skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once got into a heated argument about adding HTTP verbs. They said only the classic GET,POST,DELETE are RESTful and you should never define your own. I had to bust out Fieldings paper to show that only GET has special defined properties.

And that was with a Spring Boot contributor. Misconceptions abound.
There's a bunch of reasons, here's a few I've heard or thought of myself:

* DDR2 is generally 1.8V. There's probably already a need for 1.8V logic within this SOC, so the power rail is "free." DDR3, DDR3L, and all the variants of DDR4 use a lower voltage. No one wants another power supply rail just to power some internal-to-the-SOC memory if they don't have to.

* DDR2 is easily available in single die x16 (data bus width) 64MB (512Mb) sizes. DDR3 may be available in this size, but DDR4 is almost certainly not available or would require buying dies which don't sell a lot so becomes risky.

* DDR2 in single-die configurations is super simple to hook up.

* DDR2 in this size die isn't going away any time soon and may likely be the cheapest way to get a smaller amount of RAM.

* SIP vendors often can negotiate very good and stable pricing for RAM, which is a big benefit to the PCB design integrator as they then don't have as crazy of price fluctuations which are common in the RAM market. This makes the SIP more attractive to some customers (the PCB designer, not the end user).

* DDR2 can likely keep this speed of CPU fed with data fast enough that the RAM won't be the bottleneck for many workloads.
I'd broadly agree with your comments about Diaspora. The characterisation isn't great, but what makes it so impressive to me is the colossal (time, space) scale of the thing.
What guarantees do you have it won't happen again?

Even if Apple had done it on time, it was a 2012 hardware API for 2017 hardware, and never exposed a complete ES 3.0 API surface, nor anything beyond it up to ES 3.2.

Intel had two failed attempts to bring compute into the browser.

Yes it is a very bad thing, when Vulkan can keep using GLSL and HLSL, while DX12 happily will use any HLSL from the API history, and Metal can use proper C++14 shaders.

WGSL is web politics as usual.
Where do you think the original capital came from? When you buy shares of AAPL, you paid ordinary rates on income which you used to buy the shares.
It's funny how this shall be a city of the future, when obviously it can only be built with technology from the present. Claiming that in the city there will be self driving cars, when this technology clearly isn't ready yet seems like an odd bet on what the future will be more than anything.
Depending on your definitions this might or might no be true but it also might be totally irrelevant.

There is a protocol and system specification. There are implementations of that specifications. There is a distributed system running those implementations. And the distributed system has a state. Each of those can change and each of those or a combination of them could arguably be called Bitcoin.

If everyone would run new implementations with a different coin cap, you can argue that it is no longer Bitcoin because Bitcoin is a very specific specification with a 21M coin cap, but this would have little bearing on the actual situation.
>Anyway, Fielding makes clear that REST is intended as a solution for the scalability and consistency problems that arise when trying to connect hypermedia across the internet, not as an architectural model for distributed applications in general.

Are there know architectural models better suited to build microservices? GraphQL, grpc are constructed on top of HTTP which according to the article uses REST as inspiration.
Dating and marrying are two hugely different things. Stereotypically, dating unemployed musicians and artists few years before marrying a white collar worker from your own social background is almost a rite of passage.
I'm surprised he hasn't looked at California City.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/california-city
"become a core developer" I assume... as if somehow non-core developers are inferior and not-part-of-the-club.
Looks like my house stopped in the 80's :D
BTC != ETH. This is one of the arguments in BTC’s favor.
> The focus in the statement above no longer feels like it is on the actual productive output of the project itself, and in previous years it wasn't like that, nor needed to be like that.

