skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it 'just bad'? I have installed Linux (either Debian or Ubuntu) for several non-tech-savvy family members, and they have used them for years without incident. I once talked to my mom about Linux and she mentioned that her Windows worked great for everything, she would never change. I told her to look at the splash screen when she booted up ;)! She had been on Linux for a good 10 years without noticing.
I have considerable experience in the Real Estate backend software industry, and so am occasionally contacted by headhunters hiring for Real Estate Investment startups. Here's a typical reply that I give to them:

I am philosophically opposed to "investing" in real estate, as your industry exists entirely to snatch up affordable housing from actual homeowners as a get-rich-quick scheme, benefiting those who are already rich at the expense of those who would otherwise be rising up out of their own financial situation.

Nothing personal, but I wish you - and everyone in your predatory industry - swift failure in your endeavor, for the benefit of the average homeowner.

Have a good day!
I would exercise restraint with extrapolations here.

Countries with lowest homicide rates: Least diverse.

US States with lowest homicide rates: Least diverse.

There are some exceptions, however in general this statement is true when we look at the entire data set.

Market chaos also gives you walled gardens like Google/Apple App stores with outlandish fees and company policies like this one: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/06/eff-urges-apple-abandon...
"to spend less time making tsc happy" signed!

I feel i spent more time with that than with the development of the code ;-)
Which doesn’t mean much as a comparison point in the US because much of that land has zero or approximately zero residents, and nobody’s talking about building high-density housing in the middle of nowhere anyway. Upwards of 80% of the US population lives in urban areas and those places certainly are comparable to much of Europe.
Also, inevitably, more fingers per square foot, more calories consumed per acre, higher water usage, and more conversations per minute in the neighborhood.

things that people do increase when there are more people. really unclear what your point is here, and the way you said it really makes you look mean.
Agree 100%. Redux et al are terrible examples where complexity is through the roof, these libraries were written way before TypeScript was the norm. You can eliminate almost all of that by having simpler interfaces, but that requires a different API built with types in mind.
I wish there were a formal subset of typescript that was go-like in design. Interfaces, structs, and simple types but not all the class-based object oriented complexity. A focus on composition instead of inheritance.

I like typescript but really worry that it's fueling a boom in unnecessary complexity and architecture. Are we going to look back at monster typescript codebases in the same way we look at monster java codebases riddled with abstract and redundant layers of complexity because the "design patterns" say to do it?
Often libraries are bootstrapped from application code. Having a step function in complexity is not helpful in fostering an ecosystem with a broad range of maturity.
This sounds like a YOU problem. I used to drink in my 20s and gave it up at age 30. I have no problem asking for a Diet Coke or whatever non-alcoholic drink I want. Insecurity doesn't even enter into my mind. Furthermore, I still "go get drinks" with coworkers all the time. They don't care if I don't order alcohol. It's about camaraderie and building rapport, not the liquid in your glass.
Out of curiosity, why would you move the power button to the top? I remember this was the configuration for the old iPod Touch, but with the power button along the side, it's easier to press the power button with your thumb in one-handed use.
There don't seem to be subsidies for Pork. There was a "Small Hog Operation Payment" last century that paid $10 per hog for the first 500 hogs sold by a farm, according to wikipedia, but they got rid of that a long time ago. That is well under 10% the sale price of a hog.

The problem mushrooms have is scale, much like spices. We can grow 20K acres of mechanized corn, but mushrooms are a little less mechanized. So its to be expected for mushrooms to cost as much as basil or cilantro per pound.
There is a "Masters of Doom" for Diablo 1 and D2, I have not read them yet...
This explains a lot about the winding of Drupal roadmap ;-)
Funnily enough the HN comment actually demonized unsaturated fat, not saturated fat.

But that link doesn't seem to contain any information.
The crypto black markets of Argentina
I don't drink alcohol but I am a big fan of beers without alcohol. Tasting different non-alcoholic beers is a hobby of mine and I like to keep a nice record of what I've tried, when and where, country of origin and more. I've tasted more than 600 different non-alcoholic beers in the last three years or so and, yes, there are some that are terrible - but there are some absolute greats, too.

Germany, Belgium, France and the UK all have great craft breweries making beer without alcohol. They are out there and fun to discover.
There's a big problem where social care got moved from the department of health to local government a few years ago.

Then, shortly after, the government cut local government funding massively. It used to be funded by a mix of local taxes and funding from central government that was about 50/50. This was part of a strategy to insulate richer areas from the impact of cuts, while poorer ones (which relied more on central funding) took the hit.

This means there's a huge problem with elderly patients who need to be discharged into social care not having the support they would need to go home or a spot in an old people's home to go into.

