skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and peaceful protests are the heart of democracy

Peaceful protests? WHAT PEACEFUL PROTESTS???

The TruKKKer QUANONvoy wasn’t peaceful in the least.

If I parked a big rig on the sidewalk in front of your home and blasted it’s horn all day every day for weeks on end, you would rightly call that psychological violence.

If I harassed you on the street, screamed in your face every time you stepped outside, and carried objects that are innocent on the surface but which could easily be used as blunt-force weapons, you would rightly call that immediate threats of physical violence.

If I paraded around with an ideology that demanded your death purely based on the colour of your skin, you would rightly call that racial violence.

If I demanded to overthrow your elected officials and undemocratically replace them with my own unelected goons that listened only to me, you would rightly call that political violence.

If I was in cahoots with the municipal police, which turned a blind eye to all of this and let me run roughshod over you and your community with impunity, you would rightfully call this legally-sanctioned violence.

There was no “peaceful protest” anywhere in Ottawa in the early months of 2022. There was just an assembly of anti-democratic fascists who wanted to replace political process and the rule of law with alt-right oppression and totalitarianism that spat in the face of Canadian values.

The only thing this trial is about is holding two men accountable for their decisions and actions.

And if we followed their self-professed values of “conserving traditions”, they would end up swinging from a noose or in front of a firing squad. After all, that IS the traditional way of dealing with seditionists.

> the rhetoric you're using is straight from the hateful propaganda spread by the PM and his "liberal" party. quite liberal, aren't we ?

What hateful rhetoric? The fact that everyone is being held to the same legal and social standard? Yes, I imagine not having any special rights does feel very much like persecution and hate.

And I’m not a conservative… yes, the Liberals ARE on the political right, they are small-c conservative through-and-through. They’re just right-of-centre reasonable ones which haven’t lost sight of reality, and aren’t obsessed with fascism and totalitarianism.

“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

- David Frum, Trumpocracy
Agreed, I’d have to buy something mechanical, probably split, get the lightest switches possible, and modify it for negative tilt. Last I looked, if I spent ~$200 I could probably do such a thing based on Kinesis products, presumably with lots of experimentation required to get it right.
over half the world shits in the streets because of inadequate public restroom access.

You're clearly not educated on this.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-ind...
The simulated stuff is all custom code for reading the raw binary font file and then custom drawing it over the screenshot using canvas.

Nuxt is just used as a static site generator for the rest of the site.
You have gotten $75k/year though.

Take two people X and Y, both have $500k in the bank. X buys a house with it, Y sticks to renting. A few years later, they want to move to another place with the same costs. X's house now sells for $1M and he is able to buy a new place for the same money, thus his new house effectively only cost him the $500k he had spent years ago. Y, having not bought a house previously, now has to pay $1M, which he does not have.
Abused, traumatised and powerless: South Korea’s teachers are protesting
I thought parent was asking about potential stock investments that could be expected to do well based on future RISC-V popularity.
> in the west

I believe you may be talking about the US exclusively as "the west".

As far as I am aware, there is no such approach to free speech in Europe, something for which I am thankful.
according to the link, a third of them is open 24/24
I think it’s not there anymore ?
You shouldn't use it over rust... that's a nonsensical question. That's like asking when you should use a hammer instead of a screwdriver.

I use zig because it's enjoyable to use. I hate writing rust, it feels like the language is actively fighting me. I started writing zig, and started loving the process of simplify writing code again. Zig is nice because, to steal their quote. I'm able to spend my time debugging my code, and not debugging my understanding of the language. I've stepped on a use after free but because it's so easy to write and use tests, I found it and fixed it in tests.

Bugs are undesirable, but I can write just as many bugs in rust. So I'm always so confused about why rust users are so panicked about use after free, or other memory bugs. Like somehow the only bugs rust has a handle on is the worst class of bug? Such an odd idea I can't figure out...
> "I don't think Typescript is needed most of the time

This is a terrible example, typescript (especially in 2023) is basically free with most setups (including vanilla) and easy to ignore for velocity then optionally enforce typechecking later.

A much better hill to die on would be large frameworks/tooling like react/angular/webpack.
Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki might not be done making films, says Ghibli exec
Delete the app; use the web interface?
Also I recommend to read the methodology here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/README.md

Making an open-source, easily reproducible benchmark with clear rules allowed having more than 30 different DBMS in a single benchmark. Many of the results were submitted or improved by the vendors of the corresponding systems.

There is a comparison section that lists limitations and drawbacks in comparison with other benchmarks.
This article, and the one it is based on, is just rage bait. Sadly, this topic specifically works really well in HN.
Aren't you exempted from capital gains tax if you reinvest the money within a year or whatever?
Says that it’s coming, not that it’s here. (-:
There are many of them. The one that comes with Artist II seems to be very popular.

