skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly river deltas that have this problem. A small sea level rise reduces flow at the river outlet, causing flooding out of proportion to the sea level rise.

The only big river delta in the US is the Mississippi. East Asia has far worse problems. Most of China's port cities are on river deltas. Tapei is on a river delta. Ho Chi Min City is on a river delta. Singapore is on a river delta. These are all areas where the land to water slope is very low.

The western US is mountainous enough that there's more than enough land rise to prevent flooding more than a short distance inland. Even in places that look flat, like LA near Venice, go three blocks inland and you're tens of feet higher. Places that built on fill, such as San Francisco and Foster City, do exist, but are small enough for barriers and not fed by upstream rivers.
Ask HN: Is it possible to distinguish alt opinions from actual misinformation?
There is something that stands out in the discussions around misinformation.

Lets take the recent debate on Reddit about banning subs that promote misinformation.

This was the original post from part of the community https://old.reddit.com//r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the/

This was Reddit's initial response https://old.reddit.com//r/announcements/comments/pbmy5y/debate_dissent_and_protest_on_reddit/

Notice the title of "debate, dissent and protest". Can someone explain how fake news comes under debate dissent and protest?

Let me give examples:

1) "Lockdowns are not worth the costs" is an alternative opinion

2) "India charges WHO Scientist Soumya Swaminathan for Mass Murder" is fake news

https://hannenabintuherland.com/asia/india-charges-who-scientist-soumya-swaminathan-for-mass-murder-the-beginning-of-accountability/

The Indian bar association, a private entity filed a complaint about the WHO scientist, but that story has been changed by a lot of politically partisan outlets to mean the govt has charged/prosecuted the WHO scientist for it.

The fake story has been extremely popular on social media.

It's not an alternative opinion, a debate or discussion. It's just plain wrong but went very viral. Why are there objections to not have these kinds of stories spread on social media?

No one defends(with claims of free speech) about phishers scamming older people with lies about being a Nigerian prince etc. but why is there so much push back against actions on fake news?

Is it possible to cut down the worst examples of #2 without affecting actual alternative opinions like #1 ?
A Gentle Introduction to Risk-Limiting Audits [pdf]
Because businesses can't print money...
Its called the invisible hand for a reason. People dont need to understand anything for the forces at play to balance things out, theres just some existing businesses as a casualty.
Interestingly the first version of Google Search's frontend was written in Python, based off the Medusa framework. It was replaced by a heavily-optimized C webserver (GWS) written by Craig Silverstein in 1999. The Python -> C rewrite took the frontend server fleet from 30 machines down to 3, and it would've fit on 1 but they needed fault tolerance.

There continued (and continues) to be a large prejudice against Python for large-scale software projects at Google, even among people who were core members of the Python Software Foundation! I think this is a good example of peoples' mental models of the world ossifying and not understanding how economics have changed. Python continues to be 30x or more slower than C - but it doesn't matter. Computing has gotten so cheap that you just eat the cost, build your product anyways, and then figure out how to optimize after you sell to Google.
It’s easy to understand. If your customers won’t buy Mexican food at a high enough price to pay $20/hour, it’s better to close than to stay open and lose money.

Labor is the highest cost for a restaurant (higher than rent) so bumping wages from $15 to $20 may not be possible if you can’t also raise prices by 30%.

This may be hard to understand for us rich programmers. But it’s quite simple for companies that have really stiff price competition.
I mean, the food isn't _that_ much worse in Morgan City long term.
Interestingly, there is actually a long history of literally switching back and forth between its original meaning and "figuratively" over the ages. My fiance did his thesis on it!
I'd hazard to say that games that get updates wouldn't always work in a dual boot env either. i.e. if the update stores data in the registry / game depends on registry settings.
You're assuming anti-competitive behavior doesn't exist based on the premise that it's not prosecuted more often but that is flawed logic. Anti-competitive behavior and lack of prosection are not mutually exclusive.

