skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America has a damn hard time appreciating the aesthetics of the human body in a comfortable and unproblematic manner, and the pressure to keep PornHub hidden in the shadows reinforces the negative feedback loop of unhealthy perspectives of sex, and promotes some bad behavior—we can't culturally talk about sex comfortably and openly, when we're all made for it.

The pernicious thing about this is that the net result of all this may be that only people who go through stringent verification processes can post, meaning that the platforms will be even more dominated by large producers and the content will trend even closer to only having caricatures of the extremes with little representation of what people should really expect from sex once they try it in the real world.
The GP is referring to SQL’s mathematical roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_relational_calculus
> converting them into dormitories cannot possibly recoup the cost

Once we start talking easing housing code requirements, especially if it's done in the name of increasing access to housing, the conversation becomes about just how much conversion is really necessary, and how little can be done to break even. And there's a big continuum.

If one end of this continuum is a standard college dorm setup, the other is literally just letting people camp out in an otherwise-unmodified office floor. In between are probably SRO-level accommodations, building four-wall cubicles with open ceilings for sunlight and ventilation (sometimes traditionally covered in chickenwire).

As grim as this sounds, it might actually be preferable to the current practice of allowing tent cities to proliferate downtown. The idea of an office tower slum is incredibly dystopian, but if the alternative is the properties becoming write-offs, it may be the most likely outcome.
Here's an anecdote:

In 2014, as part of my job as fsf's web developer (a new position at the time), I suggested moving gnu.org's version control from a private cvs repo (that requires passing a test to get access to) to a public git repo as a step towards attracting new contributors. The argument was simple: Not many new volunteers are coming in to work on gnu.org and very few know cvs any more. Making it operate more like a regular free software project that can receive patches from anyone and using the most popular version control system would lower the barrier to entry and improve transparency. It was viewed as a reasonable goal by the people I worked with at the fsf, but gnu has its own governance and the idea was met with strong resistance from all of the longtime gnu.org contributors, including rms. I even received an unpleasant off-list email (not from rms) because I was viewed as an outsider that doesn't know anything. So, that was the end of that little idea.

There is a glimmer of hope for gnu's future in subprojects such as guix, which is doing technically interesting work and has created a healthy community that welcomes newcomers. Can that positive energy take hold and spread to the rest of the project? We'll see.
15 F is 47 F below freezing, which is what I meant to say.
It did fail. He had no employees and he didn't know how to perform the work himself. In our local FB and Nextdoor groups, there were many brides complaining about not receiving their photos/videos for months after their weddings. He wasn't bright enough to outsource. He ended just returning all the original photos/videos and refunding deposits. The building he leased is still vacant today.

Whenever my wife saw someone complain, she would refer them to the former employees who went and started their own LLC.
China has a lot of people living in subbasements ("ant tribe", not just the immediate floor before ground, but the 3rd or 4th floor below ground). No egress, crappy ventilation (mold is a huge problem), but its cheap. Also, a lot of restaurants in Beijing have their staff sleeping out in their dining room after they close up as a form of worker dorms (people also sleep in their shops, which is why they cover the windows up after closing). So this is all very crappy housing situations, but its cheap, and one reason why China doesn't have a huge homeless problem (though still larger than the government admits).

Japan has a lot of 2.5 tatami sized apartments that you can get for $500/month (even in Tokyo). No heat, but you can plug in a space heater. Shared toilet, and no shower necessarily in building (so you have to use a bath house down the street).

America goes out of its way to avoid such living arrangements, and to avoid things like slums. I think we could do a better job at creating lower end housing, however, by sacrificing some of our livability principles. But it isn't going to fix the guy who wants to cook meth in their state provided housing.
The content of the idea is superfluous. The point is that if you give the government the ability to tell people what packets they can and cannot send, then you're implicitly trusting that they won't abuse this power in the future and decide that there are other things people can and cannot send.
> You make this legal and tomorrow every RE developer stops putting in windows

This sounds like new housing supply. I'm failing to see the problem. Developers still have to sell the apartment, after all.
Most general case consumer explanation is likely this:

No more passwords. Your biometric authentication along with your Apple/Google account on your iPhone/Android phone is all you need.

A more detailed blurb would be:

You sign-up and sign-in to websites/apps simply by responding to a biometric unlock prompt of your phone (same as unlocking your phone with DoubleClick side button + FaceID etc). Your sign-in details are saved to your iCloud / Google account. You can sign-in to the same website/app on another device (iPhone/Mac; or Android/Chrome device) by signing into your cloud account.