Which, combined with covid still being around and the fact that even before covid government obsession with efficiency meant that there were a relatively low number of beds which already had a high occupancy rate.

So there was no spare supply to begin with, increasing demand due to a growing and aging population and covid, and lots of people who are stuck in hospital because they need support to leave which doesn't exist.
I second this as being fairly effective. It doesn't totally prevent hangovers or sluggishness, but it mitigates the effects noticeably.
I'm a dummy. Do I have this right?

> CISC-to-RISC translation on the front end

I would naively assume that this would be an advantage, since you could easily change the hardware used for any CISC instruction, finding better ways to make it faster. The "work unit" is more abstract, so you could throw the whole problem at dedicated silicon. Or, you could remove dedicated silicon, and just have the CIST spit out a list of RISC instructions.

It seems that, for RISC, you could never throw a more abstract "work unit" at dedicated silicon, without buffering instructions, to see if the intent matches the accelerators. Chip specific compilers would almost be required, to handle the abstraction.
That's good for society. I doubt that many of the moderately wealthy would really be a cause of this. It seems the ultrawealthy are the main cause in the downfall of empires, as they hold the most influence and become leeches off the people working. And now we democratize those negative decisions via things like REITs, so everyone's 401k is part of the problem.
Eh, they did quite well in 2017 - in fact, the best performance for the Labour party since Blair was under Corbyn[0].

[0]: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
>The Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) is an air-launched directed-energy weapon capable of incapacitating or damaging electronic systems[1] by means of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse).[2]

>On 14 May 2015, the Air Force nominated the Lockheed Martin JASSM-ER as the optimal air vehicle to carry the CHAMP payload.[8] CHAMP is capable of up to 100 shots per sortie.[9]

>In May 2019, it was revealed the Air Force had deployed at least 20 CHAMP-equipped missiles.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electronics_High_Power...
But housing is an investment, and a shelter. Discouraging housing as an investment discourages investment in housing.

What I think you are trying to say is that it is preferable that the investment in housing be made by the people who are going to live in the house (or by the government) and not by entrepreneurs.
There are downsides to everything. This whole blog sounds like an excuse: "we don't want to apply E2EE because it can be a little inconvenient so we will just go ahead and store everything in plaintext because who cares!"

You forgot to mention the biggest downside to not encrypting the notes: your company can read/edit them on a whim. Sure, E2EE isn't perfect but it sure is a PITA for vendors to steal data behind their users' back.

The solution to "E2EE is hard" is definitely NOT to ditch it altogether. Nothing is perfect. As a software vendor it should be mandatory to have E2EE in place. It doesn't matter if it's notes or emails or messages. I, the user, should decide what is private and important - not you.
It sounds a lot like Eclipse RAP / RWT which is basically swt in the browser. The biggest downside is that every user has a heavyweight session on the server that holds all the UI state. I think Vercel is also a bit similar to this model.
>Nearly impossible to regulate, and too rigid to boot.

No it isn't.

>Does a duplex count as two? If so that means triplexs higher MUDs are illegal..

Why would it count as more than one? You can own a duplex or triplex or whatever as your primary home, and then you have the option of renting out portions to generate additional income, or fully occupying the entire thing. If you have no plans to rent out units, it would make more sense to convert it.

>which will harm low income housing options.

It will harm landlords who depend on the current system. Low income housing won't be necessary when homes are affordable for everyone.

>Can companies own property?

Not homes.

>or the housing market is going to be flooded with corporate housing.

Good.
You forgot the biggest one – cheap mortgages backed by unlimited money printing. Ever since 2008 loading up on as much <3% housing debt as you can afford has been a no-brainer investing strategy.
Like many here, I love typescript for library writing, at least internally. I've not made any big npm packages, so not sure how that would do, but I imagine I'd like it a lot too.

What I hate is getting the build system set up to generate the right combination of .js/.d.ts files to work with the build system of whatever I'm using it in, particularly for libraries that use any form of preact/tsx files. I must be seriously missing something, but after 5 years as a node/react developer I still suck at making build pipelines for new projects.
that's apple's long term goal, to realize pervasive personal computing. that's why they released siri, airpods, the watch, and faceID (and even the future glasses), as waypoints to that exact future. they probably won't get rid of screens, but will minimize their use over time.
> is still much better off in the former because of the free healthcare

Is it? The NHS is completely useless since the pandemic for anything non-emergency (can't comment for emergencies). You go private or you go without.

Whether it's still cheaper than US, I don't know - US healthcare is priced to milk out as much cash as possible out of insurance policies, so I'm not sure what the true price is when you negotiate and are paying privately.
Yes, definitely!

