skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those unfamiliar with San Francisco: 6th and Market is a very bad neighborhood, and the idea of "gentrifying" it on any timeline you will live to see the end of, is laughable.
It wouldn't be a very elaborate rationalization. e.g. "Banks have KYC and AML requirements. We have an information economy. 'Misinformation' is the equivalent to funding terrorism. Therefore, information-exchange platforms will also be required to perform KYC and AIL or be prosecuted. Compute providers, ISPs, payment processors, and crypto exchanges [assuming they still exist when this hypothetical is actually proposed] will be forbidden from serving any platforms that don't."
Not only that, but here you're talking about increasing the cost of advertising exponentially.

The closest thing we have to what's being described here is a video game. 3D game development is one of the most difficult and unforgiving branches of software development.

To achieve what is being talked about here, BMW is going to have to hire a team of 3D artists, animators and programmers to realize this asset. And someone is going to have to make sure this asset performs well, and interacts appropriately with the world, and with all the other assets which have been created by independent and unrelated teams. Part of that is, driving around in this car can't use too much CPU and GPU budget so that it brings the framerate to a halt when it appears on screen with any combination of the infinite number of combinations of things which could exist in this world.

This stuff takes years and is hard to get right for mature AAA studios with decades of experience. The idea that every company with an ad department is going to get into this vastly expensive and unproven business is a dream for facebook but a nightmare for everyone else.
The problem is that is hard to define/measure "richness" of a country. You can use monthly income or financial wealth as a metric, you have to decide between average and median etc.

For example, in 2018, 45 single super-rich germans possessed the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50% of germans [0]. Using the median of distributed wealth would not express that, and if you cut off outliers by looking at percentiles and then averaging would also not express that.

[0]: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/vermoegen-45-supe...
Yeah was thinking that; this would be generated and stored in an HSM
;it would be impossible to retrieve it even if you have access to the HSM in the network (one of the devs). You could sign with it but not actually distribute it. There are relatively easy and cheap ways to do this these days (aws cloudhsm for instance) so it is all a bit strange.
Code readability is at least extremely subjective, one person's highly readable code is another person's incomprehensible mess.
C. Elegans is the perfect first candidate for understanding the whole brain of some animal.

It doesn't even have spiking neurons. Whole Brain Emulation of merely 302 neurons would not be that hard if we understood how worm brain and neurons work.
Wow, exactly my experience.
This is incorrect. In a lot of countries people rent or have historically rented. Including America in the past.

America subsidizes homeownership specifically so now everyone does that, but people’s first and only house is definitely an investment.

Housing is a basic need, homeownership isn’t one, any more than running a farm is a basic human need.
Generate SaaS startup financial model in 5min:valuation,LTV,CAC&marketing budget
Euthanization of humans generally happens with consent.
Do you have any source on that?
not rooting is incompatible with freedom
> The global average doesn't really mean anything except "somewhere in the US there is still affordable housing".

Friend, that's not what average means.

It means that more than half all houses cost less than X (because average => median). Not "somewhere in the there exists something less than X".

> "high-density places where housing would be needed."

Well you got half the country (actually much more - closer to 2/3, given that average >> median in housing).

This has been brought to you by your local RUMIA (Responsible Use of Math In Arguments) league.

Stay frosty out there, people.
Belgrade was not a part of the Soviet Union
I'd like to remark that the black&white photography somehow accentuate this "brutalist" feeling. It doesn't look as bad in reality. (I am also from Czechoslovakia).
Just what we need: an escape from this world into one where corporations literally control the rules of reality.
That too, build quality took a lot of hits. Housing might become consumer goods.

In US most houses are made from wood panels and nobody expect them to out live the owner. In Europe most houses were made from bricks and concrete and people passed them to the next generation.
Whatever the cause, I'm absolutely sure it has nothing to do with our central bank conjuring 120 billion new dollars per month to buy up mortgage backed securities.
Different lifestyles and requirements. No everyone is a tech worker who can work remotely.

Maybe covid now changes this now, but the ability to have stores and RL venues without having to drive will stay in demand, I' pretty sure.
A great way to predict ordinary weather (meaning, not space weather) in Burlington VT is: if there is a possibility of interesting space stuff then it will rain for the next several days. :-(
But.. Do you need electrons and gamma ray model to simulate fully your old Amiga games on PC?
painfully true

thou it will be argued that it is a minority that is affected and it makes little economic sense to care.
Not all foam is created equal. If you find it hard to roll over, it's probably (in my experience) some fairly high component of memory foam. Latex, on the other hand, is fairly springy and very similar to the traditional beds I used to have, primarily Posturpedic.

There are a lot of foam bed options out there these days, so you have lots of choice. Unfortunately, the composition of them is often not really spoken about, you really have to dig to find them.

