problematic in the first place.

That’s because politics has two axises. HN is definitely left-leaning, but in support of social democracy. Hacker News is first and foremost populated by /hackers/ and we don’t go for authoritarianism. We know that as left-leaning as we are, the only good tankie is a dead tankie.

Some ideas are well worth discussing but never implementing, authleft schools of thought definitely fall in that bucket.
Not the same, but this reminds me of the Epoch Protection Version Scheme discussed in this paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3533737.3535091

EPVS is used in Microsoft FASTER, a KV storage engine that uses a hybrid log as its primary data structure: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196898, which is OSS and used by Microsoft (where I work), with implementations in C++ and C#: https://microsoft.github.io/FASTER/
The US is too lo-density for human driven buses to be better for the environment. AVs will enable a transit fleet of right-sized vehicles that respond to demand and can surge without a big labor force working split shifts.
The ironic thing it that it is a negative sum game: as your car get bigger you are safer and other are at greater risk, as everybody else cars get biggers you are in greater danger more so than your cars makes you safe.

It is a classic iterated prisoner's dilemma.

Once enough people (few percent points) start playing the tankification game the only reasonable strategy is to start playing too not to be left behind. But the only winning strategy is not to play (ie to make it illegal for others to play).
It amazes me how few of these comments are about neighbors. I'm a Software Engineer as well, but most people are not.

The EU system helps ensure you're not surrounded by people made entirely miserable by their wage slavery. Who would want to be surrounded by miserable fucks?

I live in the US state with the highest median income: Maryland. I feel lucky to have pursued a career here because I didn't grow up here and I didn't know much about Maryland beforehand.

I now feel as though I couldn't live elsewhere within the US. I was surrounded by exhausted, overworked, miserable people growing up in NJ and I see so much less misery here even though I interact with people from many different socioeconomic backgrounds; up and down the ladder.
> The idea of judging an empty collection as having all items being any value is flawed, since there are no items to measure. It is on par with 1 / 0.

Not really. Those Python functions follow definitions from set theory and predicate logic, and in predicate logic e.g. "for all x, P(x)" is defined as being true if there are no x.

The reason for it being defined that way in mathematics is that it actually leads to consistent rules and definitions without the need to define lots of special cases, even if some of those definitions aren't how most people would use some of the same words in everyday language.

Similarly, the reason division by zero is considered undefined instead of e.g. equaling infinity is that if it were not considering undefined, that would lead to inconsistency. If we had 1 / 0 = a, with any valid result a, that would mean a * 0 would need to equal 1.

Programming languages could of course define their APIs to follow some other (hopefully internally consistent) logic, and I guess you could consider mathematical definitions based on predicate logic or set theory as being a somewhat arbitrary choice. But I disagree that the definition used in Python is on par with division by zero.
I’m talking more about the fact that Russia has certain “civilizational milestone” technologies most countries don’t have: space flight, the full stack of aircraft, nuclear, etc. Other countries have to get those technologies from the west.
I wired a WavShare display to a firebeetle ESP32, with a 10 Ah battery.

I run it with ESPHome connected to Home Assistant.

Fits in a picture, I only update it every 8 hours. Battery is still alive after two months.

I'm using Todoist to host a Todo list that I can update from my phone. It gets pushed to the eInk display on my office wall.
Kind of hard to expect individuals to make this change when such companies lobby for gasoline dependency and destruction of public transportation.
Aging business owners should look at Employee Owned Trusts. They exist in the US and UK with slightly different structures. Canada will have some legislation around EOTs sometime soon.
What is secret about a union? Also the word carries a context, hence the mention of duopoly. So no, not spot on.

Also you failed to mention that capital works to actively disrupt market equilibrium for wages. So by “colluding” the union is merely attempting to counteract that.
> "Quelled" implies an extremely uncomfortable level of centralized power

That's just reality. It should make you uncomfortable. There used to be thousands of newspaper editors who decided what we read. There were diverse views.

Today a few network & platform owners have an extreme amount of power to decide what we read.

For example, this post was on the front page, then suddenly an admin broke known HN rules and just removed it from the feed entirely.

I have never seen this occur before.

Later it was flagged, but an admin matching pg's temperament just yanked it to begin with.
Free "press" is probably the main selling point for these kinds of "build in public" things. Although I agree with you it's not that compelling... although it's similarly a little tricky to point out the downside (especially considering theres no real validation of the numbers) so kind of a wash imo. Not sure if that validates or invalidates your idea OP!
yes, but no.

you look only on vehicle size, but it's only one part. there are technical solution to prevent those problems. my car (circa 2019) has cameras/radars and they enable car functionality of pedestrian detection, small pet detection, kangaroo detection (only in australia?), animal detection. New models have more/better radars just for this i think.
By the 80s, the oil industry had begun giving us unleaded gas (the "filtered cigarettes" of your analogy) after many decades of "convincing."

