skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Zoning laws enacted after a property purchase can infringe on property rights. Zoning laws that exist prior to a purchase merely form the foundation upon which you should expect to exercise the property rights in your purchase.

The first problem with this is that most existing zoning rules don't actually meet your premise. They were imposed on whoever owned the property when they were enacted, regardless of their consent.

The second problem is that even for things like HOAs where all the properties were owned by one entity that originally consented to the restrictions, what you then get is essentially a local government-style entity where only land owners get a vote. This is clearly not a particularly egalitarian style of governance.
Plan 9 codebase has been the best that I have encountered.

http://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/
I bet they get to profitability before driverless cars. The alternative is Taxis, which are an awful experience. And ubiquitous driverless cars could be a decade away or more.
Isn't the Internet a cesspool of all kinds of pseudoscience?
Well, using an off-the shelf system like many of the cheap smartphone companies do allow you to keep development costs down, and leverage economies of scale even for small batches.

For one, they are bringing up a stack that's quite different from the one usually found on smartphones, which sounds quite costly.

From the security point of view, I am not sure it would be less secure on the sw side, but it would be less open. On the hw side, they have kill switches, isolated the firmware on ROM chips (RYF-compliant), and have a pretty strict security-first approach.

Unfortunately that places it out of reach for me, financially-speaking. I'll continue with postmarketos, and keep an eye on the pinephone.
...okay? With the exception of tailored algorithms, i.e. Pandora, every media service or list is going to be the opinions of one or more persons.

What's on cable is relegated by Neilson ratings, what's on the radio is relegated by what's popular / the DJ's favorite songs, what's in a bookstore is relegated by what sells well (or, by what doesn't sell poorly). Everything is curated.
Big Boy has a live track available that shows its planned route. I've got my viewing location picked out for a close-up view of it underway.

https://www.up.com/forms/steam-trace.cfm
As a counterpoint, my reaction to big cities has generally been "Nice place to visit, but I sure wouldn't want to live there". And my vacation photos are way more likely to be landscapes than cityscapes.

I do like the ocean, though!
> The Senate and Assembly set their own rules on how they conduct their meetings. The Senate allows members to phone into committee meetings, but the Assembly does not.

Is the Senate somehow a fundamentally different job?

Also, there is more to consider then "Not every job is a work-from-home job." This is a duly elected government officer being denied the ability to represent those who elected him.
But such genomes exist: they literally define the people who have lived in the high-altitude regions around the Rift Valley for many generations. And the genetic component to Ethiopian and Kenyan dominance in long-distance running is well-researched. Far more is known than your comment suggests, for example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037248/

Of course, genetics interact strongly with environment. That's precisely why someone raised in a high-altitude Ethiopian community but whose ancestors are from, say, the Netherlands would not be expected to be as well-adapted to altitude (or long-distance running) compared to their historically Ethiopian neighbours, all else being equal.
If like buttons will be disallowed for privacy reasons, shouldn't the same also apply to Google captcha?

That would be a relief.
Huh. Azure used to have a special region in Germany (joint operation with Deutsche Telekom) but it seems they've killed it last year.
But those two possible uses of money have different profiles. You would have to price in how much it is worth to you to use the car vs the bus, subtract the amortization of the car - and together that's the target rate/yield that you should ask for your money plus risk of default.
Another technique that seems lucrative is for propagandists to write books, and have them bought by their patrons. A nice, arms-length arrangement that has the bonus of allowing the propagandist to claim to be a “best-selling author”.
Agreed, but like others have pointed out “marketing” includes marketing to drivers with incentives to drive. They’re not running advertisements they’re subsidizing rides on the driver and passenger side and calling it part of their marketing spend.

The problem with Uber is that their technology isn’t that innovative and their platform isn’t that sticky.
The art of interrupting software engineers
And with hydroelectricity often comes pumped-storage opportunities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
We also tend to put plastic into contact with food and small packaging, create many different types and form factors, and ship it consumers. I imagine the recycling problem for a known environment (e.g. a power facility's used batteries) vs an unknown environment (e.g. consumer houses) is significantly different.

