skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want pristine sand beaches then expect major change over time. Looking at areas where there is little change over time, certain coastal structures are in plain sight.

But as many have already noted, the sea erodes all coastlines. However, what the sea takes away at one time, it also brings back in another time. When my father was in his teens, the water's edge for a small residential site was over a mile away. By the time I was in my teens, that distance had been reduced to 30 metres. By the time I was in my late twenties and early thirties, the water's edge was now at half a kilometre further out. Since then (I'm in the mid 60's) that beach has has grown and receded a couple more times.

Moral of the story, build only where there is relatively constant conditions.
Kubernetes clusters are cattle until you deploy ingress, then it becomes a pet
I would pay an additional 10% tax if it would be earmarked to public transportation.
A great quote I love.

Being British is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

All while being suspicious of foreigners.
Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments
> While we did not find statistically significant evidence to support an association of consuming relatively more plant- and fewer animal-based foods with the risk of dementia, our HR of 0.93 (95% CI: 0.86–1.01) for the hPDI cannot rule out a subtle beneficial effect of healthy plant-based eating on the brain.

"cannot rule out a subtle effect". Otherwise not statistically significant. Great.
https://xkcd.com/386/

;)
I worked for one of the affected companies as a rare example of a permanent, in-house engineer.

They had a _lot_ of contractors, some independent based in the UK, some contracts with companies with a local presence who would work from the office alongside us, and some in India.

All were equally shit at worst, with only the independent contractors proving the exception on occasion.

I recall being stuck with “senior” colleagues who couldn’t manage to upgrade a dependency even while being handheld.
It’s Sundar’s personal account and he’s feeling salty and taking it out on the comments*

*this is a joke, just in case
Do you know anybody working in a patent office? I know people in the European patent office and they are overwhelmed by numbers of application, they need very educated people to read through lot of (boring) documents and they do not get much incentive to be perfect (I mean salary is fixed).

> needs to adjust the bar each year.

You make it sound like this is moving a slider - I have strong doubts this is the case, someone need to write a description, explain it, make sure people understood how to interpret it. Doubt that changing rules each year would work well.

> A patent examiner looks and has a discussion with the patent file

You seem to agree that this is additional work.

> Which I would like to reduce or eliminate.

Making a policy must take into account side-effects. The intention can be good but the result of it can be bad

> my process kicks in at the time a patent is filed

One more process? There is a search already when you fill (or pre-fill don't remember the terminology) something. In my limited experience, results are - let's put it mildly - average.

> if I'm first-to-file, but you can show that you invented before I filed, no patent is granted.

What is the difference with today? But this is easier said than done. Patent language is complex, details are very minor and people will argue very every little thing.

Fewer "active" patents and "less incentive to be a troll" would also be obtained by reducing drastically the granted period and that is clear and simple to implement.
> Ukraine, Romania, and Poland.

They have to compete with India (because otherwise why would you go there instead of just going with India) so they have to justify it by offering at least a slightly higher quality bar to differentiate themselves from a market saturated by low-quality sweatshops. Personal experience, I don't (yet) get spam emails offering me dev services from Eastern Europe (or Thailand/Philippines for that matter) but I've had my fair share of "agencies" promising me the moon at cheap prices, with all signs pointing that the origin of those is India.

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> In McD's and ATT's case

The problem with large, non-IT "legacy" companies is less outsourcing itself (although outsourcing is a symptom of it) but that there is no healthy engineering culture. Nobody competent joins/stays there because if you're competent and actually want that skill to be rewarded you'll have much better options, so the only thing that remains is mediocrity.

Since you mentioned ATT, ask yourself why there is zero innovation coming out of the telco space? It is after all just bits and bytes (and with things like IMS/VoLTE more and more of it is bog standard IP and SIP). We've seen innovation in banking (see challenger banks in the UK), we've seen it in electric utilities (Octopus Energy in the UK has a healthy Python-focused engineering arm), yet for some reason nothing ever comes out of telcos beyond excuses to misbill people and coming up with ever-outlandish use-cases for 5G.
How would you compare your vision to EspoCrm?
It has nice UX, custom fields, formulas, can be self-hosted, is very low cost, api access, with add-ons for workflows, reports.
N of 1 here, but I've lived extensively in both environments. Love cars, got my licence on my birthday the first day I could apply.

That said, I'm noticeably happier and healthier whenever I don't need to own one. My quality of life is higher when living somewhere everything is accessible by walking and by efficient public transport.
More anti-car drivel. Sure there must be a balance but car-free isn't the way and won't be a thing. They had to scrap the Streatham Wells LTN after a three-mile bus journeys took two hours - and not everyone can walk three miles, let alone the entire route.
One of the best tools ever made. Thank you, Daniel!
> It's mostly not even climate change

Let me amend that: it’s not just climate change but climate change is like a catalyst for the existing problem. Higher sea level, greater storm intensity and frequency, and other ecological impacts (e.g. native vegetation might not control erosion as well due to changing conditions or invasive pests) all mean we get the harder versions of the problem and have deal with more crises at a time.
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I don't think anyone has worked this out yet.

