skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spring WebClient pseudo streaming interface is atrocious. Java has switch expression with pattern matching, but no, they had to create something completely perpendicular to the language. "Hey, let's reinvent a wheel, but it will be our better wheel" - and now we have a square egg.
It's called the Middle East and North Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA

Plenty of geopolitical organizations like the World Bank recognize it as a region: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/mena
“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

Other developers keep trying to persuade me to use multiple monitors (I have a laptop - I can't be bothered plugging it in every day, and I'm used to switching between windows with the keyboard). I struggle to explain to them that, even if I was less 'efficient', that time I 'lose' is not wasted - It's thinking time.
> a state where the military and "a select group" of unelected civilians—reportedly known to Algerians as "le pouvoir" ("the power")

Reminds me of a hybrid between the Roman monarchy (king elected by a select group, i.e. the Senate) and Spartan Gerousia [1]. (Executive councils of lifetime appointments are unexplored in modern democracy. For cultures without an inbuilt paranoia of tyranny, it might be a better fit than a Presidential or Parliamentary system.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_Constitution
While people with strong desires are stymied, I wouldn't trust any of those systems against a motivated nation-state.
> Taking credit for work that is not your own is unethical.

Almost hilarious that ChatGPT doesn't give citations or give credit to anything it writes, despite its entire knowledge being derived from us.
Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)
Why haven’t we heard about this more widely?
Just before collapse: https://v.redd.it/735so0hxre5b1
Are you afraid to go out because you might get struck by lightning?
I already was paying. As mentioned in my comment, $5.99 a month.
Indeed, the idea that we shouldn't criminalize drugs because of some ludicrous personal autonomy argument is silly. It rests on a kind of extreme, libertarian view of human beings and human society in which human beings are construed as atomic, self-sufficient beings shouldering the entire burden of responsibility for their actions (we ARE responsible, but those who encourage or enable bad behavior share responsibility) and society is construed as some kind of purely voluntary association of atomic beings for transactional exchanges. Classical liberal view, extremely anti-social and anti-human. Human beings are social animals. Harming oneself harms society, and harming society harms its members. Society exists for the sake of the common good, and it isn't good to enable or allow drug use.
> Originally you were saying those people simply don’t exist.

Sorry, when I said "if you're poor, you probably aren't driving in Manhattan in the first place," I didn't mean to imply that zero low-income people drive private vehicles there. However, I do believe that the population of drivers in Manhattan is overwhelmingly higher income.

Separately, I believe that the vast majority of private vehicles should be banned in Manhattan anyway (which is what I meant by "if you are driving in Manhattan, you should probably stop doing that). If I was God Emperor of New York, I would close 4/5 streets in Manhattan to vehicles, and restrict the remaining streets to commercial trucks, busses, taxis, ambulances, and individuals who can park in handicapped parking spots. This would ensure that those who actually do need to drive can do so efficiently.

If congestion pricing gets us partway there, that's a huge win in my eyes.

> But even if we ignore this, by induced demand, open streets will simply invite more traffic.

Great, then NYC can raise the price. They should keep raising the price until the roads are clear. Then they should give that money to the MTA to improve public transit, and further tip the scales against driving.
Parent comment mentioned “military state” which should be more than enough to satisfy your desire for enlightenment on the difference between western democracies and totalitarian regimes.
Actually, the closest natural viruses to covid were sent to Wuhan for study. I mean, that is what the Wuhan institute of coronaviruses was built to do right?

The indirect evidence of a lab leak theory is overwhelming frankly. And it doesn't require any malice. No one credible is saying china intentionally released the virus or built it with the intention of building a weapon.

Gain of function research is real, scientists intentionally make viruses which could start a pandemic. They do this for the purposes of knowledge and preparedness for the inevitable natural spillover events that will happen. It isn't nefarious.

But it is risky, and there many people now and before who thought it was a practice that should be curtailed because of the risk.
use what you know, it is always fastest.

but if you want to keep it even simpler just use sveltekit and tailwind, and put the build output on a CDN. lets you do SSR or not, just html + js/ts (you pick) + css. simple and easy.
My god that is so much better.
Education for the Age of AI: The Answer to Generative AI Is Pedagogy Not Policy
It's already back in India. Flew out on June 10.
Navigating South Korea’s Plan for Preemption
Sure. Why should Reddit profit off of my content?
Right, but aside from head tracking and asynchronous timewarp, one of the main innovations oculus brought to the table was the extremely high FOV of 106°.

If FOV at that resolution is a normal book, like 5-10° it's on par with like, a Kindle.
Based on my reading of the article, they _also_ allow that; they call that behavior "muting" and distinguish it from "blocking".
> silently passing something as "non mut" and it actually does "mut" stuff

No, it's the opposite that's happening here: a mutable borrow of the vector is made, and then a non-mutable thing is done with it (getting the length), before finally mutating it (pushing).
> There's plenty of alcohol, weed, cocaine, and hallucinogens, I'll give you that, but they're not gateways to opioid addiction.

