skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you might be a bit sensitive about racism here.

Growing up far away from the US, but still around western-ish culture, my experience was that overpopulation fears were primarily about resource shortage and creation of large poverty class within the same society; more recently, in context of immigration, about culture shifting to something that's alien or hostile to people living today (that's the "${immigrant group} isn't assimilating" complaint), and about housing and unemployment issues. Underpopulation, in the meantime, I see primarily talked as risk of there being not enough young people to fund old people's retirement pensions. It's a major factor why people I know in my generation all assume we won't get government-run retirement when we get old; the system will collapse due to negative population growth.

Might be a perspective of someone from the old continent, but those issues are rarely if at all viewed through a racial/ethnical perspective (immigration notwithstanding) - even the feared poverty class is just expanding within the same society.
OK but natural resources are unlikely to grow. Unregulated market forces lead to hell (and of course also is too much regulation)
Playground v2.5 Technical Report, SoTA Open-Source Image Gen Model [pdf]
JK Rowling surely produced $1B of value. Much more in fact.
I hope that the renewed interest in urban gardens and the appreciation for plant life in urban landscapes persists. The benefits can be wild in terms of improved quality of life for those living in the city.

I live very near an urban core that is undergoing rapid development and densification. That core is part of a larger planned area that includes apartments, condos, town houses, and suburban style homes going back more than 50 years. The nearby suburban areas are walkable, and almost entirely embedded in so much greenery it's virtually a wildlife preserve. A local association owns some significant percentage of the land and has strict rules about development on their property which keeps it out of the hands of developers and well forested.

My understanding was that all of these thousands of acres were virtually tree free farmland when it was selected for development. Now the entire area is absolutely filled with 30-70 foot (10-20 meter or so) trees planted when development started, dense undergrowth, and absolutely chock full of various kinds of wildlife like deer, foxes, raptors, and so on. Yards are allowed, but not really required, so many people have just let them go fallow and return to nature, or keep minimal outdoor areas for lawn furniture or play areas for their kids.

The urban area needs a place for rainwater runoff to go, so the runoff areas dump into artificial streams which have been designated as parks, and provided with paved trails, and bridges and so on. They too have become heavily forested, the only sign that they're part of the local urban infrastructure is the occasional manhole cover. The runoff condenses into a selection of local artificial lakes that open up opportunities for waterfront property and parks, and personal watercraft and recreation areas.

I live in a suburban home, 3 miles from the middle of the urban core which features an Apple store and other big named retailers, as well as offices, restaurants, recreation etc. It's a nice walk on weekends or evenings. The core is connected into the nearby major city and other nearby urban areas and the local airport via light rail.

In the summer, we're about 5-10 deg F cooler than all of the surrounding areas, and much more humid in general. Because of the trees, we get very little wind. It can sometimes be difficult to predict how to dress when going out as our house sits even cooler than that, and stepping outside is still not representative of the way it feels in other nearby areas. It can be cold in our home in the early fall and late spring when the outside sits at around 20 deg C or 70 deg F.

In some parts of the world this may sound absolutely normal, but here in the U.S. it's absolutely bonkers that it exists. My understanding was that it was explicitly patterned on a "more European" style of land development.
Sounds like you aren't trying to get the new issue resolved.
Consider archive.ph your browser for paywalled articles.

Nearly always for big sites, the article is already archived by someone else.
Does planting trees reduce crime?

Or are areas that have planted trees areas that also tend to have reduced crime?

The abstract of that paper indicates an inverse correlation between trees and crime, but stops well short of claiming or proving a causal relationship.
I had a close look at RxJava and decided I wasn't smart enough to understand it. I intentionally didn't tell my colleagues about it, they would have loved it and I would have been in big trouble.
I dread the day they go evil
This seems to confirm the initial point, which is that Tesla mainly outsources its most critical ingredient (batteries) to outside suppliers. Suppliers that are, incidentally, increasingly competing directly with its main lines of business. That might be ok in the car industry, where people will pay a premium for brand names. Seems bad if your goal is to dominate energy storage.
Majorities in most countries surveyed say social media is good for democracy
Govern isn’t a verb in American Federal law severable from Acts of Congress. If Congress doesn’t act, then the President and his subordinates are not lawfully empowered to act the way they think Congress should allow them to act. That’s why they spend a lot of time trying to stretch their interpretation of previous Acts of Congress still in effect to try to justify what they want to do under the law. Sometimes they get away with it, sometimes the courts tell them “Nah, dawg.”

Also willingness to impeach is demonstrably not the problem. The resulting trials is where Congress stuffs it all up.
Parking spaces by definition benefit people who drive, which usually means someone well out of walking distance. That leads to some interesting dynamics where people who are enough richer to have nice separated homes use their social status to demand parking everywhere even though the main thing people near those spaces get out of it is negative health impacts.

