skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like it was a bit tedious (and expensive) to hammer the server for 30 hours... vs. a downloadable database (which, granted, could get out of date).
I would pay for a dictionary with word derivations in it so I can better learn word structures. Built in dictionary apps generally lack that option.
If you think any of these things can pay for the equivalent square feet housing cost, I have a bridge to sell you. Parking is a fantastically inefficient use of space and obviously only remains when propped up artificially.

I guess you just lack imagination and or empathy. That's one way to look at it but it so far has a zero success track record at solving these problems.
Seriously. Google has stagnated for so long it's hard to remember how they got big in the first place. I guess every big tech company eventually turns into Microsoft :( At least they're not Oracle.
The phrase “so sue me” basically means “with whose army” or “what are you going to do about it”.

It’s not to be taken literally, although in this context it’s a bit confusing.
s/moot/not/
Forced institutionalization is plainly unconstitutional, and there's no particular evidence that you can disappear whichever group of undesirables you see fit and guarantee that more won't appear. The homeless don't spontaneously generate from other homeless; they come from the same households that you and I do.

The solution is what it's always been: a universal housing mandate, and adequate social services (including harm reduction). The things stopping that aren't "performative activism"; it's Seattle's pathological disdain for housing and a polite-society liberal ethos that values property values over human lives.
Maybe a NSFW tag?
It can kill you like taking a fork to the nearest power outlet can kill you. Do you suggest we get rid of them? Of course not. They are risks to be managed, and history suggests the risk is fantastically low.
While we are talking about dictionaries, I really wish more word games would include definitions. My kids (well, me as well) really enjoy word games like Bookworm Adventures, Wordscapes, etc. However occasionally these turn into random guessing of letters until something is accepted.

It would be really neat (and educational) to have the option to view a word's definition after you play it.
A fund is a completely different structure. A proprietary trading company trades its own capital.
Calling out a guy who was worshipping pg as some sort of a God, then having some moderator step in to tell me "not to do that here".
The huge expense per homeless to little effect has been dubbed the “Homeless Industrial Complex”:

A lot of money goes to politicians, their supporters, and bourgeois — while only a small percentage goes to fixing homelessness.

This is essentially looting the public by corrupt actors under the false guise of moral action.
> Seattle has turned into a shithole akin to San Francisco and other west coast cities with Democrat mayors and single-party strangleholds.

Let's extend this (sneakily) implied causal model to all geographic areas with an "X" party mayor (or county commissioner or sheriff or whatever) and single-party strangleholds. Let's look at rural areas, say, in the southern states. Let's talk about pervasive poverty, lack of education, and drug abuse there.

We can play the blame game. How about this: let's talk about potential solutions and their associated costs?

P.S. I don't dispute that downtown SF is shocking, disgusting, and _more importantly_ tragic for the people living there. I care relatively little about the cosmetic aspect. I care tremendously about finding ways that every human being can reach their maximum potential, without impinging on the rights of other people.

P.P.S. Yes, this stated moral philosophy is somewhat underspecified, but I'm trying to leave open a wide space for reasonable people to agree. We can and should debate the margins, but I think there is considerable consensus in terms of public opinion about what is just, ASSUMING that people share a common set of facts and all inform themselves on a particular situation and dynamic (by which I mean interconnected causes and effects).
Free software is associated with the belief that unfree software is unethical. If someone is making an explanation, but is not trying to tell everyone who makes propitiatory software is evil they should not mention free software.
I purchased TM-2 from Echelon in 1986. I was a minor, so I went to Echelon's office in Los Altos and paid cash for an 8" floppy.

TM-2 was awesome, but extremely buggy. I used it on an Altos ACS8000, a 4-user machine that originally ran MP/M and would have been $10-20k new. My dad and me got it used at a computer swap meet for maybe $500. My dad helped me to get CP/M running on the machine, and it was great because it could use some of the extra memory in the ACS8000 as a small ram disk. A few years later, I used TM-2 for all my assignments in AP Computer Science, and it sucked having to work around all the bugs.

I'm kind of wistful thinking about it now, because that was right around the time I began to realize that in classes I was almost always the only female in the room. It led to a lot of unwanted attention and awkward situations. Eventually it led to me changing careers.
I hear ya - just giving the data/stats perspective. It's an audience that cares a lot about these details.
If your government tries to change it without the approval of the states, etc. (see constitutional amendments in the US), you kill the government. That's what the second amendment is for. To be pedantic, they are not the actual government anymore when they don't follow the constitution, but they have to be killed all the same to clear space for the new legitimate government.
> Copper is used for pipes. They are much more expensive than plastics.

Rats do not chew through copper.

