skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found honeycomb ux quite dumbfounding for a new person. In general the ideas behind it are good. I guess one would have to spend a few hours reading documentation. This is similar to many other tools. Until then I can just look at ready made views posted by others. A modern SaaS company uses tens of different internal tools all with their own query languages so intermediate users can't reasonably be expected to know them all. Yet these users would like to answer their own questions by doing somewhat customized queries.
Will give it a try. Thanks :)
> The homeowners will vote down every new apartment complex, every new developer plan, every rezone.

Homeowners don't get to vote or have any say on such things. The city planning commission will approve, or not, whatever they will.

In the rare case where a vote is relevant, every resident gets one vote regardless of housing owner or renter status.
Canada, Russia and China seem to be the big winners of climate change. It will be interesting how that changes geopolitical dynamics.
I never realised how ugly it was before[1] ... I guess they tried to hide it with a John Lewis[2]

1. https://canmore.org.uk/collection/371251

2. https://i.imgur.com
The part I find most interesting is https://longbets.org/9/ . There is enough uncertainty around COVID that we can't be sure who won.
Not sure what you mean with a "$1 millon company", but there are lots of single founders creating very profitable companies, check out indiehackers.com.
CargoLifter tried that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter). Founded in 1996, went public around 2000 followed by insolvency in 2002. Their production hanger is now a tropical holiday resort (https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/).
What's new for Qovery in August 2021
This might be bad news for ARM shareholders, but it's good news for the rest of the world.

When a market leader like ARM is forced to compete against last year's products sold at rock bottom prices (as Arm China will presumably do), it spurs serious amounts of innovation.
"Japan's health minister says otherwise"

This is simply an "advisory" by the CDC... Nothing more and nothing less. On another note, who are "they"? Your comment leaves me a little confused.
The machine is a 4 year old, very lightweight laptop, running Ubuntu, with Chrome.

I'm regularly seeing 500ms on page loads. Very frustrating when you open pages in new tabs, but they're not loaded when you go to switch over.
Killing with kindness: Does (feeding) wildlife (impact) biodiversity?
I was using bridges to migrate to Discord, so…

Guess I’m back to IRC.
I would avoid coastal communities. Wealthy beachfront owners will likely find a way to socialize their losses, either by getting taxpayers to fund coastal armoring or via direct bailouts. Alternatively there is the risk that property in those areas becomes uninsurable and by proxy unbankable. Hard to predict which way it goes, probably will depend on the individual community.

Probably better to buy cheap arable land
somewhere in the north that is projected to get warmer and has access to lots of water.
The problem with many town centres though is that they were never designed to accommodate a large volume of cars. Placating car drivers has the effect of alienating pedestrians so you lose either way.
As often, there are multiple sides to the story of Arabic clans in Germany. A journalist and a member of a Clan-Family sat down and did a 12-part podcast to try and clear up with some of the preconceptions people have about these clans. It's called "Clanland" (in German).

I don't want to play this awful heist down, the podcast gave me some perspective to clan structures in Germany though. What the thieves did is absolutely appalling.
I would say that it is confusing to anyone else apart the people from the UK, "public" is usually understood as "public" (as opposed to "private").
I believe DLib's tracker is based on tracking hand-made features - probably Cmashift or similar (similar to HOG features on their non-CNN face detector). I'd note that it hasn't been updated sine 2018 as well.

That means the accuracy will be a lot lower - although it will be fast.

But the Roboflow tracker is using OpenAI Clip, which seems a complete overkill and will be pretty slow!

Something using a lightweight object detector should be much faster. This post shows how to use YOLO, which is the first things I'd try would be: https://github.com/yehengchen/Object-Detection-and-Tracking
What's the case for not transitioning to npf if you are using NetBSD? There's always inertia, I suppose, but are there positive reasons?
In Sinsheim/Germany there is a Tu144 on display right next to a Concorde. It really is a sight to behold and the museum is IMO a great place to visit (if you are a nerds).

Here is a photo of the beauties:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Concorde...
> However I didn't know that the portion payed by the employer was subsidized by tips!

It's not, at least not legally.

What DoorDash did was basically the same as having a tipped minimum, on a per-delivery basis.

Basically, they promised a certain amount of money for each delivery, along with a minimum payment of $1. So if $1+tip was smaller than the promise, DoorDash made up the difference. If the tip was really big, then the driver would get exactly $1+tip.
The value of Google Maps is real-time traffic data, because this affects navigation heavily. Osm is nice for biking and walking, but not for driving by car.
You nailed it — the primary value of these marketplaces is the consumer facing ordering technology, not the fact that it’s a marketplace.

This is an excerpt of a recent article that explains my thinking on it a bit better.

There is little (or even negative) value for restaurants from marketplaces in this industry. In many industries marketplaces like this make sense.

