skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Police quoted witnesses who saw a man walking into the clinic with a paper bag, which he put on the floor, right next to a heater by the reception desk, and kicked it. Liquid poured out, caught fire and the whole floor was in flames and smoke."

Don't really need to be an expert in starting fires.
There is definitely a difference in the quality of content you consume though, which is a bummer - new language learners don’t know what’s good. I just ran across a YouTube channel [1] which if I had known about it when I was starting Japanese, would have probably prevented me from getting confused about a great deal of things.

But there really is no substitute for persistence, regardless of technique.

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06... (though her pronunciation is very unnatural, her explanations are spot on)
...industry?
I would agree that many regulations should be liberalised. Taking and relaxing those, especially those that directly affect density, should be a top priority. (California is trying, with ... limited success.)

I think what you'll find though is that even that step is ferociously resisted. A key reason for this is actually market-based, though it's not the transactional market but the asset market: scarcity increases value.

And this works for numerous established players within the system: individual homeowners, yes, but far more so, institutional property-holders and the financial institutions with asset portfolios based on real estate holdings.

Land-value tax advocates will argue that you can solve this problem by taxing land. The obvious problem is obvious: the same interests violently resist any asset tax increases as well. In some jurisdictions, most famously California, property taxes are constitutionally limited (by 1977's Proposition 13).

I've been thinking of possible end-runs around this, and have been thinking of the possibilities of related taxes or regulations which might have similar effects.

Vacant-property / second-property taxes (or fees, to get around the tax limitation) are one possibility. Direct taxation, or changes in asset valuation toward reserve holdings for banks and financial institutions, might be another. Requiring mortgages to be held over time, or limiting resale/bundling could have a strong impact, perhaps. All of this would reduce returns or increase holding costs of real-estate-based assets, should act as a land tax, and would tend to increase the pressures to make more intensive utilisation of land for housing, which is of course what will solve the problem.

I strongly recommend reading Shane Phillips, The Affordable City. He's been thinking about this for a while and studying the problem far more closely than I. The book is a set of suggestions / actions for improving the housing situation.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/affordable-city-strategies-fo...

https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city

Ultimately, though, I think what this will take is a weakening of the forces opposing more housing, and that's likely to be difficult.
The question is not, "is it under control?" It's, "are you able to thrive?"

There's no sense in living halfway when the other 50% is available.

The other issue is that many people with ADHD develop unhealthy coping strategies, which turn into depression and anxiety.
The whole time I was reading this I couldn't stop thinking, "Sure, we can get more usable space if we ignore modern fire safety precautions."

And also "pushing apartment capacity a few % points isn't really going to move the needle much on the housing crisis in many areas."
The work at Keep Silence is excellent.
It seems like GP is claiming that this is not new, and also does not represent meaningfully expanded surveillance.
This is 100% a legitimate news story.

In an era of increased government surveillance and arbitrary encroaching powers, this is exactly what news is.

That the government is apparently using the data anonymized for COVID research etc. is obviously important.

Honestly it's a bit odd to think there are people who would just 'look the other way' and trust that the system without information.

Thankfully, we have a news diaspora and other journalist can monitor the program and follow the story with 'access to personal information requests' from them, Telus etc..
It’s consistent with try…else and if…else so I actually think it’s ok.
Robert Caro talks the way an old New York grandfather talks, which is definitely very expressive, but I found myself going "mmm hmm" and zoning it out because it just went on and on and on.

It'd probably be good as an audiobook.
I feel that there are nearly 150 frustrated law enforcement officers who attempted to bust a hit man by pretending to hire one.
It’s not about weighing anything, they simply left something useful for posterity. Their observations and record keeping has helped preserve some scraps of indigenous culture that would have otherwise been lost, even to surviving members of tribes today. That’s a good thing, even if missionaries did more bad than good overall.
Checking for file existence or access), however it is done, often leads to subtle race conditions. Subtle is a word strongly suggesting unchecked assumptions. Bugs come from unchecked assumptions.

Generally, just act on the file system. Expect errors to happen and handle them. Even if it's potentially slower. Unless, and in fact I'll say only if, your company is a hot startup revolutionizing file system semantics.

More generally, do not be clever about solving problems outside your bailiwick. Unless you want to blog about it and misattribute blame to something like fixing unit tests. (Aside: sounds like the unit tests also had unchecked assumptions.)
wow. that is a very good feedback. I am not the developer ( I found that on r/selfhosted by author). I have invited the developer to see submission and hopefully he fins it useful and reply.

- Hint: I just did like the one person you described in your last paragraph.
> It also went to the moon first, as it was inventing all the technologies to enable it.

