skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But that assumes you do not count the person who commit the crime as part of the population count.

Sorry, meant to say "crime count", or more precisely, "native victimization count". Natavists by definition prioritize the native population over immigrants, so if some native got victimized by a migrant, I doubt a natavist would be convinced by "well actually, even though there was one extra crime committed by a migrant, there's also 10,000 (or whatever) more people, so the crime rate actually went down!"
Being in a non-verbal creation space is amazing.

It's like being in the zone coding but on the next level.
How is this different from any legacy code base? Everywhere I've worked there's been swaths of code where the initial intent is lost to time and debugging them is basically archeology.

Random AI code isn't going to be categorically different from random code copied from StackOverflow, or code simply written a few years ago. Reading code will always be harder than writing it.
Yeah I once saw a great talk at a functional programming conference by a Scala compiler developer, making the point that programming language semantics should be specified at the AST level, with syntax entirely up to the user's whim.

I consider this to be both totally sensible and completely impractical :)
Limited yes, but limited by regulation more than anything else. Within a 30 minute drive of SF there are hundreds of square miles to develop on. Pick a dozen at random and build residential skyscrapers. Problem solved.
He is in fact a convicted felon. That is objectively, impartially true.

It not be impartial to mention it, though. PG almost certainly didn't write this essay out of cowardice because a felon got elected.

He may have written it out of cowardice because a bully got elected, though...
The Agricultural Land Reserve prohibits farmland from being sold for housing development. It's one of the oldest modern NIMBY policies.

Most of the land in BC is classified in this way.
why do i care about filezises though? storage is sized for HD video now
Hard to say. I'd bet there was a decent chance the eng team stridently warned the execs about what would happen and got overruled.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/it-was-the-wrong-dec...

In particular

> Employees claimed that Sonos’ desire to get new customers and please investors was becoming more important than ensuring that old hardware would work properly with the new app.

That sure sounds like this was a deliberate choice.

That said, I suspect Sonos' market has mostly disappeared. A decade ago I paid $400+ to get streaming audio; now a lot of people are happy with Spotify Connect and $200 google speakers or a $50 refurb echo 4.
Oh I'm sorry, are we now saying "woke" covers economic class issues like homelessness and poor people, instead of just social issues which both sides have used to suck all the air out of political discussion?

Now that the neoliberals are embarrassed enough to throw out "woke", are we slipping in economic concerns too?

PSA: YOU CAN STILL BE A SELF-RIGHTEOUSLY MORALISTIC PRICK, SO LONG AS IT'S BASED ON ACTUAL TANGIBLE ECONOMIC ISSUES THAT ARE SYSTEMIC AND ACTIONABLE
> For whatever reason we don’t as a society let “tech” markets mature. We demand growth long after everyone is satisfied.

That reason is people like more money than less money. No one logs into their brokerage account and invests in Sonos because they have a great product that is growing (or shrinking) at the rate of the speaker market.

People want to see their year end report at least equal the broad market returns.

The directive for all business leaders is to hit those benchmark returns, not pump out a solid speaker for however many years.

And if a private business owner operates their company in a way that lags the market’s returns, then they are basically doing charity work. They’re going to have to pay a lot of cash compared to their competitors who can use RSUs to incentivize employees.
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Unfair coins: an AI/Bio founder story
That warning applies to anything you run locally. And going further, in this day and age, I would never put up any home service without it being behind Cloudflare Access or some form of wireguard tunnel.
> Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker

Well there is https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
I mean.. 25 years ago (give or take), my brother-in-law asked me about the "Bill Gates will send you $$ if you forward this email" scam. Even if he HAD fallen for it - what would have been the harm? Some extra forwarded email / spam..

Now? "Bill Gates and George Soros are going to destroy the world, and the solution is to vote for <super-far-right-wing-extremist> - and he and various people in my/his family are doing just that..". 25 years ago, those people would have never made it to be a candidate in elections..
There are robotic construction companies like FBR, and plenty of open stretches of land along highway 101, 680, 880, etc.
They could do all of this without mitming by just making a submission on HN. The extra step doesn't add anything.
The Pilgrims left.

The Puritans got kicked out.

It's hilarious the extent to which New England history is one of people showing up in Boston, looking around, realizing who was running the show and deciding that the frontier and the natives didn't sound all that bad.
Was trying to install homebrew on a device and kept wtfing because the clone step kept failing… thought I was crazy
As another commenter said, this needs a March 2023 tag. RAG is now pretty standard and their are lots of vector databases that do this.
That video is part of a larger series on Gamergate. If you liked that one, it’s worth it to see everything.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY62dhVThbee...

