skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several reasons that zoning and variances work.

First is scale. Very few one-off items will have a big effect. But when nearly everyone does it, it entirely changes the loads on the infrastructure, character of the community, etc.

Adding 2x-3x the residents to existing plots will add similar loads to the roads, water, sewage, and services infrastructure. These boil down to very real costs, and if not properly managed, including raising taxes as it happens, will seriously degrade the town. Limiting this is not micromanaging, it is managing.

The other is the direct effect on the neighbors. This happened with my grandparent's house, a one floor ranch built in the ~1950s overlooks the Hudson river north of NYC. Someone bought it and wanted to turn it into a 2-story. There is another large house further up the ridge overlooking the roof, the river, and the hills beyond. This change would have destroyed their view of the river and hills to the west. Despite the new owner's significant funds and lobbying, the request was denied and it was sold on.

I think this is an excellent result. The owner of my GP's house would have imposed a massive external loss on the neighbor.

Sure, there are some neighbors who are absolute asses and will deny everything for spite, and that can be as annoying as micromanaging. At the same time, I do not consider it to be my right to do whatever TF I want, and the hell with how it affects my neighbor - and in particular, I want the same treatment - golden rule.

The problem is that developers DO work by the different golden rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. They are basically growth hackers (and not in a good way). Any hole in the rules they WILL attempt to exploit in order extract maximum profit from a plot of land.

The developer off my back lot line? He's not big, he's a guy from another state who builds additions, and thinks this massive development, with which he has zero experience will be his big retirement payday. Considering the environment and geography issues, I think he is stupid money and that serious developers passed on the lot. But that doesn't stop every random builder with dreams.

So, as soon as you allow general conversion from single to duplex/triplex, that is guaranteed what you will get within a few years. Sure, some of it will be people just building a second unit for their family to live on the same plot. But most of it will be builders buying up lots that can then be built out. And they will do it in the way that makes them the most profit, usually short-term - this means regard for the neighbors is zero beyond what is required and enforced.

So, while these ideas sound wonderful and egalitarian, the reality is that being more loose about it inevitably leads directly do developer abuses and destruction of what has been created.

There may be solutions to this, but if it was easy, it would have already been done.
> An estimate is guess

It took me a long time to internalize that. See, there's an implied threat - "esitmate correctly or we'll replace you with somebody who will." And believe me, given the mentality of your average project manager, it would be "we'll have you executed first" if executing people who didn't do what you told them to do weren't against the law. What I finally realized was that the implicit threat was a hollow one - there's nobody out there who can do it either, and they know that, as much as they ball up their fists and gnash their teeth when you deliver "late".
I also fear it'll be some bloated Electron monstrosity, because the copy on the landing page has some bluster about discovery, new artistes, etc. All of which is nice, but indicates to me that it'll be a "webapp packaged as desktop app".

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not hopeful.
> How are you going to cool the room off in the summer

In my (albeit outdated now) experience, cooling in the winter can often be even more of a problem in cold climates, if you have a condenser unit outside in freezing weather.
Most of the discrimination seems to be against slave descendants. Barack Obama is the son of an educated African immigrant, African immigrants are doing very well in USA, about as well as Asian immigrants, so he is a part of the model minority and not the discriminated minority.
You have a sense of humor.
I have a developing conjecture that in order to address the perceived problem of higher male per capita in certain occupations, attracting males into occupations with higher female ratios is as important as incentivizing female participation in high-male occupations.

I'm no mathematician but I see it in terms of system numbers: Given a set of occupations with different sex ratios, to change the ratio of any specific occupation the ratios of other occupations must also change.

Incentivizing a specific sex population into an occupation may work for a while; they can boost the overall population in that occupation over the occupations the incentivized population would otherwise enter. However, the true outcome is an overpopulation in the incentivized occupation and underpopulation in others. The difference between incentivized and "natural" population size for an occupation becomes headwinds for any person to enter an occupation resulting in reduced incentive efficiency.

In a simplistic rational "Homo economicus" world some portion of the male population that would enter the female-incentivized occupation would move to other occupations and the sex ratios would change. If it is true that males are discriminated against in occupations with high female ratios, then this would represent an even higher hurdle than the factors that result in sex ratio variance in occupations.
> In France, we don't consider that people have a different race.

Ah I thought the parent was saying that the Third Reich was into the "human race" in the "there is no race but the human race" colourblindness way, which threw me off. Yeah I agree, race is a social construct and ethnicity/culture are historical products. I'm British, I don't think we're quite as post-racial but the idea of black and white people being culturally divided is pretty weird.

