skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it’s not. Housing and zoning is an archetypal state and local problem. The problem is caused by state and local housing policies, and can be fixed by state and local housing policies. Most of the country doesn’t have a housing problem, and they shouldn’t have to deal with the self-inflected problems of a handful of (rich) urban areas.
"Before you tear down a fence, you should find out why it was first built."
i would say there are 2 axes here:

1 is creation vs consumption continuum, where you have e.g. designing a course as an expert (you're likely to derive little value other than financial but has huge value adds to those interested) vs. watching tv (purely passive). so this is clearly not purely passive despite being a sort of passive activity, more towards active i'd say, which is healthier/more fulfilling imo.

another is real life vs virtual life, which i think you're more interested in here. i personally agree in so far as i've "wasted" many years of my life on virtaul things (key differentiator) that were sort of fun, but when i look at what could have been with 10% of that time i just feel utter disgust. long story but no matter: it may be in 10 years time he feels the same, or not. obviously he kept a job and whatever else, so in some sense it's well earned leisure time.
Well, given how solar has an inverse square relation between watts/area and distance from the sun, by the time you get to mars, solar is getting pretty piddly, the asteroid belts and jovian moons its downright comical.
For example, the very recent SX14:

"Unfortunately, Vaio commits a huge blunder when it comes to the fan control. Ideally, the fan should not run at all while the device is idling. The opposite is true for the Vaio SX14: The fan always runs with 32.5 dB(a), which is definitely audible. Under load, the fan becomes much louder with 43.9 dB(a), which is annoyingly loud."

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vaio-SX14-i5-8265U-FHD-Laptop-...

I really like some VAIO models, as I think quality is superior to Thinkpad. So I wish they took a bit more care with these issues. Their recent fanless convertible suffers from coil whine. Some online reviews discuss this too.
"glass isn't intelligent"

and silicon is?
the elite: dangerous universe is actually modeled after the milky-way galaxy. of course a lot is guessing and speculation, but when new facts emerge, the game is actually being updated.

ironically, contrary to its name, it appears that elite: dangerous is actually less PvP than EVE. and there are expedition groups with hundreds of ships to explore the galaxy that last months, or even years.

"it gives a sense of the vastness of the galaxy" because while they use some form of FTL jump to make traveling those long distances possible it still can take some tens of minutes to travel within a solar system to get from one planet to another.

i don't know how accurate their model is, but i believe of it is sufficiently close it can be a great learning experience.
> what the hell is going on with some of your town names like "Featherstonhaugh"

One theory is that it was confused with "Fanshawe". We aren't even _trying_ to write what it sounds like:

> So Festonhaw, which is the recorded shortening of Featherstonhaugh, was somehow garbled further to something like Fesnaw or Feshnaw [...then...] we can just say that the garbled Feshnaw sounded so similar to the preexisting surname Fanshawe, that people just conflated the two surnames in speech.

> But not in writing.

> We don't pronounce the -er suffix like we're French

Though interestingly you've kept that with "herb" - in British English, it has a hard H (but I'm not quite sure what you mean by the -er suffix - in my experience, it's the same in both. Did you mean -re?)

https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-surname-Featherstonhaugh-g...

It's not exclusively a British thing though - Connecticut and Poughkeepsie come to mind.
‘Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record’ (1978)
> you didn't provide any evidence that any bugs you hit were as a result of an increased standardization rate.

You misunderstood the argument. The claim was not that the VS problems were due to the increased standardization rate. They weren't C++-related at all. Rather, the problem was that I couldn't move onto 2017 due to unrelated VS problems, even though I needed to move onto it in order to be able to work on C++ projects that had already started using C++17.

> You're also assuming that somehow spending more time with unstable language features will result in fewer problems, which is something where we know you're wrong. Because we've seen what happens when a longer cycle exists, we know your claim that the compilers will be less buggy is exactly wrong.

Again, I was not saying compiler bugs increase when you rush the standard. See above.
USSR and PRC both recognized the deficiencies of their command economies around the same time; perestroika was Brezhnev’s idea.

