skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The poster I responded to asserted some utter nonsense about a serious issue."

Your comment "commenters are so weird" was a reply to my comment, so presumably was directed at me. I didn't assert "some utter nonsense".

"Your claim that tents aren't being removed isn't true either."

The article you linked says that tents are being removed from the Tenderloin, so that they can be relocated to other areas of the city. So, unless you live in the Tenderloin (a small % of SF), your experience will be just like mine: tents are permanent and are not being removed by the police.
> Sounds great to me, can't think of a better way to go about learning things well enough that we can say we know them to an extent.

> If not results from scientific methods, then what's the alternative that should be trusted?

I am not saying that there is a better way to obtain scientific knowledge than through science, what I am saying is that there are other modes of knowledge. For example:

(1) Philosophy. This very discussion is of a philosophical nature. What is knowledge? What modes of knowledge are there? What is science? Why is science useful? What is usefulness? What are the limits of scientific knowledge, if they exist? None of these questions can be answered by application of the scientific method. In fact, the very idea of science is not a scientific theory.

(2) First person experience. Science is about things that can be verified in the third person (measurements), but there are things that can only be experienced in the first person (qualia). Science has nothing to say about e.g. my direct experience of the color red. And is my experience of red the same of yours? Another question that cannot be answered by science (and that maybe cannot be answered at all).

(3) Math. Mathematical proof is a way of obtaining knowledge that is not based on empiricism.

> The part that's forgotten is that the body of scientific knowledge is constantly updated. They're merely the best answers we have at the moment, not final ones.

Not forgotten at all, please re-read what I wrote originally.
The Modern Developer Stack – 2022 Edition
As a small anecdote as someone who switched from atom, the killer feature for VS Code is being extendable AND performant. I used to use atom for a flexible text editor, and then still have to use sublime text if I wanted to open a large file (atom choked on multi MB json files).

I don't know if it's possible to get the performance you need to make an IDE/text editor feel snappy in most situations with a pure DOM solution.
Old but relevant "The submarine" by pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Edit typo: All -> Old
That was annoying for me too. I kept tapping on the underlines to see if those were links, and found that they weren’t.
I hit his videos a couple of time, it was on really niche technical subjects for witch I would not expect a Youtube video to exist. If someone would have made one, it would be better ranked. But sometimes Youtube impress me with videos on some really niche subjects, which is amazing, but when you click on one of his videos, it's really deceiving.
Quite apart from the voice acting, what about the writing itself? As a starting point, how far are we from having bots that can DM a plausible tabletop session?
Definitely the case that the newer more energy efficient coolers and freezers use smaller heat pumps. It can be a real problem if you keep it empty and add a bunch of ‘warm’ thermal mass too, as it can take a day or so to get it down to safe temperatures again in some pathological cases.

I started leaving a gallon jug of water (frozen) in mine as it helps give it enough thermal mass to even out the spikes.

My chest freezer maxes out at 180 watts TDP for instance, which is pretty anemic if you’re trying to freeze a pot of room temperature stew.
Javascript is a good choice for a first language in that a learner can do exciting things with it and development tools are widely accessible. I disagree with the idea of teaching languages being separate from business languages.

That said I think there is value in the idea of a minimal language, so I'll try being the devil's advocate. As far as I can tell Wirth does not think that students should be picking up Pascal these days. He was referring to his thinking back in the 60s when he was discussing the same ideas.

I agree that a first language should show you the concepts that are the best we know, and likely to encounter.

Oberon has numbers, identifiers, expressions, statements, etc. It has subroutines, references to locations in memory, structured control flow, and both simple and complex data types. Its type system is what provides the support for object-oriented programming. This seems like a reasonable set of things that a starting student will encounter.

Can maps be done in this language? Yes. You could in a course introduce the concept of maps by having the students implement them on their own. This reduces the amount of what feels like magic involved in the language, which is something Wirth seems concerned with the most.

Are other elements of functional paradigms likely to be encountered? Really depends. Some languages do not have support for closures even while calling themself functional. They may not guarantee that tail-recursion does not expand the stack. At the same time, Lisp had none of these things in its first implementation, and was still functional-enough to be a educational and research tool. I am not sure it is something that you are likely to encounter in any one form, but the concepts should be taught. You could teach what a closure is by implementing a restricted one inside Oberon, and can do recursive functions as long as the stack allows.

