skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rp1 also pointed to 'The increased traffic causes wear and tear on the roads to increase, and quality of life to drop dramatically', so don't focus just on the increase time part.

Your full analysis would also need to consider how higher use by car drivers affects other uses of the road. Some people cycle, for example, but increasing car traffic will likely increase injuries and deaths due to collisions.

This can be mitigated by separate bike lanes, which has its own cost.

As a kid, we played "baseball" and "tennis" on the street, because it was an open area, the traffic was low, and no parks were nearby. If the traffic rate increases, then those opportunities disappear. Pushing kids inside, because there's no safe place outside, may affect childhood obesity.

There's also a shift in pollution closer to living areas, and the stop&go local traffic may increase brake dust pollution ("Brake dust air pollution may have same harmful effects on immune cells as diesel exhaust" - https://phys.org/news/2020-01-air-pollution-effects-immune-c... ).

So all in all, it could be a net-negative, even if it's a positive for some people with cars, and for those who manufacture cars. It's certainly not as simple as adding up time saved with extra time waiting.

As for utilitarianism, would you walk away from Omelas?
Nothing wrong with PopOS, but I'd pick plain Debian over Ubuntu. Just make sure to install from the "unofficial non-free media" if you're on modern hardware. Also the 'testing' channel of Debian makes for a great semi-rolling distribution.
Yes, first raze everything to the ground so we can rebuild at a different density.
- Depends - Just inserting, indexing, storing and simple querying can be done with little memory (i.e. 1:500 memory-disk-ratio 0.5GB RAM per 1TB disk). Typical production clusters with high query load are in the 1:150 range i.e. 64GB RAM for 10TB disk).

Otherwise typical general purpose hardware (Standard SSDs, 1:4 vCPU:memory ratios, ...)
Spijkstaal: Selling and maintaining electric vehicles for more than 80 years
I understand your argument but disagree about Chernobyl being the tall risk.

This is basically the the same logical errer again, Chernobyl is only the worst incident that has happened /so far/.

It is well documented that Chernobyl itself could easily have been much worse, and the real tall risk is something like a ”dirty” bomb made possible by negligent handling of radioactive materials.

There are several known incidents where discarded radioactive materials have killed people and contaminated buildings, this happens regularly even without malicious intent.
Would it bother you if foo.com took your query and send "query site:foo.com" to google? The results would be foo.com specific.
Yea... who are the neighbors of those flats to decide to protest loud and rude tourists that disturb the piece and quiet of their homes, eh?
> Glad I'm not the only one here who does not like this company. When thinking about companies I wish I could easily boycott, Nestle comes to mind, and then there is Sinclair.

It is extremely easy to boycott Sinclair by not purchasing any TV service or watching TV channels.

It is almost as easy to boycott Nestle since the packaging for almost all brands states the parent company’s name somewhere on the back under the ingredients.

If it does not, you can also search the brand and find the ownership relatively quickly on Wikipedia or the company’s About Us page.
Yeah, then I believe you gotta read this [1] and this [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/27/buildi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/may/30/readers-reply-...
It is definitely about both. And about returning the city to citizens who've been priced out by the tourism industry.

There's nothing wrong with being a cultural hot-ground, a travel destination, a mindshare icon... but turning a city into an intensive farming Disneyland is another thing.
Yeah. Many popular sites have started blocking outline somehow. The site refuses to outline some blacklisted domains.
We need a name for the effect wherein people will believe that something exists just because someone gave their unsupported theory a catchy name.
I did a bunch of similar things and concluded it didn't matter so much. I can attend as many workshops as I want but it won't make me a more likeable character. The one important thing self improvement taught me is to reject self improvement. But I'd still do them for the entertainment value. Just I take whatever values are being paddled with a bucket of salt. We all need to experience things else life is kinda boring. It's important to have some fun and more so when you're single and alone. So yes I thoroughly recommend doing stuff like 'ecstatic dance' or tantra workshops or massage workshops or circling. Now that I'm no longer alone I can also be okay with the fact that my partner doesn't allow me to do things like that anymore. Now we just do nerd stuff together and that's fun as well.
The README could be improved here. I didn't know about Nitter, Invidious, ... It wasn't clear to me that these are just different frontends for the same services when I read the README.
So easy! Why didn't they just import it into Unity???!!!
Thats you.
> it's under the implicit assumption that you or your family will be the only ones occupying it.

Says who? This is a rather bold assumption to make and does not have any connection with the reality in most of the world.
You're totally right. Especially forum search engines are terrible. This is the best bang-for-buck solution.

If someone has any idea why forum search experience is so bad and know how to improve it, please chime in. I have my hunches, but let's not get ahead of myself.
Research as Understanding
How does timescale (a single-purpose database) hold up against single-store (a multi-purpose database)? Of course, timescale is cheaper, but other than that, have you folks compared / contrast against single-store as a TSDB?