The key difference was western companies were happy to (quietly) transfer expertise and technology to the Chinese. In the late 80s the international oil giants were helping the Chinese drill for oil while the Soviets were going (more) broke trying to drill theirs on their own, while Bush claimed “no bailout for Gorbachev”.

The west squandered a chance to implement a “Marshall plan” and make a strong ally out of the Soviets. Instead they chuckled at its collapse and danced on its grave, while rewarding the Chinese for choosing the path of authoritarianism, and here we are.
Computer password inventor Fernando Corbato dies at 93
Why would code detect a failure and then use a fake address to cause an error, instead of just erroring?
Russian Proton-M Launches Spektr-RG Observatory
I read a book that talked about how negative ion environments make you feel better. I believe Nikola Tesla even wrote about this while experimenting with some device that created negative ions. Places like niagara falls and natural water-related environments (waterfalls, riversides, beaches) have some of the highest negative ion concentrations while air conditioned environments have some of the lowest.
I recently had a junior dev propose using Kafka as a business ‘event’ system, to trigger or be triggered by webhooks, in order to integrate our API with a third party CRM.
> the median American lives in Richmond, VA or Louisville, KY. These places don’t have a housing crisis.

Why do you say that? Most small-to-medium US cities have a major housing crisis too, these places just have wildly different causes for their housing crisis than say, San Francisco, and therefore have wildly different metrics by which to evaluate the state of that crisis.

> High rents are a self-inflicted problem affecting a handful of metro areas with a minority of the population.

No, this is not true. High rents are affecting almost every metro in the US. You just won't see them if you "average" figures, because these metros don't earn average dollars. You can't average two crises into nothing.

(If your left lung is collapsed, and your right lung is overinflated to the point of bursting, you have two major crises on your hands. You can't say "well, everything is fine because on average my lungs have a healthy volume", that's accurate math, but not accurate to real life)

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A midwest average rental price of say $1500/month will seem cheap to folks in Seattle -- until they learn that incomes are over 50% lower here, so to anyone working in-market, a $1500/month rent price here is equally as expensive/painful as a $3000/month rental would be in Seattle. That's still a crisis, equal in pain/severity to a "superstar" city, but it won't show up in any "US average" figures, and can easily lead people to write ridiculously uninformed hot-takes.
I think there's (at least) one important factor this leaves out. Drag doesn't care what direction you're moving: it will slow you to about 120 mph regardless of whether you're going straight down or at an angle.

This implies that you want to control your horizontal velocity not just to decide where you land, but also to build up as much horizontal velocity as possible. If you can get yourself going at a moderate angle, you can significantly decrease your vertical velocity, which is by far the most dangerous part of a freefall!

The most important thing about approaching at an angle is not to tumble. This strategy would work best if you could slide down or along a loose surface like snow or small gravel, ideally down a hill. This basic strategy is why high speed skiers (who are moving at least 120 mph) can survive crashes.
I enjoyed this look behind the scenes at this year's national spelling bee, which also delves into its history:

https://medium.com/@elqin93/stone-cold-spellers-b77e1a916ad
Which makes me curious, what did the Anglo-Saxons use as the word for “color”, before the onset of French influence?
I notice that I intentionally try to avoid portraying myself as "smart" these days because it frees me from having to work to prove it externally. I've also started working on hobbies that others don't consider meaningful, but which I notice challenge me as much as anything else I've been called smart for.

The upshot is that a lot of people in the workplace /do/ judge you anyways, and people seem to assume that you (like them) are doing your darnedest to appear as impressive as possible. Then again, I am working in high finance.
Sadly, I'm proceeding through a manual exercise of this sort now.

Since a few hours has passed and nobody has anything, I'm kinda assuming that nothing so great really exists. Maybe just write a shell script? Hard to test obviously.

