skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, on the first point, I live in a condo connected to the path, so obviously extremely useful for me. Not sure if you've been inside recently, but as I mentioned the renovations they've done in the core core core (2-3 blocks of CIBC tower) has really opened it up, before it was just a tunnel to me, it's slowly turning into a "place" - but I do overall agree today it's not quite there for most of the core (and will never be great for those outside it, it's way too hard to navigate if you don't use it daily)
I was thinking exactly the same thing
>Given the apocalypse AI will likely cause to the business model of the creative industry

We're three years into AI being "capable" of creating more or less realistic looking images, pieces of art, text content and now also video, and I still see no apocalypse. Creatives haven't lost their jobs, many writers I know haven't lost theirs either and both photographers and other visual artists continue to work, sell and hold expositions. At least in the otherwise largely unrelated worlds of fine art appreciation and commercial content creation, it seems that few people take AI sludge seriously so far or trust it much do do anything important, especially now that the initial hype bled down and revealed a lot of tepid flaws.

On the other hand, for industries where visual designers were used to create quick commercial graphics, possibly yes. Many business owners and marketers do use AI there as far as I can see, because they only need a quick picture and don't care much about other details.

Also, don't know the deeper details of her conflict with OpenAI, but good for Johansson for publicly slapping this generally shitty, grossly hypocritical company down a notch. OpenAI as a business needs plenty of that.
Why doesn’t Amber have equivalent issues? Such as depending on a specific version of bash, or specific executables to be installed.

Also does bash run on windows outside of WSL? Amber seems to argue that it doesn’t support Windows because Windows doesn’t support bash.

That would cut against the idea that bash can target more devices than Python, which runs natively on all platforms.
If you are sick, do you visit a doctor or the guy who taught himself through the internet?

If you cross a bridge do you have the same kind of trust in its stability if it's constructed and inspected by engineers with a college degree or some guys who played bridge builder?
It really really upset me when people who I normally consider smart kind people suddenly got concerned about the "girls in afghanistan" for like two weeks as soon as the US was considering ending it's forever war. Never heard about them again, and NEVER heard about them while they were being raped and murdered by western soldiers
> Why only Germany has that magical defining factor that you must use?

It's not me who must use it, it's everyone but you.

And just because you're ignorant in this matter, you don't have to try to bring everyone down to that level.

Another basic example:

Imperial Russia =/= USSR =/= Russian Federation

Different regimes, different borders, different policies. That's how History works. It might not be convenient to you, and for your propaganda purposes, but it doesn't bend reality.

We know Russia likes to distance itself from their own atrocities, like Holodomor.

The difference is that Germany took all the load from Nazi Germany and it's out in the public for everyone to see.

Russia has been rewriting History so many times trying to cherry-pick the good parts and hide the bad parts, that Russian society at this point doesn't know if they miss the USSR or if they hate it for the misery it brought on them. They don't know if Stalin was good or bad, even though the regime is trying to rehabilitate him.
I'm a Toronto native and the PATH is very cool, but I don't know how great of a third place it is.

It does have public seating and tables, but they are spread out and often not very large. Also almost all of the shops are closed down on weekends (it is basically a ghost town) including the washrooms. Together this makes it seem much more like a large cafeteria and shops for people going to or from work. But I don't know if that qualifies it as the best third place.

That being said Toronto is decent at third places, we have decent park density and a good handful of public spaces like city hall and a good distribution of quality public libraries. So maybe I am just coming from a place of privilege.
Thanks for the Voron rabbit hole. This is awesome!
I had a friend in college who would go to Starbucks every weekend, order a drip coffee and read a copy of the New York Times for hours. After, he would put the newspaper back without paying for it. So I always wonder about how these places find a balance with customers that are profitable and those that are, well, moochers.
You mention the elderly a couple of times:

1. Pension ag is currently 69 with a renegotiation to raise it to 73 coming up.
2. Schemes has been installed to allow retired people to keep their public pensions while working.

In essence: Nobody are being forced into the labor market, but a lot of pensioners are choosing to + retirement age is increasing.
That is a pretty vapid ad hominem. Try to be more constructive next
Most of the problems I've had to debug the place to look is not clear. Sure I've had to fix "The is not spelled Teh", but most problems are it breaks in some weird situation - step one is figuring out where to even start looking. Once I narrow down the exact place to look it might be easy, but I have to hold a lot of different areas of code in my head while narrowing things down. Even when I narrow it down, sometimes the answer is make the code more complex, and if the code is already on the edge of how complex I can handle I won't know how to make it more complex.
I'm not sure its 100% "blue collar connections." That may be part of it, but the quality of food/drinks at starbucks has gone down dramatically in the past 5-10 years.

