skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, in usual capitalistic fashion, it completely removes the human aspect of living somewhere. You belong to a certain community. People are being priced out of their community and social neighbourhood by speculation and rent seeking.

This is a deliberate political choice, and it shows, especially if we account for the mass individualisation of (american) society.
Technically, you could use this as a linkblog, if it had RSS and blog-like formatting. Do you plan to add that?
>proximity to arable land

Any land is arable if we want to. See Phoenix.
I think he may have meant in terms of software companies. Many of them do not require a wind tunnel.
Good article but the "share this on facebook" popup when I highlight text is _incredibly annoying_
Pointing your camera in the wrong direction at the wrong moment can also get you killed. I've heard stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29331480 but which ended in tragedy.
> If a particularly powerful solar flare knocks out the internet for a couple of weeks

You'd have more serious problems than cash liquidity.

> USD (at least in physical form) is more useful

Which is what, like a low single digit percent of USD? Most people I know don't even have a couple days' worth of paper USD.

> fragile infrastructure

Internet isn't fragile at all. It's extremely robust, especially for relatively low-bandwidth applications like bitcoin. It's certainly more robust than the card payment networks most people rely on.

> bitcoin being superior to traditional currencies depends on the idea that nothing really bad will ever happen again

Anything "really bad" enough to nuke bitcoin will probably also kill you and almost certainly tank the value of USD paper.
You should read Colonel Boyd's original work before thinking much more about OODA loops. It's pretty simple, just read the references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop#References

For better or worse, the paradigm fits well in PowerPoint slides.
The weird thing about house prices is it’s the exact same house that now costs waaaay more.

What I mean is, for example, my house is 130 years old. So it’s in a _worse_ state than it was 20 years ago. But it costs probably 10 X more.

It’s not like houses are a fine wine that matures. Nor is it in any way upgraded or better like a new technology would be.

But up in cost they go, indefinitely. Exponentially. Pointlessly. A complete and utter failure of policy.
IDEs will likely increase their use of so-called AI, and Apple will finally not be the only one who understands the link between a platform, it’s standard libraries, and the IDE linking environment.
I suspect that they will resolve this in the usual bloated manner of simply including everything all over again as the primary unnamed platform I am referring to won’t be able to merely merge some headers… now, I’ll go read the article and see how this was actually about racehorse fiber intake and rectal cancer prescreening, doh, horses for courses?
Could an employee union balance out the power of the board? They could attend board meetings and veto deals that harm the employees via strike or mass resignation.
Ha - It's a great signal!
They are in bed with Google, so they need to spend their resources improving Kotlin use cases instead.
You are right, but I would like to add that both of these concerns will be solved in the near-far future. Java’s project Panama tries to tackle the less than ideal FFI case with a tool that can create java classes from a C header and an API for manually managing memory regions.

While Valhalla is in the works, but it is, I quote, at least 3 PhD’s worth of knowledge combined to figure it out in a backwards compatible way with all the interactions of generics, etc.
I wouldn't believe it if you told me COVID-19 was produced via carefully planned work. IMO, COVID-19 could only have been produced via exploratory work.

Look, fact of the matter is, I have consumed ~2M USD of resources on a seven year PhD that did not have grant money attached to it. Despite my important results, my grad school PI did not pursue further work in the direction I piloted. And as a postdoc I've steered DOE funded bioengineering project away from a strategy I knew would be unfruitful towards results that garnered three papers in as many years, but were very much not "in the proposed work of the grant" (though very much in the spirit of it). Ultimately we rewrote the grant to reflect the effect magnification I got and we were rejected for renewal, haha. Moreover, at the end, we did the experiment we were actually funded for, and found no effect.

Grants and science writ large are not the ideal spherical cow you think it to be.
Does it matter if they are evenly spaced? I think max time needed is the same if they are randomly spaced.
Harm potential is not dubious.

Do browse r/leaves subreddit to see how many people struggle with it
The mass universal education system was designed to control and brainwash masses. The massive "free and universal" education movement launched by US was meant for this sort of end games and I am not surprised at all.

Having said that as a priviledged parent I merely chuckle at this social justice wanking as my kid goes to a private school and is tutored by me. She will be more successful than the "equity" kids from California if eveyrthing else remains the same.
You really need 3 for the first puzzle and 1 for the second puzzle.

Spoilers ahead:

- 1st query to get the crime report. This contain plaintext clues.

- 2nd query to get witness interviews. Again, these contain plaintext clues that can't be used in a `join` statement or a `where` statement in SQL.

- 3rd query to get interview with suspect. This contain plaintext information needed for solving the second puzzle

- 4th query for finding the master mind.

Short of writing regexes that basically extracts the clues by looking for patterns that are verbatim the clues themselves, I don't see how it can be done any shorter than this.