I also recommend these two earlier videos, on unrelated matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6y6LEwsKc
In short, there are significant business opportunities for EU citizens willing to front an EU company for other non EU parties.
It's an astonishing amount of overhead that slows everything to a veritable crawl. It also creates downstream issues because you need to build in contingencies for your service consumers until you are able to fully abstract the dependency to a point where rehoming doesn't impact them.

The risk calculations are very primitive at the moment, I'm guessing they will be refined over time as industry feedback starts to resonate.
Challenges to Funding Open Source
I don't think people regard scholarships as DEI. Lowering the standards for university admissions a la SFFA v. Harvard, yes, but scholarships to pay for university is distinct from discrimination in admissions.

Also, society can tackle problems like the study time gap https://fburl.com/oa3uenrr
No one, and nothing.
Is explaining to children that a man is married to a woman speaking about sexuality? How is that different from saying a man is married to a man?
I don't see why this is better than people renting and investing their savings elsewhere, which is how it works with apartments anyway. So you own a house, it makes basically no return, now what?
Percentage means nothing. Look at mg per oz or mL.

https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/brands/coca-cola/products/or...

For a 20oz (591mL) regular US Coke it's 75mg of sodium. A Mexican Coke is 355mL and has 85mg of sodium. A US 20oz has more coke and less sodium.
The worst is the squeal of the wheels against the track in the semicircular tunnel from Waterfront to Burrard (or in the reverse direction), in the summer, when people leave windows open. I think this is due to the axles being solid: no differential spin.
Anyone have more info on this? Does it run systemd in those containers (I didn't see any systemd specific mounts).

This would be interesting to try out, as docker (via compose) is a bit easier to manage than - for example - VMs with virt-manager/cockpit-machines.
"Woke" make as much sense as "liberal", "fascist" or "nazi" these days.
I hated that I had to enable precise location. I didn’t return mine, but damn that pissed me off.
The issue is that countries expect foreigners to bring in money, earn a lot, and pay taxes at the 90th percentile, but they’re (the locals) reluctant to share resources in return. A 100% taxation model turns it into a one-way street. Sure, if you don’t need foreign investment, you can afford to do that. But let’s be real—welcoming foreigners isn’t an act of charity.

Governments usually do it because foreigners are often more productive, pay higher taxes, or fill jobs that locals don’t want. Turning it into a one-sided deal has consequences. Immigration policies are funny; every western country treats them like a magical cure-all, only to later blame immigration for any and every problem.
Honestly probably for the better. I can’t imagine what it would be like to accidentally throw away hundreds of millions of dollars, but he wasn’t going to succeed. He was going to spend the rest of his life begging for money to dig up and search for a hard drive, and then not being able to find it.
The location is in fact called "Streamliner Curve" to this day. (I don't know if that's an official name, though...)
This is disingenous.

There is no "rail network" about which the US (through some political process) makes decisions about prioritization.

There is a freight rail network, and there is Amtrak's rails between Boston and DC. That's it. We're not prioritizing freight, the network is owned by freight companies.

Also, with regards to percentages, this is the wrong comparison. The numbers you need (which I could not find) are what percentage of cargo travels to within Nkm of its destination by trail in the USA, where N is the typical value for Europe. We have substantial freight hauling in the US because of long distance journeys. The last Nkm is generally done by truck. In Europe, there is much less long distance freight hauling, and much more hauling that takes place under the Nkm "limit", ergo more is done by truck.
What is this contrarian sophistry? In Europe foreigners often buy the most expensive historical real estate they can lay their hands on.

If they do build something, it is office buildings for investment that take up space and often remain empty (Chinese are good at that). These investments still take up space and drive up real estate prices.

Where do you even live?
> None of this essay is based in data.

That's exactly why it's a vibe shift.
Reminder to flag the submission if you think it’s inappropriate for HN.

IMO, it doesn’t belong here.
The nice thing about git, from my perspective, is that if your entire hosted service vanishes, you can still reconstruct what you need from your users’ working directories. All of the important branches should be there. Somewhere. And any important integration branches that aren’t cached can be reconstructed.

Of all the many dependencies on cloud services, git is by far the last I’d worry overly much about.
When did "Asian" start become an advantage? Since the introduction of Hart–Celler Act?
I was imagining something a bit more disastrous than that. A big enough solar flare could take parts of the planet offline for months. Years if they can't source enough replacement transformers. There are also political reasons that countries go offline.

