skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's that.

A near-westward hit could be more damaging than a direct strike, largely based on storm surge and possibly wind speeds.

What the maximal high-damage offset distance is I don't know, though 20--40km seems sufficiently close to be bad. I'd suspect a little nearer would be worse.

And I do wonder just how many more storms Nawlins and the Old River Structure have in them.
You are right, i think this title is better:

AirBnB will pay hosts for accomodation for 20k refugees.

Anyways great initiative.
I don't think that's going to fly, the Germans really soured the relationship in 1941.
Another common answer to engineering questions is "with enough time and money" ;-)
There are also second order political implications to widespread home ownership. You greatly increase the number of land owners, which greatly increases their power as a political block. This leads to policies that drive up the value/cost of land.

The dynamics here are actually backwards from most markets. Normally by diffusing ownership over a large population you decrease the power of the owner lobby, since no individual cares enough to vote on it; whereas the concentrated owners have the resources and motivation to be a powerful special interest group.

However, for housing, even with individual ownership the house would still be most people's largest asset. Further, in the concentrated ownership situation the class of renters is still motivated to vote on the issue because housing is such a major portion of their lives.
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At some point, DBaaS systems should be able to understand and make inferences about your use cases, to the point where indexes and other performance optimizations are automated whenever you register a new query or something. This would be the new era of database systems, and as the article points out is increasingly true about all “infrastructure” concerns.
Yes, the quality of the agents has changed for sure. However it seems the population now are easier to polarize, perhaps because media is so prevalent in our lives. There have always been groups that went to the extreme with the "for or against" attitude, it seems now that those groups are far larger.

And again, if you're not interested or undecided, then you're the enemy, whereas in the past you would have just been ignored.
> In an ideal world (one I think we are getting very close to) I think we will end up having SQL queries validated in our code against the actual DB structure the same way we have any other compilation error.

This library for TypeScript works exactly like this

https://github.com/MedFlyt/mfsqlchecker
Yeah, but I don't think anybody named "Charlie" would make the connection to "Gamma" :-P
Or everything will be banned, and it no longer becomes possible to get anything done.

Ideally you want chemical level toxicity to kill you in around 90-100 years. Or yes toxic sludge is bad, but you will die of old age first.

Now if it’s this will kill you in 0- 10 years. That’s an okay we need to set the EPA attack dogs loose.
I'm sorry, I'm not following your point -- what are the IDs used for, in your example?

(For the XIB system, they have no purpose at runtime; they're solely for the archive. Objects get their own identity as usual when they're instantiated.)
I wouldn't generalize to the whole first world, obesity is mainly a problem in English speaking countries and in northern and eastern Europe, ie places with a subpar (eg Germany) or non-existent (eg UK, US) cuisine.
damn, Cat 3 is enough to make South Floridians evac north and that doesn't cause nearly as much flooding as places like New Orleans or TX. They really should evac...
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>But it still wouldn't merit a strategic nuclear counterstrike.

I'd hestitate to describe the US as a nation who could politically accept a one-sided nuclear strike.
Oh wow, did not expect an answer form Ralph himself. Great fan of your work on Xi.

Thanks for the detailed answer. As an aching Linux user, I appreciate your focus on infrastructure and accessibility.
Pipelines are the most secure method of liquid transport. Leaks are extremely uncommon and far less common than the alternative - trucks.

Also, there are plenty of fines and enforcement actions on spills.

Police would inflict violence on corporations if corporations break the law. ...which is why they don't. Protesters should try that simple trick.
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> Highly centralized (command & control) and mercantilist systems tend to do well in the short term, but struggle and founder in the long term.

That sounds like a prayer to me.

What evidence is there that China can't win? How are you certain that authoritarian regimes can't both gain and keep dominance over timescale of decades or centuries?

Consider that the dominance of democracy is a relatively short term thing on the historical timescale. For the vast majority of human history, civilizations have been ruled by authoritarian dictators. The rise of China could just be reversion to the mean.

I don't want totalitarianism to win. But if we just complacently assume that it won't, doesn't that make the worst case scenario much more likely?
You're right about that. Nim compiler needs better isolation. I thought you were talking about the web app.
Personally, I dislike wagyu. Not because I'm opposed to eating meat in general, but because wagyu filet mignon, porterhouse, and prime rib are all too soft for my tastes. They're so tender that they remind me of baby food.
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For Python + WX, there's also re-wx[0] (shameless self-promotion)!

