skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not only me then

I wonder if this explains part of TV's surging popularity relative to film. I also find modern movies frustrating to watch, in part because I can't follow the dialogue. (I assumed it was a hearing thing.)
W8 what

>>> 699/(24*0.65)

44.80769230769231 days

Nitro card obviously costs a bit, but for ROI on mac itself is closer to 6 weeks than 6 months ;)
creative commons image search for "flowers": <https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?imgl=cc;p=flow...>

Learn to search (hint: searchlores), it is an immensely useful skill in this age of information; you don't need to be irked by bad tools any more.
The Surprising Cost of Protocol Conformances in Swift
I spent a 24 hour hackathon to scratch an itch and wanted to share. While the UX could have been more streamlined, this is a POC.

1. Publiush publishes and seeds a torrent magnet.

2. A web3 "handshake" name points to the magnet.

3. Federalist is a simple interface on webtorrent which downloads and displays the torrent.

It's using existing technologies and mashes them up to create a peer to peer browsing experience.

I thought it was pretty cool and wanted to hack it together and see what it looked like!

Hope this clarifies and hope you like it. It's a POC so the code is minimal and easy to check.

Edit: The 24 hours was mostly reading haha
Where are you getting this idea that they don't have strong evidence? We have several studies now, in schools, cities, states, and other places, that have shown that, while not perfect, masks have a very noticeable positive effect on reducing transmission and spread.
What's your problem with FF specifically? I keep hearing people complain, but it seems like the same ol browser to me?
You shouldn't have to think that hard in order to understand what someone wrote.

As someone who spent many years with my writings misinterpreted, simple word choice is always better than relying on context.
I think it's more that you need layers. A centrally planned layer of regulation and safety nets that provide a base level to keep things running (and people alive), but without the cost and inefficiency of trying to control everything, and then a more efficient, free market–like layer on top that relies on the lower layer to provide the "free" in "free market".

I believe it would be more productive to argue about where the layer boundaries should be, rather than endlessly arguing about whether one or the other layer should even exist. (Because they'll both always exist. People will help each other out even in a free-for-all; and black markets will always come into existence in rigid, fully-planned economies.)
They're there to make you work slower, perfect concentration breaker. Of course, if you're not busy they're fine as your attention may be needed, but they should definitely be off by default.
Ask HN: I've decided to shut down my side project! What now?
Ledger [1] is a tool that reminds you via slack to terminate your EC2 instances (works with GCP as well).

I've built this last year. It didn't get any traction and I've recently decided to shut it down. I wrote a twitter thread [2] about it explaining why and listed some of the mistakes I made. And boy there were plenty (some of them I didn't even mention...like how the name is totally wrong XD).

I got a suggestion in the twitter thread that I should post it here and see if I can get any more feedback. Might as well get some more knowledge out of this failure, right?

It was also suggested by a couple of folks that I list the project on sites like microaquire and indiemaker but I don't know how realistic this is?! I mean why would anyone want to to buy a SaaS with zero users?!

[1]: https://ledger.initeq.net/

[2]: https://twitter.com/denibertovic/status/1466408868276314114
> This is a small step in the right direction but California has really dug themselves into a hole here. California needs whole apartment blocks, not just duplexes, but apartments is something that is likely to never happen because of the above issue where no one will vote against their self interest

Incremental upzoning is what will get us there. So changing single family zoning to duplex zoning like what this does, and current multifamily zoning to much higher density zoning.

Going from single family to high-density apartments zoning overnight will cause a great deal of chaos, both in land valuation and also in political distrust.

California has actually built a huge number of apartment blocks in areas already zoned for that type of housing, and those have been providing most of the new housing supply in the state. Such places have picked up the slack for lower density places where exclusionary zoning has prevented higher density.

But housing has to be built in a wider array of formats because not everyone wants to live in a large apartment block. Today, even in urban California huge areas have single homes on large lots that should have the option of being converted to townhouses or multifamily dwellings. A lot of people (even families) would enjoy and even prefer townhouse style living.
a legacy codebase can be structurally resistant to being fixed.

you're afraid to change things because there's no test coverage. okay let's add some automated tests. oops can't do that either because the whole thing is a tightly-coupled pile of spaghetti with no interface boundaries. so you start by refactoring. but because there are no tests, you don't realize you are breaking a bunch of important business functionality and now people are yelling at you to stop whatever you are doing and fix these bugs.