Then it'll be up to the nerds who manage to cobble together their own distributed version of everything--even if it's a significantly reduced definition of everything.
We give them access. They get bored of it because their friends aren't on it. They will swipe on TikTok, but it's missing the social aspect.

When is the last time you met anyone younger than 20 on Instagram? I'd be skeptical on that alone. Reddit and Discord still have teenagers, and those are the ones I would watch.

Influencers do exist in their lives but they seem exclusively from YouTube and Roblox. These tend to funnel into Discord and... wikis?

Things that went viral with my kids in 2024: Sprunki, The Amazing Digital Circus, Fundamental Paper Education. These are not popular on IG, FB, Twitter, TikTok, so I assume these platforms aren't popular with kids either.
One thing I'll note is that I'm inclined to trust the poll of engineers who have actually been using this stuff for real work, as opposed to a N=1 example of it performing well (outside the context of a real software project) and using that as the basis for declaring that This Is The Future.

I'm not saying there's not a money volcano to be had somewhere, built on top of LLMs. But his call to action is stupid. Every other "money volcano" he cites was a clever use of existing technology to meet a previously-unseen but very real need.

LLMs are the mirror image of that. They are something that's clearly, obviously useful and yet people are struggling to leverage them to the degree that _ought_ to be possible. There are no truly slam dunk applications yet, let alone money volcanos (except for the AI hype train itself.)

They are the ultimate hammer in search of a nail. And it's a pretty amazing hammer, I'm not a complete LLM skeptic. But at this point we should all be searching for the best nails, not just cheerleading for the hammer.
... Olympic-sized swimming pools...
Thanks! Yes, evaluations and benchmarks are fundamentally important. It's the only way to know if you are actually making improvements.
I don't have a dog in this hunt. I've never worked with Snyk, I've never been a customer, and I don't think I even know anyone who works there. That said, they've built their whole company around being trustworthy and doubt they'd knowingly do anything to risk their entire business. Also, I can hardly imagine someone better positioned to protect against supply chain attacks.

Your criticism sounds to me like "just a reminder that this armed bodyguard service comprises Navy SEALs and Army Rangers". Uh, great!
Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license
> Here's the facts: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2023-10/statsum_summ...

Not the easiest to read format, but the facts seem to show the A300 and A310 were best avoided. But they ceased production 30 years ago.

On modern airplanes that are / were recently made that link seems to show the Airbus models are remarkably good. Some modern Boeing models less so, the 737 in particular. But not all - the 787 has done well.
This is a quick "fix" that has a lot of unintended consequences. I've seen it first hand and the only people it benefits are those who are already wealthy. Everyone else gets a lot poorer as their cost of living skyrockets. Homelessness explodes as rents and housing costs increase dramatically, people who were living a humble but decent life before are pushed into poverty, crime both non-violent and violent increases and so does drug use. As far as I can tell the only people that actually benefit from this scheme are landlords and housing developers who slow walk their projects so that they can charge the maximum price per unit. Compared to the previous fairly stable state (which you call stagnation) the locals are much worse off. It also tends to ruin the character of places that were previously seen as a vacation destination for a unique experience, all of that just gets paved over and turned into a bland tourist trap barely different from any other place. Count yourself lucky if you live somewhere that has been passed over by this horrid money making scheme.
I think it's exciting that more people will be able to build more things. I agree though that most code is garbage, and that it's likely going to get worse. The future can be both concerning and exciting.
Should be pretty easy to reverse-engineer the crease pattern so people can make this themselves (perhaps adjusting it to more common sizes of paper).
Sounds like the client cared a lot about the user experience being smooth (they declined the solution of presenting the user with the narrowed-down choices of which car they took a picture of), and I think adding a bunch of QR codes to this aesthetic wall of car illustrations would not align with that goal.
Pi 1-3 https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/vc4.html

Pi 4-5 https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/v3d.html
Michael Cohen has a story about the DOJ -

on July 9, 2020, was taken back into federal custody after refusing to agree to conditions of home confinement that included a prohibition on communicating with the media. Cohen filed suit complaining that his re-arrest was an attempt to prevent him from releasing a tell-all book about Trump titled Disloyal: A Memoir. On July 23, a judge found in his favor and ordered that he be returned to home confinement.
My main arguments for honey in some places is if you're eating local honey it might help with things like allergies.

That and honey just tastes so dang good.
You could also argue that every Spaniard moving from the countryside to the cities takes away houses from Spaniards born in the cities.

Seems like an argument for internal visas like China's household registration system to prevent excessive migration to the cities.

