skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's valid - and Lisbon is an extreme, and heartbreaking example. It's been a victim of its own beauty. It's also extremely compact, making all the central real estate wildly more expensive. There's an unavoidable truth to the fact that when everyone wants to go to a place - often because of its local charm and reputation as a "real" living, walkable city (an anachronism in America) - prices go up, local people are displaced, and the place turns into a gentrified theme park, a shadow of what it once was. It's happening here in Portland. I saw it in Granada. Prague is a desperate example. I don't have an answer for it. I personally draw the line at allowing normal apartment units to be used as one- or two-night hotel rooms. Prior to Airbnb, short term furnished rentals existed but generally had to be sought through local property management companies, and the incentives for landlords still favored finding tenants who would stay as long as possible, if only because the scheduling and turnover system was so much less efficient.

Bottom line: I don't think it's necessarily destructive for people to go live in a foreign place, get to know the culture and try it out for the mid- to long-term. But I think that's in a wholly different category from tourists who use airbnb in lieu of hotels. And the tourist contingent is orders of magnitude larger and more disruptive to cities than long-term nomads who tend to spread out.

Just for instance; when we lived in Saigon, we lived way out in District 5. In Bangkok we lived in On Nut, at that time the end of the sky train. In both places we were the only farang we would normally see unless we went to the tourist areas for some reason. And in Europe, we lived mainly in villages of a few thousand people, not in cities. When staying somewhere for a few nights or even a few weeks, we stayed in hotels, not airbnb (I'm personally not comfortable with staying in airbnb's short-term because I don't like being in someone's private space, don't trust the quality, don't want to deal with individual landlords' rules and quirks, am wary of hidden cameras, etc., but that's just me).

There's no winning as a nomad, it's true. But I think most of us are keenly aware that we don't want to contribute to the destruction of the places we visit and live, and in fact tend not to cluster in the touristic town centers where housing is already scarce.
I think you're getting somewhat hung up on the content of the piece and the moderation in this case doesn't have much to do with it. Critique pieces of popular languages are themselves popular and get frequent and regular coverage on HN. This one had one significant discussion yesterday, last year and also the year it was published. That's a pretty good run and it will undoubtedly appear again, along with its update. But not on the front page for two days straight because almost nothing gets to sit on the front page for two days straight, that mostly being the point of a front page of daily links.
Definitely, having just bought some XM4s I was kinda taken aback by having LDAC automatically pop up in my audio settings. Very neat to see support being that seamless!
As many others have pointed out, something relevant like games is a good starting point.

On your main question about how to make the (now painful) dev environment setup easier I have some suggestions:

1. Just use javascript

2. Just use python/pygames (yes it has to be installed)

3. Just use a hosted environment (like replit.com)

4. Just use swift if you are a mac user
Every game, not every Superbowl. At least here in Kansas City. There's always a fly over.
>So by your logic we could just turn all forests to farmland and use it to raise cows without any noticeable impact on climate (or I guess environment in general)?

That depends. If I take a forest which stores X amount of carbon, and replace it with farmland which has .1X the carbon. The remaining .9x carbon would have gone in the atmosphere. But now I can take that .1x carbon, put it into some cows, and grow another .1x on the farm, and now we're at .2x carbon (.1x in some cows + .1x in the plants on the farmland). I can do this and grow the population of cows, and eventually have a denser store of carbon than the forest alone originally had, but also eventually hit a sustainable limit.

But what I'm really saying is: focusing on stuff like this is not what we should be doing, as it's negligible and doesn't address the root of the problem. We need to look at the bigger picture. Which is: where is the problematic carbon ultimately coming from? Changing forests into farmland? Okay that can be easily changed in 100 or so years (and nature naturally does it for us). Burning a tank of gas in a few minutes? It takes millions of years for nature to reverse that... (not to mention that oil is an even denser store of carbon than trees).
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2055/
I think that is thanks to the Knuth-Plass algorithm, with Knuth being the inventor of Tex, which powers Latex. The problem seems not trivial indeed.

http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/230668/any-progress-...

http://litherum.blogspot.com/2015/07/knuth-plass-line-breaki...
Of few generations older varieties mostly. Alder lake is impossible to get from distributors.

ULP Alders are only sold to tier 1, a teaspoon at a time.

On other hand, 2-3, even 4 years old dies from Intel stocks are flooding distributors who use every thing imaginable to get rid of them.
I'm not a programmer. I tried Python many times, but honestly the best time I had was in an algorithms class that used C.
> These days, people have made fortunes on creating videos on how to program.

Correct, and it's great! Unfortunately most of them are in English (and probably mandarin?) and not every 11-year old knows it at that age.

