skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite opinion; skyscrapers minimize the amount of land used for housing, so they are fantastic at reducing land impact.

Disconnected lawns or apartment courtyards and single street trees are far too small to provide a meaningful, thriving ecosystem, particularly for roaming animals. Hong Kong's extreme density, meanwhile, allows 40% of the territory's land to be uninterrupted natural habitat.

The lack of local agriculture is a far greater issue than just what skyscrapers enable. At least in the US (I'm sure in Europe as well) the seasonality of food is no longer a huge deal for availability because we're willing to ship produce halfway around the world, and that's a problem for both cities and suburbs.

I'm not super confident that the timeline for our electricity getting green is going to proceed at the pace required. And there are also lots of other things electric cars don't fix, like extensive amounts of roadway runoff from roads and parking lots, impact to physical habitats, higher energy use, etc. There still isn't a great heating or cooling solution that is both low energy and works in temperature extremes, and your US suburban homeowner would balk at buying a property without AC.
Is the New York Times a newspaper that only publishes things relevant for Americans?

I wouldn't know, I'm not American.
In 2018 we were indeed among the lowest but not the lowest: https://www.capital-ges.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1.png from https://www.capital-ges.com/maternity-paternity-and-parental...

I am not sure the career consequences are better elsewhere. What makes you say that pregnancy/motherhood has less effect on careers in different countries?
There is no but. It can do the job period.

And no, I don't use it either.
My Modula-2 book doesn't mention most of those things. The Modula-2 it describes was about equivalent to C with syntax modernizations and a nod to modules. I suspect you may be conflating it with a later effort, maybe Modula-3.
lol gives away you are probably in your mid-20s. That's OK, you'll understand what I mean as you enter your 40s.
It also has to do with Twitter's complete incompetence at leveraging the information they have to create something monetizable in general.

Google and Facebook intrusively touch into every aspect of your life, to the extent that they can advertise things to you with pinpoint accuracy. They also operate at a scale of users that's at least 1-2 order of magnitude higher than twitter.

Tiktok, Snapchat (weakest case) and YT integrate adverts in a way that forces you to look at the content. Thus increasing engagement even if their user-targeting isn't as exact.

Reddit and twitch use an additional pseudo donation/commision system to keep money coming. Discord straight up charges for a premium package.

The weakest but still relevant case is by Pinterest. People visit the website when they are looking to buy something, so well targeted ads can get high engagement and the form of media is also higher engagement (pictures).
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Twitter does none of them. From a service standpoint, it has created zero user-flows that involve making advertisements effective or allowing any user-to-user monetary interaction in a way that they can be the middle-man.

Theoretically, Twitter could massively expand its user base, but it has stagnated for 5 years, so I don't have much hope.

Otherwise, they could finally release a product where the content natively produces income (subscriptions, paywalls) and get more revenue out of each user. It's bewildering that Twitter didn't release a substack like product 5 years ago. It was practically staring them in the face. Maybe a YT-subscriptions-like join button on which you can take some commission? They could've served as the front-page-of-world's-news and helped generate revenue for news agencies while taking a cut.

There were so many places they could have gone, but they went nowhere. I dunno what the Product-Dev/PM role in twitter looks like, but I imagine it must be quite boring. Hiring a few competent PMs and giving them free reign for a bit, might not be bad idea for twitter. (as much as HN hates the average MBA PM, technical ones that also get business and product needs are hard to find)

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Admittedly, the core product of twitter is not bad at all.

I joined twitter in 2020 with a hyper curated list of sources, mostly politically unaffiliated individuals. I unfollow any account that tweets more than 5-times-a-day or opines of things beyond narrow topics.

It is also amazing for getting the real first sources, that previously would have needed a intermediary media org to get their point through.

