skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so frustrating.

I live in a relatively low-income neighborhood in a west-coast city and I hear on social media all the time about how the local government doesn't prioritize us because of our relatively low average household income, but at the same time a lot of those folks are resistant to zoning for more apartment buildings in our neighborhood because of all the nimby classics (crime, diversity, etc.). Maybe I'm wrong (and if someone wants to enlighten me, I'm all ears, because this is definitely not my area of expertise) but it seems to me that an influx of residents into the area might give our neighborhood more pull in local elections as we'd form a voting-block with some aligned interests (services & infrastructure in our neighborhood) even if we differ in other interests.

It just seems like we're already in a losing position (w/r/t local politics), why not at least try to make ourselves more formidable.

To be honest, I think it would improve a lot of other things. In the past I've mentioned that my neighborhood acts more as a pass-through between the outlying suburbs & the metropolitan city-center, but I think more residents in the area would attract local businesses (can you believe there's not a sit-down cafe in my area other than maybe a starbucks? They're all drive-through kiosks!) because there'd be more of a local population. Once the businesses open up, fewer folks would have to commute to another neighborhood for work (we'll probably, unfortunately, never be rid of that) and we become less of a pass-through neighborhood. But, again, not my expertise. It's also a long-term plan, which seems to be off-putting in today's financial atmosphere.
Early adopter — and even advocate since we extensively use for our courses on web dev! — fan of CodeSandbox.

Very happy to see the project big and stable enough to start open sourcing core components of the product.
> Am I the only one (fullstack programmer + designer + hobby photographer) here who's perfectly okay with a single laptop monitor?

A nice display is nice. I feel way more productive on a 27" 5K imac than a 16" MBP. But I find multiple monitors to be annoying, better to have just one that is good (e.g. a 5K 27" LG or an 8K 32" Dell that I won't be able to afford anytime soon).
It's new but not as new as the article tries to make it sound. Has been known for a while and is in use. Further, it's not going to "revolutinize" anything, it's another incremental med that has shown improvement in outcomes. Just like beta blockers and aldactone, it buys you some small clinical benefit.
Almost afraid to ask, but how is racism holding back health care?
> I am the CEO of a company which sends millions of text messages and avoiding 2 segment messages saves us thousands each month!

How much is each customer worth to you?

Which is worse for your business - all your customers getting a cringey needs 2know if U wish 2stay in Autopay text and thinking that your entire business is unprofessional, or spending an extra $0.001 per customer per month to send them a message that reads F0rmatFunction can automatically pay your bill each month, but we need your approval. Change your mind? Cancellation is easy, just text "No" to this number. Respond "OK" to enable auto-pay! I'd rather get the latter for sure!

Sure, it's good to let those generating the messages know where the threshold is. Concise communication is best, sometimes you can be equally professional and just pick a different synonym or structure, and save the company some money. But sacrificing quality of a $20/mo service to save $0.001 per customer seems unwise, even if it adds up to a thousand-dollar bill.
Honest mistake — forgot to update the job description.
The way it works is that there are profiles. The idea behind profiles is that different use cases define profiles with the instruction extensions the require or are optional and so on.

So the major Linux distros agree on a set of instructions and that's called a profile. Same for embedded and others eventually.

You can add your own extensions for yourself if you want. You can also make extentions and try to make it a sudo standard. Or you can attempt to make it into a standard extention.

To be a standard extension it has to go threw a long process and it will likely be tapped out multiple times before it is ever ratified. Once its ratified it will find its way into profiles.

So for example standard Linux distros now use RV64GC, likely the next version of the Linux profile will include more of the new instructions.

But yes, the goal is not to create a 'universal binary'. But a reasonable compromise between reuse and specialization.
He addresses that Robinhood and the like are UX’ed around the dopamine hit. It’s not a solid conviction, but he does have a point.

It’s in Robinhood’s interest to make it fun and seem more official than “just gambling”.
"Free market capitalism" does not mean there should be no laws whatsoever. It is a trivial realization that markets have to operate within their given environment, including laws. Nevertheless you can aim for as much freedom as possible. You can make it illegal to shoot people, without having to set prices for goods and labor in law.

I don't think regulations is synonymous with basic laws in such discussion. And therefore the CFC example is also not a good one, as it is obviously an externality. Nobody claims it should be legal to pollute the environment for free.
I personally can't live without Firefox capture functionality. Control + shift + S. Very convenient.

