skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the largest and most important “economies of scale” is in complying with government regulation.

Small business are crushed with huge costs (on the order of 10% of Gross Revenue) to comply with government tax, accounting and legal requirements, compared to fractions of a percent endured by large corporations — who have departments lobbying the government to create and refine the laws crushing their future competition.

Solve that, and many of the existing “diseconomies of scale” would become lethal to these large, sclerotic enterprises.
Everyone with a monetary interest in Twitter should be ashamed of themselves — shareholders, employees, etc. they are all “people” without a moral compass. Or rather, the compass exists, but it just points to money.
Who gives a crap about Bloomberg.

Everyone with a monetary interest in Twitter should be ashamed of themselves — shareholders, employees, etc. they are all “people” without a moral compass. Or rather, the compass exists, but it just points to money.
How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning Planet
I haven't tried running it yet, but it looks like pretty good code! It's modular and based on a stack that a lot of JavaScript developers want to use.

It makes sense that there is a lot of skepticism in this thread. Most startup code is either solving too narrow of a problem or too messy to be useful when the startup is shut down. This appears to be neither.
Not exactly. I had to use SelectMany (flatmap) in my .csx solution, but the core of the solution is the join (or the for-if in the python list comprehension solution and the if-guard over the list monad in the F#/Haskell solutions)
Why use Google for anything?

I block remote fonts.

uBlock > Default behavior > Block remote fonts
Poop town SF is becoming less aspirational by the year.

And can you really say SF is aspirational if Houston is growing 4 times faster?
From what I understand, they just lengthened the submarine to increase its displacement enough to counter the extra weight.

It also looks like the hull of the first submarine is now complete, [1] so there's some possibility they'll meet their new timeline.

[1] https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/s-80.ht...
For me, Firefox with extensions and to support an open web
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We still don’t know exactly how catalysts work, because they operate at high temperature and pressure, so it is very hard to study.
Yes. If the entire thing fits yes, but then it is small enough that you might as well manage it in Basic or JavaScript. No real programming required
Salaries in SFBA are higher, but not 5 times higher than in Houston, while houses are in fact over five times more expensive.
Pity there are no images of the merge occuring..
Earth formed much faster than previously thought, new study shows
Please! I can’t believe that if I click an address, the only thing my iPad says is ‘do you want to open the app store and download Maps?’

Wow
Spotify and Deezer, OTOH.
Which ones? The ones that are returning an invalid result or the ones where an Amb operator is not really needed and just don’t use it (or just cheat defining it as the id function)?
A fascinating area. I've seen several people getting into it in one way or another:

Blendle

The system in the Brave browser

Scroll

...

What I really want is:

1. A friction free way to pay what I want AFTER I've read an article (I assume a base level fee to read it in the first place) so that I can reward an excellent article. I want to know that that money goes to those who made that article not all the other people at the "publication".

2. Coverage of many good articles and publications, so that I can get most anything I want.

3. Excellent search that suits me. (Would be great bonus to have a mechanism to automatically hook me up to a rewardable version.)

4. No attempted surveillance at all. (I block much of it but hate that people try this nonsense, and I note that they do, if they're really objectionable I block them permanently at the DNS. Newspapers and magazines tend to be the worst offenders of all.)
Why "must"? What group is being excluded by this?
Because it makes the web less of a mono culture.

It also removes some statistics skews I would guess.
which should also open up... And allow me to stream Spotify to my watch without the phone like Apple Music.
I have a bunch of different knock-off brands and, although the quality is pretty good, none approach the quality of Legos. You would think that by now someone would have reverse engineered their manufacturing trade secrets to get the same quality. Or could it be that to achieve that level of quality the recurring cost is really much higher?
"there is no reason to expect that the remaining human drivers will have more collisions than they do today"

Seems obvious to me that the people who are economically forced by insurance rates into self-driving cars first would be the worst drivers. That means arithmetically that the remaining drivers will be better than average. So the rates for everybody should go down.
The limited nature can also make them appealing. A lot of the charm in Mario Maker 2 is the clever things people come up with within the restrictions.

