skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really understood why the lack of Result/Option types are somehow spun as a good thing. Other things about Rust can be complex and can require some diligence to learn, but Result/Option types over golang's way of handling the same thing? Seriously? That's the argument for golang?
Ask HN: What's a tool or technology that makes your life better? How?
From time to time, I like to express my gratitude to the many people whose ingenuity and generosity continuously makes my life better.

What is a tool, concept, or technology which keeps giving, how specifically does it improve your life, who made it? What would you say to its creators if they could hear you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_garbage_collection#Rea...
I agree. I don't want the government to subsidize housing by 4-20%. I just want them to stop pursuing policies that drice up prices 2-10x. This includes things like minimum size requirements, minimum parking requirements, maximum height requirements, excessive permitting, community review requirements, environmental reviews, mortgage subsidies, and more.

Solving housing is "easy", there are just tradeoffs, none of which to me seem like so bad. I typically only see NIMBYs on the other side.
I wouldn't even describe the situation I'm describing as insidious, but I see what you're saying. Yours is also a more likely answer.
What a crazy coincidence. I played it for the first time today just a few minutes ago (playing with a MiSTer FPGA I put together; there is a PDP-1 core and when you run it, it plays Spacewar).
Haha. Old houses become presents for rich persons grandchildren, so they can put them on airbnb while studying abroad/living in another country altogether.
OUSD spends over $20k per student per year. ($746MM for 36k students.)

That's $480k per class per year.

OUSD owns its buildings, so none of that money needs to go to rent.

Why isn't $480k per class per year enough?
What's your strategy? :-)
Yeah I think in general I greatly prefer lore and worldbuilding. You can take it or leave it, as you like, it doesn't depend on going through a linear set of events, and it requires effort and awareness (and often a community).
Even so, everything else remaining necessarily moves down-market as new stock is built.
This was way more interesting than the OP lol

Thanks!
Hmm. I think you intended to link: https://spin.fermyon.dev/rust-components/

What's nice about "Hello, World!" is that it's a canonical example where we know exactly what it's supposed to do, in contrast these pages are showing off features of writing Spin components in different languages so that makes it much harder to compare.

In each case they're using a popular existing HTTP library for its familiar APIs, but the chosen APIs are of course not the same in Go and Rust.

The Go API (from net/http) follows typical Go style, it assumes success, and doesn't worry too much about errors. If you write any data to the ResponseWriter (which this example does), you get a 200 OK response anyway. You don't need to set types, it'll guess, likewise you don't need to care about binary data, it'll guess. This is cheerful and will mostly work, if it doesn't work you can probably learn what you did wrong and try again.

The Rust API (from the http crate) follows more typical Rust style. You must say whether you succeeded with Ok, so that failures can be handled appropriately. You can choose whether your response has a body we do have a body here so hence we need to write Some. Finally HTTP bodies are binary data, and we'd like to return a string, so we use the Into trait to get the UTF-8 encoded text out of the string as bytes, this is how Rust stores strings anyway so it will be trivial.

The Rust code sets header "foo" to "bar" for some reason, and also prints (to console) all the information about the request, presumably because that's trivial to do in Rust, the Go code doesn't do either of these things.

I agree that there certainly is a lot more Rust, it's just that I'd say it's beautiful rather than ugly, a matter of opinion.
Interview with a Vim Enthusiast
Yes but the damage that they’ll due to your reputation online will make you have to pay more for better talent. They are going to read the glass door and see your company environment as shit and say “I want an extra 20 grand”

Not to mention the amount of technical debt high turnover causes for tech companies
>The tools [Big Tech] uses to manipulate our brains are often the very same ones casinos use, flashing lights and dopamine hits spaced out at optimized intervals

I'm interested to know where the author draws the line between this ^ which they attribute to 'Big Tech', and the advertising industry in its entirety (which of course transcends just 'Big Tech').
I agree with this, but I like the Albini version. My first listen to this track (in a long time since hearing the other version) the vocal is centered with good imaging, and is much less boomy than the original CD version.

Very much like it's a person in a room, instead of processed.

It is far less "in your face", and arguably, teenagers then might not have thought it cool. Like a band from the 70's or 80's.
I've been working remotely most of my career and I wouldn't trade it for the world. However I believe that "just" having a place to do your video calls or whatnot in peace and quiet can be a tremendous value offer for many if not all people. This isn't to say that I think going to the office should be mandatory. Rather, I would hope that one day more companies can start going remote first with a workspace budget where you get to choose. Whether it's choosing to go to the office and your budget going towards the office rent, or paying for a coworking space with the budget, or just getting a better setup at home, raising awareness of the topic will hopefully lead to more flexible approaches in the long run. Right now, finding a company that's good at remote and has it all figured out is still rare.
But why would I as a candidate leave my full time job to do a month long 1099 contract?
Subsidizing people moving to CA by changing zoning to allow building market rate dense housing without going through years of zoning and environmental review? You don't actually need to even pay anything - it's just allowing developers to build what they want where they want.
Was a Tumblr ever seen as a spiritual successor to earlier internet also-rans like Xanga, Livejournal, and MySpace? Platforms that unlike Facebook were much more user-customizable, even if it often made things much more garish.
We are a small software company focused on mobile development that works in markets such as the American and European markets.
We work with a solid tech stack that allows us to provide high-quality solutions to startups and software factories that need extra resources to scale their team.

Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React Native, Flutter, Ruby on Rails, Nodejs, elixir, AWS

Email: hello@metalabs.software & marco@metalabs.software

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The only thing this is evidence is of is a picture existing of people who appear to be dead, the rest is conjecture. Trusting biased ground sources leads to people believing fake propaganda like Snake Island or the Ghost of Kyiv, manufactured by Ukraine.

Given we know Ukraine has been executing and torturing POWs (they bragged about it), it could easily be a false flag or more POW torture.
This is a great letter. My favorite piece of writing from Albini is "The Problem with Music" [https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music] in which he explains how record companies were screwing artists in vivid detail, numbers included. The first two paragraphs alone are worth reading.
It depends on the organization, of course.

At my previous employer an interviewer would go through an interview panel, give a presentation, get taken out to a nice lunch with a few people (which was absolutely another interview), and 1-2 more interview panels followed by a discussion with the director. Each interview panels would have several members of the division (typically 5-6). There was no "hiring manager", intentionally so.

The whole process is more like serious dating leading to potential marriage, but there were good reasons for it. People often work on multiple projects with multiple people, and those projects would end and others begin over time, but the goal was to have people stay. It's really painful to have people leave (because their institutional knowledge left with them). In addition, nobody wanted to have to constantly work with jerks. So the goal was to try to determine if the candidate would be able to work with many other people, and vice versa. We especially wanted to know if candidates were curious (a very good sign) and could explain themselves in a presentation (because that was a common need).

We didn't invite people until we already read something they'd written & talked with them on the phone, so we tried to not invite people until they were a plausible fit.

Nothing is perfect, and it definitely required time from the interviewee, but there were reasons for it.
> Last I looked at the source for GNU parallel it looked like mountains upon mountains of Perl I would rather not depend upon, personally, but to each his own.

i used parallel for years under the assumption that it was written in C and only recently learned it was written in perl when i decided to dive deeply into its documentation. if you're using a package manager to install parallel and it runs fast enough for your needs (it does) then who cares what language it was implemented in?
I think prop 13 should be fixed because it distorts the housing market but why is it necessary to pay teachers more. The state legislature can supplement school funding with income tax money. No referendum needed.
Are there anycases of plausible temporal symmetry, especially emergent that don't have obvious triggers.
If you make enough of them to go around, neither of those is a problem. The core issue is lack of supply of housing of all sorts.
Have any of the pro-RTO folks on HN experienced this phenomenon? There's definitely a contingent here who do not prefer remote work, curious to read what they think of going back into the office only to have to continue to call in order to collaborate with coworkers.
Chan-type sites very, very strongly encourage right-wing social behaviors by nature; it's a constant struggle for social dominance on a post-by-post basis. Survival of the wittiest. All interactions are throwaways, and there is no reputation to maintain. So of course as soon as anyone gets frustrated, the filter goes off and the prejudices come out. Ad hominem after slur after flamebait. It's a feedback loop from there. Heavy-handed moderation can make it slightly less bad, but only by so much.
Looks like all of it is down: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/reddit.com.html
People would pay out the ass for medicine that does what they say this does! :)
yeah and they were combating with their hands tied behind their backs

go troll somewhere else
> and fibonacci series converges on the golden ratio because they are equivelent expressions of the continued fraction 1+(1/(1+(1/(1+(1/(1+(1/...

Just for fun, note that those numerators and denominators reflect the coefficients (1 and 1) in the Fibonacci recurrence equation F_n = 1*F_{n-1} + 1*F_{n-2}.[1]

Any sequence obeying this equation will converge to the same ratio between adjacent terms. But the Fibonacci series is "perfect" in that it bottoms out at 1 and 1, never interrupting the pattern even after an infinite number of terms have gone by.

In contrast, if you defined a similar series starting at 3 and 4, that series would converge to the continued fraction 1/(1+1/(1+1/1+(1/ ... 1+(3/4) ))), which is exactly equal as long as you can't get across the infinite number of 1s in the expansion of "...".

