skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is needlessly derisive / combative (and frankly has no place on HN). There are many reasons why one would choose to live in a more populated area.
They used this song in Spanish class I took in Medellin. I think I’m not the only one who spent some time there and spends some time here on HN. Don’t underestimate that Venn diagram :)
(Does early Shakira count?)
The same way oil-scarce regions don't compete against oil-rich ones. Geography is destiny, and nations specialize in industry for a reason, beyond the universals (food, education, justice and social welfare).
It knows who I am. My username isn't that obscure though. It told me it found me on reddit and stackoverflow when I asked.

Who owns the username bsunter?""

The user name "bsunter" is most likely owned by a person named Brian Sunter.

https://twitter.com/Bsunter/status/1541106363576659968?s=20&...
It's easier to cash out on a "startup" if you don't require any real product. I think that's about it.
> So while the design of the Phone 1 is quite unique

I am certain it reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
How many lives have been saved by Covid-19 vaccines?
You are one google blacklist away from losing access to everything.
The evolution you described happened only because the internet is freely accessible to anyone, anywhere, except if you're a communist. Reverting it back to some state you deem worthy is saying the internet was broken. Trying to nudge the Web into some direction you like is exactly the thing that will destroy the Web.

If you don't like subreddits, twitter, or the mass produced crap - avoid it and focus on what you like. The early internet stuff has not been banned and banished. Some if it has been forgotten, maybe, but nobody is going to go through the trouble of keeping a VHS store just to tickle your nostalgia.

I still can find a community to play Re-Volt with. That is only possible because of the internet and the way it is.
I use RSS extensively and in multiple ways. I rely on it a lot. I love it and need it in my life. The number of websites that no longer support RSS (or try not to coughyoutubecough) is a crime against the internet IMO.

* I near-exclusively access my text-based news via RSS, mostly via thunderbird, using many many RSS feeds gathered over years. I got here from an RSS feed.

* I run scripts which monitor a few web pages and give me RSS output, so that I can see new posts on these pages mixed in with my news.

* I use an RSS reader on my phone to notify me of certain events, and I have an RSS monitor widget for those events in my task bar on my desktop.

* For work, I scrape something on the order of ~200K RSS feeds and ~20mil feed items every ~couple of days.
So, put “those people” in the Matrix, so they won’t be a problem instead of addressing the real problem of a lopsided economic system is the answer?
> And gmail etc has a shit ton of ads

Where? There are, sometimes, 1-2 ads in the "Promotions" tab, which i really wouldn't call "a shit ton".

Breitbart and Epoch Times shouldn't come up anywhere close to anything with "News" in the name.
This. I shut down a side business late last year because steel prices were already up 50% in Europe. Most don't pay attention to commodity prices because they aren't exposed to them.

There's also much willful ignorance and motivated reasoning. I've seen people in the US blame it on Build Back Better spending, seemingly unaware that BBB didn't pass.
Do you know why it is unable to? (Serious question)
I don't think Google search not performing as many people would prefer is due to technological short-comings of the platform.

I wonder if a co-op model, for at least search functionality, is realizable in the near term. What I mean is using cloud resources to spin up an indexing/search interface with minimal management that can be used by any number of shared participants for a fraction of the total compute/storage costs. It wouldn't be purely decentralized in the blockchain/p2p sense but "decentralized-enough" perhaps to function much better for results people actually want to find. The costs would naturally scale with the desired level of decentralization.
I don't agree with his interpretation. As I understand it, the long tail as applied to business just means that there is a significant chunk of the market made up of a big number of small items. You wouldn't try to disprove this by showing that blockbuster movie releases make up a huge portion of the movie industry, or that Spotify is a big player in the music industry, or that Amazon is a big player in the retail space, because the long tail doesn't preclude those things.

If you wanted to argue against the existence of a long tail, you'd say something like "if Netflix got rid of everything except a few, very successful movies, their subscription revenue wouldn't change much", or "most people who pay for Spotify would keep paying even if the least popular 95% of the artists left" or "people don't value the fact that they can buy pretty much anything they can think of on Amazon," all of which seem like obviously incorrect statements (with no data on my part to back that up).

The existence of aggregators doesn't disprove the long tail, you just have to talk about the long tail in terms of what people do inside those aggregators.
a lot of cars these days come with something other than a shifter knob to control the transmission. buttons, dials, you name it
Fundamental problem with grapheme clusters as a basic programming language concept is that they are not uniformly defined, they depend on grapheme_extend property of unicode characters, which are known only for already defined codepoints. Which means that such splitting is problematic to be done in forward-compatible manner. It is also costly and in many cases not necessary. Which makes it more suitable to be provided by a library than to be a core language concept.

