skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Meanwhile, 90 percent reported they have been trying to negotiate their leases, but their landlords wouldn’t budge."

This is alarming. It may seem like just another statistic lost in a bigger article, but it's symptomatic of a ticking time bomb in NYC, and commercial real estate more broadly.

Louis Rossmann had an excellent breakdown of why the landlords won't budge on the leases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfmMB1E_qk

tl;dr - the loans on these restaurants are all bundled into commercial mortgage backed securities (sound familiar?) and sold to wholesale investors, and the landlords are unable to change the terms of the lease, or the banks will revalue the underlying asset based on a multiple of the rent, and the owner will either essentially get margin called, or end up with negative equity, and default on the loan.

Can someone from Wall Street please add their thoughts?
Justice Dept. to brief state officials on expected Google antitrust case
what 'caste and other consideration' are you talking about? are you saying some castes were not allowed to climb the trees?

how much would you pay for a coconut?
Yes. I am a member there. Very interesting stuff. Won’t necessarily scale, but I am not looking to scale. 200-250 seems you be the dunbaresque number for a subterranean community.
The footgun is not just the exclusivity but the fact that `RangeInclusive` has an extra bool field and so is wastefully large for use cases that need the inclusivity. i.e. it's a perf footgun.
What forces do you think are capable of causing leaders at financial institutions to internalize the cost of criminal banking activity such that they adequately prevent it?
Basically a programming jobs website...
T-Mobile amassed “unprecedented concentration of spectrum,” AT&T complains
Whats the endgame with PWAs in terms of capabilities? Are proponents pushing for every native API to be available? There are some fundemental differences in how things like navigation stacks work on Android vs iOS and a whole host of platform specific features and APIs on each platform that don't match up 1 to 1. Especially with regard to gestures, UI and accessibility. Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions here and the sweet spot for PWAs is covering the space that things like React Native and Flutter currently occupy rather than trying to "fit in" perfectly with the platform.
For ordinary customers yes, for fraudulent customers, I think they have other ways.

In the end the KPIs are probably something like “number of accounts blocked”, which is easier with ordinary customers
Apple knew what the managers were doing and could have stopped it.
What if the cost of fuel goes to zero?
TikTok, WeChat Bans Would Lead to Bigger U.S. National Security Risks
welcome Nick
I think the intention behind the OP’s post was to test how quickly you could steer the algorithm in a very specific direction.
You might want to watch Good Will Hunting. It's an important theme in that movie.
Rollbacks are easy and simple to do and "solve" a large number of problems and go a long way bisecting the problem. They are not expected to solve every problem.
This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work
Why does it sound wrong? Since strings are UTF-8, this just boils down to lexicographical ordering of code points.

Ironically though, that should be actually more objectionable than ordering arrays by lexicographical order of elements, because the underlying code point order is pretty much useless for any other purpose than having some arbitrary deterministic order. Meaningfully ordering strings is an inherently locale-dependent operation, and PartialOrd has no way to take this into account.
That's how it works today. The problem is that any sequence of links in the chain can decide to lie. That's how most major banking scandals happen; some guy, his boss, and maybe his boss's boss conspire against the rest of the chain to be dishonest together. I feel like I end up circling to 1MDB very often here, but it's just such a good example; the 1MDB bankers had to lie extensively to the chain of responsibility at Goldman Sachs, since the compliance department had repeatedly instructed people not to do business with their major point of contact.
I was giving net numbers. Assuming I pay 19% taxes in Poland on that remote job income, the range you've given translates to 240k-310k PLN net.

Also, I myself happen to make over 400k net PLN per year, but I didn't want to use myself as an example, as I only know a handful of people who make that much - so it's perhaps not something you 100% can count, whereas the 250k per year number is absolutely attainable by any senior dev with reasonable/modern CV and good negotiating/job hopping skills.
I wonder whether the ls.apple.com servers are connected with security features like "Find my iPhone". But then, I'm not sure exactly what Find my iPhone does if it's turned on but location services are disabled.
I always push back or ignore people who complain about how you shouldn’t have to “burn in” new code. That if it’s not ready to go you shouldn’t commit the change at all.

Knight Capital would likely not have lost hundreds of millions of dollars if someone had deleted that flag months before they needed the slot again. Someone in that time would have likely noticed the extra server that was running really old code.

Flags defaulted to off on first deploy are, IMO, just another form of refactoring. Prove that you can do nothing before you prove you can do something.
so are you saying india was economically flourishing in the 1970s and today suddenly there is poverty that you would not pay the tree climber? how much did you make in the 1970s selling coconuts? Re 1? equivalent to 1/50th on the US dollar?
Nader is a lawyer and activist, and has no experience running any sort of organization or company, and has no engineering training.

