skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan has zoning laws at the country level, and they are much more sane than local zoning laws. Basically, local zoning says "this piece of land can be used for one thing". Japan's laws say "this piece of land can cause a maximum nuisance of X, but it can have all these different things on it". And then it's up to the developers to decide if building a multi-unit building would more profitable than a single family home.
>The COVID relief packages are just the government printing more money, making existing money worth less.

The thing is, it only causes inflation when that money circulates. But the Fed is just pumping it directly into the stock market. The result is sky high valuations and asset prices, but very little change in the actual day-to-day economy's monetary supply. This is why inflation is still under 2%. And sure, people could sell out and take their cash to invest elsewhere, but with 0% interest rates there's literally nowhere else to put it.
Speaking of tiny army drones and Electric Sheep Comix (yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549042), I am reminded of Patrick's series The Spiders: https://www.electricsheepcomix.com/spiders/
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>String theory, and the 'reproducability problem'

I do not know what is your experience with science, but it is not how it works. In most cases research leads to unexpected results in grand scale. F.e. Research in string theory field led to developing new mathematics which eventually helped to calculate particle paths in LHS, which helped to make gathering data manageable and which lead to discovering Higgs boson.

>most socially unaware people (often science)

99% successful scientists are very socially aware. Usually socially unaware people do not become successful even in science.

>social artifacts can dominate their sphere

Because thats how world works. F.e. phd student does his own research, then he consults with his professor, who suggests how to add marketable layer to his research and with that layer his research becomes one for string theorists, though it was not his initial goal. This marketable layer helps him get the grant.

>Now, the existential issue of the fact that their 'entire worldview' and 'life-long work' is tied up in something, delusions can become very strongly internalized.

This is made by popular media, movies. Most scientists live normal life, create families, try separate work from life, therefore research does not come from worldview.
> science be portrayed in a vacuum and not be diminished based on possible societal harm or political biases

That's a rather uncharitable way of framing his argument.

> condemn all attempts to coerce scientific activities into supporting or opposing specific social-political beliefs, values, and attitudes, including attempts at preventing researchers from exploring questions of their choice, or at restricting the free discussion and debate of issues related to scientific research. (from the letter)

Clearly the issue is the current academic orthodoxy. We are very much seeing a rapidly collapsing overton window, where any inquiry or worse the person that is at odds with a very particular liberal belief is immediately cancelled. It largely asks that ad-hominem attacks and slippery slope arguments be avoided and discourse around heated topics be civil.

Tech has largely jumped head first, siding with the hyper-liberal wing of politics in American discourse. This is when the conclusions reached by the said political groups are heatedly argued in both political, academic and societal spheres. I myself feel the air of fear and the prescription of though at my BigN workplace. The argument that it is indeed stifling tech+research at large is entirely reasonable.

Yann LeCun got chased away from twitter by Gebru. Anima Anand kumar's tweet displayed an active participation in cancelling and chasing out anyone who does not fall in line with a very narrow definition of equality in society.

There is immense value in exploring the effects of tech and progress on society. There is immense value in commitment to being fair and accountable. It is incredibly important for the people with the power to wield such a hammer, be most level headed, civil and create policies based on consensus. There is a reason that supreme court justices are lawyers and not activists. As of now, the bearers of power display none of those properties.

The open letter merely points that out and asks for equal representation of ideas without threat of being fired or sidelined in entirity.

> We support discussion of policies aimed at a more diverse and inclusive society; a range of opinions is natural. We condemn all attempts to coerce

It is bizzare to see people of science fall in line with claims that don't satisfy even the basic requirements of rigor. Scepticism and inquiry are the foundations of this entire field. As of now I see a very political section of the community making 'extra ordinary claims'. As is customary around these parts, it isn't unreasonable to ask for "extraordinary evidence."
The data is from 2018 and doesn't cover all of the employees, only groups they selected.

> the company started to conduct a comprehensive review of compensation across the company in late 2018

Even assuming the data was accurate and unbiased, it was gathered before the company had this review.

> When [the data collector] factored in stock options for Coinbase’s employees ... the compensation for women and men was roughly the same

A piece of information that's too nuanced for the title, I guess.
In addition to jedberg's comment about the "black"-range being far too broad, the problem is that the mere existence of Prop 13 incentivizes landowners to block new development. New landowners who are paying higher taxes compared to their neighbors would prefer even more appreciation to make up for it. Old landowners are happy to block new stuff because a) it's not like their taxes are going up anyway and b) scarcity makes their property values go up. In any rational market, large numbers of SFHs in Palo Alto, Menlo Park or Mountain View would have been built over with apartment buildings already.