> It feels very weird to me that you consider that races exists, but then reject any differences between them.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough; I don't believe races exist. Skin colours do, but they don't correspond to some categorical human difference whatsoever. That was my point.

> I honestly fail to understand why everyone should perform the same in every field.

True, but you have to admit that if all programmers were white that would be pretty suspect, and would hint that there may be something discriminatory as play. It's not prima facie evidence of discrimination, but depending on the levels of skew it might indicate something going on.

> I find it surprising and a bit disturbing that you would jump so easily from "white people are superior in one field" to "white people are the superior race and should dominate others".

Well, if you essentialise superiority ie say that a racial group is objectively better at intellectual pursuits regardless of culture or resources, then yeah that's a racial supremacist argument. You can reasonably say that, idk, white American culture incentivises nerd stuff more than black American culture, but that's an example of the former classification ("systemic/cultural reason") that I gave - it's not an essentialist argument because culture is mutable. In which case, you can decide whether that's something that can/should be rectified through outreach or whatnot. It's not like all imbalances are a problem.
Because the supply of medical doctors in most countries including Canada is heavily constrained. People are wary of opening the flood gates because it is expected that the quality of care would drop (not necessarily a good argument). Meanwhile, there is a huge access issue with long wait times at the ER or for seeing specialists. A large proportion of the population has no family doctor.
Could you just turn off the notifications on your messenging apps?

That is what I do for all messenging apps except for SMS. I would check them in my downtime in the evening.
Warning: do not google "atmospheric river" if you want to get something done today.
I imagine the fraudulent schemes have also come a long way since 2016.

Given the volume of trading that happens on unregulated exchanges, I don’t see why anyone would think the amount of fraud has been decreasing as unregulated activity is increasing.
I know you're framing it as patient choice, but it would incentivize doctors to actually want to research new solutions instead of give stale advice that doesn't seem to work.
Im specifically talking about up and coming , memecoins.

The liquidity pool on these are usually provided by token owner themselves, fee doesnt matter there (gas fees does, but they make much much more by doing this).

Tokens like these need these fake volumes to get the necessary amount of holders , publicity and volume to qualify to be listed on centralised exchanges.

Even when everyone can see you do it, owners of popular trending lists which list these tokens, intentionally look the other way on this wash trading and just need it for fulfilling listing requirements.
There's obviously not a perfect definition of race, but it's also obvious that many news orgs are, by basically any definition, very disproportionally white compared to the racial markup (however you decide to define that) of their candidate pool.
It's complicated and relatively understudied in depth over the long term in humans:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817779/
I think that the author is assuming that you, the patient, have no way to assess whether the diagnosis was correct. I think that eliminates what I also thought of as a strategy, which is how this works in real life - some combination of being able to tell, as the patient, when treatment is working, combined with (the threat of) second opinions, and of course all the “human” stuff that the author sets aside about doctors wanting to help people etc.
The keyboard and the compiler do not care what clothes I wear (if any). The only difference is in the mind of the wearer. If certain clothes make you feel smarter, more professional, or more focused, go for it. If, as your career progresses, you no longer need those clothes to be able to focus, then feel free to drop them. There's no magic in the clothes.
Edge and Windows 11 – the return of Microsoft's IE fiasco?
Electricity Map
eBay has a good selection. I prefer to buy from sellers that specialize in server gear -- the descriptions are usually more complete/accurate and they'll (hopefully) know how to pack things so they arrive in good shape.

If you have a good surplus store or recyclers in your town it might be worth checking with them to save shipping (servers are heavy!). If you plan to buy a lot of gear regularly, it may pay you back to do some networking and make friends with folks who buy new and replace after five years -- become their recycler ;)
Yeah, quicklaunch actually uses methane combustion to drive the piston, the hydrogen is just the working gas. The whole advantage of light gas guns is that since you don't need your working fluid to do the combustion, you can use gasses with much higher speeds of sound which can thus produce much higher velocities, such as superheated pure hydrogen.

I am in total agreement though that spinlaunch is a much worse system though.
Maybe I misread you, but why would a larger video game developer need to support an industry to lend it credibility?

Most web 2.0 companies don't support web3, and most web3 community members would argue that this is because web3 directly threatens the web 2.0 business model.

I could spend all day on Facebook making stupid posts, or play Axie Infinity and maybe make some money. Which one is worse?
Cryptocurrency theft amounted to $1.7B in 2018
When the title just says "70% of the volume in the top crypto exchanges", perhaps you can forgive the skim-readers of the world for believing they meant "top crypto exchanges", as stated, rather than "top unregulated changes".

