skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This particular town is majority Black, so I doubt the MAGA vibe is strong.

Yep, according to Wikipedia, you're absolutely right. Strike the "MAGA" part from my comment!

But, plopping a casino into an already-crappy town is not going to make it less crappy.

And, to be fair, if his plan was to help the city, plopping a makerspace or art studio, or a science museum isn't going to move the crappiness needle either. There's no silver bullet building that fixes poverty and misery. It's not like SimCity where you sprinkle your city with evenly spaced bonus-providing buildings and suddenly all your metrics start going up.

If his plan wasn't to help the city, but to arbitrage the low property values into a profitable business, then he should have bought strip mall properties and installed the usual turnkey check cashing stores, liquor stores, payday lenders, and so on. Not easy businesses, but at least they are understandable to the city and have a chance at being profitable.

If his plan was to just speculate on real estate and hope that some miracle happens that raises property values, that's just high stakes gambling. Good for him if it pays off and he can flip these properties to another sucker for a profit.

If it wasn't any of these, then honestly I don't get what his plan was. I'm going to buy a bunch of random real estate in a dilapidated city and... then... do what? Sit there getting robbed every time you move anything of value into those properties?
This is a bit off-topic but I'm getting so tired of clicking links in here and hitting a paywall. I just clicked five in a row and got a paywall. Dang, could we have the title automatically get a [Paywall] prepended if it is from a domain that only offers paid content? I'd love to be able to skim the front page and ignore paywalled content with no comments. I can't keep a good mental list of paid sites, because it's a huge ever growing list, but surely a text file could handle that easily.
I’m not talking about language syntax, but actual out of the box runtime capabilities.
Better one person not be crushed to death than two thousand nine hundred ninety nine suffer essentially no harm whatsoever.

No, that doesn’t seem very familiar.
This is not analogous to deleting windows32. The original poster didn't go around deleting random files on their hard drive - they used a known interface, apt/dpkg, in the manner it was meant to be used, further evidenced by the fact that the fix basically boiled down to running more apt commands (and getting wired internet, which you'd have to do if you used apt to remove wireless configuration tools). It's entirely reasonable to ask for a "rollback" feature in this case.
You sound like a fun parent/partner.
https://prograils.com/elixir-phoenix-liveview-spotify
Perfect gift for the recent grad!

https://www.teepublic.com/mug/328209-what-do-you-want-to-be-...
Who is talking about patents? I was talking about business risk. Since when does invention ever imply economic gain? It's business 101, invention rarely leads to business payoffs unless there is innovation in the market, i.e. it is manufactured, packaged, sold, distributed to the demands of the day. Who invented the PC? Kenbak corp & John Blankenbaker, arguably - they didn't last. Motorola invented the mobile phone. Invention is important but is no indication of long term business success.

On the M series of chips, "Tweaked it" is a heavy lift. You are vastly underplaying the amount of Apple's design work that went into the M series of chips. It's led to massive performance gains against the competition.

Airpods are "just" bluetooth headphones, but happen to be the ones that have the most market share by far. It's about design and quality.

The Apple Watch also is the most widely adopted smart watch, by far. Because of how it was designed and manufactured.

The facts are that Apple has taken major risks repeatedly with their design and product decisions, and reaps the rewards with higher margins and market share than the competition. This isn't blinkard, this is just reality.
That layman’s introduction to Bourdieu was a nice read.

I am getting a bit of an odd vibe from your claim of cultural technical superiority though. I assume it was intended to be more of a self-aware quip than anything else.
NYC libraries would be cut to 'unacceptable' 5-day service under budget plan
The worst part of the P4 was when it went off into la-la land for 4000 cycles of replay. Did you issue a locked instruction? 4000 cycle penalty. Use rep ; movs? 4000 cycle penalty. Some weird internal condition with a misaligned store? 4000 cycle penalty. One could optimize to improve performance in those cases, but the performance glass jaws on the P4 were all consuming.
> Ask the druids for example.

