skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The objective failure of SF housing policy has led me to the conclusion that those enacting it have exactly no interest in fixing the problem. It stretches credulity to believe that these politicians are just accidentally repeating the same policies again and again while being shocked as rents keep rising. The only reasonable conclusion is that the policies are indeed working as expected, but the politicians are lying about the aim.
I’ve noticed this but only recently began to feel like the behavior was different, I wonder how strong the correction is now relative to the past
Pretty sure he was even more taboo at the time (pre-matrial sex! The horrors).

If anything, parts of his novels dont work well today because what was radical at the time isn't today. A long winded argument on why pre-marital sex should be acceptable, just isn't interesting anymore.

Of course he wrote plenty of stuff still taboo (and rightfully so, imo) e.g. all the incest.
I totally agree with you, at least the first part. I think female gamers on the EQ servers were actually treated better than the male gamers and were often 'twinked'(maybe they weren't really females).. I dont think there is anything wrong with a bunch of middle aged white men doing what they want, making a game they wanted to play when they were younger. If these 'others' (who I think are included in gaming/gamedev circles actually),are so unhappy with the state of affairs, why wont they make their own franchise. I would not be angry if a bunch of Japanese women made their own MMORPG for THEM. I think there is nothing wrong with that. What is stopping anyone from creating their own games, their own mmorpgs, their own franchises? The tools and resources are there and ready. Why shit on others work?
Still is. Crayon Shin-chan at 4:30PM and Doraemon at 5PM.
alluded*
Power consumption regulations block Dell from selling some PCs
What makes this extra scary is how easy this narrative will be to sell and how "good" it will look
> This occurs because increasing the min wage is the same as increasing a barrier to entry.

Do you have some data to back this up, or are you just speculating? To posit my own speculation, could it be if people have more money for discretionary spending there could be more businesses to service them?

> But employees will compete for employers that pay higher and a community with more businesses

This seems a little naive. Low skilled and unskilled labor in smaller/poorer towns, with less/no transport available, less/no money to self-train/self-improve etc. etc. are just going to take whatever's available. There's no incentive for a fast food franchise or a supermarket to pay more, because the labor market is saturated for low income work.
Also political activists who know how the lottery system works far better than the rest of the population: https://apnews.com/article/cad8b58711d54b178660a0ce379288a4
Related:

"Wood Formation in Trees Is Increased by Manipulating PXY-Regulated Cell Division"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25866390/
Confusingly similar: check

Same industry: check

Maybe the author should expect an incoming C&D. IIRC US is first-to-use, so NVIDIA would prevail?
Do they publicly deprecate them? OpsWorks seems to have been silently deprecated for years, but I sure wish they would have told us that awhile ago. Our sales contact could never give us a straight answer on that.
Seems like not a new thing. Here is a warning tweet from beginning July from Danish Cybersec guy @peterkruse who saw his name coming up for a different domain owned by the same registrant as havfruen4220.dk

https://twitter.com/peterkruse/status/1410895961803665410
> Here's the most frustrating part though: SF has a massive pool of voters that could easily overpower NIMBYs and basically rezone much of it to build as much housing as necessary

The unfortunate part is that Preston doesn't think that these people are his constituents, instead he represents the interests of wealthy homeowners like him. With a fig leaf of tenant advocacy to cover up the larger theft of tenant power that happens via the housing shortage.
I think part of the disconnect is that (it appears that) for you, a suitable work from home environment is

- a 2'x3' area on a table, anywhere in the place you live

For a lot of us (at least for me and some others), a suitable work from home environment includes

- a 4'x3' desk (or larger, for multiple monitors)

- a door or other way to separate the workspace from house interruptions (and vice versa)

- a bookshelf and other miscellaneous items

- good lighting

In general, all that ^ is necessary to be as effective as one would be at an actual office, and generally means a separate room in the house/apartment; and that is fairly costly. The last time I did the calculations, it came out to several thousands of dollars per year.
they have trade marks like skeleton king, even other big companies like valve bow down to blizzard
I'm not convinced an insect hotel does anything useful. Ours and any others I've seen get taken over by spiders and webs just about instantly. And the spiders here already have enough places to live!
The California Republican Party has stances on issues that are past what SF voters in the majority will accept.

He doesn’t have to paint them as demons because their stated positions on abortion and gay marriage will make them untenable to SF voters and place SF voters in vocal opposition. Any demonic painting is unlikely to move the needle.

This is merely a claim of fact about the CA GOP and SF, not a position on whether they are demons. It is not a claim that the CA GOP are evil because of these stances.
This sort of thing is a reminder that your internal network should be kept as clean and secure as possible. Perimeters (physical or virtual) are nice but they're only a first line of defense.

