skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article paints a pretty gloomy picture:

> The city’s lodging business has been squeezed by crime and other quality-of-life issues that have kept many convention bookers away.

> concerns over public safety are prompting groups and associations to shift their business to markets like Las Vegas

and the links [0], [1] in the article are even worse

> There has been an exodus of retailers and other businesses from the mid-Market Street area of downtown amid rampant public drug use and homelessness.

> “We try to call security, but they are usually busy. So we just let them do what they want.”

[0] https://archive.is/C6FPb
[1] https://archive.is/pG5oN
It is not hard if you use proper libraries. So Take a look into Scala ZIO library, you can solve any concurrency problem with an ease. With the proper toolset which ZIO provides, you can tackle any consurrency problem in typesafe way, and mostly correct if it compiles :)
It would only reduce demand for exported goods if those goods are priced in local currency and the exporter doesn't (or can't) reduce their prices.
> The breaking up of monopolies used to be in the toolbox of American antitrust policies, back when America enforced antitrust legislation on its own companies.

The US Justice Department sued Google in 2020 and is asking for pretty much the same disinvestment for pretty much the same reasons. The EU is trailing the US by two years here.

I'm eagerly awaiting the trove of patriotic comments which will undoubtedly follow the posting of such an article and will most likely entirely miss the point as usual.
"INCREASED FUNCTIONAL BRAIN CONNECTIVITY" sounds pretty neat. Instead of debating why the brain is or is not like a computer. Or why you or your sister-in-law's brain is addled by mental illness. Let's frame this optimistically, hopefully. Maybe there's a genius working that study or commenting here. Geniuses think different.

1. geniuses look at problems in many different ways.
2. geniuses make their thoughts visible.
3. geniuses produce.
4. geniuses force relationships.
5. geniuses think metaphorically.

A logical fallacy is not necessarily wrong.
Shareholders perhaps...
It's python 2 to python 3 transition all over again, only this time it's in javascript. Which is most of what the complaints in that gist are — i.e. how much the transitional state that we are in currently sucks.

The rest of his complaints are about how `import`s are static, whereas dynamic `import()`s are async; and he doesn't like that. To which I say, "meh".
Lab mice go wild: making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain
The Psychobiology of Chewing (2016)
Thats one thing I don't understand about hypergamy (dating app data proves it), why would a woman be in a situation in which she is easily the second, third wheel or worse
Also imagine breaking one so called monopoly and giving the market away to Apple

This will no doubt impact things like android etc.
I'm not defending anything that is currently happening. I'm asking what privacy in the past do you think existed?
When Marcus Aurelius' status gets mentioned as a counterpoint to his philosophy, I like to remind people of Epictetus, which, born a slave, arguably lived the very opposite life of Aurelius and still ended up with a similar outlook on life.
We're a heavy AutoDESK using company. BricsCAD is looking more and more tempting. AutoCAD is a slow and heavy dinosaur and the amount of innovation and improvement between versions is honestly atrocious.
There are multiple replies like this one, but it's a bit shocking to see that on Hacker News people don't know the difference between concurrent programming and parallel programming.

Concurrency means that you can have multiple tasks running in the same time period, Parallelism means you have multiple tasks running at the same time.

The most obvious demonstration of this is that you can (and many languages do) have single threaded concurrency.

I did some grad course work in parallel programming and there's really no way to not make it "brutal", because to really do it in a way that increases performance you need to really understand some low-level performance issues.
I take it if you do greedily go from left to right, you end up with different tokenization and the model doesn't work properly because that isn't what it was trained with?

Did the model designers choose this 'difficult' tokenization because it performs better?
Hierarchical vs. Tags vs. – Common Ground?
After seeing the Johnny.Decimal comment section, I have an example I'd like folks' best solution for. This is a real world example, I deal with this a lot.

I'm a musician, and book bands for a venue. So in a normal day, at my day job hiring bands, my hierarchy looks like this:

poster/$date $bands/poster.img

And when I play somewhere, the hierarchy looks like this:

$band/poster/$date $venue/poster.img

For organizational reasons, it'd sure be nice that when I play my venue, there's one poster, and both hierarchies point to it.

I just don't know of any clean solution to that, where branches touch.
The Accused
The case for why our Universe may be a giant neural network
"Creators" are not a single entity. There are tons of very creative people in the fediverse already.

There will be pockets of creativity all over the internet, maybe more in the centralized social media but the decentralized social media might be more attractive to creators who value and understand digital freedom.
I challenge you to provide me a better resource than reddit for finding reliable product reviews and discussions for just about anything you can buy.
Bizarre. What a very California thing to write. What was this person expecting exactly? A red carpet? A personal guide? Gift wrapped tax forms?

