skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is half-true.

Getting run over by a car after going down is a bad day.

The real technique, in my opinion (I have been down a few times), is to use the brakes to take off as much speed as possible while, if you can, bringing both the bike and yourself off the roadway and onto a shoulder or median.

And always: legal or not, lane split into stopped traffic so that it's an instinct. More than once the car in front of me has slammed his brakes on and I've split in next to him, only for him to be rear-ended by the car which was behind me.

Much better to be next to a car that is rear-ended than to be behind one.
I can bet, the shelter utilization is highly correlated with the cost of square foot in the area, which is a proxy for general desirability.

And the solution should be to increase the desirability of other areas, rather than making homelessness the new norm. As a nice side effect, this will solve the general housing availability issues as well.

Except, the public opinion is that we should somehow all stick to a handful of coastal megacities and join the race to the bottom in terms of square feet per person, noise and cleanliness. This certainly benefits big property developers, big vendors and big employers that wouldn't be economically viable in a much sparser area, but I genuinely don't understand why so many people are happy to voluntarily move into a hamster wheel.
Missing from the list is Zettlr
https://zettlr.com/
which is opensource, looks very nice and is built for the Zettelkasten method and has LaTeX integration.

Was quite useful for some university classes.
And custom event handling attributes, camel casing, special cases like htmlFor and className, non-standard attributes being ignored except for custom elements, the style attribute, the special case of checked/selected properties vs attrs for form elements, key and ref properties. Plus all the semantics of component updates, memoizing and so on.

This is already far more to learn than the handful of simple control structures Svelte introduces.
Looks like a beautiful book.

Maybe worth putting a prominent NSFW label on the link to the excerpt however? Was not what I was expecting to see when reading this!
Actually, does anyone mind answering this question (non-sarcastically)? I'd be pretty interested in the answer.
I've used react for some years now and it's very very hard to do animation and event-driven operations with pure react render. You'll need extensive lifecycle events or hooks and refs to get animation or handle focus, etc well. It's due to how react render the components.

It doesn't make react bad but I guess some newer frameworks (vue, svelte, I haven't learned those yet) try to tackle this from different approach.
This. People are saying spaces improve ergonomics. Unless everyone always quotes their paths in documentation, emails, etc -- which they won't -- I say it actually reduces readability.

Also programs automatically that turn paths into links don't work with spaces.
Domination/Hegemony has been the only sense of peace historically. In that sense, I think that the continued stability of the United States as a prosperous and well-run democracy is very important for the world. It looks shaky though, and it's partly outside my control. What do I know, I'm in Europe. Europe is certainly not projecting any hegemony around.
Hey HN!

I noticed over the last year that the online coupon codes Honey was finding me had stopped working, so my room mate and I made a tool that does the same thing but for the codes that stores send to your inbox. (We also apply the online public codes too that Honey find you but those seem to be less and less impactful in 2021).

We launched this week and our users are saving an average of $41 per checkout compared with Honey's $16 per checkout, so, this is super exciting for us.

PS if you are curious about the savings data I'm claiming, I made a big blog post about it here: https://joincheckmate.com/savings - our initial tests showed savings closer to $30 but the user data is now showing it is actually higher than this so I might revise the post, but, either way, it's double the savings of Honey which is super cool for me to see. My friends and I genuinely worked ourselves to madness building this thing!! Has been a long long process.

Long-term reader of HN (although tbh I usually read the reddit clone of this subreddit). Would love any feedback people have! After building this for so many months it's so exciting to see it out in the world.
It could, of course, become anything in between - slightly better, slightly worse, no change, anywhere on the spectrum.

But I, like a great many people both on this website and worldwide, spend most of my working life entering data into a computer (and reading it out of a monitor), and derive a great deal of utility from data entered into a computer, so it's reasonable to assume that it will result in significant changes.
Do you mean dedicated camping areas or putting tents in existing public parks?

Something like https://campsecondchance.rumblecrash.com/ but for tents?
Microsoft’s Pyjion compiler for Python reaches 1.0
I think it's great to see the commoditization of solved problems.

On the other hand, I'm not surprised to see developers hating on the idea because our industry has spent decades telling everybody these are difficult problems and they need to hire experts to help solve them.
Backpressure and the Replicator
Wasn't there a study that came out showing every single one of those things done by CA or Seattle failed?
I could see a corporation paying $ per dopamine jolt associated to their brand
I'd love to build my stuff faster (of course), I tried SWC and it seems impressive. But as long as it doesn't include a TS compiler that check types, I'm not exactly sure where/how I would use it. Both locally and in my CI I want my types checked, otherwise I wouldn't bother writing them.
hrmm seems like overkill why not just SQLite like notion team did?
> In my experience, they do not delve deeply into the tech.

