skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire point of the article is that there is no solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist, Angkor was rocked by certain changes but ultimately “collapsed” to time and repurpose over a span of centuries.

Obviously the parallel is not perfect—no real-estate companies bought up land in Angkor for redevelopment—but we see the same pattern of locals repurposing older parts of the landscape. Detroit could continue thriving for centuries, revising its 20th-century land-use patterns to suit new populations.

“Our cities” is also the wrong word to use considering I can’t purchase a home in or around my city without 70 competing bids tens of thousands of dollars over asking price at the moment. And we’ve got hefty property taxes.
If they didn't deliver a functioning website as per the CDCs requirements they shouldn't have been paid.

If the CDC signed off on it, it isn't deloitte's fault. Sorry.
> "This is why we chose vibration sensors and light sensors. No liability from owning any personally identifiable information."

1) Regardless of what they might think, I would hope they let customers know they were being observed and tracked.

2) Phone location and/or a sales transaction could put an identity to this data. Mind you, they might have resisted temptations, but that's not going to be true across the board. At some point, perhaps already, someone somewhere has crossed that line.
I'm assuming you're saying this because your native language is English. I, for one, accepted the word almost immediately.
> They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle.

The debacle IMO was all the folks who thought GH taking down youtube-dl was newsworthy at all in the first place. The infantile dependency is the problem, not the lack of yet another gatekeeper.

> I trust [MS] more than Apple and Google.

Thank you for the LOL. Look, VSCode is nice but don't be so naive.

Anyone can start an "app store", but can they make money at it? If MS thought they could make money running an app store would they hesitate? (Also, they already have an app store.)
Square One provides free, plain English legal templates for hiring in the US
That's your fault for buying it then. If you don't state what you want in a contract, this will always happen.

All you SV elitists do it, you just want to hoard the wealth for yourselves. It's not just deloitte, all the SVs do the same damn thing.
Could big tech firms help by loaning out their employees on sabbatical, or could they sponsor government tech positions? It feels like so much of the talent there would be very useful to the government, which would probably have a positive feedback loop on the economy as a whole.
This is a great idea. I can't wait for my favorite apps to get banned by yet another centralized authority!
Hence JIT caches.
I suspect what he’s referring to is the fact that so many people think that, because they have 100% code coverage in their tests, they have quality software. I’ve seen so many times a team claim that with pride when it’s brutally obvious to anyone who looks that the product is broken. They just don’t seem to be able to reconcile that problem when asked about it.

What you test matters every bit as much as how much you test. Tests require thought and design as well. Too many developers don’t seem to understand that.
I really want more interfaces like this, with diagram representations of source code, and convenient and interactive plotting. Thank you!

Can you speak to why a scatter plot and a line plot are distinguished using `(xs, ys, zs)` and `[xs, ys, zs]`?
I could have done better at the personal attacks but it's hard to tow the line when genuine grievances of peacefully protesting farmers are ignored for months and one negative attack is suddenly all that is talked about. That to me indicates malice and I cannot respond in good faith when that is done.

> a quick glance at the difference between male and female litery rates shows there's some distance to cover.

How is that relevant? You are pulling at straws here. Women work in the fields along with men. Anti-farmer laws affect both men and women, young and old. Supreme Court of India brings it up as if it matters, when it doesn't and clearly ignore the demographics at play, hinting at something without saying it. The literacy rate needs to be worked on but that's not the concern here.

How many people can you coerce to attend protests? Hundreds, probably at most. Not thousands. Some of the people have been protesting in frigid temperatures for months. Do you mean to say they are all paid? That doesn't even make sense and is logistically infeasible.

The Supreme Court allows seems to consider freedom of expression differently though, when it comes to granting bails to journalists in favour of the government versus cartoons that suggest contempt of court.

So no, I don't trust them to make the right call. Farmers should continue peacefully protesting, as is their fundamental right.

Notice in all this, you haven't said anything about: the right of farmers to protest and what they are protesting about.
I'd be quite interested in such an article, again, my goal (besides VoIP) is screencasting and/or streaming, so any bit of advice someone with experience might have is greatly useful.

I'll look into expansion and compression, and I could implement a wet/dry setting that multiplies the source samples and then mixes them into the result, if I understood the concept right.

EDIT: RNNoise seems to be alright when it comes to canceling noise during speech too, I didn't notice it overdoing it.
The point of the article is to normalize that "americans" is synonymous with "urban new yorkers" and the rest of the population doesn't count.

Clearly, rural mining ghost towns are familiar with the concept of slowly shutting down a boomtown. See also the rust belt cities which were de-industrialized about three generations ago, and continue a slow decline, or at least slower growth than the rest of the country, since then. Some like Detroit are going to something like ghost town status, others like Janesville are doing OK ish, it all seems to depend on demographics. Compare Flint MI and Janesville WI pre and post their respective GM plant shutdowns.
This isn't how life works.

