skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
apartments in my area are fairly expensive, but often come with special concessions for the first year of occupancy, often equivalent to a 15-20% discount. I notice that the lease is always very specific about stating the "actual rent" and the concession amount. I sometimes wonder what fraction of tenants is really paying the "actual rent", especially now that the offered me the first year concession again when I renewed my lease. is this a variant of the same finance strategy?
Not sure about Australia, but in the US public salaries remain low at all levels of the government. A city councilor in Boston makes 100k, a US congressman/Senator 174k.

Considering the additional costs of campaigning, personal travel, and housing for a family - you're looking at a recipe for corruption for dollar amounts that can look like peanuts to experienced private sector employees.
This begs the question of who decides the rules of an organization.

I want to attend events with rules I like - I might like them because they're fair, I might like them because they ban symbols I find offensive.

Ultimately, it's up to the organization to define the rules, and it's up to me to decide if I want to attend an event with those rules.
Which also makes it easier to find the patterns in its multiple(or just divide by the extra multiple) say 1/14 starts .07142857142857. Multiples with 3 don't give us the common repeating 1428 but still repeats in its own way.. but 1/49 is pretty cool. 1/49 looks to do what 1/89 is doing but with the powers of 2. Nice!

edit: Dont know the format for proofs but heres a try.

1/49 = i=1 towards inf

sum 2^i*100^-i
I don't think it's developers tbh. Or rather, it's another set of perverse incentives in the industry.

To get a job, devs need experience in relevant tech. No company is willing to train their devs - they all have to hit the ground running. So devs have to have demonstrable experience in the tech that lots of companies use. Companies need to hire devs, and don't really care what tech is used. But using what everyone else uses makes their hiring easier because it's easier to find devs who want to work on that tech. So they advertise for devs with experience in a hot tech. The devs see this and try and move their internal projects to use the hot tech so that if/when they look for their next job they'll have experirence in it.

The devs are just trying to stay relevant in a rapidly changing tech scene so they can get their next job.

The companies who employ them don't care what tech is used, but find recruiting devs to be easier if they're working in the latest hot tech.

The key point that could change all this is if companies were willing to train their devs in the tech stack they're using.
no. noise can be very much periodic. or have a pattern.

you can view noise as a signal you don't want to receive right now. HDTV transmissions are noise to radio astronomers, etc.
> I have much bigger issues than commit hash duplicates if someone malicious is able to commit to my repo

On github, all forks of a repo shared the commit objects.
I haven't heard this side of the story before. How do they count empty houses? Is it done in a way that makes it difficult to game the system?
Yes, it is a bad thing. Many of those condos and homes are now empty, raising housing prices on families and making effective city planning impossible.
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Guess who maintains RadeonSI in Mesa — it's all @amd.com people :)

(Which is not the case for RADV, the Vulkan implementation)
I have been waiting for hyperinflation to occur in the US, as doomsayers have been predicting, for at least 25 years.

They may have been claiming it will happen for longer than 25 years but I've only been paying attention for 25 years.

At this rate, I think the Return of His Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may occur sooner than hyperinflation.

Is it for real this time? Is hyperinflation finally happening? I would love to wallpaper my bathroom in $100,000 bills after using four of them to pay off my mortgage.
Not just Canada either
It should only take a couple of days to switch those to a different cloud provider. When building a Jamstack website there is only very thin logic in the Lambda itself, and S3 is only used as managed file storage.
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When you write for a general educated audience, it's best to avoid words that will strike their ear as out-of-place, uneducated, or unexpected. You don't want readers to stumble over words or turns of phrase that sound ugly or unfamiliar to them. It distracts from the message.

From the perspective of descriptive linguistics, "learnings" may be acceptable, but descriptive linguistics isn't the only factor governing how writing is received. It should be avoided unless you're writing for an audience in which it's already in general use.

The issue isn't rules about forming nouns from present participles, but custom and usage in the general population and in that section of the population who read and write at an educated level. It's a matter of judgement and style. What is customary changes over time, but that doesn't mean it should be ignored.

As to your final point, many words were in use in 1483 (and 1943) that would be out of place today.
What's your point? The amount of people and labour needed to do those things are much much less than it once was. However we've since employed a massive amount of labour to chase profits and producing stuff that aren't necessarily needed, while still maintaining a system of scarcity for essentials.
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I'm sorry, I'm not sure, I totally understand your argumentation.
You seem to be against vague rules ("My experience is that vague rules are both a recipe for corruption [...]"), with which I agree. That's why I want a CoC, so that the rules are open, known and overall transparent.

