skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I am not an industry shill, but I also believe that modern zoning and building codes (not the safety codes, but things like parking) make the kind of places that I would enjoy living "illegal to build today". There are a lot of bad regulations in the building codes today. Fireproofing, egress, and siesmic stuff is great, absurdly low FAR in urban areas? 2 parking spaces per unit? That ruins any chance of walkability.
Jeez I can take my two dogs to a full on dog ranch for a week for less than that. They get to play all day with dogs and run around on an old farm...
dog ranch = dog kennel
I'll disagree with the old saying: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".
On your second point, I think a few different things are being conflated here. Usually setback rules require empty land between the building and the sidewalk, so they don’t serve to create any buffer between pedestrians and vehicles.

Also, some cities have streets with no setback and no sidewalk, where vehicle through traffic is generally banned. You could debate whether this is a good idea. Personally, I found having the entire street for pedestrian traffic, while occasionally stepping out of the way of a vehicle traveling at a few mph was more comfortable than walking along the sidewalk with vehicles traveling at 30 mph a short distance away.
Oh, agreed, but it would have been nice if the top-rated comment in the thread actually explicitly said that ;)
Maybe I don't know what you mean - do you mean a career advisor? What do academics know about careers outside academia?
Parent brought up a politically charged topic to the extent nessasary to qualify an otherwise false statement. In doing so, they took care to avoid the heart of the polical issue.

What more do you want? To allow charged topics to infect more and more otherwise non charged topics, and bring every conversation down to their level?
You can save for college, but then this gets deducted from your "need", causing financial aid to be reduced. There isn't much incentive to save when that just drives up the costs.
OK it's not surprising that rogue insiders – whether it's a regular ads employee, manager, or a site-reliability engineer – can attempt this kind of tampering. It is surprising that FB – who, if anything, is excellent at data and tracking – seems to lack seemingly basic access controls and detection mechanism to prevent this. According to BuzzFeed, FB only launched an internal investigation after BF asked questions about this employee:

> A company spokesperson confirmed that an unnamed employee was fired after inquiries from BuzzFeed News sparked an internal investigation. The employee in question was based in the company’s Austin office, according to information obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The article doesn't say exactly [0], but potentially a BF reporter might have noticed that scammy ad accounts that BuzzFeed previously reported on [1] – which FB then banned in response – were inexplicably active again. But why doesn't FB have an internal flag/bit for these egregiously scammy ad accounts (and their unique identifiers) in their systems? A flag that would trigger an automated notice/audit when that account was reactivated for any reason, by any employee?

[0] It's possible the article under discussion was completely sparked by insider leaks to the BF reporter, e.g. "chat messages obtained by BuzzFeed News". I'm just saying that it's possible that the rogue activity potentially seems to have been observable by any outsider, i.e. completely observable and preventable if Facebook had proper access control.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...
Only slightly related but I did a test of my emulator front end awhile ago running several hundred ZX Spectrums https://youtu.be/BjeVzEQW4C8
Is that actually better in this case? Intel found the issue internally. Nobody knows what it is. The advisory isn't sufficient information to figure it out. People can patch at their leisure, fairly sure that nobody is about to pop up with a 1-day exploit for it.

With an open source CPU, by now someone would have looked at the commits that fixed the Verilog/microcode, figured out what the bug is, and there'd be a convenient command line tool to get root on the hypervisor uploaded to GitHub within an hour.

This is one of those times when from a practical perspective proprietary seems to win.
2021: "Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking Prevention Tracking"
Anybody care to tell me why this is being downvoted?

Somebody else actually read this and disagrees with my summary? Comment?
Thank you very much for sharing!
Not null and void. But they are limited in scope.
probably not, depending on which side CA lands. the western US is probably actually pretty well equipped to stave off the east from invasion. there's, grossly oversimplifying, hella mountains (north) and hella desert (south). not only that, but california feeds a lot of the nation.

honestly, the 3 pacific coast states (CA/OR/WA) are probably pretty well equipped to secede and start their own country if they should see fit to do so. massive coastline, tons of food production, hugely powerful economy in cali.
When you look over the site, is anyone else feeling... I'm not quite sure how to put it... well, weird?

From someone who vividly remembers the early days of YC, it's bizarre (not necessarily in a bad way, just bizarre) to see everything reduced to “what you get”, “success stories”, and 6 boxes with phrases like “Ideas” and “staying alive”, each with an icon.

I think YC's competitors in the early days had sites that looked structurally similar. At the time, it was easy to feel like "Heh... these guys are just trying to mimic the form, but they don't have the substance. YC's the substance."

So now I'm just feeling very 32 rather than 21. Guess that's what happens when time passes.

