skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just seems like anecdotal data to me - not sure why this needs to be a post.

The world is in turmoil right now - I think we can put expedient immigration on hold while the USA figures out what exactly it wants to do.
I have no idea where you are getting your data. Zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status create artificial scarcity of land resulting in higher housing costs. These both create market failures in housing.

In Japan for 20 years there have been federal laws overriding local law that restricts zoning density.
The result: in Tokyo they have been building 140,000 housing units per year compared with 20,000 in NYC and 90,000 for all of California. The cost of housing as not increased at all in the past 20 years because these market failures (in this case also called "rent-seeking") in real estate are not allowed to occur in Japan.

We need similar laws in the US as Japan.
Many international companies already pay for business class flights for their employees going between US <-> Europe. There's plenty of market there. It just depends on whether Boom can get their costs down to be comparable to an existing business class flight. If it cost, say, 50% more but took half the time for a flight from San Francisco to London, I think that would be pretty compelling for the people currently taking business class.
Something needed to be done though. I use LibreOffice every few weeks, they still use the toolbar UI by default, and it's faster to google where an option is than to go hunting for it.

As a dev I'd love a ctrl+p sublime style search.
I think that's pretty bad. A development shop shouldn't be forced to follow all sorts of accessibility requirements.
The waveform option looks pretty cool. What is the best way to play it back? I could see it being a very sentimental reminder in case something tragic happens.
Good.

I’m so tired of ads.
The Canvas API didn’t exist in 2003 so I’m not sure what that 2003 in the title is for. Did this site exist in Flash before 2006?
That's contrary to all available data. People over 70 are the least-likely group of adults to have drivers' licenses and have the highest public transport mode share or any group, take the fewest trips, and travel the smallest distance per day. The elderly are arguably the people who stand to gain the most from compact patterns of development.
It’s a standardized format for serializing DNS data to ASCII text and back. There’s nothing wrong with that. This is like complaining that Lisp syntax is stupid since no Lisp implementation stores the Lisp syntax as ASCII, but stores it as the parsed AST. This does not make the Lisp syntax for humans any less useful. Would you prefer it if every DNS implementation had its own text syntax for DNS records?
> ...2500 square feet. Which is probably fine for a nuclear family...

Post-War homes (e.g. after WWII) in America were intended for the nuclear family and were typically under 1000 sq/ft. Most 60s and 70s ranch homes were 1200-1700 sq/ft and considered spacious.

A modern 2500 sq/ft house is at a minimum 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath, and a bonus room.
"Slow Train" about UK railway stations shut in the 60s is great (though about a third of the 28 mentioned were reprieved or reopened so it can seem a bit odd if you visit Chester-le-Street, say.)
What is the latest news on starlink? A friend of mine had a perfect observation chance for the last launch and said he couldn't see a thing, did they "fix" them?
Anecdotally, I’ve renamed and merged several threads between the initial release and now.
BTW: The name "Lulim" is the Arameic for spiral, in Modern Hebrew there are words like "לולין" ("Lulyan" / acrobat) that take this root)

See: http://www.de-bruyn.it/english/0557_lulim.shtml
One great thing about zoning reform is that it's a topic where progressives and Silicon Valley types, i.e. "the grey tribe" [0], have a lot of common ground. I (and presumably many HN readers) support zoning reform for all the typical grey tribe reasons, and progressives support it because they recognize the racist history of zoning laws, which I also find persuasive [1,2].

The more common ground we can find between tribes like this, the less, I think, it will feel like America is coming apart at the seams.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/25/snob-...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/racist-...
> Constellations can do undeniable good for the ground, but I think it is really a choice between dark skies and global satellite internet.

It's a good summary of the situation, yes.

> I don't think SpaceX can lift LSST-class instruments to orbit...

Literally - not soon, but the launch industry is at a point of fast evolution, so it might make sense to use it and device different kinds of astronomy tools - not multibillion gems, one-of-a-kinds, practically irreplaceable in case of launch failure, but numerous, with fast turnaround, sensors enjoying short design loops from conception to using and benefiting from decreasing prices of kilogram on orbit.

Frankly, some LSST-class instruments can only be based in space, and SpaceX can well be a good helper in getting them there.

> or make it possible to photograph the Milky Way rising over a national park without streaks in the sky.

With today's photographic equipment, yes. With naked eyes, unfortunately, yes. But there could be a non-insignificant replacement.
Ionity is even more expensive than that in most of Europe.
Isn't the capability to answer arithmetic prompts without the exact equation being present in the training data evidence?

I'm not an AI researcher so I only have a lay-person's opinion from reading about this kind of thing via things like that blog post (I also don't have OpenAI access to play with the API myself), but if that is an accurate statement it seems like pretty good evidence of figuring out the underlying mathematical rules.