Getting a plumber out, replacing the pipe section, replastering, etc to deal with the fallout was substantially more expensive than laying copper pipes would have been.
The full quote from that post is "Walking to school is impossible in most of the US"
The US mint also destroys old coins, so you need to know the net production.
I don’t think google has the capacity to become more efficient as an organization. Google is a strange mix of hyper capitalism and literal 5 year planning command economy communism. The thin interface of the company with rest of the universe, mainly made of legal policy, sales and vendor management is extremely efficient hyper capitalism. The huge gooey inside of this boundary layer, for basically all job roles, is a command economy where the inputs are determined by exec fiat, the results are interpreted through an extreme work politics lense devoid of nearly all market feedback, the consequences of failure are not firing but a 6 month delayed promo cycle, and everyone more or less is piggybacking on a more than a decade of monopoly profits. Google cannot become an efficient company again until market based success and failure mechanisms return to the inside of this massive company.
i really don't give a shit. like i know that's not a nice thing to say and it's not what i'm supposed to say but it's how i feel by this point. cities have been so destroyed and filled with literal shit and crime gone up and my friends get assaulted that they used up all their sympathy they got from us. to start force junkies into rehab and go back to institutionalizing ppl who are too crazy to survive.

i remember when i was younger ppl would carry food in their cars and hand it out to homeless with hungry signs. some of them would take it and be grateful and that was good. some of them would only want money (obv what that would be for) and so we move on. but it was good we could hand out some food. now most ppl i know aren't comfortable doing that any more. bc a bunch of them have been attacked when they wouldn't give cash. most of them not bad, but having a guy trying to pull open the door or grabbing the car is scary for most of us and really fucking scary for somebody like a small woman. so it's not that people don't still have sympathy for the honest guy down on his luck but there's too many of the bad ones now.

the problem is look at low income housing, people will tell you there's not enough. "oh just build more". but low income housing these days is really fucking bad. i have friends who are landlords and tried running low income housing and its awful how bad it gets torn up, how hard it is to get people to pay with rent and eviction moritoriums. and it only gets worse.

it cost more for them to run low income housing than blue-collar housing that's still not fancy but has better tenants. there's so much damage and crime around the low-income. remember austin bought that hotel for a homeless shelter and it got trashed to shit in like 2 weeks? same kinda problem.

so it ain't a simple problem to fix. and the moritoriums and rent control that cities keep adding only makes more people leave the low income housing business.

but all that aside me and a whole bunch of other people are just done. and if the homeless don't leave other people will, look at these cities rn. and once all the rich people are gone and all the middle class people are gone then they're really gonna be in trouble.

tbh our problem is we can't punish people who got nothing so laws don't mean nothing to them. like what do u even do to a person shitting in a downtown street? arrest them? put them where? now u spend money keeping them in jail and they will get out back on the street. and relapse rates out of rehab are shit specially since a lot of those people end up there from a court order so that ain't any kind of solution here.
I've been to a few of these places, and it would take a whole lot more than $20K to get me to go back to some of them, let alone move there. At least two places on that list are practically ghost towns, just counting down the days until everyone dies (I'm not exaggerating).

Rochester, NY was a really pleasant surprise the one time I was there.

A couple weeks ago here on HN there was an article about how for every one high paying tech worker there is a network effect of jobs created around them. Would seem like that's the angle being played here, but given the "requirements" it really isn't clear that these programs will have a meaning impact.
The nuclear industry has had three quarters of a century to be innovative, with enormous public funds pumped into it only because of its defense applications - nuclear weaponry and naval powerplants.

At a certain point you have to say "sorry guys, you had your try" and let the existing plants wind down. That's what's happening. Nuclear is being replaced by green generation at 6x the rate it's being lost.
What I love about this piece is that the author lays out a specific set of goals for their project. I find this is immensely helpful to do at the start of a project. I often have an idea that I think is cool but after writing down what I want to do I realize that it’s not such a great idea.
At this point I'll be shocked if Stadia isn't cancelled, that's just what Google does and their customers know it by now. It's become a self fulfilling prophecy.
Ouch, you brought up nightmares about flat files from a previous job. I’m betting it was an AS400 or something similar providing the data I needed to ingest. It was painful.
No, the original plot was in MWh. But even for LCOE wikipedia (citing lazard) shows the same 3xfactor between solar/wind and nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity
That's a strange take.

They won't they would fund some other org or dept to do the work. Same way you have a public education system, or public health care.
> Who says the reason is what they say it is?

I think I answered this question above - the majority of miners. If you succeed in convincing the majority of miners, then it will be valid. That's what "decentralized" means - it doesn't mean nobody is in control. It means the control is not concentrated in one place - it is spread between miners.

