skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the things we need to do is actively work at decoupling parking from specific buildings. We currently require x number of parking spaces per residential unit or per commercial venue and it helps keep us trapped in a situation where you need a car to make your life work.

We need to find ways to accommodate parking in a way that helps us be flexible and let's people who prefer cars keep them without making them a privileged class pushing out all other options.

We don't really talk about that. We talk in an either/or fashion rather than talking about how to make it genuinely optional and a personal choice. We expect everyone to get on the same page and agree rather than working on saying "We don't really need this much parking. The parking lots are never full. Let's scale back the parking and make it shared somehow so there's enough parking, not too much parking and it no longer strangles mixed use, walkable development."
The government controls the hash list.
Interesting. Especially that it uses a number of different "properties" (e.g., post code) to "fine tune" the calculation.
> India hosts 400% of humans of its healthy capacity; 150 people per sq km.

Urban areas in almost every part of the world have higher density. For example, New York City has 10,716 people per sq km, and Manhattan (a borough of NYC) has a density of 26,821.6 person per sq km.

So I'm not sure what you're point here is.
What value do you imagine Verisign provides? Verisign has nothing to do with .com's reputation. Most people have never heard of it. They didn't even run it until the peak of the .com bubble when everyone had already made their associations with .com.
This idea and plot are actually one of the "failed colonization attempts" in the revelation space series.

https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Amerikano_era
Ticketing (really, work tracking) needs to be adapted to each organisation. This is of course not a complete list, but some patterns I've seen:

- In a three-developer startup a ticketing system might very well be just needless busywork. You probably have plenty of urgent things to disprove so that you can iterate as fast as possible. Put them on a whiteboard, and make sure everyone is on the same page about what you're building every day.

- In an organisation where the tickets may live longer than someone's tenure a formal ticketing system may be necessary, if only to make sure long-term ideas are not lost or forgotten.

- In an organisation with more than four developers working on the same thing long term you probably need tickets just

- A lot of managers unfortunately don't realise how time-consuming and soul-crushingly boring it is to fill in every single field in an "advanced" ticketing system, like priority (just order things in the backlog!), severity (should be part of priority, not its own field), cost (ditto), deadline (ditto), sprint # (ditto dammit!), reported by (should be recorded automatically), and tags (who actually thinks those are accurate across the board and have the same meaning to everyone?). These orgs don't need an advanced ticketing system, but use them because they are more enterprise-y and that feels good to middle managers who care about visibility rather than productivity.

- Huge orgs which have lots of geographically distributed developers working on the same thing definitely need an advanced ticketing system, if only so different people aren't doing the same work in parallel.
My point is that just going through something doesn't make you qualified to know if that something was good or not. Doing research about the topic is important to complement your personal experience (or your lack of).

If you went to college and then tell people to not go to college, maybe you should try to talk to people that didn't go to college first to see how it went for them.
That joke is made early in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (by Douglas Adams), and is why one of the major characters is named "Ford Prefect".
This is possible, but the decision is coming from higher up. I can certainly see apple engineers thinking this would really work, by focusing entirely upon the singular problem and getting a chance to use fancy tech. But at the end of the day Timmy is the head cook, and decisions like this go against apples "mission", so, there's incentive higher than just the engineers.
US and China have relatively similar land masses, thus arguably similar levels of available resources. China happens to have a population 4.2 larger than US, thus 4.2 lower per capita resources. If US resource consumption is unsustainable, then so is China's.
I made an example storefront a few months ago and jotted down a plan in a bout of procrastination. I have a few thoughts on a pragmatic lazy (in the cs sense) approach.

If you or anyone one else is interested email me: ipodopt@pm.me
I think that's for files uploaded to onedrive etc. Not for all the files on any windows pc
There is some truth in this post, but it's also important to understand that in most of the places with very large lots, it is illegal to subdivide the lots and build denser housing. If greater density was legalized, it would almost certainly be built and inhabited in a great many places.
@alixanderwang - big thank you for posting this.

CEO/Co-founder of HumanFirst here. I'm both bummed to read this and surprised. Would you be open to sharing my email with the two people andy - at - gohumanfirst - dot - com.

I'd love to learn more about what happened and make amends. It's important to me that we get back to folks promptly and kindly and it sounds like we have a break somewhere in our process.
Making it system-only still isn't ideal. It then requires a full OS update to push updates to microg/playservices, cannot just update the app components if vulnerabilities are found in the wild.

I would like if there was stronger privacy laws or antitrust orders that force Google to open their service provider API's so people can choose alternative location/push providers, but this doesn't seem like it will exist soon.

