skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know they have a house with a basement? Many houses in the Midwest are single-story ranches on a slab. Many people live in manufactured homes, mobile homes, or trailers, especially in places like rural Illinois and Kentucky.
Looks very promising OP. As a Rails developer I've been looking for something like this for a while. I'm getting a copy soon as hit my pad later on.
In many European cities, at least NL where I live, there isn't such a big distinction between the downtown and the neighbourhoods where people live.

Sure, if you want a big electronics store, you go to the centre of the city (10m biking), but for groceries, coffee, takeaways, restaurants, doctors, DIY stores, pharmacies, etc there's tons of these scattered around the city. It's quite multi-polar, there are many shopping streets, for these kinds of needs you're rarely more than 10 min walk or 2-3 minutes cycle away from those.

Where I live, for example, there's even 2 branches of the same chain of supermarket within about 400m, so <5 min walk, about 1 min on a bike. (Handy on the rare occasion that one of them is out of something!)
That's also missing the greater picture. It's giving _everyone_ a megaphone... but giving the loudest megaphones to the people who can get most people to listen to them.

You'll have noticed on the internet that there's a tendency to prioritise engaging with things you disagree with (hell, half of my HN comments are because I felt motivated to write something to disagree with some OP at some point - even this one).

What that means is the traditional small-c conservative 'village elders', 'parish priests', and 'elected officials', who hold authoritative positions not because they're controversial, but because they historically represented positions of neutrality and consensus end up with quiet megaphones, and the madmen claiming the world is flat and there's a paedophile ring run out of a pizza shop end up with the loudest megaphones.

Half of the population is below average intelligence, and giving the wrong people the loudest megaphones has a devastating effect on society.
> Whereas MacOS has historically been all stick, NeXTSTEP was all carrot.

Eh? MacOS had the same tools, and until quite recently the Mac App Store wasn't even a thing (and, even today, the presence of, say, Slack, or the LG monitor utility, in the App Store would argue that Apple is not particularly worried about UI stuff there...)
As I wrote, but to make it a little bit more explicit, the centerpoint moved as you panned. The vectorial stream was performed directly in WGS84.

This allows to have of a country like Germany in view with very little distortion. As the zoom progressed outwards, it would morph to mercator. Nobody really noticed (sadly), and the choice of falling back to mercator was also due to it's popularity making it sort of "expected" more than anything else.

The key point is that the reprojection was dynamic, and done on the client, optimized for the current viewing conditions. Stuff that today you can perform via JS without any problem if you forego the idea that maps need to be pre-rendered.
I prefer the unambiguous nesting of Rust's style. I can never remember the array shape when array bounds are listed in either prefix or postfix style. It's a tiny bit of extra typing that ensures that my understanding of the code is always 100% correct.
At this point they define how society behaves.
Genuinely curious, what's so bad about the original code that it adds an attack vector?
RSS is very much alive in the podcast world.
This is accurate in my anecdotal experience. I'm from the Bay Area (5th generation or so) and so I have a lot of cousins, aunts, and uncles here and the general trend for friends/family has been to move to cheaper areas in the exurbs: Stockton, Tracey, Antioch, Fairfield, Vacaville, Modesto, etc. This is where the working class are getting pushed out to as they can no longer afford to live in the inner Bay Area.
>> For example, on Windows I wanted to find a decent RSS reader to use

Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird [1] support RSS feeds.

In the mail folders pane, there is a folder named "RSS Subscriptions". Right-clicking on the folder shows "Add a New RSS Feed" option that lets you paste in an RSS URL.

After you have subscribed to an RSS feed, each feed shows as a folder under "RSS Subscriptions". Clicking on the feed folder shows the feed's content.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feed...
I understand you, it's not fair.

But in some countries the law regarding comparisons between products (in advertising) it's very strict and it can easily blow on the faces of those who do it.