It is amazing. But it took work to get there. It's like
company with an in-house compiler of a functional language, w/ no chanche to have a breakpoint or know whats what in the disassembly, generates ~800 lines of assembly for the simpelest things. turns out that someone did not read the specs and used xorps in a funny, heisenberg-ish way.
I've always felt the fundamental flaw of Twitter is it focuses on people, and so ego gets in the way and ruins things. It's a popularity contest. Contrast that with say Reddit, where you can go to a niche subreddit and it's not about people at all, it's about the topic of the subreddit. Everyone is just talking about the topic, and no one cares who you are. I find that to be a much more healthy and enjoyable experience. And to be fair, mainstream reddit has a lot of ego in it too. My trouble is finding "niche twitter" seems to be impossible, after 10ish years now I still haven't found it. I'm convinced it doesn't exist.

edit: HN also fits the bill here.
The "piece of crap blogpost" details their data and methodology and gives a link to the published paper that the "piece of crab blogpost" is about.

Because you aren't attacking data or methodology I have to assume your post reflects more issues you are struggling with than issues raised by the paper. Of course, I'm sure the data and methodology have flaws or need further research. It's not within my skillset to judge it. But these things are almost never perfect or the end all.

https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2014.0538
> Whats with operating systems and religion

Many daemons lurk in OSes. Sometimes religion provides the comfort and safety you need to face the horrors hiding in operating systems.
I'm not kidding when I say that I would pay a literal 3x premium for an Ipad Pro that can run linux.
No Wayland support[1] still. Interestingly there are "donations" being accepted & some kind of a bounty for this issue. I don't know if anyone can deem the bounty, but it looks like it might be for $2500! Wow. When this issue was opened almost 3 years ago, I think support would have been much harder, but there are wayland protocols like wlroots's wlr-virtual-pointer-unstable-v1[2] now to regularize/normalize this sort of thing.

In general, there are just so so so many open issues & pull requests open. It's great software but wow, there's so many different environment's it needs to work across, & trying to maintain this project seems like a nightmare.

Not cross platform afaik but I really dig the netevent[2] project linked in this thread, which is a lower-level network input forwarder.

Last but not least, Barrier was discussed on HN with 14-comments a year ago[4].

[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109

[2] https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable...

[3] https://github.com/Blub/netevent

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281870
Of those cases, I’ve seen zero reported as symptomatic. If you have any proof otherwise please link sources.
I didn't catch this when it was announced earlier this week - I can't say I'm surprised given COVID's effect on things.
No, that's just a sine-wave centered around 9000 where someone forgot to take instrument precision into account.
A large majority of Latino people believe that "Latinx" should not be used to refer to them, according to Pew Research.

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
One phone company and one cable company is what most people have now for broadband competition. How will that change?
Home internet is a new business. T-Mobile already covers 30M households for home internet (around 20-25% of US households, https://www.t-mobile.com/isp). Verizon has a more limited LTE home internet program.

T-Mobile is currently targeting areas where they have excess capacity, but their capacity will be growing a lot over the next year or two as they launch a lot of new mid-band spectrum. Verizon is also looking to launch new mid-band capacity, however that will probably be a couple years behind given that the spectrum isn't currently free and the fact that Verizon's new spectrum will require more towers for coverage. Still, wireless companies are looking at a lot of new capacity and looking to expand into home internet.

Sometimes it's about the technology coming together at the right time to offer a new product. Think about the original iPod. Before then, MP3 players were either sad 32MB players that could only handle 10 songs or large and heavy boxes that weighed a pound and couldn't fit in a pocket. Then the 1" hard-drive came around and Apple shipped the iPod. Without the 1" hard drive, Apple couldn't offer a light-weight, pocketable music player with a 1,000 song capacity.

Likewise, without new mid-band spectrum and new 5G technologies, it's very hard for wireless carriers to offer home internet without data caps. However, those new technologies come around and all of a sudden it opens new opportunities. T-Mobile has already started to use some of that new capacity. Their base plans include 100GB of premium data (deprioritized when the network is busy after that) and their new MAX plans have unlimited premium data (never deprioritized).

