skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your examples really undercut your point.

> homeowner (me) can't install a duplex addition for a home zoned duplex without turning the front yard into a 4-car parking lot. It doesn't matter that I have one car and could decide to only rent to people with one car, the driveway would need to fit four cars instead of the current two.

Once it is a duplex it is a duplex. You cannot make those assurances for the next homeowner, or the one after that. Even you yourself aren't obliged to stick to your self-imposed rental limitations. Your argument essentially boils down to a hypothetical (that extra cars won't always be needed) but ignores that zoning laws are designed for the common case (that extra cars will scale with number of dwellings).

> if you want to have a home-based day care business, zoning sets a max number of kids that can attend. In California, this is 14 kids. It doesn't matter if your home is 1,500 square feet or 5,000 square feet, whether you're in the middle of downtown SF or in a rural area, or whether you have 2 parking spaces or 20.

So a property not designed to hold a large number of people, isn't allowed to hold a large number of people. That seems reasonable. Just from a fire-safety perspective alone it makes a lot of sense to require custom-built commercial facilities after a certain number of kids.

Plus parking (drop off/pick up), noise, pollution, and so on.

> You should be able to do whatever you want to your property if it doesn't really hurt anyone.

I agree. But all of your examples hurt someone else.
Why would they care about self-driving if most of their drivers are making little more than the cost of operating their vehicle?
>there's hardly anything that can be done to stop it.

Sure there is. Buy the land. If you want to be able to insist on how something is used, ownership wins hands-down every single time.
> I would like to see how the numbers stack up to other countries that have a better work life balance.

The numbers are similar, because this article has chosen to use a misleading presentation of the data.

The rate is high. But the numbers of people dying by suicide over the age of 85 is very small. The reason the rate is so high is because there are so few people over the age 85.

Of course, any death is a tragedy, and most suicide is preventable, especially in groups who are in close contact with health care providers, and so we should be working to prevent suicides in this group.

But if you look at the actual numbers you'll see many more thousands of people in the younger ages dying by suicide.
I think you're correct and I misread that part of the spec. That does seem to be an important limitation.
Can you please not Hitler up the threads here? That never swerves anywhere good.

Edit: while I have you, please don't post personal attacks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20539497. We've had to ask you this before, and I don't want to ban you.
My experience with this book and my opinion of it -- both highly positive.
In the UK, and likely other places, there is actually a chain called Spar.

Perhaps they used to be in that area too, and the name stuck even if the business did not?
Because there's hugely more of them, and they die of heart attacks and RTAs as well as killing themselves.

https://imgur.com/a/iktpfjS
> Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels. I've been here before.
NATS (similar to Kafka) 2.0 released with secure sharing and WAN deploy
The actual test (I assume), for anyone else who was curious about this: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-...

Specifically:

- Up to 4 points for the amount of the "film" that takes place in the United Kingdom or another EEA state (or a fictionalized representation thereof)

- Up to 4 points for the number of characters originating from the United Kingdom or another EEA state, or from a colony thereof (whether a current colony, a current colony but before it was a colony, or a former colony if the film takes place while that colony was still a colony)

- Up to 4 points if it's either about a British/EEA-state subject or based on some underlying material of British/EEA origin (e.g. a film based on a book written by a British author)

- Up to 6 points for the amount of dialogue in the English language

- Up to 2 points each for any of the following things:

- - A creative interpretation of British culture

- - "Other factors relating to creativity"

- - Contribution to or reflection of British heritage

- - "Other factors relating to British heritage"

- - Promotion of cultural diversity

- - "Other cultural diversity factors"

- Up to 4 points for the amount of principal photography, special effects, or VFX work done in the UK

- 1 point if most of the music/audio recording was done in the UK

- 1 point each for any of these personnel who are from the UK or another EEA state:

- - Director

- - Scriptwriter

- - Producer

- - Composer

- - Up to one lead actor

- - Majority of cast

- - Up to one head of a "key staff" department

- - Majority of production crew

----

So if a game is entirely in English (6), created entirely in the UK (4 + 1 = 5), and created by / starring a majority-British cast and crew (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8), then that's an automatic 19 points and thus qualifies for tax exemption. That doesn't seem too likely for a GTA game, but if Rockstar North was able to tick enough of the other boxes to make up for, say, a not-majority-British cast and no British lead actors, then it's unsurprising that it managed to skate into tax exemption.