The really enthusiastic creators _really_ learn how the editor and game engine works, for example this document goes into detail about how to take advantage of a quirk of the engine to pull off elaborate constructs:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RlBSyS8WcW4S9NIHG0lGjWkN...
The most obvious answer, not suggested yet, is not having to put with the California Coastal Commission. Slap a high price on the land, sell the dream, and make the permitting and construction someone else's problem. An unimproved plot in an area under the jurisdiction of the CCC is in some ways a liability.
Boy, if that isn't an argument for peer review, I don't know what is...
Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED
As is pointed out in the article for the most part fonts are a form of progressive enhancement and lacking the font normally doesn't actually break a website. Unless a little less pretty == broken of course.
Regulations? OK.. they contribute but Houston is not an equal conparison to the bay area. Weather, nature and immense opportunity. Also there is no more land. Mountains on one side and water on the other.
ICE cars these days typically have electric power steering. And BEVs have brakes. I don't think ICE cars necessarily need valve adjustment - doesn't Honda use solid lifters where others use hydraulics?
BPA-Free Products Maybe Just as Hazardous, Scientists Warn
> For example, most people don't consider that the W and the M in your font must look distinctly different, and not just vertical mirrors of each other.

Why isn't relying on default fonts provided by the user's system good enough for that?
You really think that right now, given what we know is happening in China on a large scale (cultural genocide, sterilizations, social credit systems, political prisoners, mass protests being squashed by violence, etc...) That too much power concentrated in the US would be just as bad as with China?

I think it's pretty clear that the current absolute dictatorship in China is not even on the same level of bad as the current US system, orange warts and all.

Maybe ask Hong Kong. If they had to be ruled by China or the US, which would they choose?
> I anticipate that the next major release of Ardour will have some Live-like features starting to arrive.

This is pretty intriguing - is there a public roadmap for these Live-like features ?
There are Babylonian and Egyptian sources describing how to solve quadratic and some cubic equations from about 1600 BCE, but that is unfortunately at the end of the pyramid-building period. I think it's likely that they had this knowledge much earlier, but it's possible that they built the Pyramids, or most of them, before anyone had figured that out.
It’s because you don’t actually need the Amb operator to solve that problem with list comprehension and the list monad. Adding it it’s just superfluous. The C# classes solution may meet the requirements but I still think that my csx solution (kind of similar to the Haskell, F# and python list comprehension) is more compact and readable.
There's a difference between user activity tracking (the context of the discussion you linked) and generic metric gathering, which is clearly a thing given that the post was a link to the public fonts analytics page.

(I work at Google, I know nothing specific about fonts)
> most junior (for lack of a better word) developers often don't read documentation anyways

Though there are many other factors that contribute to excess reliance on tribal knowledge, I consider this a huge contributor to "bits and pieces" knowledge transfer. There are many people who ask others for help immediately upon encountering a problem, and they (as a group) reliably ask the same basic questions over and over. Many ask the same questions more than once, for years on end!

My honest answer to these questions is "fuck off, read the docs and don't just dump error strings into chat and rely on other people to do your job for you. Come back if you're still stuck after reading the docs with an explanation of what you tried." However, these questions are often asked in public fora, and I feel that I'll gain a reputation of being surly and not a team player if I respond earnestly: I'll give a "bits and pieces" response that probably answers the question without explaining my thought process or giving context with the aim of making the question asker go away as quickly as possible. I wish I knew how to effectively guide people into the habit of trying to find their own answers first without coming off like an asshole, but figuring that out is harder than just providing the answer.

There are, of course, plenty of things that /are/ poorly-documented. Giving bits and pieces answers for those /is/ harmful. But the same question pattern happens with public tools that are extensively documented (the Python standard library or Kubernetes, for example), and it's draining to babysit people that never learned how to, well, learn.
The electronic music community in general has zero interest in preventing their music from being spread far and wide, with attribution. Remixing another producers work, for example, is just part of the culture. No one gets DCMA'd for it. Quite the opposite. It's encouraged. It's one of the things I love about this community.
Different proof tools inhabit different areas on the "specification to implementation" spectrum (problem/solution). Since it's possibly to perfectly implement a bad specification, proving a specification valid has value, even if it isn't formally proving your implementation of that spec.
Building will also trigger a re-assessment (which is why you'll see lot with existing structures stripped to the studs to avoid reassessment).
You can apply a sandbox to a JIT; that’s how Safari works.
Hey – thanks for this.
That's exactly right, the phase of switching from spreadsheets to a double-entry accounting software should not be painful.

With WeKeep you can continue recording stuff as you were doing in a spreadsheet, but your accountant can also do more advanced journal entries where needed (e.g. record equity, accrue expenses, write off bad debt, ...).
It works on Android, Windows, and the web.
Years ago I was trying to get through a huge crowd leaving a concert once, because I worked nights in a building on the same block, and while I was edging around the corner, a cop on foot thought I was being too aggressive and started banging on my window hard. I rolled it down and explained to him where I was going and why, but later my power window mechanism failed and it might have been related. I wonder how that should be handled with a hypothetical self-driving car?
Because having a default mail app, music app, etc is not big enough itself?
> We brought in contractors to help teach the new curriculum, and one hadn’t adjusted the light in his room for video conferencing and couldn’t see the screen for sunlight, so... improvised. Normally there are weeks of practice lessons and training, so this also the result of a rush.

