skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was back in Taiwan last year after an extended absence.

It's pretty amazing how easy it is to get around with a combination of the mass rapid transit (MRT) system and high speed rail (HSR).

When I was last there, you still needed to take a bus or taxi from TPE to the city center. Now right from TPE airport, you can be in either Taipei city center in 30 minutes (MRT) or on the other end of the island in short order (HSR). Which is kind of fun because the southern end of the island has a totally different vibe.

Within Taipei, you can get to where you need to using the MRT and walk (fun because there's so many interesting nooks and back alleys anyways) or use bike rentals. There's also abundant buses as well connecting from the MRT stations.

Taichung has a single MRT line that connects east to west right off of the HSR line.

Kaohsiung has a few MRT lines and surface light rail that connect the major attractions.

All of it quite cheap to get around, incredibly clean and well maintained, and just all around made it much more enjoyable wandering the city.

The only time we felt the need for a car was visiting the more remote north/east coasts and only because we wanted to save time versus waiting for the slower trains that run those routes.

Whenever I land in SFO, I wonder who's bright idea it was to not have an easy connector to CalTrain at Milbrae (or I'm doing something wrong -- I feel like I don't fully understand the right way to get to Milbrae from SFO). Then on weekends, there's barely any service so if you land on a Sunday for a business trip, you'll waste so much time waiting for the train.

Indeed, it is jarring when we returned to the US.
I understand those things. I must be misinterpreting the point in your original comment. Elaborate if you can be bothered.
Why isn’t Perl available on regex101 when its all about regex?
Stable Diffusion maker leaves Stability AI
After a bunch of delays, maybe they will see some profits: https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/components/tsmc-further-...

What's annoying about this spending spree (from the perspective of the gov) is that this is supposed to secure chips production in North America (motivated by the China threat on Taiwan), but the government doesn't really seem to care about delays as it forbids TSMC/Intel to bring external talent & include DEI clauses in their deals.
My first guess involved caching but I was thinking about whether the binary itself had to be read from disk or was already cached in RAM. Great linux-fu post.
This is the unwritten policy at many companies; Dell is just announcing it.
People mock the soviet way of building neighborhoods but it was miles better.

Instead of extensive pointless suburbs where everybody has his house, they built huge 8/10 story buildings.

The buildings were surrounded by parks, benches, places for kids to play.

People aggregated a lot and everything was relatively close (building taller means you can build a lot closer to downtown).

I have lived 6 months in Ohio, Columbus, and I can't but say you live much worse. One thing I noticed is that lack of good public transport is one of the major causes for neighborhoods to become ghettos and poor. You're a guy that lives some 15/20 miles off Columbus and there's a job in the city? Well, if you're that poor that you don't have a car you can't work there either. And nowadays you need at least 2/3k year for insurance alone. This lack of public transport is one of the major reasons why so many areas around big cities become slowly poor and ruined and people have tougher chances to start making a living.

In 2024 with everybody owning a car Polish neighborhoods have transformed. Cars fill every single space. Kids are constrained to small often remote areas. Benches get removed to get more parking spaces. People don't aggregate anymore, there's a much smaller sense of a community.

In many ways, the progress I have seen in Poland made the country just unhappier and lonelier. I would even bluntly say that my parents and my parents parents had it much better. They would party and dance every week, always on some trip or vacation.

Sure, the party would have people bringing their own glasses, salami and something to drink, but people really enjoyed the times.

Cars are just one of the major factors that transformed our cities for worse.
The line delimiter is a newline.

If you have a file containing `A\nB\nC` in a file, the file is three lines long.

I guess it could be argued that a file containing `A\nB\nC\n` has four lines, with the fourth having zero length.

That a regex is applying to an in memory string vs a file doesn't feel to me like it should have different semantics.

Digging into the history a little, it looks like regexes were popularized in text editors and other file oriented tooling. In those contexts I imagine it would be far more common to want to discard or ignore the trailing zero length line than to process it like every other line in a file.
It's great to see more builders entering the CRM space. Brace yourself for a long and tough journey, but the rewards will be substantial.

About two years ago, I was testing out the concept of the CRM build on top of Snowflake or any other DWH as a backend [0]. I can implement the core functions using existing drag-and-drop modular components, visualization elements, forecasting, alerting, etc. For basic CRM entities (contacts, deals, companies), tables are created in Snowflake via Unistore. CRM may maintain a separate database of their data containing application state, user permissions, and other metadata. Still, increasingly, the core data used to course through a system of record will be pushed/copied to the DWH.

