skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much to add on the article itself other than "when Vladimir Agafonkin posts something it's probably worth checking out in detail" - too bad it doesn't come with some code to study this time ;)

Tangent: I have autoplay turned off in Firefox and had no idea half of these images were supposed to be examples of zooming in and out until halfway into the article, where one of them had a description.

This is not a critique on the article, just mentioning it for anyone else who might have similar settings. I'm also somewhat surprised that I don't even get a pop-up from Firefox asking me if I want to allow the video elements to be played.

(although I personally prefer my videos with controls enabling me to pause playback, instead of automatically looping fast-moving "gifs", which can get very disorienting while reading, but that's a different discussion)
COL/SOL in California is appalling. SOL continues to degrade here to the point where certain parts of Bay Are (Oakland, Hayward) look more like Syria than first world nation. Trash is everywhere, even in nicer neighborhoods. Not a single park here in East Bay without encountering a homeless person. And, then I meet people here that continue to defend 1) Food is amazing 2) SF sucks! Oakland is the best place ever 3) Well, we are kind here so we tolerate homelessness 4) All those NIMBYs, otherwise this place would be perfect 5) Our government cares about people more than infrastructure 6) We should tolerate crime because we are kind unlike other cities/states 7) California houses out of state homeless (this is false, despite of being repeated ad-nauseum on HN. Let me know and I’ll dig up sources).

These reasons are not convincing anymore. It’s a self perpetuating degradation of living standards.

I am currently looking for a job in Colorado, Texas, NC, etc.
The belt drive of the laser in an optical reader, and to some extent the servo motors actuating hard drive heads, were the direct successors that obsoleted the VHS rewinder. The wide data bus providing random access to persistent solid state memory has already obsoleted one and is nearly done with the other.
> windows file explorer is one of those parts of ms-windows I normally appreciate, as being "more good than bad".

It sorely lacks a tabbed interface. I understand they don't want to confuse their users with folder tabs, but there should be an option to enable them for advanced users. Most file managers have had them for many years.
It would either be funny, or kind of awesome, depending on how it's made and who runs it.

A Reddit ran with the seriousness of the Post Office, immune from Congress in most regards, bolstered with the First Amendment, could be quite a thing. An essential public utility, broadly trusted.

One ran the way most things are today? Yeah, laughable.

Anyhoo, yeah. The AD model has major issues.
This article is a good example of "those who can't do, preach." Author doesn't seem to have any subject expertise beyond journalism and academia.

Also, UK energy source is 73% fossil. Wind/solar will never be able to produce more than a fraction of what we need. And this is not even mentioning the energy and materials demand that such "renewables" require.

"Renewable" technology is simply not renewable because there's a finite amount of resources available on the planet. The high price tag of the technology is also a blocking factor.

If everyone went out and purchased EVs, the power grid would collapse. Plus there is a finite amount of lithium we need to make all the batteries we need. If demand for EV was higher, we'd need to slash and strip far more of the earth's surface than "green" energy activists would admit. Some estimates put our lithium available at 50MM tons, and we'd run out by 2040 if EVs were adopted at the same level as CV.

They may not preclude EV, new battery technology can be developed, but you still need to charge them. Unless there is some major breakthrough, the solution for this is nuclear.

But these facts doesn't stop those pushing the green energy, lobbying for "research" and selling products they know are flash-in-the-pan, with no long term viability.

On the contrary, the "green" energy industry, lobbyists, and talking heads act more like religious zealots than those who engineer and propose practical, affordable, & sustainable solutions.
Most compression codecs these days have stopped using ANS because the benefits aren't worth the tradeoffs. Turns out a good arith coder is much faster.
> everyone just blindly copies whatever Github does

I don't think this is true.
> using a metric-labeled screwdriver on an imperial-measured screw that still gets the job done exactly as needed

This is super ignorant. You risk stripping the screw and getting yourself into a frustrating screw extraction job.

Just because you lived, doesn't mean it was safe.
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How will Deno react if that happens?
I can't imagine seasteading is going to be able to avoid a nation's navy.
I ended up wearing fingerless gloves at my last job.

That said, in general I'd really prefer if offices weren't so cold.
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I was tempted to remove that line after I finished the whole post. Since it made someone happy, I'm very glad I left it in!
People have always been on the move. The Dust Bowl led to the big recent migration to the west. Although the migration post covid from the Bay area is negligible in absolute terms compared to the total population versus the Twitter accounts of some famous tech and VC folk like Keith Rabois.
I'd conjecture that all systems necessarily grow from simple rules and die of complex ones. The inflection point where enforcement becomes inconsistent is the inflection point on growth.

