skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO a big issue with a lot of modern productions is that they are too clean and colorful. You have a movie set in 1910 and everyone is wearing colorful died fabric and their clothings are spotless, not a hair out of place, when in reality their feet would be covered in horse shit and their hair mattled with sweat from wearing all those layers, plus a lot more smoking and drinking.

I think this comes from shooting in a sound room constantly and having every shot run by hair/makeup/wardrobe to make sure everything is perfect. Meanwhile, back in the day when they would shoot, e.g., a western, that would feel a lot more real because it would be shot on an actual movie ranch. You'd feel the heat of the sun, the characters are all sweaty and dirty. Buttons may be loosened on shirts just to make it more comfortable for the actors in the heat, just like they would be by the real character in the scene due to the heat. E.g. this shot from Once upon a time in the west is a good example (1). The sun is beating down with hard shadows. The main characters shoes are dusty, his coat is dusty from brushing on the ground, his hands are dusty, his sleeves are dirty, there is dirt all over his face, he looks sunburned, he looks like he probably smells. It feels so much more authentic.

1. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTgzNDM5NTY3NF5BMl5B...
GNU is not a boolean value. One can use portions of it without throwing away everything they use.
It was in jest. But, still -- do people in transit not deserve representation? Casting a ballot for a US Congress seat before you depart does not seem dishonest to me; especially if you cannot vote in the destination locale yet.
I can answer the question posed in that thread: Because the performance would be abysmal. The Raspberry Pi is a neat device for $35, but even running native ARM code it sometimes struggles to provide a good desktop user experience by 2022 standards.

The major use-case I can think of for building a rosetta-like x86 translation layer for the Pi is to run Windows software. All the relevant Linux software can, or has been, ported to ARM. Do you think the average user of Windows software is going to be happy with the performance of an x86 emulator running on a $35 ARM computer with barely enough memory to run a few Chrome tabs?
Hmm, ok, fair enough.

good feedback. TY
Fortunately that's not too difficult:

let x: {[key: string]: Type}

But maybe the documentation is lacking here?
Yeah, was going to post this. This is by far and large the best I know in terms of design and one of the most interesting regarding content as well.

I hope this blog survives for centuries.
I also bought a print copy of this a while back from Stripe Press, along with a few other books. Haven't gotten around to reading them yet (I've been bad for reading lately) but gosh are they beautiful-looking books. They taunt me from the shelf every day.
However, Covid preys heavily on the already sick. We should see a *reduction* in deaths because Covid killed off a lot of people that didn't have a lot of time left. We don't even have an accurate baseline to compare to at this point.
This is simply an improved version of colonization - rich countries extracting resources from the poor. Only now, the rich countries don't have to bother with the maintenance of the poor countries - they just drain the valuable citizens and leave the rest.

As to what you, or Canada, owe your home country - this is a nonsense question. Either there are moral obligations between people or there aren't. If there are, then the rich taking from the poor (Canada importing professionals) or the relatively well off abandoning their poor countrymen (professionals departing their homeland for better lives in rich countries) are likely failing those moral obligations. If there are no moral obligations you owe nothing but neither is anyone else obliged to not point out the resource extraction.
How do you identify a "top talented engineer" at a meet up? It could be a useful trick for interview.
It looks like sales tax rates are about the same in both states.
Marcan, in case you are not aware, is one of the people behind Asahi. The only speculation here is yours. Parties directly involved have said otherwise. Hector Martin appears to have given up posting here exactly because of this kind of bullshit. Besides, even if Apple did come out and say it, you'd still trot this nonsense out.
There is tons of evidence? Some European right wing parties even freely admit to receiving Kremlin money.

It's not seen by anyone I know as scapegoat either; they're fanning existing flames. No more, no less.
Could you expand on the women's rights issues? Are you referring to abortion law or is there more?

Not familiar with these particular issues in Texas.
Here I must credit Ambient Devices, maker of the Ambient Orb: http://www.ambientdevices.com/about/consumer-devices

It was a tricolor LED connected to the pager network that came out circa 20 years ago. By default you could hook it up to the weather, stock prices, and the like. What I hooked it up to was early Continuous Integration servers, so that everybody could see if the build was broken. It made a huge difference for some teams, where the build went from usually broken to usually green. Sometimes because people changed on their own, sometimes because executives suddenly had a thing they could understand about the room full of people typing furiously.

