skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People downvote it because the base premise is not true.

The claim isn’t “there aren’t large drug problems I. California/Oregon” which is what you are correctly stating is true, the claim is “drug problems are not the primary driver of homelessness, housing costs are”.

Saying “California and Oregon have effectively legalized drugs so that’s why there is homelessness” just isn’t an accurate statement. As noted in other parts of the thread, people who use drugs will happily rent a place of it is cheap.

Now is it a contributing factor? Probably a minor one, yes. But the primary driver of the size of the homeless population is housing costs, and for the unsheltered population it’s definitely weather. New York actually has a very sizeable homeless population, the difference with California is that people are much more likely to be living in shelters there.
There are any number of difficult ways to give people somewhere to live that we're not doing. I would assume the reason to mention converting commercial property into residential is because the person suggesting this (usually wrongly) thinks it is easy.
Why? This leads to optimal results assuming high quality laws that put a price on externalities and make sure markets are competitive.

These assumptions are approximately correct, so maximizing shareholder value is approximately optimal. It maximizes prosperity.

It's better to create more value than less value all things being equal. If you put it this way, it's obvious.
DCSS feels like it's been taken over by people who've played the game too many times, steadily working to refocus the gameplay to cater to minimizing the tedium of having completed the game many times.
This is such a key realization.

The way we make large accomplishments is through a long series of small steps. How do you eat an elephant, and all that.

One of my favorite moments in a large project is at the end, when I'm looking at the completed project as a whole. It looks huge and enormously complicated and I can barely believe that it was me that did it.
I'm an American living in France. I get panicked messages from family all the time about this. It's incredible how much American media overstated the gravity of protests in France. Protests happen every weekend. Always registered with the police. But you often have "spoilers" who are just kids looking to break things. In rare cases, it's actually real protesters. And even then, the scope of the "rioting" is limited to one or two blocks maximum.

All the storefronts have insurance so any visible damage is quickly repaired.

I have never seen a riot in Paris and I've been here since 2020. Nor does it interfere with the lives of anyone I know here.
The old defunct Gentoo docs from mid-late 2000s :(
They're just telling you how LLMs work. Anyone can understand the underlying algorithm with a bit of study. It's trivial.

Nobody is understanding the high level emergent effects of LLMs plus training. What the ML scientists say has as much credibility as a lay person in this regard.
That flag also has the equivalent, non-insulting alias "--safe-updates", presumably for that very reason.
Oh yeah I agree with that. I think the conscious access is primarily important for self-training. So I would expect somebody with conscious access to 1. be better at vocalizing, 2. almost never actually need to use their access to correct a decision.

I tend to think of consciousness as the "debug mode" of the brain.
> traffic jams do suck

Or put more succinctly, you agree cars suck. Some of us just go one car further.
Would you want to live in that?
Give Elm a shot.

We haven't had a breaking change to the current version since August 2018: https://github.com/elm/compiler/tags In fact, the single most frequent criticism of our community is, "Is Elm dead? It hasn't been updated in years". The truth of the matter is that it's not dead; it's just really stable.

Everything still works. You can use a bundler, like Vite or Parcel, but you don't really have to. You can use whatever Javascript library you like, through ports or web components, but again: you don't really have to, unless you need to do interop with another service (i.e., Google reCAPTCHA or Stripe) - and in that case, you're at their mercy regardless of whether you're building your application in Elm, or in something else.

Compared to the rest of the JS ecosystem, we have virtually zero dependencies on outside tools or infra, other than Github; but if Github "goes away", I'd be willing to bet that the rest of the Javascript ecosystem would be in a lot of trouble, too.

We are a small but passionate developer community. Enough of us - myself included - do this full time for it to feel like it's a safe bet and that it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Join us. https://elmlang.slack.com/
>It's written in C

I find it hard to believe that the rest of your network stack isn't.

The threat model point is very valid, and a big issue with gaming servers in general.
Ugh that’s one of the worst parts of go too. Stackless errors are so useless and hard to debug.
I've heard it my entire working life, from coworkers at every step of the chain. Engineer wants to build something they think will be good & useful & help the company, and someone backhands them with "how will this make us/the company money?", sometimes followed up with "we're here to make money".

It may not be the exact same statement, but it's very close in spirit. This should be beside the point; we should do things that are good because we can, not just because they make us money, but I usually tend to see there being a ton of potential for the engineer's idea to help make money.
Risk involves, well, risk. If commercial real estate is too big to fail, and provides better returns than bonds, then it seems like we've broken something.
This is a new one. What do you think pensions are?

