skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data cited by the article works against it. The US has a reasonable number of police per capita for a developed nation, falling between Canada and Australia which are culturally very similar (common law, english speaking, a few dense urban centers but also large rural areas, etc). The issue is that despite having an adequate number of police, they are not effective at suppressing violent crime.

This is hardly surprising if you dig a little deeper. There has been a long trend throughout the US of reduce spending on dedicated public services -> shift remaining responsibility for those services to local police -> increase police budget to handle additional workload -> budget issues -> reduce spending on dedicated public services. The problems all those services were dealing with fester, leading to lower quality of life and worsening socioeconomic situations for residents, which in turn increases both demand for these services and crime rates. At the same time while the cops are doing inadequate jobs dealing with problems they are neither equipped nor trained for, they are pulling resources away from the job they are actually supposed to be doing. These penny pinching policies have ironically fiscally ruined many communities across the nation. Unfortunately many have dug themselves so deep that the damage is likely irreversible, especially when you consider demographic trends that are depleting these communities of their young, their wealthy, and their skilled citizens. Those communities that can be saved will likely need a complex cocktail of creative measures and external assistance. Any simple proposal like "just hire more cops" is as laughable as "let them eat cake."
> Why shouldn't the city pay the costs necessary to attract the labor they need?

Because they don't need the specifically-suburban labor? They can get the labor from their 'fellow' urban dwellers?
Nope. Multi-Target is where you can specify an array for build.target in .cargo/config, or multiple --target options on the command line. It just got moved out of unstable into stable about a month ago.
Thanks for posting our article, Sytten!
One of the writers here, feel free to ask questions :)
And this is where DS with a deeper more rigorous understanding begin to differentiate themselves by being able to step back and reformulate/re-model the problem into something more like an anomaly detector (in keeping with this example).

I can see the argument where ML Engineers and DS w/out a more advanced statistics/STEM background would fail since they would continue down their list of libraries w/in their prescribed toolbox. Granted many problems can be approximated to be good enough, and let's face it, the FAANG/MAANG/whatever companies aren't running things so super critical where a user getting one extra email or ad presentation will cause them serious injury or death.

Btw, appreciate your comments.
CNC, robotic, and industrial equipment too: Human-machine interfaces have rows of "Soft keys", buttons whose function changes depending on the context. Many machines used soft keys in the ages before touchscreens were available, but manufacturing is slow to change and even with the advent of multi-touch high-resolution color displays, they've remained. For examples:

https://www.fanucamerica.com/images/default-source/cnc-image...

https://www.fanuc.eu/~/media/corporate/products/robots/acces...

https://i.imgur.com/3vsHBhl.png

(OK, maybe the AB went a little overboard on the number of function keys...) but these are really effective tools to structure menus and build HMIs.
Well if you ask people that specifically switched to Go, then all you are going to get is responses and anecdotes that meets your expectation.

However, if you ask people that switched away from Go, then you will see responses that also match that expectation.

So it really is down to your preference.
I should also mention that very niche subjects that are not discussed often don't yield the best results.
I liked the section on testing[0].

I tend to write far more testing code, than the CuT, itself. Many of my various widgets have test harnesses that are, in and of themselves, full-fat, App Store-ready apps.

I find test harnesses are generally better (for me), than unit tests[1].

I was just thinking about this, this morning.

I'm what people refer to as a "crusty oldtimer." I wrote my first program (Machine Code) in 1983, so I've seen some changes in the landscape.

These days, the general posture of many shops seems to be "Our programmers suck, and can't be trusted to write code güt." Sadly, this is not necessarily an inaccurate stance.

It tends to result in highly defensive IT infrastructure and process, though, with heavy reliance on languages and strict, rote methodologies.

I used to write a lot of code in C++. Nowadays, people seem to freak out, at the thought of writing in C++. It's entirely possible to write safe, performant code, in C++, but it isn't enforced by the language. The same for PHP, which I've used a lot.

It's also quite possible for bad programmers to write truly nightmarish code in both languages. I know of which I speak, having written quite a bit of said "nightmarish" code. That's one of the reasons I write fairly good code, these days.

The conventional wisdom seems to be that we need to rely on the tools (languages, IDEs, VCS, CI/D, etc.), to assure good code.

That's fine, but it seems to stem from an unwillingness to invest in the most expensive component in a cubicle; the software engineer.

This is a long, tiresome discussion, with no one willing to change their minds, so I'm not going to follow up on it.

I did notice that this posture seemed to start in the mid-1990s. Before that, companies put ridiculous amounts of trust and investment in us.

