skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a condo in the suburbs of NH. My neighborhood mostly looks like a series of houses smushed together like townhouses in a city, but with a shared spacious yard in front of them & behind them. Most of them are linked on both sides but there are also ones that are only linked in pairs. It's certainly an efficient use of land and I ended up with something much nicer than if I had bought a traditional house.

My neighborhood has an HOA. I'm not allowed to use a grill on my deck. I can't just leave piles of trash in my yard. I can't install a garbage disposal unit in my sink. There are rules and the kind I would have really rolled my eyes at when I was younger.

But these rules, the HOA, they are required by state and federal law: https://www.hopb.co/new-hampshire

Condos are "common interest living spaces", if someone's house caught fire it can spread to the others. If the septic tank gets screwed up we all need to contribute to get that fixed. There are certain liabilities involved here that require some kind of legal entity to adjudicate, this is the role our HOA fills.

While I don't have the numbers, I speculate that the majority of HOAs in the United States were likely created for similar reasons. Fundamentally an HOA is kind of like the residential version of a workers cooperative, they enable high density housing where everyone gets to have equity. Living under an HOA will always be better than living under a landlord, yet I feel few make this connection, especially when considering who is more likely to discriminate.
You really think that the country that passed the DMCA and strongly pressures all its trading partners to enforce IP protection, is ever going to scan every book and upload it straight to a project that has already been associated with “piracy”?

In any event, the prospect that in some enlightened future states are going to scan their library holdings, is little comfort for people in the present who rely on libraries to get all that wealth of knowledge unavailable in digital form.
I fought through a PIP once just because I'm a stubborn idiot. Survived the pip and found a new job shortly after. It's not something I would recommend.
The scrap value of a car is now $3k, so cars that actually run are north of that price these days.
Then I find it an even stranger claim. I've done everything from statistics amd financial modelling, via web apps, image and sound processing to desktop apps in Ruby. For a few things people are best off using ffi to wrap compiled libraries, but there's never been anything I've wanted to do that I haven't been able to.
Years ago there was ODE ( ode.org ), which I used to simulate my micro mouse algo along with physics, this name bring back those memories.
You can set clipboard.autocopy to false in about:config to disable this. It breaks the example, at least.

EDIT: I thought the behavior was preserved for textareas, as the comment box here still copied on select. But it suddenly disabled it here too. Restarting the browser is probably a safe bet :)
Yeah, I suspect that businesses are a big part of why banks still have the amount of retail footprint that they do.
It's totally valid to push devs to get a ticket done faster when there's real pressure. It's much better to finish a ticket under estimate than turn estimates into aspirations.

The best case is to:

- line up the work in order of priority, taking into account prerequisites

- have sufficient stories in a ready for dev state

- during crunch time, be strategic about ticket assignment (you pay for this in the long term with a less-well-rounded team, so be careful)

- make sure to evaluate every feature to ensure that there are no "nice to haves" mixed in (when under time pressure), or move them to bottom of backlog

- selectively consider consulting with other teams, outside experts (but be sure to really time box this tightly and cut it off once work is under way)

- remove extraneous meetings & distractions; empower devs to decline meetings / block calendars

- borrow from the future by raising the bar on refactoring (ie, only when cost-benefit clearly pays for itself before deadline)

- be very careful that you don't make this approach the standard way of working
I can't come up with a single reason that makes this better, easier, shorter than just using a html + Go templating.
100% agree. But…. how do we get there? A LOT of people in the US living in very (gross) spread-out areas where there is horrible pedestrian infrastructure. The infrastructure that does exist seems like it was put in place to mock those without cars (sidewalks on extremely loud stroads). I currently live in such a place.

The end-point I want is for people to live in dense walkable areas by default. But people don’t live there and the few places that exist like that are disgustingly expensive because they are (surprise surprise) desirable patterns of building cities. So we need to build more of it. It will be a very big very energy intensive build-out program that will take decades. So the question is: Is it better or worse for the environment to move people to ICE so they can live in their existing buildings or is it better to build entirely new infrastructure so they can walk.

