skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If a developer is given free reign as to what they can build, they will naturally build the most profitable thing they can on the land they have available. I doubt anyone would dispute that?

Nobody disputes this, it's obvious. However, you're missing the benefits of this approach though. For a lot of industries you have very high upfront costs. You want to pay those off as soon as possible. Once they are paid for you can often drop your price substantially. The company has to pay for the training of the construction workers, lease machines and pay for the currently very expensive housing because that is where the construction workers live.

>The idea here is that the most profitable thing tends to be more upmarket than the locals can typically afford. The area gets gentrified and rents go up.

Well, this is where things go wrong. You are mixing up cause and effect. Demand (gentrification) leads supply (house construction). If you fail to construct new housing you get displacement. That demand is driven by people getting a well paying job and they have to live somewhere. If you don't build housing for them they will have to displace locals because that's the only place where they can live. From this perspective the new comers don't want to take your home. You can keep it. They just want a place for themselves.

>A socialist would say that if the market fails to provide solutions for core needs of people (health, housing, etc) it is up to the government to provide those. Some things are simply either unprofitable or not suited for a profit driven approach (e.g. private prisons where the companies running them are actively incentivised to see repeat offenders).

That's not a failure of the market but a failure of policy. The primary reason why public housing works is because it forces the government to acknowledge bad policies and replace them. The bigger failure of for profit housing is that it is slow. A housing shortage that took a decade to create also takes a decade to solve. The government has the benefit of being excellent in the short term but in the long term it is only "good enough", which is why you need both.
The main rasp website has a tool for locating suppliers in a given country
I'm in my 40s, and my generation definitely has a derogatory sense of the term "uncles and aunties" - specifically an older generation of Indians who think it their right to be nosy and judgemental (and oftentimes even interfering) when it comes to the next generation's affairs.

(in addition to the other usages msravi noted)
Unfortunately many people miss the O in OKRs. The Objective is what really matters, but people tend to think it's all about the KRs - then you do end up with optimising for the metric.
Luckily vim finally got a bit better with that: on a Ctrl-C newer versions now show instructions for quitting.

I remember my first vi sessions (typically via something like `crontab -e` where it wasn't clear to me it picked my "default" editor ... thus didn't know where to read up on it ...) some long time ago, where i knew `kill` before the right command ...
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Also 元(yuán) is exactly 'Chinese Yuan' you hear about today.
boring & solid & works is a perfect description of tcl&tk.
And I mean that in the best way imaginable.
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Yup. For a lot of people it's radio without the DJs and ads, and more control over the musical choices.
What makes ad replacement malware? Presumably the users don’t care as long as the replacement ads aren’t of horrible quality. It’s definitely a bit cheeky, but malicious? I don’t think so.

This seems like a fairly benign monetization scheme, it’ll hurt some sites that depend on ad revenue but not any more than adblockers.
>Languages are subjects to network effect and in the long term that is what will make or break them.

That's a circular argument given what's discussed in this thread.

The "make or break them" presupposes the goal is for the language to "break out", whereas the parent said the goal is for the creator to be satisfied and use the language himself.

There tons of languages in domains like gaming where nobody cares if they "break out" or for network effects. People write them to use them themselves.
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From what I have seen, the pay is entirely by listen count and not taking the users subscription and dividing it by the % you listened to each artist. So if someone subscribed to Spotify and listens to 10 songs in the month, most of their subscription goes in to the pool and pays for people who had lady Gaga on 24/7 for a month.
I really dont see honest question of "what drives this" nor attempt to drive people toward the other cause. It is just disdain toward one of those groups and that is all.
Good garbage collectors are harder.
The way I was taught is that ao (青) covers all shades of blue and green, although depending on context its meaning can be limited to blue.

So for instance if both ao (青) and midori (緑) are used to designate sports teams, then the ao (青) team will be the blue team.

Due to this ambiguity with the word ao (青) it's in general better to use a more precise word to specify the shade of blue/green, like koniro (紺色) for deep blue, mizuiro (水色) for light blue, midori (緑) for green, etc.
In special theory of relativity time is local, so objects interact only with immediate moment - present, and not with past and future. You need to first somehow overcome locality to postulate global time, which you would be hard pressed to do.
If you're measuring an activity, that's where you end up. People will do more of that activity regardless of outcome. The clinics should be rewarded for the actual outcome you want: better dental health in a certain population.
This could be a metaphor for how a greenfield project turns into a tiresome upkeep effort, after the initial creativity gets further and further buried under the maintenance strain.
Although interesting, the title way overstates the claims of the article. The article is focusing on surgery to reduce pain. Pain can't be measured externally, it's subjective.