Prop 19 is a decent start (I wasn't aware of it, so thanks) but it only passed last year so we'll have to wait and see what its effects are. More importantly, rental and commercial property is mostly not inherited so it's not covered.

What's "prevailing wage law"?
Can you explain this to me a little more?

If spending is up, wouldn’t the stock market outperform Bitcoin anyway?

If we have rapid inflation, wouldn’t money go into something tangible and of value before something intangible and perhaps of value?
Drone racer here, too!
18650s are amazing as far as power density is concerned.

Here's a guy who takes a 3" 1S quad, adapts an 18650 and gets 29 minutes of flight time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZStU-QCSc

There's a few others, and in fact I considered doing this myself! But, I'd get bored of slowbelly 'flying' after about 15 minutes. I like to go fast.

I completely believe 40mins of flight time if you had actual resources to assign to this. Imagine using the 18650 as the frame and strapping motors to sticks, or other crazy ideas to bring weight down and time up.
>Bitcoin seems like a good inflation hedge due to its fixed amount.

... until Tether explodes, and then it's musical chairs to figure out who the bagholders will be.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16298999/in-re-tether-a...
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> We talk about slavery, that ended with state actions. I'm not sure China cares, and accordingly the practice will continue.

You're correct, but there's another angle to this than ending the practice: moral complicity.

An individual in the antebellum south couldn't reasonably end the institution of slavery in the US, but he could have taken actions that affected the degree he was personally complicit. If he owned and profited from slavery, he was clearly complicit. If he did but had a change of heart and manumitted them, he's far less so. If he became an abolitionist and did his best to avoid supporting slaveholders or the products of slavery, he's hardly complicit at all.

If Apple chooses to deal with companies that use forced labor (or chooses to look the other way), it's complicit, and that means it's customers are too (to a lesser degree).
So we're supposed to be upset with the NYT because Coinbase discriminated against their employees and NYT reported on it?
One of the signers, Aryeh Konterovich is associated with a right wing Israeli NGO that conducted witch hunts against Israeli professors and artists who were deemed too leftist by its crooked standards. This was a massive well funded campaign on facebook and traditional media singling out these people as traitors.
It's extremely ironic he is now taking this anti cancel stance. Oh the hypocrisy.

He is also promoting a constitutional law in israel that will say jews have more rights than non jewish CITIZENS of israel.
Going by your example, it would be less about games and more about every single form of Storytelling, including films, TV shows, books, anime, manga, etc...
I'm pretty sure the HQ change has more to do with laws and a tax base vs. where you have the most buildings.
I have to concur. I built many drones with 400$+ flight controllers that look like trash next to my mini 2.
Domingos most definitely is not supportive of Grebru.

For a while he had "anti-woke" in his Twitter bio, and his recent tweets[0] are lamenting AI ethicists and negatively commenting on how "science is under attack from politics"[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/pmddomingos

[1] https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1341966137576198144
And it seems, that Christopher Wade, the cofounder of Corellium received a full pardon by Pres. Trump last week for cybercrime charges.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...
I mostly feel bad for the node.js developer, James Halliday, who goes by substack. Seeing this article (ad?) and their recruiting ads on HN reminds me of his tweets:

https://twitter.com/substack/status/1323049757615353856?s=21

Unsure of the validity to those claims. But it did seem like they capitalized on the familiarity of his username to gain traction early on.
It's a bit hand-wavy except for street view catching up. I'm pretty much completely migrated to Firefox/DDG for most browser stuff, except for maps. I still use Google Maps on my phone because there's so damn much information packed in there. Including ways to search for companies open til 11pm. I can instantly see which restaurants are doing curbside. It's also on my phone (although I do plan on switching to iOS next year when my android gets a bit too old). We'll see how my maps changes with that.
People might ask the same question about gold, but after hundreds of years, it's still here as a scarce asset with speculative value.
+1 insightful; 100% agreed; well-put!
Everybody with a modicum of common sense was saying this for the past decade and more I lived in this god damned quasi-communist state. Now, when Larry Ellison and Elon Musk flee, it makes it to the headlines. Good grief.
> It [737 Max] has modern engines that [...] wouldn't fit on the existing lineup.

That's the problem in a nutshell.

If I had an actual choice, I'd choose to fly in a plane whose airframe was designed around the engines its using.
Any good open source on outbound lead generation software system?
just some generic ones so we can make automated sales
They're only like what they're "really like" because in those videos they're being operated from behind a layer of abstraction that only allows a few really basic movement patterns (go X direction, at Y speed, within allowed parameters).