This is only partially accurate. There are two primary "pipelines" to opioid addiction; one of them is overreliance on painkillers, but the other one is fairly standard risk-seeking escalation through a socially deleterious lifestyle, often culminating in an OD or a prison sentence after a predictable years-long risk escalation path through social drug use.

I will agree that I don't think there's a lot of media showing meth or fentanyl use as cool and attractive, but my overall point is less that a specific drug needs to be shown to be cool, and more that the artistic construction of the drug lifestyle as alternative, exciting, rebellious etc. wears down the emotional barriers of a lot of people when they're young and malleable. I've done a good number of drugs in my day and I can assure you that in the case of most of the people I did drugs with, early exposure to "drugs are cool" art and music played a part in their ready acceptance of the lifestyle.

As one example, if you go to a high school party, often the riskiest, coolest kids will go off in private and do drugs. There's no feedback loop in the media to make this look pathetic or sketchy--on the contrary, most drug use is played for laughs, or it's added as another dimension to a lifestyle that's supposed to be tragic but instead looks awesome. "Oh my god, look at this guy's life, he's a mess, his apartment is so dirty, he's doing lines off the mirror... with a smoking hot supermodel-actress while we do a B-plot story about how his small-town parents are boring and stodgy... and he's a rock star..."

I don't really know whether or not you could seriously reduce drug use by not showing it in the media, but I do believe that showing it as positively as it is now increases drug use. And I haven't even mentioned the music surrounding drugs.
Not if you use MozJPEG and a decent PNG compressor, like ECT, OxiPNG, PNGCrush, etc.

Time and time again an article pops up showing how marginal the difference is, if at all.
The borrow checker was made for correctness, not correctness for the borrow checker.

You have ownership of a Vec, you get its length, then you push to it through a mutable reference; nothing evil happens here except the order of the statements (which is an implementation detail that people might not think about when writing the short form x.push(x.len())). The code above is perfectly safe if written in C, which is why the borrow checker was extended to also allow it in Rust. You could make the argument that simpler borrow checker rules lead to a simpler mental model. The counterargument (that won in the end) is that "if it's safe, the borrow checker allows it" is a mental model worth pursuing.
I am no biologist, but I recall the taste being like the aftertaste you get after you drink blood
Megawatt electric motor designed by MIT engineers could help electrify aviation
> no exam high stakes enough anywhere

Of course there are. They're manufactured bottlenecks with irrevocable and life-changing consequences. But that doesn't make them less real.
> Engagement is a power curve. Most content is created by a small subset of users.

This is it, and it's the same with Twitter. At some number of connection in the social graph, or some amount of content produced, a user becomes more valuable than the ad money they could bring in. i.e. the opportunity cost flips, and it's worth giving up the ad revenue or API usage in order to keep them. To use an extreme, if a Kardashian said they were leaving Twitter, it would obviously be worth a lot of money to keep them on the platform. But my guess is that the percentage of users bringing more value than their ad revenue is closer to 1 in a 100 than 1 in a million.

As you said this then plays into the third party client issue directly, because those users are almost by definition power users, and power users get so much value out of third party clients with micro optimisations for their use-cases.

The problem is that this feels so obvious that I can't believe Reddit (or Twitter) don't have a measure of this internally, and I don't know why they wouldn't be optimising for it. My only conclusion is that it's too much nuance for a Musk-driven product team to handle, and that Reddit are shit-scared that they're going to collapse before IPO'ing and can't make rational decisions.
I find this very odd too.

If I search google and it gives me an instant answer at the top (which is some snippet of an actual site or article)...

It feels like I should cite google as the source for that info if I follow the same guidelines as we are discussing here.
Coastal biomedical labs bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability
> I do a lot of serialisation. You have no idea how much I'd love to be able to just to `data.set("thing", this.valueEnum?.name())` instead of having to do `data.set("thing", this.valueEnum == null ? null : this.valueEnum.name())`.

You may be already familiar with this, but mapstruct is a godsend package that easily beats any kind of optional chaining.
Could one 2020s guided missile cruiser defeat the Japanese armada at Midway?
Twitter and Reddit are messageboards. Like Hacker News. Every time they do something controversial, someone thinks Usenet needs to be reincarnated.

Trying to monetize that at scale is hardddd.

Facebook has got groups, yes. But they have instagram. Messenger. Whatsapp. They have my friends and family. They have my photos going back 10 years. Facebook is personal to many people.

I don't see Twitter and Facebook being interchangeable.
They have to pay developers, designers, product managers, which means also hiring a management tier. Those teams will feel the need to grow even if they could get by without.

