skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A local mall in Natick MA recently lost one of their anchor stores (JCPenney) and replaced it with a Wegman's, which the first I saw a supermarket as an anchor store. I would love to know how desperate they must have been or how sweet of a deal they gave Wegman's to make this happen.
Learn to brew loose leaf tea and you cut down even more on the expenditure (or rather, for the same 15p expense, you're consuming much better tea).
The continuum hypothesis being independent just means that it's an additional rule you can add or remove from the game you are trying to play. It doesn't mean we are lacking in knowledge and that if we were to work harder we would solve this problem. We do know which aleph c is: it's aleph_1 with CH and some other aleph without CH. Just take your pick which version you like better.

It's not like we don't know which one is the true model of military combat: chess or checkers. They're just two different games with two different rule sets, and you get to pick which one you like to play more.
If you could tell me where I can get z-dubs 10 at a time for the advertised $10 price with combined shipping, I'd be eternally grateful.
You lose access to your passwords, that's the consequence of that approach.

That's why it's a very good idea to pair as many devices as you can, e.g. an old phone, your work PC, etc.

This way you're pretty save from any loss.

In general, if you save your passwords with security level N (meaning you need N devices to unlock), if you lose all but N-1 devices, you lose access.
You can also add a "key box", which gives you one more "device", but requires you to remember a password.
We don't even need the price drops you quoted. Installing new solar is already the cheaper than installing coal or gas in many locations. At this point we just need to continue to deploy. The panels themselves are already very cheap! Having out local governments and utilities simplify the permitting process would bring down some of the soft costs and make things even better though.
Agreed. Hopefully someone will so we can get some good data on this.
When i was between the ages of 18-21 in the middle of the 07+ economic crisis i noticed all these "abandoned" car dealerships in my area... grocery stores, etc.

I always thought a good repurposing of these buildings would've been:

-Skate parks or other athletic venue (maybe a gym if the building was the right size?)

-Clubs/Dancehalls

-Concert Venues

-Intermittent Rental for Parties/Weddings things of that nature (you setup you break down, just an empty building to host a party)

I guess the rental idea could be used for a number of practical purposes if one had an idea that they thought it would be good for.
Nuts are extremely calorie dense. A small handful of nuts is like 1/6 of my BMR.
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What? There's a definite difference between "Whoops, I accidentally measured this wrong back in the day, sorry" vs "I'm covering up that I'm measured this wrong".
That's an interesting perspective. I myself "want" the drama to be true not because I want to be unaccountable for my actions, but rather:

1) I want validity that the pressures I feel are normal. Not so that I can give in to them, though I'm sure "excusing" past mistakes would feel good, but so that I feel the difficulty of doing the "right" thing is legit.

2) mostly, however, I want to excuse OTHER people. I want assurances that, however buggy, people aren't individually evil, that something pressures them in such a way that when my judgement of people (as a group) is inaccurate there is a "rational" reason for it.

Otherwise I can't explain things like neonazis, gamergaters, certain "news" and their zealots, etc. Without this one supposed flaw of human nature, the existence of these groups become far more terrifying.
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There's nothing wrong with using such scriptlets, especially in the case of dpkg diversions like the author of this article mentions.

Of course, touching files outside of your package is still a no-no.
Station F with apartments?
This is my biggest vice. I *try to limit my drinking to Friday & Saturday, but one or two (or three) ultimately slip in on a Wednesday or other random day. Working out definitely curbs my alcohol consumption, but it's something I find myself having to actively keep in check.
60+47 = 127, that I rounded up to ~130, for marketing and operations.

How much did Atlassian spend in marketing, or GitLab? Almost nothing (by design). How much does GitLab spend on office space? Almost $0 as they choose to do wisely with their money than feed an overpriced San Francisco real estate market.

Indeed these are extreme examples, but I hope you realise 33% of expenses on non-core activities isn't typically tolerated in for profits. It certainly shouldn't be the norm for a non profit.

Mozilla's US compensation for devs averages out to ~$137K/year. Are you telling me that Mozilla is justified in staying in the most expensive zip code (for operations) by choice, and choosing to underpay it's developers by design? I can keep going, but the numbers don't compute, they're fishy
totally agree.

my favorite line is: and even fewer who would pay what the landlords want

alternatively, a journalist could interpret the situation with: "Investors face a drastic shortage of declining mall properties and are lobbying American legislators to ease restrictions on declining malls so that more can be made available."
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Worthless, or nearly worthless, options are very, very common.
The last options I exercised and did get paid out... but in the end, I didn't even make back enough to make up for the pay cut I took. Financially, I would've been better off taking a different job. At least I "had fun' and "got something" though.
Titus is tightly coupled to AWS, which would make it a non-starter on GCP and Azure
Depends.