The industry will be working toward home internet over the next 5 years, but it is a reality today for a lot of customers and that will start growing quickly.
Oh, interesting, what is it exactly ?

Surprising that with over a year of discussions about this subject I only first hear of it ?

Would this be the reason why at least tens of millions of consumer routers don't have IPv6 firewalls (technically, opt-in firewalls, but you know how that goes...), and don't have their networks hacked ?

Wait, does it even work with UDP, which doesn't have a concept of "connection" ? (Especially IPv6 (no NAT) UDP ?)
The comment didn't outline this obvious point.

It tried to compare it with heat pumps.
Jonbar Hinge
I'm a relatively vocal atheist, but Serenity Prayer is a pretty useful/accepted creed to live by if you can get over the very first word, so I can't say it bothers me much; and while I realize there's one other OS that's much more explicitly religion-oriented, I'm not sure it's quite a significant pattern yet...

"(God), give me grace
to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other."
This is early 1900s literature. It's assuming that the reader isn't so dumb as to over-do it with a 20ft scarf. Modern (say 1990+ or so) instructional literature makes great pains to tell you everything you shouldn't do or make clear that you can't deviate from whatever you're supposed to do.

Additionally, this particular risk would have likely gone without saying since the risk is no different in a horse drawn carriage.
It's freeing in a weird way.

I always used to move myself. I had a small Toyota pickup (hilux type) and my method was anything that didn't fit in the bed to allow me to move in one trip was tossed. That was my way of making sure I didn't accumulate too much junk.

Then I took a job halfway across the country and relocation was part of the deal.

They came to my apartment, packed everything up in a few hours, and put it all in a moving van and then drove my truck onto the van. I got on a plane and my stuff arrived a few days later and was put into storage until I needed it. The entire process was so seamless, that I'd happily do it again.

Living in a hotel for a month while my stuff was in storage really drove home the point that I really had no attachment to my "stuff." The only thing I missed was having my weights, so I got a temporary gym membership instead.
I believe Ether will overtake BTC first as primary cryptocurrency, but XMR will play a big role as an altcoin too.
In essence if everyone pays it through their income it is free as it will effect the buying power of everyone. Also because everyone chips in the individual contribution is lower.
I agree, I think that's close to isomorphic to my first solution! There's a "mapping" from numbers to strings, and this is the mapping.
Hey Andreas (assuming you're still reading these threads) I'm so happy to see you reach this point with Serenity. I remember seeing your project pop up here (early 2019 I think?) and just being absolutely blown away by the undertaking. What I love most about the project after following it since though is you've really shown it's absolutely doable, not only by you or superstar programmers but by folks willing to put the time in, and along the way made so many others realize this whether they contribute to Serenity or not. Your YouTube videos are absolutely great and there is just something about it all (probably the "under one roof" philosophy) that makes showing the "adding/fixing this little piece" so much more consumable. In short, thank you for doing all of this for not only yourself but everyone else now involved with the project.

Anyways I always told myself I should chip in for all of the great content over the years and so now I've joined your Patreon - here's to hoping more are able to as well and you can continue living the dream!
> elimination of pile-on

I'm thinking of some kind of ML scheme where the site analyzes your comment and sees if it is similar enough to existing comments.

Or perhaps also analyzes your comments to see if they are similar to older comments you have made already.
Hi Andreas, I'd love to interview you sometime about addiction. Sounds like you have a strong perspective and are comfortable sharing your story. I'm still rebuilding things so I won't be launching my media production company for another year or so but I'll probably reach out on Twitter someday ;)
Emacs link scraping (2021 edition)
Instead of making everywhere more like Earth, how about making ourselves more adaptable to everywhere?
reddit did it years before all of those.
The problem is fundamental to their design; Any time I've ever wanted to respond to a tweet I can't seem to fit what I'm trying to say within their character limit and by the time I've shortened what I'm trying to say enough to fit that limit I've condensed my viewpoint into nothing more than a soundbite and soundbite statements are always going to cause arguments no matter your intent.
I suspect it's a universal human characteristic.
When I've needed a furnished apartment, I've done it separately -- rented an apartment, then rented furniture separately. They'll come in and set up the furniture and come and pick it up when you move out.

