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Ignore our highly restrictive zoning for the majority of the city, and the booming giants we have from Boeing to Amazon crowding the region. Many of the people I grew up with have moved from Capitol Hill, Ballard & West Seattle to Marysville, Tacoma and Issaquah due to the housing crisis pricing them out of the city.

Condo complexes are practically never built due to our state liability laws, and the only apartments being built are premium units, as once you deal with the zoning requirements and end up with 20% of your building's floor space getting lopped off, that is the only thing that can profitably be built.
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"I think everyone understands (to varying degrees) that someone has to pay,"

I see it differently.

1) I'm absolutely certain "free" and "taxpayer funded" would result in two very different impressions.

2) Along the same lines, how many times do you hear "...government grant..." as if that's manna from heaven. Not at all. It's a euphemism for "tax dollars that Uncle Sam took from taxpayers, took a cut, and then gave it back after we begged for it."

As subtle as it is, the use of "free" is vague, lacks transparency, and in most cases misleading. Why don't we get better language? Better communication?
We'll pull ours back as soon as yours are gone from Moscow.
See also https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-gets-100000-fine-for-peace..., although perhaps the comparative permanence of the ads increased the fine:

> Ad firm Ogilvy & Mather spearheaded the campaign for IBM, hiring people to paint sidewalks with the stencils in a black chalk that was supposedly biodegradable. However, after several months, many of the stencils could still be seen.
> Except that it does affect the positions of others, by pushing them down the list. If there were another opening at someone's preferred school, that doesn't mean that someone would get it. Others likely want it, and one may be ranked higher. But by voluntarily swapping in this way, the results of each of the schools' lotteries are discarded, and others are disadvantaged as a result.

You're creating a strawman and arguing against that. I am talking about the exact situation that is covered in the article.

This is what the article says: Suppose a student loses the lottery at their number one school (school A). But they win the lottery at school B. And suppose that another student likes school B best. But loses the lottery at school B, and wins the lottery at school A. Then these students won each other’s jackpot. And so they both want to trade.

The article continues: With these trades, more than 600 further students could get a place at their top choice school, it later turned out. So many students wanted to trade.

This prospective trade wouldn't disadvantage anyone. It would only swap positions to increase people's choices and positions.
Is truth defined by perseverance?
Speeding up Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh
> I'm not sure offhand if browsers would be passing a referer header by default, or if that could somehow reliably identify the site I'm actually visiting. If so, that'd be one valuable fact.

They are passing referer unless the context is an encrypted connection and the resource is on plain HTTP.

Firefox also strips out the path from the URL for third party requests, but only in private browsing mode: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data...

I think this should be the default for all third party domains no matter what the mode. (Really, I'd rather see that header just go away.)
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The point of the post was not the courageousness of the op, or Russia. The point was propaganda.
By huge fan you mean “are”. (Look at parents posts)

How did this garbage get on Wikipedia? Fivefilters and MediaLens are part of the whole anti media propaganda outfits.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/02/fuller
Entirely fair enough, but their argument was polemic and was guttural in criticism. I have reasons enough to hate particular insurance companies, I assure you. But refusing to do work for them on the universal maxim that something is wrong with them all doesn't make sense
Credit unions are non-profit member-owned cooperatives. You as a customer/member are the owner of the credit union, thus the credit union has an onus to have lower fees/loan rates but higher savings rates. Banks on the other hand are owned by shareholders. This can lead to a race to the bottom in terms of customer service in the name of keeping expenses low.

Full disclosure: I serve on the board of a credit union; although, I also hold accounts at banks.
This can work the other way though. There was a bar near me that ran weekly trivia with a different host each week of the month.
One host would hold the “needy trivia” which was fun and always very well attended, to the point the bar was packed with nerdy folks. Except nerdy folks aren’t the biggest drinkers, most just had water or nothing at all so despite its popularity it was bad for business.
It's weird to see articles like this without a publish date or author attributed to them.
This sounds too easy, so I'm gonna have to ask: does that actually work? Have you done this?
Right now, what's needed is to attract developers, not users. I.e. people who know something about the steak, not just about sizzle.

However, it's also likely that even naive end users who want reliability, security and less downtime may one day reasonably prefer Rust-based software, or insist on it, particularly as all software becomes more complicated.

After all, battery manufacturers keep telling me their batteries are "alkaline." Do they think I'm a chemist? No, they think I can count hours of use and one single technical word tells me a lot about that.
Please hacker news... use your skeptical nature and research inclination to understand where this junk is coming from. This is a propaganda outfit.

I have a suspicion HN is getting played here... upvotes and downvotes seem suspicious on these comments.

Some info on who Media Lens and FiveFilters are...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/02/fuller
Exactly! So why not let more students go to the schools that are their choices (and their parents)?

