skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among housing advocates we usually call this the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. The NPIC is a shakedown racket that uses government powers to thwart market forces and funnel tax funds into their own pockets. It is simple corruption, because these organizations are also politically active, and the "community benefits" they extract amount to bribes, which are partly laundered into coordinated campaign spending. If you are ever dealing with people who say market-built housing is evil and we can only accept 100% non-profit housing, you are dealing with the NPIC.

The NPIC relies on your ignorance of the scale of the housing crisis. This article, as poorly written and argued as it is, appears to commit the same mistake. "Hundreds of millions of dollars" is nothing, can make no impact in a city the size of Seattle. In Berkeley, where I live, every little apartment building costs at least $100 million. That's just how much a building costs these days. Private industry in my county spent $6.8 billion on new construction last year. If you live in a county of several million people and the NPIC plan of record is to spend low hundreds of millions over a decade, that indicates that your local NPIC intends to perpetuate the housing crisis, which makes sense for them because otherwise they would need to get new jobs.

The only serious response to the American housing crisis involves West Coast cities spending at least $10k per capita per year on new construction for the foreseeable future. At least 95% of this money needs to come from private investment.
> But what... if it's French Belgian person from France... is this still "French from France", or "French from Belgium" ? The Belgian person lives in France ;-)

This is accessory; the goal is to suggest relevant options for someone based on the language they configured their browser with.

> Also, you missed other language codes for French: […]

These are combinations of a language code (fr) and a region code; the list is not standardized and could theorically be extended to all the regions with an ISO code. What’s interesting here is the region code, not the language.
I did join somewhere that could do it correctly, because they had some very long-running POS software. It could even do things like "split bill three ways" correctly allocating both the spare penny from the division and the tax calculation, such that you could add the bills back together again and get the same numbers as the split bill.

Using a "money" class that stores things as integer pennies gets you a long way there. "Division" and its close friend "multiply by noninteger number" are the only real problems, so you need to be careful not to provide a generic method and instead methods like divideWithLocaleTaxRounding(). You also need to check whether you're supposed to apply tax per-item or you can do it to the whole bill.

I think we had a "apply tax to whole bill but then re-distribute it to line items" method, which guaranteed that the total would be correct.

There are reasonable arguments for "integer decimal fraction of penny" as the correct unit. Digikey price some parts in 0.1 of a penny or cent, for example.

Attempting to convert things between binary "fractions" (floating point) and decimal fractions will result in misery.

I think we also had a "rational number" class for storing things like "1/3".
To be fair, North America used to have a lot of megafauna like wooly mammoths and they were hunted to extinction by "native Americans" when they showed up via the land bridge at Alaska.
But politics impact me and my family and the world we live in.

And some technologies do too!

So it's natural and probably good to have thoughts and perspectives and positions on politics and technologies that impact me and my family and the world we live in (rather than be apathetic).

Should we avoid polarization, and arguing by memes, absolutely!

But like perpetual motion machine and eugenics and racism and trickle down economy, there are things in life that a) We've discussed and read about sufficiently and b) We believe they impact us negatively enough that we have a fairly established position on; something would have to change quite radically to shift it.

For cryptocurrency, I find it either naive or disingenuous to call it "just a technology" or "an algorithm". Tables and B-trees and markov's chains and blockchain may be technologies. Cryptocurrencies are an implementation and usage and ideology, not an "algorithm". It's closer to a cult religion, from where I'm sitting, and I'm terrified that zealots will push it far enough that its current (flawed! Awful! Insane!) implementations become the norm and "too big to fail".

(Snarky add-on: And even for technologies... since when did any of us not have guttural reactions and strong opinions and religious wars on technologies? JavaScript, Oracle, Microsoft, Perl, Intel vs AMD, Linux vs Windows for Apple, Kubernettes, etc etc etc... guttural reactions and strong opinions are the norm, and those are not policy-changing, environment-draining, scam-filled financial schemes :)

FWIW :)
They do. One of the most powerful behavior-modulating mechanisms is reality building. Think of the folks who self-censor imagination because Truth/Reality/Nature align with their views. "That's just how things are" is more powerful than laws, norms, or costs. In fact the acceptance of laws norms and costs as legitimate rest firmly on legal realism, social realism, and economic realism - all flavors of the same substrate.
The notion of 'highly mobile homeless people' is not born out by the actual statistics:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california...
I was surprised that Whiz could use tools like ffmpeg even though it tells ChatGPT to only use available shell commands. I asked it to "convert demo.mov to an mp4" and "cut the first five seconds of demo.mp4" and it came back with the correct commands. I guess that was enough to allow it to assume ffmpeg is probably installed. Pretty cool!
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Labels ARE shareholders in Spotify.
There is absolutely a conflict of interest regarding how Spotify handles its rights/royalties negotiations when the licensees are an oligopoly, who derive value from both sides of the transaction, and represent downstream beneficiaries who have no say in the deal struck or prices paid.
Spotify and Labels together screw musicians, acting separately, and together.
That's not why, it's so that business signage is not blocked by foliage, and so that police can scan areas more quickly while on patrol.
After California builds some housing, then we can measure it.
Not necessarily filesystem paths (in my case, the paths correspond to RocksDB keys). And I’d like to be able to fold/unfold subtrees, search within node names, and call arbitrary commands for a given path in the tree, from within a TUI. So no, `tree` won’t cut it.
Hello,
I saw this question on a tech manager community that I follow and would love to see your opinion as well
> Unfortunately, the actual choice is about having an app or not, and I’d rather take something over nothing.