I don’t believe you. Python was never like this in the past, and has a long history of rejecting objectively good performance enhancements because the BDFL and friends wanted the implementation to remain a simple teaching example for students.
His extradition would be an incredible early Christmas gift.
Agree. One of the features of my current choice (Fira Code, but I've been with Inconsolata for a lot of time) is that it has ligatures for common groups like "!=" or "<<=", and CSS doesn't have them.
Right, is it POWER that has a per page TSO flag?
>POTUS

We still don't live in a dictatorship, the President alone can't do this.
EU energy ministers could cut off third countries – ‘like UK’ – crisis worsens
I really can't see any notable difference between the 1983 catalogue and the 2013 one. Mostly that the more modern ones has messy rooms with people and stuff in them, but the furniture looks the same.

If you care a lot about furniture fashion maybe it is easier, but to me those are the same.
Yeah, that one hit me with a nice case of culture shock, too — imagine going to a modern IRB saying you wanted to try an new experimental treatment on poor kids and getting the response “great idea, they should be grateful for the food!”
In fairness, the CL spec being quite old, has a fairly dated type system.

Obviously, CL is still blazing fast compared to Python, but it can't easily do the kind of things that Julia or even C++ can when it comes to numerical programming. You can write a lot of macrology to get around it, but there's a point where you want actual compiler writers to be doing this.
I hate statically-typed languages. They always give me a painful shock.
>We remember Fielding’s dissertation now as the dissertation that introduced REST, but really the dissertation is about how much one-size-fits-all software architectures suck

That's somewhat ironic given that anybody is using "RESTful" APIs now.
If they do it right, might be an experimental verification of the principles of Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Which would be cool.
I really like the idea.

Somethings I would like to have:

- The "editor" windows should be bigger

- Remove the left side

- Let me choose the language

- Give an option for a blind test. Basically don't let me
see the font name.

- Option to give me only fonts with Ligatures.
Will it be called Delta City, will it be built on the ruins of Old Detroit, and will it be patrolled by a new generation of law-enforcement robots?

Or maybe he can call it "Rapture", and build it underwater.

More seriously: I wonder how much city 500 billion dollars could really build? Given a blank slate of no planning or zoning conflicts.
Self driving becomes much easier if you build it into the infrastructure
I love it!

A feedback: The use case is less than ideal. Its CSS. That shouldn't be a problem but its (i) its not the kind of syntax I'm used to reading, and (ii) its not a ligature heavy use case.

As an instance, I'm given a choice between Fira Code and Fira Mono. First off, er... maybe don't put them together. Second, the only difference between the two, as far as I can remember is that one has ligatures enabled, one doesn't. And the CSS codebase I'm reading doesn't seem to have any ligatures, so :shrug:
> so that we could get the much juicer preferences of each group for various professions.

You'd probably just get a bunch of data that tells you the more female a profession is the more it wants to marry up and the more male a profession is the more it wants to marry toward a profession with a lot of young women.
I'm not saying REST is the right approach to the apps you describe, but nothing you're describing is a REST issue per se. You're describing incompetent handling of network disconnects, cache invalidation and many more. Theses are issues that plague all distributed systems.
Ctrl+Shift+C, click it and Del.

(my wife was very happy when I taught her this trick, though at first she was scared she might permanently damage the website; I mean, that it would remove the block also for the other visitors)
I wonder if the title refers to the song "Drugs in my pocket" by The Monks, 1979. This song was actually only popular in a few cities in the world, I think Toronto was a big one. I wonder if the author grew up there...
I've been using Deja-Vu (and Bitstream fonts before that) for as long as I can remember, as it's more or less the default, and it seems just as good of a font as any.

I also just use the default Vim colourscheme, which also seems a rarity.
https://archive.ph/55yiI
Search for “iobit driver booster pro” found 163 unique keywords
joke of the day
There's no good argument for this being a no true scotsman.

Being pro-rentier is antithetical to almost every definition of left wing.

It's also not like Democrats who wear a left wing mask try to trumpet their pro-rentier behavior.
> For early BTC holders its easy to diamond hand
That's not true, say your investment of a few dollars is now $1k. And the price is popping and just dropped 30% in one day? Would you sell for the profit?
What if that investment got to 10k? 100k?