That's why there are laws and regulators, to keep marketing in check, and ethical - at least within the margins of the law...

... this is one of the major problems that paints marketing as a shady practice: apparently there's no Law online, and no regulators are acting on it. In their defense, it's probably impossible to regulate it as it stands today... it's left to Facebook and Google to do part of this job.

It's very common to see stuff that wouldn't even be put on air on TV, Radio, or printed in a magazine. But since it's online, all good.
I bet you use Linux, Mr. Robot.
Currently, it is by paying $850/mo for health insurance for my wife and I. In the future I hope that my CoL expenses drop enough that the cost is fine while I continue to work for a lot less income, or if not, that my wife and I would qualify for subsidies on the marketplace.
Author here. It’s both. Html.Styled is converted to regular Html when run, meaning it uses «normal» Html.Lazy under the hood.
Machines should think. People should work. That's the new reality.

How far away is an AI system that supervises web developers?
An easy way to fool some fingerprint scanning devices.
You're pretending that there's no difference in intelligence/knowledge/skills between individuals or groups of people. There are differences. Can we stop pretending that there's no difference between a college educated European, your average American who reads at a 7th grade level, and a 3rd world farmer who has no perspective outside their small village?
Hi everyone, I'm Nick and I'm the founder of GiveGreat.Gifts.

I've always been interested in ways technology can improve relationships (I've googled 'personal crm' way too many times). Once October rolled around I started to think about Christmas and the stress of gift giving, and knew there had to be a better way.

GiveGreat.Gifts is a crm-like solution for gift giving. It provides highly personalized gift recommendations (3 not 20) based on your recipient profiles, and if you want to 'batch' your gifting for the year you can schedule gift ordering with us (yes we'll order your gifts for you).

Looking forward to any feedback, thanks for trying it out!
We've been trying to detect dark matter for so long now I wonder if we're just thinking about it in the wrong way.
They aren't singled out.
I'll add another - Chronological ordering within the day isn't very useful. I'm more interested in what other readers (of my type) have found "important/interesting/insightful/etc", so I care about the likes/upvotes/etc...

I don't want everything every day. I want to read the X most important articles that day, with X being different each day depending upon how much time I have.

RSS cannot really provide that prioritization.
I agree, and to assume that censorship helps society become better is just daft thinking.

What happened to things like "Its healthy to question everything around you".
Yes, but if the tornado had missed the factory building, being concentrated there could have been a benefit.
What are the other options? After seeing how Europe and other western nations have responded to COVID in the last 2 years I'm less likely to consider moving there. It was actually something I'd considered before all of this.
"Given that it may take up to several weeks to restore system availability,"

that's a huge hit to end of year payroll operations for many companies
Facebook doesn't really decide what you see, but instead optimizes what you see to maximize your engagement. If you never engage with political content or misinformation, you generally won't see it. Once you start engaging, it will drown out everything. What they could provide is a "no politics" option, but I wonder if anyone would utilize it. There was an old saying in the personalized recommendations world along the lines of "if you want to figure out what someone wants to read, don't ask them because they will lie." For instance, if you ask people what kinds of news they want they will invariably check "science" but in fact they will mostly read celebrity gossip and sports.
And that might be most reasonable thing to do.

It seems like lot of folks here allude though not exactly say that they should be in position to decide on who is "idiot", "bad-faith", "anti-science" and so on.
There's no ad involved. It's just a product feed for Google Shopping that's auto-generated by Shopify, so the product details match the website always. Here's the store: https://ligninandlight.com/

Google's customer support just provides form responses linking to this policy my store violates: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150127?hl=en

But they won't provide any concrete information specific to my store, and I can't figure out what they're hung up on. I talked to a Shopify expert and they told me to make sure I have a contact page, refund policy and accept credit cards -- all of which I do.
> GUI makes their life easier

This is the topic of a religious war that has been discussed online for decades.
Only having been to Knoxville on purpose twice, it definitely felt way too busy for how small it was. I-40 was stopped basically on a random friday at noon. Same happens in Nashville, but Nashville is sooooo much bigger, it is expected.
I suppose you can just schedule a cron to submit in 10 years the same post with updated number to say 12B :)

Even with population control (suppose we found a way to do it and managed to avoid the large negative consequences of it which would be plenty) the uncontested growing consumption by the current population would do the planet anyway.

