skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most places like that, the undeveloped land is exactly the problem. The road that goes from a little neighborhood to the town center, and the water line under it, and the power line beside it, all cost a lot more to maintain than the handful of homes along the road pay. But that infrastructure serves nearly no one else. It should probably be a gravel road, and they should be on solar power and well-and-septic. Then the local taxes would cover the maintenance of the gravel road with a few bucks left over.

But that's not what happens. Generally the town center area (which is more developed) pays quite a lot more in taxes than the outlying areas, and the surplus generated there is used to cover the cost of all the infrastructure that enables the people who live on the outskirts to have town infrastructure and town prices with a rural lifestyle. And that transfer of money to sustain the rural area is why the town doesn't have the money to build a new library or school, and needs state and federal grant programs to fix the water tower.

If you want to know why just about every American small town was building beautiful city halls, schools, libraries, etc. before WW2, and afterwards they mostly bombed out, it has a lot to do with deciding to spend their money maintaining roads to scattered residential developments on the outskirts instead of investing that money in other things. That's not the only reason, but it's a major factor.
Or they can just keep doing what they’re doing because it provides a diverse landscape that is America - if it makes them happy why not? There is more to the variety than ROI - I’ve loved wandering through the towns when in the USA - a bit ragtag in parts? Sure. Beautiful? Absolutely.
When the Pharmacy of the World Needs Prescriptions Itself
I started contributing to a certain open source project that gets lambasted on here a lot last summer. After some contributions, a bounty using my skills became available. I jumped at the chance and completed the bounty. That led to more contributions in the same area as the bounty. I would certainly say it's worked out for me and the project in question.

Many other people have been similarly incentivized and compensated on the same project to the point where probably 2/3 of the development comes from the company that started it and the other 1/3 is bounties.
You kinda did though.

> "they look so clean...sacrificing ergonomy, since the aesthetic is what they are selling, so they can't look gnarly, black...like an actual musical device."

You're arguing that because they are a status symbol and have to look "clean and minimalist" they can't look black like an actual music device looks like. Of which I think your main point in that statement is that OP-1 != "actual music device".

Did I interpret it incorrectly?
1. aren't highway/interstate maintenance (which are used by commuters) funded at a federal and state level? so there should be much difference.

2. property taxes go to fund schools/utilities/services - and it makes sense to send taxes to where you live, not work. I want to fund schools where my kids go to, this seems perfectly logical to me. It would be a huge waste of resources to do otherwise.
Can you elaborate the claims regarding account takeover more in detail? I'm generally curious.

Is it because of SS7 confirmation of pins or what are you referring to?
I don't understand this argument. I live just outside a city, and all of these utilities are handled by entities that exist to serve outside of the city. What am I missing?
So make 'em separate missions, of course. You have to run the retrieval mission and have it succeed before you're granted a launch license for the original mission of putting something up.
>”It’s alarming to see them roll out these props from a bad Black Mirror episode”

Wow, talk about shots fired at Black Mirror’s production value and storylines over the seasons.
Sounds like the issue is that the "blue collar industries" employers need to offer higher salaries?
> I'm glad that you enjoy your heavily subsidized new lifestyle. It's really hard to argue against receiving far more in public benefits than you pay in taxes.

> That's the point of Strong Towns: not that there's anything wrong with single family houses in and of themselves, but that the way our economy is structured right now, they usually don't pay for themselves.

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

Sports facilities, community centers for youth and elderly, hospitals, homeless shelters. Lots of subsidization to go around.

There are 50 states, and most of them have single family dwellings. Some not even near a city. It turns out a lot of people like to live this way. They're not leeching off of the economy - they're contributing to it.

Single family homes are a pattern of American life. They're not going away anytime soon.

Don't force everyone to live in a city. It's not unlike the bicyclists trying to tell everyone they should bike instead of drive, which simply isn't going to work for most of the people in this country.

Edit: I was downvoted faster than it was even possible to read my comment. I spotted a typo as I submitted and immediately went to edit it,

"0 points by echelon 0 minutes ago"

Wow, HN.
The other issue is that Rust pretty strongly expects slices to be laid out in memory as a flat array of some fixed-size element type. If something isn’t laid out that way, it can’t support all the operations a slice is supposed to support, ranging from the high-level operation of O(1) indexing, to the low-level operation of getting a raw pointer to the slice contents. In principle you could make &[ExtendedGraphemeCluster] special, but it would hamper the ability to write generic code that works on &[T] for any T. Besides, Rust likes to be explicit. Things that are different should look different.

