skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is not that "backslash" sounds unrefined. "Backslash" is fine when you're referring to a backslash (reverse solidus). What's not fine is saying backslash when you are in fact referring to a plain ol' slash (solidus), as in URLs.

People who refer to domain "extensions" share something in common with people who misapply the term "backslash". Nerdy enough to have heard of (file name) "extensions" and "backslashes", not nerdy enough to care whether the term is actually appropriate for what they're trying to refer to in the present. TLDs are not "extensions".

The occasional domain registrar that refers to them this way in marketing copy make me wince the hardest. They don't have the excuse of co-opting technically incorrect but extremely popular misnomers. It's more like, if anything, they're most likely to be the cause of people using the wrong term, if ever it were to become a trend.
Yup. In a fit of hysteria and panic, we destroyed a decade of urbanization.

Oh yeah, and we completely f’d over our kids. Like, shamefully so.

History will harshly judge the people who pushed these public policies.
That difference is also a benefit, fix one problem, and it's fixed for every instance.

On the other hand, it's not like the software is always bad and always in the same situation. That is a big difference with a human analogy; a drunk driver taking a trip in the car is drunk for the entire trip (unless it's a very long trip etc..), so would be impaired for the entire duration.

There are plenty of people and vehicles that are road hazards and are allowed to drive (or be driven) anyway, so if we really cared about that aspect on its own we could probably do with better tests and rules in general.
I agree, but also think we will adapt in many different ways. New types of tickets. There would be no go zones where pedestrians don't compile(or comply!). Mackinac island will not have this issue! And for fun I have to note basic game theory also dictates if we replace airbags with a sharped steel spike that comes out during accidents people will drive safer!
Should it come back? I feel like this succinctly demonstrated the innate flaws in urbanism, rather than being a novel, isolated failure mode for an otherwise robust ideal of how people should live.
If the case has the headroom to fit a decent cooler, a smaller case sounds almost better, as one intake and one exhaust fan would be more than sufficient to continually exchange the volume of air within the case?
I think the military comparison is apt, because massive military spending is seen as table stakes for being a “serious” politician in the US, whereas massive GHG reduction spending is seen as an automatic disqualifier and makes you a silly believer in the “green dream or whatever”.
I write extensively about developer businesses and markets: https://tylerjewell.substack.com/p/developer-led-landscape-2...
In my experience the Matchbox cars had thicker axles, but they weren't trying to have the least friction. Hot Wheels were, and they had thinner axles. For better or worse, you could stand on both accidentally without collapsing the body. The incident might warp an axle but they could be bent back if you could get a needle-nose in there. And I had a needle-nose pliers because electronics.

Hot Wheels sold track that would allow construction of simple ramps and loops, and low friction was a well-chosen target under the circumstances. I think Matchbox might have put out a line that was similar, but my peers and I did not buy it.

What was cool about Hot Wheels was the racing story. What was cool about Matchbox was the exotic car story. Ford Cortina! What lucky people owned those! But seriously, I had a Lotus Europa from Matchbox and when I saw one in the real world I was blown away. It seemed capable of turning through 90 degrees on a dime.
There are still poorly understood physical phenomena that could prove to be tremendously useful, like superconductors. If quantum gravity leads us to room-temperature superconductors (for example), that would be absolutely earth-shattering for humanity.
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Most of my vacations are combination with visits to friends/family. So until transport works where ever they choose to live I'm stuck needing a car.
Interesting...I recall that Django always set itself apart from Rails by not having a lot of magic. Has this changed?
No idea what this one is called, but I've used similar tools. It's like a robot arm in reverse--using inverse kinematics we can put the tip of a universal 5-axis manipulator anywhere in x-y-z space by driving the angle of the axes using motors. These scanner pens work in reverse, reading the angle of the axes to get the tip point in x-y-z space and outputting that x-y-z as a point cloud stream to your CAD program of choice.
And has a different tradeoff, due to atomic operations being needed for objects shared between threads (and of course, circular references).

But no matter what, it is literally a GC algorithm, described in every book about GCs.
Biggest BLM FB groups were ran by Russians? Straight from Mueller report.
I would appreciate a simple "keep-distance-wrt-speed" function for bumper-to-bumper situations.

This has been widespread for at least a decade. I'm not even aware of a mainstream auto brand that doesn't offer adaptive cruise control at this point. Every one I've used works in stop and go traffic.

The other features you want are exactly what Tesla has basically perfected in their autopilot system, and work almost exactly as you describe (not the FSD, just the standard autopilot).
China has it so easy! This is not fare...
As a Philly resident... yep. For those visiting, honestly if you plan to stay anywhere near Center City having a car is more of a hassle than not. Our transit system isn't perfect but it's easily the best way to get around the core parts of the city.

