skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an case that can be made that "written language" is somewhat of a misnomer and that spoken language is to "written language" somewhat as music is to sheet music (or as chess is to chess notation), and so spoken language alone belongs to the proper subject matter of lingusitics. E.g. Saussure:

> A language and its written form constitute two separate systems of signs. The sole reason for the existence of the latter is to represent the former. The object of study in linguistics is not a combination of the written word and the spoken word. The spoken word alone constitutes that object. But the written word is so intimately connected with the spoken word it represents that it manages to usurp the principal role. As much or even more importance is given to this representation of the vocal sign as to the vocal sign itself.

Edit: Apparently there's a term for this view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonocentrism
By fantastic you surely mean that it exists at all, right? My experience with esp32s3 related documentation, particularly those related to security, have made up my mind to pursue an alternative chip ecosystem in the future.
> So, why do AI companies generate code like this?

The question of why AI is used to generate imperative or functional code instead of declarative code … is “So, why do programmers write code like this?”

It is the same issue, with essentially the same pros and cons.

Declarative is the best approach to code - when it works the best. But today declarative languages tend to be more domain specific, so not the best for a large proportion of code.

And also are not really purely declarative. Serious performance improvements still accrue to tuning the “declarative” code to the details of specific implementation models. I.e. to knowledge of specific databases.

—

In a way, AI language models have become the most general, if not the most reliable, declarative tools of all time.

Archiving LLM code generation conversations along with related code is helpful. Easy informal way to document intention.

In a few years a lot of source for casual and non-critical code may be natural language defined entities along side traditional source.
Most of the ideas behind this lived on after the browser wars, in the CSSOM. And the harder parts got covered later with the styleSheets API
Thanks for the reference.

As I've been thinking about this, I do wonder if starting with grids as the foundation would have been a better approach. As I understand it, early CSS focused on stuff like color and font style, with primitive layout tools. Over time better tools have been bolted on, but it's messy.

Say we merged flexbox and grid into a unified system, and threw away the other layout algorithms. At the same time, made some tweaks to clarify margin, border, padding, and overflow. Maybe that's a good foundation.
I am profoundly grateful that my dad (84) is still very healthy, mentally acute, and tech-literate enough to avoid scams. If anything, he's even more paranoid than I am.

But he will have nothing to do with smartphones even though he's a long time gadget freak with an engineering background, and at this point my mom would have difficulty using anything other than a landline. I got them onto VoIP with an unlocked analog telephone adapter some years back when the poorly maintained landline (loud hum when plugged into the demarc) became too horrible to use.

His frustrations with Windows 10 (and MS's irritating habit of "helpfully" changing your settings) are about to the boiling point, but there's a hell of a lot of Stockholm syndrome involved in getting him to use anything else, not to mention he still uses a DOS app via DOSbox. I'm not sure how insufferable Windows will need to get before he would be willing to jump ship. Windows 8 was enough for me, but only because I can do anything I personally need on any random Linux distro.
Honestly why I like WFH - I can stay away from people who "bring their whole selves" to the office, while I just need a job. (I'm not at Google)
Island complications aside, I feel like this would just be a "learn about why things are the way they are" speed-run.
I'd assume because there's nowhere with the amount of space required for one, not to mention the complaints you'd have to fight through from every single property nearby that doesn't want to live next to airport.

As a good example - Poland is currently building a new airport literally called "central national airport" with the ambition of it becoming one of the largest European hubs for travel like Frankfurt or Amsterdam, and.... it's being built in the middle of absolute nowhere. People complain about it saying who needs an airport that's not near anything interesting, but at the same time either ignore or don't realize that you couldn't possibly build an airport of that scale if it wasn't in the middle of nowhere.
> take bow as an example. Is it when someone leans over, an archer’s weapon of choice, or a cutesy headpiece?

Front of a ship, duh.
Do you think companies listen to and take on board feedback from exit interviews?
Do you think asking a candidate to implement GOL in a 45 minute live coding exercise job interview and then expecting a fully working implementation if it’s clear they have never come across the problem before?

Devs I ask this come down 50:50 on if it’s reasonable or not.
You should definitely replace all of the cells at once, even if you are just using drugstore batteries. If you don't they are not going to last very long.

Manufacturers are not being as careful as you are. They bundle batteries from the same manufacturing batch with no testing and rely on battery monitor and balancing ICs.

https://www.ti.com/battery-management/monitors-balancers/ove...
We could just invade Canada - I think it’s been long enough that we should give it another shot. Without the British they don’t stand a chance this time around and we've got the fracking technology to exploit the land.

We can probably send the first Marine regiment over as undercover immigrants escaping the possibility of a second Trump regime and gain control of their weaponized maple syrup reserves before they even know what’s happening.
You may as well say that Asian productivity per unit salary is optimal in Asia.

