skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gen X forgotten again? Figures. Whatever, I guess.
Why not show the result on the page? Why do you need to email it?
There are a few exceptions in US law (e.g., provisions in the Defense Production Act) that can allow a patent owner to be compelled to license their IP. IANAL but I believe this generally requires an officially declared emergency of some kind.
And in the US they have a new racket that's even worse. They provide "unlimited paid time off." However, it has to all be approved by your manager. So now, instead of saying "I still have three PTO days left for this year, so I guess I'll take them this week," you have to beg your manager, so in reality, people end up taking fewer days.
It's because ultimately it doesn't matter.

There could be any cause for the crowd to form in the first place, that crowd dynamic would be similar whatever the motivation of the crowd is. For instance if you're in the core zone that would get crushed if/when the crowd's movement was stopped, blaming avid capitalism doesn't help you in any way, you would have been safe if under the same incentives the organisators of the event had proper crowd management in first place.

Fatalities at the Hajj weren't reduced by making people less religious, they improved their logistics instead [edited]
There is absolutely interest if you can't keep up with the payment schedule, which is what every BNPL provider counts on. That is exactly why they push products that they know people can't afford and which have no resale value.
Ryanair's 3 Learjets
I know a lot of people feel very strongly about this thing and thankfully Dtolnay reversed course but if there is anyone out there that has social media mob mentality please don't harass him. A lot of the packages I use have his name associated with them and if we get the classic "I'm leaving open source because of the toxicity" and he is the author the rust community will be screwed.
Every working microprocessor ever created can run bare metal code.
The one thing that keeps me from using it more often for scripting is the lack of a fail-on-error mode (similar to `set -e` on bash). I know it is hard to get this to behave well in all cases (e.g. pipefail) but I don't want to do much scripting without it.
Technical solutions vs the laws of nature - which side do you think wins?

E.g. SUVs are heavier, so they take longer to stop - if a child runs on the road in front of you, it will have less chances to survive if you're driving an SUV.
Authentication/2FA/verification codes is one annoyance, obviously a password manager helps, but having to do some verification code _every time_ even for low risk stuff is sucky.

Even putting that aside though, the websites for most, say, banks, airlines, utilities, etc, have all the basic, obvious information you would want hidden behind layers of advertising, marketing and tracking.
> AVs will make public transit work a lot better and reduce traffic, make pedestrians safer, etc

Highly doubt it.

1. if you have a regular car you get from point A to B, park, do sth, go from B to A. If you use AV it has to go from point X to A, take you to B, go do sth else at Y, you do your thing, it has to go back from Z to B and take you to A. Instead of using the road from A to B and back you're using the road from X to A, from A to B and back and from Z to B (going from B to Y counts for the other customer so I don't add it). It uses road LONGER per passanger - so traffic will be WORSE and it will use MORE fuel. It will save some parking space tho.

Basicaly AVs (and taxis/ubers etc.) trade parking space for road space and fuel. You can't reduce traffic by driving more :)

2. it will only make pedestrians safer if it drives conservatively, but from what I've seen by AV advocacy is people want AV cars to interface with each other and use that to cut the safety margin for efficiency. That's an inherently American idea that assumes people don't walk so you can just change cars and everything will be fine :)

It would make pedestrians inherently less safe (because AVs become a train basically - you cannot suddenly stop 1 AV because other are behind it and they assume it won't suddenly stop).

If you want a city in which every street is effectively a rail track and every pedestrian crossing is a train crossing with all the disruption to pedestrians and others - do this. Otherwise just use public transport and bikes, please - all the benefits and more, for fraction of cost, and it's healthier. Moving individual people in huge cars just doesn't scale, no matter who drives them.
What kinds of questions do you ask these?
This looks interesting. One small point of suggestion would be to add a script or code snippet that runs the first time the system is initialized to set a long random password and output the long random password to the console during the installation instead of using changeme which most web vulnerability scanners already try to use.
A payment network nobody uses, which is why it’s cheap. The most important thing about a payment network are its network effects.
Costs exposed: On-call ticket handling
I think the point is that it wasn’t big on HN.
That wasn't my experience ~11 months ago

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32891879
Stronger protection for additional sensitive actions taken in Gmail
> as evidenced by the literally free taxi service that is just being given out to many people in SF right now.

You realize that it's only free while they test and it's not going to be free forever, right? In fact, the protests are in response to a decision which allowed the companies to start charging for driver-less rides, so that is already changing.