I do wonder (and a quick google search didn't turn much up) how the rates of industrial plastic recycling compare with consumer rates.
Aussie here. Definitely always called them milk bars.

Most of them have closed though, given that more people have cars and are willing to drive a bit further to save a dollar on their loaf of bread at the supermarket.
> Uranium also has to be mined out of the earth.

not if this is to be believed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...
> In its filing with the top court, the Chamber of Commerce wrote that the Justice Department has provided only “inconsistent, nonbinding, and unaccountable” rules

so this is the correct channel to get this done. the court can force the legislature's and the executive branches' hand on providing specific rules - of course alongside permanently invalidate them, or siding with the lower courts

whereas private lawsuits just create a hodge podge of case law and settlements that can be conflicting and irreconcilable to comply with until drumroll resolved by the Supreme Court

so yeah, fuck the optics - pun intended - and use the remaining path to consensus available
Simple test about diamonds: Putting so-called "investment diamonds" and heritage pieces to one side, has anyone who bought an item of diamond jewellery here ever experienced selling it for remotely close to what they bought it for?

Investment diamonds are a semi self-regulated shell-game of hedging which tries to be like gold, but basically isn't. Gold is equally irrational in some ways, but it is used by the state banks as part of their hedge. I believe only diamond producing nations use diamonds as their financial strategic reserve. Nobody else seems to regard them as a viable mechanism for national financial resilience.

Consumer grade diamond is a propped up market where the cost and price disfunction is about as big as it can be.

Pink diamonds, now thats a scarce resource. As long as small girls are obsessed with the colour pink, and the Argyll mine in Australia has reserves (the pipe is exhausted but they banked huge numbers of stones) there is value in scarcity.

Buy shares in bort: industrial construction needs diamond grit
I don't know when is the last time you got involved in marketing but if anything, the metrics driven culture is precisely a free pass allowing to justify any decision whatsoever, through a careful selection of data points and scale, whether intentional or accidental. God forbids having to point out to your manager that he mixed up the X/Y axis and sales have been decreasing month over month, not increasing.

By the way, a lot of marketing is still not quite metrics driven. Unlike the internet, when spending money on national TV, sports teams, tube station ads, there is little feedback that can be captured.

And even on the internet, how do the new junior marketer learns that google/facebook ads don't have a positive ROI for his use case, assuming he's measuring at all? That's by spending a few million dollars in vain.

Anyway, that is not to say that marketing is useless, it's an important aspect of some businesses. The capital costs involved are fairly high though and can quickly spiral out of control. A big part of the marketing/advertising industry is a scam operating at a loss, an elaborate conduit to transfer money from the client to the advertiser.
It does cost them money when they get it wrong. It's not as if google makes money off the demonetized video, they only make money if the creator does. People act like YouTube wants to demonetize videos, of course they don't, they would monetize every single second of YouTube if the advertisers allowed them to do so.
‘US ban’ may have killed the Huawei – Google smart speaker project for good
I’m definitely an Apple customer - our cell phone plan has 6 devices and we have two AppleTVs. But playing devil’s advocate, Apple’s business model only allows a small percentage of upper income people globally to be able to afford their products. Android and Google have done a lot more to bring computing to the masses than Apple. The cheapest iPhone that you can buy is $475 over $200 more than the average selling price of an Android phone.
So are you against handicap parking?

You define reasonable by using reason. You examine the situation and try to see if you can make an accommodation for the person that lets them do their job while not sacrificing performance. If you can, you do it.

You justify making these accommodations because you realize that there are some people who have conditions that make following the same routines that most people do impossible. We also realize that if you let everyone have those accommodations, it will not be sustainable, so you grant special rights to certain people based on this.

The handicap parking is a perfect example. Or pre-boarding flights for people in wheelchairs. Obviously you can't give everyone handicap parking, because that is the same as giving no one handicap parking. Some people can't travel as far, so we let them get the spots up front.