People sell at some point. I'd argue it's incredibly hard to diamond hand for early holders, that is why there are more stories of people selling their coin for cheap rather than diamond hands.
AKA stealing from the elderly to fund today’s excesses.
It’s a proposed convention. A specification. But it’s not a standard.
DBPedia was the one that extracted from Wikipedia; Wikidata is the community curating the data from the ground up (with the goal of importing them into Wikipedia - i.e. the data flows in the opposite direction).
A vishing attack spoofed Microsoft to try to gain remote access
> everything defined up front between parties, out of band and then the enterprise companies started selling "tooling" to over-engineer and "manage" this nonsense.

This pattern has come up again and again. There's a centralized, orderly, Le Corbusier-style planned system. Everyone hates it and avoids using it in favor of a ramshackle schema-less system re-purposed from something else, which has no other advantages other than actually working.

See e.g.: circuit-switched networks, guaranteed QoS systems, centralised PKI, the more esoteric parts of XML vs the simplicity of JSON, one-directional hypertext, and the Internet itself vs telcos.
My current font (https://input.djr.com/preview/) isn't on the list, sadly.
Large list of FaaS providers compared (2021)
REST's fundamental pitch is that for a large class of problems, a good format solves problems more easily than a rich set of operations.
You think they're going to shutdown the Internet to kill Bitcoin?

Even if they did, once the Internet was back up and running what would stop the Bitcoin network from continuing where it left off?

There's thousands of people around the world running their own Bitcoin nodes, many also protected behind Tor [1]. In what realistic way could governments shut it down globally?

They could go for centralised custodial businesses like the exchanges, but that doesn't stop the Bitcoin network itself. Also there are decentralised exchanges like Bisq that can't be shutdown.

"Yes (you will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.), but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.

Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own."
— Satoshi Nakamoto

"A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990’s. I hope it’s obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we’re trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system."
— Satoshi Nakamoto

1. https://bitnodes.io/dashboard/
Governance Handbook for charter cities (Sept 2021, 280 pages), https://www.chartercitiesinstitute.org/post/governance-handb...

> Charter cities are new cities with new rules. The
Governance Handbook is the most comprehensive undertaking to date that lays out what these new rules should be and how they should be structured to promote inclusive economic growth ... Building specifically on land with little or no existing development or population ensures that settling in a charter city is voluntary and that the rents enjoyed by local elites are not sufficiently altered to entice efforts to curtail critical reforms. What's more, these new cities are
already being built—more than 120 new cities in more than 40 countries —and will continue to be built as urbanization continues apace."

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/telosa-marc-lore-blake-ing...

> A so-called "15-minute city design" will allow residents to access their workplaces, schools and amenities within a quarter-hour commute of their homes. Although planners are still scouting for locations, possible targets include Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Texas and the Appalachian region, according to the project's official website.

Marketing site: https://cityoftelosa.com
The "S" stands for "Complex". It's in the spec.
Amish Quilts of Southern Indiana
I would wish it would support a few more fonts, like Iosevka, Hasklig and Fira Code. Like others I'd prefer if it didn't display the names of the fonts and an option to say "I don't have a preference between these two".
Dune's Magic Mushroom Origin Story
Web Mentions are kind of a replacement for webrings. The problem with web mentions is that it takes one or two manual steps and might as well be link-only comments.

Google are practically unqualified to separate genuine content from spam. What's their reason to serve users who can be endlessly contented with externally recommended content? That's effectively ad-blocking at the mental level to them. If we could invent some ubiquitous on-page discovery mechanism we'd have big tech over a barrel.
EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen
This is very fun. Would love to see Iosevka there.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/net-investment-income-tax
So many billionaires wanted to build they paradise city/state of the future. I wonder if there is some books or blogs tracking their progress
Perhaps, but it is not a fraternity. There is, as far as I can tell, non-males in the group.
I have been a member of the Python community since 2002 and followed the lists for just as long, not least because of the quality of technical discussion up until the start of the 3.x saga.

