skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inform6 is almost as simple if you are a programmer. I mean, is not "real life language alike" but the IF6 library makes the easiest platform to write a text game as you can set the structure of the game by design, with "literal" objects.
Having worked for a hardware company before, they were VERY particular about their hardware quality. They would frequently get engineering samples and do full teardowns on them to evaluate build quality. Those engineers were intimately familiar with the hardware. And these were toys. I would absolutely expect that high-end computer equipment goes through frequent engineering sample review. If they aren't doing that, then how are they ensuring the quality of the company doing the manufacturing?
> giving them housing won't fix their behavioral problems.

What is that based on? My understanding from experts is that housing provides people with the stability to address their other problems. It's a valuable first step. Imagine trying to deal with whatever your problems are today if you also were homeless. Now imagine your problems are far worse, food is an issue, and emotionally debilitating.

Even well-housed people I know have a hard time dealing with their long-term problems. Add some more stress to their lives and they fall apart.

> ~50% of the homeless are severely mentally ill and/or on hard drugs

Where does that number come from? AFAIK, medical bills are a leading cause of homelessness.
I mean, i would hope people read about it before forming an opinion one way or another.

I have yet to encounter anything yet that has changed my mind. Might i be wrong? Of course. I've been wrong about other technologies, i might be wrong about this one (and i would be happy to be proved wrong. I'd love to have new technology that can do cool new things)

As far as if "everybody knows", sure my opinion is not a universal one, but its not exactly an obscure one either.
> Screen tearing is mostly just a matter of configuration.

This is not true. It's caused by drawing out sync with the vblank cycle. It has nothing do with specific hardware. Older versions of X11 didn't even allow drawing to be synced to vblank (the start of the raster retrace).
SpaceX is showing the way.

No being afraid of failure allow to simplify, accelerate the process and reduce the cost by an order of magnitude
The departure of tech workers is what springs to mind for us (I too moved out of SF during the pandemic), but don't forget that tourism is also a huge factor in the city economy, and that has also been decimated - though more temporarily.

I also think it's over-hasty to attribute many of these things to Breed's policies. Companies in knowledge industries going remote isn't a unique-to-SF thing, and the housing prices and street problems that caused many people to leave the city are rooted in bad housing policy that long predates her mayoral term.
I'm not sure I'd call the Vatican an outlier... they were complicit for decades, the pope relocated one of the most high-profile abusers to Rome...

...and when does something stop being an outlier? the 10,000 children abused in the US? the 200,000 in France? tens of thousands in Australia? the 1300 mass graves of indigenous children in Canada?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44209971
Wealthy people in SF, particularly “old money” types, don’t really pay significant taxes:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Rich-residents-w...

Businesses are what pay it. Hence the payroll tax a few years ago. Hence the relative ease of getting new office space approved vs. new housing.

To preserve the tax base, the city govt. will need to keep business around and office space full. Even if the crotchety old money people who pay pennies per year for their semi-private streets don’t like it.
Good feedback, Dan. To be honest we are in price discovery mode and are most eager to get users on the platform to understand use cases.
Or better yet this ear worm: https://mobile.twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1384721023786...
If “the next big thing” was predictable it would be “the big thing right now”.

Sometimes you know the next big thing, but tech has to catch up. I knew in 2003 that smartphones would be huge. I was a big fan but I knew not everyone had unlimited data plans like I did. Also the UI was clunky. There was no question that with an improvement in tech there would be mass adoption. There is no question that self-driving cars or electric cars will be near universal at some point. Whether that is 10 years or 50 years is the only question. Cryptocurrency too is just waiting for some killer application or a major bank crash before people say yeah this is the way to go. I think we know many of the next big things now, we are just waiting for tech (or people) to catch up. My daughter, for example, is 9 and I don't think she has ever touched a physical light switch. She grew up in a house with 17 Alexa devices and 70 smart switches, outlets, and lights. You just tell Alexa what you want. At some point in the future the rest of the world will be living the way I do now.
I was quite aware already.
"One colleague apparently even came over to her house and tried to touch her multiple times, despite her pleas to stay professional."

Wait, what? How does a colleague just end up at your home? I'd love to see the message traffic that led up to this incident. I wouldn't be surprised if the other party interpreted it as severely mixed signals.

“Some of the men who work at SpaceX hug women without consent, stare at women while they work, and interpret every social encounter as an opportunity to date (or hit on) women in the office"

Is this really that surprising, in the #metoo era? The messaging that cold-approaching strangers = sexual harassment has been received, so Joe Average isn't hitting on women in the street anymore. How are the legions of thirsty lames, who aren't attractive enough to compete in the top-tier of men on Tinder/Bumble/Instagram, supposed to find companionship if not via approaching their coworkers?

