skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had stores like that in NL, the 'Kijkshop' concept, they went bust a while ago. Limited selection of marginal quality goods. But no shoplifting and no broken stuff on display.
UK trains are even more expensive than Switzerland and this says a lot. Look at the rest of europe... you can take an Italian fast train and travel to major cities in the country very quickly, with wifi, arriving comfortably in the centre for a reasonable price.
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Did you read the article? It's saying chronic unsheltered poopulations are increasing on the west coast, which also seems to be your observation.
I live in such smallish city (Geneva, 500k folks in central part). Yes its nice to get to Paris in say 3.5h by direct TGV, faster than plane if you count center-center, although more expensive.

Well, and that's about it. I don't care for Paris that much, there are about thousand other places I prefer visiting. Its not that exotic to Europeans compared to Americans, and Paris' painful and obvious drawbacks (its a mega tourist trap, rampant crime, french are often rude if you don't speak perfect parisian french etc.) remove a lot of its allure.

Currently we travel to nearby islands with small kids (balearic, canarias, sardinia, corsica, greek ones etc.). We travel home which is 1500km away (1:30 flight to +-nearby airport, or 15h+ multi-train galore), we travel exotic (0 options for trains).

Heck, being Swiss, we use practically 0 Swiss trains. They are super expensive even for us since we don't commute by them to work every day, and Geneva being border town literally at the edge of confederation surrounded by France has little use of rails for us. France has pretty bad rail situation in comparison - our usual way to Chamonix takes 45mins by car, and 2+h by train. Family of 4 with 2 tiny kids? Never, ever, with all necessary luggage, even for free.

You can't have cheap good reliable railway network even in dense Europe, unless its heavily subsidized. Its a pipe dream, nice one but unless they tax flights into oblivion they will remain as easier and cheaper option for most. Options will be different for rural living and different family settings obviously.
My family and I moved into a new house a few months ago, after we lost our previous home in a fire.

I've always been a tinkerer and a builder, but not professionally, and would always make functional but ugly items. Consequence of a poor, rural upbringing, I suppose. But in the new house, I resolved to put in the extra effort (and expense, but mainly labor) to build esthetically pleasing, high-quality repairs.

Staining and finishing the wood, sinking and covering the screws, squaring corners _exactly_, buying the proper tools for the job, that sort of thing. And it has been really rewarding. It doesn't feel like a bother or needless expense; it feels like growth, a new layer of expertise.

Seeing the wife posting pictures on Facebook saying "my husband built this!" was also a nice reward.

Anyway, I think that one strategy with that sort of person is to encourage them. Don't try to stop them, challenge them to learn drywall repair so they can hide the plumbing like a pro.
Then its not really "nearby" is it? Its another city, another nation, and not really related to that city at all?
You'd likely still need a bundler for vendor packages. esbuild ships as a static binary, is a single dependency, and is one of the fastest bundlers around. It's also pretty much zero-config. That other stuff is just icing on top. I don't know why someone would pick webpack + babel + the endless plugins and config involved over that.
> On YouTube, it's much more likely to mean the latter, but it's the former that's actually useful.

What makes you say that? Why is the person that doesn't like cat juggling even clicking on the video?
> A founder* is a hacker that never uses excuses.

A founder* is a hacker that has at least a quarter million dollars of liquid money, or access to that from immediate family or close friends.

* based on the actual research around this
Oh yes, closures too. Coming from C++ background, you kinda intuitively understand when things escape and when they don't, because you assume that Go would implement it in the most straightforward way (like it usually does), and in the case of closures, heap-allocating a captured variable is the simplest implementation (just let GC handle it!) considering the implicit reference semantics (that you can change "x" anywhere outside of the closure and it should be immediately visible in the closure, too). I.e. assume the worst (and don't expect Go to do some clever special-casing similar to move semantics in C++/Rust), and it's often the right answer :)
I‘ve been thinking about it more from a "what I wish one of the 20 OEMs building crazy windows convertibles should build" than a " what can I DIY“ angle. Here‘s what I would want:

Computer is maybe the size of new 16" MBP (large but reasonable). All the components in the base, the screen is thin and light. Instead of a flimsy ribbon cable the screen is connected with a removable flat cable that has an auto roll-up mechanism like a tape measure. Screen is held to the base with some "simple“ protruding hinges that it just can slot in and out of without crazy tech (because the hinges are a not super small). The screen has a magnetic back and there would be a couple of different mounting accessories:

- magnet to VESA, so you can easily plop it into a nice stand on your desk and really utilize it in a multi-monitor setup

