skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mirabel was well planned, but was undone by events.

Montréal in the 19060s was the undisputed centre of Canada for business, culture, population, sport, politics, and international relations. Canada expected to grow by millions of people, and we expected a large number of them to settle in Montréal. 35 miles was a modest buffer zone anticipating enormous suburban sprawl.

The whole project was derailed in the 70s by the terrorism of the FLQ, and then the 1980 secession referendum. Suddenly, banks, insurance companies, and foreign offices took flight and moved on down the road to Toronto. Montréal _lost_ hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, and hundreds of thousands people as anglos and jews fled. Montréal sunk into a 15 year depression. Toronto became the new centre of Canadian business, culture, and sport. Toronto became a major Jewish city, and immigration shifted for good. The influx triggered a property bubble (and then the condo-crash of 1989).

The growth of Toronto of the last 40 years was planned for Montréal, and had it happened there, Mirabel would be a thriving international airpot. Toronto was unprepared, but Montréal had been planning for decades. To this day, Montréal _still_ has more subway track than TO.
Thank you :). Would you mind sharing what you have in mind? I haven't come across a visualised semantic map of state and federal Australian laws, cases and regulations before.
Impact-Focused Job Boards
The model outputs words, not tokens, so that is not a great example.

Virtually all modern transformer models use pieces, which may be words, but also subwords. Theoretically, they could be longer units, but in most cases some characters (like whitespace) are used as piece boundaries when training the piece vocabulary. If they didn’t use pieces, they’d work terribly on languages where e.g. compounds are a single word.

In most realistic piece vocabs, ‘elephant’ will be a single piece, since it’s a fairly frequent word. But it’s totally possible in a small vocab that it would be split like the parent said and conversely, it would generate elephant by first predicting one piece.

Some piecing methods, like BBPE have bytes as the smallest unit, so theoretically an unknown token could be split up (and generated) as pieces consisting of bytes.
I assume you claim that I said the AfD is centrist. I never say that so you did not read or failed to comprehend.

What "unconstitutional act" is the AfD advocating for? German original source with quote or you are lying.
Would be great to see some of Fisk's cases in here
/s
Africa runs on WhatsApp (atleast, West Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Tanzania...) IME.
The assumptions. No FU money here- My luck is zilch buddy... many attempts and nothing but blood sweat and tears. My thing. I was homeless once... I dont give a fuck.
Tell that to the people who lived in the heart of Bensenville that's now a runway.
>>Sure those users can install anything else they want as well

>and then goes on to explain why super hardened security OSs aren't even mainstream among tech people who should in theory be all about super hardened security in their OS.

You are intentionally arguing in bad faith, the point is and was that Apple's intention is not restriction for the sake of "security" but for the sake of funneling everything through their gate so they can impose a tax on everybody. It's the same with their sanctimonious "privacy" arguments, it's all BS and the DOJ realized this too. [0]

>>If it's not voluntary, what's the difference between Apple's behavior and Tony Soprano's behavior?

>Except it is voluntary. Apple didn't force anyone to buy an iPhone.

That's a bullshit framing that's a bait and switch in level, which is similar to saying "well the rail barons didnt force you to use their railroads, just use other railroads LOL". If a product or service becomes so prevalent in society then certain rules and regulations apply in a fair market and the EU commission has recognized that and finally the U.S has recognized that as well. By making that argument you also implicitly admit that the "security" argument is actually bogus and not really for the user's protection otherwise they would see no problem in granting an escape hatch for power users, but they don't do that because it's not about security an it never was.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-calls-apples-privacy-j...
I don't understand -- do you not read the site? Even if not frequently, I would expect when considering submitting a news story dated days ago one would check if it hadn't been covered on fast-moving HN already.
Well, if they meant homo sapiens vs neanderthals, we have both skull sizes and genetic evidence suggesting that their brains were as capable as ours. We also have enough archeological sites of both early homo sapiens and neanderthals to have a decent understanding of the social structures we had. So it is possible to draw conclusions, even if it is never with 100% certainty.

Also, the debunking likely refers to the really old progressivist idea that any species that went extinct must have done so because it was inherently "inferior", instead of less well adapted to whatever changes the environment threw at them.

Either way, from what I understand the most recent well-supported theories of what caused neanderthal extinction is that their basal metabolic rate was so much higher compared to ours (due to adaptations to the ice age), that this simple caloric difference gave their body plan a long-term disadvantage over ours after the ice age ended[0].

And when I say "body plan" I refer to the part where apparently early humans and Neanderthals interbred so often that about 20% of Neanderthal DNA is still present in the modern human gene pool, and most humans have about 1 to 4% neanderthal DNA[1]. Similarly DNA from homo sapiens has also been found in neanderthal remains[2].

