skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm deeply disturbed by the tone of the comments here in general, as people seem to be missing the problem.

The problem is that the government and health care institutions have a conflict of interest in euthanasia.

A citizen that is costly to you? Wouldn't it be convenient if they disappeared? Wouldn't it be even better if they believed this was in their own best interests?

I think a legitimate argument can be made that in many of these cases, Canada is simply killing its citizens rather than try to provide services, and essentially blaming it on the citizens or fate.

I'm a huge supporter of assisted suicide. I believe it's a fundamental form of autonomy. But I also believe that people can be in positions where they are incapable of offering informed consent, and also strongly believe those in a position to assist cannot be in a place to assist in deciding. There needs to be a firewall in between. Probably a step further, in that there needs to be someone openly arguing against euthanasia as a matter of course, to ensure there is an advocate for that position.

Think of it this way. Let's say a person is mentally incapable of consenting — they have a severe cognitive disability, or are a child. They are falsely accused by the state of a capital offense, because it unethically benefits the state (eg, to protect corrupt police). If they convince the accused of their guilt, does it make ethically acceptable? What if the accused is capable of consent, but is lied to and brainwashed about their guilt, and manipulated into believing they are guilty?

In those cases, doesn't it still make sense to have a legal advocate for their innocence?

How is that fundamentally different?
Fully on agree on trying to get costs down to Spanish-levels and other developed world costs, and building everywhere while saving money.

But the reasons for the dysfunction are pretty straight forward: there is group of engineering consultancies and construction firms (Parsons, Bechtel, HNTB, AECOM, and other non-household names) that have captured the system and profit handsomely from the status quo. All those billions of taxpayer money is going somewhere, and it's their bank accounts.
> We really need to stop arguing about time scales for the arrival of AGI, and start societal planning for its arrival whenever that happens.

I think so, too.
> People don't do computer science for the mere theory of it.

Are you sure? If I were to pick any arbitrary computer scientist (even stipulating it won't be EWD himself, this would still be "demonic choice", from your point of view), are you prepared to argue that whomever I pick does/did not do cs for the "mere" theory?

Exercise N: Was Euclid's GCD doing computer science?

Exercise S: Is watching TikTok doing computer science?

Hint: Gurfr dhrfgvbaf ner zrnag gb vyyhfgengr gur fhssvpvrapl naq/be arprffvgl bs pbzchgref gb qbvat pbzchgre fpvrapr.
I wonder how relevant operator overloading can be without things like RAII and move semantics (thinking in comparison to C++), or without some kind of managed environment.

Would this be useful only for simpler and smaller objects?

I'm not really familiar with more modern C. So maybe C11 (or possibly later versions) introduced a way to handle this. I'm not sure.
A quick question, what benefits do you think applying to YC will give you at this stage of your company's life?

Will it make launching easier?

If the difficulty with launching is that you need to get the product to work consistently, and the money that YC gives you makes a real difference in hiring someone to fix the consistency issues, then sure, go ahead an apply.

Otherwise your efforts may be more usefully directed at actually solving the issue with the product working consistently.

If there are other benefits to applying to YC, and you don't have to spend much time to do it, then there is no harm in applying. At worst you'll get a no. I would not get overly enamoured of YC. It's a great accelerator. But there are other good accelerators as well.
Slack is icons/point-click for IRC. I guess young people love IRC but find the command driven interface intimidating.
Scale isn’t the problem. Very simple organisms display general intelligence. General intelligence is rampant in the insect world. It’s something along the lines of a repl vs compiled language paradigm shift.
Decent analysis of their original pitch deck: https://www.slideteam.net/blog/slacks-original-pitch-deck

The key problem they tried to solve was to keep distributed teams in sync, according to the above link, and for that it really does work, I think because it has the Channels concept and also because it isn't some "crazy open source hacker thing".

Nothing that IRC doesn't have, but they sold it better.

