skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you support shutting down businesses for the duration of any Tornado Watch?

If you only support shutting down businesses during Tornado Warnings, then what should the Candle Factory have done differently? Because they had a shelter, and the employees were in it.
VSCode (pylance) & PyCharm both immediately identify myVariable as unused - this is inline in the editor, before any compilation or testing.

Assuming somehow this code made it into a pull request (although as above, there would be no reason for that) - then flake8 flags myVariable as unused, your CI pipeline wouldn't get as far as notifying a peer that the PR is ready for review.
I’m sure you’re right, but files-on-disk is another story. I was referring to the latter.
Biometrics are a convenient PIN replacement only. They are not a secret. They are not revokable. Once public the whole world has access to them. And oftentimes it is so easy to extract the biometric in question like the photo of the fingerprint of the German defense minister by the Computer Chaos Club.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens...
This is true for many older Apple products. I have a similarly aged Mac Mini that officially only supports 8GB but took 16GB without problems
As a solo/bootstrapped dev with a fairly successful Electron app in the business space, it has taken me YEARS to embrace marketing and I still fall flat.

I've hired mentors to listen to me rant for a few hours. They ask questions, and they are surprised by my sales figures. Their advice is always the same: stop writing features NOW, and start learning who/why your customers are buying from you, and use that data to find more of them.

My absolute instincts are to show off the product/features and let the customer make a decision if it's a fit. But every marketer says, "no, don't describe the feature, tell the user why it'll help and save them time."

And my response is, "if I have to tell them that, and they believe me, then I'm not sure I want them as a customer..." Everything is subtle on a good day, but feels weirdly deceiving on a bad day. I feel like I don't trust marketing - so I don't want to write marketing that I think doesn't work on me. It's like tickling yourself.

I've been trying to rectify this by building out a new "Feature Tour" part of my app's website. This will give me space for some light documentation, links to Guides/FAQs, but also be composable into landing pages for specific niches and calls to action. We'll see if it works, but still a few weeks from launch.
Never anything other that “this is great content” type content. I purposely do not comment on videos I don’t like or post negative or argumentative comments. I’ve a few YouTuber friends and we chat on their channels now and then. Again much like here on HN I do make an effort to keep most comments friendly and positive.
I bought the book but I haven’t managed to go through it yet. What I can tell is that some real work went into the book. I don’t intend to deploy things myself as I use Heroku and Cloud 66 but sometimes one still has to understand how things work.
It's more likely due to incompetent lack of foresight by planners, architects, and builders.

I doubt that a group of bosses with tophats and thin cigars took a red pen to the tornado-shelter budget, while laughing at the pathetic worker class.
> Bosworth defended Facebook's role in combatting COVID, noting that the company ran one of the largest information campaigns in the world to spread authoritative information.

I find this to be such a creepy, off-putting statement. The last thing I want in my society is to have profit-driven tech corporations deciding what is and is not "authoritative information".

Especially given how time and time again they have censored "misinformation" which then proceeded to have merit.

No thank you.
The process of adding new versions of glibc to the data set is described in the readme. If something changes in a way the format doesn't handle, we can just change it and update the code in the compiler at the same time. The file ships as part of the compiler distribution so we don't have to worry about backwards compatibility.
Also don't vote for the policies which made you pick up your bags and leave the place you came from or your new place of residence will eventually start to look like the one you left.
> The employees are no safer at home than at work.

Yes but if they're at work, the employer is responsible for their basic safety. Asking them to sit in a sheet-metal-on-slab building during an EF3 storm is neglectful.

Sending them home to shelter with their families, whatever they do there, would maybe have been the better plan.
No, this is horrible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299156.
What's the point in this? Surely you'll have more dependencies than glibc?
LaserShark: Establishing Fast,Bidirectional Communication into AirGapped Systems
> This should become law

I'd like to see that too, but I think it's... unlikely. In the case of OP, he lost access to his Sony account (I assume that's an online gaming platform) and there were monetary damages included, but imagine a generic "you can't be suspended from an online account without a way to dispute with an actual human person" law applied to, say, Facebook or Twitter or Reddit?
If I understand you correctly, it does exist, and it's called Content ID.
A lot of tech marketing boils down to dishonest comparisons- for example perhaps Product X is really inferior to Product Y except on some contrived workload or an unfair comparison (eg Product X was configured to optimize for the workload and Product Y wasn’t). A market doesn’t see a problem with that. It’s technically not a lie, just misleading, and I think most engineers would find it dishonest.

