skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the whole picture might also include their astronomical lease obligations..

If they are going to have to shut down all these sites the second the market slows down (or indeed as soon as the obligations are due), perhaps one might argue it was imprudent to open them to begin with.

Any marketing benefit gained by being "everywhere" is surely undone when they have to publicly shutter a large portion of their locations.
A bit off-topic, but I've never exceeded 6w of power with raspberry and I have monitored it out of curiosity a lot.
But that's just false. Rotations preserve orientation, reflections do not. They can't be equivalent. Two reflections can be equivalent to a rotation however, because that restores the original orientation.
This is quite a good write-up about the pros and cons. As a father of a one year old, of course it doesn't make sense she could vote anything. But with the age of 10 (when some kind of middle school starts in most (western?) countries), pupils can and should start to get politically informed. I support all these pro arguments. It would make our democracies richer and more robust in the long term.

But it won't come: Conservative parties and powerful old people don't want this, they feel it as a threat.
I don't know if "most" is totally accurate, but definitely the highest resolution ones and probably the most recent ones. Probably anything less than 1m.

There is a significant discrepancy between the imagery viewable in 3D mode and the stuff that's only 2D, because Google simultaneously captures high resolution aerial photography and Lidar, particularly around cities. You can see vast differences in urban or rural landscape sometimes because the stuff you see in Google maps can be taken as far as years apart from the 3D aerial stuff.

For example, you can see where the data source and rendering method change just outside the city of Winnipeg on the South end. Probably testable in many other cities simply by seitching between google maps and google earth.
I haven't been able to motivate myself to finish several projects that are 90-95% done.
No problem. I understand that with the model we have right now (nation-states with closed borders) most people do not like to receive migrants for certain valid and not-so-valid reasons. I just wanted to provide the perspective from the migrants point of view.

Maybe I am naive, but I like to think that if we dont destroy ourselves first, in some moment in the future (100-1000 years) the earth will belong to all of us, so a person from Africa could visit Yellowstone, Montreal and Stamford Bridge without giving their dignity away in a visa process. Same for an American going or settling in Beijing , Vladivostok or Brasilia.
wait until Elon makes car solar tiles. Tesla Scales (c) me.

It's true a car surface is ridiculous. Now on a van, bus or truck .. this could make for some nice juice.
The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway
Solar panels in Germany produce about 10% of peak power if you average over the year. Those panels are generally installed in the correct orientation to maximize efficiency. Panels on a car will likely perform much worse.
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>Rent control that simply smooths out price increases, and loses landlords perhaps a year of the new price during sudden spikes, is pretty innocuous.

Says who? You're just making things up now.

>they always have the option of not keeping up with market-rate increases. Not that I think anyone will take that option.

No you're just distorting words. Rent-control is a mandate. Saying it isn't a mandate because you can just drop the rent is dishonest. Why are you playing these word-games?

>The point isn't to "fix" the increase in price.

But that's what it does. You're capping what rent can be and your only argument that somehow it isn't rent-control and won't suffer the same consequence as every rent-control policy is that isn't as disastrous as something that San Francisco did.

>But enough do to create a serious public policy problem

Serious public policy problem? What are you even talking about? Housing shortage and homelessness is a serious public policy problem. This is a non-problem that if solved through this measure actually magnifies those real issues.

You're also making up the reason why this policy was put in place. It was put in place "to deal with housing crunch"[1], and not deal with the 'serious public policy problem' of some fictional landlord spiking rent for fictional renters. We know from hundreds of studies that rent-control does not actually solve either problem..

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent/californi...
I liked this part:

“I have a rule-of-thumb for picking A/B test winners: Whichever version doesn’t make any sense or seems like it would never work, bet on that. More often than I like to admit, the dumber or weirder version wins.

This is actually how I tell if a company is truly optimizing their funnel. From a branding or UX perspective, it should feel a little “off.” If it’s polished and everything makes sense, they haven’t pushed that hard on optimization.”

...but if you take this too far you end up with something like Amazon.com, where everything is “a little off”?
I'm fairly sure the racism argument was the first strawman in this thread. Chinese software has some real trust issues, given the political climate in that country. Open source does not automatically mean it's safe.
10 stories apartments.

Instead of visiting Tokyo go visit Moscow or any capital from the previous eastern european communist countries. See how that worked out for the rich and poor.

You compare housing with data. Devaluation of humans to the point where you believe they can be compared to just 0s and 1s is whats wrong with your article. But i guess you still think this is just a statistic. Someone else did too.
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Ah, having mentioned UK in part, I thought the whole was UK related. A similar attitude has infected many places since the 80s, it's just the UK and US have repeatedly led that charge.
> But that's just false. Rotations preserve orientation, reflections do not. They can't be equivalent. Two reflections can be equivalent to a rotation however, because that restores the original orientation.

