skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple implemented strict rules about tracking and privacy that cost Facebook 12 billion dollars:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2022/04/23/appl...

I, as a user, think that's great.

The Google play store has no similar anti-tracking rules. Why? Well, partly because those rules would negatively impact Google, but also because Meta could credibly decide to move their apps off the play store and onto their own "Meta Store: The only place to get Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp".

If it was easy for Meta to set up their own store for iOS, they absolutely would because currently Apple kneecaps their ability to track and sell user data in ways that costs Meta REAL money.

Google does not exert the same kind of control over the play store, so Meta is quite happy to keep Facebook there.

So, as things stand (with a closed iOS ecosystem) I can use an Instagram app on my phone that's subject to a bunch of pro-consumer rules about tracking and data protection. If iOS allowed third party stores then I would almost certainly not be able to do that any more.
After all, you called them, which shows you're a ripe target. Every sales person knows that. Oh, you thought they were a support person? Maybe sales support.
The Moka Pot Technique [video]
They're nice, but they lock you into vscode
Interesting! What would the integration between Storybook and a CMS such as Wordpress look like, ideally? How would you use it?
What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
Who are the people that want it? Lets put aside the people that don't want it.

I can think of the following:

1. American tech companies

2. AIPAC

3. "The Deep State"

4. Maybe "bleeding heart American boomers"?

Is this a large enough group to push bills through? Seems like it.

The reason we put aside people who don't want it is because to push back against a bill requires at least an equal amount of effort that it took to get it going, usually more (see right to repair legislation, fight over DMCA provisions etc.). So unless you believe the people that don't want it are really more powerful than all of the above it makes sense why its going through.
Their website says it can land on a packed dirt airstrip, 6000ft long. I wonder if they would park all the nearby windmills during takeoff/landing, to avoid creating swirly air.
I still occasionally see adults out in public wearing the chin diaper, or with the mask partially or mostly covering the mouth but not the nose at all.

I just don't get it. Why bother? Public outdoor masking rates even here (San Francisco) are anecdotally well under 10%. Why waste the time and effort (and in some places, social consequences) to do something like that completely ineffectively, when nearly no one else is bothering at all?
So I'm working on something on workspace N, but I want to peek at a job or browser running on workspace 3, then go back to what I was doing. How do I get back to workspace N without going through "Was I on workspace 5? No, 2? No, 7? Ok, that's where I was."

I used to do this all the time when I was on a laptop as my primary machine, with many things either full screen windows or ~3 windows on the screen, and different tasks on different workspaces. "Back to last workspace" was something I used all the time.
To flip it around — if you don't need to care about charging speed, then you have an easy case where any EV will work just fine.
Anything's possible I guess, I mean, did anyone expect that China would allow the release of the man made covid virus from its Wuhan biolab (intentionally, or unintentionally) out to the world, killing millions in the process and giving long covid to millions more? And US and UK would be the ones that developed the vaccine successfully, and allowed the rest of the world to fully function after 2 years? And China would be the one that couldn't come up with its own vaccine, and just decided to release it into the wild in 2022 and bury any sort of mention of mass covid deaths [1]? I mean, if it were the other way around, and US and the rest of world was still shut down after 2 years while China was fully functional, TikTok could have been used by China to incite civil unrest in democratic countries, leading some to its downfall.

I mean, there's no way China would release a covid 2, right?

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/02/ch...
Or quaranting and masking despite being inconvenient is very effective.

That would be an inconvenient truth though.
The double stair means there is no practical way to make a four bedroom. try doing a layout and you discover you have a lot of space that isn't useful. (bedrooms require a window)
For iOS, even if it exists, using such an ID that’s against the license terms.

https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/apple-developer-pr...:

“Neither You nor Your Application will use any permanent, device-based identifier, or any data derived therefrom, for purposes of uniquely identifying a device. And neither You nor Your Application will derive any data from a device for the purpose of uniquely identifying it or a user.”
> now I don't use ATMs with people sleeping in the vestibule.

Yeah, I don't do that either. It's possible I don't have problems because I don't do stupid sh-t, but that goes for most things in life. When I cross the street, I watch the cars to see if they're stopping and don't just assume they will obey the lights (and that I read the lights correctly). When Covid struck, I kept my distance from people whether or not someone required me to.