If spoiler work fails instantly you can say it wasn't done properly, which is true. You then withhold payment, or sue.

Not that complicated. Not worth a damn novel post from you either.
I have Firefox’s “HTTPS-only” mode enabled. teavm.org is only served on HTTP. This gave me a rather bad first impression of a thing for making modern web apps—TLS is table stakes that you should never be without.

(I tend to find something HTTP-only about once a day, normally on sites that have been around for over ten years. Normally I’d just shrug if it’s a content site, but this being for making web apps, I figured it was worth commenting on.)
Theres also the snarky meme that Hiroshima is in better shape now 70 years after having a nuclear bomb dropped on it than Detroit is after 70 years of bad governance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/libertarianmeme/comments/3qv79l/hir...
> I have never had a static type checker (regardless of how sophisticated it is) help me prevent anything more than an obvious error (which should be caught in testing anyway).

"I have never worked in a non-trivial system that changed over time."

FTFY
> Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle.

I wouldn't say they were "awesome" during the youtube-dl stuff. They were slow to respond and non-transparent about what was happening behind the scenes.

Also, user's have been calling for GitHub to terminate their contract with ICE for a long time now[0] to no avail.

GitHub is better than most, no doubt, when it comes to "listen[ing] to their users" but they still have a ways to go.

[0](https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0)
Not a full server-rack but had 4 desktops (2-side by side on either side of my small desk) running a variety of stuff in my first two years of university (CS1.6 servers, WoW emu server, network bridge, teamspeak, DC server) - one was my personal computer. In 3rd year it went up to 5 since my room was slightly bigger and my friend would often come play games in my room (he didn't have internet).
First of all, "were" and "are known" is like apples and oranges.

Second, there wasn't just one Capitol Protest. So no, you're wrong.
I think instinctually it feels like 1U is what you should buy if you don’t need top of the line. That was my assumption as a non-hardware guy considering a home rack. I changed my mind once I found out about the noise issue.
Speaking as a technical person who worked for government, one of the most frustrating things was not pay, I am a simple man. What was frustrating was the GARBAGE tech we had to deal with. I'm talking 5+ year old windows versions, crap peripherals and desktops, shitty offices in ugly buildings, super intermittent connections to the data that always go down, throttled data-centers by incompetent SQL pulls (I was guilty of this starting out, too)...the list goes on and on. Compare this to other places, where you can actually code in comfort, can actually solve more problems because you're not constantly derailed or demoralized by government's rusty and slow systems...
Check out the map here. "Serious" crime may be down, but quality of life has gone down the toilet, even in our richest cities.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol

Who wouldn't want to enjoy the fine scenery while stepping around HIV-infected needles and fresh poop? Ah, this hamburger tastes so much better when I get to interact with the local people while eating it - they are so quirky, they always ask me for a dollar with a threatening gaze.
As computer vision capabilities increase, it's not just simpler and cheaper to use more privacy invasive means. It's often better with greater potential for improvement over time. With automated cars, lidar is amazing in a narrow band of uses while a camera is decent and getting better in a much wider band.
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

What’s the reasoning behind asking users to carry around a notice? Why not just let users go without it? Is it for legal reasons or for crediting the authors? I’ve released MIT licensed software before and frankly when someone is using my code, I really don’t care about credit or leaving behind a legacy or such things.
> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement.

So that it too can become an Apple / Google App Store where it can also control which apps, repositories are allowed or not? Essentially you're moving to another centralised platform, but the reason is because they 'listen to their users'? No thanks and no deal.

Hosting an app repository on your own website is fine and already decentralised. So far, Cydia and F-Droid are doing it right with being a potential alternative App Store.
They work perfectly fine with JIT caches.

Plus not everyone is fan of Spring and Hirbenate.

The first I used only once in 20 years of Java projects, the second is the first to go away when I get called to optimise database performance in Java applications.
FEDRAMP requirements and auditing are difficult and expensive to meet. I've seen the cost of these in bids. We said something like $20k per month for what would be a $50 per month EC2 server. It was a shocking thing to see. I'm guessing Deloitte is charging six figures a month to host this thing.
Desk Setup, January 2021
Pico-8: Cab Ride
Do you still sleep 8 hours at night?
I don't know though, Microsoft already runs multiple app stores (Xbox & Windows, Edge). I don't see why they couldn't build it out for another platform or at least figure out some kind of arms-reach integration with Github -> Microsoft Store.

This could be a nice come back into the mobile sphere they lost out on. As a developer, I completely agree that Microsoft earned my trust over the years.
> What makes you think we don't? :)

I assumed you did, I've just never been responsible for responding to customers so I was curious about what power users say.

