skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you're being facetious - it's actually not a crazy idea. For example: displaying 'code' at display font sizes.

If I want to show something that looks like code - like an HTML tag or something - at a heading size on a page or a poster, a proper monospaced coding font is going to look bad. Playing with the MONO slider on https://www.recursive.design/ for a string like '<blink />' does a good job of producing something that looks like code but isn't swamped with too much whitespace...
I've been using Rails for the past 6 or 7 years. The biggest positive is that almost any feature you need is available as a gem. We're using for an early stage startup right now, and it's crazy how quickly we've been able to crank out features. I've looked at the JS and Python ecosystems, and haven't seen the same mature ecosystem.

I don't disagree with your point around large Rails apps becoming un-maintainable. I think as long as you have a few developers who have dealt with big Rails app and know what to avoid (concerns, fat models, etc), it's not too hard to write a maintainable app in Rails.
Welcome to the late-90s web aesthetic!
The technology to do it does exist likely on hardware you possess. The trusted computed platform lets you build a signed OS that encrypts its data using keys on the TPM. Using this, you could build an S3 implementation that stores customer data, but doesn’t let you access it.

It’s probably not a good idea to make a system with no human fallback, but it IS possible with current, non-magic technology.
The cities in Japan are, of course, walkable in the extreme, but what really impressed me there was the suburbs and rural villages. Even deep in the countryside many people still can visit local businesses without a car. I think it is not a coincidence that it is so common there to see children walking or biking on their own to school.
In theory sure.

In reality, the financial system is oriented towards big capital. My aunt ran a coffee shop that was established by grandparents in 1939. It was in the lobby of a office building in he central business district of our little city. The building was bought by a Chinese investor. Like other similar stores, her rent went up 5x and she shuttered.

I live in a mixed use urban neighborhood. 50% of he storefronts are vacant or populated by death businesses like karate dojo’s.
MicroSemi (now part of Microchip) makes some low-power FPGAs. Xilinx has made the coolrunner CPLDs for years that are mighty low-power (they're not huge, but often are big enough for some needed extra logic.). (Another not care too much about power is Military.)
US copyright terms:

1978+: Author's life + 70 years. 95 years if work-for-hire

1967-1977: 95 years

1924 - 1963: 28 years if never renewed. Maximum 95 years.

Pre-1924 - All copywrights have expired
This ends up being one of the biggest reasons I enjoy living in Thailand. The unplanned layouts of cities makes for a colorful and convenient experience everywhere you go. Most every building in towns is at least two stories with shops under the tenant's quarters. You also can't forget about the prevalence of street carts for food and other small things. It's usually worth exploring alleys as there will be some curious little shop or restaurant. It doesn't match my you-must-have-a-car, strip-mall experience in the US.

You can contrast this to Laos where the LPDR has focused on zoning on new development. One example was ປາກເຊ, Pakse, where multilane roads were built whigh probably not be fully utilized for another 50 years. When you go to a residential area, there's much less businesses. From what I gathered, the government there was looking across the Mekong at it's developing sister country and is trying to 'correct' her mistakes when trying to emulate growth. However, there's much more beauty in allowing the natural chaos.
Not just afford - often time those suburbs specifically barred non-whites from owning property. Additionally red-lining and racist loan practices forced that wealth gap to grow.

But I think that's separate from the car issue, mostly. Originally satellite communities had commercial services - local shops and the like. But those were phased out due to a lack of demand, I think due to societal shifts that were egged on by marketing "cool kids have cars" - and the like.
I’d prefer a library that uses the IANA tzdb directly - so I can download the latest tzdb files for my application and OS without needing to wait for the maintainer of that library to ship an update.
Yes, basically it comes down to racism and classism, and a bit of the fight against communism.

There used to be racial covenants that ensures racial segregation. As soon as those were rendered illegal, people started zoning for "public safety" and such. The original decision (Euclid?) that rendered zoning legal explicitly states concerns about lower income people degrading neighborhoods if multi-family residences are allowed.

And as soon as you start allowing such restrictions on what sort of construction is allowed, you start outlawing small business next to residences. And home buyers appreciate these restrictions because there's chance of a business growing and causing more traffic and "outsiders" (those that can't afford to buy a huge parcel of land) coming into their bucolic suburban life.

Subsidized FHA loans were also envisioned as a strong anti-communist play; who would fall prey to the temptations of socialism if they own their own home and can use it to keep out non-whites? (Redlining restricted these subsidized mortgages from being used for any home that had a chance of becoming racially integrated.)

The rise of the automobile and destruction of commuter rail lead to a ton of land accessible to people who worked in cities. And in conjunction with the exclusionary zoning that was used to protect the capitalistic gains of property values, the idea of mixed-use zoning became antiquated and counter productive to financial and social interests.

