skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this article, then came to see if it had been posted to HN. As someone who dropped out of college and is now currently enrolled to finish my degree (well, I had to start over), my take on this is partly colored by how different things are now from then.

When I was previously in college, most of my instructors were folks who had been in industry at companies I had heard of or had done research I had heard of and their background was not in computer science; it was in math, physics, electrical engineering, philosophy, linguistics, and in one case logistics. While I was focused solely on computers, my first experience through college was one characterized by instruction with multiple perspectives and a clear awareness that computer science was a cross cutting discipline that had things to learn from and things to teach to all other disciplines. As an example my instructors with backgrounds in linguistics had an interest in language construction and syntax, how we get to where computers and humans have a shared intelligible language along with topics like natural language processing and the concepts of regular languages and regular expressions.

Now that I am in college again, all of my instructors either came out of CS themselves or came out of the field of education. Few have any industry experience, none are names I have heard of due to their research. Exactly zero have expressed any interesting opinions or perspectives that strayed from or colored in the material from the textbook. It’s a much more rote type of instruction now.

The students have changed too. When I was previously a student, I made a number of lifelong friends even though I didn’t graduate. I would say it was 50/50 career-focused vs tech-focused. Now, it’s 95% career-focused, even though I am a non-traditional student I expected to connect with somebody around the joy of technology, but my only non-class interactions have been driven by people hoping I can refer them for jobs.

I am not sure I agree with the conclusions of the author. I don’t think the specific bureaucratic structure of an academic discipline is that important for how the students turn out, I think it is far more important what intent the students and instructors come into class with. What I am seeing does not bode well though, it seems the nerds like myself are not dying out but are drowned out by a sea of people who are singled minded and focused on career, grinding out CS because it leads to high pay, not because they want to understand anything at depth or try to attain and share new insights.
Ha what a joke. The biggest lockin is the financial burden of owning a compulsory car. Costs are transferred onto your household. It continues to keep workers poor. When you can bike you don’t need to earn the cost of maintaining a car if you don’t want to. No-one says you can’t buy a car or a jet pack, it’s the car dominance that is in question.
You can set them in an .ideavimrc, then you don't have to go through it on a new machine.
> Yes, that is a file with zero lines that ends with an "incomplete line".

It's a file with zero complete lines. But it has 1 line, that's incomplete, right?

The file starts empty. Anything in it starts "a line". So it's 1 incomplete line.

I hate weird states.
I have zero problems with that site using Firefox on Linux, Android, or Windows.

Curiously, most complaints seem to be from Mac users, and not just for this site, leading me to believe that something different may be going on on MacOS builds or APIs that it has to use there.
Thanks for the feedback! My code snippets in the article don't use any real/existing language. C# for example, is quite explicit with the transformation of generated to state machines, but also does not provide such methods, as far as I know. I've just added a comment explaining this choice: https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/commit/f44b897f2a4d20aa9...
Most mass of massive objects doesn't come from the higgs mechanism. It's mostly the relativistic mass (?) of binding energy in protons and neutrons. So, I'm not sure the Higgs field needs to be involved at all.
Depends on what your definition of 'CDC out of the box' is.

As a 'side effect' of replication, PostgreSQL supports subscribing on change data. What you do with those changes is up to you. There are tools that make it easy to propagate those changes to message queues or other databases.
Yes I have zram enabled. First thing I tried.

Even if it is possible to fix this, it's still a horrible bug because you absolutely should not have to blindly tweak settings to stop a desktop computer from hard-rebooting when it runs out of RAM.

I think this is a really fundamental problem on Linux though - it would require enormous changes and unprecedented cooperation between different groups for a proper fix. Much easier to say "you're holding it wrong".
Were they illegally built without a permit? Then they should be demolished. Were they built with a permit? Then either it wasn't obvious they shouldn't have been built (and then why would the homeowners be responsible for these kind of works?) or there was corruption (and then the relevant persons should be condemned). But privately built seawalls to protect the coast? That seems out of proportion, and unlikely to produce positive results on the long term.

In the same area I'm talking about, people died in flooding during cyclone Xynthia, in 2010. It wasn't because of a particular weakness in the seawall, it was found that these homes should never have been built in the first place.

But they had been built legally, with permits obtained from the town, so 700 of these homes were bought (by the state, not sure exactly which levels the funds came from but France is a unitary state so it doesn't matter much) and demolished. And the mayor who granted the obviously bogus permits was sentenced to prison for the 29 deaths he caused.
America's Test Kitchen had a very recent video on Kombucha, and in one portion[1], after showing the viewers the recipe and tools they used, show us how they gave their colleagues the exact same setup but ended up with varied results.

