skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've formulated a policy from one anecdote? Homelessness is complex. That is why no single policy can remedy it, because people try to see it or treat it as one-solution-fits-all.

https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness/the-roots-of-the-crisis

http://archive.kuow.org/post/tenants-risk-homelessness-were-...

http://archive.kuow.org/post/community-talk-about-jungle
When pigs fly I'll accept that "when" implies that something will happen.
Have you seen this?
https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/the-githubdev-web-base...
Wouldn't it be simpler to just let Putin pick the winner?
It's not a legal requirement to store all that data in the EU.

Although it might be pragmatic to do so given the last few agreements with the US on this were shot down in court.
More generally with web apps the extraneous browser chrome (some of which carries over into "installed" PWAs, even) is annoying. If web apps are to be treated as true peers to their native desktop counterparts, browserisms like back buttons must be left behind.
You might want to give a try to https://terrastruct.com/
>By definition, if you give someone a home, they are not homeless.

>"Andre lives in an apartment"

>So he's not homeless.

Sounds like "homeless" in this context means "can't be a productive member of society to fund his own living", not literal homelessness.
Erp, sorry, you already dismissed me as "just a jerk" when I gave you a chance to reply. I'd read what you wrote, but I don't want you to regret "engaging" again.
I spent six years in ad tech. I definitely realize that the industry has proven outcomes. My point is that these outcomes are not about what is called "incrementality" in the field, but about attributed clicks/sales (which could very well be a zero-sum game).

And so, if you google-scholar (not google) for "online advertising incrementality", you are left with (granted, excellent) work that shows that nothing has been proven yet and that it is a very hard problem [1].

And when customers of Google, Facebook and other ad tech companies ask them about incrementality, their answer is surprisingly quiet.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3447548.3470819

PS: I don't make any hyped claim that ads don't work. I question this fact in a constructive way.
Author here. Glad to see the blogpost on HN!

CodeMirror improved Replit's performance by a lot and by extension our retention. In fact, after releasing it to mobile in July[1] our weekly retention rate on mobile increased by a whopping 70%. That said, solve a lot of mobile usability issues so it's not all due to performance. On desktop however, it's a different story, we made sure to just have parity with Monaco and it still improved retention by %25, almost all due to performance!

If you like working on performance come work at Replit, we want people that care about the performance of our systems!

Adopting CodeMirror pushed us to write more in a more functional style that makes the code more fun and simple (not easy) in the shortrun, and more maintainable in the long run! My teammates write CodeMirror extensions for kicks and giggles, sometimes they end up releasing some "bret victor shit"[3].

If you like CodeMirror and end up using it in production, try to get your company to fund the project[4] and open-source as much as you can!

[1]: https://blog.replit.com/codemirror-mobile
[2]: https://blog.replit.com/codemirror
[3]: https://blog.replit.com/kaboomdraw
[4]: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/fund/
Fire and motion, Joel Spolsky on struggling with developer productivity (2002)
Not an explanation for my question but sure. I will believe you. I just see the same talking points as RT, which is why I was curious
Researchers reengineer red blood cells to trigger immune system against Covid-19
When you press . on github you _are_ using one of those options--monaco, as built into VS Code's new client/PWA experience.
This one is actually a hit and it’s called a medically induced coma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_coma
There's loads on here that are listed as missed but actually are for real
You’re fighting a losing battle. The issue is the legal / insurance context.

For legal purposes the critical distinction is accident or intentional. “Accident” doesn’t necessarily mean act of god, or unpreventable, it just means it wasn’t intentional.
KVM and containerization are not just "thin management veneers", they enable all sorts of new features.
> A good working library will continue to be a good working library until you break it.

This isn't necessarily true, it depends on what the library is targeting. Sure, you could try to use a libcurl 7.9 from 2001 but there's going to be security bugs abound and it's going to be a pain to send verbs like PUT that some APIs expect. Standards, security concerns and paradigms change over time and can easily break good working libraries that are unmaintained.

However, things like a json parser and writer are relatively stable and don't need many changes over time because of the stability of the format.
As a hobbyist woodworker, it would be interesting to try some of this wood. Have you explored any of the woodworking/utilitarian properties of the wood yet?
The logic being presented here is that the guy selling stolen socks on a street corner should have all the answers?
> The whole MVP process presumes you don’t know what you are making for a product, and that is death.

I don't agree at all with this statement. It's not that you don't know, you know, but you are realistic with the pretentions: you will not go for huge product to hit the market, you want to focus on your best strenght and then grow faster until you complete your idea.
> Customers don't have to be in EU for GDPR to apply, it applies everywhere as long as the data subject is an EU citizen.