Async has a lot of variation, even if you are likely to encounter it. IMO parallelism is better taught as a concept and then applied using games. It is difficult to build an intuition of it at a programming language level.
im still using workbench.
It is interesting that there is a large number of consultants (I.e: low wage workers) working behind the scenes to support G Map [0]. Cognizant is their employer which is another surprise for me as I always thought it is an Indian company mainly employs people in India for outsourcing projects.
The gas price is so ridiculously high in WA now that they are asking to postpone the RTO full time plan in June. I have switched to Apple Map since 2018 and still don’t miss GMap.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/google-maps-wo...
Yes, you're right. Another benefit of epub is that existing reader apps already have good support for highlights, bookmarks and comments.
Our small town gets a "pass" every once in awhile (amusingly enough you can be on one side of the street and see the older view as it's clearly summer, the other side of the street is newer and you can see the new gas station in winter).

I suspect that for smaller towns they have some sort of trigger based on things like new gas stations opening, etc, that causes a car to go by eventually.
It's not important enough to justify the valuation. I believe that was GP's argument.
Really? It sounds to me like they are relying on "motivation" which will inevitably wane. That's different than what I'm speaking to.

Think about somebody who grinds out of a sense of duty (high on the "conscientiousness" scale of personality traits). They may not be motivated by the task itself, but are still able to continue the effort because of it's intrinsic rewards (for fueling their identity as a dutiful person, for example).

A parent may not feel motivated all the time regarding doing "silly" activities with their children. But they can push forward anyways, because the idea of "being a good parent" is intrinsically rewarding.
The industry is still relatively young. Plenty of tech workers have retired but they weren’t web devs because the web wasn’t as prevalent yet. My dad was one! He was a project manager for giant mainframe stuff that doesn’t really exist these days.

Startups can easily lead to burnout. Tech itself doesn’t necessarily. I think I’d be quite happy spending my twilight working years at some kind of bigcorp saving up for retirement.
This will continue to be true for at least the next few decades. There is no technology on the horizon that would allow for dramatic cost reductions in long-range drones with good sensors.
I wished that when it is unnotched, scrolling would behave like scrolling on a trackpad. It still jumps lines, instead of smoothly moving. The sideway scrolling is awful. No idea how far to scroll before something starts to move.

The mouse is definitely nice to hold, but trackpads still provide a much better scrolling experience. Excel with large row-height is near impossible to navigate without a touch pad in my opinion (and whoever at Microsoft thought it was a good idea to only be able to scroll in whole cells should never work in usability again)
Reddit.
Metafilter.
Metafilter seems to be not as popular as it once was. This means an answer won't be immediate.
RTFM won't help when you want to know industry best practices, for example, or want to find someone who's been through an experience you're about to suffer.
TripAdvisor.
Google unfortunately won't be of much help.
Regarding the deployment and testing, this is a direction I hope to take the content on the Branch CI (https://www.branchci.com/) and WP Pusher (https://wppusher.com/) blogs in the coming months!
Of course, use the right tool for the job.
If you are having sex with someone, you are generally exchanging multiple fluids, breathing the same air, and having non-genital skin to skin contact. Because something can be transmitted sexually does not mean it's considered an STI. Based on what you have read, would preventing fluid exchange in intercourse prevent transmission?

You are technically correct about covid. However - and this was my point - if you have sex with someone with active, transmissible covid without substantial and properly fit PPE you are probably going to catch covid. It doesn't matter what type of sexual behavior you engage in, or what safer sex precautions that you take. That does not make covid an STI.
Most major cities (where most of the population lives) have been mapped out.
I'd highly recommend checking out https://www.mathacademy.us

It's current targeting students, but works well for adults too. There is no better online math training around, and it goes up to graduate level math.

The founder talks about it regularly on his podcast and it's pretty amazing to hear the progress and how comprehensive it is: https://techzinglive.com
How can we be making the same point? Yours rests on the statement "It's the same reason most "Muslims" don't "care" about Al Qaeda and ISIS." which is objectively untrue.

Low sympathy due to a few Uyghur terrorists has nothing to do with it. There is no international political solidarity among Muslims based on faith, Palestine has proven that. That's just business and realpolitik.