[0] https://yoyo-code.com/programming-breakthroughs-we-need/#tes...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...
> Turns out capacitive touchscreens were a great fit for cell phones

Yes but to be clear they are still an enormous compromise there. Maybe it is this generation of UX people, maybe it is fundamental to the technology, but there hasn't been much advancement in touch interface tech in years. Apple tried "deep touch" or whatever with feedback but then abandoned it because nobody (users or devs) wanted to deal with it. We just deal with all the downsides of touch screens because the rest of the device gives us such an incredible capability, even with the (sometimes literally) painful UX.
> will turn on randomly while browsing her Instagram feed

I think this could be explained by accidentally swiping a tiny bit to the right.

Swiping right will take you to the camera view, so even swiping a few pixels to the right and then releasing will briefly activate the camera.
The declining quality probably correlated with the military setbacks the Byzantines were dealt by the Arabs and later by the Turks. Heraclius finally defeated the Sassanid Persians in 622 but lost much of the Holy Land to the Arabs by 640. [1,2] The crushing defeat of the Byzantines at Manzikert in 1071 [3] led to a series of events that resulted in the Crusades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius#Byzantine_counter-of...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yarmuk
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert
A commonsense way to describe what you just said is that homeowners are more stable and stationary and therefore more invested in the long-term future of their communities than renters are, which is an argument that urbanists laugh at, but one that seems very clearly to be true.

I think people basically know this, if they're allowed to be honest with themselves. Nobody who ever lived in a college dorm and then spent a "magical year" in NYC and then bought a house in a suburb thinks they were just as invested in those first two places as they are in the third.
You're welcome! I wish I could do more of this as my dayjob, but that's just not in the cards for now. Most of what I do now as devrel is things focused on Tailscale and doing the production work (writing, making slides, filming, compositing, editing and publishing) for whatever conference talks I get accepted to.
Yeah! I totally don't mean to cast such a wide net, but I think it was part of the character I saw in them as someone abused by them.

I'm personally not much of a gun person myself, but I've been to a range a few times with friends, so gun ownership & use is not a "one and done" indicator by any means, but it's a concerning sign when correlated with various other negative personality ticks.
Encoders are great for this too. Music hardware often uses mappable encoders with LED rings to indicate the current value, and/or with the screen showing what the encoder is controlling.

https://www.ableton.com/en/products/controllers/apc40mkii/tr...

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keyb...
Been taking this for nearly 5 years. Shits the real deal. No pretending when you’re competing still against 20-something that barely washed out of their pro nhl career… but yeah not like being 55 and playing high level hockey is any sort of ‘proof’ around here (or my multiple sets of 20-25 pull-ups I do regularly and I could barely do 10 when I was 30).
You’d better be treating Lord Whiskers with the proper respect!

Only fancy feast for the young highness.
To an extent, this is just how life is.

I'm certainly not excusing low level scams, charlatanism, or snake oil, but even before YouTube there were TV commercials and radio hosts peddling things like "Name a Star."

There comes a point where I can't really feel sorry for anyone who buys this stuff thinking it's actually real and not just a cute gag.
South Korean Founder of Failed Terra Coin Admits He Was 'Wrong'
> Why do people need such guidance, especially people able to get a job at Google?

You might think that the people who get to Google are independent thinkers, but it's quite the opposite. Look at it this way: they spend 12 years in primary and secondary education being told what to do, and they study standardized tests to advance to the next stage of their education at a university.

They spend 4+ years there, all the while taking tests and exams and going through courses where again they are told exactly what to do every step of the way, with granular feedback as to how they are meeting the standards. Then upon graduating with a degree they put their knowledge to use by studying for what is essentially yet another entrance exam into Google.

The person who follows this kind of trajectory hasn't had an opportunity for truly independent thought probably their entire life. They are conditioned to follow guidelines, and the first questions they'll ask for any task are: "Where is the rubric? What are the rules? How will I be evaluated?" because they know how to succeed when there are guidelines and rules and procedures to follow. Take away those, and they will flail. I've seen it many times.
One real-world scenario where it seems to be a problem is for you to show off your work :)

Clicking "create form" (to see the example you provided) returns the identical form error again. I have to modify it to see how it works, rather than using the example you provided.

Not a show stopper at all, but not intuitive for an example website as there is no indication that I need to modify your example form before being able to see the example of what is produced.

Very cool though!
>If people had to pay inheritance tax on their family home, how many could not afford such a tax bill and would have to get rid of their family home to please the tax man

If your family is leaving you a house worth more than $12 million, you can afford to pay the tax man.
Of course I blame Google for Samsung not providing upgrades to a Google-branded OS.

Do you blame Dell when Microsoft screws up the start menu?
I touch typed this comment but never obstructed the display to do it.

Why would I want I/O to become IO?
As an outsider, it sounds to me like Pine64 has failed to explicitly state how much support they are willing to offer each of the popular distro projects. The Community Edition releases implied a pretty high level of support for each of those projects at the time, but now that support has been dropped and the project developers feel lead on.