Typically, they make sense when discovery is very important, when there is little repeat usage of the discovered service or when there are multiple disparate services involved.

Travel is a good example here: it makes good sense for a consumer to use a marketplace to discover a hotel and a car rental company when they book a trip to a city they’ve never been to and likely won’t go to again for a few years.

And it makes sense for a hotel to list on a marketplace as it’s impractical for them to market directly to consumers from around the world in the off chance that they will visit the city the hotel is in.

There are very different dynamics at play in hospitality. People tend to order from two or three takeaways in rotation as opposed to discovering a new one each time they order.

They also tend to order from one located physically close to them, and they usually can be efficiently marketed to by this takeaway directly, both via offline methods such as walking past the store each day, getting flyers in the door, and online via search and brand marketing.

It is also rare that a consumer needs to make multiple purchases from separate services to order their food (they don’t, for example, usually need to order a taxi to collect the food after ordering it).

The value that restaurants get from joining a marketplace is the consumer-facing online ordering technology that they get access to, but not from the fact that they are getting it from a marketplace.

There is a lot of negative value for a restaurant in joining a marketplace (i.e., it causes them harm) as they end up sending their existing customer base away to a 3rd party who is incentivised to move the consumers away from that restaurant and over to one who will pay the marketplace more for the orders.

Disclaimer: I’m cofounder of flipdish.com that provides direct ordering tech to restaurants.
> Am I wrong to be concerned?

How do you feel if you substituted "tobacco" in your sentence?
Last I looked, Ocaml's upcoming effect system is untyped, so doesn't really belong in the discussion.
His other blog, Boing Boing, used to run a ton of anti facebook content with Like icon under every single one of them. I got banned from commenting for pointing that out :-)
> This does not conflict with trying to slow it.

It can, though, so we need to be super careful. It's basic human social dynamics: once someone starts making money from mitigating a problem, they become invested in perpetuating (or even worsening) the problem.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when your lemonade stand starts raking in serious cash, you suddenly want to make sure everyone is being given lemons, so you can buy them up and sell even more lemonade.
Precisely! I've linked a great article from Vox about how home ownership changes people. In a nutshell, most peoples' largest asset is their home, so they have strong incentives to protect its value. Because the housing crisis is fundamentally a supply crisis, it also causes them to take on a scarcity mindset. This leads to your classic NIMBY behavior, wherein homeowners show up at city council meetings to oppose literally anything going up in their neighborhoods. The end result is that NIMBYism does prop up home values, but, mostly because existing homeowners oppose the building of any more homes in their neighborhoods, thus perpetuating the crisis that caused them to behave this way.

You can read about this, plus some background on relevant research here: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22597947/homeowner-nimby-affor...
Is this snark about the Columbian exchange or climate change denial?
Dan does put dates... with month-level granularity and only in the home page: https://danluu.com/
If you ever get around Sinsheim in Germany I would highly recommend a visit to the Sinsheim technology museum they have both a Tupolev [0] and a Concorde on top of their roof together with a lot of other interesting exhibitions.

[0]: https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/tupolev-tu-144
I don't think there is so much, the distinction between "caused by" and "discovered there" escapes most people in casual use

Imho the reason this time it was different with terms like "China flu" is not that it's generally unacceptable to nickname an illness by it's region of first discovery, but that Trump was actively using this terminology to push an agenda
Nobody has a right to commit crimes. If they do, the police should deal with it.

What I was referring to about rights is people have a right to do as they please as long as they are not infringing on other peoples' rights.

Rights also apply to legally competent adults. For people who are not legally competent, the state is empowered to make decisions and force it on them, though of course this is a dangerous tool.
> And then when they defecate on your doorstep and urinate on your porch, what do you do?

Those are crimes. Nobody has the right to commit crimes.
I remember buying a toaster 20 odd years ago. I had to drive 5 miles to Currys, decide which of the dozen or so toasters on display would fulfil my needs, ask a salesman to get one for me and then suffer the hard sell on the benefits of an extended warranty before I could pay for it and return home.

Buying a TV would be a similar experience but would involve visiting 3 or more stores to compare models/prices. The chances of returning home with a TV were slim though - at best it would be delivered a day or two later.

Some things have improved at least.
An advisory saying "there's no proof it works and many people are being harmed". They are "signaling" their position and putting doctors who disagree on notice that they are acting against official advisories.

They = The public-private partnership (NIH/CDC/Pfizer/Moderna/JNJ etc) that grants themselves monopoly license AND total legal immunity. Must be nice.
It makes me pretty sad to read this. I always liked their no compromise approach with regards to security. Seems they took Haskells' "Avoid success at any cost" literally.
On the other hand my nearest reasonably sized town has free parking yet the department stores have still closed.
In my experience the UK is doing fine with cars. Lot of people walk compared to around here in Bulgaria where everyone must own at least one 20 year old clunker blasting all kinds of nasty clouds and sound.