(To clarify, it's certainly a slick website. I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing anything; certainly not something as trivial as the form factor of a website. I just meant that even https://www.ycombinator.com/ in its new form still retains much of the minimalism of the original site. So it was just interesting to realize that "Well, webdev looks like startupschool.org now. Even YC is doing it.")

Anyway. It is exciting that startup school is a thing now. I remember making a post like "Let's start a hacker school!" back in 2008 or whatever, but at the time even pg said that explicitly replacing universities was probably going too far with the idea. Nowadays we have lambdaschool, startup school, and YC is basically going door to door. Neat.

EDIT: Ah, someone linked to what I was trying to put into words: https://everybootstrap.site/
Seattle is a bad example, it's cheaper relative to peer cities (with 50+ units right now under $1500 in Seattle proper), and the market isn't keeping pace with surrounding King county or even national housing prices: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ho...
Right, I get that, and even mentioned one of the failure modes you mention. But I think for the average user (which more or less disqualifies most of our experiences here), it's not even remotely a deal-breaker.
You're mostly right. The index is a representation of the working directory tree and any modification of the index will modify .git/index. The thing is in git a directory (a tree in git language) is a collection of files references (of blobs hashes), thus the index is the staged tree, a collection of blobs hashes that will become the tree of your next commit. Blobs content are stored objects in .git/objects.

There is a reference of the index format in: Documentation/technical/index-format.txt [1]

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technic...
This is either an alternate account, or you're new here. Discussions can branch to the underlying theme of a link, like "UI for updates" and "system security updates being forced or not".
Assuming you do not have a metabolic disorder of some sort (which may be the case, but you'd need a doctor, not the internet, to diagnose it):

Try switching to fat+protein (and zero carbs), and see if it keeps you satiated longer. Many people find that carbs make them hungry again quickly, even if eaten with fat or protein.
Even taking that as a given, it's eminently reasonable to expect new home construction to last long enough that for future residents, electric cars will instead be a normal fact of life.
Are you quite certain Catalina is the only update available to you?

I haven't updated to Catalina (and won't for some time yet, due to institutional restrictions and legacy 32-bit software), but aside from the badge on the System Preferences dock icon, I only get the "you have updates" notification when there is an update available for the OS version I'm currently running.

I do have to click on the "other updates" not-a-button button in the Software Update pane to see what's actually available and apply it, though, so it isn't entirely obvious that there's something besides Catalina to install.

(I'm also not entirely certain that there isn't some kind of institutional setting that's affecting this, or just weirdness on my end—I'm not trying to say my experience is universal, just saying there might be another explanation.)
> As everything in economics, it depends on which branch you're talking about, but this assumption is the core of the marginalist revolution which is fundamental to the whole classical branch and it's derivatives

Marginalism is saying something much more precise than that. It is saying that (in the given example) the two people value their marginal dollars differently than they value one marginal unit of coffee. A statement which is certainly objectively true, but doesn't capture the apparent contradiction present in the original example.
In Houston, the same thing has happened without zoning. Have you perhaps considered that there is a massive market for "cookie cutter" suburban housing? HOAs have also largely taken the place of zoning, on a hyper-localized level. Furthermore, lots of other stupid rules apply, aside from zoning, that limit the ability to build new housing.
ABCL – Common Lisp on the JVM
It's just the beta for desktop, phone ui will be released in a few weeks. A dedicated version is made for smaller screens and touch.
I loved living in Warsaw. I have been trying to get back there for some time now but things just keep falling apart. Because of my health and associated losses I jut cannot do it alone or normally, and there is zero chance applying for asylum would be successful. I know to many Poles that sounds absurd. It wasn't paradise, the grass wasn't really "greener", it was just home to me in a way I cannot explain and my heart and those I loved were left there. Instead I end in rural American hell...which is just the perfectly wrong place.
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I wonder how hard it is to masquerade your expensive device as a cheap device.
The article continues:

> “For over four years, I have raised concerns to the [Federal Trade Commission] that behavioral advertising markets are rife with fraud – not just in the form of clickfraud but, exploiting the scale of large platforms, in scams and criminal schemes that directly exploit American consumers,” he said in a statement. “Because of Section 230, neither the victims of these schemes nor state [attorneys general] can seek to hold the platforms accountable for their continued facilitation of these frauds.”

Which suggests that he does not want to rely solely on Facebook policing itself for accountability.
Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for ages. I use Brave browser on my android and pc. This will be super handy!
Absolutely. The study of rhetoric greatly enhances our ability to identify and evaluate persuasive language. In order words, it gives us a more accurate bullshit sensor.
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Er, the article you linked does not even once use the term "market cap" to refer to anything.

