skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paris syndrome is fairly over-hyped. From wiki:

"Although the BBC reported in 2006 that the Japanese embassy in Paris had a "24-hour hotline for those suffering from severe culture shock",[4] the Japanese embassy states[clarification needed] no such hotline exists[clarification needed].[9][10] Also in 2006, Miyuki Kusama, of the Japanese embassy in Paris, told The Guardian "There are around 20 cases a year of the syndrome and it has been happening for several years", and that the embassy had repatriated at least four Japanese citizens that year.[11]"

Out of a million people who are Japanese that visit Paris every year, a dozen of them having shock at the reality of the city isn't that noteworthy honestly, and I imagine there are more Americans that do this than Japanese people.
Yeah totally, u got it right this time sport!
That domain has been registered since 2001. Are you sure you aren't talking about hackernews.com?
We'll never know. Tech delayed is tech denied.
Good thing I just renewed my VPN. Also as a random side note USENET is pretty good still.
I don't know... I lived in Barcelona for two years recently and had pretty bad luck. In addition to one-off incidents, some consistent noise issues we had:

- The Pakistani restaurant below our apartment would regularly host receptions/weddings until 2-3am. The sendoff typically involved groups of 20-30 people banging large drums loudly and singing as the happy couple walked out and were driven away.

- We had a neighborhood drunk who frequently (multiple times a week) would wander down the street singing Flamenco-style ballads about his unfortunate love life. My assumption was that the ex he was singing to lived on the street? Anyway, he had quite a voice and was great at projecting.

- The building behind us was shorter than ours and our rear balcony faced their rooftop. In the summer one of the apartments there would semi-regularly hold parties until 1am.

Cars were an occasional issue too, but people were a much bigger problem in that particular neighborhood. That said, I've also lived in dense neighborhoods with none of those problems, so maybe better norms/regulations are the answer... but existing noise ordinances in the US are rarely enforced.

Beyond the noise issues though I did enjoy the convenience/amenities that a dense neighborhood provides!
In NPRs defense, I haven't seen them change much from administration to administration.
We need more places like Portland, OR's Free Geek — it's a small warehouse full of surplus computer parts, you can drop off anything or walk out with everything necessary to build a whole PC desktop. The last time I was out there, they were bringing in whole palettes of old laptops and turning them into Chromebooks. Awesome stuff.

I'm currently sitting on a growing pile of brand new surplus cables, can't find anywhere similar in NYC that will take them. When I ask, folks say "just take them to some electronics recycling place." Recycling, as far as I can tell, at best means "shredding for excess gold and traces of lithium." I wanna see this stuff get used!
> Anyone examining this issue must acknowledge this straightforward truth, alongside the reality that our present culture is steering us away from the desired path

I agree that our present culture is steering us away from our path, but see no evidence given for why that path ought to be the desired one.

Old age payments might be a problem under the current system, yes. But the way I see it is the cultural shift explored here will simply increase innovation, and either immigration or increases in productivity would also solve that problem.
> I can hardly think of any media publications that are still relevant, and worth subscribing to--and they're all business related ... Anything that used to be a hobby (music, photography, etc.) has now moved ...

Because businesses keep paying, and hobbyists stopped paying as soon as they had any alternative.
Two judgements were made to my knowledge:

1) Google enjoyed significant market status at the time and a leap forward like seemingly semi conscious AI in 2019 would be seen as terrifying. Consumer sentiment would go from positive to “Google is winning to hard and making Frankensteins monster”

2) it didn’t weave well into googles current product offering and in fact disrupted it in ways that would confuse the user. It was not yet productized but would already make the Google assistant (which at the time was rapidly expanding) look stupid.

A fictional character companion was not clearly a good path.

All this being said, I integrated the early tech into my product division and even I couldn’t fully grasp what it would become. Then was canned right at the moment it became clear what we could do.