PS https://www.timescale.com/papers/timescaledb.pdf is 404
>The fact is that the symbol + has a well-defined meaning in mathematics.

+ can refer to different functions in math, such as addition of integers or matrices. Hell, number and matrix multiplication are written in the same way even though one is commutative and the other isn't!
The owners still decide what to do with it. They just decided to stop listing their apartments because now it's very conspicuous that they are breaking the law by not paying taxes, having proper insurance, safety conditions, etc. for such an endeavor. The ones who were operating legally still advertise their listings.
> The number is linked to an address, which makes it possible to check whether landlords are complying with municipal regulations regarding the maximum number of rental nights allowed.

I think the problems wasn‘t that they were not paying taxes, but that they operated private apartments as hotels without permission.
I agree with you but many sites use a third-party search engine to provide on-site search functionality. e.g. Algolia's DocSearch
What Is DES Algorithm?
We have planning, zoning and safety laws for a reason. The owners of a flat can decide to do what they like within those parameters.
Amsterdam is closer in concept to a Flemish trade town than to an imperial core like the French capital.
Yes but Nestlé owns a big chunk of L’Oréal:

https://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/our-company/answers/nature...
It is worth noting that according to a (Dutch language) article I read this morning, 90% of the listings that were removed had not been booked in the last year according to an Airbnb spokesperson.

Paywalled Dutch language link: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/airbnb-raakt-dr...
or do it like the w3c - make a search form with action https://www.w3.org/Help/search?q=xslt.

Privacy may be a thing, however.
I will not believe anyone who is outraged at that special that they actually watched it.

Its funny, its thoughtful and heartbreaking. You can tell he cared for Daphne and they had a insightful relationship.
Maybe, just maybe, high prices is instead because Amsterdam is building about half as much housing as it did 40 years ago, and significantly less than population growth.
That is what happens when huge chuck of devs expect to use software as free beer, while the people actually writing those tools need to figure out ways to pay their bills.

A big reason why we are back into timesharing, the free beer is only the thin terminal stuff.
Talk to a secretary. I have known many. They still have to do typing tests as part of their interviews, as do stenographers. Since these skills directly speak to their vocations, and are fairly easily measured, it's natural.

Coders, on the other hand, aren't applying for typing positions. You could say that the "Draw the Pirate" tests, given by many companies, these days, are like typing tests (but I don't think so. I won't go into my thoughts on that).

I have heard, anecdotally, of programmers being tested for speed of coding, as part of the interview process.
Minor correction:

There were actually more than a thousand people who took James Randi’s “One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge” between 1964 and 2015, many of them live on stage or broadcast on live television. No one ever successfully completed the scientific testing and won the prize, though.

The Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was terminated in early 2015 when James Randi retired, so it is no longer available for new applicants today.
but if the search isn't good enough I'll just go to Google anyway but now you've annoyed me with your own useless site search, which is what always happens
>If you purchase a flat, it's under the implicit assumption

There might be such implicit assumption somewhere, but it for sure isn't a general one.

I for one don't have any such expectations regarding the neighbours in my condo. (I don't live in Sweden/Netherlands though.)
That’s very easy to say, much harder to do.

Also you still want to keep tourist concentrations low in certain areas to keep neighbourhoods liveable.
I don't know much about it, but I've heard here and there about Swoole, a "PHP extension for Async IO, Coroutines and Fibers".

> Swoole is a complete PHP async solution that has built-in support for async programming via fibers/coroutines, a range of multi-threaded I/O modules (HTTP Server, WebSockets, TaskWorkers, Process Pools) and support for popular PHP clients like PDO for MySQL, Redis and CURL.

https://www.swoole.co.uk/
> Someone reading this is thinking I'm one of the folks ruining Hacker News.

And someone other thinks you are adding juice to it. To me sufficiently rational, open-minded and easy-worded (the combination hard to find elsewhere) discussions of how does the human mind/body/world/whatever work and how to possibly hack that seem way more interesting than how does yet another web service or JavaScript library does.
That is the point I tried to make, sorry for the confusion.
Plans to hand over NHS data to police sparks warning from government adviser
So you'd have no problem if your neighbours turned their flat into a brothel and a meth lab? Because that's the logical extension of your argument.
I don't especially mind tourists in moderate numbers - after all, from time to time, I play the tourist myself. However, I live and work in Cambridge, and if we were to put what you suggest into practice the city would become an absolutely intolerable place to be for everyone.

