skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In ex Yugoslavian keyboards, back in the days of DOS 3.x, the backslash was frequently usurped by the letter Đ.

It's 30 years later, I've been speaking and dreaming and internal monologuing in English longer than in my native language (whatever it might be:) - but I still mentally read c:\Program Files\my folder\my file.txt

As

See colon DJ program files DJ my folder DJ my file dot tee ex tee

(where DJ or Đ is closest pronounced as G in angel or Angelica though not quite)
While I agree that Metaverse will be a flop, the people at Facebook obviously think it is the next big thing, and I would imagine hosting a vr world would take up a lot of space, they would need a lot of data centers to host it.
Germany has a history of poorly managed public projects. From the big projects in the last decade, there is not just Stuttgart 21, but also the new Airport in Berlin and the Elbphilharmonie-concert hall in Hamburg which are infamous for taking too long building-time, wasting too much money and offering a poor job for what they are supposed to do.

In similar vein there are many smaller projects which are just waste of money for no benefit. There is even a whole tv-series of such obscure failed projects, as also regularly reports of the fails of Germanys Government in handling Money. So Germans have very low trust in public projects, especially when they are expensive.

I guess such views do exist in most countries to some degree, but this is something that specially triggers German mentally, which usually more composed and on the peaceful side. Similar behavior surfaced in the last year with the different pandemia-rulings, and now with the vaccinations.
> And just like building bigger highways induces demand so will building more shelters in SF.

"Induced demand" is a fallacy. The demand isn't induced, it was there the whole time and being suppressed by high prices (or, in case of highways, congestion). If there is very high demand, the amount of supply needed to satisfy it is equally high, but that is by no means the same as being infinite and impossible to do.

There are also ways to satisfy the demand for "highways" other than building more highways. Like building more housing closer to where jobs are so people don't have to drive such long distances.

Often these alternatives are better, but sometimes they're not. Sometimes your problem is actually that your highway doesn't have enough lanes. This isn't a question you can answer in the general case without looking at the specifics.

> Not sure why we’d aim to building housing for homeless in the most expensive city in the US

Because that's where a lot of the homeless are because they can't afford the price of housing there. There are literally people in San Francisco who are homeless despite having a full-time job.

Also, it's not "housing for the homeless," it's just housing. Build enough and the price comes down. Then people can afford it instead of being homeless. There is obviously also a benefit to be had for the person who isn't homeless but is spending 60% of their income on an apartment the size of a parking space.
There is a delete button, but it doesn't last long
I suppose with my schooling in the 90s, I come somewhere between the two of you. Nuclear war was taken seriously. Came up many times. It could happen, it was a real threat, the history is important, and you ought to know why and how.

But it was also extremely abstract. My teachers talked about their memories in the 50s and 60s. Works about the bombings in Japan were in literature. Nothing tangible. It was pretty fatalistic too. It probably wasn't going to happen, and seems less likely to happpen. But if it did happen there wouldn't be much after. I do remember my science teacher wondering, as if aloud to himself, if the windows in the classroom would offer meaningful UV shielding before they melted.

It felt like it was in the immediate past, most of the time. In hindsight more of a cliffhanger than a resolution.
No, I meant providing linux filesystem drivers in Windows.
I think S.E.L was released in 1998, no?
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

- Galatians 3:28
Yeah it's not strictly necessary, but if you are updating the list (adding/removing especially), Svelte can know how to reuse elements properly if they are keyed. You also need keys for animations to work properly.
But then it's no longer no code. It's just a code environment for people who somehow got convinced "I could never learn to code".
I founded 4 startups after moving to SF with $600 (and without support from my family).

It's easy to make excuses for why you can't start a company and in fact there are a million great reasons why you should never do so. Starting a company is a terrible decision from a purely rational or financial perspective.

But don't act like it's not possible unless you're rich. That's just not true.
The unfunny "redditor" snark based humor comes from The Oatmeal or Joss Whedon or something. SA had epic bigpeeler story threads back in the day, but it wasn't really the same thing. You need upvotes to create the real high levels of cringe posting.
'Windows key'

'Key' being alternately the licence key, or found on the keyboard.
Lake Maracaibo Duckweed
I know a couple of people that went out of their way to have the yen backslash on their PC. It certainly is charming in a way. Kind of like how email addresses used to be written like:

eddie!STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM!CStacy@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
There's no such thing as no code, just someone else's code.

Also, website generators have always existed since the web is the web.

The main problem with website generators is vendor lock-in. If the vendor goes away so does your website. If the vendor unilaterally changes their price structure, you have no leverage. If the vendor comes with any new arbitrary terms of service, you have no leverage either.

