skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traffic jams are a quite sudden occurrence; 1000 cars / hour is no problem, but 1100 cars / hour and the whole system can suddenly collapse.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-a-traffic-flow-sudden... is one source, I'm sure there's better ones out there.
Valid points, although I disagree on the 'playing games' part. I haven't played mobile games in a long while, however the last time I checked them, they were all poorly designed, predatory schemes designed to be intentionally frustrating to get you to spend money in them.
Right? The good news is companies are getting there; the bad news is it will still take some time to get to us. If I were Queen of the World, I would have made more liberal use of the governmental ability to centralize efforts towards testing and PPE production ... last January.
These are people who are entrenched in a theory that also suggests people who disagree with you are "the enemy".

Arguing with someone like that is risky because the moment you get through to them, their cognitive dissonance might decide to double down on the falsehood because they would have to come to terms with the notion that they believe something quite shameful.

I see this happen in other areas alot. Mostly white people who can't handle that they may have contributed to racism at one point. "I'm not a racist! You're all just social just warriors!" turns into "I'm not a racist but...[insert racism here]". Of course the deep insecurity over being actually racist is the common thread. Meanwhile there's a whole other movement of white people who are now willing to admit how privileged all of us are to have been in a system for hundreds of years that was a "democracy" for some, but a nightmarish dictatorship for black people. Was I insecure when I realized how tone deaf I had been? Sure. But I possess self reflection and have made efforts to change my behavior since then.

But yes, if I find myself in a conversation with a holocaust denier I'll do my best to convince them they're wrong. I highly doubt that winds up working though.
Very good points here, but you have to keep in mind this is not a small group of people pushing ideas down the throat of others. There are perhaps 10+ million programmers in the wild if you include those who are not professional or full-time.

Someone creates a language because they might simply want to learn. Their friend picks it up, has fun, spreads the word. It either dies after a few months or becomes an edge case language in the stack of a company. Someone writes a blog and then it gets more traction.

No one actually intends that everyone should learn 2 new languages. But we live on a large planet, people forget that frequently. The social consciousness that is easily accessible from within US might not be in India. So people here might create a language for some issues that already have a language in the US. What is wrong in that?
The events of the past 6mo have caused tons of people in places like NYC, SF, etc who were on the fence to cash out an move elsewhere.

Housing prices, local politics, just about everything is gonna suck real bad for the people in the destination locales because a bunch of people with more money than them are showing up and trying to tell them what to do.
This comment doesn't track the argument in the comment it's responding to. It happens by using a different reading of "proportional" than the one that was intended.

The results and outcomes alluded to in each comment, mine and the one you're responding to, are consequences of essentially begging the question. It's that part where the flaw lies—because it leads, as in your comment, to justifying things as rational and fit even when they are not equitable.
In my experience pretty good, even for a Django app. I believe the container sticks around for a while and is throttled to 0 CPU.
e.g., slowing cars can increase average throughput.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory
Here we use "mechanisms" to describe different resource optimization solutions such as RL based, or OR based (it usually uses lp solver to solve an optimization object.)
Yeah it's better for everyone. The people who like the city life can enjoy it at much cheaper cost, the people who don't like it get to have good jobs that would otherwise have required relocation.
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I did find this one for Clojure: https://dev.solita.fi/2020/06/01/rethinking-the-frontend.htm...
> The figures underscore how the pandemic has roiled property markets and changed renter preferences. With companies allowing employees to work from home, people have fled cramped and costly urban areas in droves, seeking extra room in the suburbs or cheaper cities.

I am skeptical. Yes a lot of Bay Area companies are allowing work from home for now, but are people really weighing that so heavily that they’re moving? If we’re blaming the pandemic, maybe it’s that fewer people want to move to the city because they can’t enjoy it (bars, restaurants, etc)
They're not just annoying, they possibly don't get the point of big O. The n in O(n) means that at the time of algorithm design the size of the data is unknown and considered unbound. If you already know its upper limit then it becomes O(c) (where c is a known constant). If c is low enough (a discretionary decision) it can possibly be considered O(1). Think of how a theoretical hash map traverses one of its buckets in linear time to find the key's value (if the bucket is implemented as a linked lists), we still consider the overall lookup to be O(1) simply because the upper bound of the bucket is known.
To be fair, that is not "the desktop wanting to uninstall itself", as if it is a problem in Plasma, but it is the package manager wanting to uninstall the desktop. It seems to be a problem with the Ubuntu packages. If the same thing happened a few times, maybe it is time for a bugreport at Ubuntu.
Can you explain to me what "valid" means, in the context of tic-tac-toe games? What would it mean for a tic-tac-toe game to be invalid?
That's a contemporary definition of science deeply rooted in a specific philosopher of science (Popper).