Literally 99% of laptops out there die and/or are recycled with the stock configuration.

The first thing to go are the ports, batteries, screens, keyboards. I haven't seen an SSD failure in a decade now and we have thousands of them in production and on people's laptops.
So, living in one of those cities (AMS) I have a few takes. I'm not ranting, just expressing my frustration:

1. Cars exists because they are more comfortable. I don't care that biking should better, it's not when it rains sideways, it's cold and windy. Biking sucks. I would pay top money to not be in a bike, not be outside getting drenched, and usually do ubering everywhere to the dismay of Dutch people,

2. Cities designed around biking are uber tied to public transport. I'm a lefty, I think that's great, but it's not, because the first time there are cuts to public service you find yourself living in the middle of nowhere and can only bike, because cars are too expensive to own. This happened in the Netherlands with NS slashing intercity trips, and increasing prices. I had colleagues now that now to live several hours per day in a packed commuter train. I can't see how that's better.

3. Any type of DIY activity becomes a nightmare. Want to rent move a couch? Good luck! Back home, you could load the thing on a nice Volvo and be happy.

4. Electric bikes are effectively not policed because it's the new thing we need to incentivize, and it becomes immediately super dangerous. I know people that had serious injuries because of crashes. Cars are inherently safer, especially modern SUV like volvos or tesla,

5. Accessibility becomes a nightmare, especially if you are in a wheelchair, your commute times are going to skyrocket,

All this "bikes are amazing" just reeks of some bad degrowth ideology. There is a duality between cars are bad and hydrocarbons are bad. Except they are literally the engine of growth, and for some reasons we decided that we should phase out hydrocarbons and replace them with some silly not reliable energy alternative (solar, wind). I can't see how this ends in a different way than how it went in Europe with our energy policy.

Cities are meant to grow and drive the economy, not to be Disneyland parks. If I want to bike I can go to Italy on a seaside town, I don't need to bike 356 days a year.
Good to know. I've only been running LLMs at home and most of the open-source ones have been more than small enough to fit in my measly 12GB. But I guess most workloads want so much that 24GB won't fit them at all.
It’s also not legal in many US states.
I read about these charter cities a few years ago [0]. All the theory around them seemed to have this libertarian zeal about it that kind of put the foreign investors ahead of the local, voting population. And basic government functions (voting, taxes, police) were simply ignored or not fully explained.

BTW, for the Americans, there are lots of charter cities going up in Puerto Rico. And they are also unpopular because rich foreigners pay lower or no taxes compared to a PR citizen.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-pol...
Sounds like a good "rite of passage" test for membership in the AI cult --- where the results don't matter.
EVE would be my guess too, possibly INR18650-35V, which seems totally cromulent for an ebike.

EVE cells are also used in newer Ryobi power tools, it's worth pointing out: https://www.reddit.com/r/ryobi/comments/oxn53g/psa_ryobi_is_...
I dunno. Maybe because nobody has contributed it? Maybe because Perl isn't as widely used as it once was? Maybe because it's hard to compile Perl to WASM? Maybe some other reason?
I don't have a car and I'd love my city to be car free.

But some people think they need their car because they think they need to move a lot of stuff regularly, for instance between their home and their parents, and their parents don't leave in a place easily reachable without a car. This stuff can include pets, like cats. I think some of these people could do things differently, but maybe some of these people might genuinely have these needs.

Going to work daily to a place that needs a car is another concern. Sometimes at times outside the public transport hours. Very good public transport could mitigate this. But some people might also need to move a lot of stuff (tools, materials) for work, which might be complicated with public transports.

And when you move, public transports won't cut it.

But we could have almost car-free cities that allow these specific cases (possibly with special authorization), addressing most people / most cases with good public transport.
The French work week is 7 hours so they get an extra hour to fuck around with public transportation a day. So that might help quite a bit. Still I’d be curious how upper middle class folks with kids survive without cars. Maybe that 33% covers the affluent folks with kids tho.
Not a big fan of his. I think he over simplifies some ideas for mass consumption.

Regardless, this is a self reporting study which is the only way to report happiness. Over the past 3 years prior to October Israel had years of peace which are far more appreciated in a country that has known quite a lot of conflict. I think westerners don't appreciate this as much as we do.
> The competition authority said Google’s AI-powered chatbot Bard – since rebranded as Gemini – was trained on content from publishers and news agencies without notifying them.

