skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm planning on moving back to LA within the next few months after having moved away in 2007, and the plan is to not own a car, at least, for the first few months. Instead, I'll take Ubers or the Metro train for cross-town trips, and walk for local trips (grocery store, etc). If I want to take a roadtrip or something, I'll use Getaround or a similar service.

I have no idea how realistic this will be, but my previous experience of living and driving in LA caused a level of stress that I have no interest in repeating. I already hated car ownership before the spike in catalytic converter thefts, due to gas prices, sitting in traffic, dealing with road rage from other drivers, insurance costs, the risk of your car getting keyed / stolen / broken into, etc.
I've decided I'd rather pay a premium to Uber / Doordash in order to avoid all that.

I'm giving this plan 3 months to play out. If the lack of a car proves unrealistic, I'll probably relocate to NYC, where I know I won't need one. That's how much I dislike owning a car.

EDIT- I'll be living in East Hollywood, near Barnsdall Art Park. Looks like there are grocery stores, bars, restaurants, etc. nearby. I work remote, so I'm thankfully able to avoid daily commutes.
I actually used to use that line with I'd talk to some of our vendors support people. They'd start dragging that feet, wanting to get rid of me and I'd say, "you do know what project this is right...." and then I'd say if we can't fix this really quickly it will be on the news and your company will get dragged into it and nobody wants to testify to congress that the market place site was down because of a bug in your equipment. It was pretty amazing how people went above and beyond when you put things in the right perspective.
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> Swift was sold to me as a safe language. But I think it would be more accurate to describe it as a thin veneer of safety over a deep pit of peril. The linux version of swift replicates a large number of native mac frameworks using whatever mix of C and C++ gets the job done.

I still don't understand why this argument is used as much as it is. Every language ends up having to deal with either hardware or system libraries, which means that any language that provides further assurances beyond what the platform does has to have glue code to maintain its invariants. Whenever these languages have to dereference pointers they use runtime checks which would otherwise not hold its invariants. Interfacing with existing libraries is the same. Using a C library from Swift doesn't make it an "unsafe language", it makes it a flexible one that can leverage the existing ecosystem without reinventing every wheel.
How can I possible know 2 milions regulations, restrictions and laws that we now have in state where I live? It's not humanly possible.
Checkout my comment next to yours. Embeddings in Geometry / in vector spaces are a very old topic.

Also, your interpretation of their use of the word embedding is exactly correct.
> Performance isn't as big of a win as I'd have hoped.

Is performance a win at all? I would expect performance to be worse than using a regular web framework (React, Vue, Svelte, etc). Because these tend to get their performance from batching DOM manipulations across the entire page, and you can't do that will web components.

I figure web components are pretty much dead in the water for this reason alone. I guess they can be useful if you just want small "islands" of functionality rather a fully client-rendered page.
This study is about whether the rock weathering we’ve seen posted here before (crushed olivine etc) works in dry climates like California. The answer appears to be “yes, but more slowly”

> The study found the plots with crushed rock stored 0.15 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare (2.47 acres) during the study compared to plots without crushed rock. Though researchers expect different weathering rates in different environments, if this amount of carbon was removed across all California cropland, it would be equivalent to taking 350,000 cars off the road every year.
I don't know what you mean. The Palestinians want to kill Israelis and the Israelis want to kill the Palestinians. Expelling Jews from the river to the sea means all the territory that is currently Israel becoming no longer a Jewish state. Israel may very well deconstruct Gaza so it's no longer a state as well. Equal things at stake
I mean, if the locals feel disrespected they can simply say 'No' right? I'm sure they're more than happy to earn the money. I always find it funny how some folks try to shame and guilt others for literally anything.
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Nile CEO here. Thanks for the feedback. Let me try to explain it a bit.

Modern SaaS applications are multi-tenant. We’re the first database that virtualizes tenants into the database. A tenant is primarily a company, an organization, or a workspace in your product that contains a group of users. This enables seamless tenant isolation, per-tenant backups, and placement on multi-tenant or dedicated infrastructure, anywhere on the planet. You can do all this with the experience of a single Postgres! You don’t have to manage multiple databases, build complex permissions for isolation, or write buggy scripts to read specific tenant data from backups. On top of the tenant model, we provide opt-in user management capabilities, customer-specific vector embeddings, and instant tenant admin dashboards.

You manage schemas like how you manage with standard Postgres. Your favorite tooling should work. When you make the schema change, Nile pushes the schema to all the tenants. For the user, it is like interfacing with a single Postgres instance.

