skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of US cities publish their urban development plans. Pick a state and look up their major cities' 2040 plans and see if they are planning extensive developments in the area your interested in buying. Sometimes the plans are overoptimistic or pessimistic but usually they generally give you an idea if the city itself thinks it will grow quickly or slowly.
Do they choose suburbs because it’s preferred or because it’s cheaper?

If the urban areas have more expensive housing for a given unit size, that would imply it is actually preferred.

It’s like saying nobody drives because there is too much traffic. Or sporting events always sell out so nobody goes.
> The whole (non-Spotify, ugh) podcast ecosystem would like a word about RSS being obsolete

Off topic, but it's insane how Spotify insists on advertising podcasts to paying users. Worse, they advertise podcasts of American right wing extremists, and call it "Something you might like" or similar offensive wording. I'm not even American, and I'm subjected to unwanted foreign political content on my music player's home page.

I contacted their support about this, and apparently they are getting paid to advertise these podcasts to their already paying users.
Go see the links I posted upstream.
Oblig. Repo Man quote:

Bud: I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.

Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
>Makes me wonder how much faith I should put in comments on topics where I don't know as much.

Despite murmurings to the contrary hn is no different from any other social media site that doesn't curate content. The fact that the denizens are techies or whatever doesn't supervene that fundamental fact. So the answer here is you should trust comments on hn just as much as you trust comments on Facebook.

As another funded academic in an area that comes up very frequently here (deep learning), personally I use hn as a link aggregator for interesting content and pay very little attention to the discussion.
> IMO your comment seems to be imagining some a individualist hero do-anything-at-all-costs scenario ("top speed"), rather than the sluggish herd behavior that engineers design for.

Indeed this is just your opinion. And the whole individualist hero do anything quip is unnecessary reactionary nonsense. This is about being prepared for an emergency in your facility which entails quickly and safely getting to an exit.

> For example people are going to take some time to realize they need to take an alarm seriously, take a few minutes to collect their effects, shuffle to their cars, say goodbye to their coworkers, they will wait in traffic lines, etc.

Are they doing this during a fire? They most certainly should not be.

> ... but I don't think planning for workers to bug out in their cars is the right approach.

This isn't about going George Castanza and pushing old ladies to the floor to get to a fire exit. This is about knowing or having a plan in place and taking it seriously. Maybe your company provides it, maybe you have to figure it out yourself. Point is, always be prepared.
If you are curious what is this about: it's a new episode of https://www.dancarlin.com/addendum/ podcast released today, when Dan Carlin is speaking with Elon Musk and Bill Riley.
C++ did not, strictly speaking, exist at that time. I.e., there was no Standard defining it, and most of what makes it useful was not implemented in compilers.

About all proto-C++ had that was actually useful and usable, beyond C, was destructors. That changed by around 2003.

So it was much less mature than even Rust is today.
The electricity you consume is fairly cheap, the infrastructure to deliver the electricity is the bulk of the cost. The infrastructure cost is included in the per kilowatt price consumers pay, if you have solar panels you can pay much less for electricity, but the per unit costs of delivering service to your household hasn't changed and gets picked up by other consumers who are consuming the same amount of energy as you, just not from a solar panel.
> Here's what will 100% not work -- Activism or Trying to 'Policy' out of your way of Climate Change problems.

Two questions:

1. Are you familiar with the concept of the tragedy of the commons? [0]

2. How comfortable are you with the idea that capitalism and free markets are policies?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
...and neither one gives a rat's ass about the amount of spam that comes from their networks, nor do they care about setting things up properly.

Neither has any way to communicate with humans when they screw things up.

They have faulty reverse DNS? Can't let them know. A domain they host has incorrect SPF? They don't require abuse@, hostmaster@, postmaster@, or any other default addresses. Since WHOIS is no longer useful, there's no way to tell people.

Domains hosted by them also have the same exact spam filtering on their abuse@ addresses as regular addresses, so you can't even report spam properly. It's funny that Google / Outlook will happily host a domain, yet will reject out of hand spam sent by Google / Outlook that's simply sent back to abuse@ addresses! It shows a painfully obvious double standard about spam.

As they lock up more and more of the world's email, this we-don't-give-a-shit attitude will only get worse.
That's a big if.

I'm not convinced suppliers genuinely attempted to provide useful RSS feeds. Even during the hay day of RSS, many feeds were simply stubs meant to get me to their website—even for websites to which I was already paying for the content.

Regardless, demand for a particular solution is much different than demand to meet a particular need. To suggest RSS is 'obsolete' suggests its been obviated by a technology which meets the same need. I don't see that as being the case. It is far more likely to me that RSS doesn't meet the needs of the supply side.

