skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Systemic racism" is about the quiet, daily, "small" racisms that most people don't notice or pay any attention to.

As an example, consider the ban on affirmative action programs, while leaving in place things like legacy admissions. The latter isn't isn't explicitly racist, and yet it tends to benefit the people who come from families admitted at a time when they were explicitly racist.

That's just one of countless possibilities. Each one is, potentially, easily dismissed as unimportant. But there are a lot of things that, collectively, add up to serious problems for people who have been historically disadvantaged on the account of their race.

It's sometimes called "racism without racists", because it disadvantages some people even without conscious dislike of them. We started talking about anti-racism a decade ago or so, when the swastika-wearing white nationalists were excluded from practically all polite society, but that systemic racism was still causing a lot of problems. It was different from merely being not-racist, but seeking out the hidden causes of disproportionate effects.

Since then, just plain white nationalism has had a stronger resurgence. And a lot of people who consider themselves not-racist have a tendency to say, "Well, they've got their right to be racist as long as they're not being violent", ignoring the ways that threats are hard to prosecute but still have consequences. They get to consider themselves non-racist because at least they're not actively wearing white robes and using racist slurs.

A lot of people still don't want to do business with explicit racists, and they scream bloody murder about it, even though it's exactly the same kind of free-association that the racists are relying on that somebody will support them.

The effect is that we're dealing with both explicit racism and systemic racism at the same time. They're different and sometimes opposed, even though they also bolster each other.
Renewables are cheaper than coal ?
As a land value tax advocate, I also agree with Bobby Fijan here. There needs to be a way to build these safe, sensible floor plans in the US.
It takes a lot more than “hello” to clone someone’s voice. A lightweight voice clone requires 2-3 minutes of audio dictation for acceptable results.
I was in London this week and encountered these 'Amazon Fresh' grocery stores for the first time. You walk in, somehow they track your movement through the shop and know what items you have picked up (or put back), and then when you leave you scan your membership card and they charge all the purchases to your account.

So effectively they've solved the shoplifting problem. If you are not a member then you have no business being in the store.
The Dutch word "monster" means "specimen" in English. This is actually of Latin origin, and plenty of English words come from the same latin root (monstrum) like "demonstrate".

Likely as not, though, the surname "Monster" just reflects a family origin in the Dutch town of Monster, near the coast southwest of The Hague.
Gemini, what is free and what are your subscription rates
You’re acting like he’s actively going around saying “Hey! Guess what my favorite color is? It’s blue! And I invented the blue LED, isn’t that a coincidence? And by the way, I loved the blue of the ocean since I was a kid!”

He simply answered a question Derek asked and followed it up by saying that he probably likes blue because of the ocean’s color. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the LED.

Weird hill to die on.
Before the Fed took over the banks, 0% inflation was common and normal. Inflation netted out to zero for the previous century.

The very first year after the Fed took over, endemic inflation settled in.

> and not amenable to the available controls that the Fed has available

We had deflation in the Great Depression because the Fed did not understand their role in creating money.
jeffbee's examples are easily searchable. Like search "TCP vs QUIC comparison" and you'll find all variations of comparisons.

FWIW you did not point out either thing in your parent comment, you came off as aggressive with your use of quotes, but because the voters on this thread agree with one side's snark over the other well here we are.

There's hundreds of benchmarks and papers with benchmarks online. Debating this here is exhausting.
Sued out of existence for ignoring licensing laws during startup, I'd reckon.

Or, contractors.

I get the feeling residential building doesn't scale well outside of monopolistic competition, partially from red tape, partially from supply constraints/supplier network monopsonies.
curious to see how long it takes a dance troupe to fool AI into sending riot teams after a street performance.
Sure, but they are still nothing compared to other things. I still use a tractor from 1939 (mostly for parades, but it works for anything it could have done new). My stove is from the 1980s and it still works like new.

Can you use a gen1 iphone - it would only be about 15 years old (2g phone networks are being dismantled, and may only be on frequency that were not even allocated to phones when that was built). If it breaks what can you repair on it to make it work again?

Of course sometimes it isn't worth repairing. I had my 50 years old furnace repaired 2 years ago - but I was already saving to replace it as a modern one is so much more efficient (I also knew the city was putting in natural gas pipes, so I wanted to wait)
Agreed. I see this as more "foundational" thinking rather than focusing on specific languages or behavior. It seems to be a flawed model to begin with.
>they charge investors around 1.5-3% (depending on fund size) in Annual Management Fees.

https://www.sequoiafund.com/performance/

Do the numbers here include that 1.5-3% or should it be subtracted out? It looks like they have severely underperformed the SP500 for the last 3, 5, 10 years.
Yes, he does, and because of the stupid title, I quit reading at the second paragraph.
PWA push notifications removed in iOS 17.4
I just replaced a furnace... everyone I called for a quote would not touch a heat pump with a 20foot pole, or they wanted prices that were 2X what a separate furnace and AC would cost to install. It was very strange. This is the second home where I had this experience.. basically, they really did not want to install it. I ended up going with gas as no local person would install/warranty a heat pump, or, it was priced so high it was a non-starter (e.g. a gas furnace is $4k, the AC is $4k, making it $8k, _but_ if you want a heat pump, well, that is going to be $15,999.85.)