Same with pre-boarding. If everyone pre-boarded, it would just be boarding. But we also know that some groups need more time and space to board, like people in wheelchairs. So we let them board early.

I never understand this attitude that we aren't allowed to accommodate people who have hardships because it is unfair on people without those hardships. Like, what? The unfair part is that they HAVE the handicap in the first place, we are just trying to make it a little more fair.

Life isn't fair, so we make laws that are a little unfair in the opposite direction to try to even it out.
The big question is driver retention and how much Uber subsidizing drivers is required. Maybe Uber spends 0 extra, drivers drop out of the system, ride prices increase, and drivers return as riders stop using Uber, bringing it to some sort of equilibrium. Maybe not.

These retention numbers, for any business that needs returning customers or service providers pretty much make or break all the customer/provider acquisition economics.
Yeah, if discounted rates were illegal, then some of the more simplified Republican arguments against requiring and/or subsidizing health insurance might actually make sense.

This whole system of discounted rates is why you're pretty much forced to have insurance as a "payment intermediary," even for stuff that you'd otherwise think paying out of pocket would be reasonable for.
Hmm, I’m not sure that’s quite a fair representation of Java. Contracts are interfaces in Java. Using generics just gives you compile-time type-safety (partial safety, anyway) without having much effect on how things work at runtime.

Using interfaces for generic type constraints feels very natural, even though there are some rough edges you can bump into when trying to do overly clever stuff.

It’s surprising to me that Go wouldn’t just use interfaces as “contracts” in the same way. Why add a whole new class of entities?
To remainder paperbacks, instead of sending the entire book back for credit they'd rip off the covers, send those instead, and dumpster the book. I don't know if they do this anymore. When I grew up in the 80s, I read an enormous number of coverless books:)
> 1.0, 1.28, 1.6, 2.0, 2.56, 3.2, 4.0, 5.12, 6.4, 8.0

These numbers are also instantly recognizable as being closely related to the the ISO-standard 1/3 octave bands on a 31 band graphic equalizer:

30 Hz, 40, 50, 63, 80, 100, 125, 160, 200, 215, 315, 400, 500, 630 ...

There is a relation to powers of two because every three steps, the frequency doubles. These numbers are derived differently; basically according to:

E.g.:
2^(1/3) ~= 1.2599 125 Hz 12.5 kHz
2^(2/3) ~= 1.5874 160 Hz 16 kHz
2^(3/3) = 2 200 Hz 20 kHz

The fact that 1/10th powers of 10 approximately double in 3 steps makes those numbers close:

10^(1/10) ~= 1.259
10^(2/10) ~= 1.585
10^(3/10) ~= 1.995

So why is there this three-step geometric sequence (approximately) found among that rearrangement of the powers of two?

Like from 128 to 160 (16 x 10): why is there are 2^(1/3) step?

160 2^4 x 10 10
--- = --------- = -- = 1.25
128 2^7 2^3

It's simply that 1.25 is close to 10^0.1 is close to 2^(1/3). Three compounded 25% increases are close to doubling.

Note that 2^(1/3) is the same number as 8^(1/9). That's getting close to 10^(1/10).

Which exact power of ten is equal to 2^(1/3).

10^x = 2^(1/3)

log of both sides:

x = log10(2^1/3)

x =~ 0.10034333189

Within 0.3% of 1/10th. And which power of 10 is 1.25? log10 1.25 ~= 0.09691001. Some 3% off from 0.1.

There is a relation to music here and musical intervals/scales. If we have a given root note, then 1.25X that frequency (5/4) is an ideal major third interval.

Now music geeks will know that under equal temperament, the major third interval "cuts" the octave into three equal pieces: the equal temperament major third is our 2^(1/3) = 1.2599: slightly sharp.

The closeness between 1.25 and 1.2599 is related to why equal temperament works (captures close-enough values of various musical intervals).
Agree & Voted.