For Pro users, there may be more advanced flow:

Instead of using built-in phone authenticators, you may use a reputed third party secure authentication app paired with an external FIDO key (like yubikey) to do the same thing. In it's most secure configuration, it may combine device binding secret unlocked with biometric auth, an physical FIDO key you possess, and a cloud hosted MPC key that is used based on fuzzy signals like your device location and other fingerprint data etc.
All this gives you secure multi-factor authentication that is safe against phishing, theft, loss etc.
what do you make of things like dbt which is awkward mix of python templating and sql mixed into each other.
https://youtu.be/sl2zo7tzrO8

HAXL
Building a general purpose browser must be insanely complicated challenge with very little reward. It would be interesting to see more niche browsers for browsing specific types of site, though.
I think the question is: would McMurdo (or the space colony) find a way to survive if severed from the rest of humanity?
Can they repurpose these dead offices as homeless shelters?
A lot of if there was an independent web consortium which agreed on standards.

Which, hey, we do have and the more power chromium gets the more Google can just ignore that.
Any startups you can point to that are related to the last bullet?
robotics really needs to do most of its compute at the edge, on robot

Why can't you hook your robot up to a GPU cluster? Tesla already has 7k+ A100 GPUs, the question is do they have algorithms which would clearly work better if only we could run them on 70k or 700k GPUs?

I mean, what you say makes sense, but have people actually tried all that and realized they need bigger GPU clusters? Is there a GPT-3 equivalent model in robotics which would probably work better if we scaled it up? If not, perhaps they should start with a small proof of concept before asking for thousands of GPUs. Original Transformer --> GPT1 --> GPT2 --> GPT3.
I equally detest websites which are extremely graphics and animation intensive. When I see a lot of graphics and presentation my mind goes: "Sales pitch upcoming. Be careful!!"

I actually like highly functional websites with a light touch that conveys sophistication. GNU's websites don't come in that category, of course.
Fair, but my point was merely that the judge wasn't deciding to go after anyone and the potential liability of other actors is irrelevant.

It's really the same thing; x party brought the suit against Visa, and that's why Visa is in this position as opposed to anyone else who the poster thinks would or should also be liable under the same logic.
Agreed completely. Not to mention: "maybe it wasn't the best idea" _completely_ brushes aside the potential results of having kept them in schools.

Keeping them at home obviously had/has its challenges. And if we had to go through this again, perhaps there are ways to improve - but to offer only the snark "maybe it wasn't the best idea" is neither very helpful nor insightful.
Link to stream highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgVe_Jp4Ys

That Kf8 really is the move of somebody living in another universe.
He did that for a long time, maybe still does for certain things for all I know, but he started using GNU IceCat (a firefox derivative) some years ago.
What? I've seen both of those used plenty before outside of headlines. I've also heard them used in television, movies and songs. Those aren't uncommon. "Brace" especially.
Of course. It's an outrageous suit driven by anti-porn activists.

It's especially ironic that so many people oppose crypto-currencies with the argument that "democratic control" is desirable when deciding the rules of our financial system, yet the consequence of this is obvious: the law must force monopolistic financial services providers to serve any entity that is operating legally. If PornHub did something wrong, we have laws and prosecutors for that.
I never commented on the specificity, rather I pointed out this quote "Ship an entire physical PC to the user pre-loaded with the application." Replace "PC" with "Mainframe" and the sentence was true (at least back when mainframes were a thing.

The software came pre-loaded with the hardware, and IBM shipped it to you and set it up for you. You couldn't buy an app without paying for the hardware. Technically, you rented everything from IBM, and paid one lease price.
I've never seen a wall framed with 2x6s because it had plumbing in it. It's all 2x4 regardless, here—you almost never see a 2x6 wall. Is that a California thing?
I think that's hospitals not insurers.
Should mark 2002 and we’ll stallman
You think drug use doesn't lead to crime?
"On the International Space Station, chemical oxygen generators are used as a backup supply. Each canister can produce enough oxygen for one crewmember for one day."

That's a lot of candles if you intend to use it as the primary supply for a multi-year multi-human mission like Mars will entail.

"An explosion caused by one of these candles killed two Royal Navy sailors on HMS Tireless" probably gives NASA engineers the shivers, too.
A lot of people who own residential property in SF can afford to take a loss indefinitely on the assumption that prices/buyers will eventually return. Especially if those same people's wages keep up roughly with inflation.
OP is rabid anti-nuclear person with an axe to grind. It gets boring after a while, especially with rabid anti-nuclear people being partially responsible for the current crisis. If it wasn't for them, Europe would be much less dependent on Russia.
I don’t think it’s realistic to expect people who don’t hold power, who have the least resources, the least leverage, to be able to take power. The nature of power is that it can be used to stop people from doing exactly this.

And it’s a moot point because if you figure out the magic formula for getting this huge turnout then the same approach will be used by your opponents and the largest demographic will still win, and that’s not young people.
Many of those codes have been designed to protect incombents from competition and various other forms of encouraging one form of living (car dependent) over others.

