skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its a sad thought that so many of us can never realistically hope to occupy such a space and be able to truly have that kind of setting to breathe and heal oneself

I disagree with that...

For the price of a studio in basically any "big" city (any big american city or any capital city in an european country), you can buy a big house in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nature.

People want to be surrounded by concrete: they don't want to live surrounded by nature (because "the arts" or "because social life" or whatever other reason). So for those who want to be surrounded by nature, prices can be extremely cheap.

Heck, for the price of a normal house in many cities, you can have a castle in France (as long as its in the middle of nowhere).
> The real estate market in the US is one of the cheapest in the world relative to incomes.

This hints at a fairly incomplete puzzle.

For example :A low-end US residence requires 4+ typical income earners to meet minimal bills needed to stay housed.

That would imply that in most of the world, a typical household has a much higher number of income earners living in the residence - they have many earning-adults under one roof.

I'm skeptical that most of the world is dominated by 5-10 adults living in US sized houses. So what's the rest of the picture look like?
Past submission from 2022 with a dozen comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30646371
IT just differently mortgaged. It's not a direct mortgage, but the company that's buying these had to raise the capital one way or another. And if the company didn't buy a house, they have the choice in investing it in something else. If the bonds are paying 8%, the company must believe that the house will return even more which is pretty hard.
> What is sad is more and more common websites simply don't work in Firefox anymore (chase.com), so it's literally back to the days of running in IE6 or nothing, but Chrome is now that pestilence.

I am used to accessing my Chase bank account through Firefox. I just checked, and I am still able to log in fine, including with a variety of privacy-enhancing extensions that break many other sites. What problems do you encounter?
Whatever city or state you’ve chosen to live in seems to be falling apart. Move
It wasn't on my radar until this post. Just downloaded it.
It is better than third party cookies but other browsers are simply removing third party cookies. This approach is clearly less preferable for anyone that cares about privacy.
Ok, so now there's got to be a way to get the Game Boy printer working too.
Well I've been thoroughly convinced by this argument.
I don't. I lowered my consumption habits significantly. And switched to veganism. It isn't that hard.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

Animal agriculture has 8+ times more emissions than air travel.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352100490_Emissions...

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

And that's just emissions ... we're not talking about biodiversity loss, eutrophication, deforestation, soil erosion, water usage, ...
So far humans have behaved like any other species, we use all our qualities for our own ‘survival’. So no, we are not that special ;)
was built*
Great story.

I was a huge HHGTTG fan (counting Disaster Area among my top musical influences)

When I was at UWO in the early 90's Douglas Adams came on campus for a book signing - it was to last about 45 minutes, and it was scheduled right in the middle of one of my exams.

So I decided to sit the exam, thinking "I'll catch up with him at a future book signing", alas he died before I ever got the chance.
> I know this exact sequence, because I've seen it with Volvo as well.

I have an AAOS Volvo. At no point was I ever asked by a dealership to create or log in with a Google account. Google accounts are not required unless you want to use Google Assistant or download things from the Play Store. If you want to use the Volvo On Call app then you need a Volvo ID instead, which the dealership did offer help with.
I consider functionality like this finding any "topic" at all to be a violation of my privacy.

I don't need to actually try something like this to know that I don't want my privacy to be violated by it.
> There's a simple option to disable this in Chrome:

> chrome://settings/adPrivacy/interests

And eventually there'll be another setting in another location, and then it'll start accidentally forgetting your settings between versions, and then it'll start prompting you on start-up to make sure you really want a degraded browsing experience …. We know where this leads.
>Betty’s people paid critics for good reviews, leaked his letters to the press, and authorized production of medallions, snuff boxes, coffee cups, and other merchandise. Theaters probably also used tricks to inflate the reception Betty received, like strategically placing ringers in the audience to cheer for him.

It's always good to realise we aren't so much different from our previous generation. If anything, we just do what they did faster and with a greater impact on the world, for better or worse.
I don't know why "American ear" was brought into this, even the OED has definitions that agree a cottage is small and this is... very not small.
Your mirror universe dolppelganger may eat it first
Thanks! Do you work remotely?
How much would have been removed if they hadn't purchased it?

Edit: it's direct air capture, it's not some shell game "offset" thing which is what I assumed, that's actually very interesting.
this article reads like it was written by a LLM

"Anyway, we all already know this because we all experience human life in 2023."
Right. Isn't this just the Pareto distribution at play, which seems to be in effect in all domains of creative human production? In any particular field, roughly 20% of individuals achieve 80% of the results or success in that field. The author hasn't demonstrated this is unique to writing. None of this is to say the author is incorrect about the current subscription model in writing being unsustainable (I don't know if it is or isn't, though I suspect it's not), just noting what I think is missing from their argument.
Do you use multiple cloud service providers?
Do you guys utilize services from multiple cloud providers? For example, object storage from AWS S3, Kubernetes as a Service with Google Cloud and MS SQL with Microsoft Azure, etc.
GP should provide evidence then
Except at the Asian shopping plazas in the US suburbs. They make the restroom situation quite difficult.
vivaldi android is currently my preferred browser.

firefox on the linux desktop.

