skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Land is generally expensive because infrastructure is expensive. Building plumbing systems, subways, highways, schools, etc gets directly reflected in land prices. That compounds when the cost to build even more transportation infrastructure skyrocket. Trying to build larger buildings without that infrastructure just results in pointless gridlock.

The Bay Area compounds that by capping property price increases which heavily distorts incentives and the overall market. But, don’t assume simply building more housing would actually make a significant difference long term without massive investments in infrastructure. At best it simply changes which land is valuable.
This is HN. Discussion is kind of the whole point.
the only way i see a world without passports or border is when we discovered aliens but until then there will always be differences and imaginary border is what defines it
the performance ceiling of c# has gone up a lot since that data was collected too.
hysterical . . .
Political vs apolitical is just semantics. Will companies deciding not to be socially active have a political impact? Yes. Does not engaging in political activities support the status quo? Yes. Is a particular political group more affected by a ban on activism? Yes.

And I agree focus on their goal is a great, abstract guiding principle for a company. But the better question is does a socially active company have a more positive impact on the world?
Brian believes social activism has "the potential to destroy a lot of value at most companies, both by being a distraction, and by creating internal division." That might be true, but in many cases, I doubt the cost of employee annoyance and loss of focus is more than the benefit of enacting minor policy changes and fund diversion that could positively impact millions.
Or just information would be sufficient. I'd like to know the walkthrough for backing out of a contract as experienced by an actual person before I sign.
California will now require more diversity on company boards
Last year, in addition to usual work by long-term contributors, my project got four useful bugfixes (all from the same person and taken from our recommended first contributions list), a few trivial typo fixes, and no spam.

I've seen people say they benefit from Hacktoberfest and some people say they get a lot of spam, and it's hard to know which outnumbers which, but I don't think anyone should be saying with confidence that it's a pure negative, and I think DigitalOcean's suggested fixes (disallow new accounts, disallow people who've gotten too many contributions marked as spam) are probably the right direction to go.
It's not too terribly difficult to load test Snowflake to get a sense of scaling. Jmeter does the job well. Heck I can pass you along some sample projects I've done against them if you really wanted.
When does the US President call you?
For what it's worth, AVR got accepted into LLVM and there is now Rust for AVR.
Alacritty doesn't have ligatures[1] support. I like the project and wish it success, it has a nice, clean code, somewhat minimalistic, and clear goals. But so far it lags behind kitty.

[1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/50
I like their other prize for this year: plant a tree. They should remove tshirt and switch to that completely. It might reduce the spam.

Free t-shirts are also pretty controversial due to child labor often involved at some point in the manufacturing.
In case you're interested, my recommendation for learning differential geometry is Lee's "Smooth Manifolds". I prefer the 1st edition to the 2nd [0], but both present a much more clear overview of the basic definitions than I've seen anywhere else.

I think differential geometry is a field where it really helps to think about the "types" of each object, and to write the type signatures down explicitly for every function of interest. Unfortunately even Lee's book doesn't always do this, but I think it'll help you when taking notes.

If you just want to learn about the "spirit" of DG and not the rigorous details, I highly highly recommend Keenan Crane's "Discrete Differential Geometry" book [1] and course [2,3]. It's very computationally-oriented and you'd be in a good position to read more about the continuous case afterwards.

[0] due to differences in order of topics and typographical style
[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DGPDEC
[2] http://brickisland.net/DDGSpring2020/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvhgkGKfSM&list=PL9_jI1bdZm...
I am wondering how this differs from KSUID
I agree.

While I’m definitely in the camp of “it’s none of the state’s business”, stating that and expecting it to change minds is... not a very well-informed approach.
Heck, you had the same hullabaloo about pre-fabs in the 40's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bf6qnM2pXY&t=2m26s
This is a great question. As posed I'd say the answer is yes, though I'd dispute the characterization of "not allowed". All I'm saying is that:

1) There exists a zero-point of politicization for this widget company;

2) In this scenario that zero-point corresponds to the decision, "do not bake climate mitigation into company's DNA"; and

3) That decision is one necessary component of the policy that maximizes the company's chance of hitting its goal.

I'm not saying anything prescriptive at all — just highlighting that tradeoffs that are being made, whether or not one is intentional in making them.
This is a long game, with many variables in play. I seriously wonder if we'll ever know who took the 'optimal' approach if we are being honest.

