skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also know people who have sunk thousands on gacha games.

But that does not make it harmful or predatory. People are allowed to spend money on whatever they want, just because you don't agree with their choices doesn't mean you should make it illegal.
The paper attacks a straw man:

> The barrier that must be lifted in order to make this happen is, according to this view,
insufficient housing construction in prosperous areas due to local restrictive zoning in those
regions. The places where policy is needed are therefore not the lagging and falling-behind
regions, but the prosperous areas, which are perceived as afflicted by the disease of NIMBYism
(Not-In-My-Back-Yard). Undoing NIMBY-ism would allow people from other regions,
whom are deemed to be excluded by high housing prices and low availability in prosperous
places, to move to prosperity (thus, a place-based policy leads to a people-based outcome).

Of course, knobs that affect the supply and price of housing will not cause companies to hire workers without in-demand skills at higher wages. That is completely orthogonal to whether turning those knobs will decrease the price of housing.

Furthermore, "building more housing" is like planting trees. The right time to do it was 40 years ago. If you look at cities with relatively reasonably priced housing, like Chicago, you'll see that the bulk of the moderately-priced housing stock is older. Fancy new condos at sky-high prices are getting built, but you can still get a good deal on a unit in an older building. The problem in cities like San Francisco is that those units weren't built back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Airbnb is making this a distinct possibility. I regularly run into people in my small, tourism based town who own 2 or more properties they sit on and rent through airbnb. The most frustrating was a guy who after receiving inheritance is doing exclusively this. Meanwhile the city is spending money buying run down apartments above market rate, competing with these investors who bring little value, to meet the demands of the community to protect the tenants from being forced out.

It is wildly inefficient and would not exist if airbnb followed local laws. If this is allowed to continue, I could easily see airbnb units exceeding the number of hotel units we have in town, where the total number of rooms is nearing 10% of the towns population.
"Build more Housing" is not the answer. Okay fine, add "Not everybody in the world needs to or should live in San Francisco or Manhattan" to the list of rules
Probably when they stealth installed an extension to promote Mr. Robot without telling you.
Still need a script to get it.
"SQL is extremely expressive, it's almost impossible to build something that cannot be expressed in an SQL query."

That's kind of orthogonal to what I think is the issue being expressed here.

SQL can do many things; the problems tend to be when a query doesn't perform consistently and predictably. There's always a balance to be struck between communicating what is to be done, and how it is to be done, and SQL leaves so much of the "how" out that the query interpreter/optimizer is incredibly sophisticated and does a fantastic amount of work and yet frequently gets things spectacularly wrong, maybe due to misconfiguration and maybe due to fundamental limitations.

Obviously more information on how to do something is not always better; otherwise we'd be using assembler. But there is a balance.

Experts tend to say "write everything in one query, and if it doesn't work, fix the configuration of your database" which is not helpful given the division of responsibilities in any company. But they will say that because they are devoted to the idea that all that expressiveness is good for something.
Nice to see a nod to Iniqo Quilez and the crazy SDF world. I still get a thrill from the fact you can specify an infinite grid of spheres with a single line of SDF code. Seems magical - as does the "almost free" CSG, morphing and chamfering you get from SDF rendering.
You should have downloaded it yourself and sent it to them via an encrypted zip file
Of course it doesn't look as good as the awesome streamlined rocketship concept art I grew up with in the 1950s, I will grant you that.

While SpaceX's concept for Starship does look that awesome. (In the form of animations and concept art, not in the form of steel water tower construction blown over on its side.)
Trump calls on Congress to end ‘surprise medical bills’
Congratulations you have just committed the elementary Chinese Soda fallacy.
As far as I can tell, it's rendering a triangle mesh using a shader in order to create the illusion that there are no triangles.