Speaking about solutions - until significant part of Sahara desert and the likes aren't covered by solar panels, i wouldn't believe that anybody (who matters) is taking the climate change seriously.
If you make money for YT, they support you... It's a pretty reasonable thing, but the truth is that under the table YT is also deeply involved in supporting big industry and even manufactured celebrities, and that's exactly what corrupts the "vibrant creator community" model.

YT (and many other platforms) end up needing to make sure that their sponsored artists always trend first no matter what, and consequently that also means they need to take steps to hold other (non-affiliated) artists down once they begin to trend and gain support through organic means.

It's kind of like the friend that invites you over to play a video game, but when they only have one game controller... They really just want you to watch them play games...

The best thing to do in that situation is to ignore them and create your own footprint elsewhere until they get bored of putting on a terribly inconsiderate and selfish party.
I'm actually really curious to see how streaming video might work for things like light maps. You could have a beast of a machine, or a cluster, performing real-time raytracing on light and environment maps that then get streamed to the user. Sort of a hybrid approach between on-device rendering and remote gaming systems like Stadia where all the rendering takes place remotely. I think Ben Nolan was working on something like this for CryptoVoxels, but I stopped following him when he went full NFT crazy.
Not true. I wrote my own RSS distribution feed for my podcast, codechefs.dev.

Every major service integration (Spotify, iTunes, google Podcast, pocketcasts)

subscribes to an RSS feed. That's how it knows when a new episode is uploaded. Those MP3 assets are not hosted on Spotify, iTunes, etc, I host them on my own s3 bucket distributed with mp3 links in the RSS. I'm sure if your a really big podcaster like Joe Rogan things may be different, but everyone else uses RSS feeds

"Integrated centralized platforms" like anchor.fm etc just publishes an RSS feed to those same services and hosts the mp3s for you on an S3 bucket

Moving away from RSS doesn't solve anything
Yes, removal is not a consequence.

What should be consequences? What are consequences when you say something stupid to your family or friends? What should be consequences when you knowingly lie to slander somebody?

> And for the sake of argument, even if we accept that "consequences" ought to include the right to free speech being taken away from bad actors

This already exists in the law. Just as your right to move freely is taken away in certain situations (for example due to restraining order).
Indeed. After taking a progressive matrices I found that half of the second half was just XOR on bitmaps.
My naammme is Biggus Dickus.
But this seems like a patch given to the LZMA project, with an interesting low-level result to boot.
If the $0.01 is more than what it costs to store the video until someone requests it and deliver it, then loading will be super fast. Because tons of players in the market will compete for this margin.
Just adding some interesting info: There is an ECMAScript Optional Static Typing Proposal.

https://github.com/sirisian/ecmascript-types
Figma also just updated their mobile apps - looks like they're taking it much more seriously now. You can view any file on mobile, and I'm sure editing is coming down the line.

If they can make really great mobile apps (including iPad), then it'll be a really hard sell on anything else - especially from a collaboration perspective.
RSS feeds are not obsolete. People have pointed out WordPress, but there's another place where RSS is the infrastructure: Podcasts.
The flagging brigade is interesting in silencing heretical opinion, not engaging with it.
I'm gonna suggest that electricity is the single cause of the all environmental problems. Haven't pretty much all of environmental problems occurred since its unwise discovery? And, you know, electricity and man-made climate change are both about energy. So there you go.
PSA: CoderByte Sucks
So I wanted to try out CoderByte as an assessment platform for my team, but my account was banned. I was directed to their FAQ page which I found kind of shocking: https://help.coderbyte.com/knowledge/why-is-my-dashboard-loc...