I think this could be a path towards scaling being more effective than people think.

I sense though that you're just arguing from a position of motivated reasoning based on a pre-existing conclusion rather than actually trying to look at new things that may contradict what you already believe to be true. Repeated one sentence responses arguing that none of this is evidence just isn't worth time to respond to.

In the end we'll see what ends up happening.
Facebook warns advertisers on Apple privacy changes
I'm all for more green in cities but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Suburban sprawl destroys far more environment. Density stops sprawl. This is net positive for trees and the environment.
So maybe we will stop being put into echo chambers and radicalized to hate our neighbors?

Maybe we will stop having so many clickbait articles written by journalists?

Other business models for the win!
Or build 11,000 city scale engines on one side of the earth!
In the perfectly reasonable world where the protest was escalated by rioters, anarchists, and arsonists (you know, like every protest in portland, since ever) and the police issue a dispersal order as a response to buildings on fire and violent attacks. Then they issue 5 more. Then they announce it on twitter. There is NO other way to deal with a riot. The police are vastly outnumbered and have very few tools to do their job. Well there is another way, but it’s far worse.

Nothing about these “protests” after dark is brave. It’s shameful and cowardly. So is the response from politicians.
Any rock you can tackle on little notice is a rock that wouldn't have done much anyways. Anything with the size to have significant impact on Earth is gonna require years of lead time to tackle; you'd need to start changing its orbit well in advance.
except you as an individual could opt out of the original Wild West; this one, not so much.

perhaps it's exactly like the Wild West from the viewpoint of Native Americans: we're taking your skys.
Here is a comprehensive history of slave patrols in the US:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674012349
Dead!? I know not of what you speak sir :D .

https://pastebin.com/QhTPLGfg

https://shadytel.su/files/necsploits.htm
What is the context here? An SQL database?
It's because doctors and hospitals are increasingly evaluated based on patient satisfaction instead of patient outcomes.

It's why you'll walk into a medical plaza lobby that looks like a 4-star hotel, with fountains and art on the wall, and why the doctor will write you a prescription for an absurd dose of narcotics after surgery. After you've been cut open, it's normal to be in some pain for a while, but if the doctor drugs you into such a daze that you feel nothing, you'll rate him or her more highly. Even if 9/10 people end up being fine and stop taking the drug when they're supposed to, 1/10 people have a new addition.

This is bizarre the end-result of the privatization of our medical system. We're just one step away from rating doctors with stars like Uber, where they offer you drugs instead of a free water bottle when you walk in.
> I think it is preposterous for US citizens to get obsessed after this one when more kids are dying to malaria every single day or for multitude of other problems.

Heck, many US citizens don't seem to care that about the same number of people killed on 9/11 are dying every 2 days in the US from a virus that their leader continually downplays as he dithers about recommending quack "cures" that will somehow magically make up for his incompetence in handling said virus.
> Way before TDD was a thing, when I worked at IBM, we used to call this "inverted design": write the calling code first to see what the API might look like and then make it work.

I really like the idea of this, and I very occasionally have the foresight and wherewithal to do this kind of "top-down" programming.

Maybe not surprisingly, this is how I sometimes end up with the much-criticized "Interface with only one implementer" design smell. I write the interfaces that I would like, right next to where I'm writing the calling code. The interface(s) evolve as the calling code is unfolding. Then, later, I make an impl for the Interface.

At that point I could just delete the interface and only use the concrete implementation, but... I don't. shrug.
This is exactly the sentiment of the article! Spot on statement.
> Which is probably fine for a nuclear family, but in my neighborhood, such homes are largely occupied by multigenerational families.

In that case, build a duplex or triplex designed with easy (but lockable) access between units. That gives you a lot of living area, and the same building is also suitable for housing multiple families if it ever changes hands.

> In areas closer to colleges and universities, those homes end up being shared by large groups of students.

Multi-unit buildings with each unit shared between two people, or (now also allowed by the new zoning) 'cottage cluster' arrangements with a number of physically separate homes sharing one driveway/common area.
"Direct debit" can mean multiple different systems. In this case the Norwegian system the parent talked about sounds similar to the Finnish Finvoice system that can be used to (auto-)pay practically all bills in Finland - the system is known to users as "e-invoicing" (e-lasku) or, if used offline, as "direct payment" (suoramaksu).

The customer manually creates the billing agreement with a specific invoicer at the customer's online bank, and can set payment limits, notifications, and either automatic or manual approvals.

These are distinct from the "SEPA direct debit", which is not used in Finland domestically. Due to their rarity I think "SEPA direct debit" payments are usually/often disabled or each payment requires a specific customer authorization via their online bank (so IBAN of such an account cannot be used to get money out of the account).
N=1, maybe he should move to Spain, UK, China, Iran, or Italy. It’s much safer there. Get this political garbage out of here
I have a very different experience than you. I ride or walk everywhere I go.

