skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reality is that these are not culturally significant institutions and most people in London don’t care. Ordinary Londoners rarely use these markets, and they mostly sell to restaurants […]

Just because most Londoners don't care doesn't make them unimportant. They can provide a useful 'infrastructure' role for allowing this specific sector to run more smoothly.

There's a similar thing in Toronto, the Ontario Food Terminal, that allows various local businesses (restaurants, local grocers / veg stands, (neighbourhood) florists, etc) buy directly from producers without having to go through a middle-man:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Food_Terminal

There was some worry that the facility would be retired and the land (e.g.) used for housing, but there are no plans to get rid of or relocate it:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-food-terminal...

* https://farmtario.com/news/ontario-food-terminal-distributes...

Given that Toronto is the largest city in Canada, it allows for a somewhat convenient location for producers to sell to a large amount of buyers in a concentrated space.

> […] and require major financial support.

Running a modern society requires major financial support. The question is: what are the benefits to society of the infrastructure in question? Are the vendors not charged rent? Are the buyers perhaps not charged a membership fee? At least when it comes to OpEx do annual fees not cover expenses? The above mentioned Ontario Food Terminal is self-sufficient from fees (perhaps the government helps out every so often with CapEx?).
It's not like we all didn't want and buy the oil.
> They closely match the syntax of SQL so you do need to know SQL, but now you also need to know the SQL builder's syntax.

I tend to agree, I recently tried Slonik and found it fun to use, but when I tried to incroporate it into an existing project I ran into ESM / TS issues (even with interop on, annoyingly). I also want to give pg-typed a try.

The only reason I would recommend it is I feel many systems tend to have some sort of dynamic query builder "UI" over time, especially in enterprise spaces, and a query builder solves these problems very well.
I think you're taking the wrong read on the situation, if you have a cross-section of your students that are failing a class that doesn't match with the roughly normal distribution you would expect then it means that it's a failing of the class. You have a bunch of affluent involved parents who are looking to advantage their child in any way possible teaching their kids algebra outside school hours. It's not a bad thing, it's actually great that parents are involved, but it means the class isn't doing anything one way or the other so why even have it?

You only see this kind of behavior in math where there's an on-paper advantage to be conferred by letting kids jump ahead, you don't see it with social studies or english.
Not sure if the irony is intended here. The entire point is that the Chinese people aren't a monolith, hence CCP != The Chinese people.

This will also hold for whether they believe us - in that too, Chinese people won't be a monolith. Plenty of those who aren't the biggest fans of the CCP will, as they understand where we're coming from better than anyone.
It's a pretty marked divergence from both their previous strategy and from the LTSBs, so I thought it bore a mention. I didn't realize there were explicit EOLs for each release, which I don't remember from the SPs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266735

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2024/11/28/pissed-off-by-spotify...
I'm excited to see the outcomes. Hats off to Australia for engaging in this experiment.

One unique aspect of social media, as opposed to, say, porn, is it's reliance on network effects. Sure, maybe 25% of kids will use a VPN and log on, but if most of your friends don't care enough to spend their allowance on a VPN, then what's the point?
Oh good. I fully agree with that comment.
Probably but Covent Garden and Borough Market are pretty popular.

My friend had a pub next to Smithfield so I used to be down there a lot but the meat market is mostly slabs of meat and associated body parts, diesel trucks and closed to the public. It seemed a little out of place in gentrified modern London.
This is a genuinely relevant question given that HN could be easily argued to be social media. For the record, I too am concerned about social media impact and so on ( for good and valid reasons ), but this law does not seem that great at first glance.
I'm inclined to believe it. If someone managed to prove Apple's lying about it, there would be serious reputational (and other) risks to their business. I also can't imagine how they would benefit from such a fabrication.

That said, I still use "Nanoblock" webcam covers and monitor for when either the camera or microphone are activated.
* proving it's safe and effective, *and* getting the go-ahead from the drug cartels
Good execution but why can’t someone just upload the pics on blog or Wordpress and do the same ?
I've been thinking a lot about this possibility. I think people will have to come up with family passwords eventually. A word or phrase that is regularly practised, but strictly private, for verification in times of crisis.

For example, my family's passphrase is- just kidding.
Most countries ban guns for everyone, with that being the primary reason. It is not a fragile argument, it is simply a different weighting of values.