Some reasons for a ban?

- "You organization trialed.. a subpar platform instead like Devskiller, TestGorilla... It indicates poor decision-making and we only want customers that execute good judgement."

- "We do not... engage in.. conversations about GDPR or security".

So, if anyone in your entire organization used a competing product, you're cut off? We can't have a discussion about pesky issues like GDPR, how personal information is used, security, etc? Because? That stuff is just... bad?

Another awful practice: I clicked to sign up, but need to contact support to cancel.

Eek. I'm at a loss for words.
This headline is wrong. He did not say society is to blame, he said individual people are.

Margaret Thatcher said "there is no such thing as society". By that she meant we have no collective consciousness, we are just individuals. If that is the case then we would have no desire to protect people we don't know. Spreading misinformation is not an issue. Most legislation is unnecessary.

If you do believe in society, you are part of a larger organism and you aim to protect others.

It just depends where you are on this.
Periodic reminder about Gell-Mann amnesia. AI systems continue to give the illusion of intelligence while simply performing basic linear algebra. It's fine to call matrix multiplication "intelligence" but it's not really close to what humans are capable of.
A basement isn't tornado proof when the house above it is collapsing. It looks like ~90% of the workers survived which doesn't strike me as much different than those in homes that took a direct hit.
So is sed.
Hey, a genuine Strawman argument!

You've implied two separate false equivalences, here:

• That "censorship" necessarily and only means "removing obvious child pornography", AND

• that in order to "take accountability", a company must "hire a ton of people".

You haven't established why either of those equivalences are a reasonable interpretation of the parent statement. And to this casual observer, it would appear as though you are deliberately conflating extremes in a rather disingenuous fashion.
Don't bother with CO. Our front range is well on the way to becoming SF 2.0. There's already a staggering amount of homelessness and the COL is through the roof.
Because lacking ethical prohibitions always gives one an advantage. People who lack ethics can always choose to act ethically when it confers a social advantage, or to act otherwise when that's more advantageous. Ethical people are by definition often forced to act at a disadvantage.

The only advantage that individual ethical behavior gives is through supporting the health of the group, thereby supporting members who depend on the group. People who aren't loyal to a group can shop around, play one against the other, etc. Even better, if you automate the interactions between people, there's no need or benefit for ethical behavior. Profit comes from pleasing the algorithm rather than any sort of loyalty.

Edit: The algorithm that capitalism uses is maximizing value against cost. All ethical complaints about it are asking people to accept less value/more cost. Capitalism insists that if everyone maximizes value against cost personally, that sends a control signal to the collective that will maximize the greater good. This is the ethic that we're automating.
Brotli has a static dictionary heavily geared towards web formats, and there really is no reason to use brotli outside of web stuff: the point of brotli is that it has browser support and does 15~20% better than gzip.

It's not bad per-se, but if you're not constrained to the web zstd will have a better compression ratio at every throughput (and better throughput at every compression ratio), and if you want maximum compression period it's not close to competing with LZMA-based formats (xz, lzip).
Sadly my work laptop is on Ubuntu (macOS at home)
GNUstep inspired me to try Chicago 95, so I will probably go with that later on... Nextspace looks amazing tho'
Society allowed Facebook to emerge and grow into what it is now, so I can't say I disagree.
Calling it "blaming society" makes this pretty funny, like when Manson did it and the kid in the Suicidal Tendencies song does it when his mom won't bring him a Pepsi.