An important reason—amongst others—why projects like ChatGPT cannot be conceived inside Google anymore. Yeah, it's sad how legal, privacy, and compliance teams have expanded to obstruct any significant engineering project, but there are genuine reasons why.
That was me on Reddit. I emailed him asking about some of his work on invariant means in the 1970s. He said “I had no taste then”, and told me what a waste of time it was.

At that point, I decided to go into data science instead of trying to get a post doc…
I wonder if you could make a completely offline location service by correlating the results of a local 3d scan of the ground to the global model?

Cruise missiles already do something similar. How big is a mm scale model of the globe?

It would almost completely negate the need for easily jammed and expensive to maintain gps satellites.
Unveiling 'Gangnam Project'-A Riveting Journey Through K-Pop's Training Grounds
> Why do you think that doing something which is maybe not study related is a bad idea?

Because 99.999% of those kids won't go on to start the next Google and make more money for PG's investments.

When I was at school there were a few kids who were genuinely moderately good at football/soccer. With only minor encouragement from PE staff and family they essentially had the attitude of "I don't need to study, I am going to be a professional footballer." (who by the way make huge huge huge sums of money if you are at the very top)

And how many of those went on to to be top-flight professional footballers do you think? Yep - zero. What are they doing now considering they crashed out of out of school with no qualifications, no professional sports career, and barely able to even do basic literacy and arithmetic etc? Low skilled and relatively dead-end jobs like gardeners, working on building sites, security guards etc.

They threw away their chance to study and gain skills because irresponsible and self-interested adults told them they should abandon school and concentrate on this dream of fame and fortune with essentially zero chance of it coming true. You're fucking with people's lives by doing this - don't tell people you don't need to try hard and study and learn, you just need to become a billionaire business owner!
How is that misaligned with your DDOS? It’s not moving the goal posts at all you just didnt think of that possibility and now are upset.
2/3s sounds like a lot but it would be better to count how many households have no car.

And the US is covered with cities that can be lived in car-free; but the tradeoffs are too great for most people. (By definition any rural town that’s about a square mile or two is walkable.) Cars are so cheap and so good that most everyone grabs one when they can.
There was a point where acme.sh [1] changed their default from LetsEncrypt to ZeroSSL and that bit my automation because I only use wildcard certificates. ZeroSSL does not offer free wildcard certs [2] whereas LetsEncrypt does.

[1] - https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh

[2] - https://zerossl.com/pricing/
If I am US company and I'm buying services from a Chinese company, what would I care what their real cost is? The reality is most large industry in the world is subsidized.
I still think there’s more suggestiveness in your words than you’re giving them credit for:

It’s in the very first sentence: “An EPA ban can't do anything about natural mineral asbestos that occurs near many residential areas.”

You’re saying an EPA ban can’t do something. That’s a place where you’ve pointed out a weakness of the ban, right in the first sentence. None of the remainder of your comment mentions any redeeming value to this EPA policy, so we have to assume that your main objective is to criticize it. After all, your very first sentence is a criticism of the policy’s effectiveness.

If you recall persuasive writing from grade school, we put our overarching opinion/objective right in the first sentence/paragraph as an introduction and then follow it up with supporting evidence throughout the rest of the piece. That’s exactly how your comment was structured.

It’s not some kind of flaw of human nature to assume that your main objective was to criticize the merit of this EPA policy, because you essentially directly stated that it was.
Not all of them, these have led to real non-tourism job growth in PR. And PR is US territory, the tax breaks are for citizens who move from the mainland - not foreigners. It’s actually a great setup for software companies who are required to hire some locals.
> I am fascinated they used 60 pounds and a large amount of space for this teleprinter.

IIRC the Zion space habitat in Neuromancer had a state-of-the-art line printer which at one point spews continuous-fold paper into the weightless environment.

They had however got rid of the slide-rules that were essential in early-era Arthur C Clarke spaceships
Reasonable means different things in different countries and industries. Some require 14 years of retention.
> But there's the _small_ matter of major inconvenience with places inaccessible by public transport, erratic public transport, bad last-mile solutions with private transportation waiting to fleece us for all we're worth,

Where do you live? I see places becoming inaccessible by car due to missing parking places and traffic jams and just love to take a bike / scooter / public transport (which could be much better even if we'd put more focus there, and would also help the poorer people) or by feet. The very few occasions I need a car could be handled by car sharing or delivery services.. I regret having bought one (:
While you are right, there is a common misconception that psychosomatic means that the patient is making up its symptoms and that it’s in his mind. That’s not what a doctor means by psychosomatic, but rather than the symptoms are totally real but that they are originating from stress.

