skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a bit faster than the trains running from Portland to Seattle, so there’s that to celebrate. Hopefully it gets faster over time.

Comparing to flying Portland to Seattle, it’s a wash mostly when including transfer times (airports are in the outskirts, require arriving well in advance). But, the train is “on time” maybe half the rides I’ve taken (and the delays can be hours) so the airplane has determinism going for it…
I assume Cantor Fitzgerald was subpoenaed long ago.
i invented my own which i find easier or at least more useful to read, and a requirement is it does sort properly: YYYYMMmonDD

today is 202309sep21

because i use it for filenames, i don't put in extra punctuation, there are enough cues in the format as is. To really see it, imagine scanning a list of files with different dates

it will still collate properly mixed with languages other than english
Another comment showed the Google link where the route was blocked which got me interested. And the solution is: the bridge is mapped as one-way street :) ! (try swapping the start+end and it won't pass the bridge)

Very confusing... any maybe the reason why it has been not properly fixed.
>> This is exactly what a warranty is though.

Yes, but it is not for consumers. It is for big businesses that pay millions and have specific expectations. The more you are willing to pay to more you can get within specific limits.

Your original statement, "If you pay for software it generally comes with some warranty and guarantee of fitness for purpose." does not hold for consumers and only partially holds for enterprise customers.

It might be better stated: "If your business / entity / government has specific needs (e.g. compliance with legal or medical regulations, industry certifications, ISO requirements, auditing, etc.), has a large sack of money to pay, and a team of lawyers, then there are some software publishers who will sign contracts to guarantee you certain qualities about the software you license with them and perhaps some level of support of that software."
As I understand the author, his main objection wasn't the housing (I hope) but rather, that it's only housing, folloed by a "hands-off" approach for aid workers, which requires the homeless to seek out any psychiatric help, anti-addiction programmes, etc themselves - even though, they might not be willing or capable to do so.

I can kind of understand this sentiment of the author, (at least as far as it concerns willing but incapable persons)
Charging that much seems fine to me, I think doing what you are describing would create a market inefficiency. 5x seems to be what the market is willing to pay for that seat, which is fine. It excludes lower income people from ever taking business class but those higher priced seats help make travel more affordable in the uncomfortable, jam packed rear of the plane
> there are virtually no chargers in cities with street parking

I suspect this will be relatively easy to build out. They installed them in my neighbourhood over a few weeks. There is already electricity supply to residential streets, so all that's required is installing chargers. Which can be quite simple if they're not fast chargers.

I've also seen people simply running extension cables out of their houses. Which isn't ideal, but it works.
Running an open-source project Discord server
Too little, too late for me... I hate to be the guy having those "hot takes" or whatever, but hear me out for a sec:

I didn't get a cell phone until 2013. (Yes I used land lines until then.) It was a Nexus 4 (still love the grippy sides and sleek glass back). Every 2-3 years I traded up, all the way until Pixel 6.

Tomorrow my first iPhone will be delivered. Why? A lot of reasons, but some are:

- I can't just plug my Google phone into an external display to mirror it. Uh, hello?? DisplayPort out is explicitly disabled in the source code with no reason given: https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1189998588023234560 -- yet this works great in other phones.

- I can't access my text messages from my Android phone (without a separate app like SMS Backup & Restore) -- go ahead, try it. Yeah, do an adb backup. Maybe rooting your phone would give you access, but it's impossible otherwise AFAIK. And I think rooting your phone deletes everything in the process.

- I can't access my phone backup. It's ONLY stored on Google's servers. The only way to even get close is to restore it to a phone. This is a physical device I bought and literally am holding in my hand but can't access all the stuff on it! Did you know you can just plug in an iPhone into Windows or Macs and dump a backup to your computers? It's all right there, text messages, system settings, contacts, photos, databases, EVERYTHING (except maybe hardware-protected keys). It's amazing.

- Do I even need to mention all the Google shenanigans? We all know what I'm talking about, right? The mess of messengers... the killing of various services, the lack of support, the stronger integration with ads and tracking.

Apple's not perfect either, but I feel like it's worth a shot inside the walled garden for a bit. I like that some of these common sense things are not a problem with iOS:

- Display out.

- Accessing your own device.

- Messaging that actually makes sense.

- At least it feels like Apple cares about privacy; counterintuitively, I feel way more in control using Apple products than I do Google ones.
>But can you show me a (single threaded) programming language where "a = 1" does not mean that on the next line, a will be 1

Generally agree with your point, but just to play the devil's advocate, in a CPU with exposed pipeline and no interlocks, setting a register to a value doesn't guarantee that a following instruction reading from that register will see the last value written.
The moat isn't the code, it's the obscene amount and expense of resources needed to actually do the training.

