skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your city has a problem with trash

...doesn't that entire problem rest on the fact that the unstated goal is to pick up the trash at the lowest cost labor will bear? That yields service reduction, automation, and labor disputes. When you look at it that way, the organization is seeking the goal, not fighting it. I think there is truth in the general idea, but a correlary that no one sees value in continuing to solve a problem that has been solved once. They always imagine it will get cheaper, meanwhile those who create expertise in it see themselves as more valuable with time, and that creates tension.
Any good RSS feed for RSS feeds?
> Last time I tried it they did an April fools that pinned notifications

It was very annoying, but that was 6 years ago (2018). They learned a lesson and I don't think they've done "April fools" pranks since then.
Someone once suggested that if you are travelling by air and absolutely must have your checked bag arrived with you - put a starter's pistol in there (and fill out the appropriate paperwork).

The chances of that baggage being lost or misdirected is basically zero.
It's quite rare to find any Go repos without go.mod nowadays. So what's the problem again?
There are people who say JSON is better: https://www.jsonfeed.org/

I'm not sure I agree.
Indeed - this is more or less what has been implemented with Google news, Facebook, Twitter etc.

I do think rss or another protocol would have been nice even for what you’re describing but such is life.
I don't know if this is really true, but it does feel true. And I worry there are no easy paths for the first kind of person. One option is to persist devoted to the cause, and try to put up with the pain of being in that organization, potentially changing the organization's path after much effort. Another option is to quit and go it alone / start a new organization, but that's quite hard too.
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Uh... Are we reading the same document?

> Opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on 6 March 2012.

> [...]

> In the light of the foregoing considerations, I suggest that the Court answer the question referred to it by the Oberlandesgericht as follows:

It is not the court's decision.
Hi yawpitch,

This is a well-known metric to "estimate" your financial future. You can see the real-world use of this metric if you search for "FI/RE".

I agree with your comment about inflation and will update the post to include some tips on inflation calculation and its effects on net worth over the years.

Thank you
Serious question: why is anyone writing "boilerplate" when we have tempting engines and macro systems or even simply higher-order functions? I feel like I haven't had to write any appreciable amount of boilerplate in at least 20 years as I can automate that garbage with better abstractions.
Users never caught on much to RSS either. Plenty of news sites still have RSS feeds, but hardly anybody bothers setting them up with a reader. And I don't think it's Google's fault that nobody else is making a popular RSS reader.
What are you basing this on? Is there a place where measurements are catalogued?
Browsers dropping RSS support certainly did not help. Now instead of being in everyone's super-app, people need a dedicated service or application to handle it.

Even sites which have a feed, typically do not advertise. My best option is to open the source and CTRL-F for "atom" or "feed".
I use Newsblur, it’s open source and you can self host, but for the price of the service, I am happy to pay. There are apps for most every platform.

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
From my point of view, the gift could really be offensive, sometimes. I received glasses as a gift once with a note: "You have to look for yourself"... [Yes, it was a joke, but a joke was a bad one]. It was from a friend who I was helping with living situation (he was staying on my couch). You’re responsible for your feelings but if you are really good friends with the person you expect them to give you something more thoughtful
"RSS" wasn't very common to put on feed buttons. The standard RSS icon was normal, including in Firefox (where it would display on the URL bar when detected on a site). And commonly web pages linking directly to their feed would say something along the lines of "subscribe via RSS" or just "subscribe" with the icon.

People are definitely used to poking cryptic pictograms on contemporary UIs, and RSS clearly gives off an impression of something being broadcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#/media/File%3AFeed-icon.sv...
The paper itself largely ignores cadmium. While it was "higher" it was a low number and in many of their samples below the limits of detection.
> If the problem is that slices are somewhat complex, allowing aliasing sure.

No, the problem is what I put at the top, that slices are hopelessly confused, they have two completely different and incompatible purposes and Go does not let you differentiate between the two.

Understanding what slices are does not help, neither in theory nor in practice.
Same , wish there was a directory of rss .
In past it was googles task to provide quality sources when searching and google excelled at this but somehow google is failing at this now.
Because you can set up a feed that only provides a short intro and require a click through for the full article, which many websites do with their RSS feed.

It increases the number of people regularly visiting your site.
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Any users of GnuCash here? Folks recommending Excel may be missing the value double-entry accounting brings.
I've seen this play out a few times now in a few different communities: systemd, Gnome/GTK, wider JavaScript and PHP communities, and probably some others.

There is legitimate reasonable criticism of these things, even today.

