skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nothing to do with liberal policy. It was pure corruption that happened right under the noses of voters. The sales tax ballot measure to fund housing had an innocent-looking line which restricted the contractors eligible for the jobs. The contractors had to have experience building this type of housing.

The problem with this is that there were only two contractors that met the requirement, and as a result they could charge whatever they wanted since it was practically a no-bid contract.

Los Angeles could've spent dramatically less, and housed more people, had they simply purchased housing on the open market with the money. These prices are pure graft.
Reversing Games with Hashcat
> I always thought the HN crowd is very analytical, logical and knows how to understand data and reason with it.

Did you arrive at that conclusion driven by observation and evidence? If so, then that means you notice this behaviour only on the politics threads. Now, ask yourself: are people here really not behaving analytically and logically only when it comes to politics, but you only happen to notice that when it comes to politics? Or maybe you only think that this happens in politics because you have an unreasonably emotional reaction to truly analytical points of view that contradict your political view points?
Yeah, I've already had my fill of hot takes from uninformed people on the internet, and this war isn't even 24 hours old.

Links to actual expert analyses, on the other hand, would be much appreciated.
When shots are fired?
Not french speaking but I will guess that by using extremely precise inertial navigation. Accelerometers measure acceleration + gravity. You need to subtract the gravity.
Avocado sits somewhere between olive and canola in terms of linoleic acid content (one reference said 13%; another said 7–20%), and has one of the highest smoke points of all cooking oils at 271°C. It's also pretty flavour neutral. It's a fantastic choice for high-heat cooking.
> USA has gone on record saying it will fall on the sword for Taiwan.

I'll believe that when I see it, under Biden, maybe. But that may also just be posturing and probably won't last longer than the moment that the USA can become independent of Taiwanese manufacturing capabilities at which point it would actually be in the US' interest if Taiwan would no longer be able to produce.
As a player with a rating probably, on a good day, somewhere around one third Carlsen's it is heartening to know that there is at least one aspect of his play that I am able to emulate precisely. And, it would seem, repeatedly.
Eh? Vaccine effectiveness at preventing transmission dropped off precipitously with each new variant. Is your suggestion that preventing in-job transmission was not the purported purpose of workplace Covid vaccine mandates?
the general term is "recuperation" - same as greenwashing, selling che guevara t-shirts, Kendal Jenner giving police a pepsi and so on.
> This is the only way to organize things, by date.

I am terrible at dates - if I had to find photos by date I'd never find them. For anything older than a month that isn't on a known anniversary like a birthday, 90% of the time I find the photos using the map view in iCloud Photo Library. If I was limited to a filesystem view, my photo library would be far less useful.
Here you go, I hope you don’t mind raw markdown: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-webs...
For delivery, I've always wondered if it was possible to smuggle them in, say, by car. No need for a rocket or anything. Then hide them in the target country in some underground facility or whatever in a big city. If Ukraine did that 10 years ago with Moscow, they could trigger them the second their border was violated.

This is probably laughably unpractical, I just don't know why. Radiation? Maintenance? Just the fact that you can only use them, not threaten with them?
New law in Ontario will require employers to disclose how they track employees
Ontario proposes new law that will require employers to tell workers if they're being electronically tracked
Official neutrality and a trade deal with both the EU and Russia?
The problem seems to me to stem from voting mechanics. As soon as you allow Likes or Updoots or what have you, it enables a pernicious sort of groupthink that's not easily defeated.

Despite 4chan's reputation, I think anonymous message platforms have the highest quality of discourse because there's no way to develop cults of personality.

If I disagree with, I dunno, 'tptacek about something to do with security, I'm going to have a bunch of downvoters and pilers-on irrespective of whom is right and whom is wrong, because Thomas is a big name round these parts (not to pick on him or anything) and I'm not.

Remove the username and each comment has to stand on its own merits.
See what happens to all the US non-NATO wars/interventions in the middle East when there are no more NATO-justified bases in Europe (Ramstein) as convenient turnstiles.
If you have a Costco nearby, they sell a pretty high quality avocado oil under the "Chosen Foods" label. It runs about $20 for a 2 liter bottle. The UC Davis study that found a bunch of adulterated avocado oils specifically called out the Chosen Foods oil as being one of the good ones.
> but anyone that has ever needed to style a <select> to make it look in line with any modern design

Then don't make it look "in line with any modern design". Make it look like an HTML select tag, because that's what it is.

Functionality should (nearly always) trump prettification. (Especially when the results are pretty anyway).
What makes diet studies even more difficult is that you can have genetically identical twins, and they will react differently to diets only because of their gut bacteria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY0GKu-PM58
Technical discussions are far more ideologically driven than we give them credit for. Witness the hype cycles and evangelism machines around certain technologies, programming languages, etc. They're often barely rooted in technical merit.
That’s true. Rails docs are fantastic.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m a big Rails fan as well. Been using it for a decade at this point. It’s the best development experience out there. But eventually, you’re going to run into issues that are harder to address with it. Happens on every big project I’ve run into.

But, they all became big projects thanks to the productivity of Rails.
Where do you plan on moving?
Flagged?

I don't know if everything in this article is factually correct. But at least it "does compute" in a way the mainstream explanations do not.