I wonder if a solution is to let them add their feature to your software (like browser addons)? Of course, this doesn't work for all kinds of software, and maintaining the addon API would be added work, but it might appease power users.
Nah, there are more important things like spaceforce /s
Brevity for common things is useful.

More useful would be keeping the value (the part to the right of 'secret-token:') concise. Some of the systems that grant tokens generate really lengthy base64 encoded strings that one must then schlep around with every request. A few have solved this with UUID-like hash values, thankfully.
Do you think we could extend the memory of most 8 and 16 bit home computers?

I'm not sure how your defining "most" home computers, but the c64/128 & apple ][ line were some of the most popular and they definitely had ram upgrades.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_REU

The soldered laptop ram thing, is fairly recent and by no means universal. I suspect it would be rarer than it is, if retailers put a little note on the machine descriptions "upgradeable RAM/upgradable disk" but they can't even be bothered to put the cpu clock rates (or sometimes even the core count) on the machine descriptions.
> I'm not trying to pick on you personally here but this comment, like many I see on HN, seems overly adversarial.

Ironically I find the first comment non-adversarial and this comment overly-adversarial, but maybe that’s just me.

People are allowed to disagree and share their own experiences, and OP didn’t say anything nasty about anyone. I would prefer a space where people share their honest experiences with reasoning over one where everything has to be coated in sugar to make it digestible. And I’m sure the author of the post can handle hearing someone else’s differing opinion, it’s a discussion forum after all - not a blind agreement forum.
Darwin is only the kernel. iOS is closed-source.
We had to live with sites than only ran in IE for years.
This is very good because these chats and their logic is public and for all to see and make their own judgements. Thanks for making my job easier. - that goes either way. All can see that you are trying to diverge the conversation instead of answering.

You refusal to answer the question indicates that you agree with it. Else its a simple answer.

Let me ask myself that question. Do you consider a group of people a terrorists simply because some members indulge in it. NO I DO NOT.

That's it man. No grand conspiracy. No name calling nothing. Why not a simple answer. All are inherently biased. But that should not deter us in calling out inconsistently.
I'm not sure what my point is here exactly, but: debian has had an "app store" for 20+ years that works brilliantly, can be trusted not to fuck with or spy on you, has never pulled youtube-dl/nmap/etc (as far as I know), (while also being naturally free of forum software for white supremacists (bonus!))
Been there done that! If you do end up with a machine that's non-bootable or seriously impaired, it's a lot easier to figure out when it's "just" today's update in question and not a year's worth.
If you put 4U stuff in it you'll have way better noise levels. You can also shove it in an out of the way corner like the garage or basement if you have those.
In Pursuit of Our Cybernetic Utopia
Land is priced at what the MAX a developer could make from developing the land.

Short of completely changing everything about property development from the financing (artificially low rates), taxes (regressive), and development (zones) - there is no solution.

If you could build more - someone would. You can't. And it's not like we can just change one thing. The entire market is forcing higher prices at every turn.

66% of the US is a homeowner, remember. Most people have an interest in NOT solving this problem.
This right here “configuration of the VAMS application is occurring using Deloitte’s propriety GovConnect platform.”

Because it is so difficult to launch a project and provision the requisite infrastructure in the federal government due to various IT regs and laws and subsequently obtain an Authorization To Operate (ATO) in a timely fashion an existing platform is routinely sole sourced especially when speed is necessary.

Why? This is both legit and utter bs. Legit: the fed gov actually attempts to protect a persons’ private data. BS: after the drain of the acquisition process (led by non-technical folks), ATO, slide decks to more non-technical management (Deloitte and their peers crush this), the competent folks find other jobs either in or outside gov that free their creativity.

Positive: groups like USDS are reducing the drain, but once an exec gets burned they go back to checkbox management and shun the learning organization culture that has made tech the anti-thesis of this type of acquisition in other sectors.

*edited misspelling to show gov tries to protect not product privacy data
I was hoping for a discussion of the “substantial portions” term. The explanation focuses on use as a dependency, but what if I take some MIT code and modify it and include it directly in my project? What counts as “substantial portion”?
Massive investment and ever increasing market value of abodes is generally the opposite problem of 'urban collapse' - I mean, unless the bridges are falling down, which I doubt.

NYC in the late 1960's and 1970's underwent a kind of urban collapse.

Detroit underwent urban collapse and never came back.

I think this is maybe what the author meant by 'we don't know what this means'.

If companies, middle class and power flee a city, there is a 100% chance of urban collapse due to the lost tax base.

A thriving city like NYC or SF that are a dysfunctional mishmash of 'barely effective' - well that's another kind of problem but it's not quite urban collapse.
Without apology or remorse, PFC CEO attacks city Health Department
Yes, like that... but that's only after the "blight removal".