It may be similar situation for vivaldi user.
Defining it this way indicates a misunderstanding of the purpose of these systems.
> Fixing your old legacy software takes time, but probably less time than starting over from scratch.

Is it though? The current system is the equivalent of some old unmaintainable shit written in COBOL by a guy who quit after 30 years while making the codebase as terrible as possible to maintain job security.
That's a lot of words to avoid answering the question.
So I guess we should expect to hear a lot of FUD about RISC-V over the coming years.
> I rarely watch movies without subtitles nowadays

Thank you. I've been in England for 8 years now and I've become fluent with any type of accent, yet I've still been watching movies with subs at home and it's been a crutch hard to get rid of; it made me second guess my ability to understand spoken English.

I have no issues in real life, or when watching YouTube, but movies, man... there's times I miss some words or I don't understand what's going on and I am unsure if I missed some kind of plot-crucial idiomatic joke whispered 30 minutes ago. And let's not speak of Tenet. Nolan is one of my favourite film-makers, but I hated that movie because I couldn't understand half the dialogue and the plot.

I'm happy to know it's not me, nor my ears failing.
If people would just know when to use dash, dot or slash as separator, all confusion would end immediately.

Next stop: world peace :P
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

55 GiB/s FizzBuzz - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29031488 - Oct 2021 (255 comments)
> Linux has been making progress but still isn't a good alternative for the common user unless they have an expert to rely upon when something breaks down

IME "common users" already rely on an expert when their Windows OS breaks down. Not long ago I had to walk my aunt through opening the command prompt in Windows 10 and entering the command to do a full reboot (as opposed to that hybrid shutdown+hibernation) because for some reason i couldn't really figure out from the phone the WiFi stopped working even after shutdown/reboots (she shuts her computer down whenever she isn't using it and she called me after not having connection for days). I remembered reading at some point that normally in Win10 the kernel doesn't shutdown fully but instead hibernates and my guess was that the WiFi driver somehow got in a state that didn't let it work and instead of restarting at reboot it was getting hibernated so i tried to do a full reboot. Which worked, though it could have also been something else that happened to get unstuck after the full reboot - at some other time she also had the entire taskbar get frozen and that would persist normal reboots (via alt+f4 and selecting to reboot) which was also "fixed" by that full reboot (she has the steps and commands to type written in a piece of paper by now :-P).

Not to mention the myriad of issues encountered due to forced updates.

I think that the whole "Windows is good for common users" idea is very outdated nowadays, it might have been the case a decade or so ago, but it certainly isn't anymore.
I imagine you could get 4 in 1U if you used all the depth, and perhaps more dense by putting them onto their side in 4U (maybe 5U..not sure how tall a M1 Mini is). I don't know to what degree cooling is an issue, where you don't want the exhaust of one feeding the inlet of another.
I spent a bit more time thinking about this, and yes you are correct. Each scattering event increases the discrepancy by ~mean free path / atomic radius, which is about five orders of magnitude. So even starting from a 10^-78 discrepancy, it only takes ~10 collisions to get an order unity discrepancy. I was thinking that the discrepancy due to collisions was negligible compared to the accumulated tidal acceleration, but this is clearly wrong.
I believe that Apple internally has plans to compete with AWS and Google Cloud in the long term, but with M1 chips. There have been rumors[0][1] about this, and it's a logical step.

Not a far leap to speculate that Microsoft/GitHub has been granted early access to that program.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4466949-new-leak-suggests-a...

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/16/apple-planning-to-rival...
The environmental impact.
> unobtrusive background auto-updating

On that same point, whenever something starts failing to work on firefox (on Windows or Linux), I have come realize that it's probably an "unobtrusive auto-update" that is causing it. Sure enough, closing and restarting firefox gives me a new tab showing what was just "unobtrusively auto-updated", and whatever was broken is now working again.

I don't think they know what "unobtrusive" means.

Having said that, even with the previous complaints it's still much better than the privacy problems with chrome, at least in my opinion.
I think the point of that feature is to take a screenshot of the full web page, even the part that is currently scrolled out of view. That's not something that the OS screenshot tool can do.
> I'd ask you to check your basic assumption about science as an authority.

Science is the only and ultimate final authority. It really is not a bad assumption. There literally can not be a higher authority than it by definition.

> but is really bad at transmitting information about non-deterministic processes or even processes that are so complex that they appear non-deterministic e.g. human behavior.