If people whose day job IS testing food recipes, all end up with different results from the master recipe made by their colleague, then it indicates certain external factors need to be controlled to ensure consistency.

The factor they narrowed down to, was consistency of temperature, and the solution they offered was to suggest a temperature-controlled box to ensure best results.

[1]: https://youtu.be/_e9ejoiLNlo?t=558
It's definitely exciting and a big step forward from JNI/JNA.

However, I am a little concerned about the heavy emphasis on library unloading in the JEP. Unloading is famously fraught and unsafe for wide swaths of common libraries ... or maybe I'm overfitting due to recent trauma[1] and everything will be fine.

1. https://gist.github.com/thomcc/8c4a8003cf1a282949a539e899cb4...
So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
Crazy that video game graphics business happened to be the secret level portal to AI land
Of course, but if you have a specific interest, and then a study comes out that backs it up, you can write about it and promote it, can't you? Show everyone, look at this, we liked this idea, and now this study gives it more backing.
Not exactly. Non-native PowerShell pipelines are executed in a single thread, but the steps are interleaved, not buffered. That is, each object is passed through the whole pipeline before the next object is processed. This is non-ideal for high-performance data processing (e.g. `cat`ing a 10GB file, searching through it and gzipping the output), but for 99% of daily commands, it does not make any difference.

cmd.exe uses standard OS pipes and behaves the same as UNIX shells, same as Powershell invoking native binaries.
Is this the latest incarnation of disaster capitalism? In the 00's, companies were content to just capture the government and make it into what they wanted. Now it's an explicit agreement that they can do what they want?

Those are real questions and not just snark, regardless of how snarky I actually feel about this entire thing.
Thanks for the feedback! I just extended the comment to touch on the "why" part. :) https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/commit/53f360259ad8e64ca...
I think like every city it has good parts and bad parts. Food is great, lots of stuff to do, employment is ok, the city is generally superb. But the population is irascible, the metro is a dark, overcrowded, grafiti covered, piss-stinking place, and the city is one gigantic traffic jam. Health and education is cheap, though state-run schools are in free fall and parents rush to put their kids in private schools. And the city is surrounded with poor neighbourhoods that are a ticking timebomb (with regular riots that are now spreading inside Paris).
And an article counter to presumption in the report

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/happiness-rankings-cultu...
Yes. I don't have a family history of MPB, I've been taking T after a doctor recommended it and my hairline started noticeably receding within 6 months.
> quintessentially North American overreaction to a quintessentially North American problem.

The article is mostly about London.
> Though now I will break your mind as my mind was broken not a long time ago. Powershell, which is often said to be a better shell, works like that. It doesn't run things in parallel. I think the same is to be said about Windows cmd/batch, but don't cite me on that. That one thing makes Powershell insufficient to ever be a full replacement of a proper shell.

A Pipeline is PowerShell is definitely streaming unless you accidentally forces the output into a list/array at some point, e.g. try this for yourself (somewhere you can interrupt the script obviously as it's going to run forever)

class InfiniteEnumerator : System.Collections.IEnumerator
{
hidden [ulong]$countMod2e64 = 0

[object] get_Current()
{
return $this.countMod2e64
}

[bool] MoveNext() {
$this.countMod2e64 += 1
return $true
}

Reset() {
$this.countMod2e64 = 0
}

}

class InfiniteEnumerable : System.Collections.IEnumerable {
InfiniteEnumerable() {}

[System.Collections.IEnumerator] GetEnumerator() {
return [InfiniteEnumerator]::new()
}
}

[InfiniteEnumerable]::new() | ForEach-Object { Write-Host "Element number mod 2^64: $_" }

Whether it runs in parallel depends on the implementation of each side. Interpreted powershell code does not run in parallel unless you run it a job, use ForEach-Object -Parallel, or explicitly put it on another thread. But the data is not collected together before being sent from one step from the next.
Intel has a monopoly?
AFAIK many car free cities depend also on bikes. What do you mean by taking away public transport? Because a car can be taken away, the access to roads can be taken away, there are traffic jams and in case of a city wide emergency - when everyone has a car, no one has.
We've sent like 5 different documents showing the same address
Focus by Automation
I agree. And Dart's VSCode extension is suspiciously fast. Like it accurately finds compile errors in easily 100ms. I don't know what they've done so differently to pretty much every other system, where you're talking ~1-2s typically. It's very nice though.
you must also ask the question why you want to make a huge shopping trip.

If you lived in a world where accessing the shop was easy and convenient, and they stocked everything you need, and you didn't have oodles of storage at home to store it all: why would you even make such a huge shopping trip?
If your single car is rivalrous to several other people's ability to live and work in the urban core, yes, that's a pretty good reason to discourage the car.

