skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, for some definitions of "fair". There are other definitions where that wouldn't be fair at all.
Yup, this is how "rent stabilization" works in Ontario, Canada. When a tenant has a lease, rent increases are capped to a rate set by the government. When a tenant leaves, there is "rent decontrol" and the landlord can charge whatever the market will bear for the next tenant. Similarly newly built units for rent get market rates. No one dictates what a landlord can charge, only how much they can increase rents for existing tenants.

Of course this does lead to shenanigans to get old tenants out, but it's not rent control in the sense that all rents are everywhere anytime are set by the government.
I understand, but you are still susceptible to TCP meltdown. You need to alert users to the risks.
> I wonder why they didn't discover this before they started building the railroad.

Because it doesn’t matter to China in any case. The debt these nations take on goes directly back to Chinese firms. If they struggle to pay the money back, even better for China, because that lets them flex more muscle over all of these developing countries they’re investing in.

It seems this is more a response to external pressure than it is to some new revelation that the projects are infeasible.
Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
That's so dishonest it isn't even funny. I was interviewed a few years back because I built an - unreleased - search engine and the interviewer wanted me to say some particular stuff about Google. I refused and the interview atmosphere was definitely very much different after that. There are plenty of good journalists but there are also a bunch of them that are complete jerks that fabricate stuff rather than report on reality.
The choice would be looking for another job. A choice that slaves didn't have. By your definition, everybody is a slave, who is not so rich that they can afford to stop working.

As for Amazon's Fulfillment centers, I'd like to read a statement by their operators before making a judgement. I suspect it is not as easy to make unskilled workers do useful work as many people think.
I once talked to a manager about how he handed out raises. He mentioned one engineer who was sick exactly 10 days out of each year. Coincidentally, the company offered 10 days of paid sick leave a year.

He laughed, and said she wasn't fooling anyone, and didn't give her a raise.
When it is mixed with some other chemicals to either increase its amount to increase the "high" effect. Not sure what kind of canna-ibis you take (e.g., grass? hashish?), but hash is usually mixed with all sort of things where I live. Grass can also be sprayed.
This comes across as click bait. This is not the opinion of an actual warehouse worker but someone with an agenda who has taken the job specifically for that purpose which only becomes clear once you click through to read the article. What value can this have? How can this be taken seriously?

Let Amazon workers fight for their rights, why are outsiders who do not do that work skeptical of their concerns? What is the basis?

We are always talking about free speech, democracy and protest and yet it seems when people use these rights a whole group of prosperous and well off individuals who don't have anything to do the conditions of the protestors rush to trivialize and dismiss their concerns. There is something extremely mean and smallminded about this.
Releasing in September: https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-3950x

:)
For $1, that’s a bargain.
> Why would we expect journalists to write fair articles? They’re in the infotainment business and need to sell clicks.

Because if journalists stop writing fair articles in the longer term our societies will lose a lot more than just a bunch of $ in the coffers of the press owners.
A Pierson's Puppeteer? With two heads??!
I agree. One thing that is helping me not be so careless and I read someone on HN mention and went further with it is so simple: enable email and push notitications of your bank account.

Any time you spend over 100 dollars you should be aware of what your balance looks like. It reminds you to step back and not be careless if you just literally got paid and you are already eating well into your funds.

I also setup weekly balance notifications for every Friday. Another simple hack was opening up an American Express savings account. I put at least 10% of all paychecks straight into that account. This ensures I save and the APR is like 2% or something way more than any other savings account I have. Taking money out is a slow process and there is no debit card. Keeps me from being careless as my savings builds up.

Lastly my company had a stock program I would buy shares and sell them once they went longterm and invest into dividend yielding ETFs stock. This has allowed me to build up side income.

Took me a few years to stop and think about these things and form a strategy for myself. If you wanna save smarter any time you get a raise put that extra income straight to a savings account and let it build up. Everyone should have SHTF money.
I did a project in Kazakhstan on turnstiles for the light rail. It was a very weird experience. A nominally 6 months project, which I managed to complete in just 2 months. Nevertheless, they extended my stay for 2 more months during which I did nothing, and was compensated for living and office expenses.

Prior to that, I also been to UAE, Kenya and Angola, with a UAV company, trying to sell drones to their respective border services.

