skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a child, my cat found a baby flying squirrel in the grass. The vet speculated that, due to its very small size, it had been kicked from the nest. The cat was very upset about the whole thing and alerted us to the situation (part Siamese, she had a particular cry which meant "There is a Problem and you must come handle the Problem!"), which ended with us raising him. I was definitely the preferred spot for the flying squirrel: hiding in my hair, my shirt or shirt pocket, and so on. If the cage was open and I was home, he was on me.

I had to get used to him just landing on me out of nowhere because, well, flying squirrel.
> incentivized to fight back against anything that would cause their home values to drop

That they perceive will cause their home values to drop. In reality, they use "home value" as a proxy for "my happiness" and tend to block things they don't like, without really considering the impact on prices.

In very large cities, your SFH is worth a shitload more if someone can put an multi-tenant unit down on it. We still see the odd SFH or diner in NYC, which is now worth bajillions of dollars because the city was allowed to grow to be so dense.

Increasing density is pro home values. Anyone fighting against it is absolutely leaving money on the table. They just don't realize it.
> What a complicated process, all just to express your hatred.

Since when is a downvote equivalent to hate?
So does everyone else. Only self-hosted gives you the ability to ignore DMCA takedowns because the same entity is taking liability for either not following a dmca or performing the actual copyright infringement.
"Dislike" doesn't mean hate, personally I've only downvoted YouTube videos when they were badly made, or badly presented to the extent that almost any other video on the topic would be better.

It's not about hate, it's a signal that the video is probably going to be a waste of time for the watcher.
> I think modern web browsers implement ctrl-+ and ctrl-- the same way, except X11 apps kept separate directories of icons rendered for different DPIs, because 1GHz single core still seemed luxurious. Web browsers scale the bitmaps using some reasonable algorithm. Other than that, arbitrary zooms work with zero blur.

Web browsers scale bitmats if no other version is available but you can provide different bitmaps for different pixel ratios to avoid any blurryness [0]. Resolution independence is one thing that the modern web stack gets right - even 1-pixel borders/lines and space between elements generally works as expected for different scales.

Of couse *mobile* browsers made the IMO stupid decision of only activating these scaling features when you add a special tag to your HTML header.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimed...
I am almost the age of your dad and I have been a professional software engineer since 1986. In the first years I worked with Pascal (VAX-Pascal and Turbo-Pascal.) From 1990, I mostly used C and C++. The last two years I have been working with C#. Now that I am getting a bit older, I noticed that it takes me more time to get know a developing environment and all the libraries/packages that go with it. It is a big leap from knowing how to develop an excel sheet to, for example, develop a website with a database backend. I am always happy to have younger colleagues who are good at setting-up a development environment. Also being an efficient software developer is much more than knowing how to program.
I'm currently reading Suburban Nation by Duany et al, and they talk about this exact thing - how the most desirable neighborhoods in old US cities like Boston or Washington are the old, dense, mixed-use parts of town. The book is twenty years old but it is still a good introduction to some of the problems of American-style suburbia.
At the extreme: Keemstar has long been banned from Youtube, but remained prominent through DramaAlert which is not technically his channel.
I hope this is the direction we see, but going from offices/commercial to residential is a much heavier lift than just zoning. Like, just consider the plumbing situation in a reasonably large office building. People living there will require more significant renovations than just putting up new walls. It is fixable, but it isn't cheap, and because it isn't cheap, "will it happen" gets some question marks.
Who are these people who can't accept that anyone wants to work from an office? If there are so many of them, can we see some examples?

Office work is not just about the commute, it is also about terrible work conditions where you may be seated in an open space shared by support, engineers, sales, etc.

"So many people can't accept that ANYONE is more productive in a remote setting".

This "us vs them" discourse is so childish. Just find the company that works the way you want, either all in office, or hybrid, or all distributed and move on.
Surely if it's the case that rent will always absorb any increase in wealth then that is a housing problem, not a wage problem.
I've been more aware of title changes lately, but I don't know if the frequency has increased. Some of them have been egregious. I'm a fan of changes like this one, though. I can't stand clickbait titles like this article has.
So (honest question), you think people doing remote-friendly jobs are in dense urban areas and don't contribute to car emission much ? so when these guys relocate far away, they're going to switch from public transportation to car ?
>Yes. The past is immutable. The point I am making is that the perception of the past is mutable.

Much of history is not so much about the facts, which are generally fairly agreed upon and not so much rewritten, but on the narratives.

For instance there is a war: the narratives are about which side is an aggressor or legitimate, and whether some actors are independent or malicious proxies.

Facts are then presented in a way to reinforce the narratives, affecting their perception, and thus closing the circle.