And yes, totally agreed. The best work I've ever done was in close contact with the people I'm serving. It can make a huge difference.
no worries think its pretty obvious what to do with here.

curious to know if some external firewall running on raspberry pi that sits between windows 10 desktop and the wifi exists. it would be ideal for inspecting network traffic
It's the year of global warming beacause of very rich bullies polluting Earth's environment with profitable businesses while bullying other people to prevent them from stopping global warming. It's just business as usual because of conmen controlling mainstream media and international governments. Until many people have political power to fight against these very rich tyrants, Europe's drought will continuously get worse.
Renters pay property tax indirectly because most landlords select rents high enough to cover their mortgage, insurance, maintenance, and property tax.
You mean a person who makes $100k a year, right?

(Trying to make $20k 20% of $50k and failing)
Regular cubane and related compounds have been investigated as race fuels. The bond angles means that extra energy is stored (basically via tension in the bonds due to those extreme angles) compared to 4 ethane molecules (which add up to the same number of carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms, and bonds as one cubane molecule). So your race car could weigh less while still having just as much fuel energy. I think most race series have standardized fuel across competitors now so it’s unlikely anyone will continue with the research.
In 2004 when I worked in NHS emergency care we had such a problem with no space in ED to unload ambulances that the ambulance service threatened to put a mass casualty tent in the hospital car park.
What if you launch the drone swarms from a large plane circling out of danger, like an AWACS or gunship?
Care to share more details about code smell patterns you noticed?
The same goes for South America. Yet they remain mired in poverty thanks to their predilection for socialism.
That sounds like the land-value tax regime that the Georgists argue for.
Did they? I think their role was always to make money.

Newspapers have a VERY long history of being owned and operated by the rich with a healthy portion of PR / propaganda.
While individuals do not have income tax, businesses do. Texas businesses are subject to property taxes, income taxes (the franchise tax), and taxes on total assets (business personal property), as well as sales taxes on services.
I'd rather not warp my whole project around a typing system if I don't need to. I also might not be the owner of every API I need to consume...

I think TS is great in certain cases- I love being able to get intellisense info from TS. When I download a new library and I get those helpful hints built right in from the libraries TS adoption, I love it. Typescript in this instance is reducing friction in my development workflow.

In my day job I work at an agency where we rapidly deliver a lot of new web properties. I have used Typescript on projects when it was a client requirement, but in our environment using Typescript generally feels like it overall adds friction and time to the project. Some team member inevitably gets stuck spending a bunch of extra time working with TS stuff: setting up the project with proper rules, writing some complex interface to deal with some random API we are either consuming or creating ourselves (in which case it is usually under rapid prototype development and needs to be updated constantly), etc.

I'm sure it is very helpful when working at scale with tons of developers on a highly stable and established project, but in my opinion it isn't generally applicable to every web property that it would be better on Typescript; it really depends on the scale of the project and the scale of the team maintaining it.
People just want homes to live in, in areas where there are good jobs, and get pissed when entire blocks of SFR housing are turned into Airbnbs or investment properties. You walk down the street and every house has an STR permit on it.

It is really not that difficult to understand.
I mean, its a complicated and slow process. State funding of colleges has been on decline for ages -- every time a recession hits the university system gets another budget cut but its rare to see the cuts restored when the economy recovers.

Meanwhile the median voter is probably more excited about college sports than college degrees.
I'm not saying the US immigration system is perfect but there were apparently 855,000 new naturalized citizens in 2021. Somebody is figuring it out.

Also- the US doesn't owe everybody a citizenship.
That’s great feedback, thanks. We deliberately kept adding to existing notebooks out of scope for the first Notebooks release but had a feeling it would be requested pretty quickly.

It might also be more intuitive to clear out the notepad after a notebook is created but curious what you think.

Thanks again for the feedback, feel free to reply here if you have any other thoughts.
1. True, but housing prices rarely drop in desirable areas (usually where good jobs and schools are). If, for some reason, you decide to stay in a town with a dying industry, then yes, this is true.

2. So does a fixed-rate mortgage. Even better, refinancing a mortgage during a low-rate period (e.g. 2012, 2020) actually lets you reduce your payment, while contributing more to equity. How often do you have an opportunity to reduce your rent?

3. Saving 50% of what exactly? You can put the down payment into an index fund, yes, but remember than the house is an asset that gives you 5x leverage initially, assuming 20% down. You can't get 5x leverage at your broker, and even if you could, playing with 5x leverage on the stock market is insanely risky compared to real estate.

> But from a purely numbers game, it's not so clear "rent is just losing money"

It's pretty clear actually. They've compared retirees who rented all their life vs home-buyers. The difference in wealth was striking, a factor of 6x-7x if not more.

