skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hugely agree. Crockford seems to assume that syntax coloring is there to be a cognitive aid for people who don't understand how to distinguish literals and operators. It's surely not, it's there to be a visual aid that lets your eye jump directly to the part of the code it's looking for.

As such the article just reads like a Chesterton's fence - "let's get rid of this thing because I don't see the use of it".
The deeper I get into front end javascript the more I think Vanilla JS is the way to go. As it stands I am just using preact for rendering jsx, I am not using anything for state management or routing. I might as well hardcode most of my html, write some functions that target a few small areas of the dom, and some code triggered by 'onhashchange' that hides all but a single div so I can still be SPA.

I'm not really worried about this causing spaghetti code because, well... I know how to program. I've always been mystified that salvation from bad architecture comes from frameworks.
Excellent news, the fewer white babies, the faster we displace Nazis from the gene pool.
Great idea! I really wanted to use this...but then I dug into how it worked.

You have to use their Credo cryptocurrency to get your email through / you receive Credo when someone pays. Which no one has and no one should have. They probably take a fee on every payment.

Once you get Credo you probably want to exchange it for USD or another crypto that is more broadly used and accepted at other merchants. How do you do that? Through their exchange which they take a .25% fee to buy sell.

So they double dip on a micropayment of a few cents.

I wonder which part of this enterprise will survive in the long run...the email service or the exchange or neither once the ICO money runs out
This is also incorrect. You can adjust into immigration status from any legal status in general, there might be different complications depending on status (e.g. you might not be able to leave and re-enter the country in some or you need to follow 30/60/90 rule with others) but there is no requirement to be in a dual intent status for AOS. If worse comes to worst you can always do consular processing and only leave the US to stamp your immigration visa in a foreign consulate and re-enter in the new immigrant status.

The "dual intent" concept is for the non-immigrant visa. If you don't want to read the official explanation, posted around here many times already, it means that you don't have to prove strong ties with your country when applying for such a visa. For visas without dual intent you have to prove the lack of immigration intent. For dual intent ones you don't.
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A lot of older suburbs have a main street like this, including the one I grew up in. They're grandfathered from before the zoning code, not allowed anywhere else in the municipality, and sometimes illegal to replicate even on the same lots [0]. Sunnyvale is what's allowed to exist at scale and to grow all across America.

[0] http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
Ask HN: Which Software Tool Can Be Used for Site Reliability Eng Implementation
Currently we are in the process of measuring MTTF, MTBF, MTTR etc and trying to put in place appropriate tooling to automatically do the same, but finding it hard as we are not sure which software tools are most suited for this ,, any recommendation here will be most useful
> promotes content that is racist

There's worlds of difference between hosting content and promoting content. The first is act of broad tolerance, the second is act of encouragement and agreement. This distinction is so important that the very first Amendment of US Constitution is based on it - the US government is obliged to tolerate any religion, but is explicitly forbidden to promote any.

> and your platform has a right to not want to hear or spread anything.

Once platform takes control over the right to hear, it ceases to be a neutral platform and becomes an editorial force. With private companies, it's usually not a problem - even if an unpopular opinion is suppressed and censored on one platform, it can be published on another. With growing monopolization of social networking, and with low-level infrastructure providers being slowly roped into facilitating censorship, this is becoming less and less true. And then we have to remind ourselves - why exactly do we have that First Amendment? If censorship is so good, why not let the government do it - after all, they are the ones that can do it best! Obviously, there are some bad downsides to it. We should remind ourselves from time to time what are those.
I would argue that a lot of actual oppression of that gender comes from a lack of consensus within the gender

But thats only an issue because all the extremes seem to speak on behalf of all women

I have the wrong body parts so my observation is irrelevant
It doesn’t really matter what’s there already. If your job this week is to add a new feature, spend some time this week thinking about accessibility. If you’re just fixing something old, then don’t worry about it.

I’m not even going to be prescriptive about how much time. If you have 5 minutes, fine, good.
No, you are misunderstanding me.

There is more of pretty much everything within a kid-accessible distance in the city, including tons and tons of free stuff. There are more and better parks and playgrounds. There are more publicly accessible athletic facilities. There are more and bigger free public libraries. The amazing museums have regular free days for residents, and zoo/aquarium/museum passes can often be checked out for free from the library. There are more free art exhibits. There are more cultural festivals. There are more special-interest meetup groups....

Plenty of city kids play pick-up (or organized) sports outside for fun for free every day.
Old school antiviruses also has heuristics so they could make the same claim.

It wouldn't be true in practice because malware authors would just test their malware against common antiviruses and tweak it before shipping so that the heuristics don't pick it up.

