skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know: as I understood it, the trucker thing was basically about showing that they occupy a strategic position in the Canadian economy.

And yet various organizations that represent truckers, both organized unions and independents, distanced themselves from the convoy:

* https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/embarrassment-for-the-industry...

* https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-trucking-...

* https://teamster.org/2022/02/teamsters-denounce-freedom-conv...

If the convoy was anything but a bunch of anti-vaxxers, they failed to really convey that message from my perspective.

> And that was a lot of the rhetoric from the truckers about themselves: I guess we'd just come out of the pandemic with all these sudden realizations about essential workers […]

I have first-hand knowledge of essential workers because of family connections to nursing and retail (food/groceries). I also have family connections to people who actually run trucking companies, and do maintenance on rigs.

I personally got deemed an essential worker by my company because of my IT role, and got a letter on company letterhead stating as such for any time I had to come into the office, in case I should perhaps be stopped for breaking curfew (the organization I was with had connections with medical treatment).

I don't think anyone would reasonably deny truckers are often essential, but the number of truckers making a fuss about was a tiny majority that worked in the industry.
The reader has to add every RSS feed. What if I as the producer of those feeds want to ship a combined feed so they don't have to do that extra work? Or what if I'm a curator of RSS feeds and want to release one combined "low-tech computer news" feed sourced from 100 smaller low-tech computer news feeds?
> So the tax is on the land instead of the improvement on the land.

Your last comment seems to contradict this one though. You were describing a tax based on the value of the land rather than the value of improvements. That's precisely what we have today.

If you're wanting to punish people for leaving land underutilized you do in fact need to tax based on what the potential value of the land is when fully utilized. Thst runs smack into the challenge of how to value potential value if the land was fully utilized and the question of whether we can be so sure that high density is the answer that we disincentivize lower density living.

Edit: reading this again I think we're either saying the same thing in slightly different ways or I just misunderstood you. When I'm talking about improvements I do mean potential future improvements that could be made to the land, I think that's what most people mean by a land value tax. Meaning, taxing a person for the value of a piece of land as if there were already a condo on it because we'd rather them build that than leave it empty or build a single family home. I see that as a huge problem, both because it requires a massive amount of accurate (and oppressive) central planning and because it's impossible to know what the land would be worth when "fully utilized". We would have to define what fully utlizied means, accepting that it's entirely based on personal preference, and then envision what the whole community would look like if built out that way and what that would then be valued at.
If you search "Show HN" and wardrobe and fashion, I think you'll find a few other similar ideas from the past.

This probably isn't a group that really cares about fashion. Maybe if you lived in New York, but outside of that, most of the engineers I've met (US west coast) just wears random shorts and t shirts.

If you actually show up in something fancy, you'd stick out like an imposter or marketer or lawyer.

I definitely wouldn't pay money for this. But there's probably a strong regional and class component to this that I've just never been a part of.
>Only pizza was ever "delivered" because you could batch up multiple pizzas and deliver them simultaneously.

Can't you do the same with regular restaurants? I've been to many non-pizza restaurants where delivery drivers regularly come in to pick up food. Surely those restaurants could do the same?
but really, is one leading to the other, or is it just that inflation has caused fewer descretionary spedning?
I don’t use them.

I always pick up my own food, but I’m aware that makes me an anachronism.
Perhaps Jaget lives in a three-bedroom 6th story walkup with five other delivery drivers.
8D

Do I tell the thermite charge story? No no, not here.
How does a PIC12F509 connect via bluetooth to talk to an app for the consumer to configure things? How does it connect to wifi to talk to a server to save data to? Like it or not, an app to configure the device instead of the device having a VCR remote control to program in schedules is what consumers have gotten used to these days. If you think there's room in the market for a sleep pad that doesn't talk to the cloud, you're welcome to try, but mass market consumers have come to expect more from products.
> What did this people do before all of these apps came into play?

The same thing we do now: get takeout, sit down at the location, or cook at home.

Hell, even before these apps were invented I always just went and got my pizza or grabbed it on the way home.
A government solution will surely work.
No, not good. Just because we have something better doesn't mean it's good to sabotage what most people are still using.

Really.
The on-demand deliver-anything business model just isn't sustainable. You can only have it when it's propped up by some combination of temporary subsidy (i.e., VC funding), price obfuscation (e.g., markups, fees, and tips), and shifting the costs and risks to drivers.