Most surgery is not like that, it involves some objective condition. Such as before you had an appendix, now you don't. Before your bone was broken in the wrong shape, now it's the right shape.
XMPP is pretty successful right now. Last I heard there were something like 80k federated servers. Matrix can only dream of that level of sucess...
Thanks - hadn't heard of exrx before... It seems to contain a lot of useful info.

I thought I was missing a stylesheet though. I appreciate simplicity (like OPs website) but exrx was bare bones enough in the layout department to be a bit tedious to use.
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This is wildly misleading, because it appears to actually be “most orthopaedic pain surgeries”, rather than most surgeries.
Not many people want to run Linux on intel based mac because you can run Linux on a much cheaper intel machine.
It's less "engineering is pretty awful" and more "What risk are we willing to accept vs tactical/strategical gain"
I sometimes use arrow keys (especially when in edit mode and I don't want to reach up to escape ...) hjkl really shines when combined with other operations like `d5l` or even smarter things.
In fact this is not even unsaid. My mom suffered a transient ischemic attack last week.

To quote the surgeon: statistically she had a 15% chance of issues in the coming weeks. An operation has a 5% risk of complications, so normally we don't perform one. But 5 is lower than 15%, so let's do it.

Not sure of the math, because I assume the 15% is spread (non-linear) over the 2 weeks, and she was operated at the end of the window, but it is still amazing that all of this is possible.
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Worth mentioning as well that there's a good CLI for Arduino these days, at https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/. It's written in Go, and shares config etc with the traditional Arduino UI. I have no affiliation with it, but have used it happily along with vim, and not needed to drop back into the traditional UI.
I came to comment the same as you, I saw it in the traps muscle, it's shown as one, but it is interesting to know that it has 3 parts[1], and there are other exercises more effective for the mid section like face pull.
About the "where you have the pain idea" I love it, it would be also cool to learn about the antagonist muscles.

(Disclaimer I'm not an expert).
I think a common bad posture in-front of the computer is the one that rotates your shoulders forward which overloads some muscles in the chest, which are antagonist of the middle traps, middle traps get weak, and your back falls forwards, face pull is great exercise to make them stronger.
Another common one for those sitting long hours, is the tightness of the psoas, which can cause hip problems, and knee problems if you try to run without stretching, I think the antagonist is the buttocks, that gets weak from sitting and you would need to exercise to correct the hip problems.

Don't trust my comments, I just wanted to put two examples of mechanism that I learned, but I don't have enough knowledge to explain it properly or be 100% sure this is correct, always consult with a pro.

[1] https://www.physio-pedia.com/File:Trapezius_animation.gif
I believe it's Saturday to Wednesday, with Thu & Fri as the weekend days.
> They priced an entire month of music at about £10, the same as a CD. That's 720 hours (30 days)

Yeah, but who listens for 24 hours a day, all month?

Also, that £10 CD can be played infinitely. That's infinity hours of music, which comes out to around 0p per hour. That's completely unreasonable! ;)

The convenience of Spotify converted me from piracy, getting my money back into the recorded music game. I don't think I'm alone in that. That 29% cut quoted in the article doesn't seem unreasonable to me, especially when some of that is "new" money. What were the margins of old record shops?

That was the main thing I wanted to discuss, but let me also question some assumptions you seem to make.

> the labels have less control to "dictate" or push specific artists.

Why is that a problem? The curation and popularity lists are not gone, btw: the streaming services have taken over that role.

> The availability of everyone to release their own music has diluted the market so now there is so much volume, nobody gets heard

On the flip side, more people get the opportunity to be a little heard. Seems like a win to me. Also, there are definitely still those who are heard more than others.
In Germany, this is just a regional thing. Where I come from (southern Germany), the word "Apfelsine" is not used at all. If you used it here, people would most likely immediately ask if you mean an orange. As I understand it, it's only used north of the "Speyer Line":

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speyerer_Linie_(Isoglosse)

One explanation would be that southern Germany has more direct contact to France, and therefore uses the French "Orange", whereas northern Germany uses the low German "Apel de Sina" (basically "China-Apple", "sina" as in "Sinology"). French words have always been used in the southern parts of the German-speaking world to appear more educated, most notably "Trottoir" instead of "Bürgersteig" (sidewalk) or "Portemonnaie" instead of "Geldbeutel" (wallet). A best-selling cooking book published in Stuttgart in 1791 made heavy use of french kitchen terms and gave the correct pronounciation in brackets (e.g. ragout ("Raguh")) [0]

