skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it? Slacking off doesn't become "work" just because it lead to something more important than the job itself. See also, Feynman, who was quite openly talking about the idea that you need to goof off a bit to do anything interesting.

Nah, this wasn't work, that sounds more like the hobby that's in love-hate relationship with the work (need work to live, but it takes time and energy from the hobby).
> I guess I don't deserve decent infrastructure in your world view?

Do you pay enough taxes to demand it? Probably not.
People also talk about other languages in this thread. It rather seems to me that you are just a hater.
> Mass transit almost everywhere runs at a significant loss already

All infrastructure runs at a loss? Do roads generate revenue
Fortunately, the market isn't perfectly efficient, and there are applicable laws.
You are not wrong - this is where personal, private, transportation excels. And why Culver city desperately needs a quality network of safe, protected, bike infrastructure. Cars don't scale, but bikes do.
There were similar techniques to mod cores to work on multi-processor systems! Helped a number of friends with that one!
Firefox mobile does (with add-ons).
2007!

I forgot about the pencil trick, but never had a relevant generation of AMD chip to do that to.
Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws
The article cites health effects due to local emissions.

Does anyone else think the timing of this anti-thoroughfare attitude is ironic given that electric cars are gaining traction?
Why doesn't it make sense? I don't see why you should be forced to build parking if you don't want to.
This is cool, for binaries that provide a web interface, for admin purposes, maybe a blog, or whatever, keeping it simple with some styling to make it a little more swish, this is all I'd be looking for. I'll give it go for sure.
one link of jack ma between that time period on badu? bro that cant be no accident. if the chinese govt didnt do this id be more surprised i mean there already censoring most of the internet
If you're curious about how the page was put together, or peeved it didn't load on your phone, check out this article describing how the author made it:
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2024/04/08/case-study-84-24/
No, Lua does not, but check out Roblox's Luau which is a gradually typed extension of Lua.
Similarly, all roads should be tolled.
> The double decker buses are beloved.

Ehhh, no. Does anyone prefer buses stuck in traffic over a train? And if the buses are so great, why they build The Elizabeth Line (and dream to build the north-south equivalent)?
> Most Americans can barely afford a used car, let alone new, and you are suggesting they should rent a car at additional cost to supplant the EV they never wanted in the first place,

I am saying Americans who are choosing between buying an EV but are afraid of range limits will be just fine buying an EV with lower range and using the savings to rent a car for the times they need to go more than 300 miles at once.

> If you are in the market for a Lexus you are by definition in the 1% of car buyers.

The used Lexus (Hybrid!) I was looking at was 35k, the average price of a new car in America. The engine was noisy and it had the worst implementation of a hybrid drive train I'd ever seen. Anything more than the slightest press on the throttle and the gas engine kicked on, it was absurdly useless.

Fwiw you can get a good EV for 18k (year or two old Chevy Bolt EV) and a brand new EV for 26k (Hyundai has a 7500 off for everyone for new Kona Electrics).

> The rush to widespread EV adoption is being spurred by activists who fail to see the big picture.

Somehow other counties, including huge ones like China, are not having issues with EV adoption.

> I truly believe EVs will fade away into niche items for enthusiasts,

EVs are simpler to make and have far less mechanical complexity. Battery prices are dropping every year and there is an obscene amount of research going into ensuring that trend continues. Once battery prices drop a bit more EVs will be far cheaper to build, buy, and maintain.

I actually looked at a plug in hybrid, the Kia Niro EV. A boring compact car with a hybrid drive train that you can plug in.

$40k USD for a compact Kia. The regular model is around 30k, the hybrid 35, and the plug in hybrid was 40.

Or, buy a brand new EV for $26k.

How exactly so hybrids make any sense? They are a psychological crutch against fears of range anxiety.

But again, ultimately none of this matters because EVs keep getting cheaper every year and they'll continue to get cheaper. As a species we've been making DC motors for almost 140 years, we are really damn good at making them reliable and efficient.

> There is a major lack of infrastructure problem that continues to be ignored and isn't being addressed.

In q2 of 2023 over 1000 fast chargers were installed in the US.

To create a proper growth curve for EVs, deployment doesn't have to be evenly spread out across the US.

If you replace 30% of cars in the top 5 US metro areas, you've created a huge market.

Heck just solve charging in NYC and SF. Then do other dense cities (Chicago, Boston, etc) and then the market becomes big enough that it is self sustaining w/o needing government help.
I get not wanting to redesign everything for portrait mode, but a simple "This page was mainly designed with desktops in mind, please turn your phone to landscape" would've done the trick just as well.
Elon worries that elites are not kings and he may one day also be held accountable in court.
I wonder if they don't even need to be like traditional body parts like thumbs. Perhaps like octopus tentacles with claws on the end...
The zen comes from knowing when to carefully embed a Lua interpreter into your Rust program.
You can have whatever local infrastructure yourself and your community can afford.

