skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Web isn't especially "safety-critical", and it rapidly evolves to meet stakeholder needs, but it still has a formal specification at the top that serves as the entry point for new features. This single source of truth is the touchstone for all involved parties, is where things get proposed and debated and decided, and then that filters down to browser vendors who implement the spec. This allows vendors to ensure cross-compatibility and allows the languages to be more than just a compiler or interpreter.

Having a formal spec isn't specific to the niche industries talked about in Sealed Rust; it's simply good practice for any open language project.
Let me the ask the YIMBY crowd this...what is stopping 2 dozen do you to pool funds together to build a community where land is affordable and have tailored amenities. And you can literally have your own transport to anywhere. Co-Own your shared vacation paradises. Private schools. Incorporated communities. Invest in farms and automation. You can grow your own food and use economics instead of govt bureaucracy to make it all work.

A satellite community of multiple such youthful communities is a win-win for all. That’s what real estate companies do, but they profit enormously from it with little value. They are building on top of existing infrastructure and not passing the monetary benefits of it and pocketing it for their purposes.

I am not being flippant because I have spent a few years on such a model. A community of 6000 can be supported in 600 acres that will actually not only be self sustaining but can also be income producing if you add farms and value added businesses for those who don’t wish full time jobs. There are monetary and communal benefits. There will be less reliance on govt and less wastage of resources.

120 is a good number because it would satisfy the Dunbar number limits. It shouldn’t be difficult to have a nice proportion of ageing, young and middle aged populations for diversity.

It’s just a modern tech supported version of eco villages and ..dare I say..cults. But they fail because they never take the necessary survival factor of monetary stability and most eschew technology. These don’t have to and will be better supported.
Is chat history across new phones really important to people?
I can possibly see an On-Star-like backup VR driver role at some point when there's full self-driving and there needs to be some sort of backup of last resort when a car with no human in it freaks out. (Or if there's just a child, etc.)

But there has to be an assumption that this is a rare event and that it takes place in a context where a VR driver has time to establish some situational awareness. (Oh, and in a lot of situations, there is no "just pull over option." I've gotten into some bad weather situations but there are often only sub-optimal options at that point. Pulling over can also be dangerous or may not even be an option.
What they meant by DRY is otherwise known as SPOT — Single Point Of Truth — which is harder to misinterpret. The same “truth” — which can be data, values, behavior, policy, etc. — should not be defined multiple times in separate places, because a future change would have to be applied to all the places, or else cause different parts of a program or datastore to have inconsistent views on what the “truth” is.

If you google for it, you will find the synonymous “Single Source Of Truth”, which however makes for a worse acronym.
Not at all. It’s a dinosaur protocol that requires layers of hacks to provide an even halfway-useable experience.
No, it's not. In 2008 we saw that that is really not the case. Housing is awful because it's relatively difficult to find an owner and transaction fees are extremely high.
Literally no "non-tech-savvy" person I know backs up anything at all. I seriously doubt that backup / transfer is on anyone's mind at all when deciding to use a new messenger.
This might be an unpopular question but why is everyone certain that more housing will cut homelessness when these California cities are already quite dense (not the most in the world but more than most of the US)?

Why don't we assume more housing will not simply bring more non-homeless from elsewhere? The homeless are certainly not the most competitive home buyers.
Twitch.tv uses the IRC protocol for its chat system, and I find a lot of the same community feeling in those channels where I hang out regularly.
Most complaints addressed to those 3 sites also apply to the internet as a whole.
I can't say I miss IRC particularly. It does have a nice simplicity to it but the fact that connections are stateful and fragile is a real downer - I don't love that closing my laptop and wandering off somewhere onto a new network causes me to disappear from the network entirely.

Bouncers like ZNC rely on having somewhere reliable to host one and are additional maintenance overheads. Leaving irssi or weechat open in a screen/tmux session on a remote host leads to a terrible mobile experience.

I now just find it easier to interact with IRC users using Matrix bridges that other people maintain instead.
Oh bull. There is no way to prove RF modifies microtubules.
Prices have hit their limits, and companies are more willing to entertain the idea that qualified talent exists outside of the Bay Area. Remote work is growing, and some portion of that growth is certainly attributable to the Bay Area housing market.
Not exactly accurate regarding mobile editing. Edits on mobile-heavy wikis are up 18% YoY, which we attribute to improvements in the mobile editing interface. We have people who edit on T9 interfaces. Not many, but they exist.
It should be possible for current technology to (a) detect a cop in the middle of intersaction; (b) stop safely before the intersection and (c) delegate control to a human - possibly someone in the car, possibly a remote one.
Yes. I would move. If my neighbors all decided to sell to these companies, I cannot help that. It is not my land. I don't believe in socialism.

