skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard it called viral marketing before. I don't disagree with your points. Probably just a semantic difference.
Cellulose has a small piezoelectric effect so I wonder if that has something to do with it. Same with bone.
Some folks, perhaps many folks like 'more wood behind fewer arrows' culture. I lean the other way, so I take interest in stories where people have moved from things to other things. For understandable reasons CS seems to have a lot of them.

The Google reference is a little ironic, because at one point in time, say around 2004, it was a place where anything that's intellectually challenging and gratifying was fair game.

I would assume Bell Labs would have been something like that.
Working from home and spending more time with family is probably a big part of it. Commuting was such an enormous daily waste of time for millions of people.
That's where you learn some systems are just not scalable.

There is a reason why we use complexity measures in computer science.

Why do we assume a-priori all social systems are scalable by 10 to 20 times?

That seems unscientific.
Zepp OS: Facts about Huami’s new ultralightweight smartwatch OS
I can’t get from the article what the habitants of Poundbury do. Looking at wikipedia [0] there’s around 180 local businesses, which doesn’t seem to be a lot for a whole town.

If the point is to show a real world city functioning around Charles’ ideal, it seems to be pretty far off yet. It still seem weird to have a city with a completion date.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury
No HotJava?
Thoughts on HTTP Instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
If you’re going to half-ass the thing, outsourcing might be better. But if you intend to do it right, you have to do it yourself.

Doing it right means achieving multipliers. Using each thing you do to improve everything else you do.

How do you improve your product when you’ve outsourced customer support? How do you align it with your business philosophy?
I routinely put one hand at the 12 o'clock position on my steering wheel to make a turn, and I'm willing to bet money that I'm not exactly an outlier. The product designer within me says that this is a classic case of UI taking precedence over UX.
You can’t give apartments away at market rates to fix homelessness because about half of the homeless people are too mentally troubled/addicted to be able to handle an apartment. So you still have to pay for security and now you also have to pay for people to come and clean the apartments.

Also, SF has indoor shelters and such. Including putting people in hotels. The tents, AIUI, are for people who wouldn’t be allowed in the shelters for whatever reason (like people with dogs or people who are using drugs very frequently, not allowed around children, etc.)
Russia is jamming European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellite
A starter Learning/practice recourse for basic maths
Why would young people need to be vaccinated if the elderly have the vaccine and are the primary vulnerable population?
open face shit sandwich
> Yes, it may be illegal, in civil court. It's the tort of "public disclosure of private facts". Under California law, the public disclosure of private facts is defined as (1) a public disclosure of (2) private facts about an individual (3) that would offend the average person, that (4) was not of legitimate public concern; and (5) where defendant published private facts with reckless disregard for their truth or falsity

It’s right there at the top. I’m actually kind of alarmed that you can’t see that.
They used to be called "Hoovervilles" [1].

San Fran can instead appropriate newly vacated office buildings and turn them into modern, high-rise versions. Because they've created the shithole that the city is now, it's frankly hard to give a damn how much more they befoul themselves.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville
It's definitely noticeable as a newly-adopted Helsinkian. I think I might have seen like 3 people on the street asking for change in the last couple of months. And it's the same 3 people...
Where I grew up in the US - Appalachia - in the 1980s and 1990s it was common to not lock your house or car. Crime was rare, murder was non-existent, homelessness didn't exist, and drugs weren't a problem yet. In my neighborhood everybody knew everybody else, all working class types (mixture of middle class and lower middle class mostly), it simply wasn't much of a concern.

Small groups of people with intimacy and a culture of low rates of crime. Violence or crime would make you an immediate outcast.
> Or maybe, you’re just coming up with excuses.

Where did I say that? Look up logical fallacies.

Why do you assume social systems are easily scalable? That seems like an a priori belief without any scientific support.
So I've been working on a online tool that makes it simple to practice basic maths. Its in its early stages and I'm plan to keep adding more questions types and content too it.

So currently have count, simple whole sum, powers and percentages. Some of them have settings to adjust the difficulty too so it can be made easier or harder.

There are currently some simple graphs to show your questions results and will keep improving on them as the site develops.

I want to make it easier for anyone to be able to practice and improve their mental maths skills. It's certainly helped me while I've been working on it

Hope this helps some of you
No, in this case the "scrum master" did tell us how long the tickets would take, because the cost had already been agreed with the client before we were involved.

It was a special place to work.
For more information regarding the OS being used, it is based on FreeRTOS.

https://www.gizmochina.com/2021/07/17/zepp-os-facts-about-hu...
> based on 4,820 U.S. adults surveyed by web

This is a bit much to call it " American's life ratings" based on 0.0013% of American population who we aren't even sure are americans.
"Knowing which numbers are capable of receiving SMS and which aren't has some value."