Caveat - I have no issue with someone drinking alcohol, coffee or whatever, but caffeine certainly has many drug-like addictive aspects to it.

My addiction is vending machine candy. I might put it on par with coffee. :)
Luckily these types are not complex at all to type in Typescript. You just enumerate all the options with a | character separating them.
Green card to naturalization is not the same as going from visa to green card.
> But your "next step" is far beyond what even China does.

And yet online services blocking access to non-SecureBoot devices is already the norm for industries ranging from online gaming[0] to fast food![1]

Add in the fact that Hollywood wants this (for DRM and blocking torrenting apps) and governments like Australia claiming their laws trump the laws of mathematics[2], and you can almost guarantee that this is going to become mandated as soon as enough Windows 10 users update to Windows 11.

> It would kill off any ability for software development.

Software development would have to be sponsored by approved companies, or at the very least you'd need to apply to the government for a "licence to code", with your ID number baked into every app you create. As an interim step, governments may allow devices to access a "legacy" portion of the internet which doesn't require SecureBoot to be enabled, but expect that portion to get smaller and smaller each year.

> as long as you can send or receive text or sound or images in any format that can be intercepted, you can tunnel arbitrary data.

But which app are you going to use to create those sound or image files? I suppose you could create your "illegal" files on an airgapped non-approved device, and transfer them via USB to the approved device, and people could do the reverse process when they receive them, but that's a cat-and-mouse game which 99% of people can't or won't play, and governments will win by mandating cryptographic watermarks in any files created.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat...

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mcdonalds-app-knows-im-...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-laws-of-australia-will-tru...
* It guarantees you do not lose money if the home values around you drop

* It gives you a fixed monthly houseing cost. No "10k new roof" or "1k new stove" suprises hit you.

* If you are say, saving 50% vs buying, you can put this difference in an index fund. This would over 10 or 20 years potentially give you a LOT of money over buying.

Look, buying is mostly great. It's one of the biggest builders of wealth for most Americans. But from a purely numbers game, it's not so clear "rent is just losing money".
Sounds sub-optimal, I'm thinkng back to linux wifi support on random laptops 10+ years ago and it was also quite bad.
Another factor that makes Monsanto/Bayer look really bad here is that they lost despite having basically an unlimited legal budget with a huge team of lawyers versus this school groundskeeper and their case was so bad they still lost.
Combo electrical engineer and embedded firmware engineer, who spent the previous ten years in production test engineering...nah, my job is pretty hands-on. I went into a pretty empty building during most of 2020 and 2021 five days a week.

I mean, I've got a few skills that might be sharp enough to get me a remote job but I really like the hardware world.
It was probably leaking refc binaries, see for example https://ferd.github.io/recon/recon.html#bin_leak-1.

Running the function (which probably parses large binaries) in a separate process ensures that it's properly garbage collected in time.
How to Be Stingy: Git LFS on Your Own S3 Bucket
How about walking in a local park, or throwing a frisbee? Taking a group walk can be a good way to get to know new people, and it seems natural to walk and chat with someone for a little while, and then switch partners. Groups can easily change membership/size without the disruption of needing to change chairs around a table.
The best I have found so far is Notesnook Monographs [0].

[0] https://monograph.notesnook.com
That’s not what the parent comment implied. It implied any tech career required this.

I grant you a developer advocate would need to do this.
How do you propose searching the content of your photographs and diagrams? ("Show me notes with gardening photos")
OTOH if you used bayesian reasoning like your username suggests, you'd understand that nuclear energy is the safest form of energy there is.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
That seems a bit silly. Heart disease kills lots of people, but it's not weird to invite your friend to a BBQ, even if they're already overweight or have high cholesterol. People are responsible for themselves.
Yes again in the art risk groups this reduced significant symptoms hence why they're underrepresented in global hospitalisation numbers. As I keep saying it's a fantastic preventative treatment.

Unfortunately many people are still catching it repeatedly, displaying symptoms repeatedly and the fact that despite 90%+ of people are immunised. With vaccination levels like this for various other diseases transmission would be pretty much stopped and symptoms would be much lower.

