skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a strawman at all.

I'm not talking about regulations like requiring fire alarms. I'm talking about zoning regulations as well as environmental regulations that are usually well meaning, and maybe even necessary, but are more frequently used as a kudgel by local landowners to keep out any newcomers.

You can buy land in rural middle America for $2,500 an acre and build a nice house on it for $100k. And no, not the middle of nowhere. These areas have water and electric utility service as well as major highway access.

Much of Asia has a much higher population density than the U.S. Land prices are likely higher their due to actual scarcity.
Could you outline some of these improvements?

I mostly stopped using other operating systems a long time ago, so my impressions of them are partially ouit of date, but for my previous job I had to use a Mac for development, and lately I'm experimenting with Windows in some virtual machines in order to automate the setup of certain tools for Windows developers. In neither case have I seen some desktop environment feature and thought ‘Wow, I wish I had something like that on Linux!’.
I'm surprised that this was only discovered in 2002. [0] Neat.

Reminds me of spaghetti sort [1], but bead sort is much cleverer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead_sort

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
LTCM didn’t end quite so well.
I think what is unfortunate is that by being illegal they are driven into being recreational.

There's a lot of evidence that ancient peoples knew about and consumed psychedelics, but treated them spiritually.

A recent Joe Rogan interview[1] went pretty deep on it.

Many have "bad trips" because of the context (and too much too soon), or because the setting involves consuming other things like alcohol and cannabis. Psychedelics should be treated with respect. I prefer to take them with loved ones in a private setting.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAQ7SklDxo
The page does not claim that it is novel. Indeed it cites Wikipedia which in turn cites a primary source from 2002.
Do we approximately know by what percentage the calorie availability increases for blended vs regular fruit, for the average person?
> unfortunately it's water containing a bunch of heavy metals and other nasty stuff, which usually ends up flushed into the municipal sanitary sewer. Probably still better than it going up the chimney and into the atmosphere, but it would be nice if there was a way to capture and isolate those pollutants in that relatively concentrated state, before they end up mixed in with everyone's bathtub water.

You can't be claiming that your bathtub draws from untreated sewage? The treatment plant is a logical place to extract heavy metals and other nasty things; that is its entire purpose.
But what if I want to periodically scrape my facebook data to migrate to a different platform?
You just need to use a meat product that's so full of preservatives it can't possibly rot

https://interestingengineering.com/mcdonalds-burger-survives...
It’s really cool to observe, e.g. placing white stems of scallions in water and seeing green leaves materialize within days. The underlying biochemistry is fascinating too. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuBisCO
Trello is of a certain vintage. It was a breath of fresh air when launched as it opened up new possibilities from the traditional office tools like docs & spreadsheets. But it's still a purpose-built tool that has a really tight coupling of interface-data, so it's not really a part of the next gen of tools like Airtable or Notion that are data-first and are way more flexible.

I still love Trello for its fantastic info architecture, the card interface, and the data I have in it, but I barely use it anymore because it's not as good at organizing as a database, and not as good at scaling to docs and projects as a tool like Notion.
> That would certainly help to stop the spread of Covid, but if everyone followed your advice, we would very quickly find ourselves with an entirely new set of problems.

The advice of not going to a store if you're sick with something that resembles Covid? Is that such a large number of people it will have a big cost?
My experience is that they worked when needed and it was a sigh of relief, and a little pat on the back that we perceived reality correctly when we had the foresight to set them up.
No mention of sound transmission on this or the stackexchange link someone posted.
Well, I draw informed, qualitative conclusions which take quantitative data into account.

I think everyone who read my comment understood what I left unsaid, even if they didn't agree with it. And, as the saying goes, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Just because an argument is logical and has facts doesn't mean it's correct. There are multiple ways to shape, work with, or interpret data.

But, speaking of data, is the guy who's tweets you referenced - Ernie Tedeschi, a reliable source? Better or worse than, say, Alan Greenspan? What are his general biases? Same with the Bloomberg article. That article itself said "A rising but uneven tide - the late '10s weren't equally beneficial to all Americans."

Plus, let's use Occam's razor. Which way does it cut?

- Rent prices in major cities / economic hubs for non-tech workers.

- Cost of healthcare in the US

- Cost of higher education in the US

- Cost of home ownership by major cities in the US.

- Job security and availability of well-paying work for non-tech workers?

- Is the economy benefitting those who need it most?

