skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in statistics when something is noticeably detached from most that's an outlier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier
crucial when the electricity is out for weeks! does no one any good unless they can be found at that time though..
This story appears quite similar to the scandal at the Texas fruitcake bakery
https://collinstreet.com/blog/the-sandy-jenkins-embezzlement...

In both cases there was a single person that both managed the books and executed transactions. They gained enough trust of their peers so nobody second guessed their lavish lifestyle.
I'm not suggesting zero vigilance, as I said we should still have scaffolding for the most unsafe buildings and that requires a baseline of vigilance.

But our current scaffolding exists because of Local Law 11, which was enacted in 1998. There were some deaths that occurred before that, which is why the law was enacted. But I think the amount of money we spend today to save those lives & injuries is highly out of proportion with out safety priorities elsewhere in the city.
Does this mean that only the printing machinery is not eliminated or that other parts of stdlib are present in the binary too even though unused?
How Norway Built an EV Utopia While the US Is Struggling to Go Electric
Not all that bizarre, if you've ever been around for these conversations. HNers are, by and large, affluent, white (or "white-aspiring"), grew up in middle-class or immigrant families. They want things to stay the way they were when they were growing up/when they came here, and have little experience with political battles where they disagreed with the status quo but couldn't influence a shift (because network/money). This is par for the course for that kind of entitlement.

Also, the elephant in the room is that a repeat of 2008 (roping in commercial real estate, while we're at it) is not completely out of the question. Anyone with a significant portion of their wealth in real estate at the moment is going to be restless, waiting for the other shoe to drop. That means circling the wagons.
Is your contention that all of these websites and providers all simultaneously decided, incorrectly, to use these popups and that there is no legal requirement for them?
you can't know that, nor is it a code smell in any way.

The first thing I did with ChatGPT was try to get it to generate a file with all 6502 opcodes defined as an enum. If I'm going to write an NES emulator, I'm going to need that done and either I do it or chatGPT does it.

Many parts of programming are mechanical in nature.
It depends. Consumption standards weren't higher, but people had stable income, low-ish crime and industrial economy. Of course it was also untenable.
Yes, it's also a "shadow banned" topic. Mods delist it from the front page before outright killing it. I suspect the Gaza keyword in particular is filtered.

Moderators said that their stance on this topic was formed by talking with lots of Israelis in real life, and a couple Palestinians online who are no longer active (maybe dead).

This can also happen automatically from the high rate of flags this topic gets from anti-politics and pro-Israel folks
Lots of progress, still clearly many improvements possible. Baby steps!
This could be very useful in a lunar colony, quickly smelting parts and structures out of the lunar soil. It's around 8% aluminum (bauxite) which melts at a reasonable temperature. Strong enough for larger-scale building uses such as airlocks and beams.
nice! interesting read, thank you!
How are you deriving the punctuation?
Hmm ... and Internet Explorer was a high water mark of software excellence ?
Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
Do you have a link to the original Gage paper from 1994?
Congress has rarely passed a bill that resembles libertarian talking points.

Very few Republicans are libertarians.

For example, a libertarian has no issue with gay marriage.

> just poking fun at the notion that US conservatives are fiscal conservatives bravely trying but failing to keep their fingers in the dyke.

They voted against Biden's trillions in spending.
Humans have altered the Earth so much that migratory animals face extinction
So this is a huge tangent but couldn't most of the uses of the non_null!() macro in this diff just be (safe!) pointer comparisons or subtractions, without the unsafe{} logic to convert a pointer value to a reference just for the purposes of comparison or subtraction? https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240217002717.57507-1-ojeda@ke...
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409499
I really think this is one of those trite sayings that are worth looking at during periodic personal evaluations. This does not mean that I have great worth just because I am breathing. I need to base my worth on metrics that I value. And it just so happens that as my value goes up according to my standards, I will often see this reflected by people who's opinion I value- but not always.
to my understanding it produces 2D images (from various angles), not 3D models… But sure, it's very close to producing a 3D model.
Something that got pruned from the final draft was the manager also being there to monitor the call, but also an AI duplicate. I thought that was too creepy and it would make it too realistic, so it was left on the cutting-room floor.
I agree this is the ultimate solution. Too many downtowns are purely zoned for office buildings, parking garages, and roads and highway exists. Office to housing conversions are expensive. They often involve cutting a hole in the center of the building to allow for more windows. In my city a bank tower was turned into 200 housing units but the rent is 200% of median. Higher interest rates are a big headwind to real estate investment.
You are right and I was ignoring that angle entirely. The last mile is still an issue for Bart. I was mostly fine taking Bart as a young male but I don’t think it’s as great for women and I would never take my daughter on it as it stands today.

