skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of it is a tax on non-residents; because other tax forms are kept low but nobody "pays" for the permit costs, etc (it's wrapped in the cost of the house).
Well.. what’s the difference now? Some people have nukes, army, the sole “right” to violence.
It was introduced given the increase in temperature. This is the first time in recorded history that the temperature in the UK has been forecasted to reach 40°C
I’ve heard people advise not to call such hotlines because their intervention is not limited to just talking to you. It’s said they often cal the police who stop you by force and often make your life even worse than it was.
A fun statistic is that Scratch now has over 100 million projects published by users on their website[1].

GitHub only reached 100m repos in 2018[2] - I can't find any more up-to-date numbers, but it's probably around 150m today.

It's crazy to think that Scratch and GitHub operate on similar orders of magnitude.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/statistics/

[2] https://github.blog/2018-11-08-100m-repos/
Doubtful. My FB posts are restricted to friends-only, my FB friends are actual people I have more than a cursory meatspace connection with, and the post is over 3 years old. It's improbable that, if one of them wanted to troll me, they would dig that deep — and, tbh, they wouldn't need to.
Despite its name CLRS goes WAY beyond an introduction
I think you're only considering the backend part of these frameworks.

Rails is really full stack. Django's frontend story is a joke.
Just in time for the crypto crash.

I kid. I kid.
One offered a clear example where a service would help, while the other extrapolated their own situation to all situations.

I don't grok the argument that this service shouldn't exist because it can't help everyone.
For a research prototype we just used a mobile phones acceleration sensors to couple a phone (who uses printed boarding passes) with the tracker. No biometrics needed. Tracking does not survive the camera context.

Considering that there are alternatives you really wonder why they care about biometrics. You could probably also generate other types of markers that are stable without needing sth you have to stick with for the rest of your life...
The US will often have guarantees on a construction loan, and sometimes the bank will even inspect the property as it is being built and only release funds when certain points are hit - 30% to start, 20% when foundation is poured, 20% on framing, 30% on completion. And then the loan will be refinanced to a traditional mortgage (construction loans are usually short-term and higher rate).

Many builders will therefor "self-finance" and sell the customer a "built home" direct into a normal mortgage.
Pretty sure this just shipped Apache2, I think it wrapped a GUI around it but I’d have never trusted it in production.
I teach Scratch to kids professionally. I love it as a learning tool, but when I need to actually write Scratch code myself for whatever reason, I find the experience pretty aggravating. Finding the block I need from the big list and dragging it into place takes a lot more time than just typing the command.

Scratch programs also become messy quickly as the complexity increases. Normal code is more compact and easier to actually follow.
My grandfather (born Philadelphia 1932) always told a story about how kids in his town would go to the train tracks in the winter and throw rocks at the engines. This would prompt the conductor to throw back pieces of coal from the engine to shoo them away. They would then pick up the coal and run away to use it to heat their homes. The conductors always knew what was going on, but it was the railway's coal, so they just always played along.

Anyway, always found that interesting.
I said I agreed with the people on the comment section in that blog, I didn't see the point in expanding on it since they already had, but I'd be happy to.

A psychiatrist can only read a single person's mind, and that person is themself. He goes around constantly calling people narcissists. He doesn't use evidence based research. He doesn't follow the standards of his field.

I recall an old blog post where he gives an example of how he believes the socialization of school children turns them into narcissists. He says, essentially, that if a kid tries to stop a bully from preying on others, and the teacher punishes both the kid and the bully for fighting, the kid learns not to care about other since he or she was punished for caring, and will learn to be a narcissist. (It's probably been a decade since I read this so I'll acknowledge it's possible my memory is a bit faulty, but I don't think the basic point of his body of work has been missed).

Narcissism to him seems to be all encompassing. He sees it everywhere. This seems to be saying something unhealthy about him.

There' a bit in the comic book Promethea, written by Alan Moore, where an angel says that demons aren't so bad. Confused, a human asks the angel why she would think that. Aren't Angels supposed to be enemies with demons? Aren't demons supposed to be wicked and disgusting?

Paraphrasing from memory, the angel responds with, "We don't directly experience the world, we only experience a perception of the world in our own minds. I'm an angel. I see angels everywhere."

It just seems to me someone constantly seeing narcissists everywhere is not in a healthy place. I'm not actually suggesting he's narcissist, I don't know what his problem is.

This is just an opinion of a random layman. I have no idea who he is in real life and I don't care to know. I suppose it's possible that this anonymous author is a perfectly functional, happy adult who only writes like he's troubled, sort of like a happy-go-lucky Hollywood author writing a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, I can only draw conclusions from the limited evidence I have that his writing doesn't seem to come from a healthy place.
>if done right

My gut reaction is that it probably costs a ton more to install and wire solar shingles and is less efficient? Unless we're talking new commercial installs and not residential?
Talk to prospects, validate the need, market the product, write marketing copy, write marketing content, grow a lead list or a waiting list, create a pitch deck, write documentation etc etc.