I don't know what happened with your roommmate - that would be pretty alarming. There's no way someone is following me into an isolated ATM vestibule; I just keep walking if there's a question. And I'm not pulling out that kind of money anywhere but a bank teller window.
What it's like living without an inner monologue (2020)
"Best" will be chosen by the creators of software for specific application uses. Medical software will use the "best" medical LLM under the hood. Programming software (Copilot et. all) will use the "best" programming LLM. General purpose language models will probably still be used by the public when doing internet searches. Or, an idea that just popped into my head, use a classifier to determine which model can most accurately answer the user's query, and send the query off to that model for a response.
My experience includes taking on a lot of various challenges and doing what it takes to ship quality products on time. But when I interview very little of that comes up or has much weight. Current interviewers usually want an immediate demonstration of a relevant skill in considerable detail. The idea that someone who has shipped many different types of product can adapt quickly doesn't seem to be considered valid. Not only that, there seems to be a lot of weight put on knowing Agile and being able to take orders instead of going on whatever engineering tangent comes up. It seems like engineers who have developed a particular set of desirable skills have a great advantage and those with a lot of proven general talent are mostly not even in the game.
The difference in comp can be substantial.

If we’re talking about FAANG tier or similar, then a junior FAANG engineer can be making as much as an enterprise company staff engineer with decades of experience about to retire in their 60s.

Even if we’re not talking about FAANG tier, interviewing around I’ve been given offers at tech companies that were up to 1.5x my enterprise senior SWE comp.

Work life balance is gamble either way. I’ve seen enterprise companies paying 150k working their employees on death marches, and tech companies paying 500k where everyone leaves at five.
I think old console games (e.g. for the NES) were like this. You can record the inputs for a speedrun dependant on RNG and replay them on a real console, and so long as the timing is maintained exactly, the RNG outputs will be the same. This has been demonstrated with a tool called TASbot.
>No, it isn’t, because Austin allows building to keep up with demand. The policy failures of West Coast states aren’t a law of nature; they’re policy failures.

The policy of building out is a law of nature, simply because it is impractical and unaffordable to upgrade the transportation infrastructure. The only real development you're getting in Austin is vertical construction downtown (which is net good for affordability), and then you're filling in the remaining wilderness east of Austin (Manor, Webberville, and the area out to Bastrop).

That's the last remaining unconsumed land that is viable for commuting, as the highways are already overcapacity out to Leander, Georgetown, Buda, and nearly Dripping Springs along the Mopac and 35 corridors.

If Austin starts building multi-family homes in existing SFH neighborhoods, then more power to them.
You don't need to choose :). You can use Devcontainers with most of the Nix tools, including Devbox. See
https://containers.dev/supporting
Metros are pretty slow. 20mph/30kph is about par, less if the stops are spaced closely, more if they're further apart. If you factor in time to walk to and from the metro, and time waiting for your train, you can almost always beat them with a bike. Here's a chart of a few systems [1]. Where the larger European cities do better is the density -- what you mostly care about in a city is how many people you can reach in a reasonable amount of time, say 30-60 minutes. In the Bay Area, I can, with my car, reach about 3 million people in 60 minutes, about the same as I could using transit in Berlin, which has an excellent metro system, and Berlin doesn't have to deal with the geographic barriers that the Bay Area does.

I think that shared ride self driving cars have a lot of potential in both types of cities. They give you a lot of what's good about private cars (door to door, good average speed, comfort, some privacy), and a lot of what's good about metros (higher density on the road than private cars due to sharing and less need for parking)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/comments/113n0ee/average_sp...
1 senior for 10 juniors is not a sustainable ratio unless the average person is a senior for 10x as long as they were a junior -- meaning, I guess, that in a 30 year career, you are "junior" for three years on average. I understand that this has been "sustainable" in the past because the industry was expanding, but can that continue forever?
> Americans often think the shitty experience they have in their country applies universally.

Whether this is true or not, what matters to me - a person living in the US - is that public transit in the US is a relatively poor experience compared with driving. Until that changes, I will keep driving and I will resist efforts that would force me to use public transit. I don't care if it's better elsewhere because I don't live there nor do I want to move there.

I want our public transit to be good, but that simply isn't the case right now. Walkable cities with quality public transit and good community infrastructure sound great, but until they are a reality here I will have no interest in living in a dense urban location.
That's a good question: Obviously the taller buildings much use steel or similar, but there are lots of smaller buildings. What's your point?
LaVague: Open-source Large Action Model to automate Selenium browsing
The software engineers job is also to think about what happens in corner cases.

What if sensor malfunctions?, how should software act?, will it crash the plane?

If yes, then raise problem and refuse to implement / avoid killing people.

Then you have QA which should have the same questions and test plan to make sure corner cases are covered. QA is also responsible.

Then you have management which is supposed to make sure there are people skilled enough doing the above and the initial systems parts and encourage this environment.

Then you have business people to ensure sufficient resources to hire competent people above.

So what is happening is a massive problem everywhere...
If coal is equally distributed among all people, then the utility to each person for burning their coal is more than offset by the (negative) utility of everyone burning their coal.

