skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loved this, thanks for linking.

When COVID started, I too was desperate for something other than dire news. I went and picked up "Bark Butter Bites", which are chunks of peanut butter, corn and beef suet enriched with calcium. In short, it is ideal food for a bird. They go nuts for the stuff! I started feeding them to the crows in the neighbourhood, which is surrounded by forests.

Well, you know. It's been well over a year now. I walk 3 times a day and I have never left the house without these peanuty treats in my pocket. The crows have formed a parameter around my house and escort me everywhere. They come very close, have shown many, many examples of extreme intelligence, empathy and humour. But what's struck me is just how much social grace they possess. They have a crystal clear understanding of mutually sane boundaries. They know where I live, but will not disturb us in anyway. They show absolute and respectful care around "my nest".

One funny story is, after getting used to one of our common walking routes that breaks into a forest trail, the _entire gang_ showed up one day. We think there was a sort of meeting, as normally the locals in this spot around around 5-20. This day, there were 100+.

I took too long to notice, though, as I started dishing out food, only to realize... "Hey look! There are... 10... 15... 20... 40 --Fuuu-oh-oh -- Oh _shit_!" -- something like a crow tornado whirled through the street. And it's 7am! And they're loud!

We decide to turn back home (running), only to wind up crossing a road near a school -- relatively busy with commuter traffic, even during COVID -- and are followed by no less than 100 crows. The people in the cars and on the street are all staring, mouths agape, as two random people cross by surrounded by a cawing mass of grateful, hungry and black feathery insanity. Back again, as soon as we got very close to home... they went: "Ahhh, okay, well, bye!" and left quietly.

I love 'em.
Exactly! Airbnb is rent-seeking. Not adding any value just controlling and asset for yield. Same as Bitcoin and other crypto, pure speculation and the product of a decade of government money presses keeping inflation low.
Hopefully they'll be able to give DeepSpeech some more love as well.
Does this basically automate a "terraform import" of existing infrastructure then?
It's a philosophy not a title https://www.visualscript.com/devops/devops-is-not-a-title-it...
> Here's one of my favorite quotes

Here's my response to that quote:

"Static typing": The belief that if your code type-checks correctly, it will do exactly what you intended. (A variant of the belief that if your code compiles correctly, it will do exactly what you intended.)

Of course, taken literally, that's unfair, but so is the quote you gave. Everything you add to your code has a cost. Time you spend writing type specifications is time you're not spending doing something else that might add more value. Sometimes writing type specifications is the best use you can make of that time; sometimes it isn't. Python at least gives you both options: use type annotations if you want, but you don't have to if you don't want to.
I don't disagree with you, people value different things. However most of the US is designed in this suburb style where it's just miles and miles of houses with grocery stores and food being at least 5-15 mins away via -car-. Chicago, NY, and Boston have decent metro lines but none of our public transit comes even close to e.g. Korea or Japan in terms of efficiency, comprehensiveness, and cleanliness.

The only option for the majority of the US is to have a car. And I hate that.

edit: also regarding cars: I can't relax fully because I'm operating a vehicle in a space shared by other people, who are potentially distracted, operating potentially deadly vehicles that kill or seriously injure many Americans each year, and I can't read a book, etc, because my hands are tied up. This would be fine if I had other choices, but I realistically don't.
When trying OPs code out, I had all the "linux binaries" in mind, aka all the shitty self-unpacking installers that concat their binaries and dump it in /tmp before executing it.

(you know, like proprietary drivers almost always do)

It would be a huge improvement for sysadmins if a linter could be run in advance of executing a shell script, and use chroot and other sandboxing like creating a user without net cap rights etc in case it found something potentially malicious.
> commuters who drive into the city just to work and then drive out are a terrible liability, because they wear out the roads driving in and out every day

Heavy trucks actually do the majority of damage to road infrastructure.

From the linked article: The registration fee seems steep. However,a B-Double can cause, per kilometre travelled, 20,000 times the road wear and tear that a family car does

https://theconversation.com/trucks-are-destroying-our-roads-...
Would wifi 6 require new silicon?
From a consumer perspective VAT as implemented in Europe much simpler than sales tax in the US. The price advertised is actually the price you pay.

As a business it’s really not that much more complex. Add VAT to all the invoices you send out. Keep track of how much was charged to you by your suppliers. Pay the difference to the tax man.
This is the first article in a series. The author already has three articles up where he has more suggestions.

Part II - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/4/12/the-half-truth...

Part III - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/4/13/when-it-comes-...

I agree rail would be great but the problem is that auto-centric attitude is deeply entrenched in the culture. Any rail proposal will just have a huge list of various groups, organizations and citizens opposing it and thus driving up costs and ultimately killing any plans.
Ask HN: Have you worked remotely from abroad during coronavirus?
For those that have done it. How was your experience? Where did you go? Any good stories or peices of advice?

