skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kmutil stuff sounds way more like they cut it at the last second for some QA issue, but the documentation tech writers are a different team and that part was missed. They wouldn't have figured out issues with lawyers this quickly.

The bring up stuff could be explained by being scared about some patent nonsense.
It's not that hard, we're just out of practice due to the absurd Borkist economic theories we've been operating under for 40+ years. The laws are all there if the head of the DOJ antitrust division has the gumption to go reverse some bad precedents.

> In the realm of travel planning (to pick an example from these comments), it's barely a blip.

They used their monopoly in web search to gain non-negligible marketshare in entirely unrelated industry. That's text book anti-competitive behavior.

Google can argue whatever they want, but the argument that they're enabling other businesses is a bad one. It casts Google as a private regulator of the economy, which is exactly what antitrust laws are intended to deal with.
What made you transition from 4) to 5) ?
I think you're somewhat misinformed.

Unlike in Europe, American chickens eggs are washed and need to be refrigerated in order to not go bad (it's more common for American chickens to have salmonella, which is also why you shouldn't eat raw eggs in America).

Some fruits (such as apples or pineapples) simply taste better cold, and some fruits do last longer if refrigerated. That's important if you go grocery shopping every two weeks, which is quite normal in America.

Canned jam is never refrigerated, but once opened it always is, and I'm sure that's the case everywhere.

Cured meats, like jerky? No one refrigerates that.
Source? I’d be interested to hear about this.
Being unmasked signals that you distrust ivory tower eggheads.

Absurdist beliefs are a strong social signal. It seems like a deep feature of human wetware. It's probably how facebook is so effective at incubating distributed cults. (Search hn archives for the essay on 'crony beliefs' for an excellent dissertation.)

To be fair, it's probably the case that both facets of the republicrat party believe false or useless things that serve as signals. (e.g. University for everyone is good. Electric cars save the environment. etc)

As a formerly religious person, I now assume some of my beliefs are nonsense and that I can't tell which ones. I try to engage with people whose political views are way outside my own just as a safety check on my own though processes.
The person ultimately in control of whether or not they were peeing in bottles of course already knew at the time of the event.

I probably dislike Amazon more than most here, but I think the trend is to blame them for a lot more than that which falls under the heading of their responsibilities.

This feels like a bad argument to make, when there are so many vastly better and legitimate criticisms of Amazon (such as their operating an entire on-prem data center for the CIA to store their drone killing and torture site videos, et c).
It depends on what goes wrong. If the failure is within the design spec (eg Engine 2 just flamed out) then it could speed through the checklists faster than humans. That kind of system may have prevented the loss of Air France 447. I think an AI system would have resulted in a higher loss of life on United 232, when the four humans in the flight deck managed to figure out how to crash the plane on a runway (where a MASSIVE fire/rescue response was waiting) instead of just flopping over into the nearest cornfield.

Related, here's my favorite radio call of all time, recorded when Captain Haynes was flinging the out-of-control United 232 in the direction of the airport, knowing that even if he made it to a runway he didn't have any way to stop.

"Sioux City Approach: United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway."

"Haynes: [laughter] Roger. [laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"
https://archive.is/pmUEm
I would assume you don't have a house in Toronto or any of the major Canadian cities like Vancouver, Montreal or Ottawa. Houses there rise in price by 2-3,4,5 k a week easily. You can purchase a house for 1.5 million (borrow 1 million at 1.9 %) and sell it in 10 weeks for for at least 30-50 k more. You ask how long can this last? It has lasted for a couple of years at least. I have seen the prices of Condos in a Co-op I was watching almost double in 3-4 months from 320k to 600k.
Out of curiosity does some company benchmark other types of commercial networking devices like this? Things like load balancers, DDoS protection, switches, etc.? How do businesses shop for such products without having a standard measure from an independent third party?
Everyone agrees that more housing needs to be built. The problem is that everyone wants it to be built elsewhere. This is especially strong in wealthier neighborhood that have the resources to influence politics. That's one reason why we gentrify poor neighborhood and build nothing in wealthier neighborhoods while often times protecting them as historic.

The solution is to remove control from local groups. That also would address a huge part of the many committees you need approval from to build something which is another massive driver of costs and deterrent to build especially cheaper units.
I've had similar issues. I made an instacart order on Sat. night that I selected a 9a->11a Sunday AM window for. I was unexpectedly kept up until 5am due to a personal emergency, and I was unable to adjust the window later, so I was woken up by the delivery at 9a sharp. (and actually by the incessant notifications at 8a sharp).

I've also often wished for a "cancel the entire order if you don't have this item" button. Especially when shopping for a specific recipe where if one ingredient is missing, the rest are useless.
Ex-CDC director believes Covid-19 escaped from a lab, but cites no evidence
Thank you for summarizing this. I was going to have an aneurysm after seeing this make it to the front page of HN twice in a row.
While it's not OpenWRT, but I'm running this on my RT-AC86U: https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/
> consumers are in this case the advertisers.

