skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The rail network in the UK is publicly-owned, what is private is the franchise to operate on a certain route. The lack of investment, if any exists, has come from the govt

It would be the same story if it were the government operating the trains and private company maintaining the network: of course you're not going to get one organisation to put in more effort when it's a different organisation that sees the benefits. The big success story of privatisation is Chiltern, where there was a long-term arrangement with a single operator that took responsibility for the integrated system of trains, stations and so on. (Though it's notably also one of the few cases where there was real competition between rail lines).

> London and the area around me isn't getting enough, this is also false, London receives obscene amounts of investment relative to the rest of the UK

A smaller proportion of London tax revenue is reinvested there than anywhere else, and projects with a lower objective outside London BCR get funded while higher BCR projects in London get delayed.

> The main constituency for subsidising the travel costs of wealthy commuters is...wealthy commuters. I am not sure why that idea is inherently attractive (and again, it is worth mentioning...our safety record is best in Europe, there is no real difference in punctuality, our fares are marginally higher but the ecosystem we have is far more robust).

The amount of public subsidy going on rail is trivial compared to the amount of public subsidy that explicitly or implicitly goes to roads (such as the huge amount of public land taken out of productive use), and that's even more biased towards the wealthy and carries much bigger negative externalities (pollution, much worse safety record).

> The cost of a fiber roll-out for the whole of the UK is less than the Elizabeth line.

No it isn't, you're comparing the concrete realised costs of Crossrail with the made-up estimates for fiber rollout.

> The problem is that this has no end because the more infrastructure you build, the more agglomeration, the more infrastructure...London had this problem in the late 19th century with slums, the solution wasn't more density

Density is the solution; it's the reason why London is so much more productive and ends up subsidising the rest of the country.
This has nothing to do with MSFT or AMZN. A good CTO is at any company provides an example of what to aspire to become. They are mentors and teachers to the technical community as a whole.
Thanks for the reply!

I've just realized I assumed speech-to-text and text-to-speech were similarly complex and unincentivized toward open development. (I wanted to play around with augmenting speech-to-text for some time.) TIL.

So how is indentation level typically handled?

And what other types of customizations are typically leveraged from an output-device standpoint? (Maybe there's a reference I can google for?)

Comparing the problem space to regular expressions and HTML immediately makes sense, that's a very intuitive way of putting it.

I can relate to being completely stumped about how to replace missing functionality with software, in my case organizing information (which is impaired because of autism). What does the problem space around the text-to-speech vaguery look like?
The simple answer is they didn't fact check with local realtors.
I found out that the author of this article wrote it
using a markup language called (confusingly) Scroll: https://scroll.pub/.
I'm not sure I want to bother learning another markup language
when there are many extensions to Markdown already,
but this author apparently favors the multi-column layout.

I find scrolling all the way to the bottom of a thin column to get old fast, however,
especially when the article is longer
than can fit into a single page.

It's pretty easy to constrain the height of the article text div element
to be slightly less than screen height
(using `height: 100vh`, or maybe slightly smaller if you have a header),
which makes the columns fit vertically within the screen
but causes more columns to appear off-screen to the right.
However, you can override PageUp and PageDown
to scroll left and right instead:
https://github.com/publicdomaincompany/scroll/issues/10#issu....

That's pretty satisfying if you like to read in thin columns -
almost like a poor man's PDF but completely in HTML.
You say that, but I've never seen an input wheel as a crank; And it isn't obvious to me how it helps fine control (ala a game control / mouse wheel-like input) since I'd associate crank-like features with benefiting power i.e. turning something with high torque more easily.

Incidentally, people are so offended by the suggestion I immediately received surprise downvotes. Who knew it was such a controversy.
Right, and with this assumption, some websites use it to list price on items, which makes things bit confusing at times.

For example:

\5000

\6000

\2000

I think mobile (and web browsers, too) tend to not display these as yen symbol even when the locale is set to Japanese, so they are displayed as a backslash followed by numbers.
And conversely, because those users/developers see ¥, they think everyone else does too. I regularly get emails from Japanese shops with currency denominated in \.
There is a special issue for JavaScript, and that's monopoly. If you want internet service and don't like your ISP, you'll be a lot more critical if you can't realistically switch to a different ISP. If you want the world-changing reach of the web and don't like JavaScript, you may be a lot more critical of it than you are of some server-side language that you don't like either (as long as you get to choose your server-side stack).
you’re kind of forced to use a redirect extension if you use old reddit. its sort of a pain in the ass.
He probably could. He wrote some really cool pieces of software back in the day.
This is nuts. Hacker News keeps me thinking about smart people's opinions about everything that's going on today. He wishes he was playing chess instead, a fun game, but one that is more a competition of raw processing power and memorization than anything having to do with the human experience.
Keep in mind that the United States has a population 10x greater than Canada, including >3,000 colleges and universities. So there is room here in the market for both highly selective institutions and not selective institutions. It's not like somebody not getting into Yale means they can't go to college.
Crypto Currencies Spread Like MLM Schemes While Government Watches in Silence
What you want to do is entirely up to you. It doesn't have to be meaningful in anyone else's eyes. But if it matters to you that you get X done, and you never get it done because it was usually easier in the moment to do Y instead, then you'll end up regretting that. In that case it's worth figuring that out in advance and trying to fix it.
I first learned of Grace Hopper from a children's book I read to my kids.