His opinion is of little to no value here.
>Coconuts outside the big cities event today are dirt cheap you can get a dozen for something like $1

Nah. Even in most rural places, coconuts are now priced at around 50 cents each.
I'm all in for banning smoking, but unfortunately drug addicts tend to become violent if they're cut off. It's much less damaging to society to do that one slowly over time.
better than living in europe in the aftermath of the 30 years war, where up to 50% of the population died in some areas. these settlers were effectively chancing disease (p to 50% fatality rates on voyages were common) and wilderness instead of nearly certain persecution and war
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what I was trying to say.
I've never understood the need to be an ongoing drone. Is this really the sort of thing people want in life, or is it from some notion of work makes the person? Some days I love what I do, most days I like what I do, occasionally I hate what I do. In none of those days do I define myself by what I do.

Good on you for writing what you want to. If someone wants to focus purely on a single subject that's great FOR THEM. Personally, I'm rather saddened by the fact that I keep starting and stopping blogs for decades; I'm also thrilled to see someone who has kept one up for 15 years. Great stuff!
20% of the total population is probably 60% of choiceless and careless. Percentage of the population that are exposed to a potential Covid infection, either due necessity (essential workers and so on) or stupidity is much less than 100%.

Someone who has been barricaded inside of their home since February most likely doesn't have antibodies, but at the same time is not a potential Covid spreader.
Maybe? honestly who knows at this point. There is seemingly a lot more fragmentation in the west so it might be harder to pull off an all encompassing WeChat style app here, as much as a company like Facebook would love that.
So instead of we’ve got rampant racism, conspiracy theories, fake news and attempts to sway elections in that direction all over the world. If that’s the good experience, bring back the midis!
In my experience, exact subjects taken at higher levels of university don’t matter that much. If you’re going to be applying for industry positions, they’re going to be much more interested in your mastery and knowledge of the foundations of CS and ML rather than knowledge in very specific or obscure parts of ML. As long as you have at least some math, CS or ML subjects at master’s level, I believe you’ll be considered a strong candidate.

Personally, I regret not taking more of the subjects I was more interested in rather than the ones I thought will get me a job.
Even in the West we consider some jobs off-limits to holders of certain offices. Imagine a SCOTUS judge cleaning sewers for money or shooting porn when the court is not in session.

Caste works in a similar way, but is determined by birth.
I find this emotional attachment between a real human and a fictitious entity absolutely fascinating, unsettling, beautiful and creepy at the same time. This is pure fiction, generated by some C++ code written in Visual Studio and yet, we are attached to it like a real human. Same thing with fiction books. It’s just words being consumed by the brain but emotional impact is real. Then I question, isn’t all human to human interaction just data exchange through our “sensors” (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste)?
No F-15 has been lost in air-to-air combat, but there have been losses. I am not denying that the F-15 is a successful weapons platform, but it didn't fulfill Boyd's outline, and the A through C models were produced in relatively small numbers due to their high cost. The small fleet of F-15A-C also necessitated the lightweight fighter competition, which didn't produce an all-out dogfighter either.

I see the F-4 Phantom II as much more impressive for a number of reasons, including the facts that it was the first airplane with the capability to perform a self-directed intercept, as well as being extremely versatile (serving with the Navy, Air Force, and Marines), and served much longer than most of its contemporaries.
> They seem to know where the money is and how to get the cut.

How do you preserve such a knowledge in the institution through the years?
> colonized, a fancy term for enslaved

Don't be ridiculous.
I feel your pain. The flat cents make small online transactions hard to do.

If you can add a 30 cent transaction cost at checkout then you are just paying 2.9 percent on the cart price.

I know that isn’t a great answer to your question. “Raise prices”.

I do think there is room for pricing model innovation at the vendors you looked at. But I don’t see it happening in the next few years.
Even many power users don't do extensions. I'm a developer, who is heavily into frontend stuff, and even though I tried many times, I could never get used to using any extension in my life.

I set up a DNS based blocker and that's more than enough. I don't try to hunt 100% of the ads, there's nothing wrong if some of them are displayed as long as the pages aren't fully bloated with them anyway.
"Algorithm isn't racially discriminatory" is an unusual complaint.
This, the fine was not big enough to impact their business to a meaningful degree.
Under feudalism, idleness was good for me (a bellator or orator), but not for thee (a labourer).

