skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan has a pretty hefty cultural presence with notable directors, and is pretty influential in terms of fashion, interior design, and architecture.

The usual issue is that Japanese culture is pretty understated, so the streetwear, the architecture, etc. is not something that immediately grabs attention like New York, Paris or Milan.

But see Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo Olympics stadium [1] vs the Japanese design that it got replaced with [2]

[1]: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/17/japan-scraps-zaha-hadid-to...

[2]: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/28/japan-national-stadium-ken...
maybe the idea of "proper agile" is too vague to even be useful?

"That's not agile"

Has become one of the most annoying arguments I've ever heard. As someone who experienced a corporate takeover of agile "consultants", I can tell you, it is one of the hardest things to try and deal with people who have their own idea about agile.

"Proper agile" is too "team specific" that maybe it shouldn't have been a "manifesto", just call it good "team practices" and maybe it wouldn't have become such a cult
This is how it's supposed to be done but you always end-up moving them to header just to make writing unit tests less painful.
> What Ukraine has shown is that war is mostly unchanged, you're still mostly just digging trenches and firing artillery at each other.

This is what wars turn into when both sides are roughly matched on the battlefield, and/or aren't particularly good at war (lacking the competency or equipment for maneuver warfare.) The Iran-Iraq War turned into this same sort of trench warfare during the 80s, but when America went to war against Iraq in the 91 they bulldozed Iraq's trenches and buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers, breaking through or bypassing the Iraqi fortifications in mere hours.

I hope we don't get to find out, but I think a war between NATO and Russia would go a lot differently than the war between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia.
> Convince people to live in smaller houses and share walls with their neighbors, and the parking situation would change dramatically.

Completely unnecessary. Want a front yard, back yard, and garage (attached to a laneway)? Plenty of that was build pre-WW2:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0&t=1m8s

The Oh the Urbanity channel has a video on the (mistaken) idea that "urban living" = Manhattan / Hong Kong apartment blocks:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmz-fgp24E

Examples (Streetview):

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/125+Hampton+Ave,+Toronto,+...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+O...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/150+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/70+Jackman+Ave+Toronto,+ON

See also:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6txCZpbsQ&t=9m28s

Fifteen minutes pedalling in one direction is downtown, fifteen minutes in the other is farm land.
But wouldn't you agree reading about this topic now, with the counter-argument of the post-1960 consensus (though I have a hard time thinking most things debatable like this are ever strictly consensus), and the follow-up DNA evidence, is far more informative and convincing than what you would read in 1920? It seems that the people guessing from 1920 might've had about as much chance of being right as the people guessing in 1960 with neither having the relevant evidence to back their claim.
I'm a fan of the Fagles translation; I chose it after a good bit of comparison and skimming.
I'm not being hyperbolic when I say making a todo list has literally changed my life with ADHD, and I discovered this in the dumbest way possible.

I've been more or less addicted to MMOs, especially World of Warcraft. During Shadowlands (the previous expansion) the game was so awful that I quit for the first time after playing since 2004. I could play all day, and grind for hours on end just for Number Go Up™ and Box Checked©. It had NEVER occurred to me, even with an ADHD diagnosis, that this was the primary driving factor behind my addiction.

So after I quit with the intention of becoming a software engineer I was trying to find ways to tweak my brain to feel like I was still playing. I ended up programming a daily/weekly list so I could check off items as I did them.. I then added a faux xp bar and gave myself 10xp for dailies and 30 for weeklies. Then it was on. I keep myself in check to not add random bullshit to gain xp from - but using psychological manipulative videogame tactics to keep my brain on track in everyday life has completely changed everything for me.

Throughout all of this I've also returned to videogames in the last few months with a much healthier approach, because now I get my gratification from my real world goals and my need to check off my task list is greater than my need for more pixels. It's made videogames a lot more enjoyable too not focusing on playing past the point they're fun.
This sounds a lot like Shape Up from the guys at Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
people spend $50k because they have to have a car to get around, drive kids, get to work, etc. If they're stuck with needing a car, they have too much ego for it to be shitty, so they spend a lot. I think a lot of these people would rather ride share if it was cheaper and it wouldn't be much of a hit to their pride
Also:

>k=2 is a bit of an odd choice for kNN classification

That's an understatement. Choosing an even number for any sort of voting algorithm doesn't make much sense, choosing 2 specifically probably makes the least sense of all.
This feels like a question people asked around the year 2003 when they started getting broadband.
Nominative determinism has a pretty good track record, I wonder if any investors use it.

That's like saying that horror scopes and phrenology have good track records.
Over the years I've come to realize the copy paste has probably been a net negative for me and I almost never do it anymore. If you are doing the copy-paste, then change a couple names to match a different pattern thing by hand, the subtle errors you can get by making a mistake can take forever to catch. In code review it always looks plausible unless the reviewer is _very_ careful. Furthermore, it means you are duplicating code - which is sometimes totally fine - but forcing yourself to not copy-paste makes you consider what the abstraction would be and if it would be worth it not.

