skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had exactly opposite feeling when, at 30, I visited Manhattan. The downtown (from the street level) was just depressing, all these skyscraper walls around you. Then subway (which looks like a cellar, I couldn't find the station entrance despite looking at it) to 103rd street where I had hostel, not much better feeling with dense high-rise appartments. I had to take a quick walk into central park to recuperate, although it was not recommended to stay after dark there.

I wouldn't want to live there. And mind you, I was born in the center of Prague's Jizni mesto, which is a district designed in the 70s by communist government (to solve a housing crisis), build with cookie-cutter, 8-12 store, grey and boxy appartment buildings. Certainly not ideal urbanistically, very little commercial zoning, but still quite a bit of greenery (and from the 6th floor, we can actually view about 30 km to the countryside). In fact, some claim there was more space dedicated to greenery when it was built than in modern capitalist "luxury residential" developments.
Yes, the original ToS [1] for Google Apps:

17. Modification. Except as provided in Section 18, Google reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement [...]

18. Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer the Service to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of the Service (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment: (i) does not apply to the Domain Service described in Section 4 above; and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Service in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of the Service for a fee.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20090211101551/http://google.com/...
Elm is a small and easy language. Certainly much smaller and easier to learn than JavaScript. You should go through the Elm tutorial. It shouldn’t take you long.
At this point I'm seriously considering the idea of pushing for using whatever security umbrella fad of the day is to argue for imminent domaining and then forcible open sourcing infrastructure critical technology. Roll it in with a fresh healthcare for all deployment to test. Open source the resulting data, find some solutions.
Le Corbusier had a very specific view of towers though.

Tower social housing failed, mostly because it turns out concentrating poverty is a terrible idea, but that would be true if it were towers or two-story houses. And separating uses aggravated the problems by providing less diversity of people who could keep "eyes on the street" active. But none of that is really inherent to tower design.
What sort of comparison is that the concorde was flying from 1976, the Hindenburg disaster was in 1937. You say can't work is a good compression of not economically feasible and you come to the economically feasible by comparing 1937 tech/economics with 1976 one?

For comparison a commercial plane service didn't even exist for airfoil planes in 1937. So by your argument it was impossible to fly across the Atlantic (it wasn't actually, people had done it but your argument is uneconomical=impossible) , but nowhere close to bringing 100 passengers across.
No, they can't. As I said, the nginx or Apache configuration makes sure.

Look it up, you're routing everything to static files in file system directories.

Only if you are requesting an URL (however "you" are identified) the webserver even contemplates serving something else.

It's an explicit rule for the special case. Everyone else doesn't see a PHP-FPM execution path at all.
Afaik the main issue is not the CPU architecture, but the Graphics APIs. Macos has only very old OpenGL and doesn't support Vulkan at all. And you're right, they probably don't have the effort to spare to implement Metal.

As for the CPU architecture, probably the dynamic recompilation step that turns ARM code to x86 could be skipped.

Just to show, how viable it is, there's a closed source emulator for Android that's probably base on Yuzu (with surprising good performance):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex_AArUJ8cY

The suspicion coming from it having the same bugs as yuzu itself.
Britain’s vellum industry is booming, quietly
Sounds like you've already decided, since reading BLM as a media ratings frenzy is amazing - but America has the largest prison population in the world, in a mostly for-profit system. From 2014 onwards asset forfeiture has taken more money from American citizens than burglary.
You're misguided if you think there is any sort of design behind this.

This is just bureaucracy expanding and slowly taking over a working nation.

The unproductive members of society slowly winning over the productive ones and setting up rules to justify their comfortable existence.

The same happened in most countries and won't die until the government itself dies (because a government never makes itself smaller) and a new society replaces it.
Its also totally possible to be burned by auto updates. Say for example if you're running php 7.3 and the vendor specifies the plugin needs php 7.4 (even if it doesn't!) . Your plugin gets updated, you get the white page of death, your site is offline, and now you need to ftp/ssh in and rename the directory for that plugin.
"Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other." —Arthur Schopenhauer
Most ‘don't be utilitarian’ arguments are really ‘don't be a stupid utilitarian’. If a course of action where you do some amount of harm to mitigate a larger amount of harm would clearly result in a worse world, then you are NOT actually summing up all the resulting negative utility in your so-called-utilitarian calculations.

It is in fact the case that we do often do bad things for more important goals. We kill people in wars. We support legal systems that we know sometimes imprison innocent people. The government takes money from people against their will for their own purposes, which isn't stealing mostly only because it's written in law.

