skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YIMBY advocates push for medium and dense urban apartments because dense cities are where housing shortages are most severe, and the only way to effect a net-increase in the supply of housing is to replace less-dense housing with more dense housing. Or convert public spaces like parks into more housing, but people tend to like parks. Rural areas aren't experiencing a chronic housing shortage, in fact they're typically experiencing population decline.
> everything they typed (even if it was cleared and never sent in a request)

Okay, wow, that sounds rough...so in a way, phishing attacks don't even require you to login anymore, just typing the password or maybe 75% of it is enough to get you.
> arguably

Experiment: <https://youtu.be/ev4lW0wbnX8?t=1245> (German audio track, machine translated subtitles in English available)

The question is whether this settles the argument or stokes its flames.
The point is not to LARP as a 15th century monk, the point is to live a non-commercial life of quiet, focused service.
What incredible impact.
The BLS includes rent in the CPI basket.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
When I watch football, I catch some ads for the current CBS and Fox shows that are in the old money spots of weeknight primetime. They look absolutely awful, and I've never met anybody who has ever admitted to watching any of them. It feels a little bit like the Rick and Morty interdimensional cable episode.
You'd fall into a fit of hysteria in Tokyo! Advertisements as far as the eye can see in the city center. Oh yeah, and everything talks...the bus, the vending machines, the constant jingles in the convenience stores, and if you can understand what it's saying -- well take a guess about what it is.
I have managed to maintain a body mass of 90kg but nice try!
I've rescued a few Stanley planes from the rust pile. Bringing them back to life and use is a joy. 100+ years old, and with cleanup and honing, can still take wispy-thin shavings, leaving a glassy-smooth surface on wood.
Sure, it’s hard to get from A to B. But you can have plenty of incremental improvement along the way.

> “First we take away the parking and make these particular roads slower.” “Ok, then what?” “Then it’s ‘better’.”

Vancouver added a ton of protected bike lanes over a handful of years and doubled their bike mode share. It obviously made a big difference in how nice it was to bike there.

You generally don’t remove parking for nothing, you replace it with something else, like a bike or bus lane. Ideally, you have a coordinated plan, so that you don’t end up with one-off infra improvements that have little impact on the network as a whole.
if you can put a magnet in/on the bolt you could use a hall sensor in the frame side.
Another internal one: I was at Apple for 10 years and never heard any such thing.
I think the author was implicitly referring to loosely organized groups instead of dictatorships. In groups with strong leaderships, instead of being like a "group", they are more like a bunch of organized people following a (small number of) leader(s), in which case the risk of schism is less pronounced.
The jackrabbit always wins.
Even with the onset of diabetes/serious complications from the disease, it’s still often not enough.

Losing weight is very difficult for people to sustain. There are individual success stories but those don’t outweigh the fact that, statistically, people just isn’t lose weight and keep it off sustainably.
Hello old friend.

Why are you outraged about things that have not happened? Has the US Govt broken those promises? Y/n?
I think it’s glossed over that people are neurologically different, and some people are actively distressed by advertising. I consider it a matter of accessibility, as soon as some block of color moves on the side of the screen, my attention is stolen from me. Maybe that’s a disability on my part, but it makes the web feel actively hostile.
organic food "Bio" is wildly expensive here in Germany...

Also: the 600€ is groceries only. I don't track the cost of going to restaurants. It'd probably significantly increase total food costs.
On the whole you are right and no disagreement from me. The measure of inflation uses shelter though so rising home purchase prices generally means that when those same house purchased at a higher price are rented out the price they rent for is likely going to be higher, raising costs for non owners. So yes, you are correct but rising home prices while a good thing for the owners that got in before the prices rose is not a good thing for anyone else. With that said I am a home owner that is happy my house has increased in value but at the same time, it generally means nothing to me as if I wanted to move I would have to buy another house that has increased in value as well. Its only positive return for me is if I take out a loan on the house it allows me a lower LTV and subsequently a lower interest rate on that loan.
What's a physical password generator? Sounds interesting.
Very low income people frequently have more debt than assets. They also see their net worth increase from inflation.

Also the sources I see show nominal wages growing faster than inflation for low income households, meaning that their real wages are actually increasing.
Ask HN: What happened to Hacker News page on Facebook?
There used to be a Hacker News page on Facebook, automatically posting the top 5 submissions from the front page. It has been useful for people like me who are on both platforms.

It seems to have disappeared recently. Any idea why? If the maintainer is reading this, could you please restore it?
Death by bean counting and enterprise bs, that's what happened.

I spent 13 years writing Object Pascal in Delphi full time, starting from Delphi 4 and ending right about where Embarcadero entered the scene.