I worked full time there for awhile and happily ate hundreds of meals there. Now I won'tbeven touch my favourite donuts (#sourcreamglazedgang)

I dont know if its a corporate level thing or a franchise level thing, but man, Tim's sucks now

[edit: i meant to say the quality of tim's food has gone down, not starbucks]
keeping aside my personal opinions about the company and who is running it, i feel that this is being blown out of proportion.

as already outlined, this is a standard practice in other context for any "fast-moving" tech company. the only reason we are discussing it is due to a pop culture reference.

this is a lot of energy wasted which can be better spent on the bigger picture.
There already are multiple ETFs and other trackers that follow Congressional trades.

If you use Autopilot (no affiliation) it will even update your holdings every time the targeted people change their investments.
That example of liability only seems very tangentially related to third place activity. The lawsuit was over a discriminatory employee firing that was seemingly undertaken for reasons of public relations and community reputation, to mitigate these aspects of the impact to Starbucks of the original event.

The triggering event could just as easily have been any number of other scenarios unrelated to third place usage patterns - and even unrelated to customer behavior. It was just an employment discrimination matter, period.

What’s more, this original triggering event was arresting a Black person who didn’t order anything, whereas most people who go to commercial third places (including most such Black people) do order at least one thing, even when they occupy their seat for far too long for the amount of money they spend.
> Ideally it's should be a balance between customers and business

Nah, I think for it to be a proper third place, revenue and business should really really be secondary to everything.
Hotel lobbies are also a great place. Usually a cafe of some sort, very comfortable chairs, wi-fi, bathrooms, and plenty of space.
Other countries have higher minimum wage but more "third spaces", so I don't think this argument holds water. Also if the minimum wage increases, that puts pressure to increase all other wages.
They just completed a bunch of renovation in the last few months, if you've not been in the blocks around Bay and King recently, go check it out, it looks great! If they do that to the whole path, it will really open it up a lot.
> Starbucks [...] were an industry leader that understood the impact that providing a *comfortable café environment* had on the experience of spending time within their stores.

Sorry, perhaps mine is too European a perspective, but are you kidding?
Reminds me of this paper from a couple of weeks ago that isolated the "refusal vector" for prompts that caused the model to decline to answer certain prompts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242939

I love seeing the work here -- especially the way that they identified a vector specifically for bad code. I've been trying to explore the way that we can use adversarial training to increase the quality of code generated by our LLMs, and so using this technique to get countering examples of secure vs. insecure code (to bootstrap the training process) is really exciting.

Overall, fascinating stuff!!
It seems like they have some (minor) contributions planned at least based on that article:
"Improving FreeBSD’s Linux application binary interface (ABI) will allow a broader base of Linux applications to run seamlessly on ThinOS, enhancing its versatility and appeal."
It's difficult to talk to someone committed to misreading the replies.

LINQ aka IEnumerable/Iterator methods are usually imported by default, something like with prelude. As others said, they are part of standard library.

I'm not sure what you are arguing against either but whatever your criticism is - it is misplaced as C# and Rust roughly belong to the same Venn diagram of features against commonly held beliefs.

You can test it yourself:

sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0
mkdir TestConsole && cd TestConsole
dotnet new console

And then just paste/echo the following to Program.cs:

var numbers = Enumerable.Range(0, 10).ToArray();
var sum = numbers.Sum();
Console.WriteLine(sum);

This will compile. If that's not enough, then it's likely Rust the language is not for you either and you may want to use something like Go for the time being.
I didn't care about tabs vs spaces until I was handed a project to work on accessibility for a particular webapp, and that included firing up a screen reader.

That got me to learning about all the ways that markup can (and should) be used to convey _both_ the content _and_ the structure of the information on the screen, for the benefit of vision-impaired readers.

That in turn led to the epiphany that the tab character _is_ markup for indentation, and in the world of programming, where indentation is so significant for understanding (especially in whitespace-sensitive languages like Python), I wondered why we were making things harder for vision-impaired users by focusing so much on _visual_ consistency (which can still be achieved by syncing editor "how do I render tabs" settings)
Could you summarize some practical takeaways from all these books? To be honest I've become a bit skeptical of how much this sort of stuff helps. From what I see, our society has become much more well-versed in all this psychology-therapy-trauma material in the last 20 years, yet despite this we're taking more anti-depressants and seeing more therapy than ever. Mentally and spiritually we seem to be doing worse than ever before, especially kids.

Somehow, humans managed to get by for thousands of years without any of this stuff. I can honestly say the people I know who are more knowledgeable in all this psychology-trauma material seem to be the least well adjusted. Conversely, my more religious friends (Catholic, Muslim) seem happier and more resilient psychologically. Maybe it's just correlation. Maybe if we didn't have all this academic literature on trauma becoming mainstream people would be doing even worse. But it also seems possible that over-analyzing and over-pathologizing 'trauma' can have exactly the opposite effect we hope it to have.
Yeah it’s pretty much identical to what ChatGPT spits out. Looks like the comment is removed now.
This is amazing, what a great project. Psion has a special place in my heart!