[1] As an example of how this works, if you have the recurrence relation f(k) = 3f(k-1) + 2f(k-2), then the limit of f(n)/f(n-1) as n goes to infinity is the continued fraction 3 + 2/(3 + 2/(3 + 2/(3 + ...
> Ever check prices for thirty year old BMW or Lexus or Acura?

Why dont you compare houses to prices of 30 year old rotten piece of fruit, because thats what you are doing.

20 years ago my familt bought an apartment, is it now worth 3 times more. Our 20 year old BMW is worth approximately 5% of it's original price as scrap
I mean "We're doomed" does seem to be the main point of 80% of articles on security these days...

I'm not sure what serial rapist thing you're referring to, I assume Appelbaum's connection to DJB? I hadn't heard of that one, and that is in fact highly disgusting. And especially disturbing considering the fact that anyone involved woth security or privacy tends to think of themselves as some kind of hero of global freedom... and then to do that...

I still definitely wouldn't trust crypto done by a nonspecialist, but it does seem like the specialist community has problems.
It is quite an amazing idea. Every five minutes a user can place one single colors pixel in the canvas. Subreddits and other groups coordinate and make some interesting pixel art. Worth following imo.
Yeah even in parts of the USA that's not very low. Certainly much closer (if not equal) to food price in a midsized American city in the South than southeast Asia for example
The vote was a lot closer than I would have thought, that speaks volumes about how effective anti union work done by Amazon was.

But I do think it's quite a bit early for it to be said that they beat Amazon. They made it past one hurdle. I would wager that Amazon's anti union playbook has many more planned.

I am reminded of what happened when a Walmart store unionized. Walmart closed the store down. That doesn't sound out of the realm of the possible for Amazon.
Depends where you are. In most places land is quite cheap.
I think that stands out from his letter as well. Albini sounds really into the live experience of music, and wants to replicate that as faithfully as possible.

As a total aside: Albini's attitude and writing is a breath of fresh air in today's world polluted by corporate backstabbery and doublespeak. Albini is a professional. He says what he thinks, wants do his work and make his money, and doesn't try and lay claim to the entire future legacy of the band because he's good at slinging electrons around a board.
At least "System Metrics" shows something abnormal. No idea what these bar charts are doing if they don't show such major outage.
This happens all the time with amazon too. So often someone created this: https://stop.lying.cloud/
Never underestimate the power of brute force
> You build as much new housing as you can afford to, and let older housing filter down to "affordable" levels.

In many larger cities, older housing occupy prime location where the value of the land is twice the value of a new building you could build on it, so all these would never filter down to affordable levels.
Interesting. In my state, I believe it's 650 sqft.

Why would the fire insurance be high for smaller homes? I thought that smaller homes would be cheaper to insure since the asset is cheaper than a larger house.
Existing housing won't be occupied if lots of shiny new housing gets built, such that for a small premium you can have a swanky new apartment. People in apartments - particularly the yuppie demographic that can afford luxury new apartments - move around all the time, either because they got a raise or they're moving in with a romantic partner or they just broke up with a romantic partner or they took a new job around town. It's that normal lease/move-out/move-in cycle that provides the liquidity: you don't need to entice people to leave, because people are already continually leaving, you just need to give them somewhere better to go so they don't take up the older affordable housing that lower/middle-income people need to live.
It was almost immediately ruined by bots the first time.

Is that still happening?

I mostly use Apollo so I can't even see it.
https://archive.ph/kfzuG
> If you're going to start with a conclusion, "animals can be intelligent because pigs are intelligent, QED" where does that get you?

It's in response to this

> cows eat grass, what reason do they have for deep intelligence and thoughts

Where does that get us? It gets us thinking about how does that line make any sense.

> Why, exactly, are "pigs considered intelligent"?

There's plenty of research on pig cognition and it's not like you'd take my word for any of it so why not google it for yourself?

Here, I'll even start you off with one: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c

> What I'm contesting is something like "approximately all animals must have the same capacity of thought as humans because humans are animals", or the original statement more like "we shouldn't be surprised if tests show animals do have because we should have been assuming that all along even without evidence".

Your objection was to someone else saying

> It continues to surprise me that humans are surprised at other animals having deep intelligence and emotions and thoughts.

This is not the same as

> approximately all animals must have the same capacity of thought as humans because humans are animals

That is you moving the goalposts.

> I disagree that they are intelligent in the same way that humans are

> if they haven't been shown to have human-level capacity for (invention, language, music, mirror neurons, communicating abstract information, symbolic manipulation, arithmetic, planning, teamwork), then we shouldn't assume they have it unless necessary.

Again, no one claimed that so you stating that you disagree is fine but who are you disagreeing with? I still don't understand why you feel the need to declare this.
sure a "parallel xargs" can ostensibly be implemented in POSIX sh but that's merely the tip of the iceberg with what parallel can do. why not just skim the documentation and give it a try?
> Imaginary co-ordinate results in quantum mechanics correspond to non-physical observations - they "exist" but are unobserved until something squares them into reality.

