skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but the level of bureaucracy varies quite a lot between countries to countries.

What you are experiencing is poor or good local implementation of a streamlined architecture.

That’s why bureaucracy in UK didn’t go down but increased with brexit. What British previously experienced was just UK civil service, now they keep experiencing that but on top of it they have added bureaucracy at any time they want to interact with an EU country.
Something disappears into the ether every couple of years these days, but losing most of a day's work to a crash or some fat-fingered muscle memory back in the day didn't used to be an uncommon occurrence at all.
It looks very long because of the scale of the chart. But everything on the right half of the chart would fit in a few pixels on the left side.
Completely agree: change for the sake of change. I held my breath for a while after Office 2007, hoping the Open/Libre Office developers wouldn't be tripping over themselves to implement the Ribbon, too. That they've held fast all these years is one small bright spot.
Instead of all this cookie mess, they could have simply required websites to respect the do not track header.
People click and read the thing and upvote it if they like it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The shake build system (a general-purpose build system similar-to/better-than make) has a "prune" feature for exactly this purpose:

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2015/04/cleaning-stale-file...

But I think the best solution (that also works with make) is to have a "make dist" target that creates a final .tar.gz archive of the result. If the rule is written properly then it won't contain any stale files. The disadvantage is for large project it may be slow, but you are not supposed to use this rule during development (where it is useless anyway), only for releases (which still can be built incrementally -- only the final .tar.gz needs to be created from scratch)
I mean, the first combustion-engine cars had the same market reaction. A recollection of the late 19th century and early 20th, from 1930: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americ...

The whole story has salient parallels — parts suppliers were either reticent or inexperienced, fuel was cheap but not widely available, motors were slow, investors put money in before the market was there, founders lamenting the state of the modern laborer, early adopters stuck needing parts for vehicles orphaned by suddenly defunct manufacturers, and the guy getting all the money and attention is a wealthy idiot making self-crashing death traps who relies on free advice from his witless fans to avoid failure and profit. There's even a cameo from early EV manufacturer Electric Vehicle Company in 1899.

Tangentially, this is evocative:

> In the uncertainty of what the public would want, a great many strange contraptions were put together. Joseph Barsaleaux, a blacksmith of Sandy Hill, New York, built a motor horse. In his device, the horse moved on a single wheel about two feet in diameter, with the wheel attached to the shafts just as was a live horse. Reins attached to the mouth of the horse served as a steering gear, because the machinery was inside the horse and had to be regulated some way. The contraption weighed about 550 pounds, had a cruising speed of six miles an hour, and attracted some serious attention.

EV makers should probably stop trying to make mechanical horses — EV motors and cars that aren't competitive with ICE equivalents — and find a form factor that better suits both the market and the current state of the technology. Class 2 ebikes and small carts feel closer to that answer on short runs, but the long-haul equivalents are still missing.

Hell, Winton in this story is a bicycle manufacturer who makes his first horseless carriage from bicycles.
Obligatory links for anyone that is interested in learning more about Bézier curves:

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

https://pomax.github.io/bezierjs/

https://github.com/Pomax/bezierjs
A terror attack has likely been avoided at Roblox's Developer Conference 2023
Maybe she grew up with a Canon Cat!
What works for you doesn't work for everyone. There are many, many places in the world where using a bicycle as a main method of transportation would be impractical and miserable. Short of force, this isn't going to happen.
Ant Group unveils own AI large language model, along with new Web3 brand
So this is related to EU Directive 2019/904:

"""
The EU states, “beverage containers that are single-use plastic products should only be allowed to be placed on the market if they fulfil specific product design requirements that significantly reduce the dispersal into the environment of beverage container caps and lids made of plastic.” Article 6 of the directive gives a more detailed insight. According to this article, caps and lids made out of plastic may be placed on the market only if the caps and lids remain attached to the containers during the products’ intended use stage. Tethered caps will become mandatory in the EU in July 2024.
"""

Why is this a thing? Because plastic lids are made of a harder plastic that doesn't degrade as quickly and is much less recycled than the bottles themselves. How prevalent is this? In the last 30 years 20 million bottle caps have been found on beaches alone in Europe during clean-up work. They are in the top 5 ocean trash items that ultimately kill wildlife. This is only a small snapshot of the ultimate number of bottle caps not recycled aside their bottles.

To fix this, the EU suggest tethering the lid to the bottle so they're less easily lost and more likely to be recycled properly. 20 companies are responsible for the majority of throwaway plastics in the world, so this change is required in only a few places but could have a large net-benefit. Ultimately this is something that can only come from top-down optimization - why? Because it increases costs for each bottle.