Eric Schmidt was the only leader at Google who recognized nascent tech at Google and effectively fast tracked it. When my team made breakthroughs in word to vec which created the suggestion chip in chat/email he immediately took me to the board to demo and said this was the future. (This ironically wound a long path to contribute later to transformer tech)

Sundar often ignored such things and would put on a McKensey face projecting everyone just was far dumber than him and his important problems.
I've read the linked article and the proposal, and this seems exciting but I'm interested to know more about the real world impact i.e. what kinds of perf gains might be seen in real world use cases. If you're deeply versed in this maybe you could shine a light on it for the rest of us...
I hope this gets some visibility and impetus to actually classify broadband as a utility.
I agree with everything you said.

However, it is a very indirect way of getting what the government wants, prone to manipulation.

The more direct option is to contract and purchase the finished product.

The general problem is twofold. First, it can be more financially efficient to spend on incentives then finish product. Second, much of the public do not trust their representatives to perform this analysis and negotiate in good faith.

Is a 25 billion Upstream incentive cheap compared to the Chip Price premium the government would have to pay to have the same incentive?

The other question is who benefits from domestic chips and if the government is the right person to pay.
Looks kinda interesting but I am not gonna touch anything that thinks an acceptable set of drawing tools is "pen and a couple of basic shapes", I quit pulling out every single point by hand in Illustrator a decade ago and my art and my job satisfaction has been much better for it. Finding the right settings for Illustrator's pencil tool (the defaults are absolutely useless) sped up my work by at least one order of magnitude.

Using the pen tool for all your shapes is about as efficient as using Photoshop's pencil tool to set every pixel yourself, or writing your entire app in assembly.
Guerilla efforts to make their lives as much of a living nightmare as their decisions make others' might be what's left. Non-violent, targeted harassment with clear qualification (at least X net worth, at least Y layoffs, in role at Z corp) as a form of civil disobedience. Hopefully just the threat would get the ball rolling on treating the less well-off with more dignity. If anyone thinks this is unethical, so is a $2,000 plate while people are dumpster diving out back.
Enjoy it!
You'll miss her when she's gone.
I did this once, and it took quite a long time to recover. I had a very high-paying, fun, and relatively easy job for years, but in that job I was not learning any new skills, tools, etc. Then one day when talking with some dev friends, I realized that not only was I just not keeping up with things, my skills as a developer were actually getting actively worse.

So I had to quit as an act of professional self-preservation. It took years to catch back up again, but in hindsight, leaving that job was the best thing I could have done. I should have done it years before I did.
Really idiotic stance, with all due respect.
I don't know the skills situation in Ohio although GlobalFoundries has a fab in upstate NY and is building a second one. They need specific skills of course, but they can also pay very well relative to the local market.
By American standards, these would be eminently “intelligent and humanistic leaders.” NYC is ran by a crooked cop, who is under investigation for taking bribes from Turkey, while slashing the budget for schools and libraries so he can give more money to his “constantly defrauding the government” police gang. LA is such a wildly corrupt city, it’s hard to pick where to start, but several city council members were just caught on tape trying to explicitly screw over renters, rig an election against one of their left wing opponents, all while making racist comments to boot. The city also takes in billions in tax revenue for “affordable housing” schemes that go almost entirely to lining the pockets of cronies and party insiders through various fronts and nonprofits.
> broad point you're conveying is reasonably clear

Let me further clarify it: winemakers, lobbyists, charismatic artists and anyone else whose job is based on relationships will also be fine. (Or folks like plumbers and electricians.)

The roles being automated away look like the quiet, tinkering alone genius types. First at the commodity level. But increasingly at the highest ones. The preserved jobs will be both high and low, and exist in the context of a more-productive society.
> Instead of categorizing code by files, everything is shoved into massive files.

That's not really RStudio's fault. It is just how many people use R and were taught.

> code is run out-of-order which makes the code organization and flow of a program a complete disaster.

