skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting thought came to me after a recent vacation in Taiwan: almost every restaurant and street stall is serving "whole foods"[0] to some extent whereas in the Western world, we've somehow elevated whole foods to a luxury item reserved for "farm-to-table" and high-end dining. From night markets to side street hole-in-the-wall restaurants, more than likely the produce and meats being served were purchased that day from the market.

Visit countries like Taiwan, Viet Nam, Thailand, Japan, Korea and you'll notice that even the foods that have a processed component often tend to be made by hand, on site, and day-of. Buy scallion pancakes from a street vendor? Very likely that the proprietor purchased the scallions from a market in the morning and made the dough that day. Those scallions came from a farm harvested that day or the day before.

I think part of this is due to lack of density in the US and the supply chain challenges of moving fresh produce across the vastness of the US. California being such a massive producer[1] of agricultural products means that we need a very sophisticated logistical network to move those goods and access to those goods is determined by this logistical network. This naturally leads to a consolidation of the food supply chain as we see in the US (Sysco, Conagra, etc.). Yet another part of it is the US car culture that affects our dining culture (again lack of density); we don't have access to markets and even if we do, those markets are probably only open a few days of the week. Part of it is general food culture and perhaps a more western expectation of "uniformity"[2] in food both in appearance and taste that favors processing. And some part of it might be a legacy from WWII and the rapid adoption of processed foods as a form of preservation and efficiency.

Not sure how to fix it, but I thought it was an interesting observation.

[0] I use "whole foods" here because there's a general consensus that processed foods exist on a spectrum: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spectrum-of-processing-o... and "whole foods" simply refers to being biased towards unprocessed or minimally processed foods.

[1] https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022_Ag_Stats_Review...

[2] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-the-supermarket-helped-...
I can say the same thing but as a sysadmin working at a place where it was pulling teeth to get money to buy additional storage. Upper management was so daft/cheap and they can't see past six months so they decide to buy the cheapest enterprise solution with the least amount of upgrade capacity.
1300 sqft homes are still common, in my experience. They're not detached homes, but most people in the market for 1300sqft homes are looking to save money, and compromising on lot size saves a lot of money.

But that 1300sqft was average. Which meant a lot of homes were smaller than that. My brother once owned a 600 sqft detached house from that era.
Not a tip, but: This reminds me of (I think it was in a Fireship video) a job listing asked for 5 years experience with the language Mojo.
Just your phone. Open TikTok on iOS and it will for sure try to access your location, clipboard or whatever weird crap people will just click "OK" or "Allow" on.
I wish bash had a way to pop up a tree view that let me select the source or destination for a command (like tar or sftp or anything). And remember the locations for these two trees (source & destination) independently.
Maybe somebody trying out GPT for generating blog content? :mewonders:
> […] numbers will look different, as my car was stolen this morning.

Recognizing the limitations of an Internet comment, I’m sincerely sorry you need to deal with the headache of a stolen vehicle.
They want move fast, breaking other people's things. Not tje other way round. How else could all those poor tech giantsband start-ups survive?
how can it be one of the best if it's not even good? For example, it lacks a must have undo feature (just like TC), so you can't easily recover from accidentally deleting the wrong selection of files
I wonder if phones send out RDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System) information on the aux jack and your car happens to pick up on it.
The best thing anyone can do is to simply avoid overeating. If you're obese, it's because you're overeating - and you can fix the problem by just eating less. In some sense it's comforting, because it's so easy to describe the problem and a solution, and some sense not because people like eating food!

The problem with "processed" food is that it's usually calorically dense and tasty, so it's easy to eat too much.
I kind of agree. Also some rockets explode on the launchpad. Not every explosive growth company is a success story and they don't all mint millionaires.

I've been on two failed rocket ships and I'm pretty mellow about it. Surviving that is also its own skill. You'll go crazy trying to pick winners and getting rich isn't why I got into this field anyway.

While I would quit and work on passion software, you always owe it to yourself to find time for passion work in your free time.
I'm not sure that there is, but here's my attempt at rewording it.

> the "planetary elite" invest their (ill-gotten) money in real estate, and Airbnb simply offers the best return. but that's not Airbnb's fault. GP further doubts that reglations affecting the interests of said elites will work.
Its owner doesn't really know where to drive it to.

However in general, any would do.
Well, great! That's how we would like it and how it should be, isn't it?
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Emissions standards change, from the sound of it.
Thanks for linking to a 4 year old story. Now link to the follow-up stories to where Apple no longer does this and they were sued for breaking their privacy policy. Google still does it, as in their TOS they basically say "yeah, we're going to be looking over your shoulder at everything you do, as that's how we make our money".
It’s because iMessage is Apple only. Europe is 90% Android while the US is 50/50.
Ask HN: Most LLM libraries are abandoned. What do you use in production now?
Guidance is abandoned.

