skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Using a Taxi or a furniture moving company does not require you to own a car. That's the point of those services. But nobody describes those things as "no-car".

If you said "I'm carless" and I disagreed because you'd moved house or used a taxi, you'd think I was being a little odd.

These terms make much more sense to me because they describe what I care about. You pay someone to get you from A to B. They do so in a car, but it wouldn't matter if you sat in the same seat with the same experience but was on a bus, or the car-shaped box you were in was actually sitting on a train moving you along. That's a detail you don't care about.

I want to run code. I don't care if it's my server, a shared one, it moves from server to server or starts and stops on demand. I don't care about the server. I don't want to care about the server part.

I get the annoyance, but I think they're useful.
> Most of people through most of history would not have consciously known there were atoms of writing smaller than a single letter.

Most kids today who learn to write learn to write the Latin alphabet learn by tracing individual strokes or “atoms” as you put them. Minimizing strokes introduces cursive.

Stepping back into history, there’s a lot of overlap between how you would carve letters into a clay tablet/stone and how a seven segment display works. So that’s a fun parallel.
Yes, for perspective relatively modest 3 bedroom houses in London are going up in price, every month, by more than the average person in the UK as a whole takes home.

You can be in the top 1% by income in London and still simply not be able to afford a small family home.

Home equity wealth inequality in crippling.
US infrastructure is focused around cars. People don't walk much because cities are spread out for wide roads meant for cars, highways, and parking lots. That makes the distances less walkable. Bikes don't have safe dedicated lanes in many places. Many cities eschew trains because they would rather put another lane on a road because of traffic jams. However, because of induced demand, and the infrastructure forcing everyone into cars, the traffic jams happen anyway.

So it's a cycle that makes cities ever more built around cars. We need more trains, light rail, subways. As those become more entrenched, the city reshapes itself around them. Train stops become areas of development, which brings more things closer to people without needing cars.
it is already nationalised: it's a state owned company

the only shareholder is the secretary of state for business, energy and industry (which you can see in its accounts)
> There is no real connection between land and living space - multiple story housing exists, and if housing was built to a reasonable density, there's more than enough land for everybody to live in whatever size house they could afford to build.

All land does not have the same or even similar perceived utility to all people. Some land is has much more demand relative to supply than other land.
"Whipping cream" or "Heavy cream" would be common english terms for a >35% fat cream. Both of which can be turned into "whipped cream" by whipping. But that's not recommended if the goal is to use it as a drink.
Many times because I get ideas for side projects, first register a domain and then a year later it has to renew. I probably forgot about the project already. Did that for over 20 years. I sell the ones that I don’t use. And it is simple to do; in Sedo or one of the many registrars, it is almost automatic.
We do know for a fact that central planning doesn’t work. To the extent that fringe economists disagree is to the extent that academics with ideological bends will disagree about all sorts of stuff for no good reason.

Both public utility regulations and health economics are less about price controls and more about regulation and/or government buyer power.
I'm pretty sure a lot have a life insurance which put a part of the money on the financial market
Not really. Every other country handles this by creating a solid military.
Microsoft was very obviously paying for such "organic" advertising on reddit when windows10 came around.
>I would like to see a lot more of this.

The problem is, it doesn't scale, especially in a city as big and violent as Chicago. It only works so long as police keep their foot on the gas (so to speak); they minute they let up on traffic enforcement (because of competing priorities) things will get worse again.

If one person speeds, that person is an idiot. But if everyone speeds, the road engineer is an idiot. A systemic problem like this is a result of poor road design, not individual deviant drivers. Police should not be burdened with the responsibility of ensuring safety in a system that is unsafe by design. The roads need to be redesigned so that drivers naturally feel unsafe at high speed.
Rosegarden (1.7kb): Cross browser Promise based WebExtension development
Rosegarden gives you the promises for writing cross platform webextensions on Chrome and other browsers missing the promise based API.

## Rationale

I know Mozilla provides webextension-polyfill, but I find even that too complicated.

With my Spellbook bookmark browser extension I promisified the required callback based methods from Chrome API and checked the chrome.runtime.lastError. Eventually I promisified the whole API, while planning on writing another cross platform browser extension.

I have used only bookmarks and tabs APIs, so beware when using other APIs, in case they differ between Firefox and Chrome.

## Usage

import { browser } from 'rosegarden'

Then just use that browser object as you would use the Mozilla's promise based WebExtension API!

It just gives the global object on Firefox, but on Chrome it gives a promisified version of the chrome global object. The browser object has chrome as prototype, so everything should work as expected as long as the APIs work in a similar way.
Everytime I see one of these projects I get tempted to build one, but then quickly realize I would never actually use it. I would love to have a use case for it / excuse to build it though.