Also infamous for practicing human sacrifice, but go on.
I do not believe the article is correct, then. Dijkstra's goto paper squarely applies to the C local goto. The subject of the paper is not specifically machine language branch instructions that can go anywhere, or something like the global goto in line numbered BASIC (a language he did revile, claiming that it damages the brain).

I'm looking at the paper again. It clearly states that goto should be abolished from higher level languages.

Note that Dijkstra also lumps the repetition statement (while B repeat A / repeat A until B) with goto, and then carefully argues why that is an acceptable use of goto, namely that it is susceptible to analysis by induction.

I can't see how I can reach a conclusion other than that,
yes, C has a goto of a type that Dijkstra considered harmful.

Some have argued that forward goto in C is easily analyzable, since it doesn't create loops. There are coding standards that permit forward goto, but not backward goto. What Dijkstra would have thought about the inclusion of a forward-restricted goto in a HLL is anyone's guess.

A C forward goto could jump from the middle of one loop into the middle of another one, though. Simply being forward isn't enough to ensure a certain property of the function's control flow graph. This is written about extensively in the Dragon Book.
Stop subsidizing corn production. Invest in making fruits and vegetables cheaper. Encourage development that includes high walkable and bikable aspects while minimizing driving aspects.
> The have a massive amount of nuclear weapons

Mostly irrelevant to their ability to defeat Ukraine in a conventional war, though it may constrain outside aid to Ukraine somewhat.

> and their ability to manufacture traditional weapons is far less than the United States.

This is not something that works in their favor.

> Ukraine, is just depending on a hope and a prayer from other countries to support them, which is faltering and realistically they have lost a ton of young people and many of the kids don't want to fight, they want to escape.

Russia has also lost a ton of young people (far more than the USSR lost over a decade in Afghanistan, a major contributor to the political collapse of the USSR), and seen lots of people trying to escape. Or firebombing recruitment centers, etc. They've also lost a lot of not young people — quite a lot of their senior/experienced combat pilots, and an unusually large proportion of field grade and general officers.
> However, has anyone been using something like this with Google: "<search-terms> site:blogpost.com OR site:github.io OR site:wordpress.com OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com"?

Besides the privacy aspect of the service, this is almost the whole value prop of Kagi: you can mark certain sites as ranking higher, lower, or banishing them from your results entirely. I never thought I'd stop using Google but I've become a happy Kagi customer.
You didn’t have social media that ruined a generation and completely disrupted trust in institutions.
They don’t mention copyright explicitly either.
George Lucas hates writing. He only got the screenplay to Star Wars: A New Hope written by locking himself in an office with a pad of paper and pencils for eight hours every day, through several drafts. Whether he actually wrote anything varied day by day.
One of the guinea pigs might end up being someone you love
A cemetery would be a bad place for them as cemeteries tend to attract looters.
Yes, this is inconsistent. When you zoom in 10 levels and then zoom out 10 levels again, pretty much all cells you see will be dead. But if you continue to zoom out further than 10 levels, you will see some mix of live and dead cells again.

Zooming in is easily defined: when you zoom into an on-state OTCA metapixel, you can check which pixels that make up the metapixel are on and which are off [1]. Same deal for zooming into an off-state OTCA metapixel. The reason you are seeing mostly dead pixels is that most pixels inside an OTCA metapixel are off, so the chance of hitting a pixel that is on is slim.

Zooming out is more tricky: when zooming out of an on-state pixel, that pixel could be at many possible positions inside an on-state or off-state OTCA metapixel. In their blog post the author says that they randomly select from the possible options in a way that adds "diversity" [2]. I think this could be improved to align with the statistics of zooming in.

[1]: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
[2]: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/#fnref5
Every alternative voting system I’ve seen promoted my mainstream sources would make the current system worse by keeping winner-takes-all single-seat districts and making it even easier for triangulating ‘centrist’ politicians to defeat challengers. (such as Single Transferable Vote, Instant Runoff etc.)

