skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing should have a much bigger public part. It is very hard to make it reasonably work in the "economy" (Vienna 65% and heard that Singapore is at 80%).

In "northern" countries, more homeless ppl than the public infrastructure can handle means death during winter.

Dealing with this issue is then embedded in the core of their culture.

There, not dealing with this issue is almost first degree murder.
Can someone familiar with these make the case for why I should be using them (or at least one specific app in the suite)?
It happened only after it turned out Ukraine has own army able to do the bloody part by themselves. No western army is fighting there. It is also funny how you ignore role of Eastern European countries who engaged heavily in the matter.

While I distinctively recall non-westerners arguments on HN about how "Russia treats Ukraine with kids gloves" or "America did bad things and therefore it is OK for Russia to invade Ukraine" (somehow punishing Ukrainians for American history). Or how "since countries around Ukraine did not locked Ukrainians inside, they are bad nah, I will not talk about how our own countries treats refugees nah".

"It is unfair to provide material support to Ukraine, unless you are willing to also invade and occupy China over their crimes" is not particularly strong argument. Especially not if the fully expected corollary is "but if you do what we now demand we will blame you for international aggression".
The fact that said lizards are not actually conspiring amongst themselves does not mean the lizards do not see furthering of the surveillance states as a convenient ancillary benefit.

People ascribe to government officials way too much competence and way too little desire to consolidate power and rule absolutely
Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!
Yes, I intentionally used the word "automatically" to my description, since it's very obvious to me that it's already often doable if a human is willing to engage their brain and do research. Whenever I use airbnb, I make a game out of finding the actual addresses of the places I'm considering based on clues I can see in the photos and approximate maps on the site.
I worked for several different charities for a few years. Supposedly "good ones", a couple of big names. After what I have seen I don't think I'd ever donate to a charity. The CEO's pay is almost the least concern, everything runs according to the whims of people who wouldn't last 5 minutes in a for-profit business. The people donating just want to feel good about themselves or get some positive press for donating. Those are the real customers, that's the real product, and that's what the charity focuses on delivering first and foremost. They have a couple of "showcase" projects/centers/cases they use for the cameras over and over again and the rest of the work is done as cheaply as possible to get their numbers up. The disconnect between the folks on the ground and what's happening in at the home office is greater than anywhere else I've ever seen.

In terms of finances, the real money is in fundraising. From the perspective of the charity, spending $999 on fundraising to raise $1000 dollars in donations is a net positive and huge amounts of money are "wasted" on fundraising efforts. If you want a lucrative career in the industry, being a freelance fundraising consultant is definitely the way to go. You can ask for nearly as much as you can raise and you get none of the scrutiny the CEOs get.
Truely fascinating.
The thing is that people with RVs in Europe usually hop around countries a lot. In Australia or the US there is enough space in the country. Almost everyone who has an RV stay 2-3 months per country and then go to another. A group of people who rock up to where I live are old friends together from Sweden who come over in 7 RVs for 2 months via Germany, Denmark, France , Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
This is a good overview of my thoughts on it. A few years ago I had a number of colleagues flogging the "I love Go, the code flies from my fingers!" drum, but I didn't get it. Yeah, you know what you have to type but in a more expressive language you don't have to type it at all! It felt like they were making the "Don't mistake motion with action" mistake.

But, people can like what they like, it's all good.
With the impeding electrification we might eventually see walkers on skis-shaped feet, as a compromise between load distributed over a large area and a narrow tread not usable for growing. They'd also excel in the metric of total traction per peak surface load.

Key technology of electrification would be tethered drone swarms that feed from the cable they carry, because I'd assume that you'd want to separate batteries from your actors so that they are flexible you work from grid infrastructure just as well as from some battery truck tagging along on an access road (which brings us back to surface load, you wouldn't want the battery loading soil you still want to grow in).
Exactly. You would have to believe that taxes do 5x more public good per dollar than charities.

With defense spending, pet projects, and incompetence, it is hard to make a case that they are on parity.
I'm glad to see this surface again, I lost track of it for a couple years and surfaced it about six months ago.

Are you open to feedback in the spirit of collaboration? I've considered opening an issue or two on the repo, but it always feels a bit presumptuous to do that when one person is the author of the entire project.

I like the way you think about these things and I find CE quite promising.
I've always wanted to ask this to a Chinese developer: How common is it to avoid the number four in Chinese developer's version numbers? I know for example buildings in China avoid floor #4 in buildings like with #13 in the US.
Agree with this, but the openbsd codebase, tends to be pretty consistent in style conventions and layout.