Bikes may be slower than cars, but -- when they're being used for commuting, not toodling around on a Sunday afternoon -- they are much, much faster than pedestrians.

When I'm walking, I don't want bikes whizzing by me at three times my speed. When I'm biking, I don't want to be constantly worrying about people on foot -- or their kids, or their dogs -- suddenly stopping or changing direction without looking.
HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to authentication bypass
I was once curious about this sort of thing. I hate that I didn't know how a computer worked from the ground up, it made them feel like magic when I knew they were just clever machines. I wasn't satisfied with learning about circuits so I went even lower and asked how transistors work. I spent a long time in a deep rabbit hole learning chemistry so I could understand why capacitors keep charge and etc. That's when I realise to learn every layer of a computer to a level of expert proficiency is a lifetime's work, not something you can expect one person to be able to do off the top of their head.

This is why we work together, we are not swiss army knives.
It’s not dead, but it requires the developers to know what they’re building before it’s being built.

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen”
That's a fair criticism, original paper would be better.

I linked to the blog because that's where I first read about this and it's more immediately accessible.

[Edit: Paper Link, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165]

In fact after reading these sections of the actual paper, it's hard to believe that you could have read it yourself and taken away the idea that it was memorization? Pages 22-23 in particular. Part of the reason I tend to link to good blog posts instead of academic papers is when you link to papers nobody reads them. Often people linking them haven't read them either (I've only read small parts).
Visualizing Data to Save Lives: A History of Early Public Health Infographics
Often, the issue with policing is aggravated by exactly those other factors: food insecurity, housing insecurity, income insecurity, healthcare insecurity, a culture of stimulant abuse and praising material wealth in a vastly unequal society, lack of mental and emotional support, whole swathes of communities with substandard schools and little chance for upward mobility by legal means...
Regarding the content of this link, I can't verify it either way in the case of Sparta, but I am always skeptical of how modern critics characterize mentoring relationships between men as sexual. It is as if the criticism is designed to cast aspersions on that mentoring itself because, arguably, mentoring relationships between men are a threat to progress.
Looking over it, it seems like it's still highly restrictive.
> Managing growth with a JSON blob sounds absolutely insane.

There are cases where it's better when you're using a JSON blog inside SQL. Consider the common scenario where the pure SQL solution would be having 1 abstract model with 50 children that inherit from it, and are only each different by one or two fields.

Having one SQL model that gets queried in one way and in one place, but has 50 different JSON validators, is a lot easier to understand and work with than having 50 different SQL models that get queried in 50 different ways and places.
> Cheapest EVs in developed countries have passed the $20k barrier, but I don't see everybody falling for EVs.

Not sure what you mean here, EVs are easily the fastest growing auto-segment.

Massive EV sales growth is why all the auto makers are pushing hard on their EV efforts. EVs aren't matching ICE vehicles in volume yet, but they are grabbing big market share where they offer competitive products.

Look how quickly manufacturers jumped on making electric truck announcements once Tesla made it clear the Cybertruck was coming. From the looks of it, electric trucks are going to be big.
Ahh, TOO Many fees :(

I incorporated through Stripe Atlas for 2019 hoping to start and begin to develop the business, but dissolved the company after the first year because of these fees. Will try again when idea/product is more mature.
Neat. Art snobs always defend Pollock by claiming it's actually really difficult to forge a true Pollock and that even though it looks easy, real Pollock paintings have subtleties that are impossible to reproduce unless you've practiced for a long time.

I say... who cares. If it's easy to imitate something and get 90+% of the way with no skill or practice, then the art isn't worth admiring.
Yes, but they are only set by Google's server if the user has some sort of reputation (logged in on a Google account, visited Google before with cookies enabled, etc).
Yes but if cost is dictating the quality spec then you aren’t accomplishing anything of value.
Did you ever actually refactor code with a significant test suite written under heavy mocking?

The mocking assumptions generally end up re-creating the behavior creating the ossification. Lots of tests simply mock 3 systems to test that the method calls the 3 mocked systems with the proper API -- in effect testing nothing, while baking in lower level assumptions into tests for people refactoring what actually matters.

You might personally be a wizard at designing code to be beautifully mocked, but I've come across a lot of it and most has a higher cost (in hampering refactoring, reducing readability) than benefit.
Absolutely seconded!

Try out the knossos [0] front end to install the FreeSpace Open mods. 4k support, up-ressed textures and one of the best single player campaigns ever! And there's a bunch of user created campaigns that rival AAA games [1][2]

[0] https://fsnebula.org/knossos/

[1] https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/09/get-freespace-2-for-free-t...

