skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1990s the services in AOL were all written in C, using a very very good event based callback library, which had Tcl embedded in it. We had a very rigorous standard of nothing in the server was hard wired, any change that ops might want to make would be applied to a running server, and dev had the job to expose all configurable state as either Tcl Vars or Tcl commands. It was a no thread environment (one process per CPU and one CPU for the OS) so while your Tcl command was running you could do anything to the in memory structures you wanted as long as it was fast. The ability to have a Turing complete language available for ops to do config in was extremely useful, they wrote amazing Tcl making configuration on the fly.

Not sure any of it would have carried thru till today even if the business hadn’t stumbled, but it very productive in the 1990s.
They moved to Mission between 7th and 8th and realized that it was full of people with substance and mental issues. It's kinda like moving into a block with a lot of bars or nightclubs and then complaining about the noise at night. Just because some real estate developers have built some nice-ish condos on that block does not mean that the zombies which hang out in the neighborhood are going to go away. UN Plaza in civic center and the first block of 7th have been a bit of a hell hole for many years.

The only way buildings like Mission at Trinity or Soma Grande make any sense is if you drive in and out of your garage for the most part. For me the walk score of those places is close to zero since you are guaranteed to deal with shit (human feces and/or altercations) if you walk a block or two in any direction from those locations.

I've lived in SF for 29+ years all in lower Nob Hill. When I moved into my place the neighborhood was a little rougher. Over that time it's gotten more and more gentrified, but the Tenderloin/Civic Center area has been getting worse. From 2012 to 2021 I worked in Potrero Hill and commuted back and forth. It was a little too far to walk so I almost never did, but it was also a completely shitty walk since there was no good path that didn't go through the Tenderloin/Civic Center. There's no way I would consider living in that area.

The area thrives on misery. Many of the city's SROs and other services for the homeless are concentrated in the area. All the "non"-profits which benefit from homeless clients are based there. And Civic Center BART seems to be a great place to score drugs and for drug dealers to commute into the city for work.

SF either needs to go all in on a universal basic income, building housing, mental health services and decriminalization of drugs, OR they need to make it clear that shooting up, breaking into cars and shitting on the streets is not ok. Instead we have this half-assed in between approach where we give $1.6 Billion to over 700 different "community based organizations" to try to make the situation better, but instead it's just a big uncoordinated mess.

https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11635453&GUID=55...
I've literally never seen one that isn't doing well though
Show HN: Search the Go Standard Library
How many of the 5000 interviewed parents did have kids?
I'm in the same boat.

Signed up to Paddle and immediately got flagged as high risk with no explanation. I complained on Twitter and the CEO had a human check us out manually. We're in the process of verification but honestly I don't have big hopes.
Intel to invest $25B in Israel factory in record deal
>operating costs for Meta in 2022 was USD $87.66 billion

How much of that actual cost is related to running a simple social blogging/connecting tool vs anything that is ad/surveillance/manipulation/etc?

Also, how much are they paying to moderate? Imagine the power of volunteer moderation when supported by a non-profit volunteer-focused organization that values its volunteer assets...

>perfect feature-parity of Facebook

All I wanted was a place to share baby pictures with grandma and they bolted on the panopticon...

>it'd still be extremely difficult to convince users to switch.

Even grandma knows that FB is evil now. She keeps asking me why the baby pics are on Facecrook, but I don't have any good solution for her today.
A program is a script with an army and a navy.
I'm gonna temper myself here because there's always the chance that there was some quiet resentment and discomfort we never knew about but from the inside these events were super successful. You are absolutely right that consent was like priority #1, #2, and #3. We always set up somewhere where people could easily avoid us entirely if they wanted. There's never any pressure it was like like "happy Friday, high five!" very low-key and if they weren't into it just pretend it never happened. And that kind of thing did happen but it wasn't super common, we had a bunch of regulars who would seek us out, professors loved it.