This sounds wrong for three reasons:

1. You can multiply any vector of qubits representing a quantum state by any complex number and it's the same state.

2. Measurement is always with respect to a basis. A result can be measured with 0% probability in one basis, 50% in another, 100% in another.

3. It doesn't take into account interference, so it's missing the whole point of how quantum differs from regular probabilities.
It's missing a very popular option:

https://sourcegraph.com/search
Misleading? That is exactly her point. That back in 1951, casinos were seen as predatory, any individual agency defense was rejected. She's lamenting the fact that in subsequent decades, conservatism was utterly defeated by the proliferation of casinos.

> People said that casinos and slot parlors took advantage of traits that every human possesses... Abstract notions of freedom of commerce were not assumed to be a defense.
Okay, but as an entrepreneur how then are you planning to run the hiring process at your company?
> I'm sure you'd find a similar overrepresentation in the top few percentiles of the SAT.

Even supposing this is true, it still doesn't answer the question: Since non-Jewish whites do better at the SAT than Blacks and Hispanics, why does this translate to lower, not higher, Ivy enrollment rates?

The data clearly shows: higher SAT scores help every group except non-Jewish whites.
This reminds me of the time about 7 years ago when my team (in Redmond, WA) wanted to send me to Beijing for a year. I didn't agree so they sent someone else instead. He spent most of the year living in Beijing and working with a team in Bellevue, WA.
I have two Totolink X5000R and they work great with OpenWRT, using iperf3 I can get about 500Mbps of real throughput to my Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus 5G. I bought them mainly with the intent of using them with the Oculus Quest for AirLink and WiFi performance is never a problem for me.

Two weird caveats I had to overcome:
1. I had to compile OpenWRT from master myself so that I could configure the WiFi 6 interface using Luci (the web ui), because the latest stable release does not include that functionality.
2. I bought two of them for two floors and OpenWRT somehow managed to generate the same BSSID for both of those routers, which caused both of the networks to be inoperable. To fix this I had to edit a bash script which generates the BSSID in OpenWRT and change it to something else.
Indeed. Gravitational effects become negligible compared to mechanical/EM effects at low mass/low volume. This is why insects can crawl on the ceiling but you can't.
>But it does mean opposing fascism and racism, and sometimes fighting against them.

Indeed, the US should oppose those things inside their own boundaries where they have the right to. There is no reason to assume the US is virtuous and right on any given moral issue. In fact there are lots of reasons pointing towards the opposite case. We (I) don't want the US to invade other countries with its "concern" and cause mass civilian casualties.
Butch Vig had such a large influence in my life as a teenager. For those that never paid attention to the liner notes/credits on their music, Butch was a producer on so so many bands.
"The point of contention is how much paperwork. Is it 1 page? Is it 100 pages? Is it 10,000 pages? A day of extra paperwork or 5 years of extra paperwork?"

What is this argument?

If you hire a lawyer to defend you in coirt, wikk you measure how goos he is by the amount of paperwork he submittes to the court?
I can buy programming time from others who will solve the unique part, too. I don't imagine I'm somehow the only person in the world who can solve some particular problem.

I can even buy time from people who will develop the description of the problem well enough from my wague idea to make it comprehesible/implementable by programmers, and who will lead those programmers for me.

My point is that it's not important whether something is common or unique to my product. For some "rolling their own" even if it's a common solution may be a good and comparatively cheeper proposition, if that will end up costing less as a result and will leave more resources to devote to their product overall.
Affordable housing is a band aid at best. Mostly it’s not even that because of pathologies.

What I want is an affordable housing market. If I have to pay you to put up units and then impose rules about who and how you sell or rent them, I’ve already lost.
> The moral case against gambling transcends American Protestantism. Many Asian countries ban casinos and others restrict them to foreigners. In South Korea, 13 of its 14 casinos are off-limits to Korean citizens. China has no casinos at all, except in the enclave of Macau.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look like a moral case at all, rather a practical understanding that mass gambling is a profitable social ill, so better to take money from foreigners while keeping your own citizens away.

If these countries had a moral "gambling is wrong" belief, I don't think they'd allow foreigners to participate either. And if they really believed in this cause and had the ability they'd try to lobby/coerce others to their cause.
Yeah generally people don't buy a car frequently enough to navigate the bullshit, plus you kinda get emotionally invested during the 3 hours they make you hang around, softening you up.

I have had pretty good luck laying on my don't give a shit demeanor extra thick.

Out of 7 car purchases in 10 years I have had one instance where I should have walked out because the extended warranty BS was insulting (Honda) and once I threatened to walk if they didn't Due Bill a replacement second key - he didn't like that at all... (BMW).