The actual way you break the grip of the center right and center left parties fear mongering about each other to keep them both in power is with a proportional party list. “parties make lists of candidates to be elected, and seats are distributed by elections authorities to each party in proportion to the number of votes the party receives”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party-list_proportional_repr...

So it will never happen because the current centrist parties want to keep their power. Oh well lol
Cause it’s funny ? Enjoy the little things in life
Famously Rush`s Vapor Trails was also a victim with the band and fans unhappy with the mixing. Luckily a remix was produced...

https://popdose.com/popdose-qa-david-bottrill-on-rushs-vapor...
Some pleasant sleeper busses are a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRTzEJ8znL0
One nit. When I listened to vinyl in school it was actually very common for many people to prefer a specific side of an album. (And you're right, you almost always listened to at least that side from start to finish.) If you wanted to mix things up more, you made a mix tape.

ADDED: There were 45rpm singles (typically A and B side) too of course but those were pretty uncommon by the time I was an undergrad. When CDs came in people mostly listened to the whole album as was also the case with cassettes.
"Spotify backends are written in Elixir?"

From the article: Spotify is using Elixir for an internal ad debugging portal.

So no. Spotify backends are not written in Elixir but:

"The listener-facing backend services are done with Java."
I still use sar occasionally, but never as a troubleshooting tool. It's more for performance analysis than crisis mode.
There's a compelling school of thought that a significant part of the health benefits or not of a particular diet is its impact on the gut biome.
Relevant video: https://youtu.be/DoCYY9sa2kU?t=441
I'm just saying he may still get lucky even though he had no plan at all.
For anybody interested in this topic, “Release it!” is a pretty good read. (Not affiliated in any way, just enjoyed reading it)

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/release-it/978168050026...
Can you give an example of a Blu-ray disk that's available to borrow at your local library, that isn't yet available for purchase on the consumer market?
Consumer Use of Buy Now, Pay Later (2023)
The same way you choose friends.
Depending on which link you follow, this article either quotes an article by slashdot that quotes an article by Ars or quotes an article by slashdot that quotes an article by slashdot that quotes an article by Ars.

The Ars article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/cable-company-tr...
Player inputs are constantly fed into the RNG. Seed probably isn’t the right word. Maybe a better way would be to say it uses a fixed seed, and the player inputs are used as the sole source of entropy.
https://archive.is/QZzA9
>There's a reason why Troy Hunt's web services cost him vanishingly little to operate

And I thought that's because he is on a cloudflare premium plan with a workload where 99,8% of requests are cached
This is a very good point about UGC and how it's not really present for most other types of media (like you described) and unaddressed by existing copyright law. So - additional legislation is necessary. Maybe something where the platform host has to either make the UGC available for direct download immediately, or preserve it on their own servers at their own expense until the copyright expires?
Ukrainians were considering this exact question for the last 30 years. East or West?

They started heavily biased towards Russia and by now it completely reversed. Mostly because they have seen how EU membership changed their neighbors.

Remember that Ukraine and Poland did Euro 2012 soccer championships together.

Remember that there have been millions of Ukrainians working, studying and visiting Poland before 2022.

Remember that Ukraine was noticeably wealthier than Poland in 1991. And in 2012 already it's been night and day in favour of Poland, Romania, Lithuania, etc.

This is what Putin worried about - that soft power-wise Russia can't compete. That's why he used hard power repeatedly. Because if soft power is all that there is - Russia just loses its former colonies (and then as Ukraine becomes wealthy and free - Russians might start asking "why can't we?").