So your hot take is that retired government employees, union laborers and other beneficiaries of pensions deserve to have their contribution to the pension and their retirement income zero'd out just because you don't get some of the money?
Kiwi can run ubo and pretty much any chrome extension.
> "solid-js": "/node_modules/solid-js/dist/solid.js",

Wouldn't this require node_modules to be publicly accessible?
It really sounds like there’s no evidence that will shift you off of your set opinions on this tbh.
I can't fathom why a company would write code in a language that most of its developers aren't at least somewhat experienced in.

If you're writing a program in Rust, hire Rust devs or invest heavily in educating the devs you do have first.
May I ask if you've tried other roguelikes over the years?

Caves of Qud is, imo, a particularly exemplary entry into the genre. Its a different approach with a very unique setting and evocative way of story telling. Its just plain...weird.
It's probably not useful to think about car-only infrastructure here in this context as an "either or" scenario or something to empathize with "if only we saw how it felt to be a car owner" for a couple of reasons but primarily because there isn't anything to empathize with since the vast majority of Americans either commute via car now or have in the past, or use a car for all of their daily activities.

> Do you feel the same way about your home? Your day's itinerary will inevitably have to see you return there, too.

This doesn't make any sense and misses the point that was made.
Also Kotlin: `when` or `with...when` for more complex matches
Similarly the trump admin/campaign deleting texts to hide from Mueller (Stone, Flynn, Bannon, etc.)

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/454580-mueller-...
> 10 years ago there was a new Python web framework every month.

That doesn't fit my recollection. Only Django and Flask had much mindshare.

> Now that space is pretty much stable (dead).

Do you mean stable or dead?
Those with licenses hate driving but do it (sparingly) through necessity. Those without licenses still had permits at some point, but found driving stressful enough that they never bothered to get a license.
I lived very close to my work for a period and tried bike commuting. I don't disagree with the benefits of doing it, but it's not very realistic for most people in most places.

I was having a hard time NOT getting sweaty on my ride into work because humidity is the highest in the morning. And when I wasnt sweating I was getting rained on, or my hands were freezing, or I got chain grease on my pants.
I picked Crystal so I didn't have to choose.
(not a fan of US gun laws)

Not necessarily. I think just carrying a weapon might make the other party more likely to cooperate. Even if you don't take it out.
I'm sure many would consider where I grew up low density. It was just underdeveloped suburban section of a town of 110K people.

I'm sure when everything is in walking distance, that the costs to store a vehicle becomes unmaintainable, and largely unneeded. But for a large swath of American's living outside of the major metros in the north, having a car is just a way of life.
> "destructive" audio editor

I clicked your link, but I'm still unsure what that means. Does that mean it operates on the audio file directly? Or that it has no undo functionality? Or something else entirely?
Since safety was the first reason given for using rust, I'll just point out:

There are other safe languages.

I think it's a really useful thing to have from day one, but it doesn't particularly point you to rust.

Also, performance is really about learning what your bottle-necks are, profiling them and optimizing them. You probably have no idea what those are when you start, so it's not really the right time to try to solve it. (There's a decent chance, e.g., that your inner loops won't even be in code you write, like the database.) Probably the best thing you can do for long-term performance up-front is to try to stay flexible, and try to keep your architecture simple.
I totally forgot about not having Bootcamp or ARM Windows on the M series Macbooks

I suggest you all totally forget about it too
Kotlin/C# backend. React (TS) frontend
That assumes that the tourists and visitors confine themselves to the major tourist areas. If you bother to cycle outside the major tourist areas of the Netherlands, whether to minor cities or villages, you'll still notice many people cycling for local journeys.

The mistake is people used to car dependence being unable to imagine any alternative, thus refusing to believe that it can be true.
In the US, no one in the top 40% has to worry about the costs of car ownership.

The richest 1% of Americans are much richer than worrying about the costs of cars, certainly, but the median American income is just very high relative to the cost of car ownership.
I've done so many coding challenges for positions that were frozen or killed. It is very predictable at this point.

The reason I don't consider them rejection excuses is because the third party recruiter had other candidates in the pipeline and insight into additional people being interviewed for the role, and they all are not in the process.
Both excellent games.
Glasgow and Edinburgh are fine for public transport.
Ford v. Dodge had antitrust complexities to it, and there's been substantial jurisprudence since then.

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html

> While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so. For-profit corporations, with ownership approval, support a wide variety of charitable causes, and it is not at all uncommon for such corporations to further humanitarian and other altruistic objectives. Many examples come readily to mind. So long as its owners agree, a for-profit corporation may take costly pollution-control and energy-conservation measures that go beyond what the law requires. A for-profit corporation that operates facilities in other countries may exceed the requirements of local law regarding working conditions and benefits. If for-profit corporations may pursue such worthy objectives, there is no apparent reason why they may not further religious objectives as well.
https://www.mhtlegal.com/blog/2021/september/ceo-must-uphold...