People that have something like this: what do you do with it?
Which doesn't need any cooling. But to be fair I expect the screen to be worse than any component. Maybe not as much as the CPU at times which has a higher frequency than it should.
One thing mentioned in the article that rings very true is that vehicles are getting bigger. It’s not unusual to see trucks where the front grill is too high to see a child, or even some adults. We have the statistics to know that these vehicles are disproportionately likely to kill pedestrians, but vehicles sell based on the safety of people inside the vehicle, not people outside of it.

It’s a vicious circle, too. If everyone else has an SUV, you also want an SUV so you’re not crushed by one in a crash.
The developers in question probably don't even work for Fujitsu. They probably work outside the UK, in the software equivalent of a sweatshop, and spend most of their time copy-pasting from Stack Overflow and writing the kind of incoherent GitHub issue comments that every maintainer of a high-profile OSS project has to deal with these days. They provide the single-digit-dollars-per-hour code output, and Fujitsu makes sure the requirements are vague enough that they can meet them with the resulting dumpster fire, and this is the result.
> Separately, it would be nice if we had more sidewalks, but they are financially unsustainable in low density areas.

What makes sidewalks expensive to maintain, relative to roads?

> the biggest issue by far is dietary sugar/carbohydrates

This is not clear. See this highly fascinating series on the obesity epidemic: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p.... Other suspects are HFCS and seed oils.
There was a time when people ditched their perfectly fine 8 bit LUT based graphic cards and computers for 24 bit true color ones. It made life much easier for developers. All the effort to manage a color palette within a program, and to try to do something reasonable to support more than one program on the screen at a time just went away, not to mention the choices around dithering algorithms. It was glorious.

Roughly speaking, we’ve had 25 years to get sub pixel vector glyph rendering right, and it still is consistently wrong in many places.

It is a clever hack whose time has come and gone, I will not miss:

- fails miserably if you rotate your screen.

- only works for horizontal text. Anything rendered at differently angles looks different.

- forces a different spatial resolution for brightness and color, in one axis but not the other.

- sensitive to the monitor’s physical subpixel layout. You really can’t rely on an end user to tell you the right answer after they plug in a monitor.

- color fringing is a thing, more so for people with better eyesight. Some people see it, some don’t.

- difficult to reconcile with high dpi printing to make sure what you see on the screen approximates what you are going to get.

- it’s hard to know if the person you send this too will see the same thing you do. Different platforms, renderer, and hardware means they may see something differently.

So, it was pretty good for horizontal text on a monitor where you knew the subpixel pixel order and you got everything right so it approximated the eventual printed output. But its time has passed.

Hand down that monitor to someone’s video game or media watching needs and if you deal with text, get a high dpi monitor.
As of now? I don't think so. But I did that math back in 2001 or 2002, way before Tesla was publicly traded.
Mirror mirror of the paywall, it's the archive of them all.
It's pretty sad pedestrian deaths were lower pre-pandemic because cars were stuck in traffic and couldn't go fast enough to be letal
Many words are ambiguous: football, hockey, surfing...
That’s a circular explanation. The iPad isn’t suitable for programming because it isn’t suitable for programming. The limitation is completely arbitrary because Apple thinks they can tell users what they should use their devices for. It’s “Your holding it wrong” applied to software.
"two years for tweeting a picture of the bible"

That's a bit of a oversimplification. What she was prosecuted (not convicted) on was definitely not a just a simple picture of the bible. Besides, that's only one of the charges. Other charges come from the times she implied homosexuality to be a genetic degeneration and later on called homosexuality a disorder.

Also, two years of jail is the maximum for that type of crime. IF she is found guilty, she will almost definitely get some relatively small fine.

It's understandable the christian folks want to paint this whole case as just "two years for tweeting a picture of a bible". But it's much more nuanced than that. Additionally the trial is still ongoing and it's very much unclear what the outcome will be. And this case is still handled in district court, I highly doubt it stays on that level. There's a lot of analysis and comments of the trials in the newspapers, but they are all in Finnish. I found this one in English that explains the case a bit better than "two years for tweeting a picture of the bible". https://yle.fi/news/3-12284380
> as there’s also no definitive resource for a newcomer on what has changed that would make older documentation inaccurate.

The two pages you want are:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/50-to...
and
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/50-to...

Both should cover the majority of scenarios. The main takeaway is that everything you usually configure in `ConfigureServices` now hangs off `builder.Services`, and everything you'd configure in the middleware pipeline `Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)` is available after you call `var app = builder.Build();`.

I'll note that the change to the Minimal API was only in the project templates, so the old model does continue to work without any breaking changes.
you could also run Win 9x through Dosbox on Android although again not very well.
Looks like something closer to Solaris Zones (or maybe AIX WPAR?), definitely interesting addition to resource management building block of the journey!
Pretty much. That is what happened every time other people have been given access.

