skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that make it an RS-232 with channels? You’re confused. RS-485 just like RS-232 is an electrical specification for serial signaling (with multiple access), nothing more nor less. There are USB to 485 converters that basically operate exactly the same as their serial port counterparts and will show up as a tty device in Linux/Unix flavor or a COM port in Windows.
Imagine a stock market without shorting
Yeah, I guess so. I'll keep trying everything I can since our customers can't wait and are losing business because of the downtime.

Thank you!
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The pronunciation "dee-troit" is just local slang meant to sound folksy. It's used by sports announcers and singers, and for comedic value. Most of the time people in the area pronounce it the same way as the rest of the country pronounces it.
Its not serious at all, its a news aggregator that by very silly means filters stuff to the top that is worth reading. Serious is when you have skilled professionals pick the topics and an interesting debate is when preferably everyone disagrees.
> If new code isn't working naturally in UTF-8 in 2021 then it's wrong, period.

UTF-8 is a nuisance as an in-memory representation because the characters are variable size. You can't get the length of a string without parsing it start to end, and you can't get a character by index without parsing and counting all the previous ones. 16-bit characters (wchar_t, Java char, whatever NSStrings are made of, etc) work fine in 99% of the cases.

UTF-8 is indisputably a good encoding for when you're sending something over the network or putting it into a file or a database.
An approach I think is good is for pros to help visitors solve problems, using messages of interest to other pros who can also participate and it can really brainstorm in unforseen ways.

Pros learn by watching other people's problems get addressed, and contribute when it falls under their domain expertise. They interact in a positive way to form the personality of the messageboard. Which should be a reference point for an actual newbie who wants to participate long-term, but it should be expected that most visitors will not return after their problem is solved. The message board becomes a curated/community archive for solutions.

Where the subject matter and the discussion are contained within the board.

That's for a problem-solving message board.

Now HN is a tech news aggregator with comments which make it a board of a different kind, with way more diverse comments to deal with than any one news site.

And very many news sites individually are challenged to adjust to the recognized lower quality of comments the last few years by trying experimental approaches or no longer accepting comments at all.

The news is always elsewhere, only the comments are here and that makes it debatable.

Maybe there's such a thing as a problem-creating message board?
Australia uses GST (essentially same as VAT) but everything that is deemed essential/basic is GST free. It's a standard 10%
of course other items incur additional taxes/fees/rates ("luxury cars" also have a 33% tax on top of GST)
If you want to raise some (small amount of) funds for specific issues, try https://github.com/uav4geo/quadratik. We had some good successes with OpenDroneMap using this model. https://fund.webodm.org
The little cul de sac streets and the water lines underneath them and power lines beside them all cost a lot more to maintain than you think.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/27/how-much-does-...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/2/5/suburban-infras...
Deepmind's New Perceiver Model
This discussion doesn’t really work in a global context as funding choices vary so much. Here is the US breakdown.

https://usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2021USbl_22bc...
Did Backpage have institutional money behind it?
Cool, although I was really hoping this would be client side. It should be possible to do something like this entirely in JS, right?
I don't think anyone claimed that wasn't nice. It certainly is. The problem is that it's fundamentally unsustainable.
You actually did say it requires consensus or eventually consistency algorithm.

Your definition is too strict. Distributed systems are systems where the components of a system are distributed across a network. There are more issues than just consistency of data. You could have a system that doesn’t store data at all but still is considered distributed due to the nature of it being spread across a network.
Is the economy struggling? Everything is seeing unprecedented consumer demand: from housing to bicycles to video games, demand is outstripping supply.
If you want to do search, you need collation, and you can't use any standard encoding for that data.
Some of the prominent examples from three different pet owners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFOxjyXb1x4 (Stella, a dog that's managed some obvious associations, like 'outside', 'park', and 'play')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPC6ElzSdxM (Bunny, a dog that's learned more elaborate combinations like "where (object)" or associating "stranger" with someone walking outside)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzJqZQpmTs (Billi, a cat that's learned some simple things like requesting pets, then pressing the "All Done" button and walking off)
How do you know this? The usual market assumptions involve perfect knowledge and efficient market clearing. It’s unclear to me that charitable initiatives have anything even close to perfect information, and the labor market is famous for being inefficient, especially given that careers are driven by many inelastic factors, and are often driven by Veblenian effects more than actual efficiency. Sure, assuming a perfect market, this would be true, but I’d argue that charity labor is specifically a case where markets are far from perfect. There’s a reason most capitalist governments offer so many tax incentives for charitable firms.
Political activism has such enormous potential

For good and bad, and it's rarely obvious which policies are "correct". For example, it's possible for two entirely well-meaning people to come to opposite conclusions on issues like nuclear power or international trade. They could both spend their time and money trying to influence governments and end up with a net effect of zero (really negative after transaction costs), or they could pay for malaria nets and almost certainly save lives.
Genuinely curious: Can someone provide some insight into how this was built.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mount_inc/status/1381805222679379...