To my surprise, I saw DJI sales reps also contending for same orders in both Kenya and UAE. Neither they, nor us got any contracts. In all cases, the tender victors were no name companies, registered few weeks before the start of tenders.
Praxis
Same here. Every day I am grateful that I can earn a large multiple of my former living by just sitting behind a desk.
Obligatory addition of the assembly language TetrOS in a single boot sector (512 bytes) from the author of flat assembler many years ago

https://twitter.com/grysztar/status/1054729111623606273
Just need to worry about car Dynamics and pedestrian locations. None of these things can teleport. The problem does have physics imposed limits.
I don't fully agree with that, I mean a program will keep running even if no one knows how it works anymore. But yeah knowing how it works and why is highly valuable and expensive to restore if lost.
Yeah Richard Miller just put out tentative support for the Raspberry Pi 4 for his pi port.

https://9p.io/sources/contrib/miller/9/bcm/
I'm not sure what to say. Replace the = signs with colons, the semicolons with commas, stick commas between array elements and stick everything between quotes and you basically have json.
Sometimes they do take the profits and put them into investments, or how they hold cash reserves for future purchases, payroll, etc. for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
A bunch of the comments are saying multiple governments and using lots of plurals. If you are reading such comments and assuming they only mean US I think you are misreading.
This animation is great and really informative!

Loosely related: https://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/ :-)
Eh, we kind of do. If the surviving structures were that far off on the long tail distribution, then we could anticipate that there were truly massive amounts of concrete structures in existence before. And we can tell from other things we know about Rome whether that was the case (it’s not).
Here in NL employees get 2 full consecutive years of paid sick leave before you are allowed to terminate the contract.
Yeah I mean if you have the budget of an intelligence agency, even a russian one, you could automatically deploy hundreds, thousands, of tor exit nodes all the time.

Intelligence agencies could run a substantial part of the tor network with ease.

That's why I'd like to see some sort of identification for tor exit node operators. Like keybase or github accounts that can verify who they are and that they have a "normal" presence on the internet.
Sort of. That would absolutely be "allowed". Now whether that is useful to write out, depends on what problem you are trying to solve.

Here is another example

https://gist.github.com/justinmeiners/0aff3d98a66b4d5f109656...

> Does the book cover all the relevant parts

No, it isn't quite so comprehensive, but it will absolutely help you get started and help you decide if you want to learn more.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Graph-Theory-Dover-Mathe...
So, one grain of sand is a heap?

If one cell is enough, than one atom is enough and so on. Then, nothing's really the same. But we use this notion because it's convenient, so we're back at the beginning.
Source: http://code.9front.org/hg/purgatorio/

Purgatorio 64-bit is a ways away, but is a goal.

It'll happen eventually, but the more eyes the better.
It's a subscription, right? So I subscribed, they had no way of "charging me" and they have no way of continuing to charge me. When I no longer want for them to charge me I click on "Cancel" and they can't continue to bill me because they have no credit card information.

If it charged me for a month extra that i don't know, i get a notification and get it refunded via Google play store the same day.

That's the current workflow. Single location. All Google Play based subscriptions. No need to deal with a card replacement.

That's what Match is against.
No need for vnc on 9front to access a browser nowadays. You can run the browser inside vmx.
Maybe link to a news article or two?
Automation is a fake problem which has yet to reduce the number of jobs in the world.

People think it's a huge issue because they misread a study about computer manufacturers producing exponentially faster computers since 1970 as saying the manufacturers fired all their workers.
Yeah idk why people have this notion.

Last 9front commit was… 3 days ago: http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/
California built a railroad to nowhere in Fresno. Same central planning mentality.
Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller
The manpage ("bugs") suggests that I shouldn't do that. But thank you a lot - I had, indeed, entirely missed that!
How to Customize the New Twitter UI Design
The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers (2018)
Actually quite a lot of the Latin and Greek words came several centuries after the Norman invasion as renaissance scholars introduced them — often to ‘correct’ French words. Then quite a lot more came through scientific terms in the industrial era.
It would be amazing if some % of the transplanted brown fat remains indefinitely. If so, it could be a lifelong calorie burning machine.

Plastic surgeons achieve 50-60% survival of grafted fat with modern techniques. I couldn’t tell from the study if brown fat would be any different, or if the quantity required would make the procedure a hassle.

Let’s solve for the equilibrium. Kim Kardashian will graft a bunch of brown fat into sexually dimorphic areas. This will have the dual benefit of increased (conventional) attractiveness and fat burning, which will make her yet more normatively attractive, in a virtuous cycle.
The comparison to a $1000 laptop isn't a raspberry pi - it's a second hand ThinkPad that's three years old. It will be slower, but can do pretty much all the same things for most people, and could still cost 300 dollars.
> Because the pricing AWS has doesn't necessarily increase cost with increase reliability. Suggesting that you need to spend more money to increase reliability is FUD.

I do not understand this statement. In general, it costs more to increase the reliability of a system. This includes both infrastructure cost and engineering cost. I also do not understand why this could be FUD. I don’t have any fear, uncertainty, or doubt when I pay more for better services. This is normal and expected. Conversely this means that I can save money if I identify components of my system with lower demands for infrastructure reliability.
Zero tolerance, maybe maybe not. But if I ran a restaurant and kept ordering from a supplier that kept giving me deliberately poisoned meat, I should be held responsible.