There was nothing falsifiable about Newton or Darwin. They were predictive (Darwin to a lesser extent) and, more importantly, they fit, like a puzzle.

Falsifiability is a good rule of thumb, like Occam's razor, to tell apart obviously pathological research (this possibly includes particle and high-energy physics); but the point of science is the unity of science. If you're a believer in science, you have to believe there's true knowledge to be had (however unobtainable); this true knowledge has to be a single thing, a single puzzle to piece together.

However inefficiently and plagued by politics, economics is doing a bit of that. Not long ago we were thinking that it should be replaced in favor of psychology, which is closer to the matter of human behavior. But just look at how psychology is doing.
It's a blow torch... with a ton of video effects added on the flame to make it look like a light. More shocking than this is the 10 horrific ads scattered all though the video, the video itself just being an ad to pay them to see more private videos.

I suppose there's a lesson in marketing there. That's how you raise money and viewers like theranos without having a real product.
I don't see how that's not a good characterization. That's almost literally what was said:

> Yes, folks, if you don't like the idea of a corporation taking your ("software-as-a-service") code and using it to create and sell proprietary products, then maybe don't license your code under the MIT License (or any of the others which explicitly allow exactly that)!

As for:

> In copyright, the default is that no one has rights to your creations but you. In licensing it as open source, you're broadening what others can do with it. It's an active choice. If granting someone X could result in them doing X where they otherwise wouldn't, and you'd be uncomfortable with that, then don't go out and invite people to do X.

Well, I don't think giving people a legal grant to do X is inviting them to do X, especially in the context of permissive licenses or public domain dedications. Otherwise, you could accuse me of inviting people to do X for any value of X, no matter how pernicious.
Right that's gonna be my strategy going forward. I should have mentioned I had to stick with windows on my gaming rig because I don't currently have the money for a new laptop.

I've heard Dell and the Thinkpads work well with Linux. Got any other suggestions?
FWIW, an article about sizes of apartments in SF

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/7/12/20691973/san-francisco-avera...

I never realized how small they can be.
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When you thread a needle through a hole: when the needle becomes approximately equal to the hole diameter it becomes much harder, but before then it's easy.
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I'm personally agnostic about dowsing. I'd like to witness it working/not working to sway me to one side or the other.

But there are too many farmers, whose livelihood actually depends on water, who swear by dowsing for there to be nothing in it.
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Downtown rents in Detroit were very, very high compared to the surrounding area because of workers desiring to live in a very small radius of the immediate downtown area primarily to be close to work and downtown amenities/restaurants.

QuickenLoans would be the biggest employer downtown right now, not the car companies, and other tech companies have been moving in as well. Rents were exacerbated by a shortage of apartment stock, homogeneous ownership of apartments (i.e. by Dan Gilbert), and lack of affordable parking in a city where cars are still required. Rents outside the downtown area can be almost half as much because of this, despite all still within a 10-20 minute drive.

Overall, I've seen most downtown rents drop by several hundred dollars, usually by maybe a fifth of the previous amount (which seems very close to the percentage mentioned). Outside of downtown, the drops have been MUCH less steep, if at all.
Austin is pretty pricey by Texas standards and San Antonio is on it's way up. Property taxes in Texas are what may surprise you depending on where you are from. I used to live in the Seattle area and property taxes there are around 1/2 of what they are in Texas. Neither has a state income tax and both have around the same sales tax rate.
for large "open world" games, you sometimes dupe things to lay out the data in memory to be near each other when the items are near each other in the world, so you can stream data in or chunk it in efficiently. If a player drives toward a city you have to be able to load all the buildings and mailboxes in without any pause. it isn't easy
That's really interesting - do you know why there is a minimum?

Maximum lengths are easy to understand because of voltage drops, interference and impedance over long distances. And of course in the old CSMA/CD days multiple senders couldn't be separated by too large a distance.
I personnaly think AI more as a computer assisted culturals productions. The contents of theses productions are numerical, quantitaives stuff, so it look like the result of a pure intelligence. But if you take some distance with what is actually done with AI you can realize that AI is mostly the development of our current cultural environment. So AI is not ideology, but our current ideology let us see "AI" as a pure intelligence rather than a automated cultural production. What have to be questioned is why does AI produced stuff are seen as pure intelligence in our cultural context. What is called AI is "just" a cultural fact (but a fascinating one!).
I feel like a broken record saying this, but every time the topic of renewables comes up, I feel like the pro-renewable camp completely forgets us.