- How equitably have the fruits of economic growth been distributed?
And you probably keep better backups than they do. I've had this happen plenty of times. Free backup restore test.
I want to like that idea. Unfortunately, I can counter with: When you (as an outsider) see two very similar projects, one claiming to be from 2018 the other from 2020, what will you look into/try out first?
hope covid kills more people. :)
You’re getting some really bad responses to your comments, I definitely hear what you’re saying. I’m aspiring to be in tech to get out of homelessness but I wonder if I can even pull it off as a woman.
I would encourage you to read the history of the NLRB under Reagan. They absolutely gutted the thing.

https://ucommblog.com/section/national-politics/ronald-reaga...

(And Zerohedge is a trashbag of libertarian fanfiction and russian govt talking points - with the exception of their currency coverage - which is great stuff.)
I've seen this personally happening with my coworkers. We are full-time remote, and three families have moved to Vancouver, WA, Portsmouth NH and Portland, Maine. They all considered Texas and North Carolina but went north due to disliking heat.
Have any examples?
Hmm... Bringing this up because seeing your comment rung a bell about something I read a year or so ago now...

Google "world sand shortage"

Maybe there's more to it than what immediately meets the eye, but it does seem like there's a bit of a shortage.
Thank you for writing, progressive complexity is a great term.

For my project, a web-based forum, I categorize UI controls as beginner or advanced, and hide the letter behind a setting.

New users see only the essentials, intermediate users see both extra controls and hints, and expert mode takes the hints away.

I've had overwhelming success with this technique in user studies, both with beginners doing register-comment-vote, and advanced users tasked with "vote against my vote on this item".

The best part is how easy it is to layer the UI like this with HTML and DOM. My concept works in 10-year-old browsers and I believe I can extend suport even further!
good. hope this happens in the U.S.
Consent, perhaps, but not a license for using the data.
Usually it is done by setting origin/HEAD.
As a long-time PlayStation player and PS+ subscriber, I can't say I'm really impressed with this offering. I mean, they're kinda hit or miss each month, but sometimes you get something that was surprisingly good (I really enjoyed Galak-Z).

Maybe one or both of these games will be good, but the highest Metacritic user score of the two is just 7.0 for Vampyr. NFS has just a 4.2.
You took this in a slightly different direction than I expected, after I was in violent agreement with the beginning of your post.

> Most of your customers are using your products to get their job done. They want to learn it quickly, get in, get out, and get back to their work as quickly as possible.

This is true, but a missed opportunity. Many people could benefit from more powerful tools to do their work more quickly than currently possible. The "get back to their work" part is the dissonant part; the reason the power tools work for developers is that using those tools is our work, not something we have to leave to get back to it. This should be the case for more people than it currently is. It is not just developers though, there are really powerful tools for a bunch of high-leverage fields, for example image, video, and audio editing, and many different jobs in finance. A lot of the low hanging fruit may have been picked, but I suspect there are huge industries where this sort of thing is still ripe for picking. For instance, I still constantly interact with professionals using awful underpowered tools for their very specialized jobs, for example lawyers, accountants, and teachers.
I had an experience with mycelium that changed my way of looking at the world: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15059654

I am coming around to the POV that soil should be thought of as a kind of organism.

Check out e.g.: "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A

He talks about fungus starting around 1:20 (80 minutes in)
https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A?t=4848 Fungal to bacterial ratios...
The article makes a pretty clear comparison as to why this material is better than glass.
They can always hope for the sweetheart public private partnership if we ever get universal health care
> If a Facebook account can be considered a technological barrier protecting intellectual property, they could sue under DMCA anti-circumvention provisions.

It would also likely make screen readers, screenshots, and many other things illegal. I don't think it can be considered a "technological barrier", but who knows what courts will decide.

That said, I'd be surprised if that's the angle Facebook is taking - because they did (and still do) the same thing with their phone apps collecting ("scraping") address book records and uploading them to facebook servers -- and that would be an estopple-able admission of guilt if they do (even if the courts decide against them in THIS particular case).

I'll wait till more details come out.
The invisible hand perspective is that cryptocurrencies help putting a price tag on insecure systems.
That profile has 6 PR all from yesterday! Previous activity is from... October 2019!
Probably having to write out a whole line

gcc -Wall -o myprog myprog.c

instead of just

make
Everything Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Robotics
> Edit: I forgot where I was going. Here it is: I don't understand why HAVING TO LEARN HOW TO USE A PROGRAM is such a terrible thing. I remember when there were books for things like Lotus 1-2-3. People learned.

Lotus probably had 500k users and Excel probably has 500m.
> You are trying to SELL SELL SELL because all countries worldwide are feeling some economic pressure and you can't because the exchange is down.

Some exchanges deliberately close in those circumstances. Or when big news is about to be released.

But as much as people were unable to sell, there are nearly as many situations where being unable to sell is a good thing.

