skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure of the point of this comment, other than textbook whataboutism.

And mission accomplished. Almost all the comments in the top 50% of the page right now aren't talking about the topic of the OP, but rather the distraction from it.
Do you have evidence to support this? The effect of widening highways used to support "induced demand" typically seems to hold up.

You may also want to read up on induced demand in more depth, because it's about where the demand is, not about how many people are driving cars.
Eh, it's both. Other departments don't necessarily focus on security (and leetcode is certainly an idiotic way of hiring, IMO). But even in my department (where we explicitly don't use leetcode and do prioritize based on security expertise and offer a huge premium for it), we are significantly under our target headcount because finding devs (or any other role) that understand security is very, very difficult.
Sorry, I should have been more clear in my post. I meant to say that, if I no longer want to support Apple (or Google) because of their behavior, are there any reasonable smartphone options available? It seems to me that this is the only way I can protest against what Apple is doing.
it just doesn't make sense to allow rent increases past 5% in a world where wages remain nearly constant for the working class
+1 for nomadlist, a great community has already done all the hard work on this subject.
Paraguay. Cost of living $300/mo in Asuncion. You can get permanent visa allowing you full rights to live and work for life by depositing 5k in local bank.
Friends and family.

The billing is so consistent I just get a check every year from each person. I pay for my parents' lines. And my sis/BIL pay for theirs in one check. I round up a few $ for admin fees.

A completely fantastic deal for the everyone. Would not have been possible with Verizon or ATT as their bills had so many gotchas and varied every month.
> As long as GPUs are profitable for mining

What crypto currencies are still profitable to mine with GPUs? Not bitcoin - mining btc went to ASICs long ago. Not Ether which is now POS.
My understanding was in those days copy and paste was a literal thing, so I guess what eventually went to the printer might end up being a frankendoc of sorts …
(Author of the article here.) I agree that it's somewhat unsatisfying that the output of all this is an enormous table of numbers rather than some nice simple rules.

I think it would be interesting to try some of the methods for approximately solving MDPs on this game to see how complicated the machine learning model that approximates the value function (or state-action function) has to be to get reasonable accuracy. Maybe some simple rules would emerge...
Miners? Not a chance. They know exactly what they are doing for decentralization and censorship resistance. It requires large capital investment over many years, and often includes long energy contracts with providers. If you believe mining Bitcoin is 'quick easy cash' I am afraid you are mistaken (in 2021).

Some Retail investors? Sure -- but I'm sure you could find misinformed investors in all fields.

The point nocoiners miss is that holding Bitcoin IS using it. It is storing value over larger periods, and especially through jurisdictions with poor fiscal policies. Many like me will not sell their Bitcoin at any price -- especially not for dirty fiat.
They've already used it as a policy template in East Turkistan. The same guy who pacified Tibet is the same guy who has put millions in concentration camps in East Turkistan.

Uighurs who have fled from there to Afghanistan are not happy with recent developments

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/afghanistan-uyghurs-...
> In my case I have a "fear of getting started".

There's a book by the guy who ported R-Type (an old arcade game) to the ZX Spectrum (an ancient 8-bit computer). It doesn't look like much today, but at the time the port was a huge technical accomplishment (the arcade game had special hardware for sprites, tiles and scrolling, while the Spectrum was underpowered even by the standards of its era). I like this quote from the book:

> I'd been working on the game for about two and a half months and I knew I could handle everything to come, I didn't know how I would but it was that psychological boost at work again saying "oh you'll work that out when you come to it, don't worry" - so I didn't. If you're not careful you can spend more time worrying if you're capable of doing something rather than trying it and finding out for sure, something I've unfortunately seen happen to other game coders and the half completed programs they've left behind as self-doubt overrode everything else.
> "We don't have gulags," but in the same breath, "if you are 'lazy' it is not our fault that you ended up in the projects."

But that's like saying "we don't have torture, but if you don't help, you're not getting any cake". Yes, living in social housing isn't great because of your neighbors. But it's much better than being homeless. And it's much, much, much, much better than being in a labor camp.

Nobody is stopping you from walking out of the projects. Guess how that works out in a Gulag when you say "thanks, I'd rather live in the forest".
Only the made-in-USA version costs $2k.
Meta: I'd rather see some kind of mark indicating lots of downvotes rather than grayed out text. It really hurts my eyes trying to read gray text, and it is very frustrating. Oftentimes downvoted comments have value but go against some particular groupthink.
Purism is downstream to some of System76's coreboot work iirc
Well, I'd say it's a bit funny to call something evil when a lot of people would die if it disappeared tomorrow. It's very easy to criticise the costs of modern life when the 'evil' is displaced onto someone else. But the truth is, it's a much more morally grey area than we like to admit. And it's hard to opt out of this 'system', but not impossible - I'm sure the Amish would take converts, but not many people want to go that route.