FYI: A "memory foam" mattress only tends to have a little memory foam in it.

Most mattresses tend to be a high density foam base (~5"), a lower density foam on top of that (2-3"), and the memory foam or whatnot on top of that (another 2-4"). The more expensive latex beds IIRC are all or mostly latex, but most of the <$1K mattresses are largely high density foam.

~10 years ago I had a memory foam mattress that was comfortable to sleep in, particularly once it had warmed up for a few hours and was easier to move in. I tend to move a lot when I sleep, rolling over regularly. But for sex it was fairly annoying.

I swapped it after a couple years for a new bed, I ended up doing a bunch of research and selected a Leesa, because it seemed to be one of the few that had a latex-like top layer. As I mentioned previously, finding the composition to compare mattresses was fairly hard, the vendors don't really seem to talk about it (circa 7 years ago). On top of that I put a 3" latex topper, because my wife wanted something softer.
People being happy with their sexuality and adopting instead of reproducing sounds like the best way to combat overpopulation, it tackles three issues in one go
What’s your view on immigration then?
I've used Process Monitor in the past to track down a mysterious "cannot open file" error. It readily listed the file opening attempt the software made, among a ton of other events.
Yeah, not sure what the author is talking about. Once he tries the Segway, he'll know it's the future of transportation. Anything else is FOMO FUD.
While I tend to agree that brutalist is sometimes an excuse for ugly, even you gotta admit that most of the pictures in the article are quite stunning.
Thanks for the writeup. To be completely honest, i wish you (and other scammed players) would sue Ubisoft and claim huge sums (maybe to give away to FLOSS game devs?). These huge game corps are avidly exploiting their workers and charging tons of money for unfinished/buggy games in clear violation of all consumer/worker protection laws.

I mean, if the game doesn't work for you, that's conceivable. But that they sell a game that doesn't work for many people, and the problem is widely known and the editor refuses to do anything but still takes money for it... it makes me wanna throw up :)
Danish have two grammatical genders, "neuter" and "common". Male and female have same grammatical gender. So conflating gender and sexual identity becomes really confusing!
I also agree. First of all, consult a specialist. Additionally, I need to say I always pay attention to all side effects indicated. I really treat with caution every prescription I get. As for Sertraline, I noticed that the generic one I got from https://www.canadapharmacy.com/ has less sides than the branded one. Don't know why there is the difference, but it still calms me down a bit.
There is a high overlap though, it's often harder to understand how highly abstracted code actually works than 'unrolled' verbose code composed from simple operations (which is closer to machine code - thus the 'overlap').

It might be easier to understand the 'intent' of highly abstracted code, but this doesn't mean the code behaves as intended, and IMHO 'readability' is about understanding what the code actually does, not what it is supposed to do.
sociologically I wonder how much of the new generation wants this full blown alternate reality, ar/vr and the likes
Uh...that's what he said? Had it been a part of USSR, it wouldn't have been outside of it.
>Some of those features have been introduced only recently in more popular languages, while others are still missing from most languages.

Can you give an example of an ADA feature missing from most languages? I know ADA is supposed to be good for writing reliable software, are there any important features related to that which other languages could adopt?
Good point. Still doesn't say where that half is - probably not in high-density urban areas.

But it doesn't even have to mean that. It could also mean that certain undesirable neighborhoods cost far below the median, pulling the average down.
I think you got the point. Bananas are a depreciating asset but you can still make a profit around it. House prices should be the same, depreciating. That doesn't mean real estate should not be a profitable business though. But it should probably not be profitable for the end user.
Safest gives me the same each time.
If people come to a different country to make a better life for themselves than they would in the countries they were originally from, what's wrong with that? If you're regarding them as sub-humans who don't deserve to work to make a decent life for themselves, rather than directing your anger at the employers who exploit those unable to rise up against the poor pay/working standards/..., we could argue over whether "Nazi" is the best word to describe those views, but it's irrelevant, we should be talking about those views. Do you think you're entitled to a better life than someone else solely based on the fact that you're born in one place and they're born in another? Do you perhaps think the responsibility lies with them to get themselves fired so that that poor employer who always wanted to employ you and pay you a decent wage but was somehow tricked by them can now do so?
One thing to consider with the housing market is that housing scarcity, which is the driver for this pricing, is partially caused by population increases. However, population growth is predicted to stagnate in large parts of the world, and has already stagnated in some places. Some countries are going to see a shrinking population. Particularly wealthy countries.