Just like these researches did against their "AI". AI really just meaning "generated heuristics", doesn't it?

If it becomes a problem for malware authors they will make their own "AI" obfuscation generators soon if they haven't already.

They still have the advantage since the "AI" antivirus runs locally, so they can just run tests against it until it doesn't detect, without having to send a large amount of malware samples to the defenders.
The pedantry around the term "monopoly" is also a bit tiring.

If you substitute "harmfully disproportionate market power" for "monopoly", the points most people are making remain similar.
Free speech with complex government-dictated rules is not a free speech, it's government-approved speech. The government can be very tolerant or very strict, but the very fact of control and the very possibility that the government can, if it wanted to, ban the speech it doesn't like, merely based on its content, is the absence of free speech. If I can tell you what to do anytime I want, and prevent you from doing something anytime I want, you are not free - even if I'm not ordering you around right now.
The database itself is the idea that's been banned, or at least any computerised form of it.

By the the Firearm Owners Protection Act (1986) a/k/a FOPA, 18 U.S.C. 926

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act

Which is why ATFs National Tracing Center remains paper-based:

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-atf-guns-trace-center-2...
Americans cry child neglect when 10 years old play alone outside in residential are with no traffic and last crime 20 years ago. People being uncomfortable with 7 years old playing on playground without direct supervision is literally a thing.

Homogenity has little to do with it. Same paranoia is applied to playground structures, when the child can stay alone home for 1 hour, to everything.
The New Tab page is a Chrome-specific page (chrome://newtab). Extensions cannot run on these browser-specific pages, and are essentially disabled. You can "forcibly" allow extensions to run on these pages by enabling this flag: chrome://flags/#extensions-on-chrome-urls
I couldn’t agree more. Just to add to the list anyone can create an account with an invalid email address. Just enter any gibberish in the email field you can still register. You don’t even need a throwaway email address.

And the spam and phishing accounts have become rampant.

Their APIs are still open for anyone to access and get location information of all the Grindr users and spam them. There is nothing stopping anyone. Which is the reason for rise in spam.
The only study I could find on the topic seems to support that syntax highlighting makes it easier to read and understand code regardless of programming experience. Calling it "training wheels" seems to be a completely useless brag, or perhaps the author has synesthesia - effectively performing the syntax highlighting in their head?

[0] http://www.ppig.org/library/paper/impact-syntax-colouring-pr...
When I lived in San Francisco, during the aftermath of the first dot-com boom, it was not uncommon to find used syringes at the playgrounds in GG Park. I was living in an apartment in the Inner Sunset, and every could of days the building manager had to hose down the steps to our building because someone was using them as a public toilet. By all I have heard, the situation in SF has only gotten worse. I don't know, it's not where I would want to raise kids.
I agree especially if "living in the city" selects for someone career focused who is already putting off kids or even marriage until they are more financially stable.
Interest is deductible if the loan was used for something profitable. What the loan was spent on can also be deducted if its for something thats intended to be profitable.
And use the same legal theory as Equifax, Target, etc? It would be beautiful.
People work in the city because they get hired there.
Archaological Work of the H Language
I am ready to implement the forgotten H language here: http://dcoj.wmh3.com/cscos/h/ Feel free to join me or add suggestions to my implementation.
Can you elaborate on the exact thing people like about f-strings, because I honestly thought it was saving having to write `format`
Using a tool such as graphviz directly allows for more flexibility. Reasoning is not simply reducible to syllogisms and lists of pros and cons.
I dunno, if you click [map] on one of the argdown examples, it interactively flips to the diagram of said syntax.

I didn't find that too difficult to discover. It even seemed more interactive.
South Korean here. (I live in Seoul, Kangnam.)
This article contains so much mis-information about Songdo, that I would like to point out.

> where lamp posts are always watching you

CCTVs are very, very common in South Korea. This isn't something special to Songdo, and CCTVs are the number-one reason that South Korea has the 5th highest rate of people that think walking around in the dark is safe. Nobody thinks that CCTVs are surveillance; people believe the government in general.

> small touch screen display on his kitchen wall that allows him to keep track of his and his wife’s consumption of electricity, water and gas and, most important, compare it against the average statistics for the building.

This is super-common in Seoul, it's not something special in Songdo or such.

> It claims to have the highest concentration of green Leed-certified buildings in the world, yet it is still entirely car-based, with not even a train line to the nearby airport.

One thing to keep in mind is that South Korea generally (especially Seoul) is a very public-transport friendly, with a pretty-high 40% percentage of all transport (user's own car takes 39% of all transport).

The time when Songdo was planned, the high public-transport percentage was considered a 'bad-thing'. People tried to model the 'America Way', and that's why Songdo was constructed with an emphasis on car-based transport.
This plan was reverted years ago, and Songdo is currently constructing four subway routes.

