skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another dog sense I've wondered about is hearing. What is our music like to them?

Let's consider live music, first. A lot of instruments have significant harmonics well above 20 KHz. So let's say you are practicing your violin or trumpet, and your dog is in the room. The maker of your instrument took great care to get the sound right, which mainly consists of making sure that the various harmonics are at the right relative amplitudes.

Does the instrument maker take any care to get the harmonics above 20 KHz right? They don't affect how the instrument sounds to humans, so I'd expect not. That could mean that your beautiful violin has a horrible screech that only your dog hears.

How about recorded music? If my guess is right and our instruments sound bad above 20 KHz, recorded music may be an improvement from the dog's point of view, because we filter out those highs when recording.

But if live instruments do actually sound OK above 20 KHz, then to a dog our record are going to seem limited at best.
Google Maps Has New Disaster-Warning Features
As she discusses and show in the actual video, they put in quite a bit of reinforcement for structural integrity.
Paul Krugman tries to help you understand:

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent...
So living in new buildings becomes undesirable even further because they are more expensive to live in than the rest of the city!
I’m not a cave man. I work differently than you, why do you have to be a douche about it.
"too difficult" is not the same as "too clever" or piling on too many features and encouraging errors.

Do you agree with the sibling comment of "Outside of the borrow checker and invocations related thereto, Rust is fairly simple and transparent."? And the assertion that while it's difficult it doesn't make you misunderstand code?
>Conception and putting money on tbe line deserves credit.

I suppose I can agree, but I wouldn't put conception of an idea in the same league as offering money towards it.

>There would be no endeavors if there was no incentive of credit.

You can call this an uncharitable interpretation, but are you arguing that people would never do anything if there weren't wealthy people with money offering it in exchange? That is absurd and provably false, with all of these hobbyist and otherwise unpaid works.
Yea, I have never looked at equipment when buying a ticket and still wouldn't. Price, departure, arrival, and duration - roughly in that order - are the only things that matter to me.
Why is greed so bad here? The problem isn’t greed it’s the demand in the face of the lack of supply.

Make other places more attractive or increase the supply available in this location.
The market works this out "automatically" when supply is greater than demand. If there are too many dwelling units then landlords will compete with eachother for tenants by lowering prices relative to eachother.
You're assuming the high prices are a result of high demand. Speculators and other bad actors are also driving up prices.
Statistical mechanics meets music theory
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Sorry, I should have said 'generalities'. If you can point at which phrase I used that implied we should be more accommodating towards assholes, perhaps I can learn to express myself more clearly in the future.
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My only question, is will these houses have access to public transit or will they drive? If driving, can your roads handle the increased traffic?

Housing, transit, schooling.. these all seem interconnected. Just increasing supply of one just strains the rest of the system, no?
The simplistic version of demand based economics do not take into account speculators who buy rental properties and do not rent them out to reduce supply and to help increase the price of the properties they are flipping.
Does this mean that five years of natural price increases will just happen all at once when five years have passed?
Berlin 5 year rent freeze
[1] https://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/homoeopathie-in-d...
[2] https://www.bah-bonn.de/bah/?type=565&file=redakteur_filesys...

Sorry for the german sources.
I was wondering the same thing.

The California housing crisis is a political choice and fixing the politics that caused it might be more effective long term than stop gap patches like this.
I'm reading this as Google has a bunch of land and they want to cash in on sky-high prices.
A poorly coded Ethereum smart contract disrupted an ISP in rural Oregon
Thinking about it, I would bet money that the book buying was staffed out. As many have pointed out, prior to the movie, it would take someone who cares to figure it out beyond its on the best seller list.
Speculators drive up prices by buying. They are "demand" as well.
Hire remote. Provide relocation assistance to get developers to move out of major cities, instead of the other way.

Fringe benefit: Less payroll overhead since the cost of living in rural areas is much lower.

> that's not an easy problem to solve.

The solution is simple, it's just getting people to actually do it that's hard.

> And at the same time there's a massive economic draw, California refuses to let the market provide anything like enough housing.

I don't know enough about California's politics to provide insightful commentary, but from what I have heard, none of it was good or sane.
At least you could wear it; I am a XXL (tall), and I've only received a proper sized shirt twice in the last twenty years.
I think the trick here is that Facebook is not inherently in charge of transactions, each validator is. Meaning, each validator will have their own efforts to make sure nobody pushing transactions on their node is doing crime (and/or that their identity is known so it can be forwarded to police when linked with crime).

