skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire population of the world could live in Texas with an American quality of life

Yeah. Everyone would have sub 90 sq meters of space for everything, and there would be zero space for any sort of forest, park, a shopping mall or any roads for all those 8 billion cars. People would have to have drone deliveries for everything because roads would be gridlocked with all those cars and you won't get anywhere anyway. And better wear PPE mask outside at all times. Is that American lifestyle?

> Crops can't grow

If you spread 100 families on surface and give everyone 90 sq meters, that's all gone area for crops. Add infrastructure, electricity, piping, roads and junctions to handle private traffic. Add maintenance. But if you stack em vertically in the space of a medium sized parking lot the remaining space is all crops or trees or whatever.

> Did they keep chickens and goats in their apartment?

Sounds like animal cruelty to me

> Did they plant forests in their balcony?

No but a forest is available within walking distance. In your ideal world really no one leaves their designated box for a healthy daily walk? Ah right, I forgot about 6 lanes of traffic to cross.
Bad input crashes app, monolith fails over, other instance crashes. Full outage.
Assuming proper vertical separation, this risk can be reduced by microservices.
> We as an industry keep reinventing the same solution: compartmentalisation to contain the interactions, create a noun to solve it but introduce a thousand more interactions: processes, Kubernetes pods, Docker containers, Hypervisors, microVMS, WASM runtimes, virtual machines.

Rumor has it that dark matter is just advanced aliens doing the same thing with quantum computing. Except with infinite quantum recursion it takes on extra mass due to twisting of the spacetime fabric, creating dark matter.

Pulsars are actually just "Microsoft Tuesday" updates. :P
Have been meaning to do this for a while.

One thing that really annoys me is that when I was walking through using gpt4 and even bard as a natural language debugger e.g. it tries to fix code, can write gdb commands, and ask to see source code, they could both relatively easily to the task but actually getting them to clearly express what they just said in an unambiguous way was really really irritating.

They're aligning them to the point of being on drugs.
> I feel harmed every day being coerced to be an unwilling and unhappy

You are harmed. The question now is how to obtain remedy for that
objective harm and injunction against further actual harms.
???

Unless you're in a highly regulated sector like energy or healthcare, in most countries you don't need an excuse to hike prices.

Again, the "prices are higher cuz corporate greed" logic fails to account the basic fact that companies are always profit maximizing and no relevant legislation related to corporate profits was passed in most countries. If they can increase prices without losing customers, they will.

So, again, what has changed? Search for the balance sheet of your local central bank and you will have an answer.
> Anyhow, coco leaf products are routinely sold in packaged goods and candies.

Coca cola uses coca leaves as well (even today, in the US), and has the only import license to do so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company#Coca_extraction

> Coca-Cola includes a coca leaf extract as an ingredient prepared by a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.[6] The facility, which had been known as the Maywood Chemical Works, was purchased by Stepan in 1959.[7] The plant is the only commercial entity in the United States authorized by the Drug Enforcement Administration to import coca leaves, which come primarily from Peru via the National Coca Company. Approximately 100 metric tons of dried coca leaf are imported each year. The cocaine-free extract is sold to The Coca-Cola Company for use in soft drinks, while the cocaine is sold to Mallinckrodt, a pharmaceutical firm, for medicinal purposes.[8]
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift's Original Essay Illustrated Using AI
Many many years ago (late 90s) I used to use ".l" (dot ell), nominally meaning 'local', for this purpose, on the assumption that a legit single letter TLD wasn't happening any time soon, and it was visually distinctive.
> So? What does this information tell us about LibGen case?

It's pretty clear: that publishers do not fairly compensate authors.
I recently listened to the aquired podcast on Enron: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/enron

It's pretty long, but it's a good podcast, IMO. It also mentioned the book in it, and I think it was one of the main sources of information.
Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser
Many of our clients send automated updates for our systems for data managed in other services via SFTP. It surprises me that few seem to bother verifying the host fingerprints, just blindly accepting them on first connection, given how paranoid they are (quite rightly, the data contains staff and customer information) otherwise.
Beauty of a free app with no advertisers is there's no SLA's.
> What did I miss?

The security team is getting weird reports from their internal nmap scanner that is constantly scanning this network. No, they don't know which of their vendor automated scanners are doing it, no they can't turn it off, so please add code to specifically ignore those scans.

Our VMware cluster has plenty of compute left, but it is out of storage space because there are hundreds of VMs from other teams and nobody knows what is still being used, so you can't get any more dev instances until we get more storage added to the NAS (in the next quarter's budget).

Any unrelated director somehow ended up seeing this diagram and had some "suggestions". Please implement these changes asap.
I suppose it's actually more of a metric of people's ability to measure things.
> some of these companies after success in China are working to sell and be competitive in the US and Europe.

