skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid it's not simply about political will. To have affordable and safe public transport, one would need to completely revamp the fabric of American society

Why is there no public transport? Because it's losing money due to low ridership. Why is the ridership low? Because people are afraid of dangerous neighborhoods, wackos, homeless and other people of lower castes. Why all of these factors? Because of massive inequalities, rugged individualism, broken healthcare, missing social nets,... Unless that is fixed, the public transport won't be a decent option. Driving everywhere allows people to form a bubble that shields them from daily witnessing the ills of the system
I still feel resentful about how earlier versions of react router had massive breaking changes effectively completely changing it, provided no documentation and no help at all even understanding the new thing let alone explaining how to upgrade.

To be fair I believe I once read they now don’t do that but it was truly scarring to naively update to the newest version thinking my app would need a few tweaks to get going again, when in fact big chunks needed rewriting, with zero help from the developers.
> This often meant bureaucrats would set export quotas based on calculations rather than merely exporting excess product and making decisions based on spreadsheets rather than relevant expertise.

The official story is false. They knew what was happening -- they had agents in every village, who amazingly were always well fed. There were regular visits and inspections. Look, both the USSR and China had mass famines in the countryside, and it was for the same reason:

They wanted to rapidly industrialize which meant the creation of a large factory worker class in rapidly growing urban areas. This required a smaller and more productive agrarian class with surplus food being shipped to cities.

But rather than wait and let normal urbanization take its course, they simply transferred populations to the city and confiscated all the food that was needed to feed this class, letting a fraction - about 10% of the rural population - starve to death. The remaining farmers were forced to work harder to make up for their dead colleagues and this was accomplished via intimidation and near-slavery conditions. That is, at the end of the day, what forced agricultural collectivization was all about. It was to make up for the fact that a lot of the farmers would not be given food. And everyone understood what this was about.

It was intentional democide to free up mouths to eat in the cities, in order to achieve rapid industrialization.
To further illustrate that point, would you say that someone who is deeply concentrated while reading a book or solving a puzzle looks like they're on drugs?
It's actually just the same in the US - my net salary is exactly 0.6 my gross salary. I've never heard of anyone negotiate by net here, but they should - it would probably be very difficult though.
Yeah, that’s a big part of it. If you have shops within walkable distance, you don’t need to carry huge amounts of groceries. You can just grab a few things to last you the next three days on your way past!
That's actually a really interesting point about the changed dynamics of theft.
We want to use some these images for the next version of our game.

Wondering are there any copyright issues since Nasa is a public repository.

store@space-chess.com
My point is that increase in supply alone doesn't automatically lead to less domination.

For instance increasing the supply of high quality affordable housing by 2% in a place where there is high demand might not mean 2% more people will get the houses at a good price. It can mean instead that investors buy 2% more houses in that area to rent it at a price aligned with the market value.

Wouldn't it be ok then if the increase was 5 or 10 or 50% of high quality housing ? Sure...but have we ever seen this level of increase result in actual well designed and livable areas ? I've personally only seen mild ghettos and weird super structures, and not all by skimping on the budget, but also because it's just damn hard to create a flourishing living environment from nothing.
With a folding rolling cart or a bike with good panniers one could easily do all of that for the family of four with minimum hassle with one or two shopping trips a week, plus irregular trips to stock up on bulk stuff like toilet paper.

I think part of the disconnect here, though, is that you're associating this process with extra mental overhead, but when there's no extra effort needed to just get stuff you don't need to think about it as much. Forget to get butter? Oh well, you can literally just get it the next day on your way back from the park or the movie theater—or if you really need it right now, you can get it at corner store just a few blocks away at a slightly higher price.
Facebook Is Hiding the Most Important Misinformation Data
Can we cut the 'are you a robot, captain?' comments please? They are just a small step removed from 'are you a shill' (or worse: 'you are are a shill').
There is absolutely nothing addictive about "screen". It is when that screen plays youtube or kiddy game that it become addictive.

If you put the kid in front of tablet without fun stuff, the kid will get bored quickly.
I would definitely recommend ISO 27001 or SOC2 which is the equivalent in the US, but with a few caveats. Having gone through the process myself I can without a doubt say it elevates your security posture by introducing an almost uncomfortable amount of rigor in your processes and procedures. The caveat here is that it is an intense process - weeks or months to prepare for and the security procedures you put in place are especially heavy for a smaller company. Maintaining these certifications takes a lot of work too and you would almost need to hire a security officer to keep up with it.
I Dislike Open Source
It does look quite terrible, but the last bit is an awful reaction in my opinion. NIMBY.
Jython vs. Python: Main Differences and When to Use Them
> Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC)
In terms of preventative measures, harden the underlying infrastructure. For example: prevent outbound connection initiations. If you need it, profile the connections and lock them down.