I wanted React with Elm-like architectures in WX enough that I got annoyed and built one ^_^

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Video game parts? This is probably the most naïve comment I've read on Hacker News. Have you heard about what is happening with cars now and everything else with microchips?
The entire story lost credibility when it noted that nearly every leader drooled and had crumbs on their shirt.
Some humans enjoy tetrachromacy. There's an article floating around where one such woman mentions that in her world she sees mismatched colors everywhere; colors that to everybody else look identical (e.g. on a shirt and pants, or two walls) but which to her look different, sometimes significantly. IIRC, the fourth spectrum peak isn't that far away from one of the others, so I assume this effect is probably exaggerated by artificial dyes that reflect in relatively narrow bands.

EDIT: Here's the reported anecdote I was remembering:

> "I have always had polite disagreements with people about shades of colours," she says. When clothes shopping for instance, she often finds that apparently matching tops and skirts seem to be a different shade to her, clashing horribly--even though no one else seems to notice it. Her sensitivity can sometimes be baffling to those around: when helping to restore a house, she once rejected 32 paint samples before settling on the right shade. "The beiges were too yellow and not blue enough, not cool enough; some of the almonds were too orangey," she says--distinctions that were much to the confusion of her building contractor.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-women-with-s...
It's crazy that this was downvoted.

Eminent domain being used against you is like winning the lottery for most.
Looks neat.
FYI the templates search isn’t working.

I’d love to browse for more examples.
I for one use KDE and it suits me perfectly. I think it is matter of preference only. For example I don't like MacOS UI that much. Some ideas are awesome there others not that much. Life is not black and white, nothing can be 100% perfect.
While I agree with most of the article, I find the conclusion makes it seem like propaganda:

"it is clear that SoftBank’s short sighted profit driven behavior has caused a massive conundrum"

If I understand things correctly, Arm China going rouge is a big problem for all western governments, who in the past have heavily relied on the leverage that they had thanks to western IP being needed for chip design. So shifting the blame onto SoftBank appears wrong. Did anyone expect a Japanese money-driven investment bank to do what's politically the right thing for the U.S.? I don't think it would be reasonable to expect that. So in my opinion, a better conclusion would be:

"Western governments allowing SoftBank to take Arm's IP into China has caused a massive conundrum"
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also popular to clear out trees close to the house. some people make the rookie mistake of not doing that and end up with an open roof during the storm.
Oh, yeah lol. That was Iraq, so many I'm misremembering. I'll edit in both. As far as "war weary", I don't remember the Cold War ending when the Vietnam War ended. It was just a foreign intervention the Americans lost, like the Soviets lost Afghanistan.
Spy satellites didn't exist during WWII, for one thing (spy planes, sure, and I know elaborate ruses were made for that exact reason, but satellites are a different beast).

For another, the Allies gained significant air superiority well in advance, over the channel and over northern France, for it to happen.

Also, the German surface fleet was already mostly toast or otherwise neutralized, and even their submarines couldn't really operate in the channel with much success (see again: air superiority).

Further, Germany couldn't focus only on repelling a naval invasion in one small area—they were fighting the Allies on the Italian front already, and supporting a huge front in Russia, and had to garrison large regions of Northern Europe against possible air or naval invasion (I mean, the Allies had already tried that once in Market Garden, so it was a real possibility), not to mention to suppress occupied territories.

Plus, we're not at war and have relatively free travel. That, plus modern tech, makes spying much easier. Even if the satellites didn't spot it, a person would. We're talking about a lot of equipment, ships, and people moving around.

I would agree that the pace of war has accelerated such that some of those steps might take hours rather than months to years, but I still think the build-up would be nearly impossible to hide. You need a lot of equipment to land a force and then supply & reinforce them such that they don't become sitting ducks, and it has to be nearby from the beginning.

"But they could destroy the satellites, at least".

OK sure, but 1) they better get them all, and 2) the US would begin moving forces toward and to Taiwan within hours, if that happened—it's pointless, because they'd have already tipped their hand. It would confer no advantage for preparing a surprise invasion.
"But there is nothing we can do, we are going to hurt businesses and job creators".

Okay, then. Let's see what happens when all businesses leave, especially tech, when California is going to resemble frontier living again.
Borrower-checking is a significant development over traditional manual memory management, rendering various categories of error impossible. Before borrower-checking, we could really only do this by using GC.
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Technically that's a sample size of two.
>Taliban (who's leadership is pretty much all dead at this point).

Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Taliban, is out of prison, signed the agreement on behalf of the Taliban for the US withdrawal, and is the top political leader. Sirajuddin Haqqani, son of the founder of the Haqqani network (a pre and post 9/11 ally of the Taliban) is a top deputy. Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of founder Mohammad Omar, is a top deputy. Mullah Mohammad Omar died of natural causes. Jalaluddin Haqqani died of natural causes. That really doesn’t sound like an ideologically transformed Taliban to me.
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In Boston, similar emotions pertain to the Charles River, which runs through it majestically. It’s currently swimmable on many days after decades of cleanup, but finding a Bostonian who would be comfortable taking a dip wouldn’t be easy. Same situation with the Boston Harbor
I generally agree, but it's important to remember that public health officials are not infallible.

In the beginning of the pandemic, most of them told us NOT to wear masks.
calibre uses sqlite and it doesn't support hosting the db on a network drive.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#i-am-getting-error...

i guess that's a bad -dev- user experience?
Forget the bulb - With just a battery and a wire, I can make a light bulb! /s

Jokes aside, as a kid I took super thin, uninsulated, copper wire meant for making jewelry and wrapped it pole-to-pole around a D cell batter. Burned my tiny child fingers and the copper wire began melting through the battery casing. I don't recall how the situation concluded...I called my parents after something began smoking.... That same year, I also made a "light bulb" by placing 0.5mm Mechanical pencil led across the terminals of a 6V moped battery.
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Anywhere where AirBnBs are more than a small percentage of homes indicates a preexisting imbalance most likely due to government regulations.

Allow people to build homes where they want, and use their properties however they want (hotels included) and the optimal natural order will emerge.
The problem with refugees is crowding, displacement, lack of resources, and lack of communications.

These tend to exacerbate any extant public health situations. Given general incompetence concerning Covid in the Southern US generally, I've certain concerns.

What was seen in 2020 was a winter wave which kicked off with Sturgis in South Dakota, then radiated outwards, toward the coasts and south, over the course of the winter, peaking around 10 Januare 2021. I've speculated that mass events, travel, return to school, and greater indoor activity (heating season in the north, as opposed to cooling season in the south) also contributed.

This year the US might se a dual hotspot originating in Sturgis and Louisiana, both radiating outward.

Something to keep tabs on.
I would expect the Smithsonian to have a better grasp of history. The Pullman Strike was far, far larger.

By this article on Blair Mountain, 10,000 miners marched, and 16 died.

According to [1], in the Pullman Strike, about 70 were killed nationwide, 250,000 workers in 27 states were involved, and the President called out the Army.

Personal disclosure: I grew up about 2 miles from Pullman, not that that gives me any special insight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
Again, from the Russian side, it was first Poland that joined, then talk of Ukraine joining. So an ever east-ward expansion of NATO. Meanwhile economic sanctions and exclusion. When that happened, Russia simply reacted. Much like the U.S. reacted to Cuba. Russian aggression is reactive and the predictable outcome of the behavior of NATO and Western economies.
Speaking of speculation, I would strongly speculate that the vaccine will greatly increase the spread of illness.

If the vaccines dull the symptoms to the point that vaccinated people don't readily know that they're sick, then vaccinated people aren't going to be staying home when they're carriers.

In contrast, it seems far likelier that unvaccinated people will feel ill and stay home.
You mean like Apple, BASIC, Lisp, Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Android, ...? This practice has existed from the start and I don't see it as an intrusion into the language. We humans are able to consider context (which is necessary for language either way), and that mostly takes care of it. When someone says "I've got rust on my PC's power supply" or "my python escaped" it's still very obvious it's not the programming language.

And an outsider might have trouble following the conversation, but that would happen no matter what words are used. Whether we say "Elm" or "C++", the target audience knows what's meant and others wouldn't be able to follow either way.
Half of Americans are confirmed imbeciles then, who should have their voting rights withdrawn. There's nothing whatsoever we can do if China really wants to take Taiwan other than impose self-destructive and ineffective economic sanctions. We couldn't even do anything about the Taliban, let alone a nuclear armed country 4.5 times the size of the US, with a _million_ active service men and reasonably modern weaponry.

At the moment Taiwan would be wise to wire their chip fabs to blow, like those Swiss mountain tunnels.
Edit:
"If you're calling 1500 a day a crash diet, making up numbers, and think education is a pointless endeavor, then I can't continue this conversation."

I said previously, I don't care about your personal diet,
as it has little to do with how the CDC should dictate policy.
The diet I described was a crash diet.

'education is a pointless endeavor'.
You are putting words in my mouth, my point, of course, was that knowing about CICO
doesn't change the fact that weight loss takes a long time, is hard, and requires resources that many don't have access to.
A word of warning, keeping it off is also hard when you've been fat, so prepare for that.