This was recently, btw, as in last month. I am still kind of shaking my head.
I was talking about unarmed people because we're specifically talking about people being shot just for not complying with orders they're not legally required to comply to. I didn't think about the possibility of people being shot and surviving, mainly because cops typically magdump people which seems to be reflected in the stats since the number only goes up by 19. In any case, I don't think the distinction is substantial to this discussion.

Edit: I'm not seeing 1141 anywhere, where did you get that number?
Sometimes it’s unavoidable, and then your insurance will take care of it as will the care system. You are responsible but you won’t pay, your obligatory insurance will.
Sometimes, but most of the time it's probably going to waste their time (times ten).
Longtime cobbler posts meticulous shoe repair videos, becomes sensation
A possibly helpful thread related to the heat pump retrofit process and the need to assess context for each home: https://twitter.com/karakara98/status/1598718540365938688

The other thing I've kept thinking about is the replacement interval , material input (compressor, refrigerant, etc.) and ease of maintenance. They generally have a lifetime of 10 years IIRC.
Without paywall:

https://wapo.st/3OCoVZK

https://archive.is/zD6me
> Where is the...airbnb...for housing?

Nobody tell him.
Oh, people hit that level all the time indoors. One person sleeping in a bedroom with a closed door overnight reaches high CO2 levels. A classroom of students are swimming in it.
thats really cool, thanks for the link
> I read this kind of comment all the time, and it's something I almost never experience.

I agree, fortunately that's somewhat rare. It still stings if you come across a broken site that you need to use frequently. I'm concerned that Google's "extend" phase is just ramping up, with incompetent devteams confusing "Chrome has a large market share" with "it's ok to publish a broken site if it works with Chrome".
I don't think it's about duty cycle -- it's seriously about speed of temp change and I _think_ dew point.

But yes, I have a heat pump and in NYC Summer I cannot run it on anything but low otherwise it increases the humidity. It took me a few weeks of looking at the temp humidity graphs to understand that point.
There is no such thing as a "company" in China as we understand it in the United States.

There are CCP-controlled/tolerated commercial ventures that participate in the market economy. If you're investing in China, you can be sure there's a Party boss who's getting to wet his beak and dictate terms on which the deal will be accepted. Investments in China are not handled for the benefit of private interests; they are handled for the benefit of a strategic goal of the state.
Yeah, all I can say is that is tracked my undergraduate semiconductor theory classes pretty well. More confirmation needed.
But again, people are delaying purchases because they'd have more money later. With people not buying, the economy collapses according to your theory. But that doesn't happen.

BTW, all the money you have on deposit is invested back into the economy by the bank, less the reserve requirement.
> Someone reacting to the existence of racial politics

More like reacting to people annoyingly inserting race and gender to every single discussion, even when otherwise meaningless.

Of course, if they get tired of the incessant political pandering, they can only be reactionaries. That's the only possible explanation.
It’s definitely a far less serious problem than losing, say, elevator control.
Even if it absorbs and re-emits everything, that would probably be fine. Black body radiation is emitted in practically every direction, and only a miniscule portion of that would hit the Earth.

The bigger problem with absorption is potentially heating the material to the point of vaporization.

All that said, the most practical form of this would probably be something like a fresnel lense that uses refraction or a structure that uses diffraction to redirect the light rather than reflect or absorb it.
And yet if you invest the money, the EV gets cheaper for you every year.
"The voicemail box you're trying to reach is full" (Of spam calls)
Yeah I agree with this. Or, rather, I think there's an argument to be made that what we're really interested in is logic density Vs logic sparsity and when developing something we have to decide what the right level of that is. So if you're a small team, logic density makes sense because it means one person can have a lot of context in one place and make significant changes without doing a lot of context switching. Don't underestimate the productivity of one experienced guy doing old school PHP.

