skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several factors still favour Americans - stable, business-friendly laws, crazy high human development index, American work culture, predictable interpersonal experiences.

It’s going to be a rich continent for many generations to come.
It really depends on the complexity of the topic and the accent of the speaker. Most videos I watch at 2.8x. Otherwise it's 2x.
That's correct, but I've seen this rule being broken often on channels that had pirate music.
They actually aren’t dispersed at all. You have more remote workers than you had before, that’s pretty much it. It really remains to be seen what happens when those remotes go to switch jobs.
How much work is it to then maintain this bespoke encoding? Without having much context on it, it sounds similar to having to maintain unicode identifier character tables for unicode-aware parsers (e.g. Javascript's). Updating unicode tables after unicode version releases can be done w/ somewhat hack-ish scripting of parsing txt spec files but it's admittedly not super clean, I'm curious what's involved when dealing w/ abi lists over time.
Biometric expert shows an easy way to spoof fingerprint scanning devices
I chose NGINX because it's what I use and have a good performance. I am curious, why are you interested in Apache in particular? Is that what you run now?
Yes, this is on our top list of issues to fix!

https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/11158
(joke) : Common Lisp
Nobody disputes that TypeScript is open source, but there’s still a vast difference between a single open-source implementation and a specification that’s suitable for standardization. The implementation inevitably has bugs, and there needs to be a way to decide which bugs are actually “features” that other implementations will need to emulate.

(Here’s the specification for ECMAScript, for example: https://tc39.es/ecma262/)

To be clear, I am not bashing Microsoft here—just pointing out a reason that TypeScript can’t be declared “the next version of JavaScript”, which is the context of this thread.
> But somehow it forgets to include Washington and Seattle

I prefer they keep “forgetting”.

> My working hypothesis is that people in general want to live in California like places, if they can afford it.

Of course prices (and price movements) will always be the objective measure of desirability across a large population.
Yup, came with a week of money for a hotel or stayed with a friend for a month? local
It is for sure. If the price matched "an old dresser" I would probably buy it too. If that old dresser costs $12k because it was made during the great depression then I will let someone else buy it.
> I'm not an astronaut, just a commercial pilot, but I was fortunate enough to "fly" the shuttle simulator about 12 years ago. It was an amazing experience. When the tech strapped us in tight and showed where the airsick bags were, I knew it was going to get interesting. It's just like an airline simulator (pretty sure it was built by the same company), except it tilts 90 degrees for launch. I observed a few launches in the "jumpseat". They were doing real work and testing an anomaly that occurred on a previous shuttle mission to see how it would affect systems in various abort scenarios. It really shakes a lot during launch, but obviously there is only 1g max. It's on hydraulics and by pushing over and dropping, it feels like you are decelerating or going weightless, if only for a few seconds.

> After the real work was done, they let me shoot a couple of approaches into Kennedy. It has an intuitive Heads Up Display, similar to what some 737s have. The control stick was quite unique however. It sits between your legs like a fighter jet and it's fly-by-wire with an unusual activation mechanism that I can't really describe. It was very sensitive so you have to make short inputs, almost flying it with just 2 fingers. It's just like flying an approach in an airplane except you were coming in at 250-300 kts most of the way, you were flying a 18.5 degree glide path (normal plane is 3 degrees), and there was no 2nd chance . The HUD guidance plus the approach lights at Kennedy made it very easy to fly an approach. I had no trouble landing safely, but it was nearly impossible to get a "greaser". I think I bounced one and floated one. I left Buidling 5 with the biggest grin on my face that day

- Gman737 - DEC 10, 2021 10:24 AM

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/saving-the-shuttle-s...
Clearly I was referring to commercial off-the-shelf products rated for aerospace use, not experimental lab prototypes.