From a detection standpoint, the free options are NPM audit and GitHub’s Dependabot, which are ok. A commercial option (e.g. Snyk, WhiteSource, BlackDuck) is typically more recommended to manage exceptions and get more accurate results (e.g. is the vulnerable code used by your code).
not necessarily. Depends why the external code was updated and if you need the new functionality.

I'm assuming it isn't a security flaw, because ideally you would have fixed that already during your refactor.
No, it mutates the input trie. If you call `insert(trie, "foo")` with an empty trie, it will be modified to look like

{'f': {'o': {'o': {END: True}}}}

I don't think this implementation is efficient enough to ever be worth using in a real program, though.
Nobody has ordered Facebook to do anything. Not the US government. Not an international body.

Facebook has a policy against content that incites violence. Facebook alone determined that the Ethiopian prime minister's post violated this policy and the company removed the post accordingly.

Facebook does not have a physical presence in Ethiopia and therefore Ethiopia has few practical options for forcing Facebook to abide by its rules or "laws". Ethiopia could issue an order against Facebook, fine it, etc., and it would have a near impossible time enforcing the order, collecting a fine, etc.

If Ethiopia and its likely soon-to-be former prime minister don't like Facebook's policies, the best they can do is block Facebook's services in Ethiopia.

Various countries have blocked Facebook temporarily, and incidentally, some countries have used threats of blocks to negotiate deals with the company under which Facebook agrees to follow their rules. I doubt very much that the central government in Ethiopia would have much success doing that right now.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Censorship_of_Facebook
I am not sure to follow you.

> They are expensive because the houses and lots are huge[...] What makes them expensive is demand and land

So, cheaply built or not, as long as they are high quality either way they're expensive, no ?
Yes, that's also the data-structure you want to use when working on a URL router for instance, in a http framework.
Although, unless you have 10,000 of different http routes, the performance gains might not be that significant all things considered.
Totally agree..
As a rails dev I'm asked to dig into ops.. Not once is the JS team asked to build out the rails code, or fix things in it when it glitches. The api business logic falls down, and thats on me.

But when ops is glitchy, I have to blow half my day faking interest in docker? I mean best case, I learn how ops works, and then what. I become the one they tap when ops is swamped, then before I know it, I'm doing ops.

And I quit, because as much as I love the ops team, I hate the gig. I'd hate to be a designer, or a BA. It's not where I find joy.

So when I hear people say.. Just follow these steps to trouble shoot, I wonder if it would be cool to tell that to our users..
This may be a controversial opinion, but not everything is about efficiency, especially when it comes to social interactions. But even if your life's aim is to impose rigorous efficiency on every aspect of your life, I doubt you'll be more time efficient if you do your groceries by car compared to living in walking distance of a supermarket.
I can't find the fable.
I had access to computers when I was young, but mostly sans gaming. In fact, once I wiped a work computer of my dad's somehow. Eventually I got SimCity 2000 on our old Mac and that was incredible. These old computers were tools to experiment and have fun with, rather than the entertainment devices we have today.
I couldn't agree more. To me, the single greatest downside of the internet age is sensory overload. I find that having the time to reflect, be in the moment, and savour experience, is so important. When I get into those habits, and spent a lot more time offline, I feel more fulfilled.
IP addresses can be uniquely identifying. I've had the same IP for years, it's static, and if you did a Google search for it a few years ago, you got straight to my full name and location (because that used to be on whois database for my domain names, which point at my IP; thankfully they no longer include that info in whois).
Ask HN: Do you need a partner on a project?
I'm working in a Big tech and have some time on my hand. I have been feeling uninspired on pretty much all fronts of my life other than working out and I want to stop spending my time doomscrolling. But being that uninspired, I'm also unable to come up with a good enough side project.
I can help with code, mostly python but I'll learn anything if it is interesting. I would love to build and hope to find an interesting community along with that.

Cheers!
How to bootstrap an API-first SaaS – FAQ based on 5 years of building Voucherify
Well, you could, if people really wanted to, have some sort of runtime type safety, but doesn't seem like that's what people want for various reasons, one thing could be the possible performance impact. Instead, TypeScript only offers type safety at development time.

It seems matsemann fundamentally missed the idea of TypeScript, as it's very clear it only offers compile-time checks and nothing for the runtime.
> How can you argue against the reality that it's better to use a car or delivery for 20 kg, than to carry it when walking.

If you're really going to have trouble carrying 20 kg on your back for a couple of city blocks, you can use a folding rolling cart instead to do the same at the same speed and with negligible effort.

> And since it's already delivered by a truck, why walk the last bit it's pointless.

