skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My suggestion is enough out of the box that many people will think I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not. This is a great idea. I think we should give out House seats to other groups who have been historically disadvantaged. Maybe we could have a few House members that only blacks get to vote for. It might be harder to identify LGBT people, but they could get one too as far as I'm concerned. It could be time limited, like maybe for 50 years or something. But it could fit under the reparations umbrella in a way that might be more tasteful to voters than just cutting a check to people.
Of course but that is a substantially different statement than “I automatically assume JavaScript developers to be completely oblivious to this entire class of software development knowledge.“

Programmers make the web is a true statement of fact it’s just that it’s a subset of programmers that do it.

The OPs statement is a lazy opinion about JavaScript developers in general unambiguously applied. So I welcome their later amendement.
I grew up in a small Texas town with an outsized population of Mormons, and the ones I knew were either public sector or business owners.
or they would find the crimes with a great cost-benefit and become billionaires.
> The very last thing any manager should ever do is punish their best employees (e.g. the person who can finish a whole day's worth of work very quickly).

They are not the "best employees" if they are constantly idling, waiting for me to tell them what to do next. People here seem to think the ideal manager/subordinate relationship is that of a worker thread pool where the manager fills the queue and the worker threads pull tasks off the queue.

Not so. The "best employees" are ones who can examine the current state of affairs, and then come to me and propose things to work on. The ideal manager/subordinate relationship is actually one where the workers are all artificial general intelligences that learn over time what the product is, how to improve it, and proactively create tasks to work on.

If you are a rockstar but only work as a a super-fast super-efficient thread in a worker thread pool, you are less valuable to me than a non-rockstar AGI who can dynamically recognize which tasks need to be done and only occasionally needs guidance and course-correction.
> I had a manager I loved that would drop by every few days and just ask “how’s it going”? Then I’d fill him in. It was fun and low key and highly productive.

> Also, it seems managers get so overloaded that 1 on 1s and stand ups end up being mostly a waste of time because it’s too hard to remember all the little details.

I'm not sure how the first quote doesn't count as a 1:1 - the goal isn't to have a highly formalized process, it's to have communication. Some about the specific work, some about general work and workplace, but communication.

Total agreement about the overloading of management though - I haven't had a boss in years that didn't regularly have most of their schedule booked and often double-booked. I had to fill in for my manager while he was on vacation for week and it reaffirmed my lack of desire to do management - and I only had to deal with pieces that couldn't wait a week! I sometimes think the recent shift to focus on regular management 1:1s is all about reclaiming enough time to actually know what their team is doing.
I would feel much better paying them money for this than hoping it's free forever.
The trackpad 1 does indeed have a real click - the way it works is that the little feet that sit on the desk are tactile pushbuttons; clicking moves the entire trackpad while the feet click in. It's disappointing this was removed in the trackpad 2; it's a very satisfying mechanism.
What doesn't accept me makes me stronger.
Isn't this misleading though? Doesn't the vast majority of Americans live in higher density areas?
Sad to see this article does not mention Pontevedra(Spain), years living without cars in the city center.
> (I'm great friends with Mushroom, and a little 'shroom tea can be great fun. But cramming 'im into a wee lil pill and then claiming "quit smoking" magic is in it... That's bad science and lousy magick.)

Fortunately that's not what they're finding for these classes of drugs. See the incredible stats coming out around MDMA + PTSD + therapy.
Surprisingly the Xerox Star GUI was verb-noun and the Apple Mac of the same era was noun-verb. There were (of course) exceptions.

I started with verb-noun on the Star then migrated over to the noun-verb on the mac. Noun-verb seemed immediately better.

I wonder if XEROX PARC virtual desktop research came before or after the Star?
A hypothetical idea is to direct a neutrino beam at the core of a pulsating star, which modulates its frequency and allows for efficient interstellar communication.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/04/07/...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.0339.pdf is the paper
A good city location is right next to an existing city. Existing cities have everything someone moving to your city might want, so just locate next to them.