What's not clear is whether that trend will continue in perpetuity under the conditions of declining population.
Exactly. True stability is likely unattainable, but I would love if it was a governmental goal like a steady small positive rate of inflation is a goal. There will be temporary changes like the last year with inflation. But for the prior 30 years there has been a very steady roughly 2-4% rate of inflation. Could you imagine if the federal, state, and local government fully committed to steadying housing costs? It would be amazing. It just seems politically impossible to get to there from here because of the people who would be hurt by that transition.
Indeed, a review of your post history shows that your account is only used to push that single issue. So which display company do you work for?
How to find tech house / coliving spaces (NYC, more general advice welcome)
I have recently moved to NYC from the UK and looking to build my network. Do you have any advice on:

1. Places I can search to find tech houses and co-living spaces,
2. Any co-living spaces with a focus on tech that you are aware of in NYC.

Much appreciated!

I am a data scientist with a Ph.D in statistics, will be in NYC full-time and for the foreseeable future.
Yes, absolutely! Relevance makes the difference between information and noise. Relevant information is hugely powerful. But noisy environments just make for bad output.
I agree so much with you.

I would even say: most libraries used for just about anything, are written in C/C++/Java, all of which are typed languages.

The post's author simply lacks the education and experience to actually have a valid opinion on this topic.
> Even though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default.

source: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md
I agree with most everything you say here about the limitations of drones, but there's a high likelihood that current aircraft carriers are quite vulnerable to anti-ship missiles. A DF-26 costs ~$10M, so launching several at a carrier, though expensive, would still be massively cost-effective in a real war. This article on WotR discusses the threat a bit more (I don't have an opinion on the solution/approach it advocates for the US military): https://warontherocks.com/2020/06/when-it-comes-to-missiles-....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571867
Please don't do this. It isn't just flamebait, it's an internet forum cliché. Those are two of the things we're most trying to avoid on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> The only opposition was from higher ed, who didn't want the record keeping burden.

That kinda makes my point.

I appreciate that from your perspective I am being far too pessimistic. But, I do not see reason for optimism.

Still, I hope it turns out that you are right.
What's so painful about writing

foo: int | str
I use Inform 7 as the very first case study language for a class I teach in programming language design theory for a uni CS program.

* It's very well documented. The entire compiler design and language grammar is detailed to near text-book standards.

* It's a language that none of my students have ever heard of before

* The syntax of the language is an English-like syntax which weirdly trips up most CS students the first time they see it

* It's a great example of a language used for specialty purposes. No kitchen-sink language here.

Students at first hate it...but many have told me later that they really like coding an IF game using Inform 7 once they get the hang of it.
I never understood this argument. People are not priced out of their homes. Their homes are rising in prices so they actually have assets to match the price increase. Yes they might not be able to afford the tax, but they have a million dollar asset that they could use. The whole point of the tax is to disencent a single person living in a huge house all by themselves.
> Despite TX lacking a state income tax, most Texans pay more in taxes than CA.

This is pretty misleading. The report in question doesn't say whether Texans or California's actually pay more per capita - it's entirely as a percentage of the total state tax collected. https://itep.org/whopays/ (EDIT: This isn't correct, it's as percentage of income by average income in state, but the brackets are different per state).

So it's because they are missing an income tax. But if someone hit you with a 50% income tax next year, you wouldn't consider your tax bill lower just because your share become proportionally smaller.

With that in mind, per capita tax in California is ~$6800 and in Texas it's $4400.

FWIW, I've never actually heard anyone complain about state taxes in California or consider moving because of them. The exodus to Texas has less to do with taxes and much more to do with general cost of living, which is still largely a function of state government.
In general yes, but I think Prop 13 complicates matters, because it's not just a lower tax rate, but rather applies unequally to different properties based on their transaction history. (e.g. a property built or sold recently gets high taxes, while one that's been unchanged remains low)

So we can divide the rental market into high-tax and low-tax properties. The landlords of high-tax properties must incorporate the tax into the rent. Meanwhile, the landlords of low-tax properties can set their rents just as high, since they compete in the same market, and pocket the tax difference.

In contrast, a flat property tax reduction would increase the profit margins of all landlords equally, and any one of them could start undercutting the others and be undercut in return, which over time in an efficient market will tend to lower prices back to a similar margin before the tax reduction.
I mean the source is a press release:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220725005271/en/MyF...

which is advertising in its nature. But I think there's decent conversation happening here which is basically the threshold for posting something on HN
I think you are talking about the Green Card lottery which doesn't allow certains countries that have had too many immigrants in the past 7 (I think) years. The H1-B lottery doesn't have country limitations.
It’s almost as if centralized control of resources doesn’t allocate them optimally.
> those very well paid engineers rent/buy every SFH for miles causing the absolutely insane gentrification we've seen in San Francisco that pushes everyone out.

I used to live in a large, over 100 unit, town home complex.

