skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree except I’d say most people prefer neighbors that own and are invested over renters that may have historically stuck around for just as long as owners but now have to move every few years because corporate landlords up the rents 5% every year. That’s an entirely new phenomenon.

Corporate landlords have turn ratios near 40%. Small landlords are closer to 20%. The turnover is akin to Airbnb.
Any self-respecting nation would ignore treaties requiring them to enforce the laws of foreign nations on citizens who never leave their soil.
'Demos' means the common people. IA is democratising because it distributes knowledge to anyone and everyone with internet access, instead of just the rich or the global minority with access to major libraries.
sure they'll require sustenence but i highly doubt that our definition of food will apply
"International oversight" implies there is a powerful enough entity to impose oversight. Even North Korea is powerful enough to refuse international oversight.
Why doesn't this policy apply to Amazon or Airbnb? What does the app offer that the website doesn't?
The metaverse will be Facebook’s VR/AR App Store. They’re churching it up for marketing, but that’s pretty much it. They’re building a bunch of hardware to try and be the Apple in that space. Will it work? Who knows? But they have the cash to try. I’ll be honest, it’s cool someone is throwing money at this problem space. I just worry it is still too early.
former yugoslavia always had a bigger economy than portugal as far as i am aware - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Fed...
> Another surprising finding is that there appears to be a certain cutoff for bedtimes, such that going to bed later results in poorer performance, even if the total amount of sleep is the same.

I would perhaps rephrase this as "people who stimulate themselves enough that they stay up late have poor quality sleep".

I for sure experience this myself when I don't properly wind down my mind several hours before going to sleep.
The most bewildering tip I always see and often hear recited is that a plant likes it to be moved/rotated. Like wtf, which plant gets rotated in nature???

Generally, some people like to think they know better what the plant needs than itself.

I went from being talked in to overcaring to the probable most careless approach. My plants get water when the soil is dry. That's it.

Gladly, I also ended up stopping to interfere with e.g. how they grow and I've now noticed that they started to look "wild" and healthy.

Done right, it's a beautiful display of nature.
You haven't addressed the point. Rolling moment is proportional to the distance of the center of gravity from the ground, in either direction. If the center of gravity is exactly at ground level, the car cannot be rolled. Moving it lower, into the ground, increases the rolling tendency again - in the "wrong" direction.
And doing well academically is a pretty plausible cause of being relaxed in such a setting.
The particularly messed up thing about that and similar laws in the UK is they are made using cross party consensus
> I'm going add rocket launchers and nos, because that's way more fun than driving a Camry around.

You'd be surprised how popular truck and flight simulators are.
That wouldn't necessarily be easy in the long run. Look at how many people hate Facebook but use it anyway because they're essentially socially forced to.
Calyx Institute does interesting and helpful work: https://calyxinstitute.org/about/board
They probably meant RNA code of the virus. Since if you know it you can produce it in a lab and introduce it into cells and they will manufacture functional copies of the virus.

It's not a recipe to create virus in a lab. It's a recipe to manufacture copies of the virus in a lab.
> unless Mastodon or something else is planning to persuade the masses to not make money on the metaverse and stay on the fediverse.

Exactly this. Mastodon on its own is clearly not enough. And cryptoeconomic systems still have to navigate financial regulations successfully before they ever become legitimate contenders.

Not sure I see another macrotrend out there to help counter this. Except crypto. And despite all my faith, I remain skeptical.
> It would appear that Installshield is a product used by a lot of old games to perform the installation process.

How to make the Pentium generation kids feel old :-)
I spent a lot of money on my house and I absolutely cannot support any measures that devalue my property. Killing housing values will take money away from hundreds of thousands of people who worked hard for what they have. Why can’t we champion hard work? Why should anyone get anything for free?
1MB is really a lot if you know what you're doing, what language you actually can't fit into 1MB of ram due to inherent specifics of language itself, not because interpreter/compiler doesn't optimize for such cases?
Is underwhelming performance/delivery a deliberate strategy?

Carmack vs Zuckerberg I think can be summed up as follows: one builds things things people will genuinely like, and the other one force-feeds people until they like it and know no other option.
> However, my point is that it is an arbitrary choice.

It does not have to be arbitrary though. We could go by the Turing test. If some text-to-speech could clear it i would believe what it said.
How come that the same company that ruined countless people's mental health announces that they want to completely immerse mankind in an alternative reality and take over human senses in a much more potent way, yet the most discussed aspect of it seems to be whether it's possible, and what problems need to be solved in order to make it happen.