USSR: first satellite, first animal in space, first animal returning from space, first human in space, first woman in space, first object orbiting the Sun, first hard lunar landing, first pictures of the dark side of the moon, first space station, first spacewalk, first soft landing on he moon, first probe to another planet, first landing on another planet, first satellite on another planet.

USA: first communications satellite, first weather satellite, first man of the moon (and conveniently the space race ends here).
So you're pretty much okay with surveillance?
> In an era of increased government surveillance and arbitrary encroaching powers, this is exactly what news is.

The government did not create any new powers here, this dataset was available for a long time, and the public health agency is now using it in service of its goal - furthering the public health of Canadians.

> That the government is apparently using the data anonymized for COVID research etc. is obviously important.

Why is anonymous data important to you? I don't mean this in a provocative way, I'm genuinely curious. I'd honestly submit de-anonymized data to PHAC if asked. Seems like a worthwhile mission.

I have no idea how PHAC could harm me or anyone else by knowing I went down to the Loblaws on MacArthur in Vanier this morning.

> Honestly it's a bit odd to think there are people who would just 'look the other way' and trust that the system without information.

I think it's fair - important even - to ask the questions, but if you find the answer is a non-story, then don't publish it or at least publish it without a negative, suspicious framing. Once they found the data was anonymous and being used under existing authority exactly for the thing it was supposed to be, it's sort of a move along, nothing to see here moment. I know that doesn't sell papers for the grandparent company in New Jersey.
Update: I got it done. Printer ran out of ink at the last minute but I found a spare. When there's no margin for error, little things like that can bring the whole thing down.

Thanks for the kind words.
For sure, in the case of mkdir() and fopen() you need to watch out for relative pathnames containing “../“. Is that the sort of thing you had in mind?
The more important question is why people feel the need to implement adblockers. If ads were less obnoxious and intrusive, people wouldn’t block them.

In short: current site monetization tactics are objectionable and deserve to be thwarted. Rather than huffing about people who block ads, publishers and advertisers should consider that an incentive to come up with something better.
What do you mean by faking a real URL on frontend side? I'm genuinely interested.
All of this talk is making me kick myself internally for (un)successfully procrastinating actually filling out the survey to start the diagnosis process for ADHD. :)
I think it's lucky you aren't in charge. None of it is simple and you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Good catch, for reference I'm surprised they fixed this (which was my main worry):

> For versions 3.28 and earlier, the GNOME desktop environment contained components that required systemd-logind[5] (among them, notably, its display manager, GDM). However, as of version 3.30, Gentoo's packaging of GNOME allows it to work once again with sysvinit + OpenRC as the init system
From the post title, I’d say a big part of the moral is that just because the unit test passes, everything is not necessarily okay.
Thanks for the input. How does one find the validity of a conference with google scholar metrics?
"else" usually means "instead of" or "otherwise" in those patterns. If the original case doesn't run, then the else case runs instead.

In a for loop, the else clause only runs if the loop successfully completes (isn't broken), so the else in for-else means the total opposite of what it means in every other pattern.

I think it would make a lot more sense if it were replaced with "done" or "upon" or something else that communicates how it works.
AMP’s one redeeming feature—a shit-free browsing experience—is, as expected, being eroded bit by bit. I’m seeing things like autoplaying videos and popovers in AMP pages now.

My go-to is readability mode, Instapaper, and turning JS off.
>"while they are under threat to have their families sent to gulags if milestones aren't met... nice!"

It was true during Stalin. Not sure about Kruschev era laws. After that nobody would be sent to gulag for not meeting milestones so cut the bullshit. It is like segregation in the US. It was true until it was not. Or that women in Canada could be jailed in specialized jails (they were called differently) for being of wrong moral character. Not true anymore either.
Handler for express body parser erroes
stop handling all errors thrown from body parser inside you express app this middleware cover all errors thrown from body-parser
https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/
The version of this phrase that I am familiar with is “perfect is the enemy of done.”
That was the politics of USSR - to feed the small republics at the expense of russian people.

There was supply categories for every region - and most of RSFSR, except Moscow and Leningrad got 3rd or 4rth category, while caucasian republics and Baltics got 1 and second class.
Show HN: A Reassuring Parables Generator
Just like wheelchair ramps and subtitles.
How much of what Mozilla and Google are writing is released under GPL?
Yeah. Why is trusting government supposed to be the default? Any organization with power should be continually distrusted, required to constantly and endlessly prove itself. In a democratic situation, the price of power is the responsibility to prove yourself trustworthy and competent enough to hold it. The whole point is that power is granted contingent to the will of a people for the good of the people.

You should never trust government. If your democracy is working, you can sometimes trust that government actions were good and competent after the fact. Trusting up front is abdication of your responsibility to guard against abuses as a citizen. Every tiny step towards surveillance and acquisition of data that can be abused should be resisted and assumed to be motivated by the worst possible incentive.