We don't see antitrust lawsuits for a variety of reasons. One of which is that they are extremely resource intensive to fight since by definition they tend to be fought against massive corporations. When the feds can go after 50 other cases for the cost of going after a single massive company, that's a hard sell.

As to purchasing a competitor: Sure, if you're purchasing it because it adds to your capabilities then it seems fairly straightforward. That's not what we see here. Here, we have an example of purchasing them when, at this stage, Google saw little or no value in it except as a means to limit competition.
It is what usually happens when you design by committee instead of everyone having a common understanding and working towards the same goal under a single person/entity.

Not saying it's good or bad, just how Rust ended up where it is.
Trying to interpret individual radicals of a character as standalone components using their original meaning is enticing, but more often than not incorrect. For example, the character for maternal aunt uses the same radical. Phonetic-semantic compound characters are very, very, common. The standalone pronunciation of 夷 doesn't appear to have turkic/steppe origins either [1].

Moreover, we know Mongolian writing (because of the geopolitics of the time and its status as a younger written tradition) borrowed quite liberally from its southern neighbours. Including, but not limited to, China [2]. So while Wagner's point about proliferation of ironmaking techniques from outside the (nominal) Chinese state at the time makes sense, the whole phonetic angle doesn't.

As for the points about centralization and family name elitism, the first lasted less than 200 years, by which time many formerly aristocratic family names had become _so_ diluted so as to be almost meaningless. One of the main conceits of a major character in RoTK is that he's an average Joe who only gets a modicum of respect for having the same surname as the dynastic family. It also completely ignores the existence of profession-based surnames like 匠 ("artisan", notably 1/2 of 铁匠/blacksmith).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongyi#Yi
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_writing_systems
Most restaurants operate on very slim margins. That's why many smaller financial institutions do not risk commercial loans on them unless they've been established for a while or it's guaranteed by an SBA loan which heavily minimizes the financials risk.

Honestly I feel like most people would pay it. It seems to me that everybody just accepts you pay like 10x the price of what you could make something yourself as reasonable. I don't get it and it irks me that we even need to participate in this facade that we're all some sort of royalty class that are entitled this.
I think most people there would rather the rich chaos of New Orleans than the cultural blandness of the rest of the country.

"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland"
- Tennessee Williams

Am currently evacuated from Ida, and drove all the way to Kentucky from Nola and from what I'm seeing so far, can confirm that quote is depressingly accurate.

Why does the rest of the country look like one giant strip mall from coast to coast? What happened to America?
The owner class has gotten really used to having the upper hand in the negotiations, they're not coping well at all.

And to that I say: welcome to the club.
I find the syntax very readable. What's your problem with it?
People forget that "superstorm sandy" wasn't even a hurricane, iirc it was a "tropical depression" by the time it got to nyc
Opportunities at Kabul University
The problem with this is, if the barista gets automated, the customers buy better coffee machines and stop going to the cafe.

An exaggeration, but you see my point perhaps. Unless your service is really purely about bang for buck, trying to automate it in ways that are visible to the customer can have downsides. McDonald’s could probably go full robotic. Starbucks? Not sure, maybe. It would be a little offputting. Your local (good) pizza place? Not likely.
Well, when you apply for loans the bank will want to know (and will send an appraiser) to estimate sales and rental values. If the developer's expectations on rental or sales income on a multifamily property are higher than the reality, and they lower sales prices (condos) or rental amounts, there's potential for them to get called to provide more capital. Because they may reappraise. What I've just explained probably has its own vocabulary I'm not using in the commercial real estate world, but my experience here is that my building has this problem and the brokers explained why they preferred to leave things vacant.

