skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, ~38 years ago I was an alternate for my S. FL middleschool's Academic Games team that went to national competition at Eagle Rock that year,. I got to go on the trip as an alternate but did not compete. We didn't get to see the Eagle Rock, but we heard about it. It was the first time I saw Cherry Coke for sale in a can. The only other notable detail is the guy that 20ish years later coined Ajax to mean asynchronous javascript and http request was a school chum of mine that also came along and got to compete, iirc, in a game called "Linguishticks."

Anyone else make it to Eagle Rock in the early-mid 1980's to compete in National Academic Games?
Listen to sigma rule song. It is not you shutting down a startup. It is you opening doors to your new ones where you can reuse what worked and recreate what didnt.
You have cherrypicked the time period making your point without showing the 2020 spike driven by Covid has been zeroed out most and oblivious to the point the knife is still falling fast.

Random Spot check on a single family home in highly impacted San Mateo. Surprise, list price is $2.08mm($2.2MM Zestimate) down $600k from March 2022 Zestimate of $2.7mm for a 22% drop from peak in less than half a year. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4241-Bettina-Ave-San-Mate...
Nonsense. It isn't just a matter of ripeness, but also how many times the flower was pollinated. I got one from a friend's garden much like it last year.
This sounds horrible to me. I don't want to share hallways or lobbies or parking lots or pools. When I lived in an apartment someone hit my brand new car. No such problems at my house. My house has a pool and hot tub. I can use it at 3 am if I want to and I don't have to even think about it.

I have family in Europe too. They live in a 4 story townhome in a small German city with their own garage and driveway and front door very similar to American townhomes. It's the middle of town next to a three story American style mall built right into the town center near a castle tourist destination. But it's also so rural there's nothing if you drive even 10 minutes out of town. And there's nothing to do at night.

They also own a small piece of land nearby where my grandparents hang out all day and grow food. In essence it's not much different from an American lifestyle just with excellent walkability and a train direct to Berlin or Hamburg
The replacement for 3D Touch:
“If you long press (aka hold down) on the spacebar of your touch screen keyboard (which works on iPad too) you can get into trackpad mode.”

I did not know that. Thank you!
> ... calls for more housing from the wealthy and business class are disingenuous; more often really a call for more apartments to be built exclusively in neighbourhoods dominated by the poor and working class and a continued ban of apartments in the low density single family home areas that the wealthy business owning class live in. ...

If you densify the wealthiest areas instead, people will complain that you're "just building more luxury housing for the rich" and not fixing the pricing problem. You just can't win!

(The simple truth, of course, is that both are good things to do. Every little bit helps.)
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I'm not dimissing your experience which comes from the current situation. But the current situation came about because of intense gentrification and the housing prices rising faster than society could cope over the past few decades.
>What if the moment our better self suggests an early bedtime or a lap in the pool or writing a poem, it starts to sound like a scolding parent telling us what we ought to do. So we become a little like a stubborn child, asserting our independence by digging in and not moving.

It's Freudian psychology [1] that adults are the ones who have integrated their super-ego into their ego. If there is a separation between 'self' and 'better self', then the development doesn't seem to be finished.

Like the author, I don't like to do the stuff that the better self suggests. I can trick myself to follow the better self with discipline or by gamifying the task, but I don't know how to overcome the separation and make those tasks 'mine'.

Does anybody know how to do the integration?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(psychology)#Freudian_s...
C4E - Communication for Engineers. https://chrislaffra.com/c4e

The book discusses a variety of "soft" skills, including reading and writing. Not specifically focused on technical writing per se, but can still be very useful for engineers to learn how to influence others through written materials. As Urs Hölzle says in the foreword to the book:

"At some point in your career, you can no longer communicate effectively just by talking with others. Stand-ups, planning meetings, and peer programming sessions all have their physical limits. This effect applies to you sooner than you think. At that point, you need to switch to asynchronous communication techniques. In short, you need to switch to writing. Those who can write well suddenly have a head start. Through well-written communication, your influence suddenly grows exponentially."

[I am the author]
Quoted searches getting better is good. I mostly use them for math and programming related searches.

If some bright spark is sitting around with talent to spare but no idea, the perennial failure mode “search engine for hackers” is an idea whose time has come.

Google is sufficiently beholden to search revenue that grew too much faster than use to be a death sentence for vertical search startups anymore. And modern OSS/cloud compute make the once technically impossible merely absurdly difficult.

And “search for hackers” -> “search for technical stuff of all kinds” -> “search for serious people” -> “…” sounds kind of familiar.
I spent countless hours learning to code using QBasic and building games from type-in code books I founds in libraries. I wanted to re-create this experience so built my own learn-to-code platform, https://akedo.app, inspired by the ease of getting started with QBasic.

