skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opposition to high density development is because everyone likes space. But everyone cannot afford for everyone else to have space.

The sweet spot is when you have space, and others do not have space.

As for infrastructure, I am convinced there is no in between possibility. Either you optimize for dense living, or non dense living. There is no world where we can have our cake and eat it too.
Author here.

Yes! That was one of my main concerns. I have my own email domain, but it is a .xyz domain and I have had some people struggling with the QR code on the back, some QR code apps don't recognise webpages in the .xyz domain (looking at you Xiaomi camera app). They just recognise it as plain text. So you have to copy and paste it into your browser.

So I am a bit self conscious about having to explain that that thing is an email address. Will probably add it on the next batch though.
What is value? You can't really use dollar price as a measure of value unless everyone were given equal buying power, every house and apartment was listed on the market at the same time, and every job could be performed from any location.
Can also confirm that the kindle app is failing for me and has been for the past few hours.
It's a very hard pill to swallow when those preferences are built on flawed data, and those preferences lead to choices that massively increase housing prices, exacerbate homelessness, destroy local businesses and indirectly contributes to climate change through increased vehicle usage
Feels more like a Django 3.3 release than a 4.0 -- was expecting Django 4.0 to deliver the promised ORM async support.
And, transitively, Thoth![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth_(operating_system)
> Maybe not for being the basis of a reliable substrate of the modern internet.

Maybe THEY will go to a COMPETITOR and THINGS MOVE ON if it's THAT BAD. I wasn't sure what the pattern for all caps was, so just giving it a shot there. Apologies if it's incorrect.
C and Go got nothing on Swift. Or .NET which is tantalizingly partially portable.
Agreed... their old edgerouter was much better. Hoping their unifi OS (containerization of their platforms on their hardware) becomes more flexible without the hacks people use now. Until then, I'll keep using my edgerouter...
How our system works:

1. Every night we build a new freshly patched Ubuntu image.

2. Three times a week we run a deploy that rebuilds our entire infrastructure in place with the latest Ubuntu image as the base [1].

3. Once the deploy runs we never run apt install or apt update again.

So rather than

server.update()

we do

server = server.update()

[1] This sounds fancy but I promise it's stupid simple, all the complexity is in the auto scaling groups and the load balancers which we don't manage. And it's the exact same procedure to do code deploys which we do multiple times a day.
Falcon Edge closes first tranche of $10B fund, rebrands as Alpha Wave Global
> Generally the presence of other people devalues places.

That's not it.

If you have a hundred acres of land and a hundred families and you require every house to be built on an acre of land, housing will be pretty expensive, because even the poor will have to pay the price for a full acre, when you might otherwise have mix of half acre lots, two acre lots, etc.

If you have a hundred acres of land and two hundred families and you require every house to be built on an acre of land, housing will be really expensive, because building enough for everyone is prohibited by law. And relaxing the zoning to allow higher density will lower housing prices because the supply of housing increases.

That's not because people don't want to live there anymore, it's just because you don't have to outbid your neighbors in a fight over the artificially scarce housing anymore because if you get more people you can build more housing.

And there's nothing about allowing higher densities that prohibits you from paying for the lower density housing -- it just doesn't prohibit someone else from doing otherwise. Which actually makes lower density housing more affordable, because you can buy it without having to outbid people who would choose higher density housing given the option.
The Tradeoffs of Building a SaaS System of Record vs. System of Engagement
The container's ports that you explicitly expose.

E.g. `docker run -p 8080:80 nginx` will expose the container's port 80 as port 8080 on the host. That port will be open whether or not the host has a firewall configured to block 8080.

You can do `docker run -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 nginx` to only have the port on the host accessible on the loopback interface (for example if you have a reverse proxy on the host, proxying to 127.0.0.1:8080).
The Pirate Codes
Doesn't the first rule conflict with all the other rules?

Rule 1: get through the process as quickly as possible.

