skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lawmakers passed a first-in-the-nation cap on rent increases

Unfortunately, rent control will have the opposite effect of what Oregon thinks, and only make housing scarcity worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent...

https://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-rent-cont...

> in an effort to spur new homebuilding, became the only state to eliminate single-family-only zoning in many of its residential neighborhoods

But this is good. Allowing to build new homes will obviously help with the housing crisis. Usually decision makers just won't allow enough new construction, so its effect will usually stay too small.
It's inefficient. Imagine going to the grocery store - you go in and buy what you want.

Now imagine you were taking money from one person and going to the grocery store to buy for a second person. How much do you take? What do you buy? It adds a layer of ignorance to something straightforward.

It's true enough that sometimes that's necessary - what if the person you're buying food for will starve to death if you don't act? - but to my mind it's something you do because you have to and something you stop doing when you can.
Lying being rewarding is definitely not a recent phenomenon.
Yeah, this is the norm now, scientific truths are lies and conspiracy theories are the ultimate truth. All populist politicians are doing this and their followers love it.
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"Yes I agree software developers are currently overpaid as well."

This reminds me of an old Romanian joke a family friend once told me, translating to English.

Two pig farmers, one Romanian and one Bulgarian, live across from each other along the countries' border. A genie magically arrives on the Bulgarian side and says to the farmer, "I can grant you any wish in the world." The humble Bulgarian farmer thinks on it for awhile and says, "I wish for 10 beautiful and healthy pigs, so that my farm may thrive for the coming years." The genie grants the wish and the pigs appear.

The genie flies over to the Romanian side. He says to the Romanian farmer, "I can grant you any wish in the world." The Romanian farmer thinks pensively for a little while, and then it comes to him. He points to the Bulgarian side and says, "Kill his pigs."
In a distributed environment like the web, how do you define an 'app'? If the restriction is e.g. 10MB per domain, what stops an entity registering a hundred domains?
They've sent several of these out already (one orbits the sun, one is on Earth, another orbits Earth, and this is on the moon) and plan to send on the order of one thousand.
Unicon/Icon is my language of choice, mostly because failure is an option. Icon will be found at https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ and Unicon (Icon's descendent) at http://unicon.org/.

It has no booleans or anything that represents booleans for that matter. Something either succeeds and produces one or more results or it fails.

It has its problems (like all languages) but I find that it is easier to formulate a solution to a problem in it. I tend to use the same formulations in any other language that I might have to use.

But when you can write something like

every write(read())

to copy all lines from stdin to stdout or to test a number between a range with

if 0 <= i <= 100 then write(i)

it has its uses.

SNOBOL4 is the precursor to icon and it used success and failure as well. Though I haven't written any serious SNOBOL4 code since the 80's.

BUt the world is your oyster and there are many languages that you can choose from. Languages like Fortran, Simula, Squeak, any of the various LISPs, FORTH, FACTOR, there are so many and if you study and use each, you will find different ways to think about how to solve the various kinds of problems that you will come across in your career.

Happy hunting.
I don't really see how this is an argument against pull requests. Pull requests are useful because they allow for asynchronous and distributed code review. All you're describing is trunk based development with feature flags, and encouraging small PRs
That was fun to read. I’m happy she mentioned nonplussed since, as a non-native speaker, I never quite grasped its meaning. Now I understand why.
>And no every 5 years is nowhere near often enough!

Not quite.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cervical-cancer/prevention-and...

>All women should begin cervical cancer testing (screening) at age 21. Women aged 21 to 29, should have a Pap test every 3 years. HPV testing should not be used for screening in this age group (it may be used as a part of follow-up for an abnormal Pap test). Beginning at age 30, the preferred way to screen is with a Pap test combined with an HPV test every 5 years. This is called co-testing and should continue until age 65.
Another reasonable option for women 30 to 65 is to get tested every 3 years with just the Pap test.
right, and i do want the times in my history so i know if i have seen it already. but as is suggested elsewhere, private mode does not prevent ID.

the times could switch to genuine browser/device fingerprinting and store that information server side. if they are careful enough so that false possibles are not possible (rather let a few slip through) then they could effectively control how much free access everyone gets.
An Australian, I was nonplussed by this claim, so I had to look it up. And indeed, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplussed#Adjective:

> Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act. [from 17th c.]

> (proscribed, US, informal) Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed. [from 20th c.]

