skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just in the forest this weekend. I can take a train to get there - it runs every 15 minutes or more often depending on time of day.

I got nervous towards the end of the walk because I was seemingly in the middle of nowhere - no one in sight - and I was losing the light.

If I take the train the other direction, I can walk up a mountain (actually a dormant volcano) and enjoy the park there. That tends to be a bit busier, but then again, humans are also animals that exist in naturally, and they tend to be less intrusive than other animals in parks.

And I didn’t even mention the rivers, islands, and beaches I can get to on foot or by transit. I haven’t tried visiting the buttes yet, but I know at minimum one is accessible by bike.

All of that nature is available and present in part because of an urban growth boundary that constrained the expansion of suburbs.
> Not since Java's Spring have I encountered such weird zealotry for a relatively mediocre (but widely popular) framework.

You've now described the Web Components crusade which, among other things, engages in actual gaslighting.
The website seems to be down at least for me.
You're not looking for it but datagrip seems to be able to do exactly what table plus does while also being a full fledged SQL IDE (for the same price).
Can someone explain to me why Microsoft file and directory names are always so hideous?

Like, what in the world is cd12, cd2, cd3, cd9? Somehow it gets worse when you click into them.
Or the diminutive is Sasha. For reasons?
Why do people keep framing this as a dichotomy between urban areas and suburbs? I agree that suburbs aren’t “nature”, obviously. There’s a lot more to the US than urban cores and suburbs.
If an updated version that easily runs on present day hardware gets released then the memes made with it could be glorious.
You want a “dumb sorted list” of every video on YouTube?
I have set myself a daily dose of daylight exposure, either by going out or looking through windows. I feel my sleep has improved since I started a week ago. Although I don't want to jump to conclusions early. So maybe nature, or daylight, or good weather, or all of them - does it to me.

I write this comment while sitting in a local garden to start my day.
It really feels like it should be positive, but I am very unsure it is.

1. Systematically, I believe our environmental footprint is approximately how much we earn. I spend less money buying second hand clothes, but I spend those savings elsewhere in the economy.

2. The revenue of a second-hand clothes dealer is spent in the economy, likely causing the average environmental impact of the economy where the store is located.

3. My marginal increase in second-hand clothing usage might cause a marginal increase in new clothes purchases. More likely for expensive “vintage” clothes since they have a limited supply, and vintage goods more likely cause a substitute goods effect for new clothes. Less likely for very low demand undesirable clothes (cheap thrift store clothes that would otherwise just be recycled).

Generally I think that most things make little difference. To make a positive environmental impact I suspect requires one to do something that has a fairly direct effect (plant some trees, change legislation), or reduces societies total impact (war, death, reducing reproduction). Reducing your use of something that is very clearly 100% petrochemical-based (gas, plane flights) makes some difference, but mostly your money goes into the economy: even 100% “green” goods are actually only as green as your country’s economy. There is massive amounts of green-washing going on, so most green goods are actually no better than whatever they replace (and from what I can tell, most green goods are worse for the environment).
> sewing thread cutter

You mean a seamripper?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_ripper
As nice as it is to see some of the old source code released for nostalgia reasons (the old winfile also comes to mind) it's been even nicer to see some of the modern Microsoft apps make their way out as well. I've been able to directly interact with e.g. Windows Terminal development in ways traditional closed development would have just left me frustrated and disappointed.
Bavarian Police Act
Samplers were cheap? I remember the few I might have been able to acquire from the one or two local shops that had Amiga stuff being at least a hundred bucks - a comparative fortune back when I was on $5 a week pocket money.
That sounds beautiful!
Part of this is due to the increased career-orientation of higher education. A century ago, someone could start in the mailroom and gradually learn how a company worked; maybe at some point they would take a night course in accounting or some similar business skill, but the vast majority of what senior management needed to know was learned from experience -- and experience at that company in particular.

Now business undergraduate students don't just sit in classrooms learning about accounting practices and labour law; they're expected to study existing business, take co-op positions, and otherwise gain "real world" experience. A student graduating from a 4 year Undergraduate business program should know far more about business than someone who started in the mailroom 10 years ago.