What's the difference? Well, in those latter cases, it is actually considered better in sum for that action to be taken. For most of the examples in the post, there are simple and clear arguments that it is not better in sum, and the only reason the article is claiming otherwise is that the author is pretending to be dumber than they are by not mentioning the rest. So don't do that.

(And for some cases, though you wouldn't know it from the article, the full utilitarian calculus does actually say that uncomfortable things are the right thing to do, and in those cases you should just bite the damn bullet.)
Your Favorite platform will be exactly the same if a bad guy has access and inserts it;s code or if you are dumb enough to install a random third party code from a random website.

My personal blog uses one of the default themes, I hosted extremely cheap, I NEVER touch it because it is autoupdated and it just works.

I did not review WordPress code so I can't tell how secure it is, but using this article to do a lazzy hit on WordPress is pathetic, this issue is as related with WordPress as you installing an .exe fom a random website is a Windows issue.
It sounds about right here. I thought I had lifelong depression/anxiety, but it disappeared totally around 6 months of being sober.
I disagree to the blanket form of statement. Yes, it is the feudal lord who does the killing, but that doesn't mean there is no guilt if your actions effectively lead to the named peasants are killed. Whether one shares some guilt by the actions has to be judged in each case separately.
Second order effects. If the past few decades have shown anything, its the second order effects that are much more important than any single effect.

What is the second order effect in this case? "Humans might be killed for organ harvesting. This leads to widespread uncertainty over who would be killed next. And uncertainty leads to other issues."
How would having more people live in rural or small towns reduce homelessness, instead of just dispersing it?

To me social fabric in this context of decaying small towns has a negative connotation that in my mind it reads as a reversion to white, sis, straight, nuclear families as the idea of what America is. And it's used that way by political campaigns as well to play on fears, racism, and us/them to win votes.
Shouldn't there be hard limits outside of ones system of moral philosofy? A limit like don't kill people on purpose seems to take care of some of the problems...
>I am happy for Golang users but Gevent is more "synchronous" and easier to write.

Can you give an example to substantiate your post?
I think you meant Brave and Firebox iOS are affected. Because all browser on iOS must use the WebKit engine.
I'd recommend talking to a therapist. If you're behaving in a way that you find self-destructive, a therapist can help. Good luck and I wish you the best in your efforts
Abstracting is often more effective than de-coupling for these kinds of discussions. The act of changing concrete variables about a "case" requires that one keeps everything else (and their value-laden implications) the same. It is also much easier to mentally manipulate symbols when they are free of moral/emotional weight.

In the example given in the article, the question of IQ heritability can be "safely" abstracted into a population study question without referencing specific groups or populations. Of course, a serious biologist would use higher-resolution concepts like "breeding population" with defensible boundaries.

It seems disingenuous (or maybe naive?)to expect discussions about American racial groupings to remain neutral and freely "de-couplable".

It's like honestly expecting people to adhere to "is !== ought". There is a political implication to any conclusions derived about race, as it is mostly a sociological concept. Discussing it is especially difficult because the people who discuss racial differences (as opposed to other groupings like: family, class, height, religion, etc...) generally employ it in a political context (eugenics, affirmative action, etc...)
The doctor behind the first pig-to-human heart transplant
I neither a c++ programmer nor a rust one but I read things about programming. My take is that rust is near the breaking point where it becomes so commonly used that more teams and organizations will just start to use it.

The risk of switching for at least parts or a code base will seem low and then it probably looks better enough.

Of course some organizations and code bases are harder to change for some reason or reasons but many will probably start the conversion in the next 5 years. Unless rust just stops growing or something truly better comes along. I personally don't expect something much better soon and I think rust will continue to grow in usage.
So the contract includes a "this contract does not guarantee that the product is fit for purpose" clause. So what? Many contracts do that; i.e. it's a fairly typical trait of contracts.
Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes (2019)
> It’s not good because utilitarianism, like all ethical theories, rests on ethical intuitions.

This is not the case, if it would be philosophy wouldn't exist instead we would just have people un-necessarily explicating their intuitions, like the article.
Yeah I mean if you want elegant just reroll the fuckin dice. The solution is kind of interesting I guess, but it's so impractical I don't think you can even call it a solution.
I really find interesting the juxtaposition here.

On the one hand, if the person is not given productive work to do and decides to just go for a jog then they must be racked by guilt for being a slacker, like GP.

But if our organisations are diverting people's productive energy into unproductive waste, they need not feel any guilt about it at all since it is absolutely self-evident that this is the best and most productive of all possible economic systems.

