skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's the plan op is talking about... the plan is if you change the housing rules so that the approval to build your apartment is state level rather than local level, then assuming it makes financial sense, developers can come in and buy single family homes on the open market and build something high density in their place.

There's a bill like this every few years, and it always gets shot down. The latest is SB827, which was shot down, too.

https://slate.com/business/2018/01/california-bill-sb827-res...

In general, the problem isn't with people being unwilling to sell to developers; the problem is that even after the developers get the property, they are prevented from developing it in a high density manner.
They (data centers) are not in Nova because the government is there, but rather because it has the lowest insurance costs in the Continental US.
rr is a gdb protocol server. By default, rr also executes gdb client and automatically connects to server, but you can use -s PORT option to run rr in server only mode.

As I understand, after rr is running in server only mode, you can connect to it on gdb with "target remote :PORT", or on LLDB with "gdb-remote :PORT". I haven't tested this, but it should work as long as LLDB implements gdb protocol in a compatible manner.
Actually, 91 percent of Whites have government issued ID, compared to 73 percent of Blacks and 83 percent of hispanics.

It's a huge impact. Just not on the type of people in your social sphere.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
Who's going to pay for the editor with noone wanting to pay for journalism anymore?
This app isn't collecting any data about voting. You describe an endpoint that could be worrying, and I could see paths to get there, but the path you're describing is nonsense.

Get a coherent thesis before you start calling for shame.
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817954
I'm still wondering whether it would be smart for them to port WPF or UWP to all platforms. They are already decoupling their services from Windows and a UI library would be quite a flagship for them.

Then again they'd also lose the Windows vendor lock-in, which might still be more valuable to them.

Then again they could sell their development toolchain and gain developer sympathy.
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Thinking that subscribing to a user's new and public comments (the equivalent of adding a blog to your feed reader) is creepy and stalking would further confirm that. Nice to hear I'm not just being crazy about this though :).
> Because of the lack of a voter fraud problem, the disparate impact is clearly the main objective of the laws

Or they don’t believe your estimates of low levels of voter fraud.
I spent the day hacking on this toy Python type inferencer in Prolog:

https://github.com/andychu/hatlog/tree/master

It gave me at least a start of an understanding of Prolog.

I watched the Strange Loop talk linked in the README there too. I think some of the downsides he mentioned are right on -- for example, the fact that Prolog will sometimes just spit "false" at you and is hard to debug. And he even fired up the graphical debugger in the talk.

I think this will be a problem for a "production" type inference engine (although technically speaking my project is just a tool for Oil developers, so the bar is lower.)

It's similar to the problem with generated parsers. In theory, it's nice to generate parsers from grammars. In practice, mature parsers are all written by hand, mainly for good error messages. I see the importance of this in the OSH parser, which is large and comprehensive.

Also, I don't think Prolog's data structures are convenient for representing "real" programming languages. As far as I can tell, you basically get what you do in Lisp, and that isn't enough IMO. Algebraic data types would be nicer, and even Java/TypeScript-like objects are better IMO. Oil uses Zephyr ASDL for this purpose.

Still, I would like my type system to be closer to mathematics than ad hoc procedural code. Learning some Prolog (and logic progamming in general) seems like a good way to do that.

Check out the README and the code, and let me know if you have any comments on the issues I raised. We can continue this discussion in e-mail if you like at andy@oilshell.org.
Private Messages from 81,000 Hacked Facebook Users Are for Sale on the Dark Web
My entire argument is "there are a lot of unintended consequences" - naming an example is salient. I noticed that you haven't refuted any of my points so I'll assume that you are aware that global trade is worse for the environment and bad for the working class in the countries exporting their labor pool, but the benefits are so good for you that you will continue to argue in its favor. That's fine. We will clearly choose to look for different policies from our leadership.
1) There's essentially no in person voter fraud in america, so asking for id doesn't help anything.

2) Only 91% of whites, 73% of blacks and 81% of hispanic citizens have a government issued ID, so you're disenfranchising a lot of people by requiring it.
How I got almost blacklisted because of my startup(french, Google translate)
Well it seems like people go crazy just 2 days in a bunker
CAL-OSHA had seven investigations of Tesla underway as of Sep. 20th.[1] Including the fingertip amputation.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/california-regulators-open-a...
To be fair, while ambiguity can be intended by the author, a poem usually has a finite number of meanings intentionally written into it.

If those experts find meaning in a poem the author did not write into it, they failed at their job.

If however a poem is found to mean something the author did not intend to say, the author failed.
Pedantic, narrow-minded pinheads will always find a way to prove their superiority with ridiculous crap like this. "You're doing it wrong" is classic click-bait for a reason [1]. "You're using 'ironic' incorrectly! Oxford commas is the only correct punctuation! Everyone should use Tau instead of Pi!" Yada, yada, yada.

