skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent insights in this article.

I've approached building web apps as data models. It works really well for our team. This was how / why we started to develop Lowdefy [0], to express a web application with a data model. We've been experiencing the benefits of this - I really need to start writing about it.

Writing this app model in json or yaml might not be ideal start, but once you have that creating a IDE / GUI builder / next thing on top of that becomes really a simple task while reaping all the benefits of defining an program / app as a data model.

[0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
It is interesting. The techniques for creating dies has changed a lot over the millennia -- all the way from hand-engraving (then) to laser-engraving (now).

I'm biased because I specialize in 18th/19th century US stuff, but I think those were the best-looking (overall - not necessarily just the designs themselves).

Dies were made by starting with an actual-sized engraved positive which was used to make the working dies (negatives), which were then polished to make the coins (positives). You get cool errors and varieties from slight differences in dies (that crack and break over time) and things like hand-punched dates (why re-engrave a whole new master when you can just take the main design with a blank date, create a die, and smack in the "1895" with a hammer? :)

I think the modern modern laser-engraved stuff has lost something...the coins of today are almost "too good" - they're kinda flat-looking & soft. shrug
Ok I got way to into this. Here are some verbiage changes: https://imgur.com/a/oXGcgcW

Now this is coming from, as I said, a person not in the space. Your users more sophisticated but still think language could be sharper.

If could already show last few NFTs searched for might be the best (yes always easy for person to suggest things they don't have to implement, ha)
Batteries typically can do as much wattage in and out as you are likely to want, but 2x storage is 2x cost.

Metal hydrides can store as much hydrogen as you have bought pricy porous metal. In that way it is much like a battery, with the added complication of the fuel cell and electrolyser limiting discharge and charge rate. I.e., want more watts in, buy more electrolyser, more out buy more fuel cell, more storage more pricy metal.

The appeal of liquid fuels of various sorts is that tankage is cheap. Want more storage, buy more tank. Tank empty, call for a truck to fill it. When your tankage is full, you can fill somebody else's, and call them up to haul away when full, and pay you. They won't want to leave expensive metal or batteries with you to be charged up when you feel like it. But leaving empty tanks around is an easy choice.
Cities are more necessary than ever. Sustainable infrastructure is more necessary than ever. Unsustainable ways of living (ie. car-dependent suburbs) are one of the primary reasons it is so hard to effectively fight climate change.
fair enough. I can barely put it into words; but I'm still trying.
Suburbs provides housing. Housing on its own doesn't benefit anyone but those who live in them regardless of the density.
not OP, but I would start with filling disk space up to 100%, or creating zillions of empty files. In case of distributed filesystems - maybe removing one node (under heavy load preferably), or "cloning" nodes so they had same UUIDs (preferably nodes storing some data on them - to see if the data will be de-duplicated somehow).

Or just a disk with unreliable USB connection?
> The M1 Mac mini costs 9.3x more, but get 5.5x faster single-core & 9.5x faster multi-core.

It's not always that we get a Mac that has a better price/performance than any other computer ;-)

Their M-series is quite remarkable.
So if I made an API that would include in its responses other endpoints that can be hit, would that make it RESTful?

An example response could be

{
name: 'john',
nickName: 'johnny',
relatedEndpoints: ['/v2/friends', '/v2/jobs/', ...]
}

Or one could include a link to an Open API spec for the API in the response of every request that details all endpoints available and their parameters/bodies.

{
name: 'john',
nickName: 'johnny',
apiSpec: '/v2/open-api-spec'
}
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

I think what you call formatting is an essential part of textual representation (alas! It's also the most contentious part). After all, formatting is an essential part of how we write and read novels, articles, etc.

In this sense, I think text with formatting is pure text... for human consumption.

I am arguing it is the ultimate representation: for historical reasons, of course, but also because there is less friction with tooling, less vendor lock in, fewer standards that must be developed and adopted universally, etc.
Yes it did… pelosi visited Taiwan and PRC had a tantrum over it
This is misleading, crime massively increased from 1960 to 1980 and has been steadily decreasing ever since.
> Each apartment is part of accounts receivable.

Like a sub-account? This is probably the mindfuck part. So every apartment owner who opens up their statement is seeing a filtered balance?
20 or so shops isn't mid-sized, is it?

I just moved to Orcas Island in the PNW after living in cities (Seattle, Anchorage) for most of my adult life. I'm near the one town on the island (which is REALLY quiet outside of the 4 warmest/touristy months). ~4,500 people year round population. Weather is perfect with near zero rain for 4-6 months but a bit gray / drizzly for the rest. It's rarely cold, but decent ski hills are 2h inland.

The population (like a lot of small towns) is pretty old, but I found the small group of newer folks (lots of tech expats) to be really welcoming.