[0] https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6f8pAAAAYAAJ/page/n247/mo...
Great website, loved it a lot! Tho as a powerlifter myself, I'm married to a max of 5 exercises lol
The simple fact that Kotlin is an officially supported language for Android app development will guarantee people will use it, in my opinion. It will almost definitely do better than Scala in the long run.
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There are plenty of muscles there, they just are not shown on the simplified diagram. Transverse abdominus and obliques.
Those $10 million condos are wealth traps. Nobody lives in them so nobody gets displaced if a billionaire parks his money in the real estate market of your city. If that billionaire had to buy 10 apartments to park his money the displacement would be very high. This type of "luxury housing" is guarding the rest of the city from foreign demand.
You must be a programmer. Those who actually checks the requirements.
Workout is a noun, not a verb.
I would recommend Steins;Gate as a fun exploration of time travel [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate_(TV_series)
1. Not necessarily: nobody said the time-travel couldn't pump energy at your destination to compensate for the energy the future is sending.

2. What does it have to do with the third law of thermodynamics (which is about the impossibility to reach a temperature of 0K)
How did the Three Wise Men find their way to baby Jesus? A Star. (This joke works better when spoken out loud instead of written)
Saying that there is a false dichotomy between taking down a statue and passing an appropriations bill is like saying there is a false dichotomy between commenting on hackernews and writing a pull request.

No, one does not block another...but there are only 24 hours in a day.
I have spent some time in emergency receptions at hospitals waiting to be treated, often in severe pain. Here is what gave me hope every time: If it can wait, it can’t be that bad.

There are a number of injuries for which treatment has severely changed during my short lifetime. A torn ligament used to be operated on in the past but now you are often told to wear a cast for some weeks, take painkillers only when necessary to sleep so you avoid movements detrimental to healing during the day (it’s painful) and to just wait it out. Not X-ray, no surgery, just time to heal.

E: added an all important if to the third sentence.
Mechanical engineer walks around the field and thinks - there is a field. Flowers grows on field. Bees are gathering honey from flowers, doing good for flowers. Sun is shining over whole ecosystem making everything grow. There must be an engineer, who planned that. God exists! I believe in God!

Software engineers doesn't believes in God...
Along similar lines, in English writings on WWII, I wish we would see "Fuhrer" translated into English, rather than left as-is; it gives a significantly different sense of how the Nazis presented Hitler and how the German people perceived him - not someone with some sort of weird opaque title, but quite literally The Leader.
> 11/ But because it’s costly and risky to perform surgeries, the urgent question is: what surgical procedures are today’s equivalent of bloodletting? And those that we know are bloodletting, how do we get rid of them as a society?

Instead of thinking of these surgeries as ineffective and looking to restrict their use, we can think of the placebo as effective in many cases, and try to lower their cost.

In America, high healthcare costs are partly driven by the fact that Americans are over medicated and doctors are incentivized to intervene. If "alternative" (placebo) medicines were more available, I wonder if we would have lower costs and similar healthcare outcomes.
Single family zoning is not just unaffordable for the people living there, it's also unaffordable for the government. It also causes car dependence and energy inefficiency. Overall it is a net loss for everyone involved.
What kind of specialist does a broken iOS app consult?

An orthoplist.

NB: my coworkers gave me a weird look when I told them this handmade nerdy joke, hope it will pull one or two smiles here
My guess is DRM. Less data in the buffer means if someone is trying to rip a stream they won't be able to speed up the process by dumping the buffer.
Yes, but what about Pi Si?
On a slight tangent, species of bamboo will bloom and die together at decades-long intervals. These events synchronize worldwide.

https://grapee.jp/en/114838

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19990488

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_blossom
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The difference between God and Larry Ellison is that God doesn't thinks that he is Larry Ellison.
I think it depends on the show in anime. SPOILERS FOLLOW. Erased is not a parallel world, but someone trying to change their past. Madoka finds Homura repeatedly doing whatever is possible to save Madoka. Steins:Gate is timelines and parallel worlds (think of how many times Okabe again and again tries to save Mayuri). Girl who Leapt Through Time is the Groundhog Day story, same day over and again; bit like Tatami Galaxy. No idea where something like Haruhi Suzumiya might fall where time is played with in many different ways.