They seriously dropped the ball by focusing on ticking enterprise boxes and charging insane amounts for it rather than evolving and fixing stuff.
great initiative!
This is such a dumb whataboutism point. Either discredit the data or the argument.
>we do not make a habit of saying "Terrible news today, the stock market suffered 2% inflation."

If the real value of the underlying equities/assets of the market stay the same but the nominal price goes up 2%: As a cash buyer I would absolutely say "terrible news today, the stock market suffered 2% price inflation today."

Just because the government doesn't put that into the "consumer inflation" figures doesn't mean it doesn't look like inflation to me as someone who may desire to own certain equities.
If Taylor Energy is now setup as a sole proprietorship, she is no longer protected by a corporate veil, right? Why aren't regulators aggressively figuring out ways to go after her personally? Maybe they are but it isn't covered in the article.
Ongoing related thread:

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29512302
I experienced a significant rent reduction in San Francisco this year.
>I'd say it's local, and lets people know what your business is and what services you offer.

>I'd ban targeted advertising in any form.

Aren't these at odds? Genuine question, I just don't see how you can ban targeted advertising in any form while allowing people to advertise locally on the Internet for one thing. Then, similarly to TV ads, no targeting skews the advertising pool to huge players that can overspend (I swear half the ads on TV are car companies) and companies whose product are used by everyone (consumer products, restaurant chains, etc).

I don't have a mind made up with what's the solution. I too see clear problems with targeted ads when it comes to privacy and manipulation, I also have expunged ads from my Internet, but an outright ban has other issues. If you are an SMB with a niche or local product you simply can't afford advertising to everyone and hope the 1% subset you are aiming converts enough to make it viable. Maybe I'm wrong but I think there's a large amount of SMBs and self-employed jobs that would straight up not exist if it wasn't for targeted advertising, that has societal value in and of itself.

I'm ambivalent overall. On one hand I wouldn't mourn the death of all advertisement, on the other I'm not sure how you make a product, service or SMB known without it and I doubt most of my friends' product, service or SMB would exist without online targeted advertising for finding customers. IMO the solution is more akin to giving more privacy rights and options than an outright ban, granted I have no clue if that is enforceable or how to implement.
Ongoing related thread:

Quaternions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510237
picketing explicitly CAN NOT prevent people from crossing the line. Though in practice it does just that, they have plausible deniability. A DOS attack is harder to use this defense, plus typically you attest that the information is correct so unless you're actually automating this will real information you could potentially be opening up that concern as well.
Which I'm not a fan of, but then again I'm not a fan of the church owning an entire peninsula.
So Assange can say, under oath, that he is not Nathaniel Frank. Boom. Case closed- US govt looks stupid. Assange walks.

I do not care about the verdict of the trial. I care a lot that a trial takes place. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Everybody is presupposing the result of this and being outraged rather than waiting and seeing what happens. He is innocent until proven guilty.
My guess is the richer countries make it hard to migrate to them. USA is relatively easy to migrate to compared to basically anywhere in western Europe, UK, Canada, Japan, or South Korea.
Bullworker isometric workout equipment[1]. My dad bought it in the 70s way before I was born, and I still use it regularly.

1. https://www.bullworker.com/product/bow-classic/
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200260 - Jan 2020 (326 comments)

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18365433 - Nov 2018 (175 comments)
He is a great demagogue but his Congressional record indicates he is not so good at dealmaking. I think he would have been a progressive Perot that got angry a lot but those tantrums would lead to great sound bites.

Or TLDR if you're not going to get good at making sausage stop applying for positions at the sausage factory.
> the U.S. upholds much stricter rules of engagement than any of its enemies (hell, even stricter than our cops).

Is that a joke?
Acknowledge that there's no need to catch up to everything, and that you can narrow your interests to a few things that really interest you, and study them the old fashioned way, with no blinking lights.. just a book, some quiet time and possibly accompanied by a hot cup of coffee.
Home Appliances and devices in general.

Everything is becoming touch based these days. As a blind person, this means a lot of devices are unusable or almost unusable for me. As long as it's something in my own place, I can find alternatives, but that's not possible for devices I don't own. PIN pads on POS systems are the most egregious example here. Since I live in Europe, I can either use Apple Pay or give out my PIN to whoever is nearby.

Apart from that, tech has improved my life massively. It's impossible to overstate how much assistive technology has improved in the last 15 or so years. Most smartphones and computers now have a great and free screen reader, can read print, recognize currency, allow us to communicate with the sighted world, let us read almost any book in existence and watch most contemporary movies, at least the popular ones for which they made a special audio description track. None of that was possible 15 years ago, definitely not for the price of a normal smartphone.
Antenna tv isn’t an option for many of us. The context of the piece is clearly broadcast TV. Obviously the general format is going strong.
Actually, I probably only buy meat every second week.