I shipped an RPi-based project a few months ago that was a one-off. Could have been done with Arduino, but it was far easier (read: less expensive to develop) on a Pi because it needed a touchscreen UI. I'm unlikely to ever build more than one more unit like it.

I'm currently quoting a design I'd like to use the Pi on because it will need to be connected to WiFi or Ethernet and I doubt I will build more than 20 or so. No way in hell I could make back the board design cost at that quantity. Were it not for the networking, it wouldn't even need a CPU!

RPi and BeagleBone hit a sweet spot for a certain type & quantity of designs that nothing else (of that popularity) meets.
None of them had the research money that JavaScript has enjoyed though.

Also lets not forget C was quite slow in 8 and 16 bit systems, and it only became as fast thanks to the joy of UB and -O3.
Living in such place I would be plagued by zombie attack nightmares...
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It would be great if I could specify the number of bits per field like in Elixir/Erlang/C++ bit fields and then also specify what the extra bits should be set to if the total number of bits isn't divisible by 8. I know that document strings are helpful but writing it into the code would be much more robust.
Why not do it every day?
Hi everyone, I have been working on this hacker news interface, heikers.com, for a while and thought it's somewhat ready to be shared with all hacker news readers. Well, currently it's not much, but

* you can view top posts of the past day, past few days or week;

* there is a sidebar (only visible on desktop) on which you can easily access your own posts (or someone else's post that you want to follow), and the top "show hn" in the past few days;

The UI works well on mobile. The entire site is static and hosted on github pages. It updates periodically (once every 10min for now; You don't need to check HN more often than that, do you? :)).

This side project is our experiment ground to use artificial intelligence, especially natural language processing, to make consuming information more enjoyable. So there will be more to come (maybe slowly). If you think your reading experience can be improved in some way using AI, please feel free to share on this HN thread. We may be able to implement it for you!
==To prove a point a few years back, I ate nothing but pizza and diet Pepsi for several weeks and lost weight.==

What point did this prove? Weight is hardly the sole determinant of health.
The rPI mostly failed in its original mission as an educational tool. In practice, it proved too complex and fragile to use as a microcontroller but not powerful enough to substitute for a desktop PC. A lot of important lessons were learned and put into practice in the BBC Micro:Bit project. For teaching basic programming and electronics, a dinky little Cortex M0+ with a few LEDs and IO pins makes far more sense than a repurposed mobile phone chipset.

http://microbit.org/

rPI has spawned a whole ecosystem of hacker-friendly hardware. Like Arduino, it generated demand for a particular form-factor - a lot of people bought rPIs simply because they were cool and cheap, then figured out how they could be useful.

The rPI has clearly moved towards being more powerful and power-hungry, with the latest model drawing about twice the power under load than the original. Documentation and kernel support remain a sticking point, especially for the off-brand PIalikes with Chinese chipsets.

The development of these boards is really dictated by the rest of the market. Nobody is spinning silicon specifically for dev boards, so they'll continue to use whatever cheap chips are on the market. A lot will depend on how well the foundries cope with <14nm process nodes.
Sigmund Freud was a 19th century doctor. The modern medical field is not comparable to the one 150 years ago when the treatment of most things was "go breathe near the ocean for a bit".
You are talking about rationals and algebraic numbers, which are just a tiny subset of the real numbers. Your point about computable vs non-computable numbers is valid, but I think the author meant that you will never encounter a real number that is non-computable, since those are impossible to express in the first place. Real numbers can contain an infinite amount of information.
If they have to upgrade, then the bandwidth they sold to end customers wasn't there was it? Small ISPs have been pushed out often by legal manoeuvres by large mega-ISPs.
That's the thing about the food pyramid that was so bad, foods don't always neatly fit into one category, and foods sharing a category can have very different nutritional profiles.

No wonder so many Americans eat iceberg lettuce, and put added sugar in bread.
Doesn't chocolate milk count as junk food? I thought it had masses of sugar in it.
Most people don't move very far, and never have.
32km could be doable with a velomobile, especially with electric assistance.
I would think zoning laws would get in the way there. You'd have to get the area re-zoned from commercial to residential. Which gets into whatever the local politics of that happen to be.
Sugru is just overpriced thermoplastic. Search Instamorph, Polymorph, Moldable Plastic for cheaper options. It comes in dry pellets that don't dry out like sugru.
I wanted this as well; from what I read from the forums, the chip does not support it so it'd need to either switch the chip or add another one, going way beyond the price point. Hopefully the integration for new chips becomes better and there's more demand so that it becomes a reality.
What's the name of this product?
Just wait until cranks discover the hairy ball theorem and try to prove how wrong hairy balls are...
This has been my expectation as well, but haven't seen this in real life.

I guess the main issue is that the compiler will need to also ensure no value outside the expected set can match a case statement either (no match and default cases), which kinda negates the benefit.