I don't think it's too late for Pine64 to recover from this, though. IMO, they should define a few support tiers and make it very clear what will be supported at each tier. Then they should commit to a support tier for each of the popular distros for some period of time (eg 3 years). I think it's okay if some projects receive more support than others. But the PinePhone will live or die by the health of its development community. Those developers need to know they're working on solid ground.

I understand that Pine64 is trying to position themselves for greater mass market appeal. I'm part of that market. Maybe Manjaro is best suited for appealing to that market. But regardless, Pine64 shouldn't loose site of what make the PinePhone so appealing to begin with. I haven't bought a PinePhone yet but I've been optimistic about its future and I've hoped to eventually get one. It's primary appeal to me is being able to easily setup whatever distro I want. Without that, I will be much less forgiving of its shortcomings next time I'm considering buying one.
It's not a negative, it's just different. You're choosing more time and energy in the late evening and night, with the trade off being less energy and more trouble getting up in the morning. Most people with rigid work schedules (and not working on a night shift) would rather pick the opposite, however.

The cultural aversion to a "night owl" shedule is pretty obvious though given the historical importance of farming and animal husbandry, which are dependent on the daily cycle.
> Most of America’s arsenal of air-launched missiles and bombs range in cost from tens of thousands up to a few million dollars each. Rather than these weapons being seen as outdated, they could remain just as effective if delivered to targets at hypersonic speeds from inside the bomb bay of an aircraft

So, what happens to your aircraft when you open bomb bays while flying at Mach-20? What happens to those missiles and bombs when they hit a Mach-20 air stream?

What’s the highest speed a plane has flown at while dropping bombs?

It wouldn’t surprise me if that drone would have to slow down significantly before dropping any conventional weaponry, increasing the risk of being shot down, and/or if that weaponry would have to be redesigned to cope with this, increasing its cost.
Google is also the name of the company. "It's a Google term" sounds like something that is discussed internally. Calling a search phrase a "Google term" doesn't make a lot of sense to normal people
If they nail drag-drop .app installs, that's pretty cool.

Otherwise, Elementary GUI on Gnustep is pretty much it.
Yes, naming things is hard, but, "jank"? Yikes.

"Jank" describes undesirable, problematic, glitchy UX. I genuinely thought that the title was denigrating Clojure on LLVM. Maybe it's intended to be funny or ironic, and if it catches on it won't matter, but it sure seems like a footgun.
> Suburbs survive by proximity to density and, in most cases, pay no taxes to support that density. […] What suburbanites want is to be close enough to the city to enjoy all the benefits of being in a major metro area, without the hassle of supporting the project of urbanity. They want all the upsides without participating in addressing the (very real) downsides.

You have this backwards: the higher density folks do not need support from the lower density folks. It is the opposite:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
I was mainly thinking of the geopolitical ramifications, but that's a very good point as well with interesting similarities to China. The mere existence of Prosperous Chinese "Rogue States" like Hong Kong and Taiwan undermine the legitimacy of the CCP
- The last thousand some years (in Europe)

- Widespread (in Europe)

- Half of recorded (European) history

An exclusively European phenomenon, the bulk of which came and went while it was a backwater region with limited effect on the rest of the world.
The description of the businesses feels like someone took the Laprophiag online membership gift of a "plot of land", which clearly a joke, and tried to commercialize it. I wonder which plot of land fake happened first?

Also glad to know from the article I can just go around now calling myself a "Laird"
China fires rods into sky to make it rain, as it faces worst heat wave on record
In what universe does paying tax on what you inherit equate to communism?
Clearly we need a new nation where lord and ladyship flows from NFTs. That way there's no confusion and no scams.

dash s.
Well, "beats a touch screen on input" isn't really a bar as much as a line on the floor.

Another comment claims Audi no longer uses this system and went to touch as well.
I, personally, think a protocol should be resilient and never fail unless there is absolutely no other choice (like TCP where failures are so common that recovering is part of the protocol).
I think we're talking past each other but I'm not sure how to rectify.

Given a debit of $500 and two matching credits of $250 how is the owner's equity position affected?

A programmer, unfamiliar with accounting, might think that "debit" and "credit" carry enough meaning in this context to answer the question.

You and I know that without knowing what account types are being debited and credited we have no way of explaining what the managerial result of that entry is. That's an unanswerable question w/o more context. That's my point.
There is no accounting for developers.
I'm going to ignore your presumptions (your "greedy developers and sellouts) and things I did not say (like "YIMBYism lowers prices for noble neighborhood defenders who are forced to sell"), so basically every word and try to find the spirit of your comment.

