skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there's at least a few free market purists that will decry this move as it removes competition from the market, but this happens to be one instance where public prisons actually cost less on average than when outsourced to the private market [0]

[0] https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/private-pri...
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> The shift towards the modern idea of what pinball machines are like today was a reaction to laws threatening to ban them.

Then, sounds like the hubbub at the time was both mostly reasonable and effective.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this methodology seems flawed. Using building permits per 1000 residents only provides an accurate comparison metric if the density of the housing is the same.

If the move is (as it seems to be) towards large multi-unit housing complexes, shouldn't we be looking at residential units created?
It's not a strawman argument if that's really what they are spending time on that should be spent addressing far more important issues like homelessness. They shouldn't spend 1 second talking about an issue so meaningless on the list of issues they need to tackle. If you can't see that they are grabbing at low hanging fruit so that they can say they accomplished something then I think you might be a bit naive. A ban is literally the easiest cop-out for legislatures to do. No deep thinking required to blanket ban everything you don't like or perceive as problematic.
"There just isn't an option for everyone to move away from the bay area and still have work."

>>>>>>>>>

If you can't afford to live in a box in San Jose, obviously staying isn't an option either.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"Take your "I've got mine so screw everyone else" attitude out of the bay area, we don't have room here for people with so little empathy for their neighbors."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Oh I don't live in the Bay Area. Theres an entire nation outside of San Francisco, large parts of which are better than the bay area in every objective fashion other than this weird cult obsession with having to live in the poop filled streets of Silicon Valley.
If I need to search hundreds of GB of photos, I can with an iPhone, too.

The phone automatically offloads the full-resolution images to iCloud while retaining thumbnails and metadata. The photos on iCloud are encrypted so that even Apple can't see them.

Moving the goalposts doesn't change the fact that everything you want can be done on-device, with none of the privacy-destroying methods that Google has imposed on the world.
Ask HN: How do you coalesce multiple blogs into a readable stream
As not everyone blogs on the same platform, some use medium, some use their own site, some with RSS feeds, some without. Has anyone identified an easy way to pull and organize these into a simple reader view?
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Mine works just fine in Wellington, which has steeper streets than San Francisco.
Well, you wouldn't have things like the Kids for Cash scandal as likely to occur.

https://nypost.com/2014/02/23/film-details-teens-struggles-i...
This is the way I feel too. Python is both redundant and inconsistent at a basic level. The APIs for `map`, `filter` and `reduce`, the inversion between `split` and `join`, `sort` vs `sorted` -- it's all very weird. And these aren't advanced features.

When I hear people describe Python as simple and elegant, it feels like they're using a different language than the one I know.
Low cost travel & tourism are _not_ rights. They're privileges. Seems fair to include negative externalities in the cost. If that excludes some people, so be it. They can travel closer to home.
I thought O(1) = O(100) so it would still technically be correct, no?
Remove the leading 3 and the trailing term of 1/4 increasing in power.

You are left with this (in the 4th line):

1 3 5 1

- - - -

2 4 6 7

The pattern I see is that, starting from the top left and reading numerator, denominator, numerator, denominator and so on gives: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 if you ignore the last numerator.

I may have it wrong, but that looks like the pattern.
Not only that, but Anduril literally means "Flame of the West" and Palantir means "far-seeing" or seeing-stone.
It shouldn’t be. Either way, it’s not the main reason that people (like myself) are clamoring for plant-based meat alternatives that recreate the meat-eating experience. pkulak is right. It’s to prevent animal cruelty and help the environment.

The constant daily reminder from the media that Impossible Burgers aren’t any healthier than real burgers are an irrelevant distraction from the point. Animals don’t have to be slaughtered to enjoy a hamburger if it’s an Impossible burger. The only way to dispute that is if you claim that Impossible Burgers aren’t as good as a real one, and dammit if Impossible hasn’t done an incredible job at making a tasty burger out of freakin plants.
Why not driving regular bicycles?

Where do you put the bicycle when you get where you need to go?
That’s what social media sorta solved: bad service will tank a restaurant. Bad food won’t.

I’m thankful that one of my favourite French dishes (aligot), while looking like a pile of whipped vomit, is presented in an entertaining manner.
No. I'm writing it from my desk at my place of employment. I went to the privately owned halfway house in May of 2019. I get released to probation in October of 2019.

Internet access is non-existent without a cell phone. The higher up in security level you go the harder it is to get a cell phone. Camps at Fort Dix, Petersburg, Morgantown, etc. without a fence.. they're readily available for anywhere from 100-300 USD. A low that has an attached camp a little harder and more expensive. A low with a fence you're looking at maybe 1,000+ USD. Beyond that good luck. These are the shitty prepaid 30 dollar Android phones. Get caught with a cell phone you'll lose up to 200 days of good time and get an automatic shipment (through the horrible OKC facility...) to the next security level. Camp -> Low -> Medium -> High.

