jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If it's "fair market value," then why do they need to exercise eminent domain in order to force the sale?

Because without something like eminent domain, someone with a relatively worthless piece of property can inflate the value of it by holding an entire project hostage in exchange for their piece of land. If I have land that I ordinarily couldn't sell for more than a hundred thousand, but I know that the government will be doing a multi-million dollar project, I might demand a half a million for my land, in order to make a nice profit at the taxpayer's expense.

Now, this case is in more of a grey zone than that. It's not at the taxpayers expense, but at the expense of a private, non-profit institution. I'm not sure how I feel about that; it's certainly less objectionable than using eminent domain for a for-profit developer, but still makes me uneasy.

Even more troubling, however, is the fact that if you check other sources on this story, such as Columbia's own daily paper http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/12/13/us-supreme-court... , you find that part of the reason the neighborhood has been determined "blighted", which is necessary for the justification that it's in the state's interest to buy the land and sell it to someone else, is that Columbia has already bought up many of the buildings in the area and left them abandoned. If that claim is true, then it certainly is outrageous to grant eminent domain on that basis; it means that any private developer who wants to gobble up land can just destroy the neighborhood, both driving down prices and allowing them to use eminent domain to buy up any remaining land.

The strident populist rhetoric in the New York Post article originally linked to is a bit misplaced. But given a bit more research, I'm inclined to agree on this particular case that there's something pretty rotten going on here.

> I don't understand why we should accept the idea that certain people have more rights to property ownership than others, for no other reason but money and clout.

The idea is that the city or state has an interest in cleaning up blighted neighborhoods; there are serious risks of crime, public health, land value, and the like with property is allowed to decay. When that really is the case, there is an argument for the government having the power to buy up whole blocks at a time in order to redevelop them (it is very difficult to impossible to fight blight a bit at a time, since no one wants to move in next to an abandoned building filled with squatters or drug dealers). However, it should not be the case that a private developer can cause blight buy buying and abandoning land, and then using that as an excuse to get the rest of the land through eminent domain.
If you use your phone a real lot, Ting is expensive.
The reason why this was asked is baffling to me.

If you don't want to go, then do not go. I assume the AP was an adult. Adults don't need to resort to tricks like trying to get rejected: adults can just reject the invite themselves.
Post-Columbia there was some examination of repair options that could have been used if the crew had known about the damage. Some engineers considered it feasible to repair the hole in the wing using material scavenged from Columbia [1] but this was apparently considered very high-risk. The shuttle re-entered at Mach 25 and the leading-edges of the wings were made from titanium because of the extreme thermal and aerodynamic stresses they were subject to, so stuffing a tile (assuming it could be removed, which would have been unlikely) into the hole wouldn't have helped at all.

Some repair techniques and tools were developed part of the process of returning the shuttle fleet to flight after the loss of Columbia. These included a caulk-gun to allow in-situ repairs to thermal tiles [2] and a device for plugging holes in leading surfaces such as the wings. These were tested in space but were never needed.

[1] http://spaceflightnow.com/columbia/report/rescue.html

[2] http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13521-shuttle-heat-shi...
the exact same people that grew them under

My point was that somebody MUST work if we all want to eat. There is no solution to the problem that does not force people to work for their survival.
It seems like you have the order of things mixed up. The point is that destroying a financial hub of the world is a more effective way of collapsing civilization than destroying a port.
The builds seem to be from years ago, but there's a ticket in their bugtracker from 13 Sep 2021 so I'm not so sure that heads is abandonware:

https://github.com/headslive/bugtracker/issues
There was never a truth world it was always a world of trust and the trust got eroded in the last decades but it's still there. If you trust your business partner or your life partner you can make decisions without checking them. If you trust no one, your decision making is so hampered that even if you come to the right conclusion it's most certainly too late.
What’s the principle that lead to this feature? I’m not knowledgeable in Tesla’s/Musk’s principles.
So an article about corporates violating our privacy doesn't comply with laws on privacy?
But it is.
If you have a String on the stack, it's memory is only reclaimed at the end of the scope, while it often could be free'd before.
This is especially bad in async code around await point since it means the memory need to be kept alive more than needed.
Because it's true?

https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphone-style-ads...
Were the eggs found by the girl [that] the... oops, parse error, try again!
I think you do benefit, and I think having at least a grasp of the concepts does make you a better programmer.

However, I don't believe every programmer does need to understand complexity theory from a formalized perspective. I'll tie a loose analogy to a musician who cannot read sheet music, yet can still be a maestro. I think that sometimes some people just think a certain way, even if they (or others) cannot really explain it.