We have built a Rust based layer internally to manage tenants, route them, shard them if needed and have multiple tenants talk to each other. Happy to chat more. My email is ram@thenile.dev
> Researchers found that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe democracy is 'at risk'

Perhaps one of the most hyperbolic phrases I see parroted in main stream media. You can see the term spike every 4 years, like clockwork: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d...
Base 64 decode. This is the only one I use frequently.

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The current situation is preferable to the before times, where any website could be nuked from orbit by anyone with a mild grievance. Cloudflare has succeeded in effectively shutting down that attack vector, and that’s worth the risk of occasional brief but broad outages, at least to me.
Often ports are fine, but in the Maui fire aftermath for example a lack of significant port infrastructure was frequently cited as a barrier to fast recovery.

I’m not saying airships are better than water ships all the time, but there are certainly real use cases for being able to drop tons of cargo in a lightly improved landing field.
Still no sources!

Keep your irrational opinions then
It's an in-demand cultural speaking affect for those in the service industry or doing public narration - whether it's in Japanese or English. Think of it like Chick-Fil-A's policy of saying "my pleasure". Also, as a native English speaker you will notice your natural tone and accent change after years of living in Japan - though not necessarily in this exact style.
You have nothing to lose.
Not studying the research on optimally finding a marriage partner, and practicing the skills required to maintain and keep a healthy marriage. It turns out this is incredibly important for happiness later in life. I've made this much more difficult for myself through the choices I did make, and am suffering greatly because of it. Though it's not entirely clear that any such choice would have led to a better outcome. Happily ever after is the anomaly in my experience.
Wish there was easier way to customize/set favicon for bookmarklet. Right now you can export bookmark, edit in <A ICON> data, and import. If you have multiple chrome sessions you need to import on all devices within short period or icon will reset to default globe.
This is how all reputable ISPs operate. My Sonic service just terminates at the wall. They will provide equipment but you can equally well bring your own.
It is a Postgres, so schema and migrations work exactly as they would elsewhere.

Tenants are your customers. It is normal for SaaS to have either a schema per tenant or one schema and tenant_id column in most tables. Nile provides you with both experiences at the same time.
It’s Cloudflare, so you know it’ll be good.
buses are roughly equivalent in energy per passenger mile vs cars when you consider average loads for each.
Isn't HN centralized on like two servers in CA?
Such a download counter is not an accurate measure of usage.
> when, where and how does this happen?

When you talk with your friends and neighbors, how is the tough part. I've been trying to understand and sway a MAGA friend. It ain't easy, because you have to see their MAGA viewpoint first, then show them how their talking points are counter-productive to their goals, and how what they are against will actually do better. I'm mainly working on their Ukraine | isolationist ideas right now.

The strongman / populism is difficult to deal with, I haven't figured out how, so I don't push on it so much now. Hopefully the orange man digs a hole too deep for himself he cannot crawl out, but it seems to be shaping up for a rerun of 2020...
Part of the challenge is how individualized the struggle can be. There are certain common trends you can find across a large population of grad students, but the details an individual is confronted with have to do with their subdiscipline and relationship with their advisor and their department.

Then there’s the issue of the fact that the core requirement of the PhD — developing a new idea with merit — is just hard. It takes a lot of time and work to do that in the best circumstances. I liked my department and my advisor and felt that they did the best job they could given their resources, but I was still pushed to my breaking point at times.
LOL

Apparently you never read my comment history ... or went through and downvoted me out spite

Keep your secret knowledge to yourself if you want - since you seem so averse to sharing why you think something
From the major population centers in the Bay Area, getting to San Mateo is easily an hour.

SF, Oakland, even Hayward with the San Mateo Bridge, a delight at commute hours, San Jose, or anywhere in Santa Clara County really.
At work my team uses a bookmarklet I wrote the other day, to be able to add descriptions of Gerrit patchsets (iterations on a changeset for review). This was in response to Gerrit devs deciding, in their infinite wisdom, to just drop ability to set those descriptions from the UI.
I don't think they are missing the point, really - the average income in NYC is still "only" about 100k.

Choosing to live in more expensive parts of the city and for 2.5 times that may open up lots of opportunities, and that's all good. You just are just butting up against the realm where calling yourself middle class becomes silly. People have a weird psychological affinity to self-identifying this way, but "I know a bunch of people who make 10x what I make", isn't really a good argument for it. Having a few million in assets definitely puts you out of the running, which is where you are likely to end up if you have this sort of salary for a while and aren't stupid with it.
If you think internet infrastructure is centralized, boy are you going to be depressed about AI powered services.