Plenty of people in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, etc live happy lives in much much smaller living areas. This makes them more affordable. But building codes in many places in the USA disallow making places that small.

Other examples of questionable codes are codes that require parking spaces, codes that require front yards, codes that require backyards, etc....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKIVX968PQ
I think there is some evidence they do. I remember reading about this: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0803650105

We demonstrate by means of simple, noninvasive methods (analysis of satellite images, field observations, and measuring “deer beds” in snow) that domestic cattle (n = 8,510 in 308 pastures) across the globe, and grazing and resting red and roe deer (n = 2,974 at 241 localities), align their body axes in roughly a north–south direction. Direct observations of roe deer revealed that animals orient their heads northward when grazing or resting. Amazingly, this ubiquitous phenomenon does not seem to have been noticed by herdsmen, ranchers, or hunters. Because wind and light conditions could be excluded as a common denominator determining the body axis orientation, magnetic alignment is the most parsimonious explanation. To test the hypothesis that cattle orient their body axes along the field lines of the Earth's magnetic field, we analyzed the body orientation of cattle from localities with high magnetic declination. Here, magnetic north was a better predictor than geographic north. This study reveals the magnetic alignment in large mammals based on statistically sufficient sample sizes. Our findings open horizons for the study of magnetoreception in general and are of potential significance for applied ethology (husbandry, animal welfare). They challenge neuroscientists and biophysics to explain the proximate mechanisms.
Searching google for "toki pona dictionary online", in an incognito tab, brings up three dictionaries. One of them (the one on zrajm.github.io) is identical to the one in the book. You can also find a copy in the Toki Pona discord server. I have prepared a PDF version (1 page double-sided, a4 paper) which can be found here: http://0x0.st/ofqt.pdf from this groff input file: http://0x0.st/ofqv.roff (also by me).
You're right. I meant the troubles we get if we turn off all constraints to ease the migration, end up with duplicate keys in the target table because of mistakes, turn on constraints, errors.
See here's how I explained it in another thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32740498

Capability Based Security - No, you really don't know what it is (like Java/Javascript, there's confusion.. it's not Windows Vista UAC, nor the flags for apps on your phone, not even AppArmor or SElinux)

Currently, when you start your favorite GUI based editor, and tell it to open a file, it calls on the OS to present a dialog box, who chooses file(s), those names are then passed back to the editor. The editor then uses the users permission to open the file(s), and allow you to edit your data. Note that there is NOTHING stopping the program from getting confused or malicious and opening any arbitrary file using that user's account.

The exact same workflow happens in a Capabilities based OS, except the names of the parts and constraints (that you don't see) are different. It works exactly the same, as far as the user is concerned.

Instead of calling on the OS to present a dialog, then directly accessing the files, the program calls the OS to present a PowerBox to the user, and it returns capabilities to files or folders, the program has NO access to any other folders or files. No matter how confused or rogue the editor can not corrupt anything outside of the objects specifically chosen by the user.
I have a move to the East Bay area planned in next 6-8 months or so, if you can hold out for that long haha.
>Drug use isn't associated with crime and filth until we make it so via harsh city policies.

In an ideal world, sure.
You can't establish causality here for sure but correlation, definitely.
I would expect managers to be pleased that it's more difficult to network and leave them for a better manager.
Is that from the hospital side or the insurer side?
I know people miss SF as it was before the boom, but can it actually readjust to substantially less tax revenue with the city government + responsibilities it has now?

From what I read about Detroit, once businesses started shrinking or leaving the tax base shrank.

The city was unable to cut down on services and spending, so it raised taxes on everyone remaining and the squeeze of more tax and worse QoL made people leave even faster.

I'd love to hear if anyone has examples of a city's tax revenue shrinking at least ~20% in a couple years where the city correctly adjusts their services and scope to match, without facing some runaway decline or lost decade.

Open to discussion on this.

EDIT:

Thinking aloud, maybe the people leaving Detroit due to loss of services/QoL were simply in the parts that Detroit was abandoning to make ends meet?
The same the average user gains from having 10 manufacturers to choose from when buying standardized USB connectors.
I have the “Primer of Algol 60 Programming” by Dijkstra. It was created ten years before K&R, so of course it doesn’t start with “Hello World.” But that fact surprised me a little the first time I read it.
I replied in a different comment that I landed on the community page.

But I have to say, arguing that the downloads buttons on keepass are more friction than "get started" (I don't see a app store link) which takes me to the business offer and then the family offer where I have to register an account and provide payment details, is a bit of a stretch. And bitwarden is very similar.