[2] http://coin-drop.com/freespace-blue-planet-masterclass-video...

[Edit: you do need the commercial Freespace release to get the most of the mods. Get it from Good Old Games]
Nobody seems to be talking about the sonic boom issue. People often assume that the sonic boom is a single event that happens when the plain exceeds the speed of sound, but rather its a continuous event that happens at supersonic speed which is why the Concord was used only for transatlantic service. A supersonic plane would not be practical for any overland route.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
> Do you know what happened in Jedwabne? That was not an organized nation state attack on its minority, it was pent up hate in the local population that was released with an aggreement of o Nazi occupation force because people felt they can do whatever they want and decided to act on their hatred.

Yes, I'm well aware. That's a perfect example of absolute power. The local populace were free to do as they wanted, with no constraints.

BTW, do you know what happened in Iraq? It was "pent-up anger" about 9/11, directed at the wrong people.

But as you say, none of this excuses Jedwabne or Iraq.

> At the time of Jedwabne Poland as nation state did not exist, the government was truly symbolic, on emigration. Before II WW there was barely 20 years of Polish government during which time there was much other problems (ever heard of Russia invading Poland after WW1?) There was in fact a lot of racism towards Jews in that time but no organized efforts or pogroms. This only came after the government was removed and replaced by Nazi occupation.

And I could come up with a bunch of excuses here for US behavior. BTW, claiming Poland was a "people" and not a "nation-state" is a complete cop-out for Poland's Holocaust atrocities.

> If you compare it to current US situation, if the government stopped working completely, I am sure as hell there would be civil war between white and black population.

No. Black US population is about 15%. It wouldn't be a civil war - it would be a massacre, which is why I and many others have been trying against all hope to calm down current tensions. I've worked in an "intersectional conflict zone" - I know what people can do to each other. It can absolutely happen in the US if we don't take care.

> one nation state abusing power is no excuse for another doing the same.

Yes, I totally agree.

BTW, I noticed you didn't address any of my other points.
So now you have a widely distributed system of insurers to deal with making the rules, rather than people I've elected to represent my interests? (Even if said elections don't always go my way.)

Who are those insurers beholden to, what are their incentives to represent the consumer in any way?
Posts like this make me feel envy because it's not available in <<favorite-UI-framework-here>>. People smarter than me seriously need to separate design with framework and make combining them more like changing clothes.
Signs You Are Wasting Your Life
Beautifully made. Like the font. And how legible it is on mobile devices. - Learned Scheme and worked through SICP with its predecessor DrScheme twenty years ago. - Keep up the good work.
Exactly, I don't understand why this is a big deal. Everyone knows the US economy and society is in the gutter for everyone but the rich.

Nobody should even consider coming to the US or doing any business here until things change (which it may not for another 4 years)
Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation
They're already doing that.

The streaky images in the press releases aren't meant to communicate "we don't know how to clean data," they're meant to communicate the severity of the interfering signal which must now be removed. Imperfectly, with imperfections in proportion to the severity of the interfering signal. Which is large.
> it was pent up hate in the local population that was released with an aggreement of o Nazi occupation force because people felt they can do whatever they want and decided to act on their hatred

In my opinion much more damning than the actions of a government - not necessarily explicitly supported by the population.
> tenuous at best for hybrid tech/real world companies

Worked just fine with Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Sun, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Nvidia, Network Appliance, Juniper Networks, Ciena and numerous other prominent tech / real world companies. There is a long list of successful hardware companies that took venture capital spanning many decades.

A certain amount of margin is ideal if you're going to deal with VC, however it's not strictly necessary. You can also compensate with high top line growth and lower margins - Amazon was a low margin retail business for the first 12 years and produced an epic return for its early investors from 1994-2006.
Everyone hates when their stable business model is disrupted.

But in general, I don't think it should be the role of regulation (or lawsuits, or retaliatory business strategies) to protect people's business models -- unless there are compelling public interest/national security/etc reasons to do so.

Someone will figure out how to thrive when conditions change. You're just mad because it's not you any more.
Walking and biking with some public transit to fill the gaps honestly.

Outside of the obvious downsides to a car centric culture, the united states would definitely have healthier people if it were feasible to walk to more destinations. And I don't mean this just on an individual fitness level either. Getting out of the car and actually walking and interacting with people is an important community aspect, which this country severely lacks.
What has that got to do with PCs? All you're describing are flaws in other products - namely Google's search. Google does a terrible job because they promote illegitimate sources over legitimate ones. The solution is to not use Google.
Thanks for the reply.

> We do know how to quantify intelligence (..).

But how exactly do we do that?
This is perfectly normal. I don't want my home address out in public so I use a registered agent service to act as the address for filings like these.

The same is true for both the US and UK (both places where I have founded companies.)