skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen any studies about the potential long term effects of a sars-cov2 infection?

Also any “whistleblower” complaints about the studies are ridiculous at this point. Billions of people have taken the vaccines, we are overflowing in data about how safe and effective they are. There isn’t a coverup that half the human population is in on.
Thanks, I gave those another try. They links didn't look inviting, expected just more of the same (text + images). But's actually an interactive demo from end-user perspective. that was easy to get: https://grid.is/@grid_templates/template-interactive-user-fu...
I would expect the equity riskier than gov bonds and therefore having higher risk premium.
As of now, gov bonds are less risky than equity (by definition) but provide higher yields.

I don’t know a metric like div yields which take into account dividends+buybacks+Reinvested earnings.
my god, I was simply trying to loop over every file in a dir and zip it in a bash one liner. Of course, some of the inputs had spaces in the file names. What an exercise in frustration!!!
Nobody claims housing fixes those things, but it is an improvement over the same people sleeping on the sidewalk.

We don't need to put off the simple solutions because there are harder ones after that.
Except in Django it doesn’t hurt, because the ability to send straight SQL to the DB is built in.
I don’t doubt we need more space now. Vacancies in shelters would suggest we created too much supply, which would be a waste of resources. I prefer to take the approach of understanding the current needs and working to address all of those needs.
It's a well-written biography and Graeber comes across as a great guy but on the other hand the Brad DeLong takedown linked in the article [1] is quite something.

I'm wondering how he wrote a 500 page book on debt without really understanding banking?

[1] https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-g...
I still have a difficult time understanding how increased homelessness is not a direct result of increased taxes and regulations. The data presented corroborates as much and though correlation doesn’t mean causation, correlation certainly doesn’t indicate a lack of causation either. We go to great lengths to justify the results when the simplest explanation is staring right at you.
> What kind of moron thinks detaching the menu for apps from the window for apps is a good UI design?

As a UX it's consistent, and very nice that for any app I'm using, I have a familiar menu I can navigate, and I can even hit Cmd+Shift+/ and hop into a search of every item in that consistent menu (which tends to include most major actions you'd want to do in that app).

And I think it being detached and stuck to the top of the screen at an OS-level is important for this to work. I certainly wouldn't want the OS to force design upon the window itself (i.e. having the same bar but attached to the top of every window), and if it was an optional, native UI component included in an SDK, a good amount of apps (read: most) wouldn't use it (that's basically the situation on Windows). But because it's essentially part of the OS, and an app would look weird if it didn't have that, it's created a very consistent experience across all apps.
Tab completion works just fine for me with a Japanese IME.
This once again proves that while users of Apple devices believe that they own them, Apple considers that the devices are merely rented from Apple. Thus, renters can use devices only in a way approved by the owner (Apple), and are subject to restrictions and oversight.
I_promise_I'm_not.
They solve different problems, some of which may overlap I suppose.

For one thing you get clear ownership of deployed code. There isn't one monolithic service that everyone is responsible for babying, every team can baby their own, even if they all share libraries and whatnot.

You also get things like fault isolation and fine grained scaling too.
I mostly agree. But I think there’s an important semantic distinction: people who use excel are coders. They are programming the moment they write an expression into a cell.

I think this is important because we fool ourselves by calling these people non-coders.

Excel is really just a coding environment that has a ridiculously smooth learning curve.
Yikes, application fees are illegal where I live. That's some pretty absurd rent-seeking. Is there a limit, or could an unscrupulous "landlord" post an ad with very low rent for a room, and live off the application fees without ever accepting an application?
This is great work, data I've been very interested in. It would be really fascinating to get to county and city level, where I live there's been a crazy increase in people living in tents with severe mental and/or substance abuse problems. It does reflect at the state (Oregon) level but I think it's a bit misleading because it feels like there are magnet areas where all the increase happens in one spot.
I found this quote to be interesting:

If the enterprise metaverse does indeed take shape, though, it will be an intriguing process. Will it be based on proprietary technology or on open standards (there is already a Digital Twin Consortium)? And, asks George Gilbert, a veteran observer of the it industry, how will software-makers such as Microsoft be paid for their wares? Since their code will be more embedded than ever in firms’ products and services, some may ask for a slice of revenue instead of licensing or subscription fees.