I suppose it depends on how deep the technology is. If you’re building a site using react, fine. If you’re developing a new semiconductor process or new pharmaceutical agent, they’ll want more info.

My companies have all been of the latter sort, and so had serious technical DD. I’ve also done deep dive like that on behalf of investors.
As an SE, I think that no-code is great. It lets us focus on the more interesting and challenging problems. Here's how we approached that in my current start-up.

We built the website on Squarespace ( a tiny bit of custom JS because I wanted a specific UX, but minor). When we are fully launched and selling product, we'll probably continue to use squarespace, but we'll see. It suits us for marketing purposes and capturing interest now.

At the same time, we're working in the hardware space (healthtech building an EEG), so we write all of our firmware, and we've got AI running on google cloud, so all the data pipelines that go along with that.

We're building the front-end for our mobile app, but using Google Firebase for the user account, and other simple user-data stuff that we need. I consider Firebase to be mostly no-code, I code up the front-end, but don't need to do anything on the backend.

The more interesting thing I've heard of recently is Fl{0} (https://fl0.com). They're a Sydney based start-up that is building a low-code style backend system. I'm not completely sure I get it, maybe it's just another version of nodeRed, and other similar tools.
You're describing the happy path, where all your hardware works, and you only use basic software.

In practice stuff just tends to go wrong, fixing it is always complicated command line stuff, and that one bit of software you need only runs on Windows or Mac.
> 2. Build dorm style shelters for anyone that would otherwise sleep outside

We used to allow SROs, like the classic YMCA you'd see where people down on their luck would live in old movies. These are now illegal to build in most places, and the existing ones are being closed down.
I want to add to the above comment. Graeber's lack of integrity and disregard for facts should cast a shadow of mistrust over his other work, not to mention his explosive reaction on being called out for it.

If you can't trust someone's writings on facts you know about, why trust them on facts you don't know about? One of the essential things to understand when taking in information is to first understand: is this information trustworthy?

I see the above as clear evidence Graeber is not only untrustworthy but explicitly seems to feel he has the right to be so. Worse yet, he writes from the perspective of an expert on economic anthropology, but has taken a position where very basic facts of that field are beyond his ken. Not because of a lack of intellect or understanding, but because he has taken that position on purpose.

And now I see so many people on a site for hackers and technology celebrating someone's ideas without first wondering if those ideas are even factually correct and it puzzles me how we ended up here. Discussion about the factual correctness of Graeber's ideas, or the trustworthiness of his perspective and person, seems to be actively discouraged.
They Promised Us Flying Cars
Allow me to introduce you to “countervalue targeting” as part of what “winning” means here.
Why is no complaining that there more than one way to build a php app? Perhaps because like JS it's a huge ecosystem with a giant user base and millions of use cases. Front end dev has lots of room to support the dozen or so mainstream frameworks we've used over the past decade-plus
I don't know if it was widely reported, but in the days before the COP meeting in Glasgow, Britain removed the tax they had on internal flights.
> So typical of Google to invent their own thing and keep it private.

Yeah like their build system... Bazel, that's completely closed source.
> We watch the internet, but we’re not immersed in it.

I disagree.

If you’ve ever seen a 10 year old playing Fortnite while wearing a headset, or FaceTiming his friends while also on Discord to other friends, then you’ve seen someone truly immersed in it. Especially if you say “dinner is ready”, because it will take you several times for the kid to process that they are hungry and you just offered him food.

People are in love with this vision, but it already exists, just like a Model T was a car, but our today are much more refined.
Also inflation. There's definitely a feedback loop and expectations of inflation can be enough to cause inflation.
At least a million bucks a year, tax-free, and with a very comfortable house with all mod cons thrown in.
> There are people who make food.

All ethical upstanding folk, Monsanto, Nestle, by their standards Microsoft are saints.

> People who drive trucks.

An industry know for their honesty and reliability, no organised crime involved ever.

It's shocking to me how much people here get outraged over relatively trivial stuff.
I guess the problem is that some people see education as the tool to help kids succeed in life. While you clearly see getting a high number on your score card as the key to success, and what you actually learn is apparently useless. That is the only possible way you could see making kids study more as a bad thing.
And also make homelessness a crime. But conveniently they push you toward places that help with people on the verge of homelessness. All things combined with yours that these coastal places do not. If people are threatened with jail for being a vagrant, they'll eventually take the path of least resistance and get a job.
I get the reasons for that, even ignoring the moral mission ones; it's too much effort to monitor for abuse and just easier to issue an outright ban.

A substantially different world if we had friendly AI to do that monitoring and maybe individual tiny-houses or apartments rather than a bunkhouse free-for-all like Squid Games.
When you work at certain scale with C++ and Rust you ends rewriting a GC inside those language because default allocator are not good enough. That's why GC languages are faster than C++/Rust in some scenarios.
It’s not quite that simple as over 2 weeks of sunlight heat conducts a fair distance. Also, the regolith emits IR radiation so a shadow wouldn’t be nearly as cool in the daytime.

