skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The malls that are going bankrupt in the US tend to be those in at least somewhat downscale suburbs/exurbs. The mall that's relatively close to me had a Sears, Macy's, and JC Penney as anchor tenants. All are now closed. There is a close by busy grocery store and Home Depot.

But upscale shopping malls in elite cities were actually doing pretty well prior to the current situation.
Congratulations. It is well known that the plural of "anecdote" is "data".
A couple of quick bits of feedback, from trying it out for the first time:

- The app locks itself to the browser's light/dark mode setting, with no way to change it. This is a huge pain for people like me who prefer a dark UI but light page content.

- "where you put cards inside of other cards" - how to do this was totally unintuitive until random clicking around revealed that the edit button turned into a plus button, and under that was "add parent" (but not "add child"). The total lack of drag-and-drop functionality with the card focus seems really weird.

- The site advertises the ability to share cards, but the UI gives me zero idea how to do that, and the site seems to imply I can only share with logged-in users, which eliminates most of the reason I'd want to be easily share things in the first place.
Yeah - It's actually pretty neat because it headlines the stories that people (blogs) are talking about.

There used to be a browser plug-in (Memeorandum Colors) that did an SVD breakdown of the top 1500-or-so commenting sites and came up with a "line" from Deep-blue to Deep-red (blue, baby-blue, white, pink, red) and would shade every commenter according to their "bias".

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-baio-site-bias/

It was neat! I liked the site a lot more when the add-on worked. I fixed it for a couple of generations, but FF (which I use) started making it a lot harder to keep up with.
But tags are very valuable when you can filter them, sometimes if you don't remember what to search for but know what it was tagged as you can find it fast. This only is an issue when you have a lot of notes otherwise I agree that search can be almost as good.
'Have I Been Pwned?', the keeper of the internet’s biggest data breaches
It's only US users right now. Here's a more detailed announcement: https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/a-new-way-w...

Whatever good intention might be behind this, it's really off-putting to me. They send your photo and name to a third party who is tasked with evaluating those to determine your race.

"will look at these photos and first names and indicate their perceptions—or, what race they think the information we shared suggests. They’ll share these perceptions with a specialized team at Airbnb exclusively for anti-discrimination work"

Presumably that'll be correlated to booking data to identify rejections. I can't think of any other use case.

Gotta say, if someone truly doesn't want me to stay somewhere because of my race, I'll take that rejection rather than force myself into a shitty situation.
I've been working on cs50-web, an offshoot of cs50; Harvard's introduction to computer science. The community is pretty big, as it contains all the people taking cs50 and it's offshoots. I find the course to be very well put together and find the lectures more broad and interesting than the ones at my uni.
(My comment was sarcastic.)
Ask HN: What topics are a must have for a JR server side Java dev?
I've trying to leave IT Support to move into development and I've been teaching myself front end JS for a few months. However, my employer always seems to have open positions for server-side Java and got me thinking that I should probably learn something related to what I have available instead.

I've started the Hyperskill Java course, but I don't want to be forever stuck in tutorials as I've done in the past. I honestly don't know what are some real-life scenarios of Java development for a server so I don't know what to look into after learning the syntax of Java. What are some valuable resources and must-know topics to be a good candidate for a JR position?
Let esports have their own competitions, as they've done for years now. The Olympics is not esports.
+1. Other examples: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/think-twice-when-installing-m...
(ironically, on linkedin...)
She basically said she was going to put my wife on blast and out her as a racist. Ridiculous (Hilarious, even, in retrospect).
My wife didn't respond, of course. She immediately looped in her admin

Sorry, but as others have said your wife is the bad guy in this story. She abused her authority and bullied a kid, then had an “oh shit” moment, as all bullies do, when someone stands up to them. She is lucky that that kids mother is a better person than her and let her off with a warning.
> They absolutely are requiring people to change their language.

I think happytoexplain is making a (unjustified, but understandable) distinction between 'common' language versus technical jargon? Fucking up the latter inevitably damages the former, but that's not necessarily obvious to someone who thinks "oh we're just inconveniencing a few stubborn specialists".
Most sports are controlled by corporations - for example fencing by the FIE, football by the FIFA, etc.
The Biblical story hardly paints David and Solomon in a positive light. Solomon is portrayed as very oppressive, and David gets a whole bunch of crimes, in particular being this close to treason. In whose interest is that?

The Judaen Kingdom should have known basic information about its history, lying from whole cloth or portraying its founders in that light isn't very useful to them. Everyone else who comes to rule that area later is made to be illegitimate (by implication) and it's not in the interests of the religious classes either (usually not big on rebellion, except the Hasmonean which never claimed to be descended from David and had their own text).