I guess we’re eventually going to argue for 24/7 stock exchanges and for some reason very few are.

My own experience in Canada is that a lot of big Canadian stocks also trade in NY, and when one market is closed and the other isn’t because of different holidays, not a lot happens.

I guess an unexpected crash is different, but my guess is that everyone takes the day off, avoids releasing any big news out of respect for the situation and gets back to it tomorrow.
Body fat is just a mix of HCO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat

With extreme weight loss blood, protean, and even bone mass is included. So it’s really Oxygen,
Carbon
Hydrogen,
Nitrogen,
Calcium,
Phosphorus,
Potassium,
Sulfur,
Sodium,
Chlorine, and
Magnesium plus some trace elements. However, the body heavily favors removing water and fat with mild weight loss.
A Critique of Leaderboard Culture in AI
There's been an open source option for 10 years - ZAP :)
Hm.

Isn’t a sufficiently underground crypto currency vulnerable to interference?
Don't these guys just do deals with the wifi hotspots from comcast for backhaul? My understanding is the move for hotspots is to have a "guest" spot show up automatically that other comcast users and third parties comcast sells access to can use.

Samsung pays a bit to get access to this and voila - they can skip the internet setup steps (so more consumer friendly) and block you from blocking their ads / ACR (consumer not friendly).

If it hasn't already happened it will.
I think one of the structural issues with legalizing psychedelics is that Western cultures don’t have support systems to help people integrate or even handle some of these experiences.

Case in point, Amsterdam consequently banning magic mushrooms in 2008: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dutch-mushroom-idUSTRE4AR...
Remember https://www.theregister.com/2015/12/30/steam_security_blip_e... ?
You think? When I do hobby work, the reward is getting to spend as much time as I want tweaking things to be a nice as I want them to be. Which is why I've never made anything, but have had lots of fun and learned a lot.
Thank you. I didn't know that.
IANAL, but if I make a tool whose purpose is to violate the FB ToS, I could be liable under torturious interference (I think that's what it's called). Basically, I can't make money off of things that violate other people's contracts.
The only reason that spec sub-divisions like that are profitable is all the permitting and other bureaucratic work is too burdensome for individuals. It requires economy of scale to get over that hump. Of course, there is some economy of scale with building multiple homes, buying bulk, etc. (and most of all, cutting corners that an individual home owner would never cut if they were building for themselves) but overall, it's the bureaucracy that makes it difficult for your average person.
Hey, nice article on Declarative Shadow DOM today (that's what i meant but said wrong, on Declarative Custom Elements),

https://web.dev/declarative-shadow-dom/

To an improving enhancing JS & Web!!! Hopefully we get HTML Modules too, & together we can make far far far far more WebComponents in the DOM, & need much less JS!
don't be sad I raised PR to resolve first issue on first project I saw on your page. cheers.

PS : I really wanted to mark your README.md with "An Amazing Project" but I guess there are enough "Amazing Projects" on github for october :P
Two members of videogame piracy group “Team Xecuter” in custody
>2. When promoted to accept the Samsung EULA, select no/reject

Does the device continue to function? On some recent gaming consoles, if you select "No", you're basically left with an expensive paperweight.
Learning has a cost and most people don't enjoy learning.
I thought this was pretty much a given?

I've been hearing stories for months about people munching into raw onions to confirm that their sense of taste is gone and they're not imagining it
We have applied for long term residency in Portugal. They have a very generous system if you’re well healed as an immigrant.
Charge People to Email You
The stock market hit all time highs during the pandemic while the economy is in shambles. Why? Because there's a lot of cheap money chasing those assets, and it's going to stay that way for a long while. Therefore, those house prices may still nominally rise or at least stay stable, even while they're losing value.

You have to look at it in terms of opportunity cost. What else could you have bought for that money? If prices rise in SF only because of inflation, prices rise even faster in those places where there's a real increase in demand.
You can directly request it from the platform. No need to use a crappy extension.
Visiting the BFI site now, it looks the same in Firefox and Chrome.

Maybe the problem you experienced was not due to a failure on the site designers' part or Firefox but elsewhere; a temporary "glitch" in its delivery to your Firefox browser, one of your browser extensions mucking it up, etc.

I don't encounter sites that don't work in Firefox but a lot of that probably has to do with my browsing tendencies.
What's up with the last few paragraphs of the article? Seems like a very awkwardly planted marketing blurb for Emsisoft.
Alas Firefox has been rather joining up on the axis of "we refuse to implement basic stuff" bandwagon.