However, they have also been subject to profoundly unreasonable – even unhinged – criticism, and this has created a rather unhealthy dynamic where both reasonable and unreasonable criticism are all treated the same by the developers. You kind of need to insulate yourself to some degree.

For example, consider my write-up of the "GTK thumbnail issue" at [1] (I since deleted my account there, but that was written by me). It's easy to come off with a bad impression of the Gnome/GTK developers based on that, but at the same time ... they've been subject to so much unreasonable whining and criticism that it has also created this dynamic.

There's tons of examples like this. Also see: every time GIMP comes up on HN, with people ranting and whining about all sorts of things. I wouldn't be surprised if the GIMP devs don't even bother reading HN any more.

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/ky5yop/gnome_has_no_thumbnails_file_pick...
> If you think article 6.7 says that, I disagree. IMO, it only talks about access to SDKs, specs of device ports, ability to make the same system calls as the applications of the gatekeeper can make, etc.

It doesn't mention "SDK" or "system call" anywhere in the text. A6.7 uses plain language, not technical, to require "effective interoperability." It doesn't place limitation on that, as you just implied there are. I've no doubt Apple will attempt to argue that "effective interoperability" is in fact "limited interoperability," but they will fail. The text is crystal clear on intent:

> A1.1: The purpose of this Regulation is to contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market by laying down harmonised rules ensuring for all businesses, contestable and fair markets in the digital sector across the Union where gatekeepers are present, to the benefit of business users and end users.

Charging for "effective interoperability" is clearly contrary to both the letter and spirit of this Act. It's important to remember too that the EU operates under the principle of the spirit of the law, as opposed to the U.S. which operates under the letter of the law. Judges have a very short fuse when it comes to semantic games over here.

I am heartened to read that Vestager has repeatedly urged gatekeepers to test their business plans with developers prior to the March 7 deadline, suggesting she is using the feedback of competitors to form the basis for both determining suitable compliance, and further legislative changes, for which the DMA provides swift provision.
I really wouldn’t be shocked if exported agricultural commodities were held to a different standard than if they were sold domestically or imported. Likely they’re only held to the standard of the exporting nation and to me it is likely that if the industry senses any form of lax enforcement many players will simply press their luck on how often they get caught by overseas regulators.
Yup, and also not getting sucked out the door if you were able to open it (which you couldn't at cabin pressure anyway).
Future headline...

> In a violent act against the Haitian people, the US halts export of low cost rice, leading to mass starvation and food insecurity.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Linux is not going to die if Torvalds retires. The worst thing that could happen is it splits into multiple competing forks such that there’s no meaningful notion of “upstream”, but even that I think is unlikely.
A GOOG free existence is good for the soul.
Googler, opinions are my own.

I wasn't at Google during the reader shutdown, but after being here at 8 years, I now understand why things shut down so often.

Google has a lot of shared infra and they are always doing forced migrations and various unfunded mandates. Depending on the stack, maintaining a project at Google takes 0.5-3 people (like if a UI toolkit is turned down, you have to migrate). Plus there are infra costs.

On top of that, being on maintenance for a project like Reader, it's probably not very good for your career trajectory. The adverse effects of always going for launching/landing destroyed so much at Google.

Many engineers would love to just help maintain software like that, it just doesn't tend to work out given the incentive structures. (Plus that headcount and infra has to be attributed to some team. A person maintaining Reader means some other thing that can't be built, so there isn't an incentive for VPs either)
I could see why management wouldn’t want to do that. By not getting Alice some practice on async functions, aren’t they making the team more fragile? Everything in moderation of course, but the team wouldn’t want to start leaning on each other’s specialization to the point that it all falls apart if somebody quits.
Actually, I think this is a fantastic example of my point. He did not, in fact, call LGBTQ+ people filth, at least according to the quote in the article - the headline and the article clearly misconstrue what he said.

But let's pretend for a moment that he did say that. Is a state senator from Oklahoma one of the "people in our most powerful sitting positions"? With a sufficiently large population, we will be able to find people saying hateful things until the end of time - I don't dispute that at all. There will always be morons. But as you cast a wider and wider net to find people saying stupid things, you have to also take into account their proportion of the population. Even if he had really said that, he'd be part of a vanishingly small minority. Heck, the very fact that an article was written about what he not-quite said also shows how far we've come.
Preventing DeJoy levels of sabotage lies outside the USPS remit.
Probably fighting for the budget to do so.

Certain political stances think that companies are the best people to curtail their own behavior. That inspections should never be done by the government.

That no sane company would ever chase short term profit and stock price, over going bankrupt in 5 years, because they killed 1/2 their customers.

