skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of just how under invested the rest of UK infrastructure is outside of London, but that doesn't make complaints about its services invalid.

With the billions spent on the purple pine you'd reasonable expect a decent quality of service that doesn't involve so many cancellations, delays, and days of complete deadlock.
Bet if you look at to comparable European countries this reliability would be a joke to them.

The train being every 5 minutes is only for central London, if you live further out you're only served by at most 1 in 3 trains. Missing one sucks much more, during rush hour you can bet you'll be crammed like sardines if you're not early.

I've only been commuting twice a week for about a year, and there have been several occurrences where I get to the station and all upcoming trains are delayed or cancelled due to some line failure. The alternative route takes about twice as long if I want it to cost the same. You bet your arse TFL won't give you a refund if your regular route is untenable.

London gets more investment, definitely. But even so the outcomes still lag behind what you'd expect from the capital of such a wealthy country.
None of which existed in 1995
Sure, but I find office showers to be far more cumbersome, which takes more time. But I can totally see that being different for other people.
I know France and Germany don't do it, as another data point.
It's the same in that js is the standard runtime, and typescript is something that compiles to it, that's NOT used in all codebases
Owning it is a great way to go, but has its own problems.

As you say, if you've been prone to externalising everything then
suddenly it's a wonderful release. It's empowering to realise you have
more agency and influence than maybe you thought.

Jocko Willink's outlook of "extreme ownership" is something that
resonates with me.

But beware omnipotence, or worse solipsism. The opposite extreme, of
believing that you're the only one who is truly responsible, is a
dangerous pathology too.

Somewhere in the middle ground is the idea that it's all about
interpersonal interactions; certain people, who make certain kinds of
choices and hold certain world-views, are to be engaged with or
avoided. It's not that they or you have faults, it's just you
shouldn't hang out because your relational compatibility is wrong.
Last time they tried to spin it off it did not go well in terms of PR. Maybe it is easier to shut off a feature than it is to ask for it to be a paid feature?

Not to be smug, but my feeling at the time of Qwikster was that if they didn't spin it off they would shut it down. Didn't expect it to live on for another decade though.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/11/3153720/netflix-qwikster-...
He's probably not wrong but he also makes more money from a company compared to a forest. So it's not like his statement is 100% science.
I don't get it :(. Why could the same task be executed more than once? From my understanding, if the UPDATE is atomic, only one worker will be able to set `used = 1`. If the update statement is not successful (affected != 1), then the worker should drop the task and do another select.
Discord doesn’t provide any discoverability though. There are no network effects, only brand effects. It isn’t Twitter or Facebook.

I think the reason is it’s pretty good for a free beer offering. Feels “lighter” than Slack.
Looks like bmicraft might have the answer:

> It's a feature of uMatrix that's enabled by default

And I don't think uMatrix is all that funky. It works on all other sites, after all(rarely I have to allow-all, but that seemingly does not include the Referer: header)
I wonder if maintaining the advantage of the Heathrow Express has an impact on Elizabeth Line dwell times. They take the same route but the Elizabeth Line (stopping at six stations along the way) takes 35 minutes versus the HE's 15.
And it's been this way for a long time.

Didn't you get the memo about the TPS report coversheets?
But I'm not willing, because your willingness to make unfounded assumptions leads you to demand things like censorship and the removal of all anonymity, which would only be possible at great cost and would certainly make it much harder to refute official, government sanctioned BS which is the most important kind.

Hacker News is an especially good example of why it's important. This forum is full of people who both generate and accept vast quantities of "right sounding" BS all the time, just look at any discussion of COVID, climate, etc. All you'd do with your proposals is enable large-scale harassment and punishment of anyone pointing out that yes Virginia, it's actually quite likely that a novel coronavirus came from the lab right next to the first cases, the that was experimenting on novel coronaviruses. Instead of leading us towards insight and truth you'd have it that all such people are immediately silenced on the grounds of producing producing clever "BS" that's too hard to refute.

As for science, I'm afraid that replication is usually not necessary to uncover a paper as BS. It's actually one of the things I was thinking of when I said high effort BS can often be trivially refuted. Scientists like to do a full replication anyway because within their culture that's considered respectable and lawsuit-proof, whereas pointing out that a paper is illogical, makes absurd assumptions and none of the numbers add up can land you in hot water. But in reality lots of high-effort scientific papers that took a team of authors months to produce can be refuted in five minutes by just pointing out things in the text. "How did this get through peer review?" is a very common response to studying bad scientific papers - you don't need a full blown replication to detect these problems.
Because that LLM does not exist without tremendous amounts of input created by actual human beings. These oversimplifications always skip this step, and pretend LLMs sprang into being through sheer force of will. They did not. They are built on the output of other people, and using a statistical approach to copyright laundering remains copyright laundering.
Either the board knows something we don't know, or they're actively malicious? Are those the only 2 options?