My grandfather gifted 12-year-old me his 3c, when he upgraded to a BlackBerry.

I used OPL [1] on that Psion to write my first ever line of code.

Here I am now, a professional software engineer, 20 years later. Who’d have thought it :)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Programming_Language
Did it pull college course material?

That could be a copyright violation.

What's used as the backend AI?
OpenAI?
If then it's more free data for the company that doesn't value people's rights.
I run a coworking space in a small town. We have a small university-type institution within walking distance, and years ago, I thought students might want to subscribe to a 'night-owl' type space. Late night study hall sort of thing (the campus library closes at 9, and most other places are closed by then too). Someone in the office indicated many students were studying at a sheetz gas station (24 hr) at 1am, because there was 'no place else to go'. I'd connected with some, and said "hey, I've got an overnight study hall for $29/month - electronic door code, free coffee/tea/snacks - are you interested?"

You'd have thought I'd have insulted their family. I had multiple people become indignant with "I'm a poor college student! I can't afford that! No way! Do you know how expensive school is?!?!". They're paying at least $3/night on coffee minimum anywhere they go, and often more.

EDIT: quick followup to a bunch of answers. I'm not sure I said it was completely irrational, but... weird. This was just in the last several years - people are paying $400+/credit hour, and using credit/debit cards for everything. Yes, I remember only having a few $ in my pocket, back when the world lived on cash, and conserving every dollar was of the utmost importance. Charging people $1/night... inevitably on a card... nets you about .70c. My point was to try to at least break even, and provide a service to some folks. Making $4/night from 5-6 people, then spending $5 in coffee/tea/snacks... I'm losing money. I guess if I made it up in volume and sold it to a VC, I'd have been rolling in it. As it was, I didn't. It was an idea I floated by people, and it was not received well.

Thank you for the responses.
"This is perfectly legal!"

Actually, there's a similar court case from 1988 that creates legal precedent for her to sue.

"That's just one case! And it's from 1988! That's 36 years ago: rounded up, that's 4 decades!"

Actually, there's a court case from 1992 that built on that judgement and expanded it to define a specific kind of tort.

"That's bad law! Forget the law! I demand a moral justification."

Anyway, asking a person if you can make money off their identity, them saying no, and you going ahead and doing that anyway seems challenging to justify on moral grounds. I don't think you're willing to change your mind, your claim notwithstanding.
I varies a lot by location. But many of the downtown Toronto locations are small with little seating. The suburbs and highway side locations are often larger and more comfortable.

Not to mention that Tim's has a pretty bad reputation these days. The food and drink quality has dropped significantly and it isn't "cool". So at least for younger people it is likely not used as a third place. (Maybe this is a business opportunity for Tim's!)
It matters in the context of the original claim. Median revenue per game has not changed for the genres that are not VN and porn games.
I have been using Brave Search for a few years now and it's fantastic as well. I don't feel the need to use Google anymore and even if I do for images, I just add a !g to the search query and it automatically redirects me to Google.
Who was this political activist?
This is kind of the plot of a Star Trek movie - the gang goes back in time to pick up some humpbacks because aliens will wipe out humans if they don't get to talk to some whales.
They'll find a way.

If a site doesn’t appear on a Google results page, it dies. If a site doesn’t appear on your results page, people switch back to Google to search for it.

As a new search engine you’re going to be faced with this sort of thing for a long time before users begin to trust you. If a user actually wants to find a commercial site but simply can’t, they’re not going to stick around for long.
Not to mention they seem to have also morphed into child daycare centers, at least the ones I frequent. Moms bringing their toddlers to run around and scream at the top of their lungs makes getting almost any meaningful work done impossible.
Tesla just screams to be shorted.

Market cap is higher than GM and Ford combined. Units sold are a fractional amount. China has developed into a highly competitive foe. Tesla sales in China are declining with no foreseeable end in sight.

Add to this the questionable judgment and counter productive decision making of the CEO. Laying off the entire recharger team is a suicidal move for an EV manufacturer --- apparently done out of pure petulance.
>The water surface in the ocean is almost never at "sea level"

I'd expect it to be "at sea level" though with very small averaging (smoothing) to account for the waves.