I also agree on your theory. We should not be making cars worse but the alternative better. That should happen first. We can implement parking maximums but that is not going to fix the roadblocks on getting better public transit.
NE is in church.
It is a shame we're seeing a divestment in 3D printing technologies. Relativity Space recently descoped their entire 3D printing department, but I believe they still may be using some commercially-acquired printers.

I hope we can see someone else take up the mantle on complex 3D printing manufacturing. There's an Indian space company that is trying to do what Relativity did. I hope it works out for them.
Ah ya, of course, which of course is appropriate here. I was thinking of it in a social context... which is actually also somewhat appropriate here, but likely less so.
While allowing ADUs is all well and good, zoning has traditionally been excessively strict and often historically discriminatory, but there is going too far with land-use policy anarchy. Defenestrating essential regs like height restrictions or setbacks leads to subtle, long duration unintended consequences like eventual neighborhood ugliness and devaluation, unfair shadowing for months per year without direct sunlight, fire hazards, and blight. For example, without commercial and residential zoning, a convenience store or dollar store could decide to invade a residential only neighborhood, bringing quality of life issues like littering and loitering, ruining property values. On one hand, strict zoning is fair because everyone must meet an explicit set of standards. On the other hand, vague housing policies will lead to selective enforcement, new kinds of bias and discrimination, and unintentional variance leading to a decay of feng shui and community fragmentation.

PS: So don't be Austin or Houston. ;o]
Make yourself know to the buyer. They might contract you for future fixes.

I helped work on a startup a few years ago that changed ownership. Like you're saying, documentation wasn't great. After hiring devs to work on it that couldn't make any progress, they hired me to make some emergency changes. I also offered to improve their documentation and setup a proper release process so that other developers could work on it.
Its not like it was a great mystery 20 or even 30 years ago that too much sitting on one's ass in front of computer or generally being physically very passive is a disaster for your health, whole routines were suggested not only to avoid carpal tunnel and in some nations whole offices did morning exercises.

Seriously, in 2024 there is no excuse... but folks without any discipline/resolve like to take weak shortcuts in their lives and then complain when unavoidable results eventually come in.
>That may be true, but not sure why it's relevant. If someone wants to take on the cost of doing so for an ROI, why not have the regs in place that allows it?

It's relevant because the extent of the difference has significant impact on the cost of the conversion, which determines whether the ROI is likely to be positive or negative and so whether somebody is likely to went to take on the cost without additional incentive.
Apple is a $1T company—actually, $2.8T—because it brings in over $100bn a year in operating income, and was literally the world's single biggest seller of smartphones globally in 2023.

The overall Google ecosystem is obviously more popular worldwide – but the idea that Apple only "makes a bunch of under-competitive phones", are "virtually a nobody" in the global market, or are a "small fry" is low-effort trolling.
What's the copyright license on your scrape2md code?
>> You sweet summer child

Agreed that the condescension is the worst part of this, but a close 2nd-place has to be how cliché this is by now.
> We would be 10+ years late to any such game.

Yep, so `smash 'em`?

> basic human rights

Try again, perhaps revive 'Chatcontrol' again? This time it definitely will help.
It used to be that way. Work in the office generally requires a face-to-face meeting, and a box to put your stuff in before you are escorted out of the office.

Most recently, during COVID, I was laid off with no contact with my manager and no explanation. My recruiter called right before my access was terminated at 5pm.
That’s a real shame. This is about a meme, I’d think it would be relevant. Even Paul Graham is speaking out against the genocide. It’s weird that we can’t discuss even tech stories about it here.
As a long time hackintosher (since Leopard) who converted to Apple Silicon recently - not looking back :)
> How's that different from telling a depressed person to 'simply stop being sad', or a disabled person 'simply stand up and walk'?

I've been in therapy for a bit over 5 years to deal with issues of past abuse and the residual Complex PTSD the experience left behind.

I agree with the sibling comment that points out the article is trivializing the process.

When I started therapy, I thought that digging through the past is what it would be all about. But looking back, the function that it served was to help prepare me for the realization that the article points to.

There was a very clear inflection point where I rather suddenly realized that the trauma of my past and the harmful modes of thinking that it caused were causing me to continuously modulate my experience in a negative way by getting caught up in thoughts about it. And that moving past it had less to do with slogging through the shit, and more to do with re-training myself to think in more helpful ways.

To simplify this a bit, the realization was essentially that I had the power to change how I think, and that changing how I think was the real path forward.