So, we're used to prices going up forever but what happens when housing demands stops growing and housing supply starts growing due to more people dying than get born? Interesting question to answer if you are making long term investments in real estate. Of course part of the world are still going to have significant growth. I don't have the answer but a good wisdom shared by pilots and system administrators is that everything that goes up must come down.
Well clearly people are referring to textual porn. That means there can be text porn. Convention is the only thing that determines the meaning and usage of words.
You can send both audio and video messages asynchronously using any major chat client, so that cannot be the (only) reason.
No one consents to nuclear war though, unless we imply consent through the actions of the elected government. In which case I don't see how that's different.
yes and this is on purpose. This is also partly because the safety standard is ever-evolving due to the precarious nature of Japan. Thus, updating house to the latest safety standard would cost more than just flat it over and rebuild a new one.

That's why, the most expensive part is the land and not the building itself.
>sex prepper

Thank you for coining the term.

We could also merge two domains of highly hypothetical expectation and call them Temporarily Embarrassed Copulators.
seriously, rendering websites to image formats is an option and some cdn (cf iirc) have products for this.
That's why I've said "outside of the former Soviet Union", inside the former Soviet Union there are cities which can compete with Belgrade on the brutalist front, from what I was able to see from IG Sankt Petersburg and Kyiv are quite interesting on that front. To say nothing of the brutalist Soviet bus stations which deserve an architectural category/style all for themselves [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/sep/02...
>Finance people who make loans take issue with this since they have to match prices with a "government-backed" business

No. They are glad the government is buying away the risks from them, enabling them to give more loans to people who might not afford to pay for them.
Slovenia $25,549 - Portugal $22,149

https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/slovenia/portug...
Love how deftly it transitioned from cropped bar charts to “weight loss drink, Add to Cart”

I’m probably missing out by not ordering a pouch myself, but it’s a smoothly written article. Props
The thing about the internet as we interact with it today that makes it so pervasive is that it generally enhances real world experiences. It doesn't replace them. It fills in the gaps in down time. People whip out their phones to text or take a video or catch up on social media or share something because the interaction is fast and the interfaces are complementary and the right balance of distracting enough to draw your attention, but not distracting enough that you can't convince yourself that you are loosely aware of what's around you. AR might work, but VR outside of your home seems like a stretch.
natural selection is a cultural myth (like everything talking about an undefined "nature"), may be you'r thinking about evolution theory which is driven by reproduction success, but we already bypass it, living far beyond our fertility time :)
thou privacy conscious users are vastly underrepresented in analytics.
> Tip for aquarium owners: a lot of plants benefit from the 'dirt' in dirty aquarium water.

There are some interesting-looking mini-aquaponics systems out there that could be useful for anyone who already knows how to take care of a fish tank.
The thing is, quite a lot of those things look better when photoed from a distance and much less so when you actually need to walk around them in your daily life.

I used to live next to two rather famous Brutalist buildings. One of them was actually kept in good order and the original architect seemed not to be outright enemy of mankind. It still had a score of problems, but well.

The other one was beyond ugly; it was actively evil. I wasn't surprised when I later learnt that the Communist secret police (StB) had extensive wiretapping and surveillance facilities there, among others. It was just a perfect fit.
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There is talk that private keys have been compromised and people were getting fake vaccination certificates.

North Macedonia did not safeguard the signing key properly and it got leaked?
Brutalist architecture is often beautiful, but it certainly wasn't designed for people, but rather as a monuments to the ego of the architect.

I visited one of Le Corbusier's "creations" once (this one: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_radieuse_de_Marseill...)

Soul-crushing is indeed the only thing I could think of while there.

[EDIT]: Here's a good article on function vs form:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...

Best quote in the article, on a design from Peter Eisenman (who IMO lived up to his last name):

"A Peter Eisenman building. Note the total lack of plant life. Plant life might accidentally make you feel happy and comfortable, and happiness is a bourgeois illusion. The tiny figures on the left seem to be attempting a picnic on the curve. They are probably cold and windswept—as they should be."

If you are into these sort of things, here's an interesting read: a debate between Eisenman and Alexander where the latter accuses the former of "fucking up the world"

https://www.ahenryrose.com/resources/alexander-eisenman-the-...
Interesting. Are you running different systems? If so, can you explain which (and which desktop environments) so we can (try to) reproduce?
The books took one person a lifetime to create.
The series took billions of dollars and hundreds of lifetimes, even though the story was already there.
The books were extremely effective.
Well, it is a big difference. Someone was saying below that the vast majority of rendering was done "client-side" since 2000s, and it actually couldn't be farther from the truth. Even in 2021, the vast majority of of programs are still rendering server-side.

And, I have also been reading the claims of programs going to switch to OpenGL "any time soon" since the 2000s, with people backing out of the idea always due to "drivers" or the like. My experience trying to accelerate 2d programs with OpenGL has always been a disaster anyway. Maybe Vulkan is more suited to 2d rendering, but I would be surprised.