But I think that merely scratches the surface of a deeper issue. Bob (in his analogy) can be a perfectly serviceable programmer for many years and create many good things. But Bob may never reach his true potential because he didn't take the time to grasp the fundamental concepts about what he was telling the computer to do, or how the computer behaved when he did them.

Because Bob never truly understands computational complexity, maybe Bob never reaches his true potential.
I'm the author of this paper, and I'll try to respond to some of what has been stated on this thread.

> A fully compacted LSM-tree should be equivalent to a b-tree in terms of read performance.

A fully compacted LSM tree arises only when writes stop happening for a sufficiently long time. It's a long-solved problem to build a read-only B-tree. The challenge is to not cause your read performance to fall when there are writes in the workload. This paper attempts to analyze that penalty.

> They've published some stupid stuff before (look at the graph here[1] and tell me how to make something just like a b-tree, but faster).

Possibly we've published some stupid stuff, but I don't think that Leif's blog posting qualifies. Is there something specific there that is incorrect?
This story is a specific instance of a larger story, one as old as human power structures. This can happen in any relationship where power is very asymmetrical, and where the weaker party feels so dependent on being in the good graces of the former. Websites fear making Google mad. Content creators fear making Facebook mad. The press sometimes fear making politicians and sponsors mad. It's perverse, because those with the most expertise are the ones we need doing the critiquing, but fear or loss of access - to people, to jobs, to inside information - and even the fear of social ostracism (you stop getting invited to meetings, events, interviews, etc.) cause self-censorship (http://ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol_5_No_3_March_2014/9.pdf)

I think what this all really shows is that if you want to be able to have controversial opinions about things and be taken seriously, you need to already be successful, and preferably wealthy, so that your livelihood depends on nothing. Anonymity and pseudonymity can let you say whatever you want, but that doesn't mean anyone will take you seriously. Bloomberg, Buffet, and Gates can potentially say whatever they want (and Bloomberg certainly does); if you can't bribe or starve someone, you probably also can't silence them.
Ah, OK. BTW, while Gradle doesn't enforce it, even tasks that directly touch the filesystem may (and should) declare their inputs (that can be files or other tasks) and outputs[1] so that their freshness can be evaluated. All default tasks (like compilation), do that out of the box.

[1]: 15.9 in https://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/more_about_tas...
Yup, and high churn actually makes the projects less pleasant to work with IME. More turnover means the people updating the projects have a weaker understanding of how the projects work, so they create more bugs/cruft than an equally-skilled developer who has worked with the project longer. And by the time those developers know the projects inside-and-out, they are already looking to move on.
That's true.

There are a ton of features in modern PHP which address a lot of the common criticisms brought against it. Doing a proper comparison with other languages (framework to framework, not framework to language) I think PHP measures up reasonably well.

But there is so much terrible, legacy code out there. The evolution, if it's happening is happening very slowly.
I used apiary.io which is the best tool I've found for writing API specs. You can write your specs using an online API Blueprint format editor via their site. Alternatively, you can put a text file in your repo and authorize apiary to pull the file every time you make a commit to github. This way you do everything via your development environment.

The documentation they provide based on the specs looks very well designed and intuitive.

One of my favorite features about apiary was the mock backend server they use based on my API specs. So if you're doing a single page app, just write your specs then point your frontend app to the mock server they provide. This greatly simplified development process for me.
I'll go with number 4
>found a near-universal preference for print, especially for serious reading

Is this really any surprise for "serious reading"? Reading a textbook, especially one with lots of graphs, charts, figures, etc., is miserable on an e-reader. I suppose I always assumed that pleasure reading was the most popular use case for an e-reader. Maybe I'm way off.

EDIT: while muddling through this in my brain, I realized that I've been mentally defining e-readers as E-Ink readers.
This touches on an interesting conundrum: I was one of the founders of zynamics (exit to Google in 2011), and I have been looking for attractive angel investment opportunities in Europe for a while - and also have tried to volunteer some time to do startup mentoring.

At the same time, I still have a day job - in Zurich - so I can't go to the various "startup meetups" or whatever and waste time there :-)

So - how does someone with experience starting/running a very technical company with an interest in doing some angel investing get in contact with people in the EU that are promising? I haven't found a good way outside of asking around via email ...
So my plan was to run alpine linux or maybe nix on one of these guys, I've done arch in the past and don't mind that but upgrades in arch can be ugh if you don't pay attention to the site and update frequently. And well, i'm getting annoyed in my old age with incessant tinkering.
Have had the T40, T60, X60 and X220. Suspend many times per day. No issues ever, except with fans and hard disks dying on me. Built like tanks.
I'm a little confused--the article mentions that letters of recommendation must be turned over, but I believe that's only the case if the writer explicitly waived confidentiality (see http://www.naceweb.org/public/ferpa0808.htm).
I loved Pascal and I did most of my DOS programming with it until DJGPP.