In that way, it makes sense to just release it under a permissive license because there's still a massive cost to use it.
Call me tight-fisted or naive or whatever but I don't see $10/month as a remotely attractive price point and I don't see how they can justify it, especially when their results are still powered at least in part by external indexers.

$10/month can get you terabytes of media on streaming platforms.

$1-2/month is what I would pay.
It does. I use ntfy with a ntfy server on one of my VPSs, and I use the official ntfy account on GMS as an intermediary.

It works fine, but I'll probably switch back to Matrix's push server at some point.

Edit: With Synapse + Element, obviously.
That frontend team statement alone makes it almost worth switching and thereby supporting their work. It is rare these days to hear such wise words.
I'm not saying that it's all rosy but the economy is assuredly better than on the other side of the borders. Just have to look at the number of foreign companies investing, having a presence there.
Incomparable.
Domestic flights it's a big difference, but for international flights if you're in Polaris at the front of the bus, United is actually better than Delta, although the United food is pretty horrid even in Polaris. The best news though is with United you can fly Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, or Singapore Airlines on United. Singapore Airlines has the best business class hard product in the world. United and their partners also heavily operate 787s, which are great for noise and air quality.

United domestic routes are disgusting though. Most of the planes are falling apart CRJs without IFE and WiFi, and if they do have WiFi they charge you for it, and the domestic United staffers are not good. I would put United service quality on-par with Spirit or Frontier. Easily the worst in the big 3.

That said, I'd still rather develop status on United, take directs, and then fly Polaris full-fare or Singapore Airlines biz class for my personal / international trips now that Delta has made these changes to the medallion program.
>Regulation routinely reduces cost

What? No they don't. Not without considerable adverse effects at least. You're not referring to price ceilings, are you?
If any autonomous driving system could demonstrate safety at or above human drivers supported by a robust dataset generated from a rigorous investigative process and made available to credible unbiased third party watchdogs or regulatory agencies that confirm the findings then I would support the further testing and deployment of such a system.

Now your turn, how many people has Tesla ADAS software killed and what is the acceptable rate?

As to the data reporting I demand, which is longstanding standard in safety-critical system deployments, Tesla is literally the furthest from that. They deny all third party access, voluntarily publish no raw data, demand the maximum redaction in all mandatory government reporting, and hide data except when selectively releasing private data out of context in press conferences only when it portrays them positively and burying the rest. They choose to do no investigations so they will not be required to report negative outcomes, they sue reporters, threaten news organizations and employers with lawsuits to make them silence their employees, and
direct abuse against regulators to force them to recuse themselves from investigations. Tesla uses every trick in the book to prevent a critical look at their numbers.

There is exactly zero reason to believe even a completely transparent company about the safety of their own products. A company as dishonest and cagey as Tesla providing numbers with zero supporting evidence, who has a history of cherry picking misleading good-sounding data, should have their numbers resoundingly ignored.
Isn't that a lease?
Better late than never. I bought a webcam for those days, but I'm guessing my phone will still have far higher quality.
Tell HN: Enabling Notion AI locks you in to a bad deal
Just my rant of the day. Notion's billing is atrocious. If you enable Notion AI, you pay extra for every single member, and you HAVE to pay extra for every new member that joins, even if you decide you don't need the AI feature anymore.

What that means: If you just want to enable it to play with it for a month, but you're on a yearly plan, you're locked in to pay for the AI plan (which doubles your cost) for the entire year.

Notion sucked up almost the entirety of my $1000 credits this way on one of my companies, and support refuses to do anything about it because it was enabled more than 1 month ago.

Quick FYI to cash-grabby startups: LLMs might be cool, but a rush job of integrating OpenAI's API doesn't justify ridiculous price hikes like these. When a company's entire toolset pulls shit like this, it's easier to cancel every AI plan and just pay for everyone's chatgpt plus/enterprise plan.
Maybe someday SQL will let us do ANTI JOIN

A man can dream
Happy customer of Loops - congrats on the launch!
Its probably the right choice if yo don't have the funds. But it s great that that team is working on account portability. That would be useful in a p2p world anyway.

Really hoping Full Matrix p2p will happen. Its would be such a cool capability.

Governments wasting so much time and money on so much nonsense software but we can't support and open communication tool.
> It seems like the right thing to do would be to maximize visibility, but then to try to corroborate and not overreact to apparent positives.

Far easier said than done. What actually happens when you get caught in one of these screening programs, is that you're suddenly in a universe of "continuous monitoring"...because they're trying to find the birds, and reason that since they looked at you once, they need to look at you more intensely than before.

