skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is politicized in that it ignores any economic impact of the absurd and unscientific "vaccine mandates" which stifled CA's big cities.
You say this language will fail because most languages fail. Ok, make a falsifiable statement and I'll take a bet on that.
I realize this.

I'm not saying I avoid the bot net completely -- no one does and it's only getting harder to do so. This is a result of people I know installing LinkedIn on their phones with my number in their contacts. It's still a consumer-first problem and awareness is lacking. Every dollar, click and eyeball you give to some product is one you're divesting from another and we should consider our market engagements endorsements of corporate behavior because that's what they are.

How much awareness will get people to reconsider though? People are paying out of pocket to install microphones in their own homes and cameras on their front doors. Even if dumb TVs were on offer for 2X the price, statistically no one would buy them. Privacy is only a concern if it's novel and studies show generations born into surveillance are numb to it. I feel like people need to be more aware AND more discerning in their consumption; awareness alone isn't enough. We should discriminate with our wallet more on these issues today while we still have some alternatives available.
I have a contract that uses nordpool spot market prices that are known ahead for each hour for the next day. I have PV on my roof and an EV. The price volatility is just insane between 2 and 4000 EUR/MWh so 2000x in the last week alone. So I finally connected a smallish house battery (about 14kWh) last week and by purely arbitrage I’ve made about 100 euros in the week. Even with an 8kW feed in cap and such a tiny battery.
I hate to break it to you but natural spoken language is not a fixed concept, words can have many meanings and interpretations, and those meanings and interpretations can mean different things to different people at different times.

Because you predominantly think of indexing as the first definition as shown here[1], does not mean everyone else does. Be careful when using absolutes, especially when talking about languages.

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index
While I agree with your example, I think we can do better than we do now. Having strictly residential zoning, then strictly commercial zoning, increases reliance on driving everywhere.

My first house had very interesting/interspersed zoning. Basically, businesses lined the main street, then houses were built immediately behind them all. I didn't have a neighbor behind me, it was a giant flower warehouse. It felt so private. It was amazing being able to have a house with a big yard, AND be able to walk anywhere. Vet, immediate care center, several restaurants, gas station, and much more all in short walking distance. I think the only thing I had to drive for was grocery and clothes shopping.

Everywhere I've lived since seem to put residences by themselves, far from any business. I can't stand it, and wish I could find something like my old setup again.
Op did call out exceptions for “egregious externalities.”

A factory could reasonably be considered to have egregious externalities.

But filtering out egregious externalities is… “zoning” so their logic seems circular.
Oh dear.

Well I'm not going to argue with a blood-and-land white nationalist from Oz, telling me how people feel here in Europe. I'm going to butt out, because I have blood-pressure problems. Bye.
Putting even more identifying information into User Agent strings seems completely insane, who's interests is that meant to serve? The number of people in any town with Fedora in their UA must be minuscule, that blows a huge number of 'privacy bits', and for what?
Have you yet considered acquiring another bike instead of grieving the loss of an easily replaceable object?
Klepmann is correct but practically you don't control external accounts thus cannot authoritatively determine if they either exist, have ceased to exit, or the contents of their ledgers. Thus, a large number of transactions will always have hanging references. This ultimately dictates the need for a "settlement state", which should be modeled as a state machine with careful transitions. Reversible transactions, fees, taxes and discounts then come in to play, some of which may be shared between parties, some of which are not calculable before the fact.

Fowler's approach is amusing in that, in classic UML style, he models things which are optional in an authoritative way as if they are requirements, thus muddying the waters even further. While his adjustment implementations are interesting as a basis for feature comparison, there's a lot to be said for simplicity, and this effectively requires throwing out what the bean-counters are used to and reconsidering the need from scratch. The default correction is another transaction, and this requires no special implementation.

New systems recommendation:

(1) For account identification, use IIBAN which provides IBAN-compatible account identification and checksums and is an open system @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/iiban

(2) For all accounting, use UTC.

