skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the elimination of single-family zoning does not imply replacing that zoning with some other equally onerous requirement

Sure, it does: it explicitly says (not implies) that nobody who wants to live in a single-zoned community is allowed to any more, anywhere. That's an onerous requirement for anyone who does want to live in such a community.

> the idea that local interests should have the power to block community changes is directly responsible for many prescient issues

I think you mean "present" issues.

The problem I see is the idea that local interests should have no power to block the grandiose plans of politicians and bureaucrats who won't have to live with the results. At least in the case described in the article you linked to, the city manager, as far as I can tell, was also a resident, so he had skin in the game.

I note, btw, that the project mentioned in the article was allowed by zoning rules.
> They only want to extract money and are doing it the easiest way possible.

What you actually hate, I suspect, is neo-liberal capitalism, not so much the internet itself.

As only the latest in a series of public resources to be surreptitiously privatized, the rules of the internet have started being dictated by investor interests.

For the record, I don't like neo-liberal capitalism much myself, but I just thought it was important to correctly identify the fundamental problem here.
> I live in Japan, prefab homes here are extremely common [1]

Could that have anything to do with how the Japanese dislike "old" homes, and tend to demolish an existing home when buying a lot in order to build a new one for the new owner?
The problem with a state with no power is that it has no ability to prevent organizations from externalizing all of the costs of their profits. A simple place to see this is in environmental regulations. I can give plenty of examples, but before the rise of environmental regulation in the late 20th century, wide swathes of our country were regularly and freely polluted. We fixed lots of that through application of government power and imposed costs on polluters, both large and small.
Some freeways, especially near more affluent communities, do have sound padding walls to help mitigate sound. Presumably a regulatory body would be advocating for making those part of the code, alongside helping developing new technology.

There was a good 99% Invisible recently on those headlight reflectors embedded in the asphalt, that’s a good example of where constraints (No lights during WW2 for fear of bombing) created the atmosphere for innovation. Regulations can artificially create those constraints as well.
Dang this is nice.

I just built two sites, one with Hugo and other in Eleventy, but this is nice and I can see how useful it can be ie. would love to use it for next excuse for website.

Thanks for sharing.
How would things be if you had a home more suitable for working at home? I currently live in a 1br apartment, with a 15 month old and my wife, and yes it is hard when I work from home. Fortunately in my country the pandemic has been handled well, and I am still able to go to my office (25 desks, usually no more than 5 are occupied now).

I imagine if we lived in a house, with a garden, enough bedrooms that my work desk isn't 2m from my bed, it would be a completely different story. If you don't need to go to the office very often then living further out the city would not be that big a deal. In my area a 3br home with a garden is around the same price as a 1br apartment in the city.
The claim I have heard is, because the boreholes are such a huge portion of the cost, it comes down to the local talent base for drilling. If you live in an area full of deep rural wells and fracking, the expertise is plentiful. But if you live somewhere with no drilling activity, it will be too expensive.

Horizontal loops are much simpler, but require more land area than your typical suburban plot.
I think that geothermal works better in more extreme climates. If you compare it to an air source heat pump, the main advantage of geothermal is that the sink temperature is the ground temperature, which is roughly the average of the temperature over the course of the year. In say, Austin, TX, the difference between the average high in August and January is 35.5degF. In say, Chicago, it's 52.7degF. In Austin, the average temperature is 69degF. In Chicago, it's 52degF.

The Austin average temperature is essentially room temperature, and the deviation is much less, so the total amount of heating/cooling you have to do is much less, so any efficiency advantage is reduced by the smaller need to heat/cool. This compounds with the fact that the average yearly temperature is closer to the outside air temperature, which makes the advantage of the ground source less.

This compounds with the fact that Texas energy prices are some of the lowest in the country, and it makes it a lot harder to justify a big capital expense to reduce these costs.
Linux distributions have sensible reasons to prefer periodic releases
Heat pumps and an ERV. Both fairly simple but provide hear/cooling and clean fresh air, respectively and both do so efficiently. There really needs to be an advance but that hasn't happened yet and every knowledgeable HVAC person I spoke with said the "advanced" combination units broke down too much and were overly expensive to acquire, fix, and maintain. Make sure your home is air right with spray foam or something like it.
Although I think throwaway is correct that that isn't what they meant, people do indeed lease land in the United States. It's more common in commercial real estate, but there are also (predatory, in my opinion) land leases for "manufactured" (i.e. mobile) homes where the resident buys the home but doesn't own the land under it.
> From my experience most people don’t understand this difference and assume any narrative around correlation equals causation.

