skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big issue IMO is that cities insist on having one size fit all noise ordinances, and then use "guts feeling" to enforce it, or have "ambient noise" clauses to justify where they are enforced. That means without a LOT of research, you can never really know whats acceptable in an area, and you certainly cannot count on the real estate agent or neighbors to tell you, property value impact and all.

In my town, we have a noise ordinance where the max decibel is way too high for a quiet residential area, but way too low for the downtown neighborhoods. So you get a lot of "You live in a city, expect noise!". But not everywhere in the city is the same! So it's just enforced nilly willy. People can't easily make a choice. Some neighborhoods are obvious, some are not. Some parts of the city are only noisy in summer, some only in winter, and so on.

Noise ordinances should be tied to zoning in some way. Then if people buy a house near a train, they can't bitch about the train noise. At the same time, if someone wants a cheaper house and don't give a fuck about the noise, they just got themselves a great deal!

There's one catch: realistically, most people care about noise to some degree. Once you have it clearly "labeled", properties in less noisy areas will become more expensive and you'll have segregation by income. The rich will live in quiet areas, the poor in noisy ones. Oh, and then people with kids screaming louder than the train will claim it doesn't apply to them (even though 95% of the kids in the area will be doing just fine).

Its a tough problem, but IMO, the easier we make it for like minded people to live together, the better. Right now, regardless of your criterias, if you want to live in an area that meets criteria X for a long period of time, you have to get lucky AND go all NIMBY when things change. It just so happens that things like housing density is the topic of the day.

Zoning laws being absurdly restrictive is often used to explain why not enough is built (eg: single family housing). But if zoning forced skyscrappers, it would be just as restrictive.
Why should a city have standing to inspect your house without a reason? "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

I've bought two houses in my life. Both had obviously unpermitted work; I had no issue in either case as it was generally acceptable quality of work. If a shopper for my house has a problem with unpermitted work when I go to sell, they're free to move along and find a house without any.
You can't reform churches. There beliefs are false, and they refuse to accept that.
I miss the days when you could watch "Bill Cooking Chicken part 1" and the related videos would be "Bill Cooking Chicken part 2" and "Bill Cooking fish part 1" instead of "I wasted $200 on Wish.com" and "More Adventures in Replying to Spam" and "Ten Flaws of the Borg Collective".
Afford electricity bills for Air conditioning. In some areas it will soon not be possible to sleep without air conditioning, and people can die in heat waves.
Many people don't use wood burning stoves properly. If you condition and burn the wood correctly there's very little smell or smoke. But lots of people just toss anything in and don't even control the burn which leads to more byproducts.
echo -n hello world considered wrong as well.

Also

Question: Write the command that you use if you finish working with the terminal and you want to log out from the current session.

Your answer:logout

Correct answer:exit
Hard to do when Apple intentionally slows down the phone with new firmware updates and Android OEMs abandon replaceable batteries for a soldered on unit whose ability to hold a charge drops off precipitously after 2 years.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20558122 and marked it off-topic.
Also funfact, lions and tigers are capable of producing hybrid offsprings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliger
The poor schmucks in marketing that are being let go? Probably. Dev salary aren't the norm, remember.
Interesting, is there a source about these changes?
I suspect that there is a substantial group of lobbyists and other politically connected people that are paid a lot of money to influence US policy. The Saudis seem to be pretty smart that way.
The hypothesis is that the channel was only demonetized after a long period during which it generated ad revenue. Flipping the demonetization switch doesn't make that revenue disappear. Rather, that causes the revenue to stay in Google's pocket instead of being distributed to the channel owner.
Purism is a for-profit corporation.

You aren't donating - any more than you're "donating" to Comcast when you pay your cable bill.
I agree with the spirit of this article but it reads less persuasively due to filler material of little value to the argument. The gratuitous appeals to emotion ("Which car would you rather trust your children's lives to?" or "[...]so they can cope with failure conditions without killing you") don't help persuade me either.

After re-reading, I still don't quite understand the point of splitting up points 1 through 3. Point 1 easily could have read "Tesla assumes it will be able to make a provably safe level 3 autonomous vehicle in the next few years". The arguments under the respective 3 sections could easily fit under this one heading.

Point 5 - although a hurdle, I fail to see how this is the responsibility of Tesla. Tesla is selling a product. They aren't guaranteeing the right to use that product in your jurisdiction. I can buy fireworks, but I'm not allowed to use them in my jurisdiction. Is it the responsibility of the fireworks company to lobby my government? They might get some more sales if they do, sure, but they aren't by any means required to. Why is it Tesla's sole responsibility to make the legislative push for autonomous driving? Even if we do lay the responsibility, for whatever reason, at the feet of the companies making the products... Responsibility should also be on Waymo and the slew of other companies pursuing autonomous driving. I fail to see why Tesla is singled out as the ethical bad guy here for this point.