One truck carrying twenty tons of groceries is not the same as one car carrying a few cases of bottled water.
This difference is illustrated by the types : { a: string, b : string | undefined } and { a: string, b?: string }
The right place in the public sector (govt', academia etc), can be awesome. If the place has an important mission, that'll attract intelligent idealistic people, who make very nice colleagues. If you get to work on up to date (or in some cases actually ahead of the game e:g open source that's not yet widely used) tech, while sufficiently relaxed environment that you've time to learn properly and retain those skills, that's really good long-term career value. Of course, headline salary is likely to be lower than private sector. But you might get a final salary pension, other perks, career might last longer if you avoid burnout. Having done both, I give big thumbs up to public sector. Even the not so good parts, if its a beaurocratic hole that can be a great chance to sort it out, quite fulfilling to fix messes...
And let's not forget the elephant in the room. Money.

How much would it cost to add, say, a cycle lane to an existing road 1km long if it required more than just painting the pavement? £100K? More? How many Kms would be required to change even a small town over to be more pedestrian friendly? I just don't think the money is there.

Also, you have many places in the UK that to pedestrianise the centre would create genuine bad problems for drivers. Many small towns simply don't have more than one main route through them.

But then it does depress me when they create new build estates that they don't seem to take that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do it right from the beginning.
The article itself is pretty mediocre, but it touches on some interesting stuff (before continuing to slippy-slide between various unstated definitions of what 'energy' means).

It doesn't have a conclusion, so I'll add one. The article supports it as supported much as any other conclusion (You get a Bayesian update! And you get a Bayesian update!) but it's the one I believe and this little box is /my/ journalistic output:

If you want better energy, you need to try a ton of things. Get ideas from the many gurus past and present, try to figure out a few measures that are not /completely/ subjective (but accept it's not physics) and just /keep trying/. The right answer will change over time, so it's a never-ending cycle. If you have an explanation for that, I'd love to hear it.

But please don't give up, and don't be afraid to feel silly because you're trying last year/decade's fad instead of this one. It's worth it.
As somebody who's only recently moved to a first world country, the "tragic" part is the amount of fat pretty much every food has it added somehow to it!

I'm literally starving myself atm eating just meat, potatoes, pasta and baked beans as that seems the only food which is still sold at reasonable prices without any added fat.

The hamburger seems pretty healthy to be honest. The unhealthy part is people stacking up to 5-6000 kcal per day from various unsuspecting sources, then comically blaming it on sugar and fast-food...

The other day I wanted to buy some biscuits: 24% fat. Before that I bought (first and last time) some hotdogs, while they're processed normally they're still healthy, not the ones in this country though.. 3 minutes after dropping two of them on a frying pan, I find them floating in a 1.5cm of grease that just started melting from them. Where I come from, I'd have to add some 10-15ml of sunflower oil so that my hotdogs don't stick to the pan...

Fast-food is really healthy compared to what normal people can buy in any mainstream supermarket, worst part is big name brands will usually have the most fat and sugar packed into their foods.
Better hull shape, better craftsmanship, sourcing materials from far away, industrial production (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Nether...: “The shipbuilding district of Zaan, near Amsterdam, became one of the world's earliest known industrialized areas, with around 900 wind-powered sawmills at the end of the 17th century. By the early 17th century Dutch shipyards were producing a large number of ships to a standard design, allowing extensive division of labour, a specialization which further reduced unit costs”)
What is an example of a company that you see as having a positive impact?
I agree completely, at least here in Sweden it's harder to rent flats out, so this is less common (it might change next year though when the conservatives/nationalists win).

IMO I'd make renting restricted to government monopoly (like alcohol sales in Sweden, and the old first-hand contracts system), and property ownership restricted to your residence only, and then build much, much more whilst stopping mass immigration (it's crazy to invite 2+ million refugees when there isn't enough housing already!).
> for example, just to add two numbers you have to shift mantissas and 6502 has no fast way to do it

How much work is there to do beside shifting mantissa? (A shift is also necessary for many fixed point calculations).
But you're against them saying it?
> handle the constant failures endemic to Google's internal systems

This sounds bad.
Clendar – universal and minimal calendar app
It is rather absurd to worry about impact of "screen". There is no difference between your baby being exposed to tablet and to TV playing in the background or any other device.

It does matter what the screen does and what plays on it. If you use it to chat with family or play youtube videos targeted at adults (like crafts or lectures), the kid will get bored quite quickly. If you put there teletubbies or kiddy game, the kid will watch for long.

If you pack tablet with only drawing software and selected kiddy games, you will have good experience. If you put there games addictive to kids or games that stresses them, you will have bad experience. If you put there too difficult games, the kid will have no use for it.