You can see my solution here on my github: https://github.com/olsgaard/sql_murder_mystery_solution/blob...
Mind you though, prior to the 1980's, most housing in (western) europe was either socially or state owned. Mainly because housing was build as a solution to the mass housing crisis after world war 2.
As a solo founder so far, I approve this message.
Exactly, you generally don't. People tend not to care if they're in some picture with a hundred other random people.
Slavery, by its very definition, involves force. From Merriam-Webster's dictionary:

Someone who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for that person without pay
Fossil: Is Fossil a Blockchain?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Hills
> Especially seeing how the local mostly leftist politicians in SF have basically helped fuel the crisis even further and basically have done nothing. And many neoliberal leftist economist and media outlets even defending the status quo monetary policy that is clearly behind this wealth divide.

I laugh every time I hear that. Especially proposition 13 which is basically age-based redlining.
What is it about all-lowercase typing that bothers me?
> Also it is possible that the cover did not restrict air flow until the aircraft entered a cruise flight regime or a certain altitude

Article states that the pilot attempted to abort takeoff, but ran out of runway on the ship. So, apparently the pilot knew something was wrong pretty soon after initiating takeoff.

edit: grammar
Well is that repair contract a retainer? i.e., "I pay you $10,000/year and every time my machine breaks you send out a tech within 4 hours to fix it at no extra cost? or is the actual cost of repairs the customer incurs?

If it's the first (and I think it is), then Taylor has every incentive to make the machines as reliable as possible. Service calls are expensive and most companies don't make a lot of money doing them. OTOH, a service contract (e.g., maintenance contract in software) is often lucrative because the customer is buying peace of mind. Years can go by in which the contract isn't needed and the seller (Taylor) pockets the cash, but the buyer keeps paying for it because it's cheap insurance.
But it’s not yours. You don’t own your “image”, just like you don’t own your DNA.

It’s not reasonable to expect to require permission for someone to use your image that they captured. What if it’s for news purposes? What if it’s related to, say, and insurance fraud investigation? If you keep trying to draw the line, it gets harder and harder to draw.

So what’s reasonable? If you have an expectation of privacy that’s violated, that seems far. But if you do not, i.e. you are in public, you have no such expectation.

Now, photographs shot through a window? Close your blinds or shut up. It’s all up to you.
How to Use ML to Build Startups YC Wants to See
YC is looking for startups working on climate change, lab-grown meat and covid-19.
Here are some ideas on how to use machine learning to build those startups.
Wow, your stuff looks amazing and I can't believe I've never heard of you. I can't wait to dive in.

I came of age in the Infocom era. Do you know any of those guys? (Brian Moriarty, Steve Meretzky...)
I have an African Gray as well. It has learned peoples’ names and “come here”, and now says “come here Steve” which caught me off guard.
The article addresses this. What you are okay with is not the sole basis for determining what is ethical. For instance, I am not okay with you reading this text. I meant it for everyone except mdorazio. I demand you apologize.
Is this Hamilton, Ontario, Canada?! Unclear

Also, Josh Jones, the founder of DreamHost? wow. heh

Edit: Sorry, because I read it on outline/archive I didn't see the glaring Hamilton Spectator logo at top and related Canada nav. Thanks
Yes. Especially when I scroll by selecting.
Good. Any attempt to explain macros in a slightly different way is appreciated. I work in clojure at my day job and still don't feel 100% comfortable with macros.
Red-Hat is behind most of the Java plugins, so their quality is quite good, there is only the pain to live with Electron.
Also, as I understand it, there's another "grid" which failed, which is the network of natural gas wells and pipelines. Natural gas wasn't being pulled out of the ground and pumped to the electric generation plants.

Apparently natural gas isn't easy to store, so basically there's not a lot of buffer, and everything needs to stay online or there won't be any natural gas to burn at power plants even if they were winterized, which some of them were.

I think some power plants may have even just shut down because natural gas was available but too expensive, and they weren't under a legal obligation to keep producing electricity.

Point being, to solve the problem, winterization of plants is just part of the problem.
You could use Samir Secret Sharing to split the secrets in M unrelated strings and then "recover" it with M-k strings. (E.g. Generate 5 keys and require 2 to recover). That way you can share some of those keys but nobody will have the target password.
Capital flows to where it can grow. I don't see this against the principle of capitalism. IMHO capitalism has one and only one rule: grow your capital as fast as you can. That said, if the return rate of investing in real estate is lower than the rate in technology, then naturally more money will pour into technology.
As far as I can see, this scheme gives you one backup copied to three places, on two different media.

What if the source for the backup was already corrupt or broken in some way? If you only have one backup, then your backup is corrupt too.

I was taught grandfather-father-son back in the 80s; still three levels of backup, but they're different generations. That fitted the kinds of media available then, but it doesn't really map to modern equipment. I've struggled to work out a backup scheme that is equally adaptable to the needs of a small business, a home network or an individual.

