skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Induced demand as a concept just doesn’t make sense. If demand is “induced” it just means that the supply wasn’t adequate to meet demand

Supply and demand aren't fixed -- they meet at an equilibrium price. There are latent trips that are canceled, change modes, or time-shifted to deal with traffic because of the high cost.

> The phrase “induced demand” is simply a part of the rhetorical war waged by anti car activists.

Induced demand is a standard transportation engineering concept. You might argue that it's been hijacked by the anti-car folks or whatever, but tramsportation engineers and planners who want to build car-heavy transportation systems are aware of and use it. They taught it to me in a very conservative civil engineering department.
Even those things you have decided provide marginal value employ people, and you never know where innovation will come from. Crypto is comparable to a ponzi scheme and is an asset with almost no real value, trading only on the greater fool theory.
At Christmas my partner’s family always struggle to know what to get me. One year I just said anything made of titanium. Everyone thought that was super weird.

Now I’m thinking it must have been the metal’s low density.
Haven't been, so I wonder how it compares with rural US, where, at least in some of the places I've been, people are quite intolerant in abstract, but almost universally friendly in person.
I'm salty that they where ever implemented in the first place.
I'm just referring to the previous comment. You have to be pretty overt to fall afoul of §130, blurred lines don't count.

(It says something about the intelligence of neonazis that the paragraph still finds frequent application.)
I’m reading a book called Working Backwards about Amazon. There is a chapter on metrics and it says to use the DMAIC process, which comes from six sigma, for developing reporting and metrics. The authors provide an example about applying this to e-commerce at Amazon. They don’t seem to use control charts, but they are still trying to examine the metrics for common vs special cause of variation.

If you can relate inputs to the outputs of a process and you can get reliable data on the inputs, then you can use SPC in most areas. The costs to do so many not be worth it, however.

Which managerial processes do you think this doesn’t apply to?
> A lot of people presume that if they put in a solid day's work they're going to do just as well as someone who is a "work-a-holic."

There are two kinds of workaholics - the ones who enjoy work and those who suffer from their work.

The article hits on the first kind in the passing

>> Of course, to work hard, it really helps if you enjoy your work.

Working hard when you enjoy your work is easier and might look like workaholism to someone who is definitely not. If work is play, you might play longer & that gets a lot done, because mistakes you throw away don't feel like wasted time.

The workaholic that people knock are the ones who work because it gives them positive feedback they lack in the rest of their lives - from an inattentive parent, disrespectful spouse or demanding children.

My work environment is extremely gamified and well designed to give me great feedback to improve, excellent rewards for performance and throw in some respect of my peers. The home life is Sisyphean in comparison - cook dinner today and it doesn't lie on a progression towards cooking less tomorrow.

It's easy to get sucked into that and work on a death-march, because it feels like progress on a daily basis. That "How we built Internet Explorer" tweet felt very familiar to me, because I would definitely get sucked into a mission like that.
I’m not trivializing history just calling out all the pundits who armchair complain about people’s good-natured blog posts.
You get user hostile software that treats people as sheep to be herded and monetised because of the capitalisation of software, not because designers are making their interfaces too easy to use.

Don't blame designers for that, blame VCs and Silicon Valley.
Worried about Child Porn for Consumer Product
I'm currently building out a social, consumer product that doing well so far, but my primary concern is underage users uploading NSFW photos of themselves, which would lead to Child Pornography issues.

How do I go about handling this?
Presumably in one of the basement spaces.
Warning in Hungary though, with Orban's government if you are not perfectly white, straight and Christian you might want to avoid it.
> The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared to antibodies acquired from an infection.

This seems like a remarkably specific criteria. Using my naive, computer-science brain, I would think that it's unlikely that a mutation would consist of exactly one change to the RBD amino acid sequence (compared to all of the other possible mutations). What am I missing?
I actually had the opposite reaction. A few months ago, I was researching a project involving a counterweight, and the periodic table led me to tungsten on account of its density. That was until I saw the price.

Ever since then I have been vaguely considering buying a tungsten cube as a curiosity. I am bemused to find that others on hacker news seem to have arrived at the same idea.
Correct: I'm in Gimpo, but it's not far from Seoul. Kind of like the Seoul metro area or a suburb. I can get to Seoul by public transportation (subway/bus) within an hour. And the fare is only $2-3.

And I was a little fast and loose with the KRW-USD conversion. I opted for the simple 1USD == 1000KRW, so the actual numbers are a little higher.
Colombia is a beautiful country, but I can't agree that the food is amazing. On par with British cuisine.
This raises an interesting question: is someone who is waiting for an effective intranasal vaccine to get something more like sterilizing immunity, and foregoing the less-effective vaccine meanwhile, anti-vax?
I lived in Albania for three years - it's not at the level of the other countries on this list. It's firmly a developing country - water, electricity and other infrastructure are not great in the capital and degrade precipitously in the countryside and second-tier cities.