These guys simply rock.
It's a story of everyone going way too far.

The government(s) went way overboard with Pfizer proof of purchase QR codes to get lunch. Especially when uptake was 80%+

They also went overboard by locking down again over the holidays when everyone was already catching the most contagious Omicron. People not being able to go to a gym to stay fit, that already needed a barcode, swayed a lot of the public that things were going on too long.

But the obnoxiousness of the truckers also went too far for too long. The news of rifles and arrests in Alberta was (obviously) too far.

I don't have a citation on hand, but at one point more than a third of Canadians did support either the truckers explicitly or their aims, and that's a higher percentage than voted for the current governing party. Support was higher among younger people, sometimes over 50%. But this percentage decreased as time went on.

The government also completely failed to act diplomatically or to de-escalate the situation. Instead we had inflammatory rhetoric and a focus on some silly flags (which should be condemned, but a lot of people have doubts as to their sincerity, and I've seen some pretty gross signs against the unvaxxed too)

Some people, even in this comment section, take their rhetoric and opposition too far.

There is no doubt in my mind that the more time passes, the more we will look at Canada's response to the pandemic (especially in its later years) as a horrendous failure that harmed trust in public health, harmed social cohesion, and harmed our democratic and civil institutions. Everyone failed and everyone suffered as a result.
I do wonder this myself, which is the crux of the Turin Test, but there is a lot of data sharing between companies, facilitated by the advertising tracking networks and a lot of companies manipulating social media platforms like Reddit, but also seen in sites like this one.

The news organisations, ie journalists do collaborate despite working for different companies. Ultimate phishers in some respects, and the public face of the spooks.
TLJ is super-ultra (about 99%) artsy fartsy, just the Euroartrash type which most non-critics aren't familiar with. This type is utterly obsessed with controlling, subverting and deconstructing expectations, so everything needs to be the opposite of what the movie-goer is supposed to expect. Except that too is a kind of convention, so a Euroartrash movie going long enough will eventually subvert itself. It's basically a 'sophisticated' type of trolling.

Critics love these movies, because first they see lots of movies, and something doing different, even if the different doesn't really have anything behind it, is refreshing. Also, since there isn't really any plan, you can read everything behind it, which allows you to write whatever you want very easily.

Especially for the SW universe which is getting stale, and the sequel trilogy was stale from the beginning. Euroartrash allows the illusion of a new path. An illusion, since if the movie went the way some critics imagined it, a certain character had to make the other choice at the end. But you wouldn't subvert the viewer if they had.

Viewers don't like them anywhere as much - turns out trying to confuse the viewer for the sake of it doesn't make for a good experience - and it's a bad fit for a movie universe. They really picked the wrong directors for that trilogy.
It's not very highly rated but I loved the 2011 movie of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" starring Gary Oldman and a cast of other well known actors.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tinker_tailor_soldier_spy

After I saw it I said to friends that its "the best movie I've seen in which pretty much nothing happens". That's how good the movie was - no action, nothing stated explicitly, lots left for the viewer to figure out, and still awesome. Definitely not for everyone but I loved it. Gary Oldman of course being one of the greatest actors of all time.
Please don't give Tony DJI a hard time. He's just a support person who's taking the brunt for a large corporation's priority's decisions.
Googling for other articles in this with more details, it looks the places that have implemented cat curfews are requiring cats to be indoors at night.

That's interesting, because in the US most concern over cats killing other animals is for birds and those birds are almost all diurnal. The non-birds cats kill a lot of are also mostly diurnal or crepuscular (active around sunrise and sunset). The nocturnal animals cats kill seem to be mostly things that most people are happy to have them kill (rats and mice).

So in the US if there was a cat curfew I'd expect it to be that cats have to be indoors by dawn, and can't be let out until the end of twilight.

A cat curfew at night in Australia suggests that it is nocturnal animals Australians are worried about. Which animals are those?

Are cats not as big a problem for diurnal animals there because those animals are scary Australian animals that cats are afraid to fuck with, or scary Australian animals that people are happy to have cats get rid of?
maybe streamsync [0] comes close to what you describe?

"Streamsync is an open-source framework for creating data apps. Build user interfaces using a visual editor; write the backend code in Python."
[0] https://github.com/streamsync-cloud/streamsync
It's worse than my example because the reality would be like if baking a pizza had a three-year lead time.