When I say “ban”, I mean “heavily restrict and track”, which is how I gather we are using the term “ban” in this context as well.
Opioids weren't forbidden for those with prescriptions and we all know how that turned out.
My grandma never owned a cellphone, only an old landline. And she buys dogfood in the neighborhood mom & pop store.
I know there are applications where version numbers don't matter. These are mainly singular websites and applications that have constant deployment. As I said, this version scheme is not compatible with SemVer because it uses a totally different concept and does not solve the same problems at all.
Isn't gambling usually illegal for minors?
Why did you use the word "always" in place of the word "often?" I doubt there was any motive behind it.
Smithfield Market and the City of London are nowhere near Canary Wharf
For an article like this, the negative comments would be aimed at the people in the article, not the journalist. So the article can be a great (muckraking) article, and the comments might also be vitriolic, and everything is good if the rage is well-aimed.
Copper Sushi doesn't load for me, but I'm wondering how it is going to beat the awesome electricitymaps. They have all the data and quite a good viewer.
Wow I have been on twtr dor years, never seen this.
> My very strict uncle was adamant ... When he eventually found out, it was a bad situation.

These might be related. Of course kids will respond that way to severe strictness - it tends to happen with anything a parent acts that way about, whether it's social media, smoking, or simply hanging out with a particular group of people.

This is, still, the fault of the parent.
I have never had any issues like this, and the type safety provided by Kysely has saved me a lot of bugs and potentially very serious issues.
"I'm sorry but I won't review the PR until the AI check is green"
I’m not taking offense but don’t think for a moment that you know me. I don’t “gatekeep” and don’t in fact ask leetcode questions when I interview. But I have been a software engineer for 20+ years in every possible role from a basic IC up to CTO, been part of small teams, run huge teams been a cog in a massive machine to being “the guy who has to do everything” and I am perfectly happy to do leetcode in an interview and wouldn’t consider it “humiliating” and what I’m saying here is if you think it’s offensive you should adjust your perspective. I personally don’t think it’s great signal in an interview for some of the reasons you say which is why I don’t ask these questions myself.
Bluesky reminds me of Twitter around ~2008, and Twitter only really got enshittified to the point that I barely use it this year. So I'm optimistic that we'll get a good decade in at least.
Incidentally, there's an article on Medium about Graber's experience listening to some internet old-timers https://medium.com/decentralized-web/the-internets-old-guard...

Someone else who's interesting is CEO of Signal https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
I've seen in a friend how a few gray hairs suddenly started to grow with color again; colored from the root to the middle (no idea what triggered it) and grey from the middle to the tip, due they grow as such on the past. So I'm sure that gray hair (transparent hair?) can be reversed.

I suspect that the researchers in the article may have observed something like this happening and decided to investigate it.
For me it was more about the cables than the smart features.
They don't, because that would be the whole point of a total shutdown in a coordinated, all-modes transit employees strike. Ask people in London, they have that on a semi-regular basis.

Otherwise, there is no such thing as "transit employees not feeling like working" - thanks to the magic of economy holding a metaphorical gun to the heads of most people. You work whether you feel like it or not.
So now we have LLMs that convince people it's their significant other, another LLM that gets you to tell it all the crimes you committed. In WWII people were being told to rat out their neighbors, now people are being told to rat themselves out and they are doing it. There should be a documentary on these societal anomalies and this phenomena should be studied.
Back in the 90's we were somewhat supervised when using the internet on the family PC. We were also somewhat supervised while watching the family TV.
Of the 11 positive applications that you listed, only the 1st, 3rd, 11th and arguably the 4th would benefit from voice cloning, which is what's being promoted here. The rest are solved merely by (improved) TTS and do not require the cloning of any actual human voice.

Also, notice how the legitimate use-cases 1, 3 and 4 imply the user consenting to clone their own voice, which is fine. However, the only use-case which would require cloning a specific human voice belonging to a third party, use-case 11, is "memes, satire, and parody"... and not much imagination is needed to see how steep and buttery that Teflon slippery slope is.
Is this anecdotal? Feels like we live in very different worlds if so. But if this is maybe just more from watching the news, I can understand why you believe it.

But just know we are all out here, outside the tubes, living in a society! Its messy, but people are still people, and most everyone is kind if you just talk to them.

You simply must not just watch the news or viral Karen videos or whatever and use it all as your only basis for such an utter fatalism. Not for any moral reason or anything else, but truly just for your own emotional well being. You will have happier days.
Not true.

Counter-mainstream arguments are immediately flagged (often within a minute), likely by third-party bots detecting undesirable comments.
Several US states have already done that, Maine just did a couple days ago: https://www.maine.gov/ag/news/article.shtml?id=13129752
> Allowing edits and arbitrary insertions also means you could easily pretend you posted something earlier than you did, or edit an earlier post to say something else [1]

[1] https://github.com/arcalinea/smor-serve
> why are you repeatedly implying I'm a cheap freeloader?