DoorDash et al. aren't innovators in anything other than creative contracting and marketing. There's no magic practical efficiency that makes their business work.
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the canonical introduction to AS/400 from 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pY6Xxptp9A

for a non-technical audience, but still manages to satisfy
Agreed. Just go in-store for the stuff you want to pick out, and do pickup for all the items that don't require selection. Usually pickup is free or very cheap. Sure, it's not as convenient as delivery, but it's also much cheaper and you get to pick out the stuff you want.
China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...
No, the problem needs to be fixed. Adding more noise isn't helpful at this point.
You'd also need customer service to handle all the problems
they are like $1500/month here in california. The cheaper one is $1200/month. Neither of which my insurance covers.
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Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen2 are both great at 32k context. Can’t tell the difference between those models at 8k and 32k fully utilised. The difference in quality between them and 8k models when doing codegen is night and day. Not to mention that many of the little 8k models also have sliding window at 4k which essentially makes them 4k models.
> Perhaps Jaget lives in a three-bedroom 6th story walkup with five other delivery drivers.

That would seems like a pretty relevant detail to Jaget's story.

However, I'm with you that some chasm-filling speculation is needed to make the columns balance here.
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AM sounds painfully awful
Everything is automated. Testing a simple micro with few pins can be extremely fast.

Look up some modern factory tour videos. The RGB LED factory videos are interesting to watch. You can see how the bulk of the work is completely automated. Once the machines are set up, you let them run and collect the output.
Pizza and Chinese food.
There’s a range of quality and options. My sister does in story pickup and then picks up produce on her own. It’s free and still saves her a half hour per week which adds up.
No idea why you’re getting downvoted. Everything you’ve written is correct.
We didnt order out often, but at some point in the last year we also decided to scale that back to almost 0, mainly because of the quality of food.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821994
Stop Testing Your Code
Pizza has also traditionally been either independent shops or large chains, often with their own drivers, meaning there's either 1 party (the company with employees), or rarely 2 parties (the company, and a "contractor" driver). Now with the Uber/DoorDash/Deliveroo model there are 3 parties, the shop, the driver, and the network, all looking to take a cut. For a business that is relatively low margin already, adding a middleman trying to take their own cut is just not possible without either raising prices, or subsidising with investor cash.
Tangential but I looked at the codebase - because I like to imagine I can code (I can’t) - and for a laymen, I could follow the code.

Makes me think quite positively of go lang and of the dev for designing in such a way. Can understand why teams like it because of easier maintenance

Quite elegant from my uneducated pov.
Full flood damage restoration of Playstation 1 console [video]
The only people who regret suicide are the ones who survive. Subjectively on success, you stop, and removing any and all future possibilities is the entire point. Suicide prevention has nothing to do with the subject, but everything to do with everyone else. You feel bad if someone else dies with unfulfilled potential. So should lawmakers empathize with the suicidal or their loved ones? I tend to think Assisted Dying laws should focus on who has a right over someone else's life (parents? children? siblings? friends? councilors? colleagues? employers?), and be about under what situations they get to block suicide assistance. Rather than the existing situation where the laws are all about granting an individual the right to die, and making it harder for people to exercise their innate right to die by their own hand.
No, they _are_ tested during manufacturing.

> Honestly, this is where I'd love RISC-V to be making inroads

A 32-bit CPU is way too big for this price point still.
I wonder if the problem is that they're trying to coordinate/optimize drivers and routes after the orders have been placed.

What if they tried to coordinate before the order was placed? There have been many days where I would have been happy to eat food from one of 10 different places, and we picked a restaurant more or less at random.

If a platform could coordinate my choice with the choice of 4 very close by neighbors, then they could send one driver to pick up maybe $300-500 of orders ($60-100 food per household) and give us some sort of discount.

I would actually allow notifications from an app that sometimes messaged me to say "several of your neighbors have ordered from X Restaurant, which you've liked in the past. Do you want to order also, for a 10% discount?".

Of course, if they bullshitted and tried to fake-it-till-you-make-it with the order momentum (telling 50 neighbors that several already ordered), that would be annoying and potentially fraudulent. But I would be happy to see a competitor arise and shift the coordination from delivery to ordering. It could make the business model work much better, and would also cut down on travel time, food sogginess, etc.
My understanding is that it wasn’t power-to-drag but power -to-weight.

Although the Wright brothers deservedly get a lot of credit, I think they made progress once they enlisted the help of Curtis due to his knowledge of lightweight internal combustion engines.

The book Bird Men is a god read on this subject.
Not really "lefties" here, but this is a reasonable example...