Another alternative that I would like is to have angle brackets < > for better readability, so that definition and call would look as follows:

// 1
func Print2<type T1, T2>(s1 []T1, s2 []T2) { ... }
Print2<int,int>( ... )

// 2
var v Vector<int>

// 3
func (v *Vector<Element>) Push(x Element) { *v = append(*v, x) }

Sorry, if it gives you C++ nightmares.
> And there is no dangerous imbalance in the global lithium cycle

Interesting, I had never thought of a "global lithium cycle" before – can you elaborate?
The author talks about monorepos. I was wondering a few days ago how a monorepo could be implemented in a Go project using GOPATH and “go build/install” to build the software. The dependency manager seems to rely on cloning other repos into the workspace.

Does anyone know about a reference repo that I could take a peek?
What reasons are there to make them illegal?
That's the "all lives matter" argument. The problem with it is that rights are not distributed equally, they are biased towards the privileged. Making special accommodation for someone with a disability isn't giving them special rights, it's leveling the playing field that is tilted against them.

Reasonable in this case means providing a way for them allowing them to do their job in spite of their limitations. The "privilege" they are being granted is being able to work at all, which is a privilege most people have naturally and take for granted.
It's not discriminatory to meet someone's disability related needs. You don't have those same needs. It gets old seeing people without those needs say "it's not fair". Nobody would choose a disability to get some some perceived "perk" which is nothing of the sort in reality.
English can work that way too, converting statements to questions with inflection or the addition of a question mark. e.g. "You understand?"

However, in this case, interpreting this as question rather than a statement leads us to see a question about the inner thoughts of the commenter, which clearly is not what was intended.

What I believe was intended was to make a statement that was to be understood as uncertain. However, the "I think" prefix is all that is necessary for that and the addition of a question mark just creates uncertainty about the it being interrogative/declarative.
The coal and nuclear phase outs across Europe will lead to a need for new flexible capacity. That should at least partly be covered by battery peakers.
> Government support for energy R&D is one of the best opportunities to fight climate change.

To give an idea of the current spend:

In 2016, the U.S. spent $11 billion on renewable energy subsidies and $3 billion on energy efficiency. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-e...
Not necessarily. With these things there is usually a big belief aggregation going on (some central bankers think this, some that), and we end up with a silly compromise. See Japan, see all the idiotic austerity programs.

So it is very possible that the central bank is not doing enough.
react-window render props
yes, these are factors.

now lets address how the federal government exempted itself in being able to use lie detector tests for employment when we know it doesn't work

the point is that the rationale is flawed. "but muh blackmail" yeah the ENTIRE private sector wanted to use that excuse too.
Google would remove uBlock from my PC before I even know it and I would notice it very quickly (unfortunately).

A personal computer has always been very complicated and using it has always been a risk in itself. I remember a time when a virus could damage the computer's hardware, and someone who knew how to program in BASIC (edit: or LOGO) was not considered as a "minority".

My point of view is that we need to make users aware of the risks and make them more responsible because things will not get any easier.

No need to optimize, I switched to Firefox, the browser for the minorities ;). I really liked Chrome though.
And of course it's pure coincidence that draconian measures of control over the populace are being justified by the spectre of climate change, brought to you courtesy of our child-messiah Greta.
Forgetting one thing, surpassingly popular to who? You need to answer the "to who" part.
As was the claim that was made in Washington Post, according to the judge.

Edit: I initially said the claim was made by Washington Post, but it wasn’t their claim.
Why is better to fix adblocking capabilities at model that is borderline insufficient now let alone in 10 years.

There is arms race and you want adblockers (good guys) to give up any improvements in perpetuity, that is a recipe for losing.

Me installing uBlock for parents has improved their browser experience and security. I'd rather risk uBlock being compromised and having to phone them to uninstall it than have them being at the mercy of adtech, spyware, and scammers companies in 5 years.
> the fine is only $300 a day. That is about the cost of a nurse.