General rule at a camp is expect to pay 4x the street price for anything you want. Multiplier gets to be more like 5x-7x if it's something bulky and unusual.
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Please don't repeat the same comment multiple times. It lowers the signal/noise ratio.
Is your train an electric multiple unit? Those have far lower stop penalties.
Yup. This is equivalent to people disclosing all of my contact information without my consent, just by the virtue of being part of their network.
The reincarnation of Al Capone?
There is no WebGPU dialect of GLSL, only a SPIR-V execution environment for WebGPU. Lnaguages in themselves aren't "safe" or "unsafe", their implementations are.

Also please stop trying to influence a technical debate in a standardization group by putting blog posts on top of Hacker News.
If the incentives you proposed were enacted, there would be no private prisons because any company that tried would go bankrupt. (Unless you mean that the state would cover any costs incurred by the private prison, in which case you'd just get prisons run by grifters.)

California's state-run prisons have a recidivism rate of 65% within 3 years. A 2% rate of conviction over 50 years is lower than the population of non-convicts. It's not possible for any organization to accomplish that. Also, the company would have to wait 50 years for payout. Even if that payout is with interest, 50 years is beyond the time horizons of most governments, let alone companies.
There is literally no other way to apply machine learning to such a large problem. The system must have training data to learn from; as you expand the scope of your ML system, you must expand the scope of your training data.

Every large commercial ML system works this way. Google for years has paid people to manually score and categorize search results pages, to provide training data for ML web search systems.

It would have been better if companies were up-front about this when talking about "artificial intelligence" in their voice products, so it doesn't look like a nasty surprise.

And in the long run, everyone will benefit from some consistent regulations on ML data scoring, like HIPAA for health care (another industry where for-profit companies handle very sensitive customer data).
I'd love to hear more about this. Have you considered writing a blog post about this and sharing it here? Or if you happen to know of any good resources you can share, I'd appreciate those too.

The reason I ask is that I imagine a small or solo startup that's not focusing on massive growth but is optimizing for quality of life has a different set of challenges than the more traditional startups that people on HN are used to.
I'd like to think that understanding how the brain responds to gambling, why the games are designed the way they are and how exploitative the companies behind them are being can help, but I wouldn't expect a child to be able to really grasp all that well enough.
Tourists traps aren’t anything new. If anything, social media helps guide people away from them in a way that wasn’t possible before.
Jade to React: using prod validation to make modernization safe, fast, and fun
Thanks for the heads up! I liked his writing style so I’ll put them on the list.
Well, this vs. the parent comment is the true crux of the matter. Is college more about signaling, or is it more about giving people valuable skills? I agree Caplan makes a very compelling case for signaling, based primarily on the observable behavior of people in the system.

My pet educational reform is not 'free college for everyone', but rather that the gov't would pay out a percentage of the increase in W2 earnings before/after the education to the educational institution for a few years. The gov't would pay it, so it is not indentured servitude.

In order to get paid, the institutions would need to raise the W2 earnings of people who attended. I'd also like to see a requirement that the payouts be publicly reported, so that reports could identify which institutions were high achieving in this regard.

I personally think that reform might focus the system more on improved skills, and less on signaling and a fight for improved US news rankings.
> - Lower attack surface

wut?
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> ...every time I do it I say "How is this better than <pre></pre>?"...

From Gruber’s Markdown spec:

> Readability, however, is emphasized above all else.
It's been a long time since I used Mathematica (I still think it is an absolutely awesome product even though I'm not a huge fan of the language, to say the least), so I might not have context. Question to more knowledgeable people - is this the first sign of the recognition that the rest of the world is actively contributing to and using Jupyter (compared to proprietary and non-free Wolfram/Alpha) and a desperate attempt to stave off the eventual irrelevence?

It does look to me very similar to the SAS situation, where they continue to exist (and still hold ground in some serious places) but the rest of the world has long moved on to R and Python, and SAS has completely lost that generation...
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Are you complaining that Google maps uses JavaScript?
From the article:

When the vehicle was pulled from the water, skeletal remains were found inside. One week later the remains were positively identified as belonging to Mr Moldt.
The second part of that sentence fragment is referring to the police spokeswoman.
Aside: Chromium includes regression tests for battery usage.

I saw a fix get reverted because the code change caused a 5% step increase in battery usage.