From the article, "...not all schools are the same. Some schools offer music and dance classes, others offer more sports classes."

How could forcing students to speculate at non-core subjects that don't interest them (and lie beyond their talents) be better for them or for the common good?
I believe it, this is a warning right on the box of Arm & Hammer.

Also if you have any heart problem, the high amount of sodium could aggravate it.
WeWork owes $18B in Leases?
If it were me, the antenna would be a few hundred feet away from the equipment.

And the antenna wouldn’t be anything like an antenna, just something that looks like a lawn-chair.

And I’d move it every day or two. And definitely not run it 24h!!!

Could still be found, but good luck.
Of course they play a role (like a thousand other things), but if Cyprus didn't exist did you really think the Aegean dispute would be much different? No. Greece didn't draft the 12 nautical miles portion of UNCLOS which is at the heart of the issue, this isn't a Greek law, it's international law. And it's not workable for Turkey, regardless of the Cyprus question.

Either way Greek/Turkish relations are far too complex to link it to 1974 as a causal factor. They have territorial claims that are centuries old. e.g. take Lesbos, quite clearly Greek if you ask me, but also insignificantly, was in the hands of the Ottoman empire for 400-500 years. Compare that to a US history timeframe and it's pretty clear there's some basis for both positions. All of it is political, relatively recent events in Cyprus are but one facet of Greek/Turkish relations and to be precise it wasn't so much 1974 really... The Turkish intervention against the coup that year tends to be viewed as a legitimate action. It's what happened since in 1975 and beyond, the occupation of Cyprus, which is viewed as illegal.
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I'm guessing an increased use of imperatives preceded the collapse of most past civilizations.
Everyone in Libya was better off before USA and some random Europeans interfered there.
Agreed, I tried them for a while but now I've switched to Capital One 360. Excellent app and web, savings account with 1.6% interest, free ATM worldwide, no foreign transaction fees, etc. I tried Schwab as well but IMHO Capital One is above and beyond the others when you look at everything offered.
Libui: a portable GUI library for C
These look like some pretty cool interactions.
Making things harder to change simply increases the costs of change. People with the most time to spend end up winning the war. If that's well correlated with the truth, that's ok. In politics, though, it's rather less likely.

So yes, I think your perspective is naive.
This will allow Google to confirm that their search rankings generate real revenue for businesses, so it makes things simpler for Google (and it is high-tech so that makes it cool! /s).
Technology's existence needn't make its use inevitable.
That's not what I am saying. I am saying that if you look at Wikipedia history you can find plenty of places where an anonymous user/occasional editor fixes a spelling mistake that was then reverted. That history sticks around far longer than anyone one version. And for that user all they see is that their effort is pointless.

"if you make an edit which is good-faith reverted, do not simply reinstate your edit – leave the status quo up" ... "propose your reverted change on the article's talk page or pursue other dispute resolution alternatives." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reverting

I am not saying the policy is unreasonable, but it combined with the interface does discourage people.

As to an improvement, if Wikipedia sees the same edit applied twice it could detect this and walk someone through the policy.
>Imagine if a country like Russia makes an orchestrated effort to achieve similar goals

That's pretty much already happened. Remember that time Scientology tried to attack Wikipedia for telling the truth about Sea Org? They got close to getting away with it, and if a larger nation-state tried editing less-controversial articles, I'm sure they would get away with it. It wouldn't surprise me if Russia has already done things like that.
> There's also MARC and Washington Metro service from that station. Is that also as unreliable as Amtrak? Why would you just choose to take Amtrak to DC when you have two better options there?

Because my tax dollars are paying for it (Amtrak receives about $1.4 billion in subsidies each year) and I expect it to run as scheduled. Being an inter-city service is no excuse--Germany, Japan, etc., manage to run timely intercity train service.

Metro is a disaster. According to WMATA, the 26-minute scheduled trip from NCR to Federal Triangle takes me on average 37 minutes (about 50% over schedule). That's for a service that starts at NCR.

MARC is the least bad option (only about 5 minutes late on average) but it's typically standing-room-only at NCR.
Here’s the Sci-Hub link: http://doi.org.https.sci-hub.hk/10.4049/jimmunol.1701605 [PDF]

Human subjects were dosed 2g (about a fifth of a teaspoon) in 250mL of water each day.
Land cannot be owned privately, but the government can grant a long lease (max 70 years for residential, 50 years for commercial).