I would hope I would have the common sense to sell my land at that point as well, so I could cash in on the sweet moolah the developers were paying.
that's actually really cool... sunstone is also US based if you are into keeping it in the US... win-win.

though, i just did a quick quote and they are quoting some seriously high prices so i am not sure where you are getting that number from?
It's just not the same feeling, patiently waiting around on my work Slack for a network split, so I can grab ops on a channel.
Hmm, I wonder if certain javascript based site generators will still be around in 20 years..
I don't miss IRC much -- I actually miss the paragraphs-level chat systems with lightweight categories, like MIT Zephyr and Gale. They really encouraged deeper thought, in the way that an HN comment is often deeper than an IRC one, just by virtue of having more time to collect your thoughts and then getting to attach them to the right place. It's surprising that nothing like those systems lasted.

I also miss ytalk, which shared each character you typed as you typed it. I used ytalk with my spouse a lot while we were dating.
During the 2016 primary, I'd argue Bernie Sanders got more coverage than normal. He was behind in polling and in delegate count. He should have been getting none. But he got more than what I think his candidacy deserved, since a horse race is good for ratings, and the story of him vs Clinton made for the perfect one. This is all based on my observations, and no empirical data however.

I do think Sanders was shortchanged of some press coverage in this primary. I think that's changing as his chances of winning go up. I hope he's covered extensively, because I don't think most people are aware of some of his negatives, and as a front funner, his candidacy deserves our scrutiny.

You make a good point that there is an oligopoly of corporate press. I think that's something harmful to our democracy, and something we should be concerned about. I'm not sure what the solution is. For now, I just donate to public radio.
Static HTML is also very secure. My personal sites are always static, it keeps server costs low and everything gets cached.
You can use clang on VS
> The first amendment doesn't say anything about ensuring any sort of level playing field for speech from different parties. It says that the government can't make any laws "abridging the freedom of speech."

The First Amendment isn't the sum total of American law. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I'm pretty sure there are constitutional powers meant to provide effective democratic elections.

The tension here is between those two interests. I think it's worth considering the idea that a too-absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment (in regards to spending) may interfere with the nation's ability to provide effective democratic elections. Both are important priorities.

Also, it's not like the Constitution is perfect, timeless document. If it doesn't do enough to ensure effective democratic elections in light of its other provisions, then changes should be considered to fix that oversight.
India ‘loses’ citizenship data in bureaucratic mess
The BQX is a bad idea.

Yup. The article is extremely superficial, and ignores the many obvious flaws in the BQX proposal.

It reads more like marketing material for the property developers that everyone knows are the real backers of the project - rather than a news article.
The EFF claims that the SJG raid was unrelated to Operation Sundevil.
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
Ask HN: What would a site with threaded bump-order ranking look like?
There's a lot of forums, like this one and Reddit, which have threaded discussion and voting. Classic blogs often have threaded comments, but just sorted on date posted.

Classic forums move the thread to the top each time someone responds, but they don't thread the comments.

This seems like a much simpler solution, which is much harder to game. Yet I've never seen a site actually use it in the wild. How come?
as long as software is based on clumsy "if then else when for" statements and computation relies on binary switches - self driving cars will remain impossible.
> If I live in California where home prices are sky-high, and I've saved up for nearly a decade for a house, why would I be willing to allow legislation that would likely devalue my biggest asset (by far) that I saved and sacrificed so diligently for?

Rezoning would not devalue your house. You'd get more money for it in the long run. Better yet, you'd be able to instantly become a landlord (convert your house into a plex) and move somewhere else that satisfied your desire for a single-family home. Or you'd be able to market to a developer.

Plus, if you just kept living in your house, the value would go up anyway, as it always does.
Chrome's throttling is great, I didn't know about that. But it doesn't look like it persists (across tabs, or sessions)?
Supreme Court has ruled money is free speech. It will take a constitutional amendment to change this. And the two party system is one of the most effective money machines, they have only ever proposed mitigations for the most heinous activities. On what mitigation could they possibly agree on that doesn't run afoul of Buckley v. Valeo, et al?