Sure I can search on the playstore, but then I also find keepass quite easily there.
I hope this is wrong but this feels right. AR could be the next personal paradigm but still too many engineering constraints.
A 4" or 6" hole won't be a problem. In fact, if you go to any commercial project you will probably find more than a few holes that shouldn't have been drilled because there was an over eager mechanical employee or someone who could not read plans properly. Those holes are often just covered up.
>> Ship an entire physical PC to the user pre-loaded with the application?

Believe it or not, I've done this, and I have to maintain a small fleet of them now. The software in question functions as a server/database for a mobile app that's only used by employees on a given job site. It was deployed before Docker was a thing.
This perspective only makes sense of you assume that designing a scalable system requires MORE work. My experience is that designing a scalable system requires LESS work if you and your team have the right skillset.

In most cases, I can build a scalable system faster than I can build a non-scalable one with the same feature set.

It would make no sense for me to implement the lesser alternative if it requires the same or more work.
The windows in a 50-story skyscraper are not very useful for escape.
> AppleScript is a HORRIBLE language.

Agreed.

> But it never worked that well in reality.

Disagreed. As bad as the AppleScript syntax is, it’s the only way to automate certain things in macOS and it generally does it competently. Plus it has an Objective-C bridge, allowing you to run lower-level commands from a scripting language.¹

> with all big and important apps being Electron

Chromium itself (and all major browsers derived from it) has a fantastic AppleScript dictionary which is even better than Safari’s.² Firefox is the single major browser without AppleScript support. Plenty of apps still include an AppleScript dictionary and Electron has an open issue for it.³

> I never knew that it works with JavaScript.

It was added in Yosemite.⁴ It’s not perfect and has some bugs compared to AppleScript, but it also makes other things significantly easier or possible, such as dealing with JSON.

¹ Technically one can use Swift as a scripting language too, but it requires installing the Developer Tools.

² Quick example: one can’t open a new private Safari window via AppleScript, except by scripting the GUI.

³ https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/4418

⁴ https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/Int...
Long term we'd want to manufacture methane there, in the meantime people have drafted missions that just bring extra hydrogen to Mars and combine it with carbon on-site.
More browser engines does not imply standardization.

Would you prefer the 2000s when you had your choice of dozens of power connectors for cell phones?

There’s a reason the EU is mandating USB-C. Corporations have no reason and historically will not standardize amongst themselves for most things unless there’s a single winner.
I would ignore and if it bugs you that much switch teams or companies.

Joke here: its times like these where I would ask myself, what would jesus do?
I'm not sure what format they store their records in, but I have a hunch it's a lot more structured than what we see in the CSV files. The data dumps have to comply with some CMS guidelines set out here: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide
This one weird trick?
What's a good, trustworthy KeepassXC iOS client w/ FaceID unlock?
It should be doable to take each floor and put a kitchen / bathrooms / storage in the middle with living space around the exterior windows with connecting hallways. On larger buildings split it in half or quarters (the only issue then becomes stair access, which is often along the edge of a building and would need a hallway from a central elevator). You might have some odd bedroom arrangements with long narrow rooms to get some outside light in each, but I don't think its unworkable.
We're 2.5 years into the big, unplanned WFH experiment. I would think all of the in-person benefits you mention would be visibly expiring by now. Are they? I'm sure in some cases they definitely are, but industry-wide I would think we'd see more clear evidence by now if that was the case.
> and now in the early months leading into the absolute winter of hell for hundreds of millions in Europe they decide to use this kind of rhetoric at the podium

You're referring to natural gas shortages? If you used the natural gas in europe to generate electricity instead of heat, it would go 3.6x farther with heat pumps. So your rhetoric really seems to ring hollow.
Yea, people love blaming (elected) city officials but NIMBYism and "Housing is an investment that should only go up in price" will eventually kill any market.
I actually used to use KeePassXC and have my (encrypted) password file sync'd through Dropbox, but their Android client changed to no support a way to have the file stored offline but also automatically sync changes, so I ended up swapping to Bitwarden. In the past I had used Nextcloud instead of Dropbox, so that would probably be one of my first ideas if I did end up deciding to stop using bitwarden.
It's definitely overbuilt and many areas are not built on solid ground.
I'm finding it hard to give you the benefit of the doubt because it really sounds like you're advocating for a Google monopoly, which doesn't help anyone. Sure having a bunch of different battery types is annoying but in that case either you should find a brand you trust and stick with them, or brands have fragmentation within themselves which is a different issue altogether. The "fragmentation" you're talking about here is competition though, there isn't really any downside to having a bunch of different popular browsers and the upside is that none of them get to do anything crazy knowing there's no serious alternative so you can't leave. Google is already invasive of privacy, I can only imagine it'd be even worse if they didn't feel like there was significant risk of people switching browsers because nothing else was popular.