We're in the middle of a whole bunch of cases of policemen being sacked or charged here for asking our underage girls on dates, keeping and sharing nudes from crime victims phones etc.

And remember: if someone is lying about why they're doing something that's further evidence it's not something you want. If they had a good reason, they'd be up front about it...
Find what JavaScript variables are leaking into the global scope
So if I'm renting a dedicated server just like I'd be renting a taxi, am I also "serverless"?
I don't know if such rendering is commonplace, but I know for sure that imageworsener handles this correctly for downscaling images. Check out the option `-offsetrb 1/3`.

https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/subpixel/
TCL associative arrays are hash maps that have to be global. They are definitely one of the worst part of the language.

Most people use dicts on modern TCL instead.
> But the other lens to apply here is “how at risk am I of never talking to this person again if I don’t manage to say something, however simple, at least <once a year>?” There may be folks in your life with whom your relationship is threatened if you don’t consciously make an effort, or if you don’t have a system like this to help you.

But do you really need to build a system to talk to people once a year? Just reviewing your contact list on Christmas is going to achieve the same thing, and I bet it doesn't give off as weird vibes.

Another issue is that, if after 20 years, you've only managed to contact people once a year, I don't think any system is going to save that relationship.
This is amazing! Thanks so much for writing it out. It's so good to read about the same story from a different perspective. I'm only going to respond to one theme in it, I hope that doesn't come across as me not appreciating or not agreeing with what you wrote.

Docker's core innovation from a _technical_ perspective may well be packaging, but I think that really misrepresents the history. Docker, like Heroku, made ordinary developers powerful. It did that through _culture_, by speaking the right language, by knowing what developers want and what they're capable of doing.

I want to talk about Jeff Lindsay[1], the co-author of Docker. He's a prolific open source contributor, a vocal critic of VC funding (and I suspect HN) and passionate advocate of the basic building blocks of software. He created Dokku, introduced Alpine Linux to Docker, founded Flynn, and Glider Labs which innovated things like service discovery and distributed logging in Docker.

Jeff lives and breathes hacker culture. His hallmark is written all over Docker: embrace open source, provide basic building blocks and encourage innovation. He's one of us, a hacker, he builds things for the sheer joy of it. It's obvious he's not in it for the big enterprise money. I mean he's not even it for the reputation, hardly anybody knows his name, everyone just thinks Solomon Hykes created Docker.

These are the people that need to be mentioned in the story, in that documentary. The people that put things into the world, because the world needed them. I don't know the name of the person that came up with The 12 Factors, so it's the same thing, someone knew that the world needed them and just gave them to us.

Of course the story of Omega and Borg is crucial, but they were always motivated by the private interests of an unimaginably large corporation, a corporation that removed its own "Do No Evil" aspiration. Jeff Lindsay has a power that Google doesn't have, the love of software for software's sake. That is a critical part of why we have Docker, and why it became so popular. And Docker's open source status and developer community is an inescapable basis for the world which Kubernetes now rules over.

1. https://dev.to/progrium/hi-im-jeff-lindsay
"No code" isn't so strange I think. If you use a graphical tool instead if typing code, you don't need to handle/write/compile code. So from the perspective of the person creating the logic, there is "no code".

"Serverless" on the other hand I didn't quite understand. There are no fewer servers involved with serverless than there is with any other setup.
Traffic circles / roundabouts would go a long way.
For what's it's worth, VR porn is absolutely amazing.

Interestingly enough that's rarely brought up.

To me that is success. VR games are great deal of fun too and provide novel experiences.
companies more so than the tech, I do Java in the banking space and its the same story.
Some people just have no chill. During the second last year of my bachelor's my best friend at the time found out he had stage 4 liver cancer and was termial. Rapidly declined in state over the course of a few months and ended up in palliative care. So of course I started dropping the ball, skipped classes and labs and such to chill with the guy cuz he was boutta die. Ofc I was massively depressed about it and was late with assignments. Eventually I ended up in the Dept chair's office and I told him the situation. This man told me to drop out or go on leave if I couldn't handle it. There was no way I was doing either because I didn't want to, I couldn't afford to, and I was completely capable still, just needed some accomodation w.r.t timing tests and assignments, which this guy refused to do. So he told me to submit doctors notes and gtfo. Fast forward a few months I'm in the dean's office getting reamed out for submitting too many doctors notes (4) in one term. So I explained my situation and prev conversation with the chair and there was absolutely zero sympathy to be had. I was to immediately stop with the doctors notes or else face discipline. So that's how I ended up at a funeral with a shitty GPA. My misfortunes didn't end there but neither did the assholes stop being assholes.
Arguably its inherent complexity given that it's further toward bare infrastructure from them, just from supporting other languages.
>No one you know has been sent to prison over TV licences.