As a community effort you find need to fund the dev costs, even if you do find some money to donate in that direction.
The story was written by Ted, who due to his shitty brain by "going North" he meant NOT rejecting technology and switching to being "hunter and gatherers" (which I practice would mean hunting only other humans and living on canibalism)
I know, not your fault, I’m just throwing a hail-mary in case they see it. It’s sooo frustrating. Once you leave and come back it doesn’t show. So obviously they are storing state on it and pushing it in your face when the MarTech gods deem it appropriate.

Good write up though and appreciate the KotH meme.
If reddit needs to capture every hundred-thousand dollar niche, there is no room for any ecosystem whatsoever. That's a choice they can make, but it might not go the way they want in the long run.
When did they start calling it Apple Clang? It was Apple LLVM Compiler for the longest time.
> Zhou Yusen "fell" off the roof of the WIV in May 2020

I mean, this is a pretty significant and concerning new finding right? Someone associated with the lab researching COVID early on just mysteriously disappearing
in China?
Might be worth mentioning that the algerians voted for the islamists in the early 90s which lead to a civil war and to the current semi-democratic regime.
The comment you are responding to might have been updated, but this region is called MENA and a link to Wikipedia is even included. It's a well-known concept.
Correction, the empty iterator example should have been `assert 5 not in numbers`, or another expression that exhausts the generator.

And to everyone saying that the behaviors are correct because of scoping rules, or iteration protocol: I know. Those are not compiler bugs, but bad design decisions. Every example here has a more intuitive behavior in another language.
Okay so 10%, assuming one million unit roughly, of what the likes of Toyota, VW and others build every single year across their models.
> the problem was that the wealthy were buying the housing, rather that only the wealthy could buy the housing

Those are actually the same problem. The wealthy can buy housing faster, more decisively than the less wealthy. They may also push out the less wealthy, simply by offering them an above market price. And as the wealthy start to buy up housing in an area, the prices start to go up, and soon become high enough that only the wealthy can buy.
Techcrunch made a mistake with their headline, this is not a VR headset.
While the imperial aggressor plays a big role, we have to also recognize that their power requires them to have strong allies within the controlled area. This is an important factor because these people are local and you have more ability hold them accountable than peoples much further away (and likely from a stronger military power). It is also important because once independence is obtained, you need to ask if these same people are the ones who captured the power of the country. If so, is it all that different? (depends)

People aren't trying to shift blame from the imperial aggressor so much as recognizing that imperial aggressors aren't exclusively foreign entities.
Why not htmx? If your front-end is truly a front-end and there’s not a lot of state needed in the FE, htmx.org might be a great fit.
Too much Chomsky, not enough Rorty.
> Eh, even if we can agree on it being fair I still don't see anything wrong with what Reddit is trying to do. While the profit might be minuscule compared to what Reddit is looking for, its still currently more than reddit is making.

Reddit has also expanded its staff count (and therefore costs) dramatically to chase new product areas and has seen big jumps in revenue. They’ve clearly been chasing growth in revenue and user numbers over profit. It doesn’t meant they couldn’t be profitable based on what they have.

> I don't think a person using a third party app necessarily implies they are a power user or better at moderation. Hell, in the beginning reddit didn't even have a mobile app and the only options were third party apps.

Not every user of a third party app is a power user, but power users and mods are almost certainly using third party apps & tools. The shutdown statements made by so many sub moderators back that up.

> Hmm, I wonder how they can provide that with such low developer counts - maybe because Reddit as a service is subsidizing the majority of the value the third party apps are capturing.

That doesn’t make any sense. They’re not replacing the platform, they’re just an interface to it. The better point of comparison is to the official Reddit apps, which are much worse in almost every way than the third party equivalents despite being built by teams of engineers. They don’t even have proper accessibility.

> It’s entirely within reason for Reddit to want to capture that value instead of giving it away to free to third party apps.

Not if it results in a drop in engagement from power users and moderators, which would in turn result in less content, a worse experience for users, fewer users returning or joining up because of that, and thus less revenue over time.
No they are not. However they do mention that 40,000 people died in car incidents last year.

But the 17 involving a Telsa is where we need to pay attention. LOL
I know that people love to repurpose ikea stuff for various things, but I'm pretty sure you can't use a furniture store to fix a housing crisis.
MP3 is also good enough. Modern compressors are on par with Opus, AAC or whatever is in fashion now. The format is sane, patents have expired, it run everywhere.

It's not worth the trouble.
> Could it be that reddit actually wants the 'strike' to shake up the stagnant subreddit/moderation situation

Not likely. Reddit already controls the r/popular feed which is the default experience and highly influences traffic.
Yeah let's just make every school in the country a faraday cage that sounds simpler
Having worked as a professional pilot for many years… the visuals in this video look… I don’t know, more real than real?