And honestly, how is California so much more easy and welcoming? When I tried to move to SF, it felt pretty damn unwelcoming to me with multiple people telling me the city was “full,” even old friends.

News flash, moving to a new country takes curiosity, patience, flexibility and hard work.
Do you have more information on CDC?
Ever since I can recall, I've wanted to write a novel. After a few unsuccessful attempts, about a decade ago I started one and it turned out to be a very long process, especially the editing phase. At one point, I was on the verge of giving up because I was unsure of myself and naturally started having doubts, amidst my solitude. However, I couldn't bear the thought of the lingering regret of not finishing it and the cycle of starting new ones just to complete one. So I persisted, did everything, saw it through to the end, even though I've never really had the courage to show it to others (except a couple of friends and I published the first few pages) - I'm delighted that I did:

I know I've written a novel; I no longer have to start another just to prove to myself that I can finish one.
My writing has tremendously improved and I believe if I decided to write another, it would be significantly better than the first one.
So, in a way, I agree: if you're almost done, persisting to the end could be a good idea, even if it's just to free yourself from obsession.
I worked on AspectJ during a summer internship at Xerox PARC i n 2000. Very interesting, but did not convince me that AOP was a good thing. They had a few good examples (logging was the big one), but added so many advanced features to support other use cases that the code ended up being very hard to understand. Same problem I have with Guice.
Needs (2021)
This is the most American thing i've read in a long while. Seems that she wants a small German town to be a large American town and is shocked that it isnt.
Getting accosted several homeless people in a short stretch feels unsafe, especially to the sort of out of towner who is not inured to it, in a way that driving does not. Both have a very low risk per unit of travel, but in the moment we have no way of qualitatively measuring that risk.

I stayed in SF for a few nights, it was pretty shocking to me the amount of homeless people (euphemism creep: temporarily unhoused) and the various tactics they employed to try and get money. One lady was just screaming at people in a fast food restaurant, I guess she was hoping to get paid in order to go away. This was 20 years ago and I hear the situation has only gotten worse since.

California treating homeless people like sacred cows is eventually going to wreck their inner cities for everyone.
It seems to me a lot of these things are handled more plainly by delegation and composition.
I have such strong nostalgia and latent excitement about the early days of OS X. I was just a teenager in the early 2000s, and as a young Apple nerd with several iMac G3s in the house (my parents are graphic designers; there was a family Mac, and some cast-offs from my high school) I'd get so into upgrading them through the versions and looking at all the cool new stuff and thinking it was so damn clean and futuristic.
Does anyone know if there are any records remaining about TC39's thought process from when they standardized the syntax of the javascript module system?
stated vs revealed preferences
I’ll check it out today. Thanks for supporting RSS!
I disagree. I think this sets a bad precedence. Who's next? Apple? Microsoft?

There needs to be some formal process in which countries can vote/object to these things.

Breaking up Google has ramifications for the entire world. Europe should not abuse this sort of power.

I don't see Europe breaking up Luxottica, LVHM, De Beers Group.
> How quickly would public opinion change if Google decided to just shut off their service in the EU for a day?

Always this same old tune. Do you realize how outlandish and naive it is to even suggest that? Google is fighting tooth and nail to make sure that EU laws are laxist. You know why? Because they know that they will have to comply, in the end. The market is just too big to let go of.

And I don't think you're making the point you think you're making. If a single company can suspend its services and upheave the whole population's life, then it's a ripe for getting antitrust rulings.
Concurrency is not the same as parallelism. You can have single threaded concurrent programs.
this is the kind of pricing i have been looking for. i have a few accounts that are extremely low use because they serve as a backup to other channels, so with the advanced payment model i'd actually even save money over gandi's old pricing.
I'm quite happy with Vue, and the Vue HTTP component loader so I don't have to deal with the build process in Python apps.

I also quite enjoyed Svelte.

I have very little interest in touching the DOM imperatively when a declarative option exists.
Assiming this happened, and it worked as expected, the result would be:

* more ads, as competition drives down prices

* worse ads as cheaper adds don't need to be as relevant but do need to be more eye catching / shocking to compete for attention.

* less money to pay for the services ad revenue cover, so maybe you have to pay for gmail or get more spam etc

People seem to miss that "Competition" is not an ends in itself. Neither is lower prices. Human well-being should be. Under that model, google should be a regulated monopoly with enforced higher ad prices. That would mean better services, and fewer, better ads.

The only counter argument to this is that higher ad costs would mean (slightly) higher product costs. But we already live in that world...
> Intelligence doesn't beget humility.