In the case where you are copy-pasting out of code you don't really understand. Retyping it gives you time to understand and maybe catch existing bugs in the code you are copying.
> There's no evidence that a _buried_ cable leaches lead that far

Well, the question is how much lead leaches out and gets transported by rainfall down to groundwater tables from which we source our drinking water.
Giant telecom company that once almost bought Apple is on the brink of failure
It’s not wishful thinking, at least for public spaces it isn’t.

It is one of the best things that have happened in Poland imho.

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/before-and-after-pics-r...

https://i.redd.it/landscape-law-in-gdańsk-v0-uo6ihqfs43ba1.j...

https://www.boredpanda.com/before-after-removing-ads/?utm_so...
The length of a law doesn’t reduce its murkiness - in fact it makes it more pronounced. That is why (in the common law systems) there is so much discussing and re-discussing of topics that plenty of other cases already covered, using new approach angles. If you make laws longer and more complex, you only make them serve more those that have the budget to explore all branches of the decision tree.
The path to implementing a programming language
Maybe I'm missing the idea, but I'm not sure how this idea is supposed to work without using something like alloca.

If you have:

struct foo;

in foo.h and:

struct foo {
int a;
double x;
...
};

in foo.c, you won't have sizeof(struct foo) available from bar.c, so your construction won't work in bar.c. You could define a function:

size_t sizeof_foo(void);

which just returns sizeof(struct foo) from inside foo.c, but since this size is now only known at runtime, you'll need to resort to alloca or VLAs...
Beyond gross how often citizens are subsidizing the businesses that rob Peter to pay Paul...
We should be forcing the profiteers (shareholders) to repay it and be imprisoning the thieves, not paying Peter (remediation) for them.
I've never had a problem on their UK site [1]. It might be a different code base.

1. https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/
How Disastrous Births Haunt Women
Which is why you shouldn't be convinced that J&J couldn't pay what they'll owe either. Maybe it will end up that I'm wrong, and the bankruptcy would be necessary, but I have no reason to think that's the case right now. Right now this looks like they're just gaming the system for their own benefit, and not simply doing their best to make sure that their victims (whose well-being they clearly didn't care about while they were being poisoned) are all paid fairly. The idea that J&J is going out their way to apply clever legal loopholes just to protect the people they've been intentionally killing is beyond absurd.
Earth has been known to be flat, women and POC have been known to be inferior and homosexuality has been known to be a sin.

But thankfully, humanity moves on, and among other innovations, came up with such things as statistical methods and drug testing. But if you so desire, you're absolutely free to distrust modern western medicine — after all, a lot of prominent people do, for example, late Steve Jobs.
I still have no idea what to expect from the F35. I'm not someone that knows a lot about fighter aircraft. The F22 was quickly hailed as the pinnacle of what it was designed to do, essentially unmatched today. Then they just stopped making them.

Reviews of the F35 are vague. Israel is buying them but it's essentially getting them for free. So why not? Anyone have a true read on if the F35 is actually a dominant platform?
It's another "because we can, we should". There is no problem this solves that doesn't create worse problems.
Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile
It's impossible to know but I imagine a press leak (and further coverage by cable news and other traditional print media outlets) is the only way that members of Congress would actually care enough to hold members of the military and Department of Defense accountable so that they'll eventually find a way to resolve the issue.

Whether that'll take the form of a software engineering solution or a "social engineering" solution - in the form of Congressional hearings and the like - remains to be seen.
Three Different Cuts
Those two shortcuts are how you edit searches and commands in Vim mode.
That's just the plugin manager, lazyvim.
github.com/LazyVim/LazyVim or github.com/folke/dot/nvim might be more useful to see how to get the most out of this neovim 'distro'.
To me it reads like

> I don't particularly care if advertisers build a profile of me for the purpose of advertising. [But I do care about not seeing ads in the first place, so] I use ad blockers and I rarely if ever see ads when doing anything online.
>just login in GitHubs vscode

Imagine if you had to do that to every program you want to configure. Sure, rsync/git cloning your config may be less straightforward than logging in somewhere, but it's far more convenient when you have to configure dozens of programs anyway.
There's a talk out there where Alan Kay talks about how they were evaluating some of the same concepts for Smalltalk that eventually went into Scheme. I think he was mostly talking about lexical scoping for code blocks. In the same talk he called Kiczales' Art of the Meta-Object Protocol the most important computer science book he's read.

Which is to say... Smalltalk benefited greatly from digesting the Scheme Papers in the 70s. It's not idiomatic to Smalltalk, but you can sort of do lambdas by defining code blocks independently of classes and applying them to objects.

