skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes financing single family homes near impossible for speculative builders. Builders need to find a buyer to do the financing before construction can start.

Actually it makes private financing difficult for all builders, but then it created easier programs through hud to finance section 8 multi family apartments. Which is why you see crappy apartments being built at a faster rate than cookie cutter homes were being built in 2007.

Zoning is part of it as well, but zoning on its own does nothing if people can't get financing to build. And a large majority of the population will only buy what's already built, and won't finance new construction on their own.
My Mid-Year 2021 Portfolio (70– 100%)
My early education was, in fact, was quite steeped in such terms. I'm a apostate, not an infidel.

Anyway, my point wasn't a criticism of the content, or anything really. Just pointing out that its clunky and verbose sounding, to my rusty old ears.
I can vouch for ncdu...does one thing and does it well.
Also see:

https://github.com/jarun/nnn/

https://github.com/bootandy/dust

> There is, after all, nothing more annoying than having to get re-acquainted with every piece of software you've installed every time you decide to update...

Looking at you $EVERY_MODERN_GUI_APP
This old fart agrees heartily. I bought an M1 iMac because I am an older fanboi (but a fanboi no less) and I really miss the old 27” 5K iMac display… I will probably ditch it for a larger iMac when that comes out.
A colocated rack is a much more limited concept than a VPC. VPCs let your architect an entire network. You can have multiple private and public subnets, set security groups to filter traffic between them, do service discovery, use policy based access control, health check load balance, and host PaaS entities into the network (like Aurora serverless). On top of that, you can flex your compute. VPC is more like a rack with a firewall, an f5, a smart switch with vlans, something like kubernetes to automatically scale compute… but there are things that aren’t even possible in a rack because you can transparently both manage your own compute with ec2 and add PaaS managed offerings like RDS, elasticsearch, kafka, etc. all to the same network.
> Fluxsort starts out with an analyzer that detects fully sorted arrays and sorts reverse order arrays using n comparisons. It also obtains a measure of presortedness and switches to quadsort if the array is less than 25% random.

This makes me wonder? is it worth it to do a neural a.i. sort by simply training it?

I assume it would be hard to prove that the resulting a.i. is actually infallible and always produces a sorted output, but perhaps it could for practical measures sort faster than most current algorithms.
I have my own bootstrapped startup since a year and half and I manage the entire infrastructure for my startup.

My startup focuses on big data projects and is currently building a web-based Bloomberg Terminal alternative(https://quantale.io) which is an infrastructure heavy project.

here is why I use 3 VPNs:

1. Pritunl is used as an enterprise VPN setup. Using this VPN, I provide access to different webapps/self-host to different users in my team/clients. for eg, the stage version of Quantale is hosted on a server(with ufw rule to only allow connection from pritunl VPN IP) and I can provide access to you by creating a vpn config for you and you will only be able to access stage server, you wont be able to access any other servers behind this VPN.

2. OpenVPN with Pihole, I use this VPN as a personal VPN. This VPN blocks ads and trackers using PiHole and my self-hosted password manager is only accessible via this VPN

3. Wirehole with PiHole, this is a backup VPN to access my password manager in case I loose access to my OpenVPN server.
Colorado 10-year-old dies as health officials investigate plague activity
> Too many programmers are used to treat floats as cursed entities.

These people are certainly annoying, but the worst that they can do is to cautiously avoid floats, which does not really harm anybody. More dangerous are those that treat floats as if they were real numbers, thus creating chaos in their wake.
Don't forget the average family income too.
Plants don't have a central nervous system or a brain. What science generally understands under pain and suffering plants simply don't have.
What’s the symptoms of a mini stroke
> isn't this mainly because paying in anything other then the national currency is illegal in most western nations?

Which makes company towns illegal, hence Amazon is not creating company towns...
I think if you're going to do an analysis of military strength, you have to do it in context of the political system that produces it. If your society results in supersoldiers, but also causes you to regularly fail at diplomacy and end up outnumbered in wars which you end up losing, I wouldn't say that your military record is successful.
Possibly useful in dynamically typed languages. Definitely not useful at all in statically typed languages. And cloud resources are equivalent to statically typed - you cant turn an EC2 instance into an Elastic Load Balancer, for instance -- it's only ever one or the other.
They've got what I consider decent size, it's just that the price can be a bit steep compared to an HDD, at least at quantities of 1. $700 will get you an 8TB SSD.
I wonder how hard is gonna be to remove the complete GUI including display manager from that Linux, and replace with something else?

Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have GLES 3.1 GPU. Still, I might be able to back port to GLES2, the GPU side is not terribly complicated: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/
It’s not an active thread, whole books have been written about Facebook’s misdeeds.
Typically this is where fruitarians would come in, but if the fruit feels pain we're all out of options.
The first escalators in widespread use were in Paris and London.

But I think the real reason is cost: a metro system will pay for the extra capacity of a wide escalator. A shopping centre would prefer people not to hurry, can use the space for displaying goods, and thus chooses an escalator sized for one person.
I’m not sure living in the city off handouts, charity, and free tax payer provided facilities exactly promotes his no money philosophy. His life relies on the things he despises, if the economic collapse he predicts comes he will be among the first to starve to death.

Go into the wild and grow/hunt food or trade some skill - the post money society doesn’t need philosopher poets scavenging cigarettes from trash cans
The article ends with an idea like, "workers band together and fight Amazon". I'm all for workers getting a better deal and more humane conditions while these jobs last, but they won't.

Th most common jobs in these places are being intensely researched by roboticists. As soon as it's feasible and economical to replace the people with robots they will. For some of the jobs, that could come in a matter of months, or only a few years. It will continue.

I am going to tie this into something more controversial. Basic income. And I think even more controversial is that we may need to change how money fundamentally works in order to make basic income work.
My personal take on the question of space is that because of Lorentz contraction there is always an observer that sees the universe as a flat pancake. There is no true "distance" between any particles, and therefore no space. Every interaction between particles is because these particles actually collided for some specific hypothetical observer.
Does this dude realize he’s doing the same annoying thing on Twitter?
Long ago, I read that London Underground has escalators designed with the imbalance in mind. I can't find a citation for this.
I have my own bootstrapped startup since a year and half and I manage the entire infrastructure for my startup.

My startup focuses on big data projects and is currently building a web-based Bloomberg Terminal alternative(https://quantale.io) which is an infrastructure heavy project.

The Superset self-host analytics is used to provide analytics services to a client in manufacturing sector.
This is BlockQuicksort with stable partitioning, pumped up with selective benchmarks (if I sound irritated about this, it's because I've just called out the author[0] on this exact issue). I understand that worse performance should be expected for a stable sort, but what possible reason is there to leave out benchmarks against the most closely related algorithm?

Worse, a stable version of BlockQuicksort is pointless, which is to say that it is actually impossible for there to be a practical use case for Fluxsort. The branchless partitioning technique is relevant only if comparison doesn't depend on branching, which means the input array needs to consist machine-native types, and in fact Fluxsort limits itself to integers and long double. On these inputs stability isn't an observable property! The result of Fluxsort will be indistinguishable from that of any other quicksort (okay, I guess it will keep negative and positive zeros in the original order for floats, but an integer-based comparison could also accomplish this). So all you get is a slower sort that uses more memory. There are use cases for stable partitioning, such as sort-by or arg-sort, but as written Fluxsort can't do these.

The statistical method to decide whether to use quicksort or Quadsort—checking the ratio of comparisons between adjacent pairs of elements that are smaller versus greater—is really interesting. It applies to the mergesort versus quicksort problem in general.

The use of the ptx pointer is definitely not novel and I think it's a stretch to even describe it as a brain-twister. It's the obvious way to do branchless stable partitioning.

This is good work! It's well-written and well-explained, and clearly points in the direction of practical applications. However, it's presented in a way that suggests that it's a good drop-in sorting algorithm, when instead it's more of a research effort. Beware!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27793636
> Who would wash the dishes?

Presumably the person who dirtied them. So they can use clean dishes and not get sick from mold growing from the old food?

Science has given us plenty of evidence to do as we do in a number of contexts.

Deferring to the politically empowered is an unscientific basis for economic activity.

We need not rely on the superstitions of dead men who were less educated than us.
> In addition, the authors measured the biochemical responses, such as defensive chemicals like hydrogen peroxide, across other parts of the plant. This showed that these defenses were triggered even in parts of the plant that were far away from the damage caused by the caterpillars.
They require that you're an accredited investor, but later note "This is a good faith requirement, since there is no way for Purism to validate your accredited investor status". Yikes. This had to go through legal right? I'm gobsmacked that either they or the SEC think that not checking is fine. What happens if Joe Sixpack buys in?
I’ve always wondered this, instead of writing many passes of gibberish data that takes many hours, could I simply format the drive in seconds, encrypt the whole blank drive with a long generated password, then format and encrypt a second time in seconds and be done?