If someone could convince the courts that this is correct, then I'm sure Google would lose. However, I bet dollars to donuts Google's counter-arguement would be that the people doing the searching and quickly finding information are also consumers, and they outnumber advertisers and may be harmed by any proposed remediation in favor of advertisers.
Billionaire dies partying. Fucks given: zero
We use pajed.js in conjunction with Arachnys/AthenaPdf [1] for HTML to PDF conversion, its a pretty nice experience.

1. https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf
I wonder what percentage of independent contractor Truckers or Fedex deliverymen urinate in bottles?
GPT Understands, Too
It should be noted that San Francisco is surrounded by bay and ocean on 3 sides and also contains a significant amount of land which is not really seismically sound, and 50% of which is protected parkland.

Those other 3 cities have significantly more capacity both to build up and out. Blame the electorate all you want but geography is geography.
Most people I know in town make $10-20/hr. There is a startup scene here but most of those companies either use interns or pay less than $20/hr.

There is a large portion of the population in jobs like nursing, banking, tourism or real estate but they are not the ones who are doing the jobs we are talking about.

Who is going to serve/cook the food? Where will they live?

Teachers make $29-49k in my area. Nurses $39-68k. (based on glassdoor).

Average hourly rate is $17.39 (payscale.com)

If you work 2000hrs/year your pre tax income is ~$35k. Right now there are 1bd apartments going for $1100/mo (albeit brand new with amenities such as pool/weight room).

So if you are lucky enough to make the "average" pay in the area that means you can get a 1bd apt...assuming you qualify. A very low end house you need to make $75k/year to purchase...again assuming you qualify.
SQLite requires that the self-reference be in the top-level FROM clause of the recursive part of a recursive CTE. PG apparently allows the self-reference to be down inside of subqueries, as long as there is only one reference.

I have make a copy of the Collatz Conjecture CTE that you linked to and was going to see if I could get it to work in SQLite for the next release cycle. I don't (yet) see any reason why it shouldn't work to have the recursive reference down inside a subquery, as long as there is only one recursive reference. No promises. We'll see how it goes.
In your first scenario, the average rent has gone from $1000 -> $1333, so I'd say a 33% increase.

In your second scenario, the average rent has not changed.

If this supply change happened over a century, a 33% increase would probably be very reasonable, and means the price went down in real terms.
Which x86 boards would you recommend for this? Thanks!
On of the biggest state incentives in CA that allows communities to be exclusionary without any draw back is prop 13. See how quickly opinions will change when they suddenly have to pay their fair share on local road improvements, parks, and schools. People who are late into their careers, likely making well into the mid to upper 6 figures, are borrowing from kids 20-30 who are struggling to afford rent because a duplex will 'kill their communities character.' The sudden increase in property taxes will enable cities to build the infrastructure to handle the increase in residents easily.
Generating a list through recursion often involves reversing it at the end, so I’ve reversed a lot of Erlang strings in real code.
Captain Obvious sends his regards
Many of these types of words had functional use at one time. If you check Ellis Island immigration records you’ll see people classified as “idiots”, “imbeciles”, “morons”, and other similar terms based on an aptitude test administrated. Those 3 terms describe different levels of perceived intelligence.

Of course as they often do, these terms of classification became derogatory after people used them as an insult.
> The cost of upgrading infrastructure in a busy city is enormously expensive.

So having more people to split that cost with would help! To be clear Hong Kong island is far harder to build on.

> Plus there are a lot of people that like the character of their neighbourhood and don’t want to live in an apartment building. It isn’t their fault that SF became the global tech capital.

They’re also not entitled to that. In a democracy the many decide.
While houses are definitely not cheap to build, the massive increases in housing prices occurring in major cities - and increasingly rural areas - across the world is not fuelled by an increase in development costs.
This is great hacking!

Do you have a blogpost of how you built it?
That isn't true. In 2017, 80.4 million Americans were paid hourly, and out of those only 1.8 million made minimum wage or below. (https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm#)

More generally, I'd encourage you to question the mental model that made this sound like a potentially true claim in the first case. An economy where most people are paid minimum wage would be incredibly different than the one we actually have.
In the case of Census.gov, they offer an API to get the data[0]. It's actually pretty nice. Stable, ton of data, fairly uniform data structure across the different products. Very high rate limits, considering most data only needs retrieved once a year. I think they understand the difference between crawling and scraping.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/developers.html
Yeah, I just made it very quick, but the way the code is written is really scalable if I wanted to add more services, and TLDs.