Ironically, it's hardest for the individual; a modern business is finished if it loses all its data. For an individual (or even a hobby network), total data-loss is painful, but not usually an existential risk. So it's harder to justify keeping everything in triplicate.
What's 10x is not the house, but the land, the physical space the house seats on. The land is a finite resource, thus it can only appreciate in value.
Kiel has some tools I’ve not found an integrated easy way of replicating in emacs etc.
Mind you, a simple make file suffices for most smaller projects
> kids who have parents who can afford tutors and such can push the kids through the prescribed steps sooner. Kids whose parents each have two jobs to get food on the table, well, they simply can’t. So the former define “higher standards” because they chose their parents well?

Yes. Kids born in rich families will do better, kids born to better parents will do better and that is a good thing. A lot of scientific research in early years did not come from government funded labs but rich people working on their passions. Note that privileged people will define "higher standards" always no matter what laws you pass and how you twist the public education system. But these sort of social justice solutions damage the very poor people who cant afford kumon.
Americans work only an hour more per week than the OECD average.

https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm

Americans watch an average of 600 hours of Netflix per year. They aren't short on time.

https://www.nexttv.com/news/analysis-americans-averaged-600-...
All said and done it is basically: "There is a nuance when people I like do not do desired thing and excuse when people I don't like do not do same desired thing"
Taking breaks and accept that there’s a limit of how much I can achieve on a daily basis is important to me.

Otherwise the brain gets overstimulated and mine starts to context switch constantly. Another thing I observed is that I become way more impatient when my brain is overly stimulated — it’s bad.

I recommend Chris Bailey’s talk https://youtu.be/Hu4Yvq-g7_Y.

BTW, is it just me or that this type of articles are kind of repeating themselves?
Java's FFI and value type situation are the two major missing pieces for Java gamedev. C# has better stories for both, and has from the beginning.

Don't confuse Java having the fastest GC with Java being the fastest GC'd language (especially not in all situations)
In Hearts of Iron, you play as a country during WW2.

As Germany, you face threats from Britain (ships, fighters and bombers), France (mostly land forces) and Russia.

What do you build?

Air superiority fighters win dogfights (F22 today) but are only useful vs Britain.

Close Air Support (A10 today) beat tanks, but lose in the air.

Multirole fighters (F35 today) work in all three theaters, but not as well as the specialists.

Given that the next war might be vs Russia (Crimea situation), Taiwan / China (Naval), or maybe even terrorists in Africa or Middle East, multirole is the obvious airplane to build today.

-----

So Air Force wants a multirole fighter that can take off from airstrips / airports.

Marines want a multirole fighter that can take off of Wasp Amphibious Assault Ships (ramp launch)

Navy wants a multirole fighter that can take off of their Aircraft Carriers (catapult launch).

This gives F35A, F35B, and F35C variants. But since they all wanted a multirole fighter, it makes sense to try to make the three variants as similar as possible. You want to standardize the gun, standardize the bullets, standardize the fuel, standardize the software.
According to a recent UK Government report, cases are higher among many age groups of vaccinated people, than among unvaccinated people.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... (Table 6)

Yes, I am fully aware the table also shows that hospitalisations and death rates are lower amongst vaccinated people.
> remove the mortgage interest deduction

Removing the mortgage interest deduction (for owner-occupants) would widen the gap between commercial landlord’s ability to buy a property and an owner-occupant’s ability to buy that same property. (It’s spectacularly unlikely that mortgage interest for commercial landlords would become non-deductible as a general principle of tax code allows the deduction of ordinary and necessary business expenses in pursuit of profit. Mortgage interest for commercial landlords is clearly such a business expense.)

So, if you would like to favor owner-occupants over commercial landlords, you should be in favor of, not opposed to, the mortgage interest deduction for the former.

From: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

> What Can I Deduct?

> To be deductible, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary. An ordinary expense is one that is common and accepted in your trade or business. A necessary expense is one that is helpful and appropriate for your trade or business. An expense does not have to be indispensable to be considered necessary.
It's only possible because Apple is too big too fail. Probably they won't notify about the US snooping, but smaller countries often have smaller budgets that this company, so they can't really do anything about Apple pulling strings.
It's a shame that smaller companies cannot do that without risking being closed down.
I run this too, nothing but positive things to say. I update it every once in a while, but I has been rock solid for years.
> One of the (many) issues I have with cryptographic vote verification systems is that they don't prove there isn't a "second set of books" that all checks out, meanwhile we use the crooked books to determine who won.

How could you fail to use the totals indicated by the database and not get caught?

> I know these schemes are way, way more trouble than they're worth and either hinder a lot of the techniques we currently use to verify elections, or make political firestorms that make the election process even more fragile than it already is way more likely.