But for Windows in jumped right to Visual C++. All because Delphi was “dying”, at least in popularity. So I never got to give it a chance.
IIRC, having a prerelease version of ResEdit wasn't that rare. The tool co-evolved with the OS and never saw an official release for years. The official way to create resource forks was a text-based compiler called Rez.

I think the Mac OS X developer tools still contain DeRez, which does the reverse (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...)
There are many countries in Europe, and many cities, and salaries differ wildy.

You'll get a higher salary in northern Europe (Germany, UK, Netherlands, etc.) than in southern Europe (Spain, Italy, France).

Also you'll get a higher salary in a tech hub like London or Berlin and a lower one in the country side.

There are variations in US too, although probably not as big as between European countries.
Just replied to let you know that you have an amazing take on the matter.
Perhaps it's more reasonable to compare the energy footprint of cryptocurrency with that of our traditional fiat currencies. Including all computing power used by banks to settle their transactions.
Probably a GDPR thing.
Certainly. But the alternative action that anybody can unilaterally take is…?

My comment was in response to someone noting that Spotify could be constructing golden chains by paying people far above the market rates for where they live. The people involved are given the means to retire strictly faster in the world where Spotify does that, vs the world in which they don't.
So the issue is not the people suffering, but rather who's paying. Got it.
I'm already switching to Telegram after losing my phone. It's been a month and I haven't yet recovered my original number, losing many contacts and messages in the process.
Telegram and Wire for sure will work for this. Signal is also ok, with clients on different devices, but it’s still lacking in reliability and has some messaging issues.

For example, on Signal, I got a message from someone I hadn’t messaged for a long, long time asking me to re-send my message because they saw a “bad message” error. I have no idea what that was about.
I don't think this is true. Sure, you can maybe get your close friends or close family to switch. But I don't think my landlord or my distant relatives will install Signal just because I don't want to use WhatsApp anymore.
Line (https://line.me ) is pretty popular in several Asian countries, so I started to use it during my time there. Its desktop app is really good, so now I'm sticking with it whenever possible.
That's so neat! I'd sometimes wonder if founders of Google etc. knew how their software worked during early years. Thanks for posting, seriously!
That doesn't apply to me or anyone I know. I know a handful on signal and telegram but the vast majority are on WhatsApp with a smaller number on messenger.

People can contact me on signal but I mostly use WhatsApp for group chats and I'm not so important that everyone will install a newaapp just to include me in a group chat.
I have no personal experience with the VA, but unlike Medicare which seems to be almost universally liked by seniors, I’ve heard almost nothing but complaints from military members about the VA. If I were going to attempt universal health care, seems better to start by expanding the program that has the most goodwill.
Signal has had backup on Android for a long time. On iOS you can transfer from an old iPhone to a new one now. You scan an QR code on your old iPhone with your new iPhone to exchange a secret for transferring your messages to your new phone. I don't think you can do Andriod<->iOS. You can have sync between desktop, phone, and iPad. However you can not have messaged synced to two phones or an Android tablet yet.
Signal requires a mobile phone number. Nogo.
According to coinmarketcap, MobileCoin's "Fully Diluted Market Cap is $15,638,578,369.65". If we take a conservative assumption of a 1% advisor grant (which would be very conservative for a system that has been pitching signal integration as its primary feature for years), then that would put the value of the integration at around $150 million today (or tens of millions a few weeks ago).
Sounds like pop science. I did as you asked and didn't imagine the person's hair, but I can imagine things visually and have been an avid reader since childhood.
You are attacking unicorns. My largish city also has similar requirements, I'm also not in California. We have a problem like a lot of large cities, there's not enough apartments or lower cost housing, thus we are losing our workforce step by step. We desperately need more lower cost housing here.
> It’s like buying salt at the supermarket. It’s all the same