Those are much more volatile (compute heavy and not enough compute to meet peaks), harder to setup/maintain and benefit greatly from sharing infrastructure for hardware utilization. Everything is moving in that direction.
What do you mean exactly by "push as a comment" and "pulls text comments"? Is it some sort of custom logic specific to your work place?
Observability on the BEAM is not an afterthought.
I always had this idea in my head about feeding AI garbage it cannot regurgitate into anything useful but not a clue on how to create said garbage. Hopefully tools like this can stop image AI dead in it's tracks.
the inevitable

It's readily evitable, just choose not to write the generic, repetitive thing you already know is generic and repetitive.
Indeed, but this one is more specific, and alarming:

"Americans (23%) agree that "because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country," "

I don't recall that ever being a poll question.

Also note that mass murderous events such as the holocaust or Rwandan genocide were preceded by significant increase in violent rhetoric.
I am not suggesting that ine law be applied to remedy the transgression of q different law. I meant that banks are "forced" to be accurate by multiple laws, and it's in the bank's interest to fix its encoding challenges.
"My reason isn't listed"
Because I'd rather use a different browser and that should be sufficient information. I don't care about their numbers or their desire to have people use their browser, I want to use the browser I want to use on the thing I paid a bunch of money for.
That's just sad. That said no one should be using chrome.
yeah it just takes forever and sometimes ends up not finishing but usually just much worse than expected.

just pick the low hanging fruit first and let driverless cars operate freely with data sharing. then build your pyramids.
Looks like the author of the article (James Gleick) published a book called "What Just Happened" that seems to be a collection of similar articles from that time period
They are presumably talking about the MSN news feed that Windows thinks should create popup notifications in Win11, and you have to go into the settings and turn it off to stop having opinions about the House Speaker vomited onto your screen. MSN is factually biased one way in terms of how often they post from particular sources, but they post articles from all manner of sources (which is not always what you want[0]) and seeing an article from an extremely biased source will cause the user to assume MSN is somewhere near that biased themselves, since that heuristic is applicable to outlets themselves.

[0]: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/narrative
At this point I'd say it's more the situation that the industry has consolidated into few enough companies (WB/HBO/Discovery, Disney, Paramount, Comcast(NBC/Universal), Netflix, and Apple) that they're able to easily price fix.

The problem is that just 6 companies own the rights to basically the entirety of American film culture outside of some tiny niches.

This is worse than going back to cable. We're almost all the way back to the Old Hollywood studio system, where different studios had different theaters they owned and almost nobody else was allowed to show their studio's films.
Is a linux version planned? You write "No matter which operating system you use [...]" but under non-goals is also no word about linux, which leaves me a little confused :)

Apart that, looks interesting!
The most visible part of jQuery for me was always querying selectors - $('.some > a.selector'); and that certainly was something integrated into HTML/the DOM as document.querySelectorAll('.some > a.selector').
Something magical happens to a walk when you do the same route again and again. At some point it stops being routine and turns into something else like you notice things differently each time. With another even more so.
I think this is cool from an academic perspective, but I have a very difficult time believing the energy needed to crush rock, and distribute it over fields, makes this a net benefit.
As much as I hate Comcast, I never had a problem getting the advertised speeds from them.
Is it really that bad? Services go down for a few minutes, maybe a few hours? A thousand other companies are down at the same time.

Grab lunch, come back, and it'll have fixed itself. Nobody blames you because it's just another provider outage -- whether it's Cloudflare or AWS or Microsoft or Gmail doesn't really matter, it's a convenient outsourcing of not just network admin but also blame.

The alternative is, what, doing it all in-house with a bunch of people on pager duty? Few companies can afford that. Diversifying across multiple cloud providers? Sure, if multi-nines uptime is really critical for your business.

For most small-med businesses, it's more valuable to be able to rapidly build on top of existing, professionally-maintained infrastructure in order to deliver some unique business value on top of it, than to recreate that basic network infra themselves. If you're not a FAANG, going down for a few hours a year isn't really a big deal. Especially when you can just blame it on an overall "internet outage at some big provider" rather than some internal fuck-up.
> You are technically right, but important part you are missing is that the Apple's behavior has only ended after they were sued.

You have the order backwards: most of the lawsuits were filed after they’d shipped two rounds of UI indicating when battery health was degrading performance – the lawyers recruiting clients knew that would make it easier to argue that the company was effectively admitting fault.

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/01/with-tw...

> Which things? All code is FLOSS btw.