All that said....I hope when my daughter reaches working age, she'll have the wherewithal to just throat-punch anyone dumb enough to grope her at work.
This will be great for when I'm laying in my new MedBed healing all of my ailments with the power of crystals.
"Two things came out of Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We do not believe this to be a coincidence."
I'll take the opportunity to self-promote my book[0], which is subtitled, "Plundering religion to benefit the Nones", and addresses precisely these points!

I'd only add to your list,

* Shared rituals to structure and celebrate life's mileposts

* An array of moral role models

[0] https://leanpub.com/tothrivebeyondbelief
Then they should know even better that judges don’t make laws, they rule on existing laws, and their rulings get used as precedent.

I came here to complain about exactly that. I wish people could argue on actual facts and not politically brand everything in sight.
yeah, i find the whole azure support lacking.
We have this server with 20+ disks, some in storage pool and now I have no way mapping them out to see which logical drive maps to which vm disk. the support after 3 months of back and forth just gave up and closed it citing known issue without official documentation...
breaking the windshield is the cheapest option to replace
It's like a very nice living room but with two porta-potty in the middle of it. Sure you can walk around it but why.
Bootstrap, Bulma, etc. are CSS frameworks in that you have to use their opinionated HTML markup conventions for forms, grids, etc. They also attempt to cover the entire set of elements you might need in a website, such as jumbotron headers, profile images, news flashes, and more. The assortment is given attention to be a visually consistent design system.
Are there WA calls we can make with excel now? Any plugins required?
I love X, etc and use it all the time, but let's be honest, X isn't exactly rock solid either. I had X crash due to video mode switches (mainly via games) so many times that nowadays unless i know a game behaves nicely, i tend to first run it under gamescope[0] which shields against these issues. I do find it kinda amusing that my only use for Wayland so far has been to avoid driver issues by running a compositor inside an X window :-P

[0] https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope - it is a fork of Valve's wayland compositor which actually works under X11 inside a window and effectively creates a nested XWayland environment but also attempts to minimize latency... it doesn't eliminate it completely but outside of twitchy shooters it is ok
> giving them housing won't fix their behavioral problems

Citation needed. Mental illness is very unlikely to improve if someone is sleeping under a bridge. Just like pneumonia.

Besides, free mental health services and nationalized healthcare exist for a reason.
Establishing the argument is the role of the article being linked to, not a job for every single commenter wishing to express an opinion. A serious response can always criticise the weak parts of any argument without having to guess which parts are considered stronger by others.

Or in the alternative, perhaps we should not have any discussion on this topic at all until SpaceX offers a formal response, at which point you can chastise everyone for failing to acknowledge BOTH the strongest parts of this article and the strongest parts of SpaceX's response.
So a $5/mo digital ocean droplet, or you could pay $2.99 a monthly from a plethora of VPN providers and have access to several different types of encryption technology and probably 100+ locations.

Of course, there are lots of skeptical people on HN about how safe and private a third party VPN company is, but I question the usefulness of a VPN where the only user is you.
Sure, the Oxygen Catastrophe, 2.3 billion years ago.

I do, wonder, given that all the extinctions happened before humans existed, what possible alternative to 'natural' could there be, aliens?
There are too many hypotheticals to answer the question with any degree of accuracy.

You are certainly not bound to keep claiming X though. I mean, there's such a thing as new information and research. If 10 years ago you claimed X, and the latest science is different now, then I don't think a proper judge or arbitrator would hold that against you. They will weigh the evidence provided at the time of the argument for the claim.

Of course it's gonna look bad if there were no significant events or it happened a week ago.

But that's only going to be considered if the counter-party even brings it up as an argument. There's a host of reason they may not choose to argue on that platform, not to mention in many situations there's no way to find out. Certainly if it's taking place in private arbitration, different counter-parties aren't going to know the arguments you claimed in different cases.
>Perhaps that kibozes Don Hopkins

Ask him, he is on HN regularly.
> I'm actually shocked at how often they'll tell me how amazing SF is. Like where do they live? Do they go out?

I live in the Dogpatch and it is amazing here, ditto for most of Potrero Hill. I do occasionally see a small number of homeless people about, but nothing particularly threatening, and I don't see trash and needles and whatnot everywhere. I go out nearly daily. I stay closer to home these days, since there's plenty to do in my neighborhood, and I feel like I've gotten a bit more insular since the pandemic began.

And yeah, when I do venture out farther for dinners & drinks, well... it depends. Parts of the Mission have gotten really bad (they've been bad for many years, but have been getting worse). Parts of North Beach aren't great. Ten years ago I would cut through the Tenderloin on foot when walking places, but I would definitely not do that today, especially after dark. I used to live in Soma, and it got pretty bad there too. I felt unsafe at times, and that's part of why I moved. (And I didn't even live in the worst areas around mid-Market.)

