skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly one of the most prophetic movies in recent memory. It started out innocently enough with people just stealing the gestures and UIs from the film. But we have now progressed to also taking the highly targeted and personalized advertising coupled with mass surveillance and even the idea of precrime that is now being built around AI as if that is more accurate than the fantastical psychics of the movie. Just another example of us creating the torment nexus.
Props to your kid. Doing the work yourself and then asking for a critique (however flawed) is a way better approach than most kids at that age would take.
> All we do in SF is make car driving worse, we almost never make public transit better.

Same happening here in my smallish (~300k peeople) capital of a small eu country...

Too many cars? More expensive parking! Less parking! More expensive parking! Less parking! More pedestrian-only streets, and even more cars around that...

And the buses? They suck. The city is roughly star-shaped.. want to go from one leg to another? Well, you have to cross the city center. Sunday? Half of the buses don't drive then. Something happening in the city center? Good luck with getting on the last bus after the event is over, and no extra buses added. Dog? Not during "rush hours" (6.30-9:30 and 13-17h). AC? Barely any. Two buses needed? No time sinchronization at all. Train-bus time sychronization? haha good luck. Need to go just a stop or two? It's expensive. Need to go across the whole town? It's slow, even with empty streets.

But hey, parking will be made even more expensive!

edit: also, a student? You get cheaper transport! Here's a line for you to wait to get the transport card: https://www.zurnal24.si/slovenija/pred-okenci-prevoznikov-pr...
FWIW, I also hear good things about Kobo, though I don't have direct experience.

Those are based on Alpine Linux rather than Android, AFAIU, and if you're into Linux are apparently more readily customised and hacked.

(The fact that BOOX is Android is a misfeature for me, though it does make many more apps available. As noted, I use few of those and could replace much of their functionality with shell or Linux-native GUI tools. I suspect battery management would suffer however.)
Huh, I always get a kick of finding out I’ve been spelling something wrong for a while haha. I appreciate the correction.
Indeed, Ken Burns docos are brilliant!
In my experience snapshots have largely fallen out of vogue, at least as far as them blocking deploys goes. They're usually flaky, change often, are slow to test and it's way too easy to have false positives which lulls people into complacency and just regenerating the snapshots as soon as they reach a failure. I'm guilty of that myself, unless I can spot the breakage immediately I pretty much just regen the snapshot by default subconsciously because of how often I've had to do that for false positives
Actually the Harper gov't passed laws when in power that enabled them to treat such protests against fossil fuels as terrorist or threat-to-national-security events.

And pipeline blocking protests in BC saw fairly heavy handed police intervention under the Trudeau govt. Those blockades were cleared by the RCMP, quite aggressively, something which the police basically refused to do for the convoy protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_rai...

I don't think it's really that cut and dry of a comparison in favour of your argument. Oil and gas protests in Canada have been treated more aggressively than the convoy was.
> That guy is asking you if replacing a part of the html with some other html alerts screen readers to the change....It’s a reasonable question

Of course it is, but it's like asking if using React.js will prevent SQL injection attacks. They are orthogonal things. Making screen readers announce things is controlled by the HTML you write, not by htmx.
>Upon digging, Wikipedia most prominently cites secondary sources here.

That has historically been their explicit policy in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_terti...).
Cool. You think you can share a link to an application that was created much more recently? Or better yet, at least a link that references an application that is not already on a well known very popular job posting site?
Neither the most human thing you can do is not think that deep on it.
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The author is right about the vertical integration. It’s just that none of the stages are great. I don’t use Google cloud and have no interest in learning its idiosyncrasies. And I have PTSD from Tensorflow. (It’s only a bit of an exaggeration to say no one outside of Google uses it anymore.) Using TPU in PyTorch is possible though.

I wish Google would compete with Nvidia directly and let me buy a TPU (the big boy ones, not the flash drive sized Corals). Because as it stands now, Google could have Nvidia’s business and OpenAI’s.
It wasn't gimped, it was a PR play so the governor could claim to be saving citizens costs by 'lowering' it. Like when people buy things they otherwise wouldn't have because it was 'on sale' so they're really saving money if you think about it.
Sweet lord have you ever tasted a peach grown in new jersey? What the hell is going on in that state.
On win 10 there used to be a button to create a local account, but they removed it and made it so you had to disconnect from WiFi to get to that screen. Then they changed it to make it so that you have to disconnect from WiFi AND run some arcane terminal command. At this point your average user is just going to use an online Microsoft account. What an atrocious user experience
Toothpaste shopping is easy. I pick the one brand that has a convenient non tube toothpaste (actually there are two, but I didn't like the taste of one) I thing I didn't understand is there are only about 6 of the non tube options and 1000 of the tubes. Do people really like to roll their toothpaste out of a tube?
O RLY? https://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/dig-posters
Yes it is. There is nothing wrong complimenting people by calling them sweet. Neither is criticizing the workers. That's exactly what reviews are for.
>But on the other hand, if you were to go watch a launch from SpaceX, You will find that there's already a crowd being inspired, experiencing joy, and it absolutely brings people together. So why not work more on that and less on sports?