Central to the complex was a very large open green space, larger than most suburban yards.

Over the years, about 50% of the units are now rented out, typically at a price lower than in the nearby built for rental apartment complexes. Individual landlords prize stability in tenants more than maximizing short term value, also if a person is only renting out 1 unit, that unit being vacant for a month or two is a lot of lost income, raising rent by $200 and then losing out on 4k of rental income due to having to lose then find a new tenant is not something a smart landlord does on a yearly basis.

Prior to that I lived in a luxury condo complex in a very nice area that was again, lots of rental units. From what I gather, soon to be retirees had bought in and were renting the units out until they they needed to move into them. They also prized stability and boring tenants over maximizing monthly income.

The point here is, within reason, today's fancy high end condos are tomorrows reasonably prized housing.

Will the 50 story skyscraper condos ever be reasonably prized? No, of course not, but if someone dropped 150,000 units of medium density housing into Seattle, I bet that in about 5-10 years housing prices would start to come down.

The other issue I have is the absurd number of 4 story town homes being built, which should instead be 4 story condo complexes. Insane square footage is wasted on stairs, and no one over 35 can live in those places, and raising a family in them is either impractical or horribly annoying. (Good for baby gate sales though...)

If it were up to me I'd remove elevator requirements for 4 and 5 story condo complexes in return for having the bottom floors requiring ADA units.
Many thanks for this feedback!

You're the second person that mentions that the "mining" spinner is spinning too fast. I was trying to convey that a lot of "work" is happening in the background. This point doesn't seem to come across this way so I've just slowed that spinner down for now.

As for the battery life - well the site is quite literally simulating a distributed system in your browser... I'm sure there are less CPU-intensive websites on the Internet :)
Torpedoes aren't visible on radar, you mean sonar.

You're not going to sink a ship with 500g explosive fish-shaped torpedo-launched drone things. This plan boils down to a really weird and elaborate method of throwing hand grenades at a super-carrier until it sinks. This whole line of discussion is absurd.
Apparently the new "urban" definition is something like:

>Adopting 500 persons per square mile (PPSM) as the minimum density criterion for recognizing some types of urban territory.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/24/2022-06...

Which basically means anything "town-like" or higher is "urban".

So most Americans live in urban areas even if they are in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.
No. There is little to gain. At a time when everything is hyper politicized, being neutral is a superpower.

As Michael Jordan once put it, “Republicans buy sneakers too.”
Yes, in case someone gets a painting without any additional information, a computer art piece, could easily be mistaken for a human art piece. That's true. My position on the subject is as follows, the best art for humans is made by humans, and the best art for computers is made by computers. Actually i have yet to see a computer generation on the same level as Mona Lisa, not even close. However computer generated women, some of them are alright!
So it looks like a British phone booth and transports a Doctor around the Galaxy?
> Little did I know when I went to claim the loss on my taxes: I could not claim the loss at all. Since it was an owner occupied house and not a house owned by a corporation, it did not count as a loss I could deduct from my income nor from my capital gains.

It cuts both ways. Had you had a gain, you would not have had to pay taxes on the gains. If you had it as an investment, you would.

> Houses are meant to trap and enslave common people. It decreases their mobility and roots them in areas they otherwise would want to leave. When you gain money from a house, there are all kinds of benefits. When you lose money as an owner, there are no protections for you.

Hyperbole. For the majority of folks, home ownership outweighs the costs. Often significantly.
Because a socialist system is ran by the public. It is beholden to the public as its shareholders. Mcdonalds needs to taste tasty, but only to get you hooked enough to choose mcdonalds over other foods. You think the shareholders would rather their customers actually eat healthy which means limiting consumption of Mcdonalds? No, they are practically in the business of selling cigarettes but in the form of fats and sugars. They want you addicted. The goal of the capitalist isn't to make their customer happy, its to extract as much of their available disposable income as possible.
Ill just put this next to the rest of the fire.

https://i.imgur.com/CbCYs0d.jpg
I'm sorry, because I realize this is well-intentioned, but we don't allow bots to post to HN so I have to ban this account.

The reason we don't allow bots is that we're trying to optimize for curious conversation, and that requires human beings taking a personal interest in a topic and/or each other.

As kylehotchkiss points out, individual HN users do frequently post links to archived versions of articles.
JetBrains just in general treats all issue as low priority. There’s issues open for literal years that they refuse to do anything about. They say “we looked at this issue, and it’s not on our roadmap, so no.” Ok, but what is your roadmap? Why can’t it include a fix for a 5 year old bug? Oh, because you’re working on a replacement that’ll take 3 years to finish. It’s extremely frustrating sometimes.