skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correction: the politicians are accused of acting Amorally. Of taking action regardless of the consequences, of just not caring about the predicted real life effects, or the observed real life effects of legislation. That they're in it purely for their own interests, which have nothing to do with the victims. That they couldn't care less if the legislation helps anyone, just what it will do for them.

They're not accused of acting Immorally, which would be taking action with mal intent. They're not trying to increase child prostitution. They're not trying to enable it. They're not looking to abuse children themselves.

They're accused of being psychopaths, not criminals.

I don't understand how the default position can be anything but that politicians indeed act amorally. There is a very long history of politicians enacting laws specifically to hide prostitution, not to stop it. There is an equally long history of people asking them to do so. Society definitely wants prostitution. Society also wants very vulnerable prostitutes, well hidden from view.
That does not follow - they are still fulfilling housing demand by renting it and more capital means more ability to build houses.

The whole premise appears telological - landlords are intrinsically bad ergo everything they do will make the housing situation worse.
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Actually I'd bet a dollar or two that linear threading of resources existed even before C, it just wasn't neither a common practice nor a theoretical framework at the time.
Yeah I think this will be really neat when paired with an example project for libraries.
> Set-asides for "affordable housing" in new developments are an absolute joke because there are very few units, they often have separate "servant-like" entrances, and may not be treated equally compared to other residents.

I’ve lived in 80/20 buildings. None of the things you list make them a “joke” except the number of units.

Yes, the 20% apartments aren’t as nice, don’t get to use the gym for free, and in a couple of cases had a separate entrance.

So what?!? They were still massively subsidized and had giant lotteries for people that would have loved to get them.

No, outrage mongers notwithstanding, the real issue is that the programs are incredibly inefficient. The builders get millions of dollars of tax benefits for each of those lottery units.

Why house one lucky family in the most expensive part of town, and give four families nothing, when you could get rid of the program, not waive any taxes, and use the tax money from the luxury building in the fancy part of town to house all five families in a working class part of town?

Like so much of contemporary upper-middle class driven leftism it’s about the appearances—-hence the outrage over poor doors—-rather than actually helping people.

Privileged people want curated poor neighbors (bonus points if they are “diverse”) as an amenity.
I read this HN post. I did not buy Voltaren or search for it anywhere, or chat about it anywhere. I use Twitter a few minutes ago. I see an ad for Voltaren.

Initial Bayesian Conclusion Histogram:

- 33% Voltaren ad push just happens to be underway, and no spying was used

- 33% Google's Android Chrome knew I visited a HN link to today's post about Voltaren, somehow added this fact into my advertising profile, Android Twitter app used it to pick me an ad

- 33% like above, except that since in Android Chrome I'm logged into Twitter, somehow Twitter itself was the upstream source of the interest hint
I just use a UUID for every variable name to make sure the codebase never has any ambiguity.

No one is going to confuse e7693160-b5cf-4761-9202-de019cfd0fc9 with c3d8b9ac-d0da-4bbc-912b-025ce4e47f62
It could start with identifying concurrency as a priority, then looking up the erlang BEAM as a best in class solution, and finally using recent forums to see what today's practical tools are for taking advantage of the BEAM and coming across elixir/phoenix.

*that's how I heard of it, at least. I'm not a developer, more of a sysadmin / analyst
COVID deaths per capita:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Brazil has fewer COVID deaths per capita than Czechia, Hungary, Belgium, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, UK.

These are all countries that have had strict lockdowns and have modern healthcare systems.

This would suggest that Brazil is doing well and that their current approach is justified.

Brazil is now entering the Winter of the Southern Hemisphere, whilst Europe and North America are entering Summer - which also adds a seasonal element to comparisons.

Aren't ICUs meant to be used to capacity? Why would hospital planners build ICUs that aren't going to be used?

What about looking at general public health improvements, such as improving air quality (by increasing the price of coal and oil products, and encouraging EVs) and reducing obesity (by taxing sugar) - which will have benefits beyond this current epidemic - given that obesity and cardiovascular health are major comorbidity factors for COVID severity.
Using something like wifi, to allow network infrastructure to help us connect peripherals & devices, would be incredibly cool.

Wifi's higher throughput, range, and lower latency than bluetooth are all appealing.

I for one think the risk here is limiting your imagination to what we have, to the narrow set of available profiles in Bluetooth.
I’m disappointed you’re being downvoted for asking people to be nice to humans. I’ve probably ruffled a few feathers challenging deference to corporations’ wishes too, but you were explicitly asking people not to be mean to other people and that doesn’t deserve to be penalized here or anywhere.
"Zero privacy of course."