It's a great place if you're adventurous - if you're looking for stability, it isn't the place for you. Upsides are that Albanians love Americans (as opposed to the Serbs, who often harbor a grudge) and generally speak at least some english. Prices for things like coffee, etc. are low.

Albanians also have not been very good stewards of their environments, either - litter is a constant, nobody gives an "F" about rules and regulations, practically all the endemic animals have disappeared, and waterways, including beaches, are quite polluted. Cities are a hodgepodge of chaotic construction and barely-functioning infrastructure.

I lived roughly here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3170299,19.8070025,3a,60y,24...

If that kind of scene excites you, perhaps Albania is for you.
Are you actually having trouble hiring, or are you looking at the claims of thousands of unfilled positions?
You also need to check on visa requirements. Usually you cannot stay longer than 3 month per half year in Schengen on a tourist visa. I read a while ago some countries have special arrangement with th le US, but either this expired or it is well hidden.
Worrying, nonetheless I am suspicious of why this message is being pushed again just as subreddits have banded together to speak out against anti-vax propaganda.
We ought to have the equivalent of crowdsourced semantic versioning and CVEs for products and reviews. As a consumer, I should be able to know _easily_ if any breaking changes have happened that could render a specific set of reviews or benchmarks obsolete, and just as easily if a specific issue is resolved in future revisions.

Too often I've e.g. bought an Amazon product I've bought before, only to receive Revision 2 that doesn't fit my case any more, but that the company silently rewrote descriptions for just to keep their review score.

I understand why people want to keep their review scores, etc, and to some extent they _should_ keep them, but not at the product level, when the product changes.
I hope I'm not too late to the cube measuring party. My friend gave me the 4 inch one for my birthday, and it's been a source of constant amazement ever since: https://midwesttungsten.com/tungsten-cube/?sku=40400-03914B&...

It weighs over 40 lbs and it's almost impossible to lift with one hand.

I haven't smashed anything with it yet
It’s not specific to tech, many fields have labor shortages[1].

There are a number of likely reasons:

1. The demand side of the economy picking up faster than supply. Many businesses were not producing during the pandemic. But consumers had few expenses and sat at home accumulating cash. When things open up, every consumer surges on the market and there’s no supply or people to fulfill those needs.

2 - Unreliable child care: schools and education haven’t been reliably open. Many are not going back to work cause they’re taking care of the kids.

3 - Many re-examining what they want out of life. There’s a lot of people that sat back and decided their prepandemic job wasn’t what they wanted out of life. Some moved industries, others retired early.

I found this article helpful when looking at reasons: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/politics/what-matters-labor-s...

1 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomspiggle/2021/07/08/what-does...
My grandfather had squatters like this, he basically used a gang that specializes in evictions. They burst into the home in the middle of the night, forcibly removed everyone and their belongings from the premises, and threatened the family with violence if they attempted any legal proceedings.

Crazy life in the countries without rule of law.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Completed Testing
Similarly, if missing pliers, you should be able to set it on a hard surface(like concrete or metal) and give it a few tough taps with something hard. They shatter shockingly easy.
I think that what will spur the use of bike lines is the surge in electric two-wheeled vehicles: e-bikes and e-scooters and such. Thanks, I suspect, to improved battery tech, those things are everywhere.

Bike lanes will not induce much demand if all you have is human-powered cycles. Maybe on sunny days, in flat areas.
Can one break in when they are on vacation and squat it back for 48 hours to reclaim?
> "If there are no exceptions and you have a function-call control flow, you can enforce that the only types the caller understands from the callee are the types in the signature."

This has historically resulted in either ignoring errors from sub-functions, because their error return type don't map properly, or returning generic "i got an error" without any more information about what the error was.

And all this was historically patched over by having verbose log files that could be written to from anywhere and the user had to peruse and try to make sense of after the fact.

Some franework tried to create complicated error code (like Windows COM) but in the end there is no free lunch. Errors are hard.
And when the evidence showed that this advice was misplaced the people who were making those recommendations, in good faith, STOPPED DOING SO.

I'm among them. Not that my own comments have a tremedous reach, but I take not intentionally being wrong very seriously.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/a654bef0b15c01385957002590d8e...

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3abaa5e03fca0138fcb6002590d8e...

Science isn't a pursuit of some ideological or traditional purity. It's a seeking of knowledge and truth. When evidence and understanding change, so does science.

What you're advocating for is a group of voices who seem collectively alligned at precisely opposing whatever the weight of evidence demonstrates at any given point in time. And I can assure you that this is a poor guide to truth.
Is there something like this for domestic health insurance (ie. no time abroad)?