I believe the parent meant the statement as it applies to a single point. E.g. meant to say "a half turn rotation in a plane [of a point] is equivalent to a reflection across the axis of rotation."
You can buy land high enough on the coast so your offsprings will get rich. Obvious you need free money to do that.
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How Maury Saved Millions and Unified the World with Data in the 1800s
Me, too. Plus, I sleep really well.
I agree that quantifying value brought by someone is extremely hard. I think market rate (when the demand of employees is high enough) works as the consensus of how much does a worker generate.

> it's really just the simplest working solution to the problem that anyone has been able to demonstrate.

'Working solution' is a stretch. There is a lot of people working below a living wage in companies that still post significant profits, where top executives receive salaries several orders of magnitude higher than those employees. That does not seem adjusted to me.

And don't get me wrong, solutions to this problem are hard and I know it, the system is complex. But situations like paying less to remote workers when they do the same work are incredibly clear and easy to solve, and they show that it's not only that it's difficult, it is that those business do not care at all about making things fair for their employees.
The Surprising Limitations of C++ Ranges Beyond Trivial Cases
Here is a generic function that will turn any bit-depth into any other bit-depth:

uint64_t convert(uint64_t color, uint sourceDepth, uint targetDepth) {
if(sourceDepth == 0 || targetDepth == 0) return 0;
while(sourceDepth < targetDepth) {
color = (color << sourceDepth) | color;
sourceDepth += sourceDepth;
}
if(targetDepth < sourceDepth) color >>= (sourceDepth - targetDepth);
return color;
}

In fact, you probably should use normalization when converting arbitrary levels. A floating point multiply is almost certainly cheaper than a while loop. But hey, why not? Just don't use it for any real-time stuff unless you build a color palette cache.
>Given the super low price of smaller window A/C units, you'd think they'd install a few more of those, maybe it's impractical for some reason.

In Europe you generally have another kind of window, which you tilt.

https://www.bew24-fenster.de/media/catalog/category/Kat_Kuns...

https://www.plejadium.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/kippfens...

Given the construction, you cant conveniently seal an AC in there. Due to the houses being made from stone, you cant easily replace the type of windows. People also generally rent in the cities, so you would have to convince your landlord to let you screw with his outer wall, which is a big no no. Some countries like Germany also dont allow renters to change the outer appearance of a house. This mostly means no satellite dishes hung out of the window, but also no bulky ACs.
What Is Computer Vision?
Hijacked scrolling site is my second-ranked peeve below the website that pops an overlay to "subscribe". Closed the tab before I could enjoy the design.
Thanks for your response :)
Thanks for taking the time to respond :)
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There are many angles/perspectives. Lets consider two categories for whom it is declared that we need them or they are allowed to enter: high-skilled workforce and refugees. We all know (here at HN) about the huge bureaucracy and obstacles when it comes to work permits. As for the refugees - everyone declares that they are allowed to enter, but in order to qualify for such status they need to be [almost] drown in the sea or [almost] killed at the border.

https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/why-refugees-do-not-take-th...

https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/02/11/why-dont-refugees-fly/
There are not many birds in any large cities apart from pigeons, which are usually considered a nuisance.

Hongkong has the advantage that it is actually very small and dense with nature (in hills and parks) never far away, which I'm guessing helps a lot in sustaining a more abundant and diverse bird population.
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And it works. Amazon is the leader. Are you sure it's despite its UX or did UX contributed?
> I'm not sure how much progress we are ever going to make towards remote working as core practice, since the last decade has re-built a collapsed economy on the basis of hyper-inflated urban property values in 19thC-style urban conurbations such as NYC, SF, Tokyo, London, etc

Tokyo’s rental prices and house prices have moved very little in the last twenty years while the population has gone up by half. If you let people build housing you can have huge increases in population without increases in property prices.

> The net-enabled, 'dispersed' society is probably further away than it has ever been because of these factors.

Fully remote companies exist and their numbers will only grow. There were very few of those ten years ago and there will be a lot more than double the current number ten years from now.
It can be both at the same time. A step of the reformation process is for the inmate to understand the need for the punishment. It doesn't mean that there is no punishment, just that blind retribution is insufficient to form a perspective for the inmate and society. Most inmates are not going to stay in prison for their whole life, so of obviously you try to maximize rehabilitation.

