skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This certainly matches my limited personal experience. Refusing to tip 20%, for example, when you literally make ten times more than the person who's serving you and cleaning up after your piss in the bathroom... it just doesn't sit right with me.

In the case of small local businesses, each one is like a tiny startup, often someone's life's dream, with (by tech standards) very little investment, hard to hire for labor, a ton of regulations to work around, ever increasing rent, etc. They just cannot offer their services for free; it's not like they can just buy more VMs and scale up their coffee production or staff or whatever.

The OP wants community, but the people who work hard to create local communities have bills to pay too. SWEs talk about FIRE while some of the waitstaff may never even be able to retire, or have health insurance or vacations, etc. C'mon, it's not going to make or break you to actually contribute to local economic activity instead of hoarding wealth.
You nailed it perfectly. Thomas announced the slope.
I had a friend who always misquoted that as “don’t kick a gift horse in the mouth.” That seems more appropriate for this thread.
Er, did you read the news between like 2005 and 2015? Opposition to gay marriage was fairly prominent. It certainly seems to have died down since then, but I would've said the same thing about the pro-life movement until this week. I don't think the view from within our bubbles is a good way to measure these things. For example, did you realize that "pro-life" was a minority view among evangelicals, before I posted that poll? I sure didn't.

As for the "victim," the most effective way we know of to reduce the number of abortions is giving young people easy access to contraception, and AFAICT very few pro-lifers are in favor of that. I think it's a mistake to think this is only or even primarily about the fetus.
I feel you. Contract work is just as stressful if not more sometimes.

The majority of my income comes from different smaller projects, I can afford one dying. The other thing that gives me peace is being me is actually relatively cheap. My house is cheap, I don't own a car, I enjoy nature more than clubbing these days, monetary bad months don't leave a huge dent.
Sounds like an expensive place to build an industrial factory.
It isn't about not standing by a position, it is about the potential of attracting the attention of a small extremist minority that will spend outsize effort trying to destroy your life.

I'm glad that you feel secure enough in your position in life that you think you can weather such an attack, but not everyone is so lucky. Implying anyone who needs anonymity is simply holding an unreasonable position is simply not fair.
> Maybe there’s a way to restore the Web of old.

Maybe search engines should also be able to link towards old cached content, internet archive style. Even if we can't rejuvenate the old internet without creating new economics to support it, we could keep the information alive.
Either you are dying. Or you know you will be killed, so why not waste all the money and other property you have when you still have a chance... Seems like not really advise you should follow exactly.
Objectively they've bungled Star Wars, it remains to be seen if they can get out of the woods with the amount of hostility they've created. Without the Mandalorian the situation would be dire.

Pixar literally didn't miss for the entire independent era, the occasional lackluster movie isn't going to alienate their core demographic, which is parents. Marvel is of course printing money with no end in sight, but this is a two out of three thing imho.
Its only going to blow up because of the extreme emotional stress forced on people through the news and social media. Its a non-stop rage machine. Its not the policies that will set off a civil war, but the people who make money off causing people to become so emotionally involved in things that have no effect on them.
Inflation hawks are always eventually proven right because that just repeat 'inflation is right around the corner' until it finally shows up, no matter how long it takes.
The hand is irrelevant here from a design perspective. The hand crafted a closed system (pizza box) which is analogous to any real closed system (ie. an ocean) and added random energy to it. The result is a perfect stack every time, not due to design but structural determinism.
> This is because code points have no intrinsic meaning. They are not “characters”.

This is simply false. The true statement is: "Not all code points are characters".

- Many code points are characters. For instance, everything in the ASCII range.

- Codepoints in the ASCII range are often used for delimiters: quotes, commas, various brackets ... they have semantics.

- Generic text manipulating routines don't require code points to have semantics, but they require indexing.

We can make an analogy here to UTF-8. Let's pretend that "character" means "valid multi-byte UTF-8 code" and "code point" means "byte".

Code point (i.e. byte) access to a UTF-8 string is extremely useful.

UTF-8 strings can be processed by code that doesn't understand UTF-8 at all; for isntance you can split a UTF-8 string on commas or spaces using some function written in 1980. That function will use pointers or indices or some combination thereof into the string, using subroutines that just blindly copy ranges of bytes without caring what they mean. The UTF-8 won't be torn apart because the delimiters don't occur in the middle of a UTF-8 sequence.
I just noticed you guys are finally working on an operator for MySQL (not just XtraDB), I’ve been waiting for something like this forever after numerous false starts from Oracle, MariaDB, and some well intentioned community led projects that never really got off the ground. Kudos to your team!
Sports cars like Ferrari 488 don’t have one. You press a button to go in reverse, and use the F1 paddle shift behind the steering wheel to go in drive mode (one push of the up gear lever) or neutral (simultaneous push of both levers).
Isn’t her district being redrawn and possibly affecting demographics? I might have misheard.
DSAR is data subject access request ('get a copy of my data') for those not into legal gdpr speak...
We recently used Julia to solve (correctly) a super complex scheduling problem for a major airline. Our budget was 5min, Python would get not even close to a solution in that time. The tool is being actively used in production.