Rule 2-5: slow down the process by putting these specific restrictions on when to schedule your interviews.
You don't need it. You can disable the cloud access starting with the latest firmware.
I went from AirPort Extreme -> Google Wifi -> Asus RT-AX86U. They all have their pros and cons but the Asus is immensely more powerful. I love that it can mount a large USB drive as Time Machine, and the wireless is so fast it's actually usable. When there's a 2.5G WAN port you know they mean business.
I don't think Rust polymorphism is decidable: https://sdleffler.github.io/RustTypeSystemTuringComplete/
I want to take a slightly different approach to this, as someone who thinks it somewhat is 'megalomaniacal' to fight death. I don't think it's because the attempt to overcome it is pure hubris, however. And I fear we will eventually one day succeed.

For me, it's because -- let's face it -- it'll only be available to the extremely wealthy and well-off. It won't be available to the average citizen. This will just further cause our immortal overlords to be able to concentrate power and wealth, even moreso than they're already doing. That's not a good thing. Death is the Great Equalizer (especially if there's a very progressive estate tax), and if it is conquered there's nothing to stop that anymore.

As to why we treat doctors and those who prolong life now differently, well, it's reasonably accessible to everyone, especially in a first world country. Sure, you might not get the cutting-edge treatment the rich and powerful can get, but you can get very good quality treatment and prolong your healthspan for a while based on what we have. And, even if you don't get the treatment the rich and powerful do, they are still going to die one day, so at least there's that.

I see no reason to believe that whoever figures out how to stop aging/death will open it to the public, or that it will ever be accessible to the populace. For me, it's a vanity project of the rich that will only harm the poor, and I think that quite decently fits the definition of megalomaniac.
Sep 18, 2017
BCash price, $471.09 (approx 0.12 BTC)

Dec 7, 2021
Bcash price, $481.53 (approx 0.00944385 BTC)

Today, it has 0.74% of the Bitcoin hashrate.

Since its creation, it has lost 92% of its value in Bitcoin. So yes, bcash is awful. Don't touch the affinity scams.
> No amount of low pass filtering can achieve that.

Can't a simple IIR "low pass" do that for certain systems once they reach a steady state? I don't remember exactly when the KF becomes an IIR but intuitively for certain systems I kinda think the constants would stabilize after a while and then if you just use those you get to optimality if the system stabilizes.
It is a real shame Apple stopped their AirPort Express. But if you could still get one 2nd hand it is great.
This guy is a narcissistic asshat of the lowest calibre when you look at his online presence. This is entirely in character for him.
Honest question: is a FAQ a "curated wiki" where the writers anticipate (or have fielded enough of the same questions) to bring those things they're too annoyed to answer, over and over, to the front?

I think the goal of what you're working on is also important:
- For a marketing page, the content should deliver what the FAQ delivers, which should in principle make the FAQ redundant
- For technical documentation and wikis, there will be too much information to deliver succinctly. But, some content are probably more visited or relevant. Why not pull up the visitor data (or tabulate the list of "where is XYZ questions") into a "Frequently Requested Content"?
ovh changed their login system, froze me out of payment and refused to respond to email.

They're as on fire as their datacenters
The guideline has been to deploy to it last.

If the team follows pipeline best practices, they are supposed to deploy to a single small region first, wait 24 hours, and then deploy to more, wait more, and deploy to more, until finally deploying to us-east-1.
Mint MATE
I'd be interested in seeing diagrams of things soil nails, I'm having trouble visualizing them from the text description.
For me, it's been that I am unable to download books to the kindle app on my computer
The core issue is that trusted, central bodies are generally already evil or will become evil, whether by their own volition or as authoritarian governments force them to use their centralized control to help them accomplish their goals.