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24540122
Yes, I'd really like to see Zuckerberg trying to explain to his shareholders that he quit one of their most lucrative markets just to stick it to the EU authorities. I don't think it would go that well to him. This threat is so empty it makes them look like total fools.
I also hope so.
TikTok as a whole is insanely overrated, at least in my opinion. I've really given it multiple tries, hours at a time, but it consistently fails to serve me anything that even remotely entertains me.

My biggest gripe with it is that half of the content appears to be of the "build some tension up by hinting at a certain conclusion of the video, then simply ending the video before it comes to that conclusion and leave the viewer clueless" type, and TikToks famed algorithm seems to be entirely unable to discern that I hate this crap. Maybe it's because I watched some of these fully in the beginning until I understood the pattern. However, afterwards I swiped this kind of video away immediately once I notice the pattern, but the famed algorithm appears to be unable to re-learn that I really, really, really hate this kind of content.
I’m wondering if authors removed the debug and mem counting code from Knuth CWEB files. All operations are accompanied by memory access counters.

I looked at the code and it’s as easy change of the define macro.
Marketing formula 101: How to get _ without doing _ so you can also be like _.

Haha I love Daniel's approach to this. He's a legend!
You might be interested in reading up about torsion balances, it's a scientific apparatus designed pretty much specifically to measure gravity. And indeed usually you test it (or the force of gravity itself) by using a couple globes of a large mass nearby. The device is sensitive enough to where you can't really be in the room while testing it since your gravitational field is larger than the stuff you're measuring.

Of course a torsion balance really only measures the direction of the gravitational field on a single plane, not its force or total direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_spring#Torsion_balance
That's exactly the kind of thing a parks or utilities department would keep track of, since it bears heavily on staffing schedules, maintenance, cleaning, budget, etc.
Economics isn't that simple, you can't invent demand out of thin air and printing money is a very short term solution with huge long term impacts.

Dealing with debt is risky, whether you are the lender or the borrower. I completely agree with opinions that it is utter BS that the government effectively bailed out banks and corporations while leaving the rest out to dry, but the solution isn't further bailouts.

Life sucks sometimes, governments can't fix that. A pandemic spreading fast enough to bring broad shutdowns doesn't come free, and unfortunately small businesses sitting on piles of debt and tight margins are the first to bleed. Economic systems have pros and cons; with Capitalism we often get accelerated growth and innovation but the downside is that when things go south it can be a much faster and deeper cut.
From the description:

> The contest aims to create friendship among young people with similar interests who will lead their countries in the 21st century, as well as help advance engineering and broadcasting technologies in the region.

That's pretty wholesome.
> tinker with the auth policy (whether that is password login, password login with only strong passwords, or rsa/ecdsa key access only).

Or the port ssh works on

> that sometimes is a large product vendor, not allowing anything beyond what they ship

Surely you'd limit access to that on an IP level and bounce via a bastion (which you do control)

> tinkering with a box is regularly discouraged (especially if it is managed by some orchestration or vendor specific control/update tool), while effectively the same can be done by changing a router/firewall

"Tinkering" with a router/firewall sounds far more dangerous than a box -- you can knock out 2000 machines in one go.

> That's an interesting theory, but frankly not how I think the real world (usually) works

If the shit hits the fan, are you confident your management (which apparently refuse to allow you to implement basic security policies) will have your back, or will they pile the entire blame on your to save their skin.

Better to look for a company that respects your skills before you get pink slipped.
Gogoro Electric Scooter Battery Swapping Network
Wasn't investigating the relationship between mass production and art Warhol's big thing?
> [email] remains arguably one of the largest social networks in the world.

What percentage of email traffic do you think is social in nature (and not just notifications from an actual, separate social network)? I'm guessing <0.1%.
I ported the 70s Super Star Trek to a PWA, with some artistic license for the UI.

https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/superstartrek
Very cool, this is actually somewhat related to what I'm working on at topica.io - let me know once you dive into interactive transcripts / search :)
I can confirm. We have a normal Google doc (nothing super fancy) that spans about 10 pages at most, and when I scroll past about 8th page in Safari, scrolling becomes almost unusually sluggish and everything starts lagging.
Appears that this is currently only available in Taiwan, but hopefully it will come to the U.S. at some point of time in the future...
Its such a shame that Tiktok with its massive teenage userbase doesn't have youtube's infamous recommendation system which inadvertently creates pedophilic wormholes.
laws in the british empire were enforced, and followed almost religiously. The HMS bounty is about the only time anyone has openly mutinied against the empire and kept their life and freedom, or perhaps the US in 1776

consider that the rum rebellion was put down in australia in 1810 by the royal navy, or the Wager mutiny - the survivors of a shipwreck/mutiny on the south coast of Chile in 1741 were court martialled in London a few years later. A sailor in those days even in a place as far flung as china or south africa would reasonably fear ending up being hanged in london
Drink driving is banned, smoking is banned in many situations and only thanks to tobacco lobbies and tax income is it not entirely banned. Having sex doesn't affect passers by, just the active participants. Junk food you choose to eat yourself, you don't hurt others with it. It can cost taxpayer dollars in medical funding though, if you want to take that angle. There are hundreds of laws to stop people from making choices that hurt others, so even if your examples weren't so flimsy they would still be moot.

