skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to add the use of "taps" as an engagement metric to your list of misuses of telemetry. There used to be a rule of thumb in UI design that important actions should be as few clicks away as possible. Measuring engagement through taps encourages the opposite.

I also don't like things measuring "dwell time" when scrolling, as it encourages attention-grabbing gimmicks and rewards things that are confusing as well as things that are useful.
The old cliche is the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

We marvel sometimes at how quickly China raises cities from the dust seemingly out of nowhere in short time frames. In this very thread are reports of Chinese companies building entire factories to manufacture N95 masks in weeks, including brand new factories for the difficult melt-blown fabric material.

The US doesn't lack the ability, it lacks the will and the vision. The alternative sentiment to what I'm saying is "It's too hard, it will take too long and China can do it better so let's all wait it out at home doing nothing until they catch up enough to get us what we need". Why do people believe this? Where are the leaders saying anything else?
ISTM that a grammar parser is a library feature, not a language feature, per se. Any reason you couldn’t port the parser back to Perl 5 and get a similar savings in line count?
One positive effect is cities will open to more biking, EUC and e-scooters. I personally hope my city council opens more to those vehicles this year. Here in Barcelona we have a nice grid of roads for bikes, but electrical scooters (specially the bigger ones) are banned from the main roads and limited to 25km. Clean energy transportation banned for nothing. Nonsense.
I believe Python suffers from no leadership in that space (everyone creates their own packaging, every tutorial advocates something different, many tutorials are outright wrong).

There was also a bad decision of using Python code for installation (setup.py) instead of a declarative language.

Most of that issues are actually fixed in setuptools if you put all settings in setup.cfg and just call empty setup() in setup.py.

Like here: https://github.com/takeda/example_python_project/blob/master...
There are plenty of cities you can afford. It's just that if you want walkable and world class network effects, eventually the demand will drive us prices so that only the wealthy can afford to live there.
Really? Work should be disincentivized. Automation and innovation rewarded.

The goal of human existence is not and should not be "gainful employment".
Micro C, Part 3: Generating LLVM
The point being, an unusually large percentage of the people who contract CV19 die. Lower density == longer time to hit X% infected and Y% dead, but you'll still get there. (With caveats that X is a bit lower with lockdown, and Y gets higher when medical system is overloaded.)

Minnesota death rate is, as you say, currently at 19/million, but is growing at about 10%/day. The curve fits WA state's; continuing along that curve, WA currently has 79/million and is growing by 3%/day.
> Boos is also listed as a participant in the 2019 Bilderberg meeting

I'll get my popcorn when the app releases. It's gonna be great.
The rich have built cities they can afford.
That is my point. "Perl" didn't try to change genres, something different came along and called itself "Perl 6". No disrespect to either language, but linguistically this is has a negative impact for both Perl 5 and "Perl 6". Maintaining that certain people got "used to" the idea proves that it was never a wise move.

Also, note what chromatic has to say:

https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=1220578

https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=11105180

And so on.
True, but it's probably not so important. After all, it's just more human centered talk. It might be useful now for everyone to take a step back, consider we share this planet with other living things, and maybe someone is brave enough to look at things from a perspective of non-human being. Who's the pandemic now? ;)

Besides, the planet doesn't care about our little problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgJKrmbYfg
There are ways to limit the number of deaths and still reach herd immunity. For instance by keeping elderly and sick people isolated but the healthier part not, until herd immunity is reached.

This disease has to be handled with intelligence and common sense, not with rethorics and dogma's.
The membership in Burschenschaften (fraternities) has reduced significantly and membership is more frowned upon in society because most of them are very much on the right most fringe of society (in particular the "schlagenden Verbindungen, i.e. the ones that do duels).
> WD Red drives were de facto marketed as PMR

Do you have a reference? Or any evidence of customers knowing or caring about the internals of the drive before this controversy arose?

Claiming that anything is the "best" at something is pure puffery, as we say in the legal trade. Ferrari publishes quantifiable specs on how their vehicles perform; WD does not do so in detail.
Yes, you understand correctly. In this case, assume the life and cultural context of the author.
The correction you describe has been perpetually postponed in the form of bailouts - whether that's to wall street or main street. A true reset would be quite painful and catastrophic - but only then can we rebuild a foundation on a different set of values and orientation.
If you find it concerning work on cat to human covid-19 transmission.

Governments seem to be ignoring this because politically it would be a nightmare.