Regarding your father's car, I'd suggest the indicator in question is either an after-market addition, or an original incandescent mini-bulb behind a blue plastic filter. The latter was a common way to implement coloured dashboard lights back then.
Cultural differences, distance from family, language barriers, laws against foreign land/home ownership, crime, corrupt governments, etc.

I'm all for traveling and experiencing different cultures but there's a lot more than money that comes into play when you're considering a move to a developing country.
Depending on specialists for everything is fragile. What happens when there are no plumbers available at any price? I see it as just sad and pathetic when city dwellers can't even do basic home maintenance like replacing a faucet cartridge or toilet seal.
Engineers tend to have this conception of all salespeople (and, to the point of the GP, marketers) as con-artists: "how can I convince this rube to buy my crap?"

When in reality, as you discovered, the best salespeople are the ones who are able to really, truly understand the problems of their customer base and help them find solutions. That is an incredibly special skill, and one that should never be underrated.
It is common in Europe for small towns and villages to be quite walkable, have a large relative percentage multi-family housing, and have a decent train or bus connection to a regional hub. Of course, they have the advantage of being around longer than the automobile has existed.

The problem in the US is mostly cultural. Most rural/semi-rural/exurban people think nothing of an hour driving each way. So why would they want what they perceive as a tiny lot, with more expensive housing where they can hear their neighbors when they can get a huge lot and drive a little more?

The non-cultural part of the problem is that the drive-everywhere paradigm is so heavily invested that even in a small walking-oriented European -style village, everyone would need to own a car anyway. If you built a train to a regional hub it wouldn’t solve the problem of the regional hub itself having terrible public transit. Plus, it’s a lot easier to build a road than a train politically.
I suppose if the author asked a few folks to leave positive comments on the post thats not too crazy. I'd do the same thing if I was trying to promote something. I think I'd draw the line at something more programmatic, like some gray hat creating sock puppet accounts.
That's really diminishing the moral culpability that Roblox has. It's less about 'content moderation' (e.g. CSAM) and more about economic exploitation. Roblox structure inherently exploits children. Even if the content moderation was perfect, Roblox would still be exploitative because it is designed to be.

Roblox creates an in-game stock market (with robinhood-esque charts!) for cosmetic doodads which they release for up to $10,000 USD "MSRP". Except that MSRP is in-game money so it doesn't seem real. Every time in-game money changes hands, they take 30%...so even if the cosmetic doodad appreciated 15% on the fun-looking chart, the child still loses money on their "investment" after fees. If you cash out your in-game money, their exchange rate again takes 30% vs buying-in.

By the time children are successfully creating games on Roblox, assuming they didn't get sucked into the ubiquitous child-labor scam "companies" that hire these children...they've been lusting over those $5,000 cosmetic items for so long that they spend the money they made on the platform, on the platform.

It's a roach motel for child labor. You can put your labor in, but you can never cash out. The shame spiral is real.
That seems like an ungenerous characterization of patents. There are issues with them but I wouldn’t say that it’s primarily a mechanism to skim some wealth of lots of other people’s work.
> - every day I deal with broken links and broken images because my feed reader doesn't know from which URL it should resolve relative links

> - lots of posts include iframes, or content that only makes sense with JS enabled

These are the fault of broken RSS feed generators. The RSS feed should contain a textual summary of the article.

> - if I want to follow any link I get kicked back out to a bloated web page

This is working as intended and not an issue. I don't think any alternatives would make sense.

> - there's no pagination mechanism, or way for a client to ask for "all posts since last Friday". If you want your feed to always have all posts available, you need to include the entirety of your archive in every feed response.

Agree that this sucks.

