skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many low-lying sections of Tokyo, Osaka, and other Japanese cities were built on landfill and are at risk of liquefaction in earthquakes. Government agencies issue detailed maps [1, 2] showing the degree of danger in each location.

Awareness of the dangers of liquefaction in Japan was kickstarted by buildings that tipped over in an earthquake in Niigata in 1964 [3]. A video showing many vivid examples of liquefaction after the big 2011 earthquake is at [4].

My family and I lived for more than a decade in a high-rise apartment building on a landfill island near the Tokyo waterfront, and the risk of soil liquefaction in a major earthquake was never far from my mind. We now live in Yokohama on a hill that is marked on the maps as relatively safe [5], but most of the nearby stores and train stations are in high-risk areas.

[1] https://doboku.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/start/03-jyouhou/ekijyouka/...

[2] https://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/attach/31241/00267400/PL-Osaka....

[3] https://www.geoengineer.org/education/web-class-projects/ce-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GviJkVEMfwQ

[5] https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kurashi/bousai-kyukyu-bohan/...
Sure, so far preliminary data looks OK. I still don't think it was a wonderful roll of the dice-- it didn't lower susceptibility so much in the short term (because a single dose's efficacy is limited, especially in the old) and it could have made things much worse.
I have that problem a lot.
> Reminds me of a similar story from the guy who wrote Switcher

aka Andy Hertzfeld, the creator of the site!

The negotiation with Bill Gates went a lot better than the negotiation with Steve Jobs.

> Predictably, the hardest part of finishing Switcher was making it work smoothly with the Microsoft applications

:D
Oh man you've missed a lot. These articles will probably be helpful in catching you up. Wherever you've been -- welcome back!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
Doesn't it depend on what "99%" means? If a cleaning agent will kill 100% of 99% species of bacteria then there'll be nothing left except the bacteria that's already resistant to the agent and nothing will evolve new resistance. On the other hand, if it kills 99% of 100% of species of bacteria then you're right, the resistant ones will remain and could evolve in to a fully resistant species.
Fed’s Reverse Repos Hit $503B. Liquidity Drain Undoing over 4 Months of QE
Perhaps the attitude instead should be: Always Be Interviewing

Everybody's replaceable. Capitalist corporations will replace you at the drop of a hat if they can. The only way to safeguard yourself is to be ready for it.
I would compare it with the apps on my iPhone like Netflix.
SQLite, NodeJS, the linux kernel, the rust compiler, postgres and others would like a word.

NodeJS tried to move to an industry governance board model around the release of 0.12, where commercial interests took part in running the project. It nearly killed nodejs entirely.
Avoided it all year while traveling the country by only going to outdoor activities, and also getting groceries while masked.

Got it at Christmas from a gathering with only 3 other family members.
Used nuclear material is not capable of killing everyone in an accident, nowhere close. More people have died drilling for and refining oil than have died in nuclear accidents, and that’s before we consider the existential risk that global warming poses.
How much of the cost of a flight is fuel? What percentage of the mass being moved is passengers and their luggage be freight and the plane and fuel itself?
It's sort of scary how the set of circumstances in the USA surrounding the food supply are causing approximately an entire nation to be robbed of good health and years of lifespan.

"We have to recalculate weight on airplanes" is just a proxy, a code smell. There's an iceberg of catastrophe here.
Subscription services for cars seems like a great reason for me to stick to my existing collection of 90's/00's sports cars.
I would rather pay someone to hack my car so I don't have to pay per hour.
The problem with other people is that
a) You really don't know what they want
b) They want different things.

But if you build for yourself you
a) know what you want
b) There is only one you
I love this. I hope it's pushed thru. I would send this to Tim Cook: tcook@apple.com or federighi@apple.com
Medical Journal Describes Whiteness as 'Malignant, Parasitic-Like Condition'
i had it pretty heavy, all the symptoms as by the book, but two independent labs showed that i didn't have dengue. so now i do not know if i had it or something different with very similar symptoms
This would be ideal for myself.

I spend $1500/year on insurance and about $1000 in gas on a car I barely ever drive.

I am slow to get ready and leave the house as well.

If this thing could just show up at my doorstep and drive me to the grocery store and back every couple of weeks for a few dollars that would be incredible!

Plus I don't have to make smalltalk with a driver, bonus!