CEO and board has a fiduciary duty to act in the company's best interest, which means the shareholders best interests.
> Why would you need extra car insurance? Is your car insurance not valid for all of Europe?

Check the wording of your car insurance policy. I doubt regular car insurance covers moving abroad without telling them. Oh, and the vehicle registration isn't going to be valid either[0].

Let's say our hypothetical person has a car accident, a serious one, where the police get involved.

She was driving her (say) Swedish car, with [technically invalid] Swedish insurance, with [technically invalid] Swedish registration and number plates, they ask her for her ID, she shows her Swedish ID card [can't show a residency permit, she chose not to get one].

One big hole she digs herself if she starts lying to the police. A different hole, but a hole nevertheless, if she tells the truth.

> I'm not saying anybody SHOULD do this [..]

Quite

> but there are some people who definitely COULD.

(Not wishing to sound too old and grumpy) but there might just be a whiff of this sounding like it's the story of young privileged well-off types who can't be bothered to follow rules everyone else has to, thinking it doesn't apply to them, and expecting to get away with it when things go wrong? :)

[0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/...
There are a number of different algorithms that people use. You're right about the algorithms that use several images. They may not be making up anything. But there are others that do their best guess and they might be said to be making things up.
I've been following this issue for decades and early on a lot of it was supposed to be around body image issues. It was claimed that men had these impossible beauty standards and womens issues were largely due to not living up to them. Then the internet became popular and it became possible to quantify the gender of people making these body shaming comments, turns out it's mostly other women. Online dating further proved that men are attracted to all sorts of women and while a specific man may have certain things he prefers, men in general are very forgiving, in fact it turns out women are the ones with impossible standards, they all chase after the same 1% of men.

Then there was the wage gap stuff, it was popular for a while, and as that was looked into we found women make different choices at work, they take more sick days, go on more vacations and work less overtime, not to mention they tend to choose less demanding jobs in the first place.

So now it's this undefinable and unfalsifiable "patriarchy", this new one doesn't really make specific claims but rest assured men are the source of all the worlds problems.
> There are very few ways good ways to handle those problems correctly, which is why this "everything may kill your program" approach is often criticised.

In Erlang, "everything may kill your program" is typical method of operation, and there should always be some kind of path to reset your state from known good values.
Then what do I do?

I make software to help people solve a problem. It's not meant to be an art piece on display, and it's also not intending to influence them in any way. It's just meant to help them accomplish a task they were already doing, preferably without altering the way they do it.

I guess I do neither art nor design, but engineering.
That is why PHP eventually got a JIT, initially thanks to Facebook experiments compiling to C++, and later the JIT proving being capable to generate similar performance.

The problem was exactly that overused, without JIT/AOT in the box, with many people shying away from writing native extensions, instead adding more boxes.

The difference between doing JavaScript in node with native extensions in 2023, and Perl/TCL with native extensions in 2000, is exactly that, a JIT.
I have a wealthy friend who has made most of his money in real estate. His rule is that he makes all the money he is going to make on the day of purchase. That is, he only purchases properties being sold for less than they will be worth in the near future. That is, his profit comes out of the pocket of the current owner. (Which could be a bank after repo or even a construction firm that didn't get paid by the previous developer.)

Who will "pay" for making formerly useful property useful again? In a free market, that would be the current owners of that property, and that is what should happen here. No one cries for the rich investors who own commercial real estate in big cities.
Yup I’m obviously not talking about the full range of trans experiences here, but most of the people I’ve heard anecdotes so far have done some kind of medical decision (usually hormonal therapy) because of gender dystopia. I was just saying that in general trans people would be the ones who would understand the physical/biological mechanics of gender in its full capacity.
The secret sauce of TikTok’s recommendations
Might be TMI, but I get my sperm tested frequently (partly because of this problem), and will say there is a lot of variability in my samples.

A standard deviation of 48.29 for total motile, and a very low positive correlation with abstinence period (R^2 of 0.082). There isn’t a discernible pattern over time yet (I’m expecting as I age for my average to decrease but I haven’t seen that yet), and I haven’t made any significant diet changes. I think my hydration level is important but I haven’t tracked that in conjunction with my tests. Also because it takes 74 days [1] for spermatogenesis, any change you make in lifestyle has to be performed for a while before it potentially can affect your sperm.