It's up to the agency or bureau to prove, up front, to the satisfaction of representatives and citizenry that a tool or power is necessary.

"But it's not illegal" is a weasel move, and heads should roll.
Hard disagree. Here in Czechia there is no longer such thing since the revolution. Nobody says someone should sacrifice their children today, and no such thing happens in practice. Children from Czech schools are plenty successful.
Last I heard, about half of homicide cases in the US go unsolved. It’s probably not the smart half getting caught, usually.
Saying "Communism is evil" is no different than saying "Capitalism is evil" with nothing to back it up. Contrary to maybe-current opinion, Communism and Democracy are not diametrically opposed: the former is an economic policy, the latter a system of government. You can have both, one or the other, or neither all at once.

Sure, maybe the governments that tried to implement communism failed on the world stage. Some today would say the same thing about the current economic/governmental systems-that-be (the US government of pre-WWII + cold war era was much more socialistic and less democratic than it is today – up to a 90% marginal income tax and no democratic election of US senators, very different than it is today!).

This entire article is about how, at least anecdotally, someone who lived under such a regime doesn't remember it being evil – in fact, quite the opposite! Governments, economic systems, and powers-that-be are always changing. In 20 years do we really think everything will be the same as it is now?
Merry Christmas to everyone!! Lets hope next year the covid situation improves more.
Why Segway never mass produced the Centaur?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l486tKKIifY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7JOIlJh8ng
For nyt a simple trick that always works for me at least on iOS device is to open it in private mode in safari and set the website settings to enable “use reader automatically”. In fact this trick works for many behind paywall but not all like ft.com.
You're confusing displaying different information at different URLs with being "more than static HTML and CSS".
It is one of the hypotheses. It seems very likely that there were multiple factors at play in the late pleistoscene extinction. A quick search with that topic will provide you with materials. Hunting is a common hypothesis, but it is impossible to prove the causality, and world is usually not that simple. Also, prehistoric human consumption of plant food has most likely been underestimated, as the plant remain fossils have not been able to remain in such climate. Recent dental calculus has shown that humans and their fellow neanderthals ate more plants than it has been originally estimated.

I don't claim to be an expert, but Harari is an excellent story teller. That narrative fits really well with his story.
Did the author state anything at all about Machiavelli's intentions? If so I missed that. I think you're reading more into it than is there.
It's interesting to note that stoicism -- in my experience perhaps the most difficult thing I've ever done and still fight hard every day to follow -- could be said at its core to work against these baser motivations.
Reading this code I can't help but try to evaluate it in my head.

Question: is there a bug for the assignment of party_not_at_fault? Would you want party2 to be selected if the condition is true?

Other languages I've used have the first part be the true branch, and the other the false branch.
The Bill of Rights Act in New Zealand is mostly irrelevant. It is an ordinary piece of legislation, and it places no restrictions whatsoever on what future legislation may or may not contain.

Their early lockdowns were unlawful, but they fixed that in a few days with new legislation. A court actually ruled they were initially unlawful, but said that was OK because the government had good intentions.
Here in Czechia (not USSR but close), lot of older people long for the old days.

They had one job for life, the state made sure. They had apartment or house, the state made sure (if you were young family expecting child, they would just give you one). The wages and pensions were enough to live on, the state made sure.

In their eyes, there were a lot less existential threats (like losing a job or the rent getting too high you lose place to live) than under the new regime, life was "fair", no fancy enterpreneurs making millions while working people struggle.

Jumping to a world where nothing is certain and you're two bad months from homelessness after a lifetime of working was quite a shock for them. The message (however not all that real) of the old system was "we're all in this together" and the new one was "everyone for themselves, no caring about others" especially in the wild years after revolution. Some people are still sad about that.

(They also turn to fascist and populist politicians now as a replacement which isn't great.)
>"In the US a callous cop gets tried and gets sent to prison."

Sure. Whole 2 times when they were caught on video and caused mass movements.
"wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150"

I didn't know can move that fast. That's faster than Usain Bolt's peak speed.
>How might we measure it?

That is a good question. A desire is a term of the mind, and it is not easily connected to the brain and physiology. The only one I can think of is the conscious desire to breathe - iirc, it is directly correlated to the amount of CO2 in the blood (not O2, the first suspect). We don't yet have strong correlates to hunger, for example, so it might take a while for other desires, but I would bet there would be some correlates. On the other hand, behavior can reveal a lot.
Some economists would say we can find the strength of one desire by comparing it to another. How much of A are we willing to give in order to get some exact amount of B? It is not exactly measurement of desire, but we can end up with a list of priorities.
The building solidity may deal with the fire itself, but what about the smoke? How do you keep that from asphyxiating you?
https://www.numworks.com/ is/was open source friendly

previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344087
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27126926
Good point. It's probably fundamentally a cost-cutting measure in both cases, where Microsoft just found it cheaper and easier for similar reasons.