It's pretty difficult to fit a massive apartment building on a house sized plot between two massive apartment buildings. The prices you will be offered are not what your neighbors were offered. There will also be pressure on you to sell because your neighborhood is now shit. Your house prices may still, all that being considered, have massively risen since you bought the house. The property taxes also rose proportionally, sucking away your equity.

Any reply to this other than vague sarcasm?
I don't think that's what GP was saying at all.

The issue they bring up in more that hardware manufactures will have things like

#define BLINKY_LIGHT_ADDR 0xDEADBEEF

in a standard set of headers distributed with their toolkit. That magic address is where you write to turn a light on or off.

Now, they will almost certainly also define that sort of thing in a datasheet, somewhere, but for the average embedded dev it's far simpler to pull in the SDK and use that.

This isn't some sort of "good programmer bad programmer" filter. This is a "I don't want to read a 40 page pdf of a datasheet to find out what you named light 1 and where that address is"
Do you have an example of a simple parser like that?
The Indian system is a hybrid model - you vote through an electronic machine which also prints out a confirmatory paper vote that you can confirm through a porthole and which drops into a strongbox. In case of conflict or concerns, the paper votes can be tallied.
> This is so awesome for two reasons, Postgress isn't exactly easy to setup

for tutorial level usage, "apt-get install postgresql-X" or installing Postgres.app has always worked perfectly. what sort of troubles do you run into?
Oh; that's lame.

I wish someone would just build an EV pickup truck. There have been DIY instructions since the lead acid days, since the frames already have ample space and load bearing capacity for the batteries.
Warning about above poster: they believe slavery is free-market.

Of course people active in free-market discussion know that patents as government imposed forced monopoly against people that never entered a contract with the "patent-holder" are staunchly opposed by many free market thinkers, including individuals such as Murray Rothbard. Again in SLG's bad-faith quest to make free-markets about slavery and monopolies, he uses his exceptional intelligence in attempts to trick the naive reader into a false view about free markets.

> countries in which insulin is cheaper have a healthcare industry that is a freer market than the US?

Here we see the fallacious slight of hand, where OP attempts to deceive audience by using PRICE OF A SINGLE GOOD to measure whether THE ENTIRE MARKET OF HEALTHCARE is "freer."
Craig here from Crunchy. Pretty excited to ship this. It started with one of our engineers showing up in slack 6 weeks ago "So I did something crazy over the weekend..." from there it evolved into much more.

The post explains a lot of the high level, but we're going to being doing some deeper dives as well including the build process, but also some of how the tutorials are powered by an internal notion doc which allows us to easily iterate and collaborate on the tutorials themselves.

Perhaps our favorite easter egg is that you can bring your own SQL into it for example: https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/playground?sql=https:...
I'd skip the config file:

function ec2_ssh
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null $argv
end
Morally and in terms of business sense I agree with you, except I might argue that 2h is too short even for randos on Twitter (especially late on Sunday night) when the allegation is of trademark violation instead of something more urgent to resolve. Trademark matters by definition impact commerce alone, unlike if the Twitter account were compromising computers through malware or harassing or stalking humans.

But to the extent US law applies and the other required details of the DMCA safe harbor are attended to, I do think the DMCA prevents the service provider from monetary liability in this scenario. Of course, criticizing them for acting rashly remains 100% fair game.

(As to the question of whether US law applies: one example you were discussing, Hetzner, is based in Germany and not the US. But I can imagine circumstances where US law might sometimes apply to them anyway, and/or Germany might have similar laws. I'm not an expert on the international angle here, and I'm not a lawyer in any case.)
I find the following passage interesting in the context of modern capitalism:

> In the United Kingdom, “lord” and “lady” are peerage titles, meaning a person can only hold the legal recognition, privileges, and protections associated with those titles if they rightfully inherit them, if they marry into a noble family, or if the queen grants them a peerage. Since the only hereditary peerages the queen has granted in decades have been to members of the royal family, realistically, the only ways a person can become a lord or lady are either by inheritance or by marrying into a noble family. It is not possible for someone to buy their way into lordship or ladyship.

I think some people are angry at the fact that there remain positions of privilege in the Western world that one cannot buy their way into, or be elected to (e.g. President), or grind toward (e.g. CEO). I wonder whether that's a form of envy.
> Hardware buttons and switches have to be designed, tested, re-designed, and validated very early in the process of designing a new model

No they don't, just use the same ones as the previous model.
Red Hat (owner of Gluster) has announced EOL in 2024: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhs/

Ceph is where the action is now.
Laphroaig used to give land with every whisky purchase: https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Laphroaig-whisky-free-land-in-Sco...
Saudi student sentenced to 34 years in prison over Twitter posts
ATMs in my area have started to ditch the physical buttons.

I’ve never seen an electronic voting machine and hope I never will.