One of the first examples I built was a clone of Nibbles in only 120 lines of code which you can play at https://akedo.app/play?g=8eolqpn_fk-kr1TLi_WmKw

I'll need to come up with a version of Gorillas next!
Go open the hood of any car made in the last 10 years. The engine bay is crammed full of doodads needed to satisfy the regulators. I want to buy a new vehicle without all that stuff, but can't because regulations prevent it from being made.
I remember as a 8-9 year old kid going to the library and finding a book about creating games in QBasic. I Spent most of the summer just copy and pasting the code from the book in hope of it working. As I didn't speak English it was very hard for me to debug, so any error just meant I had to start all over. Only a few games worked, but when it happened it was like magic.
My Samsung a52s is getting regularly patched. Its running android 12 with a July patch level.
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I was the same. I would download the games and then start messing around with the code/variables. By breaking things, I learned how they worked. Self taught myself to program via this meathod.

I still used QB4.5 occasionally to bash out a code idea just because it is so easy to get an idea down and running before moving it onto the real deal.

I am still upset that I threw out the hard drive with my side scrolling platforming game. It could do smooth scrolling like Mario on the NES but on a 486 33Mhz. Learning to split and address data sets as is needed would the game changer for me in gaining the speed up to what was needed.
> Take money out of politics. It's that simple.

I totally agree with this goal, but the core problem is deeper and won't be solved by banning political contributions and so on. Homeowners will still have a financial incentive to vote in NIMBYs, even though that's not directly "money in politics" (albeit it is so indirectly). We need to somehow take negative sum self-interest out of politics through systemic change. I have no idea how one would achieve that, though.
The Amiga had Amos and Blitz Basic, they were pretty good too. It’s not where I started, I had a Spectrum +2 first but I certainly learned a lot there before graduating to Matt Dillon’s DICE C compiler.
Or maybe because it's impossible to guarantee that you'll find what you're looking for and you may not even be looking for anything specific, making "search" a more honest and literal term? I'm not saying Google results haven't been getting worse, but blaming that on Google entirely instead of rampant SEO (which is mostly used by people who want to make money, not people who want to provide useful information) and the lack of hand curated directories to steal relevant results from are likely just as detrimental to good search results as Google's ad prioritization. While Google certainly hasn't been helping, the web has been falling apart (in terms of usability at least) for at least a decade. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetency.
"The idea is that the FQDN can contain 1. a subject matter description (subdomain) 2. a trademark (domain) and 3. a Nice trademark class (TLD)."

Forgot about 4. an ISO-3166 country code. Thus, the FQDN becomes 1. subject matter description (subdomain), 2. trademark (subdomain) 3. Nice TM class (domain) and 4. ISO-3166 country code (TLD).
Just tried it on VSCode. The Penumbra light doesn't map very well in a few places. If you open the "Editor Playground" page, some of the code samples have some pretty unreadable sections, because the background grey is too close to the foreground colours.

Nice idea, but I'm afraid that for coding I'm going to be sticking with Solarized light for the moment.
>Sorry, plants.
> Conventional food production wastes resources like water, chemicals, animal feed at unsustainable and unreasonable levels.

Animal feed to grow plant-based protein?

> Unlike conventional protein production, it takes just a fraction of all these resources if any, to produce the same nutritional amount of Solein. Even photosynthesis, the way plants convert energy into food, is not as efficient as our method.

So... they use magical electricity that comes out of nowhere, and operates more efficiently that just letting a plant sit there and use the sun.

Amazing how these people blatantly lie and present half-facts so shamelessly.
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Nice work ... really like these!

Personally, I could see myself tweaking the palettes to have a bit more saturation and maybe even have a particular hue palette or have the hues centre around a particular value as you do with the "warm" variant or the "Zenburned" (my fav, and similar to my own manual scheme) in the showcase (https://github.com/mcchrish/zenbones.nvim/blob/main/doc/show...).

Interesting to compare to the the parent post as luminance/brightness contrast based perception is generally better than our colour contrast based perception. There's arguably less information, as colours are categorical (not continuous like brightness) and colours multiplex brightness with hue and saturation, but there are probably some pretty objective metrics in which your kind of scheme would tend to be better in readability.
This is one of the benefits of being a fairphone user. The android is bloat free.
That would at least explain all the (overtly) AI generated imagery around the article.