no matter what you do, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. but hey, people are actually getting stuff done with your product/service in the meantime. as painful as it is, it's still probably better to fix what you have than to start over.
The framing of the article (like many others related to the Afghanistan withdrawal) seems backwards. It implies that the "international community" (i.e. western governments and aid organizations) is engaged in a struggle to save children that are starving or missing out on health treatment due to the vaguely-defined "chaos of the Taliban takeover". In fact, it is western governments and aid organizations that decided to withdraw aid out of aversion (to some extent legally enforced by western governments) to dealing with the de-facto government of Afghanistan (the Taliban). Withdrawing foreign aid after spending decades creating a system entirely dependent on it is not "struggling to save starving babies", it's making a choice _not_ to save starving babies.
I half agree. Yes I do think you have a bunch of technologists self-indulgently trying to apply the next shiny thing where bettering the world is second priority. However, I think changing the system from inside is largely a fool’s errand. There are indeed proven methods for political change. Unions, protest, organizing, these things. They’re unsexy and boring and tedious, much like you’ve described, but these do work.
I don’t know… Google kept iGoogle around for quite a while. And the only content that wasn’t freely distributed in RSS format were things like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.

Social media as a class is pretty old, even if some of the current popular players are young. What was happening with Tom from MySpace or your ex from high school was some of the only information that wasn’t available on a portal.

I don’t think the rise of one directly led to the fall of the other. The way we consume information changes over time. And as we all collectively got better at information retrieval, portals were less important. The internet also move from “one” of the places you checked for content (so efficient checking with a portal) to the primary source for news and content for many people. Now browsing the web is just as much a part of the process, especially now that we had a decade or so of practice.

And to be clear — no content creation company liked portals or aggregators. No one wanted iGoogle in between you and their own advertising. As many hits as a good HN or Digg post could get you, if you were the NYT or a news company, you would rather people start at your homepage as opposed to direct linking in. And these media companies have gotten much more sophisticated. Licensed AP news feeds were everywhere on portals. Now, a newspaper would rather keep you in their site with a subscription. Different times, different business models.

You are definitely right though — AltaVista’s front page was significantly more cluttered than the default Google page. And that was an advantage for Google. Not only did the Google page load faster, but it was less distracting. CNBC at the time couldn’t figure out how Google was going to make much money with only in-results ads. Hindsight.
Hey! Is there a full list of EU countries you are incorporated in? Looking through Greenhouse, I can see at least Ireland and the Netherlands but wondering if there are others. Thanks in advance!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghx0sq_gXK4
Techno feudalism
No, dense city is much more efficient than suburbs. A hundred floors is a tiny fraction of miles. There was a post here showing the costs.

Most folks would prefer the “missing middle” if ever given a chance to experience it.
Two New Talks and an Interview
If you've been or have lived in Los Angeles you would already know plenty of neighborhoods in LA already have this and almost nobody wants to live in these neighborhoods but do so out of necessity. All the giant craftsman homes in South Park are duplexes and they do not look inviting. This seemingly addresses nothing, the price of housing is the crux of the issue.
> how is this garbage getting to HN?

huh? what do you mean? I'm pretty sure comments can say w/e nonsense the user wants ... as long as it doesn't break rules.
I guess you could buy a refurbished Mac Mini on apple.com for $589?
Good question!

As with most choices, the level of force required to achieve compliance is more or less linearly related to the harshness of the choice.

Pay a small amount of taxes? Little force required.

Give full authority over your life to a faceless central planner? Great force required.

Give full authority, with no chance of escape? Lethal force required.

I'm not sure why this is a concept that seems to be a mystery to advocates of "Socialism", though.

"Socialism would work great, if only you pesky rich, free people would just give up and let the state take everything and let your children starve!"

:)
I distinctly remember Microsoft getting into an anti-trust case[0] over things much more benign than what they're doing right now.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
I'm not laughing at all. The politicians who brokered this steaming pile lied about its efficacy to get the foot in the door.
George Saunders Launched a Substack
This looks like a pretty rubbish blogspam regurgitation of the original SE answer.
> But we do need rules like if I give you money for something and then you tell me to get lost...

That would be "larceny", and there are lots of rules prohibiting it & court systems to recoup damages. Credit card companies (for example) are just a more-rapid arbitration mechanism.
> Only if they only upzone your neighborhood, because if they upzone all of them then developers can buy any of them at existing prices instead of having to all bid on an artificially scarce subset.

And yet some neighborhoods are more desirable than others. Is this not already obvious from the state of the market today? Developers go where the most money can be made—the neighborhoods which are already valuable.

> Where does the money to sell "below market value" come from?

Tax breaks, duh. You put money back in developers pockets. By the way, you don't need to separate the projects. You combine them. You make luxury units possible with a mandate that a percentage of the building be affordable. New York already does this. Why is this so hard to understand?
> Which family. (a) The family of the person doing Y or (b) the families of the persons who fail to ever see the benefit of X or, worse, who suffer harm from Y. If the answer is (b), then not doing Y benefits the most families. Choice (b) fits better with the idea of "doing something important to the world", especially if one agrees that what he is doing now is preventing him from doing not something that is important to the world.