So many people have this mental model of a castle with a moat and inside the network it's unpassworded database servers and control panels, the same default password everywhere, etc.
Classic Load Balancers going away. . . . there's going to be a bunch of helm charts needing to be updated.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
You're probably right. And as they say in the video, it's only one component of many in the "mosaic" of electricity generation. Its advantage is that tides are predictable, wind and sun are somewhat more difficult to accurately forecast.
Balaji is legit. He is an ex Panda student and those guys know their stuff
Not at all. My productivity drops below zero in these situations.
look up Frost Giant
Sure except, I wish you just quoted directly.
"61 of these deaths are unlikely linked to a COVID-19 vaccine."

Is not the same as 61 unrelated to the vaccine.
It's a positive feedback loop. The higher the cost of the exactions, the more the market rate of the remaining units in a project grows to cover the price, the fewer overall projects, the greater the uproar about luxury developments.
Can we call this the "World War Z Problem"?
Why? You were given no suggestion in which dimenension the complexity was introduced in. Frequently, the better design requires the additional effort.

Its the quick hacks and shortcuts that accumulate debt fastest.
They are absolutely a service company since game nowadays are live service content (I.e fortnight). In Activision’s Case, numerous of their games rely on new content being worked on for seasonal releases , bug fixes , reports etc. Time not being spent working on such causes delays which of course cost money.
That's a different pathway, right?

I'm imagining someday we use both in bamboo and have massive forests that we continuously cutdown and use for construction and the leftover gets turned into biochar and either used to make more soil or to fill up mines with sequestered carbon.
Recently one of my clients noticed something we had broken on their website. When they noticed it, we fixed it in a matter of minutes. They were so pumped on the response time they then left us a very glowing public review.
I want to thank all those who answered my questions politely. I'm pleased to say you appear to have been the majority.

Unfortunately, I'm still unconvinced that the unvaccinated are harming anyone other than themselves. This opens a good topic on the role of paternalism to force people to better themselves. But that'll be for another day.
Thanks for the profile; it's one I hadn't read before. I thought the wording of the discussion of Heinlein's previous marriage was hinting at his actual first marriage, which no one knew about until after long after his death, but it doesn't.

I grew up reading Heinlein. I've read it all; the short stories, the juveniles, the late-period novels, the early and late nonfiction essays, the recently published "lost" works. I consider him and Asimov among my formative influences. I disagree with the critics the article cites about the quality of his post-surgery work; Friday is fantastic and Job, the book the profile is putatively about, is also great. They're just different from the Scribner's juveniles. In turn I like the juveniles, but they don't stick with me as much as his short stories, or his late novels like Friday (which did cyberpunk two years earlier and better than Neuromancer did), Job, or (as weird as they are) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls/To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

I very much think, however, that Stranger in a Strange Land can only be read with vicarious embarrassment.
I really waned to like the Gefland books, and Algebra starts off so well, but they are actually intended as barebones exercise books to go along with lectures which introduce the problems. Or, they could for advanced students who are interested in revisiting the basics. As books, the experience is maddeningly incomplete, and they do not teach mathematics to the uninitiated. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone who either wants to relearn high school math or learn from ground zero. During self study, I hit a wall about 25% through, and after checking solutions online it turned out that the problem was extremely advanced and also had an error of some kind which renders the solution impossible. I learned some behind the scenes aspects of the book such as the course and lecture which are missing, and I gave up at that point

I think Lang, though tough, actually would be a better book to learn from. It actually seems comprehensive and designed for motivated people who want a very solid understanding of math, but are actually possibly new to the subject.
The parent post stated “you can have a brilliant system without brilliant actors”. I don’t believe that’s true. There are many examples of brilliant stand-out products that make a huge difference in their field, and the iPhone is one of the most obvious.

Also there was very little bad about the original iPhone. It obviously lacked features compred to modern phones, but it was a fantastic device.
Squarespace, Illustrator, Photoshop, Maya, After effects - whatever - its a different way to think about exposing the interface - they all have algorithms under the hood, but they wont expose it in the same language (of difficulty) as the algorithms - have a visual interface on top of it. Why can't web developers be treated as people who need high level components? (, databases, APIs, file systems, queues)
Aurora was supposed to be up and running in early 2018. It seems like that it won't be functional even in 2021. This is by the way, such an years long delay has never happened when it comes to US Leadership Computing Facilities.

Intel, last I heard has written off close to 300 million dollars on Aurora.
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The article explicitly gives this explanation.
A big enough supply of ANY housing would make housing affordable.