That said I have a few of my own takes of the magnetic/ocr fonts there.
And surgeons are standing above cut openings in the body, so preventing spittle and other bodily droplets is the main reason for the mask. They use a better mask and throw it away upon hours of use. Covid is airborne, not droplet based infection. Wearing a mask for hours and improperly also has other health-related issues aside from mental ones.
It is seriously unclear to me what ideology you think is promoting censorship the most, from my perspective the cat got out of the bag in the USA and now different kinds of censorship are being advocated for across the political spectrum.
https://archive.ph/5P9Qj
Sounds like a great way to get robbed of literally everything you own.
> This means that my family's wealth has increased by $75,000 per year just from owning our home.

Sort of, but in practice not really (particularly when interest rates are higher, like now). The only meaningful way to realize that extra wealth is to sell. But then you’ve got to live somewhere, but everywhere else has (on average) gotten proportionally more expensive too. The only way to really capture that wealth is to downgrade or to go to an area that has underperformed, neither of which are typically appealing options, nor are they generally aligned with our notions of “increased personal wealth”.

What’s really happened is that non-homeowners have effectively gotten effectively poorer since their only options are to pay increasingly-large rents or buy at inflated prices.
(Arguably Hong Kong and Singapore are in the Anglosphere but) Those are city states. Housing in Manhattan is really expensive too.
I live in Waterloo. There's tons of rental housing being built here but all of it is targeted at students. It's third-rate shoddy construction by an unsavoury developer. Students complain endlessly about these rental companies but they have little recourse.

I'm not convinced that what we need is more of this low-quality "affordable" housing. I think the problem would be solved by cracking down on all the people buying second, third, fourth, ... single family homes and converting them into Airbnb flophouses.
Someone who needs to pee is going to pee, whether they have a dollar to spare or not; I'd rather they are able to pee in a restroom rather than on the grass, sidewalk, or someone's doorway. It is cheaper and healthier for society as a whole if people do their business in restrooms, which is basically the reason why we've converged on a society where toilets exist in the first place, rather than fleets of trucks circling around and washing the streets constantly.
Museum Curators Evaluate A.I. Threat by Giving It the Reins
You’re right I am sorry.
Non-unionized tech workers finally facing the music…

The smart ones know what to do, hopefully they will be a majority against the ones indoctrinated into right wing market fundamentalism.

In any case, the unionization issue will sort itself out eventually, when the spoiled assholes are no longer in the industry, but damn it’s probably gonna be painful for a while.
Because the rents have gone up equally in the city? I rented a 1 bedroom condo back in 2017 for $1700/month. The same unit is around $2600/month now. So the price to either rent or purchase the same unit in the city has gone up significantly regardless.
I don't know if it's necessary to even invoke hormones for this (it may be true, I'm not sure), you can also view confirmation bias as simply more efficient.

It requires less mental energy to slot new information into an existing framework of beliefs than to consider alternative ways for the information to fit.

We don't question our entire belief system with every new piece of information; that would be mentally exhausting.
The outright paying to pee blew my mind. Especially when you don't know that the UK has different money than the EU.
In NA there's pretty much only Montreal
YouTuber RetoAhoy did a fantastic video on its history and modern references in video games: https://youtu.be/6HEAA0C6a4Q?si=ugQa1N3uYTW2Ncok
You feel sorry for my family because you shat in the street and refuse to accept that you drinking Starbucks is not a valid reason to do that?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37432336 (1 day ago, 17 comments)
A few years ago I visited three different McDonalds in Washington DC. All three were newly renovated in downtown.

All three restrooms were unlocked and disgusting. After notifying the staff I figured out some homeless would vent their rage by literally smearing their feces on the walls. When the staff clean it up, they would do it again.
It's interesting that the list reads as a recipe for ClickBench. Although I didn't read the article, so it is just a coincidence.
You overlook that if you premise “employers are faceless soulless monoliths”, then they would care as little about good behavior as bad. As far as references in tech go, they seem usually an after the fact formality, than anything.

At any rate, all of this is trading in hypotheticals. I don’t actually favor quitting with no notice, but in such an extreme case, I would assume it was done with sufficient justification that one’s colleagues, perhaps even one’s direct manager, would be sympathetic to the quitter.
It's ridiculously dystopian. At a whim they can end a person's livelihood, and depending on how integrated one is in their ecosystem, just erase their whole interface with the world. Unless you get a personal comment from a Googler on social media, there isn't a drop of humanity in the whole thing. Heck, it's almost ritualistic, like how some religions pray/yell out to the God's and craft offerings to appease them. Instead of rain, we pray for access.
There are far more stealth sprinters on the street than there were two years ago. Every block has one.
AI or not, the baseless swipe at therapists is really immature and would be better left out. I'm sorry if you've had a bad therapist experience but that's not grounds to denigrate the entire discipline or those (like myself) who's lives have bettered immeasurably through consistent talk therapy.
I am a Canadian and I support the truckers.
No, this was all our money.