I think this new video is trying to illustrate more of the highly dynamic capabilities of the machines that can be used by more specialized operators and software. (And I don't think there are any "effects" exaggerating those capabilities like you're implying, unless you mean things like color correction or the occasional cut to another piece of footage).
Why not TIPS, gold, real estate or basic material stocks? Bitcoin seems to be the most insane choice for inflation hedging. It may be a good trade, but not for the reasons you've listed.

(not to mention that so far there has been absolutely no broad inflation almost everywhere around the world, though this can of course change)
Very cool, very interesting.
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Out of the steps involved in a typical translate+typeset of a manga page (I've been personally involved in fan projects and have friends/family who do this commercially), I'd estimate the most time-consuming parts are:

2 - 4 Translation

1 - 2 Editing

1 - 4 Cleaning

1 - 2 Typesetting

1 Quality Control

The effort involved in cleaning entirely depends on how good the source material is - you'd think professionals would get pristine high resolution pages without text on them, but you'd be wrong. A high quality cleaning job often means repainting a bunch of the art from scratch. If the cleaning is done poorly the typesetter is screwed.

Some stuff is just plain easy to translate, other works will have a single page full of things you have to look up and sentences that only make sense with previous chapters as context (or even worse, FUTURE chapters as context). In some cases translators also have to first transcribe the work because they're sent blurry jpegs or png files instead of being sent text (again, you'd think this wouldn't happen, but...)

QC and editing can often be done by the same person. One subtle gotcha is that your editor or QC (ideally both, but at least one) REALLY need to know the source language even if they're deferring to the translator - if only one of you is able to check the A->B it becomes very hard to spot subtle problems that can mess up the work.
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I’ve always thought along similar lines. What bothers me is that, if someone were to break into your home there is risk to them because you are allowed to defend yourself by fighting back.

As far as I know, we aren’t allowed to counter attack cyber attackers so our only option is better defenses and then handing things off to authorities. I used to work for an smaller eBay-for-a-niche market type site and dealing with fraud was our biggest issue.

We tracked fraud ourselves and even managed to send a delivery to a PO Box used by someone who had swindled customers out of thousands of dollars. We contacted the authorities, told them everything and exactly where the criminal would be.

They did nothing.

If we aren’t allowed to fight back and the authorities won’t do anything, what deterrent is there?
We cannot make it without science: Greta says climate experts are being ignored
“The article is about literal Chinese Slave Labor camps”

Actually it’s not... did you read it?

The central allegation is that a few thousand Xinjiang Muslims were offered employment possibly in exchange for political indoctrination.

There’s a side allegation that prisoners are also being put to work in factories. There’s no allegation let alone evidence that this is without compensation. And the pennies offered in US prisons hardly count, and certainly don’t absolve the US justice system of the conflict of interest one can allege upon seeing how profitable it is for localities to throw people in jail.
Of course you can. In the days of CGI scripts, we forked a full process per request, never mind a thread.

I'd wager that the great majority of Web apps (i.e., the not-terribly-busy ones) would scale reasonably well on thread-per-request.
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I've seen black ones go up to $47k. It's a crazy-broad range. Looking at the distribution of these numbers on a graph would be way more helpful than this type of visualization.
I’m inferring that you had a negative experience using Clojure somewhere. FWIW, I’ve seen Clojure code that was quite readable and well-organized, operating in an environment that handled more traffic than most enterprise developers are accustomed to.
You could maybe try the OneTab firefox extension
Have you worked with accountants and HR professionals when putting this together? Your site says employees will work a maximum of 28 hours but will receive all the benefits of a full time employee. Most companies cannot do this as there are many contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements based on hours worked.
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We tend to think that the first widely deployed military drones are going to be like the movies: big bipedal humanoid robots kicking down doors, armed with machine guns and flamethrowers.

In reality, it'll probably be swarms of tiny quadcopter drones, each with a gun and only a few bullets (and/or some sort of self-detonation ability), shooting out the glass windows and flooding into a house.

There's obviously some AI involved in this scenario, (navigation, mapping, facial recognition), but you definitely don't need to balance a huge machine on two feet to wage an effective drone attack.
He's an analyst for "the right", that's why he's so brilliant.
Summary of list:

* Typer
* Rich
* Dear PyGui
* PrettyErrors - formatting and coloring error messages in the terminal
* Diagrams
* Hydra - build configurations in a composable manner, and override certain parts from the command line or config files.
* OmegaConf
* PyTorch Lightning
* Hummingbird - compile your trained traditional ML models into tensor computations
* HiPlot - high-dimensional data using parallel plots
* Scalene
* Norfair - real-time object tracking; the real reason for this post, as it is created by the company
You'll be shocked to learn that people don't always do what you want.
The difference between a one off script and a production-grade system with documentation, instrumentation, and monitoring is pretty big.