Meanwhile the other side of business schools -- research -- has also acted to reduce the advantage of gaining experience at any specific business. Researchers study successful businesses, learn what works, publish papers... and eventually teach it to their students. Whereas a century ago, businesses fundamentally did things in different ways, most large businesses follow the same general approaches to things, because those are what the PhDs say are the best ways of running a business. As a side effect, the experience someone gains in one company becomes far more transferable to another; for all that companies talk about getting "fresh ideas" from external hires, external hiring has increased because external hires are now less fresh than they used to be.
A better, safer way to prevent abortions would be to advocate for cheaper (or free) contraceptives.
CVs on withoutdistractions.com are discrimination free!

https://withoutdistractions.com/cv/faq#picture-and-name
I wish I didn’t say this but I just hate using React now. What was once simple is becoming more and more complex and I wish I had just stuck to a more batteries included framework like Angular/Vue/Svelte but the time has passed now. I’m just glad I don’t have to work on Frontend anymore.
Essbase and its Excel plugin is a notable exception.
That’s not related to Microsoft the company. That’s a result of the archivist systems that I had to mess with to get this stuff restored from tapes and CDs. I didn’t feel like changing it too much. So blame me.
Language procurement is best at more youthful ages, when the brain is pliable. Having your kids concentrate on German has financial, scholarly, and instructive advantages that won't take too lengthy to even think about harvesting. Also that is as of now on top of the current benefits of bilingualism!
https://www.sevenmentor.com/german-language-classes-in-pune....
I find it useful to make them when starting something new just to get my thoughts down, but pretty useless to look at one that's remotely complex that someone else has made.
This was pretty much my take a few days back.

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/108202457408618425

Access has value.

Casuals are audience-building.

Identify what elements of the system / platform are in fact saleable vs. which create that saleable prospect is key, and it's something most social media has failed at massively.
That sounds great! Where at?
There is no solution to the Peter Principle. That's actually the thesis of the book. I'd argue that management that can't promote from within has likely already reached the position of their incompetence as well.

There are lots of reasons and every situation varies, but my experience is that the reason people don't get promoted has way more to do with bad management than bad potential managers in the pool.
Why do you assume the "do the research" crowd is the target audience?

There are lots of confused people in the middle of the online debate that never post to social media and need better signposts to tell them whom to trust.
The biggest problem with VS Code is that it doesn't actually do anything, all functionality is performed via plugins which have dramatically different performance.

So most of the time people are not discussing the same application experience. VS Code with nothing installed isn't that bad, once you start actually using it for code then performance drops off a cliff.
At least it's not Java.
One should keep in mind that the literal "best odds", as far as i know, at any casino are on "Don't" bets on craps, after the shooter lands a number and the button says "ON". With odds on your Don't bet, you can take the house edge down to 0.13%, or 13 cents for every $100 you bet. If you don't feel like "laying odds" you can place "Come" bets with odds behind them for 0.16%. I rarely play don't, but when i do, i'm the shooter!
When people reference the CDC not being able to study gun violence, they're referring to the Dickey Amendment of 1996. With the ambiguity in interpretation of "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control" coupled with an earmark that shifted the exact amount the CDC had allocated to gun violence research to something unrelated, it ended up being, at minimum, a de facto ban on gun violence research (with a strongly implied threat of funding cuts for breaking the ban). There were exceptions to the de facto ban when they had marching orders from elsewhere, e.g. Obama's directive after Parkland.

That said, 2018 finally saw an interpretation of the Dickey Amendment codified that allowed, unambiguously, research into gun violence. And 2020 finally saw funding allocated for gun violence research. So, after over two decades, the CDC finally regained both the go ahead and the funding.

Given the above, I think it's still reasonable for people to use the shorthand of saying the CDC had been banned from doing gun violence research. Softening the language to be slightly less absolute would help, but I'd consider people to be in the ballpark of correct when they call it a ban on research. And it's also correct that that's no longer the case, thankfully.
The "last modified" date is 2003, but the story supposedly dates back to 1998. Either way, its criticism of neural networks has not aged well:

> Any automatically trained net with more than a few dozen neurons is virtually impossible to analyze and understand.

While it is still an open area of research to try to get neural networks to explain themselves, the solution to this specific case is quite simple (and has been used in practice, I think):

You flip random bits/pixels of the input image and get the neural network to tell you whether the image looks less or more like a tank. Continue this process in a self-supervised loop and eventually you reach what the neural network thinks is a "maximally tank depicting" image. In this case what you would see is a picture of grey skies and no tanks, which would tell you everything you needed to know.

Anyway, it's a great anecdote, even if it is apocryphal, and I've used it in conversation before because it is a really accessible way to get people to think about the problems of AI training.
I mean it seems you don't really like Frontend — not specifically React
the actual scary people would have the data locked up and be super secret about it. The non scary CDC employees would casually/accidentally leak it to other scary people because there is no reason to believe they are competent or care about security & privacy
I love to walk, I think people should walk more, but I'm baffled by the logic(?) when the author writes,

> Walking twelve miles takes about three and a half hours. Most people don’t have that time, not people with kids, commutes, and full time jobs. A more realistic goal is around seven miles, which takes about two hours.