AirBnb may or may not be a big problem here but, if it is, it's a subset of a bigger problem: buy to let. I'd like to see buy to let severely curtailed within the city, as it's certainly driving up already high prices for buyers.
Airbnb was amazing to start with, I stayed with some many interesting people and in interesting places. It's a shame that it's now so commoditised.
Prof Sarah Gilbert, Covid vaccine creator: Now let’s take on 12 more diseases
If you were in the city government of a large western city, you'd know there's a huge number of often conflicting demands of the citizenry. Most of them do not support building enough housing for all potential visitors. And while many are not explicitly opposed to increased housing for future residents, few will want that to happen close to where they live.

If you go directly against the wishes of most of the residents, you will not find yourself in the city government for very long. So I think this "simply build enough housing" is only a good solution in internet forum comments.
You might be right in most cases (for example blogs etc) but it's just disturbing on apps like spotify if you just can't find the music you want to listen inside the app. Or when Netflix gives unavailable movies as search suggestions.
The ‘Wedding Cake’ style of architecture requires a lot of ‘fondant icing’ stuck to the outside which is made from expensive and highly labour intensive materials, hand carved stone typically. To take my cake metaphor to far, you can put too much icing on it and it becomes a sugar sculpture full of cardboard props and bits of wire, not something you would enjoy eating.

A well designed building in the renaissance style is beautiful but this style also places arbitrary constraints on the design, like symmetry, which make them inefficient and very hard to design convincingly while still meeting the brief for the modern spaces inside. That’s why they’re not built like this anymore. There are a plenty of badly proportioned late 20th Century faux classical buildings out there and to me they stick out like poor typography does to a graphic designer or bad punctuation for an editor.

As other comments have pointed out the big problem with buildings in many US cities and European suburbs that developed after ww2 is mostly with urban planning failing to create walkable cities. Spain and Holland have had different approaches but I think they are the most successful in Europe.
And you think that means 3/4 of the plots are empty?
We already have laws against that.
Vote: Go unfriendly and ambiguous generic syntax design
What makes it a scam?
The problem is that the locals cannot find housing themselves. Laws like this protect the common people of Amsterdam at the expense of the flat owners inalienable right to exploit them
What evidence do you having for cheating being only way to remain competitive? What exactly do you mean by cheating?
What makes you think no one is gonna get fired now then?
What was your experience with Airbnb?
I completely welcome this, the housing market is already very crowded here in Amsterdam. Investors buying houses just to rent them out to tourist all year round? No thanks, give people affordable homes first.
I'd have the exact same problem if the owner of the flat turned into a meth lab (or throwing loud parties or whatever) did pay all the taxes.
Something akin to a map operation maybe?
Of course i have, PulseAudio also did the same with ALSA and yet that wasn't without a lot of issues for many people - and now Pipewire implements PulseAudio and ALSA and other stuff.

Similarly, yes XWayland does provide support for running X11 applications (though not for window managers, etc) but it also has issues of its own.
Increases in Covid-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination
There are tons of limitations to what you can do with your property. E.g. you can own land but can't build a house if the land is not zoned for it. Even the meaning of property has changed over the centuries. It's no longer acceptable to own a human being, which was a contested idea not too long ago. It's the people that make a society that decide what they want the rules to be. Good for the people of Amsterdam that they don't accept man made "realities" on what can or can't be done.
Germany chiming in ... We have something that is called "Rote Beete" (eng: beet root) which sounds similar to "rotabagge" (eng: rutabaga), but apparently is a different plant.
I, for one, am renting, so if my neighbors expected my landlord would live at the flat with his family - then my wife, my newborn son and I are certainly failing to meet their implicit assumptions.
If I don't pay taxes, I can pass some of those "savings" to the customer, thus beating the competition on price.

If you must compete, you must avoid taxes, thus cheat.
Is it publicly known if US is already working on this capability? Is it a kind of like the Boeing X37-B was able to launch a hypersonic missile with nuclear head?
I might have more sympathy for the flat owners if they:

- had proper insurance on their properties to protect the guests

- maintained the property according to the health and safety guidelines proscribed by law

- had a license for their business activity

- paid the appropriate taxes for this additional income
We definitely are both statically typed and aggressively independent :^)
Yeah! If a landlord wants to put up tourists in leaky slum houses for €250 a night that should be their right! It's their own fault for trusting an online advert, right?

Hotels have rules, regulations and need to be inspected according to hotel rules in terms of safety, hygiene and price rules.
Rentals have rules and regulations related to basic standards of living, pricing, and again, safety and hygiene.

Airbnb allowed landlords to rent out substandard temporary housing, skirting around laws covering both hotels and rentals as well as relevant taxes. In part, they are responsible for the housing crisis.
FYI the saying is "count our chickens until they are hatched"
Ownership isn't freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want, this is a first grade take on the topic.

Laws are voted for the interest of the community (ie. country) by elected officials (elected by the people), ownership, freedoms, &c. exist within these boundaries, or as a smart person put it a long time ago: "Obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is freedom". It's always a battle of individual gains vs collective good, if we wanted to live like egoists cavemen we wouldn't have build organised societies.
Buy to let has no effect on housing prices as long as rental yields are low.