If the vendor decides to block your website due to some false positive from an automated system, you may have no recourse and your entire web presence is gone while the problem is resolved, if it ever gets resolved. Meanwhile you have no way to deploy your stuff anywhere else.
Mapping Our Human Footprint from Space
It really depends. Do you usually keep hostnames as strings? URLs? JPEGs? Why or why not?

Sure, a browser will hopefully quickly parse that URL and break it up, an image viewer will do the same with a JPEG. Will anything that's only interested opening/displaying that URL or JPEG, through a library or external program?

POSIX paths are actually remarkably simple in structure[1]. The only caveat is equality and normalization: Without normalization, a path a might be equal to a path b while their representations differ, e.g. "/etc/foo" and "/etc/bar/../foo". But this is the same whether you have a string or a list of strings, you need to normalize in whatever representation you choose to check for equality.

[1] Almost shocking myself, even Haskell defines its primary FilePath type literally as "String".
"The nature-inspired design by MAD Architects was influenced by C̶o̶l̶o̶r̶a̶d̶o̶’̶s̶ ̶l̶e̶g̶e̶n̶d̶a̶r̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶n̶d̶f̶o̶r̶m̶s̶ ̶ Singapore."
Of course there have been regressions, but the semantics of the code don't typically change. A "dead heap allocation", or removing an unused call to malloc, is an interesting example but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a case where it caused a massive performance regression.

I think there may be some edge cases (constant folding, dead code removal) of course, but a change to LLVM cannot cause the 3 sorts of changes I identified in Go, Haskell, and JavaScript.
This does work in Clojure. Edit: and Clojurescript, which is more relevant.

(let [x “test” y “test”]
(= x y))
; returns true with both (let) and individual (def)

https://clojure.org/guides/equality
For anyone that doesn't know, the ! is for UUCP routing.
> The MetaVerse will be a flop

Obviously they're going to build out as if the thing they're betting the company on isn't going to flop.

That's the thing you're missing.
Why would this indicate that monorepos are the problem?
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You probably won't need as much RAM as you think.
> fuel consumption per seat at 2.19 L/100 km. A mid-sized petrol-powered car consumes three times as much.

It seems like you are comparing fuel per seat for planes with fuel per vehicle for cars. At five seats, that would be equivalent to 11 l/100km, which almost all modern cars should beat. Even if you only count four seats for the car, it would still be 8.8 l/100km, which many cars can beat.
My understanding is Airyn and his children have been enabling this and the vault.
Turbine engines burn Jet-A (basically kerosene), which does not contain lead. The leaded fuel concern is for piston engined aircraft burning 100LL avgas. Almost all commercial aviation is done using turbine equipment. Some of the small island-hopper type airplanes are piston-engined.
That's a really good point. I've heard of curfews as early as 9pm!
But what does ‘#await someFetch’ actually do? The thing I like most about react is that it’s just executing plain Javascript most of the time.
> Not worrying about how and where to put your thoughts down is very very important. Thoughts get lost in the process otherwise.

Yes, strong agree
I'd like them to stop people from using their phones while driving. Way more concerned about that than drunk drivers now.
Why not use the native browser stack? It's pretty good now.
Scholars Cracked a Medieval Alchemist’s Code
JavaScript is like lisp without the parentheses, and I didn't even like the parentheses. -Bryan Cantrill
Blockchain Without the Crypto
And then complain that there isn't enough housing.
Talyn Air (YC W20) Is Hiring
Web3: The Rise of the Aligned Web
I'm not following. Here's the claim, as I interpreted it:

"Many homeless people do not want shelter because they are mentally ill."

Here's how I responded: first, there just aren't that many mentally unwell homeless people in the "naked and screaming" sense. Second, that those who are mentally unwell, to whatever degree, do not accept forms of shelter not because of that illness but because those forms of shelter are, by normal standards, extremely degrading. We would never dream of asking someone who hasn't otherwise been dehumanized to willingly subject themselves to constant surveillance, a living space shared with desperate strangers, and the complete absence of any guarantees around the security of their private property.

Put another way: being homeless doesn't make you lose your sense of dignity. Being mentally ill doesn't either, except in the worse cases. Treating the overwhelming majority like they're criminal timebombs is dehumanizing and just doesn't match the facts on the ground.

So again: what's being missed here? I'm interested in the 99% case, which includes a very large number of mentally ill homeless people. I'm not engaging in the 1% case, because I think it's a frivolous diversion from the needs of a great many suffering people.
If it helps, this timeline is almost entirely wrong. (At best maybe half wrong?)
I was daily driving edge for several months. Performance is much better than chrome. But its bookmark sync just was not reliable. No matter what I tried I could not get my bookmarks to sync down to a few of the devices, or I’d see different subsets on different devices. I have about 5 devices I bounce back and forth between and kind of need that functionality so I ultimately threw in the towel and switched back to Chrome.
I've used pixijs.com in javascript, especially the drawing bits: https://pixijs.io/examples/#/graphics/simple.js You can export the drawn surface as an image. Not sure how if it will would work from a commandline program though.
If you've been doing web dev from the go, you surely remember Front Page and Dreamweaver. Both built the code from the Adobe Photoshop layers. Completely no-code (perhaps b/c gathering user data from web forms was not done just yet, the web was uni-directional publishing).