And I've been consistently going to the same shop.
Buying the product is the primary goal, but they don't expect you to act right away. It's about impressions. You see 1000 Coke ads and product placements a year. When you finely decide you want a sweet fizzy drink, well the decision has already been made for you.
It's complex for a reason. Go try some other layout tools and you suddenly realize that half the things you can do in CSS are impossible when limited to just columns and rows.

Certainly there are odd parts to CSS that are due to it originally being only intended for relatively static content, but when you try and create a layout system from scratch you keep running into issues that the CSS people have spent years figuring out already.

Take Figma's layout system for example. They built their own from scratch to keep it simple and straightforward and yet I can't create half of the layouts I need to in Figma that are pretty simple to do in CSS. All the top requested features on the Figma forum are to recreate HTML and CSS behavior and often coming from designers who don't actually know HTML/CSS, indicating these are universal layout requirements, not just something developers are demanding.
Higher quality in general? No way. There's way, way too many streaming shows that aim for the middle. Tons of reality/competition shows, tons of superhero shows where dialog and plot take a backseat to looking cool. TONS of garbage animation and children's shows.

From where I sit, it's way easier today than 5 years ago to find something new to watch, but way harder to find something great.
>It makes up 1% or less of global carbon emissions. It doesn't matter how much the average Brit does to reduce their personal carbon impact, it will all amount to nothing.

I think this is a bad take, and at the center of the climate discussion.

If the UK's 1% is irrelevant, than each other 1% that add up to 100 are also irrelevant. This is obviously not true, 1% is not 0%.

There is a meaningful difference between being unable to solve a problem by yourself and being irrelevant. The fact that I can not do something alone, does not mean that it can not be done.

This is a classic prisoners' dilemma. You can never reach 100% without each 1% contributing. If they all do, it adds up, if they don't, it won't.

You can make a different arguments that the world could reduce carbon emissions 99% without UK cooperating, or that the UK shouldn't go first, or that it isn't worth trying the whole effort is likely to fail, but these are all a different points than the UK is irrelevant.
It's also nice that doing 2D physics, you can represent torque without invoking an extra orthogonal spatial dimension.
My sense, and I don't think it is a popular opinion on HN, was that Assange became, perhaps unwittingly, a pawn of Russia. Selectively releasing documents, which is how I see it, doesn't show an even hand of justice exposing "the unbridled imperialist evil".

I'm no fan of Assange. But I also have not read a lot about Assange so I may be ignorant.
What you are seeing here is the natural pro(re)gression of all technology. It only gets worse, it doesn’t get better. They will always be abused by the worst of society.

And then we did new technology to “fix” the old technology. Kind of a ponzi scheme if you ask me.
Same goes for the perfectly fitted stones in Inkan walls in Peru. They weren't built by aliens or telekinesis, but rather unoccupied workers that rubbed on the stones all day for decades. There is plenty of evidence that these walls and cities were never in a "finished" state, but always in progress, with partially complete stones and scattered pieces not yet near the wall in many sites.
The same thing that happened to Lotus and WordPerfect: Microsoft drove them out of business.
It would be much more effective to go after the facilitator who made it possible, in this case the developer. Both efficient and punative messaging-wise
When do we start to question these companies more critically? They have a huge financial conflict of interest, ranging in the billions of dollars per year, to push their drugs. Instead, they seem to be treated as pure and altruistic actors, while in other contexts such as their pricing of insulin, people recognize them as bad actors.
One thing that the people saying "just use a struct for keyword arguments" are missing is that structs should signal intent, i.e. "this is a concrete concept in the system." A Repository, Commit, Message, Person, etc. struct are all concepts in the domain, whereas "the arguments for this particular function" is not. I think Go people are allergic to writing code that does anything other than functionally work.
This is why I keep our landline for customer service. Cell phone quality is second-rate,
I like the author's general idea that there should be a separate, mostly-opaque type for 2D and 3D angles.

2D angles are represented by floats, and 3D angles are represented by Quaternions. Which is fine internally, but a smart language should provide an inline wrapper type.

Typing 2D angles as floats presents issues when wrapping: x and 2pi * x will look and mostly function the same, but can lead to edge cases e.g. comparisons and loss of precision.