No it is not, science functions perfectly fine for complex processes. We can describe and draw actionable conclusions from the behaviours of fluids and gases even though they are made up of inconceivably complex interactions of billions of quantum effects.

We could easily model most of human behaviour if we really wanted to. It is just that it is unethical to do so, so we refrain from it. We make do with observing humans in the wild, and the observations we make sometimes have enough significance to make weak statements about human behaviours.

If the belief in reincarnation could be used as a moral tool to help people think long term, that should be scientifically demonstrable if it's true. It would be a hard ethical argument though, as you're basically trading a persons ability to make correct judgements of their own safety and well-being for a larger "long term" better functioning society. Not saying it's definitely wrong, but it better lead to a much better world for it to be worth it.
They're recommending mRNA boosters 2 months after the J&J or AZ shots, and the CDC recommendation is now 6 months for everyone who got the 2-dose mRNA.
I have $100k in old electronic components that I'll donate
I have loads of passives on reels. Digital ICs, image sensors, analog bric-a-brac and more. I can send a list of components to you. I will donate to a worthy cause.
and perhaps more frustrating to smart people looking to do good realize they are just one person. Huge, structural changes to society involve everyone.
I find it insulting how we are at the mercy of subscription services charging us for cancelled memberships.

How come our bank won't give us a dashboard with all of our monthly charges and cancel them at will?
So if the laws allow murdering people you would think that you have the freedom to murder people? Or that such laws are psychopathic and don't respect anyone's freedoms at all?
You'd save an order of magnitude more water by cutting back agricultural and landscaping usage. If those apartment buildings are professionally designed, they're likely to be more efficient than random houses with ±30 years age on fixtures.

What seems to be working well in LA is building up buses. When I was out last June I noticed buses with dedicated right-of-way (physically separated) and that seemed to be running well during peak times, which is quite eye-opening when you count and realize that the bus which just went by was carrying more people than all of the vehicles in the 4 lanes of stopped traffic.
This is pretty much it imo. There was some discussion on new housing and higher density in the town where my parents live a few years back, and apparently the standard "against" argument that got it shot down was "there's not enough parking and already too much traffic, we don't want more of either".

I think a lot of this comes down to generational dynamics. Boomers were until recently the largest generation and have only been passed by millennials two years ago. They have the wealth and will to be politically heard and aren't particularly concerned with the difficulties of younger generations unless they see it second-hand through their children.
Issues like this highlight the importance of the emerging One Health (https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/index.html) approach to tackling human, animal, and environmental health. Transdisciplinary collaboration across multiple health modalities is the only complete way to tackle large-scale health issues.
Be careful with instances. I was part of a pixelfed instance. One day the owner deleted everything.
Your options are fine, but nowhere near a comprehensive set. You left out an obvious option, for example:

4. Evolution of a lineage that we didn't detect until now because it wasn't common.

We need to stop making the assumption that our surveillance systems are comprehensive. They're pretty bad, actually -- and they're generally incredibly biased in what they're looking at. Even if we were doing unbiased random sampling and sequencing, we'd have to do huge volumes of it to reliably detect rare strains.

(aside: and if we did do that, we'd be in non-stop panic mode, because we'd be finding a new strain every day.)
They're a different type of construction... but we have triple-deckers in Boston.
They definitely do not reduce transmission, at least not with the currently circulating variants: https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...
It's not exactly easy - requires good quality coal, and fine tuning to get the right airflow to coal ratio to create a sufficiently hot furnace without becoming oxidizing. Those guys describe having to try multiple times before working out a successful process to produce copper, documenting a couple of their experiments in videos. They've nicely fully documented their final configuration in this video - some high quality experimental archeology work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYaJuab5riE

Keep in mind that you have to be wary of poisonous fumes - hopefully the elements giving their copper alloy a brassy appearance don't include lead, or worse, arsenic.
Thanks for the invite, looking forwards to playing!

Personally, joining leaderboards like this certainly help with motivation, though I couldn't say why.
2560x1080 curved horizontal with editor between two vertical 1080x1920, one with terminal, one with browser.
that cost overstated by an order of magnitude. last i looked, it’s on the order of $30K/space, and roughly doubles/triples for underground parking (depending on depth).

i’m a huge advocate for putting all parking underground and leaving ground level space for humans to enjoy fully. it’s more expensive, but we’re a rich city/state/country and we should have nice things.
no country is not going to see a variant. especially not one as big and with as much international traffic & commerce as china.
Normal whole sale price, at best would be something like $799.
iGoogle <3 that name brings back a lot of memories.