Solutions can also be dropped for lack of profitability or other supply side concerns even where demand for that particular solution is high.

You can see this in action today. Ask yourself why Spotify doesn't support RSS for its podcasts despite it being extremely popular for fetching podcasts.
> they can be more humane and well thought out than whatever that town had to start.

In other words, you'll go to those small towns to teach those hicks some manners. No wonder they're not that keen on seeing refugees from "more humane and well thought out" places settle in their towns and villages.

If that is your message to your new neighbours may I suggest you go somewhere more welcoming of those "humane and well thought out" policies? It is a sad thing that those places tend to be the ones people are moving away from but that means there should be lots of vacancies.
The next step would be buying religious benefits directly. I don't know, say, "indulgences", that one could purchase directly from a church. Cut out the middle men.

/s
Oh I see. That would be very cool. Sounds like it could work similarly to the "search Google for this image" feature.
Sorry if this is inappropriate context but the subject got me looking at the Cloudflare job board and there are some interesting positions and I'm wondering if it's appropriate to apply to multiple positions at once, or is better to apply to the 'favorite' in the case that there are more than one that interests one?
Or maybe your niece is boycotting B&N for some reason, or knows a much better, cheaper bookstore to shop at.
> Though this doesn't explain why you didn't get a notice about just that video.

I don't know if that's a thing with YouTube and private videos, but when I got a copyright strike on my YouTube account because of a private video I never got explicitly notified about it.

I just have random stuff on my channel, similar to what OP describes and largely use YouTube for watching content. The video in question was a private video of me doing a quick demo of some project where a radio was faintly playing in the background (I didn't even notice that at first - only after finding the original video file and cranking up the volume did I realize that the mic picked up some recognizable music in the background).

I would have never noticed that I had a copyright strike if I wasn't bored and randomly clicking through the YouTube UI one day.
When it comes to the network, a closed-loop network refers to the fact that the network operator is also the issuing bank (e.g. Amex, Discover). Open loop networks, the network operator is not the issuing bank (e.g. Visa, Mastercard).

Patio11 is correct in that from a gift card usage perspective, Amex is open loop. But I'm just pointing out that from a network perspective, they are not.
When are the new n-gate posts coming out?
Maybe in energy trading https://www.next-kraftwerke.com/
This video is...bad?

To summarize, they're worried that Roblox is not doing enough to police content off their platform. They're concerned that Roblox isn't doing anything about young game developers being exploited in private Discords or groups off of the platform, and the harassment that these kids receive off the platform.

They're then attacking Roblox about deleting their user forums because they had problems moderating it. They also fail to mention, that in an effort to moderate the games, young players have a lot of chat filters (or can have chat disabled completely) where words to other social media sites are completely banned. They mention that moderation is either ineffective or heavy-handed (which, to be fair, has always been a problem on every fucking platform). For Roblox its markedly worse, because they're one of the few places where young children are encouraged to socialize and play together. So moderation is very heavy handed and often illogical because there's always a layer of child exploitation and harassment accompanied by every decision.

They mention how young game developers practically have no chance at making games because all the popular ones have literal development teams behind them, and these teams congregate off-platform, and can copy ideas easily.

They worry about how there's a "black market" for collectible goods off-site, which Roblox isn't able to take down fast enough.

I can identify that there's actual problems with the platform, but most of this video is just a moral panic about how Roblox is a publicly traded company and Evil.

When most of the supporting evidence is obfuscated for the safety of people talking since they're all minors, its hard to verify if what they're claiming is actually true. That 11 year old kid that briefly talked about how his game never got a chance to be popular is about the only legitimate part of the video that isn't attached to some narrative that Roblox needs to engage in overbearing policing.

It was sad to see how Roblox's rewards and incentive structure with Robux completely edged out the vast majority of its active userbase out of the game development market on the platform. But the video doesn't focus on this. Instead it tries to make you worried that children are spending money offsite trying to buy skins, and that Roblox should try to police the entire Internet.
It's not everyone though. FB algorithm is giving preference to the most controversial person. People that are reasonable are boring and don't cause engagement, so their posts also are not displayed.

When you get away from the site, FB will start bombarding you with the messages from people that you would mostly react, because they want you back.
> Closed loop cards allow a giver to personalize a gift to the recipient.

So does a quick note written inside a card with some cash in it.

A gift card is only better than cash when the giver can't or doesn't want to take the time to personalize a gift.
GitHub’s response to Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
I was going to mention this same example :)
https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Architecture-a... looks like it’s not Wayland-based.
I was not trying to advertise, I was asking the community for help!!!
Hardly seems like a fair choice to me :p

Not exactly what i suspected, but in retrospect my comment wasn't clear. I should have mentioned that eg. IOs engineers / Mac developers have no option. Which would be some share of the market.