Surely this is not suggesting that Google searches afford any privacy. ;)

While it might not be the Russian government who is watching, Google searches are certainly not ephemeral nor free from analysis in real-time. Aside from "things important to Russian politics", I would guess Google on behalf of its customers, who could be anyone, including governments, is far more interested in what someone is searching than the Russian government.

The point I am getting at here is that there is privacy from a government and there is privacy from a company. Each is a form of privacy, but only the company is in the business of commercialising the information it derives from violating privacy. (Not to mention that, at least in the US, the government is subject to a body of privacy law that does not apply to companies.)

Both the government and the company may violate privacy in the interests of staying in power. They could, e.g., suppress certain information when it is in their interests. However only the ad services company has the additional motivation to collect information to generate profits. The government may believe it has no choice but to monitor web search. The company OTOH freely chooses to monitor web search, as a business.

Anyway, here is a question I have about Yandex.

Google, Bing and other search engines such as DuckDuckGo now limit the number of results that can be retrieved in one session. Based on personal observation, with Google the ceiling is currently 300, with Bing and DDG, it's more like 250.^1 I wonder if Yandex is doing the same.

These limits by Google, Bing, DDG, etc. are eliminating "discoverability" via searching the web. "General" searches that would yield more than 300 results will not return more than 300 results. Users collecting large numbers of results from a general search is effectively prohibited. Google's idea of discovery is "I'm feeling lucky". Of all the silly changes Google has made to search, the most useless feature persists.

Perhaps "broad" searches do not benefit an online ad services business as much as more specific searches do. Limiting total results also puts more pressure on websites to try to be listed within the first 300. (Solution: Buy ads from Google.) A website who is at position 301 is undiscoverable thanks to Google's inexplicable truncation. Interestingly, on some, perhaps all, of their different "UI's", Google no longer numbers results.

1. To illustrate the truncation, try a search for a common string that would appear in the <title> tag of more than 300 pages on the web. https://www.google.com/search?q=title:[common string]&num=100&filter=0
Haha! I understand what you mean. It's a long story, but the gist of it is that I had been more of a hobby-grade developer, on and off, and had a few side projects that I would occasionally boot up and play with.

You could say that I was technical enough to be dangerous, but before PriceTable I did not have any "real-life" experience (or the depth and breadth of knowledge) that comes with building and maintaining a SaaS app with paying users.

I started playing with Rails back in... 2010 I think? And about five years ago someone in the Rails community introduced me to Elixir, and I fell in love with it. So when I conceived of PriceTable, I figured, why not use Elixir for it.
The fact that what is legal? That a company can revoke a passport issued by itself? Seems pretty reasonable.

Maybe people could disagree on specific examples, but the principle seems fine. US passports say in them that they can be revoked for a variety of reasons.
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Unfortunately this isn't the case.

The Pleistocene North American mass extinction, which wiped out the saber-toothed tiger and North American mastodon, was a result of hunting pressure about 10,000 years ago.

The positive stereotypes you are selling aren't real. They're largely the product of Hollywood (e.g. the "Crying Indian" ads), just like the negative stereotypes of the same peoples. Native Americans are people; given the opportunity they wreck nature, and once given guns and horses they stepped up their hunting of buffalo, for example, to levels that would have been unsustainable even if white people hadn't been killing the Buffalo off at far greater rates at the same time.
The caloric needs of the physical activity probably completely counteract and then some the negatives of the diet quality.

If you take before and after snapshots of bloodwork and other physical health markers, it's probably an unambiguous improvement for anyone fit enough to undertake the ordeal.

For example: https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body...
If idly daydreamed about this becoming a sport like esports. Huge crowds cheering as I find that obscure English ePub on a Chinese site, they roar with delight as I DDG !bang their faces off.

Monster energy sponsoring the fastest ‘search parent directory’ surfers.

Ahhh if only.

Also while I’m at it I’d like ‘kicking stones against other stones at juuuuuust the right angle to ping against another stone while walking leashed dogs’ to become an Olympic sport.
I snorted
My understanding is that you use Occam's razor on a list of possible answers. A third person isn't less likely unless there is some more likely choice. I don't know what that would be.

Edit: You're sort of glossing over that "nobody in the driver's seat" is unusual by itself. All explanations I can think of for how this happened are unlikely.
The U.S. military is not "taking UFOs seriously". UAP videos circulating in media are not interest to military. There is one crazy congressman and one ex-fighter pilot who is cashing out.
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> dynamic pricing ... offering targeted discounts based on individual shopper behavior. In practice, we offered a fixed discount to anyone who abandoned their shopping cart.