In practice what this probably means is that each validator will require a lot of personal information tied to each public key before accepting transactions from that public key. In other words, I would wait until/if someone trustworthy partners as a Libra node (e.g. my bank who already knows my financial history) until I sign up to give it a shot.
Ask HN: Why Isn't Go Functional?
One of the things I keep reading about functional languages is how they make reasoning about code easier and how this is particularly useful for distributed systems. Given that Go was built by Google specifically for the purposes of building distributed systems, why isn't it functional?
LinkedIn epitomizes everything wrong with todays front-end.
Npm,grunt,gulp,es6,ts,babel, webpack, yeoman, browserify, reactjs, reacts mother and its dog, yarn, bower, jsx.. and so on.

13 MB of JS/css/html:
https://imgur.com/a/oehQQzJ
On a city level socialist policies are OK and can be even good. This is similar how communism works on a family level. In Soviet Union the problems came from central planning for the whole country with essentially no feedback loops for bureaucrats and party bosses in charge.
Apparently they had never seen Christmas Vacation?
Beijing's US Treasury holdings dip
You have access to their appointment graph from all the calendar invitations sent, especially with attendees list. You have access to meetings I am invited to even though I don't have a google account since my email address appears in invitations.
Sean Parker: “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains” (2017)
But how well has this worked in comparable cities like London or Paris where only wealthy people can afford to live?
I assume the same goes for the more lightweight Ubuntu-based distros Xubuntu and Lubuntu? What are som good alternatives to these that will continue to run on older 32-bit machines?
Really? I gifted romance books before to women. Not publicly, since I've never been in a situation to do so. They've all been happy about it since I always get them something random that they would never pick. Or is it that people really don't gift books? I remember the original book cover to 50 Shades was like a tie or something. It actually looked like a "tasteful" book if you didn't know better. Literally, I would have picked that up for my mom in a similar situation, if she didn't own it already...

I'm really thinking you're pushing a bias on the situation. Someone did something potentially nice, but in a lazy ass way. Like getting flowers for someone who is allergic to flowers. The laziness really bit them in the ass. It'd be the same if I told someone I liked horror and they got me Twilight because they heard it was about vampires and werewolves.

That's a situation where you laugh your ass off about it and crack a joke.
As a person living in New York who thinks rent stabilization has been largely more successful than not at achieving its goals, I disagree.
I'm talking about the local solar density, not an individual star's density. Obviously that has little effect on the habitable zone of a planet.

My question was about the ability of a system's star's own radiation to ward off extra-solar radiation and what kind of limitations we are aware of.
However, using multiple names can create a combinatorial explosion. If you have 3 Boolean parameters, then you need up to 8 functions. I think named parameters are probably a better option.
If there is a 'market abberation' find it, and deal with it.

For example, if tons of foreigners are buying homes, this might be a problem. Regulate it.

If tons of people are buying 2-3 homes and renting, thereby driving a wedge between home-owners/non-home-owners, regulate that.

If the issue is low interest rates, which are necessary for the regular economy, consider building in housing prices into the inflationary index, because it's a real thing that people have to pay for. This might affect how rate are set. That said, it's ECB and not really Germany anymore. FYI this should hint at the incredibly serious problems of Euro-area countries losing monetary policy by joining the Eurozone ...

If it's really just supply/demand build more homes.

It could be a function of older, crappier areas finally getting caught up in the modern world, in which case this might be an existential change that Berlin will have to deal with. The 'downtown' spots will eventually be paid for by people with decent jobs. Some pretty harsh and weird rules would have to be put in place to stop this.

Zone some areas for affordable housing.

My bet is the answer is mostly to build, but also that it's a 'neighbourhood' issue i.e. Kreuzebeurg (sorry, forget the spelling) is becoming gentrified and that's going to be a tough nut to alter.
You are using emotionally charged words ("artificial", "abuse", "greed"), which makes a bit hard to have a constructive argument, but let me try :).

One way to think about prices is as a signal. When greedy landlords raise prices, they send two signals: (1) To other landlords and wanna-be-landlords, saying it's an attractive market which would justify new construction or cleaning up your spare bedroom and putting it on the market, both increasing supply, and (2) to current and future renters, making it more economical for them to move elsewhere and thus save on their rent, thus reducing demand.
> I hope that Europe figures out a regulatory framework that works.

Is this even possible with complex fast-changing software? They always seem to be busy figuring out last decades issues. Or when they do respond to new things it's usually a FUD-riddled overreaction that just straight up cripples the new things so we're only left with the options that the ordained organizations like Visa and Mastercard come up with. Which is usually a worse outcome than before.

If anything we need some simple core digital privacy rights ala the constitution or charters of rights. Not some thousand page mess like GDPR that was intended to curtail the big guys but ends up giving small Austrian retail businesses $4000 fines for installing a simple surveillance camera, which happened to be too broadly pointed outside.