I completely disagree. Imo, a truly intelligent person understands well that they cannot carry the world upon their shoulders, and from that realization they are humbled.
I used BBEdit for about 10 years. I liked being able to create macros that included multiple grep search/replaces. I think I remember being able to files items from the sidebar straight into a SFTP app instead of opening them in a separate finder window...but that might be a false memory. It was extremely hard for me to leave it behind for SublimeText, but I did...and eventually moved on to VSCodium from there.
Clearly someone who hasn’t read a book lately! They are the physical embodiment of progress bars and badges of achievement once you finish them and put them on your shelf.
Meta are doing that dumb metaverse shit because they see their VR/AR ambitions as allowing them to build their own stable storefront monopoly. Discord also tried to get in on the storefront game, but bailed and are now in ??? mode, spamming users with begging notices for them to subscribe to their premium shit. Note the trend: established social media companies want to get the fuck out of social media.

If all that makes a social media network attractive is that it's new, that doesn't make for a very healthy ecosystem.

As for Reddit, I guess we'll see what happens. It's just a really big internet forum, the alternatives may not be trendy but neither is Reddit at this point. As you say, Discord is growing, maybe it's time for them to hold the bag and proceed to panic.
it would be better if they broke the ad exchange from the rest. a google without the ad revenue doesnt make sense
Well, keep in mind that he was working somewhat odd hours. He would often be leaving work at around 23:00 or later. There are definitely parts of San Francisco where you do not want to be walking even a single block through that late.
The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021)
>EU is “concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete in the so-called ad tech stack.”

There are plenty of competitors in the ad tech space. China created TikTok. Korea created KaoKaoTalk. Even Japan created Line. Meanwhile, the EU, for all it's antitrust regulation, hasn't created anything substantial. Perhaps, it's the burdensome regulation that's the problem.
Sounds like 1/3 of it being unprepared (and a bit unwilling to change), 1/3 being a small town and 1/3 being just Germany

> Each course in the sanctioned six-course program can cost upwards of $500 apiece and requires almost as much time as a full-time job.

Why are you doing a 'sanctioned' course if you don't intend on staying? Just go with Duolingo? But if it has a high number of hours per week then $500 sounds ok

> In-person shopping takes forever because there aren't big-box stores

> certain products, such as electronics, cost considerably more than in the US.

That's... weird. I never got the 'considerably more' unless you're importing something directly maybe, or maybe it is the kind of Walmart knicknack
I’m curious what you think they could have done differently. They made a pretty strong case that they explored the alternatives with good intentions and open communication, and that Reddit backed them into a corner.

Unless you expect someone to go bankrupt just so their app can continue for one more month? They could either shut down now and refund everyone, or shut down in 2 months and go bankrupt trying pay the bill.
If you want to be paid, ask for money.

It is easier if you have built something people will actually pay for.

It is easier if you are being paid enough to operate the business.

Converting free users to paying customers requires the customers to change.

People hate change.

People hate paying money.

Good luck.
Google will rather split up the internet by pulling out of Europe than follow this. And isn't ads the only profitable business Google has? If they sell it, there Google search, Gmail etc couldn't exist.
You want taxpayers to pay $500 per night for homeless? I would be furious to be paying confiscatory taxes and have those taxes go to literally putting zombie drug addicts in hotels. Very unfair to those of us that work hard to pay all those taxes. Perhaps build work camps in the Mojave instead and ship them there. Start making intentional homelessness arduous and you’ll see less of it. Prosecute illegal drug dealing and usage in public. Prosecute shoplifting. San Francisco has one do the largest homeless populations in the country. It’s because of the policies. Change the policies and many homeless will leave.
I used to rely on labml daily/weekly trending papers which was informed by Twitter trends, to help me stay out of Twitter. But sadly they recently stopped updating it due to Twitter API costs.

https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly/
Instruments for measuring length and area [video]
... And then there's the metric cup, which is 250ml.
Google can just break off its advertising branch in the EU and keep it integrated with the main company in the rest of the world.
I would expect there is some clause in their contract about novating it on transfer of the property ownership. Properties do get transferred, and it would be beyond insane not to have such a clause. It's not as if the operator of thy hotel can just rent another space down the road.

But not my industry, just seems like it would be reckless from the outside.
I mean, okay, but don't you think there's generally a correlation between “feeling of danger” and “actual danger”?
> The only way around this is with `await import`, which would break the supposed static analyzer benefits,

Isn't that the case for commonjs et al for similar situations? And wouldn't the solutions for commonjs also apply to ESM?

> and even then require weird hacks with parentheses to make it work correctly.