And yeah whenever I visit NYC from here it's always by train.
The train is actually the one form of transit that usually beats driving, at least the trains that are grade separated (red and purple). There is no faster way to get between downtown LA and hollywood than the redline for most of the day. The expo line is pretty slow since a lot of it runs at grade, but even then it can beat a day with terrible traffic on the 10 going into santa monica.
Rocket is the most promising up-and-comer I know about: https://rocket.rs/ It manages to provide an experience along the lines of Flask or Express

Iron and Actix are the more established but more complicated ones

Edit: According to a reply, Iron is considered abandoned
I don’t know what where you live, but here in the civilised world you’re not legally supposed to turn on to a road when there are freaking pedestrians already crossing it.

You’re supposed to wait for them to fully complete their crossing, and yes: the overwhelming majority of drivers here abide by that requirement.
Sure, but I am now officially past the willingness to waste time, making random people happy. A couple of years ago, I was willing to do this, but no longer. It was made fairly clear that the new tech field doesn’t have room for an old war horse.

Since I already have a very substantial "nest egg," it was time to just start living off that, and doing work that I want to do.

I immediately sought out some folks that wanted to do a free app (it actually has monetization potential, but we aren't really paying attention to that, right now) that would help recovering drug addicts network and support each other. They were not having much luck, getting people to take their effort seriously.

I already had a full-fledged generic application server that I had written, just for practice[0], so I said that I'd build them a frontend, based on that server, and I'd do it for free, because I like to code, I figured that I'd learn something (I haven't done a social media app, yet), and it would give me a chance to develop some theories about hyper-flexible software methodologies that I'd had kicking around. I knew they didn't actually have a clear vision for their product, and I knew that I could develop it in a way that would help them to refine it. I just got off a video call with the CEO and a backend guy, where we mapped out a "bare spot" that needs paving. I guarantee that many startups would absolutely drool over the process we are using to develop this app.

It's been great. I haven't been this happy in my entire career.

[0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...
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Don’t you suppose public transportation costs would skyrocket with 10x the gas prices? Imagine 15 euros for a liter. Holy yikes. Of course, electric vehicles would be a part of a cheaper solution.
If the stimulus checks had been tied to vaccination status we would be at 99%. The government asking the populace to "Please do the right thing" isn't an effective strategy. Who would have thought?
It is good for GitLab, what a shame for GitLab's users
I made a mistake of trying some jazz 5 years ago, now my feed cursed. 99% of suggested videos are not clicked yet youtube insist of showing same stuff for years.
It would be nice to think that committees would be freed from the pressures of democratic accountability and could finally make the enlightened decisions they had always been yearning for, but I don't think that is the most likely outcome.

Instead you would likely see the dominant party passing extreme legislation on 51/49 majorities, with every politician being able to claim that actually they were a centrist and they voted against the legislation (and it must have been disloyal members of the other party that enabled the vote to pass).

In fact, the veil of secrecy might even allow members of a minority party to claim that they are against some extreme policy, but actually collude with a faction from the majority party to narrowly pass it, either because it benefits the politicians themselves (at the expense of their voters) or because the extreme outcome would motivate their supporters to re-elect them.
I've noticed this too. Occasionally I'll look up a how-to/DIY thing, watch one video for it, and then all my recommendations (even the ones on the front page) revolve around that topic. But it's not like I have a consistent interest in it, it was a one-off.
It’s not the worst shortage. It’s a fairly high-profile example, but there are a wide variety of shortages.

I think it’s fair to say that a lot of consumers aren’t much affected by them. Many businesses are scrambling, though.
Interesting! Do you know of a good write up that captures nuances like this? Also be careful with the causality :)
This is cool but I wish they updated the rest of their docs so the platform was more usable. I’m sure under the hood things make sense and integrate well with each other and other Google products but there’s no way I’m going to invest in figuring that out. Don’t know why such a major tech company has such a difficult time writing decent user documentation
It is their choice, but this is a step backwards for standardization. How much waste and how many mistakes have been made from mixing up units.
I think the wording gives it away. "Unless government credibly commit to..." Not "unless governments do". Just if they "credibly commit to doing". They still aren't thinking in terms of actually doing things, just in terms of committing to do them.

Talk != action, not even if the talk is "credible". You think this is an existential problem? Great. Start doing something. Don't tell me what you're going to do, do it.
Actually, Deming said much the opposite:

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.

p. 26 of The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education

It wasn't Drucker either.

https://medium.com/centre-for-public-impact/what-gets-measur...