Google Chat is still my favourite just because it integrates nicely with Google office apps. Teams is pretty buggy. Skype is largely dead. But the killer feature of Google Chat is that you know it is private, whereas you always get the feeling that Slack is not.
I could only see the video header, but the shot with a guy walking through it gives a great impression compared to the humanless pics.
I've seen example images from the S22 as well. In 1:1 resolution the details look like garbage even with Samsung's weird post-processing. The actual pixel-by-pixel material is not usable for anything. The image must be scaled down to alleviate the problems, forfeiting the point of such a high-res sensor.
> Barwick says that most of the European aerials she has seen are smaller than their U.S. counterparts. “Europe keeps its aerial units quite small, likely because of the street limitations and the building heights and construction,”

An American-style 100-foot turntable ladder [3] might have a 5.8m wheelbase and a 12m overall length, whereas a typical European 32-meter ladder is more like a 4.8m wheelbase and 10m overall length [4].

Prior to 2017, London's fire brigade only operated 32m ladders - which can only reach the 10th floor of a tower block - because at the time of purchase, the longer ladders on the market would have struggled to navigate London's streets.

LFB recently got some 64m ladders [1] (to reach the 20th floor) after an awful fire in a 24-storey tower block which killed a lot of people. Surprisingly, the new ladder trucks aren't actually that much bigger in terms of wheelbase - but they're twice the weight, have four axles instead of 2, and the telescoping ladder has 7 sections instead of the usual 4/5.

[1] https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/news/2021-news/november/londo...
[2] https://www.magirusgroup.com/de/en/serving-heroes/deliveries...
[3] https://1641088.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/1641088...
[4] https://www.magirusgroup.com/de/en/serving-heroes/deliveries...
If we wanted shame to remain prevalent we should have been better about how we used it. The fact that some of it's predominant uses were to shame perfectly acceptable behaviors like homosexuality and transgenderism is a huge knock on the whole approach.
Just last year, my uncle received a recluse bite which occurred in Sacramento, California leaving a necrosis wound so the given map is evidently a general map.

To be fair, he did move from the Mojave Desert region so it could have been boxes and moved. Much like the mass Air Force personnel moving to Sacramento (Mather AFB) from North Carolina air base potentially taking North Carolina Wolf spiders during its UC Davis identified 1964-65 introduction period.
Why Don’t Millennials Have Hobbies?
webp and lazy loading are so powerful that having to do things without it really feels like IE. The big difference is that IE users for some reason failed to install something better. Safari users are locked in.
Clang-tidy can detect some of the "Modified C++" constraints like no implicit conversions to bool and can even suggest automatic fixes and also apply them with clang-apply-replacements. Clang-tidy is already a transpiler for "Modified C++".
Why would people want to move into an area without roads, police, doctors, power and the other basics of modern life?

If they do, because they exist, then who pays for providing those things?
> The resulting idea is excellent but it's technically hard.
> Talking to customers it's very clear there's demand. My small team is excellent.
> There's clear demand but it's hard to simply launch as the product is complex and I want it to work consistently first.

You don't need YC. You need a fiscal path from here to break-even. YC would invest $500K. Would that amount get you to launch? Be realistic.
Twitter Tells Employees They Might Get Only Half Their Annual Bonus
Anytime something new comes along there'll be a period of time where debugging tools aren't adequate or substantially more difficult to set up. But for a piece of tech to be a competitive choice, it's just just such a productivity waste to not make that a pretty high priority. JS frameworks themselves are classically terrible at this, even React itself is pretty meh, but usually you can fall back to just standard devtool breakpoints.

I'd have a really hard time respecting someone's choice to bet on a tool that is very difficult to troubleshoot, if there's an alternative that isn't, unless that tool is extremely better at something else.
Couldn't [[maybe_unused]] fill the role of [[discardable]]?
We had a relatively minor drought here '18 in comparison to what the UK is facing, but it seems to have done a real number on the insect population. It isn't until this year they seem to be returning (based on the state of the front of my car). Went for a walk in the forest the other week, and it was quiet, so the knock-on effects seem to be pretty huge in terms of the bird population. Granted it isn't spring, but you'd expect to hear at least some birds.