One interesting angle involves small businesses: you’ll often see owners interviewed complaining about losing parking spaces. This makes no sense for a local business, and there are decades of studies showing that pedestrian/transit/bike traffic generates more revenue for small businesses (if you’re already in the car, you’re probably continuing to a big store) but it makes total sense when you realize that the owners are far more likely to live out in the suburbs and are making the mistake of assuming this is also true of their customers. There’s a staple in some city planning debates of noting that the people complaining loudest about how their customers won’t stop if they can’t park right in front are often leaving their own cars in those spaces all day.
Desperate? To me it feels like they are challenging us, asking with a grin "watchu gonna do about it?" And the answer is "nothing".

After many Windows-less years, a few weeks ago I got myself a cheap Chinese windows tablet from amazon (it was a steal for the price). I installed Linux right away, but I kept the preinstalled Win11 Home, to grab some firmware files missing from Linux. I was horrified over the abuse that Windows was doing! I haven't used it since Win7 era, and it was truly astounding. Ads over ads, popups every few minutes, forced surprise-reboots all over the place, mandatory virus scan hogging the machine for an hour or so... I thought it was just a meme... Anyway /rant
This looks great.

I've been getting a lot of ads for a product with a similar premise ("AI-first Code Reviewer"): CodeRabbit.ai. Can you help me understand how this product compares?
Google isn't done trying to demonstrate Gemini's genius
Their sheer dominance of literally all technology is a lot less pronounced now that so much of computing is in the cloud (Linux) and on mobile phones (iOS and android). Huge swathes where Microsoft has terribly little monopoly power or high-margin products. Even Office is eaten into by gsuite and a long tail of solutions like Notion.
The 90's when Apple was almost dead, and Linux wasn't quite a thing. I agree though that now is a great to be at Microsoft, arguably better than the 90's since no one seems to hate them like they did back then.
Lol the Disney+ app UX is honestly terrible. Not to mention the regular app crashes on apple devices.

Disney has _how_ much money to spend on their streaming services technology stack and they just... don't?

Just feels like they'll piss on the customerwhen given the chance because people will still pay for that sweet Disney juice regardless.
> After this incident it was determined that we had fulfilled the intent of the test plan.

Ok, so it was considered good enough? (This quote made it seem like the testing had failed and they were giving up: "The program decides to officially stop trying to chase the off-center arrrestments and wire only arrestments.)

Also, I still don't understand what wire-only arrestments are. Aren't all arrestments wire only?

Thanks.
I just migrated from a QNAP NAS to a custom build with ZFS. I have files with creation times dating back to the 90s on my original FAT16 filesystem and I didn't want to lose them, so I recently did a (way-too-)deep dive on this, I'll summarize my notes for you.

First, ext4 actually does support creation times, called "crtime". But there's some internet confusion about it since this support predated linux kernel support, so you had to use ext4-specific tooling (on an unmounted filesystem) to access it, e.g.:

debugfs -R 'stat <inode>' /dev/nvme0n1p1
debugfs -R -w 'set_inode_field <inode> crtime <new-time>' /dev/nvme0n1p1

The btrfs situation is similar, but btrfs called it "otime" (for some reason?). Linux 4.11 introduced kernel-level support unified across all filesystems, calling it "btime" (birth time).

But the normal file syscalls only support reading btimes, not setting them to arbitrary values. And rsync on linux, as you saw, can't do anything the kernel doesn't have a syscall for. For a while the only option was to:

1. set the system clock

2. create a file (at which point the kernel sets btime to the system time, plus a few nanoseconds)

3. restore the system clock

Obviously a huge hack, and needs root, but tools like s-tar automated it (search for "time storm" in this manpage):

https://web.archive.org/web/20220331080358/http://schilytool...

I almost gave up and spun up a Windows VM (since Windows has supported reading and writing creation times since the beginning). But then it clicked -- the kernel interface to the filesystem module takes the btime as an explicit parameter. So if you could find a kernel module that talks to the filesystem module directly (instead of going through the usual high-level file syscalls), you can pass along any btime you want. And there just so
In real life, counterfeiting is dealt with at multiple levels: legal, communal, technological. Laws are written to deter the act with punitive measures. Communities share information about how to spot counterfeits. Technology is used to make the act of copying harder.

The folly of NFTs, energy footprint aside, is thinking that a well-written smart contract is all that's needed to stop counterfeits.
This is such a click-baity headline, the subject line is "Blame Santa Clara’s inventory and relative affordability—not the company’s stock run-up—for creating such a competitive market".

Essentially "let's use nVidia's name to get attention for this non-related issue."
Surely it's a less impressive result that something powered by mains electricity can move the air in a draft than that a multi-hundred-ton aircraft can fly over the highest mountains.