Let's about devastating mental health problems that this will cause. To me it's obvious that they will majorly fuck up human perception of reality like they did with social interactions.

Oh, and what do you think which age groups will be mostly drawn to it?
While studying how concurrency is done in Ada is certainly instructive and even today many languages and multi-threading libraries have more poor support for concurrent programming than Ada had since the beginning, a language that was really ahead of its time regarding concurrency was IBM PL/I.

15 years before Ada, in 1964, IBM PL/I had facilities for multitasking that e.g. included a wait function that could do everything that can be done with WaitForMultipleObjects / WaitForSingleObject. The POSIX threads suck because they lack such a powerful wait function and many other multi-threading libraries, e.g. the C++ standard library, are forced to offer only what is available everywhere, so they do not have anything that is missing in the POSIX threads.
In the US, "it's China's fault" was also a great line for then-president Trump, who got some of his early political points (and notoriety) by being openly anti-China, and whose administration blatantly failed to manage the virus and its arrival in the US. So it played into his existing worldview and helped deflect responsibility away from his own administration for its failure.
The site appears to be a left-wing organ.
Interesting. But it's just a form of writing off a loss. It seems like a stupid move, and at the end of the day I'm not sure how it hurts renters since the whole idea is to offer the rental at a loss to get the tax credits (?) Also historically, Australia has had a lot of bizarre policies of paying people just to go occupy some empty piece of dirt or live in the bush, so I'm wondering if that's got something to do with advantaging this type of a write-off.

In any case, you have to realize money will go somewhere. It will go into a bank vault or it will go into a house, or it will go into the stock market; people want a return on investment. If you outright make it onerous and expensive for the middle class to invest in real estate, the only real estate investors will then be trusts and speculators. This is a simple fact any time a government goes after small land holders.
> It doesn't even have spiking neurons.

What do you mean ?

If I recall correctly there was one hobbyist who used Hodgkin-Huxley neurons to emulate movement of warm, it actually trivial task.
> I'd put the emphasis on density of information.

So much this. That effect is why I cringe every time I'm presented with an instructional video instead of text -- videos waste a lot of time to give me the information that could usually have been done in a page or two of text.
Wow, you are right. Slovenia totally escaped me. For some reason I don't associate Slovenia with Yugoslavia. In my mind it was always it's own thing. Maybe there was less fighting during the dissolution and we didn't hear as much in the news.
> And we see that it clearly has a very negative impact overall so idk what kind of argument is that.

You're talking about AC? Surely the climate dialogue hasn't devolved to the point of "uses energy == bad".
We can reflect on its role in shaping society/living spaces and its costs and benefits without being so reductionist.
> Yet Facebook now is a billion dollar company.

Yet the social network as a concept that moved from one monopoly to another is a fad that is dieing. It certainly seems likely companies that have gotten their start from VR will succeed in collecting a lot of money and possibly diversifying successfully, but will VR end up being more useful than a FB style social site?

The basic problem with VR for me is that second life showed some potential that isn't going to happen because it is socially positive and a lot of negatives that make me want to kill VR as a medium before I have to deal with FB owning real estate in it.

FB has basically created the bifurcation that will limit the future of all new mediums. Half your friends will never use anything they participate in making the concept of social X a disaster for any X.
This game is exhibit A of how to destroy brand equity in record time.

Since 3DO folded and the property was taken over by another studio, this brand has collapsed in value.
> To get an even better answer, ask a better question: ‘I water my sansevieria (snake plant) about once a week, and it’s not in direct sun. I’ve had it for six months and it was nice when I got it. But now the tips are brown, what am I doing wrong?’

Hmm where have i seen that before... oh, here:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
In the most of the US you pay rent to the owner of the apartment you live in. A partitioned building where you own the unit you live in is usually referred to as a "condominium" or "condo".
I'm just glad today that our family managed to purchase a three-story house from the municipal government for the equivalent of $US6K (!) about twenty years ago. In retrospect probably one of the best investments anyone could have ever made at that time. North Bohemia, but still...
You are exaggerating a bit. The awerage wage in Germany after tax is € 2439 [1]

The average house price seems to be € 376 000 [2]

That means 13 years worth of salary which is kind of much.