For many users, it's going to be the best usability compromise to use minimal play services and use apps that don't send content over the push networks (signal is like this, element can be configured this way).
Yep, should be possible once MySQL/MariaDB is done.
LOL what a load of nonsense. Spanish and Polish are capped because Spain and Poland are capped. This woke garbage is so obsessed with remaking reality in the face of the self evident it's no wonder why no one takes it seriously.
I Am Mother (2019) is a great movie based on this kind of premise.
That business district would probably sit mostly empty if the density of customers isn't there. At best you'd get a strip mall with big box stores every 5km like typical American suburbs.

If you want a thriving business district with a mixture of local business you need to have density.
Not all Americans chose to live in the suburbs. Many Americans are finding themselves displaced from cities in to far out areas. This happens because demand to live in cities is causing increased rents.

I know there are people happily living in suburbia by choice. But there are also many government policies from restrictive zoning to an imbalanced 80:20 highways to transit spending ratio that has profound impacts on how people live.
I think it's hard to find because those two preferences are in direct, irresolvable conflict.
Commenter here ... meant to say 'The conceptual basis for languages is very similar'.
I guess it depends on which suburb. Some suburbs in Sydney are fairly liveable. Especially where there is a mix of housing, or, as much as I hate them, large apartment complexes. You can get all the things you need and have a few restaurants, all within walking distance.

Other suburbs, especially those huge “communities” with lots of cookie cutter homes seem really isolated. You have to drive.
>Putting more energy into a meta-stable chaotic system will greatly increase the number of extremes across the board

This doesn't really track. We're talking about adding less than 1% increase in energy.
Yeah it wasn't meant to be an analogy. For example consider a real murder video, is its posession illegal and does it mean its owner should be a murder suspect?
There's a great Canadian cartoon that explored that idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaHArkYLsM
Disney World has mosquitoes. Go to the store near the entrance and they'll even give you complimentary insect repellent. They do a good job of controlling mosquitoes, but they're not miracle workers.

EDIT: it looks like Snopes wrote about this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disney-world-mosquitoes/
The harm that parent alludes to is that in toxicity studies you only know it doesn't cause cancer after 30 years of exposure... after 30 years.

Those studies are incredibly expensive, and are the reason so many chemical companies merged.
Something I only recently learned is that zoning rules generally require housing developments to include a certain amount of parking. This drives up the cost of housing, because of the space required (either up or out.) Many cities are reducing or eliminating these requirements in an effort to make housing more affordable. However, it does mean that parking will become harder, as there will be more competition for street spaces.
On the one hand, they are lucky they didn't get shot. On the other the people who signed off on the physical access test probably are to blame, the sheriff answers to the county voters not a bureaucrat with printer. He probably should have followed up, but they did infact break they law and though it would have defeated the purpose of the pen test the sheriff, and city law enforcement should have been informed.
Ottawa, Canada is pretty good for this. It's a pretty small city but has a few neighborhoods that would be considered walkable, while in 20 minutes you can be out into the country. Compared with Toronto or Montreal where in 20 min if you're lucky you've entered a highway so you can sit in traffic for an hour to clear the city. Not sure about in the US.
I am wondering why you think a basic income check wouldn’t help anything, because it seems to exactly solve the issue you describe. You sign up for the check (or a lot of the times, get it automatically from the IRS), get it regularly, and buy food with it. Very little bureaucracy compared with food stamps. I agree that one must not call those who rely on the checks entitled and refuse them any further assistance. I think the best thing is to do what we can to help people get back on their feet or at least in a stable situation, and a basic income check would be only one (albeit major) element of that.

I concede that distributing the checks may be difficult to those without stable mailing addresses. Then it may help to for example allow distribution in cash at the local post office.

The pandemic stimulus checks appear to have had a tremendous impact in reducing poverty, see https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-government-program-cu..., at least based on the studies there. I don’t know what the path is for this becoming regular policy, but the proposed child tax credit is projected to greatly decrease child poverty (although it has its own problems, it’s tough to get people to understand it exists and how to use it).
You can't say how efficient it is without calculating how layer 2 scaling affects per transaction energy usage. You can do millions of layer 2 transactions that eventually settle as 1 transaction on the main chain.
Agreed. If we truly wanted them we would be willing to give up car ownership, single family homes, and suburban sprawl. I doubt that will ever happen in this hyper-individualistic culture. Hopefully it is uncontroversial by now to say that an enormous swath of American society does not believe in self-sacrifice.
Not recommended. Downloads are tailored to specific device models, and installing an operating system image intended for a different device model would not work and could brick your device. If your device is supported by LineageOS but not CalyxOS, LineageOS for microG is an alternative OS that might work for you:

https://lineage.microg.org
To say that trillion dollar companies are less likely to fail at security/privacy because all their decisions take into consideration the hypothesis of reputation damage seems simplistic. They also have the money to pay for damage control.
There's no reason for arrays to be objects if PHP wants to be a procedural language like C. In the days of PHP4 it was a procedural language and that design made total sense.