The Vivaldi rules are in fact simple, with the exception of what seems like a wrongthink clause that crosses services, which is like a notwithstanding/wish-for-more-wishes rule. The BDFL model of open source worked for this at limited scales, where a person is making a decision and taking responsibility for it. Facebook almost succeeded in doing this well with their public board of censors, but really, once you make it a committee, it launders accountability and becomes arbitrary again.

Regarding the study of law, if you want corruption and inescapable suffering, create complex and inconsistent rules.

Twitter also could have done a good job when Dorsey had a kind of royal assent that legitimized decisions but he seemed to give that up. Agrawal has a brief opportunity to set good precedents as well. The objection I think most people have to censorship is when the censors don't take ownership of the decision, as then it's basically gaslighting.

Rules and punishment are simple, provided they roll up to a person enforcing them. When you move from that, you get a system that is easily gamed, a kind of star chamber, and then most of your effort as a platform owner goes into fighting the tiny minority of people who game the system at the expense of the rest. It's so dumb and obvious that it can only be on purpose.
I don't know, building the wrong thing in the right way, that never gets used by anyone, sounds kind of depressing to me.
Sharpening knives
This also happened to me in march 2021 on a channel with almost no videos and no activity at all "We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube.".

Got another email later the same day from YouTube: "We're pleased to let you know that we've recently reviewed your YouTube account and, after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. We have lifted the suspension of your account, and it is once again active and operational."

Must have been an error or glitch, I did not take any action. Maybe the same for you.
SCOTUS's current definition of pornography is a three-prong test:

1. whether the average person, applying contemporary "community standards," would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;

2. whether the work depicts or describes, in an offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions, as specifically defined by applicable state law; and

3. whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
correlation != causation. ARM has been gaining mindshare for the past 15 years without the Pi. I love rpi but to claim it is what started ARM being more prevalent will take a lot more than just stating it. There were lots of ARM embedded systems before pi was a sparkle in someone's eye.
Is the ground water near a coast line brackish?
Why Not Smart Roads?
So smart roads? A road that provides relative location and speed of each vehicle for computational efficiency and avoidance. This seems like the most reasonable autonomous driving scheme. Enter destination. Network provides minimal path for vehicles not to smack into each other as the distance between cars is maintained for safety and efficiency. The only safety drawback I can think off is non-vehicle hazards in the roadway.
I realize there are governmental infrastructure requirements, which would stop such an endeavor. It also means less money to be made so less incentive for commercial capital investment.
I have a long car commute, and this thought experiment occasionally occupies the drive. What other considerations am I missing?
NeXT started with Display PostScript as the underlying rendering engine.

The X Windows fonts require a great deal more work to be visually consistent; and are not integrated with the coordinate system of the rest of the display.

Whereas under DPS it is all one integrated method/system, making it easy to adjust the spacing between all graphical elements. I think at least, that is the reason for any visually jarring things under Etoile and this is seen in multiple Linux GUIs...
Maybe set up a formal process on your project for these requests, like a form on your web site. Email spam is super common. You’ll probably get less spam on a form request.

Talk to a CCPA expert.
What are the current building codes and operating regulations regarding tornadoes?

I would think that every commercial/industrial structure in a tornado-prone area should have a shelter that is capable of holding the occupancy capacity plus some extra. When a Tornado Watch is issued there should be periodic facility announcements stating so, describing where the shelter is, and prepping everyone that if the klaxon goes off they should drop what they're doing and go to the shelter.

When a Tornado Warning happens, a klaxon should go off and it should be expected that everyone drops what they are doing and heads to the shelter.

How far off am I from what is mandated? (Or if I'm missing something, what is reasonable?)
I don't understand your question, can you expand on it?
Lived in Mission Bay for 3 years after visiting the Bay Area double digit times over the years. It’s the type of place you love to hate and hate to love. I don’t regret leaving, moved to Washington but I do miss it and hate it for all the reasons you mentioned.
That is a complete nonsense. RSS is one of the most useful tools for those that don't have "social media" accounts.

Don't expect people to keep coming back to your website/blog just to check if there is new content/news. If it doesn't provide a feed (Atom or RSS), the most probable scenario is that I will not remember to comeback any time soon.
Types in TypeScript are great but if JavaScript ever wants to add types it has to be something like a real programming language types in which you can use types in runtime as well. Like in a catch clause I can assert the type of the error and do things with it once that assertion is done. Many other useful things when types space and runtime space are not totally separate.

ES4 was the first shot at adding types to JavaScript which failed due to how big the ambitions were. I'm not sure if there is any more appetite for adding types to JS tho.

