skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand, are you saying something like "Oreo has a monopoly on being Oreos?" If so, that's a pretty naive and narrow conception. In other words, "no, that isn't the problem."
What do you mean? How has the pandemic created literal flophouses, "a cheap hotel or rooming house"?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/phillys-new-top-...

And since then, many other cities have followed suit.

Contrary to popular belief, almost no one is actually in jail for small time drug possession, so reducing “mass incarceration” means reducing or eliminating penalties for real crime.
For anyone new to Cypress, there are two things that I consider killer features:

1. It saves a snapshot of the DOM state before/after each test step. If you have a long acceptance test where it's deeply navigating through your app (i.e. visit "/admin", click on "Login", type "username", click "Submit"), using the GUI test runner will show each individual step in a side-panel. From there, you can hover over a step to see a snapshot of what the page looked like before that step was executed, and a snapshot of what it looked like after.

I had previously only used test runners where, when it would run the acceptance test, you would see a series of really quick flashes of the runner executing a bunch of steps faster than my eye could track, and then a big FAILED message. What failed? How did it fail? Cypress solves this problem by saving the DOM state and allowing me to traverse backwards through the state of the app until I find where things started to go wrong.

2. The cli test runner records a video of its test runs. Super useful in CI where you don't have access to the frontend. Cypress will record its run to an MP4 and you can investigate failures after-the-fact. This has solved a lot of "it works on my machine but not in CI" problems that seem to come up pretty often.

The other positive thing I have to say about Cypress is that I've actually found it more helpful as a development sidekick tool than as a test runner. Particularly when developing features on the front-end that require a lot of user interaction, many times it's easier for me to whip up a quick Cypress test that automates the user interaction (with assertions along the way to make sure the app is working) and then use the GUI Test Runner to do all my debugging.

It's not perfect and I definitely have some frustrations with it, but on the whole it's helped my productivity quite a bit.
you can’t do everything in cypress so we have a mix of it and puppeteer

cypress for most of the complex tests. puppeteer for more basic things you don’t need to debug / “should always work”. because the debugging experience is much poorer. but the tests are “free” to execute. i’ve only wasted time in selenium and don’t recommend it for any purpose
It is interesting to note that Coke yields a more negative impact, overall, than even “bad” tobacco companies - yet the ESG Funds rush to Coke for inclusion in their ‘sustainable company’ funds...
I'm currently using an off-the-shelf python library[1], so the entirety of my RSS parsing code is `[x.link for x in feedparser.parse(url).entries]`. There's also Superfeedr[2] which provides an API, but it's expensive (likely because they give realtime updates, which I don't need).

[1] https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/

[2] http://superfeedr.com/
Bullshit? You apparently don't understand, or haven't read the definition of evidence.

Who has debunked what? Show your evidence.
Is this really all based on roads needing replacement every 14 years? I don't know where the author came up with that number... But if you've ever lived on a low-traffic road for more than 14 years you will know that they are not replaced that often
or. we could stop breeding so many humans. the earth isn't expanding.
Probably better to have purpose-built infrastructure for this kind of thing, genuinely open to everyone and not just those who can afford the suburban home. Why don't all suburbs have close access to a park within walking distance?
The Slacker will look on forlornly from amongst his binders full of printed out Slackbuilds, and a lonely dot matrix printer.
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How do you define time series systematically in an enterprise saas platform? This is part 1 of a 2-part series where we will be talking about practical setups for time series calculations.
If any kind of request is being made that would only be granted on the basis of disability, for instance. Or they might be attempting to gather demographic information (do they employ any disabled people?), which is allowed if the intent is to benefit employees with disabilities.

Here's an example form used for federal contractors:
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance...
A low traffic cul de sac has a lifetime of way longer than 14 years, maybe that is the number for highways with 18 wheeler traffic?
Why not both? Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Airbnb being a company, and a company seeking profits over everything else, one could argue that it's not their job to care about how they affect people. Doesn't mean we can't criticize it for it.

We could go even further and say it's by criticizing Airbnb that we will push governments to regulate this new market.
this! agree so much. also, less crime statistics.
> The downside of disabling active resources is huge. It would mean a catastrophic interruption to the customers application exactly when its the most popular/active. And theres no practical way to determine whether the customer is “trying it out” or running a key part of their business on any particular resource.

Well, this is true, but this is also true of a lot of limits, like limits.conf. Sometimes you really want to spawn loads of processes or open many files, but a lot of the time you don't, so a barrier to limit the damage makes sense.