There are algorithms for rendering smooth surfaces, but for a series of reasons they tend not to be used for real-time rendering.
#1 can be tricky in SF. If you mix affordable and market rate housing in the same development, there are still "luxury" amenities in the building. The HOA fees are not capped by law and with special assessment fees could possibly exceed a BMR mortgage payment. I'm not familiar with the configuration of all-BMR developments, but I assume there are HOA fees for those as well. This situation can make affordable housing unaffordable.

In SF there's no reasonable way to stabilize (let alone bring down) home prices without less restrictive zoning.
Self-driving cars are more expensive than a human-driven fleet. Lyft would need to own (or lease) the vehicles themselves, and pay all the associated maintenance costs. Their current business model is entirely predicated on not paying those costs, and nothing about self-driving will provide the necessary margins for the economics of a self-driving fleet to pan out.
That's interesting to hear, thanks!

My rant was only really aimed at shared mutable memory; passing a piece of it around with one owner at a time is totally fine. One writer, multiple readers has its uses too.

I am a fan of persistent data structures and I think that as we keep slapping on cores they're going to be more appealing for general purpose computing, but they're certainly not one size fits all, and the performance tax is substantial.
> Some SQL variants have WITH clauses

“Some variants”, including standard SQL since SQL:1999.
> “The idea that upzoning will cause housing affordability to trickle down \[ ... \] is just a lot to promise”

Increasing housing supply is not the same thing as trickle down. It confuses the issue to call it this.

Trickle down refers to the idea of giving out money (in the form of tax breaks) to stimulate the economy. It essentially says that cash handouts to businesses and investors will indirectly make it into poorer people's hands.

Removing limits on housing is fundamentally different than this because there is no handout involved. Instead of rich people receiving money, rich people (also called investors) put up money to finance the costs of increasing the supply.

Also, nobody is saying that increasing supply will eliminate inequality. That part is kind of a straw man. Real estate is still "location, location, location", and living in a desirable area (near jobs, etc.) will continue to cost more. What increasing supply does is change one multiplier on costs. In my mind, the relevant question to ask is: if affordability is a big problem, why wouldn't you want to turning one of the knobs you can turn to change a multiplier and make it better?
It is more difficult than you describe it. To set up a monthly payment the bank verifies the request (e.g. if you sign such direct debit for the gym or your electricity bill). Every ebamli I ever used has a page with all these direct debit setups and alerts you when a new one is made to bring your attention to it. These also have limits. And a decent bank would scrutinize the direct debit. A gym or Vodafone will fly easier than a direct debit to VodkaPotatoLimited in Russia or China (no offense) when you live in the UK.

As to prevent the overdraft, just ask the bank to NOT have overdraft capacity on your account(s).
Agreed on most points, but not the keywords. SQL has hundreds of keywords.
iq was single-handedly responsible for most of my early interest in computing.
Yes, for about 4 years now
> Unfortunately, some graduates of code schools you've hard of can not code. Like at all. Hence I understand companies that resort to algo questions.

I'll agree with this. The issue, I think, is that too much emphasis is placed on the algo questions in relation to the other portions of an interview. I think the root cause of this is bad/lazy hiring practices.

There's a difference between using an algo question to see if a person can code, versus using an algo question to stroke the interviewers ego and/or confirm biases.

It's also an issue of companies not truly wanting to invest in junior talent. A lot of companies want to pay junior wages for experienced talent, and don't encourage a mentor/mentee/learning environment.

Yes, I understand the fear that companies will invest time and money in junior talent just to have them jump ship for a pay raise in 8 months, but that cuts both ways. I'm willing to bet that companies that are willing to spend more on training/mentoring/yearly compensation bumps would retain talent for longer.

To answer the OP question - I personally would not accept an easier hiring process for an easier firing process. I believe that would just exaggerate the problem above.

At the end of the day, it comes down to ROI for both parties. Job seekers don't want to spend countless hours cramming for algo questions and being subjected to multiple-round interviews. Companies don't want to spend the time and money on hiring + onboarding to get to a point where a new hire produces value.