However nowadays nobody uses PHP as a procedural language, they use it as an object-oriented language. In that context it is extremely strange to have this procedural API still hanging around for "old" types.
The narrow streets with trees is essential. When I used to live in San Diego, the street next to my house, 1 lane in each direction plus parking, was at least 40 ft wide. It was treacherous to cross and obviously people flew down it.

Now I live in a temperate east coast city with tree canopies across the street, which in front of my house is only 19 ft wide. I know because it's narrow enough that I was able to use a normal tape measure. 19 ft accommodates parking on one side, with just barely enough space to squeeze two cars passing each other (though in reality they take turns, as at a narrow bridge.) Still plenty of room for ambulances and fire trucks, and ample space for the police to drive recklessly fast.
CalyxOS on a Pixel 5 with microG for the past month. The only two problems I've had have been that I can't install the CapitalOne app and I can't install any paid Google store apps. I have a backup Android phone (Unihertz Jelly 2) with LineageOS and Google Play Services / Play Store installed, which I haven't had any issues with at all. I don't use Google Pay, Google Assistant or Google Maps. Those three apps are my biggest pain points, but a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I do use Garmin Pay on my Garmin watch and the Google Maps web app.
Absolutely.

He will continue to be right until everyone wakes up and uses alternatives. Unfortunately the social inertia has caused people to stay because their friends are using it.

Given that the most overused words in services operated by FAAMG companies are 'privacy', 'security' and 'trust' one should question:

What sort of act or event will it take to get their complete attention in plain layman terms that it is so severe for the majority of users, that they now realise it irreparably violates all three of those words?

It would have to be far worse than the whole PRISM programme and this put together and motivate them to move to other alternatives. When that time comes, let's see who escapes before then.
Most cities are not dense enough to support commuter trains or subways. Building them where they are not appropriate will ensure citizens will have to pay decades bailouts to keep them running.

Dedicated bus lanes in downtown areas and variable-rate tolls on highways. The tolls would probably pay for the entire build-out in a couple of years.
People have this all-or-nothing thinking about this, but realistically most cities ought to have a mix. A single person in their 20s doesn't necessarily need or want a house with a yard, but they might want one later on. Right now, in most places that means allowing more options for apartments to be built, and more medium-density for people who are somewhere in between.
> A. The company which has thousands of developers working on it and wants to avoid their brand being dirtied by failures in security and privacy.

They don’t seem to be too much concerned about failures in security and privacy… Their entire business is based on dismantling of privacy, why should they be trusted more than companies that have alternative business models?
1970 makes sense if you’re picking an epoch and you are in the 70s - everything will happen “after” your start date but picking the actual current date doesn’t seem natural enough.

It’s like picking 2020 as the beginning of an epoch now (of course we’d probably fall back to 2000 as that’s a big round number).
I have the same experience. I live in a city where every place I need to go to is at walking distance. Rarely I take an Uber , an even then , is way cheaper than having a car loan, car insurance and gas expenses. Every time I mention this topic here in the US, people seem to get a little bit defensive, and say: "America is so great, that everyone can afford cars and no one takes the bus".
Thanks for the writeup. I'm still not a fan of APL due to its non-ASCII characters, but I like the link to https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.html that you provided.
When visiting family in Germany I really enjoyed the practice in smaller towns of having one large parking facility outside of the city center, and having basically no parking available in the city center itself. The psychological sensation was uplifting, because normally when walking in a city I am subconsciously aware of the ever-present danger of death by automobile and all of my movements reflect that.
Ah, yes, such bastions of wokeism as The Chicago Manual of Style.
A vaccine, a mask, and social distancing reduce the probability of getting sick. In particular, a vaccine does not make you immune, like some sort of cartoon superhero. Instead, a vaccine dramatically improves the response time of your immune system to infection. If you’re surrounded by the infected, you’re gonna get sick.

If we had high rates of vaccination plus dedicated masking & distancing we could kill this virus. Just like we eradicated smallpox.
Disney wages its battles along 86 miles of canals, service roads, firebreaks, power lines, fields and fences. They use the same two pesticides widely sprayed all around Florida that are considered safe by state and federal environmental authorities. Employees spray the same routes twice a day, far exceeding the routines of other mosquito districts in Florida.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2002-09-21-02092...