It seems you definitely need to protect the very vulnerable. Beyond that, not much is clear.
I'm just going to leave this here:

http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/
well, that's it then. No gripes anymore!
Yeah we signed up for the beta shortly after that announcement but never heard back from AWS except an automated reply. We even asked our account rep this summer as to the status of timestream and he had no idea. Now it's GA!
It comes down to money. Maybe corporates will have more money to throw at bots, or maybe consumers will have more money in aggregate to throw at bots.
Also the USB-C ports are not on the MLB, they are on I/O boards that can fairly easily be replaced …
I wrote the response. Maybe someone will submit it another three times and then it will finally catch on…
It also would barely run on my 2019 MacBook Pro. I left before figuring out what Google TV is.
Free makes any business model other than surveillance capitalism effectively impossible. Direct paid revenue is a necessary but not sufficient condition for an honest transparent model of user interaction that respects privacy.

Facebook with a subscription fee could still have been shady, but a world where Facebook charges a subscription fee is a world where an alternative might have a chance to finance itself as the direct revenue potential of a social network would not be $0.
In Brazil they control the prices and keep them... high.
The new hotness is “governance tokens” where no money is raised and tokens are dumped into a yield farm. The tokens have no utility or rights, just the ability to vote on governance. These tokens are worth billions of dollars in total. Example token launched this way https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/yearn-finance

These launches side step many aspects of the Howie Test such as “an investment of money”. I’m unsure that the SEC would win in court against these.
Off-topic, but related: I've always wondered why someone hasn't offered a muzak-type service that is built around algorithmic generation of music.

In my estimation, the state of algorithmic music doesn't currently allow for the compelling listening that we're used to with most "human" music, but I can see it being good enough for situations like call-holding or similarly ambient situations like restrooms or lobbies. It could be somewhat bland, but it's content shifts subtly enough to avoid irritation over the course of ten minutes.

In my head, I hear something like the kind of minimal techno that Ricardo Villalobos is known for. Long, evolving, beatscapes that slowly transform over the course of an hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWdWzMdndc

I was once put on hold at a music equipment rental shop and heard a decidedly "non-muzak" drum and synthesizer loop. When the rep took me off hold they explained that I was hearing a live feed of some electronic instruments that they had running in the back room. He then put me back on hold in order to demonstrate him playing around with the synthesizers that were on loop. That really made my day.
I can't believe there's no standard in SIP to display the 'IVR' on your phone as a menu and have it give you a ring once an agent is available yet
What leads you to believe that cutting drug prices would cause doctors' earnings to fall?
Heh, that’s cute. And it still seems reasonably close to reality - the only thing I think it’s missing OTOH is Google One.

Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store, App Store, One, and TV. All they’re missing is Cast and Go!
It's difficult for random people on the Internet to know what's right for you and your children, but I hope everyone tells you your heart is in the right place and naturally enrichment is something they'll come to appreciate as much as many other things.

The simple reality of it is if your kids have a natural aptitude for taking standardized tests well with little studying, they are sort of wasting their time in normal schools. Like how else are they going to be evaluated, or the quality objectively measured, if not tests? And then, if your kids just test well, without studying, they have this true gift for whatever idiosyncratic reason...

Why not go to a "cultural expedition" to Malaysia every month?

Why do 4 hours of homework instead of 30 minutes? Why read 1 chapter or fewer of many books, instead of 1 book you really enjoy? Why not spend all day reading 1 book every day, instead of taking 9 classes, 8 of which you don't enjoy?

Why do this structure designed for maximizing SAT scores and common app competitiveness? That is why you can get away with reading almost no books in high school and get an A in English, why you can take 10 classes and 4 extracurriculars and seemingly excel at all of them. It's not designed for anything earnest - of course it is impossible for a kid to excel at everything, of course there's something broken with the way naturally good test takers are evaluated.

Why not, as one mom put it to me, "pet fluffy animals" the whole day one day a week?

A lot of schooling, public or private, is stuck in a feedback loop where they are good at making the average student excel at test taking - recall, the only objective measure of performance - attracting more average students, thereby making their focus on improving test performance even more intense.

So many families are stuck in this trap, a relentless focus on making average students test well. Testing well - at once totally useless and also sometimes just given to some kids, by some gift.

If you're affluent and have such a child, listen they're not going to celebrate the homework, the cramming, the well-roundedness, the being-forced-to-do-shit. It will not ever be relevant in their life. If they have the natural aptitude for testing, it is impossible for the prevailing social order from distinguishing them from someone without that natural aptitude who studies 10x as hard.

This is the future of remote learning. Unlocking happiness for the small number of deeply misallocated children. Not helping the average student. Testing is the culprit for their misery, not remote learning, and tell me, what alternative is there?
> there is apparently at least some circumstances where printing money doesn't lead to inflation.

Not printing enough money. Sometimes the problem is not that you’re not doing the right thing, it’s that you’re not doing enough of it. Look at housing supply and prices in the US and in Tokyo. At one end you have places with a system designed to come as close as possible to a ban on new housing like San Francisco, with their never ending escalation of house prices and rents. At the other end you have places like Houston with quite moderate rises. In the middle you have New York which isn’t as bad as San Francisco or Seattle which has actually seen prices fall over the last two years they’ve built so much. Way over beyond that you’ve got Tokyo growing 50% in population in two decades with flat house prices and rents.