Nobody ever gets sent to prison for not having a TV licence. It is not an imprisonable offence.

People occasionally get sent to prison for refusing to pay the court-ordered fine that they get for not having a TV licence, but that's a different thing all together.
The difference in definition is partly whether you define based on what it is or on what it does for you. Serverless doesn’t make sense in the “is” description as you note but makes sense in the “function” description (managing the server is not your responsibility).

Marketing terms often focuses on the function aspect to do sales. The serverless seems fair, I don’t think no code has followed through on its promises.
Well, that's my point. Putting someone in the "once a year" category means you're putting them in the path for that relationship to disappear without actually doing anything to try to fix it. Like you're in a car going towards a cliff, and you're not accelerating but you're not pressing the brake either.
(For those unfamiliar with Japanese pronunciation, this is pronounced like the English "pencase".)
Where is the land mentioned? Is there no land registry there? In many jurisdictions, titles to land are registered through a government operated registry where would-be buyers could look up information on the situation of the land rights.

AFAIK you don't need to be a title company to do this, any buyer could do it themselves.

And what if you don't know enough about land law to make sense of everything? That's when you need companies to do it for you.

Is checking the chain of ownership of cryptocurrencies easier than land? It depends whether you're talking to a real estate lawyer or a NFT seller.

I'm neither, and I don't see the intrinsic difference.
I would disagree. For example, suppose we enforced XHTML. Even though it's a mostly dead standard that was never very popular, there are plenty of free and very functional validators around. You don't need to be a multi-billion dollar company to close your tags.

Similarly for JS, strict mode did not ruin the internet. Sure, there is a lot of old JS code around that may or may not run in strict mode. That is not because it is any harder to write correct JS in strict mode than it is in "sloppy" mode, but the "robustness principle" has just burdened us with a lot of legacy crap that wouldn't otherwise exist. I would argue that the web would be better if JS had been strict from the start.
No, in English this is a very common phrasing in some sports.

For instance, major running events typically have an “elite” start vs the mass start for non-elites. And elite is the exact word used.
There is a lot of interest in the stock market currently. Individual investors (‘retail’) have been buying a lot of stocks in the last 12 months.

Some would say this is typical behaviour before a crash. Business people become folk heroes (Musk) and the news is all about stocks and macroeconomics.
Oh thank you! With all respect to the OP reading the article just tingled my curiosity without satisfying it.
I sold a domain name a few years back riding the .xyz buzz. In my case, an individual reached out to me via a GoDaddy domain broker. Not a large sum, but they overpaid, at least 10x the actual value. It was an easy decision to sell and was a simple process to transfer the domain.
It’s possible. It’ll take another decade of Guy Spier and friends underperforming for me to be convinced of it.
Who's your target persona?
Renting a dedicated server is more like leasing a car. You directly manage the car and care very much about its condition.
Isso parece simples e amigável à privacidade
Classifying games like the Prisoner's Dilemma
Here's kind of a weird hypothesis worth at least considering:

Record pricing for used cars suggests that there's a car shortage.

Ironically, less cars and less driving could lead to

1. Faster driving because of clearer roads, and

2. More walking.

Combine those and it wouldn't be surprising to get more auto-pedestrian accidents.

One test would be to compare changes to car accidents with changes to pedestrian accidents. Reckless driving should bring both up. More pedestrians should only bring the latter up.
> If there were friends, he'd not need to be reminded of contacting them.

That sounds rather strong. It's not unusual to keep a Christmas card list, which is pretty much the same idea.

Personally I don't see a problem unless it's automatically sending messages giving the impression they're not automated. The blog post makes it clear that all the messages he sends are written by him, the system only prompts him to write+send them. I don't see an issue in using a system to send reminders.

Incidentally this topic has been discussed before in a thread 7 months back. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27643328
Since Android uses the Linux kernel, if you have full access to the device, you can already generally sideload a distribution of your choice onto the filesystem. The Linux userspace can run and coexist alongside the Android userspace. Though some applications may require kernel features which are not enabled in typical Android kernels, GPL forces manufacturers to release the kernel source code, which makes it fairly easy to enable more features and use that kernel.

The advantage of this approach over running Linux in a sandbox / VM is that you can administer your Android device from the Linux side, which means that you can use your existing backup strategy or other automation tools. With a USB/bluetooth keyboard, it can also work as a small PC in your pocket.
Django is a web app framework. Did you mean to compare ASP.NET do Django? Or .NET to Python?
My website has no banner, and is completely legal. I just use cookies for what they were meant for: As login cookie and to store preferences such as dark mode.

It’s not the EU law that’s broken. It’s intentional that if you want to sell someone’s firstborn you need actual approval and not a clause hidden in the ToS