In addition, even if you gave up on O(1) indexing by grapheme cluster index, anything faster than O(n) indexing would require some sort of tree data structure to translate grapheme cluster indices to byte indices. Such a structure would be expensive to maintain and not needed the vast majority of the time; in a language that prioritizes performance, it simply couldn’t be part of the default string type no matter what the syntax.
We used to use payphones, there was 2 seconds you could speak before it would hang up.

ring ring, ring ring, MUM
ring ring, ring ring, PICK
ring ring, ring ring, ME UP
You’re assuming there is some city near by. Most small towns in the US are on their own well outside of commute range for any cities. The US only has 310 cities, if you’re using 100,000+, people as a city and they largely cluster near each other

Further, Education and it’s associated pension and healthcare costs are by far local governments biggest expense so office buildings are a much better deal for local governments than housing. This gets reflected in zoning where many local governments actively discourage people moving into them.
An activist investor is a kind of value investor. "These assets are worth more than the market says - the discount is bad management. Let's buy the assets cheap (good value) and change the people who, as owners, we pay to manage those assets."

The idea that such an approach is anything but value and anything but completely normal and somehow rebellious and untrustworthy is quite weird and speaks to some kind of capture of highly paid management position by some kind of group of people. (I really hesitate to use the word "class" because these people might be a temporary alliance including the born poor and status challenged - the marxist "born to it" doesn't help the analysis much at all. Think the cool, sports jock table at high school).
This is something that becomes truer when you start really thinking about it. Private property the way we have it right now is just a social construct, for it not to be simply theft it has to be socially efficient. That is to say, if people are given stewardship over land that really isn't inherently anyone's, it's a reasonable expectation that they don't use it to make food for it to be thrown out.
If you are ever bored and you have a backyard try watching Blue/Stellar’s/Eurasian Jays for a bit. They are very closely related to crows (both in corvidae) and very intelligent.

They are really social and act almost like a primate. A lot of fun to watch them interact with each other.
I don't think I agree with the outcome you suggest, but I do agree with increasing more Congressional reps. the per /capita has been much lower in the past.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-populat...
I suppose I should clarify that I'm talking about suburbs in the US. They're not designed for humans, but for cars. And public transportation is largely a joke outside of a few cities.
The biggest problem in the US is that you need to simply shut down places below a certain size. We don't need a town near every shuttered coal mine, for example.

However, until strongtowns can figure out a politically palatable way to convince the denizens of these kinds of towns to shut down and move, it's just ranting into the breeze.

I mean, look at what it took to get people out of Centralia, PA where you could die suddenly and miserably.

Good luck with anything less draconian.
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Subsidized in terms of externalities, because single-family homes a drive away from everything are ecological catastrophes that all of us have to live with.

Subsidized in terms of infrastructure, because running power and water and sewer and roads out to each individual house is way more expensive than doing it for condo or apartment buildings in urban centers.

Subsidized in terms of infrastructure again, because when he inevitably wants to drive into the city, there has to be parking waiting for him, which is land that could otherwise be put to better use.

Subsidized in terms of direct payments, because federal tax law provides huge benefits to homeowners via mortgage deductions and depreciation rules, which disproportionately means middle-class or higher people living in single-family homes.
Except that once enough negative votes have been received it becomes impossible to upvote. It's like sumo -- pushed too far and it goes out. However, the number is much too small, 3 or 4 downvotes.

Flagging operates similarly; as there is no reason attached to the flag it is simply 'dislike'. Slashdot's tags were much more nuanced.
>> but in terms of his vision of the world more united where it is easier to send and receive money without paying outrages fees, he definitely failed on that promise. <<

It was Bitcoin that failed to deliver that promise, not him.
Nobody is talking about forcing anyone to do anything.

You know something I really like? Lobster. You know what would be great for me? If the government made a program to subsidize lobster farming and distribution, so that lobster cost $3/meal instead of $20. If it cost that I would probably have Lobster 5 times a week!

But, it doesn't, so... I don't eat that much Lobster. I still love it though, and there's nothing wrong with that! Nobody should force me to stop eating Lobster.
I will take this opportunity to say that I absolutely dislike dark themes. Light themes are much better on the eyes and look much more pleasing.
Most often they're Americans where in the suburbs you can't walk to groceries even if they're in distance unless you want to walk on the highway. There's no public transport either. Like there's nothing at all. People drive a quarter mile because the environment is so hostile.
I think the problem when it comes down to it is there's generally more than one kind of comment as well as more than one kind of reason someone downvotes.

You've got your objective factual comment

Your subjective factual comment

And your opinion based comment.

I'm probably missing some.

These can all be combined sometimes into one comment.

Then you've got your reasons for downvoting.

Disagreeing

Factually incorrect

Wrong opinion

Again, probably missing some...