You could argue that an apprenticeship model would help circumvent the problem, but that could mean significantly lowered entry-level salaries, and probably less interest from "top talent" in the junior market.

Software is a strange case though. It's becoming just as ingrained in society as say, plumping or electricity, but the potential for revenue is much greater than traditional trade skills.
Here’s another completely different use case (I came across this while googling unsuccessfully for a way to make videos loop):

You’re setting up a booth at a convention. You want to have a video playing on a TV. It should play forever in a loop.

Apparently, with any normal “smart” TV, that’s very hard to do! You can put a video file on an SD card or something, but you probably can’t persuade the built-in video player to loop it (edit: seamlessly, anyway). You can’t just set a loop flag on the file like you can with a GIF, because proper video formats don’t have any such flag.

I guess you could set up a web page with a looping video on it? That’s more of a hassle than just putting a file on an SD card, and less reliable if the net connection is spotty.

There are companies that will literally sell you a hardware dongle just to loop videos. It’s ludicrous.
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> By energy use, Garbage Collection is generally better than typical manual approach, except for when "GC" is actually a naive refcount.

This is such an extraordinary claim that I'm going to need data before I believe it.
I don't think this is meant to attract people who are ok with managing a Linux distro as their desktop today, I think it's for people like me that need a Unix environment for development, but want something that "just works" for rest-of-life stuff. Today, in the tech world at least, that need is largely filled by Macs.
Are you referring to buying Alphabet stock (Waymo) or GM stock (Cruze)?

Uber and Tesla are both highly unprofitable companies, so you couldn't be referring to either of those.
Given that you have a clear authority here (Mozilla) I don't see why you'd query a blockchain instead of querying signatures.mozilla.org

As always Blockchains are a good solution only for a tiny group of problems.
Could you ask him if he's encountered any progress toward translating his artistic programming book into English? I would love to buy a copy if it were available in English!
Honestly I feel like we could have a very deep conversation about this because I certainly agree with a lot of what you're saying.

Language is certainly subjective, but I would argue that we can make certain concessions on what context truly is "obvious" and what isn't. And I think the matter of what level of precision is acceptable enough to consider a statement or idea "understood" is up for debate and is also contextual.

At some point, any extra information is just that, extra information. The core idea may have been expressed fully, even if there are certain small ambiguities or if the listener wishes to draw insight from the statement beyond the basic sentiment expressed.
It supports so many use cases primarily because of the small number of fundamental "constructs".

I mean, if I gave you protons, electrons and neutrons, you could build the universe out of them!
Can you explain why you need the current time anywhere in this? Say I download a ten-year-old addon, it's signed by a valid signature from that root, with a valid signing date. What's the problem?

Are we worried that someone will steal an old/expired cert and have control over a user's clock?
Show HN: G-Fu – A Lisp 2 Go
> Is open source really more secure?

Probably not, but ...

The issue is that open source can generally be patched by a sufficiently motivated individual when the security hole is found. If you have a proprietary firmware blob, that isn't going to happen unless there is monetary incentive for the manufacturer to do so.
Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More
I'm not planning to buy because Uber's "driver network" is a pool of independent contractors they are rapidly burning through with unsustainable wages.

Uber depends on those suckers - they inflate Uber's coverage and perceived value. If Uber can't deliver self-driving cars before they run out of suckers, they will become one-of-N commoditized "rideshare" apps.
Any tips on how to heel toe in this gen jetta? The pedals are so awkwardly placed...
The cost to borrow this garbage is going to be astronomical, just like Lyft.
I drive a Tesla on a daily basis, so I have some idea of how close it is.

I never said I thought it would happen in the next two years (it's possible, in some limited region, but not probable) -- however I believe Elon when he says Lidar is too expensive for this application and the companies using it are betting on the wrong horse / protocol.

