skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zzz. Expecting the delivery workers to eat the difference between "5-second hand-off to somebody who's waiting at the street entrance"* and "gotta secure their vehicle & stuff and get through your building security and figure our where your apartment is and trek up there and..." is an age-old "treat your servants like shit because you can" move.

*The article is very clear that the delivery app's Terms of Service specify "street-level entrance only". [Added footnote. Credit: ballenf.]
> I thought it was universally known that photographs usually have post processing effects

It is known, but when the end picture looks like a playstation 3 game trailer it's not everybody's cup of tea
Floating point operations per …?
If you have to go into the street to pick up your order, I don't see the point in food delivery. You might as well walk to the restaurant at that point.
I don't think Ericsson, Alcatel, Siemens, Nokia, etc failed due to EU regulations, though.

And regarding those protections, they're there for a reason and in terms of hardware it truly is a race to the bottom, hardware is only made in low cost of living places because workers can be abused at will.

For software I'd argue that it was the unified market in the US (and now China) that's the real deal breaker.

Plus VC capital, but I think that's changing.
> We don't even own a tractor because it's not economically viable to take on the upfront or maintenance costs of modern tractors.

This is a little bit ridiculous. A tractor is an invaluable tool and there's tons of them out there that are as old as 60-70 years and still running great. You don't need a brand new GPS-guided john deere with a dealership maintainence plan to work a small ranch; $5-10k will get you something that is old, but easily maintained and will last forever.
Yeah, but that's also true for "filleting", and yet: https://www.quorn.us/products/quorn-vegan-meatless-chicken-f...
It looks so good it's a lot closer to a port than a demake.
The ban is specific to the various processed artificial meat-like products, it does not apply to produce or other foods.
Things are "bolted on after the fact" a lot in X11 too, it's just that those are bolted on for so long that people thinks that they're part of X11 already.

Things like XDND, XKB, XRender, Xft, Xinerama, RandR aren't "base X".
This is really cool, and the photos are almost surreal.
And if you're a thief (not all thieves are just random people walking by) you will KNOW that someone who just jumped off a bike and locked it will not be back for a certain time, and tossing the bike into a truck, lock and all, could be a moment's time.

So now you need to lock it to something, causing even more time lost.
EISA was the open alternative to IBM's MCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Arc...
These look all the same. I honestly don't know how people choose one over the other. It's like roulette, gotta pick a random one.
Thanks. So some of these cpu, say VisionFive 2 U74, start to look interesting.
Or quick groceries for the elderly? There are a lot of people using these apps beyond fast food for lazy people. For example I used to order a lot from a meal prep place that did chicken, rice, and broccoli when I was working in another state and didn't have access to a kitchen. If someone asks for lunch to be delivered because they're stuck in a meeting it doesn't help if they have to go somewhere to pick it up. Etc...

The default should be delivery to the door unless mitigating circumstances. And if you can help them out by going to meet them downstairs then great.
A subset of those images strongly seem to have been AI-generated.
AI Horde
The whole place is classified as "gravelly loam", it's rocks upon rocks in a loam matrix at least ten meters deep. ;D I don't really have topsoil, it's literally just rocks and rocks and more rocks. (I suspect it's the alluvial remains of something like the Great Flood of 1862: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862)

For moving them I'm making pick-and-place bots (probably simplified delta-bots, but the actual form isn't fixed yet) that will also scan and sort them.

The tail wags the dog here, eh? Because I have essentially nothing but rocks I concocted this plan to make use of them. I can also build things like "sand batteries" to store heat. And because the rocks come in all different colors I could make patterns in the walls and floors and roads, etc...

> A thousand years from now they'll wonder what it's purpose was.

Ha! Right? I should add some weird features just for future archeologists? "We believe the frog eating a banana had religious significance." Embed some titanium spheres in a wall in the shape of the constellation of Pleiades --but as it was millions of years ago? Make the whole thing look like the base of one end of a vast bridge? Or like the foot of a huge statue? The possibilities are endless!
BBQ. Shudder.
Is it possible to recover the coal?
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> Trinidad’s owners didn’t invest much in the vessel’s upkeep and her career was relatively short for her era.

> There, Captain Higgins told his story to the marine reporters. Loathe to blame the owners, Higgins speculated that the schooner’s hull may have been cut by ice in the Straits of Mackinac. However, a review of the vessel’s career suggests that she was little more than a floating coffin by the time of her final voyage. Most vessels of the Trinidad’s era lasted twice as long as she did, but they also received regular recaulking and replacement of decayed or rotten wood and rigging. The insurance records suggest that Trinidad received little of the normal maintenance and was essentially sailed into the bottom of the Lake.