There is no one solution that will fit everyone: people should be able to choose: "scale to the max", "spend at most $100", etc. If my average bill is $100, then a limit of $500 would probably make sense, just as a proverbial seat belt. This should never be reached and prevents things going out of control (which is also the reason for limits.conf).
I agree with you in principal, and actually this is a lot of what Strong Towns tries to suggest. The author is saying there are two rational responses: raise fees, or fill in more density to better utilize the infrastructure. Either one is fine.

I will say though, from having seen a lot of these projects, the examples this author gave are actually pretty low cost. I’ve seen examples where the density was lower, and even though the streets were lower quality, the “unpaid cost” per homeowner was in the thousands of dollars per year. It’s just a wide range depending on the circumstances.

The important thing is not that cities try to force anyone to a particular lifestyle, just that they do the math and balance their books.

Above and beyond that, there’s enormous opportunity for wealth creation in communities by adopting more of the traditional Main Street pattern for neighborhood development, and ST definitely encourages that for anyone who is interested / wants it. But it should definitely be voluntary. Strong Towns is generally opposed to zoning, parking restrictions, etc. which are forms of coercion that badly distort the market.
It's more like yelling-for-dinner distance.
While the author of the linked article does not mention your points specifically, he doesn’t exclude them either.

The article is about the cost of things like cul de sacs. I imagine the author is fine with neighborhoods wanting and keeping their cul de sacs... they will just need to pay for their development and maintenance with an appropriate tax.

I think that’s reasonable.

“... a possible short-term solution might be a suburb use tax: the less dense or farther out your subdivision is, the higher surcharge you pay on your property tax, based on a sliding scale. This would not be a penalty on suburban living per se but rather a plan to ensure that the people that get to enjoy the “benefits” of it should pay for it.”
Good point, I agree the onus is partially upon consumers.

That said, glass bottles are an option.
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That’s not an urban planning issue, that’s a local government and tax policy issue. Density for some, sprawl for others, as long as everyone is paying for the costs they incur.
They've been nothing short of professional for the decade and a half I've used them for domains. However, I would not recommend them for anything other than domains. I kinda wish they would drop the other products to be honest, but I guess they must make good money from the upsells.
ESG is mostly a marketing gimmick and at least now are virtually indistinguishable from regular funds.
I just think people should take what this site as well as the EV sites you mentioned with a massive grain of salt. I’m not going to trust any data I read off of it and I wouldn’t from Electrek or Clean Technical either.

I generally believe that if you really want to prove a point you can easily find data that fits basically any argument. That’s why the scientific method and double-blind studies so important.
I've been writing code for 15 years and I definitely experienced what you mention - but changing the topic made me find my passion back.
Sure, sometimes I was depressed, sometimes I had enough and wanted to follow some other passion outside of coding, sometimes my eyes wanted to give up - but if I'm healthy and the problem is interesting, I can still get stuck to the creative process.

My dad has been a developer for 40+ years and he stills get excited about random, incredibly complicated projects (that don't even pay that well) or new technologies.

Maybe you just need to find something else you enjoy coding.
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I just started using playwright 2 weeks ago. It’s great so far.
Using less expensive infrastructure is a great idea that Strong Towns highly encourages. Most municipalities consider that heresy, though, as they want all roads built to the best current construction standards, which are applied to everything from major arterials to tiny cul-de-sacs.
The articles thesis is that low sensory housing is financially unsustainable because infrastructure isn't paid for.

Cul de sac may be better qol than other low density housing, but that doesn't make them more sustainable. And a walkable urban neighborhood with a nearby park avoids the issue.

Saying cul de sacs are necessary for suburbs doesn't address the "suburbs are bad" claim.
At least with glass eventually we'd get "beach glass". (I don't think making glass and handling glass and so on that much more environmentally friendly than plastics are.
I would love someone knowledgeable to take examples like this (and counterexamples) and create some discourse on how to defend a company against private equity takeovers.
I posted about my new company in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930 and got some good feedback and a bunch of orders about six months ago.

Now I've started getting some decent traction (nothing crazy, but numbers keep going the right direction steadily and I just introduced a new product for Black Friday that brought my average purchase up significantly). I've redesigned the site (in hindsight it looked pretty terrible when I first posted it) and am having professional photos taken of the products as we speak.

It's really exciting, and I'm thankful for the bit of early validation I got from HN.

The company is Cooper's Treats, a dog treat business: https://coopersdogtreats.com/
The math is right there in the article, so please download the spreadsheet and poke holes into if it's broken.

