skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, YIMBYs do have the answer.

it's in not doing targeted upzones so small that only the wealthy can afford to move in.

it's in doing enormous upzones so large that it makes no sense to sell to only the wealthy.
> why federated, not decentralized?

afaict, Matrix is both, kind of. Rooms are decentralized, while users are federated.

> What about signal?

Signal is great, but it solves a very different problem. It's a good replacement for talking to your best friends on your phone.

But it fails quickly once you go past that. No true multi-device, no talking without releasing your phone number, no public groups. No mentions, no permalinks. In that regard, I'd say matrix is closer to telegram and irc than WhatsApp or Signal

> what about metadata?

The state of metadata in E2E is... not good. Really, only the content of the message is secret. There are a number of ideas how to deal with this.
We’ve established there are ways and reasons for people to influence what happens on nearby land they don’t own themselves. Now we are merely quibbling over the details.
you're not concerned about longer term metabolic effects?
Eiffel was one of the first languages to fix it.
>I think people are going to get rid of Social Security at some point.

The propaganda output of 1%'er think tanks has been consistently stating that it's an unaffordable luxury that will bankrupt the nation for 30 odd years.

They have several ulterior motives for saying this. It's not just that they want to free up money for tax cuts -- stripping people of social security benefits also makes them more dependent upon employers, which employers really like.

Wall Street would like to see that multi-trillion dollar pot of money privatized so that they can manage it and cream off fees.

These groups are the ones pushing for social security "reform". They tried pretty hard under Bush (who was willing) and pretty hard under Obama (likewise). Still no dice though - too many votes to be lost still.
Theology is not present in universities, religious studies is (edit: by theology I meant the study of God, not the study of religion: that's not quite right as you can see in my replies). Theology is taught in special schools, because it fundamentally does not work the same way as other studies. In Universities, there is an expectation that no specific category of ideas should be preferred above any other unless it beats out its competition on the grounds of convincingness or support by evidence. Learning new theology is quite close to learning anything else, but research is very different!

In fact, there's also a little gap inside the universities, between people who primarily rely on evidence (the sciences), and people who primarily rely on being convinced (the humanities). So you've got faith, evidence, and convincingness, and their followers find it difficult to talk.
Sleep-wise, it took me some time to fall asleep during the first couple days. After which, my mind calmed considerably and I slept normally for the rest of the fast.

Libido-wise, I couldn't tell you. My sex-drive has been abnormally low for my entire life. Your wife's suspicion would seem to make sense. 'The Science of Fasting' - a movie available on Amazon Prime - goes into some detail about the metabolic changes a body undergoes during the process. It would make sense that reproductive urges would diminish during a time when one's body was focused on conservation.
"Having a hard time believing" isn't setting anyone up to care a whole lot about your comment - give it a shot and get some experience with it rather than pontificating.
>The Russians, and the people of the USSR, like all the allied forces, died heroically in the battlefield fighting fascists.

You mean before they were fighting alongside the facsists. I mean that sounds great and heroic if you completely ignore the fact that Russia and Germany were allies and co-invaded Eastern Europe, thus starting the European front war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact

But I will agree with you, Russia probably did the most to turn the tide of the war, but they really didn't have a choice. Hitler turned on them and they were fortunate to be included in the allied forces rather than defending their motherland against everybody. Patton wanted to drive into Russia after Germany and we were the only nuclear power in the world.

I mean in WWI, they abandoned the allied war effort before they slaughtered the Romanov's and in WW2 they started on the axis side. In between the government starved millions of people. What were you saying about anti-communist propaganda? Sounds like they don't need any help in that regard.

>Calling them a "meat wall" really fucking grinds my gears as it's extremely insulting and derogatory to the dead.

Give me a break, I'm sure Poland really weeps for them. Read about what the Soviets did when entering Germany (not that Germany was any better invading Russia).
This recently popped up on HN which is extremely promising: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-19137-5
Are those chips imported specifically for domestic use? Or does that figure count chips imported to be put into export electronics?
Nailed it. Its the only logical conclusion I can come to myself. People want to pretend that an armored train trip to China didn't occur just before all this.
IF makes sense. You will be hungry later whether you eat now or you don't. Keto, I'm not so sure about.
Eh, it's good for building up the immune system.
I see the similarity but have a feeling it's a superficial one that leads to opposite conclusions. In the process I'm describing, the feedback loops remain short, there are many of them, and the overall state of the program never gets that far from "neat and tidy". In my experience, you can't program that way in C++ because the language and tooling impose too high a transaction cost on each feedback loop.
Since the project literally has "Rust" in the title, I'm curious - do the authors view Rust as being particularly suited to this kind of project?