We could have done without these kinds of events but they were super visible and honestly the best marketing we had. We never pitched other events while we were there but it got people to recognize our fliers and look us up on IG/the club website.
> where there is an issue my experience has been that they talk to you to find a solution together

Processors take note, this is the way. btw, in person-to-person processing deals (which can provide APIs in most cases) this is just how it works.

Note for business owners: Those annoying merchant services calls you get as a business owner, yes, those are the people to speak to. A bit of research into what interchange is, and what those rates are, and you can write your own contracts. It is exceedingly simple and as fine-grained as you'd like to make it (we are nerds, after all). Merchant services partners ultimately want to make money, and if you have an understanding of fee structures, you will find someone local to you who will sign you on favorable terms for both parties, it's free money for them.
Choosing a random Lemmy instance, I see server rendered content and <a href> links that are followable. Searching for 'site:<instance domain>' on Google turns up plenty of results, very much identical to what I see when searching for 'site:reddit.com'. Google seems to have no trouble indexing the site.

I expect you won't see results on Google, save for when you explicitly ask for the site, because there isn't much in the way of reputation. You are highly unlikely to see my personal blog, which is just plain old boring as it gets HTML, come up in search results for the same reason.
Are we claiming the Mission is nice? Because it's really not, even the nicer parts worsened pre, during, post pandemic.
pls share
Oh, so it sends all my config secrets too? It's hard enough keeping it off in certain files https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/13334 since the .copilotignore feature doesn't actually work. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10305
Couldn't disagree more. We really wanted an ev. Even bought it when there were no incentives available. Nothing to do with the global market or regulation.

It's a superior experience in every way. From the performance, to the software, to the charging. I just plug it in and never think about charging. On long drives it needs a topup when our family does.
FWIW, the costs for transporting gold bullion are marginal. A fully-laden Boeing 747-400F cargo plane can carry 396,900 kg, or 12,760,000 troy ounces. At the current price of $1,936/ozt, that's over $24 billion in value transported for perhaps 0.1% overhead. These are perfectly reasonable sums to be expected in the realm of nation-state debt settlement.
[0] and [1] seem pretty promising to me, although I believe that the problem come from the fact that these languages do not expose a way to describe a sequence of bits, which may make them not lambda calculus anymore, but probably much more usable (you could then implement a soft version of integer/float operations and a compiler that convert this code into a single instruction, easier as there is no side effect guarantee)

> but I haven't yet come up with a good system of combinators that can represent I/O and foreign functions properly

I do not believe that you should support either.

I/O could simply be the program arguments & the final reduction of the expression. The input being your mouse position and the output being a window shouldn't be the responsibility of your program.

Foreign functions are IMO a bad idea, especially if the goal is for the program to outlive you, you lose the guarantee if these functions depend on the environment. Why couldn't you copy/paste the code into your own project?

[0] - https://esolangs.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus

[1] - https://esolangs.org/wiki/Dependently_Typed_Binary_Lambda_Ca...
Fair Warning; second hand story

Yes, just drinking some will do damage. I've heard of a non-tech seeing 'water' and ignoring the rest of labels and warning and drinking very pure water. Had to be sent to the hospital.
hopefully you're not sarcastically referring to SF public transit as being anything resembling a desirable means of transportation?
Google famously had nap pods: https://www.theguardian.com/business-to-business/2017/dec/04...
We've been using Inngest at Secta.ai for the last ~6 months, happy to answer any questions!

DX is great! Writing the jobs feels very natural, much much simpler than Temporal. The development server is neat and makes debugging jobs very easy. TypeScript SDK is idiomatic, the types are properly inferred & propagated throughout the whole app.

The nice thing about writing step functions for Inngest vs regular "async worker queues" is that we can express logic, e.g. "if X than wait for event Y", with a layer of caching/retries on top.
> I decided to buy full albums directly from the artist as much as I could. inter.tube just allows you to keep your collection safe and easily accessible.