Semantics are important. Often perception and optics are just as important as reality. Something that's been a hard lesson for me several times in life...
No, there is the letter b indicating the payoff multiplier. So you should not bet if in expectation you lose on the bet, which seems intuitive.
Your commitment and the end result are both impressive
Ofc they're a business. But in youtube terms. As a creator you either put your video behind a paywall,and not necessarily get paid, or your video will never show up in any recommendations. So unless somebody searches for it or has the link. Nobody is going to see it. And every viewer on youtube gets 5 videos a month.

Has a bit of a bad taste for me.
Cool project, wish I could try it!

Given that it's Electron, is there a reason you don't have a Linux version?
I forgot about Pixlr. I have many fond memories of making bad pixel art on it. It really was a step above all the other photo-editing webapps available at the time.
> why couldn't they be compelled to silently push a special update that exfiltrates all of my messages in plaintext?

See the FBI vs Apple case from a few years ago for an analysis of that.

> Why couldn't they use an escrow key secured in the same ways as update signing keys?

I would expect a key escrow service implemented to the same standards as current large PKI deployments (CPUs, mobile devices, CAs, large software distributions, etc) to be reasonably secure.

However!

* It further enables "turnkey authoritarianism" if and when an abusive regime comes to power.

* It introduces a single point of failure where there isn't one currently.

* It introduces complicated legal compliance issues where there aren't any currently.

* It isn't at all clear how it would relate to decentralized services. (It isn't even clear to me how GDPR is supposed to interact with things like Mastodon and Matrix.)

* It wouldn't actually be useful, because non-escrowed encryption (and stenography in case such is entirely outlawed) are both _readily available_ to actual criminals.

tl;dr: I don't live in China. Let's keep it that way.
Not sure I follow. I don't see how the changing legality of parenting style has anything to do with whether or not it's a choice to have a kid or not.
My old Verizon FIOS cable boxes used to do the same thing, except they were powered on all day. It would wait until you wanted to watch tv to tell you about a mandatory update that needed to be made before you could watch tv.

Well what the hell were you doing all day long then you stupid box?
I will say this: we did not have the same good experience.

My cofounder and I are starting a healthcare B2B SaaS company and were 1-2 months in when we tried Startup School. We got paired with people for the first three weeks who were purely in the idea phase and had no product, no sales meetings, and no prior experience. We also got paired with people in the wellness rather than healthcare space, for example those that were looking to sell some random supplement (which generally have little evidence of benefit). As a result, doing the weekly meetings was more of an energy drain rather than a social-pressure-as-a-motivator service.

The forums were full of people asking for technical co-founders or for basic advice that was covered in the lectures. The software also did not give any great insights (i.e. you can replicate all the features with a simple weekly checklist of "What's your sales target / quantifiable metric?" and "Have you hit it, or what have you done to hit it?").

This doesn't invalidate all the hundreds or thousands of people who had excellent experiences. Just wanted to illustrate the other perspective.
But how resilient against catastrophic failure caused by specks of dust?
NYT should adopt the business model of a youtube edgelord and then pay its journalists submarket wages does not sound like a very realistic approach to running a solvent news organization.
I use KDE in Debian testing for a long time already. Easily the best DE around. Though I wish Debian would get faster updates. Even though testing is supposed to be rolling (besides freezes), something seriously stalls new Plasma uploads there.
That's not how windows updates work at all so either you are just making shit up or your memory is terrible.
part of the reason the so-caleld "average Joe" doesn't remember what squared means is becuase they don't really have to.

If this scheme were part of the world form the minute "Joe" is born, Joe would have to understand this.

education must improve. the current paradigm of education is reminiscent of an assembly line. if kids aren't manufactured goods, why is their education treated as such?
I think that's the idea behind capsule networks. But I haven't heard anything more about them since they were announced so maybe they don't work too well.
Ah, sure, you could use a mapped type – but given that the actual program starts failing around 3 I don't see a ton of utility.
On the flipside, I've met different sorts of interviewers that ding someone for writing something intentionally unoptimized in the spirit of avoiding premature optimization for algorithmic clarity, because don't they have rote knowledge that "x is faster". Dogma on every side of the fence. (Also, continuing proof that technical interviews will never be objective evaluations of skill.)
This comment is pedantic. Yes, there are special regulations about homeowners in some areas having to place and maintain sidewalks along their property. (In other areas, they are owned and/or maintained by the city.) That's very distinct from setbacks, which prohibit construction for a depth much further than the width of the sidewalk.
Even though he is delusional in how windows updates work- to be fair it seems pertinent to compare updates to other OS's.. you can't just complain about how apple updates in a bubble without considering what other companies do.
That's what I described about the ecommerce system being different than the ad network. Products usually have their own pages where you can easily be added to a 'interested' segment.