For an example with cars, imagine you said a Toyota Camry had better racing performance in a test race than a Tesla Roadster, because the Roadster was driven by a drunk person and had only 5% battery with deflated tires. That’s what a lot of tech comparisons are like.
Related, this goes into far more detail: https://baynature.org/article/the-sea-beneath-us/
Only until all devices are using DoH. Your TV manufacturer isn’t going to give you an opt out switch for the modern network protocols that guarantee users can’t block ads and tracking.
I am in CT and a local road near my house suffers from this light synchronization issue. I think it comes down to a city verse state road in my case.

I have often thought if lights were better optimized, we could save on gas usage in cars.
You don’t need to buy anything just use CycloneDX and OWASP Dependency Track https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29542271
I've spent months at my wife's grandpa's house, they are lacking (at least without making a full day's trip) in almost every modern convenience.

What is funny though is once we close on it, he's loading up his 5th wheel and driving it to an even more remote property his friend owns out in Colorado. They are fully off-grid.
You are totally missing the point of reified generics and reflection.
I've seen some amusing arguments that liquid gasoline is heavier than air, and therefore dribbles on the floor and burns longer.

In contrast, Hydrogen is lighter-than-air, and immediately floats up to the stratosphere. As such, you absolutely get hydrogen explosions, but no long-term burns (like you'd get from a Li-ion fire or gasoline fire).

Whether or not that's "safer" is well... an interesting thought for sure. But its certainly an argument for hydrogen "safety" (or at least, mitigation of damages). If any Hydrogen fire only lasts 5 to 10 seconds before the H2 escapes to the upper-atmosphere, then your damage is surely mitigated.
This is just not true. Everyone is talking about the homeless problem all the time. NOBODY is happy about the homeless situation in our major cities.

I don't know a single city, liberal, moderate, or conservative, that has solved it.

I am just a single citizen, I pay out the ass for taxes, and nothing is being done to help these people.

At this point is appears there is no political will to do anything. Instead everyone walks in circles while funneling the money into porkbarrel spending, the police force, and roads.
In Europe many smaller stores are competitive by aiming for high turnaround. The cut down on the selection to the things that get sold fast. German Lidl and Aldi are based on these principles and known to have very low prices. In fact I think they outcompeted wall-mart when it tried to setup shop in Germany.

I remember quite good prices in the Netherlands as well which is quite densely populated and where people shop in downtown stores rather than out of town big box stores. The exception would be things like hardware and furniture.
Your germ factory kids can still spread it.

How are we still having this conversation 2 years in?
Living in a dense urban area doesn't actually save you any commuting time on average.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...
I don't have an opinion on the risk management decision made here because I don't know anything about the building. Just wanted to "clear the air," if you will, on the weather because I saw a lot of comments that made it sound like people thought this was a run-of-the-mill Midwestern tornado.
UIPath – The Best Automation Play?
Phone book is a totally different thing. You couldn't use it at scale and get profit out of that by manipulating people with ads.
Yep. I'm from not too far from there, but in FL now, I always check the weather there especially in the winter to see how cold it gets as I consider moving back.

I remember seeing high 71, low 65. First thought was LOL that's a mistake, but confirmed it at another site. Then saw next day low of 29. I remember telling my wife how crazy that was, and they're gonna get bad winds or tornados.
I posted a personal project on reddit around a year ago that got highly upvoted and someone made a similar post with a bunch of "strange" comments that must be evidence of me astroturfing. I have to admit they were strange accounts, some who haven't commented in over a year, but I wasn't using any alt accounts or anything sketchy. Sometimes people just don't comment unless it's something they really like or are knowledgeable about, or maybe something else, I am not sure and couldn't explain it when it happened to me.
The coloring, fonts, monsters, sets, and UIs of NGE are so pleasing to look at.

I hold NGE in much higher regard than other similar IPs, and would continue to do so even without the excellent art direction. Like many other stories, NGE asks "what would happen if a young boy with an unusual ability was entrusted with the saving of humanity?" However, unlike many other stories, the show answers "he would fail, be driven insane in the process, and humanity would fall."
eh, i think i am largely glad the whole bullying + male chauvinism thing is slowly dying out.

i think the next step is recognizing that this is a problem that needs to be confronted for both men and women. "toxic masculinity" among men is frequently nowadays talked about and criticized, but i think women are given a bit too much of a pass in holding pretty shitty gendered/trad expectations of men.
If you don't pay enough then of course the only remaining incentive is love of children.
Can you provide some details on why it is hell?
I didn't read the ePrivacy directive, but I always wondered if it is truly dumb. I suspect that it was /marketed/ as dumb by ad network so as to nudge users into clicking the "whatever, go ahead and profile me" button.
No, but I’m not going to pretend that people working overnight in a candle factory are doing so because they have to in order to merely survive.
The Blue Marble (1972)
Clickable link - https://gearslots.com
So this wasn't a surprise.