There is this link from the development agency. However its a bit hard to understand. It feels like they built their own rendering engine and then coded the animation on top of it...
They certainly do love peanuts. I had a Blue Jay “knock” on my door the other day to remind me to put out more peanuts.
3rd highest GDP in the world, wonder how much is just that for their pop size they are already super high. Germany looks almost no different, yet I rarely hear about German stagnation (could just be me though).

As an outsider they seem to have a lot higher quality of life than the US in many ways.
Oh for sure. In this case, just looking at their comments it's pretty clear why they've been banned.
Top platforms to lookout for hiring Remote Engineers in 2021
> I can't find any infrastructure in the plan.

You didn’t look too hard. The plan includes all of:

(Transport infrastructure) Highways, bridges, airports,

(water infrastructure) water service line

(communications infrastructure) fiber

(electrical infrastructure) transmission lines

(health care infrastructure) hospital modernization

(educational infrastructure) school facility modernization
The sheer cost of maintaining all that stuff. If you don't keep up with maintenance cost, it wears out, but it can be 20 years before the deferred maintenance becomes obvious. Do you know where the leaks are in your water line? Do you know how bad they are? Until the line bursts, city hall can stay in denial about it. And they do.
UTF-16 is a variable length encoding. As is UTF-32 for that matter. A single character can be made of multiple code points.
Why Kotlin Is Preferred Language for Android Development?
Note that this video was originally taken down for the same supposed ToS violation: https://twitter.com/vanhoefm/status/927612810984677376
I was excited about seeing an alternative to YouTube. I'm getting more and more worried about the content YouTube shows to my kids. But I was so disappointed in the various peers i went to and the content there. Surely there is good content that doesn't rely on monetizing it as YouTube does.

I realize getting kids' content is going to take effort that requires funding somehow, but why aren't there good technical discussions posted on PeerTube? It seems like a great place for controversial opinions about tech, even if that isn't banned on YouTube.
Of course. People like to think the internet represents a cross section of the population, but it doesn’t. It heavily leans young, urban, childless. So no surprise everyone online raves about living in a tiny apartment in a big city.
I'm not 100% sure I'm interpreting your comment correctly, but higher orbits will always decay more slowly, all other things being equal. There's just far less atmosphere to bleed off the energy.

Edit: I think I now understand what you mean, but I suspect you're not realizing that every satellite appears twice on the chart: once in blue, for its periapsis (perigee, i.e. low point of its orbit), and once in red, for its apoapsis (apogee, i.e. high point of its orbit). You're probably noticing that some of the red dots, at high altitude, are decaying quickly, but that's because the corresponding blue dots are at low altitude.

Note also that orbital period is a monotonic function of altitude. More precisely, the square of orbital period goes with the cube of the semi-major axis (the long axis of the orbital ellipse).
agree with other commenter that you can become an SME (subject matter expert) on the new tool. maybe you'll like it? they often have custom-coding abilities, ability to integrate your own APIs, etc.

i would call you a '<insert tool name here> Developer' -- e.g. Bubble Developer, Anvil Developer, etc.

why pay a dev to do a job that presumably a non-dev could do?

because a non-dev could either not do it, or it would take them five years.

the tools are not intuitive yet. save, maybe for the high end/not-so/too-sophisticated-yet tools like Webflow, maybe Airtable, etc.

i think you should start studying whatever language/stack/vertical you want to be employed in next. build a side project. and/or just be able to talk about your experience with it. get certified if you can. all the usual stuff.

so yes, your background is getting muddled. you are being pushed out of pure developer role and into something more integrator-y (changed from 'business analyst-y').

lebron had it right imo when he said all the great ones were paranoid. i think it's the right attitude to have for surviving in IT.

i agree mostly that you are only as good as your last role. not fair, but it is what it is.

(i assume you mean 'saas' not 'sass').

been curious when this would start happening en masse (in a group, all together) -- and put devs (and others) out of work.

if i had to take a guess, most HN audience would say coders will never be automated out of their/our jobs, or at least not within the next 20 years.

i'm not so sure, and it doesn't take a lot of disruption to cause a lot of pain.

i try out or at least briefly look at most of the low-/no-code tools, and they usually have gaping holes in functionality, and just tons of other problems.

i'm not sure it has to be this way, tho.

latest tool i'm trying is appgyver. seems fine-ish. good enough to replace at least some stuff. but ease of use either not great, or it's just not as intuitive as i'd like it to be. there are tons of (imo) needed UI fixes/enhancements. in short, a lot of the same issues that every competing tool has.

but i'm still going to try to build out at least this one app until either it works (well enough), or it becomes too frustrating, or I come to believe the platform is too limiting.

i feel like business model is one part of what holds these companies back. maybe someone will get it right one of these days.
YOu can just decrease the screen brightness.
There is a pair of American Crows in an enclosure at a local wildlife rescue. They can't be released because of theie injuries, so they're part of the center's contingent of permanent residents. I've spent hours watching them over the years, and they've spent much of that time seemingly watching me too.