- an "external“ raising arm that slides a plate under your base and is secured by it‘s weight (maybe clips in) then raises it up a little and holds it by magnets

- suction cups

- gorilla pod type mount and/or clamps

- … whatever else like tripod and mic stand adapters

This hodge-podge idea is probably not realistic for a commercial product but we can dream. My planned solution is M1 13" macbook air + portable USB-C screen and macgyvering it with a gorilla pod or suction cups. Unfortunately I am kind of married to macOS right now and that doesn‘t have tablet options.
We absolutely should build more homeless shelters. However many homeless people refuse to stay in current dorm style shelters because they don't allow drug use, or pets, or the other residents are dangerous.
Now, it just needs type checking to replace tsc :fingers-crossed:
> There are some exceptions. For one thing, despite being close to California, Nevada and some of the Montana-esque states saw big decreases in certain categories.

Someone people would look at this and go wow, Nevada and the rest did a great job providing shelters and help to their homeless.

I think a more realistic answer is that they just shipped them to California.
Spinal cord injury: Gel treatment allows paralysed mice to walk again
My coworkers still don't quote strings in their bash scripts, even when they're paths... and yet they wonder why everything falls apart.
Didn't downvote either. Almost consider upvoting for visibility of the hilarity displayed.

"There are too many frameworks! Why does everyone keep re-inventing the wheel? Why can't everyone just use the one that I like?"
Graber vs Thiel discussion 2020:
https://youtu.be/eF0cz9OmCGw
No-code is always doomed to fail because the forefront of development always requires complex reasoning and understanding of leaky abstractions. I worked at one point with a business rules engine, and non-programmers are fine with a decision tree, but start introducing loops, queues, function calls with multiple parameters, database queries, or even complex logic in if statements and it gets hairy. It takes training to reason like that.

It doesn't matter how nice the UI is, there's a fundamental level of complexity there that requires study and training that also induces anxiety in an untrained person.

No-code can handle a significant percentage of work. In the system I experienced ten years ago I would guess 20-30%? In that case, we had close collaboration between developers and business people within the same building, and some of the business people were even willing to be trained in SQL (!). It's certainly useful in that regard, but it doesn't eliminate the custom stuff. The eventual interactions between the custom and no-code logics are something that requires balancing too.
Agreed, I thought we were past this with the 4th generation of these frameworks, this is like knockoutjs all over again.

The moment the penny dropped for me was when I read something like this about React:

"We realised that inventing our own Yet Another Binding Language that was less expressive than javascript was harder and worse than doing the work to put the relatively simple HTML constructs into Javascript"
180 MHz ARM Cortex M7F

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Playdate
I've been using Solidjs the last month for a project, and I really like it. Small bundle size, super fast, not much to learn, not too much magic, lots of control. Basically instead of having a vdom the framework is able to track finer-grained reactive sites and update those when the data changes.
You seem to be saying that the data is biased, but your personal anecdata is not.

Do I understand that correctly?

Or is it that when you say "homeless" you only mean the people you see, and not all the rest of the people that would typically fit the description of homeless?

What you see out your window certainly exists, but there is a whole lot of the world that you cannot see from your window. Claiming that your window provides the best view should at least come with some sort of argument about why it's a superior view.
Shade is more constant than sun, so effectively this makes the end result much more predictable and less maintenance intensive.
Yeah whatever,

Every single software company that jumps hardware finds out in a sour way how completely different the two worlds are.
The problem is that people in the U.S. so often only see homelessness through the lens of where they live. Homelessness is a unique problem in each city. For example, the west coast has favorable weather and a history of being a destination for people after they are released from prisons or mental facilities. In cities on the east coast there is more leftist-narrative style homelessness: people who were depending on family and their family died, missing a check and sleeping rough for a bit, etc.

There are also huge problems with treating the many different problems the same way. For example, California would probably benefit a lot more from building a mental health crisis center and Georgia might benefit more from temporary housing that actually gives you your own address (so that you can list it on job applications, cell service, etc).

But in all instances there is typically an oversupply of homeless shelters that people refuse to use (due to restrictions on substance abuse etc.) it’s a tough problem.
In many cases it's natural risk, not the products at all.

Everything has some amount of lead back from the days when it was used recklessly. Everything has some amount of mercury that's still going up smokestacks. (Now we catch most of it--not all of it!) Plants pick up some arsenic from the soil--for medical reasons I eat a lot of rice and it's enough of an issue I make sure to buy rice grown in low-arsenic areas.
"You tie up the machine and staff for 7X longer"

The train is several times cheaper than a plane, seats 10x more people and some of machines used in UK were built in the 70's. How many airplanes keep flying that long?