I'm in Saskatchewan. For a good chunk of the year, everything is frozen. We currently heat our homes with natural gas but require electricity to run the furnaces. Power outages are a very big deal, and in the winter are generally correlated with terrible weather (big snowstorms and deep cold tend to have a negative effect on our infrastructure).

The province itself is quite flat as well. Ignoring the part where reservoirs freeze over for at least 5 months of the year, pumped hydro (which seems to be our best current energy storage approach) isn't going to work very well with no significant hills to pump the water over. We absolutely require continuously reliable electricity to, at a minimum, keep the water pipes in our homes from freezing. A 24h outage in the middle of winter is going to, at a minimum, cause significant widespread property damage; past around the 72h mark, there's probably going to be significant death as well.

On top of all of the other reasons why I like nuclear, that is the reason why locally-generated nuclear is at the top of my list of "ways we should produce electricity around here".
I think that's the default theme on sites built with Squarespace.
If a dependency on Markdown/sh is acceptable, you might find this[0] to be helpful. I wrote it because I was in much the same boat.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~evan-hoose/SSSSS

[1] http://a-shared-404.com/blog/stupid-simple-sites/
I liked youtube more when it didn't have google.
But... this answer just makes it more opaque? The blog posts starts out with "I am looking to serve small communities that would have trouble hiring someone at all to do planning and economic development work for them.". So I'm thinking you offer work in that field, right? But your website mentions copywriting and generic web development? What are these "small communities" you're talking about, if not small towns or neighbourhoods? Are you targeting small government agencies? If not, who are you targeting? What does Patreon have to do with it? I mean, no small organisation that can't afford a few thousand for consultancy work is going to pay a tiny recurring amount to some random person on the internet - just the accouting for those expenses will cost a multiple of the actual payment!

You say "It's an experiment" - but what is? What are you offering? What are you asking, and who are you asking? So far the argument seems to be "some things are too expensive for some organisations, but I'm going to offer it cheaper!" without even knowing what those "some things" are? The post says "services under $5000 and some under $1000" - what are those services? If I have $2500, what can you do for me for that money?
> Besides the deep learning part, this is already very much what working in C# and Visual Studio (Code) is like.

Or any of the big 3 Java IDEs.
Traffic jams are a catastrophe, not just in the qualitative sense but in the way that theoreticians mean: an abrupt shift from a desirable operating equilibrium to an undesirable equilibrium. That's why speed-flow curves are ⊃-shaped. Speeds are near maximum until a critical flow rate and then they collapse to zero after that one last car gets on the road.
If you demand absolute proof of every (negative) claim, then you're going to be unable to function in the world. In practice, the important question is: "is there enough evidence for this extraordinary hypothesis that it should influence our response going forward." Right now, the answer seems to be negative.
More like, it's almost as if expecting humans to be uniform is a really bad expectation.
That depends a lot on the use case. The ephemeral nature of serverless environment generally require you to proprietary solutions by the cloud provider to have things like DB access and such. So you end up using DynamoDB instead of Postgres (as an example). You CAN make portable serverless code but it generally requires a fair amount of work to do so.
Would someone from the KDE team be able to give an update on the Valve funding for KDE? [0]

I remember being quite happy when I heard this, as it might be paving the way for a renewed SteamOS initiative, or another Linux offensive, but I don't follow KDE closely and I haven't heard anything since around the time of this article.

Any indication of what was achieved and what has happened since would be interesting to me!

[0] - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Fu...
Its not just that, its the idea of building something that so many people want to be true...
At least small folks have a chance now. Not having patents just increases the chances that these places will use the attorney budget to make and market ideas from others, only this time, the small person doesn't have legal recourse.

In other words, same outcome, different pathway.

The real solution to the situation you described is to have a better, more fair patent system.
He clearly says at 17:37 "...for everyone else it will be out next week."
The GPL is all about protecting user freedoms. AGPL extended this to not just count for devices in your possession but to systems you remotely interact with. Adding a clause that says you must allow users their own data as well as a copy of the source code doesn't seem like a completely out there extension of those protections.
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> If you're against all forms of intellectual property you could just say that and clear things up.

Yes, I am. But the validity of intellectual property isn't relevant to my argument in general I think. It just so happens to be true in my case.

I'm not sure laws should change to match our ethics to be honest. But I think that's part of the "deeper disagreement" I alluded to in my parent comment.
Groupthink. Just like that book about sleep and whatever other pop pseudo intellectual books are repeated on here.
Or even worse, giant yaml config files
I worry for San Diego. I moved here to escape the bay area, too. I figure there's only a couple or so years until this region gets wrecked by California politics, too. Then, it'll be time to finally move on back to America. I just want to escape before I suffer any loss on real estate investment.
Yes.