Meanwhile Evangelion (the later films) and Attack on Titan both seem to be veering towards some kind of inability to stop the same grand narrative cycle repeating again and again...
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This simply cannot be true, since you have to decrypt the messages to send them to, for example, WhatsApp.
It's not yet clear that covid can result in lung damage more severe than a life of chain smoking, this kind of long term research hasn't been done yet.
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Wow, i usually don't like wording things like this but you're really talking out of your ass. Reading your comment about UI i guess you've heard of it regarding usage in World of Warcraft ? (that seems to be a subset of Lua proper by a simple googling)

Lua has de-facto been more or less the standard go-to scripting language for 20 years or so by now, i remember that we picked Lua for scripting a PS2/Xbox game that was shipped in 2004 because it was already gaining popularity among other gamedevs(yes we were probably late on it).

Apart from those embedding it themselves (probably far more than is known publicly). There is literally countless Lua only games since it's the base for user created games on the Roblox, Pico-8 and Love2d platforms.

These platform based games probably far outnumber those that embedded Lua because they are simple platforms to get started with, even my 12 year old kid is making Roblox games and writing Lua to wire up things.
> Neither group takes away from the other

In my experience, the symbol-focused people get pretty upset when people start trying to shift the conversation to understand the underlying causes of problems and questioning assumptions. Imagine walking into a funeral for someone who has died from the Therac-25 and you start talking about poor UI design, cultures where people don't stop to fix problems, and hardware interlocks. It would be pretty poor timing and people would get upset at you making excuses for incompetent doctors and greedy hospitals.

Now imagine that the entire sphere of public discourse is that funeral.

Symbol-focused people see risk assessment and systems-thinking as signs that someone is disloyal to the cause of dismantling systemic racism.
1964 John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC.

1974 Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

From A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
I've always lived in Southport and your assessment is more or less true. But as I'm preparing to bring up a kid here, the decent schools, parks, and services are all I'm really looking for in a place to live. There are regeneration schemes under way with various levels of promise: https://standupforsouthport.com/southport-town-deal-5-marine...

The only other thing I'd add, like a commenter below, is that we went walking the other day on the frosty grassland of the beach, under a beaming wintersun, and it was really quite beautiful.
That article doesn't mention general theory or relativity, quoted discussions indicate that eternalism mostly relies on geometric expression of (plain) Minkowsky spacetime, which is interpreted literally as indication of existence of global time dimension. General theory or relativity is bad news for eternalism, because curved space is more obviously local and thus less compatible with eternalism which favors globality.
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> In other words, finding differences in effectiveness of different intervention approaches must mean that either some of these interventions are better than placebo, or that all (except maybe the best one) are measurably worse than performing no surgery at all.

That doesn't tell you anything useful about them vs. placebo though? And "all (except maybe the best one)" seems to be entirely gut instinct not logic. You don't need to even try the surgeries to know that either all, some, or none will be better than placebo.

If both types of surgery perform the same, they could both be better, both be worse than, or both be the same as placebo. If one type is better than the other then maybe they're both better than placebo in different amounts, maybe both worse in different amounts, maybe one better the other worse than placebo, maybe one is same as placebo and other better, or one the same and other worse.

Knowing that two surgical approaches give different results gives no hint as to where placebo would perform in comparison, just that it can't be the same as both of them. It can still be better than both, or worse than both, with no reason to suspect one more than the other without other priors or actually testing vs. placebo.
Look at stats from Israel which has universal care but by private companies competing
The VGA one (not available yet) looks fantastic https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-vga-demo-ba...
Mouse and keyboard killed it because they are physical objects. A touch screen or even something like this will always be a poor interface because they aren’t physically manipulable. Honestly I think we’re more likely to see a major advance from the Teledildonics people since they are actually working with real hardware and incorporating feedback mechanisms.
Obviously this depends on your definition of success. If you define it as "Have a job that pays a lot" then clearly there are loads of other companies that pay well, so you don't need to join a FAANG to have that. Likewise for building big things that lots of people use. Lots of companies do that. If you define success as having a notable impact on the work you do then I'd contend that you're less likely to be successful by joining a FAANG - you might be a brilliant cog in the huge machine, but no one is going to notice your output simply because you're surrounded by similarly accomplished people.

Further to that, some people will actually believe you're a worse person morally for joining a surveillance capitalism business. That could well damage your chances of success in other aspects of life like finding a partner or making friends.

tl;dr No, and you might actually be harming your chances of success by joining one.
I actually reverse engineered most of the code for the drivers for LeapMotion for my undergraduate project. Turns out it was illegal as per their TOS so my professor had me quit that project and take it offline.

The biggest problem I had encountered back then is that there was a packet transmitted with a certain signature in order to turn on the cameras that I could not reverse for the life of me (had something to do with the app version).

Other than that: basically two IR cameras that stream in an interleaved pixel format (2 x 640) x 480 iirc. It was a fun device to use and hack, but the first time I had ran into the brick-wall that is an enclosed format.