Infrastructure? Hs2 is the first track of rail in UK in over a century! Most track is 200 years old, so it has paid for itself a hundred times over.
> how is OP dramatizing?

>You get in, make your coffee in a fancy Microsoft-branded cup, and then a PM gives you the “actively shit on our customers” ticket. Presumably the engineers on the windows team are either in golden handcuffs, or actually derive sadistic pleasure from making the world worse for users, and making the field of software engineering less trustworthy."

is what I was referring to.
It may be based on a bicycle and have an electric motor, but the vehicle in that video is not a class 1, 2, or 3 e-bike. Due to the speed and motor size (2 kW) most places would classify it as an electric motorcycle and require the corresponding license. The limit to be considered a class 3 e-bike (in the US), the highest e-bike class, is a maximum speed of 28 MPG on level ground with standard passenger + cargo mass before the assist cuts out. (You may be able to exceed that speed with pure pedaling, or on a downhill slope.) Class 1 and 2 are limited to 20 MPH, with only foot-controlled throttle ("pedal assist") or the option of hand-activated throttle, respectively. All three classes are limited to 750 watt or smaller motors. Quite a few places treat class 3s as motorbikes or motorcycles rather than bicycles.
I am not an expert, but I'll weigh in on the "healthy skepticism"

1. I can't speak for others, but my skepticism stems from one idea: it's foolish to tamper with your immune system unless absolutely necessary or there's absolutely no risk, because you can't undo it later. At this point we can safely say the covid vaccine poses some risk relative to other vaccines.

That being said, for some individuals the vaccine is absolutely necessary. For other's such as children and young people whose bodies are still developing, the cost-benefit tradeoff is dubious.

2. "safe and effective" has proven to be a false statement. It might be fair to instead phrase it as "better than nothing, for most people". That's what the tens of billions of data points tell us so far.

Yet this is undermined further by reports such as "Aaron Rodgers, unvaccinated, sick with COVID, has mild symptoms and is doing fine" and "Fully Vaccinated NFL player hospitalized with COVID-19".

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/vaccinated-nfl-playe...

3. We don't have a good way of tracking and reporting adverse events. VAERS has a lot of systemic problems -- self-reporting isn't 100% reliable in scientific terms, but simultaneously studies show vaccine related adverse events are typically under reported.

"and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported."
https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publicatio...

4. By extension of VAERS, we don't have a good way of relating the vaccine to adverse event. ex. If someone gets vaccinated, and a month later dies of a blood clot, how do we prove or disprove the correlation? With food, drugs, and medicine, the only useful way is long term clinical trials.

I don't think we even have a causal relationship between the vaccine and myocarditis at this point, but rather an undeniable correlation. This says something about our scientific ability to measure safety.

5. There have been whistleblower reports about the honesty and reliability of the original vaccine trials. I take this with a grain of salt, but it highlights the lack of transparency and forced compliance endemic in the medical industry.

6. As time goes on, more articles and studies are released that cast doubt on the safety of the vaccine. This recent study shows (in vitro) that the mRNA induced spike protein is observed to cause damage at the cellular level in a way that hinders DNA repair and antibody creation. (Published: 13 October 2021)

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056

To be clear, I don't want to forecast "vaccine doom" because everyone I know and love has the vaccine. I truly hope the science disproves any doubts about safety.

But until then I reserve the right to speculate and make my own risk assessment.
CO2 being good for plant growth can mean it's bad for forest CO2 sequestration, since the wrong plants take over.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-strange-case-of-the-liana...
I disagree, many reply to trolling. General threads are large, often a graveyard of questions and in my experience the ones that have too much perceived effort looks like copypasta you didn’t read yet. Succinct, witty, usually somewhat negative comments that show incredibly concise insight, that distilled knowledge/wisdom are more appreciated, usually trolling someone by pointing out an obvious error in an insulting way.
There is a huge number of technical people needed for the energy transition. If everybody starts driving EVs, who installs the chargers? Who upgrades the grid? Who installs new heating systems in homes (and upgrades the electrical installation in the homes)?

If anything, we are way short on people.
Let's say we had no need for babel or similar level transpilers.

There would still be benefit to webpack-like bundlers, if for no other reason then for performance/obfuscation reasons we would probably want the number of modules as seen by the broswer to be smaller than the number of modules that developers like to use for development purposes.

Many would still want minification for both performance and obfuscation reasons.

Many would still want to tree shake out any unused code from the libraries used (again for performance reasons).