The sentiment of this poem is expressed extremely clearly, which is why it's so popular. We're not all idiots, illiterate or suckers. The last stanza clarifies and reinforces the rest of the poem. Any alternative interpretations of this poem are from 'smarter-than-thou' morons who want to show off how they are more educated and intelligent than you.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/every...
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. They mix coke with the iron to add carbon to it. The article is talking about the CO2 released from that coke, and not the coke used to fuel the furnace.
How do you get back something owned by something else?
That sounds - like all company code i ever worked with?
> But do the more expensive wines really give any more pleasure, or have people trained themselves to find it pleasing?

From my perspective, yes. A truly great wine is one that you want to sit with and follow from a palate and aromatic perspective over an evening or even a couple days. They evolve, improve, and continually impress from first sip to last.

2 Buck Chuck and other cheap "wines" doesn't evolve or improve, it's a static drink (for lack of a better term) that starts to degrade with oxidation in hours. If you tried to save a glass or two to look at the next day it would be borderline undrinkable.

What most people won't tell you though is that once you get to the $25+ per bottle wines there isn't much difference in those wines and the incredibly expensive ones. Furthermore most incredibly expensive wines aren't truly "great" wines and often disappoint in blind tastings. BUT (and it's a big BUT) every now and again you taste an expensive wine that is positively sublime. That's what keeps you coming back.
Creator here: as a female tech founder since 2009 I found it tough finding a network of women to share my experiences with. More recently but for a while now I've been a member of a bunch of women-only groups across FB, linkedin and a couple forums too and trying to stay on track with whats going on on each platform has got out of control.

So I created Shello to cut down on time spent across multiple plaforms and where women could ask questions on any topic from a single app experience, get great advice and build new female connections in the process. You can find out more about it at: https://www.shello.com/about-us/

Please let me know any questions, we're just starting out so any feedback as well would be super helpful.
>>When will you be truly happy? Will you be happy when you have helped humanity forward in any significant way? Or, will you be happy when you have good relations with the people around you and a generally fun existence?

I will be happy when I can choose to work on what I want to work on, rather than what society tells me I need to work on in order to be able to continue feeding and sheltering myself.

In a sense, financial independence is what I seek, because only financial independence will allow me to put 100% of my energy into improving my community via endeavors that otherwise would not pay a dime.
Only 87% of the citizen population of the US has government issued ID.
I will post it if I find it, but there was a usenet post in the '90s that I think nailed a different original sin. That of commodification and repackaging of social interactions as a form of entertainment.

Long before our current social networks, it was already being noted that there was something deeply awry in selling access to other people's recorded conversations.
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Maybe we can get the military industrial complex into the nuclear industrial complex instead? Though one must be careful what one is wishing for I guess.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061
A few things to bear in mind here. The payload of a rocket is far less of that of a 747, so you aren't remotely comparing like-with-like. Unlike planes rockets aren't typically reused, the energy cost of manufacturing is considerable. (SpaceX's reusable first stages are impressive, but there is a fuel and payload cost.) Finally, taking a flight is about the highest carbon-emitting activity we do - one transatlantic trip is roughly equivalent to driving a car for a year.
Office is one of Microsoft's most lucrative lines, whilst I doubt that most AWS users pay much attention to WorkMail/WorkDocs. Many big companies play games with reporting numbers, and this is just a rather transparent example. Unfortunately, the fact that it got the Forbes story rewards that this kind of trick.
I like to read the same book over and over if it's really good. It's like how people get encyclopedic knowledge about star wars
Hey blueadept11, women have very different experiences and challenges to men when it comes to most aspects of their lives, from careers, to body matters and relationships. So the advice we look for and share is often only relevant to other women. The way we talk in person with other women can be different to how we talk in public, much more personal way. So Shello aims to be bring that intimacy and freedom to talk and ask questions openly online and the only way we can do that is to make it just for women.
Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe – Harvard paper
> The Democrats are absurdly naïvely playing a game of principles their opponents don't respect and don't know what “hardball” means.

Accusations of sexual assault provided at the last minute even when you have known about them for months about a decades old incident you have no proof occurred is “playing a game of principles”?
Ask HN: List things in Maths that we don't have an intuitive understading of?
if like this sort of thing, then, o. henry's 'roads of destiny', is the sort of thing that you might like as well :)
Sorry for my inexperience in this kind of implementation but wouldn't an sql transaction achieve something similar? And with table partitioning (at least on postgres) you should be able to go quite far, instead of neediness a new db (and a lot of related stuff to study)
I go by intuition. Lots of the time I find books to read when lost in the wiki crawl
I am still free to make fun of people for their senseless interpretations, however nice it makes them feel.
I never knew those figures in southern Italy. Thanks for sharing.
You sound like confused, from my limited knowledge, the making of steel is exactly opposite of what you said, they extract carbon atoms from iron, that makes carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide.
>The second paragraph of the article explains quite clearly that these apps display only the fact of a ballot having been cast, not the votes.