This is a once in a lifetime pandemic, it will pass, take it on the chin and accept that you might have to do something to help others. You will get your choice back soon enough. The choice to be a carrier during a pandemic affects everyone. Why is it individual liberty to choose to spread disease but public will when people die from it?
Artistism gap between indie and AAA isn't as big in Japan as in USA, AAA gets more polygons but that's about the only difference.
I heard in Thailand they trained monkeys to do the job. Is this also a possibility for India?
That's a fair point - e.g. Authy is currently broken on iOS 14 which means I'd be locked out if I was doing this and using Authy (although I have a VPN to one server which can then get to my others.)
Tech journalism’s ‘on background’ scourge
Western society will let you starve to death if you have not demonstrated an ability to not be idle. The only people it promotes idleness in are the people it makes unfathomably rich on the back of others' non-idleness.
Tax the rentier bracket's rent income. The overlap need not be considered.

> The reality is that that professional/managerial bracket has a large proportion of both the wealth and income in America

This is irrelevant. Tax policy should not be judged by what proportion of total wealth or income it collects, but by the economic incentives it creates and the externalities it offsets.
Blizzard shut a "wow classic" style private server down because they are the owners of WoW but then they left lots of people who wanted the classic experience stranded and decided to give them an official way. It's not a money grab.
I don't know, but they've got a hell of a lot more of a chance now that they're actually aware of the issues.
One of the best strategies ever for me together with Sim City (2000) and Transport Tycoon, was much less of fan of Dune 2 or C&C or Commando, so this was pretty much only strategy with actual fight and not just construction, which could capture my interest supported with popular TV show X-Files at times.
Delicate stone workings is one thing, rotary machine tools is wholly another.

Tens of millennia is not "a bit". Tens of millennia is "Holy Shit", or you are just not paying attention.
Third of British musicians may quit industry amid pandemic
"As the population increasingly moves towards tech jobs, there's now a shortage of coconut harvesters in India." Is this really true? Is there a shortage of low skilled labor in India?
DSL ought to be resistant to most kinds of noise. In most cases, single frequency noise results in a tiny reduction in bandwidth as that single frequency bin can't be used.

It looks like in this case, a design deficiency in DSL contributed to the issue. Specifically, DSL assumes the amount of SNR at each frequency stays constant. A better design would adjust the number of bits and the power in each frequency bin to handle noise sources changing without requiring a full disconnect and resync which takes a few minutes and leaves the customer without service.
> he's an operator who can execute on the vision Jobs laid out better than anyone

I think Jobs's vision was not static though.
If you didn't notice, most of the footage was shown at 4x speed, or 2x speed. It's extremely slow to move any part of this monstrosity. There is no way it would be capable of walking freely with the slowness of the mechanics. It's a completely different story at this scale, Boston Dynamics doesn't have a way to make that work.
That's a real shame... I will consider raising the prices but I am really worried about it because it's really just an impulse purchase for a very small thing and I feel like almost no one will be interested if the price is too high.
I decided to try to track down the paper you're referencing, and can support your comment with some numbers I found in a similar one he wrote in 2012.

He claimed anywhere from 3,300x in linear programming from 1988 to 2004, to a 75,000x speedup in algorithmic improvements in CPLEX from 1991 to 2007[0].

One of the points he drives home in his tables is that the algorithmic improvement isn't "dwarfed" by processor/machine improvments. Rather they multiply eachother. A 3300x speedup on the algorithm side, combines with a 2000x speedup on the machine side, for a total speedup of 6.6 million x.

So what took >76 days to compute in ~1990 now takes <1 second. But using the same algorithms from 1990 on today's computers, those computations might take 30 minutes instead of the 1 second that we are accustomed to.

0: https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/vol-ismp/25_bixb... [page 114]
Actions should be judged by their consequences. Size of the resource collected impacts the impact of the consequence.
> information asymmetry where the spam artists don't know what signals you are looking for (which rules out open source).

Machine learning mitigates this somewhat - doesn't really matter if the code's open source if even the people who wrote it have no idea what's actually happening in the black box.

Of course, that method of anti-spam has an entirely separate set of problems. But we've got those either way.