I remember the 12-year old me studying English on XDA forums talking about custom ROMs for the good old HTCs. That's what got me into programming and computer science, so many good memories.
> "Works as you expect it to" is not the same thing as "fit for purpose"

For the purposes of that comment, I meant them to be equivalent ...under the presumption that a typical person knows what a hammer does. (I was avoiding the legalese)
Ask HN: What are the languages used in gaming?
i started learning gaming because l play a lot of games but im cusios about anything in gamindìg , anyone can guide me thx :)
> In the end, the person writing the code is just a cog in the machine.

I mean, I hate to break it to you, but everyone is a cog in the machine. The person running the company is a cog in the machine. The person running the country is a cog in the machine.

And, more than that, there's no hierarchy, there's no order. A person may go their entire lives working as a cleaner, looking up at the person running the company, and that person may look up at the pension fund that owns their company, which fund in turn exists to invest the pension of the cleaner. The world is a graph, not a tree.

In the context of the dynamical chaos that we call the world, some people like to take pride in their craft. I think that's OK.
"The U.S. now has almost 500 cities where the average cost of a home has hit $1 million, according to Zillow."

Does that sound right? That sounds kind of high to me...
I've used both. firefly-iii is a fairly good, easy to maintain and host, web app. It's not as good design or UX as Actual - especially since firefly-iii has no mobile experience to speak of. Acutal had great mobile apps. firefly's budgeting interface is a bit of a UX mess.
That's quite the contract. Could funnel the profits to another company that targets end users offering assistance in getting scrubbed from the internet.
XNA was great for this.
From previous experience they will virtually never 'remove' a road as the road is there and it should appear for 'accuracy' purpose, so if you're trying to get them to do that, that will be the reason why it's staying up.

Instead you have to submit an edit and state in there that it's a private road and on private property so should not be used for navigation purposes. It will then be removed from navigation etc.
> I'm pretty sure I would be granted a refund if I asked for one.

Good luck getting a full refund without some restocking fee subtracted. Something like 15% of $30,000 is... reaching outside of small claims court
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For the same reason all streaming services and game storefronts don't provide a generalized API to be used with 3rd party front ends. They all want to pretend that they are the only service you'll ever need/use, and their UX isn't designed for practicality, it's designed for marketing.
> Maybe the problem is that those other guys as vital and stressful are not being paid enough?

One possible reason for this is that in software the "means of production" is much more accessible, so it's easier for a group of developerss to go it alone than it is in many other professions. When tech salaries are compared to "small business owners" in general, it doesn't seem so out of whack.
How you start almost doesn’t matter, it’s the stuff that happens after, such as actually take the time to answer questions and do stuff together.

After some initial experiments it should be more clear where the journey goes. Some learn better bottom up, meaning few abstractions are suitable. Some like bells and whistles, UI or games. Some like domain specific stuff like math or robotics.

There’s plenty to explore. The big realization has to be „I can do pretty much anything!“ and off they go. Just be there when needed and it’s going to be fine.
Did you miss the part where the entire Russiagate situation was a hoax?
> If majority of retail was blocked out of buying during this period

They weren't. IB halted options but the actual stock GME kept trading. I myself made a buy/sell order on TD Ameritrade in that time period and I got the receipts to prove it.

It was just a few exchanges: Robinhood and some other one, that turned off GME buys.

> Could Robinhood have disabled margin accounts and only allowed people to purchase with settled cash as a way to keep the margin requirements in check?

No. Because it takes 2 days for funds to settle, and Robinhood couldn't afford to get any more stock from their partners.

You understand that when you buy a stock on Robinhood, Robinhood has to _FIND_ that stock for you from somewhere, right? Generally speaking, it is from a seller somewhere else. If those sellers aren't giving Robinhood any shares, then Robinhood can't give any shares to their customers.

> It seems big money was conspiring against retail and makes it difficult to trust the current opaque system.

It was Robinhood's fault for not having enough collateral, and it was Robinhood's customer's fault for placing their trust in such a crappy company.

This wasn't the first time Robinhood screwed things up, and it won't be the last.
Except everything isn't more expensive. For example rent. Also, everyone can go see a doctor and pay nothing (not just the top quintile). All of this is if course simplified, but just to add another pair of cents.
That's a random thing to be worried of. That's not going to happen.
Consider the case of a hobbyist programmer who gets a CS degree and becomes interested in theoretical computer science as a result. But after many years in this area, he/she realizes that he/she is not that good at it. And then maybe he/she turns back to programming.