Secondary issue is that with codepoints (or bytes) as basic concept one can compose grapheme clusters in the same manner as general text composing, while if grapheme clusters are basic concept then one needs specialized operation for composing them from codepoints.

OTOH, pretty much agree that O(1) access to code point is not important and keeping internal representation in UTF-8 (or in input encoding) is OK for most purposes.
"If you don't like it leave" is a solution to many problems. Just not one that people find acceptable or sometimes even possible.
not to be all "this is what they want you to think", but this is the very message I'm talking about

if this was the 50s or 60s, they would have made this search engine publicly-owned, and today it would be a cherished part of society being threatened and/or deliberately sabotaged by the corporate right of politics, a la the BBC, or the NHS, or Medicare/aid, or libraries, or youth centres, or public schools, or whatever equivalent you have of those in your country
What could go wrong?

https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2013/04/18/massive-texas...
Required reading when discussing Sanger: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2015/08/20/false-narrati...

And what Planned Parenthood has to say about her these days: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/opinion/planned-parenthoo...

As with the Founding Fathers often owning slaves, important people can also have very shitty aspects. Surprise!
> in which to nurture a family

Over the years I've noticed basically every zoning argument turns emotional like this, you can't have logical, considered debate. It's always about the home rather than the land it sits on.
It’s not always easy to migrate identities, especially if your identity has built up reputation or trust in a community.
If you carefully manipulate the array to produce some different array, and then convert back to string/text, you can preserve the grapheme clusters just fine.

Just like the way string manipulating routines that don't know anything about Unicode can work with UTF-8 without breaking the text, simply by not truncating or separating the data in the middle of a UTF-8 sequence.
I personally like the idea that, when this life ends we judge ourselves.

Of course, I have no idea whether this is the reality. :)

Regardless, it is a idea that I find motivates me in the here and now. I don't want to act badly, have regrets, do the right thing, etc.
There is definitely a middle ground and I agree with you that the public health concerns should be one of the things that keep some sort of coarser zoning in place.

Now, the reason for the ridiculous zoning based on housing type and commercial activity are really really simple: to separate the rich from the middle class and the middle class from the poor. It's extremely prejudiced and wrong. Yet here we are.
> Rope-making is a skill which dates back to pre-historic times ... scale rope making is, in many ways, even more difficult than making lengths of full-size rope. But no more! Jim's variable speed Ropewalk is a precision machine which will produce scale rope in any length you need ...

Wow, immortalizing one human's craftsmanship in a configurable robot.
But it did, for certain assets at least. I think part of the reason for the last decade of unorthodox inflation is that demand is not as flexible as theory would require it to be (people stop buying ever more consumer goods when they get x% more money). Some areas (housing, particular services) seem to have seen quite a rapid inflation, though.
Ah, so not because of demand, but because of the amount of work that went into them?

This is the labor theory of value, originally espoused by Marx. I'm under the impression that most bitcoin fans consider themselves libertarians. It's interesting to see that combined with Marxist economics.
> If I didn't tell you about it, you wouldn't even know it existed

but it does exist and is "missing" from the economy (i.e. other peoples pockets)
In the United States public school system, a student with special needs is given an Individualized Education Program (IEP) which is required by law. This entitles them to additional support and resources through the public school system. They are usually kept with their classmates but may be given assistance in some classes or pulled out occasionally to work with a specialist.

The quality varies by school system, but it's one of the better aspects of American education.
A great example of tossing the baby out with the bath water. The grocery store chain across the street from my house went bankrupt and closed all of their stores. A truck assembly company tried to get a variance to take over the vacant building they left. Zoning can definitely be improved but I see no advantage, for the average person at least, in discarding it completely
Thanks, that's really helpful! I'll be investigating/reading the code base when writing my own, nice to be able to see some design decisions before starting on my own.
consider that your perspective might be biased by your temporal affiliation.

for anyone paying even a modicum of attention, the direction google was headed was plainly evident by 2004 (when it went public and gmail launched). google clearly saw the web as both a threat and an opportunity (much like microsoft before it), and deigned to control it, not cultivate it as a public good. google never "pushed the web forward" magnanimously, even if the leadership "liked" it at some point. the strategy was always to dominate the web (search itself was the kernel from which this strategy took shape), and "don't be evil" was merely cover for that, right from the start.
A factory would not out compete a 40 storey building.

Saying this as someone who lives where 40 storey buildings and high tech export factories both vie for land.
Not as important … to whom? Currently there’s a lot of areas in the country with long distances between fast charging stations. Sure that might change in years but for now “range anxiety” (as mentioned in the article) is real.
Given that Reuters and WSJ inevitably conflict with the propaganda engine that is Fox, what you're saying isn't tenable.
I like the concept of the chemical potential from statistical mechanics.

The thermal potential (also due to entropy) causes temperature to spread outwards, hot to cold. This can be seen by solving the heat equation.