When you start combining all these comment types, with downvote reasons under one generic down arrow, there's going to be some ambiguity, some good comments that get down voted, some bad comments that get upvoted and everything in between.

And...furthermore, it's impossible for other users to determine why a comment was downvoted. Maybe, they were all disagreement downvotes even if it was a factually correct statement. Maybe they were factually incorrect downvotes for a correct opinion post.

There's no real way of knowing, so in the end, better just not to worry about it either way and unless you're clearly posting something against the rules, just try again next time and write something that hopefully doesn't get downvoted.
Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our customers [resolved]
I'm the founder of a tech startup in the field of telephony and we use Twilio for parts of our service.

A little over 3 hours ago our entire account was suspended without reason. We received an email stating that fact without further explanation.

Since then, we are trying to get in contact with them through every channel we could find: email, Twitter, LinkedIn, and I even tried emailing Jeff Lawson, their CEO. They don't have a support number we can call.

We are not a small customer and we have been with them for more than 6 years. It's deeply frustrating that despite that fact, we don't seem to matter to them at all.

If you work at Twilio or if you can help us get in touch with them, I'd be indebted to you forever!
I believe Espeak is only used for the grapheme to phoneme conversion (if at all). The rest is all new.
Midwesterner here but if I try to say Dakota with a t sound, I feel like I'm doing a British accent or something.
It certainly reinforces what I know about techies that I just had to scroll all the way down to here to get past a group of them not only missing the point of a joke, but then arguing with each other pendantically over the meaning of words that add nothing to the discussion.

Is bikeshedding a habit or a temperament?

Glad to see someone managed to get the joke, anyway.
Very difficult to do in any kind of robust way. A script can run all kinds of things and use myriad forms of obfuscation, causing all kinds of obscure side effects.
> I'm not sure I understand what net suffering is. It seems to me that every person born increases total suffering, but net?

Utilitarians say there is only one moral dimension, utility. Suffering is negative utility. If you create more utility than you consume you decrease total suffering (or increase total utility, which amounts to the same thing).

> But you can't net my pleasure against your suffering, can you?

According to Peter Singer you can. An objection to this kind of thinking is utility monsters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster

> Or say I spend 80 years of a perfect life, and then die of Alzheimers or a particularly painful cancer. Did I accumulate a "balance" that can be counted against someone else's relatively miserable life? Or did my illness and death mean that my average is really no better than someone whose life sucked but died suddenly of a heart attack?

> If someone has great achievements and suffers from chronic mental illness that gives them huge ups and downs, can their suffering and pleasure be compared to someone who has neither? Which increased/decreased net suffering for the world or population?

I agree with these objections. To me, this kind of utilitarianism seems like a bizarre simplification. How can you weigh a sunny day against a panic attack?
Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server [video]
Iirc it is realtime, but check out the Matrix channel: https://app.element.io/#/room/#coqui-ai_TTS:gitter.im
Show HN: Minimal demo to use C/C++ WASM with create-react-app
YT suspended my account without telling me why. Oh and no recourse for this evidence-free execution with only an ostensible appeal.
Not mentioned anywhere, but this is not for "Linux" but for "dpkg" (so deb-based distros: Debian, Ubuntu, etc).

If all you want is list commands this one-liner works:

dpkg-query -L systemd | sed -n '/\/bin\//s/^.*\/\(.*\)/\1/p'
I haven't used this app, but if the issue is a binary file where the app is expecting plain text, you could base64 encode your file. Maybe with some dummy password data. Then your arbitrary encrypted file is just another line in the plain text file.
It requires and reinforces the dependence on cars in American cities. Parking especially is a huge space drain taking up land in expensive urban areas. Shopping areas are surrounded by huge amounts of land dedicated to parking, a requirement enforced by local ordinances. Then there's the uncaptured externalities like the damage to the environment and people's health. There's a lot of articles that cover this idea.

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2020/01/you-will-never...
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> Not everyone values same things in their life the same. YMMV.

Completely agree. And it's a public policy problem where one lifestyle is very nearly enforced. So people are pushing back against that.

It's like if the government was doing this thing you wanted them to do and a lot of other people didn't like it, but they did it anyway, you'd be like yea cool this works. Good job government.

In this case it's keep building roads, parking lots, and suburbs because I like driving and I'll use that to solve all my problems. But you're not realizing some of the costs of all of those things. Society certainly is. National debt, time spent sitting in a car commuting because there's no other option, teenagers dying in car crashes (I think it's still the number 1 killer of teens?), drunk driving (again no options here), amount of money spent on infrastructure, oil, wars, etc.
With the exception of sports facilities, all of the things you mentioned have positive externalities. Even the most staunch (good-faith) libertarian should be in favor of public funding for hospitals because of the common welfare effects that the market is otherwise blind to.