Maybe Ansible?
it is very surprising how many people here resent the idea of an analog solution. this is an irrational mental block - anything that is not digital cannot be "intelligent". i wonder what is the reason - age, education? is this what CS does to people? to me, for example, having a neural network in a piece of glass is genius.
Nectar+Sleep+Savings+Awesome+Night+Sleep
OP here.

Thanks for the feedback! I totally agree with you that using a streaming approach seems like an overkill. Actually making the pipeline truly real-time is part of our future work for Cassandra CDC (This is mentioned in Part 2 of this blogpost, which is expected to be published next week). In Cassandra 4.0, the CDC feature is improved to allow real-time parsing of commit logs. We are running 3.X in production, however we plan to add 4.0 support in the future.
Right, because no Perl developer has ever used SQL
I think you completely missed the horizontal part of the question.
iOS 12.2 “Sock Puppet” Jailbreak Released on GitHub
In a treat for the iOS jailbreak community, Pwn20wnd (https://github.com/pwn20wndstuff) has released unc0ver v3.3.0 betas 1 and 2 to the general public with official support for all firmware versions up to iOS 12.2 . The exploit, named "Sock Puppet", is intended to work on all A7-A11 devices but excludes A12(X) devices. In a follow-up Tweet, Pwn20wnd added that the exploit appears to be broken on 4K devices (namely the A7 and A8 varieties) at the time of this writing, but he is looking into fixing this and notes that the Sock Puppet exploit brings with it some reliability issues.
(https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/07/11/unc0ver-picks-up-support-for-sock-puppet-exploit-now-supports-up-to-ios-12-2/)
Presidential Candidate Signs a Bong
I agree.

I'd challenge whoever is upvoting this to distill it to a few essential points (a tl; dr: even) that are worthy takeaways.
While I agree that HTTP (and everything else) should support SRV records, they wouldn't do anything for IPv4 exhaustion.
That’s not true: https://fm-static.cnbc.com/awsmedia/chart/2018/9/16/HowMuchI.... That’s a map of how much you have to make to buy a median house. Outside SF, Seattle, DC, NYC, LA, San Diego, and Boston, housing is affordable. In large cities ranging from Houston to Nashville to Buffalo to Atlanta, the income required to buy a typical house is below the median income for the metro area.
Unpopular opinion here. I think that it would be better for most if scraping prevention was illegal if there's no API that allows authorised application to perform every action accessible to authorised user. Just imagine, how much better UX would be if we could get rid of those small imaginary data silos.
Federer and Djokovic have played 47 times and 15 times in grand slams. That ties Djokovic-Nadal for most ever grand slam meetings. That should be enough head to head to make a comparison.
I am not a rust expert, but I assume the recent many programming languages have a keyword for function declaration is so that functions can be first class objects.
Is there any competing standard to the IPA?
France’s Air Force is getting a space command
Not in Nadal's prime, but maybe now.

The primary reason is that Nadal simply generates more topspin, which has been known for a long time, and the spin of the ball has more impact on a clay court. Nadal's grip is "full western" while Federer and Djokovic both have more traditional forehand grips.
Can you elaborate? What are the downsides of built-in ports that would make it preferable to carrying dongle(s)?
Sadly, the trend has been to copy Apple. Even Lenovo has been taking some Apple design cues into Thinkpads.

While Macs are good, it's better to have more variety and different design compromises to choose from. Especially, if you run Linux as only a tiny proportion of sold models will have trouble-free hardware. So I applaud this move by VAIO.

The same frustrating thing happens in the smartphone market. Practically no small phones left. Interestingly, the Xperia Compact is one of those few. Also by Sony (VAIO is part-owned by Sony only).
Is this original content? It's quite good.
Tyson Fury says 'saving lives' is better than boxing
I wasn't clear enough.

I don't mean to say that the trackpoint is overwhelmingly preferred by pros, and other forms of coordinate input (trackpads, trackballs, mice, etc) are not. If anything, pros is likely the group with most diverse and special preferences.

