skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe, but I would also argue that the US dependence on cars makes anything other than single family homes totally suck.

It's definitely hard to untangle the affects of cars on city planning from single family homes, but I don't think the two are inextricably intertwined. There are many places and have been many time periods with plenty of both single family homes and public transit use.

> The fact that you need a car means you need somewhere to park that car. Don't need to go anywhere for a couple days? If you've parked on the street, sucks to be you, your car got towed.

I live in a single family home in a very walkable city with plenty of public transit. I park on the street and have never been towed or had my truck broken into. These days because of COVID, I rarely drive more than once a month. Even before the pandemic, I usually biked to work and left my truck parked on the street for weeks without using it.

I think you're exaggerating to say that single family homes push towards giant two-car garages. There are lots and lots of single family homes that are not in sprawling suburbia.
It's definitely in range [1]. You could also consider retaking it, or taking the GMAT, LSAT, or GRE.

[1]https://www.thoughtco.com/sat-scores-for-ivy-league-admissio...
I dont even think they need to Spin it off. They could reform it as subsidiary and have a different company name.
>the first month of Steam early access (15.06 to 15.07 June/July)

This is very confusing
Classic ASP is not a thing anymore.

There's no security issue with pasting scripts into text boxes unless the server-side code allows for that to happen. It's not a fundamental flaw of ASP/PHP in other words, just bad programming. Same with SQL injections and other security issues -- every back-end language used for web development has mitigations and best practices to prevent those issues, including PHP.

There's nothing wrong with writing a web site with PHP using the HTTP request/response model. PHP is mature, stable, fast, and well-supported at versions 7 and 8. It's easy to deploy and has everything you need out of the box. There's nothing you can do with Node.js that you can't do with PHP, unless you're interested in dealing with npm and tangled dependencies and modules of questionable utility and security, in which case choose Node.

Writing a so-called "modern" web app using front-end frameworks such as React and Angular is a very different thing compared to doing most of the work on the back-end (server) in PHP or Node. They aren't really comparable, two very different approaches. The advantage (if you can call it that) of writing the code on the client is users see spinners waiting for content to load rather than reloading the whole page.

Which approach you take depends on the application, the end users, and the requirements. There's no single answer to "Which set of tools should I use?" PHP works well for building web sites because it was designed to do that. It has some warts and ugliness, like every language/tool that people actually use, but nothing you, I, and hundreds of thousands of other developers can't live with.
Oculus’ Passthrough API will enable experiences that mix VR and the real world
I think HN is not social media, unless you stay long enough to start recogning names in the comment section (BTW, hi TeMPOraL!). It can be used responsibility, but for me it can be very addictive. I try not to engage, yet here you are to witness my failure.
I've dug out the other articles (six total) in this series, running between December 25--30, 1977.

This is the sort of coverage which might have produced a book, though I don't find anything authored by John M. Crewdson at Worldcat.

The full series (includes the article linked here):

1. "The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views (1977)" (1977-12-25) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/25/archives/the-cias-3decade...

2. "Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A." (1977-12-26)
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...

3. "C.I.A. Established Many Links To Journalists in U.S. and Abroad" (1977-12-27) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-...

4. "Colby Acknowledges U.S. Press Picked Up Bogus C.I.A. Accounts" (1977-12-28) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/28/archives/colby-acknowledg...

5. "U.S. Correspondents Give Views on C.I.A." (1977-12-29) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/29/archives/us-correspondent...

6. "Ex‐Envoy Says Risk of Exposure Negated C.I.A. Propaganda Value" (1977-12-30) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/30/archives/exenvoy-says-ris...

(Both external and NYT search seem to find this as the complete series. Run largely over the Christmas -- New Years news hole....)

A DDG search of Crewdson's NYT pieces referencing the CIA (there are many): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22John+M.+Crew...
The game is far, far too much of a niche style game for it to even be all that popular, IMHO. I'm not quite sure what the Dev here expected to happen. It's also Early Access and it's fair to say that unless a game has broad appeal (which shop simulators don't) and hype (definitely not in this case), people tend to stay away from Early Access games from unknown developers with insubstantial catalogs. I know I do, been burned enough times.

I'm not saying 'feel bad', here... more along the lines of 'lower your expectations'. Unless you have a big publishing house backing you, marketing money being spent, your first title isn't going to be profitable... and that's before you consider the type of game it is.
Trash that will age as poorly, as long as people keep solving problems. There is no perpetual motion machine, so the answer to this shitty rhetorical question is: We die when we stop making new technology. Welcome to the beginning of Infinity.
It's viewed as a DRM measure. Recipes are not copyrightable unless they are attached to a story. It's probably an urban legend, but can't blame poor food bloggers from acting on it.
Of course there's been quantitative improvements, but fundamentally everything that can be designed and machined today could be designed and machined in late 1970s using very similar tools, processes and control systems.
> At launch, I was selling my game for $3.5 (10% discount), then the price went back to the full price of $4.