If it transmits cat-cat(seems proven) and cat-human, killing all the cats would save lives, how many cats hang out at nursing homes?
Replacing ads with their own ads, running a cryptocurrency within the browser. I don't want microtransactions to view sites which I feel like is what Brave is hoping for in the future. I mean, microtransactions are the name of the game in cryptocurrency but doing so for online content is especially egregious.
Proof and Cake Envy
Total wealth is not important as long as everyone is paying for shared infrastructure based reasonably closely to the value they derive from it. That’s the social contract that’s being broken as for example developers depend on good local schools but they pay nothing for them. Building a new house is inherently different from selling an existing one, but zoning changes are handed out for free.
Vim is by far my most TIL-ed topic. I recently started gathering a lot of that learning into a screencast series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46-cKSxMYYCMpzXo6p0C...
> 'Redistribution' is inherently unfair

This is a peculiar, and unsubstantiated assertion. I certainly wouldn't consider this an axiom in any discussion about economic policy. Can you explain a little more?

Or are you just saying that you believe that redistribution is unfair?
Welcome to the Virus Zone
I don't think that "walkable" and "world-class network effects" are actually required to go together. The majority of walkable places around the world are just ordinary towns you've never heard of.

In North America this tends to be true mostly because just about everything was walkable before WW2, and after WW2 the almost the only places that were left that way were the places too wealthy and expensive to demolish and rebuild around the car. Not too much of a surprise, the places that had that much wealth 70 years ago are still the major hubs of the economy today.
I think technology is only one way of expanding markets indefinitely, albeit one of the most beneficial when it happens.

Unfortunately capitalism's need for infinite growth is nigh unstoppable and it always finds a path. If there aren't enough startups, technological advances, or similar we see things like private militaries, Banana Wars, buying elections, private prisons, over leveraging, etc. Capitalism has to have an outlet and we are at its mercy in that sense.
You're right. To be fair we need to bring out the guillotines
Aye, not common and for many will be a surprise as mention VAX and the DecVAX workstations and as you say, midrange setups spring to mind. I did some C work upon them late 80's and was very impressed and some profiling tool that was a whole new experience of joy.

Will add, you could win a lot of proposition bets that Dec made a VAX supercomputer.
Fair is inherently subjective.
I feel like this is the TV detector van[1] equivalent of cell phone companies. It might be possible to implement, but I doubt it's widely implemented as the article suggests, if at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
Who benefits when the price of insulin soars?
Exploiting VLAN Double Tagging – NotSoSecure
Planning poker story points estimation tool
> Now after the rename, I guess every HN discussion will have a subthread discussing how the rename was terrible, and it should've stayed Perl 6.

I don't see any evidence for this claim. Besides those on the inside, I have yet to see any support for naming a different language as logical next version of another.
Potentially dumb question: how do cheats even work in a game like LOL? I understand aimbots in a FPS and how they can give a pure mechanical advantage, but the LOL equivalent isn’t obvious to me. Does the client have access to data that’s not supposed to be exposed to the player?
"make the city stronger and more financially resilient"

"target productive development patterns"

"incentivize productive development"

It's hard to read Strong Towns articles because they write almost entirely in euphemism. What they're really advocating is smaller homes, more density, and less driving. They would really sound much less Orwellian if they stopped using so many weasel words.
I’ve been using this as a part of my Setapp subscription and loving it. It’s the only tool that has replaced DBeaver (which is still more powerful, but I hate the interface).
8 hour work days, no child labor, Social Security, FDA. Look at anything that came out of the Great Depression and New Deal. Things would be a lot worse if governments ceded all power to corporations, which they basically did in the Gilded Age. To be clear, I also want what you wrote, healthcare, benefits, and parental leave, among others, but those only come about through strong governments.
A lot of cities ran out of funds because of pension plans.
> Human rights to free expression are more important than any nation.

Well put.
America has become this extremely polarized place the last 10ish years where everybody know that "the other side" are actually monsters.

If you are a Democrat, you think of Republicans as Nazis and white supremacists. If you're a Republican, you think of Democrats as authoritarians and communists.

Naturally, once you "know" that the other side is the party of pure evil, you know that whatever the propose, you must oppose. (Even if you're a politician who doesn't really believe this, you wouldn't want to be seen as agreeing with monsters).

A related problem is that nobody trusts our institutions and processes. Republicans mostly believe that the Democrats have built their power primarily on vote fraud and the support of the media. (Things like the big push for extended time mail-in ballots and "ballot harvesting" which produce ballots with no chain of custody feed these fears of vote fraud). Democrats mostly believe that Republicans have built their power on secret backroom deals with foreign powers and a collection of billionaires (there have been a variety of investigations into folks' dealings with Russia in particular.)

As a result nobody much cares about preserving the norms or the niceties -- only winning the fight of the moment.

If you're an American, you can likely point to one or two things that "the other side" did that started this process -- my Republican friends and my Democrat friends each tell me about what the enemy did to start the fight. (Republicans are more likely to use the word 'war', but they both tend to see it as an existential struggle for our continued freedom)

Against that background of hate and distrust, every action is seen as obviously being the worst possible thing.