You can have whatever connection to the rest of your state your community and the state can afford and decide upon.

FWiW I've very much been there, I grew up in the most remote corner of a state 3x larger than Texas with a population (then) of under 1 million.

We graded our own airstrip, 150 km of road, maintained our own vehicles and aircraft, fed and managed our horses and camels, loaded and unloaded ships off the mud flats at low tide.
Me too. And it's a bug, not a feature, that there's no explicit notification mechanism. When other posters post in bad-faith, go strawman or ad-hominem, that may get flagged or the entire thread may get downvoted; which in turn gives people disincentives for bad behavior.
HN Replies (https://hnreplies.com/) will tell you about replies to your comments but I don't know of anything that tells you about comments on your posts. I just check the Submitted link (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=yourusername) every once in a while.
Do you consider the DC Metro garbage and its recent Silver Line extension? People in seem quite pleased with their system.
> Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and links!
Shein sells cheap, "fast fashion" goods. They had a few pop up stores here in Singapore, selling what looked like low end knockoffs, albeit at low prices. They're selling tops and dresses for anywhere between $4.95 and $12 (Singapore dollars). I'm sure that toxic chemical safety is at the top of their list, selling at those prices.

I remember hearing about them in their early days when they were called "ZZKKO" like yet another of those random sounding shopfronts flooding amazon and peddling junk. Their mobile app looks and works pretty much the same as the other Chinese owned marketplaces like Lazada or Shopee.

Their founder appears to be following a similar trajectory too, moving from China to Singapore with a permanent residency, like the founder of Shopee. I think the Shopee founder is now a Singapore citizen. Not that there's anything wrong, this seems to be a common pattern on the Silk Road these days.
Detecting and Preventing Unauthorized User Access
Why expect search engines to return historical data accurately? Modern search engines have a lot of tasks like combating CEO and returning up-to-date data, and they have no incentive to preserve history as old as 2005 as it’s very likely that any page from that date has been superseded by more relevant articles. The task of preserving history should be delegated to archive.org and search engines are just not well positioned.
But it will increase. People move farther away ("this commute used to be bad but now there's another lane so I can live in a bigger house further out!"), businesses build "enough" parking so things are spread farther apart, and all of this increases the miles driven, thereby increasing traffic.
This is important, I think. Allen Ward expands on the topic of "reusable knowledge" standing in contrast to putting notes in a binder and sticking the binder in a cabinet somewhere and then pretending you have stored knowledge.

For knowledge to be reusable, it needs to be actively maintained, curated, summarised, integrated. It takes work so one shouldn't bother at all if one doesn't expect to want to refer to it later.
Snowflake issued a joint statement with CrowdStrike and Mandiant in which they concur that Snowflake isn't at fault for the recent incidents
I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but this seems to be barely discussed, and the page reads more like an slick advertisement. There is a paragraph expert about it and it's mentioned at start of the video but I don't see anywhere showing how the full device is setup or how it looks. From the images/video b-roll alone it seems almost as if the wrist bad is what's controlling it and not your toe. Not to nitpick of course, just makes things seem a bit rather misleading.
I agree with this, but my point was that I cannot hide the details from myself, and will bring them up when they are relevant and confuse my poor friend just trying to learn Lua.

Definitely very little effort picking up my toy again after a 6 month break
Looks like this can be done with Shortcuts.app on iOS.
Where the most expensive item is literally three dishes in one? This is the expense difference you are complaining about?

Least expensive item is a salad at $7. $0.70 tip. Most expensive is $22. $2.20 tip. This is a baffling thing to care about.
Or maybe they could choose to focus their attention on people that aren’t needlessly aggressive and adversarial.
The absolute values here are in terms of single-digit nanoseconds.

The Venn diagrams of "situations where single-digit nanosecond performance differences are important" and "situations where one would use errors.Is" have no overlap.

Tempest in a teapot.
I don't need more problems, I need solutions.

Not all software engineers are 10X creative individuals. Sometimes if you leave them without guidance, shit flies off the rails, making those who are actually 10x engineers have to work that much harder.

Also, for complex projects (perhaps dealing with multiple stakeholder groups), if you don't have some type of meeting, people a.) claim to be led by absentee management, b.) don't feel included, or c.) don't get access to the ever-evolving 'big-picture' - reducing effectiveness/quality of the end product.

I'm not saying there aren't issues with the scrum process. I'm just wondering what the solution is.
We need to make up an severe allergy to single-family zoning
Which language did you write the engine in?
Looks like it’s to only have one completion running at a time currently, https://github.com/distantmagic/paddler/blob/main/loadbalanc... I was curious if there was any other cache tracking happening
See my post upvoted 3 times below re: apple, HBR article, and cross functional management. Implied in cross functional management is: who's your customer?