For a data scientist to make forecasts, there is no need to upload data to the notebook; you can take Streamlit and build the necessary experience within the application. Any alerting logic can be described declaratively. An application or workflow can be created depending on its interaction with the product. The customization limits are almost limitless.

I love you're working in that direction.
Reach me if you want to chat more – kidrulit at Twitter

[0] https://nonamevc.substack.com/p/how-snowflake-changes-the-wa...
I hope so, but ice been waiting for consumer drop in battery products for a while.

LFP and other techs have exploded into mass production and yet stuff like eGo batteries are exhorbitant, tool batteries, etc
And we are due for EVs that actually deliver a power train cost that beats ICE that delivers savings to a car buyer.
What proprietary databases (and the Lord's of data fiefdoms in large enterprises that control them) fail in IT isn't necessarily production stability and performance.

It's the ridiculous hoops you have to jump through to spin up a development insurance, a qa/unit test instance, to integrate with build pipelines, to run locally or in the cloud.

If you're trying to diagnose something really hard, like intransigent performance or debugging issues , and you need to spin up a near copy of production to run big tests, well have fun getting that by your license sever or the license audit.
Car free cities are great but you have to have a lot of problems solved for them to work . You need high density, lots of public services from libraries to pools all these need to be close. Public transport has to be safe so you have to actually enforce laws and arrest vagrants. Car free needs a lot of things to go right where car full cities can be pretty disfunctional
Plus car travel is dead time since you’re forced to pay attention to the road at least somewhat.

I’d rather have a longer journey that is hands free
This is on top of an earlier €500m fine in 2021. And I'm guessing the total bill of €750m does at least far exceed what it would have cost to comply in the first place. Regardless of percentages, I'm guessing this does change Google's approach, at least in France.
There was a paper years ago saying in some Autopsies they found signs of Alzheimer's being 'repaired' in people who stayed mentally active. Anecdotally the people in my family that had it stopped engaging their brains in deep ways before it happened. Surely that's no silver bullet or everyone would do it, but thought I'd share
> But lots of animals also eat (uncooked) meat. It doesnt explain why the developmental difference occured in humans but not other animals eating a similar diet.

As to the gut: "The guts of carnivores are usually shorter and less complex than those of herbivores because meat is easier to digest than plant material."

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Anim...

As to the brain: These foods may give an animal the option to invest more into brain size, but that won't happen unless there is a local gradient in the evolutionary fitness landscape that gives a higher roi for larger brains in comparison to alternative investments, like more muscle mass, or just being content with the lower power consumption relative to intake, which makes the animal more resistant to starvation risks, etc.
so you think there is no private space industry in Europe? Do you work in that field?
I love Obsidian, but mostly use a filter (dataview) to deal with my tasks and overview. Most of the time on Windows and Linux. I do not use my macBook a lot. Only for testing the application we work on, so not very familiar with Reminders, though I like the idea. How do you properly link them up as they might go out of sync (loose relation) if one of the texts gets changed.
Europeans don't need private enterprise/initiative. We can rely on the grand vision and foresight of state institutions who always make timely, sustainable and efficient decisions.
> Those botched together mains wires alone look like a fire risk.

There is nothing inherently unsafe with bolting power strip onto the wall.

> Quite apart from the circumstances of their creation, the homemade battery packs themselves can also be quite unsafe as some/most shops use any secondhand cells they can get their hands without regards for discharge ratings etc. That sort of imbalance can easily lead to fires during use, which is obviously not great when the driver is in busy traffic at the time.

Not reading the article before yapping your mouth eh ?

> Ady Siswanto, owner of e-bike workshop Dyvolt in Jakarta, told Rest of World he takes care to match the internal resistance and capacity of the cells.

Most of the "serial DIYes" know that just fine, as it is blindingly obvious in performance of batteries and if you're making it a business you'd not have many returning customers... except ones returning for a return.

And let's not pretend name-brand packs don't have "accidents"
Yes...but per Doctorow's definition (via Wikipedia), I would use "enshittification" only to describe the intentional more-profits-via-lower-costs degradation of things.