Also, as I said in another comment, he owns the supply chain and his network / fleet data set will be much larger for the machine learning that is needed.
What free market are you talking about? Do you think the housing market in these cities is unencumbered by government regulation? The shortage isn't created by lack of interest by developers, the law is preventing them from creating more housing units.
While I knew what you were implying, I wanted to see if this was actually a common term. It isn't but it did lead me to another HN comment [1] and this Fast Company article referring to is as "Chinese Math" [2]. Just an FYI for anyone else because this sort of "1% of x market" thing comes a lot and a term is helpful to speed up the convos.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735610

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/1710460/chinese-math-or-1-mistak...
The money-oriented and "public service" outlets are also entertainment, and are also happy to admit it in public. For example, the BBC has explicitly made the statement that it is a form of entertainment.
The Familiarity Backfire Effect: Why Debunking a Myth Can Make People Believe It
I'm a big fan of code-surfer, which uses MDX.

https://github.com/pomber/code-surfer
When AI gets smart enough to do bad things there will definitely be a lockdown. What happens when you can program your robot to commit crimes for you? You won't be able to load certain types of programs by law. They are already doing this with geofencing for drones.
Tesla's balance sheet is not in great shape either, and lately Musk seems to be heavily leaning on the autonomous driving network idea as a justification for raising additional capital (largely through dilutive equity offerings of course, since the corporate bond market has had enough of Tesla's shenanigans and they want over 8% interest on unsecured debt).

Also, Tesla is heavily all-in on computer vision - I would be hard pressed to name a single person alive who has a bigger conflict of interest than Elon Musk when it comes to giving advice on the feasibility of vision-based AD. Consider your sources...
My heartfelt condolences to everyone who has had to browse the internet without an ad blocker.

Nobody deserves that.
"I’ve never in my life encountered someone who was not a professional programmer ever even contemplating using SQL for anything"

I have. That's only an anecdotal observation, but it seems to me that the existence of Visual Basic and the popularity over the years, combined with the utter disdain for it by "real programmers" is evidence that, more generally, there are a huge number of kinda, sorta, programmers who are outside the IT culture.
It looks like a step in the right direction to me. What's your baseline here?
If Firefox are willing to break all addons to force everyone to stop using GAB dissenter addon

What else are they willing to do as a "WOKE" company
I live in a very dense part of San Francisco and most of the Nextdoor activity I see is people complaining about the constant car break-ins, human feces, needles, package theft and unstable vagrants. There's one group that thinks these things are bad and should be stopped, and another group that likes to argue otherwise.

Sometimes there's some overt racism but usually those posts disappear quickly.
Yes.

I think many here miss totally the point. Is the same mindset that lead to believe C, bash or unix are good(?) then why bother?

I'm very lucky that I start with FoxPro, so I know what is to live with a MUCH better thing than SQL.

To the point:

- "SQL is standard, everywhere... why try to change or do something else?"

I hope none here work in new software products.

And also, try to replace ALL the OLD with the NEW is no the point, is to try to DO BETTER THAN THE OLD.

I suspect most of use are in that business... right?

- "SQL is a good language!"

Superficially, yes.. as good is javascript or C. More exactly to be the "default" option we are VERY lucky SQL is not alike C or JS. But "good" is not. Is adecuate.

IF you DON'T KNOW WHY then learn the why first. For us that LIVE in the RDBMS world is clear as water than SQL is not the ideal, is what we have.

----

Is important to understand that "SQL", Rdbms and the relational model are badly misunderstood (just look how the NoSql movement market itself!)

- SQL IS NOT THE RELATIONAL MODEL, is BASED on it.

The relational model is MORE expressive, powerful, flexible and EASIER than SQL.

- SQL IS NOT RDBMS

A much better APIs can be build on top a RDBMS but SQL is a poor language for that. This is part of why exist so many extensions.

Think, for example, why you can't do

SELECT key FROM BTreeInde_CustomerCode
GROUP BY (whatever -- And I mean GROUP, not SUMMARIZE!)
let city = SELECT name
let filter = WHERE id = @id
let query = city + filter(id=1)

and many many other things like that

Many things that get mixed with the "SQL" language are part of the implementation or capabilities of the RDBMS.