But IIRC the first of those 70 leases has yet to expire, so we don't know what will happen when they do.
It appears that if you aren’t a software developer at Amazon, its a bad place to work with a toxic environment. So long as Amazon continues to dominate online shopping, they Bezos won’t change anything.
Agreed, the US is more lax. I was responding to the parent comment "I have submitted this because it is frequent to see on HN claims that IP addresses are personal data under GDPR"
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The lack of transparency is for a good reason: if a model's parameters become known, they can be gamed and lose their predictive power.

Not only do banks etc keep their models secret from customers, they keep them secret from other departments. The credit risk strategy team, for instance, won't want to risk customer service staff 'helping' customers alter their application details to get their scores over a cut-off.

(I used to run credit risk strategy, fraud, collections, operations etc for two credit card companies)
If there's anything I've missed or if anyone has any tips on how to get it faster I'd love to hear them! I'm also considering switching to Prezto, but for now ~.4 seconds is good enough.

Anyone have experiences improving their shell?
They don't take PRs there...
Single bad events are usually how we, as democracies, create new blanket rules. The events have to be bad enough to move people to action, and that normally means something out of the ordinary, which by definition is likely to be singular.

The blanket rules should be made with care, for sure, but your premise is wrong.
Given that chrome gives each tab its own heavy weight forked process, it is also pretty irrelevant conceptually. OP didn't explain what advantage he thought he'd get out of it being the same process he already runs other than saving some MB of exe cache. Perhaps that's all he wants.

Either way these solutions are all rubbish.
There's no mention of us in that article and we didn't exist in 2006.

As for Media Lens, I googled the author's name and Media Lens and this article came up. Might be interesting too: http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2006/449...
I mean, you can actually see the edits the guy makes.

Why would FiveFilters falsely defend Media Lens - a conservative organization - while attacking a wiki editor who is extremely pro-war? Your argument really only makes sense if the editor is liberal and attacking Media Lens and FiveFilters.
Not just emotion, but also aversion to certain physical states - such as hunger or pain.

Because of that, I think a "true AI" - at least one without a simulated humanlike body - would have rather different desires. Optimization towards those desires rather than humanlike desires would likely result in something that distinctly does not act human.

I can't help but wonder if we've ignored or disregarded any first steps to a general AI because the resulting building blocks didn't match any of our expectations from real-world models of instinct/intelligence.
I just bought a new SanDisk USB 3 drive and noticed it comes with SecureAccess software. It uses 128-bit AES encryption. Better than nothing, we could think IBM a large and successful long term tech company could make their own. But that doesn't support the cloud vision.
This kind of ideologically framed over-simplification is really corrosive to culture:

>>Take your delinquency elsewhere could be the subtext under every tune in the classical crime-fighting movement. It is crucial to remember that the tactic does not aim to stop or even necessarily reduce crime — but to relocate it. Moreover, such mercenary measures most often target minor infractions like vandalism and loitering — crimes that damage property, not people, and usually the property of the powerful. “[B]usiness and government leaders,” Lily Hirsch observes in Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment, “are seizing on classical music not as a positive moralizing force, but as a marker of space.” In a strange mutation, classical music devolves from a “universal language of mankind” reminding all people of their common humanity into a sonic border fence protecting privileged areas from common crowds, telling the plebes in auditory code that “you’re not welcome here.”

It conflates deliquency with being a commoner, and implies that those who succeed in improving their station in life are somehow deserving of being predated on, at least in terms of their property, by the deliquent.

Essentially this romanticizes and rationalizes deliquency, and discourages any measure to punish it.

In truth, deliquency harms, first and foremost, the common people, whose common spaces are degraded by it. It is perpetrated by a tiny proportion of the poor. It is by no means a common characteristic of the poor.

Making the deliquent out to be victims, and synomous with common crowds, and their behaviour out to be a socially just act of balancing the class scales, is factually wrong, and has an absolutely toxic effect on society.
I don't necessarily agree with the assertion there has been no progress on algorithms that can propose experiments. Isn't this exactly what Bayesian Optimization with regret minimization is all about?
Also seems strange to say that AI is just curve fitting in a pejorative sense. Isn't that all of science? Curve fitting is hard!
Do you mind explaining why you think so? That's a pretty surprising perspective; the community often has intelligent discussions about a range of topics.
HN cleverly flips this around to its advantage. Even comments that are categorically wrong often contribute to the conversation. Some of the best comments on HN happen when a comment is so wrong that it baits a sleeping expert into responding.
You're running a small social network, and you have ~200 containers running your Rails app, which gets scaled up and down by k8s all the time, not to mention twice-daily deploys.