A classic tale of capitalist barbarism and how American workers are manipulated and propagandized into shilling for their masters. Disgusting stuff, and sadly nothing has fundamentally changed in over 150 years.
Congrats on the launch! Are you affected in any way by the license changes made by Hashicorp?
this is going overboard. France has already made a national decree [1] stating that terminology specific to sectors traditionally associated with meat and fish to designate products not belonging to the animal kingdom.

I'm not sure what this adds to the applicable law already. But then again, we love creating new laws.

[1] (https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000045978360)
It's interesting because I saw an article just yesterday where someone was taking corporations to task for misleading or fudged information on packaging. Yet it seems many people are opposed to this. Curious
Presumably:

1. Satellites can now conduct imagery intelligence at a similar or higher quality without alerting targets, conducting refueling, or risking pilots.

2. There are more satellites with higher maneuverability than before.

3. Unmanned high altitude drones will replace the existing U-2S role in the next decade or so; or already have. Consider the U-2S role in the Chinese balloon incident. The military wanted intelligence on the balloon that would not otherwise come from a satellite and therefore utilized the U-2S.
The next enlightenment has begun
Herenboeren doesn't have to compete with commercial farming directly. It only has to be good enough that participants are willing to join, which they are. So the overall deal needs to be attractive enough.

And we have several important advantages. If there's a small piece of scab on an apple or a single harvest of beans fail, it is generally not a problem for us, whereas these things are problematic to regular farmers. Furthermore, we don't have to deal with supermarkets setting prizes and with logistics.

Our 'customers' pay upfront and each month so the income is very steady - there is generally a waiting list for these farms. Finally, the farm(ers) are supported by a national network of specialists and advisors.

I believe these advantages allow us to potentially outperform commercial farmers, although it might not make sense at all to compare the operations.
In the US there is a lot of awareness of “cost disease” and that the #1 problem with public transportation here is that anything from subways to high speed rail cost 2x-10x or more than other places. The UK seems to have this too to some extent.

One way we’ve been “spending money” is cutting taxes on the rich in many countries, particularly the US and UK. Another problem the UK has is that since Thatcher there has been a lot of corner cutting such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

and

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/05/raac-and-rui...

I think it does not help that the political systems in the US and UK are so uncompetitive in their own different ways. (The tories have such a lock on the UK no matter how badly they screw up I wonder if it is a nominally 1 party state like Singapore, in the US it seems many people will vote for the same party no matter what happens.). One consequence of that is that universal values that almost everyone can agree on, such as “anti-corruption” and “getting what we pay for in our taxes” fall by the wayside as you don’t have the feeling you can vote against corrupt policians that are on “your side”.

Cost escalation of health care is its own special phenomenon, one which has at least been moderated a bit by recent changes in the US

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01478
ZFS does that too, the top-level comment was just uninformed. You can shuffle your disks around, move them to other machines, and even move the contents to different physical drives and ZFS will still automatically find them all using metadata written to the disks called the "zpool label".
Yeah, these gig workers need to be paid enough to cover the time for faffing about with locks that are large enough to deter thieves for 10 minutes or so. I doubt they are, which drives these conflicts.
Do you like, live in a city or something? The closest restaurant to me is 7 miles and the closest one I will eat from, 11. I would gladly go to my driveway!
France is a bizarre country to me. In the US, they are often the archetypal left-wing country in terms of economic policy and the size of the state, but culturally and socially they seem very conservative. Somehow a country which has its own English-language Wikipedia article for threesomes is also a country that aligns with Texas on its opinions toward meat
US perspective (eg theft of bikes / crime is not AS serious a problem as Brazil, although it can be bad):

I'm a bit torn here. On the one hand, I fully empathize with the delivery drivers (particularly if the rules / policy of the app is NOT doorstep delivery) and where theft is a real issue.

However, as a (US) consumer, where the apps DO allow us to request doorstep delivery, I think there is no issue with consumers wanting to get the service they paid for. Uber Eats / Doordash charge a pretty hefty premium in terms of markup & delivery fees, and we're paying for the service of having food delivered to our door. You can call us lazy or whatever other names you want, but consumers do have the right to expect to receive a service they've paid for. And it is not our responsibility to make sure the delivery services are paying the drivers properly.
Obviously governments can't have an operating system where users can do as they please, e.g. bypassing government mandated MITM certificates so they can spy on citizens.