One of the most important pillars of Russian Empire is that Russians belive in nothing and have no hope.
I’m sure Phoenix is great, but in real-world experience, my former startup tried to use it, found the ecosystem and tooling extremely lacking, encountered severe problems with the learning curve, and pivoted to Rails.
there are a handful of large data brokers like lexisnexis, they’ll sell their scraped public data to anyone

random companies will buy the data, do a little collation and merge datasets from multiple sources, start their own frontend, and resell it to consumers doing google searches for phone numbers, names, etc

because they’re not directly affiliated with the primary brokers, there are hundreds of these independent frontends… and unless you contact each one, they can all resell their data (even to each other)

so if you miss one removal, it’s possible your data gets picked up by a new frontend from that frontend… your data can kind of proliferate through this gross ether forever
That's why some of us (probably most) go to work every day...some in desk jobs (like me, still working on a novel I started almost two decades ago), some who are housewives with husbands who work (and vice versa), some teachers, some bus drivers. What you do to put food on the table often has nothing to do with your writing, which can be fit into your life on the weekends, in the evenings, on lunchbreaks, on the bus...
This hits home. Confirms my decision to decline future projects with a difficult client!
Cash. I can't even afford to hire people who are moderately competent because FAANGs keep herding them away.
I don't understand how people are so mixed on this. The prospect of leaving iOS to go to Android is simply a no-go for me because I would lose access to a bunch of family and friend group chats (besides other lock-in)

It's ridiculous that apple can leverage my social connections as a tool to keep me on iOS.

What am I supposed to do?

"Dear friends and family, I need you all to download this app called Signal so we can restart all our group chats in a new app because I am getting an android phone."
The Replacements: AI in the Movies
How ML Model Data Poisoning Works in 5 Minutes
Or C# if you would rather use a nicer language but the use case is not critical enough to justify the cognitive price of Rust :)
The most productive web framework is

https://laravel.com/ (or Django or Rails)

because it brings most of the things you need to write in other frameworks by yourself. Too many reject it, because, PHP!
You can find a more authoritative but longer explanation in an OSI FAQ about CC0 https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero and the related discussion http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o...
Perl: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Zero-day exploit by Geohot to crash AMD GPUs on firmware level
93-Year-Old William Shatner discusses Star Trek, space, and mortality
The town is 75% black. Not exactly MAGA central.

Though in terms of openness to, say, LGBTQ, it definitely isn't going to be the most welcoming place.
My guess is it's a "equal and opposite reaction" sort of thing.
Can We Breathe Air?
Agreed. And there were plenty of ugly aspects to early Internet (and BBS etc) culture. And it was much smaller and in some ways even kind of claustrophobic compared to now.

My teens extract their own content from it. What's more curious about today is that it's not "The Internet" that is the focus -- it's so ubiquitous and not-novel that it's just a fact/part of life and blurs in with just daily socializing and consumption. Almost mundane.
Institutions did that to themselves back then, too, without the aid of the Internet.
To me, doctors are not as big of a problem as hospitals. In my area, nearly all doctors are now hospital employees. Doctors don't have the independence they used to have with their own practice: as employees, they have to do what the hospital tells them to do. Doctors can't afford to run an independent practice because of the cost of paperwork, computer systems, and liability, so now they work for hospitals, ie, a corporate machine designed (even obligated) to maximize profits over care.
Yes, I was thinking of services like Pandora (radio station-style playlists) when I chose Tidal, then added Qobuz. You're right that album selection is now available on various services such as Spotify. Some offer lossless CD-quality audio, some are matching the greater than CD quality offered by Tidal and Qobuz, as available.

Spotify's best quality is 320kbps (Ogg Vorbis).
Use your product. Also watch others use it; it can be quite humbling.
D2 looks promising, I have previously used Mermaid to visualize my ideas in my markdowns.
I guess something like this will slowly be added to the Go stdlib.

Just as adding more routing functionality recently.
I'm still sore about Picasa. while it was great to use, it lost a few years of photos that I hadn't backed up outside the service. Figured it was online and safe.
DCompute: Native execution of D on GPUs and other Accelerators
> The issue is that your choice is constrained by vertical integration.

No it’s not. It’s constrained by one’s preferences as a consumer. If I am concerned about vertical integration, I will not choose an Apple device. Personally, I am not concerned about vertical integration. It seems to make my devices work better.

