skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU didn’t act as one entity in the epidemic/lockdown/furlough policies. In particular Eastern European countries went with US-like policies (and less vaccine provision and even more anti accents) and and suffered more than the US.

The Nordics, France and German-speaking countries have half the death rate of the US or less, in some cases even negative excess deaths.
Almost like Democracy is not a panacea for all problems...
> Unregulated markets rapidly devolve into monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, and, if things get really bad, libertarianism.

Don't pull any punches, tell us how you really feel...
Oh, I see! I thought they were saying they had 15 days off in a 20 day period, not in a period when they worked 20 days
> People really underestimate how much you [density] can get just with 5 stories or so if you do it consistently.

This is the rub, right? We can only redevelop a block or two at a time, so the only choice is for 10+ story towers. Especially because land is so expensive in these cities.

I'm curious if new residential buildings (non-luxury if that even exists) in Paris or Barcelona are only 5-6 stories high.
I don't think so. Didn't a recent software update change this?
> Back when Edgeium was new and just Chrome but with a lot of Google cruft removed, I actually used Edge instead of Chrome when I was on Windows.

I fell for it too. There was a brief period where you could do a clean Win10 install, log in to the OS with your MS account, and everything just worked and synced in a "this is nice" sort of way. The cynic in me kept thinking "don't fall for it," but it was too convenient.

Now I regret it and the only reason I haven't switched back to local accounts is because I'm not happy with any of the competition either.
But I can do everything I need in one system with AWS.
No. You've been able to change the default browser for years.
This is starting from the point of knowing it is a memory corruption issue though. From my experience, memory corruption usually manifests in logic or data behaviour changes. In a Rust program you'd probably spend a few days pulling your hair out trying to understand why some data structure doesn't do what it's supposed to before considering that it's one of the unsafe blocks.
Fair enough! Although personally I would (/used to, 15 years ago) just stream my VPS's screen rather than running a Docker container inside my VPS :)
if "the pirate bay website" is written in lots of documents discussing the legality of the website, but the actual website is called "https://www.piratebay.org" and doesn't contain the words "the pirate bay website" at all, then by any objective measure that site should be way down the list of any search results for "the pirate bay website".
It honestly depends on what you are searching for.

Case 1: You just want the name of the website, or an article, example "Facebook" -> fb.com, "Gordan Ramsay" -> Wiki/official website/Celeb gossip website you are good. Not much competition here.

Case 2: You are looking for something technical like "GNU rnano CVE-abcde"/"OpenBSD ARM64 Qualcomm Wifi driver not working", you are again in the fine territory, not much if any money to be made here so very less competition. There will be the official forums, websites, maybe some conference websites in this category.

Case 3: "Chicken potpie recipe", "How to be more organised": This is the category where people are trying to game the SEO algos. How the hell do recipe websites with 27 popups, 12000 word essay on the secret family history ends up on top ? There are a huge number of passionately made simple recipe websites but they have to be "found" by us. For the second query I mention about being more organized I think most people are looking for some sort of a review article which looks at some various schools of thoughts regarding discipline, cleanliness pointing to further resources and exploring the why and what to do for this. Here the search engine needs to determine the context of the query which is fairly abstract and then the internal heuristics it uses are supposed to drive it to a meaningful list of websites. Maybe the average joe would like to click cosmopolitan's article but I would never do that. Based on my previous click history maybe google should determine what I kind of links am I looking for. But when they figure that out they'd much faster use this behavioral insight for advertisers. A great search engine is basically a primitive personal librarian, I'd pay a yearly subscription for one.

The internet is vast and it has stuff that I don't know about. How my 7 word abstract query is gonna get me there is the question mark. Also, for a lot of queries the top results can be plagued by spammy/fraud results which are on top because they managed to trick the SEO algos. These bad actors were not as prevalent for 2005 google.
It all comes down to the belief that someone has a guaranteed rate of return on a purchase they deem an investment whether it's a house or a corporate bond there's a baked-in sense of entitlement that sometimes flourishes as absurd laws and regulations.
It's for more mature and professional people than Allston, but there is a growing group of Northeastern students starting to populate things. I obviously can't prove this, but I believe because everything is so beautiful, people instinctively treat the location better. Whereas Allston is a party area and everything is grimy, so no one cares and joins into the debauchery and littering.
I suspect decisions trees are still highly under utilized for optimizing any human in the loop processes that require an actual script that a person needs to follow.

It's not an uncommon problem that you're faced with needing to make a series of decisions in a business environment and old-school decision trees give a remarkably clear, readable output of the optimal way to make these decisions in as few choices as possible.