It would also be pretty hilarious to have an article debunking claims about secret technology being secretly written by an AI.
Clojure/Clojurescript is a functional lisp dialect and therefore brings you more and other ways to write programs, since it defers much from javascript/typescript.
But I think another question would be "why do you need nbb for clojurescript?". The minimal answer is: clojure has slow startup time, and clojurescript need some tooling to produce runnable code. With nbb (or bb for clojure) you can run Clojurescript as a scripting language in the terminal, like python or shell, and still use some libraries both from the nodejs or clojure(-script) ecosystem.
> requiring a login implies a DB of some kind

If your audience could accept the basic look of it, basic auth + https will work. You can automate the creation of a new entry in the passwords file and the restart of the web server.
Yes please. Android alternatives anyone?
Optimising a neural network for inference (2021)
MISRA C bans recursion for instance.
Zenbones allows to define custom color schemes by providing just a few base colours and overrides.
You could try creating one based on penumbra to have both lightness contrast and distinct hue.

However note that it is quite difficult to get Zenbones work with existing colorschemes, I tried creating/tweaking one based on Zenburn, but in the end I had to go back to the original Zenburn because Zenbones just wasn't distinguishing enough for the various treesitter highlighting groups.

But perhaps some of the zenbones concepts could be combined with Penumbra in penumbra itself to have another variant in addition to the contrast++ one.

And as mentioned elsewhere there are scientific ways to produce colormaps that work for people with color vision deficiency too, so it'd be nice if that was addressed.
Define "Urban city"?

I live in the center of a 1M+ city and went for a 1.5 hour bush hike 15 minutes drive from my house.
It's an exceptionally flexible and convenient method of control.

Earlier this year, donors to the truck convey protest in Canada had their bank accounts frozen. This wasn't a targeted list of "these 37 people have broken a law"--rather, it was a broad mandate to freeze accounts assocated with the protests, operationalized a bit differently by each bank.

In a society where most businesses don't take cash anymore, this turnkey coercive capability becomes more airtight.

The frog will boil slowly. A few years ago, all US payment processors blocked donations to Wikileaks, after they reported on war crimes in Iraq. Today, most people still think of digital money in the same way as physical cash; in reality, every transaction is a request for permission, with fraud heuristics and blocklists that might say yes or no.

Soon, a guy gets DUI, loses the ability to buy alcohol for six months--who would oppose that? Over time, the scope and frequency of financial deplatforminig will expand. Twitter does one-week suspensions for violating their terms of service. Why not your credit card?
Prop 13 is very difficult to have an exit strategy for because people feel entitled to their feudal (and inheritable) tax rates. The idea that a $2 million home should be treated as a $100,000 one for taxes is laughably wrong, but the people who have enjoyed that benefit for years will be permanently against any politician who changes it.

I disagree with the 90% number for the LVT switch on multiple fronts: for starters all the people with historical discounts will pay more. Secondly, the typical SFH pays more and there is a lot of SFH in California.

LVT is still worth doing but making it actually happen is politically difficult in the best of states and California is the worst one due to Prop 13.
Squashing commits loses history, rebasing messy commits pollutes the "first parent" history, merging messy commits is cleaner but can force bisectors to wade through dead ends (which may or may not be useful, and may be worth preserving in a permanent side branch not merged), and rewriting commit histories into atomic commits (what I do most of the time) is difficult work which can take as long as writing the features upfront, and if done wrong can produce non-building commits. Sadly I haven't found a good solution for the workload yet, but this article suggests `git rebase -i main --exec "make"`, which I'll be sure to try when I have a chance.
This brings back so many fond memories. Author of Millennium OS here :) http://www.datacomponents.net/old/mos.html
It was probably removed for legal reasons.
That is what I remember seeing at the doctor and dentists back in the days. Nowadays this is still done but then wrapped in plastic.
git bisect basically refuses to work with merge commits, so using those ruin bisectability.

As well as linear log, cherry-pick and scores of other tools which do not have intelligent merges handling.
You don't need such a complex analysis, it's actually much simpler: you are mostly shown websites that try to make money from you, because those are the ones optimizing as hell to be at the front of the search.

Any other website, where people just share information freely, where you might get different opinions, experiences, hell, _anything that is different from just trying to sell you something_ (even if it is ads), will be very far in the back.
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Me too.

My anecdote was that during the winter Olympics I was looking for a college friend who's name was several characters off of one of the competing athlete's. It didn't matter how much additional information I put in the search. Even quoted, if it included anything that looked like that popular athlete, then that was all that was returned.

When I finally found an old user name she used, then the searches worked. Her correct name and the other information I was searching with were in the page. So it was indexed, the information was simply ignored, because it wasn't news.

Interesting that DDG did not find the page even with the username. I do not know why, but it appeared it was not indexed there.
This is good.... used it :)
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See: C4E - Communication for Engineers. https://chrislaffra.com/c4e
No, housing isn't expensive in Japan, certainly nowhere near how bad it is in US cities. Housing prices are more or less flat in Tokyo over decades, even, because they constantly build more of it. (It's cheap in the rest of the country, but that doesn't mean much because nobody wants to live there and there aren't jobs.)