From a quick glance it looks like the heavy computational work is done in OpenCL kernels. Typically, such projects are either written in Python / some other flexible high level language for the easy metaprogramming or C++ if a high performance CPU fallback or tight CUDA integration is desired. I've tried out Rust in the past, but decided against using it for my own computational projects because it didn't seem to offer any significant advantages for this type of work and I didn't enjoy the extra hurdles it imposed. It'd be interesting to hear an opposing view from other computational scientists.
Wouldn't it be ironic if it was found a few years after it was hidden, or maybe even before he announced the Hunt...

I mean, the finder would probably think "best not tell people where I got this from" a la Counte of Monte Cristo.
Insofar as a timespan is the same as counting years, then yes. If elements in the array are years, then the time before your first birthday doesn't appear.
Since the end of the financial crisis, Lubarsky says, Seattle has added roughly 100,000 jobs, but barely 32,000 new homes and apartment units. “We’ve underbuilt every year since 2010,”

Interesting how that lines up so nicely with this headline/factoid:

For every 100 families living in poverty on the West Coast, there are no more than 30 affordable homes

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...

Also, no doubt purely coincidentally:

(The Seattle area, the nation’s 22nd largest by population, has the third most homeless people, behind only Los Angeles and New York City.)

I sarcastically say purely coincidentally because of how often I get told that (a large portion of) homeless people are drug addicts, mentally ill etc, so lack of affordable housing is not why people are out on the street.
There are lots of universities with theology departments. You can just google this.
Remote gigs are also not terribly available to most.

Either your line of work demands you be at a specific location, or you're competing with the 0.001% of the entire world for a remote job, with employers that would rather do without than make do with sub-superlative people.
how about taxing the increase in property values commensurate with income tax - year over year.

that would properly align incentives. now it's just sitting on land and watching the dollars flow in - the definition of unearned wealth.
Yeah, I'm sure that being short makes it harder to get past the initial filter, but the nice thing is, once you get past it, you know that it's because they like you internally, not just superficially.
Ask HN: How would you make an on-site application highly available?
We have a well established product in the form of a standalone app that clients run in their environments. Technically it's a dropwizard app with H2 for persistence (our aim was to make it simple to manage). We now have clients asking to make it highly available. That will have to work in varied environments, with storage likely being in aws/gcc/azure. We have a fair amount of work cut out for us to move all the state we currently have on the filesystem to DB storage. But I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or comments about things to pay attention to, or tools to use when moving to HA?
Actually there are quite a few, with the classic example being "edge cities" like Tysons Corners near Washington DC - what was originally just offices and shopping has become a real community. But to tie in the zoning issues mentioned, places like Tysons developed in response to the stricter zoning in DC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_city
It could do the opposite too. When a loaded extension is not used for some time (maybe the user switched to an project with a different language), so there is no active code depending on it then it should unload it to free up resources.
Yeah, but then you're living in the Rust Belt.
Rust doesn't have iterator invalidation issues or "ConcurrentAccessException" which are very nice for writing highly concurrent code at large scales. Throw in niceties like no null, result types for better error typing, and a culture of correctness and you've got a really nice language for writing correct software. Go and Java are certainly good at writing correct software too, especially compared to python or javascript, but don't offer anywhere near the same guarantees as rust. I would consider myself a Rust fanboy, but I wouldn't hesitate to use Go or Java in many domains, every tool has its niche.
>Some people like a big, heavy, comfy IDE. Some people like a light, zippy, relatively simple text editor and a terminal window. And some people like Emacs. We don't talk about them. (I'm joking, I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.) I'm part of the zippy editor/terminal group.

I really, really, hate this often touted false dichotomy, and the smug sense of superiority it engenders. Some people just use the right tool for the right job. If I'm cranking out some bash scripts, of course I'll pop open Vim. If I need to edit a CSS file real quick, I'll open up Sublime. If I'm writing a new C# class to integrate with some large codebase based on a complex library, for the love of god give me Visual Studio. If I'm debugging a JSP stack trace in Java/Spring, I would hate my life without IntelliJ. People who "personally identify" with their preferred tools and use/advocate them zealously are idiots with narrow experience.
Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you.

On a related note, though, is there a way to limit CPU time on the headless chrome API?