I do believe it to be a universal truth that a reformist approach is superior. Treating it as opposed solution is certainly short sighted.
What you are describing isn't how the free market works though. It is just a fantasy of yours.

In an efficient market your theoretical business would be driven into bankruptcy or bought out by the competition that is properly allocating capital.

Also the ceo answers to the shareholders who hired him with the job of maximizing returns. Unless this is a coop there is no reason for it to operate the way you are talking about.
What nearly wiped out the vultures wasn't antibiotics... there may be other factors, but the main one was a specific anti-inflammatory drug (diclofenac) which was used liberally in treating any sign of illness in livestock and which turned out to be highly toxic to vultures. It is now banned in India.
The thing about livestock medicine today is that diagnosis is generally too expensive for individual cases... if an animal looks sick you basically give an anti-inflammatory and an antibiotic and hope for the best, the former so that it'll feel well enough to eat so it won't get too weak, and the later to hopefully cure the illness. So both anti-inflammatory and antibiotics get used very liberally, to tragic consequences.
Unless you park in a garage, which a lot of people do.
You can turn off 3d mode by the blindingly obvious procedure of clicking the hamburger button, observing that "Globe" mode is enabled (because it is blue) and then clicking "Globe" to disable this mode.

Don't be so foolish as to think the button labelled "3D" in the content area toggles the 3D mode. Only an idiot would make that assumption!

(The above is sarcastic. I think the discoverability of this feature, and the weird 1/3/1 modality behavior of the items in the second section of the hamburger menu is shockingly poor).
Yeah, and all it takes for the business people to figure it out is for everyone to stop buying those games and those items within the game. Unfortunately these sorts of things are put into games because they work and because the games are already popular. I mean why is EA still making yearly sports games?
You seem obsessed with laws, as if they possess value and worth in and of themselves, when really they are a very high latency side channel of society and power.[a]

> I can use the law to bring them to court.

I wouldn't be so certain of that. There are two issues with this:

1. The no good would have to be illegal either in the civil sense for you to take them to court, or illegal in the criminal or regulatory sense for government to act. Obviously not all no good is codified in law.

2. Law is necessarily high latency - it requires the no good to have already taken place in order for action to be taken against the doers of no good

> i.e. they label you a criminal/terrorist to legitimate installing e.g. a trojan on your PC

This has its own issues:

1. the terrorist label will be applied unilaterally: no one is going to come and ask you if you're a terrorist before you get closer scrutiny.

2. It would be a mistake to think some form of constitution is going to help, in the long run. Laws can be changed. Even the US Constitution has amendments.

We're all only ever a few unhinged politicians away from no good governance.

a. This quote was taken from @revelation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033481
I was talking in broad strokes about how to encourage someone to have an intuition of the power requirements for such an endeavour. I was using easy round numbers not asserting exact numbers.
A few days ago I updated to a new version of Go and noticed a perf regression on one of the programs for a cloudspanner backup. A really bad regression, so I thought the update must have changed something to cause this, and started to debug it.

After a few hours, and help of a colleague, we figured out the issue. I wasn't using the companies wired connection but instead was using the much slower wifi..
Which host country? People on HN might be inclined to help.
I too am in a similar situation. Got made redundant after working for a company for 2 and a half years. Decided to start my own business and go forward as a contractor.

It's no more or less secure than being full-time nowadays since I've been made redundant 3 times now and all because of money issues.
Actually the Netherlands already offers an alternative of a bike that is cheap that you can rent at most train stations by swiping your travel card. Usually very fast and simple. And also people who commute constantly like this can leave a bike locked at the station they commute to.

The key point is (while avoiding as much inconvenience as possible) - that everyone should be able to complete the journeys they need to complete - the fact you need to move luggage / a bike / a pram... That shouldn't be an exception / excuse / reason for car or taxi.

My favorite part of the Netherlands bike on trains system, is the ticket for your bike is more expensive than renting one of theirs at a station. That is deliberate. Reduce bikes on trains, but not the option of biking the last mile.
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Volkswagens aren't metaphysical ideals with potentially negative ethical and political implications.
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As far as stack overflow goes, you could just increase the stack size or make the N smaller. That is besides the point, I intentionally avoided dynamic memory allocation. Also even if I put everything (including the strlen) inside the loop, memccpy is still much slower. I still have not examined the assembler code.
A Vision of What Could Be
Managing jails with ansible [pdf][video]
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It generates combinations with your own clothes, based on the occasion (work, party etc.), weather, season, and a touch of our Italian taste.
You can also save the combinations for future use.
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kvark is developping the wgpu implementation for Mozilla

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20954885

https://gfx-rs.github.io/2019/03/06/wgpu.html
The Foldable Phone Will Not Be the Next Big Thing in the Smartphone’s Industry
I thought it would be good to get people familiar with bit-twiddling, as you will be doing a whole lot of that when writing retro emulators.