Maybe they mean spread out over the course of the day?
any success algorithmically trading SPY?
An Empty Stomach Can Lead to an Empty Wallet (2015)
Google's Pixel foldable will have 5.8-inch outer screen
This assumes that official COVID deaths are undercounted but takes earlier pandemic death numbers at face value. That seems counterintuitive. Surely more deaths are counted now that we have more hospitals and better tracking and more countries have universal healthcare?

I'm also extremely skeptical of excess deaths as a figure, but that's beside the point, since - again - there's nothing to compare it to, so it would still be useless even if it were a valid way to estimate COVID deaths.
A curated list doesn't have to be "The Best(tm)" in every choice. It just has to recommend one of the top 3 for every choice and never recommend something that sucks.
> It is still pretty early days

Web components were proposed 11 years ago. Widely available for at least six. When will it stop being "early days"?

Now all the air in browser development has been sucked out of the room by them. Instead of actually moving the web forward browsers are busy patching holes and problems created by web components because they are horrendously badly designed.

And they still have an issue list as long as the equator. Any framework in such a state in "early days" would be laughed out of the room.
What is the right amount of housing to lower rents? How many units should we destroy or prevent to make housing affordable?

Does spreading houses further apart make infrastructure per unit more or less expensive?

Are you seriously anti-housing? Are you pro-homelessness? I honestly don’t get how someone can seriously take an “anti-housing” position, which is what I assume you are when you otherize “pro housing” people.
No worries! I have lived in dense places on the east coast too and always felt super cramped in them as well.
You are correct; thank you for the addendum.

Speaking of mobile, I could also have listed

* Networks (1990-2010)

Encompassing handset and equipment makers, cellular/cable/broadband networks, and ancillary entities like towers. Obviously there is overlap with Internet, but I think the two categories are separate enough, akin to the "Tech", "Media", and "Telecom" buckets of "TMT".

The significance of the Mobile startup cycle starting exactly when the Internet and Networks cycles ended is left as an exercise for the reader.

Two more cycles I omitted are

* Newspapers (1850-1900)

* Film (1920-1950)
I'm very much in favor of this but his observability stack is seriously lacking. With Developer Observability tools this is much easier and more powerful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0DPO5jlZtU
I'm pretty sure they don't check. "May" now means "legal told us to ask you to PLEASE don't do this".

Related, I often see people trip on the sense of MAY in RFCs (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt), because in everyday use it has become "passive-agressive must".

edit: I'm ESL so might be reading way to much into this.
Kotlin's co-routine framework will be able to use Loom style green threads as soon as it comes available. Until then, it uses its own callback based mechanism to schedule co-routines (very similar to using Futures or Promises technically).

If you are already using co-routines, there's very little you will need to do other than updating the library when they add the support for this. Other than that, it indeed already has essentially all of the feature set that Loom adds to Java. So, do several other frameworks like Spring's flux, vert.x, rx java, etc. Kotlin's co-routine framework actually has extension functions for all of these as well as things like threadpools, worker threads, etc. in Java.

The value of Loom is mainly adding low level JVM support for this. Other frameworks will evolve to use that as well. The Java API to this is probably not that interesting; even if you do use Java. You probably should be using something a bit higher level. There are quite many frameworks for Java implementing all sorts of ways to do the same things. All Loom does is add a few useful things for these frameworks to do their thing a bit faster.

Kotlin's co-routine library is actually a multiplatform library that works in natively compiled kotlin on IOS/linux/windows/etc. (and soon wasm), in kotlin-js in a browser or node.js, and in the JVM. On each of these platforms, it uses a platform specific implementation as well as ways to seamlessly interact with platform specific things (e.g. promises in a browser, futures, threadpools, spring fluxes, etc. on the JVM). So, how co-routines are executed and scheduled is platform specific. The resulting code tends to be very portable and look very similar. I actually maintain a few multi platform kotlin things that support co-routines and they work great on both the jvm and in a browser.

When Loom releases, it will just be yet another thing that co-routines can be executed with. On the JVM, you can trivially create a co-routine dispatcher from a thread pool. A co-routine dispatcher is basically where you schedule your suspend functions to run. Loom basically just provides alternate threadpool and thread implementations that follow the same API that use the underlying jvm functionality (which is the really interesting thing it adds). So, the changes for Kotlin's co-routine library to support this are going to be pretty minimal. In fact, a lot of its current extension functions should just work against the Loom API without any changes.

There's nothing in the Loom apis that is particularly interesting if you use co-routines but the low level JVM optimizations are of course interesting from a performance point of view. Also interesting is the improved ease of dealing with stack traces; which can be a bit of a pain point with co-routines on the jvm. So, lots of good reasons for Kotlin users to look forward to this but no big reason to wait for it. You can use co-routines right now and the same code will continue to work great when Loom gets there in an LTS version in a few years. But it might run a little faster and be a bit easier to debug.
yeah just watch the film, the director is obviously intentional about that. Wonder if it's censored out in the united of snowflakes.