Not yet, it's not. At least for the applications that I use (outside of work), I haven't had to settle for a web app yet, fortunately. At work, I have no choice but to use a couple.

It's not a given that I'd prefer a web app over nothing, personally. Being a web app is a serious downside, and I could see many situations where I'd just use nothing instead. It all depends on what my actual needs are.
I'm a somewhat old coot and do remember those days, but I think the term still makes sense but only in a lan environment.

machines still have hostnames, and home routers will often trust your dhcp clients machine name.

So I can still look up steamdeck.lan and find the IP of my steam deck and in that context calling it a machine name is perfectly apt and I think would still be well understood.
>Theodore Roosevelt
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic" delivered at The Sorbonne Paris, France April 23, 1910

Yeah, he was also a rich guy born with a silver spoon, who never faced any actual adversity in life, and so spent his time fetishizing those who do, while LARPing as one of them in controlled environments.

Read into his whole trip through South America; it's an absolute disgrace. The attitude you illustrated above led to the death of his guide (and almost his son) and him having to be hauled out of the jungle by natives on a stretcher for weeks.

Even the charge up San Juan hill is pure mythology. The enemy position had already been cleared by the 10th cavalry, and they were waiting for Roosevelt at the top. The guy is a complete work of fiction as he is taught to school children these days.

Point being, these romantic notions of life have very little bearing on reality. Criticism is valid. And doing dumb things is indeed many times just dumb.
Which is a good thing, since it's ultimately a failed concept.
So, you are saying it is my "personal responsibility" to help people on an individual level?
Is there any good iOS port on HMM3 again? There was something many years ago that probably wasn’t maintained anymore for new iOS versions. Would gladly pay!
There is more bandwidth used today, but there was so much more shared material before. The most heinous illegal shit you could imagine would just float over the network through your node. Your dad's QuickBooks files were downloaded by strangers, along with your family photos. Corporate records, lists of social security numbers kept on a hospital computer. Anything you could imagine. It's vastly different today; the content you can get is curated, only select things get put onto services, and takedown notices often get them dropped. Nothing was taken down back in the day, nobody was watching, and there was no filter. I saw things at 17 that no kid today could possibly get access to. The nature of file sharing today just isn't an open tap like it used to be. You have to try hard to publish or retrieve stuff today; back then it was almost accidental.
Different currencies already have different rules. Any good accounting software isn't going to assume US cents. Update your currency table to include a version of USD in increments of $0.001. Update the amounts on a need-be basis. ( Multiply by 10 and change the currency type)
So we can validate Bard using blogspam SEO articles, eventually having those written by Bard or ChatGPT? It's a LLM ouroboros
IEEE 754 floating point are numbers, they are not ranges. Every operation rounds to a representable number in the set.
For me it comes down to "how important is it to be right"? For many of the queries, it's not that important and if I lose the 5% gamble, it's annoying but ultimately inconsequencial. If it's an important thing to be right about, then I will verify it from both.
And not updated in quite some time. And very buggy (Machato)
If "signed contract" is your requirement then we can agree that no politician has ever lied in their campaign promises, because they don't make them signed contracts... that seems irrelevant?

The lie was that we save that much by leaving the EU, the fact that our health service was underfunded and has had budget increases in line with inflation and population growth doesn't change that it was a lie - we could've (and would have) increased NHS spending regardless of the Brexit vote.
Interesting side note:ASME also has a standard for rounding on engineering drawings. A few years back I had to build a custom function in Excel to match the standard, because our calcs weren't matching the customer's calcs.
I've heard similar things said about the new Royal Enfield motorcycles here in India.