Anyway, not looking to derail, just want to point out there is a significant change in the definition of words being used which can causes conversations to become toxic, and apologies if you think I'm being abrupt.
I find that most of the pain/complexity around TypeScript types happens when you're trying to write super dynamic or polymorphic JavaScript-style code and then put types on top. This comes out especially when adding types to an existing codebase. I can definitely see how this would affect library authors more than application authors, but I'm not sure it's TypeScript's fault, and I think it can be avoided by making different choices about what interfaces you expose

Or, worst-case, just weakening your types. Plenty of libraries have weaker types than they could have, but sometimes it's justified because it would be hard to get them exactly right
I have a similar essay entitled "Why Static Languages Suffer From Complexity" [1]. I don't deal with TypeScript, so it's up to you whether the essay relates to it or not. Basically, the idea is that languages make type-level and value-level programming different in surface, while they're (or at least can be) the same. From hence we have type-level astronautics that boggles library developers' minds.

[1] https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/why-static-languages-suffer...
It's been ages since my last dive into the js galaxy, but from my outside perspective I read that as "the usual mess that we like to do to provide awesome backwards compatibility when introducing wildly changed API generations is very difficult to sneak past the typechecker". Not sure that I read it correctly, but it would certainly fit "conditional types, type operators, and overloads".

Why are they more prevalent in library code: to make changes non-breaking (or breaking, but fixable with minor tweaks). Of course types can also be a solution to this problem, by promoting consequences of incompatible change from runtime to compile time, but that only holds if you can assume that all calling code is type checked.
Yes.

Making millions of them would likely also make all the other problems go away. Wit a million copies, we can forget about the controlled re-entry. While around 700k of them will sink in the oceans, there should still be 300,000 that will fall on land.

As long as the initial orbits, drag profiles, heat absorbtion profiles/patterns, etc. are sufficiently randomized so they all truly re-enter in a random pattern, there should be no need for propellant, engines, power, or controlled re-entry.
Shadowbanning means banning someone without telling them. I just told you.

I did look at the replies and it's true that some of them were terrible and against the site guidelines, but your account was by far the greatest problem, given that you initiated a flamewar and perpetuated it with 20+ comments. Pointing the finger at others, when you've broken the rules so badly yourself, is not a good look. One might mention individual responsibility as a value here.

I think you make an interesting point about ideological asymmetry. Maybe there is a systemic factor in that way—or maybe it's just that certain classes of account are more likely to fulminate and otherwise break the rules ("commit more crimes", as some might say in another context)—or maybe both? I don't know, and I don't see what difference it would make to moderation. Should the fire department hose two sides of a burning house equally, regardless of which way the wind is blowing, lest it give an appearance of bias? It's our job to prevent this place from burning itself down. For that we have certain rules and we apply them as evenhandedly as we know how. That involves pointing the hose where the fire is.

If you or anyone thinks the rules aren't optimal, I'd be happy to hear suggestions for better rules—as long as everyone understands that "better" has a clear definition in HN's context, because we're optimizing for one specific thing (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
You have to reside for 5 years on GC first. It can take years for GC to get processed so overall at present it can be close to 10 years.
So should we do the same with food too?
Your first sentence is thoughtful and pretty much the author's point.
I know right! Was the last CEO who wasn't a monster Bill Hewlett?
Except it's not free, you're the product.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

"Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data, published IM transcripts show.

Facebook hasn't disputed the authenticity of the transcript. Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004."
You can list variants of a function's signature in typescript, but typescript won't help you much with "stringly typed" things (like `.addClass('name1,name2,nameN')`).

Different languages have a grain like wood does. And that subtly directs you by making some things ergonomic and some things difficult to express. I love typescript, but I definitely find it changes the resulting code.

Typescript makes "jQuery style" javascript much more awkward to write, because its harder to type. This is good and bad. I write less scrappy code in typescript - which I think makes it a worse language for quick prototyping. But the tradeoff is that I think its a better language for larger teams / longer lasting projects where functions are read a lot more than they're written.

The actual typescript answer for your API is "don't make your API look like that". Its not always the answer you're looking for.
I'd argue because it would likely be an easier battle and would still win rights and, perhaps, set precedent for the limitations of entities like Google here and elsewhere. The alternative of blocking scanning all together is extremely easy to railroad.
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A lot of what I've seen is people worried about "low quality tenants" (read: people who don't look just like me)
I agree, and I feel like limiting the mortgage interest deduction to owner-occupied homes would get us most of the way there at the stroke of a pen. It's a huge subsidy and I can't think of any good reason to extend it to rentals and investment properties.

In fact, we should probably repeal it altogether - in theory it subsidizes home ownership for the poor and middle class, but in practice the only people who take it are those who itemize deductions, which the poor generally don't.
Their reply is that the land beneath the house shouldn’t be available for private ownership.
> Her heart is in the right place.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you won't listen to where you're mistaken, when you're badly hurting people, your heart is not in the right place.

I'm not saying that link is perfect but Rowling is wrong in many important ways. Like, I'm not going to write my own essay with better focus.