Is there any risk they would drop you if you or your partner had a major illness or injury?
Online Web Development
Yeah, this whole thing has been a big eye opener for me and you've the nail on the head. Moving from iOS to Calyx involved reading up and a few things and that's a community that's much more disposed to discussing privacy related concerns that I simply haven't been aware of. It's a bitter pill to swallow and infuriating, the degree to which we're surveilled and manipulated. Went back and paid attention to the Prism disclosures. It's all just fucking mental.

> Why just make money off the sale of the product when you can continuously gather telemetry, personal information, track their location, their usage patterns, their contacts, their photo albums, metadata and browsing activity?

This is the key issue, it absolutely makes sense for them to do it. I'm one of those people who just hit "accept" but no more. My new answer to any company that continues to ask that question is simply... because if you do that, you lose the sale. It's frustrating that basically amounts to spitting in the ocean but I simply can't participate any longer.
> The generous 8192K glibc thread stack size isn't actually used on Linux with overallocation

Is it even (over)committed? The main reason for having a max stack size is multithreading, but I'm not sure why it should be committed at all. Surely, an unbounded single thread stack is not precommitted to infinity?
> No more getting slightly different result when changing platform, OS, or even just updating libm

Optimizing compilers are usually used with flags that cause them to break IEEE754.

Still, it would be nice if results from low-optimization runs might be bit-exact.
In which yet another Asian male from a Californian university lectures the rest of us on the importance of ‘working hard’, even as he draws a six figure salary from an institution that stands on land stolen from the Natives, while systematically marginalizing Blacks and Latinx. Math is indeed racist.
Some Northern California cities are literally out of water.

https://ktla.com/news/california/please-conserve-water-touri...

In the Monterey Peninsula area residential building permits have been restricted for years due to a persistent water shortage. That's been going on since well before the current drought.
Nobody is arguing that law doesn't exist.

That right does not allow employees to affect business deals. i don't understand where people get the idea it does. IIUC this is still untested in court, but it seems extremely unlikely that courts would conclude that labor laws permit employees to kill deals they don't like.

If that was the case there would be massive implications across the industry and it just doesn't jibe with basic understanding of how business in america works.
It's a great bit of advice.

It does also apply to companies who demand that their workers have bums on seats in an office 8-9 hours a day...

Companies often don't seem to understand that loading employees with meetings and bureaucracy, then wondering why productivity isn't higher, is fairly foolish.
I guffawed at "I do not believe that this is the first instance of the blue hyperlink since this color is cyan, and not dark blue."

No Blue Scotsman!

Tim Berners-Lee told Ben Shneiderman at the time that he was influenced by the design of the HyperTIES-based "Hypertext on Hypertext" project from the 1987 HyperText conference that the ACM published, which had light blue links.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28317104

>My students conducted more than a dozen experiments (unpublished) on different ways of highlighting and selection using current screens, e.g. green screens only permitted, bold, underscore, blinking, and I think italic(???). When we had a color screen we tried different color highlighted links. While red made the links easier to spot, user comprehension and recollection of the content declined. We chose the light blue, which Tim adopted.

>His systems with embedded menus (or hot spots), where a significant user interface improvement over early systems such as Gopher. But Tim told me at the time that he was influenced by our design as he saw it in the Hypertext on Hypertext project that we used Hyperties to build for the July 1988 CACM that held the articles from the July 1987 Hypertext conference at the University of North Carolina. The ACM sold 4000 copies of our Hypertext on Hypertext disks.
I would love to be able to bike to work. But I can't, even if there were bike lanes. I live in an American suburb, which by design is located far from industrial areas, where jobs are. Too far to bike. There are a few high-density residential buildings in the CBD, but they are only affordable for millionaires. The public transportation here is for show.

Two years ago, the highway nearby completed a 5-year widening project. During that time, traffic was so bad I had to check Google Maps every day to find out which route I should use. Now that the project is complete, I never check Google Maps anymore. I just use the highway without even bothering, as the cost to drive on it is now clearly the cheapest. My life is better in the short term, but eventually more homes will be built, traffic will increase, at some point I'll have to go back to checking Google Maps every day, and they'll start another road-widening project.

I've lived here long enough to experience this cycle first-hand, and nothing has changed logically that would stop this loop from executing again and again. At some point, I'm sure a physical limit will be reached. Either we run out of space, or run out of money, or something else.
> That's kind of a strange system. Any idea how it evolved there? Basically sounds like the landlord has to invest the money in such a way as to get a return that would be equivalent to rent but also safe enough so that they can return the deposit. I don't think I'd want to be a landlord there.

I was thinking the same, but here's another way of framing it: they're like real estate agents [1] in the US, except that instead of keeping a 2.5%–5% commission at every sale, they keep the capital gains. They may not need to invest deposits at all to make money.