The economic plots however would amount to Everest-sized waves.
Things are bad now. Specially the job market for white collar jobs. It is hyper competitive.
Pixar Hit by Layoffs
Sorry, I missed you were paying for GoogleFI when I read your original message. So if your cell phone gets shut off, there is nothing they'll do about it?! That's crazy. I can understand having little-or-no support for "free" users, but you're a paying customer.
Because we are engineers? I personally approach everything from a worst case scenario because

1. People can style up a dookie to look like gold. Everyone does that. I don’t want a dookie.

2. Is it actually doing what’s supposed to do? Can it handle more difficult use cases? What’s it actually good for?

3. Most software is garbage held together by taping other garbage together. Sorry. That’s reality. And that’s fine. Even if it makes hundreds of millions of dollars.
From experience... /now pages are usually /then pages. Whatever you do, add an update date so we know if you lost interest in updating or if the information is recent.
LunarML – Standard ML compiler that produces Lua/JavaScript
> No, it's not reductionist and pedantic.

It's very reductionistic, because it intentionally ignores meaningful detail, and it's pedantic because it's making a meaningless distinction.

> It's a reminder that there is no magic.

This is irrelevant. Nobody is claiming that there's any magic. I'm pointing out the true fact that details about the abstraction layers matter.

In this case, the abstraction layer was poorly-designed.

Good abstraction layer: length prefix, or JSON encoding.

Bad abstraction layer: "the body of the email is mostly plain text, except when there's a line that only contains a single period".

There are very, very few problems to which the latter is a good solution. It is a bad engineering decision, and it also obfuscates the fact that there even is an abstraction layer unless you carefully read the spec.

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In fact, the underlying problem goes deeper than that - the design of SMTP is intrinsically flawed because it's a text-based ad-hoc protocol that has in-band signaling.

There are very few good reasons to use a text-based data interchange format. One of them is to make the format self-documenting, such that people can easily read and write it without consulting the spec.

If the spec is complex enough that you get these ridiculous footguns, then it shouldn't be text-based in the first place. Instead, it should be binary - then you have to either read the spec or use someone else's implementation.

Failing that, use a standardized structured format like XML or JSON.

But there's no excuse for the brain-dead approach that SMTP took. They didn't even use length prefixing,
Deflation is just prices going down. There is a difference between the good years with prices going down but people have loads of money to spend and the bad ones of prices going down because everyone's broke.
But there's a difference between an embedded ad and a native ad. You can allow websites to just add an image or a section of an ad that does not hit a third-party endpoint.

Native ads are not as intrusive and if they become intrusive, like a popup, you can penalize that.

It sounds like a sound system.
Nice to see a BSD getting decent press.
Reversible computing. The laws of physics are time reversible but our computers aren't. Quantum computers need to be reversible. Debugging might be easier if we could rewind programs. There are reversible programming languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
> It was just an employment discrimination matter, period.

It is tangentially related, but I believe the results were all the same. And perhaps the root cause was actually quelling the rage machine enabled by social media and the internet, but either way, the business decision remains:

How do we reduce the possibility this happens again? Regardless of how correct the Starbucks’ employees actions were in asking a non paying person to leave, and regardless of the fact that it is police who arrest people, not Starbucks employees, the event may have contributed to Starbucks’ executives concluding that the cost of providing the third place is not worth the benefit.

Looking at this another way, coffee and sugary drinks are a fungible commodity. If Starbucks is removing third places, why is there no competitor stepping in with a third place and taking their business?
I hear you! The "demo" is basically just a demo for the shareable overview (plausible like screen).

Here you have some screenshots what you can do: https://imgur.com/a/hxUPsvk

Features:
- Create funnels, linear, bar, histogram, map, pie, area charts based on your events (similar to mixpanel reports)
- List of all events (filter by any data point you send)
- List of all your users (go into a specific users to see what they did)
- Retention (if you use this you need to provide a user id)
- Realtime dashboard
Huh? Sued for what?
I would have liked to see the data on this

This seems to be the source:

https://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/blog-posts/182-electric-car...

Their methodology is, shall we say, open to interpretations.
Occam's razor, and this:

https://go.dev/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports

> Some have asked for a compiler option to turn those checks off or at least reduce them to warnings. Such an option has not been added, though, because compiler options should not affect the semantics of the language and because the Go compiler does not report warnings, only errors that prevent compilation.

> There are two reasons for having no warnings. First, if it's worth complaining about, it's worth fixing in the code. (Conversely, if it's not worth fixing, it's not worth mentioning.) Second, having the compiler generate warnings encourages the implementation to warn about weak cases that can make compilation noisy, masking real errors that should be fixed.

So I comment out a line or move around some code and want to quickly run it, or run the tests, whatever. This results in a cascade of either removing more and more lines and imports, or not only renaming to _ but also changing := to =.

This is of course the usual golang gaslighting. "It was easier to implement" becomes a "deliberate design decision".

There are tons of things that linters warn about (today), that should have been errors too by their logic.
It's not as irrational a decision as you make it sound. They may spend $3 per day instead of $30 for the month, but they preserve their optionality. College is typically a turbulent time, and paying $30 up front for a service that you end up not needing because your schedule changes unexpectedly would suck.