There is a lot that can and should be done before building the product.
5, if you're okay with letting one or two go shitty some weeks, from disturbing rumblings around here and reddit (possibly larps there, probably not here).
Of course not, you can have an excellent memory architectures with a GC.

My point is that if you do that, well, then you've done the hard parts of living without a GC - so might as well ditch it altogether.

But the absolute vast majority of course doesn't have excellent memory architectures, so they'll suffer greatly from not being "burdened" with having to think about memory.

It is unfortunate that GC debate is all about performance. The programmer ergonomics alone makes the GC a worse choice. But then of course we still have GC tuning.
In my timeline, Russia spent most of the 1910s under Tsarist rule and China spent the entirety of the 1930s under either warlords or the Japanese.
This only marks his official employment by Microsoft. He's been working for them unofficially for years. /s
Sure, we shouldn’t expect privacy from cameras and biometrics.

But doesn’t this mean that 20 people behind you see where you are going, your flier points, etc?

I’d find that embarrassing, personally.
It is not yet a widespread thing. For now.

Also, there is no evidence that the disappeared money goes into real-estate/local govt, though it is plausible.
> I guess some people aren't familiar with it and therefore see it as weird or unnatural?

I think this is part of it, but there seems to be an amplifying effect where the social context - people being upset about mislabelled food leads to people feeling stronger about their otherwise small objection.

It's almost like because of the social pressure people know they are angry but not too sure why, and they end up ascribing all that angry to whatever reason they can think of.

Had they been introduced to the idea of eating horse meat at a jovial bistro in the Swiss countryside they would be primed to enjoy it.
> My 7yo was making a number guessing game, and to display a two-digit number we had to make two sprites that had 10 "costumes" (0-9) then do modular math to select the costume for each digit

So if your kid is cool with this kind of clever workaround for the limitations of some piece of crap, you have a future software engineer.
Gotta love the name of the company
Lucas didn't really do a whole lot for Star Wars after the original trilogy. And while most agree that the prequel trilogy was mostly pretty bad (though I'd argue that the original Phantom Menace played a big role in tainting the following two installments), a lot of what's followed has been at least middling and some quite good.
This is what I felt reading Steve Jobs biography, this guy was a maniac. But all the internet right now holds him as the most motivational figure, and biography changes life. It's just bullshit.
in america, I owned a trailer or what's called a mobile home. what killed it for me is the places you can put one (lots of NIMBY) and the lots you can lease for one have exorbitant fees for water/sewage and land. its all the worst parts of renting rolled into a $60k home.
just based off release notes arcan always felt like a much more compelling display project than wayland.

wayland: if we move the compositor into the kernel we can solve several performance problems.

arcan: if we make a universal transport layer we can solve most topological problems.

Plus I like arcan because it reads like it is one guy, deciding the world needed a better display server. and just keeps at it, day to day, no team, no consensus, just getting it done.

however disclamer: I made a port of arcan to openbsd and could never quite figure out what to do with it. the curse of a display server with not enough software I guess.
> "picking an arbitrary nonce"

Yet, it's just random bytes. You could generate that with dice, and customize the wallet to take it as user input.
When places say "credit card", they really mean credit card or debit card. Either works.
Small files should be in arrow/avro/parquet if your architecture allows (one should strive for this from the beginning).
We mean something quite different when we talk about prefab homes in the Nordic countries that they mean in the US.
When Demand Exceeds Capacity
It's certainly not very green to waste that energy and nutrients by just throwing away that much usable meat that took a lot of energy and nutrients, c02 to grow.
Minecraft is also slightly an outlier, I would say; its modding community has put a lot of work into making it easier for people to get started. It’s still a far cry from having a “view/edit source” button, though.
> Is there a reason that visual programming languages haven’t taken off for professional programming?

Programming languages in common use are way too general to really benefit from a structural editing workflow as seen in Scratch. Meanwhile, other VPL's cannot naturally express the kinds of abstractions that turn out to be critical when programming "in the large", as often happens in professional settings.
> Section 7 is because previously the State of Hawaii did not fully recognize those rights. The 1978 Constitutional Convention was part of the political movement to correct those historic wrongs.

> You'll note "subject to the right of the State to regulate such rights" means it's not meant to establish any more rights than the US constitution allows.

The only part of Section 7 relevant to my post was the way it defined traditional and customary rights, not anything it actually allowed or didn't allow based on them.

> "Persons of Native Hawaiian descent" (in Rice v. Cayetano) is not the same as "active practitioner of Native Hawaiian cultural traditions".