Even if the authorization was permitted to construct an entire new city capable of housing 3 million people, no reviews or permits, and assigned the highest priority and a blank-cheque budget to rush construction, it would take at least ten years to build. Vancouver's massive Oakridge redevelopment alone broke ground in 2019 and is expected to take until 2027 to complete. (The rezoning was approved in 2014.)

And that is what we should do! Yes! The country should be building brand new cities and linking them up with high-speed rail. But, even if that plan were shovel-ready today -- which it definitely, definitely isn't! -- it would still take years before it contributed to the solution, and all the while, the demand is continuing to grow!

The seeds of the supply solution to today's housing crisis needed to be planted at least ten years ago. But it wasn't, so we can plant those seeds now, but they'll take time to come to fruition. In the meantime, the only fast-acting measures are demand-side measures. And having to deploy demand-side measures is a very tragic consequence of not having taken timely action on the supply side. And that's even assuming we can plant those seeds today: if the city council squabbling about setbacks and floor-space-ratios continues today, then those seeds still aren't being planted, the demand-side measures will unfortunately need to last even longer, and the vitality of the country will suffer for it.
Supermarkets. Big Box stores. Malls always. Bars usually, buy a soda, tip the bartender.

One time I availed myself of a 24 hour porn shop at 3am. The bathroom was spotless.
There's actually a lot of variety.

Java is still popular around UK Departments but is by no means universal.

The UK Government Digital Service runs services in Ruby, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript and Java [1].

Other departments with strong programming teams would include:

- Department for Education (DfE)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
- Home Office

Amongst others. They'll each have a tendency towards their own tech stack.

This is a useful resource [2] (unofficial but run by folks who love this stuff) for finding out what services are out there, and where possible who runs them and links to open source code.

Have a look around, see what you like the look of, then set some alerts or reach out to a department to ask if anyone there could tell you more about what it's like to work there... would be my advice.

There are even some local authorities with pretty respectable tech operations. Hackney used to get kudos for building good things, as did Surrey.

Outside of Gov, Citizens advice run off ruby last I heard, there are wonderful places like MySociety, the ODI as well as the privacy folks like EFF and Open Rights group.

I agree with your core point, finding work that is meaningful to you can be hard. Even harder if you want to get paid commercial rates for it.

But take heart, there's an ecosystem of folks working their socks off to make things better out there. Hopefully this links you into their networks.

Good luck.

[1]: https://github.com/alphagov/
[2]: https://govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com/
KYC policies, probably. Though asking for gender sounds like an unnecessary mine field.
With no context, but much experience with databases...

Storing attachments as a blob in a database has all sorts of disadvantages I'm sure you're aware of, but it has the major advantage that if you can see the reference to the attachment, you can fetch the attachment. With links to a filesystem, you have to deal with issues like the frontends can't access the files because they're on the wrong system, or the network filesystem is down or .... There's a lot of possibilities.
Look, I'm very sure there's women only companies and minority only companies that claim they are diverse. It's not hard to find. (I'm black and I have eyes). Some of them covered in articles stating that thier composition is growing diversity. Or talking about how their diversity helps. People forget about diversity in experience & experiences. You can't all be devs after all.

I remember a body shop in Austin that recently made it into the news for allegedly putting up an ad for a white people only job linked to Berkshire.

Everyone there looked from the Indian subcontinent. The board had Middle eastern and black people.

No visibly Hispanic or White people or Black people among the rank and file in an Austin company.

Stop the pretence please.

Yes.
In many countries, by law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
Yeah but Bun is a web server. This thread is not about a tool for domain where Windows shines. Windows always sucked for web dev and for web deployment. Bun is an open source tool. The devs don't owe anything to Windows users. As a matter of fact, they are trying to bring it to Windows. It would probably already landed if it the support was as easy as for unix based system.

If you have circumstances requiring Win env and you want to do web stuff, run WSL. If you want to do web stuff and Win without WSL is your _prefererence_ don't expect the world to bend for you -> keep wallowing in your masochism.
> tokio uses a 'static, threaded runtime that has its benefits but requires its futures to be Send and 'static.

This is only partly true -- if you want to `spawn` a task on another thread then yes it has to be Send and 'static. But if you use `spawn_local`, it spawns on the same thread, and it doesn't have to be Send (still has to be 'static).
You are looking for deeper meaning. That's probably not to be found in Lego, unless you use it to teach kids about engeneering/robotics (a shame they stopped the mindstorms). And coincidently, that is how I enjoy Lego nowdays. Building a big castle for myself would also feel like a waste of time, because I see so many problems in this world (my personal as well as the bigger one) that I can relate to not having fun with simple things that used to be fun, because I think I could do something more useful. (and then I don't play, but also don't do something useful - and that is then a waste of time)
Humans use of language is way beyond any other known life form. Same for tool use. Saying they are the same as humans is like saying a tsunami and a ripple on a lake from a pebble are both waves.
> Gotta love the never ending hunt for things that are uniquely human.