As for their treatment, who cares what beliefs/excuses the Chinese people have/give? Oppressors always have some BS reason for what they'll support.
Yup, it's already being used as a placeholder during the process in some AAA games but I assume we're not far off the quality needed for final assets, even dynamically generated locally. Same goes for art, even narrative elements at some point.
I found this passage [0] in the DDG help:

> Ad clicks are managed by Microsoft’s ad network.

> Microsoft and DuckDuckGo have partnered [..] Microsoft Advertising will use your full IP address and user-agent string so that it can properly process the ad click and charge the advertiser

It seems DDG is not that privacy focused when it comes to ads.

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
It's not my "baby", just one of many programming languages I'm using or design myself; but is't a great example for how good you can get with a minimal language design. Personally I prefer strictly/statically typed languages.
In that sense, Pakistanis would be ‘Indian’, as would Bangladeshis, Nepalis, and Bhutanese, since they are on the Indian subcontinent.
Do you have some evidence of that or is this rather a feeling of yours? (Genuinely interested)
I will get down-vote for sure but it's trivial this book and also the series "category theory for programmers". It's actually not very far from the content of several first pages of any book on set theory or logics.

I find the ubiquitous idea is that "category theory" is more prestigous than "set theory", and some programmers, instead of seriously learning mathematics, think that learning category theory would fill up their lack of knowledge (in mathematics). It's quite contrary since category theory alone (i.e. without context) is trivial.

Let's be honest: read this book and the series of the author, and try to use the acquired knowledge to prove some (even simple) mathematical theorems.
In terms of tech innovations in the modern day, 15 years is an eternity. Google didn't take 15 years to become a massive search engine, FB didn't take 15 years to become the dominant social network.

Bitcoin was supposed to have started acting counter-cyclically (like gold) when it got mass adoption. So, 2018?

Instead, it acts like leveraged NASDAQ in its pricing, and has absolutely none of the utility that a cryptocurrency probably should have. The only benefit of bitcoin is name recognition. That doesn't create a currency or a store of value. The volatility of BTC/USD has only increased, as well as the correlation with QQQ, which does not suggest that BTC will ever become a store of value.

All fundamental signs point to a $0 value for bitcoin. Unfortunately, the dinosaur coin (BTC) will probably drag down the coins with utility (eg Solana, Zcash, and Monero) with it.
>We're literally seeing that now. The money is flowing out of BTC even faster than all the other investments losing value.

Yes, but other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
It definitely helps get a "feel" for the neighborhood but it can often be out of date.

I've noticed some real estate listings now include drone shots, perhaps to compensate.
I totally get that; I was pointing out that people often think "I arrange my finances properly and use deductions correctly/as-intended and all these other assholes are taking advantage of tax loopholes. (Things I use are proper deductions; things others use are disgusting loopholes.)"
Cloudflare workers: $0.15 per 1M requests per month, minimum charge of $5 per month.

Free tier is 100 000 requests per day

Here's the pricing page: https://workers.cloudflare.com/#plans
I've read through most of SICP, but I never found what's so great about it. Maybe it is that you can apply this argument to any other language as well: Represent your theoretical model as data structures that you control, instead of giving up control to the compiler.

Representing code as data is not very interesting IMO. Code is code, data is data. Granted both are stored in RAM, but they are very different beasts considering how they flow through the machine. Almost any language allows to parameterize over functions (e.g. function pointers), but there is no need to make closures a first class citizen. After all, closures are a brutal abstraction, isolating any context from the caller. When overdone this ends up in a terrible mess where you don't know what's happening anymore (otherwise known as callback hell). Conclusion, use this only as a last resort.
NetBSD (Pkgsrc) from Scratch Episode 8: D'Un OS à L'Autre
To engage in rational discourse one has to a at least put minimum effort in the topic
I never thought of it this way, but wow. I am imagining these laws as some weird Jungian subconscious thing.
Dang, I've actually never thought about this but it is such a powerful tool for checking how the neighborhood looked like before.
you can log in with your personal Google account for a few mins, install the app and logout.

E: not very useful if you don't use "Google Play" Store
This is what's appealing with the complex layouts with < 50 keys. It's satisfying to be able to drive a system with hands sticking close to home row, and rarely straying from the same column.
The limits of vision: seeing shadows in the dark
Indeed. Have many years worth of photos on my phone (also backed up elsewhere ofc), well above 10k, and it has no problem browsing them. Many others bog down on this.

Love being able to browse so far back without having to go over internet (google photos or dropbox or ...).
Thanks this was the information I was looking for and glad I won't be moving off AWS Lambda anytime soon.