Not to mention the space I would save in my garage.
> And based on anecdotal comments from others, I am not alone

While this case I'm in 100% agreement with you, in my experience I don't think I've ever seen any people I know like changes to icons!
What is defined as relocating anyway? If you work out of a camper van can't you just file taxes in any state you fancy driving to?
DoomRL is tight, fun and has a great tileset that was designed by Derek Yu, the designer for Spelunky.
I always expressed this as having a plan in place in case I were to get hit by a bus. The world can't come to a halt just because I wake up dead one day. It's very much the same idea, I think.
Similar idea but not related to work: act like you're going to be moving away from town soon. You'll think of all those parks and attractions in your local area that you always said you'd go to but never took the time for.
You will own nothing and love it
Give free haircuts before long haul flights?
Yet everyone who got Signal from an app store thinks they’re totally fine?
Every time I watch Car SOS.
Things like infinite scroll and autoplay should come with an option to turn them off and I think that’s well presented. Those are kind of dark patterns after All. Though, Apple probably isn’t in the position to enforce that; we unfortunately need to live with Jailbreak tweaks for them.

But the rest of the post feels so off. Constantly nagging yourself to close social media? Reminding yourself that social media is a waste of time by asking whether the time is “well spent”? No thanks. These are just dark patterns but flipped to the other side. I want control over what I do, not a random program deciding what I should do.

I also have never found Screen Time restrictions to be effective; either I unlock the restrictions by myself, or I just find other ways to waste the time. The reason people waste so much time with social media, I think, is because they simply don’t have anything else to do, or they’re not motivated enough to do what they should do.
I cannot imagine hair weighs enough to offset expenses of cutting it.
I despise the whole sharing economy.
I prefer the good old days where i own everything i use.
> This mismatch between model and reality can lead to expensive lessons learned when using the full Kelly model, so often traders will "half-kelly" or something like that, to incorporate the basic idea of risk scaling proposed by the Kelly model but with more safety margin.

And to be clear, half-Kelly, quarter-Kelly, eighty-percent-Kelly and any other linear combination between wallet and full Kelly are actually still the only strategies that are growth optimal -- given the particular safety margin each corresponds to.
UK Government Digital Service Strategy 2021 – 2024
I don’t know the details as I didn’t work directly with him, but from what I understand he was trying to get a sabbatical to figure out some life stuff, but eventually he had to quit, which was not his desired outcome as he needed the income and didn’t have the time to find another job quickly.
>One thing I thought of that could alleviate this would be the team work getaways. Think 2 weeks away, 3-4 times a year.

This proposal is so far outside what I’d consider ok that I’m not even sure whether I’ve understood correctly?

If employees are going away together somewhere for a couple weeks, four times a year, then they’re spending 2 whole months away from home, living in another location (maybe a hotel?) And the suggestion that they take their family along? What happens to the partner’s work? The kids’ school and their friends? Your social life?

And this is just scratching the surface of the practical considerations - totally setting aside the dystopian aspect of spending so much of your own time with your co-workers.

Even with your extra proviso that not everyone would need to join, if a company had this one aspect of their work-practice, then I’d avoid them at all costs
1. Consumption is not moveable like that; you’re describing a process more akin to how manufacturing moves.

The world’s poorest people won’t suddenly be able to afford all this oil infrastructure if the richer nations stop consuming it. Especially if doing so reduces economies of scale.

2. From a global warming perspective, there is no such thing as an ethical jurisdiction to emit carbon from. Carbon is carbon, and it affects us all whether or not it comes with other forms of pollution.
This isn't so much a story about the limits of law enforcement as it is about the reality that they don't expend much time investigating "small" crimes and their definition of small is surprisingly large to the average person.
Uhm, it says "access the features". I presume you own the car, have insurance, pay for gas and then also pay for the software "driver".
Sacred objects: From police evidence to museum pieces
Maybe they're distracted, have ADHD, kids, external stressors?

Or maybe they're burnt out, just there for the paycheck, and want to go home (log off) ?

There's a whole spectrum of reasons.
I just booked a car rental in Phoenix for later in the month. I compared all the players… contrasted to my last trip to Phoenix where my confirmed car rental was greeted by a “we have no cars” situation and we stood there for hours until a car showed up. There were 40 of us then.
I'd like to add my n=1 as a counterpoint to this.

I sold a house just before the pandemic struck. The realtor I chose, via a friend-of-friend connection, operated several agencies each with several agents; I would guess he had a few dozen people total working under him.

One thing quickly became apparent as we moved through the various processes involved in selling a home – he had his agencies and his agents optimize for volume. In the regions of CA where he operated, "throughput" was definitely not an issue, and so deliberately pricing homes low would cause them to sell faster and allow him / his agents to move onto the next client faster. Given the context, it seems clear to me this would yield more over the long term than fighting tooth and nail to drag out individual transactions to eke out every possible penny.

I caught onto this just before officially listing my house, and insisted we increase the asking price (recommended by him / his team) by 10% – a move he / his team objected to rather frankly. Nonetheless, the sale was completed within 6 weeks or so, at my asking price.

