skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same as speeding tickets. Nobody who knows what's what and has even a little cash to spare gets an actual moving violation out of a speeding ticket for less than a crazy amount over the speed limit, unless somebody in the court system is pissed off at them.

The reason is that a moving violation fucks up your insurance rates and costs a ton of money over time, so it ends up being in everyone's interest to pay a lawyer (takes a cut of what would have been paid in higher insurance rates) to ask their colleague's golfing buddy ("hey, Jim says your short game's getting better!") to accept a plea (less work, hooray!) for a non-moving violation that, gee, would you look at that, just happens to have a fine double what the speeding ticket would have (another cut of the would-have-been-higher-insurance-rates goes here) so sure, the city government and courts are perfectly happy with that arrangement.
We're still a rather small team of mainly tech people, we don't have a single sales person in the traditional way (not yet). Ghislain was able to develop an architecture that we could count on as being reliable while being able to quickly experiment in all directions and build on top of what was started. We were never really afraid of major failures as the system has been proven to be robust after the first 2 years (everything was started from scratch, including hardware).

As we were able to very quickly respond to customer demands for anything special that they would need, they ended-up being our main sales channel by recommending the solution further. And nearly 10 years after, we're still pretty much on the same model, trying to keep up with the developments, delivering products and supporting our customers. The website is outdated and it's been years we're trying to make any progress there, eventually we'll succeed at that.
> obsession with reinvention

That seems like a comment made with an outsider perspective. Various front-end libraries keep changing APIs simply because the web and related technologies keep constantly evolving.

When was the speed of change fastest and why? During 2010s, because usage of web/apps for everything exploded and browsers started to add features that designers and developer needed. If your CSS/UI library doesn't support for example CSS grid, you do what - not upgrade it and won't use modern grid at all? That's just a silly attitude.

> CS concept that has been around for 40 years, and to massively overcomplicate things for the sake of sounding smart

That maybe true, but 1) not only FE developers do that, 2) it's orthogonal to the actual reason I stated above.
Yup. I had to go back and check why I preferred vercel. Turns out it's a python app not js.
About ten years ago, I started garment sewing because it was a superpower. I could create something that hit two previously exclusive conditions: It fit me properly (tall, long arms) and it was interesting (not the one bland pattern available in my fit).

It gave me a respite from the computer, a nice creative outlet, and was very satisfying. I've made about 140 shirts for myself and others since then, and every one is unique, with wild fabrics not found in any commercial garment. I very much recommend making things for yourself.

The interesting thing is that almost everyone I talk to about it says "you should sell them". Thing is, it takes me about 2-3 afternoons to make a shirt, plus consumables costs (retail $30-40, wholesale would obviously be lower), and scaling the process basically requires scaling the number of people doing it.

So I always respond that I just do it for the benefit of myself, family, and friends, but I have a keen understanding of how much the manufacturers are squeezing costs through labor, materials, and construction techniques to hit that $18 shirt that falls apart in a couple months.
We don't build parking smart here in the States, period. Parking lots should be multi-story to serve multiple buildings and have an array of solar panels on the roof to contribute to the city's power needs.
I really like this project. I used to work in a open-source london venture backed company that was aiming at doing something similar. Keen to see how your repo continues to evolve. Right now, I am not able to see much but just wanted to cheer you from the sideline.
They have to archive the messages and they have staffers in those chats whose job is to do just that. The Biden administration used Signal as well. It's perfectly fine as long as it's archived.
I love how people rediscovers the concept of "third place" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place). Maybe it is because we got so into technology and COVID that we have started to miss face-to-face human connections.
The first few numbered plastics have different physical properties and can be sorted roughly by physical processes such as floating them on water. Past that you need more sophisticated techniques, maybe robots.

Those clear PET bottles for instance are common and worth recycling, but if a brand makes green PET bottles those need to be separated from the clear ones if you want good-quality clear PET which can be used to make clear PET bottles or blending with a colorant to make green bottles.

Many of the big brands are standardizing on clear PET, both Coke and Pepsi are even using 100% post-consumer bottles in some geographies. In gas stations in upstate NY I frequently see Coke products bottled in 100% post-consumer recycled clear PET bottles.
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How many of these would it take to drive down property values in a neighborhood?
given the true democratic spirit of the US people

This is begging the question. I would say the US spirit most prevalent on this site is neofeudalist, not democratic. The discourse here has always tended to defend or excuse monopolist behaviour ("it's their app store/OS/device, they should have 100% control over what happens with it") and discourage small or local initiatives ("this will not scale and therefore you shouldn't waste effort on making things better for only these 100,000 people").
Yes, but you want a system that can dial in a level of affordability rather than a "rapidly multiply every home in an area by four" race to the bottom.