But we're a double STEM couple with no kids (at the time). We're also the most boring people you'll ever meet, so our expenses are low.

We saved up a 20% down payment after a few years together. And interest rates were 2.5% at the time, so the payments were manageable.

The long and short is "make lots of money and live like you don't".

(That said, a year ago I was a 300+ developer, which is part of how we paid off the rest of the mortgage in 7 years.)
My questions with all of these tests is how do we verify the llm wasn't trained on the same questions/prompts especially since llms have been out for a while and they can incrementally update the trainings?

Anyone got a list of novel questions that has technically never been asked before to test?
And we're facing a similar choke point if we plunge ourselves into another ice age (see the CO2-temperature graph correlation) or desert Earth. In 1000 years, people will either be relatively okay or they will be few and wearing animal hides again.
Are you sure? Africa is a big continent. There's a lot of seismic activity going on in the eastern part of it, there are volcanoes etc.
Bet youre fun at parties....
Also (in general) I don’t think most people would be so sanguine if their condo lost $75k/yr over 8 years.
Floating point math is not associative: (a + b) + c != a + (b + c)

This leads to different results from accumulating sums in different orderings. Accumulating in different ordering is common in parallel math operations.
Lol, you are over the edge.
My family and neighbors aren’t occupying 3.7 million square miles and aren’t numbered in the hundreds of millions, so the analogy does not hold.
> Green policies had seldom required private citizens to roll up their sleeves and make big, disruptive changes to their lives. Now they are starting to, and many people do not like it.

This is the problem. Putting so much of the burden on the consumer and hardly any on the manufacturers, companies and so on. Consumers contribute just a small percentage of the problem but are being asked to account for much more.
Communicative Agents for Software Development
Canada is currently entering catastrophe levels, but because of lagging consequences people don't realize how much of a disaster is before us. There is a collective delusion that has sustained some profoundly self destructive policies. The toll is coming due.

Almost all of Canada cannot qualify for a home at current housing prices. Either to buy or to rent. The rental market is currently at the level of parody where the requirements filter out almost everyone. The bottom 50% of Canada, income wise, is in the precarious situation where if anything happens to their current housing, they will be homeless. Slowly social assistance and related programs are going to have to start resetting and the costs are going to be enormous.

https://archive.ph/4xWtC

This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties, and at this point I don't see an exit that isn't enormously painful.
Why is that relevant? It's not as if those properties remain vacant, that wouldn't exactly make sense from the investor perspective.

You've got excess demand over supply, so prices go up. Just like with anything else, the solution is to add more supply. Build more houses and prices of houses will go down.
Thanks Doctor.
Huh, that low in Woodstock, eh?

We're considering moving to London (ON) to be near family and friends, since we're both remote workers anyway. Interesting to hear the prices down there are falling.
Can we learn to control our dreams?
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Principles in Algorithm Design
Because their experiences are not reflective of larger industry trends.
I did not know about that possibility! It requires glibc and its dynamic linker though, doesn't seem to be as widely available as the GNU coreutils. I developed lone inside Termux: it does not have ld.so but does have env. There's a GNU binutils ld but it did not recognize the --argv0 option when I tried it.
Unrelated to drones (but is a hardware/software manufacturer)- I would like to call out Axis (as an Axis network cameras) as one of the rare positive lights in this mess. They clearly state how long their products will be software supported, and they stick to that minimum and frequently go well beyond that minimum.

Axis has products that are over 10 years old that still receive frequent security only firmware updates. If they can do it across hundreds of different hardware products, then these companies can too. (in fact, Axis was doing it well before this became a main stream issue)
Whether the GP has a medical issue or not, people with bowel-control problems still deserve to be able to travel the city. There just need to be restrooms available for them. There's no simple cure, so their doctor won't be able to solve that problem for them.
Something I don't quite understand about the article: Why is insulation tied to the heating source?

In any given house, per unit of heat generated is going to leak out at the same rate no matter how that heat is produced, no? Whether that heat comes from a gas boiler, a heat pump, or a resistive heater shouldn't matter...?
> One of these was the brainchild of Adams’s English teacher at school: define the place-name. So, ‘what is epping?’ and ‘what are devizes?’

I don’t understand a word of this.
I don't see a problem whatsoever with someone building a mansion out in the country to save money on taxes. LVT is not about that. It's about taxing the luxury condos downtown, and those definitely are more progressive than property taxes.
Peaceful protests that intentionally meddled with others lives to generate headlines. They could have peacefully protested in a corn field.