--

I have yet to see any such moves or indications in such pricing.
Sorry, but no, a branching workflow won't scale if you have thousands of developers pushing to the same repo. Those pretty `git log --all --decorate --oneline --graph` images won't work when you've got thousands of branches, and the history on the mainline will be poor and of low utility.

What I was taught almost 20 years ago at Sun Microsystems (RIP) is a rebase workflow. That was back before Git. We were using Teamware of all things, and we were using it with a clean, linear upstream history workflow.

Our particular rules were:

- linear history upstream
- absolutely no merge commits (at Sun
they were called "merge turds")
- one commit per-bugfix, though one
commit could fix more than one bug,
with a separate commit for test
changes
- one commit per-project
- but otherwise one push could push
many commits

We also had rules about commit titling, naturally.

Sun had been using that workflow since 1992 as I recall, so they used that workflow for 16 years, with several thousand developers pushing to OS/Net (core of Solaris).

We even had rebase --onto.

The workflow for projects went like this:

- devs push to a project clone of the upstream
- gatekeeper takes care of build issues and
preps to push to upstream when project is ready
- every so often the project repo ("gate") would
rebase onto the upstream head, then devs would
rebase their clones onto the new project head
- eventually the project would rebase onto and
push to the upstream
- project repos ("gates") got archived when the
projects completed

That workflow scales very very well. The resulting upstream's history is very clean, with just: commits for bug fixes, commits for tests for bug fixes, commits for projects, commits for release-making, and the occasional follow-up to a commit that fixed minor issues with that commit (e.g., `12345 Crash in blah blah (fix style)`).

I strongly recommend it.
> we use practically 0 Swiss trains. They are super expensive

I guess you know that, but if you live in Switzerland you're supposed to have the discount card ("demi-tarif") which makes the train way more affordable. It's still not cheap, especially if you compare with a car trip not taking the price of the car and maintenance into account (which is reasonable if you need the car for other reasons anyway). But in my case at least, without kids, it's really worth being able to use my time to do something productive rather than driving.

Also curious about the Chamonix example: I've never lived in Geneva, but aren't there a ton of other options in Switzerland that are way more connected than the French side? Why choose this example over Swiss resorts?
Are you using Firefox? If not, it blocks additional resources when compared to Chrome.
Interesting, in NZ you have an interest rate you pay to the bank for your mortgage that has to be renewed every few years. This interest rate is definitely impacted by inflation. Does the US/where you are from not have a similar system?
I read this, thought "It can't be that bad", clicked it, and burst out laughing...
I have a stupid question:

The cool thing about Svelte is that it compiles your code in a way so that when variables change, bindings in HTML change, but only that HTML and not an entire DOM re-render. (Right?)

So, if this is the case, how come React couldn't do the same thing? They'd lose the ability to just include react in a script file, but why can't a smart compiler look at your JSX and throw out the virtual DOM component, so your variables are directly bound to where they're used in the HTML?
> When YT censored "Let's go Brandon" videos, I chuckled, but the humor was darker.

They did what?

Oh, this song? Okay that's video rather than videos which makes a big difference. Not great, agreed.
Couldn't you do it with plain old symlinks?
https://archive.md/ejq9t
Probably be better to grow Wolffia (or duckweed) in vats. Under optimal conditions they can double in size daily, and they are human and livestock edible and can be composted to convert into fertilizer or they could be sterilized and used to feed fish or serve as a food source for lake or ocean farming.

Further, they seem to grow best in slightly acidic highly carbonized water, so you could extract CO2 from the air (by refrigerating the air into a liquid) and dump it into the Wolffia vats for them to convert into plant material.

Worst case, you could burn the Wolffia for nearly direct conversion of CO2 into raw carbon to be buried in old abandoned mines and such.

The problem is that currently growing Wolffia is difficult, and scaling that up to meet the needs of the near future would be an inordinate task, but if someone is up to it then godspeed.
All true. I do think there is a window to succeed in the U.S. In Europe it's just much harder to innovate more generally.

Also the SAFs are looking pretty good. Point is, I don't think we should decide that planes are bad of all sudden, that doesn't seem like a very wise thing to do given the massive benefits of air travel. Rail is also great but rail shines for cargo and large volume traffic between urban cores
> We could instead document that the URLBlocklist policy works for every scheme but one, or we could fix it. Fixing it makes more sense.