Plus chickens
Not sure what your argument is. We're talking about per capita emissions, not per country emissions, which doesn't even make sense. Why would an arbitrary grouping of human beings like a nation matter in terms of what emissions each individual should be allowed to represent?
Scammy: years of soliciting donations from the public without making it explicitly clear that none of those donations will ever fund firefox development, and instead go to BS projects like this and bloated salaries for under-performing busybodies in management.
Yes, I have completely misunderstood you :)
His discussion of how refactorings can be described as mechanical transformations is worth reading for itself. In fact, the logical, mechanical nature of refactorings is why there are tools that can do them automatically, at least in languages where the code can be statically analyzed for them.
Are you saying you invented paper!?
what function does the word "even" perform in this sentence?
Take it as a lesson in critical thinking and trust. I presume this is a lesson you already learned long ago, but clearly it's a lesson some people haven't learned yet, because a lot of people seem to have believed him.
IMHO, Unless everything being E2E encrypted becomes the law we can’t do anything about it because that’s not Apple’s initiative but comes from people whose job is to know things and they cannot resist keeping their hands out of these data collecting devices. They promise politicians that all the troubles will go away if we do that.

Child pornography, Terrorism? Solve it the old way.

I don’t know why citizens are obligated to make their jobs easier.

We survived the times when phone calls were not moderated, we survived the times when signal intelligence was not a thing.
On the SP side, I frequently see extremely short session lengths as the simple (but annoying) alternative to checking if a session is revoked.

GitHub requires SAML re-auth every 24 hours. AWS defaults to 1 hour but customizable. Do many SP’s even support SLO in a standardized manner? I believe there is a spec/standard for it, but I could be mistaken.
True. I was making a simple blanket statement that for most VC backed companies you can be sure the end goal is either acquisition or successful ipo.
Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications?
I need a simple service to send push notifications programmatically to my own phone. I don't want to make an entire app, but I am okay with (and know it will likely involve) downloading one. I don't want to use email or SMS. I want something like PagerDuty, but for myself. I want to send an API request and have my phone alert me the next second. Is there such a service?
Would this service notify parents if such a thing happened ? I haven’t see it in their official announcement.
I have been using LineageOS without google replacement libs for about a year. There is a huge amount of comments here, which is interesting in itself - clearly there is a lot of interest in de-googled Android. I worry about fragmentation, eg: if there are too many options will they get diluted without the larger user base. Many apps won't work without google libs. I would like to think that this puts pressure on app builders to not just blindly require google libs, but the reality is without a significant user base wanting it, the tradeoff will always side with the majority. Interestingly WhatsApp works fine - presumably because using your competitors libs is seen as a no-no. FB are no angels here, but I need WhatsApp for family chats.
How do you feel about medium density? I live in a neighborhood with some of the qualities you describe, and it has lots of small courtyard condos, and 2-3 story apartment buildings. These would've been illegal to build up until the last year or so, but I feel like they're not at all disruptive. I would say even a 5 story building on the main streets is fine in the kind of neighborhood you're describing. This gets you a lot of density without necessarily changing the feel of the neighborhood that much.
Based on what we know about the demographics of those actively choosing to avoid COVID vaccination make me think that they would differ pretty significantly from those who would volunteer to participate in a phase 3 trial.
Not opposed to a ranking on the left. Rank and score have equal sorting order precedence (one is derived from the other) so based on what I'm suggesting a golf leaderboard would look like:

-8 | 1 | Tiger Woods | [other columns]

Or:

1 | -8 | Tiger Woods | [other columns]
I think that would work well. A high-quality hash is designed such that changing a single input bit will flip approximately half of the output bits. So hashing both values will make it very easy for a human to spot whether the input values were different.
I haven't given them a close look, but there is a project called "zile" that - AFAIU - aims to create an emacs-like editor using Lua instead of Lisp. Which sounds amazing to me.

Also, there's another project to replace emacs' lisp interpreter / bytecode VM with GNU Guile, which started out as an embeddable Scheme interpreter, but apparently these days it is a JIT compiler that supports Scheme, Javascript, and elisp. Which means Guile-Emacs could absorb all of that elisp code without a problem, probably make it run faster, too, but also open the door for people that don't feel comfortable with elisp. More importantly, maybe, this project could bring people from different language communities together.

Again, I have not spent much time looking into the project, so consider all of what I'm writing hearsay. But things are happening.