Huh. And then https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#proscribed is fun. But then, both “nonplussed” and “proscribed” are weird words where if you used them in a sentence and asked someone unfamiliar with them to guess their meaning they’d tend to guess quite the wrong direction. Something like this: “I guess ‘nonplussed’ means ‘not plussed’ like… not… benefited by? And ‘proscribed’, ‘pro-’ means in favour of and ‘scribed’ means written, so I suppose it means this is the way you should write it.”
The concept is called "Blameless Postmortems". There are many articles about it, for example this is the section from Googles SRE book: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/postmortem-...
It's going to make a lot of editors really angry that their edits and Talk pages are no longer there...
2% would likely not cover credit card transaction fees let alone their other costs. Even low transaction fees generally look like 2% + 10c. Making the situation even worse for 1$ apps. On top of that they need to pay for development, hosting, fraud detection etc.

The ecosystem may be better off with something like 20c + 20% transaction fees. But, a flat percentage needs to be surprisingly high just to breakeven.
I hope they are punished for this. Moves like this only hurt indie/smaller developers who don't have the resources to setup their own external subscriptions. If apps can make back even 25% of the cut, that gives them a significant advantage in UA that is hard to beat.

The 30% cut is fine. It's well worth it for everything App Store/Google Play gives you as a dev.
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> Netflix has also been extremely liberal politically, and that's a recipe to divide your customer base by 2, something with their extreme debt loads is problematic.

I'd say it divides by more than half. I don't want any politics with my entertainment as many other people do. Even if the politics are aligned to my own. It becomes annoying as "preaching to the choir".
Good. Mandatory single family home zoning should not exist, anywhere. It is exclusionary by nature; economic segregation is often the intent, and in most cases the impact.

It's one thing to accept the free market causing this sort of segregation as the collective result of individual choices, quite another to suggest that the government ought to be using regulatory power to help enforce the creation of invisibly gated communities. It's a great wrong -- in particular, the impact it has re: school districts -- that it is long past time be rectified.

That said, there is much more to be done. While going from SFH's to fourplexes or small apartment buildings is usually fine by itself, greater levels of density usually need changes to infrastructure and transit service and other parts of zoning to accommodate the increased population.
This article confuses me. It keeps referring to income without distinguishing between household and personal. It also doesn’t seem to go into wealth as opposed to income.

Without diving into the underlying data, it seems like a pretty obvious effect that would only have a significant impact on couples with a “traditional” relationship where one partner significantly out-earns the other, who takes time off work to raise the kids. In that situation, of course splitting up will be bad - the higher earner in the relationship sees their net worth drop by half while the lower earner sees their household income drop by up to 100%. But for couples that are more equal financially, the only real impacts should be things like loss of joint health insurance and higher per-square foot living cost for smaller houses/apartments.
Fusion is hard. Neutrons are a concern, yes, but none of this matters without ignition, without break-even (choose your definition). Until break-even is achieved, it’s all premature optimization to me.

Compact or not, clever neutron handling or not, integrated tritium-breeding or not, break-even is the minimum bar to cross, and no one has crossed it outside of fission-triggered bombs. That must be the focus. Once that is achieved, there will be plenty of resources to solve the myriad of other problems, but until break-even is achieved (by ANY means other than fission trigger), solving those other problems just doesn’t matter.
We've seen that the market cannot deal with it. The UK housing market is broken.

You comments about people switching careers are incoherent.
What the central banks do is profoundly anti-free-market.

'Reduces competition and efficiency' is a phrase that really suffers because it doesn't capture the scale of the problem. For markets to rise on bad news indicates that the entire economic signalling apparatus is being disabled.

The people who think that disabling economic signals is a good idea are actually dangerous. Real wealth cannot be created by optimism and hope. Economies are supposed to purge themselves of idiot capitalists who can't create new wealth.
What Hollywood gets so wrong about weapons, tactics and technology
Wonder if biology is going to experience the same transition from inheritance to composition that computer science went through those last two decades, and stop building trees of classes, but rather favor describing species by a composition of elementary attributes.
I don't see an implementation of blockchain that would address this, especially considering blockchain is intended to be trustless.
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I wrote this piece. Thanks for the feedback.

The point is that he was was a software developer who was responsible for the back end systems. I don't think he was directly responsible for the client/server protocol and the client was, I believe, outside his purview. I was trying to think of a couple of different roles that might have had incentive to take care of this. (QA because of a desire to ensure the software was working correctly, network engineering because they might have helped design the protocol.) But he saw a knowledge hole and he acted to remedy it.

But I take your point that the line is a bit off. I'll edit.
Just make smaller PRs

Sure there's some small overhead to create a PR, but the process proposed here is essentially treating single commits as though they ara PRs.

How does that work with CI? I think it's always better to wait until a feature is 'done' and passes tests, before asking others to spend time reviewing it.