- However, SQL IS A FINE EXAMPLE IN HOW DO DATA

And in fact, is not that hard to imagine a much better version, SQL is not that far from a better option!
The free market will always distort regulation to suit the elites that profit from those distortions. Either through government or monopolistic corporations.

As long as private property is enforced through the threat of violence these problems are not tractable. The only solution to regulatory distortion is the complete abolition of capital.

In the case of healthcare, nationalized single-payer system gets far enough for something so critical to our existence without requiring a complete restructuring of the economy.
A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator
They have been going a decade, they havent turned a profit yet, in fact they have been burning through capital. What is going to change in the next decade that means they will return a profit consistently enough that either dividend payout will occur or a higher share price will be achieved?

Seems to me that as soon as Uber find out how to turn a profit thats when copycats can jump on board with their app and start taking a slice of ubers cake. Afterall they wont have long term investors to repay so their prices could be lower than Ubers, making the value proposition of uber even worse.
Announcing GraalVM 19
CAD tools can use special adaptive algorithms to triangulate NURBS curves into meshes for rendering, so there is still a mesh there as far as I know. Beyond this, there is also the property of how the material responds to light. You can have multiple triangles appear smooth because they respond to lighting in a way that does not produce seams. "Smooth" rendering will use interpolated surface normals, and "flat" rendering uses per-face normals.
This is the most impressive array I've seen in quite a few years.
It would be helpful to others if you explained what exactly your purported fallacy entails.

I can find only one other reference to it and it's on HN.
Can't you just buy options instead?
ArchLinux's package servers are http by default and include no https servers by default. We're a long way from disabling http. It's "not a problem" because packages are signed, but it's still http.
The post-mortem hasn't happened yet. ekr's post is a preliminary description of what happened, everything he felt confident saying in advance of the post-mortem and so necessarily heavy on technical details but light on process details.
> You know, I've always been confused by this: if a game is using random chance to require probabilistic hours/days of effort in order to find some drop, my first response to finding that out is not "grinding for the drop", but rather "hacking the game to give myself that thing." (First thing that comes to mind: the Sword of Kings in Earthbound.)

I don't think I was nearly as smart as you but Maplestory was actually my first introduction to computing.

The game was really grindy and required you to just use your mana (I was a mage), and then sit to recover it, and then go back to killing stuff. It seems like they didn't do server side checks so I actually learned how to use a memory editor and just save the mana field which made it so that it didn't go down.

Of course, the problem with this is that it morally questionable since it gives you an unfair advantage and gets you banned.
Buy a burner phone with cash in a different city that you live in. Install Facebook. Start a Netflix binge session show that is purely in Chinese or Japanese. Do nothing else then open a url with a lot of ads.
You're close, but that first endpoint is just to retrieve the auth URL, no need to post anything to it. It then passes the seed and password to the returned URL, so:
"http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/v2" gets '{"Seed": "xxx", "Password": "xxx"}' of some kind

I haven't yet figured out what those are though...

See:

Future<Token> login(String seed, String password) {
var headers = new Map<String,String>();
return _netUtil.get(LOGIN_URL, headers:headers).then((dynamic authUrl) {
try {
if (authUrl == null) {
return Future<Token>.sync(() => new Token("", false, 0));
}
var loginUrl = BASE_URL + AuthURL.map(json.decode(authUrl.body)).url;
Word.

Except the last thing we need is more lords and external solutions, better spend that energy on meditating to find your self.
On the flipside: if you're a person that's convinced Uber should be valued at a fraction of what it is and you're not shorting it, why aren't you?

You might argue the market will remain irrational, but this is unlikely to be the case for 25+ years. This should mean that most people set against the Uber IPO should hold a short position with at least a small portion of their net worth. Doesn't seem like this is the case.