Checking if a username is available is pretty hard on some sites. Instagram, for example doesn't allow me to check profiles without logging in, doesn't allow to me to try and create an account to check for user error, and has most proxies banned from their server.

This was moreso an idea that I wanted to put together a quick prototype for! Thanks for taking the time.
It isn't limited to Amazon, and it isn't a side-effect of the pandemic. I work for UPS and even before the pandemic most drivers used a bottle or cup on a regular basis, especially if you're in a rural area. In denser areas you can use Port-a-Johns at construction sites or restrooms at businesses. Your commercial customers will likely allow you to use their restroom even if it is closed to the public. I've never heard of someone defecating in the vehicle. Leaving your bottles in the vehicle is frowned upon, but it happens.
They impose quotas on drivers (similar to warehouse workers) that prevent them from finding time for stuff like bathroom breaks. This is not a matter of individual choice.
I kind of wonder if parts of the program would be useful, i.e. make a "platform" like the fighter plane version of React.js or Swift UI and manufacturers and plug and play a new airplane out of the tech developed for it?
M1 Air 8GB here too. Happily developing a cross platform app in XCode. Silently and fast.
We generate invoice PDFs from templated html using wkhtmltopdf. For B2C applications hitting millions of invoices per month is quite possible.

There are reliability problems with wkhtmltopdf, but it's possible to make it reasonably reliable with enough error detection and retrying.
I am curious about this sentiment, the one about cutting off peoples heads and all. The times in history that this happened all you did was replace one ruling elite with another ruling elite. It didn't improve the lives of the lowest, in fact it usually really works out poorly for the poorest. See the rain of terror or the over throw of the Czar's in Russia.

In the U.S.A if you took EVERYTHING from all of the billionaires, there are ~700 of them you would net under $5T in total [1]. The existing debt of the USA today stands at a hair under $28T [2]. The estimated budget deficit for the next 10 years is $1.2T a year [1]! You do realize you can lop off all the heads you want, take all the money you want, and you will not have solved anything! You would still be a debt slave :( Raising taxes by itself will not solve anything you ALSO need to decrease spending, but no one wants to hear about fiscal responsibility.

The heads that need to go are those of corrupt politicians.

[1] https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pand...
[2] https://www.pgpf.org/national-debt-clock
There’s also pdfreactor.com which we use to get full support of CSS.
There's a ton of options. But I'm using this one ...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086MK4YB8

It also has a SIM slot so you can fallback to LTE if your main internet goes down.

I should mention. This doesn't have wifi. I buy distinct access points that are POE powered. For those, i use the WAX-610.
In urban areas, I think it is hard to claim that the high rents have little to do with zoning.

I don't think the problem is low interest writ large, but specifically attempts to prop up the homeownership market with debt.

There's a reason that post-2008 private lenders have basically backed out of the mortgage market and let Fannie Mae & Mac hold the bag, even in the context of so much more money chasing yields.
That sounds dangerous. By sending the full cookie you're allowing yourself to hijack any of your user's sessions. That's a big security risk. Is there a reason why you need to "validate" someone's login? If someone wants to get notified about my comments, so what? There's nothing secret about it, they can just go to https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gruez and get a live feed.
> IMO streetcars in general are a pretty bad investment, as they are generally just a way of making a bus, but more expensive and stuck on rails

With much bigger capacity and also faster. Even BRT with multiple buses one after the other has lower capacity, and unless all buses are electric, also pollutes more and makes more noise.
When my car used too much gas, I made myself a new car with some GMC parts I purchased online!
I think it's more that they don't tweet falsities about how their drivers deal with company expectations.

I wish I could pay $1 more for the drivers to not be miserable.
Discussed at the time:

Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13481218 - Jan 2017 (238 comments)
Agreed on rent. It is holding really stable, but that will change once investors run out of $200~300k houses to slurp up. We are getting to the end of the song as far as I can tell. Last house I looked at under $300k had over 50 offers.
In terms of marketshare and power in determining web standards, Chromium and Google are much closer analogues of IE and Microsoft. Safari may lag in picking up some features but it's nowhere near as bad as the situation with the last few versions of IE.
I would argue that if you consider your personal project to be a form of work, then something is wrong. If the principal reason that you're working on your own personal projects is to be able to pad out your resume, then I agree with you.

I don't think surgery is a good analogy. Engineering is a field where you're actually producing something, such as a product, that you can share and be proud of.
yes, set also. go's map implementation uses this technique - allocate a new array of buckets and gradually migrate from old to new buckets (i think it does the migration during set and delete only, not get).
Ah, this is pretty cool, thanks for sharing!
Or the the grape on the end was used to properly indent from the wall as the cellar doesn't need EOL indicators since everything will have the proper white space.
Our lives and bodies are our own, to use, build, and destroy as we see fit.

It's one thing to help a friend avoid an accidental death, but this speaks to a months long pattern of behavior that was clearly a deliberate personal decision.