It's very hard to remove you from that segment on a consolidated check out page that would need some backend mapping with the products you bought and the removal pixels for each product and ad network, along with lots of other issues. It's just not that simple as you may think to keep things in sync.
> in case we wanted a private college

This was the entire point of even including that anecdote. You can pay insane prices for very good education in any developed nation, regardless of their political system.
Why does this header need to exist in the first place? Seems like a huge privacy breach. Why can't 0 be the default setting?
Could we link a non-paywalled article on this topic instead?
Why can't a browser solve this (except for IP) by simply having an option to not leak any data? Make audio and GL calls constant time, and don't persist anything past the tab / window / site? No fonts or cache reuse beyond the host? No referrers etc.

What's the hard problem here that prevents major browsers from having an option like this?
I mean, I would argue casual labor should be fazed out because corporations lobbied to make benefits (specifically healthcare) tied to employment. You can't have your cake and eat it too, if we want a flexible workforce then life-necessities cannot be tied to permanent employment.
I need to go home to check the wording on the two contracts I quit over but they essentially said any idea I have while employed belongs to the company. Though it was subtle. They said my ideas belong to me if I come up with them on my own, unless they relate in any way to a software business, and neither company was willing to put any definition/boundary on what their software business was limited to. Which essentially puts a limit on you developing ideas related to your trade. (The California Law was written to stop companies preventing professionals from being able to practice their trade).

My initial expansive statement is based on this personal experience and on discussions with recruitment agents and senior developer friends who have been in the area longer than me, they all told me it is the norm in the industry. Though I admit most of my professional career has been spent on Wall Street and the City in London, so I don't know, maybe I'm misguided?
> Better for society as a whole? I lean toward no

I used to think this way. But I realized something. Uber/Lyft eliminate an entire class of scams that taxi drivers have gotten away with for decades. No longer can unscrupulous drivers take tourists on a joy ride "shortcut" or just outright overcharge them. Fares are agreed upon ahead of time. They also tend to be safer. You don't have to worry about writing down the taxi cab number you're in, or the driver's name. Uber/Lyft track everything for you.

This is not to say that traditional taxis couldn't be this way. But the fact is, they weren't getting there if Uber didn't light a fire under their ass.
Ask HN: What is the most interesting algorithm you have written in production?
We study and read about all sorts of fancy algorithms i am curious to find out which ones have you written in a production system of a live product. Talk about the most interesting in terms of complexity or fun to implement.
Did you find Hume's writing approachable? I'm skeptic by nature and always wanted to read him, but nowadays I tend to read articles instead of diving into 18th-century books...
I try to factor this in by, when someone asks me for help with something of that nature, I first reply "what have you tried so far". Its important, and so I don't feel bad saying "Go try X or lookup Y and then come back and we'll go from there". I feel like it's a reasonable trade off.
> Rowhouses are de facto banned almost everywhere in US?

They are de facto banned though. ~99% of all land in urban and suburban areas has FAR requirements and setback requirements that make it impossible to build a new rowhouse.
As someone who studied law, I agree with your general sentiment. I was not implying that programmers do that. ;-)

I would however temper your dismissal of "average grads": in lawmaking too, drafts may be written or refined by young people who need to learn! But not without ultimate supervision, of course. Just like young code monkeys are totally able to touch production code in some settings.

As for the deeper matter, "the range of considerations to be encoded into a country's operating principles..." — love the wording, btw.

There's a long way until we are anywhere near expressing the full range of human languages in 'machine compatible' code, programming languages. One could argue there's not even a point in that, since you essentially attain redundancy; and there are more promising ways like ML to tackle the linguistic problem. However it's not black-and-white, the entire sum of norms that apply to us is a crazy vast space, and one that all (individuals and companies) should "optimize" to their particular case. In this as in many things, computing tools can help — and we certainly don't replace surgeons, senators or judges, we should already be content to immensely enhance their capabilities through technology. IMHO.

"Refactoring" was my tongue-in-cheek way of saying that there's much to do in the way of organizing information in the legal space: datasets from which to base logic or standards upon are basically non-existent beyond non-computable literature (that could be modeled, we're talking structure of the law not content, hierarchy and structure of norms, not what citizens put into it). Morphing said structure to become mappable is nigh-impossible to do without concerted effort of most parties. I vetted first-hand some ideas with people working in the field, but the general obstacle is more economical, it's a business strategy/politics problem more than a technical one. I have no idea myself but I doubt this quadri-centennial culture is in any way, shape of form less entrenched at the highest public/federal/international levels.