There are plenty of locations with the characteristics you name all over the world. You can start a city half way between Omaha and Kansas City if you want - nobody will home even though it meets all your requirements.

Major cities develop near shipping when there is a good port location (either river or sea), and there is a rural population to support the city. Those locations are not only already taken, but with better inland shipping many of them are not nearly as important for shipping as they used to be and exist because they are too large to die from other industry that moved in since.

Major cities can also develop when there is a natural resource nearby. It is possible someone will discover a large mineral deposit and open a mine in the middle on nowhere thus requiring a city to develop to serve it. If the city becomes large enough it could outlast the mine. Though more likely the city is already a small town, and will not grow to be large enough (from 2000 to 20000 isn't enough to sustain a city despite 10x growth)

In short, the next large stand alone city will not be on earth. Mars maybe?
Generally it start with charging a high daily congestion fee to drive into the city center. From there you expand the area. An 80k car that costs another 2-3k per year to drive into the city center, and maybe another 2-3k per year to park, at some point most people find it worthwhile to save the car for driving outside the city center.
You may pinpoint the major flaw in my feeling - they last so long the elapsed time wasn't precisely measured. :)

Let enough months pass and they seem to thicken up some - still edible, but definitely past their best. None of the box we misplaced at the back of the store cupboard were off.
Interesting. When I hosted meetups, paying $20/mo wasn’t the end of the world. Now, finding cost effective space for large groups was very hard.

I think for meetups where the hosting companies are getting value, ie: recruiting at tech meetups, it’s reasonable for hosts to absorb attendee costs. So just give the $2 back to each attendee in that case, solved.
that's not true. you can have IPv6 only in the backend and expose IPv4 only at the very frontend (like Cloudfare does the other way around).

Dual stack are not really needed and usually add complexity for few little benefits.

The main problem of IPv6 is the lack of people willing to learn it, teach it and adopt it.

Something brand new like Kubernetes should have from the start been IPv6 only , with IPv4 at the egress parts only.
This is a great take.
> exactly never have I actually met or spoken to anyone who wasn't having a laugh at the stupidity.

Yet, for all the people laughing at the stupids, repressive laws are somehow being made.

You need to yell instead of laugh, or those who come after you will be crying. We already have China as an example of how bad repressive censorship can stifle the way of life we currently take for granted.
Gross....
> The issue with having sats be black is that black adsorbs a _lot_ of heat from the sun. Even more so with "better-than-vantablack".

It will also irradiate back a lot of heat once they are in the shade.
I don't think this comment needs any qualification
A supposed employee in an unverified AMA.
I know cases of very tragic results of psychedelic use. So if you think to enlight me on childish bullshit like "the war on drugs is a conspiracy against us, in reality, drugs are very good for people" - if I was some 25 years younger I could consider that, but not today.

If you believe there are no downsides, FYI, around a century ago heroin was marketed as a "no downsides" cough suppressant. With time (very soon) the downsides became apparent. This may happen to the psychedelic you now consider safe.

The idea to alter one's mind with substances to have more pleasant / interesting / euphoric / hallucinogenic experience is vicious in principle, even if there were no other downsides.
Sure, why stop at completely remodeling hundreds of years of urbanism, let's just also fix up the complete mess that is the US health care system while we're at it :)

That being said, yes I agree. And I would not have made the same comment if I was still living in Europe where calling an ambulance is virtually free (I did it a couple of times).
1. Because C has no shadowing of global variables by member variables?
2. If your classes have so many members that it isn't clear whether a variable is a member or not, that's a class design problem.
3. C is a simplistic, almost-assembly-like, language. It's a reasonable choice for some tasks, not a reasonable choice for others. We're talking about languages with stronger abstraction capabilities.
It's on yum.postgresql.org, the official repo. Come on!
I’m not entirely sure that putting 30,000 “stealth” satellites into orbit is that great of an idea.
doh! 9 of course, thanks
Most towns downtown area, and most major metro areas. The real problem - they were seen for over 50 years by white americans as an undesirable place to live (high amount of minorities, crime), and are just now catching up and moving in. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Its a big part of racial politics in the US - and now as all the current tech workers move back into the cities, there's a problem of gentrification where minorities are being pushed out of their neighborhoods due to cost increases.