Julia is not not only fine, but my go to language for performance problems.
And you think that there is nothing between US zoning laws and "industrial factory subsequently next door"?
whether he does it as a side job isn't really relevant, but I do think that there's a bit of a cult of personality going on here.

he's clearly a good lockpick, but even in a thread that isn't about him, he's somehow dominating conversation and gathering plaudits. I completely agree that being famous doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of anything
In my experience the Uber mono repo was a giant velocity killer. Go tooling just completely choked, and at the time they had tons of terrible hacks around go modules by having this weird system that required your mono repo to be in GOPATH, further breaking even more tooling.

No clue if that’s fixed today but it soured the idea of monorepos for me, and that’s not incorporating how often submitqueue would go down.
Repos aren't one-to-one with running services. Lots of these could easily be bundled as modules to be included at build-time. A lot of them could also just be API services that provide a contract via REST or whatever. If you have enough internal users, you just have to maintain an SLA comparable to a public API.
Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online
Maybe you didn't ctrl+f search for "station" in those articles? If you're going to act pedantic, you ought to at least have your facts straight.
Nothing to understand. It's poorly worded at best.

How do you feel about "You should organize each day to be the best possible prototype for all following days?"
You would need incognito, VPN'd, and non-JS tab to not be tracked by websites.
> "In 100 years the descendants of Bezos won't be the ruling class in the same way the Vanderbilts, Astors, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Morgans aren't."

Andrew Carnegie believed in 100% inheritance tax, on the condition that the money raised was used to provide a level playing field for absolutely everyone to have the same opportunities. I can't imagine many/any of today's billionaires believing this, 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.
For those interested in Scala.js I would recommend two UI frameworks:

a) Slinky - https://slinky.dev

b) Laminar - https://laminar.dev
sounds like an amazingly cheap place to build one to me
"The Plan 9 CD-ROM needed about 100MB for the full distribution, if that."

I have no idea what they are talking about, what Plan 9 is, what is being distributed, why is AT&T involved, etc. Read the whole first post, still have no clue.
I see it differently. They didn't go all-in on neoliberal trading rules from day one, and that was probably largely sensible, but the end objective should be and basically still is transitioning to neoliberal trading systems.

I'm no absolutist, each country has to balance a whole host of local conditions and needs. They also need to build a consensus. However the fact is they liberalised trade and investment, and that's what brought success. There were preconditions to being able to do that, but it's still a fact.
not when there's no zoning?
Google also has an outsized influence on the kind of content that's on the web.

At some point in the past, from what I remember, they started ranking blog content lower than more "authoritative" sources, hastening the decline of personal blogging. If you're wondering why every recipe on the internet has ten paragraphs on how this recipe is their grandmother's favorite and how it reminds the author of the freshness of summer produce, it's because that's the kind of content that Google will give a high ranking.

The web was a better place when it was quirkier, and there's probably a ton of quirky content that still exists, but it won't get surfaced by search engines that much these days, and it's buried under tons of garbage.
Factories are not built overnight. You could offer to sell your lot to the factory builders and buy elsewhere.

In this world, houses would be affordable.
People clearly shouldn’t put tanneries, steel mills, and chemical processing plants in residential neighborhoods right next to primary schools. But massively simplified and less restricted zoning standardized across broader geographical regions (vs. every town for itself) would be very helpful, and in cities there’s really no good reason to have areas zoned to only allow single family detached houses with no multi-unit buildings or commercial activity allowed whatsoever. And the parking requirements, height limits, mandatory setbacks, etc. make North American cities remarkably space-inefficient and infrastructure-expensive.

The zoning requirements in Japan seem like a good model.
The Epoch Times isn’t just a “source” that some people don’t want to see. And gmail etc has a shit ton of ads. This comment isn’t a reasonable critique of the article it’s denialism at best
So much clickbait. Pasadena isn't even able to incorporate the california state-wide relaxations of zoning like building ADUs/in-law units.
You hate the vast majority of women-77% of American women, likely similar percentages in many other countries-if someone hates the vast majority of women, how is that not a form of misogyny?
If you don't think "Breitbart is not a credible news source" is not a valid point then oof, yikes, etc.
As with most things in life, I think finding a balance between the two is most enjoyable. If you only focus on the long term and plan, unless you have a continuous set of long term plans set to culminate and actually do, you'll have gaps in your living experience. You'll always be saving and investing for that one golden day that you may never see for some reason or another.