I know they're different things, but in practice they're both very strongly correlated to race.

> What stops you from being the latter?

This is why I brought up the definition above and the First Amendment. Yes, I could start practicing Native Hawaiian cultural traditions, but Native Hawaiian cultural traditions include religion, so this law would seem to be respecting a particular establishment of religion.

> Yet Indian tribes can decide enrollment criteria based on lineage or blood quantum, and if a tribe had traditional sovereignty over disputed land then they - just like the University of Hawaii in this case - would surely need representation as part of the solution.

Does enrollment in an Indian tribe affect anything in non-tribal government? As for "disputed land", see below.

> It seems like you also want to break treaty rights. Nothing new there. Let's give the land back to the tribes this time rather than take away more rights by force.

Does the human right to self-determination not overrule treaty rights? The referendum for Hawaii's statehood passed with over 93% in favor, with the knowledge that being part of the US means being bound to follow the US Constitution. Doesn't that mean that 7% is the upper bound on the number of people who wanted independence (and it was probably less than that, since at least one person probably didn't want either)?
Thank you for pointing that out. Is it that my idea of when to call is too narrow? I am having a hard time understanding the difference between what I listed and official resources[1] which say things like

> 911 is to be used for emergencies only. An emergency is any serious medical problem (chest pain, seizure, bleeding), any type of fire (business, car, building), any life-threatening situation (fights, person with weapons, etc.) or to report crimes in progress.

1. https://www.fcva.us/departments/public-safety-communications...
If you’re willing to pay then give gamemaker studio a go. It has a similar logic block based model (you can also progress into a full ECMAscript based language once you get more advanced), but is a lot more flexible about what you can display.

Not 100% sure it’s still beginner friendly as I used it over a decade ago, but I’m pretty sure there’s a free trial, so you could find out.
I've been asking myself the same thing recently, and recently ran across LeopardJS -- it's meant to bridge the gap between Scratch and JavaScript, and I think it does a really excellent job of it:
https://leopardjs.com/

You can paste a link to a Scratch URL into the page and it automatically translates it to equivalent JavaScript that can then be edited in the browser or downloaded and edited locally. It's got an impressive and intuitive library behind it and I think it's fantastic.
I don't think Jeff cares about SEO. He was out probably looking for a simple domain and I'm sure algorithms.com, algorithms.org etc. were already taken.

If I had to pick between say algorithms.me and algorithms.wtf, I'd definitely go with the second one, especially because students like me will remember it for life.
Tensorflow? Numpy?

No idea what else might be the reasons to learn Python when you know Ruby.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/pY4gF

tl;dr: Stupid wealthy person drama.

I can't recommend spending the time to read such a dull story.
Prefabs in Europe is something completely different than what they are talking about in the US.
> no HDD, booted from, say, a live Linux CD

I so wish there was a USB stick on the market where you can toggle read-only mode with a physical switch. (And where you had reasonable confidence that the firmware is hard to attack, I guess.)
I'm all for throwing facebook execs behind bars, but what part of the CFAA would cover encoding tracking data in a URL?
There’s a Japanese restaurant near my house that serves cow tongue, which I’ve found very interesting and order a la cart when I eat there.
Please provide numbers.
To use all the RAM.
I think it's that Ruby has mostly been relegated to Rails, while Python sees use in backend systems, data science, scripts, and as a popular first language.
So not that dissimilar from CLRS, then. Despite its introductory title it is very dense and voluminous. Almost more like a graduate level reference.

There really needs to be a text that captures the middle ground between CLRS and Grokking Algorithms and I guess this isn’t it.
I sort of have what I jokingly call the five season rule for TV series. Even if quality doesn't really trail off, I'm mostly done. I definitely lost interest in Doonesbury at one point even if Trudeau did evolve and age the characters. Dilbert? Pretty much forget about it even aside from Adams'... um interesting modern perspectives. I've been pointed to a few funny things now and then but it mostly still seems stuck in some 1990s PacBell time warp.
How is it adding utility vs the usual ways that you can access this information? (Paper boarding pass, mobile phone, public flights board)
I think the point of making this comparison is to say "See, Americans have resisted changes in their energy sources before, just like they're resisting it today."

If so, I have a few issues with it:

1. Everyone who resisted the transition to coal in the 1800s-1860s has been dead for over a hundred years. A different set of people are resisting it now. They don't know each other, or coordinate. They don't draw inspiration from each other. Much has happened in the interim. So, this feels like a meaningless historical anecdote, and not an enlightening framing device.

2. The vast majority of Americans support solar and wind energy as power sources. Around 80% support for increasing both solar and wind energy[1].