Last time I rented furniture, it cost around $250/month to furnish a one bedroom apartment. They supplied all of the furniture, we supplied dishes and cookware.

For a longer term lease, it may be cheaper to buy cheap furniture from Ikea, but it's a lot more hassle, it's so much easier to let the rental company come in and set up, then take it all away when you leave.
The one other example is obviously either FreeBSD, whose mascot is a demon, or OSX, which itself is a religion. ;)
Well, IPv6 seems to be today (both in popularity and speed of adoption) where UTF-8 was about a decade ago. So, hopefully in a decade..?
The cynical part of me wants to sarcastically respond "Yeah, let's make sure everyone can contribute 120 years to making corporations richer instead of just 60 years!"

With that said, I do think you have a point--spending ~90 years in a nursing home because you're unable to take care of yourself sounds like a miserable existence straight out of a dystopian novel.
I might be ignorant, but you actually need the exception, otherwise it would be gpl, isnt it.
Bad Romance [audio]
> It seems like an ideal way to use excess energy in grid-tied solar setups where the energy company is not incentivized to buy excess power. Or for non-grid tied solar when your batteries are full.

The ideal way to use excess energy is to do almost anything else besides pointless proof-of-work computations (e.g some scientific distributed computing thing).
His reasoning was that I was more likely to get moderate side effects from the vaccine due to high antibody levels. He also noted that I shrugged off the initial infection and that it was highly unlikely for me to get infected again and in the event I did I would almost certainly have very moderate symptoms.

He did this contingent on the fact that I don't live near any elderly relatives nor do I socialize with anyone that is high risk. I don't socialize much at all really unless I'm outdoors.

I almost forgot to mention that he had looked at literature which stated that high antibody levels at time of vaccine could reduce its efficacy.

Frankly a lot of this is moving target so I'm keeping my mind open.
I have roughly half the followers and upon seeing similar dynamics, just started taking breaks and tweeting things of interest, but with a twist: I do not check on those tweets, until next session.

Works much better now.
Nah, the thread is about people redoing the whole car, adding airbags, swapping out the carburetor, installing power steering, and maybe throwing in a new stereo and a paint job.

sed vs. sd, for example https://github.com/chmln/sd The semi-lovable but reliable old jalopy overhauled to match modern practices.
> “They help fight off infection…”

Yeah, that’s what the immune system does.
> Do you expect a country to flourish when you siphon off the educated?

Yes. Research shows that when more people are educated abroad (i.e. 'siphoned off') this tends to improve attitudes towards democracy and liberal values in the source country. This directly addresses one of the main factors explaining expats' attitudes towards coming back.
This is probably the closest to a single source, I’d forgotten about it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40923001-giants

It puts the present death toll of capitalism at around 9 million a year, so a mere decade or so to surpass 100. This without counting the significant historical death toll too.
Yeah, that's not really true.

The political differences here are often stark. You also have a fair amount of Independents here which makes this place a bit more tolerable for me. I really can't stand left-wing or right-wing ideologues, much less the extremists.

HN caters to people from all across the US (most of the audience is outside Silicon Valley and the global audience continues to grow based on dangs postings).

You could say it's mostly male, but I've seen more usernames with women's names in them.
> What will the companys insurance say?