What's the point of wealth if not obtaining the basic freedom to live (and die) how we choose?
>which takes a decent amount of GPU power to run even though it is an older game.

I must be out of the loop on what constitutes as "decent GPU power", but my $600 desktop from 2014 plays WOW at max settings and 1440p without issue. Are there any other GPU benchmarks you've tried?
not if they could avoid it
I think there are several problems here:

1. While it's important to have private investment in property because this literally creates the housing units people rent, there's simply too much speculation here. I like the Swiss model that is way more restrictive of who can invest (as in, someone can't come in and buy up all the land in Switzerland) and punishing to short term speculation;

2. Foreign "investment". Investment here is a euphemism. "Money laundering" is probably closer to the truth. Example: every US tax resident is required to declare all foreign assets (including being a signatory in a foreign company or trust) but... real estate is specifically excluded. Why? It's well known that in places like London, property is used to hide and park money by, for example, Russian oligarchs;

3. Property owners who are non-residents where they own property should be taxed at a much higher rate. Places are simply way better off if the people who live there own the property there;

4. Incumbents vote themselves massive tax breaks. This applies to both property owners and renters. Case in point: Prop 13 in California (eg Disney still pays 1970s tax rates on Disney Land, for example). Oh and rent control;

5. NIMBYism. People on HN like to paint this as the boogeyman. I think this is somewhat overblown;

6. Subsidies for car ownership. Building out requires more infrastructure (eg roads, schools, utilities). Suburbs are subsidized by the taxpayer;

7. Attacks on public transportation. For example, Santa Monica trying to fight the LA rail extension into Santa Monica (because, you know, that'll bring undesirables into the area). Sometimes this is done for pseudo-political but self-serving reasons ("it'll raise taxes!"). This exacerbates other problems;

8. General opposition to allow and opposition to living in higher density housing.

That all being said, I see the pandemic as helping to reverse the trend towards the move to a few urban centers. This is a boon for medium-sized regional centers and ultimately a good thing for a couple of reasons: it increases choices and cities beyond a certain size just... stop working. More cities under 2M people would be better than more cities of 20M people.
Do you have a GitHub repo link or something?
I assume there’s a large performance hit compared to native Java or Python code. Have you measured this?
Such carriers could still be used for the UK's Harrier jump-jets, couldn't it?
San Francisco is producing a fraction of the housing it used to in the mid 20th century. Job growth is far greater than housing growth. (If the city can make space for office square footage, then why not for residential?)
Ah, good point! No, I was not saying that at all, and thank you for pointing that out.

When I was thinking of "defense", I was thinking of the defense contractors who are designing/building things like the next-gen weapons, radar, vehicles, and the like. In that context, when it comes to what they can exfiltrate, I think attackers probably prioritize the details & designs over PII. Just a guess though.
Yes. Urinating is actually more difficult in today's world than it was in the middle ages.
No 0-day here, more of a supply chain attack, but your point stands. This actor was determined
Recent and related:

Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26182796 - Feb 2021 (15 comments)
The Taklamakan is a basin (so lower than everything around it) and used to be an inland sea. But it isn't below sea level, everything is above 1000 meters.

One of those obscure corners of the Earth I have always wanted to visit...
The many struggle to organize themselves as effectively as the few. This is how it’s always been in politics. I’m not aware of any recent development that would change that dynamic.
That's not correct. When it comes to storage and transfer, blockchain alternatives are fraction of the cost of Amazon. For example Sia Skynet is offering $5/month/TB[1] storage. If you skip Skynet and run your own Sia node the price can even go lower to $2/month/TB basing on the market conditions.

[1] https://blog.sia.tech/announcing-skynet-premium-plans-faster...
Per BLS, 80.4 million workers make an hourly wage, with 1.8 million at or below at the federal minimum. [0]

It is kind of fascinating that people have such wildly different ideas about what the objective facts are, and how that must flow downstream into their worldviews and politics. Between 51.6% and 2.3% is not a small difference! Those are very different worlds we could be living in!

[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm#....
My brother tried to by a house last October and only just gave up this month after two different lawyers were unable to establish the man selling it was the owner. He'd lived there for 60+ years though and no one else is claiming ownership.
owning land in a high demand city is a wildly different experience than owning land in a rural area with creeks. The issue is not just that "land is a finite resource so any piece of land will increase in value" the issue is that "vacant urban land has very few alternatives for people who need it so the price consistently rises in areas with growing economies".
There are U-Schiffe too, which are larger than U-Boote, but the claustrophobia element wouldn't have been as intense in the film. On the other hand, an U-Schiff would have never become unstuck from the bottom of the Mediterranean. Another example of ships getting stuck where boats don't. (If you haven't seen the movie, this likely makes zero sense.)