It's an appealing story to say that the O&G economy is the villain and all the people participating in it are innocent, but the truth is, we know how to live in bronze age societies. This 'evil system' doesn't stick around because it holds us prisoner, it sticks around because most of us prefer the lifestyle. And a story that absolves us of responsibility for participating seems like just another defence mechanism the system has built up.
If you expand a road, there will be greater usage because demand soaks up supply.

However, cars are big and takes up a lot of space, especially since people regularly drive sedans that seat only one individual with max capacity for four to five people. This requires a lot of space to support cars.

Of course, you can continue to expand roads. Problem with that idea is that the roads displace other uses of land such as homes and businesses.

Roads increase utility of cars, for sure, but that comes at the expense of everything else.
I don't care whether the argument is yours or the article's, I'm addressing the argument.
Google and Apple have been playing cat and mouse with their map data for a while now, with Google's newest version only existing in four cities: London, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo.

Are those the only cities Google cares to fully support, or does creating new and more detailed map data take a while to roll out?
Have you looked at umetric from Uber? Does that serve the purpose?
This is a very false premise. Water is no reason to not have a fab, just like Japan builds semiconductor & nuclear plants in a seismically active zone. So does Israel in a dessert.

India receives way more rain than it requires even in the drier parts, the problem with soil degradation and deforestation that came with unchecked "modern" agriculture.

The productivity & economic benefits from a FAB and semiconductor ecosystem in India will far outweigh any negative, putting a plant close to a nuclear plant and a massive desalination plant to ensure both power, water as well as security will do the job.
32-bit floats are sufficient and desired for performance in many cases, like graphics or audio. 64-bit floats are not enough in some cases, like galaxy-scale coordinates or nanosecond precision over long time periods or some currency calculations. There's no single best answer, you have to know what your requirements are.
ArXiv now displays citations in context from scite
Southern Italy. You can live in a small but beautiful village in the south (e.g Sicily) or any seaside village during autumn/winter.
If you like mountains you have to go north (Dolomites) but it’s harder to find a small village for 1k/month in winter.

Obviously living in big city like Milan or Rome costs around 1500-2000€/month for living.
Storage limitation: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Personal data breaches: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Right to erasure: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Right, and maybe for the next generation of search engines it'll be something else again. Having the most query/clickstream data is what counts now, but there's no guarantee it will always count the most.
That land is probably billions years old. I fail to see how it can belong to one tribe of people.
Social media giantsprofit from animal abuse
PDF:
https://8db0f3ba-2353-4948-8498-b09d7964c3a5.filesusr.com/ug...
Is the takeaway here supposed to be colonialism is good when a government you support does it? You know, in the US, they used to call it manifest destiny...
The medium to broadcast ads has simply shifted over time.
It used to be expensive tv ads, billboards, and print.
All very expensive and you could not target population segments precisely, it was limited to what time or during what tv show the ads were shown, or in print political leanings.
Retargeting was almost impossible and expensive.

Then people started watching less tv and reading less newspapers(or did so online). Then JS got mature enough to track users and then the marketing departments started instructing the devs for maximum efficiency. At the cost of user ui/ux. Almost every web page loads ads via ajax , consents popups, email list ctas with a lot of bloat.
Nobody knows how to fix it, or the financial incentives are just not there.
That is exactly my point. There is an opportunity cost in keeping a large deposit (lost interest/investment opportunities). However that opportunity earn a certain APY in order to be a better "investment" than the housing deposit (a penny saved is a penny earned):

- $10,000 additional deposit reduces monthly rent by $50.

- 50 * 12 = 600

- 600/10,000 = 6%

The monthly rent reduction used to be $100 per $10,000. So it used to be 12%. I guess the break-even point is 6%, now...

Concrete example: I could reduce the deposit from $90,000 to $10,000. But then my rent would go from $0/month to $400/month. So by keeping a large deposit, I save $4800/year in rent.
This was a very large subreddit and my new account had very little content at the time
It's incredibly unfortunate that Bitcoin and similar proof-of-work currencies blew up and remained hot commodities. Because I do think that cryptocurrency is abstractly a very exciting idea, but the popular implementations are fundamentally abysmal.

If proof-of-stake works out, particularly as a currency people can actually use, then maybe nobody wants to buy Bitcoin anymore and the whole thing dries up as only speculators are left.
This x1000. The one thing that absolutely must happen is the one thing that nobody seems to want to discuss. All oil wells, coal mines, and natural gas extractors must be shut down immediately. Hardly anything else is worth worrying about. As long as it is being extracted, it will be burned and anything else is rearranging Titanic deck chairs. Shut it down. People will find alternative energy sources.
"just like the Americans would like it if the natives stopped existing" really? why?
China isn't that socialist, there is no strong social safety net waiting to bail you out if you move to Tibet. If they can't make a life for themselves in Tibet, they would simply be left to die, so why take the chance?
Given that numerous early Web clients were text-based (especially www and lynx), there's the question of what colours were available on a (possibly) colour-capable display, or a colour-aware terminal emulator.