The redesigned J-series engines on their new motorcycles are smoother and I've heard some people wax nostalgic about the old thumpers and say that the new ones "lack character". I've even heard people speak fondly of the the UCE engines (introduced in the early 2000s) which were hated for a similar "lack of character" when they replaced the older engines (which were originally designed back in the 50s I think).
Now that's what I call Big Iron
I prefer Apple Maps, I just wish they would have a favorites story similar to google maps. It’s also not always as good internationally, but seems to be improving.
I am a part of Olga's team and would be happy to answer any questions. This undertaking was highly successful and has become the new model for implementing Vitess cluster-wide changes. Previously, such changes involved cumbersome in-place updates, expensive roll backs and lengthy bake periods.
Yep it's wrong, it's coming out on September 22. I don't doubt that some web pages have it wrong though, and it's hard to fault Bard for that.
As much as I want to clown a little on the language for taking so long to do string templates, congratulations on getting virtual threads shipped, I can't imagine the effort that must've took to implement into something as hairy and complex as the JVM!
Do you mean why Unity adopted it, or why people generally use it for game dev?

Unity uses C# for historical reasons - when Unity started, Mono was one of the few options that fit their needs. Outside Unity, C# mindshare isn't that big I think.

Java has been used a fair bit for Android games for obvious reasons, but game programmers are rarely Java fans.
Is fixed-point the right term ?

As far as I know fixed point numbers have a fixed fractional part in bits, but this is different from using integers with a multiplicative factor, like 100, to represent correctly a fractional part as 1/100.
I'm always looking for guides on how to improve physical world privacy if anyone knows of any.
Vercel nows supports Remix 2.0
I think that's why @Pitstoptech feels so manufactured to me. There are so many communities for things like this, and it's like they're either not aware or that they're intentionally not engaging with any part of it.

They popped into existence last month with a single video and no links to prior projects or community involvement, they haven't shared any open process or build resources, and now, in a 24 hour period, every tech blog is writing about them... despite cncdan's project having come first by a few months, having more than two videos, more views, engagement, and development, and he's not even the only one!

It just smells too much like shadow marketing campaign.
It was a product of the time. At the time you had the copyright trolls who would use the peer search function that was available on earlier p2p tools, and use that as the basis to blast out shakedown letters.

By removing search from the protocol it meant that they actually had to join the swarm. Also, this led to the creation of private trackers.
Did the remain campaign point it out?
Finland: Gov. owns 7,000 units across the country to provide long-term housing for any homeless person, some even being permanent. With on-site support staff and tenant resources.

Singapore: Long-term housing for homeless, with support. Converting to short-term transitionary housing for homeless people going from long-term housing to thier own house. Lastly, strict control of housing prices in Singapore, leading to a 89% homeownership rate for citizens.

It happens everywhere, and no one country has fully solved homelessness. But other countries focus on alleviating the "infection" (lack of stability, home, food), rather than America's approach of alleviating the "symptoms" (rehab programs, drug testing, work requirements). America as a whole has always been more leaning towards punishment of it's homeless population, not support. Especially as many cities now make it a felony to be homeless through various means.
We will surely take that into account and carve it as an add-on. (Postmark did the same recently with their retention-add-on)
We are early in the product phase so feedback like yours is very valuable!
Thanks again
Introducing Nova-2: The Fastest, Most Accurate Speech-to-Text API
* Post everything to a Mailman type mailing list

* rsync the relevant Maildir/mbox files somewhere public every x minutes
Did it say September 15 or 18? (both answers I've gotten from it over the past month or two). If so, that's wrong. It's September 22. As sibling pointed out though, there are apparently web pages that have it wrong so it's probably not Bard's fault. I also wouldn't be shocked if the date changed and was originally 9/15
Very cool. Not a huuge deal, but for open source software, I don't totally appreciate the http call to a bitly tracker in the install script...
New quantum dev kit compiled to WASM from Rust and runs in the browser
What you seem to be driving towards is the idea that jail houses need to exist in order to house the people who "can't cope with day to day responsibility and life". I don't disagree.

Exactly like you say, some people just need a little more help to 'make it' some people simple can't handle it and need to be taken care of for their entire life.
How is this new release better than Java 1.4.2? What can a server running Java 21 do that wasn't possible in Java 1.4.2?
It's an opportunity to reflect on the material differences in this new release.
That's not augmentation, what we are experiencing is Internet fragmentation plus increasing the level of censorship by changing the actor of one - social networks did not censor its content at all in 2013 or earlier and Google used to almost not censor its search results.

The skill is in gathering torrent trackers, telegram groups, arxiv whitepapers and just being acknowledged about fields on which you are really acknowledged with ever-increasing level of acknowledgeness in the even more ever-increasing world of information.
This is basically true of most wars. The war in Iraq was supposed to be quick and decisive. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rumsfeld-it-would-be-a-short-wa...
It’s a little bit of a complicated issue. On the one hand, my great-grandfather gave up using a patronym to be an American. That’s a totally normal thing, and it’s weird to complain about it. In Japan, they were often confused about which of my names was personal and which was for my family, and they never quite figured out the deal with my middle name / initial. Cultures are different, and you can’t expect everyone in one country to know everything about another.

