skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ This.

100% (yes the literal 100%) of media regarding NFTs is purely about NFT art and it annoys the shit out of me. The fact that there is free form data (with some generally accepted fields used for consistency), and that this data can be owned and provably traced back to the originator is remarkably powerful Re: the poster's above example of a wedding certificate is a great example.

The most frustrating thing about this tech was the goldrush that happened and the inevitable crash. I view myself as something of a "pragmatic visionary" (yes self-proclaimed) and to see this tech completely abused was both confusing and crushing. I'm on the verge of releasing a platform that, underneath it all, uses NFTs because they have great use-cases, but none of the marketing material mentions it due to the fact that the media have wrecked the public's opinion of NFTs.

If I had to come up with an analogy, I would say that NFT art was akin to the Model-T coming out and the only use was people driving around a track and having a picture taken of them driving around a track. Yes you can do that but you've completely missed the point.
Consider these two patterns:

1. The owner of a website hosting user-generated content (such as social media posts) voluntarily bans users for speech the owner didn't like.

2. A government forces the owner of a website hosting user-generated content to ban users for speech the government didn't like.

Why and when is it reasonable to treat patterns 1 and 2 as sufficiently analogous to be counted under a single banner of "censorship"? Consider a third pattern as well.

3. A company offers tours of the buildings to outsiders who apply for tours. A tour visitor says something the owner doesn't like, so the owner voluntarily bans the visitor from continuing the tour.

Is it reasonable to call pattern 3 censorship? And if it is, is the so-called censorship in pattern 3 "in the wrong", "no matter the circumstances"?

Substack is a case of pattern 1. How should someone track which instances of Substack's moderation of XYZ ended up being "in the right" vs "in the wrong"? XYZ could be people who write in favor of Nazi beliefs (who Substack isn't banning). XYZ could be people who write in favor of sexual gratification (who Substack is banning).

As Ken White (Popehat) wrote about Substack's policy regarding Nazis [1]:

> My point is not that any of these policies is objectionable. But, like the old joke goes, we’ve established what Substack is, now we’re just haggling over the price.

...

> Substack has made a series of value judgments about which speech to permit and which speech not to permit. Substack would like you to believe that making judgments about content “for the sole purpose of sexual gratification,” or content promoting anorexia, is different than making judgment about Nazi content. In fact, that’s not a neutral, value-free choice. It’s a valued judgment by a platform that brands itself as not making valued judgments.

[1] https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportuni...
Looks like ~3,087 Petabytes of total storage!
Even if they do, settlements often establish de facto precedents that corporate lawyers (and insurance companies) will strongly advise you steer away from.
https://www.amazon.com/Across-Silicon-Bravely-Stan-Stevens/d...
What part of "one hundred times out of a hundred" did you miss? You don't end up with the choice because nobody builds parking.

Queens NY has this problem pretty severely. Zoning requires parking past 7 stories in building height, so every building is 7 floors at maximum density with no parking. Residents often find themselves circling their neighborhoods for hours looking for parking. Living without a car and being fully-dependent on public transit absolutely sucks in most of the borough.
Right - my intuition is that most people don't have questions that they want answered in this way very often.

Learning how to use this tool involves learning what kind of questions can be answered by this data, and formulating those questions requires a pretty in-depth knowledge of how city politics actually works.
>> The amount of hate for GPL on HN is disturbing.

I agree. I'm really baffled by the Rust community pretty much standardizing on MIT license. People laugh at "Rewrite it in Rust" which I think is a good thing but completely ignore the whole "strip users of their freedom" that is coming with it one day.
This is a chicken-and-egg situation. We can't get rid of parking until we have good public transit! We can't have good public transit because all the parking mandates reduce density so much that you can't live without a car!

If you bite the bullet and remove parking, better public transit will come. If you never remove parking, you will never have better transit.

By another measure, removing parking mandates is a very immediate success because it lowers rents by several hundred dollars a month: https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/11/126192-parking-refor...
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Besides all his innumerable accomplishments he was also a hero to Joe Armstrong and a big influence on his brand of simplicity.

Joe would often quote Wirth as saying that yes, overlapping windows might be better than tiled ones, but not better enough to justify their cost in implementation complexity.

RIP. He is also a hero for me for his 80th birthday symposium at ETH where he showed off his new port of Oberon to a homebrew CPU running on a random FPGA dev board with USB peropherals. My ambition is to be that kind of 80 year old one day, too.
Can you change your name? (dumb Q perhaps)
You could also consider working as a consultant or external pen tester. When we hired our pen testers, we did not run background checks on them, not least because they have no access to customer data so it's much less of a concern.
Journalists are bad at math, surprise.