Langchain is poorly documented and has all sorts of problems.

LMQL seems to be up-to-date but it's not guaranteed to work (e.g., one of their examples is `from lmql.lib.chat import message` but then Python throws `lmql.lib.chat` not found).

LLM (CLI tool) is mostly for, well, TUI apps.

AIchat is abandoned.

Lots of projects around Langchain are also abandoned.

Does this all mean that the industry came to its senses and realized LLMs are just API calls all the way down? Or is it because each firm now develops its own LLM stack?
This is similar to the stats about Manhattan apartments though. Normal people aren’t paying 3k/mo to live in Manhattan. The 3k/mo people are the same ones that would be spending 1k/mo on their cars if they lived somewhere else
> Negative results are super important.

I agree, and this is often overlooked. Knowing what doesn't work (and why) is a massive help in searching for what does work.
The automotive enthusiast community has been building their own for decades.
This goal is opposite of the approach to reduce meat consumption with -- ultra-processed -- meat substitutes. In general there's a problem with meat being replaced with processed vegetarian options. It sure can't be assumed that people will instead turn to actual vegetables.

So is meat part of the fight against ultra-processed food or not? I believe that meat is a health food, and from where I stand I can't tell where the zeitgeist is on this. Ethics aside, does the nutrition establishment believe that meat is better or worse than ultra-processed options in general?
This was discussed in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show[1]. Apparently aerosols artificially held down temperatures roughly 1940–1980, after which they started to be reduced (from my memory of what they discussed). So it might be that the contribution of the greenhouse effect is masked in that period of the temperature graph.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
Is that your solution 20 years from now, too?
Azure Blob Storage actually has explicit append support using "Append"-blobs (next to block and page blobs)
The "inshitification" now extends to our cars.
The Spanish dubs of the Simpsons have a similarly good reputation.
https://archive.md/tECwJ
The greenwashing campaigns that sacrificed California redwoods
Thanks a lot! It encourages me.

If you happen to start a free website at Hey Homepage, know that the 'Quick Design' module (that I'm pretty proud of) might not work over there (yet). I'm working on it.
In a sense, it is dependent on big tech. Intel, AMD, et. al make the substrate upon which all of tech is dependent.

We don't notice it so much because the era of monopolistic dominance ended 30 years ago when AMD cloned the 386. The ability to write code that didn't utterly depend on Intel came along strong in the years since.

I think we're in that era now. People are beginning to notice that "social media" isn't really. People just want to send messages to friends and family, share photos with friends and family, and maybe catch up on what somebody famous, like Richard Stallman, is doing. (I have my finger on the pulse of public taste doncha know.)
It's always going to be an option if you can afford it.
Yeah, it's usually a cell module (older ones were 3G). Many times it's on its own daughter board and you can disconnect the bridge to the main board, or otherwise unplug it so it can't communicate with the car or towers. I did that to my car that has OnStar and the Bluetooth etc worked fine, but it couldn't transmit/connect to any network.
This sounds like the content recognition they do on TVs. If that's the case, this is creepy as fuck.
Sure, there's a handful of crazies out on the road, but the majority of speeders are due to economic incentives. It's called 'rush hour' for a reason.
UK has bigger problems than the ingredient breakdown in foods, the drinking and food culture is entirely based around excess. Go out on the weekend, drink 12 pints, have a kebab while drunkenly stumbling home, wake up and order in takeout because you're too hungover to cook, skip the gym, have a large Sunday roast - eat a half packet of biscuits with your tea.

The government need to start teaching about macronutrient breakdowns and calorie intake during early years, mandate that takeaways label their food with the macro-nutritional information, and let people be educated about the amount of food and drink they are consuming.
> it wouldn't surprise me if the car refuses to operate correctly

I know of a car (Renault in EU) whose SIM access is broken somehow that still works fine, just can't call home. No guarantee that every car will handle it gracefully, but at least some regions don't seem to mandate any enforcement if that module happens to "break".
Sure. Ukraine at the moment is completely dependent on its allies to support the war effort. Without their help Ukraine wouldn't hold on for long.

Recent Russian disinformation campaigns seem to be concentrated on eroding public support for Ukraine in western countries through various means and they had some success among the whole Greenwald-Taibbi-Snowden-Peterson crowd specifically and MAGA-people in general. Losing US support would put Ukraine in dire straits since I'm not sure EU/UK can provide all necessary equipment and ammunition by themselves.
What is the cost of being outdated for you?
Just as any asset depreciates over time, so does data. Ask yourself how long it takes for you to update your models with today’s data? Is it weeks, or perhaps months? Imagine using stale gasoline in a Ferrari. It might chug along, but with compromised efficiency and potential damage. Similarly, relying on outdated data might keep your models operational, but it exposes you to significant risks, underwhelming user experiences and missed opportunities.
> "It is hard for hospitals to keep their ORs clean with small teams...". I do not believe this is a valid argument to protect small firms.