However, I'm afraid I fail to see why avoiding vague rules means that there should be no CoC at all. Isn't having no written/open rules the vaguest of all? Even if there are rules that only the moderators can see, how is that an improvement for the participants? They can't know what is acceptable, so neither can the accused argue against an unfair response, nor can a potential victim demand enforcement.

And why not have more concrete rules? Surely, they cannot be complete and there will necessarily always be room for intepretation, but I think it is better the more concrete the rules are.
'White propaganda is fine and even necessary at times' reads just like 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.'
LOL. Pop culture is our barometer for relevancy, now?

Jesus wept.
> Why NOT formalize rules to some extent?

Because code of conducts makes it easier to harass people. If there are formal rules then all a harasser has to do is to find something out of context and then start harassing the person by starting a CoC breakage investigation. Doing stuff like that without a CoC would get you kicked out.
and GitHub...
I don't condone it. I'm saying it's been discussed.
You have to understand why the Raspberry Pi is priced the way it is: it's because it is a side effect of the massive production of Broadcom chips for tablets, phones, embedded, etc. Millions and millions are made. A relatively tiny number of these find their way into developer boards. The economies of scale mean they can be very cheap.

RISC-V doesn't have this ... yet ... but there are several Chinese manufacturers currently making millions of chips for consumer devices with those going through foundries right now. So sooner or later the economics will work out for a "RISC-V Pi". I'd be surprised if it doesn't exist by 2022.

For now this SiFive board is IMHO the best PC-like developer experience for RISC-V. [Disclaimer: Red Hat works with SiFive]
It's those pushing programming who need to answer why it's so much better, since the Excel approach does seem to work for large numbers of people.
Prices are still associated with the prices that a local will pay. Money launderers don't want to lose dirty money any more than anyone else wants to lose clean money. They depend on there being a buyer at a price near what they paid. I suppose you could have a market that was so full of money launderers that they simply depend on flipping it to the next money launderer, but ordinarily, they depend on there being at least some proportion of locals who will pay the new, higher price, or they aren't guaranteed a buyer.
What's the mechanism that forces restaurants to partner with these food delivery services? Threat of competition if they don't?
I agree that they made some big leaps when turning this into a narrative, but I think there's truth to the basic premise that focusing too much on a hypothetical future amongst the stars - which at best would be harsh, difficult, and miserable - serves as a distraction against the very real and very urgent and very solvable problems facing our species and habitat as it exists right now.

Even if we managed interstellar travel (and that's a big if), it's highly unlikely we would ever find anything remotely as good as Earth, when it comes to being tuned precisely for our human needs. Evolution has geared us for this world. We might be able to cobble together a survival elsewhere, but I doubt we could ever thrive.

Beyond that: space exploration and research obviously still has value. It's just that it's a very long-term and theoretical value, and at this particular moment in history there are much more pressing concerns.
S3 is just files and Lambda is just FaaS, you can host your own open source versions of these tools and not encounter an issue.

This would be a more solid argument if they were using a lot of AWS features together, but you could replace this with Minio and FastCGI if you really wanted to.
Fast forward to today, where Google entertains auctions for first-page listings and happily evicts trademark owners if they don't pay up.
How is thinking people are malicious a precondition?

This is a community in and around programming; if anyone can accept that well-intentioned systems can explode in our faces spectacularly, it should be us.
While I agree, restaurants do tend to pick up on this over time because (more issues with Place & Pay) people will complain to the restaurant about food being cold/slow not realizing that the restaurant isn't even involved in the delivery. Sometimes the delivery people make it quite obvious (e.g. drivers are given GH branded credit cards to pay with)
Unpopular opinion: what turned Microsoft into what it is today was not Windows at all. It was Office, and specifically Excel.

It is the best of breed on the category by far.

But yes, only used by those who can't code.
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Here's a massive meta-analysis of tens of thousands of participants finding a reduction in mortality associated with vitamin D supplementation:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

Vitamin D + calcium supplementation for bone health in middle-aged or older people:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00198-015-3386-5

But you're right that some of the benefit of "vitamin D" will be associated with going outside. I outlined several reasons in my article: the outdoors has brighter lights, lower carbon dioxide, etc., which are good for our health.
The domain got registered yesterday (Creation Date: 2020-10-28T21:03:31Z) and you've done 10 sessions with them? Come on.
GrubHub is taking over the relationship between the customer and the restaurant without either of those parties being aware of it. This is clearly a deceptive practice, and now GrubHub influences the customer's perception of the restaurant. Examples of conclusion(cause):

* That place is expensive (GrubHub sets the price which can be higher than the restaurant)
* That place screwed up my order (GrubHub's game of telephone made an error)
* That place is so slow (The now multi-step transaction slowed down the process)

>> They're saying you'll get food from restaurant X.

