skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A million people living in bunkers? That means one of out twenty. That just doesn't pass the smell test.

The linked NYT article [1] says it's "well over 100,000" which is a whole order of magnitude lower. But more importantly, it also seems to conflate what is a true bomb shelter, versus what are merely regular basement apartments:

"Nearly every apartment building in the Digua Shequ center’s neighborhood has a former shelter or a basement... If you get rid of these basement units, where will the migrants live?... A lot of landlords have spent money renovating the spaces they lease, so they don’t want to stop renting out basements..."

I mean, c'mon -- people live in basement apartments in Manhattan too, it's not that bad. And then, yes, I could maybe believe that 1/20 people in Beijing lives in a basement apartment if the average building is 10 stories tall with a single-story basement. And that then a much smaller number live in the actual bomb shelters that aren't just basements.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/world/asia/beijing-bomb-s...
>Part of the problem is that the library allows online pre-orders, so even when the movie is still in theaters, it has a waiting list several hundred deep.

Also IIRC there's no limit on DVD preorders. Conversely the Overdrive kindle lending service maxes you out at 20 and usually has reasonable (well, sometimes 3-6 week) wait times.
Of course the insulation part of the equation is a double-edged sword. You want insulation, but you always want air circulation at a rate conducive to low CO2 levels. Maybe a compromise using something like Sheetrock with extra paraffin, and the whole thing painted Anti-flash white, with air exchange passed through heat exchangers underground.

It would be pretty expensive to maintain though.
Yes, that too. I did not mean to downplay that part at all!
Living comfortably is a luxury, even in many developed countries.

Americans are used to plywood or even paper board wrapped big houses.
Maybe worth noting: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15189#p204...

```just a word of warning, copy everything off them quick, as the 'side2' goes backwards to the cotton cloth cleaner inside the 5 1/4" case, so basically all the crap caught in it then end up coming out when playing other flip side :('''
Or buying cheaper phones. A Xaomi phone can suit a user's needs just as well as a $999 Samsung S10+.
Religion is suposed to be a cult rooted in values deeper than anything else but a socialist government _requires_ to occupy that place hence it can't allow competitors or freedom of thought/speech.
I disagree.

Your reuccuring daily spending is the innermost loop in your retirement saving program. That’s where you’ll get the most bang for your buck.
Specifically, that methyl group is what allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier. That's exactly as big a deal as it sounds like

Adderall is absolutely not meth, and pretending otherwise is dangerous.
Never ? Tested, many times over the years. But it's never worked reliably or been useful in any way for me.
You can read everything of Zapffe's that's ever been translated into English tonight[1]! If you want more pure pessimism you shouldn't leave out Ligotti's "Conspiracy Against the Human Race", which also cover's Zapffe a bit. Ligotti is not a traditional philosopher but he makes some great observations about the relative rarity of true pessimism in Western philosophy.

It's worth noting that Nietzsche's real work was to find a solution to the inevitable pessimism and nihilism that he feared would inevitably threaten Western culture. Schopenhauer and Zapffe go straight off into pessimistic view of human existence (Schopenhauer deriving some humanistic "we're all in this together" ethics at moments and Zapffe saying we should stop breeding and let the flame burn out). Nietzsche still ultimately rejects nihilism.

[1] https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah
I honestly don't agree with the premise that you can just read someone's recap to understand him. He wasn't that type of philosopher. It's just like reading someone's interpretation of a poem -- you will get that person's perspective, not necessarily that of the author. I know this makes western minds ill, in the west we believe truth can be separated from the mind and put on a page, available for everyone to understand by merely downloading it. Some things you can only understand by experience -- something eastern philosophers are more open to. So Nietzsche is the correct interpretation of Nietzsche. Why would we ever believe a philosophy of life would be a logical argument anyway? Isn't purpose and perspective more in the realm of the arts? Again, I know this is highly unsatisfactory to sons of the west and moderns completely submerged in political correctness.