I think reading Kings as a ancient text with all the typical flaws for the time is the right way to go about it, and the only way we can piece together the evidence (for now, barring some new discovery). Many ancient texts give absurdly inflated counts for armies engaged in battle, but we usually don't follow that by "battle never happened".
It is hard to strictly define the term “addiction”, and experts will disagree about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction has a seemingly clear definition “Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.”. Labeling it a brain disorder implies it must involve a biological process, and that, to some, implies it must include some physical or chemical stimulus.

However, that page also says “many scholars who study addiction argue that the brain disease model is incomplete and misleading”.

That Wikipedia page also says “The term addiction is misused frequently to refer to other compulsive behaviors or disorders, particularly dependence, in news media.“

So, the mainstream opinion seems to be that not all compulsive behaviors are addictions.
That's quite a jump. The OP said "aimed at" which in my mind just means the picture on the front cover of the brochure has a pair of smiling seniors.
> Advertising companies ignore it because they're not legally obliged to honor it.

Ironically enough, they don't ignore it. They instead just use it as another bit of entropy to differentiate you from everyone else who doesn't include the DNT header.
Take active learning versus usual learning. Often with active learning you can learn much faster. That's a kind of "experience." Out of distribution problems where it fails to generalize could be dealt with much more efficiently when a model can ask "hey what's f(x=something really weird and specific that would never come up in an entire internet's worth of training data)?" Experience isn't passive, and that makes a whole world of difference. And that's not even touching on the difficulty of "tell me all about elephants" versus "let me interact with an elephant and see it and touch it and physically study it."
Your car rides on public roads and the car you drive impose a cost on everyone else.
"So give me some horseshit garbage numbers and we'll call it a day!"

In the end what actually elicits a feeling about a brand, or a choice to act, is in no way the thing that people are actually measuring.
This is great! One very naive (I'm trying to learn) question:

You have a fixed timestep for good reason, which works great if you're displaying by doing interpolation (your display frames lag the physics and are 'catching up' to them), but in some cases where you want low latency in response to player input you might want extrapolation (your display frames are ahead of the physics engine).

I believe people typically do extrapolation by projecting forward any motion in a linear fashion, but it seems this would result in occasional weirdness like geometry intersection. One solution might be to run the physics engine at a fixed timestep for the 'real' changes, but let the graphics engine use the physics engine at a non-fixed timestep to do the extrapolation, where the results of that simulation are not taken into account for the fixed timestep frames.

Is that possible in Dyna-Kinematics, and/or am I talking nonsense? :)
Then how do you know if it's rare?
Since human civilization sprung up practically as soon as the last Ice Age ended, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other small scale developments like this throughout the Last Glacial Period as well. There's almost 40 thousand years between ~50kya (the advent of behavioral modernity) and ~12kya (the end of the Younger Dryas period). Agriculture, on the other hand, would've likely taken a longer period of climactic stability which is why it only developed a couple thousand years into the Holocene.
On reddit there more and more companies that manipulate threads in their favors.

On niche porn subreddits, the feeds are now invaded by profiles with links to onlyfans pages. They are sneaky because they verify their accounts with photoshopped pictures.
ClimateAction.tech
Ad boycott won’t give Facebook the comeuppance it deserves
Symbol grounding is as much a problem in AI as whether or not our use of language is meaningful. Does our language encode particular models of the world? Yes? Good. Then AI models also encode models of the world.
Start creating content on the internet. Substack, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram - whatever rocks your boat really. Post interesting content and try and build an audience of 1000+ engaged people over six months. (number varies by channel but 1000 is good yardstick for email subscribers).

If you’re leaning towards an industry, create content that you think experts in this industry would want to consume.

Once you’ve built a small audience, do user interviews with them. Ask these folks about the most parts of their work day they find most annoying. Then ask them what they’d be willing to pay for a tool that reduced time spent on doing this annoying task by 10x. If possible, make them commit to a pre-order for this tool. Give them a big introductory discount to make them commit to the pre-order. All of this will be free to you and you’ve spent $0 so far.

If you’ve gotten this far and haven’t given up, good job. Ideally you now have 5-10 orders/expressions of interest for your future SaaS product. Now go to Toptal - spend 5k on getting a full-stack developer ask him to build you a good MVP.

Congratulations, you now own your own B2B SaaS business. You’re not rich but if you stick to it you should be able to quit your job and focus on this full-time after another 12-18 months. During this time, you’ll need to keep creating content to grow that audience and increase your paid users.
> Olympic games should be activities that will remain largely the same

But why?

> You can't have records when the game constantly changes.