> This new bottle cap design requirement must have created a new economy for producing these bottle caps for all of the containers, someone profited.

Companies lost money from this and tried to lobby to avoid it by trying ideas first, and then tethering if those failed.

> There are massive problems around waste that no one there dares to approach, so they make these weird directives that just smell of corruption and incompetence.

Why can't we tackle the small and the large?

> Many cities, to avoid fines, provide separate containers, but in the end just throw everything on the same pile.

Depends on the city/country, but the primary issue with lids is wildlife harm in my opinion so this does fix that issue.
Of course, we're working on better support for deployment soon, but since its just a FastAPI app with a dockerfile you could deploy it anywhere. Also depends on your use case though, for example, if you have auth requirements you could add a middleware to your endpoints to verify a jwt token or call the endpoints from another backend service.
Funnel Labs: Low-cost, high-performance, flexible queries for real-time data
> Why would you want one off but the other on, besides use cases that HN commenters will surely list that are only relevant to power users?

I like having my monitor off because of this one weird quirk that OSX seems to have. Specifically, the machine unfailingly wakes itself up from sleep every ~60 minutes to do something, and then puts itself back to sleep shortly thereafter.

When I'm trying to put _myself_ to sleep (and keep myself asleep), I don't want a bright-ass monitor briefly blazing across my room for no good goddamn reason.
Reading through your link I caught myself thinking if I would put up with all those boilerplate nix steps just to add a new page to the site.

Don't get me wrong, I get that you gain big amounts of flexibility out of it the way you do it but if we think about the tasksat hand, adding a page to a predefined blog, it seems a bit involved.
Do you have any publicly available code on github?
They only are if they're incentivized: most ignore the rewards, those you admire who don't ignore self-motivated open-minded-ness and curious-ness, they must have already been rewarded previously for having these traits, and so they continue to express them.
This is anecdata, but my experience with modern ASP.NET teams these days is that while production may still be running Windows, the dev teams are a mix of Mac, Windows, and Linux/WSL. The allure of the M2 MBP is too great when the Windows option is an expensive but otherwise forgettable Dell corporate laptop.
My reading is that a transducer is a map, that is, something that transforms iterators

Like something that receives myiterator and returns myiterator.map(|x| x + 2) in rust

But other than focusing on the map rather than on the iterator, I think it's the same thing
They can replace their fear of nuclear Armageddon with the much more possible impending climate catastrophe.
> Have you any evidence of Egypt having those kinds of wet bulb temperatures back then?

Have you got evidence of climate change causing those kinds of wet bulb temperatures in large populated areas?
Agree, I might've stretched It a bit. Your descriptions is more accurate.
I was waiting for someone to make that excuse.

No, the banners are solely the EUs doing. Their solution to the problem resulted in the banners, so they get the blame.

> I think that giving a set of options on first install for preferences like browser is a great thing for the EU to enforce personally.

It would have been great in the 90s/2000s. They did it about 10 years too late where everybody downloads whatever browser they want anyway. For most people that would be Chrome.

The whole thing only exists because Opera couldn't compete and made a stink about it.
John was the partner’s peer, also partner level, which is why the conversation quickly returned to civility.
Ah, yes, the "Beware of the Leopard" school of design. Everything is possible, nothing is forbidden, but the defaults are terrible and the controls are hidden as well as they could possibly hide them.
I don't understand it, but I have half a mind to mod CHDK to only let you take 72 photos a day.
How is this legal? Most of the content people post is random and slightly political. It should be against the law to do this because the various government agencies will always be tied to one party or another.
This is actually a good point. I think I agree with the author that synthetic meat production as a 1:1 replacement for current meat consumption is not feasible, but that only leads me to question whether we should be eating all that meat in the first place.

I'm not a heavy meat eater myself — about once every 9 days — and I've read that the amount of meat I consume is the norm for human beings for most of our existence, and it's in fact unhealthy to eat much more than that. So maybe the answer isn't synthetic meat, it's just not smashing animals into our faces for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
> objectively worse overall product

... except the EV is objectively better, not worse.

Literally the only thing an ICEV can claim superiority on is refueling time. And even that comes with big caveats: it only applies to road trips, and even then it's unrealistic. Around town, refueling an EV takes essentially zero time, far less than an ICEV. On a road trip, the ICEV does refuel faster, but in real life road trip stops are typically 15-20 minutes anyway, and that's enough to refuel a modern EV.