I don't consider people that terrorize others to be strong, that's what weak people do.
China's hydrogen economy is coming
The picture in the original article is an exaggeration of the real condition. There are bunkers with much better condition than what the picture shows and still very cheap to live in. I have lived in those bunkers for short time about 15 years ago. It wasn't worse than than a typical university dormitory except no windows.
I think he confused his whole point when he slipped the word “occasionally” in there. The rest of his argument is about a five dollar daily expense.
Imagine thinking that you could vote out the corruption in U.S. politics...
I think the reason so many people feel that it's important to allow dissenting and objectionable speech is that the perception of 'harmful' speech is mostly subjective.

Relegating that permissiveness to a particular entity allows that subjectivity to be enforced in perverse ways.

Many people feel it is better to tolerate the objectionable and hurtful speech than to allow a 3rd party to use subjective judgment to censor.
Except your program won't grow bigger with the "monadic" error handling approach.
dmoz was that site for a long time after yahoo became it's 2000s incarnation, but then dmoz went away, there are a couple of live archives of it, but still...
>I think what they hated most about him is that he likened both groups

Or they read things influenced by early releases of his work, where his antisemitic German nationalist sister took significant liberties in the editing process.
Signals to the end of an era, smartphones have matured and are becoming ubiquitous like laptops. Moreover, the most profitable smartphones belong to Apple which held 86% of smartphone profits generated in the industry in 2018. Samsung was competing more in the mid to affordable segments so it was bound to start losing once others started catching up, especially since its Chinese competitors are basically giving up profits for growth in the affordable to medium segments.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/17/apple-grabs-86-of...
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%8C%97%E6%BC%82++%E5%9C%B...
I've lived in accomodation with less than 4 m^2 per person.

I lived almost a year in a ~3.5x3.5m hostel room with 3 bunk beds (so 6 people total). Basically enough space to fit beds and nothing else, that's about 2 m^2 per person.

It's actually not as bad as you'd think. You basically use the room as a place to sleep, the rest of the time you were in the hostel you'd just hang around the common areas.

It's definitely not for everyone. If you're more introverted and need your alone time it would be horrible.
As a counterpoint religious affiliation and attendance of religious services has fallen across the developed world space with education. I’m not sure that cherry picking a list of names can stand up to the overwhelming demographic shift we see today.
Samsung's problems are just beginning. They're getting destroyed on every front, and basically all comes from China.

On the phone front, they were used to selling phones at premium pricing only relying on their brand name. You don't have to look past Nokia or Blackberry to see how that will end. They're not really innovative, and while their devices are generally quality, they've pushed the price point too high. Xiaomi does 90 percent of it for 30 percent of the price. Huawei does 200 percent for about the same price.

On the chip front, TSMC has been outpacing them for years, and is getting all the contracts.

The only thing I can think of that Samsung does better than anyone else is OLED, and others are catching up very quickly.

I think Samsung will join the ranks of HTC and LG as also rans in short time...
Too bad the excess in housing in China isn't being utilized to solve this issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXigSu72A4
What fantastic record? Huh?
The 787 was already "self certified". What kind of agency outsources certification to the manufacturer?! What's the point of an agency then? So that some 'Head' can earn millions? I do not trust the FAA and it's "fantastic" record for a second.

Now the NTSB on the other hand does a tremendous job. Sadly they only come in after disaster has struck.
Right?! It makes me feel weird that people always say he's cryptic.
That's pretty condescending to what gp clearly believes to have been a religious experience, don't you think?
Daily expenses are wierd.

Say your rent is 1000$ a month. That works out to 33$ a day. So if you spend $5 a day on coffee you’re spending 15% the amount of your rent in coffee.
Italian village literally sells itself to avoid death
SanDisk's Extreme 1TB microSDXC card up for pre-order
The amount of time people are willing to spend waiting in lines continuously amazes me.