Not saying it's great; Japanese wages are too low and their landlords are abusive (moving is expensive, you have to pay a lot of "key money", and they're free to discriminate against foreigners). But the housing crisis is an Anglo problem - it's bad in the US/UK/Canada/Australia.

Not sure about France specifically, I was just saying Paris is a nice city.
The QBasic IDE did have a monochrome mode, like most TUI programs in the MS-DOS environment. It was selected by a command-line switch.
well it's not discussed much because it's handled at a strictly local level. you don't get a national or even state-level conversation about what goes on in town hall public planning meetings.

the article advocates for bringing housing planning under state jurisdiction:

>The hypocrisy itself is galling, if informative. Andreessen might well support legislation upzoning neighborhoods across California. This macro-micro disconnect should push policy makers to grasp that they cannot reason with NIMBYs on a project-by-project basis. They have to eliminate NIMBYism’s veto power by moving decision-making to the state level.
> It is as hygienic as any other swimming pool. Unless you literally have your own pool in your backyard, which overwhelming majority of swimmers dont, you are not getting more hygiene.

(Former) private pool owner here. I'd bet most public neighborhood pools are much more hygienic than a private pool where we'd only test the water when algae started growing. Public pools have proper maintenance and much better systems for chlorination/salt cleaning.
That is completely incorrect. In cashless payment systems like GNU Taler customers are anonymous while only merchants e.g. recipients of payments are not anonymous to comply with anti money laundering and income transparency for the purpose of taxes.
Can you please tell me why it is your dystopian nightmare? I had the opposite feeling.
Does anyone here know which single celled organism they're using? Is it as fungus, like the one that is used in making quorn?
Few stores keep video recordings indefinitely. A fair number don't even bother with recording at all, they just make sure cameras are visible to act as a deterrent.

Financial transaction records at banks might as well be forever, though.

One of those is far more powerful than the other, and far more dangerous if it gets leaked to malicious actors.
Oh boy...

My wife wouldn't and no woman in a relationship I know would care about this either.

Love is not based on income.

That sounds tremendous depressing.

A partnership is teamwork not two doing different things.
But it isn't doing something illegal, their users do. They profit from it, but we are back to the problem that platform providers are responsible for user content. Now just if financial transactions are involved luckily.

Not a pornhub fan, but I believe there are far more exploitative companies out there.
I also miss 3D Touch
> After massive sacrifice, the country is now topping the charts in COVID deaths

You sound so out of touch with what the Australian experience has been.

Australia has had 14k deaths from COVID, vs over 1 million for the US. Percapita that is about 1/5 the deaths of the US. We've also had about 1.5 times the reported cases per capita than the US.

The strategy was to lock down until the population was vaccinated. Once that had happened, it was time to open back up again. Of course we were going to see more deaths.

Yes, the lockdowns were frustrated, yes unfortunate situationsboccurred. But going by the US stats, the response of the Australian government probably saved about 180 thousand lives.
Unix shell chops. I mean using things like for, grep, xargs, cut, sed, awk, uniq, etc in pipelines
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I don't know any YIMBYs who live in Pac Heights. They'd love to put apartments there of course, but transit-oriented development means we have to start where the BART stations are. Housing is something, but it's easier to get back into society if you can commute to your job.
The report is still quite light on details. They list "commercial paper" under cash and equivalent... Which could mean they lend money to apple short term and get 0.5% interest, or it could be highly speculative lending to Colombian agricultural companies.

Either way, what Tether does is essentially banking ("give us money, we'll hold it and, pinky promise, if you want it back, you'll get it no problem"). The bar for bank transparency and regulation is far, far higher than what Tether presents.
Even if the electric car cannot replace the ICE one, I cannot think of a good reason to burn fossil fuel for base load generation. We have hydro, we have nuclear, we have solar, and we have wind - at least two of those are dandy at base load generation, the other two act as good peaking sources.

Cheaper is no longer good justification.
Please point those details out. I see a single screenshot that does not show anything failing to work in FF.
Richard, CEO of you.com here.
Love your two points. That's what we're doing!

For 1) we have an open app platform that allows everybody to collaborate on that first entry of the web

For 2) We let people decide the sources they want to see and if they don't like a source or app, they can downvote it and see it less in their ranker.

We will try to decentralize more over time though it's a big effort to make it fast enough still.
Short answer: no. There's not enough time until our sun goes super nova in a few billion years to trickle cool the planet's core in any appreciable way by siphoning of really tiny amounts of energy.