Once one have all of that tooling, adding a babel like transpiler to the stack is not that big a deal.
I was interested to see that bun (https://bun.sh) is being created in Zig. "bun is like postcss, babel, node & webpack in one 100x faster tool for building modern web frontends."
Maybe there will be "outlet assistant" that will plug your electric car in. Hands off the holy socket, amateurs :)
Labels Strive to Rectify Past Archival Problems (2007) [pdf]
The Strange Case of the Liana Vine and Its Role in Global Warming (2017)
dang does not "pretend to claim to know that there isn't a homeless criss". Don't put words in his mouth; that is very much not cool.

What dang does know is that, by HN standards, chrsig's answer was pretty useless. He's asking chrsig to do better, not to have a different answer.
If you wish to be conservative in the area of words, the easiest thing to do is to keep a dictionary that is some 30-40 years old, and use nothing that isn't in it, unless it's a genuinely new concept for which the old dictionary offers no word.

The nice thing about dictionaries is that nobody is forcing you to throw out your old ones.
You'd need the mirror planes to be adjustable in the XY tilt directions. Seems doable though, would be a cool next project
But note the very high cancer rates amongst those who were dealing with the twin towers rubble.
> If/when you do those things, are you also doing something wrong?

Its hard to say you're doing something "right" by releasing carcinogens. But scale is important here. Its hard to really conflate burning olive oil in your kitchen with oil refining.
QSBS
There is an artist (at least) that uses arrays of motorized parts to create a similar effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV8v2GKC8WA mesmerizing
I think you are missing my point. If there is an antibiotic peptide that's only expressed in the brain, then there is no benefit for bacteria to evolve resistance to it. It would make us too sick. Afflicted people would stay home which would reduce spread. Normally diseases evolve the opposite way: to be less and less harmful. This is known as Smith's "law of declining virulence". So they may even evolve vulnerability.

If you take that some peptide and and put it inside your whole body, then evolving resistance becomes a high priority. Bacteria who don't do it stop spreading.

And once they have evolved resistance there is no going back. You can't send a security update with new brain specific anti-biotics.
It does have extra non-native features but the overarching

<template />
<script />
<style />

format for single file components is plain HTML which makes it feel closer to vanilla than React.
I recall all the way back in March public health “experts” said that everybody was gonna get it. That was the idea behind “flatten the curve” to keep everybody from getting it at once…

Dunno how society forgot that.
> What do you do if someone wants to sleep on the street?

When all of the available shelters are full this is not a relevant question.

> Where do you build these dorms?

Near transit so people that can't afford a car can get around. There's not a shortage of underutilized land in west coast cities.

> Are there barriers to living in these dorms? Sobriety requirements, job searching, etc?

no, none of those situations are improved by leaving someone outside.

> We should definitely try to solve this but I don't think it is simple at all.

There are complex problems in our society, but not having enough bedrooms has a simple solution: build more bedrooms.

Someone is going to have a better chance finding a job if they get a good night sleep and have a place to shower.
Airplanes are sadly not infinitely scalable in this way. If you attempt to naively scale up an airplane you need stiffer materials, eventually you run into the issue of the weight of the structure increasing more rapidly than the area, and this is exacerbated by heavy batteries. We sadly cannot make large battery powered airplanes with a usable range and speed unless we get up the gravimetric density.
I used to be full stack before the re-invention of wheel phenomenon got way out of hand in the js world. Keeping up with what’s going on with the ecosystem and employing the best practices became a huge chore that took time away from solving actual business problems.

Turning away from front end let me concentrate time on learning devops, cloud, ml and other things that aren’t as volatile in terms of design patterns and that lets me design more high level solutions to problems and create more overall value.

Maybe people just differ in how wide or deep information they could handle but I certainly can’t keep up with such a wide array of patterns and tools that do the same thing.
The question I was immediately struck by was "how many of those are tenured?". For the last decade+ we've seen the same flow of contract gigs rather than jobs with assured benefits proliferating higher education.

It makes our colleges' education poorer because these non-tenured contract profs are making a lower quartile salary with no benefits after 4+ years of being underpaid as a grad student while also pursuing and interviewing for tenured positions/working on their research.

Universities have two jobs: 1. teach the populous, but also 2. be a leader in understanding the corner of the world they are focused on. We have been a leader in the latter and the less we invest in it, the more problematic a future we'll face as a nation.
Thanks for the feedback - hope to improve speed in the coming weeks. stay tuned! :)
Also, being unhoused exacerbates mental illness and substance abuse.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/lack-housing-mental...

https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2016-12-07/mental-he...
> Frontend developers like to change frameworks every week it seems like

React is now 8 years old… so is Vue. What are these new frontend frameworks you keep seeing?