In this case, the CS degree got this person interested in an area he/she will never excel at. And as a result, many years have been wasted that could have been avoided by not getting a CS degree.
A complete nit, but the testimonial from the CTO of The Seventh Sense on https://redpanda.com/ spells Redpanda as "Redpand".
probably not the motivation here
Maybe catenation of an fString and a string should yield an fString by type promotion? String is morally "any" so it feels to me like a contextual narrowing of type.
One of the counter arguments I've heard about the use of HEMP weapons is that while they can cause great destruction, they can not destroy everything. There are regions of the world with mountains and it seems unlikely the energy from an EMP would destroy something hiding in the shadow of a mountain. Both sides know this and would intentionally place some of their own nuclear ICBM's there with additional EMP hardening. So MAD rules again and setting off HEMP weapons would assure your own countries destruction.

Another strategy is to smuggle nuclear weapons into a country and be able to remotely detonate them. No ICBM's or supersonic missiles needed and without knowledge of where they are or how they might be triggered there is no way to stop them. Both the US and Russia have fairly porous borders. And both sides can also install ICBM's at locations outside their borders, so an HEMP strike against one country does not necessarily remove the ability to strike back, unless you're willing to also knock out most of the world (which then becomes a very bad place to live in with everyone in the entire world hating you).

So basically using HEMP as a first-strike weapon still seems to make no sense because of MAD.
My proposal was a direct response to PragmaticPulp, who said "a $200K or more compensation package should be easy to come by remotely or in any medium size city."

And this is why I made the proposal, it was a challenge to this notion that it is easy. I stand by the idea that is not, and I am willing to pay to be proven wrong.
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that freezing selling as well as buying would have screwed their retail customers even worse?

You aren't missing anything. This is fairly obvious to anyone who understands how exchanges/brokers operate even on a basic level.

The bottom line of it is, disabling buying was a hard necessity to avoid a complete disaster for everyone involved (including customers). Disabling selling wasn't a necessity in any way whatsoever. It wouldn't have solved any problem at all, and would only add an extra problem for customers who wish to exit their positions.
https://archive.ph/2s3Yg
There are extremists on the other side that believe puberty blockers are safe and reversible. The scientific consensus disagrees.

This is my exact point.
This is so alien to me. It's a place to live, it has walls, it has a resell value but it's not the main purpose of it. And all investments are risky by definition.

One should buy a house because one wants to save money, compared to renting, and have its own place, if you are buying for a price increase it's called speculation. If it is speculation, then you should not depend on it for your future and should put little money into it not decades of mortgage.

This is so linear to me. The idea that things keeps getting value forever is flawed and a house is too important and expensive for this kind of speculation.
In this case, I think people want to ban large-scale deployments of untested, unvalidated technologies with no definitive positive effect and a non-negligible probability of disastrous consequences.

I myself am an atmospheric chemist and no one has banned me from doing scientic research.
No, I don't think that's fair at all, since I didn't live in central cities for one thing (more often villages and small towns, or suburbs where I would be the only foreigner), but also because like I said above, the small number of long-term nomads who move to a place to live and work is absolutely dwarfed by the vast number of tourists who are now using up to 50% of apartments in places like Lisbon as if they were hotel rooms. I think there are sustainable forms of travel that don't place undue stress on local housing markets and economies. Your assumption is incorrect.
That all changes if you have a stalker / bad actor going after you online. Once your address hits one of these sites, it's on every one of them. And you'll be playing a constant game of whac-a-mole if you want them removed.

The amount of hoops you need to jump through to protect your privacy / shield your address in the US is quite incredible. And if you don't do it correctly from the start (use an anonymous land trust, etc), you're hosed.

Privacy should be the default. People's home addresses shouldn't be public info
I’m sure it’s peanuts compared to San Francisco.
> What is the difference between woke and left?

'left' to me has always been associated with class politics and 'woke' with identity politics.
if your email, phone number or address shows up in Google search you are doing it wrong
> Sats are the easiest, cheapest thing to send to people globally

Global Income Coin is an economic model carrying a monetary policy: the bottom-up distribution of newly created money. The economy currently mostly runs on inflationary currencies. This means a massive amount of new money is created each year. Taking that as a fact, we propose to distribute this directly and more fairly; Global Income Coin is the implementation of that idea. Sats can't carry that monetary policy since they're non-inflationary by design. So we can't use sats.

> Lightning network is the only cryptocurrency construction that would permit such global payments

We _could_ use Lightning, and we might indeed in the future if that's the tried and tested best solution. We're not married to any particular platform. We don't need global scale on day one.

We're starting on Polygon (so transaction costs won't destroy all of the value)
Reverse engineering for interop is legal.
Interesting, doesn't that Lia Thomas photo [1] make you laugh (or make you angry if you care about college swimming)? [2]

> To me the two are completely divorced from each other.