No, that is not the only thing these apps display. From the article:

>depending on the state, it can include details like their name, address, phone number and party affiliation and when they voted.

Emphasis mine. And if you don't think party affiliation is a big deal, then you haven't been listening to the rhetoric used to describe the parties lately.
Like how many people ARE registered to vote but lack ID?

Less than 1.2% as of 2010, in a survey of voters in three states: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0275074009342892

And in Indiana, the state with strictest ID laws, less than 0.3% of registered voters lacked ID.

In the meantime, for those who lack ID, getting an ID is a good thing.
With per-acre property taxes. If you need 10x the land to produce a kg of beef v.s. a kg of lentils you'll pay 10x the property taxes, which'll be worked into the price of your product.

The question of e.g. water consumption or pollution is a separate question. It's possible to pollute a lot in a very small area, and that should be priced accordingly.
Van eck radiation though.

I use wax tablets for all sensitive communication, and ensure any wax scrapings are incinerated to prevent the wax displacement hash being brute forced.
I’ve heard of several universities in the UK running this kind of course.
It feels warm at first, then you feel colder...

We have to convert about a bazillion XAML build descriptions to the new format. Thanks MS. At least the 40 years old Unix stuff just keeps working if you don't have any particular reason to upgrade.
Do your customers love your product? (Just launched a chatbot to find out)
Cavium’s is a 96 core x 4 node in a 2U config. Sure it’s high end, but it’s what you need to compete with similar compute dense rack servers from eg Dell.
Who is to blame for environmental harm is not a philosophical question. Act of consumption is not harmful, act of production is harmful. The fact that demand creates incentive to produce from shitty sources doesn’t change the actor that is doing harm.

And it’s not 1%, so you’re wrong about that too.

If BTC switched over to PoS it would cost the world exactly the same amount of resources, shifting some energy consumption into political plane. Fiat money is 100% political plane. Going towards fiat money is antithetical to bitcoin.

You’re saying attacks have been solved without citing any sources. There is no solution to PoS attacks that doesn’t make the system less trustless or less decentralized and introduces a layer of attackable complexity.

> Again, economies of scale. Please at least try to address my arguments.

I haven’t seen an argument so far, only a buzzword.
> Don't mistake this booklet for "protect and survive" which was handed out in the 1970s and 1980s. this was the precursor work.

They mention that further down the article.

> The Raymond Briggs cartoon book "when the wind blows" felt more realistic to most of us.

When The Wind Blows is a must read/watch in my opinion. Having first seen it just after it came out (I read the book much later), the emotional impact of it has never left me.
Thanks for the question. A key difference is that we use real names and photos, and as Shello is only app-based the conversations stay private behind a login. Also, on Shello we have topic groups and you can sign up to see questions and posts just to those topics that interest you. Other than that there is a lot of similarity in that its a community of women responding and conversing with other women on issues that matter to them.
The article specifically addresses that investigation and its result. It's the subject of the last section, "State regulators not interested".

It includes the fact that the statute of limitations had expired on many of the reported violations. As a result, state legislators ended up changing the window so that it wouldn't happen again in the future for similar reports.
Wunderlist (https://www.wunderlist.com/) sounds like something you are talking about.
Hi Rinchik, we have an LGBTQ group on Shello so we welcome anyone who identifies as a woman.
I used Borland C++ Builder (with Windows ME) from about 2000 on, sounds exactly the same, except you could make it look however you wanted. I loved it.

(Not until recent months reading about Xerox PARC/Smalltalk and playing around with Squeak did I realize how much it all just came from there, suddenly OOP made sense!)
Do you have an example of 'an unchecked algorithm at scale'?
Thats actually good question. People do get trained to enjoy more complicated wines (they don't need to be more expensive, but they usually are).

I would use analogy with pop music and classical music or modern jazz. For a lots and lots of people your club-night-out pop music will give more pleasure than sitting in auditorium listening to Rachmaninoff.

Drinking wine and spending time learning to appreciate the wine are two very different paths. Whenever it is worth it is another question. But there are differences between cheap-industrial-pop wines and fine wines.
According to a thread on /r/linux, disabling secure boot will not allow you to install Linux.
Do I calculate right that plain water stores energy around 0.2 MJ/kg when heated by 50 degrees celsius? (Specific heat is 4 J/gK) If I am right, ot feels like it would likely be cheaper to just make seasonal heat storages with water.
Write what you know.
There is no better place for growing apricots.