But if you're a large team on a large project logic sparsity (with appropriate decoupling!) makes sense because then multiple people can change the code simultaneously without stepping on each others' toes. People can specialise where appropriate without having to understand the whole thing. The "sparsity" approach is obviously what enterprises see as good news mostly because it means they can have large teams without silos but in real terms it costs a lot of money to operate this way. Although I think as you rightly point out, Java has in recent years realised that it possibly went a bit too far in that direction historically.
airbnb creates 0 new houses from what I know, so don't get your smug comment
The meta takeaway is that you shouldn't be afraid to resist trends (in either direction: monolith or microservices). If you're 'wrong' today, you may be 'right' in 5 years.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39311754)
Both. Logical unsafety leading to memory unsafety, leading to exploits. A very popular blogging platform had to closed because of this.
> On the occasions where I've needed that I've used a WaitGroup and done wg.Add(1) at the point where I start goroutines and then have a defer wg.Done() as the first thing in the goroutine. I don't think the functionality belongs in Context. And if you put it there, you'd just end up complicating things.

I'm not sure this is the same thing. The point of Context is to propagate cancelations or timeouts across multiple layers of your app and libraries, it's not supposed to be useful for directly started goroutines.
60 million people live in California and NY.

9 million in NJ

4.2 million in Oregon

7 million in Massachusetts

6 million in Maryland

1 million in Rhode Island
> Its a weird gotcha to get hung up on.

Hacker News in a nutshell.
Good for whomever is behind Gemini.

People who ask questions like that of a large language model should be given only safe advice.
it's a much faster, leaner, express.js on the edge.

you can't run traditional http servers in edge sandbox worker environments.

frameworks like these target deno deploy, cloudflare workers, aws lambdas, etc.

they are small to fit in worker 1mb~ limits and use browser apis instead of node apis to fit the env.

bonus: sharing the same apis on the server and client also result in being able to share code client/server side.

You'd only care if you were in the "serverless" field, and then you'd likely already know about Hono since it's linked in many documentations like Supabase, Cloudflare, Deno, etc.

But you may not know about Hono because there are many options and some ways to be in serverless without seeing it yet and it's the newest framework I know of. (also my favorite so far other than raw deno)

--

This particular release was linked since it's one update that turns it into a real framework like Next or Astro.

They added 3 major features:

- Static Site Generation

- Client Components

- File-based Routing

Static site generation (SSG) would mean certain routes compile at build time and the worker won't compute them on the edge.

Client components means they now support client side rendering (CSR), before Hono was only used for server side rendering (SSR).

File-based routing is instead of coding your paths, the folder structure is used for routing, similar to Next which mimics how traditional http web serving works.

--

This is important for users of Hono as it unlocks features that exist in larger frameworks while still staying extremely minimal and flexible.
Do you like OLED displays?
As a piece of general feedback regarding the writing, I believe the use of the term 'leveraged' (5 times) is overleveraged.
Not sure if anyone noticed but their intro video uses a voice-clone of Sam Altman. https://www.goody2.ai/video/goody2-169.mp4
How do you know that? Have you looked at statistics for housing stock in the US in general? You can find it here: https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/quick-facts-figures/qu...

And if you're curious about new construction, you can find it here
https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/highlights.html

You'll find that in 2022 over half of new apartment units had 1 bedroom or less. I guess you live in a very different state that is not reflective of overall trends across the US.
There are some obvious things missing from here.

I believe the prevailing wisdom is that tech hiring slowed because interest rates rose.

Because software scales so well, it benefits from speculative effort more than other business types. We see this in venture capital, where they only need 1 out of 100 bets to hit in order to make their money. Large tech companies do something similar internally. They may fund the development of 100 products or features, knowing they only need one of them to hit big in order to fund the company going forward.

When money was essentially free to borrow, it made all the sense in the world to make a large number of bets because the odds were on your side that at least one of them would pay off. Now, however, each bet comes with a real opportunity cost, so companies are making fewer speculative bets and thus need fewer people.

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The other thing he doesn't talk about is the rise of remote work and the downward pressure that it puts on wages. I know that many companies are forcing employees to return to the office, but I'd speculate that the number of remote workers has risen significantly. And that opens up the labor market pretty significantly.

I'll tell you that I'm getting overseas talent for roles where 10 years ago I would have hired entry level talent in the US. But since my company is fully remote and distributed, the downside to hiring in LatAm and Eastern Europe has been significantly reduced.
Without republican votes, we now have an unsustainable budget deficit. What do you suggest?
If you’re somewhat rural the contractors just don’t have the experience to do it so they try to quote you out of the decision. I had to shop around until I found a contractor that had done this before and I was able to get a whole home heat pump for about the same price as a regular furnace/AC system (because of the rebates).
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I mean they could try to talk to politicians and NIMBYs

but it seems like many programmers in silicon valley enjoy their wooden walls houses with no shops or bars around them just because they go up in value
Because those people have a racist mental model of the world.
Biden: "I am an elderly man I know what the hell I'm doing"
Clipboard Inspector
There seems to be many ways to interpret what meditation means across cultures. To me, born and raised in SE Asia, niksen as described in the article is not the same as meditation. There are significant overlaps however. For example: sitting in a train station and __observing__ the train go by - this is a form of meditation and could be a form of niksen. However, as I wash dishes, I can meditate by focusing on every little details of what I'm doing: this is a spoon, I'm cleaning the handle, next is the tip, now I'm cleaning the bowl, etc.. This is not doing nothing. I'm doing something. I'm just very present.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19008109
You shut your mouth! :-)