And there's a reason ads are slow, easily blocked, client-side javascript. Site operators know they serve malware and don't want it on their own servers.
Nazis were nazis long before they put people into gas chambers. If we’re waiting to draw the comparison until the tanks are already metaphorically rolling into Poland, it’s rather useless.

Also, if you find your political beliefs compared to nazism and fascism more than you’re comfortable with that is probably a sign that you should re-examine those beliefs.
My father was career Air Force. Once he was ordered to help privates who were having trouble with their finances. They were paid every 2 weeks, and it was embarrassing to the AF for them not being able to pay their bills in the wider community.

My dad phrased it as half the privates had no trouble, the other half had steak and alcohol the first week, beans and begging for handouts the second. All the privates had the same pay, lived in the same base housing, etc.

He said the feast/famine group simply could not control their spending impulses.
Ah okay, thanks!

The complexity of Asynchronicity & Concurrency lead me to the formal expression of time related logic: Temporal Logic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_logic) There are multiple temporal logics with different level of usefulness. (Check Temporal logics section.) I really want to solve harder problems and express deeper relations, so it seems to me what I’d need is CTL at least (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation_tree_logic).

I thought I might want to model my software (any kind of app!) and prove it is working as intended using CTL (or other more expressive TL) in Agda/Idris (Coq/TLA+) and then make a similar implementation in another language.

Eg. there is an LTL implementation in Agda, but I did not find similar things for CTL.(https://github.com/xekoukou/LTL)

What do you think, is it a good idea to express my model using (C)TL in Agda/Idris, or I should use a more dedicated piece of technology for that problem? Is there a limit in case of Agda/Idris for that in theory?

Any resource is appreciated!
I'm in a similar position. I was thinking about finding a new smaller place in the west side perhaps one with an in unit laundry or better air-conditioning.

Looking around I've realized that rent control has me paying significantly less than market and that even if I downsized I'd probably end up paying $1000/month extra if I moved. After realizing this I'm unlikely to move until/unless I decide to leave LA.

I'm happy I'm getting a good deal but it doesn't feel very efficient for the housing market over all.
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I think you did very well, and I didn't get it without the explanation.
How happy were your customers?
No, the chinese knew the debt was unsustainable, that was kind of the point. The problem is that the rest of the world caught on that China was loading up poorer countries with debts that they had little chance of repaying, and has started to exert pressure to stop it. It seems to be working.

Belt and Road is a scheme to gain control of trade routes between China and Europe. The goal for China is to hold those debts and have some measure of influence in the countries they have built transortation infrastructure in. They aren't trying to make money by running a lending business.
The author calls ARC autotuning “opaque” which surprised me given a well regarded paper has been published on it:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast03/tech/full_papers...

https://youtu.be/F8sZRBdmqc0

...that said the author has been writing on the ARC for more than 10 years judging from his blog links so perhaps that paper did not answer his questions.
Do you think bills are scanned, loaded into a database, to see what they’re up to? I mean on a massive scale...
A machining hobby, boating, owning a racecar, getting a helicopter, building a bunker, failing at a startup, having a health problem, travelling around the world ski-ing or mountaineering, getting divorced, paying child support, extreme altruism...
Isn’t it fair to be critical of the project given that while it’s in the plan to finish it, funds have basically dried up? Until it actually connects the major centers it is marooned and of far less utility.
Out of curiosity, was your father able to help the feast/famine group in any way, or able to convince them to change their behaviour, short of the AF switching that specific group of privates to weekly paychecks instead of bi-weekly?
Hackers Exfiltrate 7.5Tb of Data from Russia's FSB
Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft (2013)
No, sadly there's money in building nuclear bombs. But we might be at risk of losing track of where the nuclear waste is, and how to keep track of it. So here's the standard for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
This is a great example of misleading "science".

I don't believe that the data here is being misrepresented. But the conclusions are not valid.

The gist of the article is:

1. Arctic ice thickness and extent are cyclical and uncorrelated with atmospheric CO2 levels.

2. NOAA sea ice graphs start at a cyclical peak (1979), which incorrectly leads people to believe that Arctic sea ice thickness and extent are on a consistent downward trend, rather than the low end of a multi-decade cycle.

3. Therefore, global warming does not exist (????)

I'm not exaggerating the third point:

Eastern Arctic temperatures closely track the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and show no correlation with atmospheric CO2.

This wrecks global warming theory which is climate scientists’ bread and butter, so NASA simply erases the prior warmth

NOAA and NASA should rightly be taken to task for misrepresenting Arctic ice data.

However to dismiss the entire global warming premise on this basis is a maliciously illogical conclusion.