So a century later, we are finally realizing the massive health costs, societal costs, and economic costs of our unsustainable suburbanization; infrastructure is aging out without the tax base to maintain and rebuild, and the suburbs--filled with wealthy residents paying lower taxes--have drained the economic centers of cities, while those wealthy suburbanites benefit from the commerce that high density cities enable, and which low-density suburbs disallow.

We have subsidized an unsustainable style of living for the white middle class, and as white middle class boomers have benefitted, they have declined to allow for basic investments in the future that would extend prosperity to future generation.

This, I think, is the story of the decline of the American empire, just as much as mismanagement by a fascist-leaning a factual political party. During the decline of the USSR, even with massive amounts of state propaganda and misinformation, at least they were able to muster state power to clean up Chernobyl. I'm the twilight of the US, we have hollowed our our scientific institutions like the CDC and FDA because they don't serve the political goals of the ruling political class, and we can't even muster a response to a pandemic that countries with widely-regarded corrupt governments such as Italy have dealt with handily. I think this rot comes from our racist segregation which lead to our poor century of city planning.

(This, of course, would need several books to fully justify my wild claims, but one book that starts to is The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein.
My wife and I are moving for climate. She has some rare diseases, and does very poorly where we currently live. Any time we travel to somewhere without high dust and mold levels, many of her problems clear up. What's surprising to me is really how little modern physicians pay attention to climate.
Excellent blog about Japanese zoning: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
> People who showed more goal persistence and optimism... had greater reductions in depression ...

Isn't a big part of depression is pessimism? I feel like this sentence is the same as saying "People who showed no signs of depression ... had greater reductions in depression"
I wish I could say this about my T460p. It’s mobo died right after the warranty expired.

A friend of mine runs an IT help desk team that manages a fleet of T series laptops and they have a lot of problems. You got a good one. It’s so unfortunate that these have a lot of problems, they are almost perfect.
You might not have a filesystem.
/r/webdev
Why does it not surprise me that bitcoin is involved in this?
Racism. The roots of zoning are indelibly intertwined with reinforcing white supremacy.
7nm+ by TSMC does use EUV. I believe chips produced with it have been shipping for a couple of months now.
This was once common in the inner ring suburbs of Chicago. There used to be a small grocery store in the middle of a residential block near where I lived and a bar in the middle of another residential block close to my elementary school. There are houses whose former mixed use (shop in the front, house in the back) are still obvious.

Here's one surviving neighborhood grocery in Berwyn, IL:

https://goo.gl/maps/NCd45ghd6ajfPvLB6

Unfortunately, I'm drawing a blank on the locations of some of the surviving retail-to-residential conversions that I've spotted.

These are all largely a relic of an era in which housewives often didn't drive, or if they did, didn't have access to a car while their husband was at work so grocery shopping needed to be within easy walking distance of home. Many of the minor commercial streets in the inner ring suburbs have vanished as well, their customers having been consumed by larger supermarkets. It's somewhat miraculous, really, that there are still a handful of these neighborhood markets still in business.
I believe you are incorrect. A counterexample to your claim is the increasing use of FPGAs in the datacenter. And various AI engines are FPGA-based. You'll do better for a CPU in Real Silicon; but a full-featured MPU w/standard peripherals + FPGA for unusual & must-be-fast functions is hard to beat.
I’m guessing they pulled “the plug” on everything once they saw the ransomware was spreading.
I'm sure they took a web training before being handed the keys to the kingdom.
Is this in the US or some other country?
There was a stone carver, two tofu makers, a convenience store or two, a bath house with a tiny laundromat on the side (with HE units 20 years before we got them in the States), a pachinko parlor, and who knows how many other businesses my illiterate ass couldn't identify on, or just off, the route from the suburban Tokyo apartment I was a guest in and the train station.

If I got up at a decent hour, I would hear the plink plink of chisel on stone, and then the sound of the propane torch browning the tofu as I walked by.
Better yet, outlaw a business like amazon and create an instant market for tens of thousands of small local businesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_cooperative ?

The problem here is that eventually rent-seeking becomes appealing, someone realizes there's skim/margin/"arbitrage" to be made, and so the capitalism progresses.
More like $210K -$250K for an L5.

Edit:

Would I move to the west coast for $225K compared to what I could makes locally? Heck no, $400K, maybe. At this point in life, even my local pre-Covid salary was “enough” for us to comfortably meet our short and long term goals.

The extra $70K-$80K basically just gave us enough to tell my wife don’t worry about going back to work surrounded by Covid when school starts back and the rest is going straight to long term goals - save more for retirement, pay off the house faster, etc.

Doubling our income wouldn’t make any lifestyle differences. What are we going to do travel in a post Covid world? Buy a larger house for three people and within a few years 2?
It's actually fine to have multiple people get access to production databases, if you have an automated change management system.