(And seems worth adding he never said thank you for the 10% [relative] extra he earned on the commission)
They're IN the computer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_o_O7v1ews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj5HdGjvXcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uHBhKTSe0
It sounds like this would be on top of other costs.
Well for the situations that it really really matters, it is rather MISRA-C++, and allocations are not allowed anyway.
This is brilliant and would help just a little bit to bring us back from our global phone addiction. It's a start at least.
Did you put a cute animal on the front, give it a funky title, and embed amusing memes at pagely intervals?
> I think the logical think between "grow into a higher-level role" and "being disposable" is very weak if any?

It sounds counterintuitive but i see strong logic here -- by doing those 10 things you will definitely grow, perhaps into a high-level role.
> turns out, everyone else considered that poisonous behavior.

But did he get his raise?
I've found that I have to hold the watch very close to get it to work.

I'd think that they intended it to be on the same wrist as the hand holding the phone, but does anyone do that? I'm left handed and wear watches on the right wrist, and that pattern is practically universal in my experience.
My comapny reduced the numbers of epmloyees from 1500 to less than 200. As soon as they feel you are replaceable, you are eifher disposed or replaced by a cheaper one overseas.
This rings true for me. I was in a very hectic workplace when the pandemic began and was able to function pretty much as effectively as I would in office.

Then I made a switch to a different company towards the end of last year and I do not yet feel a part of the team as I would normally. This is despite having a friend in the team. New relationships have been very hard to build with completely remote onboarding.
This book is (imo) hilariously good and explains thing well for engineering type folks: https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing-...
> Authorities are unlikely to pursue a case unless the loss is at least half a million dollars

Note to future supervillian self: steal from widows and orphans in increments of $499,999.99.
This should reduce ticket costs for fit people, which may be an incentive for some to live a healthier lifestyle.
Similar critique would, however, be somewhat accurate for Tailscale.
Of course anything I've published on FB, is public.
I don't literally read aloud the document but I do end up going through and paraphrasing what each section says. I don't think people are generally embarrassed they haven't read up in advance, they'll show up like "okay so what is this all about?".

I do include 'Summary' paragraphs at the top that provide a TL;DR for an entire 1-ish page doc. I think people will usually open the doc for a few seconds maybe and then brush it off because the general team culture is that all important information will be passed verbally anyways so no point reading now.

Actually I guess I would like to encourage the entire team to do a bit more of this practice of writing things down. For instance, tickets are usually just ~3 word titles with no context or specifics. It's only once the team meets and verbally describes what the tickets mean, that the work can actually be done. I've noticed this sort of culture at multiple companies now actually.
You are disposable though, everyone is. It's generally a losing game to try to cement your position by playing gatekeeper on institutional knowledge, because at best it will prevent you from ever being promoted, and at worst will peg you as a single-point-of-failure liability that needs to be dealt with proactively. I understand this sort of defensive posture might make sense in some companies/situations, but the article is clearly talking about software engineers in large upwardly mobile companies. In those situations it's essential to have a non-adversarial and trusting relationship with your boss, if you don't trust your boss than that's the first thing to address by any means necessary.
Considering software like that will always need further development, I'm not objecting to have it as an optional subscription and the price sounds reasonable to me. I would use it. Not for every small trip to the store, but for longer trips definitely.

That being said I think this would lead to more hardware, not just software, being locked behind subscriptions - as the article already mentions battery range/performance subscription. Simply because the companies are greedy. That's something that I would refuse to pay for via subscription.
I was going to say, $8.50/hour autonomous Uber sounds amazing. $50 to get from the bay area to Mt. Shasta.

But if you have to own the car, fuck that. If you own it you should own access to all features that the hardware is capable of.
It feels like an article written by a middle manager.
What if it crashes into someone, wouldn't you be responsible then?
Free pre flight enema and sauna.
Probably the same reason it's hard to teach and understand probability and statistics.
And Americans wonder why the rest of the world doesn’t want the acid bath chicken and hormone and steroid infused milk exports

Edit: exports
Read this: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/169?topic=documentation
> If you are paying for developers than no "empathy" is needed.

I don't agree. I think its impossible to make good software without deeply understanding the perspective and needs of your users. Money can be used to hire empathetic designers, but its hard to beat software designed and made and maintained by its users directly.

I worked with a designer years ago who organized a series of user study sessions with our prospective clients. She insisted on each engineer on the team going to at least one of those sessions with her. I thought it was a bit silly - but I went to a couple of meetings and I was shocked. It was hugely eye opening for me - I learned so much. It made our product better, too. Down the track I added some small features to our product that nobody asked for, but which were easy to implement and which our clients loved. It wouldn't have occurred to me to add any of that stuff if I didn't first sit in those meetings and hear things from their perspective.
Sounds like a steal for perfect Level 5 autonomy. That’s about the price of hiring someone to drive you for close to minimum wage.

But for advanced cruise control? Pass.
It doesn’t matter because bacteria species are always fighting each other. So even if in your 99%, you kill 100% of a specific species, the 1% species left, whatever they are, have now plenty of free environment to proliferate.