Spent some more time poking around through this website, and the best conclusion I could draw was: scientists like to make bold predictions on tenuous grounds, and the media likes to make hysterical reports based on those predictions. Therefore we shouldn't believe in global warming because there is a lot of both bold over-prediction and hysterical over-reporting associated with it.

Meanwhile the blog does plenty of disingenuous over-reporting of its own, flagging several historical weather events as evidence that the climate is not changing and that it is not warming.

Edit -

Here's a great example: https://realclimatescience.com/2017/04/global-warming-and-th... it sets up a strawman argument, "climate experts tell us global warming brings in early spring". The author then looks outside his window, sees snow, and concludes that there is no early spring.

Therefore climate change is a hoax, right? We are all being lied to? It's so obvious! Except for the fact that spring did indeed come early on the East Coast: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/08/climate/early... as for the connection to climate change, that was over-reporting. The connection was posed by one research team, who used a computer model to show that greenhouse gas emissions could (in their model) lead to earlier onset of spring.

Edit 2 -

It looks like some news sources are citing this press release by the US Geological Survey: https://www.usgs.gov/news/just-how-early-spring-arriving-you...

It's interesting to see how the USGS talks about climate change. In their terms, early onset of spring indicates climate change because the climate is literally changing: spring comes earlier than it used to in the south and east. At no point do they make a connection between average global temperatures or greenhouse gas emissions.

Edit 3 -

Interestingly, the data in that blog post does suggest that there is no need to "save" the Arctic ice, at least not yet.
For HDD space these days, inelastic costs are a tiny portion of most people's available space.

Most people these days have a decent amount of hard disk space, enough for essentials, with plenty left over for discretionary usage. Although software binaries and video games are larger than ever, and pictures and video have higher resolutions, changes in the distribution of commercial media have made it less necessary to have storage space for music and commercial movies. With the vast majority of people having enough space, few people are hurt if some others require more space -- those people can just buy more storage, and doing so does not affect people who have enough space.

Roads and housing are different, because one person's usage of a particular instance deprives part or all of another person's use. People (and businesses) may be able to attain a comparative advantage by deriving more benefit from their consumption pattern of these scarce resources than drawbacks they suffer from the consumption patterns of others, so any "spare" capacity is an opportunity for someone to benefit. Demand is thereby induced.
Off: Hungarian here.

It's quite easy for us to hold a low Erdős number (mine is 4 I think), but interestingly the majority of Hungarians have no idea who he was and why hos work was significant. That's a pity.
...and, since the funding dried, the work is currently finished (it ends at Nowhere), but it may not be continued for a long time... So quite a good title IMO.
> And suddenly you can't face-login to your Windows 10 computer any longer, but hey, it's "bloat"

I would want to get rid of this even if it didn't cost any resources.
Is it possible to get in touch with you about this? I'd love to learn more about those customers.
If there's even a 5% chance that the Democrats will give you $50K if you wait, that juices the expected return of not paying off the loan significantly.

I agree with you in general that it's economically nearly a push to invest or pay off the loan under normal political conditions, and that the certainty of paying it off has positive value for most people. I also think there's significant psychological benefit to having no student loans hanging over your head, so absent the possible handout, I'd lean towards paying it off. Waiting two or three years to see if the promise evaporates seems reasonable, given the low average cost of waiting.
A few years ago I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations regarding sulfur dioxide injection into the stratosphere: http://curtisb.posthaven.com/someday-soon-chemtrails-may-be-....

The proposal for saving Antarctic ice in the submitted article may be just too big for humans to do. Sulfur dioxide injection, however, is dirt cheap, and we could definitely do that. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but we can do it.
Wow. Seriously impressive -- both to see the limitations that smart people worked within while taking mankind off this rock, but also hats off to some excellent nerdery.

>"Division. Arrgh. The AGC does have hardware division (and multiplication), but it’s strictly limited to only being able to compute x/y when |x|>|y|. Anything else, you get garbage, including in the y=x case. This hit me several times and trying to deal with all the sign issues, combined with the 1s-complement sign issues above, was really painful."

Not being expert in slightly outdated processor architectures (1s compliment!), might someone more expert than I be able to tell me _why_ this is the case and was a good design decision? It seems like a potential way for unexpected sensor data to bite you in the arse...
Is there a way I can write you a private message with related topics? Where can I find you?
No, he said he failed miserably. He'd work out budgets with them, and they'd never stick to them.

I suppose it's like a nutritionist giving out meal plans. People never follow them.
I'm suprised Bloomberg is only covering this now,while a much more detailed article was published in the Economist quite some time ago. Tbh I'm quite surprised Chinese were letting run these projects so loosely. I can only imagine how many locals became millionaires off these infrastructure initiatives.
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