This isn't difficult - I wrote a shell script named "lookup" that will give me background info for any phone number I feed it and tell me what kind of number it is, what carrier it is, who it belongs to, etc.:

# lookup 415-333-2222

{"caller_name": {"caller_name": "WIRELESS CALLER", "caller_type": null, "error_code": null}, "country_code": "US", "phone_number": "+14153332222", "national_format": "(415) 333-2222", "carrier": {"mobile_country_code": "311", "mobile_network_code": "489", "name": "Verizon Wireless", "type": "mobile", "error_code": null}, "add_ons": null, "url": "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/+14153332222?Type=carrier&Type=caller-name"}

... which is very useful since I often send (personal) SMS from the command line and sometimes I need to know if a number can receive it ...

I'm not going to paste the entire script here but the meat of it is:

/usr/local/bin/curl -X GET "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/$number?Type=carrier&Type=caller-name" -u $accountsid:$authtoken

... and each lookup costs a penny or a half a penny or something ... I forget ...
> Our revealed preference

Is this revealed preference? It's clearly due to political drag, corruption, hubris, or something that is not necessarily preferences of individuals in SF.

It's not like people aren't trying. IIRC Marc Benioff (who I have no particular love for) donated 30 million to homelessness "research" to UCSF, and 17 million to various direct programs. Last homeless point in time count estimates 8k homeless in SF; let's round up to 10k; leaving aside the soft corruption that might have gone into that grant (come on, we have a probably 80% correct model of what causes homelessness), that's TWO PEOPLE who could have given enough money to go a third of the way to paying $1500mo/homeless person rent. estimating that the all-in cost for social services per person is a generous $1000/mo.... it seems that this situation is eminently solvable.
The hardest part of dealing with homelessness in America is that homeless people will migrate to the best areas to live and beg, which unfortunately also means that certain cities become targets to bear the brunt of the nation's homeless expenses, which incentivizes them to try to push out homeless to make other city's/state's problem. Finland is smart by making this a nation-wide solution.
Sure, smaller, simpler, more recyclable cars are good. But ICEs are a no-go for climate change reasons. It doesn't matter if they're more efficient than ever, there is no viable path to get them carbon neutral.
Not sure about the scam, but my bayesian bullshit filter is triggered by the "unlike all the evil for-profit corporations, we're a white'n'fluffy company aiming for the greater good".
There are many moral ways to eat I can think of:

1) Eat anything your body can consume safely

2) Only eat things without brains

3) Only eat things you hunt/harvest/prepare yourself

4) Only eat animals that are already dead

5) Only eat plants and animals that are invasive or over populated

And the list goes on. Some are easier than others, but I don’t see the moral dilemma in maintaining a certain diet outside of “anything or nothing”.
In fact initially Van Vleuten thought she had won when she finished and didn't knew that Kiesenhofer had finished ahead of her.
Linux does not crash anymore. Proprietary apps can though. Is it still on the OS?
> because pretending to be only a btc wallet means less regulation than a full payment provider.
It's not mentioned in the article because it just started, but I suspect we will achieve new highs with the Child Tax Credit.[0] It will likely have a massive impact.

[0]https://www.whitehouse.gov/child-tax-credit/
We could probably 10x the number of “handouts” as you call them, at least in the US, and nothing would change.
We’ve auditioned it already: $4T in stimulus, the $600/wk employment checks, etc. What negative negative impact really did that have on an average person’s day to day life? “Handouts” made pay rise for the first time in decades.

Even the landlords. I don’t know any landlords who are on the street because of the rent forbearance and eviction moratorium - and I don’t even agree with those policies.
I wasn't comparing the creator threshold with TikTok; that's a much bigger leap for me too (though it probably wouldn't have been when I was a teenager, if I was sharing stuff with people my own age).

I was comparing it to Twitter, Facebook and (original) Instagram, etc, in which a much greater proportion of users are posting content rather than just consuming.

It's the having time to think about what you're writing/posting that makes people more comfortable posting on those platforms. And of course you can hide behind an avatar on those platforms too.
Jacobin is not a publication worth taking seriously.
What's awful about the Cybertruck?
I'm against UBI, but at this point, we should just pick a low-risk state and do it, just so we can all see how it realistically plays out. Maybe I'm wrong and it's amazing and solves many problems. Or maybe it is disastrous, but at least it will be isolated at the state level, and we'll have an example to point to.
> Can we stop acting like these people are wrong or stupid

This is really hard to do given my conversations with most people in real life.

There is a shocking obliviousness to climate change, plastic pollution, economic problems, healthcare (personal and the system), philosophical/existential inquiries, etc. Not to say people don’t know climate change is happening - they just aren’t aware of any details beyond surface level memes.

Ignorance is bliss, as the saying goes.

But also a reminder that frustration and outrage drive content algorithms, so its no surprise that kind of content dominates the text based social media.
I wouldn't mind trying some other places tomatoes.