I know. Our thinking is built around cause and effect and when confronted by a correlational data it start to come to a wrong conclusions, because it have no idea what to do with correlations. It tends to assume that correlation is a causation, because such an assumption allow our thinking to do at least something with the data.
The Spotify desktop app used to have an amazing, incredibly powerful extension/plugin system built in. I personally had many dozens of neat "Apps" installed, giving me all kinds of weird & interesting music experiences via the Spotify app.

That all of course got axed[1].

More product-oriented decisions like removal of messages & inbox[2] I am more sympathetic to, as this is more them picking & choosing? Re-work is hard[3].

But cutting off remaining support for DJ apps &c, as has recently happened: that's un-good[4]. Spotify withdrawing the remote-control capabilities that standard Freedesktop users have enjoyed for a decade, that's sad as heck[5] & just petty (ed: this might be more "whoops" than sinister intent).

In sympathy with the GDPR spirit of being-able-to-get-your-data-out, it feels there's actually a decent phase happening now, where sizable parts of the tech world are waking up to the realization that it needs to act less crummy, not box people in, not leave users feeling so trapped. Efforts like Data Transfer Project[6] have a long way to go, are frankly not yet very practical for much, but feel like one of the few places tech can redeem it's name, long term, where dignity might be restored to both parties. A starting place for not needing to be regulated into the sun as mal-competitive & toxic. This kind of re-opening from the locked-off closed inaccessible cloud tech is also, likely, necessary for innovation & competition to emerge, which is a thread Cory Doctorow discusses in his excellent & on-point discussions on Adversarial Interoperability[7]. Alas, as this Spotify story & their history indicates, not everyone is willing to help turn around our bad practices & treat other humans with technical respects & deserving of technical rights or capabilities.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160310102643/https://developer....

[2] https://musically.com/2017/02/28/spotify-is-removing-its-inb...

[3] https://www.inverse.com/article/56923-spotify-update-backlas...

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/24/21192473/spotify-revoking...

[5] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Spotify-stops...

[6] https://datatransferproject.dev/
Isn't the definition of a country quite arbitrary, though, in this context? If we disapprove of the population of a certain country growing beyond a particular size, would we any happier if that country were to split in two, and for their citizens to then double in number? Or for it to split into four countries, and for its citizens to increase their emissions and living standards to the level of more developed nations. I understand the temptation to pick the world as it is now as a standard by which to measure what countries ought to do in the future, but it's terribly easy for a person to do that if they don't then have to live in a country which hasn't yet reached the living standards of post-industrial society.
CLP(FD) and CLP(Z) would be worth checking: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/clpz.
in Delta-V - one character goes on a rant about how Mars is pretty much a dead end. Does anyone know how true this is?
Yes, freedom of choice is what everyone wants.
Also, everyone has anxiety and/or depression right now. I’m trying my best to take everything everyone is saying with a grain of salt. Everyone appears to be having a hard time right now.
Consider going the emf clothing route. I sleep very well this way. You can get a head and neck buff for a couple of hundred.

I'm finally going to pony up and use the Y shield HSF54 paint for the entire bed room. About $1,500 all in.
What's the Rails moment? It's already hit the part where people speak about it as if it will save the world.
No I did not match it manually it was done automatically by the AI.

How it works.

1) Provide a headline (Only Point where user needs to enter input)

2) Story is generated

3) Key Summary is picked

4) Videos are searched and picked and sentences are added.

5) Video is generated.

6) Add Any Free Music You May Like Then It Is Synced.
Oh yeah, a rear-facing infant seat is absolutely a difference-maker - from the talk about "child seats" I thought we were talking about forward-facing seats for children above 3, the benefits of which are pretty marginal AFAIK.
Even if Dvorak doesn't speed up typing intrinsically, it's still beneficial because it significantly reduces injuries caused by typing.
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Hard to sleep in tin foil. You need to use a meter as well. Its very easy to end up making a big reflector that just ends up amplifying the signal.
“Play queue is being filled with random stuff and there is no way to clear it.”

Uhm, no. Could it be that you’re using the free version of Spotify…?
This. I had projects before I started working, and still have projects now. They are a hobby. Just that. When I don't want to code outside of work, I dont. When I want, I do. I don't feel guilt for not completing something. Most of them fail or are never finished, yet still I enjoy them, and I've learned a lot from them.

> I'm just boggled at how many people appear to find it unimaginable and unrelatable that a technologist likes technology enough to mess with it for fun, even after work.

I do get their point though, they feel bad because they are not one of those. But that's just the way things are. There aren't many people who got into tech because they REALLY like it. Not because it's a "good" job or because it's the lesser evil.