Or if I’m feeling spicy, do all this then hit it with a hammer until it’s shattered in a million pieces like my dreams of working in tech.
Okay. But if it wants to continue to serve it existing customer base, it will need to make money. It will need to incentivize people to work for it which will need a lot of money too. Plus it will need to keep up with R&D needed to make laptops (though nowadays laptops are not jumping forward in terms of technology except for increase in processing power and storage). People in other countries may also want to buy it, so to expand to other countries need money.
Then there are factors like customer service,considering the fact most people wouldn’t know how to repair their devices. They would need to offer their own repair centers and call centers. This would be a significant investment too.
Anti nutrients :(
Looking at how the Western and Eastern economies are making blocks supporting USA or China. It is my prediction that in the coming coldwar/economic war ironically it will be China from where we will be getting free/opensource hardware rather than the west where corporate IP and patent monopolies control everything.
He probably used shrooms, which is close enough. :P
No, I am saying that telling your kids to fuck off, you’re the boss, and smashing their phone is poor parenting. Same as everyone else with whom you are arguing here.
> There needs to be naming and shaming

It's probably easier to name and promote the few places that don't do the "39.5hr week".
Imagine rigging your plants with sensors and gardening by sentiment analysis. "The zucchini are worried today, give them some extra TLC."
A Woman's World
Didn’t groups of people live without money just fine for most of human existence? We worked together. Money only entered the equation when the groups we lived and interacted with started getting too big and impersonal. Generosity is easier when you know the people benefiting from your work. Greed and freeloading are easier when you don’t.
Yet The author assumes theres' a moral/legitimate transaction vs an immoral/illegitimate transaction. I don't believe there is an economic distinction of faith...
It is, at least where I am coming from, well-known that raw human feces must not be used for fertilizing soil; However, composted (long enough / on high temperature) would break down the pathogens that are bad for humans.

See more on wikipedia about fertilization using human feces [1] and in general, applications of composting toilets [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_feces#Use_as_fertilizer

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet#Applications
iMessages and its native Apple Photos and Shared Album features. No need for reshares, reactions are supported for messages, groups are supported, and something can't easily go viral (you have to make an effort to share the content outside of your iMessage group).

It's already the #1 social platform for teens.
He must right? Is there any way it would naturally take someone that many tweets to say “the algorithm selects longer videos creating an incentive for fluff”?
This only works if not everyone in society does it.

It’s easy for a lone person to ride on the backs of others, who are actually, you know, working for money, but if tomorrow we got rid of money society would collapse.

With the way NYC is, I could quit my job tomorrow and mooch off others (SO many do).

I’d be uncomfortable, but I’d live. If everyone did this there wouldn’t be a NYC anymore.
I love Ncdu, it's one of the first things I install in computers I need to manage remotely. Good to know that version 2 is underway. Thanks!
They won the Peloponessian war (plenty of diplomacy and coalition building) and remained dominant until 371, which was the first war they lost. It was a pretty respectable record.
but no, they're telling you it's all about those shameful long showers and a glass of water at a restaurant... ridiculous
Many seems to agree with the "You Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto", but I interpret it differently.

If you are interested you definitely should. Implement existing ciphers, learn, compare, create your own ciphers, test, crack, research and discuss. It's the perfect way to learn more and become better at it.

However, don't put it in production or with real data.
Especially given that men have taken on tasks far more dangerous and difficult than doing the dishes and have always died sooner.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-men-often-die-earlie...
As others have mentioned, after school coaching is a big thing in India. We had a teacher who would hardly show up for class and when he would, he would move ridiculously slow. By the end of the semester/year he wouldn't have completed even half of the syllabus. He had a coaching class that was popular among students from our school and he would have them pitch the class to other students. It was also pretty common for students of his coaching class to know what to focus on and what questions to expect in the exam.

Back in the day while I still knew some folks who would not pay for these after school coaching classes, it looks like now it's uncommon for middle class kids to not have atleast a few of these to go to after school.
Sounds like a modern day Diogenes.

Money is the most basic social contract everyone agrees with. The problem of money today is that it overrides politics, so it shifts problems from one place to another side of the planet. Tax evasion or dodging, social darwinism and social inequality, money laundering, etc, money have always posed great problems...

People will call money a great and indispensable evolution of human civilization, while arguing that socialism leads directly to gulags and famine (which is the worst strawman argument of people who will defend market essentialism).

Money is a tool, but honestly, it's not very good at what it does. Governments and institutions already achieve most of what human needs, by allocating resources through political decisions and law. Banks are always privatized for some weird reasons and never do anything right and never improve the interest of the public.