In my experience, with R Markdown, this is untrue. I see Jupyter Notebooks with cells run out of order much more often.
Not to mention they jinxed Slack(ware) for many.
I don't think there has been any sort of reliable survey on the quantity of ebikes in NYC, and 65,000 is likely to be extremely low. There is no registration or point-of-sale reporting requirement.

There are also large quantities of unregistered electric and gasoline mopeds and motorcycles, many of which are also labeled as ebikes by either their manufacturers/importers or public authorities when involved in an incident.

One can purchase custom-made ebike batteries in NYC from shops similar to the one in this article, often with substantially worse finishing/packaging quality and unknown BMS quality. And said batteries are often run hard in delivery service in 4-season conditions, including exposure to temperatures well below freezing and salty slush spray, then charged via chargers and cords of unknown quality plugged into what are often pre-WWII electrical systems.

The FDNY is appropriately raiding custom battery shops in NYC, since there doesn't seem to be an appropriate regulatory system yet for custom-manufacturing this sort of energy storage device in a dense urban environment yet:
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/02/09/queens-biz-...
I’m not following how that would result in a 10x discrepancy. The amount of data we’re talking about here is laughably small (it’s like 32 bytes or something)
Open-Source Is a Chainsaw
Synology uses BTRFS weirdly, on top of dmraid, which negates the most well-known BTRFS bugs in their RAID5/6 implementation*. Best I can tell they also have some custom modifications in their implementation as well, though it's hard to find much info on it.

* FWIW, I used native BTRFS RAID5 for years and never had an issue but that's just anecdata
Advanced math is mostly written in plain English, actually!
Good reasons implies that there are bad reasons, but I'd think there are just reasons. I suppose one question I would ask is are Gen Z and Millennials more online than Gen X and Boomers? I suppose that's the stereotype, but Facebook also has the reputation as a Boomer site these days; certainly my mother is a fan. And Boomers are not Greatest/Silent Generation - my dad bought a 486 in the 90's and told me not to tell my mom how much he spent, despite not needing one for any real practical reason. Boomers aren't helpless around technology; their generation invented most of the modern incarnations of it, and they had to learn to use it throughout their careers.
> it takes more energy and more carbon emissions to walk a mile than it takes to drive a vehicle a mile

Do you have a source for this? Sounds questionable.
Honestly, this is part of the reason why I don't think Google will be a dominant business in 10 years. Searching the web for information helped us service a lot of useful 'jobs to be done' ... but most of those are now all done better by ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

Sure we have Gemini but can Google take a loss in revenue in search advertising in their existing product to maybe one day make money from Gemini search? Advertising in the LLM interface hasn't been figured out yet.

Google (kind of) feels like an old school newspaper in the age of the internet. Advertising models for the web took a while to shake out.
I used cordless exclusively. I too got my main account banned as part of the initial round where they did this.
Starting this year you need to amortize the R&D expenses over 5+ years, which is going to be brutal for startups.

Losing a lot of money and you can't write off your engineers
They will discover that the earth isn't constant in size at that scale.
You lead with saying you have no background in physics, proceed to give an incorrect explanation, and then asked if it was wrong. Someone simply told you it was in fact wrong -- which apparently didn't meet your expectations. If you wanted someone to explain it to you, why not ask for an explanation or for critique rather than to _expect_ a total stranger to correct all of your understanding out of the goodness of their heart?

Why not just come out and state "Someone please offer me their valuable time to explain physics exactly at my level and at my pace. Thanks!"
No, but "modern AI" and "this current AI hype machine" are not equivalent phrases.
Anything on B2C?
They don't plan to live forever either, they cannot just sue to get their money back from one day to the next, nor do they have many alternatives for their investments. That makes Japanese debt predictable and easy to service - unlike international institutional debt, which is what creates problems in most other major economies.
I’m not so convinced about “blue zones”. A lot of longevity claims seem to disappear once modern record keeping and birth certificates come into play.
Taller buildings can flex up to a few feet in each direction actually!
Any of David Robinson's (or anyone else's) Tidy Tuesday videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@safe4democracy/featured
The character "|" has been introduced in computers in the language NPL at IBM in December 1964 as a notation for bitwise OR, replacing ".OR.", which had been used by IBM in its previous programming language, "FORTRAN IV" (OR was between dots to distinguish it from identifiers, marking it as an operator).