Massachusetts has park-and-ride, and it's pretty great!
People always say this like a gotcha, but aren’t politicians supposed to do stuff that they think people will vote for?
Honestly, play around until you find your own flow.

You don't need to use every Obsidian feature under the sun to become a productivity machine, nor have it all perfectly organised, linked and categorised in your "second brain". Take notes, label them well, and use the global search when you need something. Try a new plugin from time to time.

Using Obsidian "just" as a markdown editor is a perfectly valid use. I used VSCode with some Markdown plugins for years. I tried Typora, Coda, etc but they felt too limited and sluggish. I just wanted code-like markdown editing with a bit of fanciness, and Obsidian does just that.

I have a template for journalling, and a simplistic structure for where to place files in my knowledgebase. It's not perfect, and doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me.

If you do want an example of some of my structure (I share some of the resource/knowledge publicly), see here: https://publish.obsidian.md/thecapegreek

The only drawback I can say really is that I need to better separate public and private resources, as I'm always afraid I'll accidentally publish some private notes that live among the other files you might see in the link.
Two of the three rely on the user installing an app that they don’t intend to install. This seems to be more a “app search” problem than a security problem (I mean yes it’s both). And search is truly awful on both major platforms.

If I do a search for a particular app where I know the exact name of the app and type it in, I WANT ONE RESULT. Thankfully for most apps, the top search result is often (but not always) the app I specifically asked for. But both stores then add a long tail of competing apps and scam apps that I obviously don’t want. Why??? I searched for AirBnB. I only want AirBnB. If I wanted VRBO app I would have typed that in! If I wanted fucking Expedia to find airline flights I would have typed that in!! Just leave them out.

I don’t know the solution for when a user wants “an iptv app” and doesn’t know the name or developer, and the scam app SEO’d its way into the top organic result. Harder problems. But can Apple/Google please fix the dead simple case first?
Imagine that a toxic substance like asphalt would be in every street of the world... oooops! That's real!
Here are a couple links if you want to get started with my work, all focused on bootstrapping profitable SaaS companies:

[Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping] https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stair-step-method-of-b...

[Podcast] https://startupsfortherestofus.com

[Book] https://saasplaybook.com

[YouTube] https://microconf.com/youtube
Apparently the US Navy has this kind of system for positioning of submarines to correct inertial navigation system errors. Allegedly they also have very good maps of large swaths of the ocean floor to make it useful.
Persistent reminders. TickTick's implementation is good.
Always something to look forward to in [early] retirement to keep the mind active.
Alternative link: https://blog.research.google/2024/03/croissant-metadata-form...
That is called a sponge!

SPONGE(1) moreutils SPONGE(1)

NAME
sponge - soak up standard input and write to a file

SYNOPSIS
sed '...' file | grep '...' | sponge [-a] file

DESCRIPTION
sponge reads standard input and writes it out to the specified file.
Unlike a shell redirect, sponge soaks up all its input before writing
the output file. This allows constructing pipelines that read from and
write to the same file.
I was making a snide remark about bizarre belief that the macroeconomic effect of increased automation will be poverty.
yeah, it needs to be reframed as "car-dependency" because that's the major issue, everyone is forced into driving because there's no viable options.

If every move you make requires a car, the traffic situation is always deleterious.
https://archive.is/KShNv
> Or perhaps you wish to have a single family home with a yard, but work for a company with an office presence downtown, and need to take your kid to daycare on the way to work. You could do that on mass transit, but would spend less time if you could plot your own course and just go. Your ideal situation may not need a car, but it's not a universal situation.

These are definitely preferences that exist, yeah. How do you propose we account for the externalities created by executing on these preferences?
Is that relevant to the question they asked?
The point is that his work (and by extension himself) was encyclopedia-worthy long before he got the prize. Or he wouldn't have gotten the prize. Wikipedia doesn't wait until after the oscars to include movie.
I have children. 12 and 8, but we were also in Taiwan once earlier when they were 5 and 1.

It's very easy to get around. The MRT stations are nothing like the ones in the US. Bathrooms are incredibly well kept and clean at every station. If anything, I feel like it's easier than pulling strollers in and out of a trunk. That said, the sidewalks are very questionable in many parts of the city once you are off of the main roads so there is some danger for small kids.

But Taiwan may also be somewhat unique in that relatively few folks cook in their daily lives due to the low cost of eating out (really amazing place if you love food). Additionally, markets tend to be quite abundant so you are rarely going very far to get food. Houses tend to have smaller kitchens and smaller refrigerators as well so you don't store as much food as you would here.