It's too bad they're not popular anymore. Well... they ARE popular, only we let facebook and twitter decide what we see.
> Yet the damage in Afghanistan and Iraq, is caused far more by their own people, killing and slaughtering each other over religious grounds.

We, the USA and its allies, have directly killed thousands to tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians, and many more "enemy combatants" (it's important to remember that under the rules of the "War on Terror", any adult male is counted as an enemy combatant by default, unless explicitly proven otherwise). The Russians killed as many or more during the Soviet invasion.

The opposition forces are also responsible for a great many civilian deaths (many more than the US led forces, at least in Iraq, according to official numbers). But this is what happens when you invade a country, especially one already divided along sectarian lines: the people who rise up against you start seeing enemies and collaborators everywhere and killing their own as well.

Were there sectarian killings in Iraq and Afghanistan before the war? Absolutely, but a mere fraction of what happened during the war.
You might be right. I personally think he knew exactly what he was doing.
Your causation is backwards. People who feel like discriminating find a rationalization for their beliefs post hoc. Yes religious ideologies have been used to justify racism, but so to has there been "scientific racism" with with all its babbling on about skull sizes. If it weren't science or religion then it would be something else. The underlying issue is some people are bastards.
This happens with teams of humans as well. Without a formal leader, teams will naturally have one (or more) leaders emerge.

The ideal team doesn’t need leadership and consists of mostly self-sufficient members, but the de jure leader merely exists at that point to ensure some tyrant doesn’t come to power. Since this isn’t very time consuming, they are free to do other work haha.
Maybe it’s why these perverts always try to plant child sex porn on the computers of whistleblowers. Meanwhile they protect and shield child rapists. Classic shadow projection.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k8w47/feds-raid-apartment-o...
Nasty Gal: Bootstapping an eBay store to a $100M/year company
What a boring release. I don't mean this as an insult, I think this is great.
Retail trader doesn't believe in passive index funds, YOLOs life savings on Alibaba call options that tank, and blames Robinhood... Still doesn't believe in passive index funds.

This wasn't Robinhood's fault. You could do this with any brokerage. I hope the author gets help for his gambling addiction, because it sounds more like that than anything else.
If you’re doing any front end dev then you’ll need to test against both browsers anyway.
I thought the difference between an apartment and a condo was specifically who owned it, i.e. is it for sale.

I feel like it's asking why there aren't there any tropical storms with sustained wins of 100mph. There are, we just call them hurricanes.
There's a way to do it in a way that doesn't completely violate net neutrality. Make some mechanism that programs can use to mark connections as bulk-rate or priority. Limit people's priority bandwidth to maybe 10% of their rated max throughput.

That requires some new technology, but letting the user choose when a connection should be considered a low-latency priority is important to keep this kind of system from turning into a bunch of consumer-unfriendly back-room dealing. Creating an opaque system with unclear rules about what connections are classified as what priority level will also make it very difficult for new businesses to get their start, as eventually I think you'll probably only be considered high priority if you're a big business or you're mimicking the characteristics of some big businesses application.
" I will show you how the very same things can be done and are being already done faster, and more efficiently without Bitcoin."

Right, so how can I get a bank account that nobody can shut down?

"Yes, but that's not their primary use."

Neither is bitcoin's. So is gold also a scam, in your opinion?

I mean if Bitcoin is a scam, it is probably one of the most complicated scams ever? How many millions of lines of code have already been written for the Bitcoin ecosystem?

"If there were, it wouldn't be used almost exclusively the way it's used right now."

So gold is also a scam?
"...you have practically unlimited entertainment."

This is a tangent, but I feel like I enjoyed things more when I didn't have practically unlimited entertainment. Video games before the digital era with Xbox Game Pass, PSNow / PSPlus, etc were limited to a few games that you bought and really invested in. Videos before streaming where you were limited to what was sitting in Blockbuster or in your physical collection. Music was limited to what the radio was playing (which you had no control over) or what you had in your tape/CD collection. Because physical media was something of an investment, it sort of led to a sort of 'automatic curation' that's much harder with having just about every game, movie, tv show, and album at your fingertips.

Maybe it's an age thing, but now I have 'back catalogs' for all of this stuff, and there's a constant feeling of 'missing out' if you choose one thing from your unlimited supply over another thing. It's exhausting.
People disbelieve macro evolution. Micro evolution on the other hand is hard to disbelieve because the experiments about it can be performed in real time.