As it turns out, after 18 months, as the city comes back after the pandemic, the vacancies are now suddenly much lower. The building for 1/3 full for years.
Some of my favorite dine-in restaurants are still pickup only. I think they realized that they can make just as much money doing take out and a lot less people management now that there are no severs
Hey where do you recommend skating in London? Also, what blades would you recommend for a noob? Been looking at FR X or FR 2 but have no idea what I’m buying really
There's a long list of comedy that affected politics, from Aristophanes critiques of the Pelloponisian war (and obsfuscating relativism introduced by philosophers, which contributed to the charges against Socrates), to Jonathan Swift's "Modest proposal" aimed at then prevalent policies against the poor and/or Irish, US (Twain and others), and Europlean humorous writers and playwrights with considerable influence in their contemporary affairs (from Shaw to Karl Krauss), all the way to modern comedians like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin affecting free speech laws (all the way to the Supreme Court), and tons of similar examples worldwide.

And we shouldn't forget one of the biggest jokes of the 20th century, Chamberlain.
The only way to avoid shutting down would be to raise prices, right? What if the owner knew customers wouldn't pay higher prices because he has tried to raise prices many times before and knows that it turns customers away?
Or when they can't keep non-drug addicted employees who are willing to work for less than the cost of living. It boggles my mind the most when a lot of restaurants treat these employees like garbage and then get upset when they realize their worth and leave.
Don't you see how this kind of response proves the point? I have no doubt that ivermectin doesn't work against Covid, but you don't seem to have engaged with the content of the comment at all; you just saw the word "ivermectin" mentioned in a less-than-negative light and reflexively popped off with some standard political meme phrases. This isn't healthy.
The margins tend to already be razor thin. It is strange that they weren’t willing to try experimenting with higher wages and less employees. Maybe they’re already too overwhelmed from the pandemic to continue? The perception that not a lot of people are willing to pay for higher priced Chinese and Mexican foods factored into the decision?
Pretty sure it was GWT. I joined in 2009 when they were in the midst of the rewrite.
The competition recruits from the same labor pool, I don't think we misunderstand anything.
Theoretically you can run any software on any hardware so all hardware in the world is infected.

No, I'm not being serious. Obviously what dheera is referring to is not software vs hardware but rather what hardware is affected. To comment that it's the hardware that is running the software that is infected is hardly useful.
Seems less like a weapon, and more like a tool for covert character assassination. E.g. to make the opposing candidate fumble a speech or debate.
All good. It seems to be gone now, since I can’t see it.
I heard a hotel guy being interviewed on NPR afew weeks ago and he basically said raising wages was not an option because other places will just raise their wages too and it won't let them stand out. So he'd rather encourage tipping from customers.

Almost bent my steering wheel in rage....
The tiny ring is not the only detail in that book. Checkov gun is that everything must have purpose, not that a thing with purpose exists somewhere inside.
Here in the UK we had supervisor/management positions trying it on for 0 hour contracts and minimum wage for months, although they seem to have gotten the message now they're having to literally shut their doors because they can't get staff. Worst one I saw was night manager of a massive central hotel for minimum wage. I wonder if it's that people have wisened up to the "take on extra responsibilities for no pay because it will look good on your CV" bullshit.

Bearing in mind it's only really the last generation or so in the UK who have gotten used to not expecting things like double pay for a night shift, workers expecting to be paid about £10p/h for a bar shift finishing at 4am still isn't a bad deal at all
The issue is the temporary competition from government covid benefits. Businesses understand perfectly well, but it’s kind of pointless to compete with higher benefits for not working. In my state, benefits were $16/hour. So businesses have a hard time competing with that because jobs can’t compete much with unemployment benefits.