But consider places like the (inner) Sunset, Richmond, Lower Pac Heights, Bernal, Glen Park, Balboa Park, most of Japantown. They're... fine? A lot of these neighborhoods have reputations for being sleepy, but if you're content to make a night just at one restaurant followed by one bar, you can have a great time. If you want to do a bar crawl or see some serious nightlife, sure, you're going to have to go to the Mission, Nob Hill, Haight, Lower Haight, North Beach, Marina, the south-of-Geary Divis corridor, etc., and yeah, some of those places can feel varying degrees of unsafe at times, depending on where you are. That's definitely a problem that needs to be addressed.

But this narrative that SF is just chock full of homeless people shooting up, with spent needles, trash, and human shit on the streets and sidewalks everywhere... no, that's just not my experience over the 11+ years I've lived here. No neighborhood is perfect, but these particular problems are nowhere near as widespread as some people make it sound.

> I'm against the culture of mass incarceration but not prosecuting thefts below $950 isn't the answer. [...] There's no simple answer here. There are lots of contributing factors. But pretty high on that list is income inequality and housing unaffordability.

I'm in full agreement with you here. I think some of the crime is driven by opportunism (if the cops won't even investigate, there's low risk), but a lot is driven by desperation and feelings of powerlessness. We need to get everyone in secure housing, get people with mental health and/or addiction issues the help they need, and somehow let people feel financially secure enough without having to work 3 jobs and 100 hours a week.
it looks completly crazy omg
Yet another terminal that insists on having its own terminfo.

This isn't a big deal if you only need to interact with a few machines via ssh, but when you are working with 100+, including networking gear that has no hope of using a custom terminfo, it really gets to be a gnarly pain.

I must be getting old.
Not a fan of SF policy or Breed, but how much of that can realistically be done at the city level?
This seems like it would apply to literally any new feature - new code won't compile on an old compiler. It isn't the purpose of semver though, semver is trying to help you upgrade old code safely.
Ask HN: Is there an alternative to crunchbase for founders needing quick access?
I think what is notable about this case vs other tax cheats that makes it less mccarthyism and more public interest. This is the head of one of the most prestigious universities chem department hiding over $500000 usd per year from being taxed and lied to the FBI.

Mccarthyism is making up BS on people about their supposed communist leanings and raking them over the coals in public sham hearings / blacklisting them from working (ie hollywood).

What makes it worse for the professor is that he took those funds from a country with which his own government has a very fraught relationship and whom is actively trying to espionage technology. Theres more to break on this i would wager but don't call it mccarthyism.
People obviously love living in dense cities. Look at the demand for real estate compared to elsewhere.

Maybe people generally like other people, not to mention the best of art, food, culture, convenience, etc. etc. etc. How can anyone live in a small town? (Just kidding; I completely respect people's decision to live in small towns; my point is that there is an entirely different, and widespread perspective.)
OK, I take it back. It's for those people, and also people who have a bunch of Gameboy cartridges but no Gameboy.
Not necessarily unpleasant - it could be that it requires skill (knowing which projects are more likely to go viral is one such skill)
...and 4 points are about hiding the problems instead of solving them.
My thoughts exactly about your worthless comment.
my friend: Emacs or Vim ?
me: Emacs or what ?
There's plenty of non-religious homophobia in Europe. Besides, the Bible doesn't talk about homosexuality nearly as much as other things that many Christians ignore (or so I've heard). It's all tribalism at the core. Trump could be out doing abortions on Times Square and not lose any votes.
You can't look at tolerance for open drug use in isolation. It's part of a complete system that includes a social safety net, access to medical care, treatment for mental health issues and the initial conditions that cause people to become drug dependent in the first place.

Europe understands that people are entitled to and deserve a basic standard of living. It largely explains why the EU has expanded eastwards into former Soviet bloc countries where people are much poorer. The EU as a whole takes an economic hit for that but it's an undeniable good for those poorer members.

Whereas in the US, people seem to be stuck in a 19th century "every man for himself" frontier cosplay.
Bootstrap + Comic Sans everywhere. Beautiful.
If your only goal is to minimize deaths from COVID without regard for any other consequence. Most pragmatic people recognize that you need to weigh deaths against economic health and other considerations and strike a balance.
Lul your just overeacting!
who's next ?
That’s interesting, has anyone reimplemented AlphaGo or something using Mathematica?
But they included a picture of a guy in a respirator powerwashing the sidewalks, so it's implied.
I'm an old timer and I've built many sites. Laughed at bootstrap since day one, especially when it's on job ads.