Affordable, with a nice walkable downtown, low crime, and access to well paying jobs is the holy grail for almost any town - there are very few that achieve it. Generally as downtown gets nicer it gets less affordable. If we had a good way to actually spread out wealth and jobs, the smaller towns could improve and there would be many desirable local places to live. Until then, people will enclave themselves away in their suburbs. There will also always be those who want to live in more rural, large spaces.
Hex – AI Board Game
"Never sending raw sensor data to Google" and "Never sending inferences made from sensor data to Google" are massively different claims.

"Never sending raw sensor data to Google" is an efficiency claim that means little with regard to protecting privacy.
you completely ignore the #1 cost: human cost to setup your vps, manage it, backups and whatnot etc. you gotta take all costs into account.

not every developer is willing to learn and spend time configuring & managing a server. that's not the same skill set.
But Herr Schmidt lives next to a more frugal neighbor who doesn't car about the nice car and will take transit, currently the neighbor is driving a Toyota or some such practical car and wouldn't care in the least if he didn't have to drive again.
Thank you, I did not think of it - I was mostly thinking about collisions and "visual" tracking/avoidance.
Pillars of Application Performance
One big piece of functionality missing from mouse-controlled maps is rotation. I can't imagine doing it with a mouse, but "grabbing" a map with two fingers and intuitively rotating it to the angle you want is huge.

Similarly, two-finger swipe up/down to adjust viewing angle is something that could technically be done with a slider you drag with a mouse, but I definitely wouldn't call that better.
For anyone that's wondering US has been so slow to act against China, it's because our media [1], our billionaires [2], and our diplomats and congress [3] have all been bought by the Chinese. Highly recommend watching the full interview, which was just released yesterday, to get an idea of the scale at which China has infiltrated the US society. As video also mentions, the Chinese government has been able to get this far by exploiting Western greed and through coercion and obfuscation.

[1] https://youtu.be/kl5279dWqGs?t=2145

[2] https://youtu.be/kl5279dWqGs?t=1044

[3] https://youtu.be/kl5279dWqGs?t=691
> I predict that in 50-100 years we'll look back on the age of the automobile as one of the biggest mistakes in urban planning.

I think that's a very hyperbolic prediction. I think elevating the automobile to the detriment of other forms of transportation will be viewed as a mistake, but the automobile itself is no more a mistake than the horse and carriage were.

> My dream is that one day most streets in Manhattan will be closed to car traffic and replaced with green space full of trees, flowers, children playing, and usable public space.

When was this ever true in Manhattan, and why do you think it would become true just by getting rid of cars? Crowded city streets predate cars by centuries.
Search craigslist for a Shaman. /s

I'd prob try looking for a counselor/therapist that has tried psychedelics and has helped others. You can probably search for them by looking for healing centers or retreats, specifically in the PNW.
"When an idiot wants to rob a bank, they get a gun and a ski mask. When a smart person wants to rob a bank, first they get a banking license..."
Flatbreads are of course very, very common all over the world. Anywhere that people had access to grain they would have been standard, though yeasted ones mostly require wheat (or rye). Just from baking myself I would say that some of the appeal is not having to wait for multiple risings, punching down, and kneading - just mix flour, water, yeast, and throw it in a hot oven to have fresh bread in a few minutes.
Why would you pay for a Mac Pro in cold hard cash?
Can't do that. The low and middle class here are also dependent on their banged up hatckbacks to get to work as they live very far from their jobs. If you make parking super expensive it's gonna hurt the Volkswagen man first and way harder than the Mercedes man.
"It is easy for a non-Japanese person to shrug off this societal or cultural pressure, but it is something that stayed with me all my life, even though I have lived abroad for half of it."
> Self-driving cars are going trigger a new wave of automobile growth, at least in the US. They won't be dangerous, will run clean, be super convenient and unbelievably inexpensive to own and operate.