I know plenty of (smart) Republicans who know for certain that coronavirus lockdowns are part of a premeditated plan to finally end liberty and install a new communist dictatorship in November (that's why mail in balloting is holding up the coronavirus relief bill -- Democrats need to make sure they can vote fraud their way to 100% control before we demand to be let out of our houses).

Before you tell me that they aren't smart, I also know some very smart and capable Democrats that believe that Republicans want to reopen states like Michigan because the only people who will go back to work in big numbers will be the poor and minorities, and the entire goal of the coronavirus response was to use it as best as possible to "liquidate" the poor and brown people, so that the rich who control Republicans can have lower taxes and lots of vacant property to buy up for cheap. That's also why the borders are closed -- they believe that is intended to be permanent and in both directions, since Republicans hate foreigners.

These that I have presented are the "strong" versions of the beliefs I've encountered. They're not universal, but the hate and distrust implied by them is nearly universal.

I am presumably not an exception, though the (unusual) fact that I keep members of both parties in my social circles helps keep me able to see both perspectives clearer than most seem to.
Google if you care about accessibility,stop undermining the development of e-ink
Thanks for the tip about KDE Neon. I use Kubuntu, but it definitely misses the mark.
> I don't know how long it will keep going

It ends in the next 8-14 years. First time event where retiring class > working class. Population growth assumed to be equal or higher for every subsequent generation back 50 years ago.

Wait until those surplus programs stop becoming surplus. If you look now and think inequality is bad now, wait, it gets a lot worst.
this sounds like language (and, presumably, implementation choices) made to comply with their privacy policy and GDPR.
I've published a couple gems that I'm pretty sure no one uses, and after a few months the downloads was in the hundreds, probably bots and mirrors. Most likely the figure only makes when seen relative to other gems.
Earthly – Makefile Meets Dockerfile
This is stupid. You have this marxist idea that conflates wealth and value.

In reality, there is no real problem with wealth inequality as long as people don't all work for one person, which never happens because of dynamics of demand and offer for labor. In fact, inequality is responsible for our prosperity, which is much more important than equality unless you have an unhealthy jealousy problem. Gini/Atkinson to HDI correlation is not that great.
I think it's that denominator just to demonstrate that the 0.1% figure is totally made up and ridiculous.
That does seem silly - dogs font need licenses where I live, and given that mine are never out without a leash and aren’t bolters, I’m darned glad I don’t have that kind of ridiculous nanny-statism to deal with.
Hey, Nice article format for actual humans with easy to digest flow. Will share with devs. Great work! Thanks
Yes, this is the compiler optimizing UB due to aliasing, not due to alignment.
None, of course, that is true of any organization of incentive-driven autonomous agents, such as humans. However, governments are not explicitly designed to make money, whereas corporations are literally explicitly designed to make as much money as possible. Money equals power to some extent, so corporations cannot be as useful as governments if you're optimizing for the wellbeing of citizenry.
Apple supports formats they can hardware accelerate. They have historically picked one format to accelerate in hardware (H.264, now its HEVC), and pay the royalties with the format they pick.
Scientists at Delhi’s CSIR-IGIB have developed a test strip for Covid-19
> The entire economy is based on the idea of never ending growth

Yes, because total factor productivity[0] always grows.

> infinite leverage

None of us can raise an infinite bank loan, so this isn't really true. There are many, many, many limits to leverage.

> and assets that always inflate without increasing utility (homes for example).

Also not true... if the value of living in SF increases, it makes perfect sense that land in SF is also more valuable

> It works, until it doesn't.

That's not really a falsifiable assertion.

> I don't know how long it will keep going, but I do think we need a real correction in order to redistribute some of the wealth.

Notwithstanding all the faults in the arguments above, how does distributing wealth arbitrarily at a single point in time ("real correction") solve any of the issues you present?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity
Isn’t that in practice the same as an alignment problem? Can you have two ints overlap without a misaligned access?
clearly the rewards from owning things vs actual work is a bit out of whack in our current society. but owning things is itself the reward for surplus work.
I think you’ve missed wenc’s point - they aren’t arguing for a CLI, they’re arguing for a UI specialized to a single RDBMS, vs one trying to convert many RDBMSs.
It's amazing how many times the Patriot Act has been renewed beyond expiration.
I’m sorry, but that’s a severe over-generalization. My 6lb 3-legged rescue is far less of a threat to humans than even a small kitten...
-fno-strict-aliasing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/98650/what-is-the-strict...