It would be interesting to see what the trade off is for how much money it would take. But rationally, I think, I’d rather get $16/hour and study and take online courses for a year than make $25 and work.
Prices can be very, very sticky? In my city it appears (to my uninvolved eye) that several levels of floor space sublessors need to run out of lessees by raising prices in order to pay (possibly their debt to) the higher levels, with a couple months’ latency for each, until retail can reasonably exist again.
If there are a lot of interviewers like that FB guy on teamblind who just searches for the hardest question and fails everyone for the tiniest error because he's fed up with the interview process, then yeah, there are problems.
Honestly, it's better for these shoddy underpaid and low value places to close. They just undercut the good guys and slowly burn money.
Anything in particular to look out for? Thinking of starting but don’t want to get injured
This is one of these things that most people who deal with animals (so - almost everybody) knew for millenia but philosophers debated over cause it's interesting and you can show off how smart you are and quote classics.

You will have a very hard time taming an animal if you think it feels no pain.
> major errors in the attribution reporting or, even worse, basic fact-checking of the documents

No. There are major errors in your and GP's reading comprehension. The article is absolutely clear it is talking about Edinburgh's school of informatics.

Immediately after spelling out the university's full name in the preceding sentence, the article says "The top-flight Russell Group university’s school of informatics claims there are 'problematic issues related to computing terminology'"

That is the only mention of the Russell Group.

Reasonable people may disagree, I suppose, as to whether the University of Edinburgh deserves an epithet like "the top-flight Russell Group university," but no reasonable person can disagree that that is exactly what the authors did.
there are 7.9 million homes in NL. The shortage is 279.000 vs 331.000 before corona (killing 18.035)

2.14 per home vs 3.54 in 1961.

I have no explanation why 17280000 / 7900000 = 2.187
Did he? Cause his original version does not have only purposeful things in it. Like detailed descriptions of evens in tavern that have nothing to do with later developments whatsoever.
I believe lazy Sunday was actually the inflection point for YouTube.. the YouTube version got shared way more than other sites… and (because?) it stayed up the whole time.
- Time Doctor, Teramind, and Hubstaff – which, together with ActivTrak, make up the bulk of the market

How do I find out if any of these programs are run on my pc?
Absolute prevention is probably impossible, but you can severely reduce the chances of successful attack by a) limiting access to security critical parts of code b) having shadow reviews of the same code (e.g. a separate team, that gets a notification every time these pieces of code are modified, and re-reviews them without notifying the original patch submitter)
A suggested article linked at the bottom has an even catchier abstract: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/095150809034099...
Europe is generally protected from hurricanes due to how far north everything is, but as the north Atlantic warms tropical storms will become more frequent, potentially graduating into legitimate hurricanes every once in a while.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77960 I think.
You really can’t believe someone wants you to justify a stupid rule and toxic workplace environment?
YouTube was going to go bankrupt without a large reservoir of funds.

YouTube would have suffered a far worse fate in the hands of the extra special incompetent Yahoo organization.

While I might like to see YouTube spun out of Google, Google is the primary reason it survived. Along with bleeding to death financially as one likely outcome, YouTube was going to get sued into oblivion. Google shielded them in terms of liability because Google was fearsome enough to intimidate the overly lawsuit-happy savages in Hollywood and the music industry. That delayed the reckoning that was coming for YouTube in regards to the content on their platform that was under copyright by major media publishers (music in particular). There were dozens of prominent articles written about that specific context back in those years.
Right, I'm wondering what models were designed to officially run the software that was infected, and if there are models that are known (by source code, reverse engineering or otherwise) to run uninfected firmware.
Hey guys! I'm Ansgar (https://github.com/gruns). I build Arc (http://arc.io/cdn).

In the past, I built two of the world's largest YouTube to MP3 converters. In doing so, I learned the hard way 1) that distributing content at scale globally is painful and _expensive_ and 2) that I hate ads. So I built Arc.

It's a two-sided content exchange. On one side, websites buy a faster, 10x cheaper peer-to-peer CDN. On the other side, websites make money without ads by contributing bandwidth to the peer-to-peer CDN. Arc connects the two, like Airbnb connects guests and hosts.