Recently, I've been wondering what kinds of Hopperesque ease-of-coding advancements are still left to be invented. For example, are there advancements to made in syntax highlighting to make code read more like a natural language, and bugs easier to spot. (I'm explaining my thoughts poorly, text is the wrong medium).

Also: I Ctrl+F-ed "Grace" on the main page of this post knowing I'd find a hit.
Smaller schools will happen. This will make it possible for all of the huge home school groups that already exist to form real, funded schools.

Big players owning the schools also becomes a huge risk since parents can easily just go elsewhere. Those big players would have to be doing a very good job to keep everybody, compared with the current situation where most people seem to do it because they have no choice.

Where in the world are you seeing a school bus route that goes 2 hours each way? Ideally, the creation of schools a lot closer to those kids would become possible.

And a transport hub is perfectly normal and even reasonable. It simplifies the entire pickup and drop off process. Who knows, maybe UPS can show us how it’s done?
no-code works and has been working for a long time now, depending on how you define it. Think of all the web site builders, young and old, and all the things they helped non technical people achieve. The difference now is that the tech is better and more mature - standard, scalable APIs at lower cost, so no-code tools are getting better, and this new wave will IMO impact how companies operate and create internal tools.
Will someone create the next letter in FAANG with bubble or retool? I don't think so, but will those tools help many people in several industries? I believe so.
I've not used any Svelte significantly yet, so your points may stand.

I have, however, written React for years. If anything in Svelte is more confusing to juniors than how useEffect works, especially in conjunction with unstable references, I would be literally amazed.

useEffect is a loaded automatic pointed at your face if you don't fully understand it. It is truly a terrible API due to how intimately you have to understand JavaScript for it to always work properly.

I can't imagine anything worse in Svelte. If there is, I'd love to hear it.
Technically, they weren't using the Zestimate, it was a different algorithm developed for the iBuyer program (or so I've read).
That's hand wavy, and definitely not a solid case for "had to."

And what regulatory pressure? The US Government has no business dealing with trolls. First Amendment.

This and other moves to get around limitations on regulating speech by using private agents is not going to do any real good, and will do considerable harm.

Valid, many would argue necessary, dissent is being suppressed in the same fashion, and all that happens to coincide with very high levels of government disapproval.

Anyone trying to make the case massive dislikes aimed at major news networks, POTUS and others has to also explain how doing that is not actually suppressing meaningful and justifiable disapproval. Hard case to make.

Funny how that all works isn't it?

Got anything else?
> If there is eventually a metaverse, it will be an open protocol that can be run on any server.

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project P2P event architecture (among viewers) for 3D spaces hosted on your own server, and a portals system for jumping (i.e. linking) between separately hosted spaces.

There's a more modern, commercial oriented incarnation of the concept at https://www.croquet.io/, but I'm not sure how hosting works, or whether they preserved the portal aspect.
I disagree. Real estate lemons are quickly identified by home inspectors which is why there is a variable % in the offer to buy. There are plenty of people that want to sell quickly for various reasons if not at market and at a reasonable discount. This is not the problem.
Does it take much to figure out if your tone is off?
Yeah and I have written bad code, and I expect to cop a few jabs if I do something stupid and my PR manages to brake something important.

I don't have a problem with my co-workers saying I did something dumb. That's not the same as saying I am dumb.

You should be a little embarrassed if you screw up. You only get embarrassed if you care. Its part of the motivation to improve.
The new “ford assembly line” for us at commit.dev is:

1) Do it manually.
2) Scale with no-code.
3) Optimize and protect with custom software.
Now that you mention it, I receive those too.
They did like getting offers lower than expexted and seemed to be happy to wait for the possibilty of a better offer, even if less reliable ( not cash,not a quick closing).
Crazy that for each new type of gpu (or new instance type in general) aws needs to make those available in many many regions at the same time.
This seems to be for the `async-task` crate. My question was about `async_std::task` in particular since it doesn't have cancel-on-drop behavior.
I’ve had a few of times over my 16 year software development career (mostly early on) where I’ve seen tools that have made me pause and think “that’s it, this is going to make my job obsolete”

None of them ever have, of course. It turns out it’s really difficult to make and maintain general purpose tools that allow for non-engineers to generate the end result they want. If for no other reason this is because of the edge cases. You can get really far, but for the most part I’d describe the limits as capable of a really good proof-of-concept.
I used to do exactly this with the surface pro. I used this portable tablet stand: https://www.octa.com/products/spidermonkey.html
Ironically there's a typo in his calling out of the typo. He meant to write: should be "%c>%c¥n" rather than "%c>%¥n".