That said I tried to use pico and bulma in small personal project and it's handy to have a baseline. The problem is that you inevitably spend most of the time later override and fighting the said frameworks that helped you get going quickly. So I wonder, if you know CSS, are you really saving time?
I feel it’s even more accurate to say they are human behaviors that take advantage of religion (or any other available power structure). In a world dominated by religion they take religious form. If we remove religion from power or power from religion, they will take whatever form allows them to thrive in the new system.
With generics, the metatype of a type variable is an interface type. If you just had T, it’s grammatically incomplete because you don’t specify the metatype. I guess you could just assume the any type if it’s incomplete, but that’s an unnecessary inconsistency in the grammar.
For what it's worth, I'm also completely worthless at art, despite being on the opposite end of the visualization spectrum -- I can easily conjure very detailed visual (and sonic) impressions in my mind's eye, and the act of reading itself for me cannot be decoupled from "hearing" the words (tone and all) in my head.

It's depressing in a totally different sense, because I can never capture on paper the things that I visualize -- I just don't have the knack for art.
And within your increasingly left-leaning mainline protestants, you have constant splintering. The conservative Episcopals, where they didn't convert to Roman Catholicism as whole congregations, made ACNA, which itself is a loose association that refuses to decide important issues like the ordination of women. This leads to many interesting lawsuits, since the Eoiscopal church is obscenely wealthy and owns all the buildings.

The Lutherans have Missouri Synod and probably some others.

The United Methodist Church seems to be avoiding any formal gatherings so that they can delay their own upcoming split, too.
I’d love to know why this is flagged.

My experience: can’t use an ultrasonic humidifier in this house, because it results in a huge amount particulate fallout. No way am I going to breathe in that amount of extremely fine dust. Might as well work in a marble quarry without a respirator mask.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/sed maybe?
> I thought that using an empty interface to represent "any type" was kind of ingenious

It makes me a bit sad to read that. We all are on a journey to be become better developers every day. But things like that are like a distraction. They make you think you found a really cool and smart concept, but you actually didn't and it's essentially just a hack.

Not sure what the solution can be. But PL designers should be more clear about features that are just "hacks" and considered "bad" but necessary in practice due to certain constraints. Go's {} and nil-errorhandling are examples. Nulls (in any language) are another common example.
What if I told you that there are plenty of people and families in the Tenderloin that face public safety issues on the daily on their way to school?

Now that a safe injection site is opening, we need no longer tolerate people injecting needles into themselves on the streets.

Maybe you think what's going on in the Tenderloin (and Soma) is acceptable. But if so, you're in the minority now. No one should be subjected to being harassed by psychotic people while picking up household necessities at Target on a Saturday afternoon. After all these years people's patience is wearing thin.
What compositor should be used? Never heard x.org doesn't have this problem with any.
No human virus is known to have evolved to become more contagious and less virulent. Zero. None. Unfortunately this is just a (comforting!) myth.

Feel free to provide an example virus if you think I'm wrong!
> If it were up to me, I'd also get rid of the "are you a felon?" question that permanently excludes you from many jobs...

This is already illegal in California - banned as of 2018 under the California Fair Chance Act. Through companies can still conduct background checks after extending offers.
Ask HN: 2022 Planning
I am sure a lot of folks here work for both small and large companies. I am curious if you all followed a structured process for planning your roadmap for 2022? And how confident you feel about meeting your commitments? I am looking to learn what has worked or not worked for people based on their experience. Cheers!
Go could do something similar if you're willing to run `go generate` as part of your build process. For most Go applications, the reflection overhead is a fine price to pay for convenience, just like GC is a fine price to pay for not having to deal with the borrow checker. Obviously, these tradeoffs don't hold for all programs, but Go has definitely found a niche.
Quick access to what?
No, it stamps the output binaries.
That had to be a long time ago. I ran MacOS 7.6 through 9 for much of the 90s and don’t recall any apps not working with virtual memory enabled.
I'm pretty sure homelessness would go down significantly if housing was available. Drug and mental issues are significant but they're more easily treatable of people are housed, and it's easier to help more people with housing if housing costs to pay/subsidize isn't sky high. And if we build a LOT more prices will go down.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/homelessness-housing
what do you mean by "exists"? They don't exist as a solid physical object. They exist more like a gust of wind, which moves all the leaves in the same direction and that's all we see. You can't "prove" that they exist, you can only postulate them as theories that explain why we see a whole collection of physical data that we can see. Your proof might be considered good if it coherently explains a large amount of the data, and makes predictions that come true. But you certainly can't "prove" that they "exist" to the same level of proof that an atheist will demand for the existence of God.

Patriarchy and institutional racism are even ascribed agency, they "want" to hurt people, rather than merely being general forces such as gravity or a fluid flow.
Agreed, and while SF certainly does have a fair amount of old money, I'd argue that most of it is new money. From my point of view, most of the homes selling in my neighborhood over the past year (average sale price of $2.2 million) are young-ish families in their 30s and 40s who have made their money in tech over the past 10 or so years.