Change Management authorize sactions which could be problematic by vetting them through a process. The end result of the process is more confidence in the change: we know who's making it, when, where, why, what the impact will be, what we'll do if it goes wrong, etc. If the change looks stupid, dangerous, or uncertain, it gets rejected. If it looks good, it gets approved. The appropriate access is doled out temporarily to make the change. In this way, Larry the Janitor can deploy changes to your prod db, and you can be just as certain (maybe more so?) about the outcome than if your 10x developer were doing it.

Just one example of this is Terraform applies. By loading your changes into a .plan file and requiring approval of the .plan, you know for certain what actions are going to be taken and approve only those. (That doesn't stop Terraform from totally hosing your system due to all the ways it can't predict the outcome of its actions, but at least you know what the intention was)
One really great way to ensure that you're never invited to any parties by anyone, anywhere is demonstrating to everyone that you have a giant chip on your shoulder. If you riff on about how your being excluded is a symptom of everyone else's bias you'll be avoided like the plague.
Thanks for that explanation! Is there any form of sandboxing in Pharo VMs that would prevent accidental side effects like the hard drive reformatting?
Wow - towers of Hanoi; I spent ages playing that on a BBC model B when I was a kid.
Marine and aviation units don’t connect to the internet for data typically. Their inReach satellite communicators also use a totally different network that’s unaffected
Japan has "shopping arcades" which I really like. It is like a wide pedestrian-only alley with the retail density of a mall, but outdoors and the path is covered. Then side streets are local access only and often have small restaurants or izakayas
Delta wings aren't necessary for that. The Soviet's wingless first/early iteration of a Shuttle copy was designed to soft land with its 20 ton return payload by parachute, aided by retrorockets firing at the last moment.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/mtkvp-glushkos-o...
Our financial advisor has told us to reduce holding in commercial real estate.
SuperCollider – FOSS platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
Is there even precedent for that?

I mean, don't get me wrong; I dig the thought behind it, but is this actually something a judge can unilaterally do from the bench? Like, is this reversal of a reversal of a precedent, or have things gotten so heated the Judiciary is starting to flex some checks and balances muscle, and push the boundaries of their normally light touch with regard to pushing back against the
Executive?

Be interesting to see how it turns out. I wager the Supreme Court will have to earn their keep this year.
good idea but we can do ever better than that by build co-ops in residential neighborhoods

what we need are goods and services where people are, but that doesn't necessarily mean provided by businesses when they could be provided to and by the people who are already there
US copyright terms:

Pre-Mickey Mouse: Expired

Post-Mickey Mouse: Copyrighted for eternity.
Agreed.

In June I drove from Sacramento to Denver in a Model 3 Performance (similar range to the model Y). No problem, lots of fun, very comfortable, and the charge times were just enough to grab a quick drink, some food, and get back in the car. Often I've have a choice of refilling at 30-40% charge or 10-15%.

The car was pretty packed, because 99% of my belongings were on a moving truck, so needed a computer, blankets, a few kitchen implements, soap/shampoo, and clothes enough for 3 days ... for 3 people.

Granted more storage space in a model Y would have been nicer.
Must a calendar only represent the physical positions of heavenly bodies?

What happens after we propagate to other planets?

Why should there be only one calendar?

Why can’t we have, say, a Social Calendar alongside a Astronomical Calendar?

We could have a sane, logical calendar with even and regular divisions for determining working days, holidays, financial calculations and political durations etc.

And there could be another calendar for the galactic rotation, orbital period, lunar cycle etc. that only people who need to care about such things would use (astronomers, farmers).
Hunger Games is written for a teen audience, and like most books targeted to that demographic, will simply go out of fashion and disappear.

Yes, I read it :-)
It also uses AMP, thanks for being part of the problem parent.
I just wanted to pop in and say that I found your mini-treatise on "The unreasonable ineffectiveness of communities in solving a single problem." to be very insightful. And I came back today to tell you so after reflecting on it off and on overnight.
That was expensive, I definitely don't recommend the tiny sidewalls the model 3 performance comes with. Fortunately there's Tesla and 3rd party 19" wheels that come with much more reasonable sidewalls.
In Vernor Vinges A Fire Upon the Deep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Time), the future human civilization uses [kilo|mega|giga]seconds as time units because nothing else makes sense in an environment where Earth is long gone and hibernating for years or decades between planetary visits is common.

(Beyond being great novels, the above and its prequel, A Deepness in the Sky, have points of interest to Unix and Usenet users.)
This only works if the feedback loop is closed - as in you see a trend line, correlation, something (anything) that allows you to see value in your perseverance.

If you get no feedback after years on end... watch out

There are too many religions that glorify martyrdom where destruction of self can be seen as a honorable end. This when coupled with these grit narratives, make for very scary things.