Gross manufacturing productivity in, say, Germany may still be higher than most places in Asia.
Why should 50 workers not be fired for disrupting the workplace to push a political agenda?
Relative to the Bay Area rose prices are downright cheap.
Think most of the smaller cities in the burbs either get collected into the county with the big cities. So they hardly ever grow into a bigger city. My small town is 1 block, its now 3, and even got a dollar general. TV/Internet and Cell service is provided by 1 tower for everyone. It wont ever be a city. Rural areas have a limited population to grow.

I seen a few people on yt buy remote land and try to make a small town, but you need enough people to incorporate and build a town before it could ever be built into a city. Unless some new resource is needed and a town/city pops up for workers.
I totally agree. Whenever these homeschool threads start up, it's always HNers singing the praises of homeschooling because their exposure to it is always in the context of engaged parents wanting a higher quality education for them: the happy path case where homeschooling probably works well.

You're not going to hear a lot of HNers talk about the other side of homeschooling, which is when it's done for reasons of religious separatism (and lately, for political separatism reasons). You're not going to see those cases on HN because they are not going to be success stories.

I don't know which group is bigger, but they're different sides of the same "homeschooling" coin, and they both need to be talked about when you advocate for homeschooling.
I skimmed through it, but can't find the programming language without downloading the whole SDK. Is it Java, or Kotlin? Or something else?
I'd only use a masonry layout for something where there's no "clear" order anyway. I wouldn't use it for chronologically sorted images.
If you wanted a ruling class and a working class, what would you do?
wages have been stagnant relative to inflation and especially value-generated since the 1970s.

roughly have of the US makes ~37k USD or less per year. how are they going to buy a house when the average prices are going up dramatically?

the single largest cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical debt

reasonably well off white collar workers, including many of the non-FAANG, non-Unicorn types on this site, will never be able to afford a house without moving hours out of cities.

political bad actors, blatantly funded by corporate and foreign interests, are actively trying to paralyze and overthrow the government

college, instead of getting cheaper and more ubiquitous, is more expensive than ever, creating an entire generation chained to non-dischargeable debt

recent research has shown that credit card debt is now at an all-time high

unprecedented heat waves, flooding, and stronger hurricanes than ever, suggest that climate change is here, and it's going to get very ugly

and after years of relative peace we're now seeing multiple, brutal, conflicts that threaten, in some cases, global escalations

but it's an upward slope, you say?
If you were the last person to get to the train station but the train still hadn't left, then you really were not late for the train.
The locals hate it
Conversely, is there an industry where this isn't the case? Does a truly top to bottom spread exist in any industry?

Movies/Entertainment? Agriculture? I don't know the answer but your comment prompted the line of thinking.
This will never work. A typical Panamax ship carries 4800 containers. A typical freight train carries 240. You need 20 trains for each ship; at 2km per train, that’s a continuous line of 40km. In reality trains need at least 10km between them, so that’s 240km. But you need slack in the system, otherwise any hiccup results in a huge jam. So realistically the maximum capacity of such a railway is one Panamax per day and direction. What fees can you charge to cover the operating costs and the capital financing costs? And to hope to be competitive with the canal?
Two book authors meet in a cafe:

- I bought the book you released last week, it was really entertaining read!

- Oh! It was you!
Well I'm pretty sure the people protesting were aware this could be the outcome.

So in that regard, I think it's very admirable for them to put their convictions over money. From the outside, I agree with their opinion. But then again, money screams and people talk.

I feel like a lot of people in tech tend to be very much "not interested" when it comes to politics, even though tech and particularly these big companies are so involved in what goes around in the world. But I get it, when you're being paid 250k+ a year you get to live a really comfortable life; upsetting the status quo is difficult.

But yeah, I wish these people received more support from their peers than they do. Rather than people thinking we shouldn't "bring politics into the workspace" when the decisions being made in our workspaces are making deals with a government that is currently committing genocide.
They made the mistake of alienating the local landowners. They’ll be blocked with legal challenges for the next two decades.
Building a city seems very... central planned. Normally these things should grow organically. Unless maybe you're in China or North Korea.
Id be very happy if corporations stopped participating in any kind of politics altogether, including human rights discourse.
Sarcastic thought: with Google Cloud being an order of magnitude more expensive than dedicated servers Israel will end up killing fewer people for the same money. It's not like they couldn't buy servers elsewhere, so in a twisted way this could be a humane move by Google.
This is very logical, albeit sounding rude. I think the parent commenter should not be downvoted for this.

If you cant come to terms with what your employer is doing, it's in the right of the either party to terminate the contract.