As to why is this the case I see two reasons but I am sure there are more:

Houses in Europe are built with better standards and built to last more. You can pass the house to your kids, no problem. It will be in very good shape and probably worth more than you've paid for it.

The biggest issue is land. Europe is small and crowded and it becomes more crowded due to increasing migration. So the land is scarce. Also many EUsians like to live in the city, close to center if possible in contrast with USians which might be glad to live in suburbia. US has good roads uniting the suburbs with the city and the price of gas is small.
US is a vast place so land is not exactly a problem.

Another issue is socialist policies (even from the CDU) which means high taxation, resulting in lower incomes and less investments in developing real estate.

[1] https://housinganywhere.com/Germany/average-salaries-in-germ...

[2] https://www.iamexpat.de/housing/real-estate-news/where-can-y...
> Roku is really crap to use

I disagree, I find the Roku experience to be quite easy to use and it does what I want with no surprises in the UX.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Shiller_index
Adequate sound insulation can deal with most of those issues (I assume group meetings is a euphemism for hearing your neighbors? Otherwise unless you’re on a condo board or something there are no such meetings in U.S. apartments in my experience, it’s not a college dorm.)

I lived in concrete floored apartments for 7 years and almost never heard my neighbors. Never got any sound complaints. That said a lot of low-rise U.S. apartments are built with wood and may not be adequately insulated.
My position:

1. Abolishing landlords is not the answer (I see a lot of people suggest this). Ownership is a barrier. Rental properties are useful. If there are no landlords there are no rentals unless you want the government to be your landlord. Nobody wants that;

2. Investment funds should not be landlords. Landlords should be local to the area. Likewise, no one entity should be allowed to have too much beneficial ownership of housing stock in any one area;

3. Real estate has special treatment for asset reporting. This needs to end;

4. If you own real estate in NYC, for example, then the city and state should deem you a resident of that state for tax purposes and tax you accordingly;

5. Properties without a clear beneficial owner (eg owned through layers of LLCs) should be taxed punitively in property taxes. You can have your anonymity if you really care but it's going to cost you;

6. Residents of trailer parks and mobile home parks should have the right to collectively purchase that park. There is a quite frankly disgusting effort by investors to buy up these properties and then extort the poor people who live on them (eg [1]). This shit needs to be illegal; and

5. This protection should extend to apartment buildings too. This is essentially the origin of the cooperative ("coop") in NYC. Today, coops still account for ~80% of apartments in Manhattan.

People have in the last 100+ years gravitated to cities for employment. Cities have a lot of advantages. But this has constrained supply of suitable housing stock artificially. There is a lot of cheap housing in the US still but not where it's useful. My hope is that the pandemic is a catalyst for a change that will allow people to move away from a few urban centers. Having more medium-sized cities in various regions is generally better for everyone.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/what-happens-w...
jart makes me realize that my high school counselor Stella Sawicki was absolutely right when she said I wasn’t living up to my potential
Japan ports swamped by pumice spewed from undersea volcano
i guess the outcry over the breakage was ... limited?
Yes, but Ada extended the number of usable types for ranges, e.g. including fixed-point numbers.

All those that existed in Pascal also exist in Ada.
I would be happy if they painted them in less vivid colors. Say you have 4 big panel buildings. Each has its owners association. Each one sets different color from different color pallet. You end up with heaven 1 blue, 1 army green/shitbrown, 1 bright green/yellow and 1 red buildings next to each other. The structure is massive and if you put different colors that dont match it is horrible pain for brain.
Younger people speak English but it depends what you want to do. People are friendly so they will normally try to help you out anyways.
Let me know if you need any advice:
guillermog|at|netnotion|dot|com
Electronic tongue to analyze fish freshness (2008) [pdf]
I have zero idea what RIR stands for. I myself would have everything programmed in Pascal. 8)
If the economy grows 2%, wages grow 2%, but inflation is 5%, this means people are losing money in real terms. This is stagflation.
I agree, nobody likes fake or useless notifications. But luckily these days Android and iOS offer end-users the option to disable notifications. It's not a perfect solution though of course as you might not want to block all notifications from the app.

From what I'm seeing my customers treat push notifications very responsibly and their app users love the feature :)
As far as I know, Matrix wants to do something similar to this. They want user IDs to be public keys. A user ID can be bound to a name, but can change the name over time and keep your connections.