So, any good doctor will try to heal your symptoms regardless of the cause. The only difference when they think it’s psychosomatic is that they’ll also try to treat your stress.
You can either play along with words changing meaning, or you can die on this almost meaningless hills.

Signed, with my crypto keys while hacking on side-projects.

(I'm also in the camp of "I don't love it when words change literal meaning" but I've also realized there is literally nothing I can do to stop it)
This is sort of the model that Brightline (Fortress Investment) is using. They are spending money on the train service in hopes of increasing the values of their real estate investments.
They gave 4 reasons, and I think all are guesses without knowledge of the IT failures in question.
Not even that they might be particularly slow to start in absolute terms, but just that they might be slow relative to how fast the previous stage starts cranking out some input for it.

(Since, as GP said, not an infinite buffer.)
>> People's aversion to change...

When cars first became affordable in the US in the 1910's, due to mass production and financing, they were very quickly adopted in massive numbers. So I don't think it is fair to say that people have an aversion to change.

Are you sure the annoyance isn't that they just don't want the changes you want them to want?
> 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".

For most people it's not about the supermarket. Those are a dime a dozen and all the same. It's easy to provide those in sufficient amounts everywhere.

Now try it with jobs. Not any job, but your job. Is it possible to have your job be 5 minutes from your home. How about in 5 years when your job is underpaid or unfulfilling? Is your next job also 5 minutes away? Or do you now have to move? And 5 years after that, when you're laid off?

I find that loads of people start out enjoying the car-free experience. And then they get a job in the next town. And/or they get kids, so commute-time takes away from kids-time. Life becomes too busy to spend the extra 30 minutes commuting per day that public transport would cost.

Between the trade-off bad job, no time, and car/public transport, the car quickly becomes the best solution. Even if you don't like driving.
With the gracious help of our HN Moderator (giving my post a second chance after failing the front-page lottery), my Show HN post gathered a few thousand visits, a couple hundred users who provided more than enough feedback to keep me occupied for the next 6 months, and my first paying users, so it's worth giving it a shot. Please make sure to check out the Show HN posting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Though now I am still not ramen-profitable (opened paid subscriptions last week), so Product Hunt & co. are the next milestone.

Hope this helps! Mail in my profile if you want to talk shop.

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(Feel free to add a link to your app in the OP. At the very least you might get a few drive-by visitors)
You're right. AFAIK Google has never once cared about a fine, they only comply for PR reasons.
Never move to the US - you’ll find yourself behind the wheel of an F350 with triple gun racks before you know it and not even realize it ;)
Perl perfected the simplicity and flexibility of regex syntax from POSIX and it seems every other language after has just made it harder.
How to find potential users for designing MVP?
In the place I love in now, there is a shoprite right across but I can't walk to it cause a highway cuts across. Google maps says there's an alternate route. Tried to walk through that route but had to give it up when I saw a pedestrian don't cross sign
that's because your parents didn't befriend them.

many people are only normal, friendly and receptive if you actually talk to them.
I use Obsidian daily, but my understanding of the app is terrible. I use it because it's the best markdown editor I've found — I just edit separate .md files, many of which are essentially a 'template' that contains a whole bunch of checkboxes.

Is there a good 'starter guide' that I can use to get up to speed so I can start using Obsidian to track my notes, etc.? I'm very used to editing individual .md files for this kind of thing, but manually, and I get the impression Obsidian offers a bunch of benefits.
I'm not sure blaming yourself for this situation is healthy. You might want to talk through this with a professional.
People tend to gravitate to what's easy for them. I live in a Boston exurb and I decided to pass on a dinner get-together last night because I just didn't feel up for over 2 hours of driving roundtrip and parking to go into the city.

I'm sure if I lived in the city, I would still own a car but I'd probably be much more inclined to do urban activities on the weekend than getting out my car and driving it someplace. And I'd favor a job that I didn't need to drive to even if it came with trade-offs.
I recognize your name and believe you know what you are talking about, so please, please tell us the why! You or someone you know probable has a blog post or article you can link, maybe?
The Autorité fines Google €250M for non-compliance
So would you eat a wild mushroom if an AI classification app said it was OK?
I was going to get caught up watching 2 of my foes battle (copyright & Google) but then this grew in my head until it was all I could think of:

This fine was issued now and not after 15 years of [process].
"The programmer scoffed at Master Foo and rose to depart. But Master Foo nodded to his student Nubi, who wrote a line of shell script on a nearby whiteboard, and said: “Master programmer, consider this pipeline. Implemented in pure C, would it not span ten thousand lines?”"

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html
People can favour corporate accountability, and even dislike Google, whilst still being annoyed at these laws & rulings.

The concept of having to pay somebody for linking out to their content is hostile to the open internet.

Imagine if you had to pay Pearson every time you cited ‘their’ research?