On the other hand, some people make a big show out of not knowing how to pronounce common Indian names, and that strikes me as silly/microaggressive. Hindi is spelled phonetically in English, so it’s not very hard.

On the third hand though, Chinese names are often spelled with a Romanization that wasn’t designed for use by English speakers, so of course they can’t do it. If you want them to not mangle your name, use the Yale Romanization.

I think people want there to be a simple answer like “everyone just change your name to John Smith” or “if they can’t pronounce Xi Jinping, they’re racists” but simple answers don’t really apply. We’re all just going to muddle through the best we can.
From your link:

"Albania was the top nationality claiming asylum in the UK in the year ending September 2022 (13,650 applications)."

Full text of the paragraph you partially quoted:

"In the year ending September 2021, EU+ (EU, EEA and Switzerland) countries have seen a 4% fall in asylum applications, receiving 418,495 first time asylum applications from non-EU citizens. The top nationalities of people applying for asylum were Syrian (75,615), Afghan (49,905), Venezuelan (19,235), Colombian (18,160), Pakistani (17,960), Iraqi (16,420), and Turkish (13,845)."

I thought your numbers were a bit high for the UK.
There have been more wealthy Great Lakes (Canada, Michigan) people flooding to SF than anyone else for years now. Pretty much since Detroit died.

You can always tell because they don't assimilate. Canadians LOVE their own flag, and will typically wear it on their clothing every day, while condescending all the arrogant Americans lol. Same with Michigan and the color yellow. Look what they did to JFK in the park T_T

They have the exact same views toward homeless and home ownership and opportunities here in SF as they did back home. To us locals, it looks a lot like a wave of people from a failed city are coming here with their failed policies to try and kill this city next.
and yet today I saw a website calculate 3.3 x 4 to be 13.200000000000003
Anything specialized for your industry, then a nocode platform can work real well. General purpose nocode, without either domain knowledge or software knowledge? Hnnnnnhg[0].

Why[1] is that? Whelp, what the nocode tools do - in my completely non-credible opinion - a real good job of is exposing the base abstractions used by developers. But - and whew, am I gonna piss off some people here - good base abstractions need domain knowledge. So when you combine "no industry knowledge" with "no coding knowledge" into a Superteam making Enterprise Software, you got a magic formula for making tools with negative value.

Since I come from the interface between technical representation and domain knowledge, I think something that really speaks to this is the utter insistence on having documents that automatically populate from BIS (business information systems). XML was the NoCode of this application, and it never worked. The reason it never worked, is because neither the domain knowledge (CAD or PDM or LSA or WI, consumables/fasteners location, flight ops mission plan AND emergency engine procedures[2] AND most of preflight, et cetera et cetera) OR the schema ("BREX allows you to do whatever you want with the schema! Go nuts!") have enough information to formulate natural language descriptions, procedures, checklists, and the like. Either the Powers-That-Be thought the domain stuff would sort itself out[3], OR they're making the assumption that documents don't need natural language. Either is super duper dumb, but the basic notion is so seductive that we keep on chasing it, for decades and decades. I see a shadow of this in the general nocode platforms. Maybe, possibly, AI has the answer here in the form of "instant domain knowledge", but boy, would I never use that for anything safety critical without SOMEONE who knows what they're doing. Overfitting is a thing.

[0] I've seen Zapier do crazy cool things, but teams with domain knowhow (and programming knowledge) had already been at it, chunking up useful blocks for the "users" making actual apps.

[1] In my experience, is the probably-unnecessary adder.

[2] "What do you mean, 'our engine doesn't catch on fire'?"

[3] Which, right there, would be a good software application. "Will the FAA let me fly with the business system informations I have?". Instead of hashing it out in your pilot checklists three weeks before cert, because natural language is the crappiest place for that analysis.
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Curious about their actual product. Is pharma synthesis actually so subpar in gravity environments that low-Earth orbit synthesis is actually economically more practical? My understanding is that the low-gravity environment primarily affects crystal growth, which I'm not sure how great of an impact of somewhat higher quality crystals can bring relative to their cost.
It's being studied

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone
And it’s LTS! When is the book and the certification exam coming out, does anyone know?
I haven't tried it yet but I'm guessing this will fold into a different visual representation in IntelliJ when the cursor isn't nearby. It's not pretty but if it's consistent I guess it's fine.
Is the end of AIDS in sight?
No, but it is kind of a good point because it looks like they turned of youtubes "in-video" ads but he still has clearly marked paid promotions and "built in" ads/promotions he does like a podcast. So both Brand and YouTube are still making almost the same money right now even though they, "aren't monetizing".