skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I think this only goes so far. You are correct that adding supply via changing zoning would definitely mitigate the effect that high-demand has on prices in the aggregate, but there are a couple issues that aren't resolved.

1) There's a major time delay here. Most rent-controlled apartments have rent increases tied to inflation. Had zoning and land development policy over the last 50 years kept up, maybe in aggregate affordability within communities could have been preserved. As it stands, we are so far behind what would have been needed to keep things affordable that it's basically unworkable in the short to medium term (10-20 years) to expect changing zoning laws to solve our problems now. NYC would need an insane capital infusion, and any economic downturn would make the building market freeze up (as we saw in 2008).

2) New development in price-controlled neighborhoods doesn't solve the issue for people paying significantly under market. That's exactly what happens now, in fact: new development once a neighborhood is rezoned allows developers to buy up old properties and build luxury high rises. There is SO much demand for luxury (i.e. Manhattan yuppie) housing that, again, in the short-medium term, long-time residents are still necessarily displaced without protection.

3) To what degree should a community be able to resist change? Other than the fear of being displaced, renters also fear their communities being torn apart by gentrification, slowly dissolved by a changing demographic and rising prices. Now, I lean more on the side that communities don't necessarily have a right to exist (i.e. NIMBYism in CA), but there's definitely some leeway here, especially when those communities are classically disadvantaged (socioeconomically, racially, etc.). Rezoning a neighborhood that is fragile can have majorly negative impacts on the communities, and make things even more dire for the most vulnerable segments of the population.

4) It's unclear how much remaining demand is unsatisfied because of housing prices in NYC. Think of the surplus of people commuting in on major rail lines each day. Surely some fraction of them live in the suburbs for lifestyle reasons, but I'm sure a large fraction of them are simply priced out of the city. So demand for housing may increase if prices are lowered substantially. Depending on this unknown demand, rezoning could have little to no effect on the populations we're discussing here.

Rezoning is an extremely important part of the solution here, and the city should DEFINITELY be making aggressive moves to rezone in various places. But it's not a silver bullet, and in the short-medium term doesn't solve most of the problems that rent control have attempted to solve.
This is the relevant line from that link:

3) 3M Double Coated Tape 4492 is used to bond interior visor mirror glass to the plastic bezel.

To the grandparent: Your Audi likely uses double-sided tape too. :-)
Considering ethics as a field of study has been a thing since at least Ancient Greece I would say yes, it probably would have some effect on you.
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And of course people on the left who are certain all the killing will be done by the right aren't dangerous at all. Beware a prophet who proclaims your own perfection.
..momentarily. In a sea of distraction... ;)
For context, in classical mechanics we also have to perturb the system to measure it, but we can make the perturbations arbitrarily small. That's why we call it a measurement rather than an interaction, and can get away with not explicitly modeling it.

A seminal paper on the question in classical mechanics was the Bohr Rosenfeld 1933 Paper on measuring Electrodynamic fields, that showed that classical EM fields can indeed be measured accurately (I can't find it online right now, but the follow up on QED is [1]). The question appears in the context of General Relativity as the question when extended bodies follow geodesics.

These are all different to the situation in QM. There is an irreducible alteration of the state in QM. It resembles in many ways the updating of a probability distribution if you gain new information.

Imagine you have two envelopes with a blue and a red card in them. You mix them and send one of them far away. Now you know that the far away envelope has a 50/50 chance of being blue. It is in a superposition of red and blue. If you open your envelope and look in, the superposition collapses, and you suddenly know exactly what state the other envelope is in, even though you didn't touch it, didn't disturb it at all.

QM measurements behave just like this "updating of probabilities upon learning something" _except_ that we know from other, more subtle properties (Bell's inequalities) that they are _not_ probabilities referring to a hidden state.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.78.794
>What happens is the plane takes on additional drag with decreased fuel efficiency.

Did you just assume that? Because I'm pretty sure that a folded wingtip in flight would result in a nearly unstoppable spiral of death.
Two years newer than mine :)
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I don't know much about Indian government, but the problem with African governments is they tend to operate on a selfish basis, i.e. their legislation is designed around improving public employees (including top leadership) to the detriment of the population.

When the government's legislation is sometimes actively against your welfare as a citizen, I imagine you're much more likely to have off-the-books and informal business. Again, the lack of infrastructure in many places requires citizens to work around these problems and the larger sense of community in most African cultures also makes an informal economy more likely.

These are just anecdotal opinions, though, so take it with a large pinch of salt.
The argument seems to stand on the greater risk to life on a planet with relative axial rotation. So one without is more likely to have "sweet spots."