Specific example:

I worked on a team (major NYC financial provider 15K+ people) with extremely heavy use of Oracle. There was a separate DBA team that setup, maintained DBs, and owned all the schema passwords and did rollouts.

I made over several attempts very specific requests to the DBA TL on what our team needed. The DBA TL yes-ed me to death then told me about his solution. I explained why that was a non starter --- all this 1:1.

Later during a team meeting he opened with we'll do what I asked for --- so it he said --- then proceeded for the next 1hr talking again about his vision. I had none of it.

He was upset and escalated to management. So now I'm in a 3-way with my boss and his boss and they're reading me the riot act. Then my boss said, well, I guess he has his own vision of what to do. That was the break I needed. I made stunningly clear the following points:

1. We're the customer. We're the ones with ultimate accountability to paying external customers. We tell the internal service supplier if their product is good, and whether or not its worth the time of day. They don't tell us. We tell them our requirements. They don't tell us.

2. I had to remind them that in commercial transactions outside of corporate America, the customer is in charge because the customer has the checkbook (well, for those who have a backbone). And the supplier needs to be minimally mindful of customer satisfaction or else they're fired, legal action etc. etc.

3. But in corporate America internal service suppliers have management's implicit buy-in. Internal customers can't shop around or do it themselves. They're stuck with the internal suppliers like it or not. And that gives political players and stupid people the upper hand even though we're still paying for their salary, machines, and oracle licenses through our team's revenues.

4. I expected management to convey that to the DBA lead, and comply with our team's requirements.

The boss' boss sat there confused.

So I said this: wanna know why some companies move IT into the cloud? Because first tech people get sick and tired of the crappy internal suppliers. Over a few years, slow/bad internal service leads to too many business delays. And after a while business guys with budget get pissed. Then they announce: cloud.

That finally sunk in, and the DBA TL was chastised. But it was a cost to me.

See? Internal customer, internal service supplier is cross functional management is about the proper way teams should work together to satisfy internal customers and transitively external customers.

Where did I get that from: The Executive by Drucker.

Let me close this way: I absolutely learned nothing of any substance from managers in NYC finance. I learned this gem from a book. The rest I mainly owe to a manager in VA, and my first boss (UC Berkeley Chem-Eng) in Silicon Valley. But then again I know a good thing when I see it.
Majority for chat control possible – EU scanning photos, videos, and links
I think what parent is trying to say is that as a founder themselves, they didn't read start-up focused books. They read other books not related to start-ups. What that other books are, I don't know.
I mean of course there are differencies, if they would be the same then there would be no point in the fork, right? :)

Well, unless it was due to ideological reasons, I remember Rubocop (linter for Ruby) had some ideological forks at some point in time.
FWiW I'm pretty solidly in the "gold is mostly useless" camp .. and that's with a "real" Engineering background, decades in exploration geophysics, and even some contracts building bespoke instrumentation for one of the largest gold mines on the planet.

It's highly desirable for corrosion free stable sheilding and connections in high end space tech, other than that most jobs have cheaper more or less as effective alternatives - outside of religion and making pretty things .. which are nice but non essential.

Come the apocolypse it might have trading value, it might not .. in deeply rural farming areas handshakes have more currency than money in any case .. it's about making deals that you can trust to be held six months or eighteen months down the line that is of value .. whether these are tokenised via cash, cheque, or gold is a small detail aside.
- Australia's proposed law criminalizes both creating and sharing (without consent) sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology.

- Sharing, whether by email or personal message to an individual or to a mass audience on a private or open platform.

There are already also laws against it in England and Wales, and ten US states (CA,FL,GA,HI,IL,MN,NY,SD,TX,VA). [0][1]

[0]: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2024-01-30/...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake_pornography#Combattin...
Oh no! - How will I be able to buy crypto in my messenger if Signal leaves the EU?
That's fine and all, but how much time does a developer actually spend writing code? The bulk of any programming task is sifting through existing code to explore and gather context for a change. Anyone can take a look at any project's commit history to understand exactly how much code a developer types.
> I'm curious how the culture was though. I always get the vibe that Microsoft has never been "end user oriented" if that makes sense. They always seemed to be making a product for other businesses.

I started on Windows XP and left on Windows 10 (skipping Vista and Win 8.0, and part of 8.1). Windows was always a tool to get things done. Buy a software license and you can be pretty sure you can run things indefinitely on it. Everything (almost?) was accessible by clicking, so ultimately discoverable. No need to learn arcane commands, just follow and imitate. And you mostly have to do the training once. Linux was an expert tool and macOS (I used it since Mojave) always felt like it's for people who compute, but mostly as a secondary activity (shiny and pleasant, but always lacking the remaining bit).