Here is a talk I gave to Mozilla Privacy Lab back in 2017 about centralization and all of the extremely-concrete evil that has resulted, with every single example from the (long) talk directly cited (as every slide is a news article). And the sad thing is that every few days there is some new high-profile abuse of centralized power that I always feel also deserves to be in an updated version of this talk... it is a never-ending issue as people suck.

https://youtu.be/vsazo-Gs7ms

So, I feel like your very question of trying to solve things that can't be solved with centralized systems is flawed; hell: I studied decentralized systems in grad school, and I have been saying for as long as I can remember that "anything you solve with a decentralized system I can solve cheaper and faster and better with a centralized one"... but you know what I can't do? I can't solve it in a way that doesn't lead to at least some moral landmines due to my now having chosen to take those shortcuts by having centralized control of the result.

Inherently, then, I believe the reason to work on blockchain stuff is not to solve things that "can't" be solved using centralized systems... it is to figure out how to re-solve the things that people already solved using centralized systems without putting any individual or small cabal in charge of anything that would let them do evil things. And it is then to figure out how to do well enough with what results that people are willing to put up with it probably being a worse result on the surface because it is a better result for humanity.

And like, that's a nearly impossible bar, and maybe to really get there will require regulation of centralized systems to make them illegal... which I realize will probably never happen :(. But that doesn't make working on these systems dumb, the way a lot of people here seem to think: it makes it all the more noble, as everyone who isn't doing this are actively making the world a worse place to live (and in some of the more egregious examples, such as everyone who chooses to work at Apple, have pretty direct blood on their hands from issues in countries like China).

Hell... looking at your comment history, I see you recently being excited about the idea that Google could use their fleet of self-driving cars to create a mass road surveillance network capable of logging the license plates of "bad drivers" (and from thread context, "reporting them")... Google already is used as a stooge for governments (even as they push back, they still provide tons of data) but at least it is almost always about their own users: expanding their charge into watching other people is just evil and will lead to unprecedented ways to abuse this information stockpile :(.
I think that, on average, you are probably correct. More people prefer the current behavior over the opposite behavior, where instead of 'Not Interested' one would be forced to select 'Interested', or perhaps 'Add to Watch List -> Chill Music'.

But I'm not interested in an average case, and if given the opportunity to switch between a blocklist and an allowlist approach, I would do so frequently. Unfortunately we're not given that opportunity whereas I am given that opportunity in many other different cases, the 'Mark as Unread' button on e-mails and RSS readers being one such example.
> Yes my experience is dated and my memory none too good, thank you for expanding

No worries, when I heard 25 degrees my gut reaction was "that can't be right". Then I did the calculation and saw that the common ratios used are a lot fewer degrees than I expected :) I was thinking of grades in percentage (rise divided by run expressed as a percentage - so 50% for a 2:1 slope, 33% for a 3:1, etc)

> There's more laws now, and/or fewer fools with earth moving equipment

I think stricter rules (or enforcement thereof) has led to the proliferation of long-reach excavators.
React Server Components and Remix
Real-time AI edge case resolution
Thank you! This is going to make a great movie at some point :-)
I only found out about it this morning via the public announcement. I think some members of our team got an email, but I didn't, and I'm the admin.
Turns out this story was planted by the perp to tank the stock after Unifi refused to give in to his "anonymous" ransom demand.

Not great - but more classic insider attack, then security breach.
This is interesting, but it’s a pity that the only experimental results do not show fast asymptotic convergence of the main and simpler algorithm proposed (Algorithm 1, the one stated in the abstract) but only for its line search variants (Algorithms 2 and 4 in the paper).
Lots of good points here! Viral loads and variants are important to keep in mind when interpreting wastewater data.
That said, our current best guess is that the rising SARS-CoV-2 concentration in Boston wastewater reflects a real increase in cases.
Delta has higher nasal shedding than other variants, but not necessarily higher fecal shedding--the ratio of wastewater concentrations to clinical cases seems pretty constant in our data over time (see our blog post on this topic here: https://biobotanalytics.medium.com/mass-vaccination-delta-an...)
We know much less about omicron, but it's probably still only a small minority of cases. We're currently sequencing samples of Boston wastewater, so we'll know more about omicron levels in wastewater very soon!
Does McDonalds use AWS for the backend to their app?