Unsettling to say the least.
Group - async and realtime - comms that scales (i.e., group grows) better than most alternatives.

The integrations also allow Slack to become a dashboard of sorts. Key external events can be logged in Slack. You don't have to find them, they find you.

Not a Slack fan per se. Just trying to answer the question.
The 98 code is so old that GitHub in the mobile browser is unable to render it. (Seriously, I was interested but it does not work)
My concern with a classic macos interface (or even a classic windows interface), is how do newer features get mapped to those sorts of d.e.’s. We’re used to so many features (and little apps like windows snipping tool) and features that we might just normally use a given os’ search bar, (this feature seems to have come from os x and moved elsewhere, I’m even forgetting what apple called it…) would there even be an equivalent to be able to make an equivalent? Maybe I’m showing my age (maybe lack thereof, I only know about the “bicycles of the mind quote” maybe from watching a nightline segment featuring Steve Jobs on youtube, or I saw it somwwhere while reading about him/and or the early pc era)…
Bagger 288 could do a special engagement.
Unified asynchronous + synchronous communication.
I would advice against using __COUNTER__ or macros based on that in header files. It's an ODR-violation footgun.
Not at all. Your claim was that the US could have slowed or even stopped the spread of coronavirus.

China can't even stop it. It's not possible.
He did not say in the tweet zstd was implemented at AWS in 2022, could have been implemented years ago
Creator of Phoenix here. I was delightfully surprised to see Phoenix as most loved on the survey since I forgot SO survey was a thing this year. So we can rule out some coordinated voting effort. Truthfully, while we’re still a smaller community, the folks that find us tend to love us and stick around.
Yes, the admins in your Slack can access your private discussions. For real privacy, you need end-to-end encryption such as Signal.

Regarding IRC, I don't remember having e.g. threads or reactions. It's difficult to add features like that when the messages don't even have an id.
Are there many people who use those two in one laptops with any sort of linux?
A lot of what's great about Phoenix is simply that it builds on top of Elixir, which is already great and which itself builds on top of Erlang/OTP, which is, too, already great; it's the "standing on the shoulders of giants" concept. The overlap between Phoenix devs and Elixir devs helps, too.

Phoenix ain't quite my cup of tea for the same reason Rails ain't my cup of tea: it's big, and it does little to hide that bigness. It's why, when I was doing web development on Elixir, I ended up gravitating to alternative frameworks (like Sugar - which, as a disclaimer, I'm a very inactive maintainer of), for the same reasons I tended to prefer Sinatra or Padrino over Rails. For most people, though, "bigness" ain't really a problem - and Phoenix does a really good job of being "Rails but actually good". At the end of the day, it's a solid choice that probably won't bite you in the ass, and that's what matters.
I was interested to hear (elsewhere) that the service gets spammed, perhaps by people trying to boost ratings. But you can tell the caller is a bot because it tends to start from the beginning of the track every time, and/or play exactly N seconds. Humans don’t do those things.
I'm not just imagining self-improvement in the sense, that it optimizes its design to become more efficient or powerful by a few percent.
A system, that can 'think out of the box' may come up with some disruptive new ideas and designs.

Just a thought: Isn't lacking intellectual capacity, what keeps us from understanding, how the human brain actually works? Maybe an AGI will eventually understand it and will construct the next AGI generation with biological matter.
Unfortunately not possible in German, and doesn't look professional.
Maße is a different word than Masse. Or zahlen or zählen, drucken or drücken, konnte or könnte…
Some Sugar Substitutes Affect Blood Glucose and Gut Bacteria
> I'm convinced that most Mac users don't use multiple monitors and they're completely fine with the really poor window management. It boggles my mind; I am objectively less productive with a single monitor than I am with multiple.

I'm a long time Mac user with an 25" 21:9 ultra-wide display that constitutes two regular office displays. A single ultradwide display is way superior to a couple of displays. Performance wise for your workstation and config wise as well.

