skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point on WP - I was mixing it in with agent orange, DU projectiles, UXO decades after the fact, etc. but that isn’t really fair.

Terrible in the moment, but except for the scars, not likely a problem once someone heals up.
At 35 I decided to fuck the "normal life" and just go RVing with my wife. We saw the country (US). Fast forward 7 years and we are now building our own house paycheck to paycheck. It's a beautiful property. I know there are people on here that have much, much more and could afford to buy an already existing house. But my dreams are to have a different kind of life, so in that sense I am definitely living that. Yes there are mornings I wish I can wake up and NOT want to install my own well pump, install mini splits in 105 degree weather, install siding, dig foundations, run 40 80-pound bags of cement in a mixer, 2 at a time. etc etc etc...

But my alternative life would have been spending the last 7 years playing new versions of Call of Duty and kinda pissing time away.
Inequality fluctuates.

Furthermore, I recall reading once that wealth inequality was positively correlated with mental illness, even in the rich of a society.

As such, even if there is always some inequality, I think it is worthwhile to try to reduce it, although by boosting the lower part of scale. In other words, if you live in a world where only the rich have cars, you reduce inequality by making cars for the poor like Henry Ford, not by taking rich people's cars.

In the modern US, I think this would entail making housing and education and healthcare more affordable/accessible.
This is giving me a bit of a Zizek-ian "wisdom" feeling. E.g. in "Putting things off for the future is the biggest waste of a life. You deny yourself the present by promising the future." one can make the counter-argument of the entire marshmallow experiment with children where the whole point is to actually put things off for the future!
Thanks for the clarification. I think the description “live like your last” needs to be tweaked.

Perhaps what is more productive is: live your days so that when you think back on them (let’s say at a time horizon of months), you feel satisfied in what you’ve done and how you’ve grown.
The cherry on top of this comedy is a researcher named Pie studying Pumpkin toadlets
I'm saying using BOTH monorepo AND microservices is a clear signal you're building a distributed monolith.

What you say is also true
Eidetic memory is rare, somewhat controvercial but always found in children who grow out of the ability, much like how children lose the ability to learn a 2nd 3rd and 4th language without an foreign accent up until 12 years +/-.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
Better to spill the electrons of the enemy than their blood. We can only hope that future warfare is computational, rather than kinetic.
Crashpad doesn't depend on Chromium, in fact it uses mini_chromium (a mostly copy pasta of base) to avoid having that large dep:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/mini_chromium/

https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/refs/h...

What's the issue you're having with Crashpad? Indeed the breakpad project is a mess by modern standards.
Eliminating the gains from theft and destruction isn't some cruel and unusual eye for an eye punishment.
I agree. Like a washing machine when it was first introduced is true automation as it washed clothes for you instead of you hand washing it. Taking the washing machine as an example, I would not consider it automation if I had my maid hand wash my clothes instead of me hand washing them. Washing machines, the stove (I don't need to maintain a fire, etc), a water heater are past robots/automation. But what about all new automations/robots of this generation?
Seems much more limited than copilot regarding supported languages.
The days are long but the years are short.

It’s all about time scales.
> 97% of zoning that has been horrible for land use in the US

If it's so horrible, why do so few people want to get rid of it? The truth is that most Americans are pretty happy with their neighborhoods and communities. Sure, suburban single-family homes may offend the aesthetic of the elites, but most other people like them just fine.
What a pedantic article, who cares where and how you consume movies. Movies are dying like music has been dying for some decades now. People don't listen to music like they used to, and so people will not care about sitting for hours to watch a story that has been done over and over again. Not to mention recently people have started to inject political messaging, and ruining the story in the process.
Apple provides a disposable email? AFAIK it provides a forwarding address, which is similar but distinct from what this is.
Posting in the wall of my bedroom the 6 mapsheets in scale 1:50.000 around my place changed my spatial abilities for the best. I surely recommended it.
First you find me one person who isn't influenced by PR.
> I can't imagine many/any of today's billionaires believing this,

Haven't they all signed the Giving Pledge?

> given that pretty much all of them have depended on the backing of generational wealth and the unequal opportunities that gave them to make their fortunes.

While it is true that most of them come from upper-middle class backgrounds, AFAIK the vast majority of the fortunes of Page, Brin, Zuck, Bezos et al. is "self-made" and comes from their companies.