And by that I don't mean the people who only code at work or learned about tech later in life are bad developers, not at all. Nevertheless, they are the vast majority and they are quite different than the passionate young kid who codes for shits and giggles. It doesn't help than they are socially pressured to be like that. They end up hating it. Like when you have a brother/sister that is better than you at something and your parents always say "WHY CANT YOU BE LIKE YOUR BROTHER/SISTER".
What if wlroots was written in Rust, could it make it easier?
*selling food

Big difference
Is anyone else worried about the proliferation of disjoint processes that people can whip up using Serverless? At least with a monolith, you've got a relatively coherent grouped together codebase. But with Serverless, you can have some lambda that is infinitely important, but not documented or well known to anyone else in the org.
Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'
Dr. W. M. Stuckey shows that the origin of quantum entanglement is none other than Einstein's own Principle of Relativity (No Preferred Frame of Reference).

Einstein's famous 1905 paper on Relativity applied this principle to Translational Frames, showing it requires the Universal constant c (speed of light) to be the same in all such frames. Were it not, the frame in which c was highest would be the only frame at rest.

But the same principle must require there to be no Preferred Orientation. This leads to the requirement that Planck's constant h be the same in all frames. If the Stern-Gerlach experiment could give results between +h and -h, then the orientation producing the maximum value would be a preferred frame.

And because of that, when Alice and Bob measure entangled quantum particles, their combined results must violate Bell's inequality.

But to my mind, the biggest take-away is that Einstein's Principle of Relativity absolutely requires that conservation can only be on average.

All right, that's a ridiculously condensed summary. Enough to make your head spin :-)

The title paper is for general audiences, and references the original paper at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72817-7.pdf
I think they’re referring to the fact that in the Ferrari, you’d experience both 1g eyeballs out plus the 1g of normal gravity, for a total of sqrt(2) at 45 degrees, when compared with looking at your feet producing 1g down.
Oil filters
How do HFT help retail investors? While I understand that HFT are not technically front running, it seems to me (as someone who is not that involved with finance) that functionally it's more or less the same outcome?
This is true, don't understand the down votes. You don't need a complete faraday cage, it's important to understand the direction of the source of where you are trying to block. And use a meter so you aren't guessing.
After deepfakes, a new frontier of AI trickery: fake faces
My Mum enrolled me in a typing course as a 13yo, and it was the most boring thing you could have done to a 13yo. Now, however, I'm a fast typist and that course was the bridge between previously hunting and pecking, to proper touch typing. I went, I believe, only from 15wpm to about 25ish wpm, but the technique was planted and I've increased from there.
I also think that passionate programmers are way more rare. We are used to being weird so we don't care :)
Right. So are you meaning more than a vent but also cooling, then? Because it’ll just be hot air up there instead.
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A Nation Plagued by Misinformation
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Something with dual zone control, and a nest thermostat for each area. Maybe two systems?

Something you should also do is make sure the place has really good insulation and windows/doors.

Or you can spend a lot more money and do what the top comment says.
People are so jaded about whiteboarding algorithms/data structures that it's great to see bonafide examples of their use in production outside of Skiena's war stories. Great content.
This is clearly a pretty lame thing for Spotify to do. The context of this particular article, however, is that John Gruber is obliquely attempting to use Spotify’s bad behavior to excuse Apple doing the same or worse on a much larger, much more significant scale.

This is one in a long series of recent posts dedicated to pointing out the hypocrisy of companies (Epic, Spotify, Microsoft, etc) that have been agitating for Apple to loosen its stranglehold on the iOS ecosystem.

The gist seems to be: “See? Everyone else is doing the same thing with their own platforms, too!” As if the self-interested actions of a bunch of huge companies is what sets the moral baseline we expect them all to adhere to.

I wish Gruber would spend a little more time thinking and writing about how these companies _should_ manage their platforms and a little less time trying to undercut the entirely legitimate criticisms that developers large and small have with how Apple, the world’s most valuable company, deals with them.
A good analogue is:

"When a painter goes home, he might not want to paint more walls... But he may paint murals or canvases... regardless of the monetary reward"

Building software is a form of artistic expression for many people, doing it without the limits of business requirements can be very satisfying.
Nigeria is the one stand-out country that has stubbornly refused to become [much] less fertile as it developed. It's quite an outlier (was ~6.4 in 1960, up to ~6.8 in 1980, now ~5.4).