They're actually failing to say this, so the reasonable interpretation is "We ARE restaurant X" which is the fraudulent representation at the heart of the case here.
One of the most important points this hammers home is that we _need_ to think about risk more granularly. People using outdoor spaces (like parks) may be riskier than everyone staying locked in a hermetically-sealed room, but wind and ventilation reduces the risk of aerosol transmission drastically. Restricting the chance of disease spread is vitally important, but we can and should do so in a way that (1) informs the public about how risk changes in different scenarios, and (2) helps people reason about their own risk in various situations. I wish we had less fear-mongering and more reasoned compassion as part of the campaigns to enforce restrictions.
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Are the courts "backed up", or is the process of discovery and everything else leading up to a trial/judgement just a necessarily long one?
It's about the level of abstraction. Kuma's "Kubernetes Cluster" is very complicated but it serves no purpose to include its details in a blog post that describes Yari. Yari's diagram is more detailed than Kuma's, while Yari itself is simpler than Kuma.
It's a bit more nuanced than that. The best way to think of food delivery businesses funded by VCs is to think of them as payday lenders.

Some background reading: https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...

Be sure to also read this insightful comment left by a former GrubHub employee: https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...
Instead of downvoting this comment you'd better downvote its parent for starting the whole completely useless conversation.
I never really thought of this before, but now that I have I'm confused about backups. In particular, why do we back up some types things but not others?

I've never made backups of my books.

I've never made backups of my vinyl records or my cassette tapes.

I have made backups of all my CDs.

If the backup is to protect against loss of or damage to the media, I should be backing up books and records and tapes, and not backing up CDs. CDs live in a protective case, only coming out for short trips to a CD player, where they are played entirely enclosed, and playback does not cause any wear on the play surface.

Records and tapes are degrade slightly each time you play them. Books also suffer wear each time they are read, and are usually read in environments where they can suffer accidents.
Wow thanks for the extra context here! My read of capnp was that you probably couldn't write capnp with std::unique_ptr and STL streams as-is (or relying on STL would make it really hard), and thus the capnp design necessitates the core of kj, and once you start there you have to add most of the other stuff in kj. I do very firmly agree that C++11 had holes in either features or support when capnp first rolled out, though C++ has caught up over the years.

I still think if you wanted to re-write a capnp library today, you'd still need kj, or at least most of it, simply for the memory control. The added benefit of kj is that you don't have to deal with C++ STL bugs and quirks. E.g. I believe C++ spec didn't require std::optional to use in-place new until recently ...

Also curious if you have any comments on this read of kj from a software management perspective. I imagine trying to sell the investment of writing something like kj at a company and it being a tough sell, even if capnp was approved. You clearly knew what you were doing from the outset and certainly nobody could have done it better. But I believe capnp sits close to the decision boundary of where many companies decide to invest in greatness or not, and reflection might shed light on why some managers make the wrong choice on something like this.
Indeed.

Why is the US producing 25,000 more lawyers than it needs?

Why is this happening in a supposedly rational maximally efficient - or close offer - market economy?

The simple answer is because someone else profits hugely from the money they pay for training. Which in turn is a symptom of an extractive economy, not a productive economy.

A productive economy would do a much better job of allocating talent to social requirements. But an extractive economy is optimised for short-term gain of a small overclass - not the medium/long-term opportunity-growth of a strategically generative economy.
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Thanks for this comment. I think it's time I broaden my own perspective a bit.
From a sloppy reading of the headline I first thought this was some way of making Excel (optionally) typed, sort of like moving from JavaScript to TypeScript.

I wonder if this could work? It's an interesting idea, I think. I'm sure there have been attempts in the past...

I guess you would be able to assign both normal units and compound units to cells (like m and m/s^2) as "formatting" and do type checking when editing a cell that references other cells.
It's important to remember that while technically there is a chronologically first person to discover X for all X, that doesn't imply that that person is the only person to discover X. For sufficiently obvious X, there are likely to be many independent discoverers and highlighting the chronologically first one heaps praise somewhat arbitrarily on one of them.
For Vancouver BC Canada, yes. The RCMP did up such a report in 2018.
It was something around $6bn/year for amount. Majority seemed to be tax evasion (eg : US billionaire X wants to hide capital X, so hires company Y in China to purchase land in Canada for $X, transferring through hidden channels to reduce tracking).
Apparently that's a pretty common model. Doing the same through Russia was also common.
These transactions are illegal in their home countries. (it was a lot of countries). No real "legal" problem in Canada as yet.
Legally problematic is because monetary sources are not checked (still), drug dealers can buy and sell property and all of a sudden their money is now "clean" and usable for legal purposes. As in yes, money laundering.