Ha, that sounds like all kinds of projects, like games that use real physics (at the start of development)
Exactly, the problem is that the government is supposed to own the property, but somehow the tenant should also retain a share. If the government buys the share back, then the government basically ended up gaining net 0 dollars, the full mortgage is still due.

The only way this could work is if the property was sold to a third party and the profits of the sale were distributed according to how much you paid in, the obvious problem with this is that the government won't own the property anymore.
> We only make money off interchange (the fee that the merchant pays for accepting a debit or credit card), and we will never sell your personal data.

Wasn't Occulus all big on "we'll never require Facebook login to use.." only to backtrack later? What's our standard for taking these future claims as ground truths? Surely we can do better than "we won't, pinky promise!" ?
Your last paragraph is the most important one. Autopilot is driver assistance, and it shouldn't be a surprise that it helps. But these results are comparing human + computer vs human, and does not in anyway indicate that the computer alone is better than a human, let alone a human + computer, which should be the benchmark.
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People who study safety are not synonymous with law enforcement and prosecutors.

Edit: having previously worked with safety officers in aerospace who take this exact stance on definitions, I can say they aren’t neither law enforcement or very much concerned with putting people into the criminal justice system. Their concern is mainly to understand the systemic root causes that f accidents in order to prevent them from recurring.
I'm sorry, I don't have enough information on what those statistics mean. I'm not sure what that chart measures, but it shows a 4x increase in early 2020 which leads me to think it isn't saying what you think it's saying. While I don't doubt it relates to how the Fed manages the money supply, it doesn't say what you want it to say.

If you are going to sell this point, you need a source that undstands and can break down the subject matter to explain what these charts are measuring and how that relates to the supply of US currency.
There is a very simple explanation: the car crashed because of the actions
of the two people we know were in the car. Any explanation that requires a
third person is more complex than that.

What where the actions of the two people in the car that caused the crash? That
we can't know yet because we don't have enough information. So in that case,
Billy Occam would say "sit tight and wait until you know more".
You can also scan written text which is not possible with audio or video.

Edit: with scan I mean skimming until you find something interesting.
I agree this is natural outcome when developer time is precious, though sometimes increases complexity for the user and their browser.

And if one doesn't need an API first design then SSR with a robust framework might be cheaper to stand up and maintain.
Or people who live in places that aren't cold every moment of the year
...a threat to who, and for what?

There are two main concerns at play here that are very different: consumer privacy and national security.

The consumer privacy concerns are generally subject to regulation by law, but national security concerns often are extralegal in nature. This makes a big difference in the availability of tools to address the problems. Google will follow your laws or pay fines until they comply. Spies won't.
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It can be both in different ways. You're stuck in either or thinking.

And keep in mind, capitalism (when working properly) is supposed to find minima. Not create further barriers to getting things done. The group that gets the job done at the highest output:input ratio for as long as the problem they are solving is relevant was the intended optimization point. Irrational markets being what they are, this frequently does not converge as planned.
You can play Zork and any Infocom game with GhostScript:

http://zzo38computer.org/zmachine/interp/zmachine.ps

Also, Curses!. (curses.r10.z3).
It has the problem that it violates the UN charter for human rights which says that nations may not make people nationless.
What’s the HN angle here?
Leisure Suite Larry's Game Specs
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work, 1991
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https://allowe.com/gamedesign/Larry5%20Design.pdf

Larry 6,7, and "Casino" here: https://allowe.com/games/game-designs.html
Isn’t the fundamental problem that, in the starting condition, the potential participants can’t afford to buy property?

If they could afford to buy property to get started, it seems like it’s a different group of people than the article contemplates. Or perhaps I dramatically misunderstand your proposal.
Long-term consequences of carbon dioxide emissions
Banking seems like the best way to phrase this to prevent people from screaming about socialism.
> In any language, not just Python. A type that isn't already built-in has to be defined in your code no matter what language you are using.

Yeah exactly! So it's the same for every language. I just don't understand why you then say that I would have to type more in a statically typed language.

> I doubt you would have this feeling if you knew how many times I have tried "a modern fully fledged IDE with a good statically typed language". And every time has ended up the same.

Everyone is different and that's one reason why people choose different tools and languages. Nothing wrong with this - one of the best developers that I know uses vim for everything. I on the other hand would not be productive without a good IDE.