Anyone who has ever had a mole biopsied for skin cancer will be familiar with this. They'll just keep looking for stuff, until you tell them to stop. If you get a positive, it's even worse. Everyone is acting with good intentions. It's just impossible to know the right answer, so the emergent behavior of the system is to harm people.
Part 3 send me down a debugging route of eslint performance in the GitLab project and we were able to move from 25 min of listing time in CI, down to 5. So, thanks for the inspiration!
Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim.

Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula.

One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer.

A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest.

And today, Kagi removed the only obstacle that kept me on Google Search. I'm looking forward to building my filter list.

After accidentally de-googlifying myself, I might ditch Windows next. It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers.
Your doc doesn't state ACID support, but only atomicity (first A in ACID).
Wait. I was thinking 1000s of objects doing raycasts.
> How does search quality really change my life?

There are tons of information workers who are dependent on search in their work – or if they're not, could work much better with good quality search.

The examples are really too many to list, but it really depends on the person. When it comes to not spending a dollar, people will create the most incredible and reality-defying reasons. So I'd expect 99% of Google users to keep using Google, or maybe even stop using web search when Google becomes completely unusable. Then they'll say "I have no need to search for things anyway".
> You're suggesting that it's better to serve 10 people at double the price instead of 100 people at half the price. Never mind the enormous environmental cost of this inefficiency.

Yeah, I suggesting that at the very least it could be, if it means more Americans have access to an airport and airlines served a larger percentage of the country as opposed to only the areas that generated the most profit for them.

> If you are sure they are gouging and making excessive profits, buy stock in the airlines and get your share.

This wouldn't be the worst time. They suffered during the worst of the pandemic but are profitable this year. They'll be looking to claw back the profits they missed too so I expect prices and fees to continue to soar.
That's the average. The median price of a new car is $25k.

https://www.cars.com/articles/2023-cars-com-affordability-re...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry
It really depends on the query. If there's a bunch of math in the select list, it's easy for that to be the biggest bottleneck, even if there are joins etc. Also you'll sometimes have to evaluate expressions to check join conditions depending on the join implementation and condition.

> I do think that a VM could mess up CPU branch prediction so I can see that as being a problem

It definitely happens. It can be partially addressed with things like computed gotos, but it's far from perfect. At least for postgres, it's just that the tree walk overhead was far higher.

The branch prediction handling for opcode dispatch loops definitely improved in CPUs - for Intel somewhere around Haswell (it's been a while, so this is a guess). I remember that, at the time, the gains of using computed goto on my aging workstation (nehalem) were far bigger than a few uarchs later, even when controlling for cache size etc.

Semi related anecdote: Both opcode dispatch switches and computed goto based dispatch are good for stressing compilers. I found newly introduced >= quadratic behavior in all the major c compilers in the years since.
> Is there any evidence of a coverup? The trial was ~20 years after the wiretaps were collected which leaves plenty of time for incompetence/negligence to do the job.

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-india-bo...

> June 2, 2003:

> Opposition MPs call for an inquiry into accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) blocked the RCMP investigation into the bombing.

> According to RCMP documents, CSIS ordered the destruction of hours of wiretaps to conceal the fact that one of its agents, Surjan Singh Gill, had penetrated a circle of Sikh extremists planning the attack. He was ordered to pull out three days before Air India Flight 182 blew up.

> You keep bringing this up, but I don't see how it's relevant considering Hardeep Singh Nijjar was 8 years old at the time of the bombing

The NYTimes considers it relevant enough to mention it in the context https://archive.ph/9re2c

The accused in the bombing was heavily associated with Nijjar later on to the point of them having a dispute and a lawsuit about a commercial printing press used for the separatist movement.
For an EV car, the vast majority of work needed has no relation to the drivetrain (which is relatively low-maintenance on an EV), so it doesn't really matter if half of mechanics don't know how to work on EVs; fixing suspension or doing bodywork doesn't change.
Some of Apple's biggest perf wins in the last several years involved removing dispatch asynchrony from code paths that really don't need to be asynchronous.

Obviously if you're writing an event-loop web server, then your file IO needs to be non-blocking or you're hosed. On the other hand, if you're reading a small configuration file from disk after your app launches, the most responsive option may well be to just read the bytes on the current thread and continue.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190606075031/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20211005132519/https://twitter.c...
Be sure to look into the results customization options. You may not need them, but they can also make the engine feel so much more tuned to your needs.
I really don't think that is fashionable. Why would people want to do that?
In my experience you have to have the duplication before you factor it out; trying to design those terms up front when you have no use cases, or even one use case, is doomed to failure. So you're always going to need to start with something non-standard, figure out the standard based on that experience, and then migrate to align to the standard.
It is a one-way bridge! Try swapping start+end and it will happily route over the bridge.
By hosting your own Mastodon server, you are effectively buying into only receiving direct, point-to-point notifications and you lose what remains of the “overheard amongst acquaintances” effect that Twitter and now Bluesky effectively capture (that is, when it’s on the same, large instance).