So oil companies all had our best interests at heart and we were all behaving healthier, less bad, right?
The "intelligence" of large language models needs to be evaluated like the abilities of self-proclaimed psychics. You send your binary to an independent third party and who evaluates it on new problems. It's only a "Human eval" once.
Bind9 Web Replication Manager [New Open Source Software]
This post is to show off my new released open source DNS Replication Web Software. Already tested in different company's and working like a charm.
This assumes you can't get a lower rate that starts immediately, no?
AI Has Already Created as Many Images as Photographers Have Taken in 150 Years
Looks like PE and venture-backed tech have a bad rep these days given how cynical the comment section is...

It seems the core problem at hand attempting to be solved is baby boomer small business owners retiring and having no one to buy their business (or pass down to who actually wants to run it)...

That seems like a worthy problem to tackle. Definitely will keep an eye on this company over the years to see if the model pans out or not.
Does seem pretty incomplete to not consider download time, etc. My browser doesn't turn the screen off while downloading images, and that uses way more power than decoding the image does.
Right, they’ll just deactivate your iCloud account and take away everything you’ve ever bought on iTunes or the App Store
Unfortunately most people are selfish. Successful communities have put a price on being selfish, but a car gives the driver a certain level of anonymity.

An SUV hitting a pedestrian leads to bigger harm as the impact is higher up on the body. An SUV hitting a car leads to more injuries for the people in the car, as the weight of the SUV easily crushes the car windows and the frame around them.
Did you know Irvine, CA (now 300k people) was a planned community? It postdates UC Irvine and was incorporated in 1971.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Company
This is another reason it’s probably a bad idea to do this type of technology company and testing in a place like San Francisco. It’s not surprising companies like this end up in Texas, etc.
https://remarkable.guide is a good place to start
HAH that is one of the most ridiculous excuses... and is also directly refuted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ

^^ "Not Just Bikes"
Vandalism is illegal, I hope these companies open up civil action against these protestors individually for lost revenue, and costs
> Not to mention all the problems from staring at LED monitors all day long.

Not sure what problems you mean. Any reference?
Now how do we get something like this to work (safely) inside our bodies to remove the microplastics embedded in our tissues?
> The High-Level Idea ... where di,j=EncDK2(wi,j), ci=EncRK1(Di) and ptr(ci) is a pointer to ciphertext c

My eyes just glaze over when even the "high-level explanation" jumps into formal notation like this.

I wish the article would spend a few more sentences explaining each of the 6 ideas in plain English and with simple examples.

Here, I'll do a high-level explanation of idea #1, property-preserving encryption:

Imagine that in a database of encrypted emails you might need to search for keywords like payroll, revenue, and dividends. Before encrypting and uploading the emails to the server, you would pick out all the likely keywords and encrypt them individually. So that payroll becomes 6hD4jFFjk, revenue is GG5fDK00hFFC, and dividends turns into IbggfFJJ7h. You would them upload the encrypted emails and the list of encrypted keywords (6hD4jFFjk, GG5fDK00hFFC, IbggfFJJ7h).

If you later wanted to see all the emails that mentioned payroll, you would encrypt the word payroll on the client side (i.e., on your own computer) to get 6hD4jFFjk again, then send a request to the server to find all emails containing the string 6hD4jFFjk. The server would send back to you all the encrypted emails containing 6hD4jFFjk.

For this idea to work, you would have to use a method of encryption where the same plaintext word always turns into the same ciphertext string. This way of encrypting data is almost never used these days because it leaks a lot information. For example, the server knows that every occurrence of the string 6hD4jFFjk must refer to the same word. Therefore, although this method would work and be acceptably fast, it would be considered extremely poor security.
I would even go so far as to say that if someone says they are trying to be like Boeing, but their business does not involve manufacturing jumbo jets, they do not understand and will not become like Boeing.
Well, given that there is no interest, it doesn’t seem to me that it’s particularly exploitative. It is, effectively, allowing you to buy someone you can’t yet afford, but without exploiting you. If anything, it’s a significant help.

As another example, it allows you to purchase a new laptop while selling your old one, such that you don’t hVe time without one at all.
> harmful and pathological

Don't forget "toxic" too !
>Thinking about computing architectures 10 years into the future

No, they aren't. Otherwise, they would have selected RISC-V ISA, rather than a legacy ISA.

I am sad to see a microcontroller family I favored sabotage itself into irrelevance like this.
This is their website and not a physical location?
The great thing about syncthing is that it has public relays.
New physical tech used to make a much bigger difference in the beginning of PCs... Now someone can use a 10 year old PC and be perfectly happy for most applications
Interesting that they won’t infer a location from an IP or other information they have. Seems like they just want the location data and have an excuse to demand it.
Except if your leg is blown off every hospital in the US is legally required to treat you whether or not you have insurance or even if you’re homeless, so Gary is not your only option.
With the 0% interest rate in Apple’s Pay Later, if you can’t earn more than that you have a gambling problem.
Is your claim that the rosy picture of low transaction costs and price controls is only achievable when government payouts control 17% more of healthcare spending? The 49% already performed by federal and state govt isn’t enough? From the above link:

The private business share of health spending accounted for 17 percent of total health care spending,
Don't know why I'm surprised, but what a good article! In-depth, imformation-dense, and easy to read. Goes on way past the point when the author could have stopped writing and still got shares on social media.