These would have been provided through ANSI escape sequences, which allowed for white, black, red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, and cyan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

With a bright background (white), blue is the most clearly-visible non-black colour, and avoids R-G colourblindness issues. On a dark background (black), cyan is light enough to be readable, but not as glaringly distracting as either red or yellow.

Given the prevalence of green and amber phosphor displays, and some adoption of that colour scheme for terminal colours, yellow and green might have been avoided due to conflicts with standard text.

The next question is when colour support was added to terminals. I'm confident that xterm could have foreground/background colours specified by 1997. Support for 16 colours didn't hit xterm until 1996:

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_39

rxvt may have had colour support earlier. I'm unsure of dates or changelogs though it's mentioned in print as of 1994:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_X_Resource/RKhFAQAA...
Curious, is there a way to run android apps (either natively or in a vm)?
Cool cube and I want one. But a metalworking friend of mine warned against getting a ring made out of tungsten.

Apparently a climber had one on and broke his ring finger, and the EMTs couldn't get the ring off because the finger had swollen and they couldn't cut the ring due to the strength of the metal. They ended up having to amputate and re-attach the finger (much longer and it would have had to be amputated anyway, it seems).
Yes, now that you mention it. MS-DOS 5.0 (which predated the first Linux release a few months in 1991) had a nice grey text on blue background for EDIT.COM (or was it exe?) and QBASIC.EXE. and NC.EXE (Norton Commander). Netscape and Mosaic inverted this color scheme with a grey background and blue hyperlinked text. COINCIDENCE? PERHAPS NOT!

I grew up with MS-DOS and 4M of RAM, perhaps I should make a tiny VM with Windows 3.11 and Netscape to revisit these days and try to get my Jekyll blog running on it (served from CERN httpd or the popular webserver at the time). Not sure if VirtualBox virtual network adapter can be recognized by Windows 3.11. Perhaps someone can backport a Gemini browser to Windows 3.11.. perhaps someone can backport a modern WWW browser to Windows 3.11!

edit: someone provided VM's already! Just 33M for DOS622+WIN311 (but still a lot of floppies). I disabled the default USB support and the startup to GUI is ~5s. EDIT.COM has a "hypertext" links in it consisting of 2 little green arrows, 1 triangle rotated left on the left side and 1 right on the right side. The grey on black text is not underlined.
http://virtualdiskimages.weebly.com/virtualbox.html
To Ease Housing Crisis, California Lawmakers Vote to Open Suburbs to Development
I'd like to see a discussion around:

1. The two-way data-binding. I'm sure a lot of developers have gotten it ingrained that "two-way data binding is bad and doesn't scale to large apps and teams".

2. Server-side rendering.
2.1 How does it work?
2.2 Is it limited to sending html strings like in the landing page example?
2.3 Will Imba render the app/page on the server before sending it to the client?
2.4 How does it compare architecturally to a React/NextJS combo?

The landing page could beneficially have addressed these two concerns briefly, and linked to a follow up discussion. I'm sure it is top-of-mind of many developers, and a potential (unnecessary?) turn-off.
I am very curious about Linux phones and getting away from Android (Using Graphene OS RN). But my experience weren't very satisfying.

Could someone give me a quick overview or link to different Linux based OS for smartphones?

How is this one different from Sailfish?

Happy to hear from you! :-)
i had that same confusion! they should clarify that on their site.
That's a feature of commubism too. Soviet almost wiped out the whales because of such a thing. They didn't even eat the meat. Just killed the whales because there was a meat production goal.
As a Pole myself, I’d add two things: it is generally a lovely country, lots of beautiful countryside etc. Less “spectacular”, more “cozy” etc. People are a bit uncertain of new things (eg foreigners in a new town) but generally warm and helpful eventually.

That said, I’d you’re not white and straight, small towns could be very unwelcoming, from people staring, to telling you to go, to physical violence. Rare but true.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell. We're trying for something different here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: please don't post unsubstantive/flamebait comments generally - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314687 was another one.
I'm not a lawyer.

I believe the difference is the 'broadcasting' part. Same with streaming movies over a Zoom call.
The irony in these 'demands' is that this would simply serve to further entrench Apple in its market position, since if you legislated for increasing the cost of doing business tenfold like this, you'd shut out any competitor that wasn't flush with the cash to make it happen.