(3) For transaction identification, use UTC second of origination (UTCSO) + account of interest (AOI; eg. IIBAN) + intra-second transaction identifier (ISTI).

Free thoughts on forward-looking accounting systems @ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protoco...
Should those specially seeking education be capable of doing reasonably simple calculations before taking massive amount of loans? It is not like the information of anything related was exactly hidden.
whats more likely, removing zoning regulations magically creates more low-income housing? or removing zoning regulations allows corporations to start building factories and stores in residential areas?
I like how the captions scroll along to match the code samples, it's a fun reading experience.

Got scared for a second (most of what I code is CRUD backends!), until I tried to see it from the perspective of a novice, where all of this is impenetrable anyway.
No calling out government, twitter, etc on their BS
Im tired of saying this but it’s absolutely mind boggling how fucked up it is that one of the main exports from America today is vaccine hesitancy.

Science skepticism has always been a thing; its only in recent years though that internet has allowed the rapid spread of disinformation. Glossy content created for misinforming Americans inspires copycats in other countries. It’s really depressing.
If I have my hand on a table, and you slam a hammer down next to it, that poses a danger to me.

If a hammer lies on the table, and I slam my hand next to it, that poses no danger to anyone.
Here's an article on it.
https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-accused-of-using-unlicensed-...

The official word from the company is that the post is wrong and that DENUVO had the right and always will have the right to use their software: https://vmpsoft.com/20170606/vmprotect-and-denuvo-gmbh/
It may seem simple, but there is a deep rabbit hole when you pair liberty and things seen to reduce the impact of illness on a population. For example: it is statistically more likely for homosexual men to have HIV and other fatal transmissible illnesses. Therefore, they should not be free to donate blood, so goes the tradition, since this overall increases the health of a population. This rule has come under contention lately, and if you agree that gay men should be able to donate blood, you now have a counterexample. Notwithstanding of course the arguments about better testing, and so on; statistically: it helps.

I'm not presenting an argument in either direction. I'm simply saying it's a more complex issue than "this thing makes everyone healthier, therefore it should be law."
> Not really.... But even if it were damaging, the damage would be very localized, it would affect at most one cell, and the immune system is easily able to handle that.

you could not be more wrong about this. Alpha and Beta are fairly safe OUTSIDE the body. In the case of Alpha it is not able to penetrate the layer of dead skin on your hands.

Internal, it is VERY damaging because there is no "dead skin" to protect the internal organs.

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-basics

"Some beta particles are capable of penetrating the skin and causing damage such as skin burns. However, as with alpha-emitters, beta-emitters are most hazardous when they are inhaled or swallowed."
You see that on any area where there is low crime.
Something I still struggle to understand with these systems is why indexing 1-10M things is hard / their sweet spot, when that is basically a small dataframe in pandas or a small SQLite, vs the 10B+ rowa // GBs+ I was expecting them to be discussing
Oh another iOS keyboard annoyance: if you do a swipe input and the keyboard guesses that you were trying to type a keyboard, it will set the caps lock, and then remember that setting if you backspace it! Do a keyboard swipe, get "SOS", backspace it, try to swipe "the", get "The" instead, even if it's in the middle of a sentence, which the iOS keyboard is otherwise really good at.
I read through [1], certainly gives a more thorough overview. Thanks. I especially liked the open problems section.
You think so? Having a sense of humor doesn't mean you get every joke. Telling someone they have no sense of humor, so it couldn't possibly be explained to them, is a kind of putdown. Elvis Costello was not being nice when he wrote this:

If you don't know by now
Nobody's gonna tell you
If you don't know by now
The shock would probably kill you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnXM6rsxSY
What would be wrong with building stores? And would they build factories if land in other places would likely be cheaper and infrastructure from roads to power better?
I can find no actual evidence that DDG is run by spammers. This does not strike me as credible.
Thank you Thomas, we appreciate you taking the time to open source all this for our benefit.
Please explain the tcp/ip protocol or the paxos algorithm concisely.
Javascript having both `null` and `undefined` doesn't seem so crazy now
I suppose in the same way throwing a USB stick full of malware at someone would be, yeah.
> cars are somehow destructive to community live