I think your argument here undermines itself. I have not seen an operating room anywhere but a hospital, and hospitals are big. It couldn't really be said that hospitals represent a place with small teams or limited resources. Insurance money is involved, and if you are anywhere other than America, a great deal of government money as well. This is not the picture of a "small firm".

Therefore I must conclude that you either didn't mean to put that hole in the argument, or that you did and that therefore you claim that "small firms" should not create IoT devices.
Yes, looking forward to it! This is the only thing that's prevented me from switching from Android to iOS.
What is the goal?

Is the goal for society to have more truck drivers? Or is the goal for the government to help increase the number of owner operators?

If being an owner operator is a good business, then a lender will do the proper underwriting and extend a loan. If a lender does not, then that means the truck driving business is not lucrative enough, and so people should be looking elsewhere to sell their labor.
Maybe opposite is true as well. NYC is horrible smelly place with old buildings, failing infrastructure and rats!

Before YouTube, most people know New York only from highly unrealistic sitcoms like Friends. Now you can have virtual tour through several apartments and streets, and see it for yourself.
Debugging Catastrophic Backtracking for Regular Expressions in Python
Another reason to do my own service or find a trusted independent shop.
An analog jack should just be an analog signal, the beauty of it for applications like this being that it just works and for a variety of devices including the very first Sony Walkman to name just something which did not include any extra information. While in theory it is possible to encode extra and inaudible information in there, it seems more likely that if a car then knows what is playing it is just using Shazam or similar.
I once plugged a toner into a network patch panel to locate a drop and crashed the AIX system at a medical office. :(
Why is this relevant: you seem to imply “don’t bother”.

I would disagree strongly.
If you read the article and considered the argument it makes, you'd see that, in fact, it is not redundant at all. This is indeed the point of the article!
That doesn't seem anywhere near equivalent to Google & Facebook's privacy issues. They stalk literally everyone over the entire Internet. I don't have Tiktok on my phone (or at all) so I'm pretty sure they're not stalking me. So I disagree with the OP, Tiktok's privacy violations are not as bad as Facebook's.
Yes, that’s true if you have samples that represent actual measured luminosity (a.k.a. linear light). But most digital images are not that. Instead they are gamma-corrected to make better use of the available encoding range.

Gamma correction is effectively a 1/2.2 power function applied to each RGB component (normalized and clamped to a 0-1 range), so more bits are used to encode darker values. If you were to store raw linear values in a typical image format that uses 8 bits per component (i.e. 24 bits for RGB), you’d get very visible banding in dark areas of the image.

So this is the problem for Photoshop’s blending modes. They want to simulate how light works, but they operate on gamma-corrected images so you can’t just do the simple linear math directly. And converting to a higher-precision linear light representation would have been expensive on 1990s CPUs. Instead the PS blending mode algorithms are more like approximated hacks to do visually interesting combinations of gamma-corrected layers “on the cheap.”

As for Porter-Duff, they don’t even pretend to simulate light in any way. The article explains this pretty well below the example images of the twelve operations:

“Porter/Duff is not a way to blend the source and destination shapes. It is way to overlay, combine and trim them as if they were pieces of cardboard. The only place where source and destination pixels are actually blended is along the antialiased edges.“
That was about Gmail and Outlook. One obvious distinction is that they're already federated services that interoperate with a massive ecosystem of third parties, so there's not much need for regulation to force that interoperability.
Apple Hits Back As EU Brands It Gatekeeper
How does GDPR affect this issue for cars bought/sold in EU market? Is the opt out complete? Does the right to be forgotten after the fact apply?
I also have an '54 Chevy, a '62 CJ, a '69 wagon, a '68 Suburban, and a '84 Ford. I have a pretty good track record of keeping old things running well. Eventually my new cars (01 and two 03s) will cease to be repairable, but I have invested time and money in a very well maintained fleet of older vehicles, it's one of my only practical hobbies.
I'm the IT guy. It's the LOB apps that require windows, not the company. Stop selling us windows-exclusive software and we can talk. Yeah, it's really cool what you can do with wine and proton these days. Can I do that to a bank teller's computer and expect the vendor to answer the phone if something goes wrong?

and honestly, windows is pretty durable these days. 'desktop stuff' is less than 5% of my timesheet and I really do have better things to be doing with my time than trying to achieve the current baseline functionality with noncooperative methods.
There doesn't really have to be, we could let cars drive for the conditions. Also, unless the UK is different, there isn't a negotiation process before either...
> Humans aren’t capable of that.