So the groundwork is being prepared for coming things like Online Safety Bill here in the UK, where all communication will likely be under surveillance and so you won't be able to mod your phone to "opt out".

It's a shame that such resourceful company like Google bends over to some control-freak right wing governments like we have.
I know! It’s only 11 miles round trip, and everyone can use a bit of exercise.

(And indeed like sibling I picked 11 for the nearby good restaurants, to which I do bike but only outside of winter).
Some probably are cheating, but at least some are in fact this skilled.
So you invest a lot of money to send a photographer to the edge of space, and then you get images that don't even look like real photos anymore. Imagine the irony...
Honestly, I think so. I think reliance on computers did it.
Isn't this just how mounts work? If you have a something mounted to /apex/whatever and each app has a separate mount namespace, then mounting over /apex/whatever in your namespace wouldn't change anything in any other mount namespace. You'd need to either just alter the filesystem directly, or enter the other apps' mount namespaces and mount your tmpfs there too.

Shared mounts might be useful here. Not sure. I'd need to take a closer look at what is going on here.

But I would say this result is probably a byproduct of whatever namespacing/containerisation Google is doing, rather than an intentional effort to prevent users from changing the root CAs even as root.
I think it's "grillade" and it's indeed designating grilled meat
> Still, nothing compares to that time 4chan identied the location of a terrorist training camp from a photo and gave it to the Russian military who promptly bombed it (https://imgur.io/N7DwWP1).

Image is too blurry to tell thanks to imgur compression, but does this mean the US-backed Syrian opposition?
This is the real solution, but nobody wants to admit the costs associated with this.

Heckers, the companies could use "machine learning" (read: simple SQL scripts) to determine how much time going up to your apartment "costs" and charge you based on such. Then buildings with faster elevators would be more valuable!
I do consider at-home mail-in voting as a bad risk - locally we have a solution that involves separate 'voting stations' (just as any other voting station, officials + observers from opposing parties monitoring) visiting the people who for various reasons are unable to come to vote, and collecting a secret ballot on-site from e.g. bed-ridden sick people; and special voting stations for people who can't leave - e.g. hospitals, prisons, army bases. Of course, that won't help if large numbers of people aren't coming to vote because e.g. the lines are too long or they have to work and can't get to vote, but then you should fix these problems directly.

It is important that people are able to vote without being controlled by their family members or employers, so any unconstrained remote voting should be an exception that's minimized as much as possible.
It would be good to have a BM25 baseline entry on this leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

And I'm sure you're aware of the BEIR paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07471. Elastic references that in this blogpost: https://www.elastic.co/blog/improving-information-retrieval-...

I agree that BM25 retrieval + vector re-ranking can work. But vector search does bring results to the table that vanilla BM25 can't, even with a large retrieval window. So I do think there is a place for both with the usual "it depends on your data/requirements" caveat.
We might abandon words for something else, but we wouldn’t need to abandon words because they could continue to work without sounds. That’s because words are a totally distinct concept from sounds.

It’s super ironic to talk about how sounds and gestures are a part of language while using purely written communication to talk. We will never hear each other. You will never see my gestures. And yet…
That's what I did when I did bicycle deliveries. Yes it was a pain, but I considered it part of the job. But I was working for an individual pizza shop which did a good job making the job worthwhile overall and paid me well enough for my time and this sort of "extra effort".
The service fees are actually insane, and it's super unclear what the fees go to. Not the person doing the work—that much is clear. I just automatically assume anyone who ordered with these apps is straight bad with money (outside of extenuating circumstances like being disabled or sick, that is, I happily order delivery when I'm sick).
According to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, some truths aren’t provable in the sense of acquiring proof through human reasoning and logic.
Floating Point Operations Per Second [1]

[1] https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/FLOPS
Yes that was an interesting part.

Here in France it seems like the apps say the delivery should be upstairs if the customer asked for that, but drivers have the same issue with going upstairs as in Brazil.

And I can see why if they get paid the same.

My guess is, the apps know the issue, but explicit "street-level" deliveries don't sell as well.
I married a vegan. We really hate "plant meats."

The issue is that my wife hates the flavor and texture of meat; and the "plant meat" industry is really trying to shove traditional vegan proteins out of the way.

It's a familiar refrain for us to show up at a restaurant that used to have a tasty veggie burger, only to have the staff complain that it's been replaced with a "plant meat" that, to my wife who doesn't like meat, is just gross.