Of course, legislators know this and that's why it won't happen unless it becomes much more economically feasible than it is today.
Here's your answers, people.
In my western education, I was taught not to trust my government. I'm glad I can write these words without fear of jail.

Some of the passages you shared sounds a lot like propaganda. Here are those:

> Invasion was labeled liberation. If you look at the economy and production level of Tibet before CCP's invasion, certainly CCP have brought modern production means and built a much better economy in Tibet.

You're comparing 1950's Tibet to now. Could they have not done well for themselves on their own?

> As for how much was lost in the process, I don't see much. Tibetan still lives a quite traditional way. They certainly are not bothered by the CCP's presence.

This could be 100% false, and you would not know.

> As obviously, to maintain CCP's ruling, Tibetan have been treated much better than the mass majority elsewhere.

China has used violence on the Tibetans. It's not obvious China wants to treat Tibet well.

> Even their lands were largely left for their own use, because immigrants from inland do not perform farming work, and mostly live in concentrated urban area.

Just because Han don't want Tibetan farmland does not mean it belongs to Tibet.

Edit: Thanks for being open minded. I’m glad we can come together and have discussions on topics like these. I will gladly criticize my own government on their injustices.
I wonder what historical map will be unearthed next. China really has a knack for producing historical documents when it suits them.
>I read every one of these articles, and some help a little, but most don't. I know it's me, not them.

I have every one of these articles opened as Tabs........ which I will read about how to not procrastinate some day.....
Books. Newspapers. Talking.

The internet isn't a new thing under the sun. It's just the same old things faster and more widespread.

There have always been liars and manipulators who enjoy subverting expectations and undermining honest people. They've mastered the art of seeming perfectly reasonable while demanding the impossible.

They say things like, "For thousands of years, you were only told what the people in power wanted you to know" and "I think this may be the first time in history that an average person can come to their own conclusions", and other such seemingly reasonable poppycock.

The paradox of tolerance is mentioned quite often, in that a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance as otherwise the intolerant will destroy the tolerant.

In the same way, there is a paradox of information, that for information to be reliable and free flowing, it must be verifiable from trustworthy sources, and unverifiable and untrustworthy information has to be dammed off from the flow of information.

If untrustworthy news is allowed to flourish, then liars and connivers will flourish as well, with Machiavellian intentions to profit off of the lies and confusion they sow along the way.

It's happening now and if you don't believe me look at how many people have proudly proclaimed their desire to know untrue information as their right as a citizen of the internet, and how much distrust they have towards people like the CDC who gain nothing from lying to the population.

They hold the innocent guilty until they prove themselves innocent and beyond reproach while the people investing in whatever the next quack covid treatment of the week will be they laud and sing praises for them, becoming their enlisted personal army.

It's madness and it's all because we allow every lying huckster who can spin a good tale to keep on babbling and dogpile anyone who disagrees with this practice.
Even high-quality, reputable channels use the weird "strong facial expression" style of thumbnail.
well i can tell you mine healed after cortisone and I managed to not need surgery. But no matter how much PT/exercise/stretching I did up until the cortisone, nothing helped.

Within a few months of cortisone it felt great and didn't have mobility issues (I had scar tissue buildup that was cuasing trigger finger too) and now a year and a bit later its 100% functional with no pain and full mobility/range.

worth a try.
The visual derivative of the image only gets sent if the image matches both hashes (including a multi-stage blind hash). It's almost certain that an image that makes it to that point would be CSAM.
The ability to directly sell software is necessary but not sufficient to enable a software ecosystem that is not about exploiting the user.

That's why I mentioned forcing functions. Once "free" became the norm, it became impossible to even think about doing anything else. The door to conventional honest business models was closed for most software authors and vendors.

The notion of all software actually being free is a fantasy, unless you are talking only about software that can only be used by nerds. The amount of effort required to make software usable by the general public is absolutely massive. Then throw in constant UI changes, ecosystem changes, and supporting a lot of targets.

In general once the app basically works you are 10% done. The other 90% of the effort is UI/UX.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...

Sailfish is proprietary, not FLOSS.
I entirely agree. Strong carbon taxes or other similar systems are the way forward. By correcting for the true cost of pollution we can allow renewables to really shine.

I was only trying to push back against the idea that we’re only using fossil fuels because of capitalism. We’re using fossil fuels because with our initial naive inspection they appear to be an excellent, bordering on miraculous, resource. I’m not denying that they’ve turned out to be very harmful and/or that people have done bad things to preserve the naive interpretation.
So the question is how do we create a space for something like this? I don't think most people consider this kind of music as a "performance" it's just the RIAA dictating stuff.
My dad owns both a tungsten cube and a tungsten sphere. I slightly prefer the sphere, the smoothness and lack of corners, combined with density, makes it really try to slip out of hour hand.

Can be a bit dangerous for your floors, but lots of fun to hold.