In these final months before my partner must go back to the office, we are exploring the possibility of working abroad for two months this summer.
I'm no tooling expert but that seems like the opposite of what you should use Terraform for. Imperative frameworks like Ansible are basically fancy ways to organize and execute custom scripts, you still have to implement your own custom state management logic in Ansible commands/scripts. With larger & more complex infrastructure, you want to do this as little as possible because it's hard to consistently get it right, so Terraform basically steps in and implements state management for you. Even if you end up needing to write your own TF drivers, regular devs don't have to deal with it to make infra changes. Declarative templates are much simpler and easier to think about, all the complex state management stuff is hidden away.
There's nothing curious about it. This article is about the United States and people are referring to suburbs in the U.S.

If you're not familiar with U.S. suburbs, their history, and how they were explicitly designed... that's fine, but it's kind of condescending to talk like those of us who are aware of U.S. suburbs have some "curious" and bizarre idea about them.
They are charging at a 5m/year rate. This doent even include profit from ads they inject.
Like most people here it's all just opinion.

I'm happy someone is pushing for more innovation in Japan but ... there's huge issues

(1) Japanese people generally only speak Japanese. That tends to limit their reach to Japan only. Sure there are exceptions, I'm just saying it adds a hurdle. It also adds a hurdle to importing people.

(2) Japanese culture doesn't encourage sticking out. There's a reason one of the most famous Japanese sayings is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down". Nearly ever part of Japanese is set against innovation. From the culture of "life time employment", the culture of "cram in high school for a college, party at college, arrive at job making $25k a year because you have no skills but company will train you, hired based on which school you went to". There's the "seniority issues where you're required to defer to anyone hired before you" (apparently that's even worse in Korea to the point my Korean friends say you can't ever truly be best friends with someone a few years old than you because you're required to treat them as your elder, not your peer). There's whole business legal issues where for all kinds of business transactions you're require to go to the local business administration office and have them print out officially stamped forms which you then submit it contracts etc..., You can add in the financial system here is not friendly to new ventures. I don't know where to point to how risk adverse things are here but I can point concretely for you to look at interest rates on savings accounts, certificate of deposit, etc to see it's vastly different than the USA.

(3) Japanese culture for various reasons still produces a much smaller number of career women. If you thought the representation of women in STEM (or pick your career) was low in some country in the west, it's 2-3-4-5x worse here. I'm not going to blame any particular thing but it is the current culture all around. The point is their missing a large pool of talent

(4) There's not much talent here. I don't mean that Japanese people are not talented, I mean rather it's impossible to hire talent. I have friends running companies and they can't find anyone even in Tokyo Metro (34 million people) and Osaka Metro (19 million people). Some of that is cultural, people don't switch jobs. Some of it is truly lack of talent (see education issue above), some of it is low salaries. Example: Top pay at Sony Japan for a software engineer is ~$70k. Most places pay much less. A few cash rich companies might pay more, (Cyber Agent, Mercari, are rumored to pay above $100k).

(5) If software engineers are the leaders of most innovation now, maybe they aren't, but if they are, Japan's attitude about them is they must be 21 to 35 and they are just replaceable cogs. After 35 they must be managers or else they move into some other field.

(6) Overtime is ridiculous
1/2 of US local government spending is education and healthcare, infrastructure is a long way down the list.

That almost completely destroys the small town argument because cities don’t need to pay for the education or healthcare of their suburban workers. An office building is a net gain where a the same space devoted to housing often costs the local government more in services.
> everyone on planet Earth is worse off for them existing

This is hyperbole.

Suburbs are not negative externalities. They work to the benefit of the massive communities living within them.

People can raise their kids with large, private lawns. Have pools, cook outs, outdoor activities. Lots of private space to relax.

Hasn't Covid taught us that suburbs have tremendous merit? Cities are cramped and lonely hellscapes during the pandemic.

Beyond that, the objective function for society is not to cram as many humans into a sardine can as possible. If we were trying to optimize life on earth, life would be rigid and unpalatable.
All of the outlying neighborhoods where I live developed off of existing roadways (mainly rural highways between towns) that serve many people more than the ones who live along the way. Yes it is true that those subdivisions have roads and cul-de-sacs and whatever; those are built by the developer of the subdivision, and since they see only light passenger car traffic they don't require a lot of upkeep. The main roads in and out of town were already there.
One thing that I don't see mentioned enough is the evolution of self-driving cars. Plenty of people talk about induced demand and high-speed rail, but I think fail to see the future of commuting. High-speed rail makes sense in some areas, in other areas it doesn't seem to make as much sense, especially if traffic/congestion can be solved with autonomously connected vehicles. High speed rail has always been a massive undertaking and expensive proposition and they seem especially stifled by eminent domain issues. It won't be long until I can sit in my autonomous car which communicates with other vehicles on the road in order to maintain a steady flow of traffic. Maybe not a fast as high-speed rail but almost just as convenient possibly even more so. Not to mention our infrastructure is seemingly already set up for it. Even for longer travel, I love the train as much as anyone but traveling by air just seems much more efficient. Maybe I'm a bit short-sided living on the west coast, but I can't help but think high-speed rail is only appropriate in certain areas at best.
Why does title changed from IPO to DPO?
They are only releasing male mosquitos. The males don’t bite and don’t drink blood. Only the females do. You might see a few more flying around but you won’t have more bites as a result.