"pace of adoption" = % YoY growth. As the market matures and grows, it will no longer be able to "double" or "triple" in a short amount of time. A market with a fixed cap cannot sustain indefinite exponential growth; it will be a logistic function at best. This is simply a mathematical certainty; anyone who expected otherwise is a complete idiot undeserving to report on markets.
It's not clear to me. I really wish you could take the effort to explain your thinking. If there is no place to park but your neighbor's yard how it would work in a civilized society and help housing costs.
This isn't really a new trend, Texas is just a laggard because it is an unusually car-dependent state. Most major cities have been trending toward eliminating parking minimums, at least in downtown cores.

Here's a map from 2015: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/11/18/a-map-of-citi...

And one updated as of 2021: https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/
I would expect it to be completely independent, because it's not likely IMO that the web app team(s) have anything to do with actual cars.
It's not out of the question at all, I just need to figure out how to combine the sounds server-side and stream them out. On the plus side it should then be pretty simple to make work across different smart speakers, I'm just not sure how complex/expensive it would be to get set up
> $1k/mo is a new car with no down payment

The average monthly payment for a used car is $500/mo, and $700/mo for a new car:

* https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/average-...

Then add maintenance, insurance, depreciation, fuel. And that's just the stuff that shows up on a spreadsheet (of which depreciation most folks don't really think about).
However, the various DPAs have been completely useless at actually enforcing its regulation, as if there wasn't actually any will to enforce it due to vested interests.
No, those numbers don't show that by themselves. That's because there's nothing about cars per person, only spaces per car. Cars would not be a problem at all if there were even 50 spaces per car... but only a total of 10 cars!

I think the implicit attitude that your comment seems to have of one car per person is the real issue.
Accurate. Go on ACX and audition narrators. Also Voices.com.

The "per hour" rate usually means "per finished hour" not "per hour that they spent doing it."
Have you worked with social service agencies which specialize in such employment?

In my metropolitan area there is a significant network of employment agencies. Many are faith-based and many work with the homeless and disadvantaged, and it is not unusual for some to cater to ex-cons and felons. They will not advertise this stuff publicly, so you will need to get referrals and inside information on how to find them, but once you hook up with such an agency, your chances should improve drastically. Many of them will counsel you on how to approach applications and interviews, they will broker connections with employers who can overlook such a record, and they really know the communities they work in.

Do not discount the power of your State agencies to help you as well, such as through Vocational Rehab programs.

One drawback I've found to working with these folks is that they're geared to low-income jobs, manual labor, call centers and food service type stuff. They're not well-equipped to handle professionals in industries like IT, but you can certainly help them adapt, and recognize that we're worthy of assistance too. The more professional ex-felons who approach them, the better equipped they will be to serve people like us.

26 years ago, they parked me in a homeless shelter with a newspaper and a public phone to apply for jobs. Not even a typewriter to create a résumé. It was a joke. When I was finally motivated and qualified, I found the right agencies and the right assistance, and it made all the difference in the world.
hacker news is social media
... and lots of other things too. One early application of content-addressable memory was STARAN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARAN

which was used in air traffic control systems to project the trajectories of all the aircraft being tracked and test if any are at risk of collision.
What I will guess happens is that they are still desirable, they will not be cheaper. And there will be parking problems...
Yeah a lot of people think of game design as just being about brainstorming cool ideas

But in reality it’s actually a pretty technical job from what I’ve seen

Can involve a lot of staring at spreadsheets and dealing with stats
Best CS pun ever. Thanks for sharing !!!
> Now everything that was easy with one click requires two

Technically it's a click and a mouse movement, but if anything that's more annoying than two clicks, haha.

> They call it "taskbar" and I guess that's what you mean by "start menu".

I genuinely haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. I'll have to look next time I'm using my PC.

> There are at least a few places in the system settings where instead of showing you options there is "One Drive", "Try Office" or Windows Store or Edge on most of the screen.

That might be because I'm signed in on OneDrive and with my Office subscription then. That's shitty though.
I had guessed it might be something like this, and that of course you'd have wanted this! Will definitely use this lots, thanks again
Do you have a citation for that? Large portions of Paris for instance aren't exactly old-world high density development. Luckily they're putting in the GPE, which is 120 miles of metro service. [1] Once you have the metro, you can put in higher-density development around the stations, and over time, the neighborhood changes. That's just fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express
Cook at home.
Ryanair Sees Sales Shortfall as Online Travel Agents Cut Flights
Have you been to neighborhoods that don't have parking mandated parking spots? Anything built in the 60s to 80s. Drive around for 1/2 hour trying to find a parking spot every day, pay hundreds/thousands of dollars a year in fines because you forgot to move you car on street cleaning day. Repeat if you work at place in these old neighborhoods, like Venice or West LA where all the tech companies are located.