I never saw the report itself, just the interviews on multiple news agencies interviewing the RCMP representative.
They did NOT do explicit numbers other than totals in the public, just the example above is my memory of one of their examples.
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> Chrome doesn't create a copy of the video on the users HD by default.

Sure it does. That's how it buffers and caches things.

Even if it doesn't leave a copy on the HDD, a copy in RAM is still a copy.

But all of these things are happening inside of my own computer. YouTube already sent the bits and bytes to my computer and I am allowed to do whatever I want with those bits and bytes.

There's nothing illegal about keeping a copy of something that was in memory and anybody arguing otherwise should be viewed as an enemy of humanity.
In this context, it's up to whoever is offended to decide how guilty the perpetrator is. Or even a third party to be offended on behalf of someone else.
> If folks want to pay someone (Grubhub) to go pick up food for them, why should the restaurants be allowed to say no?

I agree, but GrubHub was marketing as if they were the restaurant. If it was clearly marked as "grub hub pickup for third-party restaurants" people would be more aware that GrubHub is responsible for choosing to deliver a restaurant that isn't interested in partnering to allow delivery.
So true.

A lot of activism in my city happens on facebook, and it's simply terrible.

Perhaps emails are a bit more difficult to use, but it is important skill to master, especially in context where you have to self organize and discuss. It's also very democratic, because opening an email account is faster.

And in terms of "real" privacy, emails are better, just because they are decentralized.
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I read an interview with Gottfrid Warg (pirate bay co-founder) some years back. Can't find it now...

What stuck with me was his disappointment that the wider torrent community simply relied on the pirate bay always making a return. There was no real effort to go beyond resilient hosting. No producing facts by superior technology. It was just a bunch of copy-cats playing whac-a-mole with the copyright industry. To paraphrase: "I went to jail for this stuff, and you don't even care enough about it to follow up on it in earnest?" At least that's how it read to me. As I said, it's been a while.

Hosting torrent platforms and such on namecheap, cloudflare (no really!) and all the other mainstream platforms seems like such an obviously, deeply stupid choice. There's only very few projects (that I know of) that are really addressing resilient, organized, curated content dissemination, and they're essentially divorced from the pirate scene. Too bad I guess.
I actually remember a SF short story where astronomers detected something looking like a giant bird coming from outer space into the solar system. It then approached Mars, the planet cracked open and a baby bird came out. Next, both birds started heading for Earth... and people started drilling in a desperate attempt to kill whatever was under their feet...

Unfortunately I don't remember the author.
It had HTTP originally, twitter just munged it.
Forget money. Think in terms of stuff (goods and services).

Our society is producing less stuff (quarantines, shutdowns, people not working). We still want to consume as much stuff. Eventually, that's going to be a problem - one you can't fix with money.
Space exploration is much more than colonization. I think of Hume. Our reality is made from our senses. On it's own, the sun doesn't shine. It needs what it's hitting as much as it's own internal state. You have the sun at the center of our solar system. You have instruments at the outside we built, as well as telescopes imaging black holes millions of light years away. In between there's us. It will be nice to make use of all that for particle pair production in regards to coherent control of quantum biology. In order for the cancer to grow back or the arterial lesions to rupture, they need to disrupt the surface of a super massive black hole.

Individuals only need to move in inches to improve their lives:

- First step out of bed early in the morning to work.

- Opening a clenched fist.

- Shutting their mouths.

That's all it takes and you have a decent life. Nations and states must move light years just to tread water:

- Gravitational singularities must be modeled and observed to build positron emitters to lower the cost of cancer treatments at a bill of trillions a year.

- Russian communists on the run from all the horrible murders they committed launch the space race while the USA was focused on building highways and celebrity presidents.

- The public has seen and done everything and grown coarse so we are looking at AR and even controlling the weather just to entertain and tell a story.

Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis just doesn't exist. More brute force than anything. The free market caps violence. Finance and production instead of butchering one another. Leaders can mess up, like China with covid. Leaders don't get to tell everyone what to do and are subject to the rules too. You do it. If it works, I'll do it too.

In the deepest depths of depression, and at the stressful heights of mania, what never fails to bring a smile to my face is the job the greatest generation, my grandparents, did to the monsters and criminals of Europe long ago. Remember when they held a state address just to laugh at FDR? A few short years later, everything's bombed out and they are watching their children die of cyanide before they shoot themselves. You are right to be disgusted by them. Instead you should look at the hand that destroyed them. It is much more horrible than you can ever imagine.