What's exciting is that while EVs are already objectively better, the underlying technology is still evolving quickly and the future is very bright. We're already able to do things with EVs that aren't even possible with an ICEV, and this is just the beginning.
This molecule, DIM, supposedly breaks up the biofilms of S. mutans. But there are other substances known to break up biofilms, including xylitol. There's been research around this, and it suggests that it can work but only under the condition that sucrose (and possibly other sugars) not be present.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32932149/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342535934_Xylitol_a...
I was taught in Japanese language class that unvoiced vowels don't get entirely deleted. You're still supposed to aspirate them, which affects the pacing of the language, but it's hard to hear it because unvoiced vowels don't really make a sound.
"Boom on the horizon" is oddly pessimistic imagery for the message they're trying to convey.
I seriously doubt the accuracy of their estimations.
Start low and increase it every year until you hit net zero or large scale carbon sequestration actually becomes viable.

My suggestion is 5$/ton and increase it by 10% per year above inflation, but you don’t need to use round numbers.

Gasoline including manufacturing and transport would be ~2c/gallon right now and ~25c/gallon when cars manufactured todays cars get taken off the road. Which isn’t enough to crush ICE cars today but would rapidly scale demand as additional manufacturing comes online. Similarly aviation wouldn’t instantly be killed off but alternatives would see a significant boost where possible.

Starting higher isn’t a bad idea, but politically I think starting slow and scaling exponentially is reasonably viable.
IMO the soft drinks industry in it's present form is pretty lucky that it's allowed to exist at all. There are circumstances where there's a valid case for being able to sell drinks packaged in plastic bottles, but overall, it's very difficult to see how the benefits outweigh the externalities.
So any salad that contains chopped cabbage/broccoli and eaten daily should do the trick?
They enforced micro-USB first IIRC. And without them doing that it's unlikely manufacturers all would have switched to it.

> Let's talk about it again in a decade when we're all still stuck on USB-C because going to something better would violate the law.

Laws can be updated, quite quickly sometimes.
Perhaps some subtlety was needed and “everyone” is too large of a swath but judges are not dolling our perjury charges a dime a dozen and taking the stand doesn’t make some just answer carte blanche.
I question the reliability part. Certainly there is more complexity (in some respects), more dependencies, etc. But I'd probably argue that most of the software I use today is more reliable than equivalent software (if it existed) that I used a couple decades ago.
Why have titles at all if they aren't supposed to have any information in them?
Homes are a form of wealth. They are not a liquid form of wealth, and they are more practically a store of wealth for the overwhelming majority of your life.

The one way to generally extract this gain in wealth is to downgrade (e.g., retire to a quiet place in the boonies), and that’s generally a one-time option and not something everyone wants to do.
Craigslist was the pinnacle of UX success
Discussed the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418424
> [2] The OP's OurWorldInData graph screenshot says beef emissions are 60, but the
actual page says 99. Same chart. I don't understand. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-cha... I used 60 in the calculation above.

The chart I used does not include losses in the supply chain. The difference between both charts is further explained here: https://ourworldindata.org/faqs-environmental-impacts-food
> if you get rid of all the bad cops, you don't have enough workers left to do all the work we currently assign to police

maybe, maybe not

you would definitely open up the profession to all the people who consider themselves honest, and thus who have avoided a career in policing, which is rife in corruption, rewards corruption, and penalizes honesty

and let's be honest, it pays a TON for what isn't even close to one of the most dangerous professions, so neither pay nor danger are what keeps smart, honest people away

currently, most such people would avoid it because of the culture (particularly the culture of corruption), and bad police don't want and, indeed, deter such people from joining their ranks

> bad cops don't keep their jobs because they have a powerful union

almost universally, they do: the union literally prevents firing most bad police officers
Far less demand.
The genius part was capitalising the companies well enough with their first breakthrough of revenues + investments and buy out competition to profit off their products or just to stamp them out.

Coupled with the genius of some regulatory capture with their acquisitions not being challenged for decades until recently and... We got these behemoths that swallowed most of the innovation produced to become ad-infested bullshit.

Yes, I'm jaded by this fucking industry after 20+ years working in it, it's all becoming bullshit with different flavours.
For the same reasons why canal companies got so big, or railways got so big, or steel companies got so big, or oil companies got so big: they had/have in-demand goods and services that solved problems people were/are having.

See perhaps Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Perez:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...

* https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/technological-revolutions-a...

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/investing-technological-revolutio... (via)

A 2021 summary:

> What was especially remarkable about Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital was its timing: 2002 was the middle of the cold winter that followed the Dotcom Bubble, and here was Perez arguing that the IT revolution and the Internet were not in fact dead ideas, but in the middle of a natural transition to a new Golden Age.

* https://stratechery.com/2021/the-death-and-birth-of-technolo...