This may or may not work but the theory is good. It will be an interesting experiment to see if it works.
I always make sure not to voice a position that goes against the HN group think. Often the discussion really needs it but why bother if it vanishes into the void(0)?
I always figured that 16:9 screens took off because they could leverage the panels being produced en masse for HDTVs.

That sort of made sense for desktop monitors, for a little while, but the overlap between laptop/monitor and TV offerings has almost completely disappeared-- 17" and smaller TVs are not mass market items.

I wonder if part of it is just as a penny pinching gimmick now: a square monitor of X diagonal gives you more square centimetres of panel than a wider screen does.
> crypto is nowhere near replacing credit cards, now or in the future.

Bitcoin - not. On the other hand, modern altcoins who are faster, PoS-based, low fees, etc are on the path to exactly this.
>I think the people should not ask, nor accept equity payment as taxation.

As a matter of historical fact, governments do sometimes take equity in something, in exchange for what's owed. Like with the financial crisis bailouts.

It's a normal thing among and between capitalists, but also when the government interacts with them. I'm unclear on what principle would forbid it, when you start from the assumption that it's normal, rather than unheard of.
no, that's mediopolitical narrative talking, to instill fear and promote compliance. airborne basically means 'viable virus aloft in the air', in contrast to something like ballistic motion or droplets. no study has conclusively proven that corona transmits, much less survives, in the air for any appreciable duration. at best, there is some inconclusive inference of it.

the princess cruises case, for example, employed some contact tracing (with unreliable subjects) and pcr-tested for (dead) virus particles on surfaces well after-the-fact. none of that comes close to proving airborne transmission (especially not fanciful diagrams of what could have been--those aren't proof, just conjecture). infections were overwhelmingly likely to have spread through prolonged conversations indoors where people were breathing each others' direct exhaust ('droplets'), like you'd do on a vacation, not just by being on the same ship.
Download Firmware Samsung Galaxy Tab a 10.1 (2019) (SM-T510)
Foil Filed on Dana Roth and Harold Richard Issue
Some of this has to do with the funding incentives in academic AD research. NIH continues to dump money into mouse and even more ridiculously Drosophila (fruit fly) models of Alzheimer’s. I am all for basic research but for this disease, if we have learnt one thing, it is that the success of a therapeutic in animal models is nearly 100% predictive of its failure in humans. The funding incentives need to change for meaningful change in the clinic.
The page get's messed up with adblock on (no text). Archive.is works:
https://archive.ph/t7Yup
Is there any data on that? It seems that less light projecting into my eyes would be preferable to more.
If you have Steller's jays (I don't know if the others also do this) try putting out some in-shell peanuts.

They will pick up one, then put it down and pick up another, and so on, sometimes going back to recheck one, until finally deciding which one to fly off with. They are quick picky.

When the last peanut is gone, sometimes I put out more. And sometimes then I'll see one or two of the jays come back, still carrying the peanuts they had from before. They will put down the old peanut they brought back, and then go through the whole selection process again.
Is Coinbase the largest ever company that has no physical HQ or offices?
I'm not sure. I think this guy was better at mailing packages than providing information about queues.
These here city folk don't much care for our kind.

Nevermind the shirk for the value of diversity—both geographically and functionally—they've optimized the life out of life and gosh darn it, so can you.

Sure, subsidize things they like—green tech, social reeducation, space travel, even their subscription streaming movie platforms—but those backwards folks out in the boondocks really gotta go.

All 125 million of em.

I'll be honest, I've lived all over the country in some of the most diverse, varied places. And despite the trope of the knuckle dragging country folk, I've never met a more bigoted bunch than city dwellers.
To be fair, the people who live in the suburbs aren't generally worse off for living there, assuming they enjoy that lifestyle.

To me, though, that's the biggest thing that puts the lie to the suburban lifestyle thing. Most of the people who want to live there don't want any more people moving out as soon as their neighborhood is finished, because they know it'll just mean more traffic congestion, noise, pollution, etc., and the things that attracted them to the suburbs will be diminished. The suburban pattern just doesn't scale well.