Really puzzling why DO would announce a new product and make it more expensive than incumbents.

Typically, you would want to undercut existing competitors right out of the gate because your competitors will do it for you....by making the first move to reduce their prices, diminishing your own market.

Perhaps there is some other lining here but I don't understand how you launch a serverless hosting and make it more expensive than AWS.
In case of most ordinary datasets it simply doesn’t matter in practice. Even comenius logo would be adequately fast.
Perhaps, tie some of the mathematics to the region/location where the mathcation is. Mathematical thinking does require space (so free time after "classes including learning mathematically about the location) to just think freely in addition to the rigorous focus needed when actively working on a problem or learning a concept.
> Nuclear has a much better uptime then current renewable tech. In the winter, there is zero sunshine in North America for 10+ hours a day. And it just so happens that we hit peak energy usage while the sun is down.

A renewable energy grid would be anti-fragile. We would know we could handle an outage because we'd encounter them regularly. Unlike nuclear, which goes down so infrequently that outages cause real problems.

We don't hit peak energy usage when the sun goes down. We hit peak energy usage when solar power is about 30% off peak and wind energy is at peak.

> For nuclear, you only need storage "peaker plants" to smooth out demand. To go all in on renewalable and solar, you actually need to be able to service 100% of demand, for many hours, from storage. It won't be feasible for decades.

It's feasible today. These guys are doing it: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/inside-8minute-...

> I think your estimate for tens of TWh/year by mid 2030s is reasonable. But most of that is for EVs. Tesla has the largest currently running and the largest in-the-pipeline lithium ion battery factories, but all those batteries are going straight into an EV.

Tesla barely makes the top ten even if you count the Nevada factory as theirs. You shouldn't, because Panasonic makes the batteries in the Nevada gigafactory. CATL is by far the biggest battery manufacturer.

> Even if we dedicated 100% of batteries we can produce to be grid storage, we wouldn't have enough until ~2040. And, by the way, they all need to be replaced by 2050 because the cells all degrade and become dangerous.

You don't put 10 year batteries into storage facilities. LiFePo4 batteries are cheaper, last a lot longer and degrade a lot more safely. They're heavier so aren't commonly used in cars outside of China, but storage uses don't care about weight.
I'm still skeptical but willing to give the benefit of the doubt. What makes you think engineering and physics are definitely geared for academics?

I ask because all of the PhDs I've worked with outside of academia are from engineering and physics, save one from sociology and three from psychology. (The latter were geared to human factors of engineering problems).
I'll note that your comment here is staying up no problem, which wouldn't be the case if you mentioned Winnie the Pooh in China.
> As it stands bitcoin is a decentralised casino.

Casinos serve alcohol.
“Bing search contract prohibits DDG browser from blocking Microsoft tracking scripts by default”?
>> Sovereign currencies are backed by military force.

> many of us choose crypto for this reason, it isnt backed by military force. it is backed by the work and collaboration and agreement of people all over the world.

You're missing the point. It's not about aesthetics.
Morrowind is my favorite game that I've never completed. I've started it a dozen times, devoured the lore, savored its truly unique setting, but I cannot get past some of the more outdated mechanics. Still, I love Morrowind nonetheless, which is saying something.
"einfach" sounds a bit naughty...
I also find locating images an interesting skill to develop. I originally only wanted to mention https://old.reddit.com/r/picturegame,* which I find more "organic" than Geoguessr: players submit single images, which are identified using whatever means are available. It has a quirk in that often people submit images found online, which must be obfuscated to prevent trivial reverse image searching. A randomly transformed translucent mask is recommended, but those are still relatively easily reversed! I haven't tried, though--maybe there's greater difficult than at first apparent.

* It turns out, after an HN search, that this is a more common organized activity than I'd thought; this thread lists several other communities:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692172
> What are homeless people actually meant to do?

In neoliberalism; "Hurry up and die."
The MX Master 3 mouse is far and away the best mouse I've ever used. It switches easily between computers, feels great, has great functionality and most importantly, doesn't leave my wrist hurting at the end of the day (which I what brought me to try it out in the first place).

Yes, I can look into other options, but this is targeting people like me, who are already in the logitech ecosystem and are happy there. I can try my luck with another brand that I may or may not like more, or I can go with this and hope that it's of similar quality to other devices in the MX sub-brand.