As an earthling this is probably the first thing you think about when you read about Mars - too hot for life in the day, too cold for life at night. But that makes way too many assumptions relative to _human_ life. It assumes nothing could be rigid enough to adapt to day and night extremes greater than Earth's.

It seems to me the greatest challenge to thinking about potential life outside this planet is being mentally bound to the constraints of life on this planet.
This is that same tired, old accusation of protectionism in the UK and EU, and it's totally baseless.

US tech giants are behaving unethically and in some cases illegally. As soon as the countries in which they do business decide enough is enough, people (Americans I assume) cry out about protectionism.

How about just follow the fucking law in the countries in which you do business?
Also, if you look at the Zerodium payout chart --- again, I'm skeptical of it, but not of this observation --- you'll notice the serverside RCE stuff is at the bottom of the rate sheet. What buyers really want are clients, not servers. This despite the fact that clients are more efficiently patched than servers (the software targets that command the highest payouts are all auto-updated).
Neither side would be justified making someone prostrate themselves in front of anyone.

Heads of states should be treat of equals, no matter if one country has been around for a couple of thousands of years, or only a bit over one thousand. Also whether it is a stagnant declining empire being left in the dust by other countries, or one of those countries leaving everyone else in the dust, sound also not matter.
> They're no longer selling software licences, but targeted ads based on what you do locally on your personal computer.

They're doing both, but Google does something like that as well (that doesn't make it right, but it puts it in perspective that its the newest rage), and Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. The old Microsoft was much more evil than the current.
I've found this: http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=18903

"babies who sleep with smoker parents suffer from ‘third hand smoke', in other words, the harmful smoke particles that impregnate their parents' skin, clothes and hair"
A key universal insight here is surely that "it's extremely dangerous to consider anyone who raises concerns or objections as cynics or nay-sayers", in any company culture.
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The truth about many business presentations today
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Nobody asked for a +1 button, and I'm pretty sure you don't need 3rd party cookies to make it work anyway.

Also pretty sure a company whose bread and butter is pervasive tracking doesn't break a user opt-out method by accident.
That's quite untrue for more complex examples of 7 + 17.

"Hey Dingbat, what's 10 percent of 50 times 33 times 125. Oh sorry, 10 percent of open parentheses 50 times 33 times 125 close parentheses".

Even just talking it is substantially slower than typing the number into a calculator. App, desktop, or phone.
Is it my impression or they just moved on, making his package have a name conflict with Node core?
I think Inworded that very badly - of course with modern medicine we can treat Gastroenteritis while still combating leukaemia.

I was too focused on avoiding the "golden past" theory that seems to trot out too often.
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That negates many of the other reasons to go paperless, though.
As I understand it, he did get a lot of funding for a while, but nothing much came of it. After that happens, further funding tends to dry up.

For futher reading, see The Network Revolution – confessions of a computer scientist (1982) by Jacques Vallée, chapter 5, “Knowledge Workers of the World, link up!”: (https://books.google.nl/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC&pg=PA97)

It contains a partial and anonymized (all names have been changed) story about the initial decline of SRI, the company led by Engelbart to develop NLS. Reportedly, they all became entranced with Erhard Seminars Training.
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I never cease to be amazed at how well Postgres maintains decades-old ACID SQL standards while churning out these innovative advances to the spec.
Bad wording on my side, probably. I meant comfortable not necessarely regarding the ride but, for example

- Getting it ready for the ride.

- Taking it inside your appartment/home/office, if necessary. No need to leave it outside.

- Easier to take along inside public transport, and then used as a means of traveling the last mile.

- Defenitely more comfortable if you don't want to excercise.
Snake and Wall (bouncing ball hitting bricks) were games I made for every programmable system I owned up until around the mid 90's.
> Ironically self-driving is held to a much

Is it?
Unless you're one of the little people whose health was harmed in the Theranos fiasco. Or are those people acceptable sacrifices?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-patients-hurt-by-theranos-1...
One of the best blogs on learning and life wisdom.
This “give up on details and grow” always make me feel bad. Basically, i feel it like you’re trading your inner self and idea for money and few other respectable things. I understand that this is inevitable if you want to grow, but usual results (big companies around) do not really impress me in any way. It feels like creating a bubble to sell it to anyone.

I believe that core value is in things that are created by focused groups of professionals, and all that 300-500 growth along with ‘success’ badges is a marketing cancer that kills it all. Does anyone experience similar issues(?) with this topic?
The only problem I have with them is that it takes my brain 30 minutes to digest the peace of SQL in front of me that uses WITH RECURSIVE clause.