If I find out this is why I couldn't get my Happy Meal this morning I'm going to be really, really grumpy.

EDIT: I'm REALLY grumpy now:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/aws-is-how-mcdonalds...
Sure, but if you had a sufficiently powerful robot you could also circumvent traditional means of enforcing ownership and contracts.
> CIWS shoots bullets, which are cheaper than drones. Much much much cheaper than drones.

Much cheaper until they run out. If (a big if) one drone can disable the ship, it’s all suddenly very worthwhile.
hopefully it's better than their IPSec support

I love my mikrotik devices, but they can be a bit iffy around the edges

(e.g. if my pppoe connection reconnects the ipsec stops working until the interface is bounced)
That's kind of my point.
I just walked into the Amazon Books store at our local mall. They are letting everyone know at the entrance that “some items aren’t available for purchase right now because our systems are down.”

So at least Amazon retail is feeling some of the pain from this outage!
I believe these are just referred to as "walls" as they failed the "retaining" portion of the exam.
yes there were. I'm from central europe and we were at least able to get some pages of the console in us-east-1 -but i assume this was more caching related. Even though the console loaded and worked for listing some entries - we weren't able to post a support case nor viewing SQS messages etc.

So i aggree that degraded is not the proper wording - but it's / was not completly vanished. so.... hard to tell what is an common acceptable wording here.
Economic value and desirability are related but different concepts, though. You'd have to pay me big bucks for me to even consider living in that 700 square foot condo. Just because other people are also willing to make a similar compromise (driving up the price) doesn't mean any of us necessarily prefer that condo over other forms of living.
There is also the classic UDM. Also purchaseable on store.ui.com. For people who want a prosumer alternative to the crappy routers that telcos/cables give, this is a great option. Highly recommend, but it also a gateway drug.
I'm opposed to high density housing as well, for myself, personally. That's why I don't live in a city.

But being opposed to it generally, in a city no less, is a bit ridiculous. Either you want/need to live in a place with a ton of people or you don't. If you don't like traffic and neighbors upstairs don't live in a city. If you don't like long drives to the grocery store and needing to rely on a car to get around and on interpersonal business instead of professional employment, live in a city. But this middle of the road, cake and eat it too, cities designed for cars, urban sprawl by ordinance just makes things suck for everyone involved, it's the worst of both worlds.
What you say is often true. But never say never.

I recently had an appointment with specialist for my son. My son has ADHD but was never diagnosed within Kaiser and so Kaiser won't prescribe medication.

The appointment started with, "My son has ADHD, was first diagnosed at 7 by _____, here are volumes of paperwork demonstrating that he had this diagnosis, has continued to have symptoms, and documenting what we have done for him. He wants to go back on medicine despite the side effects from last time. Here is more documentation that he continues to have symptoms."

There really ARE times when you're coming with enough background that the diagnosis is never in doubt.

For a less recent but more trivial example, I once showed up to the doctor and said, "I broke this bone in my hand while playing volleyball, what should I do about it?" Again, the diagnosis was never in doubt.
I can't access the article.

There is a lot of opposition to high density that is racist and selfish. However, in my experience, a lot of people who are not ignorant or racist are opposed to high density housing because it is built in places that lack infrastructure to support high density housing. I think there would be a lot less opposition if cities were more proactive in improving infrastructure (more parks, mass transit, wider roads, etc.) before high density housing was developed.
Infrastructure is so hard to build because of NIMBYs, and you've indicated you're one of them. Also, it's much more costly to build infrastructure for low-density development, so you're complaining about a problem which your advocacy directly causes. Oh, and lack of public transportation directly increases traffic
Yes, if you start from a base of 25 years (which is the extreme low end of the range from your source), then we have 30 years of increase from reduced infant/child mortality and 25 years of increase from reduced adult mortality.