People don't even walk to the store on next street and the fucking sidewalks are used for parking.

Not only people don't mind, the vast majority seems to love it. Man, it's so depressing.
If you don't like the "meta" in the title, have a look at https://yacy.net.
Yeah, you know it's almost like those SROs that basically don't exist anymore actually served a purpose. That type of housing is perfect for getting people off the street and into a warm bed at night, while not imposing very many restrictions on them.
You must have missed the part about asteroid mining. Some asteroids have more platinum than the entire planet of Earth and SpaceX is the only company on track to have capabilities of asteroid mining. Just think about that for a moment.
There will be no winners of climate change.
Thanks very much for writing this article and for describing very eloquently something that I to have observed but hadn't been able to articulate.

The really scary thing, from my perspective at least, is that I have, in a few different places, seen a drift over time from the lean style to the corporate style. A start-up grows into a larger company. A layer of middle management is hired. The HR department becomes more than one person. Now there are processes that need to be followed... The lean management style that used to work doesn't work any more. The sort of feedback that used to be welcomed is now seen as negative. I've witnessed quite a few people get burned out and have to leave companies that they used to be successful in. I guess knowing is half the battle so thank you for writing this great piece.
Give pyinfra a try

https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra
Welcome to Belgium! There’s a multitude of examples. :)
Another reason for the implosion in US department stores was the poor decision about twenty years ago to make all stores owned by Federated Department Stores (which included Macy's, May, Marshall Field, Hecht's, and others in different parts of the country) to be rebranded all as "Macy's". That may have saved them a bit of money, but it destroyed consumer loyalty. People from the Chicago area had fond memories of Marshall Field -- they had no connection to NYC's Macy's. Same thing for Hecht's in the Washington DC area and others.
Every euro invested in nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse
Intervals are the square of the distance, so not quite, but… yes.

There’s a tendency to treat spacetime intervals as something abstract and possibly metaphysical, because we can’t see or touch them, and they work counterintuitively.

They’re actually the opposite. Our normal experience of 3D space is what is unphysical; the (square root of the) spacetime interval is simply distance, measured in meters. Or seconds, of course.

The literal, physical distance between an absorption and emission event is always zero. Reality is non-Euclidean. The Manhattan distance is larger than the actual distance, which is usually true anyway.

Well, I suspect I just spent a lot of words telling you something you already knew, so I’ll leave off with a book recommendation. Dichronauts, by Greg Egan.

Between that and the Clockwork Rocket trilogy, I don’t know a better way to inculcate an intuition for special relativity.

One is set in a 2+2 spacetime; the other in 4+0. The differences are instructive.
without paywall: https://archive.is/hGg5T
It's user friendly /s
Game developers tell a different story.

But you can find on net whatever you seek, whatever you are looking for.

> Which is why as GC algorithm reference counting is only for toy implementations.

That's what I heard from last decade. And then experience has outgrown likes or dislikes.
Yes, and it comes off like a cringe meme, probably because of the Shrek thing. It's not something that suggests a sophisticated security tool. It's not even a good pun or play on words. The branding is just bad.
Understanding long Covid: a modern medical challenge
I never said that TLS "cannot be surveilled," nor did I imply it in my two short sentences. I simply laid out a technical requirement to carry out such an attack.

For attackers to passively surveil TLS en masse, they'd need to MITM those connections. That in turn requires rogue CAs signing the attacker's certificates in large numbers. If that happens, the public would notice and the CAs involved would be permanently banned. Not sensible if the attacker's goal is to carry out persistent mass surveillance.

Much easier to just obtain the emails directly from few popular email providers instead.
Interesting part of cold war rivalry between the US and USSR amusingly won by Europeans.
The American Concorde never even left the design stage so at least the Tupolev got that going for itself.
No, because when you appeal to how unjust it is for CEO to be paid much more than workers from a factory, you are repeating the key piece of Bolshevik propaganda.
This reminds me of the words in the video "Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)" [0]

> At the very bottom are plugins, extensions, mods and hacks. They fundamentally depend on the indifference or obliviousness of a larger company, who they often mean very little to. And when their goals differ the larger company always wins.

Any third-party dependent on another party will be at the whims of the other party. yt-dl can see it happening with age-restricted videos, people using tools to migrate from Spotify depend on them turning a blind eye to leaving customers taking their data with them, fan-made games that continue a story (pokemon for example) and get a cease-and-desist, probably many other examples, and now this too.

Kudos to this dude for writing an entire framework for bots as a friggin' doctor in his spare time. Hats off for staying at it for so long. Also, respect for drawing a line in the sand and not giving in to any demands from Discord or users to just lie down, take it, and continue developing the framework with more constraints.