Typing 3D angles makes them easier to understand, since you won't be doing high-level mathematical operations, you'll just be rotating to face x or rotating by y degrees perpendicular to vector z.
Yeah, I hate ads too, but don't think Google products or any other big internet companies would exist at the scale they do if ads went away.
I got vaccinated the first day I could and got the 3rd dose last week.

My mother got the 3rd dose a few weeks before me and on the 3rd day one of her lower-legs went numb. She had some therapy in the hospital and is OK now, but I'm afraid how she could react to a possible future vaccination. I'm not even sure the vaccination was the cause.

I have many antivaxx coworkers and I would never mention something like that in front of them. Just today the most fanatical of them called in sick with "the flu". He doesn't even want to get tested for Covid.
The Curious Case of the Weapon That Didn’t Exist (2016)
>Four boxes is a reason to take things slow

Yeah, that's what I was referring to. MLK had a specific, rather famous riposte to this attitude because of how common it was:

"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

Emphasis mine.
> All this hysteria over moderate inflation is being stoked by those that have been rent seekers sitting on their wealth, enjoying that the value of their lent money barely decreases.

Inflation doesn't really affect the wealthy, though. The people at the bottom are the ones who don't have 7% margin in their budget. Blaming this on the hysteria of rich people is to overlook the plight of the margin.
Critical vulnerability in log4j, a widely used logging library
Attention.

Holy hell. Between Youtube, Twitter, HN and Reddit I'm both wasting an indecent amount of time and my attention span is turning into that of a goldfish.
It's hard to get up and move away from everyone you know just to chase wealth and financial stability. Your relationships with people are more important than money. It's not easy to learn a new language, gain citizenship, get a job, and successfully do the thousand other things required to migrate to a new country.
> "the curved sweet yellow food that grows on trees"

You have (some variety of) cavendish bananas in mind. There are red, pink and blue bananas. They're not all sweet. The plants they grow in are not always "trees" but rather large fern like plants.

And then that day arrives when you are required to style some variant of 'banana' you are forced to decide: do I break the world by messing with banana or do I make new-banana?
No, Density is not the thing that makes it bad. Tokyo and plenty of other highly dense cities are perfectly livable.

The issue at hand is that many economic centers like San Francisco are adding several times more residents than housing units. There's onerous zoning and processes by which existing residents can block new housing. There's also price controls that disincentivize housing. These factors cause a chronic undersupply of housing, making housing very expensive even though San Francisco isn't all that dense. That's why almost all the YIMBY attention is on urban areas like these experiencing housing shortages.

Why would they push for more housing in suburban and rural areas that aren't experiencing chronic housing shortages? Most rural areas have shrinking populations.
Do you believe it is ever proper to raise taxes?

I can’t help but assume that this is a fairy dogmatic, rather than a nuanced response.
This generation is a lot of people, and who is to say they can't have both? Same day delivery becomes easier in densely populated areas, and densely populated areas tend to be more walkable.
First tool I ever used for converting class diagrams to code. Felt pretty cool!
I don't believe this article.
Python is strongly typed, not weakly typed. What you are talking about is static typing, which Python is not; Python is dynamically typed. Please do not confuse the two concepts.
For me it is to know God and make him known. I am 50 and have been thinking like this for 30 years. It seems even more important than ever for me to know the answer to this question as I may not have another 30 years to ruminate on it further :-)
"In my location at least half of the OTA channels are religious broadcasting stations. Will non-profits take them over completely at some point?"

I don't know how the situation is in other countries, but down here in Brazil, 2/3 of OTA channels have become religious channels in the last 10-15 years.

And those channels are DEFINITELY FOR PROFIT. It's a disgusting scam, ripping off the elderly, the poor and the overall dumbest segments of the population. I have nothing against religion, I'm not religious myself but I can see how it can be beneficial for a lot of people. Having said that, the religious channels as they exist in Brazil should just disappear, and the world would be a better place. TV must die, it serves no useful purpose anymore.
lol. a rough translation is that the new super language models are good enough that you don't have to keep track of specific parts of speech in your programming. if you look at the arrays of floating point weights that underlie gpt-3 etc, you can use them to match present participle phrases with other present participle phrases and so forth

this is of course a correct and prescient observation. minimaxir is kind of an NLP final boss, so I wouldn't expect most people to be able to follow everything he says
Ugly or Nice? Classifying Christmas Sweaters with Computer Vision
I wonder how much it costs to run an OTA station, ignoring content costs. I wonder if there's room for truly local stations to emerge.
It’s also the well studied slot-machine effect of “intermittent reinforcement” - sometimes when you refresh the page you get nothing new, sometimes when you refresh the page you get what you want - this releases more dopamine and is therefore more addictive then simply getting what you want every time.