It takes money to broadcast, print, and distribute anything, so if you believe in free speech you'd necessarily have to agree there should be no limit on distribution, as well as no public subsidy of it. And therefore no limit on the private expenditure that enables its distribution.
I don't miss IRC, since I still use it, but I miss certain channels. I swear every linux related channel I go into is full of a bunch of a-holes. 20 years ago I got a lot of help (and I hope provided a lot of assistance myself) in #linux and others, but now it feels like I'm offending a channel when asking for help.
But it's really not. Homelessness and destitution also reduce property value. Lots of people leaving California because it's so awful.
The names in stdint.h are ok, but the way they play with library functions like printf() and scanf() is not so great. Given an int64_t value x, each of these works on some platforms and is wrong on another:

printf("here's your int64_t: %ld\n", x);
printf("here's your int64_t: %lld\n", x);

And the portable way using inttypes.h is really ugly:

printf("portably int64_t: %" PRId64 "\n", x);

There's another religious argument to be had over size_t vs ssize_t, but that can wait :-)
> Both numbers are ridiculous and meaningless so don't pay them any mind

I agree that they have little meaning for the purpose of individual and group identity. It's been pretty disheartening, for example, to see some people extrapolate from the discovery of Neanderthal DNA in non-African populations to the current economic disparities between non-African and African societies. Ironicallly, that is a reversal of the previous false stereotypes associated with Neanderthal influence in humans. I guess once it was proven, it had to be turned into a "good" thing.

But the percentages are meaningful for building a picture of ancient human evolution and migration.
Creative Sets vs. Mobile A/B testing platform
It is great and I root for Signal.

I only wish Moxie was less polarizing and actually stepped down from being its face. He often makes subpar and inaccurate statements about other technologies. He is famous for his derogatory comments about PGP. His talk at recent CCC was anything but dismissive of others.

The thing is, Signal is not special. Matrix, Wire and others sorted problems of encryption while remaining open (Wire is commercial but that good for some).

So congratulations Signal. But we should think really hard whether we want another centralized behemoth. I would prefer donate to Matrix. Support project building client with great UX for masses on top of open, extensible protocol rather than hand over more control to centralized organization led by individual speaking in absolutes.
"For example: there has yet to be a breakthrough in the last 50 years that could even come close the impact of antibiotics and nobody has set foot on the moon in five decades. But if you told someone that in the late 60s, I think they wouldn't believe it."

This shouldn't be that surprising when you think about the situation just a little bit. Antibiotics are important because they cover a wide variety of diseases that formerly were untreatable. This is the case because they all have the same cause: bacteria. Other classes of disease, such as cancer, aren't so simple. There isn't a single treatment that can reliably cure all forms of cancer and theoretically there really can't be. It's just a fundamentally harder problem. There's a lot a low hanging fruit in basic discoveries but then we hit a wall when we attempt to apply them to more difficult problems.

Back in the 50's (I think) there was a fascination with the possibility of weather prediction. It seemed reasonable at the time that because the weather was ultimately a deterministic system we could predict it months in advance just by figuring out the physics and running the correct calculations. Then we discovered chaos theory and "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" and we realized that weather prediction was a fundamentally much harder problem than we could have predicted. We simply can't ever measure the atmosphere accurately enough to accurately predict the weather more than a few weeks in advance and even then we have to take a probabilistic approach.

There's a similar deal with fast planes as mentioned in the article. Back in the 60s and 70s all the big aerospace engineers wanted to be working on supersonic airliners like the Concord. Decades later, that effort seems to have been a waste of time. It turns out that the physics of supersonic flight present challenges and the economics of intercontinental travel don't really cover those challenges. The changes that have been made to airliners over the last few decades have been instead in terms of efficiency and safety. Even in the military sector, which can throw tons of money at pie-in-the-sky ideas has run into this. The most populous strategic bomber in the US Airforce is still the B-52 which was introduced in the mid 50s. We do have more advanced weapons, but we can't afford them, and we can't afford them precisely because of the changes that make them more advanced.

If someone in the late 60s wouldn't believe that we'd not repeat the success of antibiotics or return to the moon, it would have been because of misconceptions about the nature of the problems involved in the 60s rather than because of some form of decadence that settled in after the fact.
Technical problems or commercial?
If you're using a functional programming languages, monads are actually quite useful. It's not just a theoretical thing.

I can see how you might not want to use them in JavaScript (although many folks do), but it's quite natural to use them in Scala, Haskell, or OCaml.
You are referring to this backup restore process? https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

It involves a 6 step (with multiple sub-steps) process of navigating the sdcard contents and then transferring some obscure file over USB to a computer and then from that computer to the new phone. I doubt this is something that "the masses" will be able or willing to accomplish.

Also, iOS has about 48% market share in the US, so it's at least half the masses there.
You can use slack via weechat. It works pretty reliable. Better not use slack though but an open protocol.
The things I miss about that time have more to do with growing up (versus being grown) than anything to do with internet relay chat.
The entire ASP.Net Core and Entity Framework architecture was changed and is not compatible. Not to mention all of the legacy third party .Net Framework only third party packages that don’t work.