I tried to say that people who prefer trackpoint are mostly pros, not newcomers.
Yeah I checked up on it today and I don't know what I was thinking. It looks very nice too, and the resources are pretty great.
This article hits most of what I'd have to say on and around a question like this. It does discuss Java, not Kotlin, but Kotlin is JVM so it really doesn't change the answer meaningfully.

https://rclayton.silvrback.com/speaking-intelligently-about-...
What type of problems do you have using a virtual com port? Timing?
Bash changes: Versions introducing language features
why do we read fiction books? they are just as virtual as exploring the EVE universe (or playing any computer game)

i would add a third dimension: how does the activity enrich my daily life. people watch TV to get informed, entertained or to unwind. if you explore EVE with the goal to get informed, you'll surely waste your time. but if it's entertaining/unwinding, then why not. it's visual fiction.
A comparison of Unix sandboxing techniques [pdf]
if your goal is to detect round objects, then yes it is.
Quantum Computers Will Break Your Phone’s Encryption
Improving Workflow Efficiency: A Case Study on Target Corporation
Japanese has “draw the kanji for x”, I assume the same thing would work in China
Also how is a paywall a "dark pattern"? If you don't care to consume the content, don't subscribe, it's very straightforward.
And there is demand. People want the product they just don't want to pay for it, because the internet. If you want the content but don't want a paywall you don't get to complain about which ads are subsidizing your access.
hint - material is not relevant, what it does is relevant.
To save the science poster, researchers want to kill it and start over
Running with your arms bent does not make you go faster, Harvard study finds
well said! Is it a symptom of a bigger problem, or a well-deserved joy as you live life how you want.
If X=crypto, then never.
Aluminum refineries are often just that. But I doubt that they're workable and/or efficient enough at anything less than hugely industrial scale.
This looks like the same ports, plus a single usb-c and hdmi, that a Thinkpad X230 has.
Sometimes you want a hobby free of conflict or challenge. A place to relax

Reminds me of stories I read about people who played Red Dead Redemption 2 purely for the chores and exploration of the land.

..not a place to learn and grow..Let your brain have some big slow thoughts..

When I do mind numbing chores like washing dishes, mowing the lawn, laundry; I can’t help but sit inside my head and have conversations with myself about whatever is deemed important at that moment. As insignificant as these micro chats may be, they’re growth. In turn, learning/experiencing myself to a deeper level.

Two quotes come to mind:

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Baby steps, Bob. Baby steps.
-Dr. Leo Marvin

Each new experience, grande or otherwise builds our character.
OpenPsi
I know writers don’t generally write headlines but did this editor even read the article in question? Buying l daily lattes is pretty much the opposite of the conscious spending that the book’s author advocates for.
update: thanks kind HN users for the venmo cash!
If you read through the code and determine the quality is beyond repair, or the project model itself does not lend itself to repair, it’s a fine time to chart your own course.

If you decide to open source it then kudos to you. If you don’t, I won’t think less of you.
I go back and for with MMOs and yes it is too close to real life. So much downtime and waiting around then a burst of excitement. Lots of chasing the carrot in games like WoW.

They do have magical qualities though. I look forward to my next MMO addition.
Poking through the stuff there feels pretty old school. I'm a docker/kubernetes/cloud guy. Not seeing much for how I could contribute.
One of the great things about the 4 day working week is that it's one of the most efficient, if not the most efficient, feasible proposal to cut down carbon emissions.

People will commute less, use less aircon at the office, and so on. The economy is either unaffected or maybe even cools down a bit, creating ripple effects that lead to further reduction of emissions.
Siddharth Rawat – Kahaniyan
What if more central banks buy foreign equities like the Swiss central bank?
What if more central banks start buying foreign equities like the Swiss central bank ? Or if the Bank of Japan decides to start buying us companies. Or the fed starts buying Chinese companies ?

Could the us just buy foreign companies instead of putting tariffs on them, making the same amount of money either way ?
Godot Vulkan Progress Report
It's all in the spin, and to a lesser extent Nadal's speed and mobility on clay. A high RPM top spin shot will kick forward and bounce high on clay to a greater extent than on a hard court, and it's extremely hard to deal with.