Any data scientists working on teams with call centers, sales teams or customer support people would likely find a surprisingly useful application of this mostly forgotten (other than a building block for RFs) tool.
FWIW, this turned up through Shane Phillips's Twitter feed, highly recommended.

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ShaneDPhillips

His book Affordable City was published last year:

https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city

He hosts the "Creating More Affordable Cities" podcast
https://elgl.org/podcast-creating-more-affordable-cities-wit...

He's with the UCLA Lewis Center's housing programme:
https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/housing/

Excellent information and insights on housing policy, both for LA and more generally.
There isn’t a housing crisis, there is a jobs location crisis. Apartments are terrible, there is plenty of space out there for people to have their own and not be crammed in like sardines.

Cities though have the problem of allowing much more space for jobs than they have for housing. You don’t want high density housing in your city? Fine, cap your employer zoning.

It’s a big country out there and people need to decentralize and stop trying to turn nice places into hong kong density.

Nobody needs to use land “efficiently” by packing more people into it.
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Pretty sure that's no longer the case or used to not be the case as I have a Microsoft account I use on Skype among other MS services that is firstname@lastname.fr
The last thing I want to see are widgets, data feeds, "suggestions", etc. Instead, I use Google Earth's chrome extension called Earth View that just shows a pretty picture of the earth, somewhere.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go...
He didnt get permission to dig anywhere or take anything he found. That is the hard part, not finding where to dig.
ProtonAOSP: Minimal Android fork
This project borrows some of the most important security/privacy features from GrapheneOS (verified boot, per-app internet permission toggles, sandboxed Play Services) while improving performance over the stock ROM and adding a few high-demand features (e.g. call recording), and it doesn't go overboard with tinfoil hat level hardening (which may come at the cost of reduced performance). It also has a friendlier-looking website and an easier-to-follow install guide than Graphene. Seems like an objective upgrade from the stock Pixel ROM to me, assuming the features work as advertised.

For the record, I personally only trust GrapheneOS at the moment and this is what I use on my phone. Additionally, Graphene's hardening currently has minimal impact on performance. App launch times used to be noticeably slower than the stock ROM, but this has been fixed. ProtonAOSP is still relatively new and has yet to establish trust within the community. But I wish them success and think it's great that there are more ROM options coming out with a focus on privacy/security (even if it's not the main focus, as with Proton). Hopefully they branch out to non-Google phones as well. (GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, the two most well-known privacy-focused ROMs, only support Google Pixels due to their consistently unlockable bootloaders, hardware security, and long-term firmware updates. While using a non-Pixel is probably a legitimate security downgrade in most cases, many people understandably refuse to purchase a Google phone... for privacy.)
Huh? The point where R0 dips below 1?
That’s for the courts to decide. Is a lockdown not allowed because forcing people to vaccinate is an option? Or is forcing people to vaccinate not allowed because lockdown is an option?
YMMV, but people talk about these ads firefox is throwing around and I just don't see them. Did I accidentally turn a knob or something and it's just carried with me through years of Firefox Sync'ing?
It's true that vaccines are less effective at slowing down delta. They slowed previous variants down by 80% or more. They still slow it down, but not as much. But in the UK we had high vaccination rates before delta hit and in the first 6 months of the year this saved a _lot_ of lives. It's still saving lives by reducing transmission, but now mainly by simply protecting us from the worst effects of the virus.
You can rebalance movie files with ffmpeg, but not a solution with streaming.

Funny how dynamic compression became all the range in music, but the opposite happened to movies.
Is that a password written on the Purple postit that's glued to the monitor?
Vivaldi is the exact opposite of what I want from a browser. I want a rendering engine and some tabs, that's pretty much it. Vivaldi decided to encumber those two good things with a 1000 features and some horrific themes, making the entire application 1000 times slower than it could have been. Every time I've tried it it's just reminded me of that old screenshot of MS Word with all the toolbars switched on [0], a ton of unnecessary cognitive load that 0.1% of their users will find useful. Browser design by committee.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2006/02...
I did not, and don't know anyone, who ever used it productively. Not even to type a simple letter and print it. There were much more efficient ways to do that.

I knew an east coast limousine company that ran its whole business on it.
This was a popular refrain of Elizabeth Holmes too, which is fitting since she was also running a scam.
(also the person, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart, does not to my knowledge identify as a woman)
I think one thing posts like this miss out is teams are made up of humans It may be a fun thought exercise to compare teams to parallel computing but one key thing is team members are not necessarily interchangeable or have the same expertise. They also don't produce at the same rate everyday. I would be very skeptical of applying these principles to teams in real life.
> 22 degrees

This angers me on a spiritual level. Where do your notifications spawn?
On the other hand, though, how much more expensive might it be if only single-family homes were available?
Unlikely but if they offered it on their own stuff it could create a trend.