That is why I don't believe in that argument. Server-side rendering _is_ working as of today. Most programs do not use OpenGL at all. Wayland is breaking all of this; it's not that it was already broken.

> If you use Plasma, then you are using some Qt Quick software.

I was perusing the KDE source and the only program I could find is plasma-widgets. Not surprising: the only program in the entire KDE desktop that uses Qt Quick is a widgets program. It's basically a layering program.

> Currently only the GNOME extensions panel is ported to GTK4

I use latest released version of Gnome and it is not.

> Cairo X rendering only happens if you use the Cairo Xlib surface, which GTK3 only uses in some circumstances.

i.e. ALWAYS when using X as backend. It is the default. What else are they going to use, the PostScript backend?
Also not a topologist, but thought it was interesting after watching the video from the current top comment, https://youtu.be/mceaM2_zQd8 , where if you look at the size of the "contained sphere", 4D is the only place where the contained sphere is exactly tangent to the containing box. Lower than that, and it's easy to visualize how the contained sphere is smaller, higher than that, the contained sphere is always bigger. So seems like it might be a natural consequence that techniques that work at higher or lower dimensions don't work for the case in 4D where the sphere is exactly tangent.
Ceefax from an old Raspberry Pi
Every basic need increases in price over time. It is called inflation
Postgres supports clustering and replication.
Honestly, I don't get why people care so much about typing loop and end loop etc in their code. But after using nim where I can just ignore the default style and write everything in snake_case (which brings me joy as I find camelCase harder to read and annoyingly ugly), I think more language should be style agnostic (with tools for converting between styles for others' reading benefit). Ada could support curlies AND verbal curlies allowing people who don't think that there is any benefit in loop/end loop to just use {}.
I did, but i personally don't care that everyone knows i'm using a tor browser. TBB is like a digital black block [0]: it is known i'm in there but nobody knows who i am in that crowd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_block
Would evidence about masks wearing be one example?

At the start of the pandemic it felt very surprising to me that we didn’t have a definitive scientific answer to whether we should wear masks or not. You’d think something so basic would be known. I’m not that familiar with the evidence so maybe it did exist but the scientific community was unsure about supply.
I could imagine something like this:

Dad! Roblox is down!!

Dad: whats roblox?

Looks at credit card over the years: fuuuuuu!

Goes to buy shares :)
They bought Nokia, they had the best mobile operative system ever created.

Meego, Linux, Qt.

Insanely good developing experience, a decade ahead what iOS or Android had.

It could have been the efficient, user friendly open source rival to the Objective C and Java.

They literally missed the opportunity to make a decent and open phone and it was all by design. They killed Nokia on purpose, right when the N9 was released.
This is already true up to $250k. Look, I certainly don't think it's a good thing to build an economy on people or corporations flipping real estate. But active measures that would make it less attractive for people to buy a house, will drive that money elsewhere. As of 2020, 82.8 million residences in the US are owner-occupied. People have put their nest egg into a place to live, and that's good. It's a good thing that real estate is a safe place for people to put their savings to keep pace or outpace inflation. Imagine that money going into the stock market chasing gains. It would be a catastrophe. There is a true market for real estate driven by demand. A large number of houses in this country are owned by people who live in them, who are not speculators, but would only make the decision to own if it made financial sense.
SL was great and a lot of fun. It just had a rather clunky user interface, and probably other issues (nobody said it was easy). Nevertheless there was an explosion of creativity for a while.

Nowadays Minecraft and Roblox seem to fill similar niches.

That many attempts failed doesn't mean all attempts will fail. You may not know this, but there were other social networks before Facebook. There was Orkut and MySpace, for example, both disappeared. Yet Facebook now is a billion dollar company.

VRML appeared at a time when people were still using dial-up modems. Things change - eventually technology may be good enough for people to adopt VR on a larger scale.
I think they are stunning because they are so ugly. Looking at pictures once is one thing and living or working there is another thing. Add the unwanted associations with the totalitarian regime... I have to admit that I am in favor of destroying them and replacing them with something nicer wherever possible. I respect that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; just my $0.02.
No one was talking about bitwise equality though. Bitwise equality means positive and negative zero do not compare as equal, and some NaNs compare as equal while others don't, in ways that will vary according to exactly where those NaNs came from. There may be times where that might be useful but it would be uncommon.
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Smartwatches aren't new in the same way smartglasses will be new.

Watches weren't new, calculator watches were introduced almost half a century ago, the concept had a ton of time to mature. A HUD/AR capable smartglasses will be an entirely new concept that has so far failed spectacularly every time it has been tried. Not saying it won't happen, just that it'll need a lot more time to mature as a consumer product than smartwatches did -- there's a lot more to it than waiting until the technology is capable.