I can walk to the small airport, which has regular $180-$200 flights to Seattle (show up 10min before departure, 45min flight). Ferries are more work but sometimes you want your vehicle on the mainland for a big group of houseguests or whatnot.

I'm 15min away from getting a paddlboard into two mountain lakes-- both are popular swimming destinations for locals. I have friends pulling crabs and prawns out of the water all summer. There are zillions of islands and inlets around-- it's a playground if you're a boater. 4-5 good hikes on the islands with breathtaking views. There's one (never crowded) gym in town with a racquetball court. There's a board game meetup. A few fancy restaurants, one killer cocktail bar, a good locals dive bar. I leave my door unlocked. There's a "village green" with frequent concerts and a Saturday farmer's market. The schools and kids on this island are amazing. Ferries and small planes can get you quickly to Victoria/Vancouver Island, Vancouver (the city), and assorted other cool small/medium towns.

I'm pretty new to this, but am LOVING it. There are downsides-- not a lot of food variety in town, tough to make new friends if you aren't the kind of person who makes the effort. The gray season is long and VERY quiet, so you definitely need to budget time/$ to travel. The schools are pretty understanding about missed days in the winter because of this.

Hit me up if you (or anyone) ever wants to check it out. I'll buy you a drink and talk your ear off about it.
> You get burnout, they get payout

I want to put this on a t-shirt
Besides the documentation linked by sibling comment, I believe you can also still customize them per user in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict, and reference the system defaults in /System/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
> This is the kind of thing that belongs in language-feature land (so you get tooling support, reasonable compiler errors, etc), not library-land.

Again bringing up my STL example: This is just not how C++ runs. I’ve seen my fair share of std::__v1::basic_string<char, char_traits<char>, DefaultAllocator<>> errors. Some would argue a string type should be language-level, and they might be right, but the committee disagrees.
> Regarding the cost basis rest that is so people can upgrade their house without having to pay a tax bill. This is just deferring the tax not avoiding it.

I think it's fine to allow this treatment for a home used as a primary residence for the exact reasons you mention, but I don't understand the logic of allowing it for an investment property
Pattern matching has quite a long history[1]; it's been around in some form since 1957. It's been enjoying a bit of a renaissance lately; I suspect that's a result of Haskell's popularity but I don't really know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching
I remember the stink-eye cast by (some) artists who grew up with traditional media at how digital painting didn't count, and was somehow 'cheating'. As if the masters of the past wouldn't have loved having layers and control-z!

Same situation now. I know working artists thrilled with the idea of being able to iterate in hours what previously would have taken weeks to test composition, form, and the like as they focus in on what they have in mind. I can't wait to see what they come up with.
commercetools is seeing incredible growth, and it's only going to become more prominent in the ecommerce space.

Having worked in ecommerce for a while now, I noticed back in 2008 that ecommerce flourishes when the economy goes sour. It's not strictly recession-proof- during the economic disruption, you will see separation of the wheat and the chaff, but new ecommerce technology that works gets supercharged.

A decade and a half ago saw the emergence of Magento, BigCommerce, and while Demandware (based on Intershop) had been around for a bit, they emerged from the recession with afterburners on full blast. Shopify would hit stride later, eating into Magento and Demandware's lunch around the time they each got bought up for billions of dollars by Adobe and Salesforce, respectively.

There were plenty of companies in the space that fell apart during the great recession too, but their talent moved on to the dominating players. You're seeing that happen during the last couple of years too. There have been some infamously rapid collapses - the implosion of Fast, Shopify's stock prices making a rapid return to normalcy. I strongly suspect you'll see other VC-backed 'disruptors' in the space fall apart. A newer 'headless' platform that talks a big talk recently put out a press release trumpeting a new deal that comically only listed former customers in the name-drop brag section of a press release, not a great look when you're the new kid on the block.

Commercetools is where enterprise companies go to get away from legacy ecommerce platforms like Oracle (RIP), Salesforce, SAP Hybris, and homegrown systems - but in the last year it has also increasingly brought on graduates from the Shopify Plus and BigCommerce ecosystems.
> 15000 in rental income doesn't even cover half of your Mortgage

That depends on how much you put as a down payment. Work backwards from the payment to make it sensible.
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this is simpler than it sounds - the process trumps any engineering stardom. the process is king. the process is love, the process is life, quite literally. getting any change in there isn't so much fine engineering as it is wrestling with layers and layers of process, where every layer has been added due to a monumental f-up in the past. it's an environment where getting any change committed into a repository usually takes weeks, unless one of processes for sidestepping the process is invoked.
I take something very different from the grand-parent post: the language requires you to get the design mostly correct to even compile. Unexperienced developers won't be able to come up any non-trivial new designs of their own, but can reuse existing code and even experienced developers have to fight the language to get a prototype stood up, but once they've working code it's more reliable. Not every line of code could accidentally reconfigure your PLL or voltage regulator just enough to drive you insane debugging a glitching chip.
Can you talk about the method that Ceph has for determining whether there was bit rot in a system?