In very very serious big applications like a 3D editor you can fall back to WebAssembly and use your favorite typed language. For smaller apps TypeScript is good enough. This way JavaScript stays simple and lean.
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The bigger studies in the meta analysis seemed to show a smaller benefit to education. Even so a few years of education adds only a few points. The gaps between like physicists and people in remedial math would require decades of school to close
Indeed. As is too often the case, a few bad actors ruin an otherwise elegant solution.
sure to some extent. But I'm sure "good at iq tests" is also a good measure of other things. "Intelligence" is a bit of a loaded word, but it wouldn't be surprising for example if a group scoring >90% on iq tests, have higher scores on average on the SAT than the bottom 10% of iq test scores.

You can also see fairly strong correlation between profession and iq scores. Doctors and professional mathematicians score higher on iq tests on average.
Could you dig up sources on that? Not challenging you, but as an Angeleno I've always believed this to be true myself. Curious what may actually be happening.
This is probably too pessimistic. If it was true we would not be writing this right now, we'd be still in some semi-wild state, ripping each others hearts out as battle trophy to dedicate to some imaginary god. If predatory behavior really had the upper hand it would not allow the kind of social structures that solved difficulty technology problems and allowed mass health, mass education etc.

But destructive, rapacious, behavior feels just one step away even now that we are supposedly "civilized" and we have excruciating records of our bloody history.

If we don't find a way to bottle this instinct up we will not see many more decades.

Time is running out because the system is not time-invariant: we had explosive population and technology growth. The same regressive traits that might have "only" annihilated isolated cultures in the past will bring our collective demise.
Adding 40% to the money supply and doing most of it via financials institutions is almost a guarantee of a rising stock market.
> My understanding is that engines already optimize the objects/arrays version of those concepts pretty well

They don't, using libraries that guarantee runtime immutability has a heavy performance cost in JS currently.
Instead of putting a load of work in, and getting ghosted, why not contact them prior to the work and see if they're really interested in it first? i.e: Build rapport with them first before coding.
Unfortunately for the US "funding" can mean "public money is channeled to corporate monopolies which own various markets for teaching resources."

It's also managed at the school level, which means all kinds of people with eccentric belief systems are motivated to take over school boards and force their issues on others.

But elements of curriculum design are also created semi-centrally. So you can get the worst of all possible worlds, with corporations skimming money from classrooms while faddy ineffective teaching techniques collide with school board skirmishes.
Fair, but let's say they sent everyone home and 3 of the people died in their homes from the tornado. Would we be outraged that the company sent them home in such foul weather?
That's unfortunate. I guess one has to upgrade the hydrogen to Methane to be able to seamlessly use the existing infrastructure. That lowers the efficiency a bit and increases capex. I'd like to see some studies that try to estimate end to end cost for Power-to-Methane systems, but I'm not aware of any.
I haven't noticed a WordPress blog where the RSS feed wasn't properly advertised. Does it depend on the theme to include the appropriate link tag? Or maybe it is just sampling bias where I don't notice that WordPress sites are actually wordpress if they don't advertise the feed.
> RSS is the only way I know, without having to scrap things by hand, to get an aggregate of "news/articles" from the sites and blogs I follow

I haven't signed up for any so I'm not sure, but don't some places have "newsletters"? I kind of assumed they served the same function but with email. Of course, if it does serve the same function, the bad part about it in comparison to RSS would be that you have to give them an email address.
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It's not "her" instagram handle. It's facebook's instagram handle. People only learn the hard way :-)
Thanks for the kind words! Good point about autoplay — the current behavior is what we get when disabling controls in Vimeo embeds; worth checking if it's possible to detect whether autoplay is off, and switch the controls on if so.
Yup (among others). The fact there is such a robust market for additional tooling I think proves that there is a gap in the out of the box tooling for most users.
You could install big sur using some patch if you don't mind the built in wifi card stopped working, but I heard you can swap the wifi card from later model and big sur would recognize it.
Sure but they are part of a market that is pretty quickly reaching oligopoly status
SOL = Standard of Living ?

That is an uncommon acronym.
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Could anyone explain why LZ77 is preferred by implementors versus LZ78?