Morality is a subjective argument and non-sequiter here anyway.
It's egotistical and selfish to speak for and expect such a large company to change for their minority opinions. You can't control Google but you can control yourself.
Don’t even joke about it. Libraries should be free to the public, period. Providing free access to library services to the public is one of the most important benefits government should offer their citizens.
What does open air prison mean in this context? Would you like to comment why the family of the first minister of Scotland decided it was safe enough to go on holiday in this "open air prison"? Is it common for "inmates" from "open air prisons" to go and work in the neighbouring country while their fellow "inmates" want to wipe out this neighbouring country? Is it common for "inmates" from "open air prisons" to invade their neighbouring countries and murder, rape, burn and drag hostages back to hide in the homes of "innocent civilians" and under schools and hospitals?

Can you think of anything that happened around 2006 that might have made the neighbours not want an open border with this "open air prison"?
That was super interesting to me as well. The full set of values is here:

> The data below includes frontlist titles from [top ten publishers]... 45,571 unique ISBNs ... for the last 52 weeks (thru week ending 8-24-2022).

> In this dataset:

>>>0.4% or 163 books sold 100,000 copies or more

>>>0.7% or 320 books sold between 50,000-99,999 copies

>>>2.2% or 1,015 books sold between 20,000-49,999 copies

>>>3.4% or 1,572 books sold between 10,000-19,999 copies

>>>5.5% or 2,518 books sold between 5,000-9,999 copies

>>>21.6% or 9,863 books sold between 1,000-4,999 copies

>>>51.4% or 23,419 sold between 12-999 copies

>>>14.7% or 6,701 books sold under 12 copies

Source: Kristen McLean, lead industry analyst from NPD BookScan, at https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-....

Now I'm curious how unique the many books on my shelf are!
Same thing with music. It's an exponential distribution. Less than 1% of artists on streaming platforms generate more than 1M streams per year.

For reference, 1M streams gets you something around $3-4k depending on the country. Not even close to be able to make a living out of it.
"I don't need privacy, I don't have anything to hide."

Waiting for a good argument I can use to demolish that far too common sentiment, this will do for the time being. Disgraceful behaviour for a company to sell out its customers for pennies.
I like that "the heating of Earth's atmosphere by a hail of falling lunar debris would be destructive to all life" is only the second of three cited reasons for the proposal's rejection.
It's not meant for things that you want to systematically go over, it's meant for things that you want to explore.
I had a 2002 Saab 9-5 Sedan automatic transmission blow out on the day I bought it. ODO said about 300k km (190k miles give or take). The dealer replaced the car with a younger 9-5 Wagon with lower mileage so I'm kinda glad it did.

That 2002 model is supposed to be a lemon transmission-wise though (even so, 300k seems decent as far as lifespans go).
Well to be fair I imagine your workplace isn't also wading into a contentious geopolitical conflict with billions of dollars. I don't think I would ever protest in the manner described at my job but I would probably quit over it. If you want your employees to stay out of politics then you should probably lead by example.
Only ~70% of Americans read at least one book a year.
In my city certain people are often using them and leaving... uh... errant trace elements of themselves on said resources, especially the public-use computers... :/

I'm not really a germaphobe, but in the age of the pandemic, I think public resources like libraries are under serious threat, just like busses and public transit. It would be nice if there was some sort of reassurance that cleaning and disinfecting was taking place between each use.
As a self-identified pro-housing (ie, YIMBY) advocate, I am not opposed to the California Forever plan. However, I very much doubt that it will end up being the type of community they are claiming it will be. I expect it will end up being another exurban car-centric community as it's still very far from the major job markets of the core SF Bay Area.

Given the location, I expect most potential residents would prefer to live in a community more like Mountain House, CA (with relatively larger private living space with a few schools and a single strip mall shopping center) than to live in a community with homes built like Noe Valley in SF but without all the benefits of urban amenities that come with living in SF because those benefits are endogenous to the urban economics of a place like SF.

edit to everyone talking about how the backers have the influence to attract tech jobs to their new city. Great, but even if that's the case ... a community like this can't be maintained by people who work in tech alone. It's going to require service workers who will need to live somewhere and while it's nice that the houses in this new city will cost less ($400k to $600k), the more affordable housing stock for service workers will mostly be found in the nearby (yet still to far for public transit so they will need cars) communities of vallejo, fairfield, antioch, stockton, etc. I have yet to read anything about how they plan to fund any subsidized housing in the community (this article only mentions subsidizing businesses). As a Georgist, I know they _could_ do it by establishing something like a community facilities district with much higher taxes on land, but as this project is fundamentally a speculative land investment for its backers I doubt they'd be interested in that.
I didn't say they were an inferior product. Or that there were no advantages. I'm just saying a bias persisted in a portion of the book market for some time.
But the screen size is an important part of how the library will lay out the bricks, and that isn't known until JS runs (this can kind of be done with client hints, but not on initial page load)
> protesting and getting fired and getting a WaPo story is more effective than resigning in protest

Idk, these guys looked unplanned and childish, which lightens the credibility of their claims. They went zero to occupying an executive’s office—there wasn’t even a petition stage. That’s not the kind of escalation anyone wants precedent for, because if you provide it you’d better be ready to make space for a perpetual environmental and MAGA lobby in every leader’s workspace.