Yes it can be a good outcome if the resistant ones are not pathogens but the thing is that you don’t know and probabilities are that the pathogens / total won’t change.
There can be a substantial cost saving switching from diesel to electric fully.

India for example has been investing in this convertion last 2-3 years and are expecting 4-5 billion dollars savings every year by going full electric in the next 2 - 3 years.

The networks are very different , single public owner/lots of private owners , frieght/passenger ratios are different, Density is different etc,however there can be cost savings
The new Reddit web UI is literally unusable: many links simply pop a modal where the options are "go back" or "install the app".
They're going to charge you for connectivity as well.
"Ownership", like "privacy", just doesn't make sense in the modern complex world.
I just wish we would bring back car trains. I like driving. I want to drive. There are some incredible roads in the places I go to, and I want to drive on them. However, I don’t care much for the long motorway drives through Europe that I need to do to take me to the interesting places. I want to drive my car on to a train in Kraków, hang out in the restaurant for several hours, and then drive off the train in Gdańsk. Surely this is cheaper and safer than autonomous driving anyway?
Some airlines make people who can't fit into a single seat buy two tickets.
Mid sized airliner roughly 90,000 lbs for the plane and equipment and 160 to 170,000 or so maximum take off weight depending on the variant. So a bit over half the weight is the plane itself the rest is fuel + people/freight.
This is a bit offtopic but, can anyone explain what SAP is and why its used? I've heard people mention SAP for well over a decade and I've never gotten a clear story on what it actually does for the companies which use it.
No offense, but this is a typical thought, and one that shows that you've no idea the hundreds of corner cases that trap you.

There's a reason 'its always DNS' is a meme.

A simple example. Someone makes a new domain name, cnames it to their previous domain for web, and adds an MX record for emails. Why doesn't it work?

I'm sure you can Google the answer. But this stuff comes up -all- the time
Sure. If you're the only one using it, you can just run the extension locally as an unpacked extension. Check out the step-by-step getting started guide: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/getstarted/

For your case, you'll probably want to save the bookmarklet as a JS file, let's say content.js, and inject in when you click the extension's icon. Here's the basics to get you started.

manifest.json

{
"name": "Demo",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 3,
"permissions": [
"scripting",
"activeTab"
],
"background": {
"service_worker": "background.js"
},
"action": {}
}

background.js

chrome.action.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {
chrome.scripting.executeScript({
target: {tabId: tab.id},
files: ['content.js'],
});
});

content.js

alert('It worked!');
I don't think either of those are in any way contributing to the problem I am describing.

Portion sizes, excessive fat and simple sugars, loading everything (even savory foods) with huge amounts of federally-subsidized cheap corn syrup, all sorts of things. It's not as simple as (or related to) livestock practices.

There are no more normal size candy bars for sale in the gas station by my winter home; only "king size" which are approximately 2x the size of a normal candy bar. This is just one of a million little examples.
You're assuming that you won't already be treated as the responsible party as the "driver" even in an autonomous vehicle.
With that pricepoint, maybe you don't need to implement actual autonomous driving, but instead it could be implemented by employing millions of dronepilots in some far away country that drive your car for you.
Abandoned Places 2: A Small World After All
Yes, very much so. Once I've sufficiently validated the idea in the UK, I plan to extend it to the US.
Free laxatives might be more effective.
I got a significant raise lately because I was a single point of failure.
The density doesn’t make sense. Imagine all the congestion on highways, instead you are on a rail road line.
CliFM. Arch: New binary package availabe on chaotic-aur repo
Sounds like defragmentation are first sight. Seems likely that the storage algorithm for human memory could use periodic optimization, especially since we recontextualize memories over time.

For example, let’s say we smell a lychee for the first time in a shop, and the brain stores that memory using a given set of neurons. Later, a hawker starts selling lychees in the local train in Mumbai we commute on everyday. Now memories of the smell of lychees and the smells and experiences of Mumbai local trains become strongly linked. At that point, in a simplified model of the brain, I can imagine why the brain may want to move those memories so they are using neurons that are closer together. Defragmentation!

I am likely terribly wrong, but would love to learn in what way I am wrong :)
What if the reminders could be more personalized or something that you write to your future self. For example: "Are you scrolling on the couch again amigo?, stop and hang out with your family!"
Intel VT-D Advisory
For the curious, there are still at least a hundred typewriter repair shops in the United States. From Bremerton Island to Albuquerque to New Jersey.

New typewriters out of China run about $200, but most people would rather spend $600-$1,300 for something vintage made in America, Spain, Brazil, or the UK.

Not too long ago there was an article in the Sun-Times about one in Chicago that is kept in business repairing typewriters for the police department because many CPD forms still have to be done in paper, and in triplicate.