As bandwidth capacity grows around the globe, we find ourselves in a world where people can share bandwidth both beneficially and imperceptibly. We see glimpses of that already today: Amazon shares bandwidth with Amazon Sidewalk, Microsoft shares bandwidth with Windows updates, etc. We build Arc for this world -- a post-adblock world -- to give sites a better, more ethical way to support themselves that doesn't bombard users with ads, suck up their personal data, and preserves their privacy.

A few notes:

- For sites that use Arc's CDN, users do not use upload bandwidth and Arc's widget isn't displayed. It's just a faster, 10x cheaper CDN in one <script> tag. That's it. (See https://arc.io/faq#do-users-upload-content-with-just-the-cdn)

- For sites that monetize with Arc, we mandate that Arc's widget remains visible and intractable in the lower left corner of your website so users can learn about Arc and, if they so desire, opt out. (See https://arc.io/faq#can-i-move-modify-or-hide-arcs-widget) Additionally, Arc never activates on cellular connections; Wi-Fi and ethernet only.

- If you elect to opt out (two clicks in Arc's widget), you're opted out of all sites with Arc.

Please email me if you'd like an invite code to take Arc's CDN for a spin: ansgar@arc.io. It's 10x cheaper than Fastly, AWS, Google, etc. (See http://arc.io/cdn/). And I'd love to hear your thoughts! Feedback is how good products become great.
The demand may just go elsewhere, like “screw it, I’ll just go to the supermarket”—not sure how plausible that is in a US context specifically, but surely there’s a possible world where the majority of people just stop eating Mexican or even most street food.
The barber shop I went to for years used to charge $35 for a haircut pre-pandemic, which with a ~$10 tip ($45) already felt real high.

Now a haircut is $50 and I no longer go, opting instead to cut my own hair w help from my girlfriend.

Maybe people don’t want $50 haircuts.
Beautiful story.

I want my children to have a dog
Or may be two or three
They'll learn from them more easily
Than they will learn from me.
A dog will teach them how to love,
And have no grudge or hate
I'm not so good at that myself
But a dog will do it straight
I want my children to have a dog,
To be their pal and friend
So they may learn that friendship
Is faithful to the end.
There never yet has been a dog
That learned to double cross
Nor catered to you when you won
Then dropped you when you lost.
You dont need to increase prices by 30% to raise the hourly rate from $15 to $20. Pay is like a fixed cost. If your cook makes 100 items an hour and you profit 1$ off each item. Your profit for the hour only goes down by $5 not by 33 cents per item
This is great, I've been looking for just this kind of solution in a small package. I don't always have a GPS antenna drop but I do have a rubidium source in my rack. None of the computers have a 1pps or 10MHz input except for the test equipment so keeping the Windows and Linux boxes synced up is a pain. Since GPS is pretty much never available, I've dropped the GPS receiver from the rack to make room for other stuff. One of the Windows machines runs an NTP server so at least everything displays the same time but without a proper reference clock, the time drifts and trying to do anything at perfect 1Hz intervals is not possible. So many cards or boxes on the market only rely on GPS or IRIG instead of just 10MHz or 1PPS so they are all worthless to me.
As a parent of small kids, I really appreciate being able to pay while ordering as opposed to waiting for the waiter ( hmmm… ) while the children get antsy.

Of course, Now that I think about it, I’ve never asked if I could just pay after ordering. The force of habit, huh!
> most of a restaurant's and a coffee shop's labor can be replaced with automated ordering, having the customer collect food themselves when it's ready...

Which means "extracting free work from the customers", which is basically Marxism 101, "how to extract value from live work". My answer in such a place is to go straight out. I NEVER use the "automatic cashes", thank you very much.

> ... using robots to prepare more of the food. they can do lattes with art all by themselves now.

Robots are a sham, they're just a scarecrow to force workers into obedience. You'll replace more easily a lawyer with a robot than a toilet cleaner or a cook. Robots are fragile and horribly expensive. Good luck with that.

Just friggin' pay the people decent wages, for chrissake.