skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just spitballing: Defund the meter maids to de facto legalize ignoring the meters. Or tell the cops to look the other way while everybody smashes the meters up with sledgehammers. Or ban street parking to screw the meter company.
Millport, Scotland. £3.60 for a return trip on the ferry. Ten mile ride around the island. Cheapest day out ever.
Setting my personal opinion on this law proposal aside, I think that the UK legislation lost its teeth with Brexit. It's just loud barking for the sole purpose of getting CEOs on the table.

Imagine their influence if they would have stayed in the EU, and if France would have joined them (which they usually do when it comes to more governmental oversight of the executive branches of the government).

What scares me a little now is that there was a loss of balance, which is important for any democracy to make progress. And if Big Tech's reaction is always "well then we just pull out of your market(s)" then it's gonna be an empty threat after the third time.

I don't know how the reactions to these events will be like, but most likely we'll see an increase of propaganda press statements on "how bad secure messaging" is, trying to push the narrative into a different direction.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230515004534/https://www.chica...
Walt Disney share price declined 3.9% on Thursday to close at $82.47, its lowest level in nearly nine years, or since October 16, 2014. Investors expect more weakness in Disney shares in the next few months. https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/disney-sha...
I disagree with Harriet Johnson in at least a few cases, but the entire thrust of that piece and her argument within is "it's insane that people make judgements on my quality of life, without asking me, and say that I should not be born". You can make that argument and also believe that abortion is an appropriate tool for some cases.
A friend was a process engineer and studied and worked in a bunch of car assembly plants optimizing stuff.

Every single time the line stopped, no matter why, it was estimated to cost, at absolutely minimum, $1 million dollars.
You can find all the details about Erlang internals in The BEAM book : https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404918, which was posted earlier.
This is clearly presented with a slant. I'm curious if there is a more neutral reporting on this? Like the article points to the 10x returns over 75 years as an example of the city being fleeced... But that sounds kinda like normal returns to me?
Who? Who is supposed to do these things and why?
Indeed, I posted this in a sibling comment but this is exactly the future that will arrive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696

The browser will be the unified runtime for WASM apps, native level performance with the linkability and other advantages of the browser.
It strikes me as incurious to dismiss an entire field of thought because there were errors in a mathematical manuscript, especially when you clearly don't understand the fundamental concepts (I don't mean this as a dig. You just haven't learned them.). Marxism isn't the writings of a long dead guy in England in 1860. It's a living, breathing school of thought that's evolved significantly since then. What you're doing is akin to finding an error in Smith or Ricardo's [edit: unpublished manuscripts, not completed work] work (of which there were many) and using those errors to dismiss all of orthodox economics.

The revolutionary approaches have not succeeded thus far, granted. There is a branch of Marxism about revolution, but what we're talking about here is a description of capitalism. Marxist revolutionary activities have nothing to do with how potent that analysis is.
Random things this post made me appreciate:

Broadband - especially 1+Gbps connections (we are spoiled and I love it!)

Latency that can be measured in milliseconds per packet around the world, not seconds or minutes per character.

Multitasking not just locally, but across a network

Streaming video when I remember a 320x240 image taking FOREVER to download

Downloads that actually complete and don't corrupt most of the time.

Stateless connections that are easy to restart if something does go wrong

And so much more.
> Under the contract, the city must maintain at least 30,000 meters in any given year
Amazing technology to sustain such primitive ideology
Sorry, I don't quite understand you there - what is the "something" you speak of, and who does "you" refer to?
You sure do seem to have it in for folks who don't share your opinion. You've been pretty aggressively posting all over this discussion.

No one is trying to kill your puppy or taking your types away.

Competent people can have different opinions.

You have something that works for you. Great.

The fact that you don't understand why others don't share your opinion doesn't make them wrong or "incompetent" as you said in a different comment.
I think your usage example will be easier to understand, if it explains where nix:0 is setup as CRI image-service.
Maybe I glanced over it.

Awesome project!
I’m curious about what is stopping you. I know I’m very privileged to be in a position where there is a lot of doors open, but at least in my part of the world, this seems to be pretty much the common thing for programmers.

I personally think it’s what made my adult life possible at all. I have ADHD and I have a very hard time working on things I don’t find interesting to the point where I might not be a functional adult if I couldn’t. So I’m very grateful that I can job hop and work where I want sort of frictionless. I’ve never had a bad experience switching jobs. I’ve been to some interviews where someone better beat me, which sucks, but I’ve also been to several interviews where it was clear that me and them just weren’t the right fit. The latter has never been a bad experience for me, I’ve even made some friends along the way and sometimes I’ve gotten different jobs because the boss I was talking with knew another boss with a better match in their organisation.