> From South Korea to Malaysia, ‘smart cities’ turn to ghost towns

Songdo is not a ghost town, that is just plain wrong. It was one of the most successful cities in South Korea. It's population is rapidly increasing every year, with a competitive rate of 4855:1 to move in Songdo. Also, unlike the article's explanation, a big fraction of Songdo population comes from provinces other than Seoul (which is something similar to rural areas in the US).

Overall, this article is overly emphasizing things that are nothing to Koreans but can be seen negatively to Americans; the explanation about Songdo are plain-wrong; and I just can't see what this article is trying to say.
Thanks for chiming in, the people on hackernews often want an easily google-able peer reviewed study on some stuff thats private for a reason

Its lazy to derail a discussion with “I didnt see it so SOURCE! Ha Im so right about everything your whole argument is invalid”

instead of

“oh thats a problem what can we do about that” especially when unsubstantiated nonsense isn't really a big problem here, while completely misunderstanding problems and solutions is what this forum gets laughed at about
And you are being incredible optimistic. No one is arguing that facial recognition can't be beneficial. We are discussing whether those pros outweigh the cons and honestly, with most government track record... I cannot say with a shred of confidence this technology will not be abused, both privately & publicly, without heavy, thoughtful and tech-savy regulations.
ITYM ransomeware is immoral?
We have a service that gets slammed by bitbounce messages requesting us to pay and I make sure to mark every single one as spam which shows why this won’t work.

I can’t be the only one doing that.
I'm guessing your 7-month-old takes naps? When that stops, you may find yourself re-evaluating the evils of TV.
I live in Songdo (the city featured in the article), and I think I have to concur with their dystopian tone. This place felt “fake” or “manufactured” to me in some sense that I couldn’t put my finger on even before I knew that it’s a planned city. Like too much infrastructure built and the people never came to inhabit it. Not quite a ghost town, but in that direction.

I have to say that getting around without a car is rather nice in daily life, but the public transportation around town was disappointing. And it’s odd that it takes 45 minutes longer to get to the Incheon airport from my Songdo apartment than from downtown Seoul, despite being much closer.
> What made Songdo and Forest City fail

Nah, it didn't fail (unlike the impression that the article tries to give), please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20476405.
This is almost exclusively a Millenial/Homelander thing (with Boomer or Gen-X parents). My mom took the elevator train in from Jackson Heights to Manhattan every day for school from the time she turned 12. That's a 50 minute train ride with 2 connections. This was in the early 60s.

I feel like there's basically a two-generation swath where kids were treated like they'd break if you breathed on them, which coincides with the first generation that's never known real deprivation (Boomers) raising kids in an environment where their leaders are trying their hardest to create an environment of fear to maintain social control in the absence of war and real deprivation. It's slowly reversing itself as Millenials are themselves having kids and realizing all the ways that they were screwed over by not being forced to face risk & adversity in their formative years. (There's a big selection bias, too, in that Millenials who buy into the culture of fear are just not having kids because they think the world is hopeless, meaning everyone who has a next generation tends towards the un-anxious population.)
Well no. Most of the time she screams honestly. She actually screamed the entire time we were giving our marriage prep talk at church and screamed for another two hours while my wife and I read articles to each other
My thoughts exactly. We need to thoroughly analyse the potential effects wiping out mosquitoes may have before we do anything too drastic

I guess that's the idea behind doing this on an island - a relatively isolated ecosystem.
Ask HN: How can I search for YouTube videos with few views?
I’ll trying to avoid the hyper produced clickbait videos to focus on some more niche videos from folks who may not be as well known and don’t have a great social strategy but otherwise put out great content. Is there a way to filter YouTube searches by users with less than 10k views or less than 500 subscribers. It seems like those niches could be really valuable.
A lot of people we've talked to have been in this exact situation. Older folks who have lived in their home for a long time and watched the cost of living rise while remaining on a fixed income from something like Social Security. Our hope with Rent the Backyard is to help people like this remain in their homes and have a higher quality of life.
It seems like it's easy to take down the site that's hosting the certs (http://qca.kz/). Maybe that's an appropriate response to this...

$ wrk -t 50 -c 500 -d 5m --latency --timeout 3s http://qca.kz/
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Not at all, given that a composition engine and a full blown UI framework are not the same thing.