> then says there was a bug with these transactions, everyone agrees

If everyone agrees, then you've lost. It's not a magic woodoo to make you the invincible king of the world, it's just a way to make control more distributed, nothing more. If the FakeBlockchainCorp succeeds in convincing the majority of bitcoin miners that your bitcoin should be taken from you - it will be taken from you.
Kiwi here, we have? What are you referring to?

We have a rather dim outlook of Australian federal/state government overreach too, and some of their populist policies that discriminate against us, often with racist origins.

And we've often enjoyed a TV drama or three recounting horrendous corruption in various Australian police forces. (I highly recommend the Underbelly series')
What extensive censorship of media? Australian's have plenty of 'constitutional rights', the right to vote, the right to property, the right to trial by jury, freedom of religion.
I think you have it exactly wrong.

The idea of Free Software, at its most extreme, exists as a useful endpoint of an "Overton Window" for software. Which is to say, all software benefits from its existence even if they don't e.g. sign on to the GPL. You're forced to consider it as a possibility.

Without it, we'd probably think of "Open Source" as the most "open" software can be -- which, as OP proves, is quite wrong and nebulous.
PEX was banned, but the ban was lifted in 2010.
Yeah, I wonder why they didn’t just download it from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ.
Gravitation is not the only force.

Even without local "freshman" classes, you may look it up in any dictionary. Or, just stop pretending.
Is everyone an employee or are there contractors as well? Are there managers? how large is the team?

For smaller teams (sub 10 people), I find that having 1 daily informal standup and having the leaders make themselves readily available for answering questions is often sufficient. The key is often for leadership not to block development (so no long review cycles for PRs or long time deciding on details that subordinates need to accomplish their work).
Excellent app! I had been using Obsidian (writing key-values manually) and sometimes use Spotlight (dictionary). Both are not really efficient.
It really is a wonderful language. I honestly can't think of a single complaint I have with it.
Not specifically.
Energy storage?
Bananas are radioactive and not dangerous.
Speak for yourself. Anecdotally, as an employee who prefers the office and goes in most days a week even though I don't have to, I am waaaaaay more productive at home. Fewer distractions, no random noises and people talking all around you, deliveries being dropped off all the time, etc. And a more powerful machine, better monitor, etc.

The office loses money on me whenever I go in. Sure, the boss sees me more, but it's a lot less efficient when I'm constantly talking to people around me (which I enjoy, and is why I go in) but my actual work only gets done in the quiet moments in between, which are much rarer at the office than at home.

Shrug. People are different.
Given the intense energy needed to produce steel towers, the mass amounts of concrete needed (which emits a lot if co2 as curses), fire roads created, carbon fiber blades created, shipped, et all what’s the payoff for a single wind tower all in?

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of rational discussion.
I was thinking about getting a cheap prepaid phone to bring on long bike rides. Even though I only check my spartphone once or twice per ride I realized just having it prevents my mind from really relaxing. I should probably just bring everything to repair a flat then I wouldn’t need a phone at all.
This was my take as well; bold claims with minimal details or demos on their website.
lol i've heard a few ppl pitching a "city for the homeless". build a government subsidized city in the most cheap ass land we can find in the country. away from everything else. free housing free food, nothing fancy. have them do jobs processing food or building weapons or whatever else the government needs. there's cops everywhere, you step out of line there's somebody there to taze your ass. imports and exports is controlled so they can't relapse on drugs.

oh wait, we got something like that... prison. it does a shit job at fixing homeless ppl.
Shutdown YouTube.
Complaining about SoDo not being walkable seems silly..

I guess people are being anti-car extremists in this thread, but still. SoDo? Land of concerts and events and dispensaries?
What does "free market" mean to you that this meets that definition?
Wind and solar coupled with energy storage systems, all of which have been plunging in price like a rock over the last twenty years.
Recently un-installed the following apps.

- Reddit
- Amazon Prime Video
- Netflix

I could not shake off the addiction of scrolling for new content and news, all day long.

I could not concentrate on any work.

I would either be scrolling on reddit or kept a show running "in the background" while doing work.

I suffered like this for 4 years

Thank god I was self aware enough of my addiction.

Planning to stay off them even on desktops.
California is totally different. The voters chose to make the place ungovernable and broken.

Local streets are a local responsibility. The state or Federal government will provide grants for ADA amenities or multi model transportation.
I can only speak about Mulesoft. It is expensive. If you are running mission critical stuff then you can justify the cost. That is we outsourced disaster planning and recovery to them.

They are essentially hosting APIs for you. Personally I believe APIs peak has past. Developers want to deliver functionality quickly. Seems to me, people are looking for ways to bypass APIs. E.g., webhooks, event architectures like Kafka. etc. That is instead of exposing an API for the entire internet to hit. Modern architectures are more selective or direct or has less intermediaries.
A bit of context for HNers before/after reading -- This is from the personal blog of the creator of Bookstack[0], which is licensed under MIT.