Maybe my thinking is too black and white. I want the latter but I’m not sure the costs to the environment in the short term are justified. Maybe the long term benefit justifies it. I don’t know.
The causes of poverty in urban areas and in very small rural towns are very very different.
I wonder if there's a coordination problem where no individual Qualcomm customer wants to pay the entire cost of extended support but if they all shared that cost it would be reasonable.
Once you are used to the patterns and functions coding becomes faster, easier to understand and less error prone.
I think they're arguing that nobody is making decisions about running a business in Q4 of 2023 thinking "what about COVID?"
The thing I wonder is, what is the impact of a known armed populace on the willingness of foreign powers to set up operations like this? I.e. if you were able to re-roll the United States disarmed like the UK, would there be more Chinese police stations? I guess we'll never know.
Do we? It seems like there are some people developing Unix clones for fun, and building their own RISC-V or 6502 CPUs. We don't have much innovation in OSes from amateurs, though. At least there's sel4, which is formally proven to follow a certain spec that makes some security guarantees.
At first glance, it does not appear to have support for game consoles. I'd wager that the kind of teams that are looking at making heavier or advanced 3D games are more likely to also need to take that into consideration.
Yeah I used to occasionally debug and test some things by writing manual HTTP requests over telnet, and it is something I’ve noticed new devs often just don’t get how approachable HTTP/1.1 is. Even if they have worked with headers and methods, there still seems to be a lot of magic happening in their minds.

Unfortunately chrome has stopped showing cookie headers in the network tab. You have to look somewhere else for those, and I think at that point you’re just seeing the current cookies, not the raw headers. Maybe there’s a security reason for that, but it is a further abstraction layer of “we’ll present the information a certain way” rather than “we’ll just show you all the information that the server sent back” that I expect will grow into other headers (maybe already has) and further remove us from seeing the raw details and having a clear understanding of what’s happening under the hood.

(You know it’s possible HTTP/3 cookies are even passed in a different way under the hood from other response headers, and that could be part of why they’ve separated them out. I hadn’t considered that possibility.)
Now I wonder if you ever used IRC or if you have a vastly different use of Discord than me.
The issue isn’t that every single person in the IT field needs to know HTTP in detail. The issue is that people who have invested in training for a role and are applying for a role do not understand fundamental technologies that are essential to that role.

For you that would be trying to work in ML not understanding any of the theory or how it works, but having used OpenCV with some premade models a few times.

For a frontend web developer who, as a large part of their role, will need to communicate with backend systems… that’s not understanding how their FE web application actually communicates with BE systems.

And from experience… yes, this is very common. And it has a noticeable impact on their effectiveness. Trying to debug why some interaction between your application and the BE application isn’t working while thinking the dev tools network inspector is just black magic and nonsense makes your job substantially more difficult.

This does make these people bad engineers. They are not able to understand and solve a huge class of the problems that they face day-to-day and instead (in my experience) often fall back on “just try a bunch of different things until something works for reasons I don’t understand” which is a poor way to approach work and leads to overly complex, buggy, brittle systems.
Though it must be said the percentage of armed customers increases the more rural you go.

Due to local laws, it's a fairly safe bet in Los Angeles that few if anyone has a weapon more dangerous than a pocket knife. In small town Texas or Alabama, there will be a much higher percentage of armed customers, and a non-zero number will have a hero complex.
Not all profit is created equal. Sometimes in order to chase greater short-term rewards, you sacrifice your access to long-term rewards. Pushing your dev team into unsustainable practices may increase next quarter's profits, but might also mean that your company is bankrupt 2 years from now.