Ad hoc medevac in a caravan is something I’ve done a time or two… this is kind of surreal.

Very cool.
> as long as real estate is an investment

And therein lies the problem.
There's a longer piece that I found as a PDF by searching for words of an excerpt I happened upon. I can't find a page linking to it, but it seems legit. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c03ced75ffd204418037...

Edit: I searched a phrase in the PDF and found this: https://thubtenchodron.org/2017/11/non-harmful-consumption-n...
That you have been able to maintain assuming positive intent with regard to COVID comments for this long is kind of amazing.
Only at Activision Blizzard
Sure, writing bug-free code is not possible for most programmers. The language can reduce the occurrence of bugs.
that bike chain logic reminded me of "freeman on the land" lawyering.
Corruption aspects of it notwithstanding, it's an altogether cleaner solution, because if they are doing this every year cheaters would adapt to rely on local and p2p connections instead.
Source? My concern is that the 3rd party tools will shutdown or stagnate if usage drops to basically just mods. Reddit doesn't support mods, so it's looking grim.
We know about reddark, but is there a list of the subs that are consciously not participating?
This still needs a network effect to get started
Well is the defence budget not the highest percentage spending of the GDP and more than combined of all 10 other top spendings? And military industrial complex is a reality, not just a cynical rhetoric going back to Eisenhower. Oh and the three letter agencies and their mindless spying on average citizen. I think in many ways average citizen not being aware of many of these dysfunctional realities is a far worse case than citizens of places where they know who runs the show.
why are you namecalling?
Idea for a new linter; throw a warning if it sees extreme non-intuitive uses of Python. Given the trajectory of Python improvements over the past few years, this linter may not be far off.
> would make a lot of non-stops not viable

Between America and whom? The only places I'm imagining going nonviable are Central Asia. (China Airlines' New York <> Taipei is a 16-hour flight and doesn't overfly Russia.)
A quasi-automatic approach in many circles, I would say. All the troubles of the world are the fault of the west, because, you know, the rest of the world is somehow incapable of agency...
Does the dishwasher count?

As I sit by my desk now, everyone else in the household already asleep, I listen to the water flowing and splashing and rumbling in the machine under the kitchen counter, and think to myself - except for occasional mechanical clunk, it really does sound like a river, or a sea (depending on what part of the program is running).
Somehow, I lost all my TI 99/4A program cassette tapes and sketches, all materials for the D&D modules I wrote (including a hand-drawn 3D map, inspired by one of the TSR Basic modules), my tabletop RPG game inspired by Car Wars (but you played it on a real map of Portland, USD was the currency, and you could buy your base cars from the exotics ads in the backs of real car magazines, before upgrading with sci-fi/mil equipment using the character sheets), circuit schematics, mechanical and other design sketches, and most of the artifacts from various poorly-conceived child/teen businesses.

I do still have much of my MS-DOS code (including a pre-Web online retail system that I uncreatively named Modem Shopper), but less desire to run any of that.

When I think about what I'd like to work on if I ever hit a startup jackpot or a decade+ as FAANG Staff+, I personally think not about reviving old projects, but doing new things with the influence of past experience. For example, I'd learn more about open hardware, and build more-trustworthy personal computer devices than available today. There's also particular kinds of software that I want to rewrite with a different mindset than dominates recently, to try to show that security updates don't have to be a routine and frequent occurrence.

(Preferably while living within sight and earshot of blue water, like that other HN post today. :)
> I've seen so many boycotts on the internet and the only one that worked was DIGG->Reddit and it worked only because Reddit was ready to take over.

Agree. Reddit had the critical mass and content to absorb Digg.

Unfortunately, I don't see anything out there that is in a similar situation. I looked at kbin / lemmy yesterday and today and it feels like starting over again (content-wise).
I just watched The battle of Algiers it has a take on it, way before all the other more recent good guy wars. Of course we can blame France, but smaller nations are not blameless, apartheid was supported by many good guys.
Position 5?
I usually prefer to be polite but I just had a moment of remembering all of the times that I got censored on Reddit even when I was polite, but had an unpopular opinion.
I don't even want to read the article. Of course America might lose. America is much more likely to win, but the possibility of losing cannot be ruled out. That's the thing about war: you don't know how it will turn out. That's why it's good to try to avoid it.
The thing with Wuhan Institute of Virology is they were particularly studying the spillover risk of SARS-related coronaviruses. The nearest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 are found in Yunnan and Laos. One clear link with Wuhan is the fact Wuhan Institute of Virology sampled both locations.

You can't read much into the early case data that David Relman described as "hopelessly impoverished". There were likely much earlier cases based on excess mortality data (a key reason WHO haven't accepted market origin). Also, there is a clear sampling bias in the cases in the article cited above.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00313-23