What makes more sense - a small documentation update to explain an edge case scenario, or a breaking change across the web? Hint: it's not the one that involves code changes.
I worked at a company that not only did that, but also decided to split the main web app into multiple repos, one per country. It was so much fun to do anything in this project.
I didn’t say it “fixes” things, whatever that can possibly mean. All I’ve done is counter the normal excuse for the barbaric practice of not providing basic amenities to the most needy.
C source code and paths are both representable by strings, true, but the fact that they're not actually strings is still important, because most people don't know that, and in the case of paths that leads to a lot of edge cases (in the case of source code it leads to a bunch of inefficient and weak tooling, which isn't quite as bad).

Because neither are strings, their native representation shouldn't be such - it should be something structured, and only when necessary (IPC, FFI, serdes) be serialized into a string representation. This would save people a lot of time and effort.
I wonder why "space" wasn't always simply treated as another character. To save a couple bytes back in the 50s (when it mattered) I assume?
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Telling NIMBYs to take a hike isn’t simple. How do you actually achieve that?

The question is not if we have enough shelter space. The question is if there are homeless who do not want shelter space. In other words do we have another problem to focus on in parallel.
And also the end of civilization as we know it.
If wage increases cause inflation, then what causes wage increases?
Ask HN: Would you use a digital currency?
Nigeria recently launched her digital currency, is this a blockchain tech?

Stumbled upon a report, that says -"In first 12 days of Central Bank of Nigeria Crypto currency eNaira nearly 400,000 new wallets were registered in dozens of countries and customers made 12,500 transactions worth 46.3m naira ($113,000)".

One of the reasons, why we are building RT Opensquare (anomaly detection for companies) is to help businesses gain more revenue, accelerate decision making all automated.

Learn more on the eNaira
here.https://reisparanalyticsacademy.medium.com/enaira-the-nigerian-digital-currency-4e831f1918d4

What do you think?
I never asked anyone not to use svelte... I said why should I be compelled to learn this new language, other than it being the hot new UI framework of the day.

It doesn't have a virtual DOM? It doesn't have synthetic events? Ok why not just use web components which provide their own encapsulation and vanilla JS. I don't have to learn a new language which may or may not be around/supported a few years from now... Also I'm continuing to grok web standards.
What about red states bussing homeless to the west coast?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...

Until it's not possible to simply ship your problems away (kind of like how we handle recycling), governments are incentivized to do the wrong things.
What happens when two accidents happen at the "same" time?

Whoever is running the teleporter would have to have "collision avoidance" strategies I guess. :-)
New moral reference guide for AI draws from advice columns and ethics boards
I like it because it separates layout, styling, and scripting while still collating them in the same file.
No, Divvy has e-bikes as well now.
It's really good to see the breakdown into the four broad classes. The big question: should we as a society be allowed to force permanently unsheltered people with substance abuse and mental illness into some kind of facility for treatment? Most people who even want to do anything about these problems would probably say no but I think it's at least worth asking.
Funny, in the Italian Win9x it is C:\Programmi, which I always thought was more convenient because of the lack of spaces :)
I actually think Ember/Glimmer happens to have the best implementation of this, where their diff can be incredibly optimised because they know the semantics of the template and can just skip all work on static elements and attributes that never change.
Comanche: Maximum Overkill
> Motorcycles are not that much more expensive

What's weird to me is that motorcycles can be had for cheaper than many e-bikes despite the e-bike being a much simpler machine, less range and far slower.

For example, a Kawasaki Ninja 400 has MSRP in the $5200-$5800 range, a nice small local commuter bike but still very capable. Many nicer e-bikes are quite a bit more expensive than that.
if you read the article you would know that the majority of the homeless population in nyc are sheltered as a 1979 class action lawsuit found that it was a constitutional right for the homeless to be sheltered.
I don't know a single leftist who wants to just drop the homeless in housing and forget about them. Usually, when people talk about housing-first policies, they're advocating for flipping the script: don't make treatment, abstinence or work a prerequisite for housing; give them a permanent address, a climate-controlled shelter, and a secure place to store their belongings. And then, concurrent to that, you can help them get a job and treatment for illness or addiction.
Hmm, it's an interesting idea. I feel like the finished websites are sort of bland though. I wonder if leaning into a more messy / paperlike aesthetic would make the product feel more fun, since to me I feel like wanting to make a website from paper (rather than, say, googledocwebsite.com) is a choice someone would make if they really love paper and notebooks and that sort of aesthetic.
Why debate right and wrong and not simply make it an engineering problem to let people work on?