What if the board is just too busy, or mistaken, or stupid?
Leeds was the specific example I had in mind when writing that comment. A city still entirely dominated by cars.
Yeah he clearly means CPI-type inflation overall but the terminology does seem off

Adjusted for average housing inflation, average housing costs exactly what it used to
Can't speak for the rest of the UK -- would appreciate some knowledge here! -- but in London, Amazon's shipping is rarely faster, and, in fact, overnight shipping from anywhere else is generally only £2-3 -- if it's even required, because often shipping is 1-2 days for free.

Honestly, though, I'll happily pay a few quid extra to Argos just to avoid Amazon. (Is Sainsbury's perfect? No. Are they less detrimental to society than Amazon? Yes.) I recognise not everyone has this privilege, though.
I often see the "engineers copy FAANG infrastructure because they want to be cool, even though their needs are completely different" take as a kind of attack on engineers.

But I think a lot of it is also about knowledge and documentation. If I want to copy FAANG or another startup, and set up an infinitely scalable queue-based architecture, I can find dozens of high quality guides, tutorials, white papers etc, showing me exactly how to do it. Yes maintenance is higher, but I can get set up with redis, SQS, any of the 'scalable' solutions within a few hours of copy-pasting commands and code and configuration from a reputable source.

If I want to use NOTIFY in postgres? I googled "SQLALchemy notify listen postgres" and I find a few unanswered stackoverflow questions and a github gist that has some code but no context.

I would honestly love to use this approach for a side project, but I don't have 2-3 days to figure it out on my own. The direct choice for me might seem to be

* simple, but not scalable (ie just use postgres)

* complex, but scalable (ie redis, sqs, whatever)

and then it's a tradeoff, and the argument goes that I am blinded by cool tech and FAANG and I'm choosing complex but scalable, even though I don't need scalable.

But taking into account guides and other resources, the choice for me is actually

* complex and not scalable (this, because I don't know how to implement it and I can't predict what pitfalls I might face if I try)

* simple and scalable (what everyone actually does)

and that makes the engineer's choice to follow faang look a lot more reasonable.
It'd have a huge impact on the Drake equation. Life in Europa is very much a different set of conditions too Earth.

If we found abiogenesis happened twice in one solar system, I'd start to think it must happen pretty much everywhere.
Finally, somebody that speaks English!
Dude if lobster tastes like chicken to you, you're cooking it so wrong.
> We're so easily fooled.

That is not my takeaway. I think the video is so mesmerizing because it is so hard to do this, and the artist in question mastered this hard skill.

Imagine a world where it would be so easy to fool us that kindergarteners would regularly create lifelike replicas of food items. Would we be watching this dude still with the same rapt attention? I don’t think we would.

The fact that it is hard to fool us is why when someone can becomes noteworthy. I believe this is also the basis behind the popularity of realistic cake videos. If anyone could doodle one together during a meeting it wouldn’t be interesting to people.

Then the other thing is: would it really fool anyone? Imagine that as a prank you serve his creation to unsuspecting restaurant costumers. Visualy they are a marvel and thus probably would pass the “look” test, but they would fall apart immediately when people try to raise them to their mouth. The tactile feedback would be totally off. (This is not a ding on the artist! It is a necessary consequence that he is creating replicas which has to keep in perfect visual condition while being shipped and handled. If he would make one which handles perfectly like the real thing that would get messy before it gets to its destination.)

And then if someone sufficiently innatentive would still manage to get it in their mouth without realising that something is off, they would certainly spit it out after the first bite. The taste, the temperature and the mouthfeel would be completely off.

So no, we are not easily fooled. It takes all the skill of an amazing artist to fool us visually, and even then it only works because we are constrained to use only our eyes out of all of the senses we usually employ to judge food.
It’s still not free to deliver, as something other can be delivered by that car. You’re right, saying ‘plastic’ was slightly incorrect, as it’s not just the plastic involved. But also the management of the disk itself, its delivery and the people involved. I agree that we have other wasteful things to care about. They just don’t make that extra disk also free (ecology wise), we’re just so immersed in the waste that it’s truly a tiny drop into the ocean.
At my previous company, they switched from using NOTIFY/LISTEN for Postgres notifications to a custom solution built on top of logical replication. As I understand it, part of the reason was reliability. I never touched that part of the code, but I believe the idea was to subscribe to logical replication updates and send out notifications based on these.
They call trains traveling at 200Kph "high speed" in my country but the Japanese run them at twice those speeds.