The next year the experimental NPL (New Programming Language) has been rebranded as PL/I and it has become a commercial product of IBM.

Following PL/I, other programming languages have begun to use "&" and "|" for AND and OR, including the B language, the predecessor of C.

The pipe and its notation have been introduced in the Third Edition of UNIX (based on a proposal made by M. D. McIlroy), in 1972, so after the language B had been used for a few years and before the development of C. The oldest documentation about pipes that I have seen is in "UNIX Programmer's Manual Third Edition" from February 1973.

Before NPL, the vertical bar had already been used in the Backus-Naur notation introduced in the report about ALGOL 60 as a separator between alternatives in the description of the grammar of the language, so with a meaning somewhat similar to OR.
Yeah. No. My mothers Macbook's display connector came loose after 3 years. No plausible way to fix it because the display cable is hidden under all the other components.
Anecdotes aren't the best, but there ARE reasons Apple got this reputation.
If I complain here will they fix my year old bug?

https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/12508
I fully believe it’s possible if the density is there and the services are there to go with them. In the USA we sometimes get the density but not the public services and spaces.
Why is BitTorrent not supported? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this thing but it seems like application #1.
Proper Work-Life Balance in the Packet Factory
Didn't we already do this experiment with Flash? Macromedia/Adobe made the player free, and charged for tools. In the same way, it seems that Rive wants to open source the player and then charge for the editor. Maybe its a bit different since Rive seems targeted at game devs using other platforms like Unity and Unreal - presumably to embed things like cinematics? But then of course you have this (OSS) player, which implies Rive also wants to own the whole experience. Hence the reference to Flash.

It's not really my area, but best of luck to you!
How come Satoshi Nakamoto can remain anonymous in spite of his worth in the billions of dollars, but emulator developers, worth almost nothing, can't hide from Nintendo? Opsec mistakes, or just no opsec at all?
Why do you think transformers won't be key in making a level 4+ self-driving AI. It seems to me that Vision-capable multi-modal transformers could be the missing part: they can understand what is happening in the world in a deductive way.

The Vision transformer is capable of predicting that a running child is likely to follow that rolling soccer ball. It is capable of deducting that a particular situation looks dangerous or unusual and it should slow down, or stay away from danger in ways that previous crop of AI could not.

Imo, the only thing currently preventing transformers to change everything is the large amount of compute power required to run them. It's not currently possible to imagine GPT4-V running on a embedded computer inside a car. Maybe AI asic type of chip will solve that issue, maybe Edge computing and 5G will find it's use-case... Let's wait and see, but I would bet that transformer will find it's way in many places and change the world in many more ways than bringing us chatbots.
Elon is plenty of things but racist is not something he's been shown to be. That's a weird stereotype that people are lumping him into because of his other views.
> The top answer given here is highly reductionist to the point of misleading

This is my expectation for every single "expert" answer on Reddit. Confidence without substance.
> I understand Paris to have undertaken a serious revolution in purging cars within the past decade.

The issue is that they have mainly increased the friction of using cars in the city (reducing lanes, restricting parking, converting avenues to one-way) all the while the public transit enhancements are running late, and whatever lines were already there saw a drop in service quality.

So increasing density would require a major improvement in public transit. Note, however, that the city of Paris proper already has one of the highest densities in the world.
I think a lot of the problem is that R does everything it can to prevent people from writing modular code.