I would amend what the author wrote to say that a lot of stuff is being driven with an eye for short-term profit, at the expense of long-term value.
https://github.com/a-h/templ

Templ is a far more elegant solution for composing HTML within Go
This study is comparing individuals having complete knowledge vs. a team with individuals having incomplete knowledge. Yes, the communication complexity tax must be paid. What am I missing?
There's no theory on good design. You organize your code one way versus another way nobody can really point to any mathematical proof or empirical evidence for anything. It's just one baseless arrangement vs. another.

This is why, often, when you refactor code it doesn't make it better. You don't fully know if it's better. It's just another way. So even when you do this refactor stuff often you find yourself in the SAME situation even if you didn't touch it.

Think about it. You follow best practices, you try to write code as beautifully as possible. That doesn't actually prevent a new feature from having you to gut a huge portion of your code to accommodate it.

But developers don't realize this. They think the extra time spent refactoring puts them in a better place then before. But really they just can't see the counter factual. Did it really?

I've been in places that emphasize on good code quality and put lots of good practices in place but they end up with "tech debt" anyway. Then when clean up day comes they blame it on bad practices and shortcuts but they're blind to the fact that the they were one of the most rigorous companies in terms of code quality.
Scroll-Driven State Transfer
See also: https://github.com/RobertPeip/Mister64
You might like the Evoluent vertical mouse. The scrollwheel and the middle mouse button are separate.

And it is the absolute most comfortable mouse I've ever used.
Not who you originally asked, but I bought one of the cheaper EVs earlier this year (Hyundai Kona, slightly more expensive than the Bolt but in a similar class). With fuel savings included, (which, for our use case was between $100-$130/month), it was hard to find an ICE vehicle that met our needs for cheaper when we were shopping. We did have to compromise slightly on size (it's smaller than we wanted) in a way that we wouldn't have had to with an ICE vehicle, but so far, it's absolutely been cheaper and easier than my previous ICE vehicles. As I said to some relatives not that long ago: even if I found out 100% conclusively that electric vehicles had exactly zero environmental benefit over ICE vehicles, I'm not sure I'd ever go back. I just like it more as a vehicle.
If _nothing_ has ever been changed on the plane, I'll take the new one, thank you. I don't know how it lasted that long, but I won't take any chances.
I wouldn't call IRC decentralized, but yeah, all the new messaging systems like Slack/Discord are basically proprietary versions of IRC with only one (shitty ElectronJS) desktop client.
Wonderful tool! I started using it since 0.6 because sbsigntools and pesign both choked on some EFI executables I had, but sbctl's go-uefi parser did not. It also seems to handle enrolling PK/KEK/db/dbx a lot more reliably than sbkeysync (which used to ignore errors and exit(0)) and efivar.
Your mastery of HN comment meta-character rendering is impressive! :-)
Do you know color-scheme?
Sir Bobby Charlton, Manchester United legend and World Cup winner, dies at 86
Think you can't compost styrofoam? Mealworms are the answer
Owning a gas car will become inconvenient and expensive very soon. The number of gas stations has gone down from 202K to 115K, ~50% down[1]. Gas stations make very little money on gas, most of their income is from people buying cigarette, lotteries, lotto, beer, beverages, and some trinkets in the store. All profits are at the margins. When foot traffic drops, even by 10 - 20%, gas stations are not viable. They can increase gas prices, but that will further reduce foot traffic, because most everyone uses gasbuddy or similar apps to find the cheapest gas. And Costco, Walmart, etc can be extremely competitive on gas and even make these loss leaders to drive foot traffic as well as EV charging spots. Gas stations have no move left to gain foot traffic.

10% EV adoption is not far off, thats when we start seeing collapse of gas station. EVs charge at home or work, except when going on long rides. Gas stations lose this foot traffic forever. Adding EV spots at gas station won't help, there is nothing for people to do to for 15 - 20 mins at a gas station, they'd rather go to Target, Walmart, Costco and do some grocery shopping.