(eg. Win32 isn't a convenient API, Qt has license fees while Electron does not, Microsoft has a history of making successor APIs that even they don't have proper confidence in, etc.)
a lot of these are just ways to support the employee meet the needs of the business

i would love to see some ways a business can adapt to better meet the needs of employees with executive function disorders
I always wanted to create/design my own physical product. Where can I go to learn how to get a product manufactured?
Is this why punctuation in legal text is often said to be so horrible? By repute, legal English ignores most except the period and for obvious reasons the question mark. I believe comma, semicolon and like are deprecated unless their intent is absolutely clear.
The "paywall free" version https://12ft.io/12ft.io/ looks odd...

Would be cool if it returned a simple text page saying "I see what you did there."
> De jure redlining is over, but de facto redlining obviously lives on, as you can immediately discern from a 10 minute walk in the west side of Chicago.

Why does "de facto redlining obviously lives on"? How do you know that the areas with less investment in the west side of Chicago suffer race-based discrimination in investment (i.e. "redlining") as opposed to data-based, rational investment decisions?
I wouldn't risk it
You said:

> Do you support denying re-entry to people who are already citizens as a means of doing that?

Which implies the people entering on these visas are taking places away from someone else but they’re not, they’re entering the same lottery system as everyone else. Unless you’re suggesting that only citizens should be allowed to enter the country?
A fictional TV show (even if 'based on a true story' as this one) is not the greatest source of useful anecdotes to guide your belief system, as what is shown simply reflects the beliefs of the writers rather than reality.
I prefer using the else clause to maintaining an "is_found" flag. Although this is lesser known syntax so I probably wouldn't use it when multiple developers are involved.
dataclasses author here.

Does the keyword-only feature in 3.10 help you at all?
I could find you a dozen stories of people with severe ADHD who were denied medication, and a dozen more who had to jump through ridiculous hoops to fill their prescriptions.

Taking a prescribed dosage with the intent to improve your life very rarely leads to addiction.

Medication is only one half of the solution. The other half is cognitive behavioral therapy.

Using both together has been shown by peer reviewed studies to be very effective for most patients.
The Pinouts Book by NODE
Agree here but:

// not a longer comment than this
Never let a crisis go to waste, huh?
Just one deployment? To win the war you need to be hundred deployments ahead.
The best code is in production independent of anything else.
I’d infinitely prefer to live in an apartment which is in walking distance from everything I need than some remote house where I have to drive all the time.

I find the current price and size of apartments to be perfectly fine.
"Unix" for video. Love it :)
The point is that wearing hijab is coercion. It is not a 'free choice'. Nobody chooses to be a sub-human, unless forced or brain-washed since early childhood.
The recent shift towards philosophy is fascinating.

I studied engineering because I thought we made most of the advancements that change the world through the application of technique.

It didn’t take me long to realize the importance of economic constraints and the mysterious way in which the market acts as a complex, mediating system. I became fascinated with economics.

But then, reading Adam Smith, heck, even Hayek, it’s evident that these guys were also doing philosophy. Their philosophic substrate is what they built their economics on. And that is fascinating. The line separating positive and normative turned out to be blurrier than I thought.

I still have an engineering mindset, but I try to be more thoughtful about what can be solved by it, and how the scope in which I apply it matters for my happiness and the ones I love.

My objective function is no longer max U.

Some of my favorite episodes are, top of my head, Mary Hirschfel on Aquinas and the market; Agnes Callard, on aspiration; Michael Munger on Desires and Morality; the ones with Zena Hits and Jeniffer Fray, but there are so many more.

Thanks Russ!
This was announced on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2P9celU1M
My favourite prediction of all time (username checks out): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601917
Yet the firmware is locked down and they aggressively pursue and punish people who try to control their own cars... they may be the hacker car company, but overall they are very anti-hacker.
Oh man, this website brings me back to my childhood. I remember in elementary school using this site with my classmates. Good times
Yes you can with proper compression and usual streaming. X is no longer network transparent anyways (everyone uses proper GPU-acceleration with a litany of bitmaps so it’s not as easy as serialize drawing commands)
This is not exactly the common experience of a child in USSR. 99.99% never being to Artek and 99.999% never visited a foreign country. The STEM education was pretty good though.
Not surprising.

The reporting here is National Post, which is essentially the Fox News of Canada. They're trying to attack the Liberal government with this story.