And for food and drinks, no less.
I'll rephrase: cops aren't afraid of (potentially) gay people, who might call them homophobic. Why would they care what some meth user on the street says? I think you're overestimating the risk and impact you posed to the cops and the city.
Sounds like that person has fewer risks of losing all their savings in a freak accident, and lives with more luxuries. Is that not .. an understandable way to live?
Comments here are out of their mind. Samsung's smartphone business hasn't been a profit center for quite some time. Majority of profit came from DRAM and NAND, and profit fall is directly attributable to recent price crash of both.
Wow, this is some amazing stuff you got here — Bravo good sir!
Subs kill any comedic timing for me. Something about reading the punchline when the joke is still being setup is a bit jarring.
Like Trump, straightforward exploitation.
OK I'll say it... Your friend chose wrong. HORRIBLY wrong. I have a lot of experience with both Postgres and Cassandra and the fact that your friend chose Cassandra despite their data model being relational AND having high consistency requirements shows that they chose Cassandra for the wrong reason(s).

Before you come back saying something about scalability, I've run both databases at way above average scale so what you choose should come down to what you need, which is not what was done in this case (your friend)
Samsung is undisputed leader in DRAM and NAND.
Wikipedia page on this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City_(Beijing)

Wikipedia page states that is 85 square km.

Also another much longer and detailed Vice article of it:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nnmk8b/chairman-maos-unde...
this guy loves actors
I did a similar switch and made a spreadsheet to model it all out. I lost money in the first year, and ended up saving roughly $500/year every subsequent year.

And that was after buying a $400 grinder and $700 espresso machine and misc. accessories. And also with upping the frequency with which I drank coffee since I'm buying bags of beans now.

For those with expensive coffee habits, it is ABSOLUTELY possible to save a bunch of money annually, and drink coffee that is much better and more consistent than many decent cafes once you learn what you're doing, figure out what beans you like, and learn to dial in the grind.

I'm now tempted to get into home roasting to save even more since the green beans keep a really long time.
What caused a price crash of both DRAM and NAND??
I'm really hoping they up the CPU (are newer AMD mobile CPUs any good?) and drop the SATA drive for another/a larger battery in the next rev. Only things making me hesitant!

I really do applaud their efforts though, I really dig the company and am even giving PureOS a spin (only complaint so far is their frankenbrowser vs. not just using Icecat). The price/performance just isn't where it should be.
How about retiring 25% earlier?
What is there to trust the government with? And I'm sure anything they could get from the library they could get from Netflix, if they found it interesting/useful.
Because Obama is in charge of the Executive Branch, the President sets policy and Obama was President for 8 years.

I also don't have this cognitive dissonance where I blame the current occupant of an office for the policy his predecessor started.
Huh, isn't at all like the stop-loss payment program they had for military personnel.

They sent a bunch of letters which I ignored because (I thought) I didn't qualify until the last one with "Final Notice" so I figured why not? A while later they sent me a check for something like $2,600 -- they were literally begging me to take their money.
Samsung is really reminding me of Sony.
When I open this page in Firefox, everything works fine. But when I open it in Chromium, I see:

www.bloomberg.com refused to connect. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

What could be causing this? Never encountered something like this before.
Oversupply.
Some of the bomb shelters are above ground, as shown in the photographs, which is part of why the "million people underground" thing is just hyperbole. It doesn't make this an uninteresting article.

One of above-ground shelters is architecturally a little strange, with steel security cages built over first, second, and third story windows where you'd ordinarily just put a railing or balcony. It looks cool but I wonder what the actual purpose of it could be.
And the other side also likes to have that red tape so they can hire more administrators and burn through the money that was supposed to actually help people.
There is more background in other articles on Samsung's prediction:

>Samsung said it received fewer orders from cloud service providers, such as Amazon, as well as from handset makers, such as Apple, which has recently seen a slowdown of its own smartphone sales. This low demand in the cloud services and smartphone markets for both DRAM and NAND flash chips have pushed the prices of these chips down.