In the first case, you are maladjusted because you are performing self-punishment to appease feelings of guilt about failing to live up to your own ideals. Another way to think about it is that you are just experiencing the inability to reconcile your basic human need to be a productive member of your community with the reality that your community is dysfunctional and has no interest or ability to provide a healthy psychological environment for its members.

In the second case, you are well-adjusted because you recognise that the society is just a machine and you are using the machine to get whatever you can out of it. Okay, it's not providing for the health and wealth of the community and the emotional needs or psychological well-being of it's constituents is either a non-goal or a goal it fails to achieve. But it does pay money. And you definitely do need money because money can provide for your physical needs. And while it can help with your other needs, you've already traded off the majority of your time and energy so, at best, you can maybe balm some of the damage that's been done by having a huge part of your life voided out.

I sometimes wonder, if I were some alien species keeping humans as animals in a zoo, would I would want to view them in this condition, or would it be too disturbing to see animals being maintained in an environment that is so impoverished?
This sounds amazing. Thanks for creating this.

We have been using liquibase quite successfully (which provides automatic rollback support for most common operations) but have often wondered what it would be like to just define an entity model and have the migrations generated from the diff of that.

We used something that did this for JPA in past, but had to settle for yaml migrations for our node.js services. Its cool that this utility is language agnostic and uses HCL for its DSL (which is as easy to parse).

Looks the entity model would also be a good candidate for generating domain model classes (for a majority of tables anyways). Currently we use tbls to generate a yaml dump of the database schema after running migrations and use that for codegen. It works fairly well, but every now and then someone ends up using generated code for tables that were created through migrations in another branch, and that wastes time when things break.
Did I miss some important context here? What is wrong with the division of labor in the first place?
Thanks for sharing this insight. Is this a issue with just the web server.

If I have a standalone task, which tires to use 128 cores and manages parallel tasks using goroutines communicating via channels - will I be able to successfully leverage 128 cores.
I love in a 44-story building (Warsaw) and people are definitely more friendly than just polite - I know more neighbours after 2 years of living here than in all my previous places of living combined (childhood excluded, I lived in 10-story building in a new neighborhood, and we had a ton of children in my age)
As someone with a similar story: I've found that there's a third cost and that's real estate.

As in: things take up space and if you consider the cost of that suddenly everything becomes expensive.

I while ago I wanted to buy a threadmill - I think I could get a decent one for €1000. BUT it would occupy two square metres in my apartment, so the space for that item is worth €5000 in my area.

€6000 for a threadmill? I think I'd rather use one of the two gyms available within a five minute walk.
I am not a utilitarian either, but who in reality actually is? Seems to me that arguments either way are sterile if they’re devoid of questions of identity and strategy. I do what I do because of who I am and what I want to achieve as much as any action-by-action decision making, which would be paralysing anyway.
What the article describes is not particularly difficult to implement. But claiming that storing the firmware in a way that prevents the user from updating it via software somehow makes the device more "free" is absurd.
Agree. Saying "I dont know" at school is persecuted. And here we are. Everybody have opinions on everything and it is hard to hear "I don't know." in public space.

Imagine that politicans would say that they don't know anything.

A lot of people think that they know everything, but only few really know something.
"I didn't sign a contract though, Linux just does dumb things and I am at its mercy."

The license is still the closest thing you've got to a contract with the makers of Linux.

Same with a language specification.
Useful idea for usage:
Point a WiFi-dish/antenna towards the plane and gather WiFi & Bluetooth MAC addresses for all the passengers. Now you can make statistics about the number of passengers, how long /often they travel ++ good information if you want to trade stocks in airplane companies.

You can direct the antenna precisely because you have the image recognition in addition to GPS.
Please accept my apologies for any offense caused.

compare and contrast

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2021/05/15/meaths-last-ghost-e...

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2021/07/20/urgent-call-to-tackl...

we are now into an argument of semantics over huge.

Also I would like to point out the title of the myth was about 'Ireland built too many houses', not just ghost estates and so the distinction between unfinished and empty remains important and ignored by the author.

In addition the author refers initially to them as 'ghost towns' which is not common parlance, and then links to an article about 'ghost estates', and continues then to talk about 'ghost estates'.

Linked from the original article.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35112926.amp
The otherside in this case is selling you a thing and in some cases restricting you what you can and can't do with the hardware you bought. Which means you don't really own it.

We have given them money. They should let us use our hardware as we see fit. In the case of nvidia literally detecting certain workloads and deliberately reducing the performance. Whether you think Crypto mining should be a thing or not, they purchased the hardware legally and should be able to use it as they see fit (as long as it is not illegal).