Hard to say which way people will go overall. I personally am no longer a fan of driver-less cars. I used to be but now I see it as a doubling down of car-dependence. I could see a nasty rebound effect [1] through increased convenience and a lot of other negative consequences if cities adapt their infrastructure to cater to those vehicles. History repeating itself for "automobile progress." A possible second coming of demolishing our cities and neighborhoods to make way for cars. Yeah I know most if not all of the arguments for how the technology will just fix all the problems and make everything about cars better, I used to make those arguments myself. I don't believe them anymore.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
looks like roop has bees discontinued
https://github.com/s0md3v/roop
There are many clear and obvious downsides. Competitors who know whether your side of the market has value. Employees who will suck your margins. Providers who will adjust their prices if they know you have margin. At the minimum, they’ll reject rebates.

And all of those people will leave you once your figures aren’t rose.
Swift's `Codable`[0] system seems very similar to serde in this regard. Structs that you define can be marked with the Codable protocol, and the Swift compiler automatically generates code during compilation that encodes from and decodes to the structs properties, with the option for you to customize it using CodingKeys for different properties names or completely custom coding behavior.

It seems built-in to Swift, as opposed to a dynamically executed crate like with serde. I wonder how it's implemented in Swift and if it leads to any significant slowdowns.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/archive...
On topic: I agree that upstream-provided 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.

Off topic: I don't understand why the article repeatedly says the Rust compiler or procedural macros are already fast, even "plenty fast". Aren't they slower or about as slow as C++, which is notorious for being frustratingly slow, especially for local, non-distributed builds?

"Plenty fast" would mean fast enough for some simple use-case. e.g., "1G ethernet is plenty fast for a home network, but data centers can definitely benefit from faster links". i.e., fast enough you won't notice anything faster when doing your average user's daily activities, but certainly not fast enough for all users or activities.

The Rust compiler is then in no way "plenty fast". It has many benefits, and lots of hard work has gone into it, even optimizing it, but everyone would notice and benefit from it being any amount faster.
Speaking of which, I hate the new trend of requiring you to use their online ordering flow to view a menu or view nutrition info. I just want to know if I have enough calories left in the day for that medium fries on my way home. I don’t want to order online and have them delivered.
Prisoners of Google Android Development
https://solutional.ee/blog/2023-08-26-Prisoners-of-Google-Android-Development.html

TLDR; Written an article about a real-life case-study about Android app deployment/development problem where production version has a critical problem and update has been "in review" for 72h+ and there's nothing else we can do.

If there's some (ex)-Googlers who could help to speed up update approval process then I would be really helpful, if not then let it just be as a warning for anyone else being involved with mobile app development.
This reads very much like a franchising arrangement, except instead of goods you pay for back office services. Even if the acquirer's products would succeed on the open market, a captive audience of guaranteed business seems like it might align the incentives of the parent company to _not_ bleed their acquisition dry.
Rig up a crop duster and put a coat on Houston, please.
I like the Go style better. I probably will not ever care about more than one or two encodings and being explicit is an upside in that regard. I do however really care about compile times. If performance really matters, I would not go for a generic serialization approach in the first place.
>Seems like they just want the location data and have an excuse to demand it.

1. you don't need google maps script to request location

2. the site needs to ask the user before it can get their location. the average user doesn't even know whether google maps is involved or not, so it's totally irrelevant.
Same. A shell without fzf now feels weird.
Also very true, a lot of things where the website/experience for the mass market/end users is terrible, but for the rich there is a backdoor, or agencies that do it for you, etc.
doesn't normally put those executables on the PATH

right, i don't remember the details, but when it happened it was probably fixed quickly. could even have been a packaging error in a distribution.
These methods also allow to observe the same event in different ways. This is known as "multi-messenger astronomy":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-messenger_astronomy
I think he’d probably prefer to not see the ad altogether. Who actually wants advertising besides the people attempting to sell things.
True

And it's especially bad in the js world, where it really seems the inmates are running the asylum

(Oh but blah.js version 87 fixes that weird thing in version 86 which anyone with a modicum of experience could have predicted it would go bad) well then...

At the same time don't be the boring greybeard that can't evolve. Evolution is good, and not everything has to be the "tested and true" technology (that will make you last in the race - this should be your hint that the newer solution can be better)
While they could get it in a different way, your location (or, more important, restaurant location) does seem critical as McDonalds' menu is regional

https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/regional-mcdonalds-items/
Is there a more detailed explanation? It would be interesting to know how it works
Has nothing to do with China or cards and everything to do with American laws and culture. Europe also has 0.2-0.3% interchange rates on credit, they don't have consumer rewards programs. The high interchange rates pay for the rewards programs (and generate a ton of profit).
I had bad credit (grew up poor, learned terrible habits, getting better) for a long time and Affirm has been great. I do the every 2 weeks no interest loans and I love it compared to credit cards where I’d just irresponsibly carry a balance. The default “financial hygiene” of the loan and the fact that I’m paying for a product I remember makes it great for me.