So the FDA hasn't the budget to do random pulls I suspect.

Of course, if you think of how many products are on grocery store shelves, pulling and testing 100k? 200k? products a week would be a budget indeed.
Your website completely broke my back button.

The first page load was OK, but clicking the drawer made the back button completely inoperable.
Feedbin filled the void for me and have been a subscriber ever since. Can't believe it's been ten years. Hoping that the developer made bank.
That's interesting. Do you have any examples of Linux kernel panic messages?
It is overused, for sure, and stylistically obtuse, but nitpicking when the meaning is clear ("destructive"). And it is true: NGOs and "aid" that indiscriminately flood a market with cheap products under the lazy and foolish belief that giving away free stuff is a Good Thing does incredible damage to economies. It's one thing to distribute aid during a crisis. It's another to keep shipping free stuff indefinitely.

In this case, free rice is having the effect of price dumping. You can't compete with free, so local agriculture and cuisine is being wrecked, and diets are changing for the worse.

Another example is the distribution of so-called mitumba, where, say, ragpickers from New Jersey ship tons of used and second hand clothing to Africa, destroying the local textile industry. This, and intentional Chinese tactics (and probably American, among others), is how, for example, Nigerian cotton and textiles were destroyed.

If you want a country to flourish, often it's a matter of fucking off and letting it develop. Investment is good, of course, as long as it's done on the basis of a partnership between labor and capital, not taking over and pumping and dumping competition so you can effectively colonize the country economically. Unregulated free trade is always promoted by the powerful, as they can easily swoop into developing economies and entrench themselves before the local industrial base even has a chance to establish itself.
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Genuinely asking because I have no idea what you're talking about, and I would really like to know.

Could you expand more on this?

> All of the kids know.

Is that just an expression like "lots of people know" or "the leading people know" or do you literally mean younger people in large groups "know"?

> Isn’t this current affair a public meltdown?

From my perspective it's not. It barely made it to "major" publications, and got flagged and suppressed heavily on HN during all the early news. I also don't know a single non-tech person who even knows about this story. I definitely wouldn't call that a public meltdown.
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> The government run system would realistically be expensive to run, like any program covering all Americans. Many of those private insurance costs would just be transferred to a government-run operation. In theory it should be more efficient to have single payer, but it would also be extremely expensive in the short term to build and overhaul the system.

The government is already the largest health insurer in the country, and providers can't turn them down. There's no system to overhaul.

The idea of "Medicare for all" is actually very simple - if you do not have private market health insurance, you can opt in to the health insurance the government already provides for about 65 million people.
that is a very good question, my initial response was going to be no, but while trying to explain that answer i realized it's not quite true.

it does not directly change my habits, but it does give me a better understanding of myself. for example one thing i learned is that it bothers me if i didn't accomplish at least something each day, to the point that i can't go to sleep. the reflection helps me notice smaller accomplishments, so i can sleep easier.

part of the benefit is a form of general reflection on the day, even on things that i don't write down. it does help me with is noticing when i get stuck in a rut, where one day after another is the same. like if for the fifth day in a row i wrote: get kids ready for school. work. make dinner. watch tv. it helps me notice these kind of pattern, and also, see how long this was going on. then i can refocus and look what else interesting is happening that i may not have noticed before. so either it changes how i feel about each day or it helps me add activities that break the routine.

it also helps me track things that i do want to change. say i set a goal of going for a walk for one hour each day, then this detail, which i ignore most of the time, now gets added to the diary. the diary doesn't so much cause me to change my habits, but rather is available as a tool that i can use to support an intended change of habits. but i don't do this systematically. it's more like an afterthought when other ways to reach the goal fail and i am bothered enough to do something about it.

it also helps me realize when i get behind on work. when you are at home busy with kids, sometimes a week can pass by without me realizing it. the daily reflection can act as an intervention. and the diary helps me understand that i didn't waste the week doing nothing.
I’m doing my part: Building websites with WordPress and every single one of them has an RSS feed. Makes me happy to know WP powers a significant part of the open web. I loathe every aspect of doing business online with Google. Analytics, ads, search console, the search engine, Google businesss: ALL terrible. While I can avoid them personally, if you do business online you just can’t.
Very nice, apmd backup hook looks interesting
The 4% rule is intended to account for inflation. I.e., it expects the growth in nominal dollars to be greater than 4%.

See also https://www.firecalc.com/ which will simulate over every market condition that has occurred so far.
I disagree. You just have to be committed to doing the right thing. If some ideological complex or other is opposed to this, you can compassionately tell people the truth, writing under the assumption - which you may emphasise as much as you like - that they are Good People who also want to do the right thing.