Why would you launch with a discount?
> Just to clarify, I don't mean that these distinctions are meaningless, just that their meaning is inherently embedded in human experience.

In that case, describing the distinction as "arbitrary" seems wrong.
Yes, floating ones won't rise higher than to the surface.
> Microsoft (and I am no fan) has the best tool for data manipulation that exists for most of humanity.

Sigh... "Microsoft has". Time was, spreadsheets was a generic category of software, made by lots of different software makers. Nowadays, it feels like people not only don't know this, but can hardly even conceive of the possibility that "spreadsheet" could mean something other than "Excel". At least I think that more people are still able to think of, say, word processors or presentation software as not necessarily Microsoft products; the spreadsheets battle seems to have been their most crushing victory in the "Office" or "productivity software" wars.

It's sad not only for the IT world in general or from a free-market perspective, but for spreadsheets in specific, too: Who knows what stuff like Quattro Pro or Lotus Improv would be capable of now, if they were still around?
Article is from '77 so may be from before that operation was known to the general public. And still, the NYT is one of the most useful publications to the Agency, so there's that.
Steamdb[1] gives some info on concurrent players, but only estimates for owners. Looks like they estimate number of reviewers between 5-15%.

[1]: https://steamdb.info/app/1404560/graphs/
"Shareholder value" seems to be concentrated in industries that serve wants rather that needs.

Basic clothing, food & shelter might have large cash flows, but they don't have the profit potential needed to have "shareholder value" compared with consumerist industries.

To put it another way, we could satisfy most human needs with little associated "shareholder value" by meeting those needs efficiently.
The SaaS Org Chart
How is it possible that we don’t have robots to do very basic household tasks such as fold laundry by now?
Merkle trees basically accomplish this with separate hashes over every N bytes, so that the content can be verified continuously as it's downloaded.
> lay over the main tube

In my opinion, the main tubes are nowhere near strong enough to support the weight that way! They are weaker than they appear. The companies can built them so high because they gave up the idea that the tower can withstand any wind thrown at it and still oppose the wind enough to produce energy.
Instead, smart computer programs turn the propeller angles independently, so that when the blade reaches the top (where it exerts maximum torque trying to topple the tower), it is angled such that it won't catch too much wind. Then when the blade is near the bottom, it's turned again in order to capture most wind.
Panpsychism gains steam in science communities
Why do so many machine learning models never get deployed as real applications?
You can't sanction publicly available information. By that logic every crypto or blockchain website or video on the internet not blocked in North Korea is guilty of violating the sanctions.

This doesn't make any sense, and I feel really bad for people like Griffith getting ground beneath the treads of the unthinking legal machine here.

And shame on the judges for not slapping this law down, because that's they're job to protect people from unthinking and unfair application of the law.
this is common with diversity efforts: over emphasis on admission. I feel this does students a disservice. I was one of these students.

Focusing on admission rates sounds nice to a bureaucrat – but to the individual who will drop out, they will be taking the hit on their career and savings– they won't be getting hired, and they will have $100k in debt for nothing.

Who would you hire? A graduate from CSUn or a dropout from UCLA?

it's telling that people rarely talk about SAT correlation with university graduation rates. I'm guessing they are tightly correlated (which is why they've been used for 60 years).
Quit judging partners by looks alone. Looks fade, character that clicks with you likely won't.

The relationships I've had and hate most in my life are almost perfectly inversely proportional to how much time they spent trying to look 'beautiful.'
You're not alone, man. I sometimes still use my smartphone, but I'm trying to ditch it completely. It's too tempting, to the extent where it's life-damaging or life-destroying.
Oh that is interesting because I remember DO and Linode were part of their partners during the initial announcement. And now its name is gone.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/bandwidth-alliance/
Work Less, Pollute Less
What makes it fundamentally impossible to know the origin of life? It seems we are likely to develop and refine experiments and theories that approximate the initial conditions and processes by which life took hold. Some of the details of how it happened are certainly lost to time, but it seems there's a lot of room for exploration towards a fairly valid model.
Yes for a portion of the school's funding. In NJ there also exist Abbott districts which receive additional funding from the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_district
You can't really make a super niche game and expect it to sell well. Nobody knows what Yerba Mate is. Nobody is searching for Yerba Mate.

Also, the video is funny, but it really doesn't tell us anything about what you do. It doesn't show us the consequences of any of your decisions.