Suburbs are exactly the opposite. It's not just that they're expensive, it's that everyone on planet Earth is worse off for them existing. There is absolutely no rational reason for the government to subsidize things that have negative externalities.
> plan includes some pork

I can't find any infrastructure in the plan. It looks like we will spend trillions and have absolutely nothing to show for it when it's over.
They don't have a support number we can call.

I take it you've tried (844) 814-4627 ?
Yes the “poor people are lazy” argument.
I think you're interpreting it a little wrong.

While it does look like 500km is about where things fall out quickly, it also looks like there's a sweet spot of altitude to orbital period ratio where stuff just stays there. Outside of that sweet spot stuff still falls out fairly quickly.
We had something similar as recently as in 2005 in Poland. I don't know the specifics, because I got my first mobile phone in late 2007, but I think that either there was a flat fee incurred when someone picked up or the first minute was charged in advance - in any case the practice died off with the advent of cheap text messages in pre paid plans.

Oh, and it served as an equivalent of Facebook's "poke" among teenagers.
This article blatantly mischaracterizes Chinese "ghost cities". The reality is that "ghost cities" do generally get occupied over time. That's how Shenzhen went from sleepy fishing town to the third most economically powerful city in China in 40 years. Even the source that the author cites acknowledges this.
Neural Network in Minecraft – Redstone Network with Backprop and Optimizer
Seconded. It's crazy that so few people seem to know about bashdb. I don't know of many other languages that are commonly used without using a debugger.
Backpage was pretty big when it was deep sixed by the Feds.
2nd post down... doxxed ooof.
Also interesting. Although I mean in this case that I'd much rather be capital than labor if I had the choice.
Hypothetically, if I built a system tomorrow that recommended which roads and bridges were most worth spending on (because they actually enable economic activity but are in poor condition, so not vacation bridges), is there enough leeway in this bill to actually advise the spending?

I don't have the skills to do that, much less by tomorrow, but I'm wondering how set in stone the list of actual bridges to work on is.
I agree, I think the image of Effective Altruism is largely shaped by the somewhat unique group of people who flock to it — in particular those who are very vocal about it.
There is little value in abstracting HCL al la troposphere. just write native
Despite the hate that it gets, Electron is still the best imo. Every other Electron-lite solution I've tried all end up with at least one key but obscure feature removed and you either end up rewriting to Electron or throw together some jank or abandoned 3rd party package.

Electron is bloated AF but it's the complete package that gets the job done from start to finish
I'm white, and have been in situations where I was singled out and harassed for being white, both in real life and online. I fully understand that I have never experienced systemic racism because I am part of the racial majority. But it was still hurtful.

What word should I use to describe these experiences if not 'racism'?

(This is anecdotal, but: Every progressive 'anti-racist' who I describe these situations to either quickly changes the subject, calls me 'fragile', or tries to argue that these experiences weren't all that bad. Not a single one, in my experience, will just level with me and say, "Wow, that sucks, I'm sorry someone said that to you." I don't think trying to explain over people how they should feel and dismissing their concerns is a core tenant of anti-racism but it sure feels like it.)
Yes. When I select the option for support they just play a message saying that I should open a ticket via email instead.
There are apparently multiple speech pathologists that have trained their pets to communicate with buttons that speak a given word when pressed. I can't tell if they're grifts or not, but I want to believe.
I hate that all bills are this way now. They can't pass a single issue bill any more, it has to be this giant tar ball where everyone tries to stuff as much as they can into it.
>The OP-1 used to cost $800, which was already a big ask for a microprocessor, OLED screen and plastic enclosure

I'm not sure it makes sense to price a hardware product on it's BOM. This kind of thinking is what leads to most hardware being absolutely crappy. Good product designers need to be paid, and design choices don't show up in the BOM. The same goes to hardware.

When I see an ARM chip and an OLED screen going for $$$, the calculus in my mind is I'm actually paying for engineering and design labor, not a BOM.
Yeah, they really dumped them in it, fortunately the devs are keeping it all going at coqui.ai and are really supportive of any community that got abandoned by Moz.
Hey folks! I'm Ashu, the founder of Make School. We're building a new university based in San Francisco and just launched a new online course platform to share curriculum from our CS bachelor's degree for free online.

We'd love to get your feedback on the new course platform as well as the course itself. We're aiming to pair high quality videos with in-browser coding exercises for a combo passive / active learning course.

The platform was built on Gatsby in about a month. Personally, this was my first time writing production code in nearly 5 years, so feeling excited to have launched this :)