This whole mindless must measure, must measure mentality has been criticized since the 50s. Measurement is a tool. There are many tools.
Database queries are a big one in some cases.
> innate flaws in urbanism

Care to elaborate?
So what specifically makes one of these Facebook pages a "troll farm" instead of just a page run by people who happen to be outside the US? Does it even matter if they are domestic or international? Much of this article seems to describe high-engagement content that happens to out-compete other pages by simply giving users what they want. The article uses vague terms at times, like "propaganda" or "provocative content" but doesn't clarify provide clear definitions. It also mentions that the content might be of "limited originality" but that hardly seems worthy of notice, given almost the entirety of social media is exactly that.

The underlying paper, embedded towards the bottom of the article, also seems similarly vague. It mentions that Facebook's mission is to "bring the world closer together" but doesn't make clear why these groups don't fall under that mission. This particular sentence from the opening "Background" section is probably their best attempt at explaining why this is a problem:

> It is profoundly strange that people who do not speak the local language, do not understand US politics, and fundamentally do not care about US politics, were able to become one of the loudest voices in the civic space on FB.

Do any of these matter? Is someone not allowed to share content or become influential unless they speak certain languages or understand certain politics? Can't the same charges also be leveled against various domestic groups?
I doubt it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Assuming the pandemic does end, we’ll see greater appreciation for these things.
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I had a blue Lotus Europa from Matchbox, and then I saw one in action and never could think a dull thought of it.
The reccomendation system is absolutely dangerous. Just this summer, I watched one video on peppers out of curiousity. By the end of summer I've got multiple different varieties growing, and all the accessories to support them. I'm really enjoying my garden, but it's very unlikely I would have started one without the youtube algorithm. Similarly my doctor reccomended I exercise more, so I started running. Then I googled how to improve, and soon I'm purchasing gear, and trying supplements. The amount of economic activity driven directly from Youtube has to be HUGE.
To add to this, for the solution that takes you 30 seconds to articulate and 1 hour to code, let me guess---About 5 minutes of that hour is writing the business logic that solves the problem, and 55 minutes are things like: 1. Boilerplate: Headers and includes, function and variable declarations, comment blocks in the right place, class this, interface that; 2. Reformatting: casts, serialization, deserializating, data marshaling, transforming from one data structure to another; and 3. Refactoring: adding an argument to function X requires manual upstream changes in all 25 places that call function X, making data Y an enum instead of a bool requires identical changes in 50 other files. Crap like this is pure brain-off typing that takes the vast majority of the time you spend "coding."

I'd love to see better tooling that automates the crap and lets us focus on the actual business logic and value add.
Yes and:

> Music went from being a social activity to something you could privately enjoy

It made private, detached listening immersive, wholly personal.

Accelerated transition from common culture via shared realities to bifurcated cultures.
Never mind the driver who can't wait the two to five seconds for the pedrestrian to cross, which is probably far more common than the above, and rather intentional.

TBH I don't think it's ever crossed my mind whether a Tesla was in FSD or not, even when driving alongside one. As long as it doesn't enter my space, I'm fine.

Walking through Manhattan, I'm more worried about the human driver nowadays than the non-human.
> One issue is that some things, like vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, are intrinsically harder to track because they are based on rare occurrences. Thus, they will tend to get sacrificed in favor of measures which are more frequent, leading to an emphasis on short-term strategies.

I suppose this is part of why "chaos engineering" has gained popularity- introducing artificial disruptions at a known rate makes it easier to quantify the impact of otherwise-unusual events.
Maybe it's gotten better? I did a summer at UCLA a bunch of years back and I remember it took me about 2 hours to get from LAX to UCLA via bus (and the bus dropped me on the far side of campus from where I wanted to be). At the end of the summer I knew someone with a car so I was able to get a ride from the dorm to LAX, door-to-door in something like 20 minutes. I was shocked, I had no idea the airport was that close by.

Over the summer I used the bus to get around and it worked well for some destinations (I spent a lot of time in Santa Monica because that was easy) but there were others that just seemed too much of a pain (I wanted to see what Malibu was about but never did).

Now as an adult who can afford a rental car I don't think I would consider going car-free for a trip to LA, unless the trip had a narrow focus (e.g. convention at convention center all week).
This is a fantastic solution, the only issue it's relatively unheard of.
I'd expect M&A since their competitors are owned by larger companies with a suite of developer productivity offerings.
[edited to make my point clearer]
This is not about "value" of the language (worse is better) it is just about cost (cheap is better).
Hiring js dev is cheaper because it is cheaper/faster to learn js.
These are the biggest trees on earth.[0] They're absolutely stunning up close if you ever have the chance to see the ancient ones before they disappear. This is a recent list of their last natural groves, some of which are now gone.[1]

Are we witnessing the last march of the Ents?[2]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_sequoia_groves
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKl3gPGdtpc
Public transportation around me is one of the earliest adopters of EVs.
I am no alarmist, but just look at how most governments reacted to COVID.
We need a price on carbon emissions. Probably coupled with subsidies on a per kwh basis for carbon free energy. Different energy sources will be appropriate in different markets. Mandating specific technologies is going to end up being wasteful and inefficient.
I wouldn't go too far in the opposite direction though. Teenagers screwing around is more likely to be lewd carvings than life-size carvings of a camel.