High enough probability of "You don't have coverage for that", that this is something you really should dig into personally.
Is there an accessible list of countries available to host servers that aren't in a treaty with the US, EU, RU and CN?
Don't go hating on my boy Terry (pbuh):

"The got rid of CD/DVD. they are coming for our guns."
I think Vim won by virtue of already being installed.
Also a term used by almost no actual Latinos.
Someone knowledge, does elliptic curve math and factoring math linked in any way to each other? Does solving one automatically solve the other also? I am asking because these are the only two approach securing the website transit right now.
Dude when ISIS was a big thing, I had a phase when I would try to debate the recruiters on Twitter (the guys who "thank the lions", write half arabic half english and seem to live in the middle east). This was fun time :D

Twitter is such a trash, I mean on the IRC at least you can split in groups, kick out and prevent unsignaled readership. On twitter millions can read a random shit without segregation it's awful.

I had to get away from it when the US required foreigners to disclose their twitter accounts upon entry, with all my ISIS "friends"...
No wayland support, but it is working if you don't need wayland support. Works on MacOS and Linux, I'm using it to write this post right now. Keyboard and mouse are from the Linux machine, and this browser is in MacOS. The latency is easily better than VNC; and honestly has worked like a charm for me. I'll have to checkout netevent next, thanks for sharing.
These people need to learn that there is a time and place for everything.
Role Again
After 5 minutes of reading through their website, I still don't understand what is their actual product. I like to think of my self as someone who is computer-savy, working at a software company, designing systems that access several databases from several clients, using spark, aws, the works... and still, their website makes no fkn sense! Could someone translate, please?

oh.. but look at the amount of job openings these guys have across the world.. is this another marketing ploy? I am deeply bothered by this kind of "products".
The premium is Henley & Partners (although they had a bit of a scandal recently), I also think Latitude seems very good (https://www.latitudeworld.com/), and Arton Capital is another leading one but I haven't dealt with them directly
Searching on "Rust Embedded Microcontroller" on one of the big job boards yields 24 hits:

https://www.indeed.com/q-Rust-Embedded-Microcontroller-jobs....
That’s the problem, isn’t it. The 2011 Turntable was free, but couldn’t monetize it, so it shut down. Commercial music needs to be paid for somehow.
Well that would just show how disconnected from rest of USA you are. Whereas such expensive gas may ruin millions in US but you will be fine with your Gigabit broadband.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderwort, 18 Febr. 2007:

A word that was spread among numerous languages and cultures, usually
in connection with trade, so that it becomes impossible to establish its
original etymology, or even its original language.

Interestingly even back in Egyptian times there was a corroded version with H instead of C:
𓎛 𓆰 𓈖 | H.n | cannabis

(unless 𓎛 was closer to C than to H)
Don't forget the negative externality. He's using those SV monopoly bucks to turn some other economy upside down. Like littering in the economic park.
Build something you want to use.
Pyreports wants to be a library that simplifies the collection of data
Thank you! I hope it works well in your pilot project.

In my process, I often hack a design in my browser first, capture a full-page screenshot and continue to iterate in NextUX to visualize new ideas quickly. I built most of NextUX this way.

Sometimes a new design can be articulated with a contextual comment on an existing design or a quick hacked together amalgamation of elements. I think good design is messy and evolving.

I've noticed that I become a perfectionist in other design apps like Figma and the design begins to deviate from production as things develop. It can be quite frustrating!

I remember many years ago using Fireworks, then Photoshop, then Sketch, and most recently Figma. With each platform I said,
"I will never leave Fireworks" (2005-2008)
"I will never leave Photoshop" (2009-2012)
"I will never leave Sketch" (2013-2016)
"I will never leave Figma" (2017-2020)

But I think Figma is a great product and I think NextUX can compliment it in many ways. NextUX is great for quick feedback or design creation based on what's already in your browser.
True, but there is no need to confine oneself to an old Watcom compiler just to generate 80286 code. We had cross compilers even back then.
Sounds like typical junior engineers.
I don't feel there is any theoretical reason why humans could not live forever. Biology has already solved this problem in some organisms. Whether we are capable of solving it is a different question. But I think it's certain that it's possible for humans to become biologically immortal.