Why not make that our political discourse? We stop the world at work to solve problems in revenue generation.

Somehow this has to be mired in political speak.

Letting figurative power thrive while squashing people is good business.
Both tunnels in Switzerland have already been operational. The Gotthard basis tunnel since 2016, and the Ceneri tunnel since 2020.
The drug free thing is frustrating because it seems like it’s mostly optics.

Can’t be seen to be implicitly supporting drug use, so you have to deprive your residents of privacy, protection, and freedoms.
My house has one sided locks all over it. Kids are constantly locking themselves out of rooms / bathrooms.
We use dry spaghetti to unlock them. Keep a few above door frame.

Leaves guests bewildered when they come to stay.
> Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel.

Note that Panic hasn't developed any of those games; they published them.
Planes are actually surprisingly fuel efficient. The short haul flights in Europe are often served by Airbus A320 or A321 Neo, with fuel consumption per seat at 2.19 L/100 km. A mid-sized petrol-powered car consumes three times as much. And that figure ignores that planes take a straight route - taking that into account, the emissions are close to a single-occupant electric car
"does an iPad use interpolation on image zoom?" seems like a pretty easy question for a technical publication to answer, doesn't it? Like perhaps they have someone at Apple who could answer that question if they asked it, and then pass that answer on to their readers?
Giving reasonable doubt to Microsoft here, many of these features using the microsoft-edge:// pseudo protocol also have Windows 10 back ports and it is reasonable to assume that it was a workaround intended to address the elephant in the room that some Windows 10 users (coughEnterprisecough) set IE11 as their default browser in a poorly thought out GPO somewhere they don't remember how to fix. (Probably because it was some big bully coughOraclecough that told them they needed to do that in the first place.)

The pseudo protocol probably should have been better designed with a less specific name, and probably should have had a better fallback to default browsers when they aren't IE11, but one can also imagine the name was chosen because it was the easiest solution using existing pseudo-protocol support in Windows 10 and 11 than building a more complicated "trampoline", maybe.
i did try that - https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1294310598419689472 but when the core team is not interested in it there's only so much i want to push it on my own - rather just move to Svelte where the community already gets it
Kinda like those taxis waiting outside of central stations and airports?
So is Joomla - yet I wouldn't recommend people learn it today. Might as well learn COBOL and Zend Framework too.
DoorDash to buy food delivery counterpart Wolt for $8.1bn
Graeber was a talentless crackpot if you wasted your time reading his nonsense
React is a free for all, you can render pretty much anything you want at any time. With templating languages, the DOM output can be statically analyzed at build time, so the amount of work needed to diff the HTML output when things change at runtime can be dramatically shortened.
They are not replacements - they are complementary. I think trains should be cheaper than they are now to be more appealing than airplanes (I prefer the view from the airplane, but the cabin pressure and silence of the train is a plus), but it's not an either/or situation.

When we count externalities such as the carbon footprint, trains easily beat planes.

Finally, TGV and Ryanair are not comparable experiences.
Regardless of the politics of this case, I think it's time for anyone involved in public office to have basic tech literacy or be removed.

These people can barely switch a light on and they're making pronouncements affecting people's lives ( see also: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-... )
The React team had explorations of a compiler for React, I believe -

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/9223
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/7323
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/7324

I also think this is why facebook had been investing in `prepack` - https://github.com/facebook/prepack
> At no point did I or anyone else on the planet ever suggest that heating a rock by 1 degree will release less than 1 degree of heat.

Yet you said it was only 20% efficient. Where did the 80% of the energy go?

> it requires 3-5x MORE ENERGY to impart the THE SAME AMOUNT OF HEAT to a rock as it does water

No, it doesn't. It's the same. Unless you've confused heat with temperature. Or you didn't try to heat the rock in an enclosed, insulated box, and the rocks were radiating the heat away almost as fast as it was applied.

"Heat is a form of energy that can be transferred from one object to another or even created at the expense of the loss of other forms of energy."

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/thermalP/u18l1d.cfm

QED.
Thanks to all the comments in this threads, I now have "sudo apt install rename detox" in my install script, and:

normalize_names() {
rename "s/-/_/g" *
detox -s lower *
}

in my .bashrc.

I've thrown some edge cases at it, and it handles it super well. It deals with consecutive "_", remove leading garbage, normalize unicode, and even prevents naming conflicts by opting out early.

Thanks you.