Why do you say so? We casually call it "connecting the dots". It's like during the Oppenheimer movie when after the first demonstration of Uranium splitting people thought "oh, we can do a bomb with that".
the benefit of JIT is to detect problems early. If you minimize the number of parts "in flight" you minimize the time between creating defective parts and detecting the defects and taking countermeasures. any stockpile hides systematic production issues in the stockpiled parts until the part has percolated through the stockpile.

that's how it saves you far more than it can cost you through such a quite unique event as the one of this news article.

controlling JIT was originally done with little "kanban" paper slips, which pulled in the next batch of work. those are the origin of software "kanban", too, the software engineering "pull" workflow.
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> but because the interoperability is missing because it is in the interest of the gatekeeper

Similar issue with running windows binaries on linux, and worse, hardware vendors limit compatibility with only microsoft’s operating systems.

This needs to change and vendors must be forced to publish specs and the source of any software required to use their product while microsoft should be forced to publish any documentation needed to make their stuff run smoothly on other os’.

Linux for instance already does that and linux specific binaries can be run on windows.
What if I don't have TikTok installed and never have?
I'm not a super fan, but searching for 'The Expanse book covers' looks about right to my eyes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=the+expanse+book+covers&atb...

You see they're in space, you get the impression that there's ships, that it's gritty, that it's sci fi, etc.

None of those images look a million miles from the tone of the series, much less outright misleading.

If there are exceptions to that, then they're exceptions to a clear general rule; much like with fast food menu pics.
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Can anyone offer evidence that this is not due to low demand, with insufficient disk space being used as an excuse?
The argument to immediately stop burning fossil fuels is a radical position which few take seriously.

But you seem to be arguing that it'd be pointless in the same way that pressing the break in the immediate moment before a car accident is futile. Sure it might not help a lot, but I'd argue it's still the right call and will rarely make the situation worse.
I'd go simpler than that. If something goes in your mouth you need to confidently be able to state every ingredient in it. Easy rule, easy to follow.

You've got to work really, really hard following this rule to still end up as a Double F.
Scroll to the end:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Where is the host file so I can block all this data from being uploaded?
Or have skills and time
Lock files more easily in Google Drive
The status quo is not sufficiently codified. I am suggesting we codify it so that we can look at the rules and change them so that they make sense.

I also think it would be a good thing to have a legally protected avenue for people to declare their intent before checking for unlocked doors and such.

Imo I think a lot of the problems are coming from companies feeling like they are getting fleeced by security experts. If a company has acknowledged you as a researcher beforehand, then you have a pretty strong legal defense if they decide later that they don't like what you find.

I am not suggesting a new world order over everyone that uses the internet. People who stumble upon vulnerabilities without looking for them, or through incredibly basic means like a port scan, can be protected. We can feasibly list enough ways someone can uncover a security hole without a direct effort to do so such that the spirit of the law is sufficiently obvious to any judge to include any new ways that pop up on a case by case basis.

However, we cannot currently offer any protection to people directly trying to find vulnerabilities when such actions are identical to people who are trying to abuse it. The only possible differentiating action would be someone to announce beforehand that they are aware what they are doing looks like criminal activity and to request permission to proceed.

The argument that we have the technology to make in infeasible to hack systems is moot and imo naive. There is cost, significant cost, to maintaining the highest level of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity experts are some of the highest paid IT professionals on the market right now.

So I do not see how educating people who want to look for vulnerabilities to reach out for approval on what they are doing is too much order, but requiring everyone who creates anything that uses the internet to successfully implement state of the art cybersecurity defenses is not
It's really toe-mato, though.
> If you translate it back into English, “she had said goodbye too much”, it’s clear that the real question is, “did the author mean something by those choices which the translation obliterated?”

When translating for fun, I've often run into a choice between:

- Preserving the author's meaning as literally as possible.

- Preserving the author's style.

A translation can be literally very accurate, while destroying everything that made the original work charming. Or it might preserve the feel and the flavor of the original work, but skim over a lot of the details. A really good translation captures more of both, with fewer trade-offs.

Jorge Luis Borges encouraged his translators to improve upon his original work, if possible. He worked extensively with Di Giovanni, one of his translators, debating the best way to capture certain phrases in English: https://medium.com/@michael.marcus/dear-mr-borges-which-tran... His preference was almost always to capture the "feel" of the work, rather than a strictly literal translation.

I have an odd book, which contains three copies of the same story: An original in English, a French translation, and then a translation back into English by a new translator. The French version definitely loses something, and the second English version loses a bit more. But in the second English version, there is an occasional delightful turn of phrase, something that's briefly better than the original version. Translation is hard.