It's a tiny country so it doesn't matter that much but if in the future we want to replace airplanes we need to do better.
I think the main point of Crossrail was fast access to central London for people living in east London. It does that quite well, and in doing so relieves the Central line. Crossrail might not be very useful for short, interchangey trips, but the Central line is, so this is still a win.
Raspberry Pi could have been like that if the other options were prohibitively expensive. But they're not.

It would have been interesting to see how far RPi can be pushed in similar conditions, but we'll never know.

Still an important device. I have about 10 of RPis and same number of RP2040 based boards.
To be clear, this issue is really with mail channels not authenticating the sender as the verified owner of the sending domain. CF workers are aren't the issue here.
The disagreement is precisely over whether the positive side is significant.
When you say 'execute their functionality in-process', what exactly do you mean? In the context of the current process? Are there any good resources explaining when it is more appropriate to do one over the other?
It's not cruelty, it's a service to society and the victims.
The API may be a single function, but that package contains a non-trivial amount of code. The contribution this package makes to your codebase is not "a single function". However, at a glance, I agree with your reasons for liking it! And I'd be unlikely to vendor it directly into an app or dependent library for example.

EDIT: it feels to me like the CRC32 implementation contained in that library is a prime example of what the original article had in mind. There should be one global CRC32 function which every person could pull and reuse, instead of bundling it with their own package!
Ah interesting - and endorsed I see by Brad Frost too (although it's interesting he doesn't identify the issue in this Ecosystem post, so perhaps he does't see it as quote the holy grail, but hey).
> We really need to distribute the economic activity around the UK by properly investing in other towns and cities

Ironically, this would be aided greatly by investing in public transport. Andy Haldane gave a great speech about this at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute in 2019 - the most salient bit is from page 37:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/speech/201...

Excuse the snip, highlighting PDFs is hard, but here's a key-ish quote:

> ..a measure of the “effective” working population. At
peak times, the effective working population of Birmingham is perhaps 50% smaller than its measured
population due to poor transport infrastructure. This helps explain why Birmingham punches below its
demographic weight

Virtually all UK cities suffer from this. The problem, as ever, is a lack of investment and too many cars.
I love osm, but the raster generators are not well documented.

I want to just make my own raster map for a limited area and it's not trivial to do.

So the data is open, but the software is either not free or too hairy or poorly documented so you can pay them to use it.

It's still better than Google map.
> But the European Chemicals Agency last year said scientific evidence did not justify classifying glyphosate as a carcinogen

So there you go, still ignoring the woefully underpaid science.

When the local council here in the UK spray it around the pavements to keep the weeds down, the stuff just stinks for days and weeks on end, I dont know how people can put up with it.

The US courts, if the media are to be believed, have ruled its contributed to cancer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45155788

Whats also worth noting, is this chemical has been sold off, and its currently owned by the European company, so are economic interests overruling the health of the EU voters?

It would seem like that.
Open source means something specific in a legal context, same as 50m submersible for watches and truffle oil. Many others have already mentioned that source available or other similar terms could work perfectly, but not open source, which has a specific legal meaning.
> Why would anyone think that was "subject to copyright"?

Because it is subject to copyright in some countries. In France, for example, photographs of certain buildings cannot be published without the permission of the rights owner.
> until they totally control your device and block whatever they want

We don’t know for sure that they would do that.

We know they would like to, i.e.: that there are people that would like to use a precedent of CSAM scanning for their purposes and who count that the general public would not resist much.

Perhaps that lack of resistance is part of the issue.
Amazon to invest upto $4B in Anthropic
This seems like a hack. why doesn't mail channels do a proper authentication of the sender?
every major cloud provider picked a side it seems :)

Microsoft with OpenAI (GPT)

AWS with Anthropic (Claude)

Google with their own, PaLM (Gemini coming soon?)
I was being very sarcastic ;)
Birmingham is also magnificent for (south) Asian food. Glasgow too!
It really isn't no longer available. Clicked on the link -> 404

Lol
I replied in the other comment, but I thought I’ll mention you as well. I agree that this is a tiny drop into the ocean, but I thing it’s still a positive change.
> If you rent a vehicle, then by definition, you are not the owner though?

No, you misunderstood the point: the "kill-switch" feature was implemented in case the car is for rental, but the result is that bought cars also contain it. So you would be driving something with an embedded kill-switch - because the manufacturer saw it would be useful under some cases, so it just installed it as part of the bundle.

For that matter - as you also point out -, it can also come useful in case the car is stolen. Unfortunately, it also represents a security issue, pretty clearly: it is there, accessible by those who can gain access to it... So,

> the choice should be with the device owner in the end

And apparently it is not. How would you remove that module, if you want to?
Strange framing in this article that seems to imply that PET isn't a fossil fuel derived plastic

> Lego has stopped a project to make bricks from recycled drinks bottles instead of oil-based plastic.
Hi, I didn't know about Dolt, it looks interesting, but probably it's more complex and has more features than I was thinking. In the end, for the idea of generating a dump of the customer data, I don't need all the "git" features.