Can you really look those numbers and say that one of them is highly significant while the other "has not changed much"?

Translating this into percentages or "fold" increases is misleading because you are using a different denominator for the two increases. E.g. you are claiming that reduced infant mortality is a 2.2-fold increase (55/25) while reduced adult mortality is "only" a 1.45-fold increase (80/55), even though the number of years gained is almost the same.

And if you use the other end of the 25–40 year range, then reduced infant mortality is "only" a 1.38-fold increase (55/40).
The cost of housing is so high because we prohibit building more of it!

I helped a friend run for city council years ago at a time when almost everyone else on the council and the mayor were connected to the property or construction industries. They wanted more development because they got paid -- the cost of housing is high, so let's build more so we can make more money. This is what people who currently live in smaller suburbs or rural areas see as driving the push for more housing -- more greed from their corrupt city council.
It's ridiculously hard to discover. I tried to signal boost it at https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1441657590501445651 but depressing facts tend not to get much traction.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28650922:

> A woman’s peak reproductive years are between the late teens and late 20s. By age 30, fertility (the ability to get pregnant) starts to decline. This decline becomes more rapid once you reach your mid-30s. By 45, fertility has declined so much that getting pregnant naturally is unlikely for most women.

> Down syndrome (trisomy 21) is the most common chromosome problem that occurs with later childbearing. The risk of having a pregnancy affected by Down syndrome is

> 1 in 1,480 at age 20

> 1 in 940 at age 30

> 1 in 353 at age 35

> 1 in 85 at age 40

> 1 in 35 at age 45 [2]

My jaw dropped.

I probably shouldn't claim "birth defects" in the general sense, just Down syndrome specifically. But the wording of "most common chromosome problem" seems to imply that this is a pretty reasonable inference.

Had no idea I was risking my kiddo's health so much by waiting.
Is this some new phenomenon? The abstract doesn't really provide any shocking or new info. I don't see any relation to tech either.
It can run on bare metal x86, surely you could get enough grunt. Do you still need ASICs for packet mangling?
> Generally the presence of other people devalues places

this is why rent is so cheap in manhattan, san fransisco, london, etc
But those enterprise SLAs are the ones they'll be paying out. Retail SLAs are the ones that you'll have to fight for.
I believe he means a literal bin. E.g. Amazon takes products from all their sellers and chucks them in the same physical space, so they have no idea who actually sold the product when it's picked. So you could have gotten something from a dodgy 3rd party seller that repackages broken returns, etc, and Amazon doesn't maintain oversight of this.
Its gotten much much better over the last six months or so. The transition to generic linux for their router line was rough, but the worst seems to be over.
Does there exist a resource that tracks outages on a per-region basis over time?
Is that fail-failover?
Contrary to what the status page says, CodePipeline is not working. Hitting the CLI I can start pipelines but they never complete and I get a lot of:

Connection was closed before we received a valid response from endpoint URL: "https://codepipeline.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/".
Literally just a bin in a fulfillment warehouse.

An amazon listing doesn't guarantee a particular SKU.
I'm not entirely sure what the value add is here:

* The assets will likely only ever work or be licensed to use in Ubisoft games (and only those that support them...e.g you're not getting a gun skin from Rainbow Six into Assassins Creed)

* The market place is not a very open one, so it's not like you're taking Digits and selling them elsewhere

* I assume Ubisoft will be in the business of managing most users wallets.

This just sounds like a very convoluted way to do what existing in game marketplaces have done for years.

I suppose building on the hype of NFT/Web3.0/Crypto gets them some more buzz and mindshare.
This is actually a great example. Wick editor is an awesome tool but it needs a lot of work to become the go-to tool for creators. You can see that the Patreon now pulls in 147 euro p/m, not enough to sustain someone working on it.

It's a (awesome) niche tool and to become mainstream (for designers) it needs more features, but there needs to be money to built those. A catch 22.