The countryside is mostly emptying out so no need to prevent people moving or buying there.
I agree that there's an exploration-exploitation tradeoff, but for what you specifically suggest wouldn't you presumably just normalize by sample size? You wouldn't allocate based off total conversions, but rather a percentage.
Its more common for proponents to obscure what affirmative action actually is. The idea when plainly stated is deeply unpopular and the magnitude of the affirmative action effect is much larger than popularly known.

Here's the Harvard data from the somewhat recent SCOTUS trial: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/222325/202...

Asians in the top academic decile are half as likely as African Americans in the 5th decile to be accepted. I highly doubt exposing Americans to this data would make them more favorable to affirmative action– the very opposite is more likely.
Percentage means everything, I'm assuming the serving size is identical (as one normally does when comparing these sorts of things in the context that we are).

Your point is that US products are larger, which is generally true, and people typically consume an entire product at once, thus getting more total sugar (and water).
some info came across discord for https://cyboard.digital/ about this last year, very similar concept.
> In Europe foreigners often buy the most expensive historical real estate they can lay their hands on

Source? (I'm generally hugely sceptical of uniform statements about how capital behaves across the EU, let alone Europe.)
Higher wages? Nope.

Collective bargaining? Nope.

A way to push back on being required to go to the office which has been a requirement since forever (before 2022): bring on the workers' power Revolution, comrade!
Big cities are okay, it's just New York and San Francisco and particular are so wildly expensive I'd have to make another 70 to $80,000 a year for it to make sense .

But that's not what I'm seeing in the market, I'm seeing recruiters tell me for another 10k I can have the privilege of moving to the NYC or The Bay.
The git reflog tracks branches and how they changed. Is that roughly what mercurial has? (It’s been more than a decade since I switched from hg to git as well, so my remaining memory is minimal). GitHub also has an API for querying historical branch info, which is more permanent than reflog, though quite annoying to parse for that info if I recall right.
Worked great for Vancouver /s
Most of the companies exposed to this are already going to be running a number of geographically diverse datacenters and have been exposed to regulations around basic DR/BCP for decades.

>at some point in the chain somebody has to do that, but i'd prefer the person doing that was somebody with DEEP experience in it that could give you some nice confident assurances.

Yes. This is part of the reason why services like git are being moved outside the datacenter. Most of the product offerings on the market don't scale well, have terrible reliability and are still very expensive to run.
RT3, in 3d, made it a model train simulator. Going first-person on a locomotive, puting the camera close exactly like every kid has done with every train set, that was a revolution. I saw that joy once again a few years ago when nerdcubed tried a VR model train simukator.

https://youtu.be/dTmC2a5QSG8
Yeah, I made a mistake with my config. I had setup SWAG, with Authelia (i think?). Got password login working with 2fa. But my dumbass didn't realize I had left ports open. Logged in one day to find a terminal open with a message from someone who found my instance and got in. Called me stupid (I mean they're not wrong) and all kinds of things and deleted everything from my home drive to "teach me a lesson". Lesson painfully learnt.

But before that happened Webtop was amazing! I had Obsidian setup so I could have access on any computer. It felt great having "my" computer anywhere I went. The only reason I don't have it set up is because I made the mistake of closing my free teir oracle cloud thinking I could spin up a fresh new instance and since then I haven't been able to get the free teir again.
No, no and no.

The rectangle defined by Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Des Moines is about as densely populated as most of Europe. Ditto for a triangle like that in TX, and another polygon with one vertex in Atlanta.

The east coast train network is not "large" given the population size. It consists of a primary line (Amtrak), and very little else given the population living with (say) 200 miles of that line.

Ditto Caltrain, which compared to European service for similarly populated areas is incredibly limited. The line between Portland and Vancouver may yet see the sort of service you'd expect on that route if you were European, but it does not have it yet. The trains are relatively infrequent, and not very fast. Let's not talk about the customs/border situation either.
> Seems like an argument for internal visas like China's household registration system to prevent excessive migration to the cities

With the big difference being the Chinese citizen being denied Beijing hukou is still a Chinese citizen. Madrid should properly first concern itself with Spaniards' wellbeing. (This isn't an argument for or against this policy. Just clarifying why restricting non-EU home purchases is different from hukou.)
Alternative solution that would require less heavy lifting of ML but a little more upfront programming:
It sounds like the cars are arranged in a grid on the wall. Maybe it would be possible to narrow down which car the user took a photo of by looking at the photos of the surrounding cars as well, and hardcoding into the system the position of each car relative to one another?
Could potentially do that locally very quickly (maybe even at the level of QR-code speed) versus doing an embedding + LLM.

Con of this approach would be that it’s requires maintenance if they ever decide to change the illustration positions.