Sorry, I’m implying that most people are cheap freeloaders.

> If they had instead offered a more reasonable time period, I would have seriously considered switching to a paid plan

Easy to say now that you’ve found a reason to justify not doing that.

> I was only using Uptimerobot to monitor 2 sites, which means they were sending less than 600 tiny HEAD requests to my infra per day. The approximate cost of that to them should easily be less than one cent per month.

Whether it’s easily less than one cent per month or not, it’s more than the zero cents you were paying them.

> there is no conceivable situation in which I would discontinue a free product with only 26 days notice

Try conceiving harder. Of course there are situations when you’d discontinue a free product with 26 days notice.
I agree. It's often used as a way to dismiss concerns about a party's actions, as though all bad actions are equally bad, which is ridiculous.
> Any type of mass-media is fodder for the have-nots

Tautology.

> The more addictive facebook, tiktok and twitter are, the bigger the premium is of being part of the right group

There is no causal link here.

It's been important to be at the right place (group) at the right time always.

Social media being more or less addictive or existing at all changes this banality not.
How to run your own Bluesky PDS server from home
The title seems to make the incorrect assumption that print (ink on paper) is the only way to read.
I would love to see a VPS with transparent upstream costs so we have some idea of what's fair.
But not mid?
We can't just keep saying "Don't be the dropbox guy" as a comeback to criticism of new technology. Anyone who uses that phrase should have to place a bet in a prediction market that only pays out if the product they're talking about succeeds. Blindly supporting stuff out of a sort of "Pascal's Wager against looking foolish later" should have some cost if you're wrong.
Just a reminder that you can do this on municipal and state levels with relative ease

And in microstates too

A random municipality in the US may have more commerce or highly valued property to tax than many countries, and they draw less attention than big municipalities

A mayor or board decision from a 200 person town in Los Angeles County, for example, may never garner any challenge or news by being next to Los Angeles City which takes all local and national press time
True although I get the feeling from James Maynard that he’s the sort of person you would almost have to physically restrain if he was in a room with a whiteboard in it and you didn’t want him to solve some problem on it.
You can automate it with zero downtime on kubernetes.

And since internal traffic is free, you just need to cycle the ingress servers.

Pay for the cheapest instance, get 20TB of egress. Churn em and burn em.
I noticed this trend take off during Obama’s first term. He used “folks” often in speeches and interviews. It caught on as a word that implies cultural unity and common heritage without actually referencing a specific culture or people.
Highly suggest this book on Kissas and experiencing Japan through walking. Immersive photography as well.

https://shop.specialprojects.jp/products/kissa-by-kissa-4th-...
Either than or Android and iOS will add something like Caller ID but with actual authentication.
> You wouldn't allow your child to walk up to random strangers in the street without you there

This applies to under 16 year olds though, not little children but adolescents. I would hope that every parent of teenagers allows them to talk to random people on the street.
We didn't all launch an ongoing decades-long campaign of lies about what the consequences will be though.
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See this is just thing the commenter you are replying to is saying.

Just read the comments in your second link tearing apart the study.

Given the replication crisis in psychology, the authors make bad choices in the experiment design that are not justifiable in 2022.
That comment didn't +1 what you just said. It basically said that we care about the total, usable throughput. Whether some specific components are capable of more doesn't mean anything unless / until that greather throughput is usable by us.
You are sadly all too correct. At least the process here is less formalized and expected than on Bluesky.
The +2 was an Amstrad product, not designed or built by Sinclair, though.
Clasp: Develop Google Apps Script projects locally
Underrated reasons to be thankful IV
Turkey is good. I eat it throughout the year.
really? i see stuff like this all the time
Our boy @rui314 developed such fast linker that the kernel can't catch up! LOL ^_^ such an amazing job, well done!
I'm assuming you don't have kids? It's impossible to stop them, both on a technical and social level. You'd guarantee a destroyed relationship with your kids if trying to do so without their consent.
Was she grinding code on the clone app, or simply telling other folks what to build? To quantify experience, it requires accompanying detail.
A couple of these I'd like references on if anyone happens to have them.

1. "current science suggests that the actual health impact from consuming most types of plastic might well be essentially zero"

2. "the (weak) evidence we have now suggests running strengthens your knees"
Because it will take about 1 month till there is some service the parents will want the kids to use that wont be available on such device (a kids show, a kids game, a page necessary for homework). So, they will have strong motivation to not label them as such.
"Social media is bad for kids" is the fresh iteration of "video games are bad for kids". Remember the craze?
I was fully ready to have my mind blown, but am kindof perversely happy that no one's that damn smart :-)
Because hackers are individual human beings, and as such are motivated by a whole variety of reasons, money being just one of them.