To me renting under this system doesn't seem clearly better than buying. You're paying most of the money to buy the property, but it's not an investment. You can't come out ahead. But at least there's no risk or hassle of doing property maintenance.

[edit: no, I just saw yongjik's comment: "Under the 'jeonse' system, if the landlord becomes bankrupt, the renter is suddenly out of a large portion of their total wealth, and will be evicted by the new owner - without any money to find the next place. (There are insurances to protect renters but the risk is still there.)" I don't think I'd like to rent under this system at all.]

[1] and property managers who handle repairs and such, but that's probably not how they make their money at $50/month.
Are you working on anything interesting now?
Also funny that the US defense industry was very close to some of these concepts during WW2. Only to have the Japanese adopt them really efficiently afterwards.
I believe both these companies go to lengths to disable Intel ME & co (where possible). Raptor is a cool option if you have the money and want a desktop approach, but if you're after a laptop you're ultimately playing the game of "how much can I deal with binary blobs and proprietary bits".

Hell, for Purism's laptops it's not uncommon for people to shove in a different wifi card to get modern speeds - the card they use is used for being able to run with only open source drivers, which are old at this point.
>My point is that you respond to one claim with something else while cutting the context and pretending it is the same.

Here's the bit I responded to.

>Imagine in Donald Trump wanted non-whites to be forced on birth control in the US or if Israel wanted its Arab population on birth control -- there would be uproars and rightly so.

I don't think that questions changes much if you replace "Arab" with any other ethnic minority group in Israel. Black Ethiopians are an ethnic minority group in Israel, and they were given birth control against their will by the state of Israel.

>And as I already pointed out the article is pretty clear that there isn't actually convincing evidence, especially not against Israel (it seems to be about a possible rogue NGO or something?)

Israeli officials admitting they did indeed give them birth control isn't strong evidence against Israel? What about the source below?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ethiopians-fool...
Maybe you'll prefer one of the million articles about a passive £10k MRR, or how I sold my Twitter bit for an infinity billion dollar valuation, but this thread is about someone who spent a slightly disconcerting amount of money on an entirely inert, but hefty, cube of material and finds it pleasant.
Ah, sorry, maybe a bit unclear - I was referring to a smart watch that Nokia makes. From iPhone 12 with iOS 14 I moved to a pixel 4 with CalyxOS.
Appreciate the advice on this. Wonder if there's any hardware extras I can purchase that will ease the pain. Skins, adapters, dongles etc.
$50k is a bit less than double a median US salary.
normally when people try to overthrow governments, they bring weapons
Yeah, sounds fine to me. Immune system working as intended. I've been bedridden many times in my life, for weeks on occasion, still alive. Never been vaccinated. Every time society goes apeshit over "swine flu" this, "avian flu" that, I get a fever and sweat it out. I expect the pattern to repeat with "bat flu" now.

Salmonella was awful though.
I would suggest Vietnam but I don't know anybody there with gigabit internet. If you consider best case 100mbps good then here's my pitch

Move to a big city in Vietnam. Pay less than $400 for a 1 bedroom serviced apartment (they clean it ~3 times per week, usually they do your laundry). You can get vegan food pretty easily, it's hot in the summer but you can just stay indoors with AC or go to businesses with AC. Tons of mall and theathers. Movie tickets are $2-$4, double that for soda + popcorn. A cheap meal will be $2, even less if you have a light lunch (think bánh mì) for $1. I'd usually spent $5 per meal or more just to eat foreign food after getting homesick. You can live in a trendier part of town by paying slightly more and be within walking distance of trendy western cafes/restaurants. You can take a motorbike taxi (pretty comfy outside of rush hour) for $5 all the way across town (20km) and a lot less if it's a shorter distance. During rush hour I like to take a car and that'll be $10 for a 9km trip usually.

Plane tickets to other cities will be $40 one-way for vacation/travel purposes. Cheaper hotels $20/night and visiting beautiful beaches is very accessible. Travel to nearby countries (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China) for around $200 in airfare. It's a great staging ground for the area.

You seem American, so you can get a 1 year tourist visa (just need to get out of the country every 3 months, use it to visit another country for a few days) without any additional documents (no financial documents, etc).
Hah, thank you for the consideration, but you weren’t offensive in the least.
> The best way to eliminate car deaths is to eliminate cars, too. But obviously we're not doing that either.

As far as I can tell that is exactly the outcome the induced demand folks are hoping for, or something close to it.
A variant has multiple mutations which they call "single letter changes". It's not meant to say that there will be only one mutation per variant
My sister owns two shoe stores in LA.

It wasen't till she raised her prices significantly things got going.

Wealthy measure value by price. (I don't get it.)