Torvalds rant: https://www.yodaiken.com/2018/06/07/torvalds-on-aliasing

edit: I misread the parent as wondering about a compiler flag
If you've used SSMS extensively you'll know it's tailored to SQL server like a glove. You'd definitely be leaving usability on the table going with a generic DB client. The person you've responded to even mentioned that of course you can do all things via CLI, but SSMS builds powerful GUI layer on top of that
They could try it with coil whine

I am just working on a chart that shows a tooltip when the mouse cursor hovers over a data point.

Everytime the tooltip is shown, my laptop cheeps

edit: or even if I just scroll the browser window
> we need a real correction in order to redistribute some of the wealth.

There will be no redistribution, that's a fairy tale. There will only be evaporation.
The founder of Strong Towns lives in Brainerd, Minnesota, and the entire organization was for many years exclusively focused on problems in small towns in rural America. It's very different from City Lab.
> It's likely enough that lockdowns are the better strategy for the economy.

I would like to see data supporting this. Because at the moment, things are pretty bleak.
> but only then can we rebuild a foundation on a different set of values and orientation.

[Citation needed]. That's a pipe dream. Human nature remains constant.
If you can point me to any evidence showing that dogs are less likely to do this in areas that have licensing, I would consider supporting that.
Ask HN: How do I do development with a remote windows target?
Hey HN,

Weird question, but I'm pretty close to my wits end here. And while I know that this isn't a technical support forum it might be interesting for others.

I'm in a bit of a bind, for the passed few years I've been deploying many hundreds (often multiple thousands) of Windows instances;

I'm in infrastructure, not directly software engineering and so far I've been able to get away with trial and error deployment, but the iteration time is very high and I can't easily run things like integration tests because infrastucture code is so "protocol-buffer to protocol buffer" I'd end up writing much more mock/stubs and glue that the test wouldn't be valid anyway.

What have I tried:

I have an IntelliJ license, I've been trying to get their remote development working but it's pretty obviously exclusively for targeting POSIX machines. Even installing SSH on Windows causes it to start complaining about common unix/linux utilities not being available.

I tried VSCode and it's very similar.

I recently discovered Theia which is a editor that you can access from a browser (from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888604 ) and after spending some time actually getting it working: while it looks like vscode it is not. There's no plugins and no integration with pydb, it's also hugely janky on Windows.

"code-server" (https://github.com/cdr/code-server) (which runs much like Theia) also only works on Linux/MacOS

and "Visual studio online" seems like it was designed (like IntelliJ) to be run from Windows with Linux as a remote target: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/

---

I run Linux (or MacOS) personally and would strongly prefer not to have to run Windows because the majority of my other tools (git-crypt, terraform, gnupg, ssh) are better supported on Linux and anyway I prefer i3 to Windows..

Does anyone have an ideas?
Never mind, I read your comment wrong.
The Bellman-Ford Algorithm
What kind? Been looking for something like that.
I disagree that Redistribution is unfair when the playing field isn't level from the get go.
I think the parent is objecting more to the fact that today's economy allows those with wealth to earn income from that wealth. (E.g. they own the property, they can earn income from rent. They own the factory, they can extract excess value from the labor. etc.)

Automation vs working is a different axis than rewarding capital vs working. They are both good discussions to have, though.
Interesting summary and topic in general. I sensed things were off in my old (home) town but never could put my finger on it and found that asking questions in this direction was frowned upon.

That's when I decided to vote with my feet and relocate.

Thanks to whoever subbed this and comments here for opening my eyes to a shared perspective and organization that seems to represent that contrarian & data backed view towards what's happening in a lot of these places (especially the insecure rust belt cities) across America.
This isn't just an issue with GCC but embedded compilers as well. On embedded systems its common to work with packed data structures to maximize serial protocol efficiency.

Lets say you have a packed structure with a type of

struct MyPackedStruct {
uint8_t byteValue;
uint32_t intValues[5];
}

Normally a compiler would add 3 extra bytes between the uint8_t value and the uint32_t array to keep alignment of the int array, but that won't be the case if you force it to be packed. This results in uint32 values that span two word boundaries. If you access one of those array values in code directly, the compiler is smart enough to perform 2 separate memory reads and combine the resulting value so you don't have to really think about it.

But if you do something like this:

uint32_t *intValues = myPacktedStruct.intValues;

The compiler allows this, but the resulting intValues pointer loses all packed awareness, and trying to dereference that pointer will result in an unaligned memory access exception.

Moral of the story - only use packed data types when serializing/deserializing a protocol stream. Avoid using packed data types 'at rest', because it can cause subtle issues like this. The downside is that it results in extra parsing work when converting between packed and unpacked types.
If it were just walkable, you could pick a smaller city or downtown area and live there, especially with a class that does intellectual or remote work. The issue of "too expensive" is usually that everyone wants to crowd into a few cities because of those network effects and social life features, walkability is one of them.

For all the love of decentralization HN has, in practice they very much want to centralize where wealth and power is.