Squeak really came into its own as a Smalltalk when they bolted Morphic onto it. To this day I am still hurt the JavaScript community rejected the power of prototypal inheritance and bolted Java's broken class system onto the side of the language.

Which is to say... if you look under the hood of Squeak/Scratch, you'll find LOGO's philosophic descendants. And bits of Lisp that LOGO didn't implement.
Beat me to it, I was going to go for "X Is All You Need Papers Considered Harmful"
For some reason I was thinking ITX type systems, my bad. That X300 thingy does look pretty neat.
One hour ago?
I absolutely agree, but the tourism train is barreling forward at this point. I think an emotionally invested foreign community is the only way to smooth out future gentrification tension.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes said it well in his "goodbye after 10 years" (sort of) writeup. [0]

> Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change. But my heart aches at the thought of it losing the things that make it so special.

[0] Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490
I think we are saying the same thing. I'm confusing the specific phenomena of mass psychogenic illness, with general mass hysteria phenomena, as you pointed out in your original post.

In the George Floyd protest, the stress is lockdowns and the mass hysteria phenomena is the extreme and exaggerated reaction to G.F.'s death.
I almost feel like compression and embeddings are duals of each other, but I can't quite articulate it.

Embeddings use fixed-size vectors to minimize the dot product between vectors of similar inputs. Compressors use a variable-length encoding to minimize the overall stored size.
This is why you need context when discussing things. Imagine discussing the politics of the penal system and someone butts in, "imprisoning people is bad by definition"... Ok man
> but the fixed memory allocation which means you must first know and then allocate the maximum amount of memory they might ever need up front.

Yup, that's always been the big reason to use containers for me. Startup time and runtime performance are nice benefits, but the memory usage is the giant win. Freeing memory in response to the apps need and also not needing extra memory for running the various OS parts and pieces.

The down side is, of course, security. But that was always the case with containers.
>MS don’t seem to have the systems in place to detect inappropriate key use in a proactive manner

I'm sorry, I thought this was the point of CT... Although I guess it depends on how one defines "proactive" in this context.
> Every city in the US used to have a robust public transit system.

Every major urban center, perhaps. No city in Montana (I'll go so far as to say the midwest, minus perhaps Chicago) has a "robust" public transit system.

And even when we create a perfect 15 minute utopia, people will still need one-off transportation on a periodic basis to spots more than 15 minutes away. Doctor visits, specialized purchases, bulk orders, building materials, recreation, etc.
I agree with this.

One of my best friends is a huge anime fan. He's also caucasian-American. He finds a sense of wonder and exoticness traveling to Japan, and Asia in general.

I'm Asian. While I enjoy traveling to Asia, I don't get the same sense of wonder and exoticness as I do traveling to...Europe. Which coincidentally, he does not.
China Unveils Final Version of Generative AI Rules
I use Firefox as my daily driver and have not encountered any sites that work in Chrome but not Firefox.
In my experience the app doesn't run well even on the correct android version and was almost impossible to use on bluestack.

Had to use it a couple times when I worked at a repair shop.
> That people would operate in their own self-interest, without regard to potential harm that is not in any way their fault coming to people they've never met?

We gave a name for that, it's calles psychopathy.

"According to a study conducted by forensic psychologist Nathan Brooks from Bond University, around one in five corporate bosses have clinically significant psychopathic traits. This proportion is similar to that among prisoners. Journalist Jon Ronson found that CEOs are four times more likely to be psychopaths than the average person."
> I'm not sure how you think I'm making their point for them.

They argued against mandating helmets in cars. Your point was that we could do something better than helmets and less inconvenient, namely airbags. But that is an argument for not mandating helmets. And the same argument generalizes to any specific technology. What happens when someone comes up with something better than an airbag but then it doesn't satisfy the rule "is an airbag" and is therefore prohibited?

> Meanwhile, there is a general necessity defense to violating all traffic laws for your motorcycle example.

In practice this kind of general exception either consumes the rule or isn't available when it legitimately applies. If you can say you lost your helmet and would have been stranded then everyone says this and you can't enforce the law. But if you can't claim that when it's true then the necessity defense isn't meaningful.

And for the same reason the exceptions are typically excessively narrow. Suppose you lose your helmet while camping, so you have plenty of food and water and can make the 3-day walk back to civilization. There is no risk of death. But then you have a three day walk for what would have been a two hour ride, which is going to make you late for work on Monday. Is not being late for work a necessity? And yet, is it reasonable to punish someone who makes that choice?
You could look into running a Tor bridge (not a normal relay). It generally uses little CPU so there's little concern about carbon emissions. You can also limit the amount of bandwidth the bridge uses.

https://support.torproject.org/censorship/censorship-7/
> That's a pretty big difference in our viewpoints and while HN currently tends towards yours

This is an interesting phenomenon no matter what the topic is - I experience it too. It's human nature to feel counter culture. I believe HN is pretty strongly pro-capitalism for reasons that are obvious due to the nature of the site.