Since we won't speak again, I want you to interrogate why you are emotionally engaged with this topic. I had similar thoughts about how other people should behave when I discovered how to lose the weight, but realized only later that those thoughts made me view all fat people in a dim light, that it was ok to assume bad things about them, to view them as in need of 'education' like you advocate for.

If you ignore everything else I've said, please think about the perspective of a
person who has lost 120 lbs, but is still 280lbs, and are receiving their 100th unsolicited lecture about CICO from someone like you. Most fat people go through that, from elementary school to adulthood in the US. It's pointless, they definitely don't want to hear about that from a stranger.
If you want to draw the boundary that way, fine. But to me, the point of open source is that I can get the source code and compile it myself, if I want to and have the necessary resources to do so.
One really good TOTP app for desktops is Authy [0] from Twilio. Some people are not aware that it exists and you don't need an app on your phone for TOTP. Authy works from your desktop as well.

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Imagine someone murdering your family and then not going after them because you don't want to glorify the fact that they killed your family.

...and then they killed someone else's family.
We could have had four of those for what we spent in Afghanistan.
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I read Hacker News and Reddit, or read tech docs, or write some code, or talk with friends.
Then I quit.
I am making a Reddit for China now. I want to help all those boring souls like the old me :).

It is truly depressing. I would never go back. I earn 1/20 of my old salary as a solo developer. I can't make ends meet, yet. But I would never go back.

Paul Graham wrote somewhing like, if you fail, you would have to go back to those boring companies. This fact provides a lot of motivation. I can't remember the exact phrase. But yes, that's exactly how I feel.
> Citing exaggerated concerns about voter fraud

No, they're not exaggerated. Both parties contest elections when they lose, and for good reason.

- in 2020, it was expected for there to be 7 million rejected ballots based on historical counts, yet only 1 million were recorded. Why?

- the USPS backdated mail-in ballots. Why?

- some of the state constitutional amendments used during the election were rolled back afterwards. So who won?

- the FEC considers mail-in ballots of people who moved to another state to be fraudulent. With the high rate of mail-in ballots in 2020, it's guaranteed there was "widespread election fraud", to borrow the MSM's keyword narrative

- Who owns Dominion voting? It appears the CCP bought it in mid-2020 for $400 million. Texas refused to use Dominion because of the uncertain ownership, yet 29 other states used it.
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I would say it is quite active, although still small.

I think there is a slow shift toward community built tools such as lambdera. The language itself is pretty stable (and good, IMHO).

Most of the news are available on the discourse discourse.elm-lang.org
Doesn't mean you could launch it to space like OP is suggesting.
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Bogus WMDs was the excuse for the second war in Iraq, not Afghanistan. We invaded Afghanistan because they wouldn’t hand over Bin Laden.

Historically, American public sentiment has swung between periods of imperialism and isolationism. Based on the last few years, I think we’re swinging back towards isolationism. But yea, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a near-future President looking for an easy military victory (e.g. Panama).
I wish they would skip unnecessary gamification notifications that make interacting on it tiresome. If you use different discourse forums this noise adds up quickly and starts being irritating.
Humans see "gibberish" colors, too! For example, the color magenta doesn't have a wavelength on the ROYGBIV spectrum and is instead an artifact of your eye's rods and cones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FSpCAs5KZg
Upvoted but how could anyone have known whether or not iraq had or was about to have WMDs if they actively resisted and subverted all of the internationally sanctioned inspections? Perhaps they could have attached some probability to each possibility but I have yet to find good evidence that they knew.

Second, in a war with China wouldn’t the elites and their families be just as dead as everyone else after nuclear bombs land on major US cities? I can imagine elites or private companies encouraging political movements toward war or tangential to war but I can’t imagine them wanting war to actually happen.
Yet another SoftBank fuckup...
From a development point of view, I suspect taking step back to the previous semiconductor node would be preferable to a nuclear WWIII. However, humanitarian concerns and international obligations seem to be a better framework for analyzing this sort of decision, and thankfully that's all over my head. Hopefully it doesn't come up.
I don't think 'legally' is a good term to describe what happened with Carrie Lam and the Hong Kong ruling local government.

As a whole the West does not generally believe that tactics of barring opponents from running, criminalizing dissent, disappearances, soft violence and threats is a fair Democracy or election, if it even meets the definition at all.

While perhaps technically 'legal' on paper, my point is that once the Law is coopted by one person (or CCP as an entity) with total control, the Law becomes the Emperors will and not a legitimate legal system by our norms.