Voting is what allows us to overcome this sort of prisoner's dilemma, and prevents coal from being burned when it hurts society in aggregate to do so.

If instead, you adopt a system where how much you own decides your voting power, then when the coal gets concentrated enough, it doesn't matter how bad it is for society, that coal will get burned, because the voting power is concentrated among the people who benefit from it the most.

Saying voting is the source of this incentive structure is ignorant.
I'd rather do it here so everyone can join in.

I'm not getting a quota error despite not using it all day:

> Could not run query

> Error: Monthly free usage of 100 exceeded,

It's saying I've used 188 out of 100 which is odd. I haven't used 188 - more like 15.

Earlier I was trying a query like:

> SELECT * from <table> where Status="Complete";

And it was complaining that Complete wasn't a valid column... (rather than Status...) I also had weird issues trying to replace * with an actual column name. The autocomplete went crazy.

Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm a stubborn Firefox user.
That is great anecdote. I have been trying to get into Schoenberg for about 30 years now and besides for Yuja Wang playing his Piano Suite I continue to fail.
You seem to be under the significantly confused impression that working to density cities and improve transit options is somehow an attempt to pry your car and single-family home from your cold, dead fingers.

It isn't.

It's about changing incentive structures over the long-term, so more people choose options which have a better set of societal externalities.
There are more and more tools making use of the dev containers spec: https://devcontainers.github.io/supporting.html
The question becomes: how should low doses of radiation be regulated?

One approach would be unless you can prove the radiation is having an effect, it gets a free pass. This would likely result in substantially larger population exposures. If enough individual sources are given free passes, eventually the dose accumulates to something that would have an obviously visible effect.

Another approach would be precautionary: assume radiation has the maximum effect not ruled out by evidence. This would result in much stricter control than current regulation, which assumes the effect is linear down to zero dose. Some anti-nuclear activists have objected to LNT because they think it's underestimating the effect of radiation (not that they have good evidence for that.)

Current regulation is between these, assuming linear effect. This is a biologically reasonable assumption, since at low doses the number of affected cells is proportional to dose, and it's unlikely any single cell is directly affected more than once. It also takes into account the cumulative, additive effect of radiation exposures from multiple sources.
I pretty much use YouTube as a MTV replacement to watch music videos only, so won't speak to the quality of instructional material you find there, but I was still in the military as recently as 12 years ago and the training material in the military was still terrific. This includes unclassified material, though I don't know how you'd find it as a civilian if, for whatever reason, you were interested in learning how to perform maintenance on a modern humvee or what not.

The technical manuals are all available through Army epubs, but even though they're not classified, you still need a common access card to login and use the site. A lot of them get mirrored somewhere the public can find them, but I would definitely not call the sprawl of where you might find them very searchable.
I take issue only with your use of the word 'progress'. 'Change' certainly.
It is a very pretty area, well worth a trip. You can watch salmon jump if you time your trip well
citizen musk.
You can restrict businesses from saying things beyond what individuals can say.

For example, the FCC prevents public broadcasters from saying "fuck" on the air. Yet you can yell "Fuck the police" over and over again and be protected by the first amendment. There are words and speeches that can't be aired on public TV.

There are other instances of this. A publicly traded business cannot, for example, has to be careful with public statements. There are things they can't say while the stock market is open (such as announcing a merger). Yet an individual has no such restrictions on their free speech. The closest analogy would be preventing individuals from inciting a riot or issuing calls for violence.

And that underlines that free speech in the US has limits (and always has). About the only speech that is pretty much fully protected is political speech, but as I said, even that falls a bit short as you can get in hot water if someone uses your political speech as inspiration for violence.
On Getting Discovered
Ok, but can you be specific about the scenario you're envisioning that begins with China's current ownership of TikTok and ends with organ harvesting? It sounds like a specific concern you have and you've given it careful consideration.
It wasn't funny, then. At least make a farcical suggestion that would actually help, not make the problem (farcical or otherwise) worse.

I do agree with the overall point that it's likely not really anyone's fault that Alexander eventually got COVID. Being perfect 100% of the time isn't feasible for anyone, even people in health-compromised situations.
To address your edit:

> The people choosing to shop at the cheaper store are also benefiting, otherwise, they would not have switched from shopping at the higher priced store.

The strategy is as follows:

- Move into small town that can only support one store.

- Undercut existing store, using corporate resources to stay afloat while doing so.

- When other store closes, raise prices.

- Enjoy your monopoly position that's near-impossible to disrupt due to town not being able to support two stores.