Eventhough we had these tools I still preferred to code from scratch, simply I could not stand the output code, it was messy, full of unused stuff, excesively commented, etc.

I like to look under the hood and understand what's going on. This is not for me.
Similar experience here.

In my case, I didn't want to be administered a powerful substance (and experience any lasting effects) unless absolutely necessary. My understanding is that adverse reactions are very rare, but if the only upside is avoidance of minor discomfort for 30-60 minutes, I don't see the point.
Apple calls a mouse that you can't use while charging "magic", I don't see why this can't be described as such.
+1 for a metaphor that made me laugh
> OMG! ONE! In a well off European street. You might want to check how many BMWs and Benz and Land Rovers are also in your street.

I live in a condo complex in US, I see several Teslas parked on the street. I don't see a single BMW, Benz or Land Rover. Teslas are almost always parked in garages (for charging). So what you see parked on the street is a small fraction of actual footprint.

> Moving on to really ubiquitous companies...as 20th century stuff that we take for granted such as old Pentium Desktops are first installed in remote places in Subsaharan Africa...what's the first logo these people see? Microsoft Windows XP, what's the second? the Google doodle , what's the third? Facebook's blue F.

20th century (1901 - 2000)

- facebook was founded in 2004. According to you, FB is ubiquitous in subsaharan Africa even before its founded!

- Even more interesting is the fact that as of 2016, 47% of people in the world not on the internet. If we are talking about subsaharan Africa, that may be 80%! But they use facebook. Using what? IP over Avian Carriers?

- The first iPod was released in Oct 2001, but it was widely adopted in subsaharan africa before it was launched! I'm sure they are using credit cards to buy the music, dancing to the tunes on their commutes to work.

- Windows XP, GA Oct 2001. Widely adopted by subsaharan Africa. All of them have PCs and extensive experience in cybercrime, stole Windows source code before its released, fixed all the bugs (those darned BSODs!), bought a billion PCs, turned them on (while having no electricity) and are the first billion adopters of Windows XP

- Google founded in 1998, immediately widely adopted by a billion subsaharan africans?

You fit the textbook definition of a troll.
I think that’s a really, really good way to put it. The American Dream has moved away from pioneering new value streams to acquiring pedigrees/credentials that enable you to extract cash from an existing stream.
Maybe give Airtable a go. I’d think something with an interface would be better than embedded
Do you have a reference for that study? Also, what's your impression of how correlated this data is with the true numbers? Does a rise in the counts indicate the true numbers are also probably going up, or could it just be an artifact of more people being in the HMIC system or something?
And all for 2GW, provided it ever produces any power at all: "We spent $30B, and you have nothing. Give us more $billions, and maybe you might get something" does not inspire confidence.

Imagine how much solar that $30B could have bought.
Apple Macintosh Hard Disk 20 (2019)
> A lot of homeless are mentally ill, drug users and or antisocial.

1. the article data doesn't back that up. it showed most of the growth was not mentally ill drug users.

2. Being homeless might make you mentally ill, drug using anti-social person.
> We can do 500-1000 mile electric air travel.

We can? Present tense, certified, operational aircraft in service? Or do you mean that people are working on building them now and hope to have them in service at some point in the future?
Almost trivial, if you're prepared to make the mirrors a bit bigger. I've got a 7-element array on my workbench right now. You want two servos per mirror, one for each axis. I'm using flexures for linkages between the servos and the mirrors, and universal joints made of magnets and ball bearings to hold everything together. The mirror tiles I'm using are 110mm across, flat-to-flat, which are bigger than this example, and that makes layout and assembly straightforward in a way that it wouldn't be if everything was smaller. Everything's printed in PETG, raspberry pi pico for brains driving a pca9685 PWM driver over i2c. The linkage geometry is the only hard part, the CAD and printing was pretty much a one-weekend project.
> I don't know how you could implement such a thing (with good ergonomics) without a template language.

Parse Javascript? I don’t see how it would be any different, except you have more constructs to work through.
> Ironically, he failed to capitalise on his influential position

It wasn't for lack of trying (mangosteen).
Yes, but its not like most of the formerly-homeless sheltered individuals are getting a job in the urban core near the business district where many of the shelters are
I invite you to take a look at the world of AI writers that are currently flooding the market.