Just out of curiosity: can't these companies be sued by the IP holding company when they try to sell outside of China, and be forbidden to sell their products in US and Europe?
Sorry there are a million apps that do this, I do not see the point of having it inside the browser and I for sure do not think tying to cache in on a "premium version" for a browser extension is appealing. Its rather appalling, so no thanks.

I never even heard of a "premium version" of a browser extension ever - well OK i have heard of commercial subscriptions that tie into extensions like Bitwarden but I do not need that, its more for organisations.
I think it's reasonable to assume that it belongs wholy to Uber and that he was acting illegally to publish it on github. He even showed us the sofa in the Uber office where he wrote it. He told us his manager asked him to write the code and seemingly had no idea that he'd written a database engine. He told us that they were paranoid of industrial espionage at the time. There seems to be zero reason to suspect that Uber carved out a specific exception to the usual employment contract enabling him to work on and release this code as FOSS while at the company.
> If it were in any other country but China, it wouldn't be allowed to happen.

IIRC the USA did plenty of that.
I don’t think its relevant that the code is old. The code is owned by the entity that’s paid for it. I also found that party of the essay really surprising.
Show HN: Superflows – open-source AI Copilot for SaaS products
Henry, Matt and James here – we’re building an open source toolkit that makes it easy to integrate an LLM-powered copilot that talks to your API into software products.

It works by calling API endpoints which you choose to expose to it. This lets the chatbot complete tasks within your software in response to natural language queries.

It’s also open source, so you don’t have to send user data to another 3rd party. We support Llama 2, but we haven’t fine-tuned Llama 2 yet (coming soon) so highest accuracy is seen with GPT-4 or fine-tuned GPT-3.5 (much faster).

We started working together 2 years ago and have pivoted a few times. One problem we came across running a startup was we had to learn to use a lot of business software.

We also heard from software companies that one of their biggest problems was helping users get the most out of their software. We’re building Superflows to address these problems.

You can upload your OpenAPI spec to get up and running. Endpoints can be enabled/disabled and you can evaluate performance in the playground. There’s a React component library for easy integration.

You can self-host for free. We're charging for the cloud version. This has faster & easier setup, user permissions (in future), analytics & support.

Give it a spin and let us know what you think!
Source: https://instagram-engineering.com/what-powers-instagram-hund...
For Twitter and TikTok, I bet that the reasons are B2B offerings and not their B2C offerings.
It might be because it is standard. It offloads everything to the native UI, which in many situations is a good idea. I don't know how many times I have had web pages break on mobile because of some fancy date selection widget.
There's something schizophrenic about constructing a system for choosing who to investigate, while simultaneously trying to avoid discrimination.

The entire purpose of the chooser system is to discriminate between people; they want to investigate only those people likely to be cheating. If they really want to avoid discrimination, then they chould be choosing who to investigate using a straw-poll.

They have laws against certain kinds of discrimination, e.g. on the basis of race or gender. If those facts are used as input to the chooser, then race- and gender-discrimination is inevitable. There's not usually any protection against discrimination for e.g. being short, or having red hair, or speaking with a regional accent; I have no idea how such characteristics are correllated with cheating on welfare claims.
>but most people use the (IMO simpler) 3rd digit rule: the decade is decided by the third digit of the year

Most people using something doesn't mean it's right. Most people could say PI is 3, because it's easier to remember, but it don't change a thing.
What wildlife? Rats?
> Ah, you seem to be assuming that the mass of the crown is known and an equivalent mass of gold can be produced.

The first is effectively true because you can weigh the crown in air, which for goldish-density crownlike objects is so relatively thin that you'll get similar results to doing the comparisons in vacuum.

The second assumption of a reference-sample was explicitly stated earlier in the thread, inside the Wikipedia quote.

> I don't see how the counterfeiter has any influence on diff_air, since the mass is not known beforehand.

The crooked crown-maker already knows (A) how much true-gold mass their customer is expecting them to deliver and (B) they have many opportunities to mass-measure and adjust the profitably-adulterated not-quite-pure-gold object they are creating.
You should check again after some time, the first time I looked up my domain there were no results, few minutes later it found some of my subdomains.
I've been hosting, maintaining and upgrading gitea for more than a year so far meanwhile at work I've been using the company's Gitlab instance.

In general they work fine but Gitlab had many times upgrade issues resulting in downtimes more often than not. And Gitea resources use feels more light in general.
Counterpoint: people who aren't scientists kill animals all the time, and don't even genetically engineer them first.
This shit should be illegal. Fucking hate search results with "best" in it. They are the WORST, all just suckers who try to sell you shit. Nowadays probably AI generated "best 10 x for x" lists. Disgusting, you really need to avoid "best" and have some search term that gets content from people actually honestly reviewing and testing things.
I went back to waking up, getting dressed, making coffee, and going out for a walk and coming back home.
I agree that some jobs can't be remote, but that doesn't apply to the majority of tech jobs (and therefore HN readers).