Unfortunately too often people will take advantage of those with the best intentions.

I see you got your account back and that's really great. The project looks really interesting and was similar to one I started and never completed. So great to have an option!
> 48khz is better for video due to the way it can be divided more evenly with popular video frame rates

Is the half sample per frame at 44,100 Hz and 24 fps really an issue? DVDs support 48kHz, but they only support 25 fps and 29.97 fps. You're going to run into so much NTSC content that I'm not sure even divisibility is a thing.
I'm British. I was referring to the continent of Europe, not the EU.
The problem is that everything is relative to where you are. Humanity has experienced rapid and nigh-unending improvements in quality of life, from ancient history riiiight up to the present. People are now looking into the future and the only apparent path forward involves a decline in that quality of life.

It might be a quirk of human psychology to not be able to really "feel" the difference between relative and absolute, but it doesn't matter. Its just how people see the world.
Another fun fact: the brain being majority made of fat is why ultra low fat diets can cause depression!

It is also why it is recommended babies consume dietary fats, low fat diets are terrible for brain development.

Want a healthy baby? Add some organ meat (check levels so as to not OD on certain vitamins) and (low/no mercury) fish skins to their diet!
except that the comment i was responding to was specifically about bicycles?
Oh interesting. Is this one of those things where backwards compatibility eventually got in the way of the intended purpose?
> You don’t know that.

Sure I do. It's right there in the basic math.

> In theory a company pay a premium because of future growth expectations.

Yes, but until that growth happens, it doesn't exist. So it doesn't change the fact that, at the time of the sale, a loss was incurred.

To treat the expectations of future growth as a current asset is what seems shady to me. It's just making things up.
Show HN: Paned – Stupid simple new tab notes extension
Hey HN, realized my new tab page was the most visited and least useful page in my daily routine. At the same time, Post-It notes were getting lost on trains and in airplanes.

Enter PANED - a stupid simple new tab notes extension that is designed to capture all the random things that don't meet the bar to go into Notion/$PRIMARY_NOTES_APP, but still need to be remembered.

The panes are backed by contenteditable divs, allowing you to go crazy with what you paste.

Everything is saved to localStorage and never leaves your device.

Enjoy!
You don't necessarily need to establish causality in one grand step; it can still be effective to accumulate evidence of causality, even if this evidence cannot distinguish between other competing non-causal explanations.
Why subsidize water for agriculture at all. The USA is already the country spending the least on food in the world [0]. And the obesity crisis isn't shouting "well thought out agricultural plans" to me.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-consumer-expendi...
In a parallel world the whole web is served as XML and XSLT directly from the databases, or from rss authoring software. Web servers only serve the blobs like images and other media. Content Management is done by combining rss feeds according to site hierarchy via an enhanced OPML dialect, also parsed client side. One or more feeds per page. Some pages show only the newest entry, others show the first ten with pagination, or all entries. This is configured via the OPML dialect. The data sources of a website can be completely federated. A machine readable licensing system enables integration of content from third parties on your site — without any backend changes! Social networks are basically thousands or millions of different sources in one huge OPML file plus some intelligence in the XSLT. Efficient caching on the network allows for very small and cheap servers for every content creator. Even your tablet could serve your feed.
Every bank/money transmitter has a list of transaction patterns/behaviors that are basically red flags for criminal activity. A lot are heuristics based, few are right out documented anywhere, but one example is # of credit card/account numbers bound to an account, another is structuring, i.e. a paytern of transaction activity specifically intended to avoid bank reporting controls. Or stupidly, putting words that are high risk w.r.t sanction compliance in memo fields, or getting a false positive OFAC hit.

None of this is discussed with customers in a candid way; as a result it can feel very off putting. It's one of the things that bugs me about modern finance. It's too busy building itself into a governmental reporting mechanism, and far too prone to overreach through the exploitation of sanctioning mechanisms.