I've seen massive sites with hundreds of thousands of crappy ai articles getting a LOT of traffic.
FWIW I would give Inertia a look. I’ve been using it as the glue between an SPA and my backend, and for me it’s been a best of both worlds experience. Nearly stateless front-end, atomic deploys, easy to understand, no client side routing. Yet you still get the very snappy SPA experience and the nice DX from componentization of your UI. I highly recommend it.
Hazy skies, poor air quality: Is port congestion worsening L.A. pollution?
Trees don't easily grow in the Denver climate so yeah I wonder how well the trees will do, too. I live like 15 minutes south of downtown and none of the trees around me look particularly healthy. If I drive east towards Brighton or Elizabeth I'll see like 1 random tree growing out of a creek but otherwise it's all shrubs
Oh man I remember a series of episodes about a tech ceo (American Computer Co or something like that) spilling the beans about all the info tech came from reversed alien craft, the Shockley semi conductor was a cover and bell labs was so productive because they were working from examples. My younger self ate it up, lots of nostalgia for those late night spooky revelations.
I think it's $8.25 for the giant coffees tinyprojects must drink to launch so many products :)
Now, whenever we have changes in one of the core libraries, we also run full tests in the library consumers.

This can also be done with CI triggers across repos.
who really cares about abuse at this point? if you demand that people who have ruined their lives through substance abuse quit on a dime before you let them in - you can't expect them to ever be ready to do that.

for me the real issue is that some of these people - users and not, are quite messed up, and can really end up doing horrible things to the staff and the other residents.

policing that seems pretty impossible
> M2 has also skyrocketed over the same period

Has it, if you enable log scale?
Surprise, organizing takes an enormous amount of work, which anyone who's involved in any participatory, decentralized, leftist, or anarchist space will tell you.

You may know this! Not clear from your response. Do you have a point about something he's factually incorrect about in his writings, or just that you (unlike many other Occupy participants) didn't like processes he created as much as others?
The "bias" is actually the learning space that the programmers chose.

I think a big part of the problem is how programmers developing AI routines deal with generating aspects of a problem space the AI doesn't understand. Which is all of it.

I use Google voice. When I receive voice calls, the Google Voice application attempts to transcribe the voice recording.

Most of the content is fine, but when the program encounters part of the message that doesn't meet it's expectations, IT JUST MAKES SOMETHING UP SOUNDS GOOD TO IT.

So if someone leaves me the voice message "Your code is 532-94AA"
Google voice transcribes it as "Your code is 532-9488"

If my wise-cracking friend ends a a message with, "Talk to you never" Google will translate this as "Talk to you later".

If someone leaves me voice directions, "Turn <garbled> at the intersection", google will randomly pick a direction: "Turn right at the intersection".

It's like having a lazy, irresponsible assistant who really doesn't give a shit about communicating messages to you accurately. As long has he sounds good, that's all he cares about. "I don't know" isn't a concept Google AI even considers.

Instead of admitting it isn't confident about a sound, it just reaches up it's ass and makes a guess. And since AI's actual understanding of content is zero, everything sounds good to it.
OK, yes, but at that point you're writing your own parser for a custom language that is not Markdown anymore.

Markdown _does not_ support SGML. Look at the source for any CommonMark parser—there's a whitelist for the HTML tags.

Compare to rst and Sphinx. It's very obvious how you're supposed to add new inline and block elements. There is a standard syntax for adding parameters to directives. Markdown has nothing, so there are a dozen incompatible variations that are only available in some parsers.

On the other hand, reStructuredText also defines a whole system for transforming the document tree, which as far as I know, no other markup language does.
Don’t forget the $1 surcharge for the lactose-intolerant!

With coffee, non-milk substitute, and tax, a latte can run me nearly $8 :(
Reddit.com – IPv6 domain readiness tester
Less mass than what? I promise you, adsorbed hydrogen along with whatever it is adsorbed onto will not weigh less than the same hydrogen, liquified. LH2 at atmospheric pressure does not need a heavy tank. If they can get it to adsorb to an aerogel, they might have something, but you still have to get the H2 back out.
I like the concept of the Touch Bar for sure, but I have my laptop docked more often than not and use mechanical keyboards. So I won’t miss it on my next work machine.
> It was that threat of VCs losing the the deal was what finally got them to pull the trigger.

It almost always is. The VC "industry" is all about FOMO.
This is me and commit ids or any other hashes.
Because Google steered users this way via their auto-play next video feature. I’ve avoided it like the plague it is so I’m not precisely sure where I saw it, but I’m absolutely sure there was language to the effect of “we pick the next videos automatically based on your likes and dislikes” which translates to “dislike means give me less of this” which means they’ve skewed the usefulness of the metric. It’s no longer clearly indicative of bad content, it’s now indicative of bad content or content users don’t want to see more out automatically.
The unsheltered count is a thing and does include people who don't access services.
Does the server rule out sending a packfile that you only need 95% of? That seems like a good thing to optimize.
Induced demand is not a fallacy.

And we’re not building housing here we’re building shelters.