If that’s what Canada allows, then you’re right about the liberals needing to go so conservative leaders can secure the rule of law and order!
I'd just add that, while it's hard to drive out of expensive real estate in the Bay Area, that's actually not true of a lot of major cities. While there are expensive towns, there are also some pretty reasonable towns within 60-90 minutes of Boston for example. Not living downtown can buy you a lot of weekends on the town in a hotel.
Look into Vancouvers vacancy tax. People were convinced there were tons of empty houses sitting around and a lot of political capital and bureaucratic effort spent and the result was practically nothing. 500 vacant homes in a city of 2 million is not a meaningful contributor to the housing crisis, and certainly worthless compared to the amount of effort spent on it. It's the tens of thousands of units not being built that's the issue.
But as the quote says, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
> The only meaningful way to realize that extra wealth is to sell. But then you’ve got to live somewhere

Which is one of many reasons we're considering leaving Toronto
I didn’t make any statements about any of that, he said he shat in the street uncontrollably. That’s a medical issue.
> If you do happen to find yourself at one for some reason, and you neither tip nor tell the server upfront before they take your order that they're not going to get a tip,

So you would be fine if someone, or everyone, actually did this?

What if your issue is not with tipping whatsoever but rather with the default being 15% instead of 0%, so that tips are only for exceptional service?
Then the Helm and layers of kustomize are not easy to reason with either.

That's system configuration and that'll become tedious for sure.
"It's not a mess! it was designed by committee!"

I'm not sure what to say here. The kubernetes docs and code speak for themselves. If you actually think that it's clean, simple, well designed, and easy to operate, with smooth interop between the parts, I can't change your mind. But in practice, I have found it very unpleasant. It seems this is common, and the usual suggestion is to pay someone else to operate it.
Because I can either catch those bugs myself or let the computer catch them for me. I'm lazy and a fan of letting the computers do the work at compile-time so I don't have to run into them at runtime, at 3 AM in production. It's not the amount of bugs, I can also write out of bounds panic bugs, it's the type of bugs.

And truth be told, if we get liquid types or dependent types in Rust, even those runtime out of bounds checks would be caught at compile-time too.
Exactly. You need a place to live, and other places to live have become more expensive too, but you own more of the place you live thanks to appreciation. You don't have to sell it either to realize the gains, you can borrow against it to make more money for instance, opportunities they certainly wouldn't have had without the appreciation.
On mobile, about 70% of the screen real estate is dedicated to searching and filtering UI. At the bottom 30% of the screen, I can see 1 headline for an article.

When visiting HN about 90% of my mobile screen real estate is dedicated to content and I’m able to see the first 13 results.
maybe they meant idea like when you write a book you are transcribing a series of ideas you had
> I’m not familiar with the US visa rules

No worries. If this thread has proven anything, that would be that not even Americans know, but they sure love a good flame bait.

Jokes aside, what you just said is absolutely correct and it is indeed how it works in the US. I'm an immigrant myself, and that was part of the process. Most people complaining about how this "hurts" Americans, are, unknowingly I hope, echoing the same xenophobic slogans we have been hearing for a couple decades now.
To differ doesn't mean to accept that something is subjective. Even mathematicians have differed about proofs.
Anyone questioning the usefulness of this method probably don't need it. Although I haven't tried Niri itself but through this thread I got introduced to paperwm and been using it for the last 5 days and I don't think I'm going to need anything else. At some point I had real plans to make a sophisticated sway config based on my needs (and a couple of ideas I had) and I have found this solution to be perfectly inline with my ideas. My problem with TWM is that I don't need small windows because I use a small laptop and cutting the height in half is not an option. My main idea was every windows should span to full height and have meaningful width with an easy way to navigate between them and these STWM seem to be pretty on point. With just limited options to chose (when resizing a window) changes can be made in seconds (I mainly only use 4 default sizes 38% 50% 62% 100% width all spanning to take full height of the screen) Before I had to alt-tab to infinity trying to reach my desired window (I have disabled dock and top bar in Gnome and maximizing for me is the same as full-screen) and thus my greediness to use all pixels of my screen made navigating with more than three or four windows impossible. But now I have my solution. I wonder how other people are using these because I understand my use case is kinda crazy and to some extent stupid.
Consumers are ultimately the ones that account for all of the problem. Not a drop of oil gets pumped from the ground without the consumer demand.

And the thing about climate change is that consumption is much more equal than financial wealth. A Wall Street banker doesn’t have a carbon footprint that much higher than a regular person. Maybe even less.
Only the first $250k (or $500k if you're married). And you use it to buy another primary residence.
I've never worked at Amazon, but this is something I really envy about my friends who do. I love a well-written, concise document, but the large enterprise I work at now is in love with Google Slides. I can't stand them.