This is one of my favorite sites on the internet: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
Looking at the world download, it's using powered rails and observer blocks as a solid state storage.

There are only brief glimpses in the video, but here's what that looks like:
https://imgur.com/a/AkOAzgF

The 14 left-right powered rail tracks are the music channels. Each vertical slice is a tick of music, and they are grouped into 9, the max length of a powered rail signal. The presence of an observer block underneath the rail indicates a note.
The whole machine appears to be 128 x 14 bits. It has a serial read interface.

In more detail:

From the bottom of the image to the top you see:

- A row of redstone blocks, pistons, and redstone wire.

- A row of repeaters facing north

- A row of repeaters facing west

- An observer facing north

- 14 east-west powered rail/observer wires, sending signals to the east.

- In a layer underneath the east-west observer-rail wires, alternating columns of rails and redstone wire facing north-south. (Not visible in the picture)

- (A mirror image of the bottom)

The west facing repeaters control the current read location. The machine sends a signal until they all turn on, then waits until they all turn off, then turns them on again, etc. When one of the repeaters toggles between on and off, the north-facing observer above it sends a pulse. The pulse travels upwards in the north-south rail (in the invisible lower layer), and then if an observer is present, the signal is sent east along the east-west line for the channel.

The bottom two rows form a pause mechanism. The redstone block, piston, redstone wire row is an instant repeater line. When the north-facing repeaters are turned on, they will lock the west-facing repeaters in whatever state they are in. Using instant wire ensures the pause will happen immediately.

The whole system is mirrored at the top since the north-south rails in the lower layer can only send a signal up to 9 blocks. With read signals coming from both sides, this design could support up to 18 channels.

One last detail -- one column of music is read every 2 redstone ticks, so most of the repeaters are set to a 2 tick delay. However, the signal for a channel must be repeated using an observer every 9 blocks (adding a 1 tick delay), so the first repeater in each 9 block section is set to 1 tick. This compensates for the delay.

EDIT: I originally stated that there were 14 channels, but I overlooked that it's double-layered, and that there's a similar quad-layered system on the other side. There are 50 channels in total.
More like a decade of failures really, resulting mostly from hard addiction to drugs and drinking that led to a failed suicide attempt in 2017. Still recovering from it. Initially there was hatred and resentment towards people who "saved" me, but I can see why people would do it for their fellow human, especially as time goes by. I'm 30 now and starting over...
We don't really have the space nor the climate for that in the UK. Some people do it but it's out of desperation rather than anything else. You will get hounded by the authorities as well.
> there's a huge spectrum of communication options between "I agree" and "Let's fight about this."

How do you do this in practice? If your partner wants to to something that you disagree with already, and both of you are sub-born, how do you resolve conflicts without someone stepping down and becoming unhappy?
Why a company can have an HR division and its employees aren’t allowed to?
It is still inhumane. There are other ways of running businesses, but rarely tried as they are typically squashed by bankers or VCs not providing financing.

Examples include directly hiring trade unions, cooperatives, associations...
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There is an item called a structure block that consists of a 2d array of block types and their relative positions. Once you've defined a structure block in-game you can place copies of it into the world. That can really help with some of these larger projects to have some boilerplate.

Additionally, there are some really interesting ways to build minecraft content with various programming languages. I'm aware of a Python[1] Library, a mod that provides in-game Lua scripting[2], and even a Clojure library used with Overtone/Supercollider[3] - be sure to check out that video for some incredible live-coded music with generated visuals.

[1] https://github.com/arpruss/raspberryjammod
[2] https://github.com/dan200/ComputerCraft
[3] http://blog.josephwilk.net/clojure/overtone-driving-minecraf...
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I suppose the cynical response is “there’s no such thing as taking it too far”, hence Amazon.
There are some very big remote-only companies. Canonical and Trello are and they're unicorns. There's also Automaticc, Digital Ocean, Basecamp, etc..
I used to use this for <10GB with the old pricing model. Stopped when the family needed something they could use (ended up on Office Home + OneDrive). I could definitely find a use for 1-5GB of storage, but the minimum is 500GB ($10/USD month or $108/USD annually).

Sorry John, looks like you had to chase me a bit due to an expired credit card. Hope I didn't cost too much for support.

The most useful thing to me would be being able to use git clone and rclone to pull files closer to me, but I bet it's not an intended use case to use rsync.net as a proxy.
Plenty of failures. Too many to count.