Some of it certainly could be. But insisting that it's all just a social construct makes it hard to explain things which are prevalent and similar across different cultures. (e.g. females growing their hair, or them being generally "cleaner", or intonation differences, etc.)

Or even more broadly, the fact that males and females of different cultures can be attracted to each other, even though the exact gender expressions might be different.

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOHlDIxWQAAaJwX?format=jpg&name=...

[2]: It certainly does for many people, to the extent that the scene could come from a South Park episode: https://www.vgr.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2022_03/FB_IMG_164...
This was posted on Reddit earlier this week with similar negative responses:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ubkvrd/10_of_the_66...
The thing is, YNAB increased pricing recently and that didn't went well, it caused a pretty negative outlash... Actual was actually a pretty good alternative that was pushed by many people on Reddit, they got quite a bit of free advertising through that. Yearly YNAB is only 8.25$ a month and support syncing through Plaid (which add a few dollars per month for sure to the cost and it also add quite a bit of negative feedback sadly). So yeah he could increase the price for sure, but not by much, and his current customers wouldn't appreciate it that much considering they jumped ship to avoid a price increase in the first place.
They tend to contract this sort of work to companies like Lionbridge who are very strict on rules etc.
Make him install an easy Linux distro (I recommend LMDE). Give him an IDE (start with VScode, if he enjoys Linux he'll switch to vim/emacs soon enough), some Leetcode problems, a browser, and have him figure it out. Advise him on compiling if his language of choice* requires it, as it's a pain to figure out when you don't know anything about programming. Should probably also find a basic syntax guide on the language.

*This really depends on his goals. AI/general scripting -> python. Sysadmin -> C/Perl. Games -> C#/Java if Minecraft. Etc.
Missing Foxes Fuel Lyme Disease Spread (2012)
If you want a simple lightweight symmetric crypt CLI utility try ccrypt:

http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
That would be direct cash transfers funded by charitable donations, which we think is another great way to alleviate poverty. (If Global Income Coin succeeds it could be the network to carry these transfers.)

What we're aiming to unlock is a donation-independent component in addition to that.
Humans just tends to repeat themselves every 50 to 100 years. But the good thing is - with each iteration we are learning. It's just a bit but maybe in a thousand years we will come out of our puberty.

And no - the world won't go down due to climate change. It won't go down because of some silly war either. It's not a simple graph showing where we are heading to. Especially not an exponential graph.

And we are still repeating history because we haven't learned the simple lesson which Leo Tolstoi already knew: Everybody wants to change the world but nobody themselves.

But this is where the real change starts. And do not believe all those angst people out there.

Life is way too complex and beautiful that we will ever understand it's secrets and twists it's capable of.
Speaking from own personal experience, I tried to learn programming by buying a book on Ruby on Rails in 9th grade, as well as Visual Basic. Obviously it didn't stick. I programmed turtles in middle school, and took a intro to CS class in high school.

But what really did it for me was buying an Arduino Starter Kit and working through the example projects in that book. I was a freshman in college and $100 was a lot of money for me but I told myself it was an investment in myself, and boy was I right. It was also immensely fun because you get to also interact with a physical object (circuits, buttons, etc) whereas most software is on a screen.

I would highly recommend Arduino or Raspberry Pi :) Best of luck!
That doesn't really address, though, the tobacco studies. Carefully selection of candidates, some p-hacking, and so on. There are numerous ways to put your thumb on the scale. It isn't just Dr. Nick faking up a degree.

On top of it, you would need some kind of centralized registry, overseen by humans, of what is real and what is fake, for legal purposes. Once that Ministry of Truth exists, how do you get your MKUltra knowledge out? Remember, that was a nutty conspiracy theory for decades. The Ministry of Truth just crushes it because they are part of the government, and poof, you never find out.
This is probably the best talk ever on the general topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 [Growing a language by Guy Steele], seriously give it a look if you have the time and do put up with the seemingly strange start.

But at around the end it asks this (paraphrasing): Should a language have complex numbers implemented natively? Should it have numbers module n implemented natively? What about intervals, or rational numbers?

I also dislike the ridiculous overloading of cryptic symbols, but neither extreme is good. Not allowing overloading will give you BigDecimal.of(3).add(BigDecimal.ONE).divide… , while allowing it unrestricted will give you things like msg #!! something. But perhaps a sane middle ground is to allow only basic operators (+,-,*,/) to be overloadable.
"it either needs to be of higher quality than the digital option or have something else going for it"

LPs have the "something else", which is gorgeous cover art and the ritual of listening - for me at least.
Ha the other day I found this site truepeoplesearch has all my addresses/phone numbers, relatives... like cool

It probably came from resumes or something but still