Meanwhile as you point out, if you focus on living in the moment only, you'll live on cheap small rewards in life.

I think a lot of good long term strategy with allotments for little impulse to pepper life is the best mix, at least for me, so that's how I live. Every now and then I'll splurge and do something unplanned a little extravagant but that's because I already budgeted for that sort of stuff -- my little fun pocket change time and money. Meanwhile I have nice set long term goals that improve my overall life experience as I get older. Some may never happen and that's fine because I'm not living my life wailing for that special time.
Strikes me as orthogonal, really.
> They do work themselves out, but sometimes the timeline for that can be 50+ years.

So if Google ends up being dominant for 50+ years does it really matter? I mean, does that somehow materially impact your life?

> It is pretty cold comfort to know that income inequality that makes home ownership an impossibility right now will work itself out in a few decades.

That's a completely separate issue and one I agree with you on. But the US in particularly has too many brain-broken temporarily embarrassed millionaires who will die on the hill to avoid Jeff Bezos paying slightly more in tax to pay for th esociety that made his wealth possible and continues to make it possible.

This is late-stage capitalism. Some argue it's the beginning of neo-feudalism. I'm not quite that pessimistic whiele agreeing the situation sucks.

What people in power need to realize is the ultimate valve for extreme wealth inequality is violence. War or revolution is the ultimate form of wealth redistribution.

But the political landscape in the US is one where just arguing that trans people shouldn't be murdered gets you labelled as "far left". America is not ready to have the conversation that a capitalist organization of the economy is screwing them over.

Personally if I was 22 and just graduating college with huge debt, no prospect of owning a house and income that means living paycheck to paycheck I would just... leave [1].

[1]: https://www.studentloanplanner.com/flee-country-student-loan...
I don't think this really represents the full spectrum of beliefs for why people open-source their work. Some of us just fundamentally disagree with the copyright system in general and OS or public domain is more of a "non-participation"

If someone wants to put their work in the public domain and only leave a note in their README that they don't want this to be used for profit and then complain when a company uses it a way they don't like then I 100% agree and support them.

This is the problem with laws and rules. They tend to replace independent moral thought. Instead of asking whether it was right or wrong for that company to use it without the consent of the author, we all get stuck on "well, technically". There's a difference between legal rights and morals.

tl;dr: Some people choose not to participate in the copyright system simply because they wanna push back against us offshoring our abilities to think critically about morals to regulatory bodies. Open source isn't "an act of charity". It's a lot of things to a lot of people
laminar - https://laminar.dev/
What would make Mastodon more appealing for you or the hypothetical user for whom you think it's not that great? The main thing that comes to mind for me would be more people I know in person using it.
Even in French it doesn't actually make sense.
Don't flatter yourself: wasting electricity running sha256 a billion times is not "fighting" for anything.
Computers are usually way cheaper than people. The difference would just be Cap Ex vs Op Ex. That being said, they must be burning zillions of cycles rebuilding code that hasn't changed by using a monorepo.
The web of old was inaccessible to 99.9% of the world. Most people do not want what you're looking for. You can find it by diving deeper and searching differently.
> It sure took a lot to cause a crisis if QE and the pandemic alone weren't enough, we had to add a war and a labor market so tight that it allowed for a renaissance in unions and the Great Resignation.

Um, what? It did start last year. Calling it the "Putin price hike" is pure propaganda.
I'm not going to argue there are no technological issues, I was just pointing out a feature of the discourse here.
Notice the stark difference between “a few human owners of that agribusiness” and “belong to a society.”
Honestly, I think the fallacy is to just believe that Google's dominance will magically end.

I have a different take, which is that tech leadership rarely changes in a particular technology, it's just that new technologies arrive that displace the old. Microsoft is still absolutely dominant in desktop operating systems. IBM has 90%+ marketshare in mainframes. Oracle is still the top enterprise database.

So we seem to see these posts periodically now on HN, about "who is going to displace Google in search?" Sorry, that ain't happening. First, despite HN missives, Google still tends to work better than all the competition. Second, the startup costs to have a viable generic Internet search engine are now astronomical, to the point that hardly any VC would invest in a startup whose approach would be "just be a better Google" WRT search.

So the question really is, "what new technology could displace Internet search?" And it's very, very difficult for me to come up with an answer to that looking out 50-75 years or so. In addition, companies now are much more aware of "disruption" theories and will actively try to acquire their disrupters (e.g. Google's acquisition of Android and Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were key to keep them from getting displaced in mobile).

I would easily make the bet that Google (or potentially their government-induced offspring) will continue to totally dominate search 50 years from now.
> retirement, and any other asset accumulation.

Asset inflation doesn't matter in that, as long as the assets don't later deflate.

> or demand vastly higher wages to compensate.