Many olypmic games have no records. There’s no records in fencing, for example, as all matches are against an opponent not an absolute like a time or distance. Nobody considers this a problem. Why do you think it matters if there are records or not?
Also, it launched and the email was sent on 30 June. Who knows whether opting out after that has any effect, because it's not clear on what "launch" is in this circumstance. They might have sent all the data over on the 30th.
Disclaimer: I worked professionally as an archaeologist, specifically in related fields.

He's pretty widely regarded as a crank. To some extent, we've done a terrible job of educating the public / undergrad population about what the current state of knowledge is and so it's almost to be expected that people flock to these sorts of crackpot theories.

I love sharing archaeology with people (it's our heritage!), but the state of public knowledge is so remedial that it's genuinely frustrating sometimes.
The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?
I passed the AP calc exam with calculus for dummies. It was great, though I'm not sure that kind of title is received well as a gift.
Five Ways to Prioritize Better
> > some developers are betting that empty malls can mix housing with stores and community space.

> it was developers and city councils who caused this mess in the first place.

I never understood why the US and some other countries have such a strict separation between normal business/work areas and many EU cities do not have such a strict separation and it just works very well.

Sure some industry which causes a lot of noise or other pollution is not allowed interleaved with housing and industries which need a lot of space tend to be outside of the city because of land cost.

But everything else can nicely interleave.

For example Berlin it's not uncommon to have small shops on the ground floor, some offices or doctors on the first floor and apartments above that. While many new buildings sadly don't have this anymore they still interleave shopping males, doctor houses and offices with apartment blocks.
My middle school was adjacent to a donut factory. Can confirm, it never gets old.

(whereby "never" I mean "over the span of 3 years as a voracious teenager" ymmv)
Nobody is claiming no risk for younger age groups. We have to manage risk and decide policy based on the size of the risk. Which is exceedingly small for that age group.
Public transit also imposes a cost on everyone else -- most of it is subsidized by taxes and will never be profitable.

Public roads and public transit are both funded by taxes, so I don't see why it would be right to use one but wrong to use the other.
yeah, there's no intrinsic value in the number itself, it's an indicator of interest. there's a saying about turning a measure into a goal making it useless as a meassure.
Caecilians – It’s Not a Snake, but Beware of Its Venomous Bite
AirBnB has a long history of not caring for its users, unless they get bat PR. So yeah, if anything, thinking that they actually care about discrimination is a bit naive.
Your Honor, the department misplaced the devices during the chaos of debriefing. By the time we retrieved it the data has self-destructed.
I am glad more and more people are acknowledging the problems of cancel culture and the growing divisiveness of our society, but I totally got lost in their terminology:

>The primary threat to liberal democracy is posed by the populist right.

I though the term "liberal" refers to doctrine that puts the individual's feelings above many other things, and is used by the cancel culture supporters to justify the silencing of their critics. Wasn't the term for emphasizing free speech and the right to express your opinion "libertarian", not "liberal" and is considered to more right-leaning than the classical liberal school, since it recognizes less central control.

So are they trying to pin the recent outrage culture on the republicans (that at least to me, appear to be strongly against it), or am tripping here?
> So please join our community if you, too, share our founding values:

- We seek to build a free society in which all individuals get to pursue a meaningful life irrespective of who they are.

- We believe in the importance of the social practice of persuasion, and are determined to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.

- We seek to persuade, rather than to mock or troll, those who disagree with us.

A free society is worth fighting for. And the best time to start is now.

Am I missing something, or is a publication called Persuasion not speaking out against coercion, which is its opposite? It seems to be fighting for some ill-defined "free society" with specifics in freedom of speech and inquiry.

Farther up the About page:

> The primary threat to liberal democracy is posed by the populist right.

Ah, got it.
From what I've heard, and read of Graham Hancock he has a lot of good thoughts on the subject of ancient/lost civilizations. He presents facts -- such as similarities between artifacts found in Egypt and the Mississippi Valley -- and goes on to tell what he thinks about them. I'd say overall he's pretty good about separating the facts vs his own ideas about things. Ultimately, he's a journalist and makes no scientific claims beyond those from the scientific community who have published peer-reviewed papers. He caught a lot of flack for changing his ideas over time -- even within his books -- yet it makes no sense as we -- humans -- figure things out by putting ideas out there and reflecting on them collectively.

My favorite talk I've heard of his is the one on the use of psychedelics in ancient civilizations. In my opinion, modern society would benefit a great deal if we removed the stigma of altered states of consciousness, and more people began having these experiences...unfortunately, it would cut into big pharmas profits as less people needed lifetime prescriptions of anti-depressants.
It's because of the way Google and Apple implemented the mobile applications (apps can do everything the web can do and worst).
On the contrary, I just met an 81-year old guy that still runs through Griffith Park, 2+ miles every day.