Fortunately, the word complexity was not used there, and it's nice to see if this subsystem, or protocol, or driver, etc takes two orders of magnitude more than the others.
What a cool idea! I’d never heard of this, I guess you’ve now cost me 100s of hours of my life.

So thanks!
That the data was ignored (by everyone!) months latter is a very different point.
Hi vincent_s,

Thanks a lot for sharing this!

I actually deleted my Instagram, along with Facebook, but I've been considering setting up some kind of photo blog where I write out detailed descriptions of the set and setting for every photo I posted there during my time on The Website.

Real life is messy, and what's important is the trendline, not individual data points.

For example, if this was ten years ago, I'd be hung over, barely able to code, trying to get through some dense cryptography paper despite never having taken calculus, nearly punching someone in a cafe because I thought I heard them use a very offensive word for black people, only to have them chuckle and explain it's the name of a group of people in the region between Russia and the parts of China that are home to a different ethnic group.

Instead, I'm running a script I wrote that will help me gather data for an investment theory I'm working on (and will test) while catching up on the news from a location other than my home, because I got tired of unusual coincidences.

You don't want to be a debbie downer, but yeah, too much positivity can be a bad thing, IMHO.

- Greg.

Edit: Whoops, hit post early. I'm still skittish in public due to COVID, sometimes I post too quickly.
Yeah I self-published a novel last year, in French. It has been mostly a positive experience. The book did relatively well, was selected as one of the five finalists of the Amazon Storyteller contest (out of 1200+ contestants) and is still selling a little.

Before that, it had been refused by all the publishing houses I sent it to (10 of them); and the experience was rather unpleasant. There are no agents in France (the market is too small); authors send their works to publishers, on paper (nobody accepts electronic versions), and then wait between 1 to 4 months for a response. Negative answers are just a polite "no" with never any justification, or ideas for improvements, etc. (Positive answers, I don't know.)

For my next book I don't think I will even attempt trade publishing; why print so many copies, send them via post, and wait three months. I'd rather spend the time and money on getting early reviews.

I understand the appeal of traditional publishing when the full power of an established house pushes a book everywhere and gets lots of press; but if you don't get the full treatment there is little point nowadays.
> It can benefit security too: no longer can "npm install" consume your private stuff. Worst case - take your source code and, given properly isolated dev env, take only development secrets and data, which must not be useful.

GitLab team member here. Very good point, thanks. A different way for supply chain attacks, the local dev environment.

Similar thought with install routines in extensions (and dependencies) that are scanning your local home directory, where Git/cloud/etc. secrets might be stored in plain-text. Fixable in my environment, can become a problem with teams and onboarding at scale.

The limitations can also bring in new views, for example to switch to using time limited tokens instead of plain text auth (Hashicorp Vault, etc.) and evaluate more possible attack vectors, and ways to mitigate and observe security problems.

A remote development environment runs in a sandbox, similar to a container in CI/CD jobs, can be limited with auth and access, and also be monitored for syscalls and other unexpected behaviour.

Potentially interesting for Ops running the remote development platforms (e.g. Gitpod) - Falco, Cilium, eBPF, etc. for security observability. More updates and ideas in the eBPF day recordings from KubeCon EU last week. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2PzqjM3DTYj...
History is chock full of people in positions of power pissing away all sources of resources and closing the door to all sorts of prosperity for both themselves and for the people subject to their actions in order to further consolidate power.
we've become to dependent on a centralized supply chain also.
currentColor comes in handy with SVG's too. https://jsfiddle.net/gRoberts/nsjb2dyp/

D'oh, I couldn't read the article as it was throwing a 500 error but now it's working I see that they highlighted this.
I'm sure we'll start hearing "I AI-posted on HN for 4 years, got X karma, and no one suspected" type stories pretty soon. Eventually people could start asking for badges or flair that verify users as not being AI. It's simultaneously exciting and daunting standing at the dawn of this.
Academia. At least, its widespread (almost universal) where I am studying. Mainly to manage citations, figures, and tables of contents automatically. Tools like Sharelatex are used for collaboration on papers.
But then it might be time do declare it stable.
I don't have a dog in this fight.

But, hilariously, despite the channel being called "Common Sense Skeptic" (thought it might be a science-y channel), every video is an Elon Musk takedown.

"Has an agenda" indeed, haha!!
Having worked at non-profits, the distribution of wages can be unlike anything ever seen at for-profit corporations and has made me become quite cynical. At a couple of the organizations I was involved with, there was lots of unpaid volunteering, grossly under-market salaries, and unpaid overtime at the bottom of the hierarchy with anemic pay all the way up the pyramid until you reached the CEO position. The CEOs rarely did much of anything except help keep alive the notion that everyones sacrifice was worth it. In one instance, the CEO went on sabbatical for over a year, appointing a few senior management to share their leadership role and the whole operation actually seemed to function better while they were gone.