Point 6 and 7 exist for literally every company, ever. One has to assume that Tesla is a going concern, just like everything else, until they aren't. Not really fair to jam these two points onto the list.

The real zinger:

>Of course, I have no first hand knowledge that anything unethical is happening at Tesla. But suppose even half of what I've presented here is true. Is it ethical to work on the Tesla autopilot software?

The spaghetti against the wall approach to arguing ethics is, if nothing else, a bold one.
I find these theories difficult to square with previous releases of Doom on locked platforms like iOS apparently being proper source ports. Even if it's not a community engine, they should have access somewhere to code with agreeable licensing. Or at least, they should be capable of hiring a community source-port developer to throw together a new source port based only off the original code (which Bethesda would be free to license as they see fit, on account of owning the copyright.)

My personal theory is Bethesda doesn't respect the franchise and turned over responsibility of it to somebody young who probably had plenty of experience with Unity, but little to no experience working on an engine written in C.
Ron Pucek's Living Waters Catfish Farm
Is it possible to digitally sign a PDF with OpenPDF? If yes is there a tutorial somewhere or could you give a hint on how it's done or where to look at the Java API? Thanks in advance!
I hear one way to tell you're being stalked by a predator is a sudden eerie silence, where all the birds etc. stop making noises.
Because my taste and interests are more aligned with person X than with the general populace.
What did he mean? Just a bar at the corner? What would be the idiomatic equivalent?
'Corner shop' and 'offy' are mentioned for UK/London, I'd add 'convenience' as a noun, and in semi-contrast to TFA's opener about being laughed out of the room for calling it a 'convenience store/shop'.

Also 'local convenience'/'local shop' (more so outside of cities where it's more truly a local shop, not just the nearest 'food & wine' convenience) - but never just 'the local', that is 100% a pub.
Browse a book store is the obvious answer.

But this makes sense, because a store will generally buy items that it thinks it can sell, so it'll come down to humans making choices about what's a good book. Of course, publishers will be pushing their latest items through their marketing chains, and so new books will make it to stores based on marketability to the store owner.

In the digital realm, this is less of an issue, and can accept more books, but makes the whole shopping experience very noisy imho.

However, I personally like to read those little recommendation cards that the shop assistants make. I've bought a few books outside my normal genre that way, and haven't been let down yet.
In a two sided marketplace customer acquisition and marketing are absolutely fundamental.

Uber operates in >600 major cities across the world at this point.

1200 employees would indicate about 1 person per market per side of the market.
I pessimistically think this problem is only going to get worse as young people today grow older and people/politicians today largely ignore the current problem.

In Western cultures, people have become isolated and atomized - by trends such as technology, changing social norms (and family structures), diversification of demographics, and the gradual decline of social structures like religion - as a result, people feel more lonely and feel as if they have less support or purpose.

It seems as if people are more genuinely kind in places that are remote and not densely populated. Folks in cities have so many interactions on daily basis and see so many people (some of those people in dire situations, like homeless people or drug addicts) that they seem to become almost numb to it. If you fell on the sidewalk in New York City, how many people would step over you and how many people would offer to help you up and/or see if you're okay? Would this change depending on the age of the person who fell?

I have a grandfather who is old enough to remember betting with friends on Nazi battles with the Soviets that were broadcast over the radio (details of the battles and the progression). So much has changed since he was a young man - I imagine it's startling and quite unsettling for older people. The rate of change seems now faster than it's ever been and they certainly can't keep up with it. I've talked with older people that simply feel like for this reason, among many others, they've been left behind and forgotten about. This could be a possible contributor to elderly suicide rates as well.
I didn’t mean for it to be distasteful but can see how it came off that way.

I read through the poster’s comments and it became clear we’re not going to agree based on general economic frame of reference.
Its a good start but this is maybe like 5-10% of Xenophobia.
Border protectionism is not good but there's a huge amount of systemized xenophobia thats unrelated to borders.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar, the last thing we want here.

Your comment would have been fine without the second paragraph.
So little RAM?
Which is why they are interested in the applicant lying about those contacts.

The application will provide an opportunity to disclose foreign contacts.
Find consoles that allow DRM-free gaming, I posted one example in this thread. Otherwise I don't see it as consistent, when you are excusing one (Nintendo) and blaming another (Bethesda).
We alternate time zones, so sometimes it’s e.g. 6-9 Eastern.
It's a joke.

I'd like a giant string diagram representing the meaning of the paper, not the paper.
It's a lot harder to open multiple accounts than it used to be. They now require ID verification on every account.

You just asked me how Amazon punishes sellers, so I provided some examples. You can find many more by searching.