Kinda makes me wonder if any British films / video games somehow managed to not meet these criteria. This seems surprisingly easy to accomplish.
s/large swaths/most of the eastern half/

West of 100 west longitude (so, half of the continental US), almost nowhere receives sufficient rainfall.
This article doesn't really do any more than - badly - regurgitate the CJEU press release.[0]

I'm guessing because they wanted to get something out before the official English-language translation of the judgment has been published.

FWIW, the CJEU's judgment is binding.[1] It's the highest court in the EU and has the final say on how to interpret EU law.

[0] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM... - "Preliminary rulings are binding both on the referring court and on all courts in EU countries."
Doesn't really move the needle, chicken feed is chicken feed.

30 million, 60 million, 80 million. Point still stands.
Please do.

If you are visiting Bangalore, the Karnataka state(of which Bangalore is the capital) has second largest number of tigers in the country, and there are multiple tiger reserves within 100-150 Mile radius of the city. I highly recommend visiting at least one of them, the forest staff are quite friendly and you can get first hand information on how they deal with poachers etc.

This is the Govt. website so please be gentle :)

https://aranya.gov.in/Static%20pages/TigerReserves.aspx

Bandipur, Nagarhole & BRT reserves are 3-4 hours drive from Bangalore.

PS: Avoid the weekends if possible.
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in Denmark, to add to the list, it's called a Kiosk although originally the focus is very much on tobacco and magazine sales https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk
Milk Bar is a word from NZ of the '50s, we don't use "superette" either - they've always been "dairys".

Prior to the mid-70s we had few if any supermarkets - everyone had a local dairy (general store) and a local butcher, as well as daily milk deliveries to the house. These days our cities are full of corner stores converted into cheap flats, there are none left within walking distance from here, but 2-3 that I regularly visit.
Put the info in a shoebox and weight the statute of limitations. I've seen a start-up sue its lawyers and sadly that was the main way they generated revenue that quarter.
This looks very cool, but I don't understand why they didn't build their entire caching infrastructure this way. Or to put it another way, why not build all caching like this, and then use your standard cache for rate limits?
No. It’s Nuclear.
You don't need predictive profiling for product QA.
Seems like you can can replace quite a lot of things fairly arbitrarily -- you can replace X with some learning computer algorithm, and W with a simulation.
Thanks for warning me that this link downloads a pdf. Ass.
I don't see aresant saying "per year" but just in 2018.
That's literally less than one subscriber per video
> So [RMS] goes back and says lets make this crappy piece of shit operating system called Unix. Its name is a gag. It's a pun too. It's a joke, eunuch, a eunuch is.... a uh.. So he said lets go and build an open one, he made a system that caught on

Not even RMS would attribute the creation of Unix to himself, although I guess maybe this confusion is one of the fruits of his tireless "GNU/Linux" nagging.
Very interesting! I never knew that!
Did a bit of googling to verify it. [1]

[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclusterfuck...
That's the theory, but I have no idea what this "moat" is supposed to be. Apps to hail a cab are interchangeable commodities as far as I can tell.
How do you beat a tiger to death?

I mean, i understand this is a serious issue, about conservation, rural education, the clash between individual families living next to dangerous animals and far away state administration but .. beating a tiger ?! With sticks?!
... but you can't remove major features while retaining compatibility. So for the most part you can only add stuff.

So, people switch to new simpler languages. The way you remove things from a language is to create a new one.

Then these new simpler languages become popular, and then people want their critical favorite bit added. And eventually the language is no longer simpler. And people switch to another new language, and the cycle repeats.

Because we couldn't convince people to just use the existing complex language if they want that. Because, really, this is all a struggle to influence other developers. These days it's not enough to work the way that is best for you, you need to find ways to harness a critical mass of other developers, and at the same time contain the mess and damage that a huge number of miscellaneous developers out in the world can do to your ecosystem.

It kinda sucks. Where possible, I like to use older, less popular, more minimal: libraries, frameworks, tools.
Death is sad, but if you have some terminal thing and a month to live it’s kind of a romantic way to leave. But idk, people get terminal diagnoses and live happily in good health for years afterwards too. I suppose what most people want is a peaceful exit, like no pain and while sleeping or something.
Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages (2000)
Someone did a calculation about what they were paying drivers of they were converted to an hourly rate if you averaged it.

IIRC, it was somewhere near minimum wage. If you can't make a profit or are far from profitable and your front line workers are making that little money.... how do you ever without dramatically raising prices?

I really doubt corporate office cuts can achieve it.
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Yes, you can be prosecuted for things you admit during a polygraph interview.