Thanks the detailed clarification.

I know all these people saying "this happens every week in the midwest", "you only get 10-15 minutes warning" meant well -- but from everything I was reading about the lead-up to this disaster -- something in those retorts just didn't add up.
Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
If you say Bing/DDG is as good as Google for most searches, you might as well say Samsung phones and laptops are as good as iPhones and MacBooks.
For it to make sense, language replacement (which is an observable phenomenon) would have to happen by communities learning a bunch of different languages and picking the one that they liked best. That's just not how it goes. You learn a new language to speak with new people that you're interested in, regardless of how weird and hard to learn their language is.
I haven't read the article yet but one thing that makes more complicated in the US is the widespread use of septic tanks. The leach field will flood before the actual surface.
I specifically waited with SHOW HN until I had some customers and good feedback hoping some of them hang out on HN as well.

I swear nothing was solicited. I just posted it myself and waited. No Twitter, no mailing lists, nada.
Yes! I believe Photoshop uses it in their implementation, though I am not sure: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/content-aware-scalin...
OWASP CycloneDX – The Open Source SBOM Format
Crime stats are often on a delay.

I occasionally see people in Portland cite 2019’s crime stats as proof that things are fine and that you’re just bigoted against homeless people or whatever.

Portland didn’t get the 2020 numbers from the FBI until late September 2021, which at that point showed an 80% increase.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-2021-homicid...

Now we’re at nearly 80 homicides (if we haven’t crossed that, it will likely be this weekend) so far in 2021, breaking the 90s record.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-2021-homicid...

For a while the narrative as that crime was much less serious than is being portrayed in the news. In major American cities, that trend has reversed.
IMHO QT, GTK and wxWidgets are, put simply, awful. They are good examples of limited toolkits designed in part with cross-platform development in mind, rather than libraries designed with novel or even good interface design. They proliferate and compete on X despite there being poor interoperability among them. They seem to be focused on copying Windows (hardly a paragon of good interfaces) design elements and in enabling skins rather than deep UI functionality.

I come from a background of early MacOS, NeXTSTEP, and the Newton, three environments which prided themselves on developing novel and useful interfaces tailored to the specific needs of their platforms. The X11-inspired cross-platform toolkits are head-shakingly bad compared to these efforts. For example, GTK on Maemo was so embarassingly inferior in design to NewtonScript (a GUI 10 years before it note) that I wrote an entire article about it.

I think the only decently crafted open source UI on Linux/BSD right now is Android. Because Google has the resources and heft to make people do it right.
Your instinct is right about array types, semantically in Zig they are passed by value. Parameter values are always const though, which allows the compiler to sometimes use pass-by-const-ref to avoid copying large pieces of data. Since arrays are proper value types, we can also make strongly typed pointers to them, like `*[3][4]u32`.
> Could other 11 year olds spot a boy using mascara, a differing from one with thick eyelashes?

I think they would just default to making fun of him for wearing mascara. (source: i have thick eyelashes)

> Or tell that someone is shaving his legs when there isn't yet even peach fuzz on his chin?

definitely not.

> I couldn't, but I'm pretty oblivious to such things.

as am i, but i've learned that many other people are oddly skilled at picking up on these things.
I agree, Foundation is a gem! The method naming is one of the assets - the names are clear, regular, and usually fairly obvious. The downside to that regularity and clarity is that the names are long.

One CoreFoundation example at random:

CFURLRef CFURLCreateCopyDeletingLastPathComponent(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFURLRef ref);

I think nearly everyone who reads that prototype will immediately understand what it does, but there's no denying it's a mouthful.

Tack on some unfamilar square-brackets and intersperse argument names, and it's understandable that people will conflate the syntax with the APIs.
Seattle just elected more moderate candidates willing to tackle the homeless problem seriously [0]. We've never made it to the levels of bad described here, but we were headed there. Possibly stories from our CA neighbors spooked us (many transfer up here.)

It's unhealthy to escape to be where "your tribe" is. I love my city and I did feel represented with moderate voices winning this election cycle.

[0] https://compassionseattle.org/
Kids like suburbs just fine before they understand there's a big world out there outside the family unit. Often things fall apart after that phase.

> I can't imagine that they would enjoy living in 2 bedroom apartment

OK but that's a problem with a limited imagination, not how your kids would actually feel. Do you know that 90% of families in the world live in close quarters, in places like 2 bedroom apartments (or -- gasp! -- smaller)? Do you think all these kids really hate their lives because of the size of their apartments? Do you think young kids even realize that they "should" prefer a 3000sqft house to an apartment?

> this country is big and there's enough space for all of us!