Obviously the sellers that were actually selling counterfeits aren't going to be doing interviews.
> In Toronto and its many smaller surrounding cities, the convenience store is known as a variety store.

glances at CN Tower We call it a what? I mean, I've probably heard that term, but they're convenience stores.
I think those expectations are pretty clearly stated.

The subtitle is "Mastering the Plumbing of Data Science"

> "If you are looking for AI algorithms and such data scientist things, this book is not for you."

> "How to use this document:
First of all, this is not a training! This cookbook is a collection of skills that I value highly in my daily work as a data engineer."

> "You are going to find Five Types of Content in this book: Articles I wrote, links to my podcast episodes (video & audio), more then 200 links to helpful websites I like, data engineering interview questions and case studies"

> "This book is a work in progress!
As you can see, this book is not finished. I’m constantly adding new stuff and doing videos for the topics. But obviously, because I do this as a hobby my time is limited. You can help making this book even better."
What does Uber marketing even do to warrant a 1200 person headcount? I'm from Europe and have never seen any of their marketing, it seems to me that word-of-mouth is more than enough
One small point - these may be identical positions, but the wording aims at two different groups. Homeowners, and those who wish to become homeowners.

Of course, those who wish to become homeowners also want those traits the moment they sign on the dotted line. Often, if you're purchasing a (first) home, it's for stability. Steady or increasing home value provides stability. Decreasing home value only causes instability (for example, should your mortgage go underwater you will lose that home).
Well you can... the terminology is just different

They’ll say “saudi investors bought into secondary offering at X share price” instead of “round completed at Y valuation!!!” Which is just X share price of last purchase multiplied by total shares in existence

Public companies can do secondary offerings from treasury or from creating brand new shares from nothing (dilution)

Liquidity is one of the benefits
The junkyard on my neighbor's property doesn't hurt me - as long as my neighbor is careful to prevent oil leaks and other sources of pollution. It might be ugly, but ugly is a first amendment right.
good points (seriously)
Does anyone have any idea why Uber isn't profitable? I never really understood that. It's such a ubiquitous service in a large portion of the world.

It seems to me that they have a lot of physical growth, so what is happening to their finances?
I'm old and French and used to live in Paris, so I call it "the corner Arab" which is a bit dated because such shops are no longer 100% owned+operated by Northern Africans.
Mine still is though. I asked them if they found the moniker racist, they laughed "non, it's true".
I make extensive use of the Tampermonkey (for javascript) and stylus (for css) extensions. I probably don't have access to some of the browser's APIs but it is easier to create and edit scripts with them.
Look to medieval society. Everyone was in some form of guild. Guilds determined how you dressed, who you socialized with, held ceremonies and parties. It wasn't just a trade union, it was a whole way of life.
I had accompanied a wildlife photographer friend of mine along with a forest guard. There was a large crevice separating us and the den.

Prior permission is required from the authorities and they are very strict about handing them out and also they come with lot of restrictions, like the permit is restricted to a single zone of the forest and your entry/exit times are pre-defined and logged.
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I agree, this has to be weighed alongside with other factors.

One big difference is that other factors are gradual, and will come with characteristic times of decades, so we will have (some) time to adjust. A nuclear accident will be immediate, on the time scale of hours.

I think we should keep in mind that nuclear power came about from the military need, so the desire to keep these plants operating might also come from the same source.

On top of that, I personally think there is absolutely no excuse not to develop solar+battery solutions. Should we decide to put as much money as we did in nuclear into solar, and cover let's say Arizona in solar panels, we could shut down all the nuclear power plants and export excess electricity to Canada. This should be a national priority.
From one random person (me) to another (you), I'd recommend following Jay on twitter or wherever. She's great.
What's with the odd ending to the title? The title of the linked article is just "The case against reality," and the summary starts "A new theory argues consciousness creates neural activity".

There's no mention of any "neural AC" in the article anywhere...
I am in the last few months of my 20s, and I would say that I have suicide as my ultimate end of life plan.

It's not a financial thing - I am generally quite frugal, have built up decent investments, and don't think I'll ever have to worry about food/shelter/etc. I am citizen of a country that provides free healthcare, so that's one worry off my mind as well.

But the past year or so, I have seen my 93 year old grandmother slowly lose all of her mental capacities and with it any trace of a personality. Her life now is spent in a barely conscious/awake state, and she can't even recognize those who gave her the most joy when she was younger.

Who would want 5, 10, 15 years of this? Of course I'd rather die peacefully in my sleep after a long day filled with things I loved doing, but that's not the case for many. Medical science has advanced to the point where we can take care of the human body way beyond what the human mind can follow.

In the years after my grandfather's death, while my grandmother's mental decline was beginning and she slowly became aware of it, she said that her only wish was that God would take her then. She lives in a country where legal assisted suicide is not a thing.