Unless you mean generational wealth as in "they were rich enough to pay for a university that costs $80,000/year", at which point, yeah I could see that.
“ everything you did doesn't really matter, but at least you enjoyed your time while it lasted”

Problem with this statement is that what matters after someone does really doesn’t matter to that person after only before, also, on a long enough time span nothing will matter after. Does what most people did 3000 years ago matter? 10000? A million? I wouldn’t chase legacies
It seems to me that use case is better served by forums, but it would be nice if I could use my Mastodon (or Diaspora, Frendica, Pixelfed, etc...) account as my identity on multiple forums. I don't think it's necessarily desirable for one piece of software to try to do everything, but it's great when different services can talk to each other.
The games on the live demo eat 100% of a CPU and go down to crawling FPS on my Macbook M1 Pro once I start using the keyboard to control them. Wonder what's going on.
On what basis do you say that? I doubt there are more unbiased and reliable sources of information out there. Since every source of information has bias and will contain mistakes, I am just interested if they are 1) interested in telling me the truth or an agenda or 2) if they are as correct as possible and issue corrections when they are not. WaPo is world class.
If you add a zero to the end of every bill in circulation, there will be 10x more money, but people won't be any better off.
> 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.

Except the people making these decisions or pouring the concrete often don't live in the neighborhood or care, they're "just doing their job".

>Make people personally responsible for their actions!

They can easily hide behind corporate bureaucracy and limited liability. If you want laissez-faire zoning, please beef up corporate civil/criminal liability and punitive damages, so offenders learn their lesson or are taken out of business.
As I understand it this is only for users who are part of the GitHub Sponsors program. I don't think the .github folder is relevant.
Is 500 USD "funding"?

The topic of FOSS funding is quite large and actually something where I'm surprised there's not more consulting around.

You have government grants. You have university employees. You have company employees of which Google and, indeed, Microsoft have many working solely on open source. You have open core companies (Elastic, Scylla, data bricks, ...). You have self funding and Patreon (not usually sustainable). You have funding via FOSS organizations (python, rust foundation, ...).

Did you not know about all these?
Now language models are on the rise. They allow access to information (including verified information from trusted sources) in a more accessible and adaptive format. I think Google isn't happy for losing the ad space but the interface we use to search will improve a lot thanks to big language models. I think they are too expensive to deploy now but will be everywhere soon. LM's will be the new "operating system".
> We can regulate where industrial use can exist as separate laws

That's called zoning...

e.g. maximum-nuisance (or maximum-use) zoning: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sV5ETXDs_8M/Ux-axBTuF2I/AAAAAAAAAs...

> and get rid of the 97% of zoning that has been horrible for land use in the US

It's not like the zoning policy which causes those issues is a huge amount of stuff, the issue with american zoning is that it's exclusionary: each zone can only have one use, and municipalities micromanage zones.
I think Julia (mostly meaning pervasive multiple dispatch, which is unprecedented at that scale Julia has it) unlocks a new way to organize programs.

Some formalized notion of "interface" is certainly important, but it seems no clear formulation has emerged.

I think it's fairly consistent with the dynamic nature of Julia and fairly inconsistent with the static nature of Julia. I don't know what a good solution to the interface problem is.

I think one can get pretty far with writing tests to check interfaces. If you are a library that expects user-defined types, you can expose an interface to these tests so that a user can check if they've implemented everything.

This is a very generic approach, and aside from the key limitation of only giving results at runtime, is much more powerful.
Stoicism appears to have had a great deal of influence on Jewish writing at the time. Have a look at "St. Paul and Stoicism" if you are so inclined. Interesting paper.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/475275

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Edited to correct attribution error.
Would never have imagined a simple Star Trek quote would earn the downvoting ire of HN. But here we are.
Today I learned that nurturing my family is "emotional." Thanks; I had no idea.
It's also easier to get away with Rust's decision to say no, strings aren't sequences of code points (which they aren't) if you do all the work to support ASCII on bytes anyway.

Rust defines things like is_ascii_hexdigit() on both char (a Unicode scalar) and u8 (a byte) and so if you're writing some low-level code which cares only about bytes you aren't expected to either turn them into a string to find out if the byte you're looking at is an ASCII digit or improvise something.

This sort of thing means the programmer who is moving bytes and is very angry about the notion of character encoding needn't touch Rust's Unicode stuff, while the programmer who is responsible for text rendering isn't given a bunch of undifferentiated bytes and told "Good luck". Somebody needs to figure out what the encoding is, but likely that programmer actually cares about the difference between ISO-8859-1 and Windows code page 1252 or at least is aware that somebody else might care.
That’s not being pragmatic. You’re saying “cut aid to countries whose per capita resource usage is 14x lower than that of the US.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_...
About the proposed clues in the sub-thread :

- cookies are temporary. Even 'ever-cookies' wouldn't have survived brower upgrades.

- email, tel : the parent insists having had privacy opsec so reusing those over time would not fit in this view
Maybe not glamorous, but definitely has worth (so many downloads!)
It probably wouldn't be too hard to write an iOS program to send commands via USB or WiFi, but you need to control water valves and I'm not sure if you'll find any/many with USB interfaces. If not you would need to build some circuitry to convert USB signals to whatever kind of control signals your valves need.