Microsoft also completely abandoned Windows CE/Compact Framework while there were plenty of companies that had deployed thousands of $1200-$2000 ruggedized devices for field services work.
He’s so whole minded and generally awesome
The "BY" in YIMBY is referring to our existing back yards. There's a significant gap between YIMBYs and what you described.
The market has shown people are willing to make the commute. Not only would you need to induce the current commuters to move, you also need to ensure they aren't simply replaced by more commuters, which isn't necessarily a given.
KXstudio is now a software repo only for "Any Debian or Ubuntu based system, running GNU/Linux. For Debian, version 10 (Buster) is required; on Ubuntu, 18.04 (Bionic)."
https://kx.studio/Repositories:FAQ

I was able to use the KXstudio repos on Devuan ASCII 2.0, if anyone is wondering about Devuan compatibility.

KXstudio used to also have their own distro, based on Ubuntu, but the last release was based on Ubuntu 14.04, based on my memory and the DistroWatch page. The ISOs are still on GitHub, but, it goes without saying, are no longer supported.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kxstudio
https://github.com/KXStudio/KXStudio/releases/
They own because they existed. They were born before most of us did..To say that someone doesn’t deserve their wealth they earned in the past because they didn’t have to deal with today’s problems doesn’t hold water.

Wealth is a construct built upon the notion of scarcity. One has wealth BECAUSE another doesn’t have it. If everyone had one million dollars, then a million has no value.

Imagine I inherited a diamond necklace from my grandmother who inherited it from her mother and so on. The original price of it was $200 and today it is worth a million dollars.

Yes, I inherited it. It’s mine. It’s valuable. Because someone else covets such a diamond necklace doesn’t mean that it is unfair that I inherited it.

Most of the YIMBY arguments seems to be based on ‘unfairness’. How is it unfair to hold something of value that others covet? To be punitively taxed on an asset that one owns free and clear just because someone younger doesn’t own it is a gross violation of property rights. It’s also ignorant and misleading. Most of all, it’s immoral and petty.
The ferry is just as, if not more, egregious in this regard - it's the most heavily subsidized form of public transit in the city, at over $10 per ride actual cost, and based on my experience on the East River route, seems to largely serve tourists and people who live in Williamsburg and work on Wall Street.
So the wonderful thing is that your ex can sell their condo, take the money and move elsewhere. That is the beauty of a free market. And the absolute magnificence of section 1031 of the IRC.
It may be standard, but is it justified?
I used "yEd live".
Isn't that what this is though?
That looks ... meh at best.

Let's say I make a Dad Bag, shoulder straps and large zips, plenty of space for nappies and milk bottles books and wipes.

I want that on blogs, instagram cool-dad accounts, so that's finding 2-300 accounts and giving them free samples, but before that I want 4.5+ stars for the darn thing on Amazon (FBA) - so how do I do that ?

Or is that the wrong way?
While this does kinda suck, note that Marianne Williamson is excluded from many (if not all) of these same examples, while having announced her candidacy well before (and even making it into the televised debates as well). Politics aside, my guess is this is more than anything else a symptom of not knowing what to do with candidates who don't already hold an elected position.
Hey, thanks for nice words! Close, it is functional but not Racket :) -> we are implementing Wasp in Haskell.

I read about Racket, and I know it is Scheme based and especially tailored for developing languages. We picked Haskell because we have previous experience in it, want to learn it better and thought it would be a good fit for writing a compiler. On the other hand, since Racket claims it is especially good for languages, I have to admit I wonder if it would be a good choice - but I just know so little bit about Racket that I can't judge.

Would love to hear what you think since you probably know more about Racket than us!
If you’re interested in a guide from the same era on more... direct forms of resistance, Bert Levy’s 1941 Guerrilla Warfare is a good read: https://epdf.pub/guerrilla-warfare6b67033a7460226f89666685f2...

(And even just Levy’s life story is quite a story all by itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yank_Levy)
I still use it daily after nearly 30 years, though the main channel I'm on has dwindled from hundreds active during its prime to just a handful.

While I miss the people that has moved on over time, I must say Discord feels like a fine replacement for me in terms of functionality. I use Discord for a few technically oriented things and those places give me the same vibe IRC did back in the day.
I'd say an "advertisement" is a form of a "paid message". For example I can pay Facebook to put "I LOVE PENGUINS" on everyone's screen - it's not technically an advertisement, just a statement or message.

But yeah in the case of political campaigns they're effectively the same thing IMO.
Not luxury apartments. Projects. In the 50s and 60s NYC built loads of massive housing projects for the poorest people on welfare. This is something that is needed in California. Most of the homeless can't afford fancy new builds, the state should be building big cheap buildings to house the people who can't afford anything. Say there are 20k units required in the Bay Area, each building can have 20 floors, 25 aprts per floor, that's just 40 buildings, say one in each suburb.

Here are NYC ones, the biggest prjects are 1000-2000 units each https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Housing_...