I have hit with some pro tour players on clay, once even a former world #1 player, and it's near impossible to play offensively against their spin unless you want to take every ball on the rise.

Also Nadal's flat serve is probably the weakest of the 3 greats, but the importance of a good flat serve is somewhat de-emphasized on clay.
Over the past two years, "payed" in place of "paid" has become very widespread and I have no idea why. It seems to have started on social media and has been rapidly spreading upwards.
The address may not be controlled by the code in question. Think /etc/hosts, command line flags, and config files, where you want some condition to trigger an error.
Subitizing
It's still relevant. Lots of people still want the traditional long form, it's just that the old business model for delivering it doesn't work anymore, and people (reasonably) don't understand why they should pay for something that used to be free. And yes, snapchat (etc) stories are an interesting delivery channel, and we're trying that too (although again, how to monetize that).
Fields are neither local nor non local. Locality is about how information propagates.

Classical Gravitation defines a force field that is nonlocal, as it propagates instantaneously. Move a mass from point a to point b, and the entire universe immediately updates the force they experience.

Classical Electromagnetism defines a field that only propagates changes at a finite speed. If you move a charged mass from point a to point b, the change in the electric and magnetic fields radiate outward at the speed of light. One way to think about this is to observe that time update equations for E+M only rely on values infinitesimally near a point. If you need to compute the next time step on a grid, you only need to look at the neighbors of a point to figure out how to update a given point.
10 years only reflects how enjoyable and purposeful it's been. I don't think someone wastes 10 years of their lifes without enjoying the process somewhat a little.
The Model S and X were designed so that the battery can be swapped from below, and Tesla ran one station for several years where you could get this done. That station closed sometime in or around 2016 and they haven't talked about it since. The Model 3 and presumably future cars do not support battery swapping.
I also really like the raspberry pi hack to use the gpio ports to create a VGA output. It's a simple technology that works well enough for most cases.
This is scrum.
A game where the onboarding experience is to not play for 6 months can't be fairly described as "not grindy". The fact that your grinding requirements can be done while logged out merely disguises the fact that EVE's developers get 6 months of subscription fees out of you while you wait for artificially-inflated timers to count down.
Yes you are right in a way. Lets put it into perspective: The total number of students who gave their 12th final board exams was 1.43 crore in 2017 (https://www.india.com/education/board-examinations-2017-over...). That is roughly 14.3 million students. This is an aggregation across all boards: ICSE, CBSE and various State Boards. Let us assume that the same number of students gave their board exams in 2018 as well (I am sure the number is higher but I can't find stats for it).

Now not all of these 14.3 million students appear for IIT JEE. Only 7% of these (1 million) appear for JEE. But since you talk about "eligible student", all the 14.3 million are eligible. But many don't even bother to take it because (as you mentioned) they know they don't stand a chance. Many of them are not interested in Engineering and are interested in Medical. These students take up NEET (which is equally tough). The remaining move on to do Arts, Commerce or any other stream with an aim to either do an MBA (through CAT), become a CA, LLB (for law) or pursue Civil Services (UPSC - as tough or some say even tougher than IIT JEE). The outliers are those that do not follow any of these well trodden paths: these are few and far between. So in reality only 7% of those eligible students appear for IIT JEE and then 1% of those appearing get selected.

The other fact you need to consider is that the Government of India expanded the number of IITs from the earlier 7 (as of 2001) to now 23 (as of 2018) and increased the total number of seats from 4500 to 12000. So an approx 3x jump in the number of seats keeping in mind the total number of aspirants taking the exam. So the pass percentage remains roughly the same year-on-year. I am sure if you now take 30% of the total eligible population (from your example), viz. 4.29 million students appearing for the exam, the percentage that pass will further decrease (from 1% to 0.28%). Because students are ranked and IIT seats that are fixed (around 12000) are filled rank-wise.
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