My best advice is to just get out there and look!
You are conflating different meanings of magic. Precise language is necessary for this conversation to have any value.

> the magic in existence itself

this refers to the mystery of why anything exists at all, and why it exists in the way it does. Not the same as some special property that only exists in certain phenomena.

> There is magic even in things we understand

This again refers to the "why it exists in the way that it does" again, as fundamental forces just "are" rather than having a causal explanation. Again, not the same thing.

> Things can be understood and still magic

That's the opposite of what you were saying before, which is that there is some special element within us that can't be replicated in a machine. That would require us not understanding something, or at the very least recognizing and understanding some property that we have identified that can't be replicated in machines, which we haven't.

What is your definition of "magic"?
Where I grew up north of Philadelphia in the 90's, the cable companies bid for municipalities and were given a monopoly -- I grew up with Lower Bucks Cablevision, for example. Since the local government got a cut, I would imagine that's why the penalties are/were harsh and criminal, as opposed to civil.
You are confused about the concept of countability and finiteness. The enumeration that you mention requires that a set be countable, not that it is finite. So it's wrong to somehow require the enumeration to finish.

Countable sets can be finite or infinite. Most interesting countable sets are infinite. The enumeration then means a bijection with the natural numbers. Your definition of enumeration seems to require it to "complete" which is incorrect.

(I put "complete" in quotes because that's the word you used, but I don't want you to further confuse that with the completeness of real numbers which is a whole another thing.)
heatinitiative.org was registered 2023-08-23... so the paint is barely dry. Their privacy policy also turns up nothing.
I can't tell if you're being serious. Arbitration often means that you can not even discuss the case. If you screw over 1000000 customers, none of them, nor anyone in the public, will ever know. A lot of the reason coorperations don't do questionable things is because of the PR backlash. If you sign an arb, you have to choose whether you will take them to the arbitrator or raise awareness in public.

You also can not appeal the decision, nor are you normally able to have any say in who the arbitrator will be (it's typically chase that chooses who decides the case, how convenient for chase!)
I first heard about the story on this podcast episode of “Cautionary Tales”. I thought that an article would be a better post.

https://overcast.fm/+5K6ZISYMc
I'm not gaslighting you. I'm telling you what I think and what I mean.

What a terrible thing to accuse me of.

Now you're just being a jerk.
Show HN: Deye-microinverter-cloud-free – A Deye local Cloud replacement
> I'd say only half the parents will actually try to keep their kids safe online

Ok, so is our answer then to abandon safety for the remaining 50% of families? Do we think that's fine, or tragic? I'm going with the latter.
Have you been in Norway? The weather can be harsh, the Norwegians are some of the best in dealing with it in the world, but covering large parts of Norway with public transport is difficult.

I used to bike in Bergen, Norway in the winter and it can be really dangerous - I saw many accidents even from the locals.
>In my experience, the new top guy brings in his old lackeys because they complemented him

I think you mean they complimented him. If they had complemented him, things would have gone well.
My Dive into LangChain vs. Microsoft Guidance – A Chain of Thoughts
I really wish this was a thing. No encryption, or a weak one, or backdoor with government keys that gets leaked (they always leak). Then use those to really spy and watch a firestorm of publicly washed clothes scandals. I really want that. Then, maybe then, the idiots idiots in parliaments around the world will stop this idiocy once and for all.

Imagine nuclear secrets being accessed by every grandma on the planet, that would be laughable. Or the politicians payments to their who...i mean deluxe escorts.
I’m not too worried about that as I assume it’s not (just) the public but also lobby groups and industries who have an interest in this.

It’s not that hard to explain what would happen and any politician will understand doing something like this would be quite bad for their career.

I do agree that they will keep trying, but the chance of it happening seems slim, as there is just no way to implement this.
People will believe anything they want about casus belli, so long as it suits their politics. A week ago, someone here on HN was trying to convince me that the US State Department had a conspiracy to start the Ukraine war.
Show HN: Curated custom search engine portal
Hey friends, a little background - A friend of mine who’s also a newsletter writer once told me that when he’s interested in certain topic he would like to know the opinion of some of his favorite writers on the same topic. He would use Google to search something like discomfort site:sive.rs, and then expand his search across various authors he admires.

It turns out that Google’s programmable search engine does exactly that. By simply adding a few websites (much like subscribing to newsletters or RSS feeds), we can craft a search engine tailored for our specific needs.

I think that's a great idea - more signal and less noise. So I built a portal to facilitate sharing personal curations https://searchcrafters.vercel.app/.

