skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Units within condos are rented all the time.

Your argument seems to be that there is a sizeable chunk of the population that cannot afford to own their own home. Yes, and?

We live in a global market and as a result, citizens of successful cities have to compete with people not just from that city, but from people outside, who are willing to bring in some cash. Oops, that means a bunch of people now can't afford to own a home.

That's the world we're living in. If you want to cancel inflow of capital into big cities, that's a political decision that has nothing to do with building or not building housing. If you want to 'just build affordable housing', you're really saying let's give permanent government assistance to a slice of the population. Are you qualified and knowledgable of all the side-effects of doing so? I'm not, so I don't even bother pretending I have a solution.

People need to become 1% smarter, to realize how complex human societies are and quit wishful thinking of 'just give/build more stuff for people who don't have enough'. You're a software developer, you know what a ball of mud most codebases are and how hard they are to refactor. Human societies are a worse version of that and it's a thankless job because by re-factoring one bit, you potentially break a dozen other places and boy will you hear from them.
I know there's gonna be a lot of people here that are happy about this for various reasons (anti-Google, anti-"smart cities", etc), but this is really disappointing for me.

It's true that the concept of "cities" (or even just "gatherings of people") predates the Internet by thousands of years, and that cities themselves haven't adapted much to the Internet and what it enables in the 40ish years it's been around. This project was inspiring because it embraced what's possible in a new way and enabled many new possibilities that wouldn't otherwise be possible in the typical piecemeal upgrades a city typically sees over time (especially in terms of construction guidelines and sustainability). People hated on Sidewalk Labs since its very inception, but I guess they bit off too much area and got shut down by the locals (and, I guess, covid-19 made a handy exit strategy).

Hopefully the next EPCOT equivalent will either be a new city that attracts the kind of people who would want to live there, or at least find a city that would be happy to host their "experiments".

FWIW I previously worked at a "smart cities" company that I won't besmirch, but I will say I would rather see a more well-known (and IMO trustworthy) company that has more experience managing and securing data at scale than them. In experimental projects like these, it just takes one "city's data leaks" headline and the whole market chills.
You'd be surprised. The cost of rubbish clothing has fallen, but then the cost of very reasonable mid-quality has dramatically fallen. I used to buy Levis, then Gap for mid range. Now, I get the same quality (and literally the same factory) jeans from Joe Fresh, for 1/4th to 1/5th of the price.

Suit shirts are the same. An online tailor I've been using for a decade sells shirts at half the price of Banana Republic (comparing to Canada), but mine are bespoke, perfectly fitted, and I can make choices from a website. To wit, I've stopped buying shirts in stores and now just use their service... since 2008. To make matters worse for retailers, his quality has improved at the price point.

Retail is hard.
Most of them that I know have never taken a science course (aside from watered-down science for humanities majors courses) and are basically innumerate.

EDIT: except science journalists, of course, some of whom have a real science background.
Private equity companies exist to purchase existing companies from their current owners and then run them better/extract more value from them. The canonical example of this is purchasing a public company by acquiring all outstanding shares.

This is often a fantastically expensive enterprise that requires that the new owners raise tons of money. The new owners do this by structuring a deal where the company will take out a ton of debt (basically its entire market capitalization of the company, plus a premium) to purchase the outstanding shares. This is known as a leveraged buyout (LBO).

So if a public company has $100M in outstanding shares and zero debt before they go private, by going private the private company will now have $100M of debt (rough numbers, illustrative but not necessarily realistic). That's why going private often results in dramatic sell offs and cost cutting- the new company needs to get the debt load down, and fast.

Definitely read Barbarians at the Gates, it's a great book and explains a lot about private equity from a dramatic case in the 80s.
Which already did some things wrong even though Keybase is around for a few years.
It's a negative result. What isn't there matters - in particular, no info on there being some form of monetary ROI.

I don't have other sources at hand - just memories from when the study was published and there was quite a lot of discussion.
The article you posted concludes with the statement you made as being mostly false.
Man what happens when thispersondoesnotexist.com generates something that is exceptionally close to my face ... ?

Am I now in the public domain?

Not that I'm looking to sue for such things but this "AI did it so it's public" thing ... easily could cross over into real life.
Founded ‘Signal Foundation‘ with Signal’s creator. Signal was around before FB bought WhatsApp.
Nice! Ever ran summary stats on which geographies have the most amount of data and possibly check for a correlation with developmental indices like HDI or GINI?
Isn't this just a miles-long induction stove top? What keeps the rest of the metal from heating?
They don't support it? That's weird (maybe a missing feature) given that it's quite easy to add to anything that has signed metadata, see e.g. this for OpenPGP: https://github.com/wiktor-k/openpgp-proofs#openpgp-proofs
Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end
Like most PC manufacturers, Lenovo's exaggerates battery life claims. 15 hours is basically if you're idling the machine at minimum brightness with bluetooth and wifi disabled.