The US is somewhat unique because of the high friction of getting food. Perhaps that's why we can have businesses like Instacart and we have such large refrigerators because the friction and cost of transport to get food is so high.
Oh I think one big factor is it was a 1 mile walk in 32C degrees and swampy high humidity.

It wasn’t a couple of bags, it was a cart of about 4 bags at least, including a gallon of milk, often including bags of flour, eggs, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/LS-Folding-Shopping-Basket-Capacity/d...
Yep. The ground itself moves with the tides.. so it's never static.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_tide
Vienna has had the luxury of having had relatively little demand for housing for over a century. The population peaked in WWI and still hasn't recovered (it was 2.24m in 1916, 2.00m in 2023).
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The article mentions a woman who wept with joy when she received a "steal" of a lease for a new government owned building, and the article mentions that certain political parties have made this program a priority. Perhaps this woman will support such political parties with her vote in future elections.
My first thought looking at that first "new suburb" photo was: where's the sidewalk? And the second photo has sidewalks but no visible amenities.

Sure they're denser, and townhouses are at least less materials-intensive to build, but I'm curious how this is otherwise an improvement on the old planning model of swathes of detached homes?
Yes. Could be both.

The problem is the simpler, 'meat' based answer, leads people to say "Brains grew big because eating meat, I think I'm going to pull up to the table and down a few pounds of ribs and wash it down with a nice brisket".
Basically, you’re assuming that this system is going to be like the underfunded and scarce public housing in the United States where a difficult to win lottery will be necessary to secure an apartment. In that sort of market of scarce supply, slumlords can overcharge for low quality rentals. But they couldn’t do that in a market where the government is offering a real alternative that you can actually get into. From the article it seems like the Parisian government has such a large supply of public housing that it is a serious market force that can influence the rest of the city and the makeup of its neighborhoods.

Your description of the situation sounds more like America where a tiny inventory of antiquated public housing units built ~40 years ago (the last time any American politicians cared to lift a finger to address poverty and inequality) are made available by a bleak lottery.

Just because the public housing system doesn’t work in America where it’s basically an afterthought doesn’t mean that it isn’t working in other places.
The union for the door opener in the middle and glorified AEB at the front of the train has the entire city by the balls

See: London tube strikes and NYC subway drivers blocking one person train operation contractually
In C++ you can compile each file independently from every other file. You can't do that in Rust; you can only compile crates (which are made of many files) independently. Within a crate you can have circular references for example.

So the smallest chunk of work that can be parallelised is much bigger in Rust than in C++. (Unless you are writing atypically small Rust crates and atypically enormous C++ files.)
To make another one to verify if 42 is indeed the answer to everything. ;)
Also in Rhode Island: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5898187/prostitution-rhode-isl...
They also never looked back
Very accurately measuring gravitational anomalies is important for this too.
Terrible answers as far as I can tell, especially Chat got would throw out many valid email addresses.
That's very strange, I've never seen the font rendering go so wrong on Windows Firefox. My best guess is that something messed with your font library somewhere, and the browser's engine is picking up a conflicting font with the wrong metrics for glyph width, etc.
Did they fund the study? It sounds like they were simply promoting, writing about it?

Here are authors, they don't seem affiliated with the OP's "Plant based news" article.

Can't really fault an organization from promoting a study that aligns with them.

Authors and Affiliations
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

Katherine L. Bryant

Hungry Heart Farm and Dietary Consulting, Conley, GA, USA

Christi Hansen

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Erin E. Hecht
Also infidelity. Way more common than anyone had assumed and that was back when people were religious.
Good luck walking 5 mins with 6 or 8 bags of shopping, a five year old and a baby in a pushchair.

All these arguments for car-free cities are mostly supported by young, single and childfree urbanites.
I'm not talking about "everything". I'm talking about jobs. Your job. Is your job so generic that almost everybody in your country can do it? Because that's what you would need for this to be realistic. Everybody living so close to enough jobs of the exact type they desire. Not just a job title, but the industry, the size and type of company, the salary level, the type of people, and a bunch of other things.

And even if it were realistic, you'd have more choice by widening the circle anyway. Get an even better job by driving a bit.
The socialists who control the city have a majority but not a structural one (Paris was voting conservative for a long time). The gentrification of Paris would normally deplete their electorate, so you can see their efforts to buy prime real estate at high price to convert it to social housing as a very expensive vote-buying exercise.
I find looking through a window of an S-Bahn to be a superior thought generator.
The US also has a per capita GDP 50% higher than Austria ($52,131 vs $76,399). At $52,131 a year per capita GDP, Austria would be neatly in second to last place as the poorest state in the Union, as it would beat Mississippi at $47,190 but be beaten by West Virginia at $53,852. So perhaps the US policy is doing something correctly.