Yes, you are correct that some consumers briefly spend a couple of months benefiting from lower prices during step two. The raised prices in the years following make up for that, not to mention the decrease in quality and variety, and the destruction of the town's local businesses, speeding the demise of the town.
But as a human being I couldn't ever do it without chain of thoughts. First I would have to bruteforce come up with fruits that have the required colour. Otherwise I am just random guessing.

Also this problem I first tried to solve myself and I couldn't because I imagined sky to be light blue and blueberries are very dark if blue at all to me.
That's not how regulation works. One does not get a free pass to cause harm just because something else is causing more harm.
Thanks for an informed response!
Yes, and Americans should have the freedoms to receive whatever information they want

And they do. This isn't a content-based ban. If a non-Chinese company acquires TikTok, they can continue to host exactly the same material without restrictions.
Most big "industrial-like" product companies are pinchers when it comes to SW. They offshore a lot hence why they pay SW devs so little. And it mostly works for them.

It works for them, because like Boeing said, they have old battles tested processes which usually means big mistakes can easily get caught ahead of time. And if big mistakes don't get caught they usually can't kill anyone and generate a huge public scandal.
The law will have little impact except to reacquaint children with web browsers, VPNs and side loading.
> It functions indistinguishably from a store-bought file and doesn't even make you enable Developer Mode to get there.

This is incorrect. Modern Kindles classify books added as "documents" rather than books, which limits their features and treats them as second class citizens.

I doubt most people care, but you're not on equal footing to Amazon loading a book onto a Kindle.
> For those wondering what the use case is, you must not have tried it. It does take work to set up (with each version that's less), but it can be very nice to test in isolation esp in cases where a component is under a login, the 4th page of a 10 page form, etc. Also obviously if you're working on a component library that ships without an app, Storybook can be your development and/or demo app.

I have worked with storybook extensively over the past couple of years and my team is moving away from it in favour of MSW (https://mswjs.io).

For "4th page of a 10 page form" during the development there's hot reloading which is really stable nowadays and haven't failed me, although I understand that some setups are old and it might be easier to configure Storybook than good hot reloading.

I'm not entirely sure about the testing part of it and I'd be grateful if you could elaborate. I haven't felt the need for some special setup with SB because for unit tests, I can test a deeply nested component separately with react-testing-library. For E2E tests, I usually test the whole form anyway.

I agree on the component library part, this is probably the only use case where Storybook is 100% justified, but I'm unconvinced about the usual SPA use case
I used to live in a major city in the US. My commute by public transit was 45 minutes and I lived close to a major hub. I now live outside of that city. I can drive into that same job in 60 minutes. Public transit from here is over 2 hours.

Outside of Boston and NYC (well, maybe not NYC right now), I hear of no one happy with public transit in the US. We need to stop pretending that if we just move into cities, the problems will address themselves. Make public transit attractive and more people will want to live there.
Their thesis is clear and falsifiable, it's just that the timelines are very large. If you are going to criticize the thesis, it would make sense to address the actual arguments of ongoing cost-per-resident of various pieces of infrastructure, rather than just calling the organization 'biased'.
I've done this myself implicitly when trying to break down kitchen-sink classes. Often they were never really one class to begin with, so a lot of the contents can be separated into two or more new classes such that there are only a small number of dependencies between them.
Does modern logic mean sub-threshold logic or does this apply generally?
I just gave that link to someone else who commented here. :)

You are right, but at the end of the day, I prefer to write my own installation scripts or "features" than dealing with Nix.

Maybe some day I'll go back to a nix tool to help writing a complex devcontainer.json with everything I need.
I was just diagnosed with 7/7.5 Gleason score prostate cancer (adenocarcinoma).

The barbarians are cutting it out in 4 weeks.

A life of pissing my pants beats dying before retirement.
that's not an app store feature, that's an iOS feature. i agree, it's fantastic, it doesnt require apps be distributed via the app store to work, however, its a part of iOS having well designed permissions controls
This has great discoverability for other eng teams ime. Duplication of components across multiple product teams is a drag on velocity and a major pain when you want to update brand/design across the board. In a previous role, we spun up a Storybook with the few dozen atomic React + pure HTML components, shopped it around the relevant teams. Saw great uptake for centralizing components, and a few teams did storybook-driven development for their more complex UIs. Can recommend.

Also very useful for non technical stakeholders (design, product, etc) to test UIs in isolation.
Perfect Neovim Ansible Setup
at this point i dont even flinch when i see "open source and free" until I check the license.
> Even a subscription model will eventually skew towards placating the masses with "dumbed down" content.

Accuracy and simplicity are not the same. I can see that most people won't want to read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's take on Plato. But anyone can read the Associated Press rather than someone's misinfo on the topic. Cut out the latter.