Maybe there are cases this is generated, anyone seen compiler generating those?

I wonder whether it is possible to generate reversible (almost) perfect "hashes"?

I mean a hash where every unique input value is guaranteed to map to a unique output value. Because this kind of hash could be used to handle no-match/default case safely.
I have AT&T fiber and am forced to use their modem.
I bought some many years ago, entranced by its promises, but then somehow never managed to find a concrete use for it.

This does not say good things about the product's viability.
Declining retail is one factor, but bad balance sheets are the other.

This type of development is fueled by favorable up-front tax and accounting treatments for development, but it requires constant growth for the companies to survive. When you get to the back-end of the 30 year loans, you're paying principal on a depreciated asset... the bag of tax tricks isn't enhancing profit anymore.

The fact that the operators are desperate is a good thing -- they'll be bankrupt soon and useful redevelopment of these massive properties can start taking place.
Quote:

The most well known English pangram is probably

“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”.

:End quote

That doesn't contain an "s".

I also can't find in his work my favourite:

"Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks."

That means "The task of carving some symbols on some quartz annoyed some informers from a valley."
I think you're missing my point. This is not about not knowing—I may well not have known not to force /bin/sh to /bin/bash when I was starting out—it's about not blindly going about doing things you don't know about. That is arrogance: to redirect a user's shell binary when you're a novice programmer without much knowledge about what implications that redirection will have.
I'm just pointing out that its not absolute. So in general I recommend being open to switching jobs/companies until you find and environment that you personally find enriching, both professionally and financially.
Rackspace purchased a mall a few years back and transformed it into an office space I've found pleasant during visits. Natural light in their space is mostly from above but there aren't exactly scenic surroundings anyways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rac...
Especially with the type of technical work that's so predominate on the west coast.

A lot of that work could be moved to cheaper interior parts of the country.
>Are you just proposing that those be increased?

Sure, or an additional tax on unused or barely used real estate if we wanted to be targeted, but really I like the broad property tax.

>And you think that will make real estate more valuable?

No, I'm not trying to make real estate more valuable, actually I'm trying to make it less valuable by ensuring that the high levels of competition we see in booming real estate times carries over to the busts. If the costs are so low that people are just sitting on these properties and waiting for a magical moment when prices rise then obviously costs need to be increased to pressure these people to enter the market. Liquidity shouldn't drop when prices drop.
Arcology!

I'm so glad we opted for the William Gibson distopian future. A Mad Max apolocalyptic hellscape would have been terrible for my skin.
> A horrible use of land and not really scalable to global population levels given the rise of cities.

Think outside the bubble, though.

There's unused land everywhere I look.

Why are we dissing zero-emission cars and self-production of home energy?
I've been watching a lot of videos recently on visiting abandoned or dying malls in America and was wondering if it could be possible to convert them into residential/communal areas?

They could be almost self-contained; with housing, shops, entertainment, etc all under one roof.
Also, most of the listed languages don’t have value types or added them expressly because their GC scheme was insufficient.
I'm the older brother in my family and what the hell are you talking about!?
I read somewhere that its not recommended to bike on roads busy with cars because the pores in lungs open up while biking and all that polution goes straight in.
I noticed some people are biking on dirt trails parallel to the paved trail because the paved one is too crowded with people, their children and childrens strollers and all that.
I've been fighting my body for the better part of a decade now, trust me when I say that I've probably tried every piece of advice ever parrotted on the internet. For instance the high-volume low-calorie high-fiber plan ultimately just made me extremely bloated and often constipated.
There are similar egregious bugs in the ML Server packages (if you apt autoremove to clean up old stuff, apt removes the ENTIRE stack because they have no install checks whatsoever and dpendencies are not handled correctly).

Other teams ao Microsoft (like .NET) seem to have their act together, so I suppose this is just the R/ML team.
Not to worry. The real zombies are the people who used to shop there. Now they’re at home, clicking on the apps you’ll build for them.
Solves the alone part, sure. But not the relationship part. I have lunch with business partners, relatives, my kids etc. I like to pay, so somebody is always willing.

As I said, its nice if you can afford it.
I stopped drinking sodas and eating candy. Almost no carbs as well. I want to work out more but I lack the discipline to leave the house once I come back from work, either too lazy or too tired and I start inventing excuses to miss the workout ("better clean this, fix that, send one more email..."). I also stopped watching TV and porn, both were huge time sinks with almost no RoI. edit: typos
Started waking up at the same time every morning (during the week). Builds a foundation for consistency and helps start getting the rest of your day (and the things you want to get done in a day) in order/on track
>Question: what can be done with all that retail space? Is there a new use of space that will come up?