What you're describing sounds more like software "feature crap", where the devs are tasked with endlessly providing more & cooler-sounding bullet point for the suits and Sales Dept. to brag about the software having. Not to say that there aren't plenty of devs with itchy fingers, who can't leave well enough alone...
To me, Obsidian just isn't sticky, so I already have pivoted to Amplenote. It's been the tool that I consistently use for note taking and personal task tracking.
GenAI Samples and Loops for Musicians/Producers
I created a transformer model trained on 100K licenced samples and loops. It's pretty good at dance music and makes some weird sounds for other prompts.
It used to be that one assembled batteries of cells. But language changes I suppose.
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Are you asking me what I personally believe, or what the GP meant? I don't want to put words in their mouth, but stating that bartending is future-proof while white collar work isn't paints the picture of a future with more inequality and concentration of wealth rather than less.

Maybe I'm being overly broad in my interpretation, because they did specifically single out "coding" - but having personally worked both in and out of tech I don't really see non-dev "desk jobs" as having any particular moat against automation (and potentially even less than devs, which admittedly means I disagree with the likes of Jensen Huang).

So, when programmers go - they won't go alone. At that point it's reasonable to ask what kind of human labor will be marketable enough to command upward-mobility salary tiers, or if the 99.9% are perpetually relegated to pouring Bezos & co drinks while teaching them how to telemark [1]

[1] dystopia aside it would be entertaining to watch
Yes that's true, I was moreso trying to make a point about how much the cost of living has changed in general.
Great! More fines, sooner or later they'll have to start complying.
If they want to access that market they have to play by their rules. Along the same tangent, the EU appears to be concerned with the intent/spirit of their laws and will amend them when anyone tries to side step them. It seems Apple and Google are not used to that.
Not even sure how you'd start off hating the idea. Less noise, less pollution, shorter commute, cheaper infrastructure, more green, more walking, improved health...I mean...just off the top of my head I'm thinking of tons of advantages. I can't think of a single disadvantage. The only reason I need a car is because the city / neighbourhood is configured around the expectation that everyone has a car.
They stood on the buildings and checked if the sun was completely covered, nothing interesting about shadows etc
AI OSes: bad news for ads?
I have to live in a bubble then. I never heard people express hate of care free cities, but I hear the opposite all the time, people complaining how horrible car-centric cities are.

But I’m a Western European who lived in cities all my life, don’t have a driving license, and has zero interest in cars ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only trade secret at Tesla is the production price, so the buyers do not feel cheated. /s
Ambiguous Loss
Which people? How many are willing to guarantee such a repair will still work a year from now?
PostgreSQL 17 gains built-in collation
Built-in collation provider committed to PostgreSQL 17 (still in development) complements of Jeff Davis. This is a huge step forward for PostgreSQL users! If you don't understand why, you should research it.
Everyone says "Discord bad" (and I agree, it has issues) but few bother to understand and learn about what makes it successful and makes people use it (even in spite of its badness).

Alternatives bring in their own set of issues and generally focus on technicalities rather than delivering a good Discord/etc competitor, so nobody uses them.

Do you want to chat with people or do you want to waste time dealing with protocol fragmentation, half-baked clients (or no clients at all), fundamental protocol-level flaws (that can't be fixed without effectively starting from scratch on a new protocol), etc? Most people pick the first option and then tolerate the badness of Discord as a necessary evil.
China also makes some of the worlds worst batteries. (Source: all the products I had to return after 1 or fewer successful charges.)
Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
It's the other way around: Dell is making public a policy that's unwritten at tons of companies.
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If it was a good deal for the consumer, they wouldn't be offering it.
I would have expected the article to give some clear pool/metric/statistics about "people hate the idea ... ". There are indeed loud people and big interest groups that oppose car free cities, but I am not sure about "people" in general.

Sure, you need means of transport and to be able to live, and you can't change things over night, but if you would ask people "would you prefer to have a supermarket 5 minutes away or one 20 kilometers away" I doubt anybody would say "no I want only things far to be forced to use a car".
> The real solution is to accept that anyone who bought in the last half century should have factored in the scientific evidence of climate change and not expect taxpayers to subsidize their failure to plan appropriately.

It's mostly not even climate change. The reality is that without a great deal of very expensive intervention from humans, sand coastlines are constantly shifting and changing. Building long term structures in these places has ALWAYS been folly.

The worst part is it's not even irrational because the rest of the country will fund the billions of dollars for state and federal projects to shore up these properties indefinitely.
For that you’ll need a first class airline ticket with Tom Hardy and Leo.
You wouldn’t need eminent domain in that case
The article lists some specific limitations of the meta build systems but doesn't really get to the underlying, fundamental issue with the approach. Which leaves the possibility of these specific limitations being addressed somehow and thus refuting the claim that meta build systems are fundamentally broken.