I'd say the big problem at the moment is that people are not used to paying for service. Lots of stuff related to naming is very cheap. But if you require it to be free, then you will get bad incentives like trying to build a silo and fill that silo with ads.
What is the income though? How much of that $120bn/yr is left?
Epic Games believes the Internet is broken. This is their blueprint to fix it
You can also do "Memory Cell Clearing" by using Secure Erase (SATA) or Sanitize (NVMe)[1]. Parted Magic provides a simple GUI for these operations [2]/[3].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_ce...
[2] https://partedmagic.com/secure-erase/
[3] https://partedmagic.com/nvme-secure-erase/
We just don’t have the compute to render a full universe experience in God mode.
> A long time resident of Prague.

Same here.

I love it.

I find it gorgeous in "wow look at the scale of things that humanity can do, if we set our mind to it". It makes me think of spaceships. The grey provides backdrop for greenery, of which there is a lot in Prague, especially now in fall when trees turn all colors each of them striking (the winter looks the worst here I think). It gives me the same vibe as Nordic minimalism, except it looks lived in, and used, not "fake perfect". It is very much alive.

Meanwhile, my friends laughed at me when I called American suburbs "featureless wasteland" after driving hundred miles through it.

I think this just shows that architecture is art, and opinions differ.
> The immigration crisis just was the last straw

I think the immigration crisis and Germany's unilateral "Willkommenskultur" played a significant role in Brexit, though it's not often mentioned.

I'm of the opinion that the EU should return to being a trading bloc, with oversight of the ECJ with member states controlling other areas like immigration.
Although Zuck is easy to mock about this move proves courage for a company as big as Fb.
In the end, zuck understands that the risk of not changing is much greater than the risk of staying the same. Technology is unstoppable
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When did horror games become team sports?
So this guy has had a t-shirt printed with a mirrored logo just to be able to use it with the transparent whiteboard.
In what countries is it not customary to do so? I lived in 4 counties, including 3 in Europe and when talking about income the custom was always to use pre tax income.

A more meaningful difference is what individuals do not have to pay for in Germany.
I don’t know whether it is true, but a simple explanation would be “because they make more in profits from the ads they serve as a consequence of it”.
I really don't think most of the good that comes from tech required the bad enabled by tech.

Humans are just really good at externalizing costs on the environment and on each other.

And enough humans are driven by motivated reasoning so that entire organizations are devoted to disrupting any attempts at fixing things.

Those are human problems. Facebooks social problems are not caused by the evils of digital scrapbooking with reliable write/read coherence over shards. They are the evils of humans redirecting information based on perverse incentives, taking profits from others pain.
Better to keep the metaverse in its own alternate reality with this piece of code.

if(user_agent.includes("facebookexternalhit"))
{
alert("Stay in your own metaverse!");
redirect_to("www.facebook.com");
}
> It also helped me think about building codes and how old homes in the US can get grandfathered into old codes, not having to update to many of the new codes.

In the US ex post-facto laws are generally unconstitutional. Our law defaults to grandfathering (there are exceptions), so a change in code applies to new construction, or renovations to existing structures. My experience owning older properties is that this was not a feature. Often what would be a repair in a new property would lead to a major renovation because whatever was being worked on would have to "be brought up to code".
I lived in apartments for a while (although not in cities).

Another thing is that they would need to inspect the apartment once in a while (with notice) to make sure you aren’t damaging it. Even with notice it is intrusive.

I am sooo much happier owning a house. I got so sick of white walls I couldn’t paint and the inability to have certain hobbies (woodworking? musical instruments? Not in any apartment I’ve been in)
for most companies the cost of an v6 transition is still greater than the cost of renumbering an aquisition.
Everything will be known sooner or later. Since when truth is dangerous?
Here is a better view of the National theatre https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0813684,14.4138734,3a,75y,13...
Someone else mentioned it but under the surface there are killing the ability to add private channels via codes. Those channels were not in the Roku store and could have allowed
Google to work around the ban.

https://www.azukisystems.com/blog/roku-private-channels/

In this post there is a unofficial twitch app and an unofficial iTunes podcast app. That type of thing would not be allowed in the Roku channel
Store.
I never hear my neighbors, unless someone is renovating, but that's rare.
HOMM 2 and HOMM3 were probably the most underrated games of the 90s

These games stood their own even in the age of Warcraft 2.

I nmhave yet to see a friend that, after being shown how to play the game, would not be totally hooked on HOMM2-3.

To this day, the only (old) game several friends will randomly want to boot are the HOMM series.