I don't know the specifics of the bill, but if it's a 2.5x investment cheat code for the fastest actors, it's going to cause mayhem and hard backlash.
I really have to hand it to these companies for making these sensors. They're thin margin, not a sectorial revenue driver, but still fundamental to the industry in a "who else is going to do it?" sort of way.

Every once in a while an exec will see the first part of the sentence above as a cost optimization opportunity and will set this industry back by years. This is what happened to most Kinects and previous Realsense cameras. And yet they keep coming back, precisely because they are terrible standalone businesses.
I’ve been expecting the article to be along the lines of “DON’T sell yourself, sell the WORK instead.”

But, no. It’s the good old “20 content, 80 delivery” advice.

> “But you still have to sell!”

No, We don’t.

Can we stop putting everything “on sale,” please? — Especially selling your … “self?”
Is this largely related to climate change or some equal admixture of things? Have you experienced hardship yourself or are experiencing it for the first time?
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AI will change the world but not in the way you think
The same kind of people who condemned Woodward and Bernstein for investigating and reporting on Watergate.
I'm a paying customer, why tf should I care what the clerk thinks?

I paid the money, give me the key. Plus at no point did I pay them any money -- they're just, essentially, key escrow.

It's good marketing for them since being in and out of a pizza place means someone will likely buy a slice, but as a BnB customer IDGAF what they think outside of giving me that bloody key.
>A problem is that the proposed audience are individuals who struggle with options. Giving them more options doesn't help them.

That's a fair point. But the current thin wrapper around an LLM doesnt help them either. Better to help someone at least.
Agreed. I find for myself, for a blog post that is about something else I've done, the ideal length is about 5 paragraphs and it should take no more than an hour to write. Longer than that and it just doesn't get done, or it should be considered a project unto itself and should be managed as such with dedicated time set aside for it. Writing about everything I did in year would be a lot longer than 5 paragraphs, which means I need to break the concept down (perhaps into months, or write something per-project instead).
If you look at it holistically, I might get boxed cereal from the grocery store that’s bagged in a cheap, microbe-blocking, shelf-stable and lightweight plastic bag in a cardboard box.

I could also go to a bulk goods store instead and fill a container.

But one of these options is much more convenient… and that’s fundamentally why society is having hell of a time getting rid of plastic. These plastics are bad for the environment but they bring a lot of material properties that other materials like metal, wood or glass don’t provide.

Obviously bagged cereal is a drop in the bucket but this materials calculus is applied everywhere and at every stage.
I think your normalcy bias might be showing here:

> In reality, the US government is one of the most static, unchanging organizations on the planet.

The changes in that past couple of months are, objectively, enormous disruptions to the previous status quo (of the last 50+ years).

NATO may still exist on paper, but not in the world. The US has estranged almost all of its closest allies that it's had for my entire lifetime — I'm 50 — and in ways that are offensive, threatening, and simultaneously weirdly petty, and which would take a decade or more to repair even in the unlikely event that somehow the current administration was somehow replaced today, and efforts began immediately.

The US president has also opened up avenues for corruption and out-in-the-open bribe-taking (meme coin, banks of hotel rooms, his wife's vanity projects, etc etc etc) that are absolutely unprecedented in US history, of the ilk historically seen more in places like Malaysia, Peru, or the Philippines under Marcos. (Even Silvio Berlusconi was substantially more tactful and less obvious about it.)

At the same time, the administration is performatively flouting the rule-of-law, in ways completely unprecedented in the past 50 years. Openly defying judicial orders. Disappearing people without due process (yes, like all fledgling autocracies, they are starting with the already marginalized; purported gang members, brown-skinned or Asian permanent residents).

The childhood parables like "The Emperor's New Clothes" never actually, like, literally occurred in the America I knew, until this guy. Last time it was just "my crowd was bigger than Obama's" but this time it's "Ukraine started the war" (somehow arranging to be invaded by a murderous dictatorship waging a campaign of rape, torture, and mass child abduction).

> Nothing is going to happen in the next 4 decades let alone the next 4 years.

Way more than "nothing" has already happened. More substantial, self-directed change has already happened in 2-3 months than in Trump's entire first term, or any term of any president, in 50-100 years. I strongly suspect this trend will continue.

As you can no doubt infer, I am not a huge fan of this administration. But neither am I a partisan; I would characterize this administration as worse than any administration, Republican or Democrat, of my lifetime — and by a lot. (I include Trump's first term in that, but only because that static, glacial-pace US government you think still exists did still exist then, so even though the graft and weird dictator-fetish/emulation was present then, too, it didn't have the impact that it's already had in this term.)