If I ever find myself in a similar situation (something not unlikely - people in my Mediterranean family tend to live well into their 80s and 90s), I hope I have the clarity of mind to end it on my own terms.
You could also switch from Git to Fossil which supports issues and wikis as part of its decentralized nature, in addition to unversioned artifacts (e.g., for release artifacts)
WebCrypto Prototype for Node.js
Greyhole – a storage pool of all your available hard drives
Yeah for sure we could build a model that. We need to protect the techies :p Facebook data is hard to get so it's hard for anyone to use it even if we made that model it. Do you see that in other social media sites? for example twitter?
I see 1k duplicates in Dedupely and 5k in HubSpot, what’s wrong?
Oh, this is so cool news! We actually have tons of old fuel here in Germany, as we are bailing out of nuclear power. Would you mind, if we send it to you? It would be free, including shipping!
An issue we hit recently was our place, while near-ish an airport (well, a couple of miles away), didn't have much issues. Then several years after we bought, they changed their software I guess (thats the story anyway) which decided all planes should go over our house, and at much lower altitude than they historically would.

So literally one day everything is fine, then the next its hell. Then people started saying "Well its your fault for buying near an airport". That wasn't great :(
Most EV Charging Infrastructure Is Wasted Due to Lack of New Thinking
The Michael Crichton novel Timeline is basically about this. It’s good. Spoiler: saltpeter makes an appearance, as suggested by someone elsewhere in this thread.
> (IMO, that's a silly requirement from the FSF, I think keeping the main CPU free of blobs that it doesn't run i.e. blobs for other things does not have any meaningful benefits)

Depends on how privileged the peripheral or subsystem is. And what data it is trusted with.

If it can't harm the main CPU and is properly confined then it's fine in my book.
It isn't close to a $600 phone. The $180 Nokia 4.1 has near identical specs....except it has an 8 core, 2ghz CPU and not a 4 core, 1.5ghz cpu

You can actually get under $100 if you compromise the specs just a little.
Wow, I totally skipped over that. Wasn't familiar enough with the acronym. Very nice.
I just found out they didn't use AOSP. Ok so it's based on Linux but isn't anyone worried that they're re-inventing some wheels by not using AOSP? Or is there a licensing issue I'm not aware of?

Edit: Sorry but my cynicism stems from backing a lot of open source attempts, including N900 with Maemo, ZTE Blade and Jolla. I ended up giving away two of those and the last is rotting in storage.
> seem to care so much about DRM

I'm not sure "didn't want to create another account just to play a game" fits under this umbrella, but I'm more curious what exactly you're trying to prove here. If one DRM implementation is distasteful to me, then I should avoid all implementations of DRM? I don't want my PC rooted by a music CD with poor DRM on it, but I still watch DVDs and Blu-Rays and download streaming content through a closed-source plugin.
I take the same issue whenever I see zoning issues about my locality (Denver) brought up by online communities who tend "YIMBY" but have little, if any, horse in the race of local politics. There this un-nuanced thousand-miles-removed view of zoning issues propagated in media and places like Reddit and HN, and then there's the opposing boots-on-the-ground version where those of us living in the community, who would have to live with the changes, fight against destructive zoning proposals and corrupted officials.

Starting a sentence with "as a zoning official" has no value. Having personally met with a number of zoning officials, historic commission members, city planners, and council-members, their allegiances and political views vary from one to the next. Some ran on campaigns almost entirely funded by out-of-state-developer donations; while others, sure, are a reflection of elite country-club voters wanting to keep out the "riff-raff". There's a whole swath of viewpoints in between the extremes, and the only thing consistent among every national story about "NIMBY"ism is that it is far, far too disconnected from the communities to adequately capture any of those viewpoints.
Deduping HubSpot takes time, here's why
Thanks for the references. So basically the bargain of the ID claim is that if someone's use wasn't fair, the penalty is relatively lenient vs what it could've been in court, but then the disadvantage is that you don't get a proper appeal when you consider something to be fair use?
Having lived here and there in the US, I've called and heard them called thus:

* 7-11 (used as a generic)

* party store

* ice house

* bodega

* the corner store

* convenience store
Which is exactly their point. Why localize your marketing when you can build a much more centralized message. This way they spend less on marketing and have a better global brand identity.
Strange, after declining message about "native" desktop app, I've never seen it again. No other issues as well. Firefox 69 on Windows, one paid and one free workspace.
Zen 2 has 16MB L3 per CCX, so e.g. 70MB total on the 12-core. Not a hundred, but quite a lot. It's Huge.
Doing it several times is perhaps a bit excessive. It gives the impression that you're using the thread to promote something rather than converse with the specific person you're replying to.
Well, the point is that current interconnects are reducing this latency significantly, people are buying GPUs in external boxes today
I want my home to keep pace with inflation exactly. Since the only reason I would sell it would be to move to a different house I don't expect to get anything out of moving.