Doomists will say "we don't want to be hunters and gatherers again", yet cannot prove that capitalism allowed the apparition of science, technology and industry.
> I wonder if there are cryptography based secure protocols that can ensure that the studies have been carried out the proper way. Given your experience would love to hear your thoughts.

Cryptographic methods would be overkill and yet couldn't be applied to the places where such fraud might occur. When you submit trial results the documentation is immense -- you submit pretty much everything. There is a long, highly documented chain of custody and a lot of people (and independent entities) involved so it would be very difficult to pull off a conspiracy. That's not where the problems lie.

For example if the agency thinks something is irregular they can go back and look at the underling data and the instructions on how those data were collected.

The amount of data supplied is so large that before the days of electronic filing every drug company had a group whose job was simply to manage the logistics of organizing the trucks needed to transport a single submission! That sounds therefore like there would be a needle-in-a-haystack problem, and of course there always is, but you'd be surprised by the tiny details you get asked about as someone sees something they don't understand or are suspicious about and just follow the trail backwards.

> My second question to you is to understand what apart from deep pockets prevent a trial to be repeated until an outcome favorable to the drug company is obtained. I understand pharma companies are encouraged to make all their trials public, but to me that seems like a generic guidance with no teeth.

So this is the place to look: at a high level. However what you ask is hard. You can't legally give humans unapproved drugs (the agency doesn't give you permission to do so; they say "you proposed to use X on people who meet criteria C, following a specify procedure P, in order to answer questions Q, R and S. As long as you do precisely as you asked, only on the population C and on no more people than discussed, we will not prosecute you for using an unlicensed drug". And you submit an enormous amount of data you have already collected that explains why it's worth giving it a try and why it isn't a risk to human life.

So you do specific pre-clinical (animal) work just to get it into humans at all (phase 1), then use the safety data you collected to justify some kind of limited study of efficacy (Phase 2) and based on that you do a large, representative (of the people in the US who might need this drug) population of subjects.

If you tried to repeat a trial the agency would say "but you already did this and didn't like the results, so no". And in fast why would you? You'd be desperately trying to figure out why it failed and try to do something different.
Nothing makes communists more angry than tax cattle out of their pen.
Societies can work without money, or without using them that often, there used to be many self-sufficient peasant communities (villages and even entire mountain valleys) that used to manage just fine without actually using (much) money. Of course that modernity and the industrial revolution put a stop to that but it can be done.
A Functional Programming Language with Versions
Scaling doesn’t waste the pixels; they just get used for smoother edges rather than smaller (more) content.
> it does not needs to be necessarily any product owner fault

I totally agree! I think they're often in difficult situation, I've seen product managers with different priorities coming from various stakeholders. It's often a complicated situation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210725100120/https://www.emily...
> LGBTQ+ and race relations explorations

Every time I watch a fictional movie about some social issue I ask myself: I've just watched an imaginary story that never happened played by actors who actually never experienced it. Now what?
Stated so clearly. Thanks to OP. The Redis example extends to where the "for hackers," or "for technologists" marketing is implied, since nobody else cares about the tech, but in working with all these things made for us (hackers), it never occurrs to us that we need to make something for someone who isn't us. (since if we didn't use it ourselves, it wouldn't be an honest service, the internal reasoning goes)

I've certainly fallen into a trap of working with and making things nobody else sincerely cares about (security), which is why I make a living, but also the ceiling on how successful I've been at it. Security tools are also a unique flavour of marketing problem because they are governance and remdedial mechanisms, which means they aren't individually desirable, and they are mostly for mediating and managing others. You have to get positioned between the user and an antagonist. Security for everyone means security for no one, but security for yacht owners, that's a product. I'm marvelling at how few words the OP was able to express this in. It's as good as YC's "make something people want."

Security products are bit like machine medicine, where you don't cure illness, you make a business of managing it. I'd suspect there is a direct 1:1 analogy between pharmaceutical marketing and security marketing problems. So much to think about.
The garbage itself may not lie, but the process of turning garbage into history is still storytelling. It's very hard to escape. Most anything meaningful, to us, is a story.

A fully empirical/popperian approach to knowledge isn't workable. Or rather, it's extremely sparse. You have to accept that you know almost nothing.
Haha, I was expecting a story about living off grid, not this.

In my home country we actually still have people living off their land and animals, off hand dug wells and cut down trees, using no money.

That's rather extreme, though, most villages have electricity at least.
I'm not sure but there is def a big design flaw. They most likely have a single persistant connection for pub/sub to Redis per player.