And increasingly they are losing the quality content that they didn't produce themselves.
And getting rid of cars!

Pre-1920s neighborhoods in the USA are dense, yet spacious. So much of the density problems in America are due to our over-reliance on cars.
Reminds me of this: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
If you would have said 1 year ago, everyone will need this vaccine to reduce R below 1 you would have been laughed out of the room. What kind of shitty vaccine requires literally everyone to get it? Now good thing that wasn't the approach. Instead we said, "these vaccines kick ass" and walked that line back every day to buy compliance one person at a time. Good look. Good luck. Not sure how people can live with the cognitive dissonance of being obviously lied to "for the greater good".
You don't need to leave the machine running (and billing) 24/7/365—turning it on for a few hours a day when you're building for it, or testing builds, should be enough.
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> And truly affordable housing can only be created by mandating that units sell below market value.

That will only happen if the state guarantees to pay those "greedy developers" that they've been lambasting all over the media a bunch of money to build those units. A developer will simply refuse to build any housing at all if they're forced to sell the units at below rate when they can instead make more money building housing in some other market.

> These oversimplified narratives on HN are so tiring.

I agree and you're making another one of them.
So Brave is still dependent on Google and Bing it seems.
Also is this Brave's CEO:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...
?
"Brendan Eich's opposition to same-sex marriage cost him his job at Mozilla."
"Covid comments get a tech C.E.O. in hot water, again."
Maybe you're both right. That announcement implies it is only Electron on Windows/Linux.
So it's not only me then. Fair enough, English isn't my first language but I have been studying it since I was very little, and usually in the real world I tend to have close to zero issues at understanding speech, be it in first person, YouTube videos, talk shows, radio or animated shows.

I always watch BBC documentaries or clips from the previous night late shows (such as Colbert's or Kimmel's), often while cooking or doing chores, and I can follow basically the entire thing without having to go back, even if I'm distracted or if there's some environmental noise.

I can't say that it's the same with films, though. They are often hard to follow for me without subtitles, I suspect due to IMHO just how terribly they are mixed. Sound effects and music are usually boosted up to outrageous levels, which cause the dialogue to become muffled or close to inaudible. It just sucks and it's not a good experience at all.
Nothing is preventing you just going to a gold producing river and panning for gold.

You will be just as effective doing that as someone who just runs the Bitcoin client at home.

Getting serious requires specialised hardware setup and capital intensive operations in both gold mining and Bitcoin mining.
Not deleted, it's here:
https://www.tommoor.com/posts/2019/01/02/you-should-open-sou...

Assuming any GitHub link is FOSS might get you into trouble eventually, there are a wide variety of licenses out there!
The Mac mini itself is not the only hardware cost for AWS here, though: I wouldn't be surprised if their Thunderbolt Nitro hardware cost just as much each. It has to be a very low volume device (relative to other things AWS does).
At first I was agreeing with you - it's hard to find consensus when asking "what is good?" It's a problem as old as politics. You hit the nail on the head!

Then you started on a partisan diatribe about how the other side of politics is wrong (and stupid).

What I think you've failed to realize, is that the other view is necessary. A single party state is totalitarian by definition if not by fact. There must be other views, and there must be a struggle for dominance among ideas. The struggle for dominance is natural, and healthy, and we should embrace it, even though it might sometimes be painful, it's the only way to grow personally and as a society.
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The far right. I'm on the opposite end and I still find it easier to conjure their talking points better than the ones I subscribe to.

The right has more uniformity in terms of messaging. They seem to be able to more succinctly distill their messages. They leverage emotional affect. They target a wider swath of values, as opposed to the monotone drone of "fairness".

Besides the technical aspects of propaganda, what really fascinates me is how well they've transmitted the meta techniques of effective messaging. I can name dozens of right wing intellectuals, but I falter with the left. Does Zizek count? Lex Fridman? Sam Harris? Does AOC write books or have a podcast?
I've been thinking a lot lately about first principles. For example, the Golden Rule is great, but the concept of reincarnation transcends it, making it self-evident. The Book of Genesis probably started "in a beginning", not "in the beginning". And so on.

When I look around at the state of the world today, it just makes me so tired. Everyone's running around on autopilot and not questioning the basic assumptions. It's just more more! now now! to survive. So adamant in their certainty that they've all but forgotten why we're all here to fail and learn and grow as human beings and find kindred spirits.

To me, what's wrong with the world is that people are ok with being wealthy. They're ok with rising to positions of power and then denying empowerment to others. They're ok with the law not being applied equally and fairly to everyone.