The thing with Texas is that it's growing fast, and cities get an initial windfall when brand new property is built out, which is why they want to see more of it. The Strong Towns hypothesis (which is pretty darn close to proven from what I can see) is that low-density sprawl is not sustainable, because it can't pay for its own maintenance. (And a lot of that sprawl is or will be inhabited by people who don't have $60k pickup trucks.)
It's pretty clear in hindsight that taking note of who PG was hanging out with was a very investable strategy. In fact, one of my batchmates had some money to put into other companies in our batch, and when he asked me for my opinion of who to invest in, that's exactly what I told him. I just did some quick math and would estimate that his ROI today is somewhere in the 1,000x range.

That’s hilarious. Cheers! I never thought of a person’s movements as an investment signal, but in hindsight it certainly must’ve been.
I don't think you can consider Windows NT to be a rewrite of DOS. They were different products entirely, and existed in the marketplace concurrently for upwards of a decade.
The M1 does one thing: run MacOS and MacOS apps. They can control the vast majority of the compiled code that will be run on the chip - unlike an x86 platform where the exact same architecture is used for desktops, servers and everything in between - including Linux, windows, and Mac.

Specifically there is a reference counting optimization on the M1 that dramatically helps performance of compiled Swift apps - something only worthwhile if you know the majority of what the chip will ever do is run swift apps.
Urban planning, government, and tax issues are interdependent.
"key data" .... which would be a small subset of all data ... and to solve bandwidth issues they want to make it more scarce.

This is a stunt. They want money, and are using their most popular (key) data points as a threat.

Just like politicians. Money gets tight and they say they'll cut essential services like fire and police, but what they won't tell you is they really want their pet project funded, using deceit.
How much would it cost to just buy all the record companies I wonder
Considering that almost all readers I’ve used have features that at least partially support this use case, I think even some people who already use RSS will like it :)
I think that people's perceptions of what it means to feel disabled are so different that your view is wrong. For instance, my mother totally lost the use of one leg as a baby with polio. She has always worn a full supportive brace on that leg from foot to hip so she can stand up and walk (she's never been able to run). She has always said she doesn't "feel disabled", but she checks yes on forms like this because she knows that this is the terminology used to cover things like "I may need extra help evacuating the office in a fire".
The point is not that they don’t have positives; but that they don’t pay for themselves.

If you want to live in a cul de sac you should at least pay more in taxes to keep up the inefficient infrastructure you require for your lifestyle.

Ironically it seems the people that live in cul de sacs feel like they should pay less in taxes for some reason even though the public infrastructure that is required to maintain the positives they enjoy costs more and is inefficient.
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> Replace the roads less often,

This is exactly what happens neighborhood I've ever lived in with cul-de-sacs. These roads have low traffic, slow speeds, are salted less or not at all, and have low speed traffic which can tolerate a few bumps.
There is too much winking at the reader not to take this as satire. “Strong Libel Laws(tm)”
Most cities have laws against individuals running unlicensed hotels out of their apartments. AirBnb chose to ignore those laws and encourage others to do so as well.
Uses web protocols to access the World Wide Web :-)
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Yeah I mean the cost can be argued about but buying individual games is going to be a thing of the past is what I am saying.
FWIW, I agree with you that "it seems like you dislike trans folk" isn't a good place to go, for a number of reasons. For one, it's a tactical mistake to pull out that kind of accusation if you want someone to listen to you. For another, it's probably too reductive to be accurate. I'm not going to defend the hill of "SJWs aren't bullies" or even "the person you're calling an SJW here wasn't being a bully".

But I also think if you look past that and strip the junk away, there's a kernel of truth to it which is worth keeping.

Namely, the pushback against singular "they" here is grounded as pushback against some perceived nominally-pro-trans movement. (That's what "1% of the population" refers to, yeah?) A good chunk of the criticism presented is criticism of the kind of people who call for singular "they" and not actually criticism of singular "they". It's not just about the grammar, and probably wasn't in the first place, as evidenced by the fact that we're talking about trans people now somehow.

If you're willing to toss "SJW" and "bully" around, I think it's not out of line for me to scrunch up my nose and throw out a "reactionary" when I see that.
Yup, you've got the basic ideas. Hennessy and Patterson's books are the standard rec. "Computer Organization and Design" one is version more targeted at developers, and "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" is more focused on CE's or people that will be getting more into the guts.
exactly the void Shopify fills
They probably should, to be honest. The first should be medical jobs and people who work at hospitals, then old folks and those who are sick, then public-facing jobs like Uber drivers or grocery clerks, then the people like us lucky folks who get to stay at home and do our jobs from here.

Politicians and lawyers last :)
I've been using Tor with proxy disabled[1] ever since that fingerprint tester[2] was posted a while ago. I figure of all people forking and hardening a web browser, I trust the tor project the most. I'm no tracking expert, but it's the only way I've been able to score a non-unique fingerprint.