A bigger issue is perhaps that a lot of code metadata, ie feature descriptions, design rationales, back-and-forth conversations to hone the code, etc ends up only in the pull request, which is stored on some commercial change-management system, ie github, gitlab, etc, rather than in the intrinsic git history.
I've honestly had a great experience on stackoverflow throughout my life.

Maybe it's because I put time and effort into my questions, but everyone has been nice and informative (at worst they link to a similar question)
"Is it a rounding error?"

Likely yes:
https://i2.wp.com/www.dgarciamd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...

"There are a lot of doctors, every one of them making a lot of money."

So what? That's the way it is supposed to work for highly skilled jobs adding tons of societal value in our capitalist society. What, sacrificing your 20s and 30s isn't enough for you? You also want doctors to sacrifice their future, their comfort into adulthood, and their retirement? All the while keeping a steady hand on the scalpel while they operate on you and your children?

There is nothing wrong with well trained and well skilled people getting paid to do what they love -- especially if that hugely benefits society. Go looking for overpaid waste in leech sectors like finance and insurance instead.

I agree with you on the rest.

Doctor pay isn't a "racket" though -- you are seeking the wrong boogeyman. Remember, in the healthcare system, they are the ones adding so much of the value, at the cost of personal time, training time, opportunity cost, and emotional cost. Can the same be said by the millions of administrators in the back office of highly profitable private insurers?
I think they are relying upon the concept that only a tiny fraction of the people who read Bolsonaro's claim will bother to seek out the websites of the organizations monitoring deforestation via satellite imagery, and bother to check for themselves.

For most, it'll be brushed off and then moved on to the next new shiny thing in the news/outrage/propaganda cycle.
A cocaine addict, refusing reality.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48787996
Gonna take this opportunity to plug one of my favorite albums of recent years, Jayme Stone's Lomax Project https://open.spotify.com/album/0nfUQ0fq6JXOv8EyUGRgUY?si=ggw...

It's a collection of professionally arranged renditions of songs from Alan Lomax's archive. Brilliant project and album.
Not for the Treasury, who issues coins but not bills, but for the Fed. Every bill is a liability on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Destroy the bill, destroy the liability. That the Fed doesn’t know you destroyed it [0] is irrelevant.

If you destroyed a coin that would be a “gift” to the Treasury, except the metal and cost of production to replace the coin might be larger than the worth of the coin (I.e. you destroy an old copper cent)

[0] dollar bills circulate like mad and are accounted for every time a bank gets a hold of them (often, due to vending machines, strippers, and diner waitresses). If a bill stops showing up, you can assign a high degree of probability that it will never show up again. Every one bill is probably long tailed, but money is fungible, so who cares if any one bill ends up re-appearing?
Thanks!

I think this is why job descriptions for senior engineers are often hard to write. You often want a general purpose problem solver, but all you have is examples of types of problems that have been solved in the past, and so you put that in the job description (the general you, not you specifically, of course).

Reminds me a bit of "Profession" by Asimov: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
I don't see how this supports any decentralization or openness for actual users.
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The general lack of ability to engage in logical facts-based discussion is an existential threat to humanity. Even in this civilized forum reasoning not always wins. Things are definitely dire.
I'm in need of an audit for HEX.win if any of the super smart folks here want to reach out. RichardHeartAuthor at gmail dot come.
79% of Brazilian soybean exports go to China. Very very little goes to the US as it’s a net exporter (by a significant margin).

Source: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/bra/show...
I have to admit that with Android itself there's at least an option. Even though Google tries to get developers into using the Play Services instead of the built-in android api (see their location api as an example), you're still able to run your own software. You can easily get other apks or use Amazon appstore.

With Apple, you have no proper way running an app without Apple. So it'll intriguing to see such act within a platform that is truly locked.
According to one of the earliest space lawyers in the '80's, maritime law is largely the foundation.
tracking by ip address is for the lazy, and it doesn't work with dynamic IPs. at least not if the goal is to eg limit your access to how many articles you read per month. you'd not be happy if you go to a site for the first time but are blocked because you got a new IP that has already been to that site 5 times this month.

i'd use full browser/device fingerprinting to achieve the same effect. much more reliable.
I'd recommend Dart. It's a great language but the ecosystem was severely lacking when I lasted used it.

An additional benefit is that it's super easy to contribute to the Flutter codebase!
>"The mind could only be free if independent from what encompasses it."

No it could be an emergent property that arises from physical processes but is not reducible to them (emergentism). It could be that the mental and the physical are not independent substances but different elements of the same thing, and thus one does not need to be reducible to the other (neutral monism). Or you could be a dualist and claim that the mind really is separate from the physical world.