I will say that First Nations issues in Canada are pretty complicated, particularly when it comes to unceded territories and the rights around those.

It's also worth mentioning that those rail line blockades in Ontario were done in support of other protests in BC where the government eventually sent cops in riot gear to dismantle the blockades by violence.

Something that didn't happen in Ottawa, and I'll let you figure out why.
Qt makes such amazing apps. I love KDE and the apps they spawned like Kate, KDEnlive, Krita.. It's no wonder their apps are so popular on Linux and windows alike. Unlike GTK apps even though it does have bindings for Windows.
The market is still pretty wide-open for a service that offers rapid, random delivery services and that takes a very small cut.

Any of us are free to start such a thing right now, if they wish to spend the time putting it together and running it.

(But even as a socialist, I think that this is approximately the last thing that the government should be in the middle of.)
Softmax vs. Sigmoid Functions: Understanding Neural Networks Variation
Hamfest? Computer shows with a parking lot flea market or cheap booths?
Related:

Slack AI Training with Customer Data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383978
Pizza has really high throughput and very short, fixed latency. I don't think there are many restaurants that can match that.

"Chinese" places are probably the only ones that I think can get close.
"delve"
Imagine how different space travel and exploration would be for a civilization in that stage of the universe! Maybe we come too late and are destined to a lonely, sparse universe.
"Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

Until you discover Delphi/Lazarus.
There is one footgun with many tools like this. If you add a new source to an existing combined feed all of the items in that feed will immediately appear as new items. What you typically want is for new items for the source feed to show up in the combined feed, not all exiting items at once.
Control the media
>There have been many days where I would have been happy to eat food from one of 10 different places, and we picked one more or less at random.

That seems like a nightmare. I sure don't want to go through the trouble of making 10 different orders just to save 10%. If I wanted to jump through that many hoops I'd pick it up myself.
Yup sounds about right. Pizza delivery or pick it up yourself in the suburb I grew up in.

These days I live in a somewhat dense city and yet I still prefer to order nearby and go walk to pick it up, at least when I'm just ordering for myself. It's probably an extra $5-10 and usually at least 20 minutes more to have someone else pick it up.

As for the economics... If you force higher wages, then higher prices are likely and demand then goes down. Not surprising.

The alternative might be for business to respond by working on higher efficiency, to get the average price of a delivery down by sharing the labor - that would require figuring out how to give the delivery workers multiple orders from the same or nearby restaurants to deliver in the same direction. Might be possible to build but when the restaurants aren't cooperating (it's wasteful for the delivery guy to wait for your food to be ready) and there's not enough orders from one area to another it's tough. Add that a lot of food delivery is relatively time sensitive as not all food keeps well / stays warm long enough. I suspect pizza delivery is the main type of business that has solved it this way. For everyone else, it's clearly a tricky problem and the net result either way is to need less labor for food delivery, higher prices, or a mix of both.

Which is fine as long as we have other jobs those delivery drivers are willing to switch to instead. Imo that's a big part of the problem - mandating certain jobs will pay better without necessarily having a plan for creating other jobs for the folks who end up underworked/jobless as a result. Now if gig companies downsized their workforces like regular employers some of the extra jobs should result from the extra discretionary income spent by the remaining workers... But probably a tiny fraction of what's needed to avoid more unemployment. Complicating this may be that gig workers are subject to underemployment if not enough if them quit, and I suspect the unemployment safety net works poorly for them.
Earliest maybe Gentleman and Sande from 1966 and a kickass title (for '66) - "Fast Fourier Transforms: for fun and profit"

https://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg716/FFT_Fun_Profit.pdf
I dont think its a scale thing, its an opportunity cost thing where there is very much a narrow price band where delivery can do high volume and with the price increase to drivers you cause more people interested on driving while also kneecapping demand. The pizza thibg is also more that the verticle integration lets you cut out atleast one middleman's worth of markup keeping your business profitable ehile also keeping your end user price in that high demand price band.
Who at Boeing decides if the deal should be accepted? Unlike a personal plea, there doesn't seem to be any interests that directly impact the board or the c-suite beyond some loss in share value.
I used yahoo pipes for this back in the day. I wanted to combine multiple feeds into a single date sort. So it gave me all the issues on like 20 repos from oldest to newest.