Apricots are simply divine. For this alone, bulldozing would be justified.
How to learn any technology?
Here’s some examples of the UK signs:

https://www.plateandlocate.com/article/1/name/Buried-valves-...
Several users on on StackOverflow and reddit do report that disabling Secure Boot will not allow you to install Linux, only boot a live system.
I saw a Waymo almost hit a pedestrian just today (in Mountain View, turning from Central eastbound onto Castro St. southbound).

First, it delayed making the right turn a good 30 seconds because it seemed unable to distinguish the two destination lanes from one and passed up numerous opportunities when the near lane was empty. Then when all traffic cleared, it started its turn without regard to the pedestrian already in the crosswalk just 3 feet to its right. Fortunately, the pedestrian was more aware than the Waymo was.

This wasn't some rare edge condition, either, and Waymo's tech (or if it was in purely manual mode, its driver is an idiot) is just not ready for the real world.
Since that discussion was mostly about whether/how to cite the finding, maybe we can have another discussion about the more interesting points: what the finding was, and how it was found.

(The submission title is by far the biggest influence on what comments get posted.)
Based on the presented analysis, TCG Opal encryption for the Samsung 850+ series appears to be secure.

I don't see a reason to still use software encryption. I would sooner expect a backdoor in cpus rather than SSD. Almost nobody even has the capability to even analyze the microcode for modern cpus. It could contain a backdoor that stores N aes passwords in the cpu itself, sorted by the amount of data encrypted. Using AES-NI makes it relatively trivial.
At worst, both ssd controllers and amd/intel cpus would have backdoors like that, but if that's the case there's nothing to be done.
As UK'er my first thought was 'Are the UK colour codes the same?'

And yes, They are!

https://www.cornerstoneprojects.co.uk/index.php/blog/undergr...
Hi gitgud, you can choose to post your questions anonymously but you still have to sign up with a real and validated profile. We find that only 20% of posts are anonymous and the remainder women are posting openly as themselves. We only allow the person posting anonymously to stay anonymous in that conversation. But no-one is allowed to answer a post anonymously. We use real names and real photos too.
You don't, unless they pass it to you (as a return value or function argument).
Energy prices are going to be key here. The mistake would be assuming they are a constant though. They've been trending down and lately coal has been considered on the expensive end of the spectrum. Those prices have been trending down due to clean energy prices dropping. Both solar and wind are now winning bids on price that used to go to coal plants. Also as coal plants shut down and coal mines are closed, coal might actually get more hard to get (i.e. more expensive). Some recent solar plants are delivering power well below the prices you cite (I've heard prices going as low as 3-4 cents/kWh).

I could imagine most steel plants are big enough that they'd want their own infrastructure in any case. So, for a future steel plant based on this stuff with its own cheap energy supply, it might end up being cheaper and cleaner. That could end up being really disruptive.
Or to put it another way:

These are names of things. The sentence structure makes that clear, and makes it clear how they relate. They are not "in-the-know" terms that are lacking definitions. It is not gibberish, just like the sentence "Jane gave Sue a letter from Bob" is not gibberish, even though nobody defined "Jane", "Sue", or "Bob".
What about overpopulation as a factor? The elephant in the room. Every time someone suggest that we are too many, people tend to agree, but when what is suggested is that we should think about how to be less people, everybody halts in horror
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It’s not really. People like everyone to think it is.

The difference is the building blocks of circuits are different due to function and most of the time you are interested in power transfer (which requires different impedance matching relationship).
> In what way? What are you choosing exactly?

You are signalling that neither party has your support.

Even in countries with mandatory voting a decent number of people cast an empty ballot.
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They suit the common misreading if the very next four lines don't exist. Which is why it's a misreading--it's like ignoring every word after "however," in a sentence.

Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same, / And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black.
Your comment hit the nail on the head.

Even though Free Software Licensing might not be for everyone, we're all lucky to have people as stubborn and uncompromising as RMS to be the figureheads of the Free Software Movement.

Indeed, there is no need for the FSF to compromise, but rather keep shifting the conversation focus towards the user's freedom, show companies the way that they can achieve their goals without malicious restrictions towards their users.
UK anecdote here, but I remember reading that the paper maps that this stuff is recorded on, can be many decades old and were originally hand-drawn so not very accurate. In the UK at least, quite often roadworks cut through pipes and cables accidentally even though they should know where everything is.
I know about this, and about Postmark great deliverability, but the greylisting some companies use is naive and doesn't care about reputation: if you are a new sender, you to have wait 5 minutes and retry, whoever is sending (Postmark or Mailgun).
Researchers have busted the encryption in several Crucial and Samsung SSDs
Oh boy, that open palm icon will definitely steer many Greek site visitors away (it's almost the equivalent of the middle finger in Greek culture).