That said, there are options simply being further from the equator directly translates to lower daytime temperatures, but that also means lower subsurface temperatures. Really the point isn’t it’s impossible to use solar on the moon, just significantly more difficult than on a satellite.
If we want to know the magnitude of states shipping homeless people away, we need to start measuring how many had been supporting themselves. I’ve seen studies about California homelessness where a participant was counted as in-state if they bussed here and crashed on a friend’s couch for a little while.
Aha, I see I'm not the only one who listens to talks while doing housework or working out. I've been on a Varoufakis binge for a while, perhaps I'll check Graber now ;)
Hmmmm, well that's the nice and cozy Gitlab version - - now I am itching to hear the "National Enquirer" version of why he is leaving ?
Dear YouTube – Marques Brownlee Video
> I feel like there is a distinction between tools and no code and these are just tools.

How would you describe the difference?
Historically, we weren't supporting 8B people on large scale mono-crop agriculture. When the dinosaurs were around and the atmospheric CO2 was at 5000ppm, no one was growing rice. Speaking of rice, the fact that rice germination fails at between 34-36degC is concerning when roughly 3-4B people around the equator rely on rice grown at 31-33degC to survive. It can be true that beneficial climate changes in the past are not beneficial to the present due to structural changes in human civilization.

At this point, we need a large-scale geoengineering project to reduce methane and CO2 levels in the atmosphere to protect our large-scale mono-crop agriculture practices OR the survivors of the food wars can return to subsistence farming among the corpse of past human civilization.

Placing blame here is useless - it doesn't matter if it's humans. Let's say it's not humans. Great, cool, super. Do we defend civilization or not?
Yeah that resonates with me. There’s rarely peace, just quiet, created forcibly by a dominant actor.
The "just build a desktop app" trope is even more played out.

Plus you know all these front end frameworks are "just HTML/ JS/CSS" right?
The current situation in Europe is telling : why bother with sending nukes on other countries when you can threaten them with "bombarding you with migrants" ? Or when you can retaliate by "freezing financial assets" ?

M.A.D. is a deterrent for total nuclear war. It's not a deterrent for war. One thaught "trade" would work, but it's still not perfect.
A state-wide referendum was held on the entire project, including the hundreds of kilometers of new tracks, tunnels, and bridges, a long-distance station for the Stuttgart airport, and a new station on the Swabian alb. There was never a referendum only on the new main station.
How do people on HN deal with the potential disappearance of work altogether ?

physical labour -> boston dynamics

office labour -> ~cloud + smartphones (i'm in an office job right now, and it's near zero work, it's full on redundancy, ambiguous and contradictory information, political friction.. any computer could replace the entire building and operate faster 24/7)

it's really not a huge stretch to predict 90% of tasks will just vanish

and i'm saying this with a human life approach. How do we organize cities / nations around that. Do we plan for smooth transition, say 40 years of gradually smarter tooling so people stay in charge but with advanced assist ? do we go UBI ? do we convert every human as a space tourist ?
They should be punished for not taking the social service avenues intended to make them not homeless.
I don’t really buy the main counter arguments here.

First, the current tech as stated in the article is short flights, like an hour. That’s actually a niche that’s already marketed—luxury flights to Martha’s Vineyard, Tahoe, Bar Harbor. People are already paying for these flights today.

Second, the heat issue. Batteries do suffer from cold weather but if it’s an hour flight, with the batteries dumping their full charge, between thermal heating and simply insulating your battery it can stay warm.
That distance would be perfect for sleeper train. Hop on in the evening, sleep while you traveling and arrive in the morning well rested. You have the entire day for work, and hop on the train back on the evening.
It's also far too far away from jobs jobs jobs.
What about Canonical's LXD/LXC?
Maybe people in their 20's to 30's are not only being anxious about the direct chance that they could die but of other side effects too?

Long covid alias long lasting damages such as impaired taste that have a high impact on your life and are a good reason to get vaccinated against.

Just because they most likely won't die, doesn't mean that it will be easy nor that it will be without other nasty side-effects. The vaccine has also been limited AFAIK to high-risk groups in most countries before being available to 'healthy' people.

Vaccinating them will also improve the chance for other vaccinated high-risk groups to be infected less and as such help those groups over all in the long term.
Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run Your Containers in the Cloud (2020)
Doesn't work. And I've had practical experience using low-code platforms, "selling" them and even built a couple myself.

First - there's no complete solution. notice how they all have a "custom code" feature for you to fill in what's missing using JS or proprietery language. And you need a developer for that.
These platform only work so long as you stick exactly to the use-case they had in mind.