Ever wonder why they advertise “less binary blobs”? Any complex device has a long trust chain - you have the OS, of course, which we already know has an older security architecture than iOS or Android, but you also have the firmware for every component, implementation choices for how those components connect, and things like the CPU and it’s microcode. I guarantee you haven’t examined all of those so you’re trusting them to do so, which is what everyone does, and that’s why I mentioned the transitive nature of dishonest marketing. If they’re playing fast and loose in one area that makes it harder to say that they wouldn’t try to cover up something else, overstate the degree of diligence that they’ve applied, etc. If one of their developers is compromised, how do I know the same marketing weasel won’t decide that it’d be bad for their reputation to acknowledge it in the absence of proof that a signing key was leaked? I’d like to say that they wouldn’t but clearly their senior management aren’t placing enough emphasis on honesty.
In other news, high level exec of automaker late to the EV game thanks to their crazy bet on hydrogen now say that EVs are not that important.
But at the same time, they always have struggled in finding alternative verticals to make money from, outside of search and ads. That’s why I always thought their end goal with Fiber was to own the pipe and whatever else was at the other end. They could have become a major ISP in the USA.
I started leaning the Shopify CLI and syntax and was surprised to know that nothing works without Cloudflare tunnels.

There is an option to use ngrok instead, but I have never seen such a setup for "local" development.
Chrome's nudges aren't built into the product that we paid a lot of money for?
A court ruling doesn't magically put glass in the ground. Isn't there truth to the Swisscom statement that forcing p2p means fewer people will have access?
> He was sorta aware that there was a whole world out there with consequences but he just completely ignored it.

Well, this is bog-standard psychopathy. It’s not really that interesting. If he had been born into a lower station in life and gone around doing check-fraud or something, no one would really care. The SBF story is just really one about how class and connections act as an insane multiplier for unrestrained criminality.
Don’t underestimate the importance of building supplies and labor.

Food and water are good, though we have a lot stockpiled already, but it’s easy to underestimate how tough things can get in the summer when there’s no A/C or refrigeration in the supermarkets. Heck, it took us a week to get a gas station back online in ‘04, cars and trucks were abandoned on the roads.
They aren't just fighting each other, they are fighting you.
Not at all. Someone says something that appears controversial, let others refute it. Controversial is often knee-jerk (or to the benefit of certain ‘stakeholders’) interpreted to be “misinformation” but that is not always the case. People should be allowed on these platforms which now de facto exist as part of The Commons, to present anything. It will stand or fall on its own merit.

And there’s no need to be afraid of incorrect BS leaking into the public sphere. Its lifespan is usually very short. For example, the BS MSM and Elected Official spouted about Israel bombing a hospital only lasted about a day. And that correction ONLY happened because everyone was allowed to speak on it on X. Otherwise it’s a perfect narrative for The West and would have been perpetrated.

NOTE: I am not anti-Israel but my desire for truth trumps anything favorable to anyone, whether they “are on my side” or not.
and also not sure how private investment funding driverless car companies + having cities mostly just stay out of the way is communism?
It's not a very precise metaphor because there is no way for us to say if a wheel prefers to be oiled or dry.
Seems to me that airships are predicated on fusion power. Which is still 30 years away, 70 years later.
From TFA:

> Brin runs a separate non-profit, called Global Support and Development, that has already carried out such missions by sea, in the Caribbean, Latin American and the South Pacific. It originally used Brin’s own superyacht to ferry medical personnel to the scene of hurricanes and other disasters, and recently launched a purpose built vessel capable of transporting dozens of medical staff and full-size shipping containers.

Maybe the intent is to reach areas inland that are inaccessible by plane, automobile, or helicopter?
you listened to Musk a bit too much.

And no, a neural net and two cameras are not "just fine". The day cameras will be as good as your eyes and your neural net will be on the level of human intelligence (AGI) then maybe it would be possible. But until then you will need to rely on extra hardware to get there.

Go check on youtube how FSD behaves in city with 1/10th the complexity of SF/Waymo. And remember the difficulty is with the long tail of unexpected events.
Gotcha 93po. I intended only to playfully point out that YOUR comment hadn't engaged deeply with the substance. I overshot the mark and I apologize. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
You and all the others did not get it did you. The size of the outcry corresponds to the user base. If you fked something up that was really used at scale this thread would have exploded.
I feel the same about Brave. I'm just using it until it inevitably becomes another privacy invader one day.
In practice a massive majority of people will be within Zone 6 at the furthest, where the daily cap is £14.90.
Love Nile!! We worked with their team on a project last year. I absolutely cannot say enough about how great they are.

If you are building multi tenant saas you should totally look at them!!
DOCSIS is for cable, not fiber. Fiber equipment is usually ISP-specific - I'm pretty sure I can't replace my AT&T ONT (even if I can replace the gateway in a hacky way).
This is not the company being generous to you. This is a recruiter who knows that if they accepted such a low ball offer you would quit as soon as you googled the average salary for your role. They still want you to make a low-ball offer, but something closer to the average.