This is mostly the same issue with current news reporting.
1. Commute is a nice way to get some alone time and unwind after work (admittedly, I wouldn't mind a shorter one though, say 15 min)

2. At home there are many more distractions (kids)

3. At work there are nice people to talk to/interact with

4. Getting lunch with coworkers is a nice way to bond and discuss ideas

5. All my friends moved away during the pandemic, and an office is a good way to make new friends

6. IME, meeting in person leads to friendlier interactions, whereas virtual interactions tend to be more hostile

7. The separation of home/office life makes it easier to focus
Also, the effect this would have on reducing rent and cost of living.
SoftBank Is Seeking at Least $60B in Arm IPO
OK so it's 4chan with extra steps? :)
I don’t mind coming into the office, as needed. What I do mind is being required to be someplace daily to assuage the ego of of some C-suite stuffed suit.
With respect to contributing to documentation, it sounds like at least a few "Big Tech" companies do contribute some funding for MDN content:

"Open Web Docs receives donations from companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Coil and others, and from private individuals. These donations pay for Technical Writing staff and help finance Open Web Docs projects. None of the donations that Open Web Docs receive go to MDN or Mozilla; rather they pay for a team of writers to contribute to MDN."

via https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/mozilla-and-open-web-docs-...
Discord was also pretty bad under Rosetta. Last I checked the Canary version was built for Apple Silicon and ran much better, though I'm not sure if that's made it to the stable release yet.
Hello!

You do have a point about majority of opinion not necessarily being the truth.

The way we see this is, when someone looks for feedback or needs to make a decision, having a diverse pool of unbiased information increases the chances of having a better understanding of the truth. Thus potentially making a petter decision.

As for Sybil attacks, it will be virtually impossible to influence and target a particular question as each user is not open to choose which question to match. Throw does the thrower/catchers matching using a dynamic algorithm with many variables to determine the best matches. So we are expecting certain users to try to use several accounts to try to go around the system and we’re prepared for that.

I really appreciate your candid feedback and am really hoping you love it once it’s out there!
Most people who are commuting for jobs in the service industry in the US likely live within 15 minutes of their job, though. Most of them have cars by necessity, and they don't have that kind of money to blow on fuel.
Yeah exactly. If they signed a multi-year lease, they are still on the hook for the same amount of money but the space won't be used. It might feel bad but it was already budgeted for.
The vast vast majority of people don't have 2 hour commutes. This is pretty much an LA or NYC thing. There are other cities in the US and none of them require insane commutes like this.

My drive to work is 7 minutes, I live in a suburban neighborhood. I don't work in the office because there's no need for it.
If you want a really strong Object-Pascal -> JavaScript transpiler, you want TMS WebCore: https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmswebcorevsc.asp
Oh wow, I just assumed it was made by a guy called Vance.
What’s the real reason? Seems like you don’t want to do it.
I dont think we should allow sexual assault or any assualt or anything bad anywhere ever.

Unfortunately like most things our desires eclipse our capabilities and/or resources.
Agreed.

If you haven’t, it sounds like this is a topic you’re into and i would recommend that you read “The Power Broker”. It’s a summer read (as in June-September), but is a uniquely awesome book.
> As far as I can tell, barring some very special circumstances, individuals never need to keep such records.

This is blatantly false. Unless paying taxes is a "very special circumstance."

People don't want these records at hand purely for their own amusement, which seems to be the assumption you're operating under here.
well, commomark was just an example of the technical choices not explained, but for the sake of discussion let's focus on this single one:

actually commonmark has enough problems (already pointed out by others - see [1] and indirectly the flourishing of sub versions) and in good substance is unambiguous, it seems to me that they are not known by the author given the choice

> It's pleasant to write; it's readable even when[...]

very debatable, I could as an example rebut that in a lot of keyboards literally lack the characters for some tag, but the point is that once again here we're trying to merge a content with its representation and it's an outdated approach (heck, even on html5 there's css that would serve to separate text from layout) and potentially a can of worms!

> As for the protocol/communication parts, it's just good ol' HTTP. Refer to an HTTP tutorial or spec if you're not yet familiar with it.