I agree with the post and also other posters here that in that the post skips over the free/open software debate which is also quite relevant.

[0]: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack
Thank you for the info. I had no idea!
That’s fair. But it’s worth pointing out that there are some extremely successful immigrant groups in America. Ukrainians come to mind.
Meshtastic: A Review
Well said, thanks for the explanation. Sorry for being so blunt. Your first paragraph is my position and experience as well.
If it wasn't legal, you'd see the government in court over it. As happened when the first lockdown wasn't implemented correctly.

https://adls.org.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=453
There was a discussion about this just yesterday or so (sorry, on mobile, hard to find).

But I think a while ago they already pivoted to selling/renting the underlying tech to other businesses instead of trying to be a game marketplace. What's left of consumer Stadia is just dying day by day... not that it was ever particularly healthy.
Have a voice recorder record your thoughts while in the shower.
i agree we gotta go back to enforcing laws. problem is then ppl just move they RVs.

like, we can't rly make them stop unless we take they RV, now we got 1 more homeless. or we could take them to prison, now we got 1 more prisoner. none of this fixes the problem bc it's rly hard to punish ppl who got nothing to lose.
Neither of those things really help when you've got 10 RVs on your street and a random pile of human feces on the sidewalk. or there's someone passed out literally on the doorstep of your workplace.

Like...it's just not _actionable_. You're still talking on a group level rather than an individual...and even then, the mere presence of empathy doesn't do anything.

> 2) Learn about this crazy thing called "empathy", instead of punching down.

I want to call this out specifically, because Seattle's a city that's really filled to the brim with empathy and compassion. Yeah, there are definitely some people that're just concerned with their home value. There's more that really do want to see the problem solved in a way where everyone benefits.

It's really easy to berate anyone that's frustrated with the situation. It's a lot harder to come up with solutions that really will work and make them happen.

> Not the homeowners, cos heaven forfend we make them pay for anything.

I mean...it doesn't make sense to fine the homeowners that most likely had nothing to do with it at all. Fining them just turns them into victims.

I'm sure if the police were really interested in finding whodunit, there's enough ring footage around to be able to find out.
> We need the very fastest ways to reduce carbon generation

Why does Germany performs abysmally wrt. electrical production carbon intensity despite having enough wind/solar installed capacity to cover their consumption?
Split phase means we get the choice of 120V (for safety) and 240V when we really need it (eg appliances)
Honestly, it's questionable whether Stadia was ever alive to begin with. It's been neglected ever since inception.
Friend of a friend story: one of the POs left days after launch, because they knew it would never replace consoles/desktops. It's really struggled to find footing since.

Personal theory: Stadia is a precursor to Rendering as a Service for AR/VR. It will be a long time before we can render a high-quality content for stereoscopic vision with a mobile device. But if you can solve the streaming problem, you can just offload it to the cloud. Issue is that any tracking lag that causes motionsickness now will just be magnified.
Sealed files don't require warrants they are just court records that aren't publicly accessible. My understanding is motions (appeals or some other proceeding?) can be filed by a defendent (if that's the right term) and prosecution has a limited time frame to respond. Defense lawyers will just file bogus motions hoping a deadline is missed and they can move things further along. When that happens, it makes even more work for prosecutors which eats up time they could be spending building cases
You stated it was free. I stated it wasn't. Not sure how you twisted my statement to say that its use should be restricted only to property owners. I also said "the roads inside cities", which excludes county roads, state highways, and interstates. But people do not typically park on those.

It's telling that a city in California doesn't have enough property taxes to pay for their roads. It's almost like Prop 13 causes problems.
Agreed, you don't have access to a phone at all while in remand. Bail conditions can restrict who you live with, where you live, interstate travel etc. These are all huge losses of liberty that we accept as a society the same way we accept prison as a loss of liberty.
Can you share sources? I'm surprised that so many reactors are being built.
Googler opinions are my own.

I agree that it seems like we haven't had any huge launches in a long while, just lots of incremental improvements.

Google has lots of people with lots of ideas, but launching anything under the Google name is treacherous. If it fails to gather adoption and it dies (like many startups do) we get blamed for killing products.

It's a problem of an internet company. If we just released software like people mostly did 20 years ago, we could just stop providing updates. But keeping an internet service up takes compute and human resources.

As for what we work on, every active product has small changes going on. In payments (my team), we continue to launch support for new forms of payment. We continue to stay up on the latest regulations around the globe. (ex: Apple stopped accepting credit cards in India for their App Store, but Google Play still supports it.)