> - XML

Really?
I would say that an assumption with 99% accuracy is a pretty good one.
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I'm currently in the process of buying my wife's grandpa's house in rural Louisiana. It isn't on a lot of land (only 1.5 acres), but he's selling it to us "at cost" and that was how much it cost him to build it 20 years ago. We haven't decided if we want to live there full time and give up all the niceties we currently enjoy (a target within 10 minutes vs 2.5 hours, every type of ethnic food you can imagine, etc)., but it is always there for when we retire. Starlink gets over 60mbps in the area, and my wife's telemedicine practice only needs 10mbps for SD video, which is what most of her clients run at anyway since they use their phones and iPads for their sessions.
Montreal!
If I'm reading this right, then "lambda" in C++ isn't "lambda" in Scheme/CommonLisp, where captured variables need be heap allocated rather than stack allocated to construct closures?
Well, and also, isn't it basically free to implement an RSS feed for a website on every common content management platform, blog generator, etc.?
When I have been in hospital (UK) I was given heparin anyway this seems to be SOP for the NHS
shouldnt lifting heavy things be done using back muscles? Like in deadlifting
Reminds me of the Terraria dev saying that doing business with google is a liability.

https://www.byteside.com/2021/02/terraria-dev-to-google-doin...
> it has to be something like a real programming language

It's a nice feature request but there's no one feature that makes a programming language "real".
Honestly I'm from rural Tennessee. They aren't worried about you being an "outsider" they're most likely wondering if you're rich so they can overcharge you for work on your property.
I am confused how one could interpret Clubber’s comment as “locked inside”.

Having 24/7 access to their own vehicle sounds like the opposite of being locked inside.
Exactly right.

All things you are trying to get others to use have a brand, whether implicit or not. Heck, it's usually even valued separately from the technology (good will, etc).

RSS, the spec may be fine. I've implemented RSS readers, heck, i use newsblur every day still.

RSS, the brand, is a goner.

The OP (and twitter post) is complaining that others consider the brand dead, and are arguing that the use case it covers are unmet by other things, and that the spec is still good stuff. Those are all very orthogonal things.

It's great that the spec is still the right thing! But the brand is dead, so you won't get anywhere without fixing that.
There is a litany of social and governmental problems plaguing California, but I always stayed because it's the climate that feels the most natural to me. What finally drove me out was the seasonal firestorms and rain of ashes.
This has largely been solved by computation, for me and many others.

In this interpretation, the brain is a computing machine that decodes signals from the outside world into various internal forms, akin to, say, the in-memory representation of a data structure representing an image being observed by an image sensor. Subjective feelings are then the result of a certain part of the brain analyzing other parts of the brain.

All of the various quibbles about "qualia" and "p-zombies" and such seem to just be conceptions that beg the question. Sure, we can imagine or conceive of a being which reacts to stimuli and reasons without having internal feelings, but there is no reason to actually assert that such a being is actually possible. It is very possible that feelings/"qualia" are a necessary component/by-product of a computing system capable of general intelligence and self-reflection.

In the Mary's Room thought experiment, it's quite possible that if Mary knows everything that there is to know about the physics of light and the neuroscience of color perception, she can literally cause herself to imagine the color red, or ultra-violet, so that she will not be at all surprised when she encounters actual red for the first time.

In the Chinese Room thought experiment, the Room (homunculus + books) quite possibly understands Chinese in the same sense as a Chinese-speaking human does, even if the homunculus inside doesn't.
I thought it goes without saying to not take it literally. We don't have bombs falling here. Aesthetically, vast areas do look like Syria. May be not rubble, but very very far away from first-world (Switzerland, Japan).

Food is amazing in a lot of big cities. There is no objective measure. New Yorkers say the same and so do people in Portland.
Afaict, the primary driver of non-walkable suburbs is neighborhood layout, which is driven by maximizing house:land ratio.

I live in a suburban master planned development now that oriented itself around the residential-commercial interface.

Having previously lived in an urban core, it's not too much of a downgrade. Sure, you inevitably trade local for chain (boo!), because that's who the anchor tenants originally were. But over the decades the smaller spaces have filled out with organic stuff.
Visit Texas or Florida first. I've lived in Texas and visited Florida many times. I've also visited San Jose. TX and FL are hell compared to CA. I don't care for CA either, but that's because of cultural (coastal) differences. The NorthEast is heaven on Earth.
If we use the term brand to mean, "reputation," then yes, adoption is a function of reputation. Reputation can be justly granted (due to things like the functional value it provided) but it also can be disparaged regardless of the merit of the argument.