And regarding innovation, CSS now has a grid layout thanks WPF engineers initial contribution.
It’s ridiculous — we get bitbounce account signups to our newsletter constantly only to request payment from us when we send them the email they requested. It’s beyond idiotic
I am assuming you are implying that a human in google made the decision to bury competition search results and deny the competition’s AdWords relationship and not benign factors like bad SEO or misbehaving website

Google has been stung and made to show search results in an unbiased way with relation to their products. While it happened in the past the current monopoly, anticompetitive, antitrust commission in Europe California and some awaking Asian countries prevent that kind of behavior

That is the crux of antitrust/monopoly protection commission. The reason the exist
Yes, you know, I know.

Maybe do some filtering on the autotranscripts? Interesting read otherwise.
This supports the argument you're replying to.
The low birthrate only strengthens the argument about seeing many children.
Oh I don't mean to say it doesn't make sense, both in terms of personal finance and with regards to the housing market. Then again, so does letting people sell their own kidneys and livers for transplant.

>Rent the Backyard will give the homeowner an increasing share of equity in the apartment, until they own it completely after 30 years

What's the life expectancy of these backyard studio apartments? Somewhere around, oh, thirty years?

>Homeowners also can buy out the startup’s equity and take full ownership at any time (which they’ll need to do if they sell their home and move out).

I'm assuming there's some legal way to transfer the entire contract to another person, so you could sell your house and property along with your stake in the a-yard-ment and the new owner takes over where you left off. Having a renter will lessen the likelihood of having to sell for financial reasons but a good chunk of home sales are prompted by owner becoming unable to keep up the house or live alone in general, due to age or illness.

How's the agreement work with other stuff like use of the yard itself and other stuff that might be concerning like loud music, changes to the fencing setup, planting of flowers the renter is allergic to, etc? Not just for the homeowner, but for the renter. I can imagine many of the owners, having had to put very little work into this, really not giving a crap about their renter or her/his needs.

>What we are doing here is finding a synergy

C'mon man. Your picture doesn't feature nearly enough 80s power tie for you to talk like that.
Who has time to manage a construction project? Just show me where to sign and send me my monthly checks.
None of it because the idea does not work for a number of documented reasons. This is not the first time this has been tried.
Definitely a good use case! We make the borrower a bit more stable and creditworthy with a unit like this so that might be something for us to dig into in the long run
And what does that area have an hyperabundance of?

Parking spaces and road lanes.

You can choose to optimize for car throughput or not.

Or you can choose to make your spaces look like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3082077,-71.3535296,3a,75y,2...

Your call.
Have you considered expanding into southern California?
It is a great picture to show its cabalities, the front-page examples are quite simple.
Like this? https://argdown.org/syntax/#statement-yaml-data
On paper
That is, a device to train autistic children to communicate "normally". Not a method for more effective teaching in general.

While obviously a biased sample, the #ActuallyAutistic reactions I've seen so far are... not enthusiastic (roughly: Holy shit, again with the "eye contact" obsession; do you think we haven't figured out where your eyes are?).

The more articles like this I see, the more I get the whole "nothing about us without us" thing.
The part where you gain equity in the unit is a bit like a mortgage in that respect. This mortgage pays you though :) Also worth noting that you'll gain equity in the unit even if Rent the Backyard fails to find a tenant so you don't need to worry about the goalposts shifting.
I think the proposal's intent was great but had some serious issues.

I created my own proposal that I think addresses the issues. I would love some constructive feedback. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33161
You could use it to find the lost kid in a crowded stadium. Or find lost people with dementia anywhere.
DataSpii: Data leak via browser extensions
Effective limitations on application, storage, transfer, admissibility (in criminal or civil courts), as well as substantial enforcement rights and noncompliance penalties, could reduce the risks to noise levels.

The major utility of such technolgies comes from centralised and intercorrelated records, sold for business use. Disrupt aggregation, transfer, correlation, and the business model, and you've effectively killed much the basis for establishing such tracking.

Banning FR-enabled monitoring cameras or surveillance systems (most deployments are not DYI), again, with bars on compiled databases (image collection does little without matching), and again, the effectve commercial basis is killed.

Specific targeted LEO or national intelligence aplications and deployments may persist, but the former would be of little use if barred by courts' evidentiary rules.

National intelligence use without commercial databases, and with bars on, e.g., sharing of state- and local-level identity documents or photos, again becomes much less useful for mass control, but instead reduces to fairly targeted investigation.
> An agency is tasked with doing random sample captures

not really, we know exactly what the government response is and it's turning citizen one another, that applied with the gestapo back then and it's happening today with the "social credit system"

why do all the random sampling work if all you need is one "regime believer" among a hundred person or so to maintain full awareness of dissident activities.
Using the entire yard just as a place for your dog to shit is poor utilization of space. And this type of poor utilization is a big reason there is a housing problem.

The solution to the tenant not needing to dodge dog turds is for you to clean up after your -_&#ing dog.