When running small companies they still tend to be motivated by other things, such as proving a point, achieving a technical goal or having some cultural influence etc.

It's only when the company grows in size that it becomes this soulless greedy sociopath we are all too accustomed to.

Hetzner grew a lot those last 5 years or so.
https://archive.ph/AhQIz
Sounds like the door hit you on the way out.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
Most competition bikes weigh significantly more than the 6.8kg limit, because weight just doesn't matter very much. A lot of state-of-the-art road and track bikes weigh around 8kg.

On the flat, weight only affects you during accelerations - at a steady speed, it has no significant impact on performance. Aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance are constantly sapping away power, so features that reduce these losses are nearly always worthwhile even if they increase weight. Even on a moderately hilly road stage, aero trumps weight by a considerable margin; on the track, weight is almost entirely irrelevant, particularly in longer events.

A lot of riders like the feel of a lightweight bike, a lot of them believe that light bikes are faster, but that's only true on exceptionally steep stages or hill climbs.
The problem is not epistemological conservatism in general. The problem is that in this case climate uniformity is (rather arbitrarily) assigned as the null hypothesis, which leads to systematic underestimation. This is conveniently (and, we are to believe, coincidentally) in line with political and business pressures facing science faculty, namely accusations of 'alarmism.'

As for fantasizing about punishing people for observing bias in science (again using Feynman's own test) by taking away their iPads and vaccines, that's not even worth responding to, let alone an argument.
I would say that it depends on the exact details of regulation being discussed, not just the target.

For instance, you could propose a regulation that says that any type of gambling with any wager, whether using real currency or fictional, for any age range, should be illegal. I think most people would consider that to be unreasonable.

You could also propose a regulation that says that companies cannot collect personal data on individuals for advertising purposes unless that individual is directly engaged with that company as a customer. This would hopefully render illegal Facebook's "shadow profiles"[1] that collect data on non-customers. While more controversial, I'd say that this would still be supported by most people you'd meet, while still falling into the category of "the government protecting people from Facebook".

Details of regulation matter, a lot.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-pr...
The hope is being open and decentralised are counteracting forces to keep bluesky in check if they attempt to pull the rug.

We're yet to see how this turns out in practice. I do fear that the ATProto model means that Bluesky is still a pretty central component in the ecosystem. Mastodon, in comparison, seems to be more resiliant to one 'instance' screwing things up.

If Bluesky shut down all their servers tomorrow with no notice, what will happen to the network? If Mastodon shut down their servers (mastodon.social), users on that instance would be screwed, but me and many of the people I follow aren't on there so we would be fine.
So data.illinois.gov has been hacked?
What does that even mean? Relays not being able to arbitrarily edit posts is by design, and why PDS updates like posts are signed by their authors. That's a strength, not a weakness.

The mechanism for spam filtering is the same as any other network. You can drop posts from low-trust PDSes, or use Bluesky's existing labeling system to apply advisory "spam likely" labels to accounts or posts that some heuristic decides are spam. This can be done in a composable way with their algorithmic feed aggregator and labels.
This HN comment section with showdead enabled reveals that Ms Graber attracts trolls and misogynists like moths to a flame.

Sometimes I think that the efficient moderation on HN hides the extent of the problem in this community. When Trump won the election, the HN ‘new’ page was briefly filled with posts saying things like “Eat shit n**s and f*gs!!!”

But since the efficient moderation quickly hides all this for users who don’t go out of their way to enable viewing dead posts and comments, we can blissfully go on discussing the finer points of tariffs and whatever, ignoring the fact that a growing number of people around really just want to see minority scapegoats suffer. It feels a bit like frogs in a boiling kettle.
It's basically constant that many people will fearmonger and some will embrace new technology. I think this is basically independent of the actual merits and drawbacks of the given technology. Regardless of these strange asymptotes, I would say technology has been advancing from less benefit/risk to more in time, and so we will get closer to the fearmongerers being right. I suppose it could mean that we harness the benefits and waive the risks, but in practice it seems unlikely.
Good to know, so it's an American vs. British thing. Thanks!

Is there any further distinction between a "tariff" and a "rate" in British English? The example sentence you provide uses both, which makes me wonder if there's even more to the picture here.
From some of the comments here, it sounds like BlueSky started with healthy dose of enshitification: censorship and suspensions.
The roborock is pretty good. Although, it’s a Chinese company, so there’s that.
Yo E17 my homie!

Think of it as encouragement to the traders to find their own new location :)