So were kind of reaching this point where Neanderthals and Denovisans seem to not quite match the definition that most people use when they say "different species". Our ancestors interbred a lot, and the genes that were advantageous stuck around. At that point using the word "extinction" without caveats becomes a bit misleading I think.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6d3uHSFxkM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genetics

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2FatwFjc-8
Hacking is not the most likely negative scenario. Your data is already in multiple hacked databases, anyway. You've already lost that fight. Even if Glassdoor gets hacked, the information they already have on you (email, place of employment) is enough to deanonymize you when combined with other hacked databases.

The most likely negative scenario is that it'll now be much easier for companies to uncover identities of people posting reviews about them on Glassdoor. HR inviting you for a "chat" due to a negative interview is what I'd be concerned about. As another commenter said already, this is phenomenally stupid from Glassdoor, because they're losing the remaining little trust people had on them for keeping their users anonymous.
This reminded me of Michaelsoft Binbows. [0] Theres a great YouTube video on the topic as well, a YouTuber went to Japan after finding it via VR Google Maps and witnessed the building for himself. [1]

[0] https://en.everybodywiki.com/Michaelsoft_Binbows

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRIklga9IBQ&t=0s
Sounds like Midway (MDW). Even with noise abatement procedures, planes take off and land “hot and heavy” which is louder than usual nearest to the airport.
> One of the biggest issues I have seen is that people get too attached to the code they’re writing. They view it as an extension of their self-worth. So if the code is bad = they are bad.

This became an insurmountable issue with a former coworker last year.

Neither I as the lead developer, nor my superior as the project manager, were able to convince a new junior developer that issues which arise during code review were not a reflection of him as a person. No matter what we tried, he always got defensive, refused to explain his thought process regarding committed changes when asked, and generally defaulted to a position of "if you think it should be different, do it yourself".

I don't have the best people skills, but I made every effort to explain many of the things described in this article, but it just didn't work out. Hence, _former_ coworker.
Just wanted to say thanks for everyone behind Bulma. It is one of the best one to pick up if you are looking for quick prototyping to some heavy work.
>People opposing airport construction still want to fly.

In this age of big data, is there a way to quantify this? My gut feeling is that this is a very heavily Pareto-like distribution, with maybe say 5% of the population accounting for 90% of the passenger miles or flight segments. With the majority of the people flying a handful of times (or less) in their life. And even then, "want" is probably a strong qualifier, since I'd also think the majority of the flight miles are for business travel. You may "want" to keep your job, so you have to fly sometimes. If we had to drastically curtail flying in the future, I'm guessing that not too many people are going to regret missing out on the business meetings to Detroit in January, compared to say, vacations in Florida.
Apple is not transparent about the fee at all. Developers are not allowed to use other payment processors, can't mention that prices are cheaper elsewhere, or tell users why the prices are higher.

How is that transparent?
Was this before the Google Pixel Watch, or did you eliminate it for other reasons? Also, newer Galaxy watches run Androids WearOS instead of Tizen, and from what I understand, work much better with other Android phones.
Noise pollution _and_ air pollution. I love the pretty browns and purples of my sunset over YYZ, but it's filthy. Every time I come home, the smell is disgusting.
Apple Docs – Manuals, Specs, and Downloads
IMO the best way to think about git is at a happy medium level of abstraction (which most people tend toward anyways, it seems), where a commit is a snapshot, but can be thought of as the diff from its parent to it; a repo is a tree of commits over time (where lines can merge, so it's technically a graph, rather than a tree); a branch is a series of commits represented by a pointer pointing to the last commit in the branch, and you can think of that series of commits as either going back all the way to the initial commit or just back to another branch from which it diverges, depending on what you're doing with it. Etc. And then the commands operate on those things to achieve the logical goal of the command.

Re: Bad UI, I vacillate, but I don't disagree. I do think it needs to be said that people talk about git's internals not necessarily because the UI is bad, but also because git is so relatively clean and simple that you can talk about the internals. Conversations about other tools look simpler because most people can not reasonably talk about their internals in a casual format.

So, in a weird way, conversations about git are complicated because, unlike with so much other software, people don't just throw up their hands and get along the best they can, talking only about the UI and the results of using the UI, living with a limited, abstract understanding. Git enables them to understand better, with some effort.
https://delta.chat/ does this.
Normally you are also supposed to get an email that says your post was added to the 2nd chance pool.
Yep. I do this for Windows. I have a Surface laptop which requires tinkering to get Linux working on it (keyboard doesn't even work out of the box, you gotta use a USB keyboard until you install a custom kernel off Github).

I couldn't be bothered. I just keep Windows running and run Ubuntu in Virtualbox. With an SSD there's no noticeable performance penalty except in accelerated graphics (in which case you should be using VMware).
Svgzip: A WebAssemlbly SVG Compressor
Passing recursive C++ lambdas as function pointers
why? Because:

- the car is the most used trandportation method and especially in suburbs you need it for everything, since nothing is in a distance where other methods work.