Don't worry; I'm not going to spend the rest of my life pushing my scheme forward.
I might make a toy implementation that people can use for vanity voting with friends. It might gain traction and wider acceptance that way.

> I also strongly support compulsory voting

That reminds me of Soviet Russia and satellites that always had 90+% turnouts.
I can't imagine any reason for compulsory voting beside maintaining a facade of popular support for the system.
There's a difference between returning invalid ballot and not voting; in the latter case you shouldn't appear on the list of voters.

> law enforcement initiatives against voter intimidation

I think the hard part isn't agreeing that voter intimidation is bad. The hard part is specifying what constitutes voter intimidation.
I doubt that legislation could root it out, and there's a working solution to it: ballot secrecy.
Ballot confidentiality isn't good enough, as someone could tell voters that an inside man will check how they voted.

> and misinformation

Carefulness here is essential to avoid sliding to an Orwellian dystopy.
I'm not sure what measures I would be comfortable with, and I don't wonder if legislators feel the same way.
The Customer Research Most Likely to Lead to Growth
With reinvent coming up next week, we may not have heard the last of their response to lowering egress fees
IMO The amount of data an employer can gather through a remote IDE is way much than pull requests and commits
You’re lucky or do Zwave in a small way. I spent a lot of money converting my last home to zwave and found tons of problems with it; incompatibility between the different devices from the same manufacturer; inconsistent implementation of standards by device type, etc. I am having a way better experience with Lutron Caseta (different problem is that I ran out of space on a single hub at 75 devices).

The other big problem with smart home is that every company wants to own the ecosystem. The technical term for that is “greedy bastards”. It’s not cloud; it’s cloud lock-in that’s the problem as I see it. This is the source not only of reliability problems but also of compatibility and interoperability problems.

When I started on my IoT journey I adopted a hard requirement that everything must “fail normal” - I don’t want a call in the middle of the night for tech support while I’m traveling on business, because my family can’t turn on the lights. Everything in my house fails normal- if the cloud or the internet goes away, the house becomes a dumb house and you can still turn on/off anything with a switch.
I can't really say since I never reached that stage, but I imagine you'll know for yourself if that time comes (e.g., need more skillsets, can't keep up with demand, growing too fast you can't handle it alone, burning yourself out, finding a natural fit).
Local school districts frequently do this sort of thing.

It sucks for the kids, but it is a good signal for you when you’re looking for a place to live, as the school board is controlled by provincial idiots.
I believe Facebook could catch them if it wanted.
Your infer a lot from a little.
Not this again. You'd have to have an army of suicidal fanatics to get them to take off in Super Tucanos against a squadron of F-35s or any American jet really. The F-35 is just going to BVR lob unavoidable AMRAAMs. Add some F-15/18/22s to the mix as well and it will be a good old turkey shoot.

> And the Super Tucano is even the endgame here, the endgame is drone swarms. $1M~/ea and you have a 79-1 ratio, and it is indefensible and laughably so.

"Drone Swarms" You either are just describing guided missiles which already exist or an actual drone aircraft capable of threatening an F-35 which would require similarly capable sensors and engines. It's not going to cost $1M.

Take this as a grain of salt because it's a player in a sim fighting AI. But I love it as an example of what a lone fighter can do against less capable aircraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5FrxsBG_H8
You say this as if it's fast or easy. All of these can easily take 10s of years build from conception to completion due to a myriad of reasons. Land acquisition, federal state and local funding, environmental review, court cases, zoning changes, public review proceses, etc. It's not like someone decrees that a school should be built and 6 months later it's up and running. And the school is the easy one on that list :)
Mostly we want to find life elsewhere that is interstellar. We look for side effects of tools, like radio frequency.

I suppose an advanced civilization between planets or even stars might have migrated off radio signals though.
I'm trying to arguing that a one size fits all approach doesn't work, because end use matters. So this question is more specific than I think is productive.

But to answer it anyways, I'd say that for security tape you don't need it, but if you want to put it on the front page of your website, maybe you blur the identifying features of the people whose consent you haven't gotten and get consent of everyone else? Or just keep it low res enough that it's blurred by default. Or just don't use it that way. The point is that there are options, and they aren't one-size-fits-all.
I don't think cities providing manure for farming communities is unique to Japan, my understanding is it was standard for cities until modern era

Bret Devereaux mentions it in his description of pre-modern cities
https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-pa...
Just to add, the really performance oriented hot loops can be rewritten with Class-of-Arrays with three int arrays for r, g and b values, or even a single one with flattened ints, with a user-friendly wrapper RGB class provided for outside use. With good OOP-usage it would not even be ugly. Performant java code has been written like that for decades, and these will get really close to C-programs.

Also, there is now a Vector API that let’s you use SIMD operations with configurable lane width (and a safe fallback to for loops for processors without the necessary instructions)