You can say the same about Coca-cola or McDonalds though. They have a ton of competition and are most certainly not dead. I don't really buy the argument that competition is all that problematic for Uber. Worst comes to worst, taxis made money, so IMHO there's no reason to believe Uber couldn't settle at doing what taxis did in terms of profitability, at a bare minimum.
Only if we don’t all agree on the new meaning :)
And the insistence on retaining what amounts to prejudices of an earlier age feels like a different kind of pandering.
99% of which most likely don't even own one, and also partake in the other peculiar groups spreading the notion that dirty, foreign brands are dangerous and unreliable.
I use a $25 Dayton USB audio DAC and it works fine.
I understand what you're saying, but in my limited experience, it appears it isn't exactly what information is being presented so much as How it is presented. Often I see some with a differing opinion begin along the lines of: "You're an idiot Trumper, you're killing the planet!!" How about begin with a question to engage? For example: " why is it you think climate change doesn't exist? From the studies I've seen, I was convinced. " That's better right?
Richard Carrier is about the least disinterested individual one could cite on the subject of Jesus mythicism. His “celestial Jesus” view requires an ahistorical Jesus, which plausibly explains his vociferous attacks against anyone holding the mainstream (secular!) view that Jesus was a real person.
Uber adds more value to the rider than a balkanized taxi environment. No matter where you are, it is likely to work and work in a familiar way.
Is there any specific reason to believe the media accounts are false, or just a general principle? I feel like this is starting to approach the level of skepticism where it's impossible to be convinced of anything.
If the decision was based on logical rules they would have done it before. So it’s clearly political. Glad to know that the most influential social networks are not neutral at all despite saying so.
Please go by sovereign nation. China is the world's largest contributing country to CO2 emissions—a trend that has steadily risen over the years—now producing 10.06 billion metric tons of CO2 (and increasing). US is half of that and falling further. India is at #3 with half of US emissions.
> Those places have to actually exist, though.

There's enough people believing this that they're guaranteed to come into existence if you deny them access to mainstream platforms.

> but when you live in a deeply red state and are surrounded by Trumpers, there's no way you're going to speak up IRL

You can't interrupt the in-real-life contacts by any means (short of despotic ones).

But there's a certain number of people that will stop polluting an online space if they're being laughed at. But when you force them to create their own echo chamber even the more timid and susceptible to social pressure will be unbothered.
"Hitler liked dogs too!"
This actually isn't the case as long as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act exists [1].

The section has two parts, the first of which protects the platform (Twitter, Google Play Store, FB, etc) from prosecution for user-generated content on the platform.

The second part, more relevant here, ensures the right of the platform to moderate it's users anyway it sees fit. If r/conservative can ban anyone for saying anything on the subreddit, or Parler can ban you for dropping leftist talking points, the Play Store can ban your app for enabling domestic terrorism.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
No taking responsibility for it, no promise to investigate the failure and prevent the like in the future, and an obvious lie: “The FBI was prepared,” the official said. Nice.
I don't find this article particularly convincing; in fact it feels suspiciously to me like the same sort of technical arguments made by some "premium audiophile cable" vendors. The fact that your fancy test equipment can detect significant differences between your cables and others' is not necessarily correlated with how well they actually work in practice. This doesn't look like one of those truly insane companies who sell $1500/m cables to a niche audience, but they're using some of the same techniques...

The fact that differences can be seen in the analogue domain is also not a direct correspondence to how the cable will perform digitally. Ethernet is digital, and as long as the signals pass the thresholds at the receiver, there will be no difference.

The most unusual thing here is that they didn't mention at all whether they actually solved any of the problems the customer originally had, which would be the true validator of their theory. (If they did, wouldn't it be a great thing to mention?) "Network performance issues" are vague - I was expecting to see tests of throughput/packet loss between the original and reterminated cables.

Edit: downvotes. Care to explain...?
Thanks for bringing this onto my radar. I've already settled with arrow, but when I can go without it, I combine datetime with pytz, which is so much faster at applying/changing timezones than arrow. I still need to check out 3.9's built-in timezones.
Articles are written, in whole or in part, by AI. I didn't visit the parent link, but there are tons of these pages that are designed to look like blogs, many even include fictitious author pictures and bios.
Would you believe me, if I told you that I used a machine like that as a child, somewhere between 1975 to 1978 in the then capital of West-Germany?

In a store of the chain Salamander. As a curiosity, because we wanted to wriggle our toes in there.
I would caution these people who are rushing to move to the Northeast without knowing what they signed up for. I was born in the Northeast, and I don't mind the high heat temperatures of the desert compared to the very real dangers of freezing to death during a blizzard or snowstorm.

These people are in for a rude awakening. They've never experienced what it's like when a massive blizzard buries all the roads in snow, and you cannot drive any further. Or the experience of walking 2 miles in the snow, abandoning your car during said blizzards. And hurricanes WILL knock out your power, sometimes trapping you indoors when trees are uprooted or worse completely flooding your house/apartment.