When an airplane hits the ground, it leaves a crater. "To Crater" is to fall precipitously or crash. In this context, it is in the age-old tradition of financial journalism of selecting exaggerated descriptors of market movement.

"Pork bellies fry in early-market trading, fall 5%."

It is generally helpful to completely remove the descriptors and replace them with "increase" or "decrease".

"San Francisco Apartment Rents Decrease 31%"

That way, you can decide for yourself whether or not it is a big deal.
If you sort bounding boxes in only one dimension by their min values you still have to brute force test their max values and their other dimensions unless you make a secondary space partition or acceleration structure.
Usually when we say something "cratered" we mean that it fell rapidly, as one might imagine a meteor would fall from space and impact the earth with enough force to produce a crater.

It doesn't get used very often in my experience.

As mentioned in another post, "crater up to" is a bizarre formation of words. "Rents fall by up to 31%" is perfectly understandable phrasing, but replacing "fall" with "crater" makes it sound very strange.
I built something similar back when jQuery plugins were still a thing (oh my), but video seems broken in nowaday's browsers unfortunately: https://github.com/m90/jquery.abc
It's even easier if your application is just (an equivalent of) a binary, or a tarball.
makes me think of https://ericlippert.com/2020/03/27/new-grad-vs-senior-dev/
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The article says that a half-decent single-person apartment - one bedroom, one living room - costs $2,873 to rent in SF.

To think that even in the midst of a pandemic these are the prices is patently insane. This is significantly above the median monthly wage where I live.
> It's largely only relevant when interviewing

I find the opposite to be true, but it depends entirely on what problems you work with on a daily basis.

Data structures and algorithms are a toolbox and the more you know, the more options you have at your disposal to tackle a specific problem.

If you work in an area that doesn't benefit much from this specific set of tools, then yes, you only it during interviews; interviews done by people who don't have the faintest clue about what they're hiring you for (which is a big problem itself).
"Crater up to" is not its own phrase. The title would be better written as:

"San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater, up to 31%"

meaning, the rents fell drastically, by as much as 31%.
US inflation over that period was 35%. So that means rent increased by ~50% in 15 years, this is way less than I imagined for SF.
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Has anyone noticed that this newer MacBook Pro clearly exhibits "Staingate" anti-reflecting coating peeling off the screen? (You can see it in the video.)
The concept assumes there are replacement jobs being created. That was true for a hundred years, it hasn't been for the last 20+.

At some point automation eliminates jobs wholesale, and there aren't replacements waiting. People always refer to cars replacing horses and point out that all those jobs surrounding horses were replaced with something else - manufacturing plant jobs, car salesman, etc. What they fail to mention is that HORSES were replaced with CARS - and we've got far, far, far fewer horses on the planet today because they're just not needed.

We're the horses...
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With a traditional, mechanical throttle linkage, there's a momentary spike in emissions caused by a too-rich or too-lean combustion condition when you suddenly lift off or step on the throttle because the engine computer and fuel injection system can't compensate quickly enough. Throttle-by-wire allows the manufacturers to smooth the throttle position changes. Even when you snap your foot off the pedal, the throttle valve is now made to close over some significant fraction of a second, slowly and gradually enough for the fuel mixture control to keep pace.
Also useful for doing the development in the first place!
> The future of software development is going to be defined by cloud providers

That's probably true of web development, but "software development" writ large is much more than just cloud providers and webapps. "Software" encompasses everything from embedded microcontrollers to big iron mainframes that drive (yes, even today, even in 2030) much of the world's energy, transportation, financial and governmental infrastructure.
There are a few comments in this thread expressing distaste for dual licensing. Can anyone explain what the reasoning behind this might be?
Another consideration is that the unoptimized version of the algorithm may be easier to explain and study. So he might also be optimizing for clarity.
That is totally true, most of my libraries (except a couple of them[1][2]) are small enough and incremental enough that are normally not worth it to even try to sell them. But I can see if I went very deep into some specific niche how that'd make sense.

[1] https://serverjs.io/ => a generic well configured Node.js server, there's a chance of selling either the lib itself or plugins.

[2] https://react-test.dev/ => a WIP (frozen right now) project, it works great and integrates nicely with React libraries.
Step 1: start with something grossly, ridiculously inefficient.

Step 2: Brag about your speed up
Bay Area demographic process involves a pretty large net influx of people from abroad and an almost equally large domestic net outflow of people to other states. If you stop the former but the latter continues, housing pressure suddenly disappears.
I didn't see any information on it, but it would make me wonder: Did this mean they got started because they stole someone else's idea, and then get to continue after patents were reintroduced?