For example: Lenovo claims that my 7th gen X1 Carbon has "up to 18.3 hours" of battery life. Typically my laptop uses 5-10 watts. It can go as low as 2.5 watts if I dim the screen to its lowest setting, close all applications, and disable the radios. The battery is 52 watt-hours, so that would be 20 hours of "usage" before it runs out of juice. Really though, I get 5-12 hours depending on what I'm doing.
New York closes subway system for first time in 115 years
Or that Redux _was_ a reasonable choice at the time, and that with the ecosystem changing and other options available, it's worth re-evaluating use cases and updating the decision.

See https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet... .
A park in Indiana, Holiday World, did something sorta the opposite.

They figured out how much the average guest paid for drinks, then raised the ticket prices that much but made all drinks free in the park.

It was a huge success. People expect ticket prices to go up occasionally and they expect to be gouged for drinks. By getting "free" drinks, it felt like a huge value. (At least for me when I visited.) I bet it made food sales increase too, because now people wouldn't have to pay for a drink too.

Not sure if they're still doing that, but at the time they also had free sunscreen all over the park. It's an amazing little park.
They still may have a snap for it....
How could this argument not be used in the same way for these "random" bytes? Is there some way to verify that these were sourced as they said? Can we also be sure they weren't chosen by generating several million bytes to find the best "random" bytes that could be exploited?
The Great Filter?
I fully agree. This has become my mantra. You need to be relentless over the long term, but to maintain that, you need to relax over the short term. And by relax, I just mean, don't stress out, don't go too fast, and don't overdo it.

The parable of the totoise and the hair teaches this succinctly.
It's not misleading. Free doughnuts were part of the problem. The British soldiers were upset that they had to pay for their snacks while the American soldiers were receiving theirs for free, and it caused tensions. The free doughnuts helped to cause that imbalance and tension, which led to charging for the snacks.
Where is this place at? I work in agriculture. You could look at the best crops for that part of your country. If you do it right you could make good money.
I admit that I'm not as concerned with long-term performance for this system. I've managed to stretch a Phenom II 1055T for more than 10 years now - my interest in PC gaming fell off for a while there - so I've already skipped more than a few upgrade cycles!
While NM sold the likes of LVMH here it mostly made money by selling comfortable middle market rather than the top tier luxury because of the buying agreements:

The way the buying is structured, retailers cannot complete with flagships of the luxury brands they carry within a certain distance which means that the stored NYC, LA, Boston, SF, Miami which should be the most profitable can't carry the hot items of the seasons if the flagships carry them. Since flagships are not just retail but marketing and demo stores flagships always carry all the hot items.

The mid-tier market outsourced manufacturing to the same factories that at best create wear it a couple of times before it falls apart products while charging 3x-10x of the likes of Zara. That market has been shrinking for years as the likes of Zara, H&M and others cleaned up the lower end and started moving up.

Also the lion's share of luxury growth is coming from outside of the US, namely from Asia which is not accessible to NM.
I'd have to try. It seems really awful from a typing perspective, but everyone's different.
What exactly are the legacy market infra dependencies and what would you replace them with? 8 million trades a day with 1000 messages / second doesn't sound too challenging. But it is besides the point w.r.t the user experience complaints people are raising here.
Yes, though it depends on your goal. Alphabet's goal was probably not to actually make the city better to live in, but to find more ways to collect personal information for their own profit.

Anyway, Cory Doctorow wrote recently that cities full of sensors need not be used to spy on citizens, and could just be helpful instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/17/the-case-for-...
Didn't fit their desired form factor for the X1, maybe. Their P53 line goes up to 128GB RAM and may be more suitable for your worklaod (I use an X1 but mostly use remote machines and don't need local VMs). I believe the construction is mostly the same as the X1 and T series Thinkpads, it's just bulkier and heavier.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-sof...
Sidestepping Telegram, Devs and Validators Launch Fork of Ton Blockchain
Most benchmarks show the 3900X with single thread performance competitive with Intel's offerings, including for software whose developers spend plenty of time optimizing it. Can you think of a reason they haven't realized this performance advantage in practice?
Not sure what you're referring to:

Kamuthi: The world's largest solar power project

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-39963455/kamuthi-the-...

How India's 'smart villages' are centralising solar power

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36681112

Seeing the light: How India is embracing solar power

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39844446

India doubles down on solar, gas at coal's expense as electricity use falls

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-solar/india-doubles...
Medical people mostly find the correlation unpersuasive, mostly because poor dental hygiene correlates strongly with all kinds of illnesses that break down ability to self-maintain.