My guess is that you are wrong. At least what comes to driving in cities. As the (current) main problem of cars in cities is not accidents, emissions, lack of convenience or even cost. It is the massive amount of space one car takes[1]. And self driving tech is not going to do anything to solve that. If not the opposite, when empty cars are driving around looking for a parking spot.

[1] https://permaculturenews.org/images/bus_car_bike_compare.jpg
Again, just more insane elitism.

You keep going to the "OH MY GOD, PEOPLE WOULD DIE" examples to try and make a fairly weak point.

No one is going to die, because some noob made a crappy little site out of the millions of crappy little sites, and it's not performing like a demi-god.

VMs and high level languages aren't "training wheels". Especially not VMs, that's just complete and utter non-sense. Unless you think literally every website on the web should have a 100% dedicated server box.

VMs are good for a great many of things, both noob-friendly and not.

As for high level languages, they were meant for one particular thing. To get a task done quickly. Which is largely the real reason why so much software out in the wild performs like crap.

Anyone can sit down and spend years making a highly performant piece of software. But when things have to move fast, corners get cut & there's not enough time dedicated to researching to get said product to be as highly performant.
Responsive tolling on roads makes a lot of sense. Roads carry more people at 50 mph than they do at 30mph. So if you use the price of the road to keep the road moving, you can make a more effective road, rather than letting it be overwhelmed and less useful.
There are many human-oriented cities around the world in which mass-transit reigns, and they manage to make life work. I've been in Hong Kong a lot, and I'm not sure I can pick two points in Hong Kong that are 80 minutes apart from each other. I mean, maybe getting to the New Territories from Sai Wan Ho or something, but they have their own closer hospitals, so...

It's hard to explain dry land to a fish, but life without cars is possible.
So basically a dollar auction [1] on a billion dollar scale?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction
But a lot of the time psychoactive drugs can remove psychological barriers that would otherwise prevent constructive participation in therapy. Not everyone needs it, but judging from how many people are in more-or-less-perpetual therapy, I think you might be undervaluing psychoactive drugs in that context.
@irrational, you have my sympathy. But next time you hear of anybody wanting to torture themselves with such an endeavor you might want to save their soul by asking them to look at CompilerWorks.com. Full disclosure, I work at/for CompilerWorks and will be biased since they pay the bills. But as an ultimate compliment for the kind of work we do, one of our customers brought xz0r's comment about us to our attention.
I mean, is it not true? From a peacemaking perspective, Obama was largely W. Bush the Second i.e. not much of a peacemaker at all.
That's according to documentation (https://slurm.schedmd.com/job_array.html).

> Note that the minimum index value is zero and the maximum value is a Slurm configuration parameter (MaxArraySize minus one).

Note that they say "the maximum value is a Slurm configuration parameter", not "the maximum value minus minimum value is a Slurm configuration parameter". The name of the parameter is confusing though, I admit.

Also, they prioritize paying customers when responding to bug tickets. Slurm is free software but if you want to interact with them, you need to pay. Nevertheless, for simple use cases (just scheduling a bunch of jobs) it's very comfortable to use. If you get into more complex territory (like array jobs), you'll need to read more docs.

And it scales very nicely from just one workstation up to the largest HPC clusters on the planet with complex accounting, multi-node jobs and so on.
At that point, might as well just stay in Monero to avoid Bitcoin's fees.

Also, there are other ways of coorelating transactions such as tracking BTC -> XMR amounts and soon-thereafter XMR -> BTC amounts (minus fees)
Oh, I see, thanks
Especially the sleeping...