People can demand all they want, but won't get them until there's a labour shortage. Which is what actually caused wages to grow.
Having grown up in a country where all contraception was illegal, I assure it's not that different. The arguments abortion are simply transferred onto contraception as 'interference with the divine will' and (implicitly) the price to be paid for sexual indulgence.

Among religious persons and societies, doctrinal considerations outweigh all others. If you are under the impression that the abortion issue is different because large numbers of non-religious folk are sufficiently motivated by the ethical issue to engage in activism and donate funding, I think you're quite mistaken.
If this thread is indicative of the PR companies would receive, they won’t contribute in this way.

Just because GitHub might get something out of it does not make it bad.
Correction: It is not that every new issue is triaged on the triage call. Issues are triaged by a group of people with triage access - and the triage call focusses on issues that have the `triage` label.
A lot of things could be done in a series of "simple updates that happen across multiple repos". Different style of doing the job I guess.

Also, having a rather global view of the impact of my code before actually make the change helps a lot, especially if you are working on low-ish level libraries. Technically this is not bound to monorepo, but people usually criticize the complexity introduced by having such ability for monorepo, so :)
For me I think graduating to a smartphone later than "normal" had a similar effect. Mid 30s, but I got my first smartphone at ~25 instead of ~20.

There's a lot of external pressure to be constantly on your phone. People of my age are a little perplexed when I explain to them the reason I didn't text back right away was because I was outside, but my phone was upstairs in my room.
GNU Taler? https://taler.net/en/

- Actually designed for payments

- Doesn't use silly blockchain token nonsense

- Allows for collecting taxes easily
That's a beautiful perspective. Thanks for your comment.
Actually both.

Copyright infringement by definition is not theft.

And high seas piracy is an issue to be dealt with by the military, not law enforcement, especially if a letter of marque is involved. Same as pillaging by an invading army.
Thank you, that clears it up! And probably explains why I've lost work when resetting other branches; I wanted to revert to the latest remote tip of their branch, not reset that branch to master, but I screwed up because of HEAD. Thank you for clarifying!
> Rust/WinRT, the new toy

First, it's now called Rust for Windows (or windows-rs), because the scope has expanded to include (fairly low-level) bindings for all the Win32 and COM APIs in the Windows SDK.

I strongly object to calling it a toy just because it doesn't have certain RAD conveniences. I'm happily using that crate (though currently only the Win32/COM portion) in the native parts of a Windows app I'm working on [1]. Yes, I have to use a lot of unsafe when working with the Win32 and COM APIs, but I keep my unsafe blocks as small as possible, and try to do as much as possible using safe Rust abstractions like slices and the various string types.

FWIW, windows-rs recently removed the bindings for the Windows.UI.Xaml namespace, on the grounds that they were nearly unusable, and because the in-box Windows.UI.Xaml is no longer Microsoft's recommendation for app developers. I think the latter policy is a mistake, because some of us actually want to produce something with a minimal memory footprint, using a GUI toolkit that's already in the working set on all Windows machines. But maybe someone can bring back Windows.UI.Xaml bindings in a separate crate.

> they successfully managed to kill C++/CX

IMO C++/CX was a mistake. It was an attempt to make C++ into something it was not. From what I've read [2], C++/CX spectacularly failed to uphold C++'s zero-overhead principle, and the code size of newer shell components in Windows 10+ suffered as a result. Yes, I felt some of the frustration of working with the current (or at least, mid-2020) tooling for C++/WinRT when I was mentoring an intern on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft (which I left later that year). But I think the Windows developer platform team had to do what was right for runtime efficiency. Developers who value rapid development over runtime efficiency can still use C#.

> the glory days of Visual C++ 6.0 with ATL 3.0

They were glorious, for code footprint. But like you, I wouldn't want to write new code using ATL (and on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft, we avoided that as much as practical). Luckily, C++/WinRT is a big improvement over ATL, thanks to modern C++. It's just a step backward from C++/CX for some RAD conveniences that were really a better fit for a language like C#.

And to bring it back to Rust, I think Rust's macro system allows for some powerful high-level tooling on top of the WinRT bindings. For example, I think we could have a macro-based DSL for succinctly declaring a tree of UI elements, and that syntax could be more integrated with the rest of the language than the markup/code dichotomy that was introduced with WPF. Such tooling could also avoid the trap of boilerplate-heavy code generation that's typical of the Visual Studio wizards, and be available to developers who don't use VS.

[1]: The non-native part is using Electron. I'd love to write the whole thing in Rust, but Electron in general, and access to Chromium's full WebRTC stack in particular, is just too convenient.

[2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220606-00/?p=10...
I dont think that is true, society can create value from trade and good organization providing more resources to everyone for collectively the same amount of work.
That should Just Do What It's Told and produce ED BA AD.