I don't have anything against a non-profit CEO paying themselves well if they also pay their employees well. Many do not, with some unspoken culture of employees needing to accept meager compensation so that resources can be directed toward the core mission whose objectives are fluid and progress often difficult to measure.
What's the difference between someone who donates because it makes them feel good (to have a positive impact on the world) and someone who does it because they want to have a positive impact on the world?

There isn't one. It's the same thing.

All choices can be traced back to a "selfish" reason. To deny that is to suggest that there is something other than our self that determines if we are a good person or not.
Emotive Conjugation: I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool
> “The university’s decision will have a powerful chilling effect on free speech, because anyone who might wish to express a controversial opinion knows that they must first ask themselves if their personal life can stand up to the kind of relentless scrutiny that Dr. Katz’s life was subjected to … .”

This is the essence of free speech and critical for the continuation of thoughtful discourse. Instead, we're at the mercy of cancel culture and toxic positivity. I can't wait until dissent and unpopular opinions are free to exist.
Agree, Rudin is excellent as a second course on real analysis, but as a first one it is absolutely terrible.
Great optical illusion at 10.51 min: https://youtu.be/f8DQSM-b2cc?t=648
I think Go had a great observation that reading complexity != writing complexity for a language, and that many features which make writing coffee easier make the language harder to read.

Go also made the fantastic decision to design in concurrency as a primitive... And then kinda for on the hill of generics. There's a lot to be said for choosing the right set of features, keeping the code readable as a first priority, and letting libraries handle the rest... Need a lathe? Import lathe!
The situation for indigenous people in the USA is awful, sure, but it's not even remotely equivalent. The tribes determine who is or isn't a tribal member. In China the state determines such things and are actively packing the minorities with Han.
I’m not sure the kidney analogy holds. Kidney donation refusal seems like an act of omission; whereas the active steps to abort a fetus are acts of commission. These are too distinct in ethical discussions.

Bodily autonomy is usually clear in most instances, but it might be overridden by personhood, so it doesn’t help resolve the debate to everybody’s satisfaction.
The Bitcoin speculation thesis will live on --- proving that new suckers are born every minute.
I know that HN policy is to take the best faith interpretation, but I'm really struggling here. The ramifications of what you suggested are boggling to consider- any developer of any system must implement and require a network at the lowest of levels... That would be impossible to enforce, and a nightmare to implement. Secondly, theres still nothing to prevent dark networks from emerging. Once its out there, its out there. Key/license servers would be even more of a target for corruption, exploits, and circumvention than encryption servers, with all of the same problems we see currently. In no world is this possible, never mind livable. It would be Orwellian to even imagine.
Morrowind, on the xbox, would completely reboot the xbox after presenting a static loading screen, in a last ditch effort to allow the user to keep playing. [1]

1. https://kotaku.com/morrowind-completely-rebooted-your-xbox-d...
Noam Chomsky and GPT-3
NASAs Planetary Defense team builds software to detect asteroids before they hit
But only for tasks that aren't limited by traction, unless you put mighty jet engines on that poor little airship for tilling.
In this matter, my opinion of statistics is that it does not really teach 'math', it teaches how to use 'math' to derive information. Pretty much applied math.

I see this question as 'Why does math students not take Thermal Mechanics' or 'Why does math students not take Nuclear Methods'. The answer is just that, they do not teach math, they teach an application of math. Your math knowledge has not really grown.
Author is complaining not all compilers satisfactorily support C++20 modules. But how is support for C17 features? Kernel only just switched to C11.
That’s interesting.

Is it really a problem that requires manually writing the code? Seems like there should be more elegant solutions by this point.
Any sexual contact is going to result in a high chance for transmission.

Both gay men and lesbian women prefer oral sex. This is well studied but not widely known because it goes against popular ideas of what counts as sex.
If a charity to which I contribute does a single thing I don't like, I can decide to never give them another penny.

If the government doesn't do a single thing I like, more than half my income still goes to taxes each year to fund the government (income, property, sales, etc.), and there is nothing I can realistically do to change that.

Which one is accountable?
Mine shows the same deposit and price of $110 /mo. Along with $599 for equipment.

Midwest.
I'm definitely in the pro-government-involvement camp but

> There are no examples in the history of the world of charity sufficiently providing for the needs of the poor at a national scale.