Had I been told going in that "you need to change how you think", it would have bounced off of me. I would have told the person telling me that to go to hell, and it would have been like telling me to simply "stop being sad", to your point.

It took me some years to be ready to realize that this was really the solution. And when I did realize it, it completely changed the trajectory of my progress and the nature of my weekly sessions. Instead of getting stuck in the muck every week, I could reflect on how the embedded patterns of thought had impacted me that week, and I could practice new ways of thinking. I still think getting stuck in the muck for awhile was a necessary part of the process. To the extent that exploring the past helped explain the present, it was useful to help make the present feel less "crazy".

I agree somewhat with the message that the ultimate solution is a kind of realization about self and the role that I have in changing my own experience. But the path to reaching this realization can still be a hard one, and in my case was facilitated by an excellent therapist who patiently steered me away from my rumination about the past and taught me how to understand what I was feeling in the present.

I think arguing against regression therapy as the article does is doing a disservice to therapy. CBT or ACT seem far more relevant, and still often necessary to reach that critical realization.
Oh I was confused for a second. So there is a Doom RPG (official one), and also a fan made "DRL" (totally not meaning DoomRL in the early days), which was eventually remade as Jupiter Hell due to trademark issues.
> Some things use milliseconds since 1970 instead of seconds to get sub-second precision without involving double

Or be like JS which uses both floats and milliseconds as its date format. That to me feels like taking worst parts of every option. But then, making fun of JS is like shooting fish in the barrel
Now here I am violating the spirit of the article and Googling things, but it seems like this is, at best, an uncertain etymology:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/where-the-word-dooz...
Has this happened with the converse as well? Police assault a residence, resident defends themselves, police escalate and "win", and the police are charged and convicted of second degree murder? A right to self defense implies that both outcomes should happen.

Do these verdicts also happen for the least sympathetic cases, like an actual criminal defending themselves against an unknowable no-knock "warrant" ? Because if you're the basic upstanding sympathetic right-looking type, it's actually most places you will not be charged for defending yourself in your home against non-police.

And has this all happened regularly enough to form a predictable pattern such that the police have actually curtailed such attacks? Affecting repeated interactions such that one doesn't need to continually dwell on the basic dynamic is the hallmark of an intact right.

Because I haven't heard of any states that are shining examples of police accountability, especially states that people tend to market as promoting the right to self defense. But I'd love to be wrong!
Apple is not only pushing their web browser, they're mandating it. Safari is the only browser allowed on iOS.

How is that not anticompetitive?
Affordability is relative, a condo unit can still be more affordable than a SFH sitting on the exact same lot. It makes sense to have a range of options rather than force everyone to pick either the lowest (rented flat) or most exclusive (single-family dwelling) quality of housing.
That is a much more nuanced and even-handed description of the state of things than a simplistic “housing activists have invaded my council meeting” bogeyman.
I think most housing should be in the form of single-family homes or in property that you own outright. So, yeah, ideally I don’t think people should have to pay property taxes.

But you need schools funded, streets maintained, etc.

Edit: Of course they’re maintenance fees; you don’t get to decide what’s being maintained or to what standard.

Why? Because you don’t own it.
Yeah, the trick to writing science fiction is that it's almost never about the grandeur of the setting, it's using that setting and its technology as a tool to lay bare the inherent problems with society and humanity. One of the things I've been struggling with is that AI tools are effectively cheap low-quality knowledge labour. How could this go wrong? Many fucking ways it turns out.
> Windows has gone to extreme lengths to not only maintain API compatibility, but ABI compatibility as well.

Linux has a stable ABI as well. For a given architecture, like x86_64, syscall numbers and their arguments and their arguments/outputs are expected to be stable.

The stable API/ABI promise of Linux is the syscalls, because at the end of the day that is the interface between userspace applications and the kernel, and kernel devs take not breaking userspace very seriously.

And on Windows, the opposite is true. The stable interface is the Windows DLLs that you are supposed to use dynamically. If you hardcoded the syscalls, you cannot complain if your application breaks because windows only promises that the DLL will not break backwards compatibility, and they reserve the right to change the syscalls with any update.

So you can have a Linux binary that works across many Linux versions without breaking. You can also have a Windows binary that works on one version of Windows but not the next.
yes! theres no discussions, or trying to figure something together and all little fun that can come out of it
You can find most of your coworkers on LinkedIn, if that is your goal.
There’s really nothing stopping someone from publishing an instrumented / modded binary to a mobile App Store unless there’s a user-verifiable build chain, even if it is open-source. Even if the backend IS e2ee, the UI can be extended to keylog / etc. The App Store provider can be in on it too.