Actually, if you said the first 2/3 of Seveneves was a better read than Cryptonomicon, then maybe..
> At Automattic last year we did not do layoffs, but allowed performance management and natural attrition (voluntary regrettable was 2.9%, non-regrettable 6.8% for us in 2023) to allow our size to shrink down more naturally

"Non-regrettable" attrition means either that the person was fired or laid off. Since the post says Automattic didn't do layoffs, that means all of that attrition took the form of being fired because of performance problems.

If 7% of the company exited the company in a year because they were fired -- which seems quite high to me -- then even if you don't call it a layoff, it has many of the same characteristics as a layoff.

In a classic layoff situation, you've over-hired, expecting future growth, and then the winds change, and you need to reduce the workforce to match the declining growth.

In a case where you're firing 7% of the company because of performance problems, you haven't over-hired, but you have certainly poorly hired!

Either way, now the remaining workforce has to adjust and "do more with less," and I'm going to guess that most of them have a reasonable fear that they might be next on the chopping block!
because spam texts are not a thing?
From my experience having a voice mail activated stopped being the default around me. Does ~everyone in the US have one?

Still, they should have texted. I'm so annoyed when someone calls me multiple times without attempting async communication.
For 90% of people the most in impactful thing they can do for their health, focus, and success is to eat well and sleep well. Unfortunately no one actually wants to do this. Instead they'd rather find "life hacks". I get the appeal, I honestly do it too. But the most important stuff here is, as often, pretty boring.
For people who want to explore this potential future I recommend Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock as a near future sci fi read.

Not saying it will happen like that but he brings up some interesting potential cause and effect
It's been at least a decade since I checked any of my voicemails. The UI is too clunky to be worth my while. How do you "glance" at a voicemail? At this point, I'm sure my mailbox is full or deactivated, so no one can leave new ones anyway.
they sell 1000+€ phones, tablets and computers

many cases of very common damage to such devices is very much fixable, at least theoretically for a small fraction of the price

they mainly care about you not repairing them

any supposed "compromised security" could be handled with free user choice in form of a hardware lock-down mode (with appropriate warnings) but the huge majority of their users don't need nor care for that

they provide no proper repair, only replacement of whole sometimes multiple components which given their design often means the whole motherboard, even if needed repairs can often be done with much much less cost

their repair is also believed to systematically misclassify damage and needed repairs (i.e. it looks like it's structured with a focus on avoiding actual repairs). E.g. not just are there many cases of them stating that there was water damage without there being any sign of that they also use overly sensitive water intrusion sensors which frequently go off without any intrusion. Stories of them claiming other damage when the repair was e.g. just a faulty cable.

they have done many steps to either make repair outright impossible or so cumbersome that they monetary make no sense (e.g. their "repair program")

As far as I remember multiple PR campaigns which focused around fearmongering about "evil independent repair shops" have indirect ties with Apple. Indirect enough so that Apple can claim that had nothing to do with them.

I.e. they in my opinion really don't want you to repair your devices, or worse upgrade them.

Security in many (maybe not all) cases seems to play no role outside of being a good excuse.
>presumably someone close to the hiker who knew their itinerary

I'm not sure what this trailhead is like, but it's not unheard of for someone to call rangers who call SAR for something as simple as a car parked at a trailhead after it's closed.
For N it works just as well when you accuse anybody of "hostility" or "aggression." The words themselves mean nothing but you pre-emptively frame anything they respond with as something negative.
A few major items were pain points for me:

* Firefox didn't have a Javascript JIT. That made using Grafana, GCP Console, etc, basically impossible in my browser of choice.

* Closed source Electron applications (Teams, Slack, etc) weren't able to run natively, and the browser solution worked poorly for me.

* I was using Void Linux PPC, a one-man fork of Void Linux. I decided that the bus factor was too high, and since I wasn't willing to switch distributions, I had to switch back to x86_64. This proved to be a good decision, because shortly after I switched, the maintainer of Void Linux PPC announced that he was stopping maintenance to work on Chimera Linux.

There were other little things that accumulated to create enough mental pressure to abandon it as a daily driver. It's fantastically neat hardware, and in my experience utterly reliable. I can't think of a single machine crash I had in the entire three years I used it daily. It can and does work well for plenty of people - it just wasn't quite right for me.