The internal dialog must be carefully tuned to a feedback system. And not just any feedback system, one of the individuals chasing (a is intentional). Without proper nurturing, one begins to lose the self - leading to many terrible things.
Never been to an US residential area and only "know" them from tv shows. Are they really pretty much completely devoid of businesses as this article indicates? No grocery / mom and pop stores, bars, restaurants, hair dressers etc.? That sounds very inconvenient. I always assumed you'd get some basic commercial everywhere.
They have 35 offices, I assume it adds up.
I was at a friends place in a nearby town and got an order from Fry's (grocery store) where the guy charged me for 5 things he didn't deliver (about $30). I made a complaint (1* review, support ticket) and changed his tip to $0.01 because I couldn't set it to 0.

The next day I had 6 charges from 2 Fry's in the area of where I was the day before, totalling about $550 at stores I had never been to (and did not appear as instacart charges like they normally would). My bank gave me a fraud warning when they tried to use an atm. I still had the card in my possession. I reported it to Instacart and never got a response. My bank was able to reverse the charges as fraud though, fortunately.

So I don't know how, but at least 1 rogue instacart delivery people was able to get my atm card information and misuse it. If not, the coincidence that accounts for all the evidence is astronomical.
So? They have a runway, yes, but it's a freakin long one. They have a massive warchest and a crapload of market share that isn't going to go away overnight.

Id put money on them already having a new operation crush well underway by this point.
Yes to this.
I often counsel my younger friends to have a "mission". Then once that is completed, to find another one. In fact, one can have multiple missions running at the same time.

It's rarely said that marriage, kids, job, degree, a house, car, and most physical things are not missions. And in fact, most of these things -- unless accompanied by a "why am i doing this" and attendant missions/goals do not lead to happiness.

Marriage without goals = divorce.
Kids without mission = abandonment.
Money without a plan = poverty.
Degree without a plan = debt/sadness.
Relationship without a mission = break up.
Programming without a mission = abandoned code.
Store SQL scripts as embedded resources rather than string constants. When SQL scripts are stored as individual ".sql" files, both version control and syntax highlighting is better.

This works with most editors and doesn't require fancy multi-language syntax highlighting support. When debugging complex scripts that involve many joins or CTEs having good highlighting can prevent a lot of headaches.
Depending on which part of Texas. El Paso is in Mountain time.
Also have a Slack channel for automated bot notes of high-value targets having their passwords reset, or something similar.
Cities virtually everywhere in East Asia have convenience stores on almost every corner. They manage pretty well.
CouchSurfing investigates data breach after 17m user records on hacking forum
Support for font-variation-settings has been on by default since Firefox 62, which was released almost two years ago. Are you using a Firefox older than that?
> schools tend to take the approach of letting social skills develop organically through peer interactions

I believe this leads to peer-pressure and bullying. Bullying doesn’t have to be physically violent for it to have a lasting impact on someone’s life.

> This seems like a huge missed opportunity

I suspect it’s by-design - there’s a large chunk of parents[1] who adamantly insist that schools should only teach the Three Rs and that it’s exclusively the parents’ responsibility to “raise” children. It’s difficult to advance this agenda without it being misrepresented as “liberal indoctrination” and then becoming politically unpopular.

[1]Invariably of the authoritarian-bent...
It can be every employee except one and still be called "limited group of trained and vetted employees". It's written that way so that they covered their ass, it's not a statement of security.
> So Twitter likely has nothing to hold against the photographer.

Nothing in the article suggests any agreement between the photographer and Twitter.
The Science Behind Why Jeff Bezos's Two-Pizza Team Rule Works (2018)
Seems like an invitation for loitering among other nuisances. A great idea for some places, but I feel there are many who prefer their neighborhoods truly remain residential.
So, first, this is someone else's rant that I'm trying to recite from memory, because it sorta stuck with me. And second, I think you are talking about covers, while I am talking about original works.

GenX has the song rotation handed down from the Boomers, and then they barely got anything new to hand down, if you exclude satires. I kinda have my fingers crossed for a holiday music Renaissance over the next twenty years. Probably started by a 54 year old Lin Manuel Miranda, trying to rekindle youthful moments.

ETA: and a switch to metric
Some churches in Florence maintain their clocks this way. Its more about tradition than practicality, though.
I know it's hard to do when you're making good money and would be going against co-workers.

But, if you see something, say something. This crap continues because there are too many folks that are happy to help support immoral business practices for some extra scratch. This isn't all on you in particular but when google folks started raising hell about Chinese censorship the company was forced to move. We all have the power to withdraw consent over how our labour will be used and, as software developers, we've got a strong enough employment market that we have real power to help make companies behave better - power that folks working in the warehouse are absolutely deprived of.
They might not have had the means to do it though. Cheap fuel, cheap cars, 30 year fixed rate mortgages, widening income/wealth bands, etc.
Me too. Would have encourage me to read the bbc more.