I believe a lot of grocery store heirloom tomatoes these days are hydroponic from Canada, might be worth looking into and sampling.
Famously "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published in the US as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" because some apocryphal market research said that US kids wouldn't get the reference and would be turned off by the reference to "philosopher"

While the title was changed I find it hard to believe a significant number of 8 year old kids had even heard of the profession "philosopher" much less had any opinion positive or negative.
No radios really exposed the poor racecraft of the Dutch riders. Seen some commentators criticising the no radios in OL (and WM) races, but I personally I think it is nice that it emphasize the skill of the rider and minimise the impact of SD's. Riders in the van Vleuten group, such as Uttrup, did know that there was a rider up the road. So it does seem that the mishap is truly on the Ducth riders.
People don’t lock their doors in many parts of America either like safe suburbs.

My house growing up couldn’t really even be properly locked up. You could lock the door but the first floor windows and sliding door on the deck didn’t lock at all.
That's a fun idea. Although over time this might select for plants that complain more. You could end up with an entire garden screaming for attention all the time.
Fair enough. But I haven't seen anyone describe these sorts of concepts in any other terms other than cloying cute folksy-funny stump speeches that tend to obfuscate things as much as they make them more accessible.

The relationships between labor and capital are not obvious to the naked eye, and are subject to a lot of different kinds of analysis. Trying to describe them with language from outside the field can end up missing the critical points.
I agree. Butterflies are pests that must go
Perhaps viewed differently: providing everyone with food, water, power, housing, and medical care takes a lot of unpleasant and coordinated effort and that needs to be paid for somehow.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-w...
>I don’t need that to buy any other stock, why would I need it here?

Those have much stricter legal and regulatory oversights which would be financially infeasible for a smaller entity to deal with. The law is to prevent people from losing all their limited life savings in scams.

>Hell, how does it even apply to people not living in the US in the first place.

Because it's a US company governed by US laws around hosting an investment vehicle. Feel free to invest in a company in a different country if you wish to be governed by different laws.
The trouble is that the times of land meaning anything are over.

In today's world of intangible goods you can produce without owning any land.

Why would multi-billion pharma company pay less taxes than a local farmer, because the land needed for offices to run bio-research is less than a small field to grow crops for couple families?
It's a bit early to mention this as its still in the works but we're trying to take the same premise of explaining complex things in "plain english" but specifically for AWS billing terms and concepts here:

https://handbook.vantage.sh/
There are also far fewer barriers to working with people around the world who don't demand nearly so much as you are, than there were in 1930. We could put some up, but it's not as just simple as saying "we want twice the hourly wage and half the workday".

Cheap international flights, instant high fidelity telecommunication, standardized container shipping, and streamlined trade with low trade barriers are just a few of the things that have made it less necessary to find workers locally.
You mean like that time he nearly closed every single showroom in the US to be online-only?

I'm seriously concerned that his mental health and ego have gone fully sideways and he is out doing what he thinks is cool rather than following any guiding light.
is per tent site === one single 'parking space' for one homeless person's tent? if so it's outrageous.

Even if it means say a parking lot for 20, that seems pretty crazy. You can just give $2k to buy an apartment, if you are puritan and have to control whether or not they spend it on substances just pay the landlord directly. Probably has to be a place that can get cleaned up easily though after they move on.
Her victory is well deserved, but from what I can tell in the Olympics isn't it the case that unless they're right in front of you contestants have no way of knowing if they're even winning? This could be a case of #2 and #3 falling from the lead and not even realizing they're #2 and #3, and rather thinking they're #1 and #2. If they knew their true positions it's possible the outcome could've been different.
Locking his work behind a paywall doesn't help.
Thank you Scientific American.
Agile != "work without a plan". Only morons and the misguided take it to mean that. Of course, many companies seem to be run by morons so I suppose it's reasonable to interpret it this way because it's become a common experience for many.
Hi, thanks for working on an ncdu rewrite! In case you're looking for feature requests, there are a few things I wish that were supported OOTB:

1. breadth-first search? sometimes most of the directories are tiny and when one with a lot of files is found, I'd like it to be measured as the last one. I think that right now directory tree is explored using BFS,
2. add a way to display currently calculated directory tree state. Not sure about ncdu2, but ncdu doesn't show much apart from the current item, number of files and total size. I'd like to be able to use the approximate information it has gathered so far

And once again, thanks for the great work! I really appreciate it.
The other thing that's "funny" to me with PHP is that they are adding features a few years after everyone. Right now they're really big on OO when lots of people are slowly moving towards more FP features.
> > Maybe in the database as stored procedures?

> I did this for the very first external web app built for Bankers Trust Company back in the day. SQL Server back end with (classic) ASP on the front end.