I’ve only read articles that said that the GDPR applies to EU residents (not necessarily citizens).
We can fly ultralights without a license. Granted those "vehicles" technically aren't airplanes and generally only result in loss of life to one's self.

"We don't have even the political willpower to take away licenses from obviously unfit seniors"

I believe many states do require a retest after a certain age.

"or making the tests hard enough that way fewer people can get one in the first place"

Fewer, sure. Way fewer, maybe not. I think most people are capable of safely operating a car. I think there would be a large percentage that would just need to put more effort into learning. The way it is now is that people remain ignorant on the subject because they aren't required to study and learn, because licenses are practically given away. Plus, why waste time learning the law if nobody else follows it either?

Tougher licensing isn't (or shouldn't be) primarily about depriving people of licenses, but rather providing forced incentives to learn through testing standards. The standards shouldn't be so high as to prevent most people from driving. If they are then we could change some of the rules or designs to simplify the process, although likely at the expense of rate of flow.
> Avoid giving the initial capacity to the array

This isn’t necessarily right. It’s perfectly fine to do:

Array(n).fill()

Which returns a dense array.
The 'man behind the throne' in these forest dynamics is fungi. Trees can fuse roots with their offspring and sometimes cousins (related species). If fungi and humans disappeared tomorrow some trees would still be mother trees, boosting the metabolism of their neighbors. But most of the water and nutrient transport between trees and the ground in temperate forests (where most of the soil carbon exists) is brokered by fungi, and the carbon they trade it for makes up a lot of that soil carbon.

And when you cut down a tree, more than half of the carbon in that tree stays behind in the ground (although I implore scientists to challenge and test this result further. A few of you and a number of the rest of us think this number is low and these numbers influence climate policy a great deal).

If you're engineering trees for carbon sequestration - for actual carbon sequestration, instead of for profiting off carbon sequestration - you probably need to look at root fusion and fungal symbiosis, rather than trunk volume and canopy size. One is fixing a problem. The other is gaming a system that is trying to save us from destroying ourselves. It's tantamount to wartime profiteering.
tbh i don't buy that unless they have clear statistics. Facebook users upload tons more content , and surely a lot of it non-consensual. Why would porn sites, especially the big ones, care about illegal content, they have tons of content already
>>One thing that Marsh and Pareene get into in their article is the difference between what is actually happening—a lack of congestion allowing people to drive too fast and then crashing their cars—and a much different narrative that’s been appearing in the news.

>>that our roads are inherently dangerous, and congestion has been a major force in keeping the accident rate down

I think this nails the problem. Drivers became dull and unskilled as driving became slower. Split second decisions dwindled, and a minority of drivers lost their split second muscle memory. Now anything beyond mundane stop-and-go traffic causes them to drive beyond their ability. When the roads opened up, they physically couldn't keep the car from crashing into something.
TBH reviewing PRs on VSCode's Pull Request extension works pretty well for me.
I agree it is a bit slow but I get to see the changes with all my keybindings, themes and other tweaks, this just makes the experience better IMO.
I'm not sure if the grandparent was thinking of this, but I have lived places where the city collected compost on the same days as the trash and recycling - there was just an extra bin that you could throw food scraps and yard waste and whatnot into, and then the city managed it from there.

I think they also let you come get some soil back for your garden or whatnot if you wanted to.

It seemed like a good way to handle things.
> ... as the median age driver cohort benefitting from that becomes larger

There's already a lot of benefits "in the pipeline" that take decades to fully manifest. For example, Ontario introduced the current graduated licensing scheme in 1994 [0], but that means there are still millions of increasingly older drivers on the road who were never required to pass the G2 and G tests that anyone under 40 has.

Overall, it's just absurd that driver's licenses don't require a retest every 5-10 years, but that kind of change would obviously a much harder sell to the public than giving them a pass to blame the reckless youth with one hand, and a pull-up-the-ladder type fix to the problem with the other.

[0] https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4762414-ontario-s-2...
That's true. Even more obvious aggression - Russia invaded Finland few weeks later on 30 November, 1939 even though Finland was a neutral country and to these days trying to be neutral country (is not part of NATO)
the UK unfortunately only seems to provide long term sickness support, which is a slim weekly allowance. they don't hesitate to take away 33% off gross salary in tax and other contributions, but no safety net.
> I just got a call from the Microsoft Security Team.

They used to call be, but they said they were from 'The Windows'. I tried to get them to play Zork, but they weren't very interested, and it took me a little too long to get it started anyway.
Is this the first step to killing GCP?
It's not like Europeans haven't also been speeding like crazy.