Read the book "Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window" too see how the Japanese are really open about body image in early education (which then lead to sex education later). The book is not just about that, but a story that comes to mind is this one about a primary school pool where all kids are naked.
Being near 30 years old a lot of the naming looks hideous because it was developed with 8.3 filenames. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...
Documented reasoning behind that. Nobody said toilet paper was important and it became scarce. Imagine if they said masks were important. PPE would be impossible to get. Even worse than it already was. With stories like this coming to mind: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-comptrollers-o...
> have you heard of the Temple of Artemis? One of the Seven Wonders of the World. Burned down not by a Christian or a Muslim, but by a random Greek guy who wanted his name to be remembered by history

The Temple of Artemis was destroyed and rebuilt a few times. Herostratus burned the second temple in 356 BC and it was rebuilt in 323 BC. The list of ancient wonders dates from the time of the third temple.
Housing like they have in Ukraine. Big hugh apartment buildings would help. (I don't know the water is suspose to come from though? Especially in the Bay Area.)
No, it’s the truth. The BBC has a strong bias when it comes to reporting African news. Just take a look at the African news page, you won’t find anything positive [1].

Currently, headlines are:
- beheading
- al shabaab
- CAR atrocities
- mercenaries
- pollution
- hostages

Basically, nothing positive across a large continent with 750 mil people.

You are bound to get a more balanced coverage at the guardian, DW or Al Jazeera

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world/africa
Cost to rent a typical 2br apartment vs. population density.

* City A: $1,903/mo, 6,158 persons / km²

* City B: $3,685/mo, 6,659 persons / km²

Can you guess which is Tokyo (prefecture), and which is Hong Kong?

2019 report from Deutsche Bank https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...

Another fun data point: Seoul is ~16,000 persons/km² with rent around $1100/mo.
Not all urban parks are created equally. I live close to a park 100s of acres in size in a city (Austin, TX).
Database drivers are commoditized on all major language runtimes. I don’t think this is a reason for it not being a web app.
Yes, the ratio is what it is. In fact, the ratio is c². And yes, it is a big ratio. If you don’t think that the ratio is big, then you are being deliberately obtuse.
I’ve been searching all over and I can’t find any evidence that any Japanese cities are among the most expensive, when looking at housing costs.

Can you please share your sources?
Makes sense. Once we're talking about liquidity, though, there's a wide variety of rich country behaviour that raises food prices: Eating large amounts of grain-fed meat, turning food (or crops grown on land that could have been used to grow food) into ethanol, etc. Maybe the message should be: "Support Ukraine by eating less meat and planting a victory garden." In terms of a concrete government policy, that might look like fixing food and fertilizer imports at last year's levels (from non-Russia countries, imports from Russia would be fixed at 0 due to sanctions), and then figuring out how to feed the country on that plus whatever can be produced internally. That should more or less zero-out the effect of sanctions on global food prices. (Rich countries still contain poor people, so internally they would need to work out a subsidy for plant-based foods.) It should still be easy to feed everyone in a rich country where there's high meat-consumption, high food wastage, and only 1% of the population are farmers. Just stop eating so much meat, and have a few more people start being farmers. The government could hire a bunch of patriotic chemists and engineers to quickly spin up more Haber-Bosch reactors. Rich countries have lots of chemists and engineers. All this will cost money, sure, but think about it as just another kind of military spending. If someone came to me tomorrow saying: "we're building a bunch of Haber-Bosch reactors so we can maintain our sanctions against Russia, the pay is minimum wage, are you in?", I'd quit my current job the very same day. For some reason, our current governments aren't doing these things. Maybe they don't realize the severity of the situation. Maybe they don't care about the world's poor people. Maybe they're smarter than me, and have an even better plan. Still, it's insane to me that getting our butts in gear and making some relatively minor sacrifices in order to cover the shortfall is not being discussed as an option.
In the email Heroku also says any API access tokens will be invalidated upon password reset so those have to be updated too! Not sure how much effort that requires but it doesn’t seem like it’s as easy as just changing a and having to think of a 16 minimum character password ：$

NOTE: A password reset will also invalidate your API access tokens. As a result, any automations you’ve built to integrate with the Heroku Platform API that use these tokens may result in 403 forbidden errors . To avoid downtime you will need to re-enable direct authorizations by following the instructions here and update your integrations to use your newly generated token.
America's Homebuilding Boom (That Isn't): We Need to Build More