Nothing is blurry to me. To manage windows with keyboard or mouse I use moom[0].

I've worked on Windows for 2 years at a large corp, and the blurriness of fonts I experienced with mid-range 27" monitors was unprecedented. Having invested considerable time to make the problem go away, I gave up.

Even modern Ubuntu does better job at font rendering with displays made by the same manufacturer.

[0] https://manytricks.com/moom/
Confirmed: I know regions in which marvels are found municipality by municipality - meaning, you go in places with the most humble, unpromising names, random places on the map, and you get shocked by seeing monuments (and resources) you would not have expected. It's not just rhetoric. You do not need to go to "Matera" or "Mont St Michel": in some areas you can just pick a random village - or its outskirts - one may suspect could have been there "just to group some houses". "What is this tower doing here? That sanctuary - and in the middle of nowhere?!"
Seawater Derived Cement Could Decarbonise Concrete Industry
So what are you saying?

That Mariupol was empty of Ukrainian forces and Russians just shelled it because... what? Or that Russians had entered undefended Mariupol and then Ukrainians shelled it?

How do you explain that Mariupol suffered so much damage?

"Just because someone"

Amnesty isn't 'someone' and their previous reports condemning Russian actions were considered credible.

"its a good thing its become so transparent now"

If you define anything that doesn't align with Western propaganda as 'Russian propaganda' then, yes, it's very transparent and simple.
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> They lost their homes which is not just a house.

You want me to feel sorry for someone who gets a Million dollar windfall when:

1) they got a million dollar windfall

2) they now have a ridiculous amount of options (because money = options)

3) if they're really determined to stay in their house, they can cash-out refinance continuously and use some of the unrealized gains to pay property taxes (and past cash-outs)

4) they could also build an ADU on their property and rent out the ADU to cover property tax + have extra money

5) If they actually do move and leave, it's because they preferred $1M do the other options

No, sorry.

This is like feeling sorry for people who win the lottery because they have to pay taxes and then everyone calls them for a favor.

Most things in life aren't ALL good.
>What problem exactly did it solve?

If one answers that with just "workplace chat messaging", Slack looks redundant and unnecessary since the world already had IRC, ICQ, AOL AIM, Yahoo Chat, Skype, etc.

E.g. in the early Facebook years (~2005), Zuckerberg and his team used AOL AIM as their chat system at work because Slack didn't exist. Early Twitter is another example where Jack Dorsey and coworkers used AOL AIM for workplace chat. (Indeed, Jack even said he got inspiration for Twitter from AIM's "away status" feature)

So we have to find the differentiator of Slack that attracted businesses to adopt it instead of just using IRC or Skype:

- Slack lets people subdivide the chat space into "virtual rooms" or "channels" as a 1st-class concept. This is something that the older AOL AIM, Skype, Pidgin client, etc didn't do. This feature is helpful for businesses because you have multiple projects or teams where multiple people collaborate with various subsets of employees. The older chat systems enabled 1-to-1 messaging based on userid but not on "topics" with 1-to-many participants.

- Slack userids are scoped to the company which is more acceptable for private chats within the business. In contrast, the userids in AOL AIM were global ids and therefore not constrained to the particular company's communication. (Slack added ability to chat outside the company recently in 2021: https://www.google.com/search?q=slack+chat+with+other+compan...)

- IRC had topic channels but corporations don't want to hassle with admins setting up internal IRC servers and plain IRC doesn't have desired features such as chat history without additional effort (i.e. IRC bouncer). In contrast, using Slack for workplace chat is just a few clicks in the cloud.

In short, Slack had a combination of some extra useful features and near-zero admin (cloud).
My guess: nobody cares about performance any more.
Having written a fair bit of Elixir and Erlang code over the years, I don't feel like I miss static types much when I can readily pattern match on tagged tuples.
IRC clients, if that was a problem.