This is how you get neglected kids with parental issues. I've seen it happen. If you're going to have kids, they need to know that they are your first priority, and they need to be treated that way.

> You want to discount the importance of not doing Y/doing X.

Nope. I just want to make the point that however important X is, or not doing Y is, the hierarchy should be family > ( X | !Y).

> It is not either-or question. It is possible to keep a family fed without working on adtech.

If you're lucky. But you're sidestepping my point, which is that if you have a choice between not working on adtech and feeding the family, feed your family.
How does it improve the process in a disintegrating third world country right now? Lay it out, which steps in the process does it improve or replace? Do you know anyone who's utilized it that way, or are there case studies?
I have a nice monitor setup, but I am now ok on my MBP 16” alone, if necessary, when coding ever since I switched my coding font to Pragmata Pro for increased horizontal density so that I can do side-by-side with comfort.
I got a decently inexpensive 2k curved Phillips monitor at the beginning of the pandemic. Pretty happy with it (lucky buy, given that I didn't know it would be my window to the world for a couple years). At the time at least, 4k was still quite expensive. I don't know how much benefit 4k provides at typical desktop usage distances.

(328E9FJAB but I suspect you can find plenty that are just as good in the 2k range).
Stress Tests and Capital Planning
> Remember when "flatten the curve" was the original goal early in the pandemic?

Yeah, and we failed miserably at that. The reason the goalposts keep moving is because we haven't once yet successfully reached one of those targets because people refuse to follow even the most basic public health guidance.
It's possible to not know what you're missing until you try it.
What do you mean 3:2? :)
There are no poor people in America, merely temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

A sufficient number of poor voters (the young likely) think they will hit the lottery and don't want the system closed to them.

By the time you realize the racket, the next generation comes along to be sold the big lie.
Especially when you consider applications from all over the world.
> I don't know what you would call this system

It's called a cartel to artificially inflate housing for the benefit of existing owners.
GitHub – LongSoft/UEFITool: UEFI firmware image viewer and editor
Here's another one for you: Mary Maxwell Gates(Bill Gates' mom) is the largest shareholder in Pfizer and is personally lobbying governments to buy the Pfizer vaccine, even though she died almost 30 years ago.
ALCAR is a significant help for diabetes too.
There's a lot of browsers out there that already give the experience you want. Like Ungoogled Chromium (or regular Chromium).

I always see a lot of power users being enraged to other browsers when they remove features that the 1~5% of their users use so it's a bit weird to see protests against one of the few browsers that attempt to reverse the oversimplification trend.

Vivaldi's main deal is allowing the user to customize most of their browser. Themes, buttons, custom CSS, even side menu options. Even if they have improved it quite a bit there's still a performance hit.
That's part of the point of the article. Those rules are not some kind of distributed system. They are centralized.
Fast-check: How it works
I'm sure you're not the only one, but I find multiple monitors invaluable particularly for front-end work.

I might find myself rapidly switching between framework documentation, developer tools, a preview pane, and a similar piece of code that I'm using as a template. I'm infinitely happier when each switch is an eye movement and not a jarring keyboard stroke that redraws the entire screen.

I'm curious if you're unphased by constant cmd-tabbing.
It’s absurd to believe that this will actually do anything additional to reduce infections on the short term. People don’t get infected while shopping. This is just meant to pressure the unvaccinated to get vaccinated which might help next year.

Unvaccinated people will just meet privately at home and get infected. It’s just the wrong move at the worst possible time.
Yes, but you have to get them through the Chrome Web Store. It's the same with Brave.
How do you think externalities should be solved?
I'd suggest you re-read this[1] section of the article -- they're talking about "server-side generation" where rendering happens at compile time, not at request time (to avoid delaying responses with on-the-fly render computation). The data you're referring to will not be available at compile time.

[1] https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/the-perils-of-rehydration/...
> Because they know their customers.

As a former Hoosier you wildly underestimate the appeal of neighborly gossip to this group of 'customers'. Midwesterners TALK.

More likely, no one quite understood the story or its magnitude.
When doing web development, I usually need the webpage + browser console open on one screen, and IDE on the other. I don't see how you can test all resolutions while keeping your code on screen otherwise.

And when working on tricky pieces of software or technology I'm not so familiar with, I find it convenient to have the documentation on one screen, and the IDE on the other.

Of course, YMMV.
> You may not want to live like that, but plenty of people do. We should allow them.