It's the size of the aerodynamic forces and the complexity of the physical mechanisms that create them that many people have trouble with. In particular: intuitions can be pretty wrong, most simplified explanations are wrong under simple experiments, and the problems exhibit scale variance that is unfamiliar (e.g. Reynolds number).

One time I was working on air data computer for a transonic aircraft that could fly up to about M0.95 - during flight test, an air data probe mounted on a nose boom was used to supply impact and static pressures, angle of attack and sideslip etc. for various air data calculations like airspeed and altitude.

I was fascinated that there was a term in the calculation that related to the aircraft flap position - what's happening way out on the trailing edge of the wing actually has a meaningful effect of pressures measured on a boom out the front of the nose during certain regimes of flight.
> Software has stagnated

Stagnated? It's going rapidly backwards.

Modern software development is such dogshit, my 2008 Mac Pro that can encode MP3s at 80x can't even run a damn music player anymore.

The player doesn't do anything new, of course. It was just built in a ridiculous fashion by developers who prioritise their own convenience over everything else.
Does anybody know offering similar (in price) to their shared instances?
If that documented behavior is part of the API contract, then the entire isValid function seems useless and should probably be removed – if it's intended to check emptiness, just use isEmpty which already does that (or rename isValid to isNotEmpty).
I guess it's clearly within the capabilities of modern LLMs, but it's still cool to see that you can just specify linter rules with natural language now.
The maps on that website have some very cool features including "Journey through time" which allows you to see the maps going back to 1864.
Add a tax for those that don't have trees. There you have your incentive. It's so easy, unfortunately taxes aren't often used this way.
Even at Netflix RxJava is not fully accepted. When I was there I wrote a service which called many downstreams. It orchestrated test user creation. I used RxJava because it was being pushed by the platform team, and coupled well with our internal GRPC api handlers.

I shared with the team and people complained about the complexity… so I ended up ripping it out. What people wanted was a test user creation service that worked well and could be maintained… not one that was the most efficient.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. A few notes here:

- It was never necessary to write `mapDispatchToProps` as a function. `connect` always supported an "object shorthand", where you passed in an object full of action creators, and we recommended that as the default: https://react-redux.js.org/using-react-redux/connect-mapdisp... . That said, yes, with hooks we just give you `const dispatch = useDispatch()` and let you use that as necessary.

- The split across multiple files was never _necessary_. Splitting code like `actions/todos.js`, `reducers/todos.js` , and `constants/todos.js` was _common_ (and admittedly shown in the docs), but Redux itself never cared about how you organized your code at the runtime level. The single-file "ducks pattern" ( https://github.com/erikras/ducks-modular-redux ) was proposed very early on and was always something users could do.

- Labeling "global reducer, serializable state, serializable actions" as "not bringing anything worthwhile" seems like a complete misunderstanding of Redux's design and purpose. Redux was created to give you a consistent data flow architecture, and the ability to make it easier to understand when, why, and how your state gets updated. Centralizing state and having consolidated reducer logic means you _always_ know "go look at the reducers" to see what state the app has, what actions _can_ occur in the app, and how the state gets updated for each action that can occur. Serializable state and actions enable the Redux DevTools, which show you the history of dispatched actions, the action and state contents for each dispatch, and the final resulting state after each dispatch. So, the design constraints are fully intentional to give you the benefits that make the app's behavior easier to understand.

Finally, note that Redux usage patterns changed dramatically in 2019, with the release of our official Redux Toolkit package and the React-Redux hooks API. RTK includes methods that simplify all the common Redux use cases: setting up a Redux store with good defaults, writing reducers with simpler immutable update logic (and getting all the action creators generated for free), patterns like async requests / reactive side effects / normalizing items by ID, and even our RTK Query data fetching layer for fully declarative data fetching and caching.

Redux is not the right choice for all apps, and there's a lot of other good alternative tools in the ecosystem. But Redux's design _is_ very intentional, those constraints were put in place to enable the desired benefits, and Redux usage today is much easier thanks to RTK.
Airplanes are always traveling forward relative to the wind, at some angle of attack. Tailwinds don't work by blowing against the airplane's surface and pushing it forward. Since the airplanes are themselves traveling at, say, N kt forward relative to the wind, then if they are inside a 10 kt tailwind, they'll be doing N+10 kt over the ground, if they are inside a 50 kt tailwind, they'll be doing N+50 kt over the ground. If they are inside a 25 kt headwind, the'll be doing N-25 kt over the ground.
I was with you until you slagged on the other options. Rust and Scala are designed for other use cases than yours. That doesn’t trivialize their worth.
> The social media platforms took 230 beyond what is was initially intended for as a premise to weaponize it against people who's politics they don't agree with.