>According to Bloomberg, data centers are still going through their unused memory chips right now, Apple has cut its forecasts for iPhone sales and China’s economy, which is Samsung’s largest market for embedded components, has also slowed down this year.

>According to IHS Markit, a research firm, the market for DRAM is set to reach $77 billion in sales this year, which is a drop of 22% compared to last year. In this last quarter, DRAM prices fell over 30% (38% for server DRAM), which is the “sharpest decline since 2011," according to TrendForce.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-q1-2019-earnings-p...
I appreciate the insight. I don't know anything about that business, and also realize that Samsung as a whole is a huge conglomerate with many things I don't track. Being chip based, I'm assuming they have increasing competition from China though, no?
When reading Nietzche the next sentence was never hard to predict or digest. I didn't have to reread paragraphs out of confusion but simply because I marveled at how beautiful and clear it was expressed. I'm dyslexic and have ADD and have always thought in more abstract terms--more parallel than serial. Maybe that had something to do with it.
> Samsung was competing more in the mid to affordable

I assumed Samsung’s android phones were the top of the range. Who do you think is the high end android phone brand
Thanks, saved me having to look at things myself.

You'd know, is there a tool that would let me migrate all my passwords from LastPass to 1Password? I think I have like 3k passwords and the thought of manually building that DB up again is daunting.
NiMH takes up more space than LiIon but costs less for the same amount of energy storage capacity. Toyota uses them in their hybrid cars primarily for cost reasons.
> The idea may be plausible, but it comes with a big problem: it can't be tested.

Doesn't that imply that the accepted model can't be tested? I mean, in the sense of distinguishing it from this one.
I'm sure they would choose something better in a heartbeat if it were a viable option for them.

Quite a lot of people are stuck with "Accept this crap situation, go to some other worse option or kill myself."

Plenty of cultures believe in an afterlife and/or that your actions impact on the reputation of your family or both. Suicide is often deemed shameful, it is a black mark on the family and you won't get into heaven or similar.

Thus, many people feel suicide is not really an option, leaving them with this crap or some worse option.

It's not much of a choice.
This is what I've said for a long time - people complain that Starbucks is expensive, and I totally agree if it's takeaway. But if you go there, sit down and enjoy the coffee in a pleasant environment, it's actually great value (especially in the city)

On the broader point that you're making, balance is key. There are times when you're young that it's definitely necessary to let go and spend, because you know the experiences may not come again. But in terms of daily expenses, I know guys who earn over $10k/month and cry poor because their daily expenditures are insane. Unless you're very rich, daily expenditures do add up.
Ditto. The only way I would ever switch away, is if an online service actually allowed me to stream ANYTHING that I would normally be able to get via Netflix DVD. Right now, most of the things I find I want to watch, whether new (to me) or old things I want to watch again, I have to add it to my long DVD queue.
At least part of the DRAM issue is related to Intel's CPU supply issues being a drag on new PC sales.[1] But overall for DRAM and NAND, it's probably a case of market saturation in many sectors.

[1] As well as AMD has been doing with Ryzen, most large computer purchasers are still Intel buyers and are slow to change.
Tbh that is one of the worst used of tax payers money in Germany. I wish I could opt out
At your stage it's exceedingly likely that 2% is much too low.
> Why should only tech people decide our lives? They don't have any ethics as we have seen in american companies like Google and fb. They only care about money.

Tech companies are not made only of tech people. Those companies you named employ many engineers but are led, like any other company, by finance, sales and management. This whole story is actually about a conflict between the rank engineers and the management (similar to the earlier conflict about military projects).

You should totally trust the tech people, as they are the ones who are not in for the money (or less likely to be just in for the money, at least).

Actually, the whole story of Google not being trustworthy any longer might just be the story of engineering being slowly overruled by finance/management there.