Good intentions meets reality.
So 15000 single family homes? What density are they going for? The language isn't clear.
No, new buildings are desirable because they're new and will always find buyers, especially if built in a nice neighborhood.
I've worked remote, and it's ok, but it's not the same thing as being in the office. It's not the same thing as having a bunch of local companies to choose from. Or from the company's point of view, it's nice to have a lot of local workers. And then there's stuff like high quality universities, and of course venture capital.
Why is it not easy? The internet is global just like the products these companies create. There's not much, if any, reason they need to be so consolidated in a single region or city.
Watchmakers Could’ve Used Patent Analysis to Predict the Smartwatch Boom
>Why don't you learn from your Northerly neighbors (China) on how to run government?

Ah yes humans really do thrive under totalitarian dictatorships
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Robust-first programming in ULAM (2015) [video]
Yeah I didn't mean it as a defense either. More like we should've been freaking out quite a while ago.
Many people consider module-level tests to be unit tests.

Integration tests would mix multiple modules.

Depending upon the specifics of your application, unit tests at a lower level than the module level may be suitable. E.g. complicated algorithms a module might internally rely upon.

Our language around testing is missing a slot. We have unit, integration, and end-to-end. Should be unit, module, multi-module, and end-to-end. Depending upon the specifics of the application, you might have more unit or module level tests.
Last thing I heard, high buildings are mostly infeasible in Berlin due to the unstable underground. You can't build New York everywhere...
React
paperjs
It's tied to real world assets, 1 to 1 with a basket of currencies. It's only scarce if this rule continues to be followed, so valuation of the virtual asset will depend on users' trust that the real world assets exist and will always exist in a 1 to 1 ratio with the virtual asset.

For an example of this being attempted already, see Tether / USDT which is (supposedly) 1 for 1 backed by US dollars.
Once i read that this college was like 40k a year not including housing, i pretty much said good riddance. They might say proudly that 70% of their student body are first generation college students, but all i will say is that 70% of their student body is being exploited into getting a expensive degree from an unknown school which will more or less only leave them being underemployed with massive debts. Education in this country is in a serious need of reforming, it is completely getting out of hand. The most vulnerable of the our population is getting lured in by promises of a brighter future and completely screwed by some of these schools.
For me, this kind of education always seemed to be amazingly tough. I mean, I always prefered to hire tutors, I live in la https://worldpostalcode.com/united-states/california/los-ang... and here it's not that hard to find a good one.
No need to reinvent the wheel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong
That is a good analogy. One would not cash in a part of investment for a banal purchase but might do so when buying a house. In that case I would definitely wait for a right moment to sell.
Speculators are "fake demand".
Intel's customer improvement program thing does that when you accept.
I remember a study that noted that random awards not given to everyone were seen to have more morale boosts than rewards that people thought were small that were given to be everyone.

But yeah it amazes me people can't figure out the tiny reward is wonky.
Well, even if you do not do any parallel work for each request in your service, each request in itself is a goroutine. So depending on the load of that service, you might reach such numbers, and more.
If the title was something along the lines of "Agreeing with the EFF, Supreme court rules First Amendment doesn't apply to private platforms" I think you would see very different responses.

People here usually have a lot of respect for the EFF (rightfully so), but I think people in these comments are focusing more on what 5 judges voted than the issue at hand.
That reduces it to just over half Indians, the other is vegetarian.
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Microsoft Launches Four New Eye First Games for Windows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/peter-max-dement...

Interesting article about how Peter Max's name was taken advantage of & how people on cruise ships were carefully misled into thinking they were buying special art
ShowYourStripes
If it is sizable.... might be nice.
I’d say it happens more frequently than being able to optimize yourself out of a perf problem in my experience.

Too many people have taken the “make it correct then make it fast” advice too far. The definition of “correct” needs to include performance parameters from the beginning because usually the bottlenecks that cause real issues are architectural.
You state that there is nothing cultural about birth rates and then list several cultural factors influencing birth rates. And then you state that there is nothing we can reasonably do to increase birth rates, even though most of the factors you mentioned are not set in stone.

I'm not even sure what you are trying to say.
Well, it's not done yet, it's just drivable at the moment.
The description of cognitive dissonance is wrong. It's not holding two things in your head at once[0], it's the feeling you get when you believe two contradictory things.