My understanding is that you have to run a separate task/process that has Ceph go through its file structures and check it against some checksums. Is it a separate step for you, do you run it at night, etc.?
I think I see where you’re going. I’d be comfortable with “litres per hundred kilometres” if that’s possible and especially if there was a “did you mean” suggestion prompt
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This is the first time I've seen Stable diffusion. Is it a new model or diffusion paradigm?
Local politicians will often discount or ignore the opinions of people they see as renters rather than homeowners, in part because when a renter moves, they often leave the district.

I saw this recently in a fight over parking regulations - all the homeowners wanted strictly regulated street parking in neighborhoods, but none of the renters did. Both parties showed up to the council meeting discussing the regulation. Guess who won? Adding insult to injury, existing laws give owners a process for obtaining extra parking passes for guests, while renters get no such option and need to take a bunch of documents to city hall to get a pass when they move in. For street parking.
But you can trade your Brooklyn Bridge for one.
> In many major cities policing is ~30% of general fund expenditure

It is even more if you include the understated costs of underfunding retiree benefits such as defined benefit pensions and healthcare.
It certainly does! But that's different from racism, which is the entire point. I have never felt like my race has been a barrier to reaching my current socio-economic status, and do not believe there to be some magic socio-economic ceiling imposed by the accident of my skin color / heritage. A middle-class Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, or Latino doesn't have much (if any) disadvantage relative to a white American from West Virginia or Alabama of the same economic status.

This has been true for pretty much every group of immigrants to America. I recommend reading this thread which makes the argument better than I ever could: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1469031915768279045

> The American immigrant story -- arrive with little, work hard and move up over three or four generations, win a place in the middle class and a place in the national tapestry even in the face of discrimination -- is still firmly in place, folks.

And it's easy to take this for granted, as Americans, but this kind of economic convergence within 3-4 generations is not universal. Muslim immigrants to France suffer from multi-generational poverty.

I know for a fact that if I tried hard enough, I could become the CEO of Google (like Sundar) or the CEO of Microsoft (like Satya), or even "fail" into a Director/VP position at any Fortune 500 corporation. I know I can probably become the Mayor of a major city, or a Governor of a major State, or even a member of Congress. I know that my Indian-American wife who is accomplished in her own right can potentially become the CEO of Vimeo (look her up!). I know I can probably become a star stand-up comedian (like Hasan, Hari, or Aziz). I know I can probably become a star actor in a Hollywood Blockbuster (like Mindy or Kal).

I type this comment while on vacation in Stockholm, where the streets are currently littered with campaign posters for the upcoming election in September 2022, and I do not believe that I or my children can ever see ourselves on those posters and be accepted as Swedish — no matter how hard we tried. I'm not confident that I'd ever be considered to meaningfully lead H&M or Ikea or Volvo, at least not over a white blonde Swedish person with generations of Nordic lineage. As I said above, I'm sure I'd be comfortable living in Sweden — it's a remarkably easy place to live — but my success is capped by the color of my skin in a way that it simply isn't in America (or Canada, UK, and maybe ANZ).
No, those are nasty slow.
It's a great service, and it'll do really interesting stuff. From an artistic perspective though, it's really bottom of the barrel for me. Maybe that'll change given enough time and some people doing some really cutting edge stuff utilizing multiple mediums. But right now, it's just soulless, and that's a good thing for human artists.
In modern economies, social services reduce crime. That doesn't mean that crime is caused by a lack of social services.

Part of the reason that social services are necessary is that modern society does not support traditional support networks such as those you might find in a village in Bangladesh. Many people today don't even have families they can turn to for help.

Increased crime rates today compared to the 50s are largely due to higher rates of reporting. In the 50s, crime in low income neighborhoods wasn't reported. It's much safer today, and continues to get safer every year.

Countries with excellent social safety nets, such as Finland, Japan and Germany have much lower crime than the US.
Yes zero to low tax for primary residence. 10x tax for all secondary houses
Pretty sure I speak for a majority of experienced devs when I say: we don't fear abstractions. We fear abstractions made by others, including our former selves, in the all to often occurring context of "business wants it done by yesterday and we have zero idea what the requirements actually are". All the while we're still figuring things out and having 30 minute discussions on the most miniscule things.
Neil from the Nimbus here.

Yeah, we are actually huge fans of writing code on the cloud!

To me personally, It feels awesome to offload the package/repo download to the data centers, which can be way more faster than my own network. Not even mention that my laptop no longer heats up crazily - I can just put it on my lap and write code.
So when an apartment pays, is 4 entries in the single transaction? Credit their apartment account, debit the bank account, credit cash and debit receivables? Never thought of making 4 entries for a single transaction.
> Static typing everywhere.