You go find me a Space X launch in some of the countries that produce, say, top footballers. In those countries, then go find me a robust educational infrastructure. You won't find the educational resources for one to become a top aerospace engineer or astrophysicist in say, Ghana or Mali.

Sports are popular because enjoying them either by playing or watching doesn't require a ton of brain power.

Let people enjoy what they want, who are you (or I) to judge?
Ditto. Win forms is the gift that refuses to change or deprecate.

Unfortunately web based guis are the only cross platform standard all major companies agree to support. You can have a locally running website and a pretty decent user experience these days. Not as easy as drag-n-drop win forms but it frees you from big tech company control over the ui toolkit
I’m curious about your Swift backend stack, if you’re willing to describe it. I’ve become quite fond of the language after writing a few small desktop apps & command-line tools with Swift.
Set yourself a goal!

And good news! A fully-loaded 737-800 has a maximum takeoff weight of less than 80 tonnes, not thousands, so your challenge is much more attainable!

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation#Spe...>
The USA needs to work on:

-- making the cost of employing a good staffing level of police more affordable (so that we can have more, everyday police doing a job as a neighborhood force and seen as a reliable presence against crime)

-- more certain prosecution and penalties for quality of life crimes that we all pay for in seeing petty but significantly confidence-decreasing incidents that reduce our willingness to take public transport

-- reducing the cost / increasing the frequency and usefulness of public transport services where you regard it equally as convenient as private vehicles

You go to some other countries (less rich ones particularly) and buses have 2 crew, trains have multiple staff, taking fares, making sure rules are obeyed. Giving people confidence that this is something they want to ride on. Not a system where it looks like the station is half abandoned, was last cleaned about 2 years ago, and if you were mugged or even just reported a crazy ranting homeless person, they would shrug and tell you to phone it in.
But that's not what I was arguing? Holding accountable is not the same as telling them what to do in terms of enforcement action.

This was actually discussed as a specific controversy at the time the convoy was undergoing. Trudeau getting on the phone with chief of police and asking him to clear the protest would be a serious breach of political standards in our democracy.

Also the police in question here are the Ottawa Police Service, not the RCMP, I believe.
Does "cloud native" mean "has kubernetes config" or is there something else to it?
Been buying up DVDs and Blu-rays that are cheap of movies I like or have heard a lot about. Experienced the whole no one is streaming it this time so just buying the discs and never looking back has been my thing.
> Power consumption is the defining characteristic of AI.

I'm not so convinced. I've been playing with running Ollama + llama3.1 8B on my 2023 M2 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM, and I don't notice much difference in battery life with or without it. I'm not querying it continually with a shell script in a loop or anything like that, but neither am I shy about throwing all kinds of prompts at it. My laptop keeps chugging away on battery.

Training AI may be ferociously resource intensive, but I haven't seen that querying those models is especially bad. I'd think that a model that Apple had tailored specifically to run well on its hardware would be relatively "light".
Sounds right. Here in SF, instead of police pulling over people who speed and run stop signs, we're getting rid of parking spots within 20ft of intersections so people speeding and running stop signs can see if they're about to kill a pedestrian.

Could raise a fortune for public transit if we enforced traffic laws and used that money.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42599971
This is a good summary that captures the discourse in Canada presently, very different from what people seem to be focusing on here on HN.

One caveat: as far as I know, taxation in Canada is pretty similar to New York or California.
1. Find people who need to launder money.
2. Profit.
I did a potato diet a while back. Lost significant weight (which I've sadly put back on).

Potatoes are low in protein and various Vitamins. I ended up eating protein powder and regular Multi, C, D and B vitamin pills.
Nah, semantics battles are boring. We all know what we mean when we say that HTML is not a programming language to people who are trying to get into programming. If we tried to explain to them all the "ifs" and "buts" they would lose interest before we started talking.

We don't talk about it among ourselves because we know it's just pointless semantics anyway. And if people are seriously wasting time debating whether HTML is a programming language, then that's just bikeshedding.

> The idea that you could build something fun for your friends, but potentially anyone in the world could discover it, was intoxicating. So was the language itself. Most raw HTML then was easy for humans, even newcomers, to understand. You didn’t need a primer in formal logic to grasp that most tags needed to be opened and closed

sighs. Alright. My worthless two cents, knowing full-well that I should just stfu.