Sometimes it's nice for the title to honestly represent what the paper/blog/whatever is about without having to dive into the abstract.

I think there might even be some word for having titles which somewhat misrepresent the piece in question, often used when the title elicits more clicks by leaving out a key piece of information.
Devil's Advocate: Do cryptocurrencies have _any_ legitimate use case?

I can see that some newer and non-mineable coins, Solana, Avalanche, Hedera, XRP, XLM, etc don't have mining issues that the big coins (BTC, ETH, Chia, etc) have.

Is what I am seeing from critics that there has been absolutely no progress whatsoever in this space?
You said it was a scam and now instead of actually explaining that hyperbolic statement you are ignoring it and now saying "system risk" and throwing in irrelevant nonsense.

Tesla isn't going anywhere whether you like them or not and they aren't even staying in silicon valley. Saying they are a scam is nonsense and saying silicon valley will "end" is nonsense.
The problem even with that method is that if everyone agrees on "most likely", and that is perfectly correct, and you use it, you'll still be wrong more often than right.

The reason is the underlying distribution: because the probability distribution is usually heavily skewed to the left, with a long tail to the right and lots more room for things to extend than to contract, the day which is "most likely" when looked at in isolation is actually well to the left of the median date, the date with a 50% probability of being before or after completion.

If you want an 80% chance of being right, say, you need to do some more maths with the three numbers to figure out what the right date to use is.

I would very much like to see this done. The problem is that estimation isn't seen as work. It's seen (or, more accurately, framed) as something devs should be able to just magic from thin air with perfect accuracy, so why would we bother adding complexity? Very few organisations bother tracking estimation precision, I think because the incentives are aligned such that it's actually to the advantage of the people writing the cheques that developers under-estimate. I think the power over the developers that a missed estimate gives to an adjacent organisation is a real factor in ensuring this never gets improved.
Interesting! That reminds me of the argument that market manipulation makes markets more efficient by increasing the reward available to honest participants. Wash trading being discouraged by high trading fees doesn't have the same incentive structure, but I wonder if you could arrange it the same way?
> Luckily, it does not. Manufacturing is already shifting out of China to multiple other countries, and with increasing automation, might even end up back in the West.

I'm nearly certain that it's not moving out of China into significantly greener countries, and certainly not at a rate that allows us to meet climate targets.

> We’ll almost certainly have to do a combo of the following anyway:

Yes, we will have to do those things anyway, but we in the west aren't even on track to hit targets that are based on the assumption that China and others will do some reasonable share. Unless the west kicks it into gear, we need China.

> Luckily, our species is incredibly resourceful at coming up with hail-mary’s when our lives are on the line (past examples are global trade, fertilizers, vaccines, WW2)

No, our civilization is incredibly resourceful. We've never had an advanced civilization until global temperatures stabilized within a few degrees. And we're threatening that because we're worried about the moral implications of allowing China to save face in order to save the world. Ironically you mention WWII, which involved far more, far worse moral tradeoffs than the one I'm proposing: firebombing and nuking civilians in Germany and Japan, starving the Indian subcontinent, etc. To be clear, those may well have been the right tradeoffs to make, but they cost far more lives and saved far fewer than what we're discussing here.
U of Maryland Medical System stops using race-based algorithm for kidney disease
Honest answer: Yes, of course totalitarianism is bad. You and I are in agreement there.

Corollary: Not everything that everyone claims is totalitarianism, actually is, and most of the examples described in the article are not.
Ask HN: Where are all the software-contracting agents?
A long time ago I worked as a software consultant/contractor in the US, and I'm thinking of doing it again. I mostly enjoyed it but the "find your next client" part was really stressful. Of course, there's another big industry in which talent always has to find projects and vice-versa, and that's the film (and television) industry... in which there are Agents whose job it is to do that matching for a 10% share of the deal.

But when I look around I don't see that happening in software. I know some people tried, but I don't think it got anywhere. Instead I still see "consulting companies" that have employees, and "independent contractors" that have to constantly worry about their next gig. For people who want to be independent contractors, but don't want to do the whole networking-for-jobs thing, it seems like Hollywood-style agents would be the perfect solution.

Why isn't the software agent a thing, even a dominant thing, in our industry?
One potential difficultly here is that good metrics are hard, and outcomes for a lot of medicine are hard to evaluate. Obviously not true everywhere.