This is just false. Literally right now we have the case where food banks are filling in the gaps of the UK government at a national scale.
It's kind of interesting that there's more horsepower/cores in the load balancers than in the downstream web/app servers...4xAX41 vs 3xAX41. So I imagine something is different about the workload there versus a typical load balancer.
> something faster

I don't know that this is the major pain point. The thing is, writing complex-structure/programmed documents is not something which needs immediate re-rendering with every character - just like you don't recompile your program with every character you change.

This would, however, be very useful for syntax and compiler-detectable error. You would have an effectively-immediate indication of warnings and errors per line in your document, like an IDE. So it would be Java-like compilation speed rather than C++-like compilation speed...

> safe

LaTeX programming is basically sandboxed, or at least you have to work _very_ hard to do dangerous things.

> latex is still very good at what people want it to do

That's not it. It is actually usually pretty bad in doing what we want it to do (e.g. tables. Oh, the pain!) ... but what it has going for it is that you can do almost anything you want?: It will take effort and the "source code" will be ugly, but it'll work.
Storing a set of coordinates for the timezone though would be more useful and future proof. The general case is a range which is the timezone bound, but full accuracy means you can store much more specific data.
Gold standard equation editing.
Love streetview through a VR headset. So many empty museums to see, so many places to visit around the world, except Germany
This is very cool! I wonder if Videogrep works better with videos sourced from Youtube (consistent formats, framerates, bitrates) compared to arbitrary sources.

I've used ffmpeg before to chop video bits and merge them before. Mixed results. It'd struggle to cut at exact frames or the audio would go out of sync or the frame rate would get messed up.

I gave up and decided to tackle the problem on the playback side. Like players respect subtitle srt/vtt files, I wish there were a "jumplist" format (like a playlist but "intra-file") that you could place alongside video/audio files, and players would automatically play the media as per markers in the file, managing any prebuffering, etc. for smooth playback.

For a client project, I did this with the Exoplayer lib on Android, which kinda already has an "evented" playback support where you can queue events on the playback timeline. A "jumplist" file is a simple .jls CSV file with the same filename as the video file.

Each line contains:
<start-time>,<end-time>,<extra-features>

"extra-features" could be playback speed, pan, zoom, whatever.

Code parses the file and queues events on the playback timeline (On tick 0 jump to first <start-time>, on each <end-time> go to next <start-time>).

I set it up to buffer the whole file aggressively, but that could be improved. Downside may be that more data is downloaded than is played. Upside is that multiple people can author their own "jumplist" files without time consuming re-encode of media.
I think tarring the entire field of scientific research by saying "I claim I found serious flaws in a few unnamed papers" is pretty meaningless. Provide specifics!
Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard
European fruit with traces of most toxic pesticides ‘up 53% in nine years’
Sure, time zones are real† and therefore developers need to model them correctly.

†arbitrary, yes, but real

I'm saying something stronger than it often isn't necessary, I'm saying that storing time zones as part of a time is almost always the wrong thing to do.

For example: if your show is broadcast first in Eastern then in Central time, that's one thing. What if it shows in Canada the next day? All of a sudden you really wish you had modeled space separately from time.

Even when some event is time-zone-gated, this will correspond to one exact moment in time, and for e.g. server provisioning that instant is what matters. Including a time zone can only lead to missing that instant, it can never help you find it.
Scale is not size.
My use case was for getting easy marks for proper APA formatting, which Zotero/EndNote and Mendeley don’t quite cover in one pass.
IIRC each satelite has ~20 gbps capacity, which might not be enough to serve locations with a dense number of subscribers such as big cities.
So stop using big engines carrying fuel in the machines? Just run electric wires to poles and then run a retractable wire to the machine.
Thanks for posting this —- I posted the same objective criticism of the title and was almost instantly downvoted to -1. I expect this was in part because I also implicitly criticized HN voters for voting the original submission, which was pretty information-free, to the front page.

The theranostic aspect to me is the most interesting part.
> Yet there are lots of real authoritarian governments in the world today whose path can be studied, in case you want to look for more real-world evidence of how the process typically happens.

Hitler started with redefining every day language and influencing/gaining control over youth groups as soon as he had power.
Okay, but the top comment as I’m writing this is someone saying they have already been using the standard service, in a mobile fashion, mounted to the top of their van.

So my question to Starlink would be, what’s the difference? If I want to get an RV and work remotely using Starlink, why wouldn’t I just get the standard service, and avoid these restrictions on the RV service? I suppose the more flexible monthly billing & the ability to pause service on demand are the killer features?

The language of that TOS is quite concerning to someone thinking of using this in a professional setting.
For most usages, you don't need to write the code. Sometimes buff out rough edges for your specific application, but in my 12 years in academia, I think I've only really _written_ Latex twice.