[1] https://github.com/KarlTheCool/tor-without-tor

[2] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
The earth has plenty of space, and isn't at risk of running out any time soon.
Disposable plastic bags have been banned from super markets in many countries. The same could be done for plastic bottles.
> in practice everyone expects you to use poorly-maintained clojure-ish libraries to paper over the java/javascript bits

I cannot speak for anyone else, but as someone who writes a lot of Clojure (not much ClojureScript), I actually tend-towards the most-maintained libraries, and that usually just means Java. Personally, I think Clojure is a "better Java than Java", and I've never had a huge problem calling into the Java versions of libraries.

For example, I've had fewer headaches using the regular Java Kafka bindings or JeroMQ than by using the "Clojure-ified" versions of these libraries. I absolutely hate Java as a language, but personally as an engineer it's hard to dispute that Java libraries tend to get a lot of money spent on them, and it feels silly to completely ignore that in some pursuit of "purity".

This actually seems to be more-or-less the ethos of the Clojure engineers where I work, but maybe my situation an outlier.
https://tld-list.com or any other multi-TLD multi-registrar search is going to give you a better price than if you only go to a single registrar to get a domain.
:)

Remember, just because someone tells you a better doesn't mean there was anything wrong with your way (if nothing else, sending actual keystrokes is a universal-ish API rather than having to learn each program's specific interface, if they even have one). But yeah, knowledge-sharing is a perk of these threads, too:)
It's the reality, I witnessed it and experienced it when coding my own business.

Sure, you may not do your finest work, but you can get a lot done.
If you're happy trading off your health for a shot at success, it's something that's on the table.

It gets harder when you start having a family or if you have other obligations.

You make a great point that just doing tasks is not necessarily going to make or break a company, there are tons of other factors.
I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either:

1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers.

2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work.

Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find what you're looking for.

I can live without chrome, calendars, gmail, maps and all the others. But they're still the best at search by a lot.
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For 1), just think of instructions of little bundles of bytes. The CPU runs through the instructions in forward order, jumping around to other bits of the code as it goes. X86 has variable-width instructions (i.e from 1 byte up to 17 bytes--X86 is complex and there are a lot of prefix bytes that have been used to add new functionality over the years). To determine how long an instruction is, you need to decode the bits of the instruction. For ARM64, and most other ISAs nowadays, the instructions are all 4 bytes long. That means they can all be decoded in parallel.

For 2, imagine a boa-constrictor swallowing a huge piece of prey. One mouth (CPU: the frontend) and one rear (CPU: the retirement phase). The instructions go in the front end in the program order. They are decoded into operations that pile up in the middle (the giant bulge in the boa constrictor). When an instruction is ready to go, one of the execution ports (3--think of 16 little stomachs) picks up an instruction and executes it. Then at the backend, the retirement phase, instructions are committed in the order they appeared in the original program, so that the program computes the same result.

By making basically all of the pieces of this boa constrictor bigger and more numerous, it eats a lot more instructions per clock (on average). Making that bulge (the reorder buffer) huge allows the CPU to have high chance of some useful work to feed to one of its 16 stomachs.
I am so excited for this
To be even fairer, it's not helping them in the COVID-19 era.

In my region, Target is dead last in maintaining inventory and their supply chain. I have given up on them completely for paper products, as they never had any for months and months and...I'm not even sure if they've ever gotten any by this point.

It's been a real eye-opener about the Goliaths among us, that however Target is organized, operationally, there's something about them that has absolutely failed over the past 9 months. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, but Walmart is their main competition and they've become, regrettably, my go-to for household supplies. Because they have some.

Apologies if this is irrelevant, I've been champing to spell out this rant for a long time.
Given all the IPOs in the last weeks, from Doordash to AirBnB, how does it feel to have lost out on massive opportunity cost? Same skill and effort as a Director, exponential payout vs. your grind for hand outs.
or cap town populations at 10k. create planned smart cities. we need unifom density all over the state/country.

high density will only work if it there is a high density pocket of habitation amidst a larger ecosystem connected to other similar eco systems.

having multiple high density townships clustered next to each other has no benefit. it's just crowded cities. not high density sustainable cities. now it's just a red queen situation chasing limited and non renewable resources. and boom! suddenly its all traffic jams within a sardine can. and its sardine cans stacked up and then all the way down.
Would revamping zoning laws to be more mixed (residential + commercial) like japan provide more local commerce and more local tax opportunities?
What about AMD though? They are at par with M1 but use a lot more power while doing so. I don't think it's an Intel problem, it's an x86 problem
These list never have good alternatives for Google Voice which is probably the most important Google service I use.