Neither will speak on command, but they both will speak and mimic sounds. One does a ringtone sort of sound, and says "caw, caw" in a very human voice (presumably mimicking people mimicking crows). One will say "American Crow" every so often.

I managed to get a recording once: https://drive.google.com/file/d/109wzdIsVW7hZwX1-8M3IioUMr49...
I suspect the first actual question they will ask will be something like "Why do you keep killing and eating us?"

(Disclaimer - I enjoy eating meat. I'm not sure how I would answer)
in a codebase with tens of thousands of lines of typed code, I see maybe a few new type errors with a new mypy release. They've always been fixable within a few minutes.

I think mypy has some problems, but this isn't one of the bigger ones for me.
Remember Kozmo.com? I do. For those who were too young for the first Internet bubble, Kozmo.com was a company that was a delivery service for convenience stores. It was great! You want a candy bar at 3am, just order one and someone will bike it right over. Rental VHS tapes? (this was long before Netflix even mailed DVDs) No problem. Pack of cigarettes? No need to leave the house.

It was fantastic and convenient and everyone loved it. Unfortunately, it was also wildly unprofitable so it went out of business.

Yes, it can be very nice to enjoy things that burn through more money than they generate, but those things simply are not going to last, no matter how much you like them. No matter how much they are a "pattern of life". That which cannot sustain itself, dies.

> You know what else is subsidized? Farms. Should we stop paying for them?

Not a valid comparison. Farms get subsidized to prevent supply and demand swings from creating price shocks and people starving to death. Not because growing food for people to eat is a fundamentally unprofitable endeavor.
If it’s so much more efficient to live in a city then why are city budgets so much higher than suburban budgets?

And, it’s not like the people that live in the burbs are the only ones that benefit. Those roads and highways are the same ones used to ship food to cities.
This is a list of political infrastructure.

China has constructed 16,000 miles of fully connected high speed rail, and the Democrats are paying off political friends with "[interest group] infrastructure".

China looks like a better bet for the future.

And you forgot to include the real pork (list not exhaustive):

* $10 billion establishing a Civilian Climate Corps
* $100 billion on public schools
* $12 billion on community colleges
* $25 billion on child care
* $400 billion on care for the aging and people with disabilities
* $15 billion eliminating racial and gender inequities
* $40 billion on job training
* $48 billion on workforce development and worker protection
I mean it’s really down to the number of times “people” is in the name.

You could rewrite “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” in English to “The People’s Rule People’s Concern of the People of Korea”. Like any good lie, repetition doesn’t make it more true, and looks desperate.

My rule of thumb:

One use indicates a dark past the people would like to get away from with citizens, not subjects; two an authoritarian regime the people are subjects of and told they are citizens; three an authoritarian regime without any hope of redemption and the people are property of.
I wonder what the insurance would look like. It seems potentially more risky than driving.
If you will forgive the armchair psychoanalysis, perhaps "call things as I see them" is not a good approach? Does that not indicate a lack of engagement with the discourse? You seem to respond negatively, with accusations of bad faith, to a number of respondents who I thought had valid responses; this is builds antagonism.

I have stopped being offended by downvotes -- I am better at accepting them as opposing my viewpoint without having a better counter-argument. If a topic is controversial, I know it will attract downvotes, and I'm fine with insulting people who hold abhorrent views.

If you tone down the hyperbole a little, and write with less of a conspiracy minded tone, I suspect you will have far fewer downvotes; HN is rather libertarian leaning overall.
Viral vector vaccines have a bit more real-world testing than mRNA vaccines, but they certainly aren't "traditional": there are only a few vaccines developed with this technology--for Dengue fever and Ebola--that have ever been authorized for use, and most within the last couple years; the classic notion of a vaccine--and all of our "traditional" vaccines--are either inactive or attenuated strains.
Sadly the article doesn't explain how we know vowels were pronounced differently back then. There was no voice recording obviously. Did they have some phonetic system that we can use to reproduce their pronunciation.
Jeff’s 2009 argument against HN is a theoretical one, and IMO wrong. He points at a system that works well (HN), and says it “gets it wrong,” for made-up and unproven reasons.

Paul’s point about not being Reddit, I think, is you need good moderation, and you need to be willing to block and ban. Despite this, Jeff assumes HN limits downvoting in order to not hurt people’s feelings or something, which is a total straw man or non sequitur.