It really depends a lot on which software/games/activities you choose and how you setup house rules. And at this age, you have all the control.
Poster/Slides Directly in PostScript
They probably keep their customers. News like these might even fortify their customer base even more and I could believe that states will say the spying is reprehensible and then buy the full software suite.
That's why I said most people (within two standard deviations from the mean roughly), there will be people for which their genetic component will make up a larger part of why they seem to suffer from low energy.
I've found that referrals usually put people in position when someone will talk to them, unless they're very outlandish (eg. no experience at all).
I would argue that it is all about selection of what the kid watches/plays. The tablet playing documentary about history of taxes is 100% guaranteed to bore the kid.
He doesn't talk about who is going to pay for everything. In a road with lots of private ownership, one person can improve their property but they can't force their neighbours to do it as well.

The only likely method is the deep pockets of the developer but why would they do this to only sell the properties to low-income families, which might be zero ROI when they might as well do the same in an up-and-coming city and sell for muchos dollars to the rich?

I love the idea but the main reason why most good ideas are not implemented is that they are much more difficult than it sounds, often for many reasons, not one.
Sounds perfect :) People are always asking on HN, "how do I do a tech job that helps people rather than doing evil stuff". What better example than this. And comes with other perks like work-life balance too.
This should be related, but I haven't tried it (my brother builds it, so I am not affiliated) https://requiresecurity.com/
> Basic needs really shouldn't be investment material.

Companies providing and selling food, energy, and consumer staples are investment materials. I don’t get why housing should be a special carve-out and don’t see a workable answer to how to provide food for everyone while banning all investment in companies that grow or sell food.

These companies are invested in precisely because these are basic needs. The company gets the capital it needs to operate, consumers get a reliable supply of food, energy, and clothing, employees get steady jobs providing these staples, investors get a relatively safe store of value and some income. Who exactly loses in these investments in supply basic food, energy, and consumer staples?
I agree it's a hassle, but at least it does help provide some exercise.

It's no wonder the US has such a high obesity and diabetes rate, with a sedentary society like that.
How is the angular internationalization and automated testing story? Last time I looked at it (v3 or v4, I think), it was still half baked, especially in comparison with AngularJS.

I imagine it's settled by now?
IANAL, but the gist seems to be "don't use the logo, don't claim we endorsed you, and don't use photos of people."

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
Common problem with emerging technologies (such as TypeScript for JavaScript development) is that many junior or even intermediate developers try to shoehorn their "newly learned about tech" into every single problem, slowing everyone and everything down because of this hype-chasing. So even for simple applications that won't benefit anything from type checking now gets wrapped in TypeScript. Then some people find that because you're using TypeScript, you need everything to be precisely typed, when you (as a human) might know better and just type the areas where it's the most important, so you can move forward faster.

But as always, context is king and no solution fits everything. But hype makes it seem like a tool fits everything, to the detriment of everyone else.
>I've never even thought "oh man, I should take the car and go to the larger supermarket that's 15' away".

This is funny and I think very cultural. I'm American and would walk 20 minutes to a large super market and carry 20kg back, up and down hills in San Francisco no less. I too enjoyed the exercise. I knew plenty of people who would shop at smaller stores, mostly people who grew up in cities, but I never really liked it. I grew up going to large super markets and find grocery shopping at them cathartic.
While that's true, there's a significant difference between "you can't give everybody a McMansion" and "everybody must live in spaces objectively describable as 'tiny'". My objection is to the latter.
Some other way means you won't ever recover the money.
I work at AWS. It is true we have a peculiar culture around writing. It goes much deeper than this post implies. There are several hour long training courses on writing, leaders are critiqued on their writing and those that can write the Amazon way move quickly through the org. Imagine having to make a decision and you have a concise, well written, data heavy document to read with your peers. It’s one of the many reasons we move so fast.
“Americans are incredibly lucky - far higher wages, and the freedom to manage your own finances (not forced to pay for irresponsible parents' lifestyle choices through extremely high taxes).”

USA is a huge nation with extreme variations in housing costs and salaries depending on location. Most workers get few benefits, no vacation time, and meager government benefits. Homeless people wander most areas especially urban due to these issues. Still think Americans are lucky?
I would love to know what you specifically look for in Wordpress plugins, especially on the PHP side. I've written quite a few but would appreciate some tips on security.

If you prefer a private discussion, my gmail username is the same as my HN username. Thank you!
I built myself a Mostly Printed CNC: https://docs.v1engineering.com/mpcnc/intro/

It works really well, and as yet I have yet to kill it, for me that's a good metric.
Snyk and Dependency Check are two tools I've used when performing security checks.
Also, residential-only zoning that prevents the kind of small businesses that give people any reason to actually walk around walkable neighborhoods.