- the food contains too much sugar and fat, since its cheap for everything.

- guns are everywhere and every member of the police has to expect that anyone else can shoot him or that he/she is called into a active shooting

- heathcare costs more than in every other developed country. So people don't make appointment unless they have to.
Giants: how the UK's 500k redwoods put California in the shade
I guess that the main difference then is that I have to wait less to boot my machine. Did you consider hibernation? It would be a bit slower than sand-by, but then it would draw exactly zero power.
I’d caution taking too many lessons from what’s happened in Oregon so far.

Measure 110 was advanced by ballot initiative, and there was little planning around how supportive services/infrastructure would be built. As a result, the rollout has gone extremely poorly.

Add to that, despite what people will viciously argue to the contrary, the distribution caused to society by COVID. Across the entire US there was a significant increase in crime, followed by a subsequent reduction. Further, significant numbers of people were let out of the jail system and shelters to reduce crowding.

There are realistically several currents that are leading to people’s anecdotal experiences, which are challenging to disentangle. All I would argue is that it is folly to think that just throwing the doors open without careful planning and consideration is a bad idea (shocking, I know).
Space agencies race to find water on the moon
If you account for all of the CPU "features" that can be exploited, you're looking at probably 80% of what makes it "ridiculously fast". If you also account for all of the ways in which the entire modern hardware ecosystem can be exploited, you're probably looking at gross performance loss of over 90% to remove these "holes".

An overclocked 486 PC that can only run a single program at a time and isn't continuously connected to a network might be very secure, but replacing every modern computer with something like it will not be even remotely feasible. In most situations, it would be better to have some risk tolerance, and couple modern hardware with mitigations, disposability, and supply-chain security instead.
I have successfully signed up to a google group with a non-gmail account, although I had some difficulty finding the instructions for doing so.
thank you for a balanced take on this
More discussion on the engineering post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39782512
You mean like apple did by making the iphone? /s
> luv me 80s/90s computing aesthetics, 'ate 'aving to deal with the 'ardware to run software that 'as them, simple as.

Late shaving cardware Roombas
Yes? I don't see the issue here, except that old observation that entities built to solve a problem almost never want to shut down once the problem is solved.
I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out
Why so adamant that models work on ‘words’?

ChatGPT3.4/4 tokens:

“Elephant”: 46439, 28022 - “Ele” “phant”
“elephant”: 10274, 28022 - “ele” “phant”
“ Elephant”: 79189
“ elephant”: 46840
“ elephantine”: 46840, 483 - “ elephant” “ine”

Tokens are tokens. If it was limited to words it wouldn’t be able to produce non-words, but GPT and other LLMs are quite capable of inventing words, outputting nonsense words, and modifying words.

Regarding the ‘no idea which future it is going to follow’ - sure, it doesn’t know which future; indeed the sampler phase is going to pick an output merely based on the probabilities it’s outputting. But it’s outputting higher probabilities for some tokens because they are good tokens to use to lead to probable futures. It’s suggesting taking steps down certain paths because those paths are likely to lead to useful places.
More on Delphi, C++, and Memory safety
Austin has a population density of 1200/km2. Amsterdam sits at 5300/km2. We also have massively higher quality urban planning than basically anywhere in the world, especially the US. Check the YouTube channel NotJustBikes, who coincidentally actually moved here from Texas.

I agree that build build build is the solution, but “just kill regulation and let the market fix it lol” doesn’t work. We tried that for the past 15 years and it has been an utter disaster. Even if we somehow stripped all but the barest safety regulations, all it would do is increase profit margin for speculators because there is a limited amount of constructions workers, and a bottleneck for training new workers.

One thing in terms of Dutch zoning regulations I do have a seething hatred for is the stymying of high rises. It might preserve the quaint old European city atmosphere for tourists but it is making a terrible housing problem even worse.
That is good! I am hopeful as well! However I don't think that the parts that you are talking about are fundamentally solving the problems I discussed. You have always been able to go to a vendor outside of the top few and get cheaper parts -- for the small price of having to rework basically everything. Something has to break the vendor lock-in a little more completely before this can fundamentally change.
Another idiot who can't read, I was speaking in generalities and the media. The political landscape has shifted so far to the left that what is centrist, or what was considered centrist like 5 or 10 years ago is called by "right wing" by the propaganda media all the time. It happens in the US as well. I never called the AfD centrist.

Stop reading and believing propaganda. Well, learn to read first I guess.