Thanks for reading, lemme know what you think :D
If the people think the above is a good idea, they can also ignore the contract. It is not like there is some kind of supernatural power that enforces contracts.
Cal's podcast and books are a guilty pleasure of mine. Yes, he has a tendency to oversimplify. Yes, he can be a bit cheesy. But I think that his cheesy and simple presentation style is kind of his secret sauce. If you want a nuanced take on how difficult it is to stay off your phone and social media, there are other places you can get that (Stolen Focus by Johann Hari for example).

I really admire his efforts to formalize his thinking about these topics into systems that readers and listeners can implement step-by-step. His emphasis on capture systems, time-block planning, and multi-scale planning, plus the whole "deep work/deep life" thing he's got going on now, have really changed my life and habits for the better in the past year or so. It may not work for everyone, but it works for me.
US could be the global superpower for solar - Sun Belt alone could power all of the Americas
It's worth mentioning what, at least in my mind, is a peer to the NFB: the Heritage Minutes. Sort of like The More You Know, they were (are?) usually shown in-between children's TV shows.

There's no irony or shame in their presentation, they are upfront about their motive to educate. Despite that, they were very popular and widely quoted.

Some ones that stuck in my mind:

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/jacques-c...

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/inukshuk

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/agnes-mac...

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/john-mccr...

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/sitting-b...

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/halifax-e...

https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes
Can't they be creative and put all of them in some place where they won't be used? Example, the emergency lane of highways, roads where nobody parks, etc.
How odd. That isn't even a hash function!
Seems very unclear to me. If it were true then rich tech firms and banks wouldn't constantly be treated like piñatas by governments, who very much enjoy fining and regulating them despite their protestations.

This is the problem with socialist theory. It's full off assertions that in reality lots of people don't agree with or which are clearly untrue, über they're taken to be axiomatic.
This made me think about how AOL positioned itself alongside the web for awhile with movie promotions and such featuring website URLs www.movietitle.com and then beside/underneath also "AOL keyword: movietitle" and all the duplicate content/properties being created
It's not the trend, it's how banks have always operated. There's no way within a double entry accounting system to create deposits without also creating the corresponding loan asset. If you know of a way to do so then all the politicians that obsess over the national debt would love to hear from you.
I find it inspiring because it shows how low the bar is with persistence and effort
As a Chicago native, this gives me no end of amusement.

Richie Daley's father would never have fallen for this. He'd send the Building inspectors to that company's offices every 4 hours, finding a new and very serious violation each time. Or something.
Lucas and Star Wars’ relationship with the NFB: https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2015/12/16/21-87-star-wars/
Larger population = faster state space exploration. Sampling relies on the structure of the population. Most individuals will typically be minor variations on one of the successful genotypes, with some smaller percentage of novel genotypes. Random sampling will usually ensure that the successful genes are broadly represented while occasionally including the others. Since the sampling probably won't include the most optimized individuals, those others can compete in an easier environment and the algorithm has a better chance to escape local minima.
I'm a lifetime member of the Blacksmiths Guild of the Potomac. A past president is Brad Silberberg, who is a professional Architectural Blacksmith, and has some pieces on permanent display at the Smithsonian. He makes nails as his way of shutting g off his mind and just zoning out. He taught me how to make my first nail.

There is also the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America, and other ABANA chapters all over the country.

Adam Savage has done some nice videos recently that he's posted on YouTube for his Tested channel where he visits the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, specifically the guys who maintain all the metal weapons and armor.

Blacksmithing is alive and well all over this country, and the entire world.
Ha, that scene is how I learned to program. Built a shareware tool called AoLOL! (available by going to keyword "Addon"), $14.95, got paper checks from all over the country! Then I met the ICQ founders...
A well oiled car factory drops one of the belt ever n minutes. On a new car there are y% of profit. n x y > price of Harddisk is were the yelling and firing of administration began. Power trips and savings are nice. But factory stops have a price and when it turns out to be thiefdoms, those chiefthiefdomtains are goners. Can't run "the rules stated.." by the shareholders who know that the rules are made up for operations not against it.
Good deal on helium here if you're buying in bulk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37391584
It was a dark and stormy night. The characters were one-dimensional clichés who died just as quickly as they arrived. There was no continuity at all, no foreshadowing, and a snap ending. Even more impressively, suspension of disbelief was impossible because it jumped around like a fucking ping-pong-ball without any purpose, detail, or depth; saying "fuck you" to the entire genre of magical realism. In addition, it was marketed as a sci-fi western romance novel mystery adventure detective novel. Also, they had a terrible editor. But thankfully, they also had a terrible literary agent, so no one but a retired grandmother of 5 read it after purchasing it without thinking for 50 cents at the library's book sale. The end.