Huh? The guy under the sheet was Christijan Draper, the UX program manager who's been with Lambda School since May 2018. Why are you lying?
Some other comments here make the assumption that Dreams is like Roblox or Minecraft. But from what I can see it is way more than those games, and a person should be able to tell that without even playing the game. You can watch videos of the content people are creating within Dreams and see just how varied this is in comparison to other tools.
If your income is so low that you didn't paying off your Federal student loans after 20 years of income based repayment, you aren't contributing much if anything to a 401k, and you owe more on your car than it's worth. Fair market value of your clothes is barely worth considering.

If you make enough that you have significant assets, you almost certainly make enough that you'll be paying the max under the income based repayment plan, and you'll pay off your loans in 10 years.

Remember that it's assets minus liabilities just before the discharge, which means the discharged debt counts. The minimum payment is 10% of your discretionary income, and if 10% of your discretionary income didn't pay that loan debt after 20 years, it's very unlikely your income was high enough to build assets that are significantly greater than said loan.
The C# classes solutions are doing the same thing as the F# solution, but in a more complicated way.
You don’t really need the Amb operator to solve that problem using the list monad or list comprehension or doing a join.
I’ve never seen anyone complain that you should have an Amb operator in SQL when you are doing a JOIN.
We wouldn't need to pass these special school bonds if property tax rates reset annually, like they do in virtually every other state. We're simply redistributing who's responsible for paying the bills.
I'm asking what the basis for your quoted statement is. If it needs to be clarified what it meant, please do.
That's not at all what I said. Engineering discipline is important.
There was also Adventure Construction Set, released back in 1984 for the C64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set
Skimming papers like this make me think maybe we spend too much time computing stuff in discrete spaces vs continuous ones.

This textbook covers CS theory using real numbers instead of integers.

https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Real-Computation-Lenore-Bl...
This is a strawman. Nobody uses missiles for law enforcement, the very idea is ridiculous. Presumably the

> person who intends to kill you

in this context is a terrorist hiding a cave somewhere, or a certain Iranian general. Now, it's definitely debatable if those striking those targets is morally correct (and I usually don't believe that it is), but it's silly to equate a military strike with the type of law enforcement seen in Minority Report.
Seriously. I run into this problem constantly.
I'm not arguing against all voting. Just pointing why it doesn't matter in a lot of cases. In the cases where it does matter, vote.
I have anecdotally heard people regularly ignore the standard permitting processes and the state lacks the bandwidth for enforcing code violations. Not for huge scale projects, but more for SFH-type improvements.
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I think it strange that everyone who thinks that repealing prop 13 will magically “fix” housing affordability appears completely ignorant of the fact that most of the western world have effectively zero property taxes.
> Owning in a high cost of living geographic area is not a right

Neither is a specific type of zoning. Your rights as a property owner are explicitly listed on your deed. Zoning is not one of them, and you have no basis to feel entitled to preservation of your neighborhood in the state it was when you bought it.
Ah gotcha, the problem isn't that it's a vague job title, the problem is that the job description for a particular position may not set expectations clearly enough
Cost of Antitrust settlement 12 years after doing what you wanted?

Cost of software patch for inconsequential issue?

HMMMMMMM
Why does Spain need subs? Seems like a waste of resources.
Safari does more than other browsers to prevent cross domain tracking. 3rd party cookies disabled by default, cookies in iframes considered 3rd party (so, blocked), and TIL it maintains a separate local cache for each domain to prevent fingerprinting a user across domains. I have a hunch you could probably drop 3rd party cookies using a <video> element (maybe for DRM stuff? Just a hunch I have because video-ad CPMs are consistent or better on iOS over android/desktop indicating perhaps advertisers know the user somehow). Awesome article, great reference links, super interesting!
Honestly, as someone totally on the outside who is somewhat curious about LS and what they might be doing right or wrong, I think your pervasive and demeaning/mocking responses do a better job of negating your points than substantiating them.

I can see you’re obviously beyond frustrated and angry. I think it’s helpful to a point to “air dirty laundry” but when it appears to be someone out for retribution it really ceases to become appropriate for HN.
Bernie Sanders decisively wins Nevada caucuses
We ran into a rather large issue using Google Font CDN a few years ago. We were using Rubik font and pages were font was render as blank in certain browser combination.