It could be a fun project, but I wouldn't call it "without significant effort".
> Sure, suburban single-family homes may offend the aesthetic of the elites, but most other people like them just fine.

Suburban single-family homes are specifically an elitist policy.
I see it as, don't postpone the things you really want to do until some later day, that day may never come. Start on them now.
> Also depends what you count as correct

I feel that should be the job of the authors to think about what correctness means for their application, and under what circumstances they can give a correct answer. Ideally, also warn the user when the inputs don't fall within that domain or give them options to handle such cases.

Let's talk about an example: say you have a neat algorithm for fast multiplication of sparse matrices, approximately correct up to a defined Frobenius error. Say we have some reasonable treatment of dimension mismatch and NaN, inf,... with option flags already. Now if I wanted to know whether your algorithm has the same numerical guarantee for a dense matrix, I'd have to read your paper, run some tests, ask around, and I might never be quite sure.

It seems much more sane to put the onus on the authors to be explicit about the behaviour in that case. Your and others' comments seem to put the onus mostly on the user for thinking about the behaviour of others' code. That does not seem like a good practice, especially in the context of complex math and nested composition.
> I don’t understand the purpose of effect. Seems like compute can be used in all cases since you can dispose compute as well.

Not OP, but:

- You could just use computeds instead of effects, but:

- Effects don't have an internal observable, so they are cheaper to make and to keep in memory.

- If OP will implement something like Suspense they'll probably want to pause the execution of effects, but not the execution of computeds.

- OP didn't implement this, but potentially you could support returning a cleanup functions inside effects, you can't do the same for computeds.

> Couldn’t read only be replaced with wrapping an observable in a closure?

Yes, internally it's probably just a `$computed( $observable )`. The differences are that one is just a function and the other is an observable, which is a detectable difference that may matter, but also potentially the utility function could return you always the same observable if it has already a reference to a read-only version of the one you give it, which may consume less memory (1 function to keep around rather than N), though this is a bit of an edge case.
From a global perspective maybe, from the spender's perspective any currency can only be spent once.

Whether you obtain a car by spending your bill or obtain gold by redeeming your bill... you gave your bill in exchange for the good.
The lesson is stop polluting the internet with PR, Microsoft!
Touching is very different than remembering... remembering is in my own thoughts, and no one else has rights to that.
What Happens When You Get Scammed by an Influencer
I think kcplate has a point here, though. The Democrats have had Congressional majorities before and squandered them one way and another, often because they were playing t-ball with the GOP.

even when Democrats bent over backwards to accommodate Republican ideas into the ACA

That's what I mean, the Democrats keep trying to appeal to the middle by saying 'look how bipartisan we are' and getting kicked int he gut. As a party, they want to appeal to the moral authority of a teacher or moderate voters' consciences, and so they continually aspire to good stewardship. The reality is that while that does appeal to some, American people in general don't respect weakness and reflexively distance themselves from losers. Culturally speaking, winning is more important than being right to many Americans, and even people who believe it ought to be otherwise have to balance their idealism with the logic of survival.

The GOP has been shifting toward a win-at-all-costs mentality since 1994 when Gingrich took Congress (after a long, long period of Democratic dominance) with the 'contract with America.' Despite many of these 'contractual' provisions not being serious (eg the commitment to balanced budgets has only ever been a talking/negotiating point for the GOP, when holding power they max out on debt), they provided a unifying agenda for conservatives whose object is power for its own sake, and such conservatives now dominate the GOP.

Democrats worry that whenever they drift too far 'left' the GOP will attack them mercilessly, and so they tend to huddle in the middle, where the GOP attack them mercilessly anyway. Centrist Democrats literally lose seats and console themselves that if they had put up more of a fight their margin of defeat would have been even more painful.
I talked with a financial advisor. He said for some of his higher end clients who have 25 million dollars that are simply sitting around in investments. The money is doing nothing for them except accumulate. He advises them to at least spend some of it.
Doesn't the city of Houston famously lack zoning, to some degree? It seems like analyzing Houston could show whether the problems of zoning are fixed or not.
Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alternative
CRProxy is a new reverse web proxy service.

We have a generous free plan that includes the ability to use custom domains and semi-custom sub-domains. We have reasonably priced plans with good bandwidth and no additional usage charges.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

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you'll need to elaborate or restate that to be clearer, because pasadena was the first southern california city (or at least one of) to allow ADUs. that came around a year before the state statute, iirc.

edit: i remember because i was cynical about the move. the statute only gives wealth to property owners and doesn't allow new entrants to establish themselves. what would have been better is 4+1 by right (fourplex plus ADU on any residential property without requiring a variance).
> Hell, even a dead body is not forced to give up a kidney if its previous inhabitant did not sign an organ donor consent form.