No, it's about the salary of a nurse. The cost (salary + benefits + overhead) of a nurse is much higher.
I’m not familiar with these tools (yet). Why do I need a forward proxy (squid) connected to this haproxy instance?
Broken window fallacy - whatever is spent on this won't be spent on something else.
IMHO Coding guides should ban "SBO comments"
Statin the Bleedin Obvious.
Let devs decide what SBO is, usually its bleedin obvious.
No, it just makes those amenities more expensive to maintain at that location. This is as it should be since the opportunity cost is so high.

For example, here is an example of homeowners paying a developer to not build on an adjacent lot to preserve their preferences: https://therealdeal.com/2019/07/22/chelsea-residents-paid-ga...

Right now, the above is possible by regulatory capture, shifting the cost of preservation onto adjacent landowners who do want to build and the larger community for underutilizing a precious, shared resource (land).
It is possible that consumer demand would greatly reduce if they had to pay prices that are sufficient to cover the cost at which drivers are willing to drive.

My general impression is that Uber and Lyft have artificially inflated the size of the ride sharing market by subsidizing rides with investor money.
The WebThings Gateway does support OpenWrt if the router is beefy enough (decent app processor, RAM, and flash). Most cheap routers wouldn't work. If you are a savvy OpenWrt user see: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/lang/node-mo...

The Turris OS that runs on Omnia is a customized OpenWrt build that lets a user plug a USB memory stick (with the Mozilla WebThings Gateway image, and only that image on it) into the Omnia, hold down the reset button until the 4th front panel LED lights, let go, and wait until it installs and the "WebThings Gateway XXYY" SSID appears. Then connect to it and proceed with the setup process. Suggest other hardware to potentially support on Mozilla's Discourse "iot" channel. Or the mozilla-iot/gateway repo on github.
The Masturbation Language
At worst it will have no impact. But even if consumers can't negotiate the discounted price themselves they know the premium they are paying for their current plan. Right? This might encourage a single payer system (for good or bad).
"Good software development"... in 15 years of programming at 7 different companies I've never seen a good manageable piece of software. Our current paradigms do not work. I for one welcome anything that offers an improvement on the current clusterfuck.
You're reading the entire spec, but the flow is what's trivial. 2 systems are exchanging info, they use cryptograhpy to assert that message is coming from a valid, registered resource and the message carrier format is XML. You ask for info, you get XML back, verify the sender and if correct trust the info is valid. That's the gist of the protocol and the tedious part is parsing the XML you receive.
The United States Must Compete to Innovate in 5G
Is this something Envoy does? I just learned about it recently and it seemed very cool.
I think he might actually have intended to refer to the creation of the “POSIX” standard, and got his origin stories confused.
Usually the interpretation is that it is still better than the alternative.

Eg a pension fund has to put money somewhere, but it has to be low-risk. Hence the seemingly absurd demand for negative yields.
Squid is useful as a forward proxy for a number of reasons, like caching. Squid is often used for outbound proxying when you are anonymizing requests, i.e. you might have squid bound to multiple network interfaces.

If all you need is rate limiting, you can probably skip squid.
I agree with recording by accident or on purpose should not be a deciding factor in anything but...

The problem is 10 seconds or even a minute of a recorded song shouldn't mean a record label or the original music owner can swoop in and reap 100% of the ad revenue (minus Google's cut) for a 1 hour video you recorded which has ads relevant to your content (not the song).

By the way, you could argue he is educating because he often visits historical sites and gives some back story on it. You could also argue he is a journalist because he has a running series called "Harald invades" where he'll go into some family's house (with permission of course) and learn about how they live and work (aka. it's a story). Actually most of his videos feel like stories, since it's not over edited garbage with a spin for profit. He just goes through towns and documents the process raw. I would say he is one of the best journalists I've ever seen.
That was facetious to contrast a rather important thing to something of little significance. Some processes must obviously enrich lithium over geological timescales, otherwise we couldn't mine it, but to my knowledge it's not important to the biosphere as a whole.