They had to rollback, but there were a lot of escalations.

You can see the issue here.
https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1137

Self-hosting fixed the problem. We no longer use Google Font CDN.
Yeah, that’s because you’re trying to build in Bolinas....
If you're using a proof assistant, you can't just write something like "X clearly follows from Y" or "Z is left as an exercise to the reader": you have to specify every step, even if they're steps a human reader would easily figure out themselves.
They monitor read system calls, and therefore cannot deal with memory mapped IO. Concept of caching data is very old. Not sure if this is practical. Not sure how is this better than Apple app thinning?
I know, right...
Country largely surrounded by ocean/sea, with increasingly aggressive southern neighbors, and NATO responsibilities.
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions by US Cities During 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
Those aren't market rates. Those prices are the result of significantly restrictive land use laws that manipulate the price of land.
Another fun feature of Prop 13 is the corporate landlords' ability to avoid the "changing hands" reset of the property tax:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sd-u...
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Hmmm... then why is the population growth so much higher than SF?
Extended validation certificates still exist, and do require the paperwork.
Effectively, but still more than zero... 1.1%+ of 1000000 is still something
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It is possible to use Firefox on iOS and survive. My primary use of the Share menu is just to share links to Firefox, with the option to even open tabs in the background. Still, this is obviously the best they can do with the limited OS APIs, and it might make just as much sense for Apple to just make the Share UX the primary way you select your web browser (with Safari being the built-in option).
Another reason to forgo rent is in hope of a higher payoff. Especially in California with Prop 13 of 1978, if the property owner has had a property for a long time, they can be paying taxes as if it were a depression while charging rents (or taking out commercial loans) as if it’s a gold rush.

A single property with a long-term lease signed during an economic boom can pay the taxes for many vacant properties. That’s my guess as to why property owners insist on charging high rents even if it contributes to the epidemic of vacant storefronts in my neighborhood.
They are offering to buy back large blocks of shares at market or at a slight premium over market for long-term loyal investors.

It is a great offer to you because you may move the market down just by trying to sell such a large block.
I’m terrified of making one of these ‘big picture’ mistakes. I’ve long been weary of the fact that there is a surprising amount of engineering going on without scrutiny or peer review. And over reliance on computer modelling and increasing complexity makes it less and less easy to grasp the big picture.

Just yesterday I made a trivial error crunching some numbers for when a construction site could turn off their dewatering. Quite the opposite of this submarine, my structure would be 1000s of kips too buoyant and could potentially float up out of its excavation due to hydrostatic forces. A mistake like going unnoticed could easily be a career-ender.
Key grafs: objectives and conclusions.

Objectives: To examine the implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions for epidemic mitigation in 43 cities in the continental United States from September 8, 1918, through February 22, 1919, and to determine whether city-to-city variation in mortality was associated with the timing, duration, and combination of nonpharmaceutical interventions; altered population susceptibility associated with prior pandemic waves; age and sex distribution; and population size and density.

Conclusions These findings demonstrate a strong association between early, sustained, and layered application of nonpharmaceutical interventions and mitigating the consequences of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in the United States. In planning for future severe influenza pandemics, nonpharmaceutical interventions should be considered for inclusion as companion measures to developing effective vaccines and medications for prophylaxis and treatment.

These findings contrast with the conventional wisdom that the 1918 pandemic rapidly spread through each community killing everyone in its path. Although these urban communities had neither effective vaccines nor antivirals, cities that were able to organize and execute a suite of classic public health interventions before the pandemic swept fully through the city appeared to have an associated mitigated epidemic experience. Our study suggests that nonpharmaceutical interventions can play a critical role in mitigating the consequences of future severe influenza pandemics (category 4 and 5) and should be considered for inclusion in contemporary planning efforts as companion measures to developing effective vaccines and medications for prophylaxis and treatment. The history of US epidemics also cautions that the public's acceptance of these health measures is enhanced when guided by ethical and humane principles
How useful is a phone that is offline? What exactly do you do with it? Making phone calls is inherently an online activity.
Searching for the word "supply" in the article yields 0 hits. I thought I read somewhere recently that two cities in Texas built more housing in 2017 and 2018 than the entire state of California over that same period. It would be great to see a dynamic map of housing being built through the years to see how many rooms or square feet a given region has in aggregate across the various years. Does Trulia let folks in on their data with an API or anything that would permit public data analysis? Is there a public datasource for this information?
That's much more difficult, because you can't stick a number on those things. I agree they're important, though.