(beyond the tone used and the slight arrogance in assuming that i don't know what an http connection is - but maybe it's just my interpretation due to the language barrier), in practice this "kyuweb" is reduced to be an additional layer on top of what is already there? but shouldn't it be simple? in order to have a kyuweb browser do i have to have first a classic working browser that also sends custom header tags? and on the other side do i have to have custom classic web servers that also respond in this subformat? and if the server sends me mixed content? what should the browser do?

but at this point why not use HTTP/1.0 and serve plain markdown, without building additional layers?

if these remarks seem stupid, I still repeat that they are all addressed on gemini (even though the answers may not please everyone)

[1] https://github.github.com/gfm/#why-is-a-spec-needed-
"Dead" barely even begins to describe the horror of passing the event horizon of a black hole - essentially every particle of your body that gets closer to the center becomes unable to ever, in any possible future, communicate back to the parts that are farther away (according to the GR understanding, which to be fair is not consistent with what we know of QM).
I remember last fall (when I got an M1 MBP for the first time, but the chip itself had been out for a year and sold through the school's laptop program) in a CS class I was the only one who could figure out how to make the JavaFX assignments work on M1. They would all load the GUI okay but crash as soon as anything was clicked.

The error message was from the native JDK code, so was not very useful, I just gave up and searched the bug tracker for "M1" until I found something that looked close. IIRC it was some weird error caused by code that was objectively wrong for several years, but the race/error condition had never been observed on an Intel machine, if I remember correctly. Thankfully it was in an EA build of OpenJDK, otherwise I probably would have given up and thrown up a VM in the cloud to run it in.
The thing is some abusers will be happy to pay $10 in crypto (or even $100) to be able to ddos/spam/abuse under our name ...
So I'm not sure it would be enough to prevent hackers
The coding used by this survey is a joke. If 40% of an occupation says they work outdoors that's below 50% so it's bucketed into the work from home category on that criterion. I think if even 20% of a job is saying they work outdoors that's pretty strong evidence you're missing some information about what the other 80% are doing in their job that prevents it from being a work from home job. The net result of their setup is obviously a vast overestimate so take the 37% number with a grain of salt.
Just look at the comments in this thread. Plenty of people seem to assume that no one actually wants to go to the office.
Yes, if controlling humans was that easy empires wouldn't rise and fall.
when the US losses global reserve currency status, it won't be the end of the world. Just look at all the past empires who had that status: Great britain, the netherlands, etc. they're all still around and still have 1st world living standards. there will be a slight drop in living standards, as imports go up in prices. you won't be able to buy as many PS2 and flat screen tvs, cars, blenders, etc. but i've got way more then enough of those already.
Re: nostalgia for when you were not yet born: things like that, with the hyperaestheticism etc, are designed to be ‘coded’ (ie comprised of referential symbols) in the alphabet of “your imagination of that time”, which was pressed into your thoughts via social influence. It is an affirmation of what you’ve been told that time was really like- so it seems like a refuge or safe haven where everything makes sense. In some sense, they are like, well, bait- it’s like “well mass media that can operate during the present is not enough. How about a mass media that is constantly extending itself retroactively into the past as well?”

This is not shade on you. I myself love all kinds of vaporwave, probably to a fault. I think this is part of why The Weird and the Eerie was tough to read for me- you can tell Mark was exasperated about things that should not be juxtaposed. And I can’t help but think these “un-pasts” were probably an obstacle to improving the present.
Ironic, seeing as yuppies buy into the poor neighborhoods because they are exciting and "have character."
shrug. The way things work is people upvote things because they find them interesting. If enough people hadn't upvoted it, it would never have showed up on the front page, and most people probably wouldn't have seen it. Anyway, I'm not sure why they care that it gets resubmitted..
You've never downvoted anything on any website ever?
People are not great at empathy.

If you have small kids working from an office gives you a good place to work with, hopefully, less distractions.

Some people like commuting because its their me time.
Some people like the socialization being in an office gives them.
Some careers/roles are easier when you can walk over to someones desk and talk to them.

There are plenty of reasons why working in an office might be interesting to someone. Just like there are plenty of reasons why working fully remotely is interesting to someone.
Right now I do hybrid work and it’s great, it’s easy to get away from the house and work from a nearby city. There’s little-to-no traffic where I live, so the commute is short and enjoyable. If I want after work I can jump in the car and drive to the mountains or go pick something up at the store, or go see a friend. The car operates on my schedule.

Moving away from this seems like stepping back into the 19th century. Usually when I hear people complain about cars they live somewhere that’s over-crowded with poor road infrastructure, traffic, and inflated taxes and energy costs. Sure if you live in that scenario maybe commuting sucks, but most of the USA isn’t like that.
*Grandmain

ftfy
Remember those early Sun optical mice that required you to use them on a special mouse pad that had a high-contrast pattern on it for the mouse to track?