I would tell him that however he justifies concealing or dressing up his beliefs, such dissembling really does have the effect of increasing confusion and rancor - he is, of course, also a Good Person, but this is not a good tactic.
I mean, its not far off. The country has been in immense debt over freeing themselves from slavery. Economic violence is real, you undermine local markets then make them dependent on your exports, hurting the local economy and resiliency.
I actually have a pretty nice set of trails that I can access directly from my house. Some is on private land that I don't have legal access to but the idea that someone would just shoot me for walking there (especially without very serious consequences) is laughable. And yes, tons of other trails and parks are very short drives away. I'm not sure walkable access to non-roads/public right-of-ways is commonplace in most parts of the world.
It could lead to mass die offs but due to starvation, extreme weather events, and most of all war.

If we reacted with calm rationality we’d probably adapt pretty well but we’re not likely to do that. One refugee crisis to Europe has just about brought on the return of fascism, and that’s minor compared to what major climate change might cause.

Climate change will be like AIDS or anaphylactic shock. You won’t die of it. You’ll die of the stuff it causes.
full tweet since truncation was required for submission:

Does #RAG/web search solve #LLM hallucinations?

We find that even with RAG, 45% of responses by #GPT4 to medical queries are not fully supported by retrieved URLs. The problem is much worse for GPT-4 w/o RAG, #Gemini and #Claude arxiv.org/pdf/2402.02008…

RAG ≠ faithful to source
Again, you can't usefully encode "do_anything()" into a formal model. As an aside, that definition would also break the fundamental abstractions of the standard in amazingly deep ways. Regardless, my point in this particular comment thread is that eliminating undefined behavior is useful, not that I have some grudge against incompleteness.

The standards already have defined behavior that it's explicitly illegal to rely on, so I'm not sure why it's an oxymoron. Strictly conforming programs are prohibited from relying on implementation-defined behavior. You could start dealing with the issue of UB by a 3 word modification of the rules in 4-3 (N3096), though any actual attempt would have to be much more surgical to avoid undoing a decade of compiler optimizations. This isn't an easy issue and I've never pretended otherwise.

Can't say I disagree about certified compilers (though it's extremely hard to detect miscompilations via testing). Regardless, they exist and regulators/certification authorities effectively require them. Since we all have to trust the code they produce with our lives, we may as well not ignore them.
Did it? Every single person who was draft-eligible in 1940 was born before WW1 ended.
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To top it all off, prominent folks from the V community often engage in flamewars on this exact site. dang has threatened to ban the topic entirely before [1], and honestly at this point I'm pretty supportive of it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335249
> Moving fast is the right thing sometimes. But overall, quality is the way.

There must be some sweet spot between poor and perfect where (a) the quality is good enough to prevent greater than expected churn and (b) increasing quality anymore is so expensive that the additional profit isn't worth it.

When NASA sends a rover to mars, the launch/space travel costs are so high that they can justify investing heavily in quality. That balloons the price of course, and that limits the number of projects they can do. The goal then is to make higher quality cheaper, or to make higher quality unnecessary (e.g. through cheaper launch/space travel costs).

I can't imagine it is much different for the software industry (where quality requirements are not as high as aerospace).
Yes, but that would involve people who make decisions admitting there are people much more capable of doing what they do and stepping aside.

Do you foresee that becoming the norm within your lifetime? :)
My biggest GOOG RSS surprise is that they've not killed youtu.be RSS feeds for channels.
Dealing like this with uncomplicated bash scripts also has a great future.
Do they have massive profits? It says here that they have very low profit margins of about 3%

https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/he...

Contrast that with the average of all industry profit margins at ~10% and with SaaS type firms of ~80%.

If you want to improve US healthcare costs by getting rid of the profit margin of insurers, it's probably a bad idea. You wouldn't notice the impact.
The thing about DNS I like the least is that you are always at the mercy of a lot of other parties. You can never really own a domain, only rent it. You depend on the owner of the TLD you use to keep honoring your contract and they depend on the owner of the root zone. Prices can just rise because there is a lot of friction to change the domain. Through no fault of your own you can lose your access to a domain (.ga, .af). And that is especially problematic in systems that use the domain as an identifier (see ActivityPub). I wish there was a better way but I can't think of one.
Just start with `hledger-ui` and like the article said: mess it up a bunch and keep fixing it or starting over.

Pick one particular "zone" of finances (eg: monthly bills) and track only that part of it for a while.

You'll figure it out!
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