It may be worth discussing why this is the case.

It is certainly possible to convince of a hypothetical society where the bodies of the dead are the property of someone, be they: family, inheritors by testament, society at large, the government, etc.

Why is it that a dead body is effectively it's own owner, at least when it comes to organ donation?
Ask HN: How much would you pay for a 50/50 chance to win $1B?
This post (https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/vkncj5/would_you_rather_get_a_guaranteed_million_dollars/) showed up on wallstreetbets and the more interesting question to me that came up was: how much is this opportunity worth? There must be a way to calculate how much someone would pay for a 50/50 chance to win $1 billion, so I’m curious how that would be calculated and what that dollar amount is?
At the very least this essay is disingenuous. Gioia claims,"The Hollywood studios are even more obsessed with the Short Tail than the streaming platforms. Back in 2006, Anderson predicted the End of the Blockbuster —but what has happened since then?"

What Anderson actually wrote: "For music, at least, this looks like the end of the blockbuster era." [my italics]

Music and film are entirely different. For one thing, a newly released song on Spotify is entirely identical, bar recency, to a 30 year old song, they're both 4Mb aac files or whatever. Whereas the theatrical release at a cinema is qualitatively a much different experience to streaming on your iPad, even if the underlying media is identical. Anyway by their nature, just looking at contemporary theatrical releases in isolation doesn't work, because the long tail argument is about the back catalog and niche releases. If you include the back catalog, i.e. theatrical releases + streaming movies + DVDs purchases/rentals, then long tail still holds, and you can see that by the steadily decreasing share of revenue that the theater has versus all outlets. The North American domestic box office has plummeted since COVID, but taking the last normal year, 2019, it stood at $11 billion. Compare that with Netflix revenue of $20 billion. Not apples to apples, since Netflix is global, it has its own blockbusters, and its catalog is increasingly non-theatrical in appeal. But there are also plenty of other streaming services. All things considered, I think it's fair to still conclude that that smaller, niche product and back catalog continues to eat away at an increasing share of total revenue.

Parenthetically, I just have to say I'm annoyed by Gioia's whole "Honest Broker" shtick. A true straight shooter doesn't have to advertise their honesty, they just speak their minds and others will see the truth for themselves. It feels a bit astroturfy how much play this guy gets on HN. For hot takes on a 16 year old book?
I love how they say "We used to do X on some non-Google sight, it was so fun; but I can't do that on Google - so GoOgLe hAs FaIlEd anD iS BaD."

Why not just use another site, that you know, isn't Google? Like they suggested, you can search Reddit, or you can search Tumbler, or you can find a Facebook group, or where we found this article: Hacker news.

I miss the yesteryear when people didn't expect Google to somehow be the answer to everything on the web. Here's an idea: your fan sights can co-exist as well as Google.

And the irony is, the authors own blog home page uses a dark pattern to try and convince you to subscribe to their newsletter! Talk about ruining the web for commercial purposes!
From the GP:

> If you can't stand by a position, maybe you shouldn't air it.

The implication of this is pretty clear.
DDG is fine. They addressed the fuss over them using Yandex as one of many sources particularly for Russian language results. I think we should be a bit more careful to not tar everyone with the same brush. I'd take DDG over Google any day.
Defaultable-map: An Applicative wrapper for Maps
> Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app:

1. Use rif is fun for Reddit (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....), or other third-party apps.
> Over the years I've noticed basically every zoning argument turns emotional like this

That's because it is an emotional issue for most of us. We put our wealth, our time, and our energy into buying a house and finding/creating a community to raise our kids in. We're happy with with we live, then someone comes in, waves their credentials and says, "You losers are doing it all wrong, let me 'fix' your town". We don't want our towns fixed. If we thought they were bad, we wouldn't have moved their in the first place.
I couldn't easily find any info about the interpreter being available from the binary releases? Since this is from 2021, is it already available?
Police is racist in USA. Let's abolish the police. That will surely make things great.

Zoning sucks in USA. Let's abolish zoning, then everything will be great.

What's wrong with you people? Just fix what's broken. You don't throw away your home when a window is broken.
The article is paywalled for me but it seems like this happened in spite of zoning[1]? So it’s hardly an example of what can go wrong without zoning.

[1] https://www.waco-texas.com/planning.asp#gsc.tab=0
More Rights for the Unborn?
With Roe v. Wade being reversed, it had me wondering: if “life” begins at conception, shouldn’t we get a social security number and tax benefits at conception? Perhaps a passport be required for traveling abroad? Why should we differentiate between in and out of utero?

Hoping for a philosophical discussion, not a political one.
Right, p -> q does not imply q -> p, and does not imply !p -> !q,yet too often when it comes to economics, that sort of fallacy underlies key arguments on selling policy to the populace.