You can also be prosecuted for lying, since the polygraph examiners are federal investigators.
I think it's actually quite common for the first generation to go along with the joke or casual racism or whatever, because an important part of fitting in is to not rock the boat, so to speak.

You can't start making a fuss until your foothold in society is firm enough that you can afford to do so.

And, of course, plenty of people also simply don't care or find it offensive.
If public markets care about fundamentals why can VCs exit into the public market with fake hockey stick growth?
That article links to a better sourced and more reasoned argument which seems to disagree with the premise of the article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-no...

The article you linked does not refute the claims in the eff article, but the eff article does refute the claims in the city-journal article.
I mean, technically, since lab grown ones are made on-demand and haven't been an option for nearly as long. Let's not get pedantic. The point is they're much cheaper to "produce".
I don't think any of them are so sure their 401ks and Social security will be reliable. People who were depending on their 401ks in 2008 were horrified while their savings just started disappearing. Social Security was never intended to be enough for people to live off of and my entire life people have been concerned about how/if it can continue into the future. A lot of Republicans would love to see the Social security program ended entirely and these days who knows if those folks will end up in a position where they can make that happen.
Generally, laws that effect large groups of people are going to be less onerous than ones which effect only a few. Local governments are notoriously petty and rife with corruption/favoritism. I've seen local laws get passed just because someone on the board had a personal vendetta. People are assholes.

Also, Congress would offload responsibility to an agency, likeHouse & Urban Development. So I doubt they'd fight too much over day-to-day matters.
The Windows operating system.

Windows is quite an engineering achievement. We didn't prioritize readability or "clean code". All the variables used hungarian notation, so you had horrible names like lpszFileName (lpsz = long pointer to a zero terminated string) or hwndSaveButton (window handle). You also had super long if(SUCCEEDED(hr)) chains that looked like your code was spilling down a staircase. Oh yeah, and pidls (pronounced "piddles" and short for "pointer to an id list") used for file operations.

What made the code base beautiful was the extreme lengths we went to to be fast and keep 3rd party software working. WndProcs seem clunky, but they are elegant in their own way and blazingly fast. All throughout the code base you would find stuff like "If application = Corel Draw, don't actually free the memory for this window handle because Corel uses it after sending a WM_DESTROY message."

The fact that thousands of people worked on the code base was mind boggling.
Book sellers are rarely stuck with unsold inventory. They almost always have the ability to send unsold inventory (though not magazines) back to the publisher for full credit.
Hey everyone,

I built this whole thing myself and am looking for feedback from anyone who will give it.

Thanks in advance!
Charitable interpretation is that the parent is talking about Uber's gross margin, which is presumably fairly high.
Ah, that seems trivial in comparison.
there is a spar chain in Denmark, https://spar.dk/ spar in Danish means "Save", generally used in regards to money. I suppose it is related to the English spare.
I saw this with dementia patients when visiting a relative in a hospice home. Really sad.
What's funny is (in the Bay Area) I never go to those little liquor stores, when every gas station and costco and safeway ALSO sells liquor, with the same hours, at better prices.

Certainly in many underserved neighborhoods, those liquor stores are more convenient, but there are also plenty of places where these run-down looking shops seem to thrive despite proximity to more affordable options with better selection, which I find strange.
We could do much better with the Japanese Zoning standard:

(2014) http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

Previously linked here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540845
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RGB values in images are de-facto sRGB, which is reasonably close to human perception (sRGB gamma curve is close to Munsell lightness curve).

In this case applying gamma correction to compute the color difference in linear light would make things worse, as it'd model physical properties of the light, rather than human perception.
In other words, Fake lists from fake news.
randyrand is talking about gross margin; you're thinking about earnings. You can have a positive gross margin and negative earnings. There's no point arguing about whether this does or does not constitute making a profit in some absolute sense - just understand that both are true.
My understanding is open-sourcs vs closed-source (the binary driver blobs that other phones require).
I don't know, which is why I said I'd like for them to explain it. In the meantime, they will not enjoy the benefit of doubt from me, and I don't think you should give it to them either. We're not operating in a vacuum here, Bethesda already has a well earned negative reputation.
How ignorant am I, and how do I formally specify that in my code? (2016)
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I think there is a more cynical take that Uber exemplifies.

The VCs do everything they can to drive up the valuation, except make money. They then sell their shares to the public markets for an incredible profit and let them deal with the problem of actually making money.

I fear venture capital (and Silicon Valley) is much more about value extraction than value creation these days. I am still somewhat young so I have a limited frame of reference - maybe it was always like this.