Operator/et-al precedence is something you'll fight regardless, no? Its annoying, yes, but that doesn't make it a "hack", its a oft well understood system.
Most likely, the quality went up because it’s the top 30 from smaller subreddits.
I used to believe that company breakups should happen automatically when they reach 1% of the country's GDP. There are lots of ways companies could avoid having the government decide how to break them up such as issuing dividends instead of hording cash, spinning off non-core businesses, setting up independent IP companies that would license back IP to the core company (and as an indpendent company, be required to license to anyone else at similar rates), and things like that. The problem comes in if one country follows this paradigm but then you have a company like Samsung that's over 20% of their host country's GDP and there's no appetite in the host country to break them up. How can your domestic companies that are limited in size compete with those of other countries with no limit on their size?
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They think that Google doesn't have enough competition right? So they want to regulate their markets.

But as we know, Google's entire business is hugely threatened by LLMs. Over time, all companies die and get outcompeted. Google won't be any different. You don't have to regulate.
EU is repeatedly shooting itself in the foot. Same old story.
I don't think either one of those points are true. The result of unregulated Google is most definitely not a positive online experience, it's rampant tracking and hoarding of information, both of which have had very real negative real world consequences. Similarly, the world does not "run on Google", what does that even mean? Gmail is but one email provider out of many. Google search is the largest player in the space, but their technological edge is slimming by the day.
What kind of PMS integrations did you look for? The space is horrible (especially so after Oracle bought Micros-Fidelio) but there are a ton of companies offering interfacing middlewares that connect to a ton of different PMS systems and offer a unified API.
True, but in that case the VA and FHA loans are explicit government attempts to get people into homes.

And they do get a bit spicy when home values decrease.
I totally get that she feels unwelcome in a small village. I think even Germans from a large city may feel it? I'm from the Netherlands and recently moved from a middle to large city in the Netherlands (here that's about 120K inhabitants) to a village of 2000 inhabitants. People here generally don't speak any English, and are much more conservative in their opinions (i.e. blackface must be black, you outsiders uncomfortable with our 100 years old traditions should just stay away from here), imagine her moving here...

I think there are probably towns in the US where she will feel the same btw. Is it really about Germany as the title suggests? Feels like a generalization.
Twitter’s T-Shirt Bots Are Undefeated and Verified by Elon Musk
what about "green threads" that is not managed by the OS like https://tokio.rs ?
> breaking up of monopolies

What’s the monopoly here? There are tons of successful ad companies.
This is insane. This is how Standard Oil started.

The public is _currently_ getting a good experience, why enforce our laws?

Oh no, they're evil now, and the only option, and they're entrenched. How could we have ever foreseen this!
Yes, based on the NeXTSTEP roots, everything should be object oriented. Think of it like visual copy/paste. Pretty much every on screen item should have a meaning and relationship to everything else.

For example, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5o5liZxnA at 35:00 you can see how an application is loaded from the network and a live chart dragged from one app to another. That isn't a one-off gimmick, it's how the OS and that version of Objective C worked.

I bought a Macbook because I was excited by this idea, but I quickly realized it was not even surface deep. I could drag some on screen elements around, but it was inconsistent at best.

But I guess there was a conflict with Raskin's idea of making everything resemble a real world equivalent (object as in "toaster app," rather than decomposed feature of "can toast") and they wanted to let third party applications do their own thing. If the whole OS (and network) was effectively the application, what's their product? Never let profound world changing innovation get in the way of a trillion dollar company, I guess.

I think of it, in my muddle headed imagineering way, this way: https://wiki.zooid.org/wiki/20120407/Raskin_vs_Engelbart

I suppose by now we would think of it all as a graph rather than OO, just add coordinates (and the required couple decades of cultural development of how they would relate) and you've got your spatial interface.
I think the Python hate has been manufactured, starting with Google's launch of Go language, which wanted to be eat Python's cake.

And some jumped on the started bandwagon unknowingly, and never got off of it.
Employees, shareholders, lobbyists, "researchers" who write academic "studies" favoring the company for money, nonprofit orgs which are principally funded by donations in exchange for political support, politicians whose kids work for big tech companies. (Only reason the US didn't pass regulation against tech recently is likely that Chuck Schumer's kids work for big tech and he just... never put the vote on the schedule...)

The only reason Google has survived today while operating as pretty much a criminal enterprise is because they spread a massive amount of money to the pockets of influential people.
If you’re in C++ land, you might take a look at Boost ASIO. It’s not just for IPC and would give you portable code.
The Wikipedia article on "Singular they" provides some background (the matter is more complex than the short remarks of others here suggest -- and quite interesting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they