'Affordable' isn't an intrinsic property of a house. It's an outcome of the allocation system.
Hundreds of Ways to Get Stuff Done–and We Still Don’t
Chovy's Boondocking Guide
How am I missing the point with a comprehensive training program that explicitly allows people to continuously engage with their mentor and have face time?
I love that HN's audience has grown to the point that such a clarification is necessary. San Francisco is such a tiny part of the world, but it used to be massive in the world of HN.
https://archive.is/2whpu
Sure, that’s right. But how do we find out who is less confused?
Finland?
Nope, but you can use Unix.create_process. Which is admittedly not as convenient, but that's Windows for you.
Once a Covid success story, South Korea sweats through summer of Delta surge
I wonder how long Stadia will be around
It sounds like your office setup is much much more minimal than mine too then. Obviously you’re very fortunate if you’re fine working 8+ hours a day on a laptop on your dining table.
Record an audio file, convert it to video with a static image, upload to YouTube.
I don't think that's quite right.

Most criminal conspiracies succeed as evidenced by the fact that most crimes aren't solved and most criminals aren't arrested. In fact, the larger your criminal organization, the less likely you are to go to prison. If I shot a passerby on the street, witnesses would be coming out of the woodwork. Friends or family would identify me by surveillance tape or report my strange behavior. Conversely, if a gang in Baltimore kills some guy, nobody will come forward. Let's not even get started on cartels.

Instead, I think it's much more apt to say that whether or not a conspiracy will be betrayed depends a lot on what will happen to the traitor/whistleblower.

If you want to turn in an evil, murderous, criminal organization, you'd better be willing to die or flee somewhere beyond their grasp. That bravery needs to be combined with an ability to get compelling evidence to the people who need to see it.
BMW debuts 2 cool new electric scooter concepts that it won't build
Same for EKS versions. I think versions of software in general they don't really necessarily keep around long, though these are the only two I can think of.
Not a forum.
But the few times I've picked up The Economist to read, its always got at least a few articles that are layman-friendly yet informative, if that's what you're looking for.
I respect your heart but there _are_ situations where limiting housing could be in good faith.

Overcrowding and resource depletion are such situations that are currently playing out in the California and several other Western states as water and resources are being stretched to near breaking points.

I don't think high density infinite economic growth is green or progressive but I do know it's untenable.
You haven't noticed that reddit has become substantially search inaccessible a number of months back?

Every reddit page while not logged in is full of hidden content from other unrelated pages. When you search, you'll get hits in these unrelated pages-- but when you follow the link it's not there (because it's on the unrelated pages).

Worse, the pages with the correct content aren't necessarily in the results at all because it was low enough in the thread that it was collapsed and wasn't visible to the search indexer.

It's not a total loss, but I'd say about 80% of my own comments are now difficult-to-impossible to find via search when they were easy previously.
This is exactly my standard mental model also. I guess the exception is that I sometimes think of integration as accumulation depending on the context. But I have very difficult time thinking about a derivative without the visual of a tangent line popping into view.
People clearly care deeply about about both these things. It’s possible for the left to fight over gender politics AND working conditions.
He wrote about a society where genetic testing and gene surgery made it simple to prevent any potential genetic consequences for incest.

The entire point of the incest taboo is to avoid those genetic consequences.

Do we still need an incest taboo in that case?

That's just the sort of deeply held cultural value that Heinlein wanted people to be willing to think about for themself.

Heinlein didn't advocate for incest or for polygamy.

He wanted to convince people to think for themselves, even when the thing you are thinking about is an "unquestionable" cultural belief.
I was half expecting this to be about Val Kilmer's self titled movie Val (about his life) that's coming out soon. I love Val Kilmer, especially in Heat, but this article was really interesting as well.
I can immediately use your advice. Great stuff...thank you!
Google removed its mandatory arbitration clause for sexual harassment cases in response to the walkout: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/tech...

> True Employee organization and collective bargaining is the only answer to holding execs accountable , whether it’s at Google, Activision, or anywhere else.

What do you imagine this path to "true employee organization" might look like, if it doesn't involve actions like these along the way?
The OP correct about best estimates for IFR at a global level, and you shouldn't be dismissing the number out-of-hand.

The difficulty with "global average IFR" is that it neglects the massive variation in IFR by age. This Nature paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0

made an attempt to break down the IFR by demographic, and found an almost 100,000-fold difference between the youngest and the oldest groups:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0/figures/2

As such, the "IFR" for a country is going to vary dramatically with the age of the population. It isn't particularly meaningful to talk about IFR as a single number, but it's decidedly true that for anyone under 60, the risk of death is measured in fractions of a percent.

For those under 25, the risk is measured in thousandths of a percent.
The more I'm forced to work with C++ I'm convinced it's some sort of long running joke we mistook for sincerity. Any time you want to do something interesting someone has a magic template that "solves the issue", yet nobody else understands how it works.