I don't think anyone would deny Python has changed since then, I think most notably in the years following the release of Django, Python becoming a go-to web language, and the size of the community exploding.
Introduction to Scaling
I did not expect that for female Software Developers, after male Software Developers, second biggest group would be female Software Developers.
You have to really nit-pick to tell some of them apart, for sure. I had to go by things like "these proportions look maybe 4% closer to what I think is reasonable" to end up with Noto Sans Mono over Cousine.
Pay divided by days at home. The list will be topped by airline pilot, trucker, etc, paired with whatever the most common professions for those professions to marry are.
It's worth noting that while it isn't within spec, and certainly isn't good engineering practice, in most cases connecting an LED directly to a microcontroller output pin with no resistor works just fine.

Most microcontrollers have effectively a fixed output drive current of something between 10 milliamps and 50 milliamps (which depends on the size of the drive mosfet on the output pin, and might be different for pull-high vs pull-low mosfets). Most LED's can handle that just fine.

The energy that would have been dissipated in the resistor ends up dissipated in the microcontroller instead, but that normally doesn't lead to issues.
Usually with furniture there are forerunner designers / manufacturers that establish an innovation, then all mass manufacturers copy it a decade or two or five later.

For example the cantilever laminated wood frame chair made an appearance already in the 1930s.
https://www.artek.fi/en/products/armchair-401

Cantilever steel tube + cane chair Cesca from 1928. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesca_Chair
Wouldn’t it make more sense to build the “City of the Future” in a place with more of a future, I.e. not in the middle of a desert?
Hertz to reserve half of its 100k Teslas for Uber drivers
The finding went viral in Italy first, here's a few articles for those who read Italian, or wanna autotranslate:

-https://www.italian.tech/2021/10/27/news/cosa_sappiamo_dei_g...

- https://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2021/10/perche-questi-codic...

- https://www.open.online/2021/10/27/covid-19-green-pass-adolf...
I feel easily confused by basic chemistry principles. Is ClF3 an ionic salt? I believe that if I drew that out in high school chemistry, it would get marked down because both constituent elements are of the same charge.

https://www.quora.com/Is-chlorine-trifluoride-ionic

[shrug]
Well... neither does your's, or this one for that matter.
Bézier Curves [video]
Great idea. However, I think that it misses the educational part. Choosing a font should be preceded by learning certain characteristics of fonts that help to read code.

For example, the font Input[1] might not be the most aesthetically pleasing, but it is one of the very few non-monospace developer fonts. The website of this font explains the idea behind it in a way that convinced me.

Maybe it could be done by using a wizard/tutorial to narrow down the fonts list.

[1] https://djr.com/input
(I am not OP and I never done lisp.)

>How exactly do you evaluate snippets in some environment even with REPL? I mean most code in a large system is part of a context that is required

This is a bad smell for me. You should always try to split your code in small pure functions that do one thing, it will help you with readability, with refactoring, with testing and depending on environment you could just replace the function with an different one at runtime.
for escape hatches, see cl4py: https://github.com/marcoheisig/cl4py/ and the other way around, calling Python from CL: https://github.com/bendudson/py4cl/
I'm actually sad nobody is building moonshots like Rapture.

If we could build deep undersea cities we would basically have a template to mitigate all climate instability for future (even on land).