So what? You're taking it as a given that "if a website moderates content in a way I don't like, the government must step in and force them to do moderation in a different way I do like"; I don't accept that premise at all, it's quite totalitarian in both concept and real-world execution.
The answer is simple: if the USSC would be against nationalizing these services, then they should also be against attempting to restrain their ability to moderate their own content. Nobody with even a pair of brain cells can logically conclude that actors like Google and Facebook have ever been either benign or neutral, nor should courts pretend that an inability to understand those facts should be burdens for said networks.

Just because, as Chaya Raichik complained the other day, that she should be able to say what she wants because "there's no law against lying," doesn't mean that platforms have to necessarily allow harmful bullshit either.
That might be true in Latin but that isn't how English works. Botanic and botanical are synonyms, just like cyclic/cyclical, geologic/geological, mystic/mystical. Generally the -al versions are more common, but either one is fine.
> In many places, natural gas is still more cost efficient, even if it isn't as efficient in terms of physics.

As page where you can enter some numbers:

* https://www.heatpumpswork.com/cop-target

Also, given a US zip code, how often the temperature may drop below 15F / -10C (which is a cut-off for many units):

* https://www.heatpumpswork.com/cold-days

A good HVAC contractor will create a design based on your building and location, and it will cover 99% of average days efficiently for heating and cooling:

* https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/design-temperat...

* https://www.airequipmentcompany.com/2021/what-does-design-da...

For the remaining 1% it will basically have to run all the time to keep up. (In any given year you may not even get below/above the average outlier 1%.)
Wasn't it just last year that the richest man and the richest woman in the world were both French? A statement at "Europe" level is far too generic, especially when it comes to economic policies or quality of life. Europe includes both Norway and Moldova and the variance in the quality of life is much higher than Massachusetts vs Mississippi.
"My grandfather used to say: 'Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that, quite apart from accidents, even the span of a normal life that passes happily may be totally insufficient for such a ride.'"

- Franz Kafka, The Next Village
Hello bobfunk, thank you for acting on this.

One question though, what is Netlify gonna do to ensure this doesn't happen again?

I understand it's a hairy question, but the general consensus seems to be some policy must be changed or at least some line should be drawn.
They don't need to grow, efficiency can grow though as very aptly demonstrated in the 20th century.
Define "now". In Spain it's been cheaper since AliExpress opened. Now it's more expensive because they have to pay VAT, but it's still cheaper.

And before AliExpress opened we had people importing stuff through eBay which was also cheaper than local retailers and Amazon.
I wonder if people who daily reflect on their day and write in a journal experience time passing more slowly?

I’ve heard that time seems to pass faster because it is such a smaller percentage of our life. For a 2 year old, 1 year is 50% of their life. For a 100 year old, 1 year is 1% of their life.
> In CA, it doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't water your lawn in a drought

Yes, this policy is stupid. If the cost of water rose in response to scarcity, then it would incentivize institutions to build things to alleviate said scarcity and consumers would shift usage habits. Some people would move, some people would build desalination plants. Price fixes are the worst possible choice to a resource scarcity.
The bottleneck when it comes to a plane going faster is drag which increases with the square of velocity relative to the air. More drag means the plane has to consume more fuel to stay at its current velocity. So if a plane normally goes 600 mph with no wind then a 100 mph tailwind will allow that plane to go 700 mph relative to the ground to experience the same amount of drag as if it were flying at 600 mph on a day with no wind.
My peeve with Roku is that the Roku Express' processor is too slow for a smooth UI experience. It's always a few button presses behind.

You shouldn't have to buy the more expensive Roku 4K just to have a device powerful enough to run its own interface smoothly. Granted it's only $10 more but had I known the UI was sluggish I would have paid it from the start even though I don't need 4K. But now I've bought both.
"[People] take that phrase, artificial intelligence,” he says, “and... just leap to the wrong conclusion.”

There is no "leap". It is a logical conclusion implied by the word "intelligence".

As used here the word is really a misnomer that laypeople as well as many software "professionals" often fail to recognize as such..
good idea. Thank you!
Indeed it does, that's effectively what turbulence is.
Remember that while "$90B selloff" sounds like a big, scary number, GOOGL (Alphabet) is still up 52% compared with one year ago.

2023-02-27: $89.87

2024-02-27: $137.17
If you took a plane flying in still air and magically, instantaneously replaced all the air around it with a tail wind equal to its velocity then yes the plane would stall and fall out of the sky.

Fortunately that kind of instantaneous change doesn't happen in real life.
The "language" you're talking about is not the same as the "language" of large language models. Regardless of how many models the brain has, they must all be comparable using some common metric in order for attention, processing and processing to work. This type of common substrate is what LLMs operate on, and is how multimodal LLMs work.
Weird because the app i used for posting this story usually points me to a dupe when there is one, i'm not sure if it's part of the HN API and why this mechanism has not worked as intended.
It's relevant in practice when landing against head wind. You need to have extra speed to not stall when you enter the slower air near ground.