I think one factor is that in Europe cars are generally equipped with brakes, tires and suspension with a much bigger margin of safety for high speed operation. One of the biggest car markets in Europe is the one with a lot of unrestricted Autobahn. And worse yet, many US states don't even have regular technical inspections, so you get away with more deferred maintenance. When you're stuck in 55 mph land, a car can get pretty dilapidated and still mostly hold together, but once you subject it to high speeds and high braking and cornering loads the risk of catastrophic failure skyrockets.
The article might be quite old (I myself barely identify the microsoft tech stack he is referring to), but his description of the struggle with productivity is still spot on. I read this from time to time to not feel bad about myself for struggling with not being productive.
Who are "we" and what is the "current narrative"? I'm afraid you'll have to elaborate, I'm a bit of a luddite.

If you'd like to discuss any problems with widespread vegetarianism in India, which again, includes hundreds of millions of people, then I'm happy to continue this discussion.
I understand what you're saying and I certainly wouldn't want to be a decision-maker in India in 2022.

That said, Russia now seems to have a capricious and unstable leader. Gas prices are bad but the choice is either to stomach the high prices now or wait until Russia rips the band-aid off later for you at their own leisure.
Trees‘ natural purpose isn’t to sequester as much CO2 as possible either.
A solution has to be possible for it to be a viable solution. There is no way the world's population is just going to decide to live an ascetic life suddenly, and there is no world organization nor will to force that to happen. Not only that, but I don't want to live in a world where we have to sacrifice the gains we have made in living conditions just to survive. We need to use our innovative powers to come up with a way we can continue to progress while maintaining the livability of our planet.
> We have significant segments of the population for whom their choice of car is tied into their identity and ego.

And that identity is in many cases pathological. It’s amazing how irresponsible our culture is about this. Practically every car commercial depicts a driver doing something in an urban area that is not only plainly illegal, but extremely negligent and dangerous. This is how they market and sell the cars. And then the young men who buy them are told never to exceed the speed limit. Give me a break.

We are selling machines designed to break the law using marketing that emphasizes their law-breaking properties to people who with total certainty will use them to break the law.

It’s honestly wild.
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. KVM and containers are the technology. The "new" stuff I'm talking about are thin management veneers over these features.
And would that stop other people from stealing in the future? What's the return on investment for sending someone to jail over diapers stolen from a Walgreens?
We're all human :-)
Seems like a great time to discount some equivalent fees by a token amount, even if only 1%
We are sending M. Sativa (alfalfa, lucerne) into space this October in our 10th plant mission in microgravity under a global education project with UN and others called “carbon farmer”.

Stressors in microgravity could shed clues on optimization for a changing climate and off-world production.

Post flight research (tomography, electron microscopy, single cell transcriptomics) is being done at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Joint Genomics Institute. HTTPS://magnitude.io
No one has a crystal ball, but here's the industry road map: https://irds.ieee.org/editions/2021 (start with executive summary).

TL;DR: things get really murky after a notional 2.1nm generation. Past that we'll need a new generation of EUV sources, advancements in materials, etc, that AFAIK are still quite far from certain (but I am not an expert on this stuff by any means).

I personally think we're headed to a stall for a while where innovation will focus mostly on larger packaging/aggregation structures. Chiplets and related are definitely here to stay. DRAM is moving in package. Startups are playing around with ideas like wafer scale multiprocessors or ssds. I think clever combinations of engineering at this level will keep us with momentum for a while.
Same here. Batch programming was life if you wanted to play some games by Origin Systems. It was a chore. Klik n Play was delightful.

Afterward I was able to get back to text coding and make a career of it.
The same thing was assumed right before the first world war. Back then we also had globalization. It didn’t prevent the war and globalization didn’t return until after the second world war.
I've been looking into this for my app. There's a lot of outdated or misinformed opinions out there (any info from before Schrems II in July 2020 should be ignored), but here's what I've concluded:

At this time, it looks like it's probably not legal to routinely store European data in the US under GDPR. There are limited exceptions (see below), but I don't think you can just host everything in the US.

GDPR requires you to only transfer (i.e., hosting, also viewing) European data to places with GDPR-equivalent data rights. Initially, the US qualified under Safe Harbor, but that was invalidated with the Schrems I ruling. Then the US qualified under Privacy Shield, but that was invalidated in Schrems II.

The guidance from the European Data Protection Board following Schrems II is more or less this:

- You may transfer data to the a country not officially recognized as GDPR-compliant (a "third country") if the transfer is necessary to do what your customers asked you to do. But only if the transfer is occasional, and objectively necessary.