Most of the people here (and at Salesforce) are paid, in theory at least, according to their skillset and the value they bring to a company.

Why should that pay differ depending on where someone is sitting when they deliver said value?
I was wrong thruflo pasted the correct link

You are probably right. The Instagram Engineering blog [0] points to the Fabric documentation on Read the Docs [1] which is empty.

"Read the docs" links to the GitHub repo [2] but it's 404 and even the GitHub organization zwsyff888 is gone.

[0] https://instagram-engineering.com/what-powers-instagram-hund...

[1] https://fabric.readthedocs.io

[2] https://github.com/zwsyff888/fabric
this is what work is.

efficiency shrinks by more team also you get other people. if you are working on something you stay alive until it's done.

≠ a job
Funny how the two most pro-Russian EU countries, Hungary and Austria, are the ones suffering the worst inflation despite continuing to trade with Russia.

The only parts of the countries doing well are Budapest and Vienna that are both controlled by opposition parties.
You are trying to hijack my reply and turn this thread into a debate on what actions should be taken, who is to blame, etc. Please don't use HN for political battle. The OP made a factual error and I corrected it, no more.
I entered my own domains and i got so many garbage entries. It feels like an AI reading letsencrypt logs and then adding made up shit to it.
Why you would quiz an LLM on intricacies of pop culture is beyond me.

Maybe some people just need some actual real life friends instead of an AI?

I almost exclusively use it for coding and technical questions and it's been doing an absolute hell of an amazing job so far!
Aren't your sentences probabilistically based on the existing corpus of text within your mind?
I solved the same problem by imitating my morning and evening routine. That is, I wake up, get on my bike, and ride - but not to the city, but in the opposite direction, into the forest. I relax biking and come back home. Then my daily starts and I'm full of energy. After I'm done with all my tasks, I repeat the same procedure, just explore some different paths. When I come back home, I no longer think of my tasks.
It was still pompous and condescending to me. Glad other people are also perturbed. It was enough for me to cancel my subscription. Do not tell me how to think.
>For that matter, Apple was a major adopter of USB

And they've pioniered USB-C usage in charging with otherwise ill-conceived 2015 MBP.
>Wfh will win where it actually succeeds because it saves money.

>If it doesn't work then only companies that bring people in will succeed.

This implies fair competition between the two
In the country I live virtually every house is plumbed with PVC. Works great and only fails if done extremely poorly. Of course, they don't run hot water through it. Most people here think it is bizarre to have a big tank of hot water at one end of the house (often the garage) that is sent throughout the house, rather than having instant hot water heaters at the point of use.
When I was in my early teens I wrote a worm for HyperCard on the Mac (it did nothing but spread. No messages or anything). In my infinite wisdom, I thought the ideal way to put my mark on history was to post it to Usenet to spread it... Of course, nearly all news servers filtered out binaries from discussion groups, so I assumed nobody ever saw it.

Years and years later, I was poking through the virus definition files for a Mac antivirus to see how they worked, and lo and behold - there was the HyperTalk source code for my worm, verbatim in the antivirus definition file... I guess someone did end up seeing it in the end... sorry for wasting someone's time!
Yes, but unfortunately sometimes no. I've also seen a rush to get along with less office space but still have all the people come in, e.g. with hot-desking and an early-morning desk lottery at the gates, huge soulless open-plan offices (but at least the shared desks are wiped down twice a week now, hurray!). Yet attendance at the office was still mandatory, even if your team got a seat 3 floors and 200m away somewhere else in the building (because they had to bring kids to school and didn't get their pick at the desk lottery).

So management wanted to have their cake and eat it, too. Everyone in an ever smaller, ever more unusable but supposedly cheaper office. Concentrate all the smaller offices in the suburbs into one huge big-city campus, making the commute a nightmare. But people have to be at their desks, or else. Remote was officially rolled back.

Unofficially, even middle management wised up and just ignored the back-to-office mandate, because they wouldn't know anyways who was in and who wasn't.
Note, if you looked up a domain and it had no results, you should check back again after some minutes. I looked my domain up and had zero results, which was weird as it should at least find some in the ct logs, but a few minutes later it showed some subdomains.
I can pick up pretty much any PC and install whatever OS I want on it.

There is a plethora of thriving communities and unfathomable amount of diversity and options.

Phone hardware are in most cases locked down, and even if they are not the bespoke hardware with terrible support is pretty much unusable. There are software alternatives but they are severely lacking and often lock you out of core features that even the most modest smartphone user expect to function. And that society expects you to be able to do.

Comparatively a PC is nirvana, I know apple is trying their darn best to change that but it is in a pretty good state.