> If you like Apple's hardware, or iOS, or iMessage, or any number of other thing, these are all tied together with Apple's app store when they should not be.

Why not? Because you say so? Or because it harms consumers? Can you describe how it harms consumers? Smartphones are cheap and plentiful. Cloud-based apps and services are too.

Yes, I might have to make some tough choices as a consumer. Maybe no company makes the perfect device for me. I might really like iMessage, but hate iPhone hardware. But there are lots of viable competitors to iMessage and plenty of viable mobile devices on which to run them. “I don’t get to use iMessage on my Pixel phone” is not evidence of harm.

> It's like encountering a retail monopoly in California and someone tells you that you're lucky because you can shop at another store and all you have to do is move to Florida, which also has a retail monopoly, but a different one.

No, it’s not. Switching mobile platforms is nothing like migrating 2000+ miles in terms of difficulty or expense. If you want to use a retail analogy, it’s like complaining that you can’t buy Kirkland-branded products at Wal-Mart.
'Super memory': Why Emily Nash is sharing her brain with science
Is it though?

It's been painful to see how much Java has squandered it's potential. Putting aside something like OTP, just the concurrency in Java has been confusing - project loom has been on the horizon for a long time, and it makes it difficult to invest in something reactive like Reactor/Webflux. Or, having quickly reviewed elixir, since it uses the actor model, something like Akka - which words don't even describe how much of a dumpster fire that whole thing became (which I feel like I dodged a bullet because my old boss was super gung-ho about how Akka was the next big thing a few years ago). And if we're talking about things on a platform level, then... spring is not it. Others have mentioned K8s, what takes a simple yaml config there takes like huge guides, a wing and a prayer on Baeldung articles, and a soul crushing soup of XML for config (yea I know Spring supports other formats, but it's roots are in XML and old guards just copy that stuff over).

It doesn't seem like Erlang/Elixir community have these problems. Idk if it's because I am not invested in it so the grass looks greener on the other side, but it really does seem like they've got a productive and focused solution.
The article only mentions things related to muscle endurance and strength. I do not see anything related to improvement in mental health, which is one of the reasons a lot of people exercise (myself included).

It would be interesting if they could measure things like motivation and happiness on that pill as well.
> We were funding them before, but now we are now

Its been less than two weeks since the last aid package.

> By the time the election season is over and we have another chance at funding Ukraine

I wouldn't discount the chance of a discharge petition succeeding. Heck, I wouldn't even entirely discount the chance of the spate of resignations continuing and Republicans losing their House majority before the election, though that's less likely.
Those kubernetes controlplane endpoints are presumably secured with key-based authentication, right? Is it really worse than having an ssh server (with key-based authentication only) on port 22?
I just revived my MP3 collection after getting frustrated with this & Spotify and purchasing a Pi5. But the process of self-hosting, correcting ID3 tags, etc is so time consuming (& frankly somewhat beyond my ability level) and is almost pushing me back to Spotify.
Working in go stack is objectively simpler. So it's easier to hire ppl
What came to your mind? Not sure what Java said wasn't needed in 2000 but added in 2010? Lambdas?
>why not use another spreadsheet program?

This is HN so everyone will focus on the functions/features. While that is important its not the reason for not switching. The friction is much deeper.

At one point the business world went all in on MS Excel. Its not just that they use it, the entire management organization and feedback loops are based on Excel not the other way around. Moving away from excel is not a function choice anymore. Its a Executive leadership company structure decision. I'm guessing not many fortune 500 CEOS post on HN to confirm this.

No one can "beat" excel because to do so requires simply copying it pixel by pixel and function by function. If you did that MS would sue you out of existence.
oh no doubt... got amazed by seeing some people use my product
Live USB stick, boot, copy everything from the 'broken' install to a second USB stick, reinstall, restore.

Or, if you really want to get into the weeds, try to re-install systemd. As a learning exercise.

This is a great question on a job interview though. "What happens on a Debian machine if you 'apt remove systemd'?"