A rule of thumb I've heard is that "ritual significance" is code for either "we have no idea" or "probably a sex toy", depending on context. In cases like this, I think the default assumption should be "probably art".
> public exit

That's the exact opposite of what is happening.
"Why does Rice play Texas?"
Even more incredibly, "FSD" is an addon you pay for. So customers are paying for the lie.
I just installed Windows Server 2019 on my new laptop, in the hope it gets less telemetry, fluff and UI innovations. At least I can sleep well at night knowing I won't wake up one morning to new Windows 11 on my laptop.
How is this clickbait? It's an article explaining the EFF's support for pending U.S. antitrust legislation.
I tried Seed out a while back, one thing I really enjoyed was the lack of JSX-like views. It's not necessarily the aesthetics of it, it's that it takes ages to compile those macros.
It's probably a lot more like a bad marriage where you then have a hard time at deciding when to divorce.

Initially the work sounded interesting and good: find and observe terrorists.
Agree that Amtrak is the best way if you can afford it. If you're on a budget you can also take SEPTA to Trenton and transfer to NJT into NYC. Puts you at the same place, just takes a bit longer.
Sensible decision, although hardly a surprise or a killer feature for something that is a major version bump.

I assume the async story is going to be more fun.

By the way, if you are looking for a good key/value store with expiration without the need to setup redis, have a look at the excellent diskcache:

https://pypi.org/project/diskcache/

It is based on sharded sqlite files, and it's surprisingly capable, even in multiprocessing based env like a django site.

Sqlite is really showing up in all sort of use cases these days, like huey, a task queue that doesn't need any broker to be installed to be useful: https://pypi.org/project/diskcache/

Now things can get fun...

With supervisord (supervisord.org) you can manage multiple processes, and with fastapi + starlette, you can serve your WSGI site without a proxy pass, including static sites: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/wsgi/

Then with shiv you can bunddle all that in a pyz file: shiv.readthedocs.io/

Meaning you can now just upload a pyz file to your server, run python on it, and that's it, you have a full stack deployed, with a web framework, db, caching, task queues, static file serving, which can handle around 100k visitor each day without a sweat.

No more infra needed. Just Python code, all bundle in one file.

That's really neat.
I agree that your specific use-case is indeed good reason for manually managed memory, but theoretically, I don’t see anything inherent in specifying GC on a per-thread basis. Like, perhaps one could set a property on a new Thread object and set GC to false - that would probably allow your program to function even in a managed environment.
To be clear, they're reporting on an interpretation of a not-understood part of Xenon1T results (a low-energy excess in electronic recoil event rate). Here is the original paper by Xenon1T reporting on the excess: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.0...

And no, there's nothing wrong with it, but there are many many such interpretation papers any time an experiment reports something unusual and at most one of them (but probably zero!) might be true :).
I would not move away to a centralized solution which mods can kick you out. An open source and hostable alternative is better than Discord or Reddit.
That was when Tesla AP relied on radar which has a hard time detecting styrofoam.
Yeah, I binged the lockpicking lawyer one day, now that's all it suggests.
Atlassian too
Yeah that makes sense, but since Im talking about a gaming build I would think theres not much space left after you put the GPU in which is the main heat source, thus making airflow difficult
It's fully self driving until it cops out and gives it back to you
Not saying it's a good idea, but geoengineering is currently both technically and economically feasible. It would be easy for e.g. the United States to reduce the total incoming sunlight by enough to counteract global warming. The issue is that doing so will have widespread unknown issues on the planet.

For example- launching enough thin, reflective mylar film to the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point to reduce incoming solar radiation by ~0.1% would take about 500 Falcon Heavy launches (highest capacity rocket currently available). This would take several years and around $100 billion. Once Starship is ready and in use, this would go way down.

$100 billion and several years is practically nothing for the US, China, or one of several other countries with the capability to do this.

Obvious downsides include denying the use of the L1 Lagrange point to human use permanently, eventual degradation of the sun shield as solar wind pushes pieces of film out of place, and of course possible mass famine and plant die-off due to lower solar radiation.
> what a shame for GitLab's users

Can you please elaborate about this?