> Perez’ theory describes the path a technological revolution, like the Industrial Revolution, takes and the social, economic and institutional changes that go along with it. The jury is still out on the theory, and there are plenty of reasons to doubt it. But if it successfully predicts what happens over the next ten years it will have in good part proved its power.

* http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

A list of the top ten companies in the S&P 500 going back a few decades:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/07/the-biggest-stocks/

* https://www.finhacker.cz/top-20-sp-500-companies-by-market-c...

Sector breakdown:

* https://www.qad.com/blog/2019/10/sp-500-companies-over-time
Book Publishing Has a Toys ‘R’ Us Problem
Reddit launches AI-powered keyword research tool
That was hyperbole.

But also not entirely unrealistic or uncommon, and I live in an european city with good public transport. If I want to buy something special like a good cut of beef, go to an asian market, I’ll be doing a 30km roundtrip by car.

From what I’ve seen a roundtrip to Walmart in the US for weekly groceries can be in the same ballpark - even in the city, since the larger stores are always on the outskirts.

You can keep raising strawmen, but the extremism is going from a suggestion of reduced car traffic and reduced meat consumption, to accusations of not caring about lives and mass murder.
It's an interesting approach.
I did it a bit differently. I set up three Proxmox nodes on three hetzner servers. Then I deployed virtual routers. I then set up HAProxy and k3s nodes as LXC containers.
What's nice about the whole setup is that a proxmox node can go down and it all still works. I will now set up keepalived as mentioned in the other reply so the HAProxies will also be fully HA. Proxmox also works well with zfs and backups.
I set up the proxmox nodes manually and did the rest with terraform + ansible. One `terraform destroy` cleans up everything nicely.
I wonder how the performance difference is between bare metal and k8s node in LXC.
If this was true, it's going to hurt a lot more than Novell and Microsoft's domination :(
This is great and I have been eagerly awaiting this, but must say I am disheartened to see that it is being positioned as a hosted-service.

I get it - they need to make money, but I was hoping for something that would statically generate all the html, CSS, and JavaScript that I could then just host wherever. Bummer :(
low is relative. I don't think anyone would use elixir for systems with HARD realtime needs like stepper motors, industrial automation or other such projects. but there's also low in terms of perceptual latency. I use elixir at my startup and the baseline performance is amazing for saas applications. 300ms of network latency is slow by hard realtime standards but is more than sufficient for a user navigating a app or website. being able to achieve that at scale is an absolute superpower that would be significantly more work (and machine resources) to do in ruby or python.
Why are you getting downvoted?

People forget that in the 1700s-1800s that industry was typically very small. Once the engine was created and we moved 'power' from animals and humans to machines, companies began to grow huge.

Tech companies are doing this with information. Where in the past information was hard to transmit and computers were expensive, tech has capitalized on the lowered costs of processing and transmitting information.
The classic article is by George Monbiot at The Guardian 24 Oct 2011

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/24/advert...

Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it

With AI everywhere, the trust level gets even lower

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/psa-ebay-lets-chatgpt-make-up...

PSA: eBay lets ChatGPT make up item descriptions

And Chrome is playing its chrome games.

That is to say, sites can ask Chrome directly what kinds of topics you're interested in – topics automatically selected by Chrome from your browsing history – so that ads personalized to your activities can be served. This is supposed to be better than being tracked via third-party cookies, support for which is being phased out. There are other aspects to the sandbox that we'll get to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/google_privacy_sandbo...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427227
I do not think that the vendor passes on $215 to microsoft, but 215 is what HP is charging their customers
MiB was released (hold on to your chair) in 1997 and the ads are from 2006 onwards (although the clips I've seen on YouTube seem to be VHS rips).. so, no?
The EU parliament website says "We use analytics cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. You have the choice to refuse or accept them." I'd personally rather have the choice than not.
Slightly off topic, but possibly my biggest annoyance with web design is trying to find where the designer hid the Logout link. This, on a web site designed with endless negative space. I swear for a while the site of either my electric or gas utility literally didn't have one. I'd eventually just shrug and close the tab.
> Her advance team realized there weren't going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station's four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.

That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?

In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police.
> Or do you mean people use it for stuff that isn't shared too?

Exactly. RAII works beautifully in regular Rust, so you create references with the static ownership rules and pass them around, before the value is dropped at a deterministic place. This is like the main value prop of Rust.

In async Rust OTOH (in fact regular threads as well) it’s much harder to use references when they normally would make sense. So instead of `&T` and `&mut T` you need `Arc<T>` and `Arc<Mutex<T>>`, respectively.

Then you lose both on performance (the initial blog post claimed that the pervasive arcing is worse than GC) but also UX. Arcs are much easier to leak, for instance.