Of course, replicating this effect would be a dump truck of load on every Mastodon server, but it’s also the experience most people seem to want, so that’s unfortunate.
Most Android phones don't have a good USB controller though, as it's not considered a priority. Without it you'll be restricted to the blocky MJPEG garbage with terribly downsampled chroma squeezed through the USB 2.0 connection, and get the quality equivalent to a laptop webcam.
Having more lines of code doesn't even reliably map to having more machine instructions let alone time complexity of solution. Given 2 programs lines of code is a measure so worthless that no reasonable evaluator would start with the assumption that the smaller solution is faster and work from there. They would instead start with the actual code. The point of the analogy which is easily lost in comparing the mechanics of the actual thing is that you must in truth examine the regulation to discern if it on overall makes things more expensive rather than starting off by making the assumption that it does.
I suspect they'll be a large market for aftermarket batteries (which should be a lot cheaper in 10 years time when this starts to become relevant). In the meantime, people can continue to buy second hand ICE vehicles.
Assuming ChumpGPT is a European who likes it there and doesn't want it to get crowded with expat Americans.
I'm kind of shocked to see a company in this day and age making their service more affordable as it becomes more popular.

I'm very happy with this service. Worth every cent and then some.
Rounding errors? Not too sure given the hikes in energy prices...
I buy a 10L jug every 4500Km for my car, last time I bought one it was 15€, don't see what is the pain to deal with it.
Hey Hue....fuck you. I don't need smart bulbs...another fucking Cricut...hey execs ...jump out of the window leave the golden parashute behind...
At least in the US, those are almost exclusively problems for people who didn't buy a Tesla. Given the proliferation of NACS support, that will soon change to being a problem for noone.

Europe is completely different, but I get the feeling the charging infrastructure isn't so bad throughout most of Europe.
Wondering if we could eat fish born on Europa and if there would be any ill effects.
To add context, I don't believe this comment was intended as a joke and others shouldn't down-vote it as such due to the sibling comment made in poor taste.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Kagi doesn’t currently retain search history. It’s set for future opt-in, but can’t be enabled as yet.
With LEO constellations coming online rapidly, I think it's time the railroads start competing for pax travel again. Start at the high end. My dad worked for BN and I remember the corporate business car: walnut paneling, frosted glass, brass, comfortable seats. I would totally take that: package up the cost of hotel, half the airfare, and meals, and have your offsite, workshop, or other in-person event on the train.
InfluxDb is going back to InfluxQL? Interesting.
China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race
There's a difference between a web-site and a document. When you fire up a word-processor do you produce a document with "navigation bars".

As for TOC, I've never written anything that strictly needs one. I do have "hxtoc" on my laptop, but I've never needed it.

I do publish some of my writing to my website, and I discuss the minimal tooling I use here: https://brett.coulstock.id.au/site-colophon.html
I'm excited for their project to link suburban LA county with Las Vegas. Interstate 15, the highway that links to the two areas together gets routinely shut down due to accidents. Would be far nicer to hop on a train and relax for the trip, and not deal with driving.
>>Can you provide an example of this actually happening in a competitive market?

Tobacco companies probably made a bunch more money as aspects of their advertising became restricted/regulated/banned - because they were basically in an arms race with one another and spending more and more to maintain market share. But that is a pretty specific case, I'm not going to make any claim that's general or applies to airlines.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/02/business/the-media-busine...
This is my experience as well. Low quality junk is often not present, and if it does show up, it's two mouse clicks to never see that domain again.

Also the ability to promote high quality domains helps even more with this (though i have found one needs to be careful with pinning domains, as it can lead to irrelevant results being shown first because they have some if the same keywords).
We do plenty of that stuff. Even the poorest states in the country have regular highway work. If most people shifted to other forms of transit instead of putting such demand on the roads investment will shift accordingly to deal with the wear and tear increasing in this one sector while decreasing in another.
I agree: the word "disease" necessarily implies signs or symptoms of some kind. But what does that add?

The entire point of the article is that the carriers are not symptomatic yet, so where's the confusion?
In our case in the support call they just told us it wasn't allowed. Now I'm realizing they were wrong.
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