PS: Also, have a plain dust jacket. Never nuclear pink, orange, or yellow.
Soon...

I just work from the HTML specs and go my own way. There is something I am working on that 'needs' this stuff. I see HTML as a creative medium and I wanted to solve problems such as internal document navigation - rather than hundreds of web pages, compile the lot into one.

The PWA takes an entirely different approach to what I am trying to do. I like the PWA approach but I want one file that can be moved or emailed, to be available offline.

I found that making all the images inline worked for me. I got best results with webp rather than avif but don't care about losing the size benefits with base64 encoding - once zipped those compress nicely.
I've skimmed through the contract. The city is contractually obligated to have the meter maids but I think they could tell them to stop writing tickets. Problem is the city needs the money. There's a parking app now so smashing the boxes won't work. Anyway no matter what you come up with there's a clause that basically says "if the city does anything that causes us to lose money they have to reimburse us" so we are well and truly fucked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415159
Perhaps they meant CSP
The issue of subscription apps came up a lot in recent months on ATP [0] regarding Casey's new app Callsheet [1]. They've been arguing heavily FOR the use of subscriptions, and I came around to agreeing with them. The part that especially convinced me is that subscription revenue creates an incentive for the developer(s) to keep working on the app, in particular after the big wave of launch sales is gone. (You could argue that a lot of apps don't necessarily need new features, but I feel like especially on macOS and iOS, you want the app developers to check if their app still works properly on the new major releases, and issue fixes if something breaks.)

The very important thing is the cost of the subscription though. It needs to be reasonable. I'm fine with paying a subscription even for a small app as long as it's a low yearly price (like 5-10$). I feel like that's the bigger issue with subscription apps nowadays - the prices are often unreasonable considering the type of app, and they end up charging 3-6$ A MONTH for apps that should be at most 1-2$ a month.

[0]: https://atp.fm
[1]: https://www.caseyliss.com/2023/8/7/callsheet
Wow this is surprising
As of that interview, Bitcoin had crashed every year or two since 2011, so the next crash was no surprise at all

https://youtu.be/XbZ8zDpX2Mg

“Don’t buy Bitcoin, it’s going to crash!!!”
To be undiplomatic, most jobs suck - most work for devs is “enterprise” or web development, usually for companies that are either not tech companies or that the tech is not that interesting.

Even in the prestige companies like Amazon or Microsoft most devs don’t work on greenfield projects but on maintaining the cash cows.
It is and the leaders of yc even give instructions on how to best do their "launch hn."
Huh? Logs are how you run the service. Cost is what keeps you from retaining more of them. Since you seem not to be familiar with the subject, retention policy is something of a misnomer; it would be more accurate to call it a deletion/destruction policy. The default is retain everything forever.

There are no legal considerations here. That’s what lawyers are for, and big tech has a ton of lawyers.

If you work somewhere that people are deleting things to keep them from being discoverable, run away as fast as you can.
Nice, I had a similar idea a while ago! I wanted to support other media types, such as images, audio and webpages. It was a really fun experiment!

https://mkaandorp.github.io/hdd-of-babel/
I've often called Facebook the modern AOL. It's the same kind of consumption ramp with the same kind of content for the same people
Daley didn't get fleeced. It was a sweetheart deal since he and his allies got a bunch of stuff from CPM and friends. It was the taxpayers that got fleeced.

A few weeks after the deal went down, Daley got a job at the law firm that negotiated the deal: http://theexpiredmeter.com/2011/06/daley-takes-job-with-park...
What about the hours when the sun doesn’t shine? Is energy storage at such a scale feasible?
I expect there are very few etymologists studying insects, but more concerningly there aren't enough entomologists doing it either [1].

[1] https://time.com/5144257/fewer-scientists-studying-insects-e...
[The law] will only require companies to scan their networks when a technology is developed that is capable of doing so […] experts believe it could be years before any such technology is developed

What do they mean? Image recognition via homomorphic encryption? “Years” feels like an understatement!
I’m not sure exactly what the PMs role would be in regards to software quality, but from the sounds of it, the engineering team was poorly lead or had unhealthy practices (which likely means it was poorly lead). Which isn’t too uncommon in software engineering mind you, but if that’s not the responsibility of the PM then I don’t really see what is wrong with what Bret Taylor did.

If you could improve my code like that, I would welcome it and learn from it. The only people I think should feel “wronged” in that situation is the people who were responsible for an entire team of engineers not being put to better use. Of course unless Bret Taylor worked on that part or the issue, then whatever lead to the production of bad code was never really solved at google maps, but again, unless that’s the PMs area of responsibility then well…