But your comment was more valuable, thanks!
Aside: Is HN so fragile that it requires end-users to police anomalous activity? Given the age and influence of the platform I'd assume dang and co. who moderate and maintain the board are old hands at staying on top of manipulation of the platform.

Could any mods comment on this? _Should_ we be keeping an eye out and calling out odd activity? It'd be nice to avoid posts like __blockcipher__'s; while well intentioned I could see such commentary having a chilling effect on discourse.
Maybe it would be a good idea to let users know when their submissions are detected as too promotional and remind them about the guidelines rather than automatically silencing them. (Like the "you're posting too fast" message, except less vague.) That would also tip off actual spammers, but if they evade the detector by posting less often... mission accomplished, I guess?
Though this is horrific to me, if it's convenience that you're after you could always take a box cutter to the textbooks, cut them into chapters, and maybe have them spiral-bound.

Alternatively, you could see if there exists a loose-leaf copy of your textbook.
Crypto seems to introduce another headache to this.
I don't think I currently do, but that's sort of my point: people don't want to do this, for reasons ranging from the income left on the table to the type of work not being fulfilling.

Note that both of these are handled by the premise, which was that OSS maintainers would be materially unblocked to focus on OSS by a UBI-level income. This assumes that there are a non-trivial amount of OSS maintainers that don't care about the couple hundred thousand dollars they're forgoing, and that they have at least 30 hours of their week filled with fulfilling work.

Tangentially, I match the motivations you're asking about, but not the exact implementation. I spent the early half of my 20s with a far higher income than I wanted, and definitely didn't (and don't) enjoy working 40 hours a week. Given how motivated I am by intellectual challenge, I came to the realization that it was damnably hard to find a job that would give me a suitable intellectual challenge but not require me to be full-time. I "solved" this by interleaving 2-3 years of working with 1-2 years of travel/personal development a couple of times during my 20s.
Telomeres are just the cell's odometer. Sure, rolling it back is good assuming that it extends the lifespan of the cell, but it still has the dents and dings it's picked up along the way from radiation & pollution, free radicals and oxidation.

This seems like part of the puzzle. First repair the damage, then extend the time span, and the more you do this the more opportunities you have to find an optimal solution.

I think the only thing that will actually work is for entirely new bodies to be built and for our minds to be copied over.

It's not immortality but that is probably as close as we will get, and once we can do that then extending our current body's lifespan will be exponentially easier.
I still don't understand why it faux-pas to just put cash in a nice card...

I just do it anyway. It's a more universal gift card without fees and expiration dates...

Anyone who tries to put me down for doing so will simply not be receiving a gift from me next year... Screw stressful stores. plastic cards, and standing in line, my method is much more "green"... :P
English actually has different languages for 12 year olds and adults. Vocabulary like “cringe” is fine for kids, but makes you come off as judgmental and unpleasant when used in a more formal context.
The expectation seems to be that the right thing to do in a tornado is to go into a shelter, so probably? Especially if the costs of adding such shelters are much lower for new construction. I would guess that basements or office areas in large warehouses could be reinforced relatively easily to create a tornado shelter in an otherwise skin-on-structure building.

I haven't done the math though, so perhaps it would be burdensome. Then again we end up doing an awful lot of security theatre for the vanishingly small risk of air travel terrorism, due to people's perceptions of not being in control. Maybe being corralled by corporate micromanagement for market-bottom wages falls in a similar place.
Almost always at 1.25, unless it's for a couple of specific channels where I like to hear the guy speak in a normal voice.
Watching Google leading the transition, of the web from a hypertextual, common, extension-able user-agency-embue-ing medium, into an unmalleable, hard, pushing-pixels-in-our-faces application is one of the most evil malignant acts I can imagine being perpetrated against good upstanding tech society has. This is such a huge step into the dark, out of the sun, for the world wide web.
Modern C++ is whatever is standardized and implemented. Obviously, as new Standards are published, new features become available, and any workarounds for their lack become redundant. But that has not inconvenienced SerenityOS even a little bit.
Well, what does "correct" mean here? Colors are a construct of the human mind, whichever way you put it.

Now, you could devise some tests where you look at a "white" piece of paper (you conduct a survey of 100 people to establish whether it is pure white or tinted) and you look at it through each eye, and now if one eye sees it as pure white and the other as reddish or blueish, you know that the eye that sees it as pure white is "correct"; possibly one eye sees it as reddish and the other as blueish, and then neither eye is "correct". Of course, this defines "correct" as "in agreement with the eye sight of most other people".

You could also chose to dig deeper, and have many complex tests done to determine if there are differences in the structure of the retinas of the two eyes that could explain the difference (e.g. perhaps one retina has some malformations that probably explain the difference), and then you can decide that the eye that doesn't have the malformation, if any, is "correct". That eye could still be more skewed in your perception according to the first test though, since the brain may have already adjusted.