Most people don't understand how quickly things change. We went from flip phones to smart phones in less than decade. Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains How The Horse Industry Vanished in less than 20 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvzw7NPmppY

Folks buying new ICE cars will soon (< 10 years) have a rapidly depreciating vehicle, nearly worthless because it will be costly to own and operate. It will be like owning a horse after everyone bought a car.

[1]The first gas station in the United States opened in St. Louis in 1905, and by 1994 there were 202,800 across the country. Fast forward to 2013, and station numbers had decreased by 25% or almost 50,000, and by 2020 that number had shrunk to 115,200. A 2019 report by BCG predicts that 80% of conventional gas stations could be driven (pun intended) out of business by 2035: https://enpowered.com/the-death-of-gas-stations-will-be-far-...
Or BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag)
As a fact, no, I don't.
The amount of carnage seen on Palestine photos and videos is not matched.

Of you read words written by press, you may get an impression that it is comparable. But you will struggle to find evidence backing it up. Because there is not.
So, to say Lumberyard is a fork of Cryengine is actually missing some important details.

Basically, Amazon started building a new engine and plugin architecture. After acquiring the CryEngine code, it was pretty heavily refactored to fit into the new LY design and plugin (gem) architecture.

Overtime they had slowly replaced gems that were originally of Cry design, with LY's origin design untill finally the last major piece of Cry was it's renderer.

With the release of O3DE, it finally includes their own new renderer Atom, finishing their transition off of CryTech developed system.

So, while it's strictly true that LY is a CryEngine fork. And I don't think CryEngine 5 code was ever imported. It's really for the most part irrelevant, as it exists as an almost entirely original piece of technology now that has almost entirely lost it's Cryengine heritage by now.
Sindarin
> For firefox running in Wayland, `writeXPrimary()` will only succeed
when the firefox window (the main window, not necessarily the tab the code
runs in) has the focus. Otherwise the selection will be cleared. At first I
assumed that this is something specific to the Wayland protocol, but that
turned out to be utterly false; it's just some quirk, bug or "feature"
specific to either firefox itself or GTK.

Most Wayland compositors will refuse clipboard requests from unfocused clients.

Additionally, the Wayland protocol carries an event identifier, so that the compositor can tie the clipboard request to a pointer/keyboard/touch event and take a better decision. (This metadata is missing for X11 clients, of course.)
While thats true, business leaders still need to realize developing software is not the same sort of economic activity as running a horseshoe press or something. Machine can’t just be ran faster. You can’t also just plug another machine in the wall and expect it to know exactly what to do and double your output. Roadblocks often emerge that cannot be foreseen at all short of taking even more time to speculate on these potential blocks down the road.

Certain jobs do have these estimates better managed. For example, tunnel construction often hits unknown things underground that delays the project substantially in time and money. However this is par for the course with tunnel construction and such delays are even expected at this point.
Does not sound like a worthwhile trade-off.
The sky is blue.

Source: trust me, bro

The earth is round.

Source: trust me, bro
Sorta, but. It's not really analogous. The "floor" on EV cost is the battery. It's the hugest bottleneck and although prices / kWh have come down drastically it's still extremely high because supply is just not there.

Meanwhile the floor on an ICE is more the complexity of manufacturing and labour. Some of which exists also for EVs.
A note: This doesn't work great in mobile, or in firefox/safari browsers due to the expiremental files used
Ask HN: Would you stop eating meat after AI unlocks communication with animals?
Or maybe you might still eat animals that have nothing interesting to say?
What a silly, immature statement. Sounds like the typical reaction I hear to organized retail theft and the rioting and destruction of property back in 2020: "They have insurance."

As if the lack of consequences for perpetrators doesn't have consequences of its own. Insurance is not free money.
It's a case study on what could happen if EV's become cheaper than gasoline vehicles. It doesn't really matter if the shift happens due to subsidies or market forces.
>I do wonder how much of this is driven by high performance requirements. If you go non high dpi, and 60Hz, do your options open up?