They have some very good testing infrastructure.
There are a lot of people in this thread oddly pointing links to this "Mint Press News" site. For anyone curious and reading my comment, don't click. It's a propaganda site and has almost no reputation for trustworthiness or accuracy.
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Doesnt help a lot of fantasy bad guys are cooler and more metal than the good guys. Especially appeals to outcasts of social groups
4th step is 1357/2468
I thought such things only exist in movies.
You're conflating lack of opportunity with artificial scarcity.

The US is in a position where it spent trillions of dollars to educate young people, but then saddled them with a trillion dollars in student loans. So rather than being able to start businesses or have the breathing room to join professional organizations or otherwise build their careers gradually like in the past, graduates are forced to jump into student loan payback within 6 months or a year of graduation.

This isn't necessarily a new thing. For example, my dad was a dentist and our family struggled financially until I was about 15 (20 years after he graduated from dental school). This was due to the excessive cost of lab supplies in the medical industry, and a corrupt scheme where suppliers lend money to young practices at exorbitant interest and fees. Someone is always trying to get a piece of the action.

We should reform student loans to be the way that Stripe is doing it. A flat fee on the order of about 10% added to the original loan amount, then 0% interest for the life of the loan, and a maximum repayment each month of perhaps 5-20% of declared income.

That way college graduates could explore their career space, potentially for years, and then pay back their loans after they're established and actually have income.

Better yet, go back to how it used to be before Ronald Reagan and fund college publicly, and put more resources into building new campuses. The money for that is there, it's just been misappropriated for the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, big pharma, the war on drugs, you get the picture.

My generation (gen x) thought that war was over after Vietnam, and we certainly didn't vote for any war on drugs, or foresee the return of racism/sexism/nationalism or that essentially all of the federal government's disposable income would go to tax breaks for the wealthy and increase the national debt to the point where our children and grandchildren would be poorer than us.

^^^ This was a grave concern of the founding fathers, who realized that one generation could run up the debt and enslave the next generation without their permission, effectively disenfranchising them, which is illegal as there is no taxation without representation, so that presents an existential threat to our union as serious as colonialism.

I've been watching this same song and dance since I was a kid in the 80s, and my parents spoke often about how devastating it was to their generation when JFK, RFK and MLK were assassinated and Nixon got elected. Heck some people reading this weren't even born yet when 9/11 happened. Believe it or not, there was a time before this decades-long Middle East war swallowed the money that was going to pay for your future.

Which is why I think that all of this is by design. Artificial scarcity begets income inequality begets class strife begets political division begets the rise of a new global aristocracy.
If it's so important to them, you'd think they could put some money toward support. I don't see them on https://www.python.org/psf/sponsorship/sponsors/ Even if they're not paying the core Python devs, they could probably afford to have security fixes patched for three months until the migration is finished.
>It incentivizes landlords to even out their rent increases over time, and to avoid sudden jumps.

No. It doesn't 'incentivize', it mandates.

Also, I have no idea why you're arguing this point, this is rent-control. This is how rent-control works. It sets a cap on what you can charge for rent.

>Especially for lower-income people, price shocks are devastating;

Rent-control is devastating for lower-income people.

Price shocks are a result of spirling supply in face of rising demand. THIS DOES NOT FIX THAT. Rent control does not fix this problem and you can't just wish it away. Rent control makes it worse. In a normal market, prices stabilize. Landlords don't just spike prices over a month because either a) there's a lease agreement which sets these terms out, b) they won't be able to rent the unit out at the higher prices, or c) Good tenants are hard to find and finding tenants takes time and is expensive while your apartment sits there not generating income.
It's probably not a good example but that is what Twitch did, you can connect to their video channels with standard IRC clients (without the added "features" like paid subscription picture "emotes").
String formatting libraries, and other things that work with buffers are frequent attack surfaces for buffer overflow attacks.

Granted, using C means developers often implement these operations themselves which introduces the possibility of creating more attack surfaces. But it's less likely that the standard library presents an attack surface when the standard library is tiny.
You seem to be the one full of hate, using angry labels rather than addressing the comment.
Google ditched system similar to Tesla Autopilot in 2013
Just a reminder that approximately 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the United States.

10% of 2.2 million is 220,000, and that is 220,000 more people than deserve to be a human sacrifice to a corporation and its bottom line.
Immutable.js implements a specific set of data structures that internally share references. When you add a new field or copy an object, Immutable.js doesn't have to completely recreate things. For small objects this doesn't matter, but for _very_ large objects and arrays, it does improve performance to some extent.

With Immer and "hand-written" immutable updates, doing a `{...obj}` or `someArray.slice()` will do a "shallow" copy of the object. This is equivalent to what Immutable.js does in that it keeps all the fields pointing to the same references. However, the JS engine does have to do an O(n) processing of all the individual top-level keys, whereas Immutable.js's internal data structure is O(logN) or something like that. So, for _very_ large objects, it is faster for Immutable.js to make a copy than it is for plain JS data.