Branded SaaS chat platform with SLAs is also more appealing to business than open standards.
Since when does the expectation that all stock apps should be ahead of competition arise? It was always vice-versa.
This is wrong under a 100% land value tax. The value of land is a perpetual income stream an if the government takes all of this value the price of land falls to $0 regardless of all the amenities that improve it. Each amenity that improves it raises the tax which captures all the additional value from that external improvement which keeps the price at $0. Only improvements on the land itself will add to the price.

Owners don't lose from property shooting through the roof under current taxation schemes but under a 100% LVT they lose their community and gain next to nothing financially because land value is entirely captured.
That's roughly the same time as Paris-Nice, which is a very heavily used high speed rail corridor. Not enough to make the plane route unviable like it did with Paris-Lyon and Paris-Bordeaux, but there are drastically less planes now, so it's still a massive net win.
There's an overbearing hint of blackness, that's for sure!
Some discussion on this in PostgREST repo

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/1214
god damn that was a nice landing page. sad i cant test on mobile though!!!
Did you find out what was causing it? I have developed 'heavier' (aka 50k lines of code) applications in SwiftUI on mac and it mostly sits idle (0-1% cpu based if it is doing some regular background stuff). Heck, I just created a quick Charts based app from an online example on Mac and stays at 0,0%.

Is it possible it is re-rendering the view hierarchy due to some data invalidation you haven't noticed?
I think that’s because some women emulate part of what they view as male leadership (aggressive), without also having other aspects of male leaders.

I had a leader who thought it was acceptable to say things like, “hey losers let’s get this work done” through email from her office, trying to emulate a male leader who would say, “hey losers let’s get this work done” and then help physically do the work.
definitely custom made emojis in chat
I can't remember the details, just that I had to setup access control and environment variables.
> saw in my former city a bus line get replaced by a train. It was infuriating. They tore up the roads and replaced the busses with trains which are worse in every imaginable way

Trains are faster, have more capacity and usually grade separated so flow is easier to manage. In what way is any form of train worse than a bus besides the few obvious ones - needs infrastructure and upfront costs.
I can imagine it gives a similar feeling as when exploring San Juan Teotihuacán outside Mexico City.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/414/

Why not build things, and interesting things, things that get us to talk about these things with each other? I love the energy this project creates among us.

Edit: having read the NY Times article, clearly inspired by the ancient neighbours in the south.
There is a lot of art whose major criteria is “does it make the uninitiated feel that way”. Anything that makes you want to say “My kid could do this!” probably falls into this category, and it is probably attached to an absurdly large price tag that makes you start wondering how much of its value is simply as a tax dodge for some obscenely rich person.
Made it easy to set up real-time chat in a corporate setting, and normalized the idea.

First of all, before Slack real-time chat in a company setting was a novel idea. Your sysadmin may have been born in IRC, but non-tech people probably never used it. "Why would you chat online when you can in real life!?"

Setting up a chat was full of hurdles and questions without clear answers. Do you use XMPP? IRC? Which clients, which servers? Back then it was still common to have on-premise physical servers, so spinning up a server there was suddenly a big deal. Bigger companies did not appreciate "going rogue" with potentially sensitive company information they may had obligation to secure and archive. It was a lot of friction for something that people weren't convinced was a good idea in the first place.

Slack made it accessible, polished, and corporate-friendly, at a time when SaaS and web apps were catching on. You didn't need to get people install an XMPP client, which was designed for 1:1 chats and had awful afterthought UI for group chats, with different capabilities in each client on each platform. You didn't need to explain to anybody how to keep an irssi session alive. File transfers worked with pretty drag'n'drop without having to open ports.

There was a Microsoft Linq back then, but it was awful, and it was an ICQ clone, not a group chat.

Fun fact: Slack was salvaged from a group chat feature of a failed MMORPG "Glitch".
Improvements as defined in Georgism are the things you add to your own land that increase its value and don't include things added on other land. This is unfortunate when you take part in building community improvements but makes far more sense on average since the typical situation with most external improvements is that few people take part in them. I think in practice what happens is people end up balancing affordability and are strategic about the improvements they want made.