3. Coal isn't sustainable and it's a huge source of air pollution. That's how we phrase it today, whereas in the 19th century they complained about not being able to grow coal themselves, and about it being a "secret poisoner". But the complaints amount to the same thing. On what basis do we imply their concerns were ignorant and short-sighted when it seems like they turned out to be essentially correct?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americ...
it is comments like this that make me wish for a mute feature on HN so that I never have to spend any further seconds of my life reading anything from someone with such poor judgment
Sort of related, just curious: Does anyone else mostly remember things from a third-person perspective? When I recall past events the mental images are almost always from outside myself. Thought I read somewhere that this is common but I can't remember where (har har).
Whole Halal goats and lamb are also sold in the frozen section at any Costco that has a large Muslim population around. Granted you then have to figure out how to cook the entire goat. I’m guessing they probably skewer it and roast it outdoors for parties?
To be clear, I was just talking about my subconscious "this will take X time so I should/shouldn't bother doing it now" intuition. Proper estimation of tasks and projects is a whole different topic.
Probably a neon sign transformer. The tube won't ionize until tens of thousands of KV but when it does light off, the resistance of the plasma drops to practically nothing compared to the excellent insulator it is when not ignited. Neon tubes are negative resistance devices, 25KV at zero current vs maybe 10 mA at 300 V after it ignites is a resistance of negative 30K or so. The point is a lot of EE work goes into the magnetic design of the transformer such that it current limits to some specified value. If you use a core material and shape that'll saturate at 10 mA but a ratio of number of turns such that it'll output 25 KV as long as the current is roughly zero, that would make a good neon sign transformer.

Much like alcohol there is no minimum safe harmless amount of current thru the heart, but if you have what by neon transformer standards is a very low current transformer, like limited to 5 mA or so, that might be a low enough current to only kill like 0.0001% of the population or whatever. A kid will probably be fine. An old person with heart problems, maybe not so much.
>7yo was making a number guessing game, and to display a two-digit number we had to make two sprites that had 10 "costumes" (0-9) then do modular math to select the costume for each digit

This, imo, is what makes Scratch a great education platform. It has a couple of very easy to use primitives (such as displaying and moving sprites) and leaves you to build whatever else you need by abstracting things on top of it. This teaches you one of the most foundational programming skills: how to do something complicated with only weird, rudimentary tools.
Yes, it's too narrow. The 911 dispatcher on the other side is a human being who can handle priorities.

A good example is if you have a disabled vehicle blocking an intersection - that's a 911 call.
A technology demo can be both incredibly cool, while still having significant negative implications. 16-year old me dreamed about this sort of tech. Current me has seen Minority Report and is not comfortable with faceless corporations unilaterally deciding they want an intimate, personal relationship with me.

Technology is a tool, neither intrinsically good nor evil. Unfortunately the tech industry has, as a whole, shown a stark disrespect for the needs or desires of individuals. Tech culture values monetization over individual autonomy, and that shows little sign of changing. Unfortunately, without a dramatic culture shift, it will continue to be the case that otherwise amazingly incredibly cool tech like this gets subverted to force more "personal" interactions.
Mordon, the email app we are building for those who want to get more done
Mail Must Move.
> The behaviour of facebook and google for the past ten years suggests that revenue from tracking based ads must be multiple times that of plain old contextual ads, hence the continued push down this path?

I'm not sure that's a given. It seems like mass data collection is profitable in a vast number of ways that have nothing to do with ads which could themselves be more than enough to incentivize google and facebook to continue collecting it.
I have seen it in action, though. PG&E bought enough propaganda to convince Yolo County not to switch to a public utility. They convinced everyone to take a worse deal that would cost more money, by repeating the lie so many times that the other side cost more. Most human brains are not equipped to make rational decisions, but simply make social decisions based on perception of group opinion.
This is not unique to Rust. The Python async runtimes are not compatible with each other as well, there is AnyIO which is a wrapper that acts as an abstraction that makes things easier but it's still not as implicit as with languages with builtin runtimes.

There is also an ongoing effort to make Rust async runtimes pluggable.
Materialize is really neat, also checkout https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria. It inverts the query problem and processes the data on insert. Exactly like what most applications end up doing using a no-sql solution.
"Duty to police" seems up there with "requirement to maximize profits" in the realm of excuses to indulge in the sort of bad behavior that execs are fond of.
It sure as hell doesn't work on me. The kind of glib emoji-packed sales-slash-emotional priming spiel totally rubs me the wrong way.

Everything here screams "we're sales people first, content people second" and that's not worth my time. I'll choose quiet confidence over showmanship.
> and directly benefit from facial recognition and location tracking.

A fixed board in a fixed location with fixed information inside of a giant terminal? While I'm walking around with a computer in my pocket that also doubles as a telephone? And in the video, this is apparently the same phone I just used to check in?

This feels like there's zero actual benefit to me. It's maybe a great benefit to whoever makes the boards and whoever at the airport is getting the kickback.