Cars by themselves? No. Car-centric design? Yes. The most obvious place to see this in the US is suburbs designed entirely around cars, where there's often literally nothing but cul-de-sacs and single-family homes for miles and miles and it's nigh-impossible to do anything out of the house without a car.
Hi all... I'm the new-ish Heroku/DX GM for Salesforce, and in prior job was the Kubernetes GM for AWS. I always read these threads with great interest. Very much appreciate the unvarnished feedback about Heroku we get here.
Now do C++! He didn't say it is simple; he said it is simpler than C++.

Now, I'd say they're on the same order of magnitude for simplicity. The huge advantage Rust has is that it tells you when you got it wrong, whereas C++ says "OK, I will put the toast in the fridge."
canistream.it used to be my go-to, but they're currently "rebuilding". For now, you can search movies on https://reelgood.com/ (and probably a half dozen other sites) and it'll list the services the movie is available on.

Of course, if you didn't even know you had a particular service, it's not going to be terribly helpful...
80k internet-connected cameras still vulnerable after critical patch offered
My point exactly - there isn't an identifiable zeroth finger.
It's the other way around.

We use tables because they help us to massively simplify the processing of data.

Do you want to deal with graphs? The algorithms involved are harder than what your intuition is telling you.

In fact, the first databases, before relational databases were in vogue, were hierarchical/network databases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL

They were obsoleted and replaced when RDMS appeared.
Read some Erich von Däniken. He's a good, convincing and entertaining writer. But it's all very weird... at some point it just gets too thick.

Having this kind of material in school would help people to understand that presentation isn't everything. Something that looks convincing on the surface might not be that.
Why would someone build a factory where housing will doubtless have better returns sooner?

Japan’s maximum nuisance zoning seems more sensible to me than either our status quo and 0 zoning.
And the end result of all of that would be universities instantly raising their tuition $10,000 a year or more.
In case of the subrange you don’t have the length (or you conversely have the length but not the upper bound), and you don’t want to use different conventions based on whether you process the subrange or the whole range. I’m not sure how I can make it clearer.
So what is the price per kWh? And how many cycles?
yes of course - the phrase is "the perfect is the enemy of the good" which means.. implementation of the law could be stalled or delayed, or the law could be challenged in court and reversed in the extreme case.. based on an argument that it is fundamentally flawed. A reason to be flawed is "not all covered parties are treated fairly" or something .. IANAL

secondly, from a public relations "swindle" side, an ad campaign could be purchased that makes the argument that "this kind of law is obviously not OK" look at this ridiculous example, the State is not following the same requirements as business is.. or similar..
> Because this money is not free. It comes from the blood and sweat of other tax payers.

Care to take a guess at how much money -- sorry, "blood and sweat" -- this will cost a taxpayer?

$200/year.

How much is annual tuition in the US?

$8,000 on average, $2,000 at my local public college.

If this paves the way for future policies to forgive new loans similarly, that $200/year will decrease as the backlog of existing loans are out of the pool. At which point, every single taxpayer could get the same education for less than $200/year as opposed to $2,000 - $15,000+. ($2,000 being the cost of my local public college, $15,000 being the annual tuition at the school I attended; the + meaning I understand there are more expensive places.)

This is not "the blood and sweat of taxpayers". This is 2 weeks' food bills spread over 52 weeks with the potential to give those taxpayers an education along with everyone else who they're paying taxes for.

> And goes to clearly morally bankrupt portion of population. Those who over spend with debt money.

So you can't think of any reasons someone might have student loan debt other than "they made bad choices and are immorally expecting other people to pay for it"?
Tether will not freeze Tornado Cash addresses
> Hi, I'm the author of the article.