[0]: https://youtu.be/mviTS_cIWXg?t=277
True, I used to have an office in small town centre with both cheap parking (£1.20 for 2 hours) and free parking (for 1 hour).

The streets are gridlocked every day with people driving into the centre looking for an elusive 'free' space.

Whenever I complained people would say it was necessary to bring trade into the town despite the fact that half the shops had already closed down.
Koka looks very promising to me. I wonder why it’s not getting more attention. Probably because of being research at this point.
Wissam Remo, who did the heist, was in court for the theft of of the big gold coin from the Bode Museum, but later they freed him because of reasons of 'court economy' (article didn't explain what that is) and because he had to care for his father. They didn't even keep him in custody because there was no 'risk of repeat offence', so he just did the heist while waiting for his day in court.

How they stole the gold coin; just got into the museum with a ladder and took the thing; and that was a 100kg whopper of a coin.

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/einbruch-in-bode-museum-u...
I mean, what else are we expecting of proprietary services? No matter how friendly they seem, it's their platform.
There is probably a deeper connection between the clans and the german law enforcement and (counter) intelligence agencies. That would explain the sometimes absurd leniency.
It's tumblr-powered, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Why do you mention Microsoft

Because of the backward compatibility, Solaris/illumos is maybe comparable.
Xi does not want anyone to come even close to his uncontested level of power.

That is quite a hard ceiling for the future of capitalism in China.
I agree with this. Causality doesn't have much in the way of advanced math or statistics, but there is a fairly large volume of material to go through, which is its own challenge.

A lightweight introduction to Pearl's ideas is the epilog of his book, which is also his Turing award lecture. Here's a pdf scan, there's also video of him giving this lecture up on the internet if you prefer: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/causality2-epilogue.pdf
Sorta kinda. Most people just went with some variation on "software engineer," but I don't think anybody really inflated their title beyond what the norm would have been for their experience level.

Now that I've read what @noir_lord wrote about how it's helped a bit career-wise, I may go back and revise my title to "Code Slinger" or something. After all, given the policy, it's not like they can really call me on it. ;)
Aren't we, now?
پرس بار و کاتر در دستگاه تسمه کش و کاربرد آن
Siberia has just had the largest forest fires in recorded history anywhere on earth. Permafrost is meling causing sinkholes and collapse of building as the earth shifts. Swaths of forest are turning into swamos and releasing massive amount of CO2 in the process
Ah, no, sorry.

What I meant was that what we call mind has a problem with focusing on itself and consciousness as the object of its studies, questioning itself in the process.

I used the metaphor of the double mirror to make my point about this problem.

A natural-historical anlytic tool used to gather food, hunt prey, find shelter, mating partners and allies.

Not only in a biological environment, but also in a social one.
Some argue even the social is the more important.

In short, to survive primarily by modeling its environment in relation to its own goals.

Very late, this tool of the body and its needs presents itself in these models as a problem to be explored.

The tool processes itself.

This is revolutionary because it gives it incredible new possibilities and freedom.
And, it is as dangerous as any revolution.
Sawing off the branch on which it sits.

That is one mirror, the other is what is called the reality outside of the mind.
The problem of what that is that the mind tries to represent in his models.

Personnaly I decided for myself against a dualistic structure of reality and a fundamental difference between mind and matter.

So the origin of that dualism is in the mind.
A perspective which leaves two problems.

First, I still do not know what reality outside the model is and second, what daoes it means that with the developement of the mind, the universe became dualistic, because dualism ever since became part of it.

Infinite regress, infinite mirror.
It’s nice that you can do it with your wife, having a trusted close person to keep you company probably enriches the experience.
Officially perhaps but nobody in Flanders cares about Brussels.
This is location-dependent: in some countries (France? UK?), 35 hours a week is full time.
About them getting the social security money in a lamborghini, lets not forget the other side of the coin: many of the original clan members never got a legal status in germany after immigrating. They were just "tolerated" and never could legally work (except when in prison). This is what created the clan economy in the 80s.
How is house value estimated?

If it’s based on square feet and some sort of local average square foot price from the last 12 months then fine.

If it’s based on individual assessors deciding your blossoming cherry grove and a charming mid-century atmosphere likely to appeal to young professional couples then… I’d rather the tax be based of the actual price for which the house last changed hands.
Prosemirror[0] implements blocks like notion, and has a MIT license. Mind that it's not super intuitive stuff, at least for me, but it's a very powerful API. There are react implementations in the wild.

[0] https://prosemirror.net/
Thank you! Indeed there are no tests. I'm not familiar with testing in Django or web apps in general but I want to add some once I figure out what and how I should be testing.
Clearly humanity's transition to post-scarcity has been... uneven. Here we have a petri dish containing an actual lack-of-scarcity within which to observe the development of a communist-ish "market". I, for one, welcome this new reference point from which to extrapolate.