Sure there's space, but space isn't really the issue. The negative social and environmental impact of a suburban lifestyle is unsustainable. Future generations are going to look back on our settlement patterns and think we were truly insane, hundreds of millions of people each with multiple personal cars spread out from each other such that cars are necessary to do even the most minor tasks. It's taken some incredibly opaque collective blinders for us to have ended up thinking suburbs are a responsible way of living.
eh, the type surrounded by the [] "operator" is equally unambiguous as prefix-[], so it's not the worst.
Just for the record: if you don't really plan to monetize your videos -- just share and store, consider using Peertube

https://joinpeertube.org/

It's instances usually have low quotas though~
I love this reply, thank you!
Have you ever actually lived in the city of Seattle? Your description is a caricature that doesn't really exist. Particularly amusing is the idea of food deserts here. What parts of the city suffer from this? Where I live, I can walk to 3 major supermarkets, a produce market, a weekend farmers market, countless cafes, bakeries, delis, restaurants... And somehow I manage to breathe over the constant smell of piss. Lol.
If corporations won’t take accountability then they shouldn’t be allowed to censor
“ Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation” is the actual title.

I thought this article was going to be about something else.
Yep and zoning is front and center the problem here. There's a reason developers are building skinny, tall units instead of 3 bedroom flats or heck just duplexes/triplexes/quadplexes.
That's not Chicago, maybe West Coast or Austin, but Chicago got super aggressive about homeless in the 90s when gentrification started. Then, the homeless use to die under the freeways every winter and Wacker Drive (the "lower drive" as seen in The Dark Knight) was a giant homeless camp.
Really great article. Something that's so unique about tech-related industries is that you can ALWAYS be improving your product and releasing new features, the only barrier being time and effort, so it can be hard to pull yourself to focus on all of the other things that let a company grow.
Does anyone else find those map zoom-ins incredibly disorienting? Kudos on solving this complex technical challenge, but I'm not sure the end result is as "smooth" as described.
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions

Allows you to contain temporary variables to where they are needed, rather than having them remain active through the remainder of the current scope. You could do that with immediately invoked function expressions, but they are too verbose to be really viable for this. You could also use extra functions, but extra functions don't always make sense. Currently I'm frequently doing this:

Without do expression:

let result;
{
let tmp = 123;

result = tmp * 2;
}

With do expression it would become this:

let result = do {
let tmp = 123;

tmp * 2;
}
Brotli is not just for Web stuff.
You're right. Lambdas in C++ are syntactic sugar over something the core language has allowed you to do since before C++98. Since you control which variables you capture into the closure, and how, when writing the lambda, all of the information regarding how to make it (e.g. it's size, data members, etc) is static, and so it does not require the use of the heap at all. A concrete example. The following C++ examples do the same thing, and neither touch the heap:

// A. Using a struct. The old manual way.
struct my_lambda {
my_lambda(int c) : c_(c) {}
int operator() (int x) const {
return x == c_;
}
int c_;
};

auto f(vector<int> numbers) {
my_lambda lam(2);
// remove all the matching elements
erase_if(numbers, lam);
return numbers;
}

// B. Using a lambda
auto g(vector<int> numbers) {
int c = 2;
erase_if(numbers, [c](int x) { return x == c; });
return numbers;
}
It's only a trap if you consider doing things for money that you, yourself, think are bad things, as a bad thing.
We have a video and landing page at https://AsyncGo.com, but the messaging isn’t super locked in yet. Curious for your feedback.
The Paradoxes of Modern Life
How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go? Will you teach yourself how to butcher your own meat so you don't have to rely on a butcher? Teach yourself surgery so you don't have to go to a doctor?

Our society thrives because of specialization. It's what allows a person to focus on what they're best at to have the greatest chance at innovation.
My sister use to run her own juice shop in Essex CT. She could never tag the location in IG because it contains a banned word.
I wonder how hard it would be to create a protocol which avoids problems like this.

A user who wants to publish a video could do that in the form of special links which contain a hash of the video (maybe magnet links do that?).

They could do that on their own website for example. Or in multiple places. Their website, their GitHub pages, their Twitter etc.

The viewer (say Joe) who wants to see such a video would click the special link and have a software that searches it on a decentralized network of nodes.

Some other viewer (say Paul) who recently viewed the video and still has it in his cache could deliver the video to Joe.

In return, Joe could automatically get some crypto currency. Say worth $0.01 or so.

Content aggregators could crawl all these sites and create an experience similar to YouTube. Or maybe this could also be implemented in a decentralized fashion.
I guess you could do it to certain extents, but it’s likely to be considered incorrect French, or just really weird. Now if you’re writing a song or a poem, it’s more common to see that kind of construct, as a way to play with rhythm and sounds, so it’s not entirely impossible.