Oh and meanwhile Microsoft is doing really good & helpful work to improve the web platform. In seemingly very very altruistic ways. (Which is how I feel Google is 98% of the time operating too!)
California should label things that don’t cause cancer. It’ll be a shorter list. My doormats have the same warning (at least the carcinogen part).
We just use a 43" LG 4k monitor. It has built-in speakers and no smarts at all. In combination with a Chromecast or similar, it works great as a "TV". I think the current model is 43UN700-B, which retails for ~$650. This screen also makes for a killer computer monitor, by the way :)
So the view is insular, yet of your two reasons that land is so expensive in Switzerland, you list "regulations" as one of them?
It was flagged as well.
Purges have been migrated to kafka as a mean of transport, at long last. So now if a purging daemon crashes, purge requests are not lost.

You can see per-server stats on purges happening here:

https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/RvscY1CZk/purged?orgId=1
Anybody know of any studies or details on how it handles uv a/b/c transmission? mainly uvb vs glass.
The reason they're asking about acceptable latency is that unless the contract specifies differently both parties are bound by what the counterparty can reasonably expect. Each country has contract law like this, with lots of legal precedents on what can and cannot reasonably be expected in certain situations.

Part of the reason there are all these terms and conditions documents that nobody reads is to prevent this ambiguity (to a point). Although legally it's a bit weak because you cannot really expect people to have agreed to all terms (but it does reverse the burden of proof somewhat, so it's still useful).
But is it rigid enough so it wouldn't warp in sunlight etc? And give a rippled image through the window?
So I've only recently started working in tech, but one thing I would say is that solid linux system administration skills are what helped me land my current job and succeed in it. I've also done a fair amount of frantic googling, and I've been learning a lot on the job. I was also turned down for like 5+ sys admin positions at data centers.

Find a smaller company who has a more relaxed hiring process and sound smart. Be fluent in bash, python, and write at least one or two small programs in C so that you understand how to build such projects from source, how headers work, etc.

Then, work like hell to close the gaps in your knowledge. The job will provide you a constant drip of new things to frantically learn about, which is the thing I've appreciated the most about this opportunity. I really feel my skills growing just because I'm using them to feed myself.
I began doing remote work while homeless. That was enormously helpful in getting past some of those hurdles, to some degree.

I run r/GigWorks and a zillion other little subreddits and I run a bunch of homeless websites. If you are not familiar, Street Life Solutions has a list of some of the most pertinent ones in the sidebar:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/

Pocket Puter has this link on its Links page:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...

I"m actually getting a surprising amount of support in this discussion. Things used to be a lot rougher for me on HN. At least some of the worst and ugliest stuff tends to get fairly promptly flagged to death these days.
What not option 3: He has a really bad case ends up on ventilator for 2-3 weeks, dies or becomes severely limited in activity for a long time like that actor who had his leg cut off then died like 180 days later. Maybe he dies or doesn't, but he may be an invalid and that could change him quite a bit being wheelchair bound and on his death bed.
If you're still writing to enlighten readers, this last information may risk losing them, as it's no longer relevant to their real world experience. In their real world experience, these are linked, as the control logic you acknowledge is affected by latency impacts their download, which is over TCP/IP. But this is a diversion, as I was not attempting the make that connection. I was relating the size of 15 ms and 100 ms to an experience where people can perceive those intervals.

If, by contrast, you're showing me you understand this, sounds like you do. We had developed an internal tool before Aspera's FASP[1], for our clients to deliver us video, and us to distribute content among hubs at scale, at speeds that saturated links. Understanding the mechanics and limiting factors of information propagation was necessary to be on that team. Turns out most devs don't have a great grip on the physics -- in the most common mental model, everything happens instantly. And so things get slow.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_and_Secure_Protocol
I never though about a tree that way, thank you for mentioning this.

I found this page explaining the process: https://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/carbon/1a.html
It's not necessarily power users, it's Steve Blank's earlyvangelists. I don't think it's obvious those two overlap 100%.

You could also argue that Apple was brought back to life by the iMac, which was decidedly not a power user machine. (Not easily expandible, USB-only, no choice of display, limited model specs, etc.)
Disclaimer: I haven’t taken any psychedelics.

> all the various mental abstractions we have built for ourselves in life and society are not necessarily 'wrong', but definitely questionable.

If I may interject here: The mental models we, both as a society and individuals, operate on are at best incomplete and at worst inaccurate. But then again, humanly-speaking there are no and there will never be a complete or accurate nor true or even correct model — it is by design. And the most obvious (inward) reason is: cognitive biases (and therefore, evolution by extension).

That said, while on a micro scale it might seem imperfect/suboptimal, on a macro scale it’s actually beneficial because that’s (the imperfection) what actually allows us as a group of individuals to evolve and adapt.