I suggest using SQLite instead of the typical XML or JSON because SQLite is ready to be queried and easy to generate.

On SQLite, you can even store attachments b64 encoded. It will make it bigger and slower, but not so slow as trying to read a JSON or XML with the attachments inlined.
>> [...] Stainless steel artifacts made today will still be around in a million years if they aren’t intentionally destroyed.

> [...] Stainless steels absolutely can corrode.

yes, but according to the article, only in contact with certain chemicals and metals. So some items will remain for a long time (albeit not all)
Well, yeah. It's like trying to handle an overflowing bathtub by throwing sponges at it. You'll quickly reach the point where you can't just keep adding sponges and you need to do something about the inflow or outflow.
Tab to complete is something that everyone eventually discovers is more than just a shortcut.

It's a proofreader too.
Chain-of-thought prompting and the Clever Hans effect
This is what I mean by "ordered and well-functioning". Geoengineering and climate engineering should be improved. We worked in our lab for too long without cleaning up our mess.
> Idk why the seeming schadenfreude. There seems to be this ridiculous idea now that no nation can possibly grow or shrink and that no new nations can break off or form, but that we must stick with the current set of nations and their boundaries ad infinitum. I don't get it.

What you wrote down was exactly a central thought behind the foundation of the United Nations after the Second World War.
My understanding is that there is no alternative to Glyphasate which is definitely safer. There are some candidates, but there's not research to be sure whether they are better, or worse. What would you propose?
That would have been convenient. What I think they should do is work with the other major parks (Universal, SeaWorld) to build a maglev to a specific hub where you can then split off and go directly to the park. This way it's not specific to Disney (appeases some, not all, naysayers) and you still get Airport-to-Disney train access. Of course that means Disney loses some control but I think it'll be a net positive for them overall.

Here's a driving map from the Orlando Airport to all the parks I mentioned above. You can see there's a central area not far from SeaWorld that could a good place to build this hub:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZuR1a8fVNQoXmPeK8
Didn't Google invest into Anthropic too? Just found this - https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584540/google-anthropic-...
I don't think it's being ungrateful, or at least not something unique to Londoners. People think and act relatively. We will always complain about the biggest issue we face, not matter how trivial it is compared others. Or you could say, we always try to improve no matter how good things are. We shouldn't stop fixing things or improving just because someone has it worse.
> Up to a point, improving transport around London is the best bang for your quid.

I'm trying to limit snark in my responses to this article, but wow. It turns out if you invest in something continually at the expense of everywhere else it becomes the lynchpin of the system. Good grief.

The major reason people in the north hate hearing about investment in the south is because politically it is very clearly a zero sum game. If the south gets investment, the north doesn't.

For additional perspective, look at the Crossrail projects: hugely expensive with benefits only felt in one part of the country. (No, Londoners paying tax doesn't count)

For the cost of crossrail, or HS2, every city in the UK outside of London could have comprehensive tram networks and massive active travel infrastructure. What stings the most is that if London didn't exist, became independent, or fell into the sea, everyone else would likely benefit very rapidly.
If all you care about is throughput, that's what you want
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Please answer this question: say I give you a hair I found somewhere in the city. How do you proceed to identify who the owner of that hair is? Not theoretically; in practice, right now.

Now compare that to an IPv4. Do you get my point?
Wonder what those anti-AI-copyright folks would say.

Should two photographers quote each other's work although both are completely original?
Agree, that’s another thing to worry about. We opened a Pandora’s box with the advancement of the Internet. (And I’m not being sarcastic!)

But that won’t go anywhere, so at least physical disks would.
A deep dive into Clang's source file compilation
Not a myth. The stinging cells work not by mechanical touch but in reaction to chemicals on skin. Pantyhose apparently prevent the contact with skin which would trigger the stinging cells.
There is clearly a conceptual difference between a set of things from which you pull things out randomly, and a queue. A queue always has intrinsic criteria to select the next item to be pulled out.
can this issue be solved without introducing ambiguity?
> about half the time is spent waiting for traffic lights.

I wonder if it is the same problem as in Geneva: in an effort to moderate congestion, they programmed the lights to slow the traffic towards the centre. In other words, they moved the problem a couple kilometres and they called it a day.
Have you looked at the numbers yourself?
Facebook Dating worked best for me as a 48 year old, and that was after 4 years bouncing between different apps having roughly a couple of dates per month. It gets pricey, and just so time consuming.