Whether you think it is worse or better, I mean, we all have different priorities but it is unarguably very different — and has already made the US government very different — than anything seen in the past 50+ years.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
I haven't used Signal for group chats, but given that the published screenshot [0] says "Michael Waltz added you to the group", does that not mean that the adding user (Waltz) has Goldberg in his Signals contacts? Even if it was one of Waltz's aides who handled the phone while adding Goldberg, Goldberg's contact must have existed in Waltz's phone?

Something that's piqued me (and my ignorance of Signal): It's not clear to me what Goldberg's Signal display name is, i.e. is it "Jeffrey Goldberg" or "JG". And who sets that? Goldberg, or the user who has him in his contacts? I mean if he were simply "JG", and it was Waltz who set that — then the question is not so much why Waltz has a prominent journalist like Goldberg in his contacts, but why does he obfuscate Goldberg as "JG"?

It's fun to imagine that maybe Waltz has in the past been a secret source of Goldberg's. Goldberg outing the chat like this would seem to undercut that theory, but it's possible that Goldberg judged the situation as so egregious that it was worth burning his source (Waltz). And technically, Waltz wasn't acting as a "source" for this story and thus Goldberg isn't obligated to give him the usual journalistic protections.

[0] https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/TcCybzsovOAQXiH4pDwlQupn...
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I think for many the only alternative is renting. Having your rent go towards ownership is preferable in many cases.
> the individual vendors are incentivized to avoid you going to another source

Yes, but a search provider would not have that incentive. It can simply scrape the shop websites and parse it with AI, then turn it into filters.
How much more would you pay for a house with 1 or 2 neighbors instead of 4 or 8 neighbors?

There is your answer.
>To continue with the example, if the EU secures judgement that Google is not stopping services & refuses to abide licensing requirements, other assets Google has within the EU's jurisdiction can be at risk.

But Google is already not operating within the EU in this scenario. Google says "no thanks we dont want to play by your rules" yet google.com still exists and EU users can access it. That's why you have to block it, along with anyone else that doesn't go along with the proposed forced tech transfer to a domestic company. Or you dont block it and you arent enforcing the proposed rule.
Go has proven that people want cheap threads. If it didn't have it, it wouldn't get anywhere.

Now even Java has cheap threads (Loom).

And Go even has generics. Just 20-ish years later than Java. And it's likely that more features that now Java has will trickle into Go. If Go wants to survive.

All this to say that there is no space in the market for another language which is a stupid simple Algol. Go already occupies that space. And even Go will have to add features developers want/need, if it doesn't want to get cornered out of the market.

It's not only Scala that must evolve.
Ahh yeah! That's true. I was solely thinking the realsense cameras and their general form factor not having consumer use.

Relatedly: A decade ago, where I worked, and around the time Primesense was getting bought (I think, without double checking), we bought about 250 Primesense cameras so we could build a bunch of robots with them before having to change what camera was used.
Oh you've devolved to name calling now? Speaks volumes about the merit of any argument you may offer.

Who's Robin? Like Batman?

> and the Columbian Journalism Review

Okay, surely you agree with them about the danger of Trump today?

"When the president attacks the First Amendment from the Oval Office, or makes sweeping and false statements about some of the most important news organizations in the world, you can hide from it and hope it goes away, or you can speak up, saying publicly, That’s not right, and it’s not what I believe. Quite frankly, too few of you have stood up as we’ve come under attack."

Is Trump a threat to our democracy - yes or no?

https://www.cjr.org/politics/cjr-editor-addresses-congress.p...
> You are extrapolating from the past into the future, but a lot has consolidated in the last five years.

I've been writing JavaScript that entire time, and the complete disregard for maintenance has gotten worse, not better.

You seem to be under the impression that because I also write other languages, I haven't been keeping track of what's happening in the JS ecosystem, but you're wrong--I still write JS, because I often don't have any other option.

The fact that I work in other languages means I get to see what I like about better-managed ecosystems. If you're writing JS on both frontend and backend and not using anything else, it's likely that you don't know how bad things are for you because the JS churn has been normalized for you.
I do security (sorry, "security", I guess?), and literally no one thinks this.
In theory? In practice and when I have a choice, I will always pick mass transit instead of driving because I prefer to walk and avoid the hassles of traffic lights, risk of crashing or running someone over, wear and tear on my car, gasoline, etc...
This is a real cool thing (probs the best things I have seen this week!). It's great to see our society going back to fundamentals and seeing that hanging out together in simple settings make you feel good and included. Feels like a duh moment but a very needed reminder.
Yet it's Go that added big language features recently (generics, iterators, changing semantics of for loop) and not Rust. Rust hasn't gotten any new major features since adding async ~7 years ago. Rust is much more stable language-wise than Go, partly because it had much more features in 1.0, and Go has to gradually add them (what's next? enums?). It also has much more advanced mechanisms allowing to both evolve the language and not break existing code (editions). Things that neither Go nor Scala figured out yet.
My dog solved it in less than 14 minutes, no pen or paper, and no fingers.