It's one of those "can't have nice things" sorta bits.
I've never seen "software" (by which I assume you mean the consumer facing stuff in the cabin) that made me want to buy a car. Yes, I've seen Tesla's. It looks fine. So does a radio with 6 buttons.

If I want anything, I have a cellphone. It's impossible to compete with "put that UX through better speakers/mic/screen"
Violating a random municipal zoning board’s orders by building something without the necessary permits is a clear cut violation that is easy to spot that you cannot use plausible deniability for.

The US is not that corrupt yet. The billionaire might be able to bribe the zoning board members, but it would be pretty sacrificial of one’s self to risk a felony just to watch the building’s freshly laid foundation get destroyed, because that is only how far one might get without the cops getting involved.
Similar experience here. I'm almost certain that American drivers got even worse over the last 6 years as I was holed up in the city. Maybe it's more distraction from phones, worse controls/UX... or maybe drivers ed has gotten even worse. American roads have always been filled with absolute morons - maybe our IQ is dropping?

Whatever the reason, I despise driving now, until I get to the mountain backroads.
Caffeine? Care to elaborate?
The dose makes the poison.

Currently chemical analysis techniques can detect compounds down to picograms/L. That's billionth's of grams per liter. So saying "this material has benzene in it", doesn't really tell you anything about the level of exposure or risk.

Very few compounds are toxic at that kind of exposure.
> When I attempted to cash out they accused me of committing clickfraud and refused to pay out. There was no way to appeal.

I'm guessing that you didn't see a lawsuit or small-claims suit as worthwhile, given the amount of money involved?

If Google is doing this to a large number of relatively small-value accounts, maybe it would be reasonable for a class-action suit. IANAL, but I'm guessing Google would do anything to avoid a discovery process regarding this.
Embracing Change and Resetting Expectations (Terence Tao)
I had the retrofit done on my 2018 MS. Have never once successfully charged at a non-Tesla charger. I'm not sure if it's me or the charging stations, which are somewhat known to be less reliable in general than Tesla's.
My driveway is windy and gravel. I live at the end of a windy, gravel road with a steep drop off on one side. The road it connects to is a back country road with NO lane markings at all. Deer are prone to watching you approach, then jumping out at the last minute. You need to slow down when you first see them, not when they start moving.

I doubt FSD will get to the point I would ever fully trust it outside of a freeway or city, and almost certainly never for the 2-3 miles closest to my house.

Now, if they can get the cars cheap enough that I can actually afford one, I might be interested. There are 4-6 trips I take a year in the 250-400 mile range, with zero public transport available inbetween (rural-ish to rural-ish areas), and not paying for the gas would be nice.
Twitter and Reddit: All Social Media Sites Will Die (and Get Replaced)
All the frightened people will leave the next generations to those with hope, industry, and positivity.
Nice! Yeah there are definitely lower poop/riff raff density if you're willing to walk 15 mins each way. In my experience Muni+Bart is required to have good coverage of places I wanted to go (including Oakland and berkeley).

Edit: and I'm a 0 transfer kind of person. Albeit I tolerated switching from Muni to Bart in same station on market street. And because my own personal tolerance for walking was higher than average, I'd often just look for the route that allowed me to ride one ride even if I had to walk 60 minutes across the round trip.
Standards are way higher now for new kids than even in the 90s.
Next we can argue about the value of 4 / 2 * 2, and then on wednesday we can have a fight about the clearcut and important distinction between “nerd” and “geek”
Isn't the dissolving the dangerous bit?
You’re making a huge false equivalence. We’re talking about anthropogenic climate change specifically. Implying that it is the same as ancient weather patterns from before the Industrial Revolution is comically dishonest.
When has this ever been true? The supercharger network was always one of the key advantages of a Tesla over any other EV: you could actually have a reliable fast charging network, as opposed to the patchwork of other questionable charging networks. You actually could, reliably, expect a road trip to not have any issues.
I've experienced that too for sure, but https://lemmy.world/ has been pretty responsive for me.