IMO: I think "plant meat" is an idea that's ready to die. I'd rather eat real vegetarian food when I eat plants, and cultivated animal tissue as sustainable meat.
looks awesome, a small screenshot in your readme would have helped understand that it's more of a drag and drop component
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
I use android because I dislike the Apple ecosystem and UI design. They could disable all side-loading of apps and I would still use Android because I just don't use mobile as my primary driver. For me, phones are for texting and browsing Reddit while I shit.
I mean if they were willing to mess with something that was completely unbroken like the quick access tiles for WiFi/data back in Android 11 (or was it 12?) I wouldn't put it past them to mess with anything else.
The pup was the most innocent of all!
Wow good for Australia. This is the first time I'm hearing them do something positive.
Interesting. In Bulgaria we used to have these special prepaid payphone cards as well, it was super convenient, but then smartphones came, of course.
I would say absence of evidence is not evidence of absence in this context.
Kryptonites largest and thickest U-lock gives way to a battery powered angle grinder in about 2 minutes.
Nice to see a crackdown on deceptive advertising. These rules won't be a problem for anybody except those trying to trick consumers.
I love rclone, I'm currently using `rclone mount` to mount a Backblaze B2 bucket to use as backing storage for Jellyfin and it works a treat. There are plenty of dials to tune things like cache size and duration to minimize unnecessary downloads from B2, and with my usage patterns it ends up astoundingly cost effective (although at some point I might move to Hetzner storage boxes for even cheaper storage).
"open source visual editor" doesn't really comply with "The self-hosted drag and drop editor for React."
But there are locks that can withstand a determined thief who has a budget lower than the value of the bike for a few minutes.
Android isn't really open. In order to have a "certified" device you need to remove user control. For example users by default aren't even allowed to access app's "private" data. That was enough to get me to move to something where I am in control.

But if you move away from a "certified" ROM then you start to fail SafetyNet (or its successors) and many apps will refuse to work. Those apps want to make sure that the user isn't in control of their devices, they want to make sure Google or a "trusted party" is.

They say this is to ensure the security of your device that logs into your bank or whatever, but I guarantee that my LineageOS updated this week is more secure than my stock Google ROM that got its last update 3 years ago. If Google really wanted to prove security with SafetyNet they would stop attesting devices that haven't been updated. But it isn't about device security, it is about ensuring that the device is controlled by a big corporation, not the user.
There is not and there never was a novel virus. It's a myth along with climate change.

Downvote this comment. I know you want to.
We have the same idiotic legislation in Germany, forbidding "confusing" language like calling oat milk "milk", because clearly only liquid squeezed from an utter constitutes milk (don't mind coconut milk..) and so producers have to call it oat drink, even though every single consumer just calls it oat milk anyway.
Some other regulations exist for meat-like products, clearly put in place by protectionism of the dairy and meat industry under the guise of "not confusing consumers". Oh well.
not sure how typical I am, but I don't buy android for really any other reason than I can get brand new smartphone that does everything I want for under $200 and has multiple sim slots (which makes international travel much easier)

At this point apple or anyone else would have to beat the cheap android handily for me to consider switching and that seems like a tough market to beat. I'm always impressed by how well cheap androids work when compared to their 3-4x more expensive counterparts.
What did you find in your search? At least, the gun count seems pretty close, as far as I could tell.

https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/05/which-european-country-b...

> Around 46% of all 857 million guns in civilian hands around the world belonged to people living in the United States in 2017, a survey has found.

> The European Union's 513 million inhabitants owned a collective 79.8 million firearms in 2017.

And the “20 times as many murders” is not right, but seems to be pretty close if they were just taking about firearms homicides.

https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-....

> Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the US are 13 times greater than they are in France, and 22 times greater than in the European Union as a whole.

I also live in the Northeast, but that’s a point against when talking about this stuff; when you live in the only reasonably run part of the US, it is easy to misunderstand how ridiculous things are in much of the country.
> No. The problem is that as a messenger company you have to comply with different markets at the same time.

Well then you could technically say they can't keep the keys private then, since some places force them to share. It's definitely a "can but wont" scenario.
I'm not sure about AR15s, but the serial number on the slide of a handgun is associated at (legal, storefront) purchase with a name and (I think) address. I presumed that was what was implied as registration. I assumed this was true for some part of the AR15 (maybe the receiver?) but I don't actually know for sure.

There are loopholes, but there are reasons to prefer a gun that was last purchased under someone else's name, ideally someone you don't know at all.

Regardless, the thing I found interesting was the COP's perception of the value of the guns.
I will never trust Chinese electric cars for the very same reason China banned Teslas from certain areas in that country. The cars are equipped with cameras and other data gathering tech that can be coopted for different types of intelligence gathering.