And the solution for Ukraine is to keep their promise to Putin to stay a neutral state and not get sucked into the starting point for WW3 by the US and NATO. The solution is to start talking to Putin and make a peace deal and tell NATO to fuck off. The solution is not to be "taken over". Putin only attacked because they were going to try to become and NATO member, something they explicitly said they would NOT do. But of course you know nothing about the history and are a stupid NPC who says. "Orange man bad.", "Putin bad."

I bet you still believe in the Russia collusion hoax. ROFL.
Sweet. Wonder if this opens the door a DeCSS-style hack for open source iMessage clients?
I can't help but wonder if AI companies are another example of "regulatory entrepreneurship" where things go great until the law catches up.
> No limits on storage.

just need a BBD module (bookmark block device) and boom free unlimited disk backups
Well, they do manage to get by on about 20 W.
The SPDX identifier for Business Source License is BUSL: https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

I have never seen anyone refer to it as "BASL".
I like the idea of using constraints from hardware to drive software design, but the thing that always bothered me about pico-8 is that a lot of the model isn't fully constrained: As far as I could tell, the amount of memory available through the pico-8 lua interpreter is unbounded, controlled by the host OS.

Anybody know if the picotron is more tightly bounded in this way when it comes to memory usage in the programming system, and elsewhere, to turn it into a "true" constrained environment?
That's an effect, not a cause.
started off interesting, but its unfinished and abandoned it seems
I imagine also, that plenty of HN readers use “flag” as a mega-downvote, for articles they don’t like or are offended by or whatever. Since there is no downvote for articles (only for comments), the “flag” is the only way for readers to try to bury one.
Dinosaur Tracks in Alaska's Cretaceous Greenhouse
You're delusional if you think it's for archiving. I don't even know what you mean by that, as in archiving ROMs online for posterity? It's clearly for emulating their games with pirated ROMs.

I completely understand it too because I've been pirating since games were on tapes. But, surprisingly perhaps, I have the ability to view things from multiple perspectives. And clearly Nintendo don't want their titles to be pirated while they're still making sales.

At some point in the future, just like with GBA and SNES emulators, I'm sure we'll see the same for Switch emulators.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775664
Ask HN: How are you monetizing your mobile apps?
I want to release a simple productivity tool I built for myself on iOS. Of course I think: can this make a little money too. So I'm curious what's the state of HN for monetizing the apps you all are making.

Random questions I'd love to hear your stories about:

1. Are you putting out free apps first and worrying later?
2. Free apps + ads? What ad platform did you go with?
3. Did you add a free in-app purchase of just locally gated features?
4. Or did you monetize with some paid access to some kind of backend functionality (remote storage, cloud whatever).
5. Anything you wished you did differently before you launched or before you decided to add monetization.
Frankly, mailing lists were in existance prior to email or computer data processing, as in mailing publications/advertisements/pricelists to a list of subscribers/victims.

We stole their term, and they're stealing it back. Seems fair.

I don't have an OED subscription, but in the free fact sheet, they note "OED's earliest evidence for mailing list is from 1898, in Overland Monthly."

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/mailing-list_n?tab=factsheet
I really want to explore this topic. Been taking daily work journal notes for over 3 years.

I don’t use specific note taking software; tried them all, settled on markdown files in VS Code + VS Code Tasks.

Tasks are bada$$.
The property line would end at the railroad right of way. A passenger station would be built to provide service to the airport.

The current talk is to build it as a cargo airport, but the original concept was a passenger airport to serve the growing population in Illinois and Indiana that find access to the existing airports inconvenient. There is every reason to believe that if it is built it will start serving passengers just as soon as they can get airlines to agree to use it for passenger flights. As you can see from the recent law, they are adding cargo to the list of reasons for building the airport; they are not replacing passenger service ;)

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2531&...
Removal of bentazone using activated carbon from spent coffee grounds
Does anybody know why Bulma has a large number of gambling companies sponsoring it? If you look at the sponsor list you will see a huge portion is gambling related. Does it offer something that that industry finds particularly valuable?
Is AutoTabDiscard still helpful/necessary with whatever automatic stuff Chrome/Firefox does nowadays? I run a lot of tabs (100s-1000s) and this sounds potentially very helpful if it does something beyond what the browser automatically does.
How do you do fellow finals player.

How is performance in a VM?

Also, I assume this wouldn’t work with games like valorant ‘s anticheat?
And this will work out for what, 6 months?
Funnily enough, the main case is getting cheap reputable backlinks for those companies
I had a cab driver refuse to take me to NRT because it would be too expensive. He told me to take the train from Ueno.
I Deployed My Own Cute Lil' Private Internet (a.k.a. VPC)
You are asking to have Apple pick up random BLE messages and send them to various 3rd party vendors with corresponding location information?

Does Tile have a secure way of receiving those messages that does not compromise the security and anonymity (exposing the identity of either the device or the receiver, or the location of either) of the person whose device picked up the message so that this can be implemented in Android core and Apple?