Or, more sensibly, you could be agnostic because we lack any solid grounds for belief in any theory of the mind.

And again, as I just said, this ontological problem is separate from the phenomenological problem with which the existentialists were concerned. For what the mind is, ontologically, makes no difference to our subjective experience as radically free beings without a predetermined essence.
Please do try and find the article/chart/video. I think it is very important to give it wider publicity.

The reason is that, contrary to what the media might sell, "Small Businesses" make up the majority of Entrepreneurship (particularly in the Developing Nations) and this data might shed some insight on it. Entrepreneurship does NOT mean "go big or go home". It is basically setting an acceptable and steady level of income which gives one the necessary autonomy over one's own life. All mom-and-pop businesses fall under this category. I would love to look at some data on the size of this "Economy" which is often ignored completely.
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Still have to configure fonts. Can't stand the defaults.
English uses commas more liberally than many languages. None of the commas OP used are particularly surprising, but some of them would be considered improper in more formal contexts. They are used to delimit the boundary between dependent and independent clauses, as in my previous sentence. They are also used around some kinds of parenthetical remarks, like this one, or to separate an initial prepositional phrase from the subject of the sentence (“In Greece, we have”).

They should not appear between subject and verb (“Readable code, is...” or “let me, tell...”).

It’s been a long time since I got this stuff in school, so there’s probably a lot of subtleties I’m forgetting.
In my opinion, the cost of creating branches, checking out, creating PRs, and ensuring they are part of the appropriate release can't be ignored. I have seen it happen. The backlog is high but no one wants to pick an issue (say, a styling bug) even if they have time, just because the number of steps involved in getting it to production is too damn high. If you only had to worry about your change, there would be far fewer of those bugs.
Why does calloc exist? (2016)
WRT to this bit:

> truly every single app is built from source and therefore F-Droid’s build infrastructure is highly secured, with only Ciaran Gultnieks, who founded the project almost nine years ago, having access to it.

What assurances (including legal) are there (besides best intentions) that Ciaran Gultnieks is the only one that has access to the infrastructure that builds F-droid?

Also what happens if Ciaran no longer works on the project?
Yes, completely acceptable :-)

There might be some technicality/formality that insists otherwise but this is so natural a writing style, and so invisible as a result, I had to reread the examples a few times before I understood what you were asking about (thought initially you might be asking about the ... notation which is a bit more idiosyncratic and up for debate as to how to use correctly)
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Upgrading to Jenkins 2.176.2
Rust already beat C in the benchmarks game

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Yes, but even if a couple thousand people (among millions) find incontrovertible evidence that it was a blatant and willful lie, that's not surprising and won't spread. The lie will have no consequences. That is the new norm, and it is weird.
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Even then that's not fully what would be imo an ideal future. Orphan drugs still require at least a few patients to test on, and these other programs be more focused on providing loopholes to help out people in tough situations (very much needed) - but what I'd like to see is rigorous testing and regulation of a general purpose approach (e.g. FDA approved use of AAV gene therapy in general for any validated rare disease caused by a single knockout mutation without having to regulate each vector).
Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
Apache OpenMeetings 4.0.9 is released
Possible Minds [video]
>I believe, is because most of these trading desks sit in one place - NYC, a super liberal anti trump environment

That’s ludicrous. If you know anything about the politics and culture of the NYC finance crowd you know it’s super pro-Trump through and through.

He is — literally — one of them.
Good correction, I meant beef, it's linked. Although USA does seem to avoid Brazilian soybean and beef.
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> what's an object and what's an array?

There are no objects — it's all lists (or arrays, if you prefer). This is a good thing, because ordering is always the same.

> What's a keyword and what's a literal?

Everything's a byte string: any interpretation above that is a matter for the protocol. This is a good thing, because it means you neatly sidestep issues like JSON's numbers actually being floats rather than integers, as well as issues like numeric precision.

'But I want types!' Of course, they are good. But the type of a number isn't just integer or float: it's integer-which-is-a-known-version or float-which-is-between-zero-and-one-exclusive. You need to check those types at ingestion anyway; it's not a big leap from integer-which-is-a-known-version to string-which-parses-as-an-integer-which-is-a-known-version.

> I can barely even tell the heirarchy where it's very visually obvious with the JSON.

They are both indicated with indentation. Probably I should have used two spaces for the JSON indentation, but I was lazy.
Agreed, the same applies in JS w/ Prettier.
Really an appalling point of view. There is absolutely nothing wrong with single family neighborhoods; in fact, they are greatly desirable to most.
With NoScript blocking the javascript, there is no auto-playing video at all.
The problem with facts, though, is that your opponent would nonetheless disagree on what set of facts is actually a good outcome.