Here's less than a minute's worth of questions I would want answered for a professional version of the log fetching example:

* Is that list of a thousand servers static?
* How is it updated?
* What format is it in?
* What do you do when the resource isn't available?
* What other systems are impacted when the resource can't be contacted?
* Is it acceptable to use a cached server list until it the resource can be updated?
* How do you handle servers that don't respond when polled?
If we retry connections, what scheme do we use? Linear or exponential back off?
* After a service interruption, how do we resume data collection? Do we keep rolling forward or do we request older data? How quickly do we retrieve backed up data? Is service resumption plan different for the case when a single system is down vs when the log fetching system has an outage?
There’s a disparity sure but I don’t see how that necessarily proves discrimination
Inflation hedges work because their value is (theoretically) unchanging over the long term and so by comparison it seems like they appreciate in value compared to fiat currencies which experience inflation.

But really, inflation hedges don't grow in value during times of high inflation, they just don't lose as much value as the fiat currencies do. That is how they protect against inflation.
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Or your static page could have a link to a comments page. Which is also static.

It is pretty trivial to generate a new static page which includes the new comment. You do want some kind of database. A SQLite file works fine.
> And for the majority of local networks there's a fundamental asymmetry between the local and external network. The majority of nodes on local networks only ever need to connect _out_ to the external network, they don't need incoming connections.

This is kind of like the railway administrators who say "there's no reason to have the train stop in TinyTown, there are no passengers waiting for it there".

If I could receive incoming connections, I could host my own Internet services (such as my own web site) AT HOME, and not be at the mercy of corporations to allow me to offer my information and/or services.
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I backported a handful of C++ STL containers to ISO C99 to exemplify that a subset of C++, namely C with Templates, is a highly usable type-safe feature within the realm of ISO C99.

Included are a couple examples, like a JSON parser and a simple 6502 compiler. I have also written a small wiki, that showcases how to use the included containers: https://github.com/glouw/ctl/wiki
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> iOS is not a licensed product like Windows

Do developers not need to pay $100 a year to write code for it? (for software that will run longer than a couple weeks on a device). To run IOS no, it develop for it, yes?
A robot like the one in the video seems like it could make a decent enforcer though.

It has the benefit of being in your face and we having been trained by movies and games that robots that look like that are enemies.
That sounds like every other episode of top gear, lol.
> it's negligence on your side and your insurance most likely won't cover you for the damages

Fun fact: this isn’t true in the US. For example: you can leave your car unlocked and with keys in it, and if it’s stolen you’ll still be covered by insurance.
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I've been using Python a lot, both professionally and privately. Been contributing to Cpython.

Not sure I like the language. The best dependency manager (Poetry) is buggy. The default interpreter is slow.

But I love the ecosystem of third party packades. Thank you! Python will be around for a long time.
The are several things about the replication crisis. First, it is important to remember that science always had unethical behaviour, intrigue and politics. In the end the best science always won, but it might have taken significant time. One could also say that by the very nature of us speaking about it, it can't be an existential crisis.

Finally, I would argue that the large problem stems not from within science, but from how "science administratio/funding" has changed. Essentially, the idea of making science more (a)countable/measurable has lead to a state where scientists spend large fractions (>30%) of their time applying for funding. Also the funding is very much tied to some measurable outcomes, so there is just no time left to dedicade to reproducing results, because you can't get funding for it.

I believe we as society need to come back to a view of seeing science as a general good, without the need to produce some immediate measurable outcomes (in fact this is true for many aspects of society) . Unfortunately the MBAs are running the show almost everywhere so I don't see this happening anytime soon.
The answer is of course that the question does not apply, because printing "money" and giving it to people is not the one and only way to ensure people do not starve (don't get me wrong it is a way, but is probably the most detrimental in the long run because of all the unintended side effects, some of which we have already been witnessing)

If the goal is to not starve, the government could give, you know, actual edible food to people and not pieces of paper. (I am not suggesting this, it is just another possibility)

But to your more broader question, the fixed amount of bitcoins is only a problem if you intend to keep the system working as it has, but bitcoin advocates favor a new way (or the old gold-backed way) to look at the economy on which savings is the bedrock of it and not debt like we currently "enjoy".
Oh yeah, these companies are totally doing this for the public good and not just simply exploiting cheap labor. And considering how hard it is for an ex con to get a job, I doubt this has any major impact on recidivism.
What kind of material causes more dispersion than nothing?
"Be skeptical of intelligence agencies" shouldn't be a political perspective.