Seems like you might want that 100GB of user relationship graph to live somewhere else, so you don't (1) massively inflate your RAM requirements on the app, (2) have to fan out updates to hundreds of boxes instead of a couple, (3) deal with cold start problems during the relatively frequent app restarts, (4) etc.
To save some time watching the vid. It's 'because the Illuminati or something'. It is a great little sketch and does illustrate the major objection to the OP's essay.
There are drives that you can physically disable write on: https://www.kanguru.com/
Well despite being as Cassandraesque as the next guy, I confess yours is a take that hadn't occurred to me.
Someone sent me this article on IM. My (unedited) response:

nothing worse than someone who both doesn't understand wtf he's talking about and is very critical

either are ok on their own

>> He‘s wrong then?

well if either author can provide an article from 10-20 years ago, saying "in 10-20 years, we'll invent a single machine that can reach almost human-level translation proficiency, drive a car in complex environments, beat the best human player at logical games including chess and Go, beat the best human player at language/knowledge based games like Jeopardy, hold a lengthy conversation and answer questions, be able to accurately describe and caption images and video, and outperform humans at trading the stock market and detecting fraud but I won't be impressed because all of those things are simple" then it might have some weight

"The dream of artificial intelligence was supposed to be grander than this — to help revolutionize medicine, say, or to produce trustworthy robot helpers for the home."

robots: we already have the vacuum cleaners. Actual flexible domestic work is coming soon, the moment the military gets bored and releases some knowledge and/or people have finished making money from helping amazon pack boxes and starts making money from normal people instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

medicine: same machines already being used to detect cancer and heart conditions more accurately than humans, as well as folding proteins to create new medicines. Not sure what more he wants..

"If machine learning and big data can’t get us any further than a restaurant reservation" because you know, the current state of machine learning has been around for, what, 12 minutes now and we're still stuck on making restaurant reservations. Def time to call it quits and start over

". But in open-ended conversations about complex issues, such hedges will eventually get irritating, if not outright baffling." — weird that it's pretty difficult to get computers to understand a very ambiguous, illogical and inefficient form of communication. Luckily humans are so much smarter than computers that we can easily process 1-billion+ logical inferences a second and talk to them in an efficient and logical way.

>> Okay you‘ve convinced me

but i've only just started
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Did you go back to a PPI even knowing the side effects of PPIs? Were you taking baking soda for reflux/stomach discomfort?
It's hard to tell what you get from deploying Kong as an Ingress vs as a Deployment and Service pair. Is it just a declarative config process rather than a REST API one?
I think having AI agents that can fill out online forms for you would actually be really really useful, and probably a much easier problem to solve.
Agreed. That was immediately the example of which I thought. The article makes no effort to distinguish whether it is the genre of music or simply its insistent and pervasive high volume that is unpleasant.
I do hope it that it all backfires and a wave of revolutions are inspired by this aural vandalism.
> It still happens a lot

What, charging mobsters with tax evasion? It might still work on the occasional mid-level guy who was dumb enough to not pay his taxes. When was the last time a top-level crime boss was charged with it?

> Old school mafia are using check cashing places to launder money.

Of course they are. That's why the laws against money laundering are harmful. Most of the people you're trying to catch with them are adept at navigating around them, so all they really do is molest honest citizens/businesses and degrade privacy.
Can Rust speed up your Azure Functions?
How does the application described in the parent help with any of that? It doesn't allow other processes to access the data from what I can read, it doesn't allow distributed unified access to anything?
> Why would bus drivers "clock out".

Because they're lazy and irresponsible. But its impossible to fire them because of the public unions.

> And why is competition necessary?

Because at least a private company can go out of business and be replaced by something else.

> The government here runs the tube (TfL)

TfL is run in a much more "corporate" manner than public transit in the U.S. For example, it covers almost 100% of its operating costs, while U.S. transit systems are massive black holes for tax money.

I think one of the things that Europeans don't realize is that its not like Americans are choosing between private companies and European-style public services. No public service in the U.S. is run like what I see when I travel to Germany or Japan. The NYC subway and DC subway were historically the two best, and both are currently in a state of meltdown (despite being very well funded systems in overwhelmingly Democratic areas).

Americans choose between the private sector (which leaves a lot of people without service, no doubt), and a rapacious corrupt public sector that spends several times as much money to offer shittier service than what you have in Europe. (E.g. despite running almost identical systems, the NYC Subway spends twice as much per passenger trip as the Tube).
Uhh, it does. Being able to have a fun date night conversation has little in common with making an appointment for a hair cut. Duplex is a codified set of rules — essentially a set of blanks that need to get filled in and an elegant way of pulling together a bunch of components to do so. That’s nothing like free form conversion which requires world knowledge, perspective (gained from experience), personality, creativity, emotional connection, etc etc.

There’s nothing new going on in AI vs the machine learning “pragmatic downgrade” of the 90s, just the accuracy is higher.
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Workman keyboard layout for MacOS
YouTuber Makes MTV Cribs Parody (Very Funny)