Wow. I really enjoyed this. Your writing was clear, simple and explained the landscape while navigating the marketing terms extremely well.

I wish to read other articles that you have written.
Or you could just let Apple do it for $129.
Apple's self-repair program is very obviously malicious compliance.

Every rational person will tell you that shipping rented hardware back-and-forth with strict exchange of exactly one broken part for exactly one new part individually for every repair is a bad idea.

Parts and equipment need to be available for purchase with no strings attached so they can be stocked on shelves in repair shops.
That was a great question to ask, the recruitee can exit the call immediately and get on with their day.
I moved one of my smaller projects from Heroku to AppEngine in the spring. Took me about a day to set up the infra and move the DNS. Hosting went from $30 to $1 a month.
do you really want a 7-11/gas station next to your house in quite residential neighborhood? I doubt it.

How about a strip club? how about a battery recycling company? how about a metal recycling plant? How about a bar that is open to 4AM and has lots of live concerts?

Zoning regulations exist for a reason - removing them will do ZERO to generate more low-income housing - if there was money to be made in building low-income housing, there would be plenty of low-income housing already.
Why did you choose go over rust?
Wait, what kind of stores? I love it when a smaller grocery or cafe is walkable from my home.
Not sure why you added /s; .. SQL is in many ways exactly lile JavaScript. The only way to run your code where it needs to run, but with some things to be desired language wise.

I wish more languages compiling to SQL were more common.

(Not ORMs though they just miss the point entirely..)
That's a post-settlement statement made 3 months after the original post, which wasn't retracted. Also the company and the original poster are one and the same. It sure looks like they "came to an understanding" that was then sealed with an NDA.
Speaking of clients, I like Hey. I just like it, and have discretionary income to spend on an important tool shrug
This is the same path we're on. Migrated to Crunchy a month ago or so to remove the major migration risk and are using Render to host an auxiliary service while our core application remains on Heroku. Haven't yet done any non-toy deployments on Fly.io or Railway but I very much like Render's Blueprints and environment groups.
Subtracting 1 from the user provided index isn't that expensive.

Or, if you're willing to give up three bytes, index into "ErrSunMonTueWedThuFriSat".

Or, and this is mildly insane but perhaps in keeping with early C, have your pointer be three bytes before the beginning of "SunMonTueWedThuFriSat" and use one-based indexing.
Not sure if you were around 20 years ago, but you sure couldn't expect everyone in tech to understand machine instructions as well as the layers above, all the way up to corporate politics.

But some people, yeah, they could do it.

That has not changed.
Yeah, same for me (I live in a condo building and our parking lot is not adjacent to the building). My wife and I bought a Tesla back in November of last year, and charging at superchargers hasn't been terribly inconvenient. If you do it too much, your peak charge rate gets limited by a small amount, but we haven't noticed it and we have 15k miles on it already. That said, it will be really nice to have a level 2 charger at our next place.
Yea I guess. Though I'm having a hard time with the idea that someone who went through the trouble of running on Debian in the first place would have this reaction to the browser not automatically opening a search engine.
> I think this stems from a misunderstanding of the entire point of SQL. It isn't about looking at data in an individual table, it's about retrieving a Result Set for complex queries.

No misunderstanding at all. It’s just more natural to first describe what the sources of the data are, joins etc, and then afterwards which columns you’d like to retrieve, or what calculations you’d like to perform etc.

The current way of having select first is just plain dumb. When it comes to reading order, you never actually know what is selected until you’ve read through the from, where, group by and having clauses anyway, so you constantly have to jump back and forth between dart and end to see the context. And it also better matches the sql evaluation order to have from first and select is after all of these.

Select also just better fits with order_by and limit since it’s also about restricting results after you’ve gather them all up and stitched them together etc.
> The result is that 56% of rigid plastic packaging in BC is recycled. That's not perfect, but it's pretty good, and definitely not a "sham".