The chemical potential is that if you have a bunch of “stuff” (particles molecules etc) in one place, they will tend to spread out in space to maximize the entropy.

There’s no force or impulse making it happen, it’s just that you are far more likely to observe a system with “stuff” spread out than concentrated.

That’s why I love entropy. It’s not a force or even something super tangible. It’s more like the interface between the physical world and the abstract world of probabilities. The realest abstraction of them all.
The concept is still fundamental to static code analysis.
This level of introspection can be useful in some cases. Perhaps the flaw is just in giving it such simple, attractive syntax.
That seems more like a little aside on the compilation times front, rather than the main thrust of the author's argument.
fcking politicians
Would it be so bad if you actually get the specifications for this stuff? I assume/hope it's so hard because of all the safety regulations applied to cars; the amount of effort this person already has had to put into figuring out how a gear shifter works is sad.
This article is right for a single scenario: the long straight away in and out of a fair weather, well drained path/road/bikeway

As others have mentioned adding a turn before or after the underpass increases risk. A number of them (person to person, hidden obstruction, unsafe traction spots: ice, damp silt, etc)

A pedestrian bridge has recently been replaced in town (boulder, co) And I miss the bridge each day I commute. The pedestrian underpass has poor visibility (compared to the bridge that was there) and the above stated risks. While snow/ rain/ice would build up at times, it would clear out days sooner than the underpasses along my four mile commute.

But I was shouting to the wind to keep the bridge, as part of the financing for pedestrians underpasses in town is funded by fed/state/local flood mdigiation dollars.
Shit, he doesn't need to go that far to learn what civilized society is like lol
You don't need zoning to control pollution.
> I never understood this

Me neither. I think there are two distinct possibilities you should consider when you think what to do today. First one is that you may die today. Second is that you may not die today.
Let us apreciate that we are not bound by the Code of Hammurabi, and strengthen our resolve to not move in that direction.
Wealth inequality is a separate issue to the dominance of Google.

I agree there should be universal health care and a social safety net. I think shelter in the form of housing should be considered a human right. A budget shortfall is built into your existence. This is to keep you a compliant worker.

But Americans aren't ready to have that conversation so my perspective is you're wasting your breath by having it. Half the country will die on the hill of stopping Jeff Bezos paying slightly more in taxes.

The only solution to this is labor organization. The government won't help you. Republicans are psychotic. Democrats are just the less terrible, feckless alternative who aren't actually interested in doing anything. Remember when Obama had a Senate supermajority and could've codified Roe v. Wade?

But I'm just not holding my breath that anything will materially change anytime soon and it's our fault.
Serif Font Is Better for Coding
That’s a great sentiment, but their belief is not based on reason, but instead faith. You don’t reason with the faithful, you just walk away.
You're missing the entire point. None of what I said was about treating poor like felons. It's was a broadly conceived idea, which admittedly not fully formed, was about having everyone have a stake in what's happening.

If your only stake is, my vote can be used to get me more money with no perceptible downside to me then I'll always vote more money. This is the situation the poor is in currently. Why would they not vote for more subsidies? They literally have no downside to wealth redistribution.

My point wasn't about finding a way to punish then, but you encourage them to not be in that situation. That's all. Just as the OP, enter adulthood.
I think I agree with that but also I think it needs something like groups like Facebook has. I only want to see gardening stuff today, for example. I do like the whole mood though... it's not the battlefield that Twitter is.
Like all UCS-2 users, it is using UTF-16 today. Strings are sequences of UTF-16 code units. (If you don't believe me, you can verify this by seeing that emoji exists.)

The link uses the abhorrent term "characters" far too frequently to be saying anything meaningful.
Probably something to do with homeowners that oppose any marginal incremental density in their neighborhoods. No idea how they are able to effectively disregard the state laws (if they are, I haven't verified parent..) though, that's a good question.
> Open-Source was always and forever will be an act of charity. Volunteering.

Many high-profile Free and Open Source software projects are developed mainly by paid employees. Some examples: the Linux kernel, OpenJDK, Firefox, and Chromium.
I don't get why that should require zoning laws.

In the end, no factory builds itself. It takes actual persons out there pouring concrete. Real, fellow humans choosing to ignore the well-being of all the people living around them, enter their neighbourhood and in effect destroy their homes.

The fact that society is so bureaucratised we don't think of it that way freaks me out a little.

The solution is not more bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is how we ended up in this situation in the first place, where I could walk into a neighbourhood and ruin it, as long as I have the right official permits, and then sleep well at night thinking that I have done a good job.

How about we try to collectively drop this idea that "I'm an X therefore I pour concrete where they tell me to without thinking more about it?" Make people personally responsible for their actions!
Thanks!