Except you cant. It is just standard manufacturing problem.

If you want the display to be cut in specific size, you either have other industry players with large enough volume, and you buy the same size with different variation on panels. i.e You pick up the scraps of other players. And you are piggy back on their orders.

Or you could ask the Display Panel manufacture to custom made for you, which without volume you wont be able to afford.

Since Apple isn't ordering those smaller specific size panel any more. Samsung aren't making those. So there are no lower quality grades to pick up. And you cant ask Samsung to give what Apple were using ( since they were the ONLY player in the industry to use that specific size screen ). And they have an exclusive arrangement. Apple also uses slightly different sub pixel alignment. So the moment you use it they will know.
The real-life showdown in North Hollywood was even better. Two bank robbers shot it out with the LAPD for over an hour and dumped over a thousand rounds onto the street before they finally went down, after half the department and SWAT all showed up. It was one of the events that sparked police militarization to take off because the police were so badly outgunned. Dudes had full body armor and fully-automatic rifles and the handguns and shotguns the cops were using didn't even slow them down. I and half the city probably watched it happen live, too, thanks to news helicopters being on scene the entire time.

90s were a crazy time, man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
I am pretty sure (but not certain) it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6YPgEhGKjOGKriFcF0LC...
Do we need even more confirmation that 1999 was the greatest year ever?
The name checks out. Anyone who can understand LaTEX must have a natural disposition for markup mastery.
Baker vs. City of McKinney, No. 22-40644 (5th Cir. 2023)
This is an update to a case from 2021: "A SWAT Team Blew Up This Innocent Woman's House and Cost Her Over $50,000. The City Tried To Stop Her From Suing." [1]

The main law at issue is the Takings Clause [2]:

> nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

[1] https://reason.com/2021/11/29/swat-team-blew-up-innocent-wom...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment
For reference, the ALICE threshold or a family of four is about $68K in San Antonio: https://www.uwsatx.org/alice/

If you go by the federal poverty rate, the rate is 14%, which is about average for the US.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be hard raising a family on $68K here. I think it would be challenging, especially factoring in childcare, but the ALICE budget gives you $819/month for transportation. This seems excessive given you can get a $10k used car for about $228/month (I think). The pickings aren't amazing at that level, but I regularly drive a car that would currently be valued around $6-8k. It's safe and reliable. I haven't broken down other parts of the budget.

Statewide, the percent above ALICE threshold matches exactly that of California, at 57%, although there are slightly more in poverty (lower threshold than ALICE) in Texas: https://www.unitedforalice.org/national-overview

Is there data on what % of those are single earner households?
Machine learning is one area where it takes a bit more imagination to do it in Ruby, but you can easily wrap both compiled code and Python for that matter and still do your own work in Ruby if that's what you want to do.

I'd strongly argue that irrespective of your preferred language (ok, almost, before someone brings up Intercal or something) if you in any domain think it doesn't support what you want to do, what it actually means is that you don't understand how to achieve it with that tool. That's fine, and maybe it's not the right tool for you, but it's not the fault of your tools

And if you're not happy with what you're working on, you're unlikely to stick with it long enough to have any impact. And even you do, if the result is being miserable it's not worth it.
but they get effectively free electricity...

Tell that to anyone paying an electric bill, especially if they live in Southern Norway.
Except in languages other than Go you’re usually in some kind of async system that renders stacktraces useless.
They may not drive a $10k used ICE, but if you add up the cost in fuel & oil changes, it's likely equivalent.

The real problem is that right now a $10k used EV is almost certainly an old Leaf or Kia Soul EV etc with extremely low range and degraded battery (because they lacked proper thermal mgmt, mainly). So they're not really directly usable by most people. This will eventually change though; in 10 years there'll be boatloads of Model 3s or Ioniqs or Bolts etc on the used market. And yes, they'll be more expensive than a used ICE but they'll also be cheaper to maintain.
Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play (2007)