In my ideal world, less old people would be decrepit. At least, I am hoping that I will be anywhere near that agile at 81.
You're 100% correct.
Does it have to have an athletic component? If not, why not Olympic chess?
If you load the site again it should be using tls. I opted to separate concerns and threw Cloudflare(free tier) in front of it. You might be wondering, well okay its encrypted between my browser and Cloudflare but what about the connection between the Cloudflare proxy server and s3? To solve that I used the s3 api endpoint instead of the website endpoint which supports tls. I turned Cloudflare's tls setting to full which uses tls between proxy and origin but allows for a self-signed cert from the origin. So its encrypted from browser to proxy to s3 api. As long as no one poisons the s3 api dns we should be good.
> What is puke inducing there? The green?

Yes, I find it extremely uncomfortable to look at; literally a punch in the eye.
Honestly between Graham Hancock and John Anthony West I no longer know what is what.

At least with Egypt it seems to be this great divide between the Official Egyptian Archeologists historical timeline and these relatively new ideas of an earlier society/culture with more advanced stone working technology (maybe more advanced mining/metal working as well) that disappeared before the old kingdom appeared.

Each side bizarrely makes the other side out to be batshit crazy and verging on conspiracy theories.

I guess I’m just left to conclude that few People will ever have access to these treasures of human history, fewer Still will get to dig them up and examine them, and ultimately one person’s interpretation will become the story we all hear which we call truth, and ultimately we will call it his-story.
"It's you who's drawing all those dirty pictures"

The Rorschach Test

http://bouldertherapist.com/html/humor/MentalHealthHumor/ror...
Poe's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
> I don't know why you point out athletes so much, when top-level athletes actually practice very few hours a day.

> trains a total of 4-5 hours daily, at most

You are making the parents point for them.

The average software developer would get closer to 2-3 hours a week of their work time dedicated to improving their skills.

Practice:Performance is highly skewed towards performance for work.
> At what point did we stop taking people's word and commitment as valid?

At the point that they where caught violating privacy while claiming to respect it, and standing to make a profit off of violating it.

If I trusted people as blindly as people seem to trust DuckDuckGo, I would have trusted Google to not be evil and never have switched to DDG in the first place. This breach of trust destroys the whole point of using it, so I switched my default search to Searx between reading this submission and writing this (had been procrastinating the switch for a while and this was exactly the motivation I needed).
1. I also only use Emacs for org mode. I'm a relatively recent convert (been a few months now) but it's easily the best thing I've used. My main use case - taking notes in meetings, and converting those notes into tasks that I can see in the org-agenda.

2. I don't use it for coding. If I have to code these days, it's in Sublime (and I'd still choose Vim over Emacs for dev anyway)

(And this is all without org-roam, which I could not get working properly with Mac Emacs. There's only so much time I'm willing to invest in these things)
I can play any of those sports without making an account with the FIE or FIFA. How do they have control? They have great influence, obviously, but not control.
This is a cunning plan. If someone writes a language that targets Rust instead of LLVM there will a language that compiles slower than Rust.
Ordered, thank you for the recommendation!
What are the URLs for those two well-written references you mention? Thank you.
That’s common in many places in the US, especially in older areas like New England.
Can't go wrong with Spivak's Calculus.
Considering the footprint+location of your typical American shopping mall, office space is a really good 2nd life for this type of facility. One other possibility could be to retrofit the structures to serve as data centers. Every small town in America could have a JCPenny's worth of servers racked up for ultra-low-latency application & content delivery to the local residents.

I think every American in the lower 48 is within 5 milliseconds of a Walmart at this point. I am surprised they (and other retailers) haven't attempted to leverage this geographic capability. 5ms is certainly fast enough to fool me into thinking that a remote workstation is sitting under my desk.
Istio Configuration Validator
Bad idea and completely unnecessary.
It’s all fun until the metabolism slows down :)
Here's a detailed examination of one mall that converted to apartments - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL2l-bcuUQ

Interesting mostly for how they weighed the marketing and economic aspects of it: "commercial renters think in terms of $/sq foot and individuals think of monthly costs"
The Art of Construction
Detecting Face Features with Python
Isn't this sentence intrinsically ironic?
Wow, that resembles something I wanted to implement myself. It's crazy how most of the things you think of doing are already done.
I think I will migrate to it eventually, thank you.
It's deceitful (though that's an awfully strong word), but I don't believe it's disrespectful. They'd not be asked to pretend they are a bot because they are terrible people, but because of a anxiety disorder of the other person. Behaving differently than you normally would because of requirements of the recipient of your help is pretty normal.
Waited for your confirmation, although there aren't many bands from US on Northern Silence IIRC.

Brood's album was on Spotify for a brief time until it was retracted (by label or guys no one knows). Since there was some movement on GB's site there might be some hope, as that request is literally under each video with songs from either project.

Cheers from Urals!