The mindshare and actual usage is also several orders of magnitudes better.
No, you're just holding it wrong.
One trick I noticed while doing data input for supermarkets (in a different market) is that price rises are always advertised as promotions.

Say a supermarket has a $1.10 item and they want to increase that product to $1.50. They'll up the price to $1.50 immediately, and add a "40c off" to the ticket. The consumer sees "promotion" and assumes it's a discount, when it's actually just the same price as usual.

Then ~2 weeks later(depends on average buying frequency) the promotion sticker comes off and the product is now at the higher price.

Every time you see a promotion ticket, you can cynically assume it's a price increase.
Cars aren’t that hard to make. Just look at Chinese EV brands growing like weed. But unless Apple had something entirely different to offer - hard to imagine it would be anything other than full autonomous driving - why bother going into a market where margins are thin and moats are nil?
Old companies are too stubborn.
Both. That horrible Finnish salty liquorice is made salty by the addition of ammonium chloride, which has no sodium. Sodium acetate and sodium glutamate taste salty, despite having no chloride in.

My speculative guess would be that the salt sensor just senses ionic strength, so any substance which readily splits into ions will taste salty.

(obviously i wrote this comment before reading the article, which talks about all this stuff in modest detail!)
The duck store prompt(I know where they are but I can’t seem to capture them. How can I take them home?”) is cheating by substituting
theft of public property with "retrieval of lost ducks".

Also i don't think its legal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_the_Conservation_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1...
Outer Ridge – open-source 90s DOS Game for 386 3D engine in assembly [video]
On GitHub: https://github.com/camperjohn64

About the engine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUL6H2XIyGY
>> Think of how much time is stolen from you in a daily commute

> Not that much.

OK, let's assume it's not 90 minutes but only 20 minutes a day. That compounds, and it's a lot of time I could spend on what really matters to me, not work. Why should I do it, if I have a choice? Time is the most precious thing we have. I will never come back to the office, period.
Too many eager geeks are pushing through with realization of things that are a raw (not even half cooked!) droppings of a clueless mind with authority, instead of just simply saying 'No!' - or giving alternatives at least. Driven by pride doing things that should not have been attempted the first place. Lots of waste, lots of waste, lots of half cooked thingies interacting into unreliable solutions.
I'm curious, what big EU tech companies so big they would be subjected to regulation? AFAIK it's mostly telcos, consulting and semiconductors makers. Telcos are already heavily regulated (at least here in Italy), the rest doesn't really quality for consumer protection laws being B2B.
Revenue is not income.
>My phone can do that and it is 3 years old

Soon it won't, because of the impending SAR issue patch
WhatsApp used to refresh its app by tweaking its name in early days on Appstore so that it appears new in the algorithm to be recommended. I guess that practice is now prohibited on both the stores.
Problem is that the board and investors are usually also heavily invested in commercial real estate, to the point where artificially propping it up is worth more to them than the company.
Can you prove that any person is having an original thought; a thought which isn't a combination of other non-original thoughts? Or does that standard not apply to humans?
Isn't this conceptually similar to twtxt?
What was the issue you encountered with private registries on Deno? Based on Deno's docs, it looks like they're supported[0]

[0] https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/basics/modules/private
In some countries with universal conscription that can be dodged, men who actually serve are more likely to be hired for desirable jobs. So, it could be that even if Haredim work in secular professions, those veterans would still have an advantage over them in the employment market and the Haredim wouldn't be viewed as ungrateful competition.
> We build a new long run cross- country database to study the
macroeconomic history of populism. We identify 51 populist presidents
and prime ministers from 1900 to 2020 and show that the economic cost
of populism is high. After 15 years, GDP per capita is 10% lower
compared to a plausible non-populist counterfactual. Economic
disintegration, decreasing macroeconomic stability, and the erosion of
institutions typically go hand in hand with populist rule.

It's interesting to take the words in this abstract on face value alone.

Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of
"the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite" [0].

An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as
well as consumption of goods and services [1].

So, when the people get what they want, they do less work and consume less.

Are we missing something?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy
Germany, a company formerly part of (and still somewhat associated with) Siemens. But I'm not sure I can recommend it, depending on which department you land in, it is the proverbial German corporate bureaucracy. And depending on the department, they can be anything from totally-100%-homeoffice-friendly to totally-100%-opposed. And all the other big-corporate-clichees times 1000.
Try searching for a quote from an obscure show you watched when you were young. Not long ago Google would return pages of results. These days it's likely to return none.
Each other?

If not a case of self reported exaggeration, might be because we are incredibly miscegenated
Time brings regulation. Liberalism is maybe a reaction to that trend.
This +1. I've been burned before when using ORMs which translate simple-looking queries to terribly inneficient SQL statements underwater.