> But the original claim that I responded to was "Everyone needs types" (by which was meant "everyone needs static typing"). It is that blanket, general claim that static typing is always better that I was disputing

Fair enough, I agree with you on that one. The thing I disagree with is that is static typing requires (always) more effort when writing code. For Java this is totally true, but for many other languages, my experience is that I neither have to type more nor that I have to think more.
Can you please provide something more substantive than just being afraid I'm factually mistaken? I've provided a link to Google Ngram Viewer, a reference to The Economist's Style Guide, and an anecdotal experience of being a native British English speaker to the contrary.

I don't refuse to believe that I'm simply only aware of the Americanism; but I'm not willing to take an internet comment (by itself) as a correction.

If anything when I hear people say blah company 'have' done such and such, I think of that as an American/modern personalisation.

I agree completely with this answer, and I think that's consistent with 'Lego has confirmed' here':
https://english.stackexchange.com/a/341284/52014 I'd only add that I consider the 'shorthand for a group of people' strictly colloquial (and oral).
Personally I stick with Node (Express if it's a web server). Next.JS is cool but it's a bit too magical for my tastes, at least when hackability is the key priority.

Usually I end up adding TypeScript into the mix, even for prototypes. However, I'm pretty comfy with the configuration side of that (webpack, etc) so it isn't a huge time sink. If it is going to be a huge time sink, you might try Deno instead. It has Express-like libraries of its own.
why does the fonts looks weird on ps documents compared to pdf?
with unique generated voices taking usernames as a seed
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For a static site or basic CRUD some alternatives are bog standard HTML, CSS and maybe SSR framework
At least there you have much more choices. I personally never ran into this doing airbnb.
The new landlord would raise rents, because he has to get his money back somehow. It would be better to just let the government pay the full mortgage and pass on the costs for the first 30 years and then lower rents to rock bottom prices based on maintenance costs after it has been paid off.
They are not nationless. Revoking someone's passport is not revoking someone's citizenship. Snowden was and is still a US citizen.
He initially flew to Hong Kong and tried to gain asylum there by sharing details of Chinese network targets. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266892/exclusive-ns...

He was charged with espionage while in Hong Kong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-ch...

China didn't want Snowden in Hong Kong but also did not want to appear to acquiesce to US demands, so Snowden tried to get to Ecuador, which would grant him asylum. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-hongkong-idU...

Then he got "stuck" in Russia, which suited Putin just fine. Russia doesn't care about Snowden's travel documents being revoked and would happily fly him to Ecuador if it matched their interests.

The article's timeline of Snowden flying to Russia after being charged with espionage looks correct.
It’s still not awesome if I’m honest. But at least you’re starting from clients that speak JS instead of literally every GET request.
The OP acknowledged this and said they specifically want to hear what others like to use anyway
I have 3rd party cookies off.
The only thing I have seen requiring 3rd party cookies in the last year is Microsoft when I had to use teams.
So? They still provide a downside. Regulation doesn’t make something instantly worth it.
There's no mixed messaging?

The driver is there just for regulatory purposes, all cars self driving in 2016!, cross country summon in 2017, coast to coast autonomous drive in 2018, Tesla self driving taxis in 2019, FSD making teslas worth 250k$ in 2020! Etc etc

There are a lot of statements by Elon Musk
>He did not fly with the intent of staying in Russia.

Keep telling yourself that. The dude has been a Russian asset from the start.
I'm using an LG 43UD79-B 43" monitor and enjoying it as well. I don't like swiping between workspaces so having lots of extra space around the main viewing area makes it easy to see and access lots of paned or overlapping windows.

For gaming I use the center 2560x1440 area 1:1 pixel mode--only does 30/59/60 Hz so not for the serious.
Please make your substantive points without name-calling, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Your comment would be fine without the swipe at the beginning.

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How do you know he isn't going around "vandalizing" his work?
Speaking of dishonesty, you made this same post and when it got downvoted to be barely visible you deleted it only to repost it again.

That's pretty shameful in and of itself.
Given the eventual concentrating of ownership, who gets it does matter in that it creates a land-ownership monopoly. Policies which discourage concentration of ownership, through land value taxation or public ownership, counter this tendency.
Thanks for posting the context for such a bizarre description. I can assure you that it's not worth continuing that train of thought.

However, if you want a positive, constructive frame the goal is self-documenting code. In that vein, here is a set of ideas I made a major contribution to amongst many other serious-minded software engineers.

http://wiki.c2.com/?SelfDocumentingCode
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