I would totally trust Google AI researchers, like i would totally trust Einstein with the fussion theory. That employees were still able to overthrow a comitee formed by upper management will achieve more than whatever little benefit this comitee would have achieved.
Been using a Huawei 3i phone for more than a month now. I literally could not tell if this was Huawei or Samsung if I was given this phone without prior knowledge.

Although, there are rumors that Huawei are working on their own OS. And it would be interesting to see whether they would also introduce an OS for their laptop series.
You asked what the government could spend less on. I answered the question. What more do you want?
This is the same comune that hosted the Wikimania conference in 2016.
It's somewhat ironic given that Samsung drove HTC out if the market by dropping millions in marketing dollars.
>window visible in the frame

Take a closer look. These windows are not windows to the outside. They're windows to hallways inside of massive bunkers. You can even see giant steam/water pipes in some of the pics (say pic #1). Also, notice the window frames... they are not the types of window frames that would last even a week when exposed to outside elements like snow, wind and rain.

Large pic #1: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/photography/P...
... Look outside the US. This is how a lot of social programs work. Especially if it were for a Public Servant/Employee then the records are even easier to access.

Perhaps the US’s relative state independence doesn’t help it here.
Code lies all the time. This is called an abstraction, and is very useful. The abstraction that rob's code provides is that it makes you think of writing not as doing something with the OS, but as merely pushing to a buffer, with flush being the call that actually commits the transaction. Therefore, flush is the call that can fail. Is this literally what is happening? No, but it is a much easier way to think of things, and makes the code more readable.

>Did you fail writing the header, the body, or the footer? You can't know anymore.

You are writing to the same stream in both cases. The error wouldn't be caused by the header or footer data, but by some property of the stream, like it being closed, or the disk running out of space. Knowing whether the failure occurred while you were writing to the header or footer is unnecessary information, and therefore obfuscatory.
No. There actually has been a good news from China on DRAM recently. Fujian Jinhua, the leading Chinese DRAM competitor, is rumored to be exiting the business.
> I often have to spend hours on the phone, across several months, arguing and documenting, just to set the record straight.

Welcome to the federal government.
Ah, I'd love to hear more about this! Getting traffic right is much tougher than we appreciated at first.

Disclaimer: Creator & lead developer of SimAirport.

I suppose we just did it "wrong" to begin with, and have since been stuck with the wrong graph / haven't put the time into fixing it yet -- but would be curious to hear high-level of how you're doing it.

Our issues are primarily that we did lanes as graph nodes instead of "node capacity" so our pathfinding prescribes precisely which lane to use; when stuck in traffic we can't intelligently find our way around it without pathfinding again, but then 'quality' ends up being correlated to how often we pathfind with node-occupancy info, which obviously is a poor (and poorly performing) solution.

Would love to hear your approach or if you'd be interested in talking shop at all, email is in profile! :)
If your moniker is anything to go by, you are Swedish, and should be able to read Kierkegaard in the original Danish.
You proabaly ought to if you believe him a dullard. He's funny alright, at times bordering on laugh out loud, but it possibly does take some localised context to quite get it.
His content is vapid nonsense, of course, but that's a different matter.
Dealing with my aging baby boomer father concerning the internet has been a FUCKING NIGHTMARE. He somehow gets every toolbar installed on his computer, falls for every phishing/fraud scheme. I am terrified of what the world will look like when I start losing my faculties.
Just comparing smartphones in general, not really Android vs IOS. Samsung was probably the top-range Android phones in terms of pricing.
Maintaining over 700 military bases across the world, endless war (handouts to Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex companies), corporate welfare, foreign aid, public art, Africa, etc...
> Majority of profit came from DRAM and NAND, and profit fall is directly attributable to recent price crash of both.

finally
Not a physicist, but I recall reading that there is enough empirical evidence to support the current model of expanding universe.