- You can transfer if the user gives you consent, but consent can only be granted for specific transfers. You can't ask for perpetual consent to host everything in the US. Consent must also be explicit (an obvious, opt-in checkbox, not a EULA), and the user must be informed about the risks of sending data to America.

- Transfers under SCCs & BCRs are still valid in principle, but only if you confirm the destination country has GDPR-equivalent data rights. If they don't (which America doesn't right now), you can transfer only if you take measures to counter the risk of government interference, and only if the government can't subvert those measures (including by court order). Schrems II is also widely interpreted as forbidding "sign & forget" - you can't delegate your responsibility to certify the safety customer data to your cloud vendors.

EDPB FAQ on Schrems II: https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/file1/20200...

Article describing the impact of Schrems II: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=86e3448e-2f32...
That's up to Andre. If he makes better choices in his life he may stop selling stuff on the street corner.
>The Matrix network its self is still, as far as I know, still primarily exists within the official homeserver, which has the most users by far.

It is true that there are many users on the matrix.org homeserver, however I recall a claim from user?id=Arathorn (lead dev) that less than 30% of users actually use that homeserver, so I am skeptical that such a thing would have as heavy an impact as you feel it may. Regardless, as the developers of the Matrix protocol and most popular implementations, they sure do have a lot of power to steer how users will interact with it all in the future.
So don't. It's not for everyone. Apparently it's not for you. That's okay. Some of the "people on top of people" like cities better.
If you are on the big cloud providers, can't you consider flipping the problem and move ALL your data to the EU and apply all the requirements to all users as if they are ALL protected by European law?

You will have a one-time cost to migrate things, and depend on how many customers you have it may require you to add some automation to your systems (e.g, for the cases where a customer requests to get a copy of all their data, or to delete all the stored PII), but speaking as someone who had to deal with this in two different projects, I still think that taking this route was easier than trying to special-case everything based on user-specific citizenship.
Yeah when I was on Republic Wireless I'd sometimes get calls from people who had called the "secret" number because it had been recycled. I used to get calls from the county clerk's office reminding me of my upcoming court dates and probation appointments. I called them back and said you must have a wrong number, they checked and of course had no record of my phone number on any of their records and could not understand why I was getting these calls, nor could they figure out who should have been getting them. Later I realized that someone must have had that "secret" number recently and it had been recycled into Republic's pool.
Graphite – open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor written in Rust
Great idea!

Local area number but traceroute to a call center in India? Automatically reject.

That'll also solve the issue of unusable corporate phone support because they outsourced it to save a few bucks.
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npx to the rescue
"And worse yet, many US states don't even have regular technical inspections, so you get away with more deferred maintenance."

US inspections are generally a joke (compared to Europe). There's not even a statistically significant difference in accidents caused by mechanical issues between states with inspections and those without.

The vast majority of accidents are driver error.
He'd been homeless on and off since he was 14. The vast majority of his life he was not being given a free place to stay. Do you think if, at 14, had he not ever experienced homelessness, that he might be a more productive member of society?

Yes, for some people it's too late for "just" a free place to live to solve their problems. But I think it will absolutely make a difference for people on the brink, families, and future generations.

No one is going to solve homelessness in a generation. The damage it does to people is so significant. But we should work to assure that people like Andre never exist to begin with.

You say that delis should hire them. Do you expect delis to hire homeless people? Who can't shower? Who have no address? A home is a critical step to getting hired. It doesn't mean you'll suddenly get a job and be productive, but without it you're absolutely fucked.

Yes, we should give everyone housing. We should also pay them to go to school, give them free health care, etc, so that they have the opportunity to actually move forward.
This is a bit fantastical.

Splitting up operations from a single data centre (vast majority of situations) is quite costly and adds a lot of complexity.

'You can advertise to your customers' - except that nobody really cares that much, or at least care enough to the point it makes a difference in terms of purchasing behaviour. I mean - everyone would 'like to know that their data is local' but that does not translate into purchasing behaviour or pricing intent in most cases.

Aside from 'real costs' of doing such a thing, opportunity costs are always high. There are always '10 critical things' to work on right now, who has an extra team of Engineers to work on 'maybe it will be useful someday features?'.

Finally - it's not a hugely helpful exercise in the end: it doesn't mater that-that much 'where' the data is.

People want to know that their data is protected and that's that. So just do that, which everyone should do.
He is the kind of person who would have been homeless were it not for a government program. Many people assume the problems associated with homelessness (e.g. crime) will go away if you give people free housing and other social support.

Andre is evidence that simply giving people what they need is not enough to stop criminal behavior.