It seems important for compressibility to prepare the data for maximum self-similarity, in addition to the LZ algorithms (as evidenced by the sort in this article). Could someone point towards a good modern summary of the approaches or heuristics?
This makes sense; as generations come of age in this country there has always been a shift in where people live based on the advancements in technology. From the early days of trains allowing living outside city centers, to the invention of the automobile and subsequent suburban sprawl with the interstate system, it would follow that the internet and remote work would change how we live. As demographics change, so does the politics based on who stays and who goes in each city.
If the NGO tells you that RSS is rarely used compared to other methods, I would probably believe them. There really isn't any reason for them to lie about it.
They missed Japanese! It has two completely different structures for males and females.
It did some harm, but certainly not enough to detour Tesla from it's overall trajectory.
On this day a fartcannon made me feel appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: I hope this didn't come off as flippant; it is refreshing to receive encouraging words without the all-too-common "but I don't like how you do such-and-such".
The whole (non-Spotify, ugh) podcast ecosystem would like a word about RSS being obsolete.

Patreon (and to a greater extent, the podcasters I support) keep making real money out of me and millions of others every month for personalised RSS feeds for content. That RSS feed is the delivery vehicle. It's very reliable, I can use it in any app, much good, so benefit, wow.
Generalised capture

In C++11, lambdas can only capture existing objects in their scope:
int z = 42;
auto myLambda = [z](int x){ std::cout << x << '-' << z + 2 << '\n'; };
...
But with the powerful generalised lambda capture, we can initialise captured values with about anything.
int z = 42;
auto myLambda = [y = z + 2](int x){ std::cout << x << '-' << y << '\n'; };

Am I the only one who doesn't see much of a difference here?
Truuuue. I suppose I meant cookies are normally an encrypted ID with a user salt. So what would be the harm? But you're right; my actual question was something else.
As a funded research academic who's studied cognitive ability(ies) for 25+ years, there are too many wacky and mistaken statements in these comments. Intelligence (aka g or IQ) is one of the best researched constructs in social science. We know more about it than virtually any other concept in the people space. We know what it predicts, we know alot about group differences on the variable, and -- to the extent possible in any science -- we know that the group differences are real and not a result of systemic bias in the assessments. We know there's a strong genetic component and, of course, enriching experiences like education can increase it to some extent. We know it's relatively stable from 21 to 60 and, at the group level of analysis, it decreases as folks move from middle age to old age.

So, this is one of those areas I know way too much about and many of the comments seem wrong-headed. Makes me wonder how much faith I should put in comments on topics where I don't know as much.
Would expanding wasm capabilities be a better long term option here instead of supporting TS directly? Opening the browser up to a whole lot of languages, including Typescript (AssemblyScript exists already).
There is a huge difference between RSS as a backend service such as those podcast providers as opposed to being "consumer facing" such as other podcatchers or feed readers. For the former compatibility isn't a major concern, it just needs to work well enough for those use cases and users can't access the content directly (if they don't know the URL or it is IP locked).
My family and I decided to stay on the north side of Chicago, a very high cost of living location, despite no longer needing to head downtown every day for work. Why not move outside of Chicago where our cost living would be substantially lower?

* We wanted to keep our kids in the same school, which is walking distance.
* We like being walking distance to the grocery store, doctor's offices, etc.
* Our kids can walk to their friends' houses.
* Proximity to the lake is important to us.
* We're close to family.

Moving to the suburbs would find us losing much of that freedom that comes with living in a dense neighborhood. The size of a house and a yard is only one factor here for quality of life. I hope the trend that comes from remote work isn't just people optimizing for the size of a house and low cost of living, especially if it comes at the expense of being able to be in a community with other people around.
Nice job, are you doing these all manually on the data side then? I see you take a form, so I was curious there.
Just FYI,

"Those who can't, teach" is the saying
>I don't think I've ever seen a walled garden justified in the name of security.

Hmm, have you ever heard of Apple?
How many products of yours have you tested this on? How many days on average did your customers have before conversion? In my tests, users try the product for an average of a few minutes before converting. If they haven't bought by the end of the day (at least for my product), they'll basically never buy.

Given that, I might as well change my trial period to one day, which very much contradicts your results.
I think that is fair and I am largely of that opinion as well.

I think redox flow is probably my favorite chemistry btw, and I'd like to see more redox flow experiments / test deployments.

Gravity storage is my next favorite.

Hydrogen doesn't even make top 3 for me as far as techs, but I'm open to it and have heard the arguments for it. I'm largely convinced H2 is a good idea that could work.
It bodes poorly for the environment if people are increasingly moving from denser cities to sprawling suburbs. This is in many ways a self-inflicted problem of high-cost cities, but it should be a national priority to reverse this trend.
It's really sad that we have to read thoughts like this in 2021, and makes me think what we need to do to help more people overcome selfishness.
(As a resident of MA,) I'd also like to see the data.

If I had a choice to be homeless here or homeless in the Bay Area, it's not even close. The weather here is terrifically worse than anywhere near the water in CA.
TTL is a thing.