I.e, it is just as likely that Alzheimer's causes periodontal complications.

That said, those bacteria do find their way to parts of the body that are protected against the immune system, and the brain would be an excellent host site.
That's called an apartment, and is not what Google was building.
You don’t. There is almost no profit in agriculture for farmers. Your best bet is provide high quality specialty organic foods to local restaurants farmers markets and csa then and run workshops and videos selling services teaching others how to do small scale farming. Still you will probably earn less per hour than a fast food worker in Seattle.
Zoom is a US Based, publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ [1]. So to that first part, no, that's not correct.

However they have a Chinese subsidiary that does some of their development work along with supporting their in-China services. Any tech company that operates inside of China is legally obligated to private the CCP access to anything and everything they want. This is why most companies has separate, special, dedicated servers for/in China (up to and including AWS [2]).

The reason for the purchase of Keybase is to up Zoom's crypto game. They (Zoom) made a pledge to do significantly better around encryption and user controls, right after they became super popular and started getting targeted for news/abuse/etc.

Sadly it probably doesn't matter what you think of Keybase as this looks like this was probably an Acquihire for the team and their knowledge. Maybe Keybase the product will be totally open sourced, but beyond that it's likely dead.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/zm/real-time

[2] https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/
FR1 (the low band 5G) is capable of greater carrier aggregation and denser QAM modulation than LTE-A so it can achieve higher bandwidths than LTE-A under good conditions. It also has better latency and congestion controls which should provide a better general use experience as well as reduce degradation in heavy traffic. It also pushes more open hardware/software standards for base stations to reduce vendor lock-in.
A long history of coprorate raiders using such practices, e.g. T Boone Pickins, Bain Capital, et al

For example: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/111015/10-most...
I'm not very familiar with the service, but AFAIK they don't. It would be great if they added it.

EDIT: It looks like it might, from the front page, I will try it out to make sure. If it does, that'll be great!

EDIT 2: It sort of does, but it's on a per-key basis, not an entire identity. You can publish proof on Twitter/Github/whatever, but it's only for one specific key, and it's one key per service, which means you can't only have one identity and multiple services.
Coronavirus: Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto
I can't make any statements regarding quality, but regarding soldered RAM, unfortunately this practice has spread outside of the X1 Carbon lineup. The ThinkPad X280 and X290 have soldered RAM with no DIMM slots, and the ThinkPad T490 has soldered RAM but with an extra DIMM slot for some upgradeability (compare to my T430, which has no soldered RAM and instead has two DIMM slots). There are still some ThinkPads that don't have soldered RAM, such as the P53 and the P1.

Regarding storage, on the other hand, I don't believe the ThinkPad lineup has gone down the road of soldered SSDs, not even in the X1 Carbon lineup.
I went in a Neiman Marcus a few months ago and was struck by how much they seemed to be selling "luxury". Like luxury apartments or Las Vegas facades, it all seemed like shoddy but shiny. I was asking people who their target consumer is and there really wasn't an answer. I didn't recognize any but a few of the brands and most of them seemed like they'd been invented for a thirty second scene in a TV show.
Apparently some here are unfamiliar with this holiday tradition:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89283/stories-behind-12-...
Yeah, running Fedora on T520, x230 & T460p - all fine. :)
That makes it sound like the only thing involved in stock broking setup is pushing messages through a line :) Market volatility can cause several hours worth of orders to come through in a single burst. What goes on inside a stock broker is actually incredibly complex. I guess that warrants a long blog post.
Right, the time when the political parties literally owned the newspapers. Now its just the media companies which want favors from the political parties.
Yes, and I want UBI (basically, there ability to not work as much), because I hate that right when my son is getting a personality and knows who I am to him, I'm supposed to find another job (currently unemployed) that will take me away from him for 10 or 12 hours per day. If I had UBI, I could work part time or work remotely on contacts, but instead I have to trade my time with him for some faceless company who will lay me off with no regard to my time there and contributions.
I can gladly talk about financials.

- I have health insurance. It's pretty far from free, and it's mandatory. I wrote a very detailed guide about how German health insurance works [1]. It's not comparable to the US system, and I want to write a separate guide to explain this more accurately.

- My take-home is slightly above what a full time minimum wage worker would make. My expenses are around 1400€ a month. It could be brought down to 1000€, but I insist on certain luxuries and planned my exit accordingly.

1. https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/german-health-insurance
I'm happy to answer more questions.
That's not true. In the past, we raised the price of our physical products. It never put a dent in our sales. The question is what are you selling, and who are you selling it to. Also, there is a difference between selling a service or selling a product.