We either have super far out (basically marketing BS) projects talking about Mars colonisation or things like this that's basically more of the same just another iteration. Building something that could withstand a couple of atmospheres of pressure, in a hostile environment (seawater) with currents, with full reliance on artificial air filtration, etc. - solve that and it doesn't matter what happens with climate change, super volcano eruptions, meteors, nuclear catastrophes, pollution etc. not to mention you have hard borders to prevent global pandemic outbreaks.
Developed by a billionaire ? I smell something more like a Elysium on earth, an ultra-rich ghetto with all the latest gadgets...
With a big fence around for protecting from the plebeians when all starts falling appart elsewhere .
But sure, inside they will be all equal.
Working on a big microservice solution right now, it amazes me how inefficient we are: we are making HTTPL calls, replying HTTP calls, serializing data to JSON, deserializing data from JSON in a long chain of calls.

I rather see a distributed application the same way as I see a monolithic application: I don't want to make HTTP calls, I don't want to serialize JSON, what I want is to call remote functions with my local data in a reliable, fast and efficient way. It seems weird that we can't just do that and instead we pack the data in layers upon layers, thus decreasing performance and increasing complexity a bit.
> 3 kinds of parameters, in, out and in-out

.. or, in C#, (no specifier), "out", and "ref". However there's still a difference between plain types (copied) and objects (mutable).
> A good thing too, because the driver installation tools from Dell for instance depend on these.

…on task manager, or on the wallpaper API? With how eccentric Dell drivers can be I feel like I have to ask.
> Could you imagine what a clusterfuck the market would be with no regulations?

Generally regulations are written after clusterfucks have occurred to reduce the risk of them happening again.

It's the same reason we have building codes: after a Great Fire or two happens in a given city, fire breaks are usually mandated.
The original capital almost certainly was taxed. It was earned as income, or via sales, both of which were probably taxed.
I got into the ‘stage dads (and sister)’ group for my kids show choir. Our job was to take the directors vision for set design, convert it into something that the kids could build and then supervise them building it.

I got lighting because i was handy with electronics, and that sent me down a rabbit hole of the vagaries of current limiting circuits, buck/boost converters, color dependent forward voltage, temperature management, cabling and dmx control. All while staying on a modest budget and maintaining sufficient safety and durability that a bunch of highschoolers can build it and set it up and tear it down in a timed set change at high school gyms and theaters across the country.

Very interesting experience, highly recommended and i concur, slapping a resistor on it to limit current is focusing on a small and somewhat straightforward portion of the LED spectrum (har har). That said, it’s still useful for folks that just want to slap a light on something.
Hoping this leads me to a (paid-for I think) coding font with lovely italics/ligatures I saw in online code examples, didn't bookmark and have never found again...
“Hoarding” money, also known as saving in esoteric circles.
Bitcoiners

Thousands of people are doing it and these sorts of things make it easy to do:

https://getumbrel.com/

https://start9.com/
Generally people have vision of a lot of "tech" in a futuristic city. To me, the following conditions are sufficient

- Free healthcare
- Free high quality education
- Everything else is free market (which includes legal but controlled access to drugs, prostitution, etc.)
- No private ownership of vehicles; everyone MUST use public transportation which should be accessible
- clean air
- walkable
- diversity of culture (so for example it should be as easy to find a Bible reading club as a psytrance nighclub)
Hertz press release, Oct 27:

Hertz Partners with Uber to Add Up to 50,000 Teslas to Uber Network by 2023

https://ir.hertz.com/2021-10-27-Hertz-Partners-with-Uber-to-...
India now restricts internet in Kashmir on a schedule
Its called working out and eating healthy. that's too hard to do for most Muricants
I don't see any sports fields in any of the pictures. Sports are a great way to get exercise but most sports inherently have winners and losers. Not only in each game played, but also for the best players. It's not equal. Will sports not be allowed?
Yep. Equitism seems like a rebranded Georgism/Geoism. To answer GP’s question, the land would be owned by a fund held by the residents of the city. Similar to Singapore. Unsurprisingly it has massive public infrastructure budgets because the public captures the return on its investments, instead of whatever random landowners happen to have land near those investments. See: the value of land near a new subway station or school.
Unfortunately you then run into "reliable sources" and "notability" battles with other wikipedians over citing personal websites.