We should be using languages actually designed for these uses, not trying to force those languages features back into c++.
Delays are common, and expected as par for the course in the game industry. No one blinks an eye at delays and most games seem to not launch when announced anyway (like most software). The question that matters is, will this actually cost them lost revenue in the long run, or just delay inevitable sales by however long the employees can hold out in a walkout/strike? A delay is just as good as money in the bank in the long run. Will people not buy the product because it was delayed? Will they care why it was delayed, or even know unless it was an in-game message? Some will, sure, but will they still make the purchase? Likely.
I just subscribed a week or two ago, probably from a post here on HN.

Can confirm it's been great so far - interesting content and the right length for a weekly newsletter.
Coffee is legal and therefore cheap. Opioids are illegal and therefore expensive. Maybe this has something to do with it?

Imagine a world where opioids were as cheap as a cup of coffee. Do you envision people stealing and prostituting themselves to buy them?
Reach the same audience, but I imagine ads that are "vouched for" by being located on official NYT property convert far better than the same ads but on unrelated websites but targeted to NYT readers.
One thing I never understood is "Why don't the newspapers run their own ad network?"

Good lord, it can't be any worse than what exists now.
Agreed, human nature being what it is, I guarantee you most of the work missed during the walk out was made up that evening by the same employees working late without being asked to do so.
The first version that was aired. The second version, from Funimation, was completely rewritten and absolutely was not aimed at kids.
Lawmakers urge probe of breathing system on F-35 fighter jet [video]
14,000 scientists warn of “untold suffering” if we fail to act on climate change
Most calculus books in India never have any information on the history of calculus.

I remember being taught limits, differentials, etc purely as mathematical structures.

No context what-so-ever.

In engineer, I read a book called "Advanced Engineering Mathematics" by Erwin Kreyszig. This was a wonderful book that also had some footnote references to calculus books.

It was pulling on that thread and reading quite a bit of history and other good books (MIT Books) that I got a hand of the inside out of calculus.

How I passed Calculus exams in High school, only god knows.

I am an engineer now and will be ever grateful to the likes of George B Thomas, James Stewart, N Piskunov for teaching me calculus and making me wonder why such a beautiful concept was twisted and mangled by official curriculum books in India.
0.3+ acres per person times a billion people is about the size of europe.
Coronavirus is a kind of virus. Some of the many strains of the common cold are coronaviruses, so are COVID-19 and MERS. Flus are their own kind of virus, “influenza viruses”, but I only know what I know from quick conversations with actual biologists, so take it with a grain of salt. I don’t know whether taxonomy is necessarily helpful here. Some frogs are poisonous, some are delicacies, and they come in all sorts of colors, abilities, and sizes.
That sounds right. My daughter was diagnosed with bipolar, and sometimes when she is 'manic', she has psychotic, paranoid delusions. She was the one who noticed it and decided that it was "wrong", and went to seek treatment. Her delusions were as mundane as; she thought that her friends were all meeting behind her back, planning to ruin her life.

Anyway; psychosis is more of a symptom. Psychopathy, itself, is kind of a category of disorders; where psychosis is a common symptom.
I think this article, or another, said that probably applying disinfectant immediately would've been enough.
You can feel old if you grew up on Captain Kangaroo, or Mr. Rogers who came later.
I am the fool who is mortally afraid of calculus. I am not kidding when I say that I still get nightmares of sitting in a Calculus exam. I am 37 years old

The first chapter turned on a light bulb in my head when it said

d which merely means “a little bit of.”
∫ which is merely a long S, and may be called (if you like) “the sum of.”

I am gonna bookmark it and read it to the end so that when my son grows up, I can teach him.
Siri in iOS 15: On-Device Processing, Offline Support, Sharing, Improved Context
HN meta question:
When I see all these double-returns at the end of each sentence, should I assume it's because someone is using Slack (or another chat program where mashing return after every statement makes sense) and a bot/script to make the post? That strikes me as a very unnatural way to punctuate in a textarea form.
If your money doesn't come from other people's pockets, I'm curious where it does come from.
A Deeper Look at Critical Race Theory
I too prefer to paint myself into corners irreversibly for the benefit of auditors with no technical understanding and no skin in the game.
We’ll you’re still talking about it all this time later, so at the very least it absolutely contributed to topics being in the conversational arena.

We have to remember how many people still say “Did Occupy really change anything?” —- on its own? Of course not. However “The 99%” is absolutely a concept which every disconnected midwesterner now knows and understands what it means, in two small words. This is a concept which was not previously a dinner table conversation and Occupy flipped that on its head. And when we’re dealing with something that’s as complex and messy as superpowers and their economic systems, that is absolutely not something to hand-wave away and proclaim “it did nothing.”

None of these incredibly ingrained societal problems will be solved from one single instance of a walkout, and frankly, it would be more than a bit myopic to expect they would.

These are complex and messy issues and there isnt one single thing which will address any of them, it’s going to be a lot of single instances that add up to something over time–and I think most people understand this.