From my armchair, I gather that good communities require good moderation, so if you are trying to scale moderation, that’s your work right there, and a downvoting mechanism doesn’t take the place of that. Ideally mods are people who have organically earned trust and power or are known and trusted by other mods or leaders. Karma scores alone don’t cut it. The mods can use tools to be more efficient and not require an army. If you are running a site that relies on mods, you need a good relationship with your mods and to give them good tools and guidelines.
I really wish they would support CDK in Go!
You should also totally check out silero-models, which are also available in colab with 10 speakers:

- https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#text-to-speech
- https://habr.com/ru/post/549482/

Disclaimer, this is my independent project
This was pretty common in the United States once direct dialing was available.

Another trick was to place operator-assisted person-to-person calls with the names of different fictional people representing different messages.

For example, Harvey Jones could mean "Pick me up at the diner."
Those 310 cities "only" include 90+ million people, not counting wider metropolitan areas. What's your point?
I guess the part that angers me is that they do, in fact, allow you to track adults, as long as the adult is aware they're being tracked and a notification is displayed on their screen while it's happening. Children, however, aren't offered the same courtesy. I understand the legal responsibility to know where your child is, but none of the arguments I've seen so far seem to address why it's ethical to deceive children but not adults.
Biden Administration to Impose Tough Sanctions on Russia
Ask HN: How are you coping with inflation and housing crisis?
Average tech person here. I am neither a millionaire nor make exuberant comp. yet. It looks like everyone got great ride in 2020 stock collapse and recently with housing prices. Everyone around me is millionaire or making half-million in comp.
Even new engineers I have hire are asking $250k with 3 years of experience.

What are you doing if you haven’t become millionaire by 35?
What strategies you are using for inflation protection? If you haven’t bought a house yet, what are you going to do if you have a family or planning to start soon?

PS: 35 year old manager with moderate comp.
When you stop subsidizing suburbs, will you also stop subsidizing the flyover states? How about the impoverished? Medicare for unhealthy people? Education? Fire departments?

Like, what is your "I don't care for subsidies" threshold?
Check out out slides 20-21 from Linux Security Summit 2019 - there are specific reasons why Linux didn't like C++ that don't apply to Rust. https://ldpreload.com/p/kernel-modules-in-rust-lssna2019.pdf

Basically, we think (and we hope Linus agrees) that Rust has the relevant benefits of C++ without the downsides that have so far kept C++ from being adopted. (It has other great features that C++ doesn't have like compiler-enforced memory safety, too, but I agree with you that RAII is a pretty important and obvious win for the kernel just by itself.)
At least they are not deprecating it.
In therory you’re right. But in reality you’re not.
i'm convinced a few crows in my neighborhood are mad at my dog for chasing them away when she happens upon them. they seem to always crow at her when she's nearby on our walks, though i can't be sure they're the same ones each time. they don't seem to care about me though.
You should also totally check out silero-models, which are also available in colab with 10 speakers:
- https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#text-to-speech - https://habr.com/ru/post/549482/

Disclaimer, this is my independent project
No, They messed this up. This is a political gift bag to well connected friends. Not the 21st century infrastructure we need.
Atwood is smart, but the social sophistication of StackOverflow mostly came from Spolsky. I don't know if they are still available, but Atwood and Spolsky had a regular phone call that went out as a podcast from the earliest days of the StackOverflow project.

In terms of the social structure of Spolsky thought "How do I move the Turtle in LOGO" [1] was a good question for the site (he wrote it).

Atwood thought it was a bad question. Judging people's character by the questions they ask became standard. And people have an excuse to be rude and abusive on the site.

Which is unfortunate.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-th...
> [...] but does not himself provide an argument for it, just an assertion that political change is "the most obvious and powerful tool we have."

Maybe because vastly more people were lifted out of poverty (and associated issues) by political decission to switch to some version of free market economy than by any kind of individual charity?

Author probably didn't state it because he assumed it's a common knowledge.
And mRNA vaccines were first tested in the 90s and started getting more substantial research in 2008: the timelines seem similar?
Most of the time I see downvotes with no replies it means the person generally disagrees. I upvoted you by the way :)
"Uh, operator, I'd like to make a collect call, please. First name 'Bob'..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
The bit they're missing is that it's not an inherent property of suburbs. The problem isn't suburbs, it's how some suburbs have been done.

It can be done in America. I've seen small, walkable towns there. In fact isn't America famous for its walkable small towns? Small-town America. You can even find them near where people think they're impossible - like the small coastal towns in the Bay Area such as Half Moon Bay. Completely walkable.

And to repeat the parent comment back to them:

> It makes me rather depressed knowing what people are missing out on, what life is capable of being like.

You can say the same about their own view of suburbs!