LOL at the y-axis on that graph ;)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
I don't fully agree given that housing and materials prices rise every year. 7 year delay adds how much $ to a project in inflation?
Serverless and microservices aren’t the same thing. You can deploy a monolith to lambda, and make a thousand small services on VMs or orchestration platforms. It’s purely a question of how to organise your code.
Developer “Marketing”
For 2020, the current probability is 14%

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
Did you read the declaration? It makes a case for Focused Protection, arguing for _more_ protection policies for the vulnerable (elderly, etc) than the current efforts. I find this compelling, because I see elderly folks at Target and the grocery store, as well as working jobs like older bus drivers, they are disproportionately at risk and as such should be encouraged through health policy to not go for groceries or work during the pandemic. They also point out in the UnHerd interview that the current policy is classist because upper class professionals can work from home, while many more poor and working class essential workers have to continue working, regardless of age, which results in an unjust higher Covid death toll among the poor/working class than those with white collar jobs. The declaration encourages more protection of the vulnerable than the current lockdown health policies.
Thanks for this concise and pithy description. I keep hearing about serverless...services, but didn’t understand what they were all about.
An article full and replete of generalizations. Is he talking about frontend engineers? Or just engineers in general? We could pick this argument apart sentence by sentence, but it just doesn't feel worth it.
Funny how 'Jimmy Carter' wins against 'Gerald Ford', while 'James Earl Carter' loses.
How to Succeed by Bundling and Unbundling
What about all the keyboards that aren’t Dvorak? Can you still QWERTY without thinking?
Cake What? Nice generalizations.
Hong Kong's problem isn't infrastructure, though, it's a combination of unimaginative bureaucracy and taxi companies with influential backers. It's the same reason HK taxis are still effectively cash-only, consistently refuse "inconvenient" fares with no real consequences, and are just generally irritating to deal with.
I would say a 10k page or post site is also very rare.
A fifth reason it has stalled, cost.

For constantly running applications it can be cheaper just to run a server. This fact has been used to avoid migrating to serverless by a lot of orgs i’ve worked with, even when it doesn’t apply to their use case.
Take a look at what you already have.

Compare it with people who have less than you.

Declare yourself successful.

Done.
Luck is one of the factors very few give enough credit to imo.
You seem to be objecting not just to plant patents, but to agriculture itself. One of the first changes made to grain plants back in the neolithic was selection for plants that did not shed their seeds, so they could be harvested. These plants became dependent on humans to thrive.
For the emergency room, I can call an ambulance. For a business meeting, I really doubt it's that important, and why can't I use Uber for this?

Not everything needs insurance. And real insurance has costs that are pretty close to the expected average risk, while buying things just in case could be much more.

And the 1/10000 calculation was not the chance of huge trouble, it's 1/10000 to be unable to get a ride to have any trouble at all. The vast majority of those incidents are going to be worth much less than a thousand dollars. The chance of an event being that major is another factor of 1% or less.

Am I going to pay a thousand dollars a year to avoid a one in a million chance each of missing some important business meetings? Definitely not. Especially when other factors I can't change are much more likely to make me miss a meeting.

I mean, if I had odds that low of major illness I probably wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars a month for health insurance either!
Really enjoyed this, thanks!
You’re saying 5 years before you could Dvorak at home, and also QWERTY on anyone else’s keyboard as needed?
That must be "average body temperature in the hospital, including the morgue".
Fascinating. I have seen different methods of dowsing or water witching in different cultures/countries/continents/times.

How did they evolve separately like that as a system/pseudoscience?
You can with lambda too. You map each of these to the same lambda function and branch off path, just like a server.
I have a minority view well outside the mainstream. Libertarians do best on individual issues. When analyzed in isolation the libertarian argument wins out for many things.

While libertarians lack official power, the market is so powerful that it drives tons of human activity without people even being aware. Also, the belief that the government is all-powerful and can actually solve problems is 99% fiction. So while people look to the president as someone to blame for problems or praise for solutions, the truth is that very little of consequence is in the president’s (or government’s) control. So being a libertarian is a state of mind - the acknowledgment that the source of happiness and purpose is ultimately your own concern and no one else can do this for you. Not having a seat in government means nothing because libertarians generally don’t want government and it’s usually fairly easy to ignore, legally avoid paying taxes to through a variety of loopholes and structures in our Byzantine tax code, and is so ineffective it’s mind boggling that it ever gets anything done beyond corruption and graft.

So to come full circle, I believe governments are far weaker than most admit or recognize, and power is increasingly in the hands of private people and organizations. And I welcome this shift in power.
I trace serverless computing back 10 more years, back to the mid-1990s. One example of this would be Citrix published applications.
Not just the time, the fuel.

Say you weigh 150lbs, and your car weighs 3000lbs. 95% of the fuel you burn or electricity you spend is used to simply move the hunk of metal that is the vehicle, and 5% is used to move yourself. Not great efficiency by any means.
Then why not use word "plus" instead? "Proving that 1 plus 1 = 2 in Rust" is a more suitable title that does not use symbol +.
Companies has far more deeper institutional memory and behavior than one person at the top.

Habitual abusers of relationship always promise that they will be better the next time and for a few days they are indeed better behaved. After a while they fall back to the same patterns
What would it cost to build an alternate streaming music service with a reasonable catalog? Is there anyway to get a reasonably priced streaming license for a decent collection of music?