To be fair, I've never seen any other member of the animal kingdom drunkenly light their own farts.

I suggest such actions (a combination of drug use, mastery of fire, intellect (however limited) and social bonding) define our humanity.
"Google is still aiming to ... turn off third-party cookies for 1 percent of Chrome users sometime in Q1 2024. The company has set a goal to completely turn off third-party cookies by Q3 2024."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801435/google-chrome-pr...
What's going to be interesting is the day that websites start to block users not providing data from this Topics API.

"We need to make money to operate this service and we can't support users who won't help us do that", or something to that effect.

I give it six months.
You might also like to check out Greg Egan's Permutation City[0] which (in the form of entertaining scifi) presents some related arguments about the need for a computational substrate, or lack thereof.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
It's not like HN at all really
I'm sorry, I thought the idiom was more widely used[1]

Generally, I'm opposed to any type of class distinction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-class_citizen#
> b) this is just the tip of the camel's nose. Expect the tent to be crowded soon if the topics api gets pushed through

This. Obviously Google know it’s controversial and rolls it out in the most innocent way possible. This is always the playbook for unpopular changes. The short term goal is clearly to get the infrastructure to be accepted. That’s how I’d do it, after thinking about for 10 seconds.
And the term “computer” originally described a person who made calculations, not a machine. Etymology can be informative and revealing, but is hardly dispositive.
Defaults matter. I don’t want to babysit the preference settings of my browser just to have my privacy preserved. I have other things to think of.

That is why on my personal computers I do not use Google Chrome and for many years I haven’t.
I can't make any sense of a single sentence of that.

> Sounds expensive, thanks

Huh? What does? The paper is entirely free. That's why I posted a link. Go read it. It's not very long, it's interesting, it's accessible, it's provocative and insightful and profound.

> Kernighan and Ritchie

Creator of C is biased about the language he created. Shock. Pictures at 11.

K&R was published in 1988. Then, your PC was to some degree a fast PDP-11. That was over 1/3 of a century ago and it is no longer even remotely true.

> Also, my computer is a fast Turing machine. And so is yours.

Reductio ad absurdam.

Here's a talk from the inventor of the Arm architecture. It's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOnpQgn-9s

She talks about her more recent baby, Firepath.

It can, for instance, in a single opcode and a single CPU cycle load 4 separate different 32 bit integers, multiply them by 4 other 32-bit ints and store the result.

(Around 25 min in but it's very worth watching the whole talk.)

Her point is that C can't express stuff like this well at all.

A modern CPU has dozens of execution units doing stuff in parallel, applying matrix operations and transformations to multiple different streams of data simultaneously: SIMD and MIMD combined. C has no way of even beginning to express any of this.

C is no more a high-level assembly language for any 21st century CPU than a Falcon-9 reusable orbital launch vehicle is a space-going version of the Wright Flyer.
They were probably close family or something similar, which substitutes for coaching for many such players anyway.
Yes, in which case you're supposed to go back and manually edit the title. The automation doesn't always work but it nudges things in the right direction.
We’re not the ones making these policies far too broad and open ended.
Here's a BBC video showing how good chimpanzees are with short-term memory. Short version, the chimp beats all humans at the memory test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
It wasn't the disease itself, it was the paranoid and tyrannical response to it.
I reckon this "shower thought" could use some workshopping. Religious / metaphysical / supernatural figures almost by definition don't represent the typical opinions of adherents, they being supernatural and all. Perhaps there is a case to be made that they are manifestations of moral aspirations or 'superego' commonalities but it might be hard to make a case that those are the same as mean opinion. Further, concepts of god are conserved concepts passed down from previous generations, so if they represent mean anything they are a lagged moving average mean with a lot of smoothing applied. In even simple societies there are typically some people closer to the god than others, and who interpret or get a greater say (i.e. priest or shaman) on what the nature of god is, so the mean would also be strongly weighted.

Insofar as it is true as written in that you are a dissident if you are in the minority in religious belief, I suppose that's self evident.
How about wearing a diaper? Problem solved.
Just kidding. What's the problem with providing public urinals?
I don't get it.
Here is an simple example from Hamburg.
https://www.heringinternational.com/fileadmin/images/content...
You'll find something similar everywhere in Europe.
I had been in SF once. This was the smelliest city expierence I ever had yet.
Wow. HN is one of the few places I'd expect to encounter someone stuck in Kohlberg Stage 4.