Obviously you can find examples to support either side. Amazon and Facebook weren't the money making machines (for all the talks of Amazon not making a profit, AWS clearly does and their free cash flow is insane) they are today when they went public. But there are far more companies that didn't turn out that way.

Travis Kalanick was very clear that Uber could not survive without self-driving cars. And that doesn't seem to be panning out.
I agree. The way I think of this is that generics are compile-time polymorphism, and interfaces are run-time polymorphism. It seems natural to me that the language constructs to manage those things would be similar.
Desalination usually happens on the coast. Pumping water from their to Lake Mead, to let it run down the Colorado to be pumped to LA seems really inefficient. Why not just pump it from the desalination plant to LA?

But as an overall plan, it's not so nuts (except for the energy cost, and the hundreds of miles of aqueducts that need to be built). The point about the upper states getting water out of this is a valid one, and Lake Mead supplies Arizona as well as California.

One downside to this plan: You'd kill the Grand Canyon.
Seems like a good example of Cunningham's Law if nothing else!
I love the idea, it's like push-ups for programmers. (Though actual push-ups wouldn't be a bad idea either ;) On that note, are there other things that come to mind like that? Maybe anki-decks or https://typing.io/
Google Just Spilled Some More Details on the Pixel 4
Yep - $3.2b is the headline cost of sales and marketing in 2018.

In 2019 that number as of Q1 has shot up to a $4b+ run rate:

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...

- -

Even more interesting in that number.

The accounting department came up with a nice way to mask their "unprofitable rides" and call them "customer discounts".

This is the line item for costs where they pay a driver more than they collect from a customer.

So they put the "customer discounts" number, which represented $1,400,000,000 in total expense, into the marketing budget.

Leaving ~$1,800,000,000 spread for all other sales & marketing activities.

I am very in the weeds in the 2-sided logistics marketplace customer acquisition data if you have other questions :).
Can you expand on where "by god" came from? Usually people don't make the names longer for no particular reason. Is it related to the "oh thank heaven for 7-11" commercials?
I think this won't be useful for scanned documents, as the entire page will be one image.

ps2pdf does work on Windows though (or maybe it's pstopdf?), and the Linux version works directly in WSL.
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Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests
Yep, only ever called them dairies, and in NZ every residential neighbourhood in towns big and small has one. It's not just a big city thing as the artical suggests it may be for other nations.
Right sentiment; here's an editing tweak that lets you make the point more precisely:

SOX compliance is arduous but it only exists (and is as strict as it is) because some company built a $60 billion market cap in 2000 with financial-statement mischief that concealed a bankruptcy in the making.
Oops, I meant "Beginning C++ Through Game Programming" by Michael Dawson. It's a no-nonsense beginner programming text, geared towards people who want to learn C++ in order to make games.
Hmm, but how do you establish whether a piece of code is a liability? Do you account for QA finding no issues, or do you weigh it against the number of years its been used in production, or do you consider that it was written by expert rather than a novice, do you take into account the fact that it was purposefully designed, as opposed to organically etc. I think your theory is nice, but a bit too reductionist to be applicable in the real world..
What’s your favorite status-checking website to check for “Is Site down?”
Any particular reason for the preference?
That's exactly what needs to happen. We will never arrive at a more powerful platform by self-gratification and refusing to stand on each others' shoulders. One well-tested reusable implementation is dramatically better than a hundred incompatible bespoke ones that happen to work and a hundred more that are subtly broken.
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Would zoom calls help with long distance relationships like this?
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Things have changed very dramatically since you looked:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-diamonds-debeers-syntheti...
That is why I said as little as possible. Your reductio ad absurdum is unwarranted.

And yeah, it does take effort, and you will never get 100% of the way there. But there is plenty of low hanging fruit to pull back on, like relearning to visit the ATM and not use a credit card for routine purchases like groceries. Or when you receive your yearly privacy notice from a bank, actually call up and limit the sharing. Skip answering extra questions when they ask you to "update your information", and when signing up for something choose to perform verification via postal mail or only answer questions that Google can answer ("which city is Foo Street in") rather than confirming what is in their surveillance databases. And certainly don't sign up for businesses who's entire revenue model is based around facilitating access to your surveillance profile (CreditKarma, Mint, etc).

Acting like it's an absolutely helpless situation because the reporting generally centers around the concerns of the identity verification industry itself (oh no, people's already-public SSNs are more widely known!) is missing the real damage these companies do to individuals' privacy. Also none of those three general of avenues (personal responsibility, collective action, direct action) is some immediate perfect solution - the only hope we have is long term culture change based on little steps in each area.