I don't think small business owners are innately more deserving of money. They still make money off the backs of others, just at smaller scales. Competition is important to make capitalism less sociopathic but small business owners aren't meaningfully competing with Amazon.

Also to be clear, I think all advertising is unethical. It's a spectrum for sure though.
I think part of that was early Intel machines were also 32 bit or 32 bit EFI machines.
I block the ads because they are annoying, not out of concern that the advertiser per se has a profile about me.
"no ads in the public space" - you mean kind of like this? https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no...

"TV and radio: special channels only for ads " - we have cable channels without ads

"internet: banners are blank and marked as Ad" - why would anyone click?
People who do a lot of crosswords puzzles are fairly good at reading in general regardless of their educational level. This on its own opens up a huge way to exercise your mind: reading books (e.g. fiction) or reading other things.

For chess, don't know how that one would work. If the thought patterns are generalized (i.e. thinking a few steps ahead) then I can see how that exercises the mind.
> Amendments to the Constitution have become practically nonexistent.

Why is that a bad thing? What specifically needs to be amended?
I find rather sad that the Romans themselves have reused the names of their traditional gods as names for the Greek gods.

Because this unification of the Roman and Greek gods has happened a little earlier than the time from which we begin to have preserved Latin texts and because the Greek gods came with a huge number of stories attached to them, unlike the Roman gods, which previously were mentioned mostly in rituals and prayers, we have extremely little information about the traditional Roman gods.

With the exception of Jupiter/Zeus, most of the Roman gods had been very different from the Greek gods who replaced them and it would have been interesting to know more about their original roles.

For instance the Roman Mars was extremely unlikely the Greek Ares. Mars was a beloved god, the most important protector of the Romans, who defended them against various kinds of bad things, like a COVID pandemy or climate change. He was not a god of war, even if his protector role meant that he could also help the Romans in wars. On the other hand, the Greek Ares was a god of destruction who was feared and hated. The Greeks sacrificed to him mostly to avoid his anger, but when they wanted help in war they usually turned to other gods, e.g. to Athena, which is why in the Iliad Athena gives some good beatings to Ares.
Same, it's mostly Google sites that work better with Chrome, like the GCP console.
Network effect I'd say.

If tomorrow opera, brave, edge switched to Firefox, people won't notice but Firefox share would rise dramatically.

Extensions is another issue.

Today, any tom dick and harry who want to create a browser extension only build for chrome "why not". Firefox comes from complaining users who don't want to switch otherwise they don't bother.

Its the same chicken or egg thing. Low market share of Firefox means less users means less customers of extensions means devs will spend less time to build for Firefox and so on.

Firefox extensions often feel like someone actually spent some time and thought into building it, there isn't much crap but chrome store is the dirt bag free for all
for most, i would assume it's largely just that during the time of the naïve web, there was a period where google kind of was the company, so people started using it for everything (think shortly before and then during the early google+ era). 10 years later almost every normie who didn't start using apple products uses gmail and chrome simply because they legacied into it from when they were younger and less aware of the negative aspects of the practice.
Please, before assuming you know what I mean, read the complete comment.

The trouble with Wikipedia is that it's an inch deep.

That's not its biggest problem. Wikipedia is biased.

Of course there's political bias in the American fashion. But that's not all. There is bias about History depending on what country is telling the story. And there is a strong bias even in scientific topics (maybe specially in them) when there are commercial interests involved.

That's not specific to Wikipedia.

But when you research some topic, reading multiple books, you'll notice there are different opinions, you learn to discount bias looking at the procedence. Wikipedia tries to adopt a neutral tone and cite different sources, but sometimes it does a terrible job at it.
> A developer needs a website to prove they can build a website.

Not really. Doesn't your experience, reflected in your CV and the technical interview, already prove that? A portfolio site is nice to have, particularly if you're a designer and want to showcase your work, but it shouldn't be a requirement for a developer, frontend or otherwise.
> You've been able to fly a plane with unleaded fuel for decades. See every major airline burning jet fuel.

Jet engines are completely different from the piston engines you'll find in general aviation (sans choppers, which mostly run on jet engines).

Piston engines need leaded fuel for lubrication as well as knock resistance, and deviating from the original certification of the engine/plane requires a type-specific certification - every model of plane you want to fly that was certified with 100LL AvGas needs to be separately tested if it can fly safely with lead-free AvGas [1].

[1] https://www.flightglobal.com/engines/faa-approves-100-octane...
You know, lobbying wouldn't be so bad if our government officials just ignored them when they were advocating against the public interest.
And how is factual accuracy determined? Using the exact same sources as Wikipedia, right?