What, "(classic) ASP on the front end"? I thought ASP was a server technology; wasn't your actual front end, like, Internet Explorer?

Anyway, I did that too, twenty years ago, using a couple of Oracle PL/SQL packages. Weird dual-language meta-programming, writing SQL that spits out JavaScript that in turn calls the next PL/SQL-generated page...
No, the author mentions that there are exception and the argument stands. The most commonly illustrated butterflies, such as the viceroy definitely look dead in illustrations.
That's why it's housing first, not housing-only. Utah's successful experiment in it included using that housing to enable regular access to social workers and other services, for example; it's a lot easier to deal with a mental illness if you're not worrying about a roof over your head.
Lol it looks like Elon is just trying to live out his childhood fantasy of driving KIT from KnightRider!
In the US tax handling of employee discounts at least on physical goods is as follows: if the discount brings the price paid below cost, then the below-cost subsidy is treated as income received by the employee.

Concrete example: Company sells widgets for $12, of which $2 is profit. Then as long as the employee price is at least $10 there are no tax implications for the employees. If it were $9 they would owe tax on $1 per widget bought, etc.

That said, some companies will pay the relevant taxes for you, or at least try to by guessing at your marginal rate...
As a point of comparison, North America has harsh winters that can be difficult to survive if one is unprepared. Many (a majority of?) early European colonists died within a year of arrival for this reason. Indigenous peoples were instrumental in their coming to understand the cultural and behavioral changes that needed to be made for Europeans to survive in America at the technological level they were at. This did not foster a communal spirit, however; the general rule seems to be that European diseases decimated Indigenous populations, and many (though not all) of the survivors were slaughtered in land disputes. Curiously, there are cases up and down the East Coast of European-Native American integration; it would be interesting to see why they were different, and where the tipping point between true communal integration and simple appopriation is when survival is on the line.
(post script at the start, this is meant to be a bit faux outrage/tongue in cheek, I didn't realize my childhood dislike of brutalism was still so strong :D everyone has different tastes, it's not that big a deal etc)

I feel like this is just horribly pretentious stuff that I hear all the time in Britain from posh people. I moved to the UK from Romania, I grew up surrounded by brutalist apartment buildings. They're ugly and awful and everyone I know from back home agrees.

Poundbury looks quite pretty, I would enjoy living there. The barbican towers look absolutely hideous. They're literally too ugly for socialist architecture committees, our 1980s Bucharest apartment buildings look a lot nicer than that(and they're still ugly). Also brutalist buildings weather horribly, that sickly yellow mouldy look, you end up needing to repaint them every 10-15 years or just deal with the shabby look.

It all just sounds like "Oh no, poor people are mimicking the architecture of their 'betters' quick lets mock their plebeian tastes. You either live in a legit bajillion pound period home or a concrete box. Know your place, plebe! PVC windows gasp pearl clutch"

My post-socialist country working class taste says that if we are to have a standardized building style we could do far worse than mock georgian. No comment on the type of person that would want to live there, I can imagine given that it's a trial run it'll be some fairly "you have no authority here, jackie weaver" type folks. But in a random village/burb that's just styled like this, I think the people would just be average normal.
(Classes of) Algorithms Every Programmer Must Know About
The author of River has also done some fantastic talks, on Zig ShowTime [1] and at FOSDEM '21 [2].

[1] "Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig" - https://youtu.be/mwrA5IRGpfU

[2] "Zig: the perfect language for a Wayland Compositor?" - https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland
Landlords aren't going to be so keen on letting the homeless be shoved in their rentals when they'll likely be filled by non-homeless soon enough.
Luckily the Taycan has a nice steering wheel.
It might be interesting to recall that Alan Turing was an Olympics team contender for 1948~1949
Are amazon jobs the new McJobs?
What does the effectiveness of suicide have to do with the rate at which people attempt it?
C++ was hampered by the same safety problems C was. And Java had a VM and GC, which cripple performance and determinism. Rust solves both those issues.
> No city has managed to solve the homelessness problem with anti-sleeping architecture and police crackdowns, but they’ll keep trying.

That isn’t true, of course they’ve solved their problem using such measures…by pushing them to another city. For example, Bellevue WA will have the riot squad out pretty quickly if you so much as lay down on a bench, and it works since Seattle WA is right across the lake.
> Modern fans, PSUs, and PC cases are so good that it’s not hard to build an effectively silent PC that uses fans for cooling.

This is a lie. Or we have entirely different definitions for what silent means.

It’s pretty hard. I just did this with a pretty good budget. It’s taken a number of parts swaps to get to a truly silent PC.

Amongst the issues are:

- Lack of hardware/OS optimization. Coming from the Mac world, the coupling between hardware and software is much more loose. The driver quality is quite a bit more poor.

- Product variances. Eg. I had two fans of the same model that had different sound profiles.