I do whatever I'm supposed to do. 3 months later, a bugfix required, I find myself at this piece of SQL that I know works but I cannot digest it for another 30 minutes.

And my case is really simple.

But yeah they are amazing.
Would that not just be a tipping point in genetic diversity?

Once you reach a certain level of complexity in one lineage you get exponentially more variation possible.

Likewise, compound that from earlier lineage break aways that are now also reaching a tipping point in their own complexity.

In other words, it's just an exponential situation under prime conditions for new species to emerge.
Personal views are established by prior knowledge, experience, established facts and consensus. Indeed they are not all equal as when there is a conflict then views get valued based on the support the proponent has in their view.

News sites has several reason for bias. The most obvious one is when the owner or company has a official political endorsement and that spend money as part of a commercial venture on a political candidate. I will propose that common sense says that this is a prime indicator of bias for a specific political outcome, and data research (I will not cite sources because that would make a already long comment significant longer to write) on articles published shows a clear statistical differences in the substance of those articles compared to news sites of opposing political stance. News site also has an incentive to cater to existing audience and market share. Competition in news is harsh and giving up one audience for an other is an economic risk. Advertisement is also targeted and is more economical if the intended audience is reached. There is usually also a correlation between views heuristics and hiring (contractor vs permanent staff), wage negotiations, and internal promotions which again incentivize journalists to strategies for maximized views, usually through existing audience since getting outside audience is seen as harder than an already captured one.

For Wikipedia the bias is different. There is malice out of fun and fame. There are crowds that can gang up on a issue. There is local politics inside the circle of long term editors.

Comparing the two is hard which is why the best bet is usually to look to third-party researchers who try to measure correctness and bias. We could try to reason between ourself to distinguish which should have a bigger impact, through this will be a very subjective approach and it depend on both participants to have good intentions and willingness to find common ground. Online forums have a bad reputation for such conversation, through occasionally it does work.
Is this something that would be evident upon running EXPLAIN over a query?
Just the middleman is replaced. The producer is still in the game. It would be more of a problem if Amazon started manufacturing the same product.

I see that it can concentrate power on Amazon (as a merchant), but it's debatable that it would reduce incentives to enterpreneurship. If platforms like Amazon didn't exist at all, there would be even less incentives to sell online. One current alternative is simply not to sell products at Amazon in the first place. What I find most disturbing is that this Amazon tactic is not clear to third-party sellers, which leads to the same old problem of disclosing what they do with the data they capture.
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There are exclusions, but they are only available for the current module:

> Exclusions only apply to builds of the current module. If the current module were required by a larger build, the exclusions would not apply.

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour
There are many ways to "think".

Sure, folks successfully use models/patterns/theories/beliefs/instinct to reduce complex realities into comprehensible problems with tractable paths to solutions.

But I think the enumeration of models in one's "toolbox" is less important than being able to apply them (whatever they are) skillfully.

The OP just sounds like fodder designed to appeal to biz-types who crave and worship snap decision making.
How do Norway prisons deal with formation of gangs, which are essentially small businesses that seek to "disrupt" the prison economy?
Do the economics stack up?

"""Bird pays Brandon, a contract worker, up to several hundred dollars a night. On one particularly successful night, Brandon brought home $600."""

The article does not have many specifics but roughly Brandon seems to get 10 or so scooters on each trip, two trips a night(?). so that's something between 10 bucks and 30 bucks per charged scooter cost to Bird. Even if it's just 10 bucks that becomes the cost of the bike every quarter or so - that kind of opex must be killing them?
> The numbers you can write on a page are countable, in fact finite, so all actually calculated math is "discrete" in some sense.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say you're simply working in a discrete _set_?
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It is necessary to "proselytize" a young language in order to gain any traction with wider audiences. This is especially true when you're going up against decades old, entrenched languages like C++.

If you don't want your language to die from indifference the only other option is to find a poorly served niche and claim it as your own.
They are considering a conflict (which they don't feel would really affect anyone) as an option: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20876#issuecomment-39091...
I think you have to put something on the table that will interest the other party. It might not be huge, but being able to help back in a way or another will certainly motivate someone to spend time for you. Also, having a common interest for something, on which you could work together.

For example, if you really like some open source project, you could be mentored by a committer (common interest) which will have incentive to help you contribute (help back) to the project.
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Absolutely. There is an African Union (AU), but it is a largely toothless organisation in practice and there is little real collaboration between nations on the continent.