Or, we could say with all of the advanced systems possible, massive subsidies, and creation of large amounts of inferior recycled product, still 44% is rigid plastic packaging is wasted (let alone all the other kinds): "Sham" seems fair.
A more sensible English translation from Korean would be to use the phrase "in year X" rather than the phrase "X years old": a newborn is in year 1; after 12 months they are in year 2; etc.

In fact, this whole discussion is more about a choice of phrasing rather than the numbers. When indexing arrays, sometimes we're talking about an offset from the first element (starting with "0"), and sometimes we're talking about ordinal element numbers (starting with "first"). Some programming language designers found that offsets are more useful (because that choice tends to simplify the underlying arithmetic), while others found that ordinal numbers are more useful (because the word "first" should mean "1", to simplify communication between people).
Got an email from my employer threatening to disconnect my iPhone from their network if I don't update by Friday.
Exactly. Prepared statements or stored procedures avoid the continuous re-parsing of identical queries.
Surrogacy will be the next big thing. Women in poorer countries will birth the children for wealthier nations. This will aid in the reduction of family formation in poorer countries and serve as population control. While ensuring no one country becomes too populated.

H.G. Wells pointed out that we cannot have population control in one nation of the world, but not another. It must be worldwide, or it'd result in severe unrest.

Julian Huxley, H.G. Wells, Charles Pincus (and many more) made this one of the defining issues of the 20th century. The Pill and IVF were long in the works and heavily funded as a means to avoid the "Population Bomb."

They envisioned a new world without war or environmental destruction. Their solution was to reduce the birth rate, through various means. The reduction of family formation being one of them.

It's interesting to read through these older works and realize the world they'd envisioned has to some extent come to fruition.
Factories require a lot of space. They don't like to build them on expensive residential plots. In cases where homes happen to be near factories, it's because the homes moved into the cheap exurban land after the factory had long been there.

As far as stores, I would welcome more convenient shopping options near to my residence.
Iterator-chain version would be a lot better looking if it was actually was a chain and not everything pushed into a single `filter_map`. "Ifs" are weird looking, one branch is using `entry`(I take it's a `DirEntry`?) and another is using `file_name` I suspect both could use the and look like `Self::is_` ?

If you're going to write an iterator chain in an imperative way, then you might as well right it imperatively.

A few notes:

- you can compare `&OsStr` with `&str` without `to_string_lossy` any explicit conversion (`&str -> &OsStr` done in `PartialEq` is basically free)

- you can get extension from `Path` by using `Path::extension`

- you can get filename without extension by using `Path::file_stem` or `Path::file_prefix`

- making your parse functions take the same arguments makes it a lot cleaner

Something like this:

read_dir("")?
.map(|e| e.map(|e| e.path()))
.map(|path| {
path.and_then(|path| {
if Self::is_bundle(&path) {
self.parse_post_bundle(&path.file_name().to_string_lossy(), &path).map(Some)
} else if Self::is_markdown(&path) {
self.parse_post(&path.file_stem().to_string_lossy(), &path).map(Some)

} else {
Ok(None)
}
})
})
.filter_map(Result::transpose)
.collect::<Result<Vec<()>, std::io::Error>>()

// Ignore this, just an example
fn is_bundle(path: &Path) -> bool {
path.extension().map(|ext| ext == "bundle").unwrap_or(false)
}

fn is_markdown(path: &Path) -> bool {
path.extension().map(|ext| ext == "md").unwrap_or(false)
}
> I fear if nothing else changes, developed countries are dysgenically wiping themselves off the planet, and the traditionally oppressive-to-women societies will evolutionarily outlast us.

As the standard of living rises, birth rates are dropping precipitously even in those countries that are relatively more oppressive.

Absent socioeconomic reasons, there are still females that naturally desire having plenty of children, despite there not being any societal pressure in favor (or even against) that. They will be genetically selected for.