They haven't realized that inequity affects themselves in another life, that violence against others hurts themselves, that destroying the planet this century leaves no planet for their next life.

I can't prove any of this, but I know it's true, because I'm here now, just like you.
I've been wrestling with this problem lately.

5.1 audio tracks tend to put most of the voices in the center channel only.

If you listen in stereo, there is a challenge here with down-mixing to left and right.

Several band-aids to alleviate it:

If you watch using MPC-HC, turn normalize on at 400% in the settings, or alternatively if using anything else, turn on Realtek's loudness equalization to do the same thing.

If not wishing to use normalization, then if using LAV change center mix level to 1.00 from 0.71, or if using MPC-BE in the mixer change center from 0.0 dB to 3.0 dB.

I use normalize myself, because it's still too quiet even with a mixing boost to the center channel.
Uh. my home state in the US had to call in the military to mediate the ER since people were starting fights because people having e.g. severe heart attacks were just turned away with a "sorry".

Italy had severe shortages of medical supplies that led to many medical workers on the frontline to die of infection.

Your personal life bubble does not reflect the rest of the world. Asserting "most places" weren't under collapse is quite strange given that it's patently false.
Certainly the Taliban is finding that out in Afghanistan. And there is tremendous suffering among people who don't deserve that situation.
You sound like you are champing at the bit to get into the argument about whether there is a difference between rain in "reality" and rain in a simulation.

All I have to say about the question of whether there is a difference between physics and metaphysics is to quote "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away".

Which is really the same thing as Samuel Johnson kicking a stone: "I refute it thus."

Whether or not you like the distinction, it remains.

And while only the author can say what they intended, I didn't see any hint in the article of this topic.
Even considering the occasional refactor, it's still a lot less costly over time than this new throw-away microservices economy in many cases.

First and foremost, the problem should dictate the solution of course, but each cloud host service provider has their own unique brand of microservices that don't make a large distributed system easy/cost-effective to migrate after it's initial development as well. CSPs now do a lot to lock clients into their specific platform for life.

The monthly compute and storage bills alone are now converted to utility pricing also, so there are far too many ways in which those prices can rise and balloon unexpectedly over time that must also be considered also in all fairness.

The modern Internet is turning into a wasteland of scams, where only the rich make money after a huge buy-in, and it's sickening to see the scams and price gouging that occurs just to launch a simple web site, even with open source tools. Terms of service literally mean nothing, and they can't be enforced our upheld because of the massive financial wealth and lack of support monopolies grow into, and because regulators are also tech investors.

Major interests are working hard to raise the entry barrier and to shut out free and reasonably priced services that allow control. They are working hard to acquire highly useful tools as well so they can put a price tag on them. The more we give the wrong people vast sums of money the worse it will get, and the less options we'll have.
Genuinely curious, who is the audience for this? Large iOS dev shops who want hardware to run builds on and don't mind that you need to reserve them for at least 24 hours at a time?
I was responding to the comment about the rules that the person who did the crime couldn't be a butlet/maid/etc., not the rule you mention, which is an entirely different can of worms
> Partly because it's pretty easy to goose one or two metrics at the expense of a small global regression

That is true, but again I think it's more complicated than that. AB tests are good for measuring incremental changes, but really bad at predicting the impact of 0 to 1 type products / features, because so much of the success or failure depends on public perception and network effects. Twitter couldn't AB test "Fleets" and have any confidence as to what the product adoption would look like. So companies have no choice but to launch and see.
> regulation

by whom?
State-linked information-warfare offense and defense is part of the US military.

US analysts should have more information than even Twitter has. When they find an enemy operation, they could tip of Twitter and let them discover, remove, and unveil the entire network.

If you can show an obvious US state-linked propaganda network on Twitter, you too, can get US propaganda censored.

These smaller and blatant networks seems to be what the US experimented with decades ago. Offensive and defense now should be very strong. Twitter being a US company surely contributes to that strong position.
So you don't even believe that externalities are possible?
Near-zero cost transactions are not sustainable. They're basically burning through their VC money to pay a small number of validator nodes to host their blockchain, which is not that different from using a centralized database.
Can you explain the difference little bit more, Maybe using Javascript pseudocode as comparable example? I want to understand how Q is different from KatLang. The problem with me is that I do not know where I can try Q code, therefore I rely only on the documentation fragments I can find.
It improves that process in a disintegrating third world country, which many of us may find ourselves in within our lifetimes.
No, they are not.

They use open source code, but are not open source.
It's always such a relief to me when someone speaks with an Irish accent - my cognitive load goes right down
The US crackdown on Chinese economic espionage is a mess