The second c is missing in the screenshot.
Would Russia hacking a US election for example count as greyhat?
Does the toilet ever work?

Is the seat same size as Ryanair?

Vibration so bad that $500 noise cancelling headphones don't cope?
Depends how you look at it. I'd consider writing bad code and or bugs more akin to misspellings and grammatical mistakes in this context.

This is more akin to being asked to write an auth api, but delivering a fizzbuzz function instead...in that I obviously didn't even read the problem/ask, but instead spammed code to keep the numbers up.

Secondly, every job is different in severity and scope. A surgeon making a mistake is not a fry cook making a mistake is not a civil engineer making a mistake is not a lawyer making a mistake. And public facing roles have different expectations and risks compared to the others. It's what you sign up for, I guess.

To be clear, I don't think this person should be fired or hunted down or anything. I just don't see a big issue bringing it to light with the information given. Amazon could identify them if they wanted to already. I doubt anyone outside could, given there's probably multiple NN recruiters working there.
I really like Rust, it hits a lot of sweet spots for me – strongly typed, neat type system, the mild functional-ness thats useful while keeping people from going too crazy with functional patterns, usually low on boilerplate, static binaries, clever little things like ? ... but sometimes I wish there was a garbage-collected version of it, the constraints of the borrow checker make things like tree structures at least an order of magnitude harder to get right, and I'd love to have the ergonomics of the language and the ergonomics of a gc-ed runtime. Not going to happen I guess, but I feel like there's an opportunity for a Rust-ish language that is somewhat less finnicky, at the cost of making some abstractions more expensive, for microservices with complex business logic and such.
>At least I would respect the argument.

Which really just means 'no.' So like I said, just a big waste of time, the argument for or against these drunk-driving systems is about whether the good for society is worth the cost not about who's making the argument or whether you respect them.
Read digital minimalism, install pihole on your network, use Tailscale for DNS to point it there, implement blocks on the offending websites and categories. Make your smart phone dumb so you are limited to what you can do, and get an offline hobby.

Be easy on yourself, you will relapse, and realize that nearly everything on a digital platform can be shut off and ignored with the click (or long press) of a button.

Set up your environment for success, and make the path of least resistance align with your values.

You say you want one hour a day, but I’d scale back to nothing for a while and slowly re-introduce it. Or make it less convenient to do the activity.
It is for that one thing that uh... I can't even use it for that purpose.
To add: "bZ4X" is ill-suited to be spelled in native Japanese alphabets, and 4 is an unlucky number.

It's like Ford releasing a car named DӔTӉ.
Yes I found my old ThinkPad T42 recently and fired it up and got sucked in looking through my old files for a couple of hours. Its screen felt so useful and big.. 4:3 is great.

It only had a 1024x768 screen but apps really made way better use of screen real-estate back then. Much less unnecessary whitespace.
And? We don't feed Seattleites with food grown inside its jurisdiction or have landfills within its borders, or house all its prisoners, so why should that be a limitation for where to locate shelters?
> (where DJ or Đ is closest pronounced as G in angel or Angelica though not quite)

Would you say the English sound is closer to Đ or DŽ? Does it vary by speaker?

Does Đ use the tip of the tongue, or the middle?
No code has the potential to be a Visual Basic for the enterprise for tasks that are cookie cutter. However the adoption cost is very high for tools like Appian.
In that case it's still not a matter or judging Y as a waste of time or low value activity, it's just that committing to doing things to get X done a better choice
Kongsberg's got ya covered for that too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(RWS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CROWS

They might even still make parts for their old explosive harpoons in case your ship is attacked by whales.
>Rust won't ever be as widely used as Java or COBOL.

I don't understand. I'm making the exact same claims, but am specifying this this is the case...

>but clearly it is already having a huge impact on how infrastructure is built.

There is a dream for that to be the case. The adoption is very low.
Disclaimer, these memories are about 3 years old...

> What discrepancies did you notice? It depends on the target platform which JS engine is used. Sometimes the debugging platform shares the same engine.

Exactly what I said, there would be some code that would run differently in the two environments. I know more now than I did then, but I believe the example was specifically on iOS the app was using JavaScriptCore and the desktop dev tools was using v8.

> I'm not sure I understand, could you provide an example?

> Strange, you're able to catch and debug both JS and native crashes currently. I'm not aware of a past limitation but I could be wrong.