[0] that's closer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory
Software development isn't an industry like oil refining. Imagine if all the architects or civil engineers were located in a small handful of cities!
Wait, so they try like crazy to scrape YOUR contact list but fight like crazy to keep THEIRs from getting scraped.
That's $50K/home. Is that even remotely realistic in the Bay Area?
It bypasses SWIFT but only in the way bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies do already.
If low rent-controlled prices leads to increased demand, then new buildings may become more desirable to build because their rent prices could be even higher than they otherwise would be.
Most of them are awesome, but some are questionable.

> don't add flags/Boolean parameters to your functions.

Many languages have strongly-typed enums for them, makes calling code readable, e.g. getUserMessages( user, eMessageFlags.Full ). Especially useful for more than 1 flags.

> ALWAYS use timezones with your dates

UTC usually does the trick?

> UTF8 won the encoding wars

UTF8 used on the web a lot, but OP seems to be generalizing their experience over all programming, not just web development.

> when your code is in production, you can't run your favorite debugger.

No but I can run my second favorite, WinDBG. A crash dump .dmp file is often more useful for fixing the bug than any reasonable amount of logging.

> Optimization is for compilers

Compilers are not that smart. They never change RAM layout. I've recently improved C++ project performance by an order of magnitude replacing std::vector everywhere with std::array (the size was fixed, and known at compile time). Before I did, profiler showed 35% time used in malloc/free, but the cost of vectors was much more because RAM latency.
What you're describing is a bug. It may be due to something you did and didn't realize, it may be due to something the site you were reserving things on did and didn't realize, it may be due to a bug in how Calendar parses reservation emails. But its a bug somewhere along the process. It's not an intentional advertisement.

So you're being downvoted for claiming to have been the target of an unrealistic sounding advertisement campaign that, it seems, no one else has ever been targeted by. This, at Google scale, is pretty unlikely.

To give a recent similar example from HN, a user was complaining that google was incorrectly tracking their watch history on YouTube. In reality, they had been infected with malware that watched YouTube videos in the background. Your story gives me the same vibe, and that's likely why people are downvoting.
Then maybe they should have used the extra five brain cycles to decide to offer a pork chop dinner instead.
I'll never understand the British tolerance of ubiquitous surveillance. The CCTV regime is appalling and makes me never want to visit. The Internet censorship by government is absurd, patronizing and infantilizing. (Yes, I'm familiar with the argument that it is "voluntary" since private carriers choose to implement it). Americans at least have a nominal demand for these sorts of civil liberties and raise some kind of objection to these things. Do folks in the UK feel differently? How could such draconian measures have appeared in a free society?
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Startup Lesson #4: There is a third way to make money
Same in Hong Kong, could make a hobby collecting then from different banks
As someone from this area (I used to work at the Chick Fil A by the mall!), I agree with some of your points, but not all of them.

Levittown is very close to a bunch of wealthy Philly suburbs, but it, itself is not wealthy. The main "strip" no longer exists, taken over by the shopping plazas nearby and the mall, but never really replaced. It's also surrounded by Rt 1 and I95, making it rather difficult, if not impossible to walk around anywhere.

I most disagree with your statements about the mall. It's usually about as empty as the pictures show. Way back when Boscovs left, that was pretty much the end. Sears and JCPenny left more recently but after they did, so did the rest of the mall. Now it's hardly as busy or useful as it used to be. Macys will probably leave too, someday.
Most of the developers at my company (www.facetdev.com) are contract, but for the few full-timers we still have, we used to ask the team to work long hours out of the goodness of their hearts if a project needed it.

That seemed wrong, so I implemented a bonus plan where you get paid 60% of everything you bill over your weekly goals and made working extra hours optional. I love writing those bonus checks!
> It's not the same thing as having a bunch of local companies to choose from.

What is the intrinsic advantage to having "local companies" to choose from in a world where every company you'd want to work for also offered remote positions?

> Or from the company's point of view, it's nice to have a lot of local workers.

Same question for that perspective, except I do have a few ideas of a cynical answer to that question from the company's perspective.
Curiosity might also help with working with others too, if directed properly.

Even really awkward folks who apply some logic to their interactions can work those things out in my experience.
Why does the national government allow the city of Berlin to implement such short sighted and destructive policies? There should be some guidelines set by the national government about what you can and can't do in terms of housing supply.
Yeah, I've noticed in physics programming in other peoples code you can often come across the non-trig ways of doing things that avoid unit vectors and rooting etc (which are both elegant and efficient)... However i've never personally come across an explicit explanation or "tutorials" of these targeted at any level of programmer's vector proficiency. Instead i've always discovered them in code, and had to figure out how they work.

I guess the smart people writing a lot of this stuff just assume everyone will derive them as they go. That's why we need more Inigo Quilez's :D to lay it out for us mere mortals and encourage it's use more widely.