This was much faster than clicking on 20 different feeds to see which ones are oldest or most recent.
Growing up (upstate new york) the only places that delivered were pizza places. When I was a bit older, Jimmy Johns would deliver if you were in the office parks near their location. Right by colleges a few more places would deliver, things like calzones, cookies, beer, etc. But they were propped up by the density of the university.
Weight. A typical steam train has enough propulsion power to overcome an enormous amount drag, but its power-to-weight ratio is low.
> It would be really nice to have a super simple processor with a standard architecture and tooling.

Pragmatically speaking, that architecture already exists -- it's the 8051. (This part is a PIC clone, but 8051 is also extremely common.)

RISC-V has promise for larger microcontrollers, but really tiny ones like these (48 bytes RAM, 1KB ROM) are better off with an 8-bit architecture.
You could be right, after reading through the guidelines it does seem on the edge. Which exact policy do you think it is violating?

I was trying to relay that it is an enormous resource by Google but somehow nobody talks about it. (At least I haven't heard about it, which is odd considering its size.)

The title does sound a bit clickbaity, please tell me what title I should have used instead.
If you haven't seen it before, check out The Year of the Sex Olympics. 1968, almost perfectly predicting Survivor-style reality TV and a lot of 2000-era television culture.
The basics are straightforward while having the hindsight of all the development we have enjoyed in the last hundred years. Stable flight was a hard nugget to crack. Better mechanical design, understanding of fluid dynamics, lighter materials, engines with higher power-to-weight ratios, etc all brought us to where we are today once the Wright Flyer was demonstrated.
Oh yeah, I recently went through that for my mum's new phone.

It's a miracle it worked in the end. Everything that could have gone wrong did. Also shout out to the cloud back up for not showing up despite being RIGHT THERE in Google Drive.
How does programming on this thing work? The datasheet doesn't go into very much detail, except there's SDI, SDO, SCK, and Vpp pins.
It’s kind of why I settled on “annoying” as my descriptor. I know just enough about it to do what I need and nothing more. So maybe that’s the reason, and it’s a good reason, or maybe there’s also other good reasons. Honestly don’t know.

I’ll say that it feels somewhat pointless on every system I’ve personally used it on. In all cases I’m still generating my private key in PEM format and using filesystem permissions to restrict access. So the PKCS12 / JKS password stuff just becomes another thing to bother with that doesn’t provide any real improvement to security.

Now maybe we should be deleting that PEM once we slurp it into the keystore, and actually setting real keystore passwords sourced from a secure location and only kept in memory, etc. I’d definitely rather not though.
It is fun, indeed. Could be a candidate for the best technology abuse of the year.
> The book Bird Men is a god read on this subject.

Thanks for that recommendation, I'll add that to my book reading list!
It looks like the X13 is 1/2 lb heavier, as per

https://jcs.org/2021/01/27/x1nano

and

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th...
Sounds like they are still campaigning with investor dollars. I doubt they had a viable business before the wage increase. They should make like a good capitalist and just go out of business.
This is completely unhinged, right? Am I crazy? All that work just to make absolutely 100% sure their staff never have to try to learn anything new or modify their processes in any way shape or form.
LRASM missing from us list or is this just the mobile list being weird
> DoorDash said the new laws collectively led to a reduction of some 1% of its overall orders in the first quarter

Not according to their own financials: orders were up 1M the first quarter for Door Dash compared to Q1 the previous year (+45M ‘23, +46M ‘24).

Door Dash don’t even mention the new laws in their most recent financials:

> In Q1 2024, Total Orders increased 21% Y/Y to 620 million and Marketplace GOV increased 21% Y/Y to $19.2 billion. We remain pleased with our execution against volume goals in all major areas of our business”
What justice was the trucker convoy looking for? What injustice were they fighting against? What grave depravity had they long suffered against?

You are quoting from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", which also states:

> In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action.

* https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....

The convoy did not do the first three steps, or if they did, they did not effectively show the public that they did.

From my perspective (or "my truth" as the kids are wont to say these days) they were a bunch of anti-vaxxers railing against da gubermint.
There are a bunch of these things in a word2vec space. I had a blog post years ago on my group's blog which trained word2vec on a bunch of wikias so we could find out who is the Han Solo of Doctor Who (which I think somewhat inexplicably was Rory Williams). You need to carefully implement word2vec, and then the similarity search, but there are plenty of vaguely interesting things in there once you do.
You already said that, and you're ignoring the fact that many countries are switching from coal and nuclear to renewables, thanks in part to the rapidly falling prices.
For a while there was an AM Stereo which sounded much better
And it's free money!
Reminds me we had a steak delivery place growing up. Googling, I see Steak Out still exists? Never remember ordering it.