Best as I recall, there was a semi-frequent bug that happened down in our logging system. When it blew up we got a native stack trace instead of JS. My best guess is some kind of handshaking problem between the two layers. Neither used code we wrote and maintained.

Because the whole thing happened inside our error reporting engine, it wouldn't end up in our logs other than a high level apparent failure. It was a mess, and we had limited native experience on the team when it happened. We hired a dev with more native experience, but we still didn't ever figure it out while I was there.

The tool chain always felt like it was a hacked together early beta. To complicate our experience our internal APIs were a mess and unreliable and our React Native codebase wasn't dramatically better. Between our internal problems and all the idiosyncrasies and unintuitive issues in the tool chain it was really miserable.

It wasn't unusual for everyone on the team to spend more than a day simply trying to get the app running again after an update, that is after a dev had completed a 1 to 2 week migration required after the update.
Many of the highest impact decisions in my life, I made because of things I learned reading HN and reddit. And I've even been able to promote my own projects and other projects I like with some success. It's hard to tell whether I'm wasting this time or whether I'm learning about the next Tesla or Bitcoin or deep learning before it's big. Or learning the skills to communicate effectively and promote my work to a big community. I can't separate those things. If I amortize the benefits over the time spent, I think the ROI is pretty good even though the time is large.
> By being an extension of JS it is JS. The two are mutually inclusive.

This is absurd. If JSX were JavaScript, JavaScript wouldn’t need to be extended to include JSX. The whole point of it being an extension is that JavaScript doesn’t include it, therefore JSX extends it. If JSX were JavaScript, then JavaScript wouldn’t need to be extended. The two are mutually exclusive.

> > We are not talking about the value of JSX, merely whether it is JavaScript or not. JSX could cure cancer, but it still wouldn’t be JavaScript.

> Oh but we are, again if you go up the comment chain

In the context of “Is JSX JavaScript?”, the value of JSX is irrelevant. Whether JSX is useless, useful, or amazing makes zero difference to the question of whether JSX is JavaScript or not.

You can still go around telling people JSX is great. It doesn’t have to be JavaScript for you to do that. People telling you that it isn’t JavaScript aren’t telling you that it’s worthless. They are just telling you that it isn’t JavaScript.
It remains to see whether low code is truly a paradigm shift or another option.

Frankly I don't think it is completely snake oil, but it has been grossly oversold.

One issue is that a lot of the licensing out there is either costly or has other limitations that you can never quite work around, without having to write code anyway, if you even -can-.

Many of these vendors also have slightly different licensing options compared to the competition, which means there's likely to be fragmentation based on business size/segment.

Microsoft's solution is likely to be the most widely deployed, since IIRC their Office 365 licensing either included it for free or it was an inconsequential upcharge.

Much of the Buzz that I saw about No Code in the last few years was almost certainly a result of marketing efforts. When one employer went shopping for a solution, the sales/demo pitches we got as a potential customer felt like much of the content was dual-use for investors.

But here's the reality; a lot of businesses don't want to deal with access control/provisioning/support costs, so a lot of the time organizations buy solutions but still only allow the developers/BAs access to them.
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it is not a weird metric to use.
also don't strawman me into an argument that in any way i like or defend Go, it is also not a good language.
The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent
Strange that Obsidian was only an honorable mention. For developers, there is no other choice. It has vim mode! My second brain is in Obsidian, and it’s glorious. It’s taken me a while to put enough time into learning things, but now I can see that the power it provides (through plugins and the developer API) is astounding.

But it’s interesting to see that he’s using it for completely different things than me. For example, I don’t see much point in saving code snippets.
I take pretty unhealthy pleasure in looking at EC2/GC announcements and comparing them to random offers on the WebHostingTalk's Dedicated Hosting Offers section. The cloud offerings almost always end up being 2-4x more expensive (or more) and 2-4x slower.

Except when GPUs are involved. This just seems like something that dedicated hosting industry isn't on top of _at all_. I don't know if it's hardware availability, upfront costs, unreliable demand, an inability to compete on price, or if the usage really is so much more elastic.

The best I could [quickly] find was a 5600X w/32G Ram, 1TB SSD and 12GB 3060 for $189/m.
And you don't control this embedded computer in any way and it had access to everything.

I mean, Intel ME would actually be useful if we could log on to it and install (and remove!) software or even change out its OS.
There are quite a few farms out there which need labor. At the wage paid in Seattle, employers can get a more productive worker than someone who has been chronically homeless is capable of being.
I saw the same thing with Steam Deck. I don't really care since they haven't took my money yet.

I'm actually happy with this since I just brought too many toys recently. Gives me a bit more time to save
Me too! I've found that books with characters whose names begin with the same letter tend to cause me great confusion.

Names are just firstletter+garbage, which also means I can't recall any of the characters names when I've finished reading.