Anyhow, I wish the developer all the best. I hope sales to pick up and that they enjoyed making the game.
I didn't realize game was such a production mess. I love(d) the game.. but in retrospect, I loved how it captured my imagination more than the game itself.
It’s not pedantry. Those companies have effectively nothing in common when it comes to HW.
Tesla though created the psychology that an electric car could be a premium car which relaxed the economics and eased ‘range anxiety’ and concerns about performance. That is, other luxury sedans are ‘nothing special’ just expensive and prove the owner has bad judgement, the Tesla was so sexy it got my wife’s attention.
Yeah I think the infamous Jenna Marbles video where she puts on makeup really was the first time it opened my eyes to it. She goes from average or less to amazing in short time.

Link for those who haven't seen it. Can't believe it's been 11 years...

https://youtu.be/OYpwAtnywTk
If you're gonna try and convince people Feynman wasn't smart, try a bible group.
This.

Shouldn't confuse the issue with things like unintentionally starting fires which has other solutions.

In theory your houses 'share' would only be the additional cost of the distance out front to put underground, which you should get back on re-sale.

Plus a neighbourhood of beauty and the ability to plant large trees.

It has a cost, but I think people often pay more for less in communities.
Bit of an Escher thing going on here:

https://images.prismic.io/frameworkmarketplace/cca31de3-3b75...
Why not go further and say the entirety of "our reality" is a human hallucination, as our senses are limited and our brains peculiar in how they process their inputs. That the "real reality" is an imperceptible-to-us dance of fields (even that is only as far as our theories take us).
I agree that there are issues with GPA too, but despite saying that it's easier to take one test than it is to maintain a high GPA throughout high school, that's opinion. Teachers can work with over extended students to help them while they are in school

I can't really speak to your opinion piece because its behind a paywall
I've given a clear example - try transfering a file from an iPhone or iPad to any non-Apple device, and you will waste a lot of time. Where as an Android or a Tizen or a Sailfish or Windows user only has to switch on Bluetooth and pair to transfer files with each other easily.
Snow Leopard was the best version for me. I used it for months only restarting to install updates and there was no impact on the performance or stability.
I think most of the latency was actually in acquiring the image from the camera and sending the on/off command over the network. Processing was pretty fast, IIRC.
Daily Covid Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns
Delphi has been around (and better than HyperCard) for twenty-five years. Free Pascal for at least as long, but it has only had the visual component aspect provided by Lazarus for ten or fifteen years.
The market is far too crowded to rely entirely on the steam store for your exposure.

I'd like to know what the numbers are like for indie devs with their own twitch channel who constantly stream the development process, establishing a fan base throughout the year(s) of development before releasing on steam.
I'm pretty sure we are eating more calories than our grandparents did, too. Portion sizes for common things are much larger now. You can look at muffin sizes for example and how the average muffin is physically larger today. Same with burgers, soft-drink cup sizes, etc.

But yeah I agree with everything you said as well regarding lack of physical exercise.
My favorite example of this is the planarian. You can cut its head in half and it will generate two new halves. Same with the tail. Or cut the whole thing into pieces, and each piece will regenerate the whole body.
Not necessarily. After putting a lot of brain grease into writing the code, it will probably work just fine.

But it will lead to a bunch of serious "WTF!?" situations when other people look at the code and/or are supposed to make changes at a later point.

And possibly stuff breaking in spectacular ways after introducing "minor cleanup" patches. Or some weird performance regressions, after touching completely unrelated code that might affect the temporal order of the memory allocations in questions, and so on...

Besides improving performance, doing this kind of trickery in production code will probably also improve your job security.
Operation Mockingbird:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

CIA influence on public opinion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinio...
EPFL now has its own Hyperloop test track
> Don't take attacks on a tool you like as an attack on you.

PHP developers have entered the chat.
It's very odd to me that bulbs don't come in two parts: Ballast and LED. That way, we wouldn't have to keep buying and throwing away the perfectly good part when the other one broke.
Certainly the addition of ubiquitous sugary snacks and drinks everywhere as well contributes, how is that discounted so easily. So much processed food within a 2 minute car rides reach, and it only require 30 paces into and out of the store for 2000kcals in treats!
This is not just the gacha component. Take Candy Crush, Simon's Cat, Pokémon Go, etc. You know what the prizes are, but the gameplay is still subject to various degrees of randomness, and it's statistically calculated and adjusted to cause just the right tresshold of repetition and frustration to maximize microtransaction revenue.
Plenty of people recognize that the SAT is bias against poor kids

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/07/why-po...

The reason that the racial component comes out is that Black children are over-represented in poor communities due to systemic racism
So you're saying there's a conspiracy?
TL;DR: making industrial (e.g. manufacturing) robots easier to use, by improving sensing, planning, etc.