If the problem is tourism: ban tourists from the city. It doesn't make sense to ban short-term rentals but continue to build hotels and run advertising campaigns promoting tourism to Amsterdam
In the UK at least, the expectation would be 50/50 that you are buying to let.

However, a six month minimum rental period is very different from having new neighbors every weekend.
I often find this gives better results. Eg I'm much likely to find what I'm looking for if I search for "(query) site:reddit.com" than if I use reddit's own search feature.
Thanks! I appreciate the links/google fodder - it'll let me RTFM more on this stuff...
The algorithm often is very strange.
My mixtapes most often contain single tracks of audiobooks I listened to. Looks like Spotify treats audiobook tracks like any other song which is obviously very silly. Who doesn‘t want to listen to random audiobook snippets.
And now we have a new law, I'm sure people were upset about the night time disturbances laws too
> The metaverse doesn't NEED to be for everyone, but it can certainly have wide appeal if it is easy to access and people can express themselves.

If there are still technical problems both about and inside the "metaverse", why not focus on making it appealing to people with technical chops first? It surely isn't, otherwise this wouldn't be the first time I hear of OpenSimulator.

GP says it's not fun, and that attempts to making it fun involve bringing some lowest-common-denominator forms of entertainment. But what is it about it that makes it not fun for techies? Or for creatives with enough patience to pick up the necessary tech skills along the way? These people should be able to provide content, activity and root out technical problems. It's how many technological products in the past (including the Web, arguably) became popular: first becoming popular with tech-savvy people, and building up widespread appeal on that base.
> buy to let. I'd like to see buy to let severely curtailed within the city, as it's certainly driving up already high prices.

I'm familiar with the argument that AirBnB reduces rental stock by devoting it to tourism. But I rarely encounter someone who is mad that more rental stock is being added.

Wouldn't you want rental prices to fall by increasing the availability of rental stock? Is a big gap between the cost of renting and the cost of owning a good thing?
AspNetCore – Rest API Authorization with JWT (Roles vs Claims vs Policy)
Thanks! This will probably make more sense once I can RTFM the probability stuff..
> What sort of error did you see, if any?

No error. The installation seemed complete in some instants (way faster than Ubuntu or the previous Pop OS on the same machine), then GRUB would say it can't boot (I can't remember the exact phrase though but the fact it was GRUB suggests it's not about "secure boot", it was switched off anyway).

> but a wiping the disk and setting up partitions again fixed it.

In my case it didn't. Perhaps I should try some other way, e.g. text-mode fdisk.
The site I used is codeforces.

https://codeforces.com/?f0a28=1

It has the widest selection and types of problems as far as I know but that was a while ago. It runs competitions all the time, the problem descriptions are well defined unlike leetcode which often misses a lot of requirements, it has way more kinds of problems than topcoder, you can test yourself against old competitions as if they ran real time to properly ensure you don't take too much time or accidentally cheat etc.

> What would be the best way to learn these skills in your opinion?

I think today it is hard to practice without competitive programming. Ideally someone would make a similar format pushing your limits like this but without so much focus on complex algorithms and maths, but since that doesn't exist competitive programming is what we are left with. The competition aspect is really important since it is how people push each others limits. It is easy to think "you can't get much better than this" when you just sit and code by yourself, but in programming competitions you see how fast and accurately others can solve problems, so you realize that you could get just as fast and accurate with a bit of practice.

And no, it is not memorization. Consider this easy problem which mediocre competitive programmer manages to solve but those below mediocre fails at (we can see that from how well people did on it in the competition):

https://codeforces.com/contest/1496/problem/B

There is no algorithm you have to know for that, it is just good old logic and some coding. It is really easy and I could solve in in a few minutes even my todays rusty self, but you can't memorize solutions to such problems, you just have to be fast both with the reasoning and the code. Note "mex" is not a standard term, it is just something they made up for that problem.
Are you worried about climate change, crash risk or covid, or all of them?
We saw that in March of 2020, didn’t we? It crashed along with everything else.
I really see no issues with buy to let if supply is sufficiently high. Sad reality is that building new units is too expensive. Realistically, real estate should not be very good investment. Maybe it should generate 1-2% a net per year and in 50-100 year timeframe depreciate to zero.
If they're able to deliver on their promise, a startup in India called Strom Motors is building a small vehicle that looks very similar to the CityEl! https://www.strommotors.com
Very similar at the start, yes.
Is it time to rewrite the Operating System in Rust? (2018) [video]
Providing a service without following the laws. In this case, a hotel booking site without hotels.

It's like uber, a taxi service without drivers/cars.
I love this game. I feel like I understand computers way better after playing through it.