Again, it comes to leadership. Rwanda, as an example, has great business legislation but being a small, landlocked country it will be reliant on good legislation from its neighbours too in order to really blossom, and sadly this is largely missing.
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I agree that 1) and 3) are hard, but you don't have to do 2) like you said. Asking strangers is not that hard, and most people I know don't find it annoying to be asked. Just do not ask for an unbounded amount of time.

Ask specific questions. Even to strangers. Many will be flattered you asked and will answer. Some will tell you that they do not have time or energy right now. Many will not answer at all (1).

How do I know? I do ask strangers for advice. And I am open to questions: From time to time, I publicly say that on Twitter (like "Reminder: Ask me anything about code quality, technical excellence, TDD or freelancing. DMs open"). I get interesting questions from total strangers, and I answer them as best as I can.

So, maybe also do search for people who offered their help to strangers in the past.

Maybe you will not find a mentor right away by asking strangers for advice, but maybe you can be able to evolve a conversation into a form of mentorship.

(1) If someone answers in a rude or condescending way, block them.
I took that as implied.
Not only that, the fines will get exponentially more severe for repeated non compliance.
No different than any other site. For what it's worth i read this thread all the way through the first time i saw it
Nonsense. Where in the GDPR is it specified that you are entitled to the providers' IP? Auditing compliance is done by parties trusted by both sides, certainly not by amateurs and certainly not by individual vigilantes.
I thought I was crazy for implementing a dependency resolver in CTE but eventually the performance and database-encapsulation were serious winners.
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As long as you are looking into GDPR and how it affects your business you can evolve it over time rather than completely change everything by the 25th.
I find a lot of the preconceptions on Japan seem to carry over from perceptions of their economic and industrial prowess from the 80s and 90s and consumer electronics and mobile technology dominance in the 90s-00s.

Things have changed a lot since then - besides high tech the other preconception is the assumption that costs/expenses are quite high - I’ve found these days Tokyo (and doubly so for the rest of the country) on the cheaper end of world class cities/developed countries these days.

Tech-wise there are a few things that I think continue to be interesting:

* As mentioned their transit system is first class. Their touchless pay system continues to develop and works pretty much seamlessly across the country now (there are some cash-only country buses still) and you can use it at just about every convenience store. Phones support Suica natively now and can auto refill - I’m not sure I’ve seen another transit card around the world that works across the whole country. There isn’t real-time GPS tracking for buses and the like but everything runs on schedule so maybe not so necessary

* Japanese vending machines are the best and the rest of the world should get with the program. This is as much infrastructure as technology - having the supply chain to restock and maintain vending machines every 100m (max) in cities and in literally the middle of nowhere across the country is really something if you think about it

* Japanese people still like tiny gadgets and you’ll often find slightly miniaturized versions of everything, which can be neat/charming, although not the insane feats of engineering they were in the past

* Japanese software generally sucks but it’s interesting for me to see where there engineering effort has gone like into pikakura machines, networked arcade games (like MMO horse racing simulators, NFC card-based RTS arcade consoles, etc), etc

* I’ve heard lots about domestic robots but I haven’t seen anything out in the wild. There’s that one somewhat automated theme hotel, but that’s more of a gimmick than anything. The Robot Restaurant is awesome for many reasons, but the mechanical stuff is all RC’d.
There are many different ways to represent discrete domains in deep learning. One example is entity embeddings such as word2vec which turns a finite list of entities (words in word2vec) into a number of continuous variables.
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That's really ugly.
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When an international audience can read one's blog, such as the web allows for, it can be in bad taste to leave it implied.
The idea that all states (or their heads) are nominally equal is pretty recent. It came from the treaty of Westphalia, ~1650. I'm no expert, but I think that model wasn't really applied to states outside Western Europe until ~20th century.
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One thing to keep in mind is that hard shells are much better at producing fossils. We don't have as good of an idea of how animals looked before the Cambrian or how diverse they were because most of them did not fossilize very well.
There are companies who buy vulnerabilities/exploits and sell them to the highest, supposedly non-criminal - to whatever extent that can be applied to governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies - bidder. That's mostly what I had in mind and black market is a misleading term for it, but I can't edit the comment now.

See also tptacek's comments in this thread.
Interesting fact about Chicago — in addition to being the bitmap font in the original Mac system dialog boxes, and the original iPod display font, it was also repurposed by Square for the English translations of their famous 1990s RPGs: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III US, Secret of Evermore, etc
https://science.slashdot.org could be one. The quality of the posts vary a lot from editor to editor, so it's a bit of a hit-or-miss, but could add some value.