My take, however, is that

- Most apps will not be dealing with gigantic objects, so there's no perf benefit from using Immutable.js

- Immutable.js is a much larger dependency than Immer

- The fact that Immer works with POJOs _and_ gives you the ability to write trivial "mutative" syntax for updates is a huge improvement over Immutable.js's Java-inspired API

So, to me, the only hypothetical use case where Immutable.js would actually be worth it is if your app is consistently dealing with huge objects, _and_ there is truly serious overhead from copying them that needs to be optimized.
Thanks for pointing this out.

> It is clear what Mozilla needs to do: Mozilla can and should revert the change and allow users to easily opt-in. And to select or enter the DoH provider instead of defaulting to Cloudflare.

Buried lede is buried.
For me the question is how are recipients selected? The main drive to use that API would be to promote doing the right thing, but for that to happen, recipient selection is a key aspect. Look for example at Kiva, you know where your money goes, why these people have been selected, and even may know how to apply for these micro-credits.
As for your questions, b) would be a demotivator to use it, and I think that 'feature' could kill the API easily on bad press.
Is that simplified? I'm just going off of this image: http://ajennings.net/blog/images/formula.png
I'm sorry but really? Unless you live in California under a direct and major urban center, this is a joke. Canadian winters are -30 celcius. Future of transportation, no. Large vehicles and smaller forms of transportation should in no way "share the roadway". It's complete madness and dangerous. The Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular have this figured out long ago, smaller, separate lanes - not a white line. North America still doesn't get it.
I'm guessing, but I suspect it's hard to convince voters of the need to build prisons over other large capital expenditures (ex. hospitals, schools etc). Therefore it's easier to convince a private company to spend the money and operate it. Unfortunate, but could be the case.
This is "the law" as in "this specific law" not "the legal system".
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You're absolutely wrong here. A language must specify its semantics. Those semantics describe the safety properties of that language.
Why should we care if someone makes a profit if we get the outcomes that we want? The profit is not what is evil, the poor conditions and poor outcomes are. If incentives are effective at producing good outcomes it would be stupid to not use them.

p.s. It is possible to disagree with someone without being a moralizing asshole, you should try it sometime.
Ah, I referred to the third line, "𝔻𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜? ", as the "second one" in my message, without mention for line 2, which renders correctly, fortunately. But thanks for the heads up.
I imagine the burden of proof would be pretty high. Like you said, it's hard to prove.
>Yeah but we're not discussing those other issues. We're specifically discussing using technology to enforce borders.

You can't remove Anduril from the cultural context it was born in. Handwaving away his entire post "because we are not discussing those other issues" is a cheap cop-out. Its akin to saying Facebook shouldn't have an instropective look at the way it collects data because "elections are other unrelated issues."

We agree that sovereign nations should be allowed to enforce its borders. But for what reason should technology like Anduril be funded and exist? It's more likely this technology is used in an Orwellian manner than in whatever noble "enforcing borders" principle you believe in.
This counterargument conveniently ignores the history of 'European colonization of America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the colonies into the United States of America [0]'.

I'm not the most well-versed on these topic (colonization / mobility) but it would seem that that mobility is what helped shape America into what it is today rather than "not allowing mobility".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United...
Your first link doesn't say they sold US secrets, just technology US firms weren't allowed to provide. They have an extensive domestic tech industry and due to their history quite a large defense industry as well.

The second link is as advertised though - however the person responsible did resign (assuming it wasn't some broader conspiracy).
What noun would you suggest be used?
The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (2012)
Why do people NEED to work in san francisco/LA? You may think you're contributing something valuable being a barista or adjunct ethnic studies professor in the Bay Area but if you can't survive there maybe the others don't agree. Move to a house bigger than a shoebox with less traffic, less filth, and less crazy politicians, and lower costs. Whats the hangup? I don't understand these people who watched pirates of silicon valley and now they have to live in a shack on location.
In Copenhagen it's often the opposite: the rest of the group came by bike, they're within 20m of the current bar, the person on foot will have to turn up later. Or we all walk.

(Also, the suburban trains and taxis carry bikes for free.)
When it comes to fake videos and images, it's not quality that convinces people
look at "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/d...

as well as "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz as mentioned.

Each of these paints a fully researched rebuttal to the mainline nutrition science sources you cite. Roughly "All of modern nutrition science is woefully corrupted, since about 1940".
I like that I’ve never heard about the Tolkien estate threatening lawsuits. It’s hard to imagine that there aren’t licensing fees in place but I’d love to read an article about the amount of money it takes to name your company Anduril (or Palantir).