Alls that to say, I wouldn’t necessarily worry about one test being low. I’ve had some lows that initially worried me when I was first testing, and now it feels within expected variation. Though, the broader macro trend (or potential of a trend) is still concerning, so its worth it to me to keep an eye on it individually

Reference: [1] https://www.givelegacy.com/what-is-sperm/
I just bought a 2007 F-150 and financed it through my credit union with no issues. Granted, it was $6000 so I only financed it because I didn't want to dip into savings, and it's pretty hard to find a manual transmission pickup in that price range that's clean with below 130k miles.
What is the other option?

You can sell your stocks to someone else. The company doesn't have to be the one to buy it.

Also, remember, investments do come with risk.
> For a 'solution', you have to build a lot of it.

This is true even in the 'managed' k8s world (like EKS). They'll automatically configure EBS storage for you, but that's not sufficient for non-trivial workloads. Same with networking, logging, or metrics. I like that EKS means I don't have to worry about etcd backups and restores, but it's not a production ready platform by any stretch.
I constantly fall into the trap of writing for others. It's so easy to forget I'm mostly writing for my own interest or to find out what I think about something. The act of publishing is a simple desire to share my journey with others (and hopefully engage them in conversation so I might learn from them as well).

Last year a friend shared a quote with me: "Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going." (William Zinsser, On Writing Well)

Or if you'd like a more esoteric source, how about the Tao Te Ching: "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." (Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation)
Do you not think Science needs oversight and agreement from society on what is acceptable or not?

Don't get me wrong this agreement from society is not always balanced, correct and often Science has to disagree and argue the point, but this oversight must still exist, surely?
Electric boat goes airborne for cleaner ocean voyage
It’s another example of “the tragedy of the commons”. Each individual actor is acting in their own short-term interest, at the expense of everybody’s long term interest.
I suppose you could always laser etch your bits on gold film and store it in a secure container. There are some products out there like the M disk that claim to last up to 1,000 years, but typical consumer storage media are only expected to last a few decades under optimal conditions.

https://www.mdisc.com/
Overhyped and never delivered: A brief history of innovations that weren’t
Would it be correct to say that you feel gravity/weight because the ground is accelerating upwards in your local reference frame, and your body's inertia resists that acceleration?
It moves most/all of the complexity on ops side. or in "whatever automation thingy you use to deploy it". Yes, easy on dev, but compared to "just docker" or "a VM with some systemd service running your app" it is hideously complex
Taking cars off the roads means more space for the people who do need the roads. Few people are saying get rid of cars entirely, they have important uses. The roads already exist, tearing them out would be stupid. But we shouldn’t design our cities around them and require everyone have one. This has advantages for those who need to drive, reducing traffic.
Immunity acquired from a Covid infection as protective as vaccination
Probably didn't think of it. If you were using Audacium it's because you were looking for Audacity forks in general, so you would already know about Tenacity too.
I do not quite get the theoretical basis of the idea that shareholder value should be maximized. I mean, in order to maximize shareholder value, you need to pay a going rate to other factors of production anyway. If you pay too little wages, you do not maximize shareholder value etc. But if we maximized for say taxes or paid salaries in the long term, we would obviously need to pay going rate for capital, otherwise we would not maximize the taxes/salaries in the long term. So, what it is and why that makes maximizing shareholder value over other stakeholders? Before you answer, do remeber that if you do not pay going rate for capital, you are not maximizing anything else, either.

Okay, I have one theory. There kind of exists a measure for long term shareholder value, i.e. stock price. That would make it superior to other stakeholders because you can judge management on a relatively objective measure. Would make, if it did not have so abysmally bad signal to noise ratio that I find it hard to believe anyone seriously thinks that is the reason why shareholder value is superiour.
A Nemesis in the Sky
I'm more and more convinced that parliament or congress by lottery would be more representative and functional as well as the death of all political parties as they exist today.
For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a USA Forest
I usually use half Grannie Smith and half something more aromatic in a pie. The Grannie provides firmness and tartness and the other varieties provide more appleiness. I control the sweetness with how much sugar I add, usually using less than the recipes call for.
I don't get it. I have nonidea what this is about, and i watched over 10 minutes
Wow this thread has made me feel like ChatGPT today, I'm probably making as many mistakes also.
Well, thinking of gravity as a force is Newtonian mechanics, which was also not available to da Vinci.
Everything you said just further supports my statement of "save your money".
Buy a cheap used car (but cheap over 5+ years, so get a reliable one). Rent a cheap apartment (mine is $1100/mo and is very nice).
> The old codebase is known as Fennec

Note: So is the F-Droid build of the new codebase[1].

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
Ahh yes the "we'll rewrite this code from scratch" argument; known well to work every time!