From 2016

> As FT’s Tokyo bureau chief Robin Harding wrote in the article, the city had 142,417 housing starts in 2014, which was “more than the 83,657 housing permits issued in the state of California (population 38.7m), or the 137,010 houses started in the entire country of England (population 54.3m).” Compare this, also, with the roughly 20,000 new residential units approved annually in New York City, the 23,500 units started in Los Angeles County, and the measly 5,000 homes constructed in 2015 throughout the entire Bay Area.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/12/tokyos-af...
Nonpayment doesn't usually terminate contracts. In fact it may be a breach.
Snowflake owes much of its performance benefits to "micro-partitions" [1]. BigQuery is a worthwhile comparison. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Vertica are not close equivalents.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/snowflake-automatic-clus...
The last time I checked, Netflix was capped at 720p on non-Android Linux machines, but it's been a while since I've actually checked. I think the sentiments and conclusions in this thread[1] reflect the state of streaming HD content from Netflix on Linux, still.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/c26pc0/netflix_1080...
I actually managed to find a seller on eBay from China who was selling real ones for like $1.50 a piece. They're used, of course, but it's not a rebadged 4 MHz 68000 that throws an exception when you try to change the VBR register.
Homeschooling is really bad for STEM though, only reason it looks good is that so little of kids grades are based on STEM in school.

Look at the data, and then consider that home-schooled kids in general comes from more stable homes with higher wealth and better educated parents.

https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/the-homeschool-math-gap...
The article explains different perspectives. The author uses lower case when they have a choice. Who got jumped on?
My favorite was the DMV every 2-3 minutes making a call transfer sound with some ringing to get your hopes way up. Then after 5-6 loops of this hanging up on you with “we do not have any agents available.”
The perception that college is about getting a job is what allows many colleges to charge very high prices. If everyone were clear that it is not about getting a job, how many would be willing to take out student loans to do it?
Anecdotally, this stereotype seems to exist in the United States as well.

When it comes to data, the 2016 National Household Education Survey by the National Center for Education Statistics shows that 51% of parents selected "A desire to provide religious instruction" as an "important" reason for homeschooling their children, and 67% selected "A desire to provide moral instruction" as an "important" reason for homeschooling [0, in bar plot form; 1, original data].

[0] https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/summaries/reas...
[1] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2017/2017102.pdf
Hell, you'd think it'd be a bigger thing among the noscript/privacy world to be able to do more things without JS.
I think the irony here is that MVC in its original form has largely fallen out of fashion the last few years. And it is precisely because physically separating all of the functionality into a model/view/controller files doesn't actually make development easier. This makes sense right? Logically it's all coupled, so separating the pieces, even if they are functionally responsible for different things, doesn't really produce a system that is easier to maintain.

Look at the new default "razor pages" web project for .NET core. While it it is a little bit fancier, it basically brings back the same mental model that PHP has been using for decades. That is, cram all of the logic into a single file, and use a "service locator" pattern (I know it's actually DI under the hood) to "inject" extra functionality. In this way it is easy to trace where all of the pieces are coming from. Why abstract your `UserRegistrationView` to accept any `UserRegistrationModel` from a `UserRegistrationController` in a "decoupled" manner when the reality is that only one of any of that actually needs to exist ever? Might as well have the orchestration right next to the use-case!

The above applies to (what I believe to be) a significant majority of use-cases. At least the interesting ones.
> I can't remember the numbers now, but I think that meant costs in the $10's of millions / week

$500 million per year is a drop in the bucket for ~600Tbit of worldwide low altitude high speed satellite Internet. That’s ~$800/Gbit at 20Gbit/satellite and 30,000 satellites.

Starship will carry 240 satellites at a $2 million launch cost. That’s $250 million in launch costs every 5 years to fully cycle 30,000 satellites. If the satellites themselves will cost ~$250k each or $7.5b for the full constellation, so annual costs overall would be $1.5 billion, but I would guess at that scale per-satellite cost is actually much lower.

If you do the math, a fully operational Starlink will print vast sums of money ($10s of billions annually) until if/when there is a viable competitor.

The beauty is that just the marginal costs to Starlink directly fund SpaceX’s R&D budget — basically the cost side of the equation pays for Starship, while the substantial profit is just pushing Elon further up the Richest List to the point where he’ll have to find another trillion-dollar problem to throw money at.
Oops, I started on an entry for this, and then went off with some new variants on the algo and forgot my original goal.