Seriously though, nice work.
Oh well. Back to Mine Storm.

If anyone else is interested in Vectrex light pens, here are some instructions on building your own: https://playvectrex.com/vectech/mvlp/mvlp_f.htm (Site uses frames, so I had to bust it out to get the direct link. Be sure to check out the top level as well for some other projects.)

Doesn't look too hard, so maybe I'll give it a go once I manage to clear all this _other_ stuff off my bench...
Gang of Four was a great band. Solid Gold... top notch record.
i guess this shows that looking up getent hostname database cache is faster than looking up local dns cache because the former is simpler in data structure?
Or... dolphins are descendants of an allien race, and they were hoping to see visitors from their home planet?
We have seen a couple of those landscapes already, but not as nice as those. It's quite neat as well that it's open-source.
How do people work for such frauds? And why do they get such positive attention?
Also because documenting it is admitting failure. It's 15+ years since I'm trying to build a trading system that beats the market and successes so far: zero.

I do work in finance and the domain knowledge kinda secures a place here but ... imposter syndrome. I sell tools to the miners who find gold. Wanna find the damn gold myself.

I did build a strategy research simulator though, started some 15 years ago with a bunch of scripts which evolved into a more maintainable and coherent C++ software which got ported to Java and never looked back after I got fed up of fixing C++ problems instead of focusing on the business. Lately I also started documenting it, did a few chapters then enthusiasm fizzled, to the point I didn't even renew the website certificate. If you wanna read it just press proceed in spite of the scary warnings, one puny unsecure HTTP connection is not gonna kill your computer: https://www.aquarianz.com/

Or you can bypass the website and go directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx9-4eRnBAn4oRnpSrnkz...
knowing them =/= agreeing with them.

only the most onerous of neighbors are going to launch into tirades about politics before getting to know them anyway. these people will already have their giant TRUMP flag on the lawn.
Who doesn't enjoy a good equilibrium?
You can take off-the-shelf clothes to your local tailor to have it tailored to your body. It cost ~$10-15 per garment. A lot less expensive then tailor-making an entire garment.
I disagree, there have been multiple high profile stories of people the government is trying to (or has already) deport who were not white, like the Brown University Doctor Rasha Alawieh, or Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil. Maybe the unfortunate bigger link between the amount of public outrage is that these people are upper/middle class.

But in all of these cases, they were alleged to have violated conditions of their visa, which is not an uncommon thing and exactly what the courts are for. Evidence will be presented (or not) and then a ruling will be made. Even for the most extreme situations like Venezuela, those cases are still in court and very much ongoing.

To me it just seems like the amount of outrage is disproportionate because most of these cases are unsettled and too many assumptions are being made.

As for why so many stories happening in a short period, the Trump administration has stated that existing laws simply weren't being enforced, and now they are. Which if true, could certainly be a simpler (and less inflammatory) reason why these cases are appearing now.
DOGE increasingly seems like a crime syndicate of some kind.
> I see a lot of new devs not want to have to think about deployment and management of systems so that is one aspect.

Maybe people should rediscover the joys of just FTPing files on a cheap host.

It's not like most project will have problems running on those hosts. And if it is the case scaling is one bare metal server + nginx away.
Maybe if the fabs get spun off, they won’t have the luxury of cancelling foundry deals.
I don't see a LICENSE file. Do you intend to choose a license?

https://choosealicense.com/
Teachers are shifting gears, turning YouTube into free classrooms
Did you really need to share 108 lines of code, inline, rather than a link to gist/similar?

The chances of people reading this discussion running NixOS are small, and of those I'm sure the ones who were interested could search the internet for examples.
Finally, a correct answer about Mongo, amid a sea of claims from people who clearly know nothing about it.
>the court attained the right outcome, and I won the case.

Ha, well, you would say that.
Either of:

X**Y=X**Y
X\*Y=X\*Y

Produces X*Y=X*Y
The Tesla ran into me while I was crossing the crosswalk and then took off. I was able to capture their license plate. We tracked them down and were able to ask them, but they denied that they had done this. I sued them in civil court to cover my medical expenses. I happen to know what Teslas keep a video log of these. The defendant wouldn’t provide it willingly until we went into discovery and they were compelled to provide it, which made my case.

This is but one of infinite examples of the other party having evidence helpful to the other side and harmful to themselves.
I'd recommend following the [conventional commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) guidelines for writing the commit messages.
> It can get in the way of a foundational part of the social fabric: being able to assume your neighbors are normal, nice people.

if my neighbors are weirdos I'd like to know, and in what sort of ways
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