I'm a bit sad that I recycled my (freeby, thank you reuse@mit.edu) SGI Indy when I moved from my first to my second apartment after college. "An Indy is and Indigo without the go.", but it was a really beautiful computer case, and a 64-bit MIPS CPU would still be fun to play around with.
Citation needed. I could gesture wildly at everything these days. It sure seems like someone is working towards worker misery.
Ultimate++ is nice, but one of the benefits of Delphi / Lazarus is the use of the Pascal language instead of C++. This can be a point of contention, but I know once I moved from C++ to Object-Pascal, I didn't want to go back.
Do you live in a major metro area? If you do, you should know that the rest of the country was designed for cars. Mass transit in your average US isn't feasible as everything is so spread out. There is no city center. There's no downtown.
I think this article is supposed to commend Python as a better choice than Bash? I think the author forgot to make a convincing argument for that, though.

> The point of bash-bashing is to reduce use of the shell.

That's a tautology. I get it, we're supposed to reduce the use of bash ... but why?

> Without much real work, it’s easy to replace shell scripts with Python code.

But you're writing the same thing again? There needs to be more reason than this.

> The revised code is easier to read and maintain, runs a little faster, and can have a proper unit test suite.

Three claims. Any data to support it?

Some of the examples of "bash is bad" are also not convincing to me. Here's an example:

> An example of a shell obscurity is the way the current working directory is set. The cd command is clear enough, but in the presence of sub-shells using (), can make it difficult to discern a stack of nested shell invocations and how the working directory changes when the sub-shells exit.

So...why do you have "a stack of nested shell invocations" that all need to be working directory aware? And how would this be any better in Python? (It could be better in either Python or Bash but either one still requires the developer to avoid simple mistakes.)

I don't know. I don't get it. I feel like the author had the unfortunate experience of knowing more Python than Bash and inheriting someone else's (who also didn't have much Bash experience) crappy Bash code.
I have to hard disagree here. Plenty of Maven projects build are not immutable. They are buggy and not reliable when producing artifacts.

Also, Java 9 broke backward compatibility promise, and Java 17 broke it further by disabling a lot of default modules. Docker helps A/B testing multiple variation of JDK for our builds.

We definitely need Docker. It's a live saver for so many of our Java projects.

Not to mention, every single CI/CD engineers in a big company will mandate Docker as a packaging requirement anyway. So why not do it right and use Docker anyway?
Someone has to take the risk that life happens. You can take that risk (non-refundable) or you can pay the airline a higher price to take that risk (refundable).
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I looked at the city on Google maps; the street grid is prominent but I didn't feel like I good a good idea of how the city is laid out into sectors as the article mentioned. One thing I did notice were some blocks of the city that did not conform to the overall grid (there's a prominent one in the southwest of the central city). Does anyone know if these were instances of post-Corbusier demolition and rebuilding, or were these part of the original plan? It would be interesting to know how much the city has changed sense it was designed and built (in the 60s I guess?).
You are already a burden to others. From the moment you were born to the moment you die you rely on the rest of society.

Different people have different abilities and disabilities. That’s life, and if you cannot understand that and help the people who need to be helped, then you are even more of a burden.
Thanks for the thoughtful and useful feedback!

You’re right and we probably will update the domain down the road.
Interesting discussion on telephone numbers. I didn't know that Mexico has 2 and 3 digit area codes, or that +1 includes more than just USA.
While it's certainly gotten better, it still blows my mind that Electron can make an app as simple as a password manager use a quarter of a gig.

I'll take a TUI at <30 MB tops any day. Or CLI.
The graphic style of the website makes it look extremely corporate/soul-less, which is the opposite of what I was expecting from the headline.

If you're targeting market research it might be on purpose, but I know that personally it was an instant turn-off.
It only seems like they do.
For every one of you, how many people are priced out of living in the city and have to drive to a parking lot to take the train in, or want their kids to have some semblance of a yard so they live in New Jersey and do the same?
1. I bike/run commute and have planned my life to let me live with 15 minutes of where I work.

2. I purposefully choose to live in a small apartment with no dedicated “work” space.

3. Yeah, me too.
I feel so much better working remotely so that I don't have to talk to my colleagues in person. We are completely different people, like from different worlds. RTO is mandatory at our place.

This made me happy every time I saw a rise in infections or new variant, for which I feel bad about myself.
“up to” isn’t serious

“at least” would be serious

But that would require for politicians to actually want to do something to benefit the people, not just themselves and their bribers/lobbyists.
Indeed. 35mm is actually a good archiving format if stored correctly; good for 100 years. No need to continually change tape formats every couple of years.

I've heard for some of the 3 strip technicolor restorations, they scan the 3 individual B&W camera negative rolls separately (red, green, blue) and do the technicolor printing process in software effectively. This can give better results if the final technicolor print has issues.
> We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it.

Replace "see ads" with "pay money." Pirates are thieves and content theft is piracy.
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Shipping from Russia is still much cheaper.