With AMD GPUs it literally doesn't make anysense. They've released millions of lines of code to the Linux kernel so their GPUs work correctly with Linux and then I have to download a proprietary firmware for my card to initialise properly. Is the firmware really that secret? I doubt it.
I agree with that as well. The idea is to create an infrastructure for SQL parsers. Base parser will hold all standard structure and dialects can register custom clauses/statements. At the moment, I generate PEG files for each dialect, but this creates too much duplicate code, and does not allow sharing same types/objects between different dialects.

I thought about keeping it on the same GitHub repository (https://github.com/ariga/atlas), but as a separate Go module? WDYT?
Your example only explain one thing, that it enables another way to run legally bought games.

Does it also enables(or make it much easier) way to play pirated games? yes. And only that defines whether it enables piracy or not.
Right now, sure, but there are more mitigations that can be added. This is an area ripe for research. The idea is that this kind of device and approach allows for further research, which can benefit users in the future since it's soft logic.

Again, I'm not saying this is a silver bullet, I'm saying it's an interesting approach and can claim to at least mitigate the risk of silicon backdoors by making them harder to pull off, which is more than can be said of the typical hard logic approach.
Yeah, that sucks. I’m in the position now where I’d likely be fine until I found a new position, so the equation changes a bit.

Either way, I don’t expect my current employer to do something like that :)
He starts off with the presumption that having a mechanical drivetrain is an abomination, rather than an asset.

For many, being able to pedal, but not being required to pedal all the time, is one of the main reasons to use an e-bike in the first place. There are little cars and golf carts that could otherwise replace bikes.

And as far as the tires - get Kevlar tires. They have tremendous range and it's cheaper than the tires you save, even ignoring the time and hassle of switching tires on an ebike. It adds some drag, but nothing that you feel.
Hahahahaha. Every time it breaks, you go searching for help and end up reading either holy war about this or that technical detail or a dick-measuring contest.
I realized trying to get 3d terrains printed that we are very impeded in the Z axis. If you don't multiply Z by a factor your map will be almost flat. Everest? 8 miserable km? Come on, I can do that on the horizontal with one leg (ok, maybe not but you get the point).
In simple mathematical terms idempotency is A such that AA=A.

Let X be the action "all your servers crashed and were deleted". The piece is saying that AXA is not necessarily A.

Indeed.
Looks really interesting. I tried Voila a while ago and struggled to really get it to do what I wanted. This was a year ago though, so maybe things have improved.

Does Mercury support all Jupyter kernels or only Python?

Also, how do I deploy this myself? Maybe I just missed it as I was viewing on my phone, but I couldn’t find any documentation.

Edit: Oops, missed the GitHub page and only looked at the demo links. Some of my “docs” question is answered there. Still curious about supported kernels though.
We have a ton of those in Europe, and it’s a terrible idea generally - you have way too little privacy, lower floors have little sunlight, but above all - if anyone throws a party, or even has guests on a balcony, everyone else can hear it.
That would definitely be an interesting project. I wonder how many fps one could achieve / if it's doable without graphic card acceleration. The perspective transformation is surprisingly slow (at least with Imagemagick)
The KDE 15-Minute Bug Initiative
I would say a fair share of companies bent on following good practices do that.
It's not all of them or not even the majority but I haven't seen cowboys migrations in 10+ years
That conundrum is rather easily solved by noting that the "pleasure" a person gets from watching someone be tortured is clearly not the kind of pleasure we're talking about. Celebrating the torture of another human being is likely to lead to yet more torture, so whatever little "pleasure" a masochist might get from watching torture is quickly offset by increasing their desire to continue to torture. Clearly the universe which maximizes total pleasure is one in which the Jewish person goes untortured and the masochistic Nazis receive psychological help.

Just like most ethical conundrums, these basically all rely on carefully controlling the bounds of the hypothetical to be both short-sighted and unrealistic to the point of farcical. How does the sheriff know for certain there will be riots if he doesn't hang an innocent person? He doesn't. How will all those sports fans feel if they learn that an innocent man needlessly died to avoid interrupting their feed for 10 seconds? They would probably feel terrible. Are we really just going to accept these extremely unrealistic hypotheticals where the author assures us his two options and consequences are genuinely the only possibilities? How is the surgeon going to feel if he murders someone as part of his job? It wouldn't take long for him to burn out and commit suicide, adding another needless death and depriving the world of a presumably talented surgeon.

In general most of the examples seem to imply that a utilitarian would do the very short-sighted option that has the biggest immediate increase in pleasure, while completely ignoring all the other negative long-term effects of their decision.
> Many good cities, like Paris,

That is a very unfortunate example.