I suspect that number is a lot lower than is claimed. It's only a very loud set of vocal urbanist activitsts who clamor for these changes and create the illusion of that demand. The reality is most people grow out of wanting to live in dense areas and walkability is very overrated. In fact walk scores basically don't matter when people actually shop for a house compared to other factors (price, size, location, schools, etc). And as people age and want to establish a family, the urban life quickly loses its attractiveness.

The real question is why should any neighborhood have to 'allow' anyone who wants to live there to do so? Am I entitled to living beachfront in Maui just because I want to? Should they have to change their zoning to permit that? I feel like incumbent residents have a right to maintain their neighborhood character, density, and quality of life. Those things get eroded when you have an influx of new residents and different density - you end up with streets, parks, and other amenities that no longer work the way they're supposed to. What I see happening is that a city will build itself over time into something very attractive, and newcomers want a piece of that, so they demand zoning changes at the cost of the incumbents who made that place attractive in the first place.
Oh, what a great article! Such a relief to not a read a long form that starts with a long anecdote with literary pretensions nor a listicle with bullet points explained in one paragraph.

A very short introduction in the form of a personal experience to explain the issue clearly and objectively and then explaining each issue with good research and relevant quotes. I learned a lot!
Tempers and radicalism are going up for one good reason:

As the size of the loans go up, the stakes go up.
Apparently the links are clickable only in comments:

[1]: https://ledger.initeq.net/

[2]: https://twitter.com/denibertovic/status/1466408868276314114
I've lived on the 2nd and 3rd floors of triplexes in the plateau and it was one of the best living experiences I've had. Really awesome location, price, size, etc.
I've never spent a lot of time in JP, but my understanding is that it is nicer than it used to be. And the gentrification has been somewhat controversial: https://planetgeogblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/the-two-jps-...

Also, for those not from the area, JP is indeed a "Boston neighborhood" but it's on the outskirts around parkland, the Arnold Arboretum, etc. and is about a 30 minute public transit ride [edit: on the Orange line not Green line]. So don't imagine this is in Boston in the way many might imagine. It probably has more in common with close in suburbs like Arlington than downtown.
Has a movie creator explained the shift to incompressible dialogue coupled with obnoxiously loud music and effects and stuff. It's really annoying but strangely persistent so ther must be a very concerned effort
> Like anything we could ever hope to try is already accounted for and defeated before the effort even begins.

Gay marriage, the fall of communism, civil rights, universal health care (in every rich country but one), women's rights.

Don't forget about the very important real progress being made.
>"Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy. Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves, not for society."

It's been that way forever with some rare exceptions.

>"You can't hope to run an Internet service unless you pay out a fraction to one of the Big Cloud Providers"

Total baloney. Many do run Internet service without cloud providers, including yours truly. It is true that for some reason many do fall for that cloudy propaganda. Their loss. Not ours. Keep digging your own graves. Or if they big enough they might not care as they pass those costs down to end customer.
2020's day 20 was really tricky - that, and day 23 were the only two days I didn't manage to solve two parts on. I managed to get part one for day 20, but neither parts for day 23. It was good fun trying both, though!
> It’s sometimes said this Alpine stuff is a premature optimization, but in most cases it’s not even an optimization.

I do use Debian Slim over Alpine without thinking but image size does matter in a lot of cases once you leave your dev box or start to use Kubernetes.

For example if you're using AWS Fargate images aren't cached[0]. That means every time you deploy your app a new pod is going to get created and it has to wait for your image to download.

Fargate already has a 30-40ish second spin up time inherit to the platform. Having to wait X seconds or even minutes more to download your app's image delays things quite a lot, especially if you have something like a pre-sync hook running to do something like running a database migration. Now every deploy pays this penalty twice.

[0]: https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/696
Satisfactory went ballistic in the latest update, adding 50 separate volume sliders for every sound effect. Not sure it was necessary, but I did use it for a couple of items I find especially irritating.
what? why would this be worth a downvote? also, what is with this attitude that nobody who has tried a "decent monitor" would be fine with a laptop? i have 2 high end monitors on my desk at work and i rarely use them because i prefer being comfortable on my shitty laptop so that i can be as productive on the go as i am in the office (or at least not be crippled by wishing i had a "decent monitor setup")
> hundreds of tall high rises with 500+ units, like in New York or Boston

Notably, those cities have been very expensive for decades because they also slowed their pace of housing construction below demand.

Meanwhile, cities like Houston have kept prices down by granting tons of building permits. For the purposes of pricing (as opposed to urban design), it doesn't matter what form the new units take, as long as they get built.
This is literally what knative is. I don’t know the AWS world at all but at least in GCP their main ideas of serverless are:

1. Knative: open source standards based serverless platform that’s in the process of making its way into the CNCF. I assume this is what Fargate is on AWS?
2. Cloud functions which is also something that you can drop into AWS, Azure, open shift etc..