There was a heat wave and I bought an air conditioner yesterday using Affirm to smooth out the payments.

In fact I cut up all my credit cards about a week ago and plan to only use BNPL vs credit cards going forward if I’m in need of a loan.
called consolidators I believe. It's pretty genius.

Entire model is about buying dental practices with cash, profit share with the dentists and then do all back-office work with economy of scale.

Pocket any efficiency gains and reinvest in more dentists, rinse and repeat.

I think this model might be a huge opportunity in Mexico.
Unfortunately, most mom-and-pop businesses are around because they've built a clientele, hired good employees, and mastered the basic economics in their local economy, which is all they need. Sophisticated fintech for them is just a frippery, as is big-time professional management.
> but only on leaving a country, not on entry.

But that fails to the original point -- crossing the border with a physical medium in your possession isn't necessary to export the information out of the country, so you cannot prevent it by conducting searches there.

The state has no legitimate interest in measures that are ineffective.
Google Maps has more functionality than just targeted ads.
The parent specifically mentions depreciation which you don't seem to be accounting for by only considering the interest rate of the loan.
Heineken sells its Russia operations for 1 euro
Safe Harbor I think buys marinas as owners age out of them. A marina tends to start out small and grow over time under a single owner, until they are successful yet unattractive for any one other individual to plunk down $x million. So they get bought up by the big org and it gets harder to find reasonably priced mom and pop marinas.
this is called open startup.. you can see a list at https://openstartup.tm

Buffer were the original ones to expose their metrics I think
> I think safety is an interesting discussion because at its limit, it creates perverse incentives

Well that's what happens when you leave safety to capitalism: products compete over safety. Profits dominate collective well-being.

It's similar to what happens with health care, where the American Medical Association opposes public health because of obvious incentives.
To absolutely reduce this idea you could probably say 'vlookup = bad'
There are plenty of area that could support mass transit, especially in cities.

Even suburbia can be made more walkable.

For example, walking to my local gas station isn't really that practical due to a lack of continuous sidewalks. It isn't that far but the path to the gas station can get pretty muddy at time.

I once tried to get food at a fast food joint by walking, the lack of sidewalks is even more acute. Crossing several lanes of road felt pretty unsafe even when the traffic light is red.
I don't think drug or alcohol prohibitions were aimed primarily at controlling the people and limiting their freedoms. The goal was to limit the harmful effects of substance abuse on society, even if the majority of people are reasonable and would not mess up their lives with drugs or alcohol. But the lawmakers solved it the standard way.
What? iPads have tons of resale value. Apple’s Pay Later has zero interest and a cap of $1000 of credit.

People are going to buy a new iPad whether Apple gives them an easier way to do it or not; the difference is with Apple’s Pay Later they’re only on the hook for the cost of the device, and not additional interest monthly on top of that.

And iPads are very resellable.

What are you talking about?
I don't know the details. I assume that's the driverless taxi service. Is it going to stay free forever or are they giving the service for free to make people get familiar with it and then they'll set a price?
Buying an operation like Discover doesn't seem radical enough. IMHO they need to do something like buy Flexa (https://flexa.network/) and do a complete end run around the entire TradFi payment space. If they do that, then the margins will be much better and they will be well positioned for the future. Although Apple has so much money, they could take both approaches at the same time.
It’s a whole 6th viral growth method. Buy companies and force them to use your product before spinning them off.

(Emmet Shear’s 5 viral growth methods: https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1402449655208632321)
How did a large multinational come to be regarded as "crazy" when it's the most predictable part of society?
Typical dismissing of facts based on the messenger. "Oh they are bad so the point you are making is wrong...." You literally did nothing but superficial search. Obviously google and other search engines want to hide those. That's real corporate propaganda/censorship.

Here are the links starting from the beginning:
https://www.sciencenews.org/archive/earths-cooling-climate
https://web.archive.org/web/20060812025725/http:/time-proxy....
https://www.sciencenews.org/sn-magazine/march-1-1975 (cover only)
http://www.denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
etc...

The fact that so many of the articles have been moved from the original location or de-prioritized from search should give you pause if you thought about it a bit....
> Sure I’m getting old and it sometimes feels tiresome that software is a treadmill

Precisely.

Sometimes, I wonder if people are curious why after all these years am I apparently still working? Have I not become a "VP" or a "founder" or, better yet, a "VC"?

To each their own. I'll be ok.
> AVs will make public transit work a lot better and reduce traffic

Or will reduce use of public transit & make traffic worse because the negative effects of traffic will be less felt & the cost of private transit via an AV will be lower
It turns out that you can make something a lot like an array of shared copies of the days, protected by a seqlock that is “almost” wait-free:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-540-9222...