It doesn't have modules or namespaces, and the current fashion is for packages to use non-standard evaluation which adds friction to user's writing their own functions.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Tree-sitter is great until you inevitably run into a problem with it and find that it is impossible to fix properly if you can even figure out why the problem even exists.

The idea of a uniform api for querying syntax trees is a good one and tree-sitter deserves credit for popularizing it. It's unfortunately not a great implementation of the idea.
My hunch is that if you added the buffered reader and kept the original xxd in the pipe you’d see similar timings.

The amount of input data is just laughably small here to result in a huge timing discrepancy.

I wonder if there’s an added element where the constant syscalls are reading on a contended mutex and that contention disappears if you delay the start of the program.
Mars vehicle is still coming, it wasn't supposed to be here yet.
Totally get the desire, but also feels like last two paragraphs are solvable with

```
re.match(text).extract().rstrip(“\n”)
```
> If nobody cares that much, maybe deprecate the tool, then?

If you think that's the right thing to do, you're as free as anybody else to send documentation patches. I doubt anybody would argue with you here, but who knows :)

> Also, just because it's Open Source (TM) doesn't mean developers will accept any patch regardless of its quality.

Of course not. If you want to make a difference, you have to put in the work. It's worth it IMHO.
Build Apps Not Infrastructure
But we already have awesome propaganda at home, orchestrated by capital.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
How many children ought we produce on average?
In Google's heyday, around 2014, I was talking with Uszkoreit about a possible role on his then NLP team.

I asked "What would you do if you had an unlimited budget?"

He simply said, "I do"
America Is Bigger: the USA Expanded the Size of Two Californias
These are just easy pickings for Nintendo to bully. When they go after Twitch is when the real case law will be made.

I honestly think game streaming is a grey area that could easily be made illegal by the wrong company getting sued for it.
That's arguably just a commodity at this point, right?
Building taller is the equivalent of building more lanes. The main problem with housing shortage and infrastructure congestion in Paris is that everything is centralized and concentrated on Paris, and thus everyone want to be there
Can't you guys just nationalize Intel instead of giving your hard earned money to oligarchs?
Re:

> Looks kinda interesting but I am not gonna touch anything that thinks an acceptable set of drawing tools is "pen and a couple of basic shapes", I quit pulling out every single point by hand in Illustrator a decade ago and my art and my job satisfaction has been much better for it.

How do you work differently now?
Chacun à son goût. I'd prefer not to have to rely on other people. Also, if you change your mind learning to drive is a lot harder when you're older.
I think it is most repugnant when you are working really hard and (very slowly) building your life up.

It was really easy to be charitable when I was young and working meaningless jobs for $15/hr and I had my whole life ahead, and it will probably be easy when I am retired and no longer feel the strain of 50/hr workweeks.

For now though it is brutal watching taxes eat huge chunks of your income so they can spend flagrantly.
> In some EU countries, like Austria for example, there are royalties to pay on non-volatile storage memory[1]

In France it's the same but with an even more insane version. The tax is so high that it's skewing the EU average and you have to take France out of the data.

As an example, taxes on mobile phones are at 14EUR for a phone with a drive greater than 64GB (so most of them nowadays)
Also, code is read more often than it is written.
Very few US media outlets are worth anything imo, basically WSJ, Bloomberg, and (very marginally) Politico. If you are lucky your local paper may be worthwhile for local matters but not for anything else.
Will put Twilio on the list, thanks!
Whoops, I mixed up Mankiw’s Principles of Microeconomics and Cline (or Cechetti’s) Money, Banking and Financial Markets.

The 19th century source is Bagehot. But that won’t make sense without the above fundamentals. (Bernanke’s work on the Great Depression is also a good empirical study on deflation. But again, not worth tackling until after one of the Money & Bankings.)
Aren't there privacy implications for this? Can I opt to have my property blurred like I can for Google Street View?
Acreom vs. Obsidian
If not, that would be extremely concerning.
What evidence is there for said concerted effort?