And while the PR impact of this hasn’t been negligible, it’s also been light. Outside HN it hasn’t really registered.
Are you not aware of the Nakba or Israel using banned weapons on civilians for decades? I'm not saying hamas' actions are justified but there is no side in this conflict that can confidently claim moral superiority.
I hope I'm not considered a troll for asking this question; I will ask on my main account and hopefully people will check my comment history to understand I am not intending to be belligerent or intentionally dumb.

But why is it that rainbow flags (pride, et al) are considered the pro-Palestinian side in the conflict.

I might be old but I distinctly remember a humanitarian outcry in the 00's because Palestinians were murdering not only Jews and Christians but also homosexuals[0].

I'm not sure of the Israeli stance to be perfectly honest, but it's surprising to me that the only time I had ever heard of LGBTQ+ rights with relation to the Palestinian people it has been with a strikingly deadly tone, yet it seems that in the US the political divide has fallen such that LGBTQ+ people are almost forced to ally with Palestine.

I'm genuinely curious how this happened.

caveat: I'm not interested in emotional responses, if you feel emotional reading this then please just ignore the comment completely, I am not inviting a flame war, this is genuine ignorance and curiousity.

[0]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-5-2003-1346_...

EDIT: Added a citation for my apparently outlandish statement.
Baja Mexico would be more sensible to get everyone on the Pacific plate under one jurisdiction; plus the military has training bases nearby.
Absolutely. Have the courage of your convictions to refuse to work for a company you find immoral.

I assume these people would have refused to work for an arms manufacturer or an oil company, but maybe they could try to change one of those from the inside.
Again, I’m sure that’s something that Amazon’s famously meticulous finance people missed in their calculations. What do you think the payoff horizon is for that kind of purchase for them?
These are medians.
Have you used it? What was the experience getting it into the US?
It is a fundamentally different manner. Proofs in Lean are formal all the way down. The kernel checks the validity of a proof. This is a finite program checking the validity of the kernel to high degree once is different to checking the validity of every new paper that comes out to high degree.
Worthless softball interview. Some actual questions that people should ask if they can get this organization in the room: why do they keep saying they are building a city for 400k when an outcome equally compatible with their proposed zoning and design rules is 8 miles of strip malls between Rio Vista and Fairfield? There isn't anything in here that even hints at residential capacity of 400k. The zoned density that covers most of the site is 20 dwellings per gross acre, which is basically zero, and their circulation plan envisions some ludicrous stroads as much as 325 feet wide, which are clearly intended to accommodate car-based travel to the large-format retail and distribution centers that are permitted in all of their zones.
Indeed as they should be ... it is a job to make money not be a political karen.

Politics is always a sh!tshow to be avoided personally and definitely at your place of work.

A few years ago Google bended to a small few looks like no more will they!
It’s a pretty bad look when you are head of the teacher’s advocacy group and think the system is so terrible that your own kids deserve better.

I mean it’s not like I’m the only person who feels this way. It’s something of a scandal and she has taken public heat for this:

https://abc7chicago.com/amp/stacy-davis-gates-private-school...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2023/9/7/23863532/ctu...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stacy-davis-gates-chicago-teach...
well https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/6849

4k will work
but "does not support long rope which is use by 128k variant."
It's quite literally the case here.

Except I left out the part where they also ask chatGPT who should they kill and it gives them recommendations based on browsing history and what group chats they're in.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how...
They either knew they were going to get fired or thought since they are in the majority position at Google they wouldn't have a punishment.
What does genocide mean in this context? Are you saying that an enemy can just put women and children in front of every military installation and the other side can never respond to any attacks anymore?
Israel army killed more than 20 thousands children and women.
Yes, medicine, law, engineering and most typical industries.

You can earn a good living as an average engineer, doctor, or lawyer, but obviously won’t earn millions unless you get to the top level.

In contrast, the average author, musician, and YouTuber earns less than minimum wage and need a second job to enable them survive while they hope to strike it big with their hobby (most of them won’t at the end)
They probably got the list of people to fire from some list of people who replied on some internal message board.

Far easier to prove involvement when there is a written record, rather than evidence of you entering a building (you might have other reasons to be there).
Seems very reasonable to be honest.