I've always liked the Mac's hidden option-key features. It's a tasteful way of offering a lot of functionality without cluttering up the interface with things you don't need most of the time. To me, it's nicer than having to declare yourself a “power user” and switch on all the extra features for good.

So, it was good to see that even in the latest MacOS releases, which I tend to feel are on a bit of a steady decline from the peak of Apple good taste, they're still adding secret option-key treasure to some of their new stuff. Gives a bit of hope for the future of the platform, I suppose.
Same! I love the syntax, and I only share my .fish scripts with a friend or two I program with that also uses fish.
Oh my goodness the lights! Am I misremembering or is it really only the past few years that it's felt like half the cars on the road have their highbeams on constantly? Not even a big car thing, though big cars make it worse; it's any car with LED headlights.
That would help but some of what I found annoying was the delay in transitioning between modes and software generally not designed with tablet mode in mind. Not sure if the situation has improved in the last few years on those points.
> Here in NL that would never ever happen with a permit. Lots of in-ground infrastructure and serious risk to that if you start digging around in that without the right maps and access to various IT systems to indicate where you can safely dig, where you absolutely can not and where the pavement and the water management interact.

Would digging for a garden be deep enough to reach that infrastructure?

Water pipes should be below the frost line. Google is failing to find me any frost line data for NL, but in places in the US where it tells me the climate is very similar to NL water pipes have to be at least 2 ft down.

If codes for power cables are at all like those in the US, I'd expect power to be at least a foot down, unless it is metal conduit. If it is in metal conduit you should be able to find it with a metal detector so you can avoid digging into it.

Those should all be deeper than you would typically dig when making a garden, except for electric lines in metal conduit.
Mirasol sounds great, how come there are not more devices out there using it? The only one I could find was the "Toq", a 2013 proof of concept smartwatch by Qualcomm?
Or the real world situation that happens to people, you own the domicile, but we own the land it is on
Terraform Skeleton
My point wasn't well made you are correct.

It was that there needs to be a distinct target language.

Encoding the source language in a more compact form without meaningfully changing it beyond superficially isn't compilation.

Like a web server that compresses JavaScript isn't a compiler.

My point was anything that outputs something that has to be interpreted is on sketchy grounds: if you are interpreting it how is that a distinct language from the original.

CPython can interpret py files or compile them into pyc.

CPython does not interpret the resulting bytecode. It executed on its virtual machine that bytecode.

Similarly Java and .NET languages are compiled into a bytecode which is executed on a virtual machine.

You don't interpret a compiled output.

The confusion comes from languages which support both like Python. We call Python interpreted as a shorthand for "can be interpreted" but modern Python often is compiled for the enormous performance benefits.

To reiterate you don't interpret bytecode you translate or execute it on a virtual machine.
Sounds like the typical... "We are not doing it because it's easy but because we thought it would be easy." Kind of manager... the ones that can get your whole company in trouble.
As silly as this sounds, I miss having easily-identified avatars that represent users. HN is a sea of greys, and it's hard to even notice anyone's usernames (much less recognize them again later).

I don't know if we need to go full-on forum mode with like huge titles and colored levels or anything like that, but just something that helps people stay identifiable would be nice. One of HN's strengths is that it's not supposed to be just a cesspool of anons yelling at each other, but civilized -- relatively, anyway -- discourse between wizened old professionals. Or something like that :)

There is another forum I used to frequent with similarly awesome people: https://boards.straightdope.com/

Minimal trolling there, smart and interesting people talking about varied topics... and you'd actually get to know certain users by name & avatar after a while (the correlation helps).
Don't many of the same issues apply to EVs, given the relative heavier weight?
I'm in the market for a tablet upgrade because my Galaxy S3 Tab is feeling quite laggy and is years out of support. I was excited to give the iPad Air a shot as I've heard so many good things about about the M1 chip. But the locked down nature of iOS made it impossible to recreate my workflows and seemingly failed to really take advantage of the M1, so I returned the Air and am currently looking into the S9 Tab.
Not GP, but let's say that null in the query wasn't a literal but was the result of another query that returned null. Let's say that the query returned null because not user existed who met the criteria specified by the query, but because we were doing a complex join or aggregation or something, we didn't simply get back 0 rows.

In that case it would be a bug if we matched with this errant user who's id is null.
It’s not about the functionality but why does Google need to know that I’m looking at fast food from this specific location? Google isn’t a party to my eating decisions and can only be used to target ads. It’s not a reasonable requirement.
The biggest problem here is that they needed permission in the first place.

We have completely inverted how society is suppose to work. Government should have to provide a clear, articulable justification to make something illegal

People should not have to petition the government for permission to do something, if everything is defacto illegal with out government approval you no longer live in a free society