I have not set an alarm for months now.
but even in the best case driving will usually get you there faster and cheaper.

Ah, I see the disconnect. Then just drive. Whether one you own, rented, Zipcar. I don't see where it is proposed that you can't drive the kids to Yosemite. You just can't drive them to downtown, where there's a ton of buses, trains, or what have you, and a car isn't needed and there's too damned many cars already. I own a car. Several, in fact. And an RV. But I don't drive any of them to downtown Seattle. I rarely drive any of them the 7 miles to work.
Yeah I much prefer that style because it reads left to right like I naturally read as an English speaker. It flows more naturally from the original object and the changes applied to it.
Synopsis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
Tumblers aren't magic and they're a great example of why you have to look at the security of an entire system with a particular threat model in mind: when law enforcement sees one in use, they don't say it's impossible and give up. Instead, every point where real money enters or leaves the system is an area to apply existing legal tools to compel people to document that they aren't violating money laundering laws, etc. Because every Bitcoin transaction is public that provides a strong disincentive for anyone legitimate to use a tumbler — how many reasons do you have which are strong enough to risk having to prove that you weren't part of another user's illegal activity? — further increasing the likelihood that simply sending or receiving funds from one would be considered probable cause.
Honestly asking what due sensitivity was missed here.
This feature is also in D. I am a fan.
Note that not everyone FP lang is verb-noun. Sure, most are, but your F#/Elixir/Scala's are more often than not written in a noun-verb form with the `|>` operator or something vaguely equivalent (syntax extensions in Scala's case).
tptacek has a tendency to deny the existence of problems that he doesn't consider to be important, and thus his criticism of DNSSEC tends to go a little bit too far. He does a great job of explaining what's wrong with DNSSEC and I agree with the general conclusion that it's not worth the trouble, but his blindspots are a bit annoying.
Yea, there are a million other articles that talk about wealthy foreign Chinese investors and Russian oligarchs laundering their money through Manhattan real estate if you're interested in learning more about that.
Running a red doesn’t fund international terrorism and skirt sanctions. Trust me if it did every single person a hair over the line would have tickets up to their eyeballs.
It sounds like you do value creativity and autonomy. If that's the case why would it matter how many hours someone was working? Judge them by their output, not how they got there.
Perhaps we should just grant statehood to the various Indian nations so they may be formally admitted into this republic. I am not a fan of giving representation to alien nations. I'm not sure our courts have legal jurisdiction over such agreements so long as they are extra-national, so there may be no way to enforce it.
Google will never care about the quality of an app store (for devs and for users) as much as a company with majority of revenue coming from folks using their app store. It's the fundamental problem with a monopoly business and breaking off the Google store from being the exclusive way to get apps on the Android platform will solve it because companies optimize profit.
The primary difference being, end users are not registering with a centralized site and handing over sensitive information. There would be no citizen database. Rather, the inverse would be true. A database of adult sites that lack a header.

Don't get me wrong, I think a citizen database of porn passes would be a blast, once it leaks out from some public S3 bucket. I would tease Ricky Gervais about his habits until he turns it into a standup routine. (kidding, but it could happen) I'm just hoping one of his writers visits this site.
Oh, what if the donation link added you to a list of contributors to the website. Seems like that would be "digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself" which might be a workaround. Google might ban it anyway of course
Yep, we use Dapper the micro-ORM in .NET code.

This is a name clash.
Hi Boise person, been thinking of visiting your city for the first time because I hear so many great things about it (except for this mayor), when is the best time to visit?
Ironically, even though the contrast ratio of the body content is technically passing the contrast threshold, it's unpleasant to read. It's the combination of the lighter shade of grey, small font size and the thinness of the font glyphs themselves.
The smaller streets can still be mostly empty, short of the occasional emergency vehicle. I still call that a win.
Helicopter Parenting and the Reason Behind It