The idea is that you get hooked on "the possibilities of HTML" and then you learn actual programming because your newfound passion will drive you there. You have a clear path with Javascript so it's not even scary, unless you are willingly forcing yourself to stay away from that "scary programming" like my parents do when I show them anything that was invented in the past 30 years.

If you stay stuck in HTML land then you're not really programming no matter how much you stretch the definition. Unless you can show me an HTML page that can perform any arbitrary computation without JS or CSS. But since you threw away Turing completeness in the first paragraph, this argument is moot -- the reason why I hate discussions on semantics in the first place.

> When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is.

A language is a thing. A _programming_ language is another thing. A "program" is literally "a series of coded software instructions to control the operation of a computer or other machine", so I don't know what you mean when you say that:

> Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room for other interpretations; it is better and richer than that

Unless you missed the "programming" part of "programming language".
Why is tx and px better than pro and pro Max? Typically pro Max is going to offer you more or better than what pro does. So pro Max tells me that it is probably better than pro (without designing what "better"is) but TX and PX which one is "better" and you can't always go by the price.
When I said success, I didn't say that in terms of technology or market share, I meant it in terms of normies being able to adapt to a different OS without having to undergo training. The fact that normies were able to simply pick up and use a Chromebook shows that people can use a different non-mainstream OS, as long as their needs are simple.
I love this CGonaB site. I used it several times myself including for my similarly titled "Go west (not so young) man" diary documenting my XCountry ride in 2007. I didn't own a cell phone then (did they even exist then?). I used paper maps and had a small laptop to make my diary entries. I generally did them sitting outside town libraries (they were usually closed in the evenings when I arrived in towns) and most internet sites then were non-password and publicly accessible. I haven't made any documented treks since 2012 but still send the website money. You can see my "Go west..." diary here:
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=3d2&doc_id=2579&v=LL
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Agree. And thanks for the recommendation, I'd like to read the paper of GraphTS.
I don’t think in NYC it’s fair to argue that there’s relatively little interest in making transit something people want to use. We can debate about whether the efforts are effective, and certainly many aren’t. However there are vast sums invested in the MTA and a great many folks at the MTA who try to make it pleasant and safe. Additionally there have been added police and military presence in subway stations around the city for months (again, no comment on efficacy). All I’ll say is that there is a ton of interest from leadership on down in making the subway and buses work well for normal people and far more money then congestion pricing cost to implement or will bring in.
If you look at DB-engines.com/ranking and look at all of the collective interest in all of the databases listed, you will see that the aggregate "score" of all databases combined 7105.84. Postgres is indeed popular; but it is only ranked 4th on the list, with its own score of 648.96. MySQL currently is still 50% larger in terms of interest, with a score of 998.15.

Which means interest in Postgres (specifically) is only 9.13% of overall interest in databases; MySQL another 14.04%. Combined 23.27%.

Is that a significant percentage of interest? Yes. Many others are a fraction of 1% of mindshare in the market.

Yet the reason there are 423 systems ranked in DB-Engines is because no one size fits all data, or data query patterns, or workloads, or SLAs, or use cases.

PostgreSQL and MySQL are, at the end of the day, oriented towards OLTP workloads. While you can stretch them to be used for OLAP, these are "unnatural acts." They were both designed in days long ago for far smaller datasets than typical for modern-day petabyte-scale, real-time (streaming) ingestion, cloud-native deployments. While many engineering teams have cobbled together PostgreSQL and MySQL frankenservers designed for petabyte-scale workloads, YMMV for your data ingest, and for p99s and QPS.

The dynamic at play here is that there are some projects that lend themselves to "general services" databases, where MySQL or PostgreSQL or anything else to hand is useful for them. And then there are specialized databases designed for purpose for certain types of workloads, data models, query patterns, use cases, and so on.

So long as "chaos" fights against "law" in the universe, you will see this desire to have "one" database standard rule them all, versus a Cambrian explosion of options for users and use cases.
For me:

0-22 - I’m someone else’s responsibility - graduated college degree in CS

22-36 - shuffled aimlessly between two meaningless jobs, a horrible mistake of a marriage (and divorce), got into real estate too heavily and the crash of 2008, taught fitness classes on the side as my only outlet.

36-46 - got remarried and became an instant father to a 9 and 14, rebuilt my career from scratch and hopped between 5 jobs, got my finances under control after walking away from 5 mortgages, built a strong marriage and both (step)sons graduated. “Retired my wife” when she was 44.