I've never thought of myself of being a Microsoft customer, just like you don't think of being a Dell customer or HP customer when using their monitors or printers. You need to get something done and Windows was the bedrock for that. Especially if you were hiring people to do it.

But now it's like seeing your workbench animating and contorting itself in new shapes every time you come close. Insulting your intelligence all the while.
To answer your question: there are no answers satisfying your set of requirements. An extremely small minority of individuals will end up achieving notable outcomes fulfilling more than one of the requirements above, but even among those, very few will have been as a consequence of following abstract criteria, as opposed to focusing on opportunities appropriate to the individuals' strengths and taking up appropriate challenges as they come along.

It would help if you relaxed your (radically American-elite centric) set of requirements and instead focused on the following few questions:

- What could make you happy/fulfilled on a very personal level (very few people make any impact when unhappy)

- What could make your family/community happier? (very few people manage to persevere without associates or without a support system)

- What is a project you could grow to do within a year or so that would have a positive impact on the greater good you have in mind? ("the world" is a large place).

Having done a few startups, including one that may change how humanity treats cancer (via computational immunology; very few problems are SW alone or even mostly SW), there bulk of impact is gradient ascent: baby steps and finding people to collaborate with. Also, adopting a bit of perspective outside of my community definitely gave a boost.
Interesting point. Why don't you think this is true in more highly developed countries? Two example come to mind: The "seal" you must buy in Suisse, and most high speed roads in Japan are rolled.
What the heck is this accent of German?
I had a netbook around this time and putting an SSD in it was a HUGE upgrade (similarly the upgrade from 2 to 4GB RAM).

I still have it, and when I put an 32bit version of Debian on it a couple years ago, it was molasses. Somehow I used it for years with no complaints.
Telegram is far more heavily used in crypto circles in my experience.
Super neat, love the design.
Rolled our eyes at fad diets like gluten free (while knowing celiacs is a real thing) only for my wife to develop both lactose and gluten intolerance at 40. And I thought cutting HFCS was difficult. I’m glad that gluten free picked up in popularity now, but it’s still very difficult to shop at conventional grocery stores. Allergens listed on menus has been amazing.
The bottom line is that it is geometrically impossible to get everyone in a city to work by car. End of story.

You can lament all you want, but the difference in space between a car and an apartment/office building makes the problem you're discussing completely unsolvable.

So, if you really care about making everyone richer, the only question you can ask is how to improve public transit. Anything else is pure make-believe.
And we still can’t backup our chats on iOS [0]. Does that mean that we might lose the history of all our messages?

Signal developers really seem to have some misconceptions about the priorities of their users…

[0] It‘s not a limitation of iOS itself but that Signal doesn‘t want to allow to store data and keys in a way that would ‚leak’ them to Apple - not even if I, the user, wouldn’t mind that.
"But not too much" (rain) :-)

I did some digital | electronic support work for the WA Institute for the Blind(?) in Perth back in 1984 (ish) and understand the value of goo audio description (and piracy .. or file sharing in hobbyist communities as I might think of it) so I understand your position.

Just being that person on teh internet that likes to point out there are many ways to skin cats .. not that we do that in the country anymore.
Is this Europe's plan? Pseudo tarrifs via regulation to boost local industry?
Most cities in the Nordics as well as Japan. I am always amazed at the crazy weather that people will ride through in Sweden and Finland!
The alternative to good public transit for everyone is bad public transit for the majority and cars for a few.

You don't get to imagine an alternative like "cars for everyone", because it's simply not possible.
Bottle-to-Bottle Honey Production: Contactless Beekeeping [video]
I broke my Achilles tendon - had to have a FULL reconstruction - they took a tendon that used to help waggle my big toe (the muscle is in my leg) wrapped around my heel and back up my leg and rebuilt my achilles around that - now I have a muscle that used to wiggle my toe than moves my entire foot.

How hard was it to relearn? at first I'd try to move my toe and something else would move, it felt weird - but doctor's orders were essentially don't do anything for 3 months, bed rest and keep the leg raised - all the muscles turned to jelly ... then months of physio, in the pool and then in the gym - at that point, once I started moving stuff again my brain had adjusted - that muscle moves my foot, not my toe - I didn't have to do anything explicitly to make it change, it just did
But you can remove the laws that allow restaurants to pay servers less than minimum wage and that thereby make tipping effectively mandatory.
That system was slow and doesn’t solve the same problems. It’s competing with long range travel and all of those track routes were far slower than just driving.

The problems that Colorado faces are transportation within urban areas. Driving to salt lake and ski resorts isn’t an issue.
Nice. He didn't say which vintage electronics store in Tucson, but there is a good chance it's Elliott Electronics... an electronics store with big surplus (tools/aviation/machinery/everythingelse) store under the same roof.
That took a corny ending compared to the "Now, as an old man I realize the only thing I can change is my underwear. On a good day" punchline that I expected.