Imagine those green spaces looking a bit more like this (pardon the crass title, it's the first one I could find): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEdjiEJg0U

edit: this article also has some really nice aerial shots https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/opinion/sunda...
When I look at languages I use regularly (largely Emacs), Lisp is the one I'd love to try to build something large with. It feels quite powerful and the syntax is pretty easy to understand. It could just be my personal lack of experience with Lisp, but there seems to be little standard in naming conventions and code formatting. This may be where a lot of developers look at Lisp code and declare it an unmaintainable mess. Often I've seen multiple styles of formatting in the same file when I look at non-emacs production code.
The presentation is amazingly detailed though some of the slides, its hard to tell the message.

I am also curious on how you are pulling so much data from different sources. Looking forward to the presentation talk!
GitHub has been expending its services, diverging from its original intent (e.g. remote visual studio code).

I disagree. I think providing that a way to distribute applications through GitHub, with builds certified as coming from the original authors, would be beneficial.
Free forever. It's open source.
How? Nothing in a server should get up to or near the auto-ignition temperature of wood.
Thanks! I haven't heard about this.
Is this a response to me? If anything it seems to support my argument. But I don't understand your second question. Are you asking why they would have signed such a contract? Or how such a contract obligations could be met?
I think most of this (other than the historical references) is in reference to the effective “strong minimum standards” of the Berne Convention, and to the later treaties established between WIPO member nations. Therefore, it’s almost† globally applicable.

† From Wikipedia, WIPO non-members: Kosovo, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, South Sudan, and the states with limited recognition. Palestine has observer status.
That's a problem with suburbia. You need a lot of road per house. The tax money you receive doesn't cover maintenance. Even the worst city blocks bring in enough tax revenue to maintain their roads.

https://youtu.be/VVUeqxXwCA0
Understanding the license in use and the permissions associated with it are important in many contexts. In fact, the MIT license was created in the first place because there were issues associated with just releasing X Windows into the public domain.
Close, but not quite - more likely that DNA transcription occurs at multiple sites on the same genetic code allowing for different reads/proteins.
I believe these things come to a boiling point... covid has perhaps accelerated that boiling point in NYC's case.

NYC was also kind of a bad example for me to use because actually, it's a really clean city. When I visited in 2016 I couldn't believe how much cleaner and safer it felt than my hometown (Portland Oregon).

I went to all areas, manhattan, brooklyn, the bronx, harlem, queens, and I just didn't see the sad human decay (Giuliani kicked them all out I guess).
Great post.

I'm also an audio engineer. This is the truth.

In an audio recording featuring spoken voice, there are two sounds present in every recording: the spoken voice, and the room ambiance in the background. We typically will refer to the latter as "room tone."

Even though we don't usually explicitly realize this, our ears/brain implicitly do. So, when people overdo noise removal, we implicitly hear the difference since half of the sounds that compose your filtered output are now gone. We tend to associate such recognizable "noise gating" with lower production quality and we find that generally such processing leads to lower intelligibility of the human voice.
I worked for the government and it was pretty damn hard to get further training. We had no funds for conferences, classes, travel, or any such. All the improvement was down to me, what I could learn about R/stats/STATA from forums, from colleagues, and from the 1500 member analyst email list. There were all sorts of forums/libraries "within" the government system, however their search functionality was garbage and they didn't have enough users to make it a useful forum for most topics. Sigh!
I 100% agree that disastrous codebases are every bit as likely in other languages. But it somehow hurts more in a lisp.

I think that the syntax really is the culprit. In a language like Java, the Byzantine syntax and semantics enforce some minimum level of structure on the code. It's not much, but it's something, just enough to give an experienced programmer a few extra heuristics they can use to make sense of what they're seeing. Even some things that normally drive me nuts about Java, like the way that there's no standard way to call an anonymous function (because the invocation is done through a method whose name is allowed to vary) end up being useful bread crumbs when I'm reading somebody else's code.

In a Lisp, though, everything looks more-or-less homogeneous. You can memorize the names of special forms, but, beyond that, you can't quickly tell whether some thing you're looking at is data, a function, or a macro, or what. It all blends together into a disorienting fog. You need to go trace its provenance to see how some new value is defined or constructed before you can even tell what kind of thing it is. (This, tangentially, might be a great argument in favor of lisp-2, though I haven't spent enough time in a lisp-2 to have an opinion that's worth beans.) It may, in the grand scheme of things, be only a small reduction in what you can assume without careful study. But, in an unfamiliar codebase where you don't know much to begin with, every little scrap of knowledge counts.

It all points to an insight I should have had 20 years ago when I was working in Perl: Features that make a programming language pleasant to write tend to make it unpleasant to read, and vice versa.