46 - present - transitioned into consulting, got first and only job at BigTech, (working remotely cloud consulting department), moved permanently into what was a vacation home in Florida, and start traveling extensively post Covid including doing the digital nomad thing. Left BigTech and enjoying a nice balanced life with my wife while I work remotely and she enjoys her passion projects.
same applies to comments
It gets you familiar with the shapes of the letters in a more intimate way
So everyone should be made to like these reviews and to view them as a positive, just because supposed customers are speaking their minds? It's well known that there are a lot of fake customer reviews on these sites. These sites shouldn't be allowed to behind a toxic "The customer is always right" mentality.
There seems to be a consensus that we haven't yet seen the killer AI app that produces ROI that justifies the level of investment we're seeing. If that's true, then it's all still up for grabs.

My own view is that what AI is going after i.e. the size of the pie, is the $50 trillion per year portion of global GDP that makes up wages. Putting aside the risks - which are enormous - when you see it that way you begin to understand openai's valuation late last year, and that that's just the tip of the iceberg of what's coming.

The risk of disrupting a sizable chunk of the world's wages is fuel for a separate post and conversation. IMHO it's the real risk of AI, and the Skynet scenario around ASI/AGI that has been popularized is a distraction.
If you want to use an Nvidia GPU you can buy them and put them in whatever you want.

If you want to use a TPU you have to use Google cloud.
>or is there another reason they cannot?

I'll never get tired of saying this, extremely incompetent management starting from Shundar (or however that is spelled).

I'm quite sure they still have the best talent in the world, but they also have the kind of PM that does those dumb "my day as a PM in San Francisco" stories at the helm, this is the result, maybe a trillion USD worth of value is unrealized because of this.
"not a thing comes to mind!"
I mean sure, but compare that to

<button @click="doThing">

In Vue. Or just plain old JS onclick in Svelte.

By comparison, HTMX is illegible
Please remove the ?si= tracking string, if you see this before the 2hr edit window closes.
Related:

What Is the HMPV Virus Surging in China?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612649
U mean the Circle - o - Death like the Arc de Triomphe? Pass
Six downloadable posters you can print yourself? They're really pulling out all the stops for this one.
I took your case, I got way better perf just generating a list of numbers and then reshaping it into a dataframe.

But! Even though it doesn't even get that much slower at a certain number of rows it just starts hanging! Like at 49 rows everything is still fine and at 50 it no longer wants to work. It's very bizarre and I'll see if I can debug it. But I think your test case isn't indicative of some fundamental issue with Hypothesis rather than some sort of bug.
Zig's comptime is bonkers good
What other use of literally is there?
Why would someone want a TPU?

Not just that but, why would someone (not working at Google) want a TPU so much to put up with all the hurdles, including learning a completely new and non-portable programming stack?
New DVD players are available (HDMI) for $30 online. Pick up a couple for the price of a mediocre meal + delivery. Literally plug and play.
I'm realizing from the title of this that the intended pronunciation of "uring" is probably "yoo-ring"; for some reason I had mentally been reading it as "yurr-ring" all this time, and I guess I never heard anyone say it out loud before. In retrospect, I probably could have guessed that I might be missing something given that I had no clue what "uring" was supposed to mean.
Here is the link sans tracking:

https://youtu.be/YHxYW0Fw63Y
The police just walked past the lady set on fire. It's on video.

Why is it that where I live all the tech companies built their own transit system just for their employees? Because they can control the experience and prevent the problems that turn people away from public transit. Either public transit is for the quiet people who are just trying to get somewhere or it can be for the nuisance types. They're incompatible.
I'm 47. 50+ is looking a lot like "struggling to run the red queen's race to keep my wife and furbabies safe, sheltered, and provided for, while watching the eventual deterioration of my body into uselessness and decrepitude begin, and watching ageism diminish my opportunities in the field". Affordable rejuvenation therapy in the next couple of decades is pretty much my only hope. Maybe then I could claw back another decade or two of vigorous life with my wife with greater wisdom than I had the first time around.
This is one reason I created https://alpine-ajax.js.org.
A few years ago there were a lot of examples in the HTMX documentation that discouraged accessibility and progressive enhancement. Stuff like like clickable <div>s, ignored keyboard focus, lack of screen reader announcements.
There’s been some improvement latel, but I still think the library has a lot of foot guns for new web developers.
The author totally lost me at:
1. examples of the Yelp reviews. Nothing wrong with complimenting someone using the word "sweet". If that's the worst example he came up with, then I am skeptical about the fairness of his overall analysis.
2. complaining about tipping. Your kind of greedy business owners who are not paying their workers living wages and are trying to put social pressure on innocent customers are displaying the exact same behavior that is eating the world, Jean-Jacques.
Or in this case make sure I don't help the PLA get more of a leg up on deluded hopes of world domination. Then I can avoid them :)
All the stuff I see locally (billboards, local TV ads) is state and locally done with fed grant money (there's a little semi-transparent fine print that tells you).
Yeah, RIES won't work well with that because there are too many constants to test out for RIES. AFAIK RIES doesn't natively handle constants larger than 9 partly to reduce the already enormous search space.