Second - Business/non-dev users don't have the skills nor the inclination to use these platforms.
It may look simple, just drag'n'drop, connect the dots,
But what if it fails? why did it fail? when will it fail? they don't have the experience and mindset to debug and account for edge cases, and they don't even want to learn how to do it! no matter how easy the no-code platform is.

These conclusions I payed for in blood, sweat and money.
AWS and Azure have different philosophies:

Azure uses a unified resource manager that has everything in "one place".

AWS uses a "federation of systems" with almost nothing in common, except for authentication.

Azure's approach is more consistent and makes things like resource graph relatively easy to implement.

AWS's approach is more robust against failure, because the various service offerings are more independent and have fewer common failure points.

This isn't just theory, it matches my experience pretty well. I hate how in AWS I have to switch portals to go from service-to-service, whereas in Azure the "Resource Groups" contain all related resources in one place, even if it's a random mix of IaaS and PaaS. Conversely, I've been bitten by several wide-spread Azure outages. Repeatedly.

It all depends on your business requirements. For me, the consistency is more important. For other people, availability is far more critical.
Motorcycle Rally Computer Goes Open Source
I'm learning SPARK2014, a subset of Ada, for a controls software package I am trying to put together. I started in C, thought about using Rust or Zig, but finally settled on SPARK after reading through most of these two books:

Analysable Real-Time Systems: Programmed in Ada

Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

I typically enjoy conciseness, and at first I was put off by Ada's verbosity, but then I think my old memory of Pascal clicked and I am enjoying the experience.

A few examples of Ada/SPARK on embedded processors also added to the range or possibilities along with High-integrity software and tooling.
Personal anecdata is most definitely an issue, and a very hard one to solve.

For example - the greater LA metro area has roughly 19 million people (as of 2019 believe it's higher now)

19 million people is the equivalent of the populations of the 13 lowest population states. Including for example, South Dakota.

The last time I looked into this, roughly a year ago (and at 2019 numbers) the entire state of South Dakota has the same amount of crime as Los Angeles. However, the entire state of South Dakota is roughly 1/20th the population of Los Angeles.

We also have decades of data showing that people who grew up in or have lived large metropolises are at roughly 20%-25% greater disposition to severe mental illness such as schizophrenia. Simply for living in that environment.

So, that being said - I think somewhere like Los Angeles is doing pretty damn good for itself. It's an undeniably slightly crazy place to be living or growing up in, and their general crime levels are only at the level of a place with 1/20th of it's population, that is much less dense. In my eyes, it seems like a place with less population density would be less prone to crime.

Most people don't take any amount of time to become aware of information like this though... thus we get nowhere in solving issues.
One concerning item with recent events is that no one can plausibly point to a nuclear "red line" in most of the existing flash points.

The historic red lines in the cold war were either one side reaching a first-strike position, or an unstoppable ground invasion in which both sides soldiers were directly involved and tactical nuclear weapons would usefully repel the invasion. Even then NATO troop deployments in Germany during the cold war reflect both a risk that this tipping point wouldn't trigger a nuclear war - as well as carefully calculated strategies to ensure that the risk of a nuclear escalation was high such as by stationing tactical nuclear weapons in Germany.

It's difficult to identify a similar red line in a likely conflict between any of the major nuclear powers.
I wonder if you could find any 'enterprise' system at a business of any size that's lasted 25 years, if it would have much the same problems. And if you can't find many enterprise systems that lasted 25 years, that says something to, in Helix's favor. (some of the ones you can are... COBOL I guess?)
Rust is good for systems programming. For everything else, use a language with GC so you don't have to reinvent the wheel for every memory allocation and your brain is free to think about functionality, architecture, security, UX, ...
Geany is gtk, has no other connection to gnome.
One of my friends used to live across the street from a federal courthouse. He tried projecting a movie from his window onto a blank wall of the courthouse. Half an hour later several LEOs were at his door asking him "politely but firmly" to turn off the projector and to never do it again.
> > that doesn't mean that the net result for the country (let alone world) as a whole is positive.

> This is not an economic argument. Perhaps a moral argument - it's not clear, as no details were provided. But speculating as to whether some value-add spillovers should or should not be present is not how we count externalities in a pigovian tax. It seems what you want is a sin tax for flight, which is not a pigovian tax.

It's not necessarily a moral or an economic argument alone, though it could be. For example, perhaps the massive shift in summer vacation travel from all points of the US towards FL was (while very good economically good for FL) both bad economically for the rest of the country and created substantial externalities within FL itself (environmental, social etc.)

Comparing these costs and benefits can't be done in a value-free way, which means that establishing the overall cost/benefit is not likely to be a task that will lead to a consensus outcome.
Wow, thanks, fantastic!