Alternatively, you could study the neural architecture that is responsible for color perception and suss out the differences between the two images, find out what is the difference between them, and decide which is correct based on that (are they different output images for the same input, and is one receiving any other input that should not be related? are they receiving different inputs? how does your neural architecture differ from that of 100 other people? etc.)

Of course, we entirely lack the ability to do the third test, and mostly lack this ability for the second test as well, so from a purely practical point of view, you would be stuck with the first test to determine this.

The exact same question could be posed of a color-reporting computer system, by the way. Say you have two cameras and an image analyzer that can print out the color of the central pixel in the images from both cameras (in RGB). Pointing the two cameras at the same object, you get a print out that says `LEFT (R250,G255,B255); RIGHT (R255,G255,B250)`. Which of the two is correct?
With Apple potentially entering automotive space as well as VR, I find it unlikely that they've peaked. They've consistently demonstrated that they're not a company interested in sitting still. Move to Apple Silicon alone shows their continued commitment to throwing the industry for a loop.
Stay home, yes. The point of staying at home is to be near your basement if you have one, so the part about staying in your basement all night is silly.

We've had people telling us to stay home for two years to dodge a particularly dangerous cold, so if the idea that not having a single night shift during such a rare and predictable weather situation is supposed to be shocking on its face, I'm not feeling it.
Looking at your chart, it has NZ at 188, UK at 114, FR 87, Germany 69, Canada 107. NZ looks higher on a skim than most (all) of Western Europe. What do you think I'm missing?
"the ability to pay attention and focus for long spans should give someone a competitive advantage."

My company wants us to support multiple apps in multiple stacks while providing prod support. If you have "long spans" of time for any one thing, that would be miracle. I am able to focus for long periods of time, but not when the environment requires dropping things to work on a higher priority or join a meeting.
There is some really interesting research being done into hydrogen: https://twitter.com/future_crunch/status/1361797670164135937...

Convert off-shore drilling platforms to hydrogen electrolysis, and transport it to land in existing pipelines as paste: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24529-3

My guess is we'll keep researching hydrogen, and eventually get to a point where it's economical, just like wind and solar.
>The employees are no safer at home than at work.

I think that should be up to the employees to decide, not their manager, and sure as hell not you.
Oh, that makes sense. I grew up around there, and I do think Boston is the best place in the Northeast megalopolis for access to nature stuff and relatively easy to get around...

128's kind of funny, though. Unless you live in one of a handful of nearby streets, you need a car to get there. And you're at the Boston line (the suburban, single family and industrial park part of Boston, but still.)
There is no such thing as metric or imperial screw heads. There are various ISO/ANSI standards.
That's too simplistic and naive, their algorithms amplify what will get the most clicks!
...as if a corporation exists in a vacuum, outside of society.
I think it would be like earlier during industrial revolution when people would vandalize train tracks or factories. It can slow down a bit at particular place and time but otherwise these things are inevitable.
What areas don't have political and ideology homogeny anymore? There are two Americas. I would enjoy an area with better tolerance to the other side's ideals, but it seems that's in short supply everywhere. There's a real viciousness for the other side at the national level, but I can't understand it at the individual human being level or the community level. Your neighbor may not share your politics, but it also doesn't imply they embody all of your opposition's ideas. We pick sides because we have to in a first-past-the-post system.
Clone Git Repo... CTRL+F "log4j"... 0 results... (sigh of relief)... :|
The Meaning of Cod [audio]
Half of the population will always have below average intelligence.
An explanation that I find very fitting to Japanese is it’s a “topic prominent” language with topic-comment structure rather than being subject prominent like English is. The concept of topic explains frequent absence of explicit subjects better, I think.
Find a better word for that feeling you get when you hear fingernails on chalkboards and we can use that instead on this formal Hacker News setting.
You didn't pass its captcha! /s

Sorry, I can't resist.
Dropbox ran into a similar issue, but they were on the other side. They wanted Dropbox.com, but someone else owned it. They kept running under a similar name for a while, until Dropbox.com started advertising for their competitors. Then they threatened to sue Dropbox.com, and Dropbox.com sold the domain to them.

There's a really interesting episode on the Tim Ferris podcast, where Drew Houston shares the story.
I raised (or rather shared in raising) a kid in a 2BR apartment in Manhattan with no yard.

We also happened to have a weekend/summer cottage in the suburbs. It was near the beach and had a yard and bikes and all those wonderful suburban pleasures.

He absolutely begged us every weekend to let him stay in the city where he could see his friends by subway/walking, didn't need us to drive him anywhere, had freedom etc.