The issue isn't parking spots, the issue is that construction has had 0 efficiency gains in the last 50 year. Its cheaper to produce a car, grow food, produce computer chips, etc. Its not cheaper to build a building or a parking structure. Make it cheaper to build and it will solve house prices. And its not raw materials that make it expensive. There is no automation. We still pour concrete and frame buildings that same way we did 50 years ago.
I actually worked with Ben for a couple of my formative years as a software engineer - he's an extremely smart guy.

I'm no longer with Amex (still up for debate in my mind if that was a good idea to leave or not), but last I heard the department was very successful in onboarding a lot of their Java engineers to Go and transitioning to a Golang microservice architecture.
I don't have much helpful to add, but I had a colleague who had a bad night, acquired some felony charges for a firearm-related assault and they got fired/blacklisted for a few years.

Subsequently, they did IT contract work behind the scenes with small contractors, kept in touch with his professional network, was super helpful to the rest of us, and after serious concerns and much debate, got back into his prior career with a new employer.

I don't even know how, because normally a felony would be a no-hire, but he pulled it off, likely because he was so helpful and giving to his professional network throughout this mess.
Not just coding: he was also interested* in hardware and built whole machines.

(* might Carver Mead describe him as a metaphorical "tall, thin, person"?)
Why didn't they just ask some human factors people about it and come to some solution like: "if you don't respect Do Not Track you go to jail"?
Oh, interesting.

The documentation there also says

> They have become less important now that the built-in dict class gained the ability to remember insertion order (this new behavior became guaranteed in Python 3.7).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#ordereddi...

It assumes iterators are stable (and valid) under insertion, and I can't find any docs on that for either. Since you (AFAIK) can't create an iterator at a specific key, we also couldn't use keys as the "hand."
> Musk has a saying: “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely”. The most entertaining outcome here would be for Peter Thiel to take over Twitter and rename it “PayPal”. I can’t wait.

Amazing review. Opened my eyes. I need to read the book now...!
Tcmd is excellent, and his dedication to it is too.
It's just as bad there with everyone randomly shoving dot-files in my home directory instead of using ~/.config, ~/.local, ~/.cache, and friends.

Just to name a few in my home dir ... aws, cargo, dotnet, yarn, vscode...

All of these narcissistic tools are pretty annoying.
Wired wrote about Windows being based on the Linux kernel and being called "Winx" all the way back in 2005. If you've never read "The Microsoft Memo" featuring disgruntled Microsoft employee Linus Torvalds complaining about Steve Ballmer to Bill Gates it's hilarious right up the point that you start to wonder if the current leadership of MSFT found this article and said "Hey... this is a GREAT idea!"...

https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/
Lots of communities aren't served by rail, ship, or barge (or nowhere near enough capacity of those, or efficiently connected to the wrong places—how much raw iron ore or coal does a small town need?) so truck shipping's all they've got. Rail may pass through nearby, but without unloading capability or sufficient capacity at a proper train yard. Trucks drive to them from the nearest hub or notable train yard, which may be way more than your usual "last mile" concern that a city or whatever has. Tens of miles, to the warehouses that serve them, then tens of miles more to the nearest major store, that kind of thing.

Rural living would be way more expensive and inconvenient without truck shipping subsidies. Which, maybe making rural living artificially cheap is a good idea and maybe it's not, but that's one big shift that would happen if we made truck shipping pay its way entirely.

[EDIT] For true long-haul, I'm with you, the majority of that's surely only viable because of those subsidies, and we'd be better off pushing that to rail, ship, and barge.
Cool! I put the ScotRail Beats on for a good 30 minutes, no complaints here. Great job.
I live in a neighborhood in an East Coast city where the housing is all row homes. I have about 1400 sq/ft or 130 m^2. It's really nice, I have a home office, we have a spare bedroom, I can walk 4 minutes to get groceries, there's a commercial street a few minutes walk away, and access to busses/a train. It's really quite nice.
3 parking spaces is ~750sqft. A moving car is another 2000sqft. Once population density passes ~3 stories, the geometry stops working. Once drive time exceeds an hour or two, the math stops working. It's the urban rocket equation.
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This is fantastic! I use comfyui and it has been a game changer for my creation workflow. I’m certain I’ll be using it even more effectively after reading through this. Thanks!
From [0] "Based on these criteria, we narrowed our testing languages to C++17, Java, Node.js, and Go. The first three languages were already in use at American Express, whereas Go was not."