“Almost” means that you can have n copies of the data, and the probability of waiting scales like 2^-n. Alternatively, and perhaps better, the degree of relative slowness of the reader needed to cause a wait goes like 2^n, so for any reasonable n, reads will never wait in practice. And it’s genuinely lock-free: the writer can hang at any point and read will continue to complete.

Somewhat sadly, this algorithm doesn’t seem to get much traction. I’ve considered implementing it for Linux clock reads to reduce tail latency. It’s really quite simple, and the common case works just like a seqlock.

I need to dig up the terms and conditions of this journal and post a non-paywalled version somewhere.

(Lock-free means that each thread is guaranteed to make progress even if any combination of other threads stop at arbitrary points. Normal seqlocks are not lock-free. Wait-free means that each thread completes each operation in a bounded about of running time, regardless of what the other threads do. In other words, livelocks are impossible. One can straightforwardly use a two copies of a data structure, write to them alternately, and protect them with the obvious sequence count, and get a lock-free, but not wait-free, data structure. The linked algorithm extends this to more than 2 copies, written with exponentially decreasing frequency.)
Flying Ryanair isn't what one would call a pleasure, but I've gotta say their safety record is stellar. I suppose the business jets make sense as an optimization at the scale they've reached.
I suppose it varies a lot from one organization and industry to another. My experience is that managers don't like it when people rock the boat, they prefer their subordinates to just quietly execute the tasks given to them. Growth-oriented people like myself are sometimes seen as a problem because they cause things to happen that are not in the road map.

In my field (fin tech) managers often do not have the background to be able to assess the value of spontaneous technical contributions. So they assume that if something was not planned and requested by management it did not need to be solved.
> Government should have to provide a clear, articulable justification to make something illegal

The roads are owned and paid for by the public, ergo the government can set rules for safety and maintenance. That seems clear and articulate enough to me.
That sounds like it would invite regulatory scrutiny.
No idea. I have just upvoted your comment.
> The one really negative bit

It being a negative depends on which end of the table you sit. I agree it's telling on the kind of leadership they expect, given the reputation of the environments and people who work at those organizations.
> Sometimes I don't want to troubleshoot software; I've done enough of that already.

That's why I switched to FreeBSD.

Every OS kernel update, every package upgrade just works. Rock Solid.
Fine, but the depreciation is not all that significant. Hypothetically, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from buying the device with Apple Pay Later for 0% interest, selling it unopened for full (or close to full) value, and making money from arbitrage that way.

As a result, depreciation can be written off, I think, since I would argue if you do buy it and keep it you’ve gotten value from it even if it isn’t cash.
It would be fascinating to have a look at the finances of these schemes to see what the proportions are of people who use it to responsibly smooth out payments vs those who use irresponsibly and end up just getting deeper in debt (and all the variations between those two extremes). My hunch is the same as yours, but real-world data would be very interesting.
Driverless cars will eventually be safer and more efficient than human drivers. They'll respond faster in emergencies. They won't be drunk or stoned. They won't exceed speed limits. They won't rev or honk angrily.

But to reach that point, we've got to accept a learning/development process that will involve some risks and some annoyance.
It doesn't matter at all
I just this morning bought a new iphone. Choice was something like £500 up front or £20.88 a month for 24 months. No brainer.
only ten years ago, daily posts to a large California metropolitan area newspaper site in comments, claimed "no such thing" and "what about cooling" and "sun cycles" and whatever.. constantly..
What better system would that be?
On a good year I may take upwards of 10,000 images (~27.4/day). A roll of film basically but with digital cameras and an ever present phone in hand its easy to do even if relatively uncommon for most people.
Still I enjoy using dalle and midjourney to experiment with photograph 'simulations' and how long does that take to spit out a handful? It's a whole lot quicker than it takes me to setup something at home or walk downtown to snap some frames. And that's just considering AI photos with human intent, automated image generation with AI (and video generation ramping up) is really gonna open the flood gates. The signal to noise ratio is only getting worse I'm afraid and I just hope work with real human intent whether it be AI, digital or film is not lost in the tempest.
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=download
In other words: blocking random scripts might cause sites to stop working. Who would have thought? This is the equivalent of deleting a random third party analytics library and complaining that your app no longer builds. Sure, there's the concept of progressive enhancement or whatever, but at the same time it's also unreasonable to expect the developer to accommodate the possibility of any third party script getting blocked.
The first couple of months I moved into my new house, many sites and apps were broken to me, as the address wasn't yet on Google Maps, and rather than degrade gracefully, those sites and apps were borked due to inability to pre-populate my address.