So a potential path will be that the incentives start to line up with measurable impact on symptoms short term (easy outcome to evaluate) instead of meaningful shift in root causes (difficult and/or slow to measure)
People need to be paid to do the work, so they can eat and pay rent. We dont actually live in a post scarcity star trek world. So we find a way that people can be paid yet the information and content can remain free to everyone. It seems like lots of people like this. For some reason some people really really hate that other people are willing to pay to make content freely available to them. The people buying NFTs are footing the bill for you to have that free information. Sure thats a social/cultural status game with a side of speculation, but in turn we have art that is permeating culture rapidly.

As he is quoting a distortion of Stuart Brand, maybe we should see what he would think? well here he is at the ethereum devcon in 2018 talking about this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGZdLpHl1w

Open minded, interested, exploring, doing what he has done for decades and has been admired by people for, being a hacker!
Are you sure? At least here in Germany women are getting retirement earlier and tend to be living longer. There are also studies of health complaints by women taken more serious by doctors than health concerns of men. And I don‘t remember women of my generation having to work one year for almost free in military giving women one year professional experience head-start.
I tried that with FB Messenger, but forgot to check for months, missing important messages.
Original title : Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis
A master machinist is also expensive and probably doesn't like working 24/7

Also 3D printing has the advantage of not throwing out 75%+ of the metal stock
BeOS 5 PE:
+ BeTV
+ Bsnes
+ Bgen
+ BeAmp (can't remember if that was the winamp skin or port)
and all the cool apps I used to find on bebits.com

The hardware:
- amd k6-2 400Mhz
- 128MB ram
- turtle beach soundcard
- sidewinder gamepad (gameport)
- firewire gadgets
- ati tv wonder

Was so performant! Only Win2k Pro compared.
With cash, if you put a fortune in your shoebox it is "IN" your shoebox. The whole point of bitcoin is the distributed nature. Your wallet can be copied without altering any actual holdings or values, whereas a shoebox cannot.

A bitcoin wallet is more like a safety deposit box key, than an actual box itself.
Perhaps the editors of Nature are more informed on the matter than someone commenting on a HN link.
The quantitative difference is big enough to be qualitative. You have to buy a lot of life insurance, more than people normally get, to make it work. The disinterested third party beneficiary makes this affordable:

> There are, however, two big problems with this approach. The first is that even though my life may be worth $10 million to me, most of the (huge) insurance premium to pay for this insurance would be wasted from my point of view -- there probably is not one person to whom I would want to give this much money when I die. The other problem is moral hazard -- heavy insurance may reduce my incentive to keep myself healthy, and may even create incentives for my relatives to try and hurt me. It might be a problem if I could only give my doctor a 50 percent interest in my life by taking away 50 percent of my own interest, or by giving a minus 50 percent interest to my relatives.
EasyData (super easy CRUD for ASP.NET Core) v1.3.6 is out
I'm not surprised. Woman who behave like man are often praised, considered better. Man who behave like woman are often moked at, considered less. (I meant like man and like woman as our society expects them not as that those beliefs are justified)
How did they get the premise wrong? What premise? If you're going to try undercutting a 1,000 word essay, you'll need to work to get there.
Wikipedia claims that Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft is the proper name of a company that only existed until 1991, so the new rules that were introduced in 1996 do not apply. The company never changed its name to the new spelling, so the old spelling should be used to refer to the historical company. The reasoning makes sense to me.
It’s a requirement for the central repo if I recall.

And the best past is the signature handling is a part of Java, not the package manager, so nothing needs to be re-invented. The default class loader checks the signatures at runtime as well.

Typically you need 1-2 repositories, but often just 1. But if you’re an organization, you can set up your own repository very easily and use it to store private deps and to cache deps (which also allows you to lock binaries and work offline). Repo mirroring is super easy to set up. If you have an internal repo, you can just have your internal project use your own repo and your computer never has to directly reach outside the Internet for a package.

Unlike other languages, the “central repo” and the package manager tooling are independent and package resolution is distributed. When you start a project, you choose your repos. I don’t know how quickly Sonatype would react personally but they are only default by de facto. Many packages are published on several repos and mirroring is a default feature of a lot of repo software. If Sonatype started screwing up, everyone could abandon them instantly, which forces them to be better.
There were definitely castles which were built to withstand sieges. Like Krak des Chevaliers and other crusader castles. Of course it was preferred if seiges could be avoided but I do not think your pedantry about fortress vs castle matters much since there were many types of both.
But they have!

The Ford Bronco was introduced in 1965. The Jeep Cherokee arrived in 1974. I remember seeing a lot of them as a kid, though if I had to pinpoint the start of the SUV craze, it would probably be closer to 1990 when the Ford Explorer first came to market.