DNS can be filtered to provide some degree of control and traffic inspection, but there’s always DNS over HTTPS, tunneling, and so on and so forth.

I’d be surprised if Signal was doing it, since getting caught at it would totally destroy their reputation, but I’d honestly be surprised if WhatsApp didn’t have at least a backdoor for it.
Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
When you're young, you are very concerned about what other people think of you.

When you're middle-aged, you stop caring about what other people think of you.

When you're old, you realize that nobody is thinking of you.
It’s the reverse really. Though I didn’t realize prop 13 effectively prohibits a LVT, the way it works in simple broad strokes is that it heavily taxes under utilized land, so holding vacant property or undeveloped land etc. becomes more expensive over time. It incentives utilization and thereby would drive more building faster and increase supply, as the more utilized the land becomes the better off it is for the land owner
You say that as if there is another solution.

This is one way that you can design your software - follow existing conventions so that people's existing knowledge is useful for understanding your software.

The alternative can be summarized as "not doing that" and personally I don't see that solving any problems. It just means people have to learn it from scratch instead. And it's not like anyone actually reads manuals and such.
I wouldn't say that predictable performance was abandoned, but you are right that it is less of a strict guarantee these days:

1. Baseline compilers are generally 2x slower than optimizing ones. That's noticeable, but it is still a far smaller difference than JS has between its tiers.

2. Even WasmGC doesn't require bailouts - in fact no VM implements them for Wasm AFAIK. However WasmGC is often compiled by languages that do benefit significantly from dynamic inlining, which adds unpredictability, but again the effect (30% [0]) is far smaller than typical differences in JS.

[0] https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting
See point 8.
1. Read books, they require you to concentrate. Use computer to take notes and if appropriate, run code samples, look up technical details, check historical facts, etc.

2. Fix posture with one of many back support options and a good chair. Write 'posture' on a sticky and slap it on wall. Get light exercise frequently.

3. uBlockOrigin and NoScript on Firefox allow you to selectively block all kinds
of login pages and cookie permissions and so on. Often wrecks page functionality, but then you can click on different scripts in NoScript to see which ones are needed.

4. You want something that causes your Zoom meeting to freeze up while claiming a bad WiFi connection is the issue. Here we are:
https://github.com/abagh0703/turn-off-wifi

5. When going to pub, turn off phone. If the FOMO is unbearable, don't go to pub, and maybe get therapeutic help.

6. Avoid IoT smart products, they're mostly a scam with bad security protocols and terrible interfaces.

7. & 8. Mute, block, ignore. Don't follow the shiny red ball.

9. Switch to using an editor like vim with autocomplete turned off to improve your typing.

And so on. I suspect the author was subjected to the Apple-Microsoft brainwashing propaganda program at some point, in which technical tinkering was discouraged and acceptance of the closed corporate ecosystem was encouraged, and this is the result.

It's as if someone asked 'what's eating?' and they were told, 'well, you go to McDonald's and press the button for the thing that looks good, and then you eat it.' Learning how to cook your own meals - i.e. not taking what's on offer from the corporate conglomerate - is a much better and more satisfying option.
ActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File
I just think that depopulation via restricting housing would make things a lot worse than any dystopia we’re currently facing
I've felt this way for a long time, but for a slightly different reason.

I like talking to my friends, I like intimate conversations. When a question comes up I don't really want the answer. Sure truth and facts are nice, but what I want is to hear what someone else thinks about the topic. Taking out a phone and searching for the answer doesn't just resolve the dispute, it breaks the person's train of thought and stops their mind from wandering to new places.
I’ve worked for a while rewriting a large crappy old etl codebase and types were not the problem at all.

Really it needed a huge amount of reorg and refactoring, which a test suite and pyflakes handled quite well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161025
> How can they license something that they didn’t author?

Capitalism in a nutshell
There was interesting news about AI tech the IDF uses to decide their bombing targets. This was also flagged out multiple times immediately.

If the HN audience universally thinks something is reprehensible, it's an acceptable topic. If there's a core group that supports the reprehensible thing, it's now controversial and disallowed here.

Paul Graham I think is now retired from YC. The current YC CEO is pro-Israel, pro-Zionism.
If you ignore dependencies and stick to stable features yes.

If you include dependencies then it can happen that a dependency relies on unstable features. In which case you might have to upgrade the library version (if they support the new compiler version). The library might have changed the API by then which would force you to change your code.

Except for the above use case, upgrades to the latest version of the compiler have been painless for me.