If enough people think that RSS sucks, is too old, died with GReader, has no user-base, or whatever other story, why would they invest their time and effort in supporting it? If the problem isn't technical, then it might need some kind of marketing solution to get over the historical baggage in the zeitgeist.
Not sure I'd go so far as to call it "genius", but it is certainly clever (and possibly effective).
There are none. Non-materialist sciences are horribly underdeveloped. We have two options for exploring solutions to problems we may suspect non-materialist answers to:

1) Try materialism over and over again anyway hoping it will eventually solve the problem.

2) Develop a new discipline starting with the axioms of the problem at hand.

Number 1 has been so successful and provided so much work for scientists that any problem it doesn't work for mostly gets ignored.

I'm not saying materialism is necessarily wrong or bad BTW, just that it has a limit. It starts and ends at the perimeter of shared *human* experience.
> Instead of focusing on a technology, let's focus on a problem.

This would be good, but it seems most people are too focused on RSS and not much on the actual usage. The point of RSS is to receive changes in a structured way. RSS is just a tool for this. But there are also other ways and other tools for this.

> It used to be that the masses consumed RSS feeds.

No, this was never the case. Newsfeeds were always a minority-feature. The mass of user used to be bigger, but not to the level where it could be called a mass medium.

We don't need to communicate better to the publisher to force our will onto them. Instead, we should find ways to ease their work and help them satisfy our demands. For example, there was a movement for embedding semantic and structural data right into a document. Something came out of this, but maybe we should light up that flame again and move it more into a direction where it could be used for our feedreaders. Or just adapt the feedreader to better support the already existing structures?

This could easily sold with support for accessibility, and everyone would win here. Thinking about, how is the state of accessibility-technologies today? Could it be used for easy and reliable parsing?
Motivation and Cognitive bias. It is very believable, every organization and person has them.
Honestly, this just depends - depends on who your audience is and what your service is. No one likes spammy and cheesy emails but can be super effective and a company's biggest conversion medium.
Yep. I just use social network or disposable/temporary video hosts for anything now.
I think this would be by far the most intuitive, and less jarring, so it's a very good point. Show a globe on the world scale and fade over (unnoticeably) to an angle preserving projection when viewing city level.
> that doesn't kill kids

While the numbers are low, it is not 0. This is, sadly, categorically untrue.
Well I am on aspirin and when I got Covid in october (whilst in hospital for something else) my case was rather mild
Definitely something we want to explore more, although it's quite a challenge since most map data distribution systems including ours are built around Mercator tiles, which can't show anything beyond ~85 latitude degrees.
It's kinda weird that Deno is in TC39 but Typescript isn't?
==This disdain for suburbs is quite tacky and out of touch.==

It's also out of touch to assume every family in "the city" lives in a 2 bedroom apartment with no yard. Lots of families in my city (Chicago) live in 3 story walk-ups, duplex-downs or even single family homes which all have yards.

Perhaps we could all be a little more open-minded about how other people live.
> I love Objective-C and I think it is better—way better than Swift.

You are not the only one. This is exactly how I feel.

But GNUstep is ... not great. I want it to be! But it needs a lot of work on the interface side.
The goal is to use numbers to inform yourself instead of emotional attachments to political narratives. The numbers show that anyone can be poor and deprived of opportunity.
I've the same issue with some local news webpages and government sites, but I've been using PolitePol[1] to generate the feeds; they're not great but get the job done. Right now I'm looking for projects like RSSHub[2] or RSS Bridge[3] to have a similar service but self-hosted and without the restrictions of the free tier of PolitePol.