We're running our PDF generator on docker images, and we built https://github.com/RealImage/proxywall to run as a 'sidecar' container that sits in from like nginx / Apache would - it rejects request that don't match certain criteria. If you business model supports it you might want to have a whitelist of domains that each account can take shots of.
I always struggle with extensions. Often I just want to go completely extension free (as I do with Vim and Emacs). But some extensions are too good. A few that come to mind for VS Code are:

- Prettier

- Regex preview
What is a "caucasian sounding name"? Do Zurab, Zahar, Zivadin, Zora or Artem sound like caucasian male names to you?
Neither OCaml[1] nor Haskell[2] has performance competitive with Rust. It’s impressive how many high-level functional features Rust was able to include, but it’s ultimately a systems language—and it’s unique precisely because it’s a fast systems language that can give the sorts of high-level guarantees usually reserved for GC languages.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
[2] https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...
> For much of America's history, you could literally get in a wagon, head out west somewhere, plant a flag, and the land was yours.

You also had to band together with your fellow settlers into armed militias to kill the people whose land you were squatting.

Those are the same militias which are protected in the second amendment. Their original purpose was "killing indians". The secondary purpose was to catch escaped slaves.

It's always fun to remember where our real estate industry comes from. It's also interesting to see the hidden connections between America's passion for home ownership, its obsession with guns, and its racism.
Would be more interesting to see infidelity statistics.
I believe the guy has stated recently that it remains unfound.
I agree with you if we replace "dynamic language" by "not as strongly typed". C is not exactly dynamic but its type system is prehistoric compared to Rust.

For instance C's equivalent of Rust's enum would be tagged unions, however the compiler cannot enforce the semantics of tagged unions and will gladly let you access random members regardless of the tag.

Same story with the borrow checker compared to C's "whatever you say chief" approach to resource management.

Rust is definitely not the only one to offer these guarantees and some languages even go further (such as Idris for instance). The reason Rust stands out is that it can be used basically anywhere you'd use C or C++, something few other languages can claim.
The comparison I like to make is that Rust is the safer/modern version of C++'s memory model. It's in a different class from most languages, but trying to apply all the latest lessons and techniques.
Indeed, so sad, because as things become politcal, it goes from science to pop culture, and lies become truths because they are repeated so often.

Thanks for the link to the study. I had not read that one yet. To give a counterpoint, this article on slate I thought was very convincing in the other direction: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
john carmack (47) of id software, Seetharaman Narayanan of Adobe Photoshop
You are talking about the "content" bits. These illegal primes do not represent copyrighted/authored works, they are the secret decoding keys (remember DeCSS?) that are crucial to securing certain forms of DRM. As such, they are more like trade secrets. But trade secrets don't have much legal protection, so the industry got wise and helped write some new laws (to call them copyright, among other things) and can now further protect/entrench themselves.
I would posit that there should be a difference between a potential suspect, and complete dragnet operations collecting everyone through a point.

Sure, if you have a Judge sign off on a search warrant, I have no problem with individuals being searched. But that petition to the court better be public and upon a sworn affidavit upon probable cause.

This case sure doesn't sound like that - instead it sounds like $geneticcorp was providing all analysis to law enforcement by default. Then again, the companies can just claim that's their "free speech" or some such garbage
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If that was your first foray into Rust land, I hope you give it another shot. I definitly struggled with fitting into the Rust programming model at first, but a few adjustments to how I code have really helped me. Some particular points which helped me are:

1. It really helped me to stop trying to force my code to be as pretty as possible the first time around.

2. If you are getting errors about a lifetime not living long enough in a complex expression, it can help to pull some part of it out into a helper let binding.

3. Adding an artificial scope (a curly block in the middle of another block) can be a great way to control the lifetime of a borrow.

4. clone() all the things! This is a major advantage that Rust has over other ball-and-chain languages like Haskell. When you get into a type-tetris situation in Haskell, you just have to find a way out. In Rust you can often just clone() something that you would rather not have to clone() and move on. I love being able to tell the borrow checker to go away while I concentrate on my program logic. Later I can always go back and fix it.
For small private chats on your phone, not a lot, but because of a number of decisions, it does not work very well with large IRC-style rooms full of people you might not know.
Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers
Does pure fasting have benefits vs consuming a low amount of nourishment, like protein powder with vitamins?