Sadly that is one of the easier problems to fix. Just build on a grid of small streets (or if you don't like grids, an interconnected web of curvy streets is fine too) and don't live giant gaps and the whole thing scales a lot better. The financial and environmental impacts are harder problems to solve.
Pulumi needs to work on their documentation. I looked at it about 18 months ago and the Python support was barely there.

Tried it again last month and it's better, but I had to do a lot of trial and error. ie. (Try to figure out how to provision an EC2 instance with a root volume. They copied part of the docs from terraform but sections are missing.)
This. I have been saying this all along... including the entire non biodegradeable plastic analogy.

We need a UBI funded by Pigovian taxes on pollution and other negative externalities. It’s the only way I can see ending these situations sustainably!
I am still amazed every time these Omnibus bills are proposed and passed. It such a blatant sign of corruption and no one seems to give a damn.
The group of people you're referencing (Inuit people btw, Eskimo is a slur) have some of the highest obesity rates in the world! The Nunavuts have an obesity rate of 48%!

The ethiopians have a diet of mostly carbohydrates (>70%), and are extremely lean.

Taubes is a bullshit artist who cherry picks data to sell books.
OK, I will try one more time, but this is super obvious.

Simple:

If you downvote you have to give a reason, you cannot simply downvote, I can write a script to downvote every post on here everyday. You have to provide a reason for the down vote, and your reason can be upvoted or downvoted, but they have to give a reason which can be up or down voted and so on.

If you up vote, you have to give a reason, and your reason can be up or down voted but that up or down vote has to have a reason that can be up or down voted and so on.

Recursion. Get it? I don't understand why a site populated but programmers did not think of it, I have suggested it like a million times and it gets down voted, again for no reason given, for all we know a bot is doing it.

It is sort of an obvious thing, I am probably not going to try again because it is just too annoying.

Good bye.
If I could get a Visa to places I want to go I'd do the same thing. Problem is that so much of the world is under a travel restriction it's very difficult.
Do you not consider repairs/upgrades to existing/outdated infrastructure to be infrastructure spending? Getting lead out of service pipes and wider access to broad band sounds like something tangible to me.
There are many studies underway to find biomarkers eg changes in the blood proteome, sleep, etc for the pre-disease prodromal state of AD.
You’re right that what you’re suggesting could work as a way to treat &str as a type of slice, without breaking the type system. But there’s a fatal flaw. If you have `s: &[unsized_char]`, what should slicing, say, `&s[2..4]` do?

With the actual `&str`, this treats 2 and 4 as byte indices. But if you’re going to treat str as a slice of a specific type, the indices really should be in units of that type. `&s[2..4]` should return the second and third grapheme clusters, or codepoints, or whatever you want to define `unsized_char` to be. The same applies to `len()` and all the other methods that return or accept indices.

But if it’s in units of `unsized_char`, how do you actually implement indexing? You could do an O(n) scan from the beginning of the string, but that’s clearly unacceptable. Or you could set up some kind of acceleration data structure behind the scenes, but that would be expensive to maintain, and would conflict with Rust’s goals of explicitness and cheap FFI.

If on the other hand you keep indexing with byte offsets, you end up with almost no operations that work, and do the same thing, for both &[unsized_char] and normal slices. You wouldn’t be able to write any useful generic code that operates on &[T] for T: ?Sized, at least not without branching on which kind of slice it is. And even from a human user’s perspective, the syntactic similarity between two things that work differently could confuse more than it helps. Again, a matter of explicitness.
I remember giving Mozilla TTS a try but the docker image would crash on punctuations and symbols. Seemed to require clean up of the text and submitting it in small chunks.

Any idea if these issues still exist? Thank you.
Also originally a midwestern. I've noticed that I and others with the accent also put a compensatory breathy h on the end of words like Dakota, and hence pronounce it "Dakodah". Often this results in a devoicing of that second "a". I've never seen any studies on that though.
He has a type of economic good named for him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

-- one of several, but possibly only one of two named after an individual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Types_of_goods
Yeah looks like you're SOL. They also have some scheduled maintenance going on right now in the US, but doubtful that's to do with your situation. Also, it's 8PM here in SF, so I'm guessing e-mail will be the only option tonight.
Cocky? Might want to consider a rename before you run into the Coq situation.
PowerShell technically does, though I think it is deprecated. It also seems to be less of a security feature and more a tool for keeping the system stable.
AFAIK "legitimately disagreeing with you" is not supposed to be a reason to downvote. In practice this clearly happens often anyway, especially in political topics where it's likely harder to distinguish between wrong/misleading/hostile and regular political disagreement.
? 0 percent of education is municipally funded (it's all provincially funded). Healthcare too is all provincially funded (though actually mostly funded by transfers from the federal government). Obviously I'm only speaking for all of Canada here, and can't speak for the US where it's likely more varied.

Do you have some stats or links for municipal (or equivalent) tax raising/spending?
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26811412

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815531