I think the fundamental issue boils down to aggregation. Normally, aggregation is a good thing, a variant of the divide and conquer technique which we were all taught in kindergarten you can never go wrong with. But in build systems aggregation leads to the loss of precision (rebuilding more than necessary) or accuracy (not rebuilding when necessary, rebuilding things in the wrong order), and usually both. This is the fundamental reason why "recursive make is considered harmful": we split one big graph that has the total, accurate view of all the dependencies into a number of aggregate sub-graphs. And the same happens with meta build systems where we do some part of the build (configuration, pre-build steps where we generate source code, etc) in the meta build system and the rest in the underlying build system, essentially splitting the graph into two.

P.S. And, yes, `build2` supports both dynamic prerequisites/dependencies[1] and dynamic targets[2].

[1] https://build2.org/release/0.15.0.xhtml#dyndep

[2] https://build2.org/release/0.16.0.xhtml#dyn-target
Is the GPU driver closed source?
"Do you like car free cities?"

"Oh yes!"

"Cool, Get out then."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=925wmb-4Yr4
I wonder how `.import` would compare vs creating a huge batch insert string in memory.
>help protect the beaches more permanently.

Then you get rid of the houses....

The shape of the shore is an equation. In it you have have a massive pool of energy that is the water and its currents. You have a second smaller, yet still massive in human terms, pool of energy in the wind. Then you have the slope of the land from a few miles on shore to many (maybe even hundreds of miles) offshore. This is the lever of the machine. It weighs billions of tons and is miles long. What exactly does permanent mean when you stick something between an anvil and hammer that grinds down mountains. And in specific, you stick it where it becomes the focal point for that energy?
> any chance of a screenshot?

https://www.altap.cz/salamander/screenshots/
> I'm certain there are many on here who had high potential and feel they've squandered it.

I had the same feeling, I still do to some extent. But genuinely, I also have noticed that society isn't equipped to deal with my high potential. My issue is: I want to stay authentic, I find it (morally/ethically) hard to put on a mask or role. Therefore, I bring my whole self to a job interview.

The problem with that is that: suppose you'd order a coffee at your local coffee chain and you see the barista, and they would bring their whole self while making you that coffee. How would you feel about that? You'd think "I only wanted a coffee, but now I also have to deal with all this extra stuff." That extra stuff may be good or bad, but it's still overhead. Well, that's the problem I'm running into when applying for jobs. No one in my family could've told me that this would happen. It wasn't part of my upbringing. No one at uni told me this. I had to painfully piece this together myself.

A large part of society doesn't fully get integrated into work culture. Some people fix this by being okay with lying or bending the truth. I wasn't. However, the workplace is not the welcoming environment that university is. At university all one has to do is to show that they're ambitious and work their asses off. That's not the case in the workplace. The mechanics are much more tribal, and also culturally different.

I wasn't prepared for it and I wasn't willing to sacrifice my integrity over it. So yea, my high potential simply could not have been utilized.

Also, it shows that markets are inefficient. The market incentives for me to find a job aren't strong enough and the market incentives for companies to find me and use my talents aren't strong enough either. I'm convinced there are companies out there that I'd be able to transform due to a personality/culture/skill fit. However, both me and those companies are having an incredibly hard time finding each other. To be fair, it's not an easy task. And market dynamics sure aren't fully solving it with the "invisible hand" that it offers.

It is what it is. I choose to stay as optimistic as possible.
Equinix Exposed: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
Although I am rooting for Intel, the leadership is just not an execution machine. Pat is a very good CEO, and he understands technology as much as the business. But the next level simply doesn’t have that charisma to deliver. I wouldn’t be surprised to see many delays and eventually a product which is years behind competition.
The open paragraph regarding London is very much 'of now'. Air pollution in London in the 2000s has been the lowest it has been in over a century. The Great Smog of 1952 killed perhaps 10,000 people over a very short period. And the article doesn't make clear the ONS-estimated 36,000 a year deaths is across the entire UK not just London.

It just feels like the modern journalism's trend for hyperbole and over exaggeration. That's not to say that pollution shouldn't be reduced as much as possible. It's not so bad that you don't see tens of thousands of runners and cyclists in and around London every single day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London