If they can't attract traditional retail tenants, some dead-mall owners have resorted to transforming them into community event centers, offices, or even apartments.[1] I don't know about the profitability of apartments but the community centers do not make enough money relative to the expenses of property taxes and upkeep. The mall is still dying.

The other option is for a new buyer to purchase the mall solely for the land value and demolish the buildings. Two malls in my area were demolished. One was replaced by a Wal-Mart supercenter with some adjacent strip malls sharing the same large parking lot. Another mall was razed and replaced by a Target store. The Wal-Mart and Target have drawn more shoppers than the dead malls they replaced. This is the free market telling us that the locations were commercially viable but the retail configuration (the indoor mall) was worthless.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/7-dead-shopping-malls-that-found-surpris...
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Assuming the link between snoring/apnea and jaw size -- not the link between snoring and apnea -- is actually what you originally found tenuous, consider that the most effective surgical treatment for OSA: the maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) with 80% to >90% success rate wrt some measure of a "successful" outcome. MMA is a procedure that literally increases the jaw size by moving the jaw forward, which enlarges the airways.

FWIW, I've spent a lot of time researching OSA since I've had severe sleep apnea (AHI ~30 apneas/hour) since childhood. Some startup really needs to figure out a more comfortable way of treating sleep apnea than CPAP or highly invasive (and $100k not-covered-by-insurance) jaw surgery...
How is nightly news critical? Worst case, watch it 20 minutes later instead?
One example of this: there's an animal shelter north of Atlanta that used to be a car dealership. http://bgarchitects.com/project/atlanta-humane-society/
It might in some ways be closer to repurposing an old military installation because of the way mall interiors are designed to be intentionally confusing, disorienting e.g. [0]. It’s a highly specialized facility, in which the layout is optimized to serve a heavily researched purpose.

[0]: < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer >
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Its too late to edit this post, but I should be more clear that the parent post is a major generalization, your individual factors will vary if it makes sense (financially!) to rent vs buy for your primary residence. Price-to-rent ratio is a big factor, but not the only one. There's also a lot of luck and factors out of your control that contribute to if you make out ahead (financially!) either way. I just looked up the data on Zillow and the average P/R ratio in San Fran isn't as bad as I thought, but still extremely high.

Anyway, when you're talking about buying vs renting you're also heavily involving non-financial factors that are usually MUCH more important than financial factors (assuming you have some sort of a budget); so something might be a "smart choice" for an individual but not the most financially optimal one. Just like eating lentils and ramen noodles every day might be the most financially optimal choice but is probably not a "smart choice" for most people. In fact, if you have a family you probably aren't going to make the most financially optimal housing choice unless you absolutely have to.

A real world example:

I have friends who are renting a decent single family house with tons of land for an absurdly low price (family price!) and the landlord (family member) even pays utilities because it's just "easier" and she isn't trying to make a profit. Factoring in depreciation and amortized repair/upkeep costs the landlord is almost certainly subsidizing their housing costs. Financially, great deal! They will almost certainly never have a chance to have a full house that cheap ever again. Staying there as long as the landlord lets them is the most financially optimal choice. However, for a number of complicated (but understandable) reasons, my friends hate it and are planning to move whenever they have saved up more and paid down their loan balances.
Directv is a distributor, not a producer, so the stakes aren't as high.
I can report that it does. I've seen this hiking in Snohomish County, WA. Hair ice looks a bit like cotton fluff, like something splitting out of a seed pod. It looks like it is growing out of the pieces of wood or bark. The ice crushes like a lightly packed snowball.

Of course this means you have to go hiking in the cold. Totally worth it.
Let's see if Softbank chooses a winner in the scooter market - I wouldn't be surprised if they came in with a ~$500M investment in Bird or one of its competitors.
He didn't say anything about making it more valuable, just that it would increase liquidity. In other words, the idea would be to prevent property from sitting dormant in a bad market, as an owner who has no profitable use for the property would be forced to sell it to someone who does, to get at least some value out of it before the tax eats all the value.

Perhaps something like an abandonment tax could accomplish this. Force owners to either sell it or use it. Even if they aren't using it optimally, just requiring some minimum usage to avoid a heavy penalty tax could go a long way to eliminating properties that are just tied up by someone hoping the value goes up eventually.
Sucrose refers to an arrangement of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms that form a specific molecular shape.

Whether organic or not, the process to make it yields the same molecule.
You can extend its life substantially by keeping it in the fridge
Sure there is, scale it yourself.

I like Misouri Wind and Solar (https://mwands.com). I've also looked into Wholesale Solar (https://www.wholesalesolar.com/) which focuses on DIY installation and design.
They are very powerful right now, how much powerful do you wish for them? What I like about them is CHEAP, lower energy use. So long as they maintain that, then it's all good. I bought 6 pi zeros with wifi, $5 each.
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