Keep in mind this is a little different than other social networks - there isn't a single centralized server so if you hit the software on a server that's underpowered or not configured properly, you'll get a very different experience.
Induction stoves are better in every possible regard, except price.

Well that and they can get too hot, I warped the bottom of my carbon steel wok because my induction stove heated it up too fast! Not a problem I had with any previous gas stoves!
I wouldn't say it's exactly been going only one way since ancient history, but certainly for living memory.
It's not about the techs themselves, it's about how investors and shareholders push for the hot new thing to be included in the company, even when it's not relevant (or adversarial to) providing a great product.
> Nonetheless, a form of speech known to linguists as General American is perceived by many Americans to be "accent-less"

TLDR: "neutral English" is like "neutral water temperature" - it feels neither hot not cold because it matches ones body temperature. It's subjective, and terming it "temperatureless water" is even less accurate.

I'd put emphasis on "perceived" and "American" in that statement, and also note that this is limited to regional accents: General American is unambiguously American. Similar to General American, many countries have developed a "Newscaster" accent, e.g. Received Pronunciation for Britain, but it's not considered neutral as it is the "upper class" accent.

In every language I've known well enough to distinguish accents, I've realized newscasters adopt a distinct accent/cadence that's not commonly used. But I wouldn't call it "accentless" - it's just another accent that may/may not have evolved from a culturally dominant regional accent (or dominant figure from a specific region.)
Is that just the price of the process, or does that price include the transport and dumping or otherwise handling the waste salts?
Looking at the twitch stream of the reddit protest you can tell that most people have no idea what the hell is going on. They have no idea that they're not paying for a free service, they have no idea what this means for users of a free centralized service, and all they really want is to hang out somewhere and feel empowered.
RSS maybe not be dead, but it's definitely less alive than it uses to be. The number of "blogs" these days that don't have a feed is absolutely tremendous. The decisions of the browser companies to remove the RSS icons / deemphasize the features is criminal (especially Firefox, who doesn't have the nefarious interest the others have).
On a much smaller scale, this is the same reason why distilled water is widely not recommended for use for espresso machines. Its lack of minerals will attract metal ons from internal parts of the espresso machine, which can cause corrosion.
Market share isn't a good metric for a company that started out with 100% market share and therefore has nowhere to go but down. I think Tesla will continue to be successful selling cars and grow the number of cars they sell at a high rate.

Also, it sounds like this move is a really good incentive from a product perspective. If there really are a significant of people who only chose Tesla because of Superchargers, then they'll be forced to fix those problems. Though, personally, I really like my Model Y and someone would have to come up with a WAY superior car to get me to switch. I certainly wouldn't want to go back to one of these legacy car company's cars with their poor software, bad UX, and ugly and overwrought design aesthetic. Also, a lot of their competition is still on paper. Rivian is probably the nicest option for a non-Tesla EV right now.
Pretty sure the existence of VPNs like this demonstrates the low cost of bandwidth. Or more so, how ISPs overcharge for bandwidth.
I work with people who write “scripts” in Go. Pretty sure these terms were once important—a program was assembled. A script was a set of things you’d otherwise do by hand (eg run these 30 commands).

“Scripting languages” that created more abstraction power blurred the lines. But, I still think a script is something you’d lazily do, otherwise by hand, without the script
No Perl comparisons? I must be a dinosaur, but Perl is the best for reading in text, regex matching/search/replace/, and outputting a transmorgified result.
Florida beaches are second to none as far as the continental US is concerned. With a lower cost of living in cities like Tampa versus San Francisco, it's somewhat of a no brainer.
Do they have electric cars in the 30K range? What’s the battery range for their entry level cars?

(I only know Rivian’s pricing by heart, which starts at 75K)