I’ve been doing this inadvertently, due to illness, and lost about the same amount - 40 lbs in less than 2 months. I was trying to eat as much as possible, though. I went from being in the higher healthy range of BMI to the low end.
And we were all making fun of China's ghost cities not too long ago...
I've been doing IF for almost a year, and I don't consider it a diet anymore. I consider it my new way of life. I was absolutely blown away with the increase in energy I got when I started doing the fasts. I do 3 24 hr fasts a week, and on non-fast days I usually have dinner and either lunch or breakfast.
The irony is, that this article is very short.
In the early 20th century having a high school degree was an accomplishment on par with having a bachelors degree now. And that lasted quite a while mainly due to factory work. I had a teacher in high school talk about when he started teaching in the 70s he had students who made more than him working part time in factories.

Of course the golden age of factory work has dried up but trade skills aren't in a position to dry up like that. Even with all the hype around machine learning and automation the skilled craftsman trades won't be automated away anytime soon, in fact software developers themselves are likely to be automated largely away before the trades. Along with other fields of IT.

Some might argue technology will replace some trades like plumbing that uses self healing polymers but someone still has to place the plumbing, someone still has to replace it when the damage is greater than the self healing capacity. The people replacing it won't be the engineers designing the polymers it will be the plumbers. If we ever increase space exploration and colonization guess what will be needed? Trade skills...
How much experience do you have with Rust? What about C++?
Thank you, your question made me realize that I had no idea what I was looking for. After thinking I would like the people I work with to have virtues like:

- integrity

- agreeableness (easy to work with)

- accountability/reliability (ability to admit mistakes and fix them as well as deliver on agreed deadlines)

- humility (open-mindedness)

- courage (to voice their thoughts even if it's different from everyone else's, a growth mindset to pursue things that scare them like new skills or projects, and to speak up about their needs as well as reinforce boundaries)

- perseverance (ability to fail and try again)

- mission.
Accurate Reporting of Detroit's Blight
I don't know I think something has got to give before YIMBY can move forward. For example, communities where new residents are simply not allowed to have a car. I'm just shocked no one cares how much traffic will increase if you increase housing. It's already past capacity. Not sure why the fire-department can't put a max-capacity on a freeway when they can on a per-building level. If we restricted our freeways to have 10% of the traffic they do, maybe things would get better in cities.
Well it's more of a feature of the language really. The type of static type checking provided by Rust would be impossible to achieve in C or Python for instance, unless you add specific annotations to augment the language's type system.
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There's also the very old corny joke that many people attend college to get their "MRS" or "MR" degree.

But there is some truth to it since many partners meet in college, if not at a job requiring a comparable educational background.
> I wish there were a simpler language, like Rust (no garbage collector, no runtime), but that was a little more helpful and willing to do implicit things even if they are slightly slower than the most optimised code possible.

The fiddling with borrows isn't about being as optimised as possible, it's about being correct in the absence of garbage collection. Are you sure you need no GC and no runtime? Tasks like the script you describe sound like a perfect fit for something like OCaml.
If you have the money to build a bunch of buildings in the middle of nowhere, is the cost of the land really a big impediment?
Not especially. Humans have fasted intentionally and unintentionally for millennia. Our bodies are built for periods of lack.

There is almost no research available on the subject in the west, and there likely won't be - studies of this sort require funding, and Pfizer or whomever aren't going to spend money on research that could show that the most effective form of weight loss available is freely available for everyone.
By all means, hipsters should also police up their poop and needles. But given the choice, I'd rather deal with that--at least it isn't usually moving toward me at high speed.
Battery life, cooling, and possibly even physical dimensions. Which is why the big heavy gaming PCs with lots of RAM have laughable battery life.
He also claims to be the only person to know the location, therefore for him to verify that, he would have had to visit it himself. He's now 86 and probably not able to hike into the mountains to check. So perhaps it's not far from a road?
There is another solution, although you may feel it is sub-optimal.

Simply stop going to the movies.
> all artefacts that Fenn, a self-taught archaeologist, amassed during his own sometimes controversial explorations in the Southwest, reports Vox. The millionaire was criticised in the 1990s for excavating the San Lazaro Pueblo Indian site he bought, for example, and the FBI searched his home in 2009 in connection with the sale of artefacts looted from the Four Corners area, though no charges were filed.

It sounds like a lot of people in the world might consider the treasure to have been stolen. Who is searching for a treasure that doesn't seem to clearly belong to even the person who buried it?

People are dying for this treasure, which was created through "controversial" means while a 'self-taught' archeologist was digging around. It seems he clearly had no formal training in morals, may not have been accompanied by others, and very well may have stolen the entirety of the treasure from potentially rightful owners.

Seems like not a treasure worth dying for to own. Chances of becoming a millionaire by starting a business and working hard for many years? Somewhat reasonable, probably.

Chances of dying looking for stolen treasure? Not worth it.