I think the industry has generally recognised that static typing makes more reliable software.

I started with PHP and have seen its type system evolve. Similarly Typescript. I since moved to other staticly typed languages. I wouldn't want to go back.
Do you have any substantiation for that?
a Shannon-inspired taxonomy (note the indefinite object; ymmv):

- glue code: given the outputs, you can reconstruct the inputs. this code translates between formats, between systems, etc.

- parsley code: given the outputs, you could reconstruct the inputs. this code "gussies up" its inputs: it takes table rows to JSON, or JSON to framework objects, PDF, etc. so in principle the original data is still there, but once the outputs are sufficiently complex the inputs become extremely awkward to reconstitute.

- crunch code: given the outputs, you have no hope of reconstructing the inputs. this code does real computation, and forgets stuff. Example: You can get a source program given only an executable, but you won't get the source that it was compiled from (nor will you, without a lot of work, even get a source you're willing to read)
It's kinda embarassing that many of my favorite Youtubers are promoting this.
> Why is the solution to live in better designed cities instead of better designed suburbs? Are cities still necessary given the modern conditions?

North American stopped building "better designed suburbs" post-WW2 when everything went car centric. Before that we had:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

Anything car-centric is worse designed. That does not mean we have to ban cars 100%, but simply design things so the car is an option rather than a necessity.
> class imbalance

Worrying about class imbalance is a classic example of how ignorant many data scientists are about how the statistical properties of the models they're using work.

For example if you are to try to "solve" class imbalance issues in a logistic model by over/under sampling you're actually throwing out important information about the prior probability of an event. Class imbalance in the data, if it reflects the real distribution of observed events, is often valuable information that will give you a better model.

Yet so many data scientists I've known see class imbalance as a major issue and when you ask "why?" it's clear they don't know even the basic principles underlying the models they're using.

There are times we you are forced to deal with a class imbalance issue due to the way this can impact training data size, but these cases are relatively rare in modern data environments.
I mean -- that's the reason I switched to asdf, but my point is mostly that languages are building these tools into them so there's no split ecosystem, it doesn't require shell hacks and has much better ux than if it were provided externally like asdf is. I appreciate asdf for unifying all the shell hacks but rustup works way better than any other tool. As languages start to do this, asdf starts to become a mono-tasker for node for me.
It depends. You really need the context.
AirBNB is getting it's just desserts on TikTok recently - the explosion in cleaning fee rates matched with negative reviews for ... not cleaning. Hosts owning huge houses in places like Miami or Vegas then being surprised when their weekend rentals aren't families of 16 people but in fact bachelor parties, etc.

It's delicious to see the people that lowered the quality of life for others get roasted.
This study, by it's own admission in the summary, does not have a cause for the 23% net difference in house values (55% gross, 23% remaining after adjusting for home quality, maintenance, and other market characteristics). Specifically:

"The question is: What explains this? We don’t know with any precision. In our paper, we reviewed literature on racial bias and pointed to its potential as an explanation, writing: “Our findings are generally consistent with the widespread presence of anti-Black bias.” We left it for future work to explore some of the relevant mechanisms that link bias to valuations and quantify their importance."

So the thought is that it MIGHT be bias (a bit presumptuous then to title the study "Biased appraisals..."). And we are waiting on future studies to actually provide the causal link.

But even if every bit of the 23% delta is caused by racial bias, we need to consider the trend. As far as I can tell every important sociological data point on this matter (employment, wealth, marriage, laws, etc.) has been improving decade after decade. I don't know what numbers this same study, or one equivalent to it, would reveal from say 5 or 7 decades ago, but I assume it would have been substantially worse.

All of which is to say that proposing a narrative that racism is rampant and getting worse does not seem to be supported by the data. To the contrary, it would seem that it is less than it's ever been and continues to decline.

EDIT: To be clear, I am not suggesting you or anyone here is proposing a narrative that racism is rampant and getting worse. But I think it's safe to say that proposal is prevalent in pop culture.
I voted, but somehow people keep saying my opinion doesn't matter because I, as a demographic, didn't vote.
Not as much as TV news, which on both sides push biased agenda non-stop
If it was _only_ for my use, I might consider that option. However, my wife would laugh at me if I asked her to set up wireguard on any of her devices. Yes, it's documented. Yes, she could probably figure it out. But why should she have to when there's an even easier option? And why should I have to administer a Wireguard server somewhere when I could just not do that?

Not everybody needs/wants to do things manually. It's literally the reason for the existence of paid services.
You shouldn’t listen to people who promulgate such obvious scams.
I wake up around 5:30am daily with this one easy and fun trick…having young kids. My wife and I don’t even set alarms anymore.
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