But no, we raise the price of our products, and never saw any issue from it.
1986, 1997, 2005, 2018. Not only is there a hysteresis effect here but the AMA didn't stop being evil villains in 1900. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22940320

Doctors are protectionist evil people.
http://langsec.org/ !
Hacker’s Paradise
Scuttlebutt is an open source p2p gossip network (no central servers) that includes clients that implement chat, blogging, git and github replacements, Shamir's Secret sharing (splitting up a secret by encrypting it so that a number of your friends are needed to decrypt, via Dark Crystal [https://darkcrystal.pw/]), games and probably more that I am forgetting. You could easily place your public keys in your user profile.
Housing projects, so that in a year everyone can complain about the crime rate increasing and the quality stores closing and being replaced by fast food chains. It's like everyone's solution to make everything affordable is to aim to please everyone below the poverty line while giving a middle finger to everyone above it.
Freedom is for the brave. Those who prioritize things ahead of freedom should not live in the one nation which exists to protect freedom.

Libertarians understand that there is no greater danger than lack of freedom. Obviously statists don't understand this, which is why they fall victim to the perpetual shilling of fear. There are more fitting nations with congruent priorities.

They who give up essential liberty for the illusion of security end up with and deserve neither liberty nor security.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Ah yes, because a millionaire is gonna make a dent in the multi-trillion dollar deficit. No. What will help fix wealth inequality is not donations from rich people; it’s the government. There’s more non-philanthropic rich people than philanthropic ones.
Well, for one thing: jobs. It takes a lot of IT man-power to manage an on-premise solution, especially when you run everything on-premise. Just imagine if the CTO were to switch the company to a cloud based solutions, it would save the company millions of dollars but also it would mean cutting a lot of jobs. Gov departments that use on-premise do so for security reasons and to maintain existing jobs.
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Confession time: In 40+ years of doing software, I've met my schedule once. Actually, that's a lie. I missed by a week on a 150-day long project, my very first project at my very first real company, and that's the closest I ever got with my own estimates. And on that project, marketing wanted it pulled into 30 days (and to hit that 150 days I was doing all-nighters and basically killing myself, so it wasn't a very good schedule to begin with). [For the curious, it was a game cartridge].

The real losers of "schedule chicken" are the customers, who receive buggy and bad products. The company will suffer long product update cycles because of the effort needed to stay ahead of the quality debt. Explaining this to a manager who's never even read even one of his copies of The Mythical Man-Month can be tough.

Things aren't necessarily better when you let a project freewheel. "You'll ship someday, just do a good job and get it right" doesn't necessarily translate into the urgency to ship a product, and I've seen efforts on the scale of tens of millions of dollars fail.

Other arbitrary dates include things like shows (well, what is the real cost of missing that show versus shipping something buggy to bad reviews?) or holidays (hitting Christmas used to be a good excuse for schedule pressure in the game industry, much less of an excuse now).

[Anecdata: Years ago there was a manager at Microsoft who told his team to ship by some arbitrary date, which turned out to be when he was planning to go on a long vacation. I'm happy to say that Microsoft fired him.]
Perhaps not, but that is completely different from what data it uses or whether it is 'overfit'.
I don’t see any conflict with pushing to do something extraordinary. If you’re going to do something out of the ordinary, you do what successful out of the ordinary people have done. You put on their uniform and put in the work.

It’s a simple strategy, but that’s not to say the process is at all easy.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

When I play movies I've paid for on my iPad I've paid for, if I want to screenshot frames from them to share or reference or meme, the screenshots come out as black rectangles.
My belief, from personal experience, is that those who say "this disrupts my view" actually mean it. They've moved early into a place that suits them, and the place itself is changing.

My neighborhood is slowly being transformed by increased density -- it is less and less the neighborhood into which we moved. It isn't the change in property value, it is the change in quality of life that matters.

Different people measure quality differently. It is that difference that gives rise to friction. The effect spans income brackets -- there are people who mourn the loss of community in impoverished neighborhoods as density increases at the same time that there are those who mourn the loss of trees and single-family dwellings in wealthier neighborhoods.

Change is hard.
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GNSS satellites (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou, etc) are not in geostationary orbits. Being in a geostationary orbit would put them in fixed "locations" in the sky, making them easily blocked by terrain and entirely unusable at high latitudes.

GPS satellites are in MEO, at ~20 km MSL. Other GNSS satellites use similar orbits.
I'm sure a lot of people here have already seen it, however this 1999 interview with the BBC shows off Bowie's early understanding of the value & potential of the Internet (after the six minute mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg
Virtual reality is about to have its iPhone moment
No. What you described is liquidation.

PE is all about maintaining the pretense of a turnaround so that liquidation proceeds can go to management (the PE firm) rather than to outstanding obligations or investors/shareholders.

It's the white-collar equivalent of walking out with the coffee machine and an aeron chair -- so, naturally, 100x worse and 100x less illegal.