Microsoft uses these platforms to advertise/promote. I don't like it. Advertising and PR are pollution. If Coca-Cola PR or big oil or the tobacco industry promoted on this website, I'd have a similar distaste for it.
Afaik Uber uses Bazel to build everything so it’s not standard go toolchain but it’s using parts of it. And yes as of recently it decently integrates with gopls https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/wiki/Editor-setup
Well it hugely matters if you have since used the right to be forgotten since the model was made, or if PII was illegally made available and has now been removed.
I would disagree with the statement "there's a lot of areas", but I absolutely would advocate pouring more money into DC fast chargers at locations that make sense (grocery stores or similar locations with facilities and are open large swaths of each day). Don't put them at gas stations, that model is dead.

If your EV range is 250-400 miles, and DC fast charging continues to expand rapidly (which it is based on both Tesla and other networks deployment rates), you're paying for and dragging a whole bunch of cells needlessly around (not to mention paying financing/capital costs on that unnecessary equipment). Today, you're never more than 100 miles from a DC fast charger [1] [2] [3] with the caveat being northeastern Montana, the Kansas/Oklahoma border, central Nevada (which could be solved withe a station in Ely), and southeastern New Mexico.

Heck, I can hop into my Model S or Model Y today and drive from Central Florida to Acapulco, Mexico, Prince George, BC, or Quebec/Newfoundland, CA. Range is solved, charging infra is the challenge (which is also why the UK phased out EV subsidies to move towards charging infra financial support [4]).

[1] https://plugshare.com/

[2] https://supercharge.info/map | https://ibb.co/n8x05j7 (100 mile range circles on North America, red is active, blue is planned, cones are under construction)

[3] https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/fi... (Uncheck Level 2 from charger selection to scope only to DC Fast charging)

[4] https://cleantechnica.com/2022/06/16/uk-ending-electric-car-...
Not only that, but the long tail has been much much more representative than the days of the short tail ever was.

Everyone knew that there was a huge audience for hip hop, but we’ve only seen how huge that audience was since it came to dominate streaming charts.
They have. Fancy statistical models are getting pretty common. It still requires funding and ground truthing by archaeologists, which are the real bottlenecks.
Also, does that mean that according to the Code of Hammurabi, a man without any daughter, can kill as many free women as he pleases without any consequence?
It also seems designed to stop anyone walking to a bar, yet be able to walk to a church.
I’m not talking about Mossad-level tracking. Just non-Mossad, publicly available information.
Wealth isn’t sucked out of anything. If I build a product and sell if for $20, but it creates $100 in value (Let’s say some software that saves a person 4 hours a day of manual labor) I created $80 worth of value, for <$20 worth of profit, minus my costs.

When people who have benefitted from those productivity benefits then turn around and whine about how they aren’t getting “their share” of the <$20, or complain how it is somehow wrong that the wealthy can spend or transfer wealth however they like, I can’t help but cringe. The real societal problem is the modern education system is failing to educate people in basic economics.
Friend,

> Nevertheless, all of the above is useless, because the people who want to ban abortion are not, in general, sincere about saving humans life being their primary desire. Their primary desire is to have a subclass of humans who can be controlled and punished. Arguing with them about this is approximately useless; there are a few who are willing to discuss evidence and logic, but most are only displaying their allegiance to their tribe.

All I did was accept your invitation to discuss evidence and logic - there is no value judgement on whether or not these rules are good - I personally don’t care what people do - but I do want people to be kind. The evidence is the selective service requirement - I’m not sure what else you asked for?

Selective service is a direct example, objective to the ultimate degree, of a government using biological sex (go check the transgender section [0]) to make laws about risk of health / life and death decisions.

Perhaps one should think who really is religious and incapable of logic and objectivity.

[0] https://www.sss.gov/register/who-needs-to-register/
> In 30 years Germany went from 19th century democracy, to socialism, to nazism

You have a few misconceptions there. 19th century Germany wasn't a democracy, it was a constitutional monarchy with a very strong monarch. It was never socialist, it was social democrat (SPD). The actual socialist and communist uprisings were defeated, by the SPD collaborating with everyone, including the far-right Freikorps.
Has he won any tournaments? I'm not too familiar with the sport sorry.
Sorting algorithms visualized using Blender
in their eyes the sinner is the only one to suffer

You are applying utilitarian considerations of outcomes to religious dogmatists. Such consider sexual immorality (as defined by them) to be a corrupting influence on everyone peripherally connected to it, and an affront to God.

Hence the current moral panic of denouncing all LGBT people as 'groomers' and insinuating or openly accusing people who disagree as pedophiles, which is considered sufficient reason to kill in some peoples' eyes. Now while this moral panic is by no means universal among religious Christians, if you're not aware of it then you just aren't paying attention.