[0]: https://americanexpress.io/choosing-go/
> But in the end: for me personally 'x algorithms programmers should know' is useless.

I guess for me, it boils down to something like "Given a software developer A, adding more experience to them will generally make then a _better_ software developer; and most of that is the knowledge they gained in that experience". Knowledge makes one a better software developer. And knowing more algorithms and data structures is one form that knowledge can take.
We never served as application/xhtml+xml. That has some nasty side effects in browsers, like no incremental rendering. But it’s always been legit to serve XHTML as text/html even if you lose the break-on-error functionality.
Lowering housing costs is a pretty good way to reduce poverty, isn't it?
I want an EV to be more reliable and save me more money in the long run. EVs start out ~10k more than the Corolla most people should buying. They then compromise the long term reliability and maintenance cost with high tech gee whiz features. I’d sooner have manual roll up windows than touch screen controlled air vents. When you integrate sensors and software controls into every little thing, we know those things will start failing and your intricate and overly proprietary systems will be expensive to repair. Their marketing says the electric motor will run longer, but a Toyota is already dead reliable for 300k miles and the bits in the cabin will last without repairs too. ICE cars are so reliable I don’t think anyone in my extended family has spent over $1k fixing them in any single year, with most years just the cost of an oil change.
Move abroad. Unless you apply for a security-related position or in childcare/education, it is not common outside the US to demand a background check. In any case, in most countries they need to ask the candidate and do not have the power or right to demand the data for themselves.
True. On this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGchbES0DhU

100% of the commenters are Matthew's fans. Did that lead to any sales for me? Not clear.
> But citing Norway as some kind of EV posterchild is quite hilarious when it's their oil business subsidizing EVs.

It's even more hilarious when you compare the population count.
This is cool. You should add counts to the filters and the result list.
> "The unbroken streak of LLVM Weekly editions each Monday has become a bit totemic. It's certainly not always convenient having this fixed commitment, but it can also be nice to have this rhythm to the week. Even if it's a bad week, at least it's something in the bag that people seem to appreciate. Falling into bad habits and frequently missing weeks would be good for nobody, but I suspect that a schedule that allowed the odd break now and then would be just fine."

Fun coincidence: this 10 year LLVM Weekly every Monday streak almost exactly aligns with Tom Scott's just-completed 10 year streak of publishing a new YouTube video every Monday at 4pm. I wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/2/escalating-streaks/

Streak psychology is a complicated thing. Tom Scott's story taught me that a useful characteristic of streaks might be to have a defined end for them - it's OK to deliberately break them when you've hit a milestone, and in fact it's probably healthier than trying to run them forever!
Of course it does. But wouldn't you want to have a connection with a 7 instead of a 4?
If you want to know how a machine works, you take it apart. You puzzle out what each piece does, and why. Biography is the same idea, but for people.
I think being upfront is important. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't need to be said (I've been clean 43 years, and no one ever knew, in my jobs -I just wasn't much fun at the office party), but felonies will always come up; even obscure ones.

HR depts hire these companies that break out the digital proctoscope, and they do things like find your social media accounts. Also, if you piss someone off, they can rat you, and you can be fired with cause.
> How do you get your wheelchair to the middle of that car free area half a mile from the public transit stop closes to where you want to go.

One would assume you would wheel your wheelchair there. You know, the same way people walk their feet there.

> Car free areas also raise objections about accessibility for the disabled.

What about all the people with disabilities that make driving dangerous or impossible, would love to know how we’re making driving accessible for the blind. There are far more people with disabilities that makes car travel difficult, than there are people for whom direct point-to-point car travel is an absolute necessity (short of someone being rushed to a hospital, I’m not sure what people would need regular, direct, point-to-point car travel).
The last time I checked Consumer Reports, Porsche was actually on the list of reliable used cars.
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No worries, sorry for picking up on it. I've not heard it used in that way before so wasn't sure if there was something else I was missing.
I remember the popup (e.g. new browser window) crisis circa 2000. Those were easy to stop because the behavior is easy for a browser to identify so browsers can't open popups if the action wasn't initiated by a user event handler and can open only so many in that condition.

Banners, modal dialogs and other kinds of "new popups" in general are a bit tougher. Usually there is some element you could remove from the DOM tree or display: none but the trouble is knowing which element!
> It was very frustrating that residents could never find a place to park

This is the original tragedy of the commons though: a bunch of people assuming they can just park on the street. The frustration is the solution. Either build yourself private parking, pay for private parking, or ditch the car. Or enjoy the frustration.