I think in the future RSS will be a community driven effort, not something that the website themselves care to implement.

[1] - https://politepol.com/en/
[2] - https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub
[3] - https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
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Regarding GUI/CLI:

GUIs are great for discovery of features, capabilities, and common workflows of systems. However, they're generally not composable. It is rare to find, outside of certain development tools and maybe some content creation tools (audio, graphics, CAD, etc.; editors of that sort), good or even decent scripting capabilities. And then there's the issue of coordinating across tools. Even development tools. That's where CLIs excel, they lend themselves to both composability and automation without having to hope that the developer thought of that use-case, it's just in their structure.
Future expectations are largely considered in current prices. Some of this will depend on your time horizon. Let’s consider 5+ decades.

1. Look for areas that have a long history of growth. You don’t want to invest in a fad.

2. Look for areas that aren’t too rural. Many of the most rural areas are actually losing population as people leave services like grocery stories and doctors leave and thus drive out more people. Look at rural Kansas as an example of this, places 100 miles away from a city had a population peak with the baby boomers.

3. Look for a diverse local economy. Oil/Factory/Company towns exist and they tend to disappear when fortunes change for the host. You need more than remote workers to run a local economy.

4. Consider climate change. Almost everywhere in the US will be effected for the worst, but Miami is probably more risky than Nashville.

5. Do your homework and invest in what you know. I’ve picked the locations of my property very carefully. I usually can find deals when the market undervalues one particular property short term for various things reasons. Maybe I’m the first solid offer to a motivated seller (this may become more common again soon). Maybe it’s a home that needs some renovations. Maybe it’s in a neighborhood whose gentrification isn’t widely recognized yet.

My niche is residential realestate in a single mid-sized metropolitan area. About 50% of my investment portfolio is real estate. I actively manage these properties, while working full time as an engineer.
Evidently it's somewhat odd, but the suburb we bought in has an elementary school and middle school built right in the middle of it. It's very walkable for a large portion of the neighborhood (though, it's the outer Seattle area - so the rain does keep many from walking for a large portion of the year, anyway).

I certainly don't think we put our child's mental health second. I'm not sure how to quantify that for a stranger on the internet, nor do I feel the need to... I am in the 30-50 range, though.

The thought of living in Seattle, personally, is abysmal. It smells of piss, all of the time. The homeless have taken over and there are no decent programs to help them out, nor do there seem to be any effective programs on the horizon. City corruption seems to take care of that. Business is taking a nose dive. There are no grocery stores. Food deserts are a very real thing. Rent is unimaginable. You can buy in the suburbs for a fraction of the cost of renting in downtown, easily. People in the area are not the most outgoing in the first place (the colloquialism is the Seattle Freeze), but add into that the normal distance of city dwelling and you are almost robotic to each other. While public transport is lacking (to say the least), it is there and available from these horrible suburbs you have warned us about.

The dream of city living seems, honestly, to be for the VERY rich or the young and naive, to be honest =/

EDIT: spelling
> I left pretty soon after.

This seems pretty win/win? I don't think you and I would be compatible either; you sound a bit too moralistic for my tastes. That's fine, you are entitled to your opinions and I'm entitled to mine.
maybe. There are very few city centres compared to city-not-centres by definition, but even so there is not much stopping us making a suburb the density of Chinatown. I wonder why we don't?
As far as I can tell, there was cost and regulation and both changed. The uncertainty makes things hard for people.

Personally, I like to extract as much value as possible from society so additional space for my car is no problem. I can always get a reservation indoors.

Also, all else being the same, I’d prefer a more expensive restaurant to a less expensive one because it prices out other people and makes it easier for me to get in.
Ah so these are actual persistent data structures. Got it, that makes more sense.

The use of the term "tuple" here is odd; I've only ever seen it used to describe fixed-width, non-homogenous sequences. These look more like immutable lists (though I guess they can serve both purposes).