Facebook's self-serving algorithms are of course a scourge in this area, but he does have a point. Part of why the messaging on COVID has been so fucked is because of this very thing: spinning or tweaking the truth. Facebook does it, to increase engagement, but public officials and others also do it. People who should've just told the simple truth, instead tried to gauge our response to it, and spun and tweaked the truth in an effort to "game" the response. Just tell the truth. Because you're probably underestimating the general public, as usual, and will ultimately end up increasing the danger and impact, by two mechanisms: 1) people have incomplete or incorrect or insufficient information to act on, and/or 2) certain people (who are adults and can tell when someone is dissembling, or communicating manipulatively, a.k.a. propagandizing) start to distrust the "official story," and the cumulative effect is that they go looking for "the real truth" in all kinds of wacky out-of-the-way places and get all conspiracy-minded, and the Facebooks of the world pick up on this and amplify it in their feeds. You want to combat this? Give them an authoritative, trustworthy source. Tell them the whole, unvarnished truth. Gauging the response, communicating to achieve a goal, well that's not informing, that's either sales or propaganda. You want to combat disinformation, start with information - all of it, without spin, without censorship.

Seemingly every disaster movie has a character who refuses to sound a warning because they don't want to start a panic, but then they ultimately cause greater loss of life or whatnot. That character is always a villain. We hate them precisely because their communication or lack thereof, has an agenda that underestimates us and ultimately ends up costing us.
I think the original idea of Twitter was basically to allow people to have "personal RSS" feeds without having technical knowledge or having to start up a blog. That plus built-in aggregation. So personal RSS for nontechnical folks + built-in aggregation.

It's a little ironic to me, then, that this concern is being posted on Twitter of all places.

I agree with the concern, I think RSS (or something closely related, like a decentralized version) should be maintained as a communication method, but I think there's a usability issue that's driving it.
Even after back pedaling, this is still really out of touch.

You don't seem to know what Syria looks like and "aesthetics" can't make something into the third world anyway. Not looking like a wealthy Swiss town or Japanese metropolis doesn't make anything third world.
This looks pretty slick.

Can you tell us about the technology stack behind it?
Where does all of the money go?

New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.
Using CMOV vs. branching seems like a strategic decision which does make sense to fall under the programmer's decision making, as there is a trade-off of always calculating a value which may be unused vs. the cost of the conditional branch.
Not FB responsibility if they set up and tuned an information spreading system that promotes stuff that's inflammatory over stuff that's informative? Users of FB only see what FB feeds to them, and that's all about how FB aligns the user's activities and characteristics to the content FB is supplying. What a total cop out to say, the problem is what people say, when FB plays such a crucial role in what people see. Before FB (yes and other social media) amped this stuff up, a village idiot standing on a corner shouting conspiracy theories got very little attention. But on FB this kind of stuff feeds engagement, and we know how important engagement is.

Yet the guy who's slated to by FB's CTO says, don't put all this inflammatory stuff on me! Freedom of speech you know and just let us do our job of promoting engagement and building ever more effective ad targeting technology!
Disappointed in HN Community
So, previously I had asked the HN community to help me design a good way to implement column triggers in task management. Here is the original post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502846.
I had created a live sketch (https://cogency.cogency.io/proxy/jzB) where anyone could see the design/ thought process as I was working. I had hoped to start a small discussion on what folks thought about it and possibly get even some technical 2cents.

Unfortunately, NO ONE responded to the post, no comment, nothing!!! I am not sure if it's because no one was interested in helping OR perhaps the HN community is bleak and not doing well :(

Either way, I have completed the implementation and it works pretty well thus far. Here is the blog post about the feature https://cogency.io/blog/how-to-set-column-triggers-

Anyway, cheers!

--Linda
I think the companies there will also need to reinvent themselves. I'm currently interviewing and both Apple and Facebook required in-person or based around a satellite office. I'm in Los Angeles so it shouldn't be a crazy ask. They lost out on a candidate and my labor will go to a business who lets me continue living my life.

Given thoughts like Individuals Matter [1], my speculation is that these companies are currently losing a lot of valuable individuals who can command more flexibility. There are plenty of remote first companies paying competitive salaries.

1. https://danluu.com/people-matter/