I suspect that Dr. Chelsea Finn's work in meta-learning (affiliated with Stanford and GBrain, when I saw it last year) might play a big part here, which is e.a. about generalisation of RL policies to out of domain tasks. (E.g. similar task, but slightly different tools, slightly different task, etc.)

Learning IRL (cameras and actuators) reinforcement learning policies is a huge time sink, so generalisation is a hugely important task. Related solutions can be found in simulation->real generalisation, also an active topic of research.
You could skim it halfway into the article.
>So what changed in 1980?

Effects of the agriculture policies starting 1973 which resulted in HFCS everywhere?

Including sugar replacement with HFCS due to tariffs https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1/25...

"On the demand side, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was beginning to make
inroads as food and beverage manufacturers sought to replace sugar with a less expensive
input. As prices dropped, the International Trade Commission opened hearings to
determine whether or not imports were the source of “serious injury or threat thereof”
(USDA, December 1976, 15) to the domestic industry and, in March 1977, recommended
that imports be restricted. President Ford, anticipating this recommendation, increased
the tariff on raw sugar from 0.625 cents to 1.875 cents per pound in September 1976.

When the 1977 Food and Agriculture Act took effect on November 8, 1977, a price
support/ loan rate program was established (see “Price Support Loan” section). To reduce
government expenditures on this new program, President Carter raised import fees to 2.7
cents per pound for raw sugar and 3.22 cents for refined sugar. The import fee, coupled
with the import duty, served to control imports in the late 1970s. Both the fee and duty
reached their peaks in early 1979, when the fee for raw sugar was 3.22 cents and the
import duty was 2.8125 cents per pound. "
That range includes triple legacies, Jared Kushner types and recruited athletes. I doubt it’s applicable to people like me.
The problem with household robotics is that people who have the dough for the maid-bot probably own stuff way too expensive to have it cleaned by a robot.

The Lusty Automaton Maid, on the other hand, is sure to sell like botcakes.
Revisiting a Utopian City with Fondness and Fury
This is certainly true from an personal anecdotal perspective.

The minute I went from college where I was very active to an office job the pounds piled on.

What's interesting is that if you're poor modern Capitalism doesn't allow much free time to exercise, which might explain why the obesity epidemic effects the poor more.
> The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates.

I think we can all recall at least one recent incident of this happening.
I am ignorant about Islam. But would the hadith have a name? Or something like Christians citing the Bible.
"The number was 1729.03. I happened to know that a cubic foot contains 1728 cubic inches, so the answer is a tiny bit more than 12."

There are people lauding and panning Feynman in this thread, but this story illustrates a very important lesson that I've seen a lot of very smart people fail to learn.

Whenever you're doing a calculation, especially if you're using a computer or calculator, make an approximate estimate of what the result should be. Don't just assume that whatever method you use will produce a correct answer.

A man with an abacus (or computer) is probably going to be faster than someone like Feynman most of the time, but he's also going to make mistakes. Big ones. He might not make them frequently, but mistakes always happen sooner or later. The trick is to catch them when they do happen. That's hard to do if you have absolutely no sense of what the answer should be. If, however, you start from a rough estimate using anything your brain can come up with, as Feynman does in his anecdote, you're a lot less likely to produce a badly wrong answer without realizing it.

If this contest had gone on long enough, Feynman would have been beaten badly in several rounds if he messed up a calculation and had to start over. The thing is, Feynman would know when this happened because the outcome wouldn't agree with his initial estimate. The man with the abacus would, eventually, have produced answers off by several orders of magnitude without realizing.

Rough estimates are important.
Absolutely. This is one of the reasons affirmative action is poisonous—it creates rational reasons for discrimination. Which will, of course, be exaggerated by actual racists; but it's much harder to argue "Discriminating against group X is bad" when it's public knowledge that group X has passed a lower bar.
The "future work" section of the paper covers the smearing part! The authors acknowledge that it is unknown whether the results translate to smeared paint.
It’s better to link to specific projects unless you keep the GitHub super pristine for interviews.

Mine has a few gone nowhere forks, scrap books, silly projects etc.
Recent iOS versions have a choice between precise or general location permission for apps, no longer just on or off. So of those few apps I give permission, even fewer get precise location.
It's written by a contributer to the National Review, if that helps you decide whether you're missing out on anything important:

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/05/national-review-william-...
> So holding onto an investment property in a location where I think prices will go up in the next 20 years is irrational.

Thinking that they will go up because of water is the irrational bit.

Israel is the worst case (desalination of sea water) and water is still affordable there. It’s a non-issue that would be as far down the list of considerations when choosing where to live as electricity costs.

You may have “thought about it” a lot, but even a little bit of research of what the worst case looks like would have revealed it’s a terrible reason for any investment plans.