But I did make it fairly readable:

FixedPoint<uint32_t> x;
do {
x.setFraction(src());
x *= range;
} while(isRejectedValue(x.fraction()));

return x.floor();

Basically all the weird casts and things in Lemire are parts of 32.32 fixed point arithmetic; we stuff a random value into the .32 part to make a number in [0,1) and multiply. The rejection condition is a bit of modular arithmetic but not super hard.

https://github.com/KWillets/range_generator/blob/59ffea502c4...

I added another method where it doesn't reject but extends right (variable-precision) until it's certain of the exact answer (ie that the floor() cannot change). I believe the Ryu printf algorithm does something similar to get the requested number of digits. It's unbiased but uses more random bits, which are expensive.
Given just how hard I’m having to work to keep any roof over my head, I really don’t care for the ‘quality’ argument. Australia has become so overpriced that literally nobody in the next generation is likely to own a home. Try building a successful country when most of your citizens are serfs.
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>Upon talaq, the wife is entitled to the full payment of mahr if it had not already been paid. The husband is obligated to financially support her until the end of the waiting period or the delivery of her child, if she is pregnant. In addition, she has a right to child support and any past due maintenance, which Islamic law requires to be paid regularly in the course of marriage

The prenup is hardcoded.
The problem with quoting New York is that New York thought they had Case #1 on March 1 when backmodeling suggests that they were already at Case #10,000. And then they went 3 more weeks before they actually locked down.

So, New York had a WAY higher number of infected per capita than pretty much anywhere other than the early hotspots.
Would like to see a SCM that:

- handles large files effectively (build artifacts, 10-40GiBs each, and other binary dependencies)

- partial checkout of the repo/view

- git style operations (have stage area, can stage parts of a file, can stash changes and reapply later, cherry pick)

- can view the history of an individual file (support file relocation)

- access control on individual files, and partial review of the repository (views are "granted" to developers)

- good tooling

- immutable when it makes sense (e.g. you cannot changed a published commit)

- works offline (if possible)

- large mono repo

I evaluated git annex and git lfs, and finally chosen Perforce, mainly for its large file handling, view for each developer and ACL, but the lack of flexibility makes me don't want to commit, and every time I do a merge, I say to myself, "uuh, this again". The other thing it lacks is the "ease of mind", with git, everything is checksummed, if the content changes, it will be noticed by git, with Perforce, you have to tell it you want to edit it. (Not nit-picking on Perforce, I actually think Perforce is a good software, its server runs flawlessly, and have a good p4v (if you don't mind the friction), I think it just lacks good tooling and git style operations)
In the article they list AT&T as having a positive 20 NPS score, which is pretty hard to believe.
That not only shows it's a compiler bug (assuming the program had no undefined behavior), it gives a general technique for generating compiler tests. Take any program, randomly change the order of declarations in a way that doesn't alter the meaning of the program, and see if both versions have the same behavior on some set of inputs.

This is an example of "metamorphic testing".
I'd appreciate any details from anonymous downvoters.

Any sample that can be done by sDOM and is not feasible without it and associated machinery?
If you expect a 12 hour outage, you should probably spec for 12 hours.

Memory-based storage is expensive, but not ruinously so.

The reason why this needs to be in-memory (I'm guessing) is a combination of dedupe checks and efficient ordered logs in the on-disk journals.

Additionally, you can scale the memory retention policy up and down as you see fit. So if you notice a network outage, you can scale up the retention policy for the duration and then reduce it back down again after.
Funny insane rather than funny haha.

Here in NZ, I cannot imagine a company surviving if they made it so hard to contact them that systems like this were neccessary. I have waited a few minutes on occassion, but it's far more common to get a "enter your number and we'll call right you back" in that case.

Something is broken with US competition law if this is a commercially viable system.
Snowflake does INLINE hardware provisioning INSIDE the query syntax. Fully managed and mostly automatic. Fire half of your DevOps team. That's why it is so valuable to Wallstreet. Companies that don't use it are wasting lots of money so there will be mass migration. It's more than query optimization, it's also dynamic horizontal query scaling. It's the same reason cloud providers are so much more valuable than rack hosting companies. It's a generational leap ahead in automation.
Uh oh, I anticipate a load of audio captchas coming on asking whether this is hold music or not
Pakistan's average temperature is 60-70f. They are not under threat from heat rise predicted by the IPCC. A good part of India is also moderate in temperature. Like I said earlier, most people already don't live in areas that will become too harsh. The equator is sparsely populated relative to other latitudes.
Snowflake seems to be part of a segment of companies that are defying economy reality during covid: $TSLA, $ZM, $SNOW. These companies have huge P/S ratios and a higher volume of options activity relative to their underlying stock. A rational person may look at metrics, but we're not in a rational market. The strange behavior of the market may explain these valuations more than anything else. And maybe 3 digit P/S ratios are the new normal.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b330e091-2a59-4527-b958-9213731a5...
> Zipcar

As best as I can tell, Zipcar seems to be a shell of a company barely still functioning.