I don't know what scares me more. That I get to read this interpretation of events only on some obscure blog. Or that, even on Hacker News, such interpretations immediately get flagged as apparently not fit for discussion.
Apple vs. developers: “Tools for me, but not for thee”
As always, a note to infrastructure providers: HOST YOUR LIVE STATUS DETAILS ON OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE.

Of course, they won't. If they host is on someone else's then that might look bad (tacitly saying that a competitor is reliable and might be up when they are down) and if they hive off an extra copy of some of their infrastructure there will still be single points of failure either accidentally, by human error (someone somehow messing up both segments at once), or by design (possibly through management trying to save pennies when they noticed this extra bit of infrastructure on the balance sheet).
Sadly, the notion of "free energy" in a capitalist context is probably why the concept hasn't taken off.
It's sort of a joint game engine/launcher? It's like something dug up in an archeological dig, but struggling through is worth it.
It should be noted that Russia, as a member of the UN security council, voted in support of international military intervention in Kosovo.
That's really cool. These days similar strategies based on graph coarsening and vertex ordering are really popular for improving the sparsity pattern of preconditioners- e.g. incomplete lu decompositions for iterative linear solvers.
I previously had a substance abuse problem with ketamine after self medicating for depression.

You're absolutely spot on, I never had any physical cravings or withdrawal symptoms, as a typical addictive substance does. And when I couldn't get hold of any, or went away and couldn't use it, or something, I wasn't compelled to seek it out.

But at home, it crept into becaming an "every evening" thing, then a "morning" thing, and slowly into an "all day when I could get away with it" thing.

It's very, very easy to binge on ketamine. Especially in illicit powder form, administered nasally. It doesn't take a huge amount of it to render you practically senseless, and your mind is in a totally different "space" almost, a sort of limitless sense of possibility and openness, a secret, esoteric reality of your own making. At the right dose and frequency, it can fill you with a sense of awe and wonder so profound that it really does make life feel magical and wondrous, even while not on the drug.

And when you emerge from that, a couple of lines and you're back there. It's powerfully psychologically addictive for that reason.

Years later I was diagnosed with ADHD, and found out that this kind of substance abuse is quite common for undiagnosed adults. It's not just a quick dopamine fix, but a kind of coping mechanism against a world that you have to otherwise fight against constantly. Something like ketamine just removes that entirely, you can just exit the world for some time and float off into space, where no one can expect you to have ordered executive function.

The article mentions him scoring ADHD medications; I wonder if this had more to do with it than any other factor.
Oh right, I remember that now.

Didn't bring my deployed app down though! No user-facing outage for me.

This time my app was down for about 35 minutes.
Of course I did. You're the one going on about unstyled elements and whatnot?

The article is about subtle behaviors that come built into standard UI elements. My point is you can get those behaviors from leveraging these elements instead of literally writing custom code to handle a series of keypresses in a div-soup-based <select>-lookalike.

As far as I can tell, nobody here is arguing for things like no-JS no-CSS solutions. The point is that custom controls implemented on top of div soup are usually much heavier and worse in terms of subtle behavior support than custom controls implemented on top of standard form elements, in the same way that using a sledgehammer as a nail gun is likely to yields sub-optimal results, because details.
Western Europe. Temperate climate, national healthcare, stable government, walkable communities by default with affordable housing, quality intentional infrastructure, far less violent crime, a better future for my kids.
https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up
Yup. Rich/Upper Class people used to consume a lot of Ghee (rich people - they can afford it. Upper class - usually because they're connected to temple food preparation and ghee is abundant there). The rest of us used a tiny amount at the very end for flavor. Peanut oil & Coconut oil were common in our household. Followed by sunflower oil.
Putin can say what he wants to the press, but hes ultimately beholden to oligarchs who would prefer to invest in a radiation free global economy.
Before it went into people's pockets, so they could care for their families and improve their life conditions.
> I wonder if it's these ghee alternatives and refined sugar are the main causes of increased diabetes and obesity.

This is the most likely cause. People in India are consuming way more sugar, refined flours and seed oils than they used to three decades back. That is when all these colas/biscuits/chocolates/chips/pizzas and oils started being advertised heavily on television.[1]

[1] Sundrop super-refined sunflower oil: the healthy oil for healthy people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-39Wxd5U8)

[2] Saffola: refined Kardi/Safflower oil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTaMTD3taVc)
I would probably use a series of checkboxes for the same effect.
>The audit found 14% of the units build exceeded $700,000 each, and one project in pre-development is estimated to cost almost $837,000 per unit.

It sounds like that "up to" in the title is doing a lot of work if 86% are below $700k. I would also like to throw in the added context that the median home price is roughly $915k[1]. Also be mindful whether we are discussing LA county or LA city. The article is about an LA city program. Housing in LA county will be cheaper and the median there is just under $800k[2]. So all of these projects are under the median cost of housing and the overwhelming majority are
at least 25% below median.

This doesn't seem like much of a controversy once you know that context. Housing in LA is simply expensive.

[1] - https://www.redfin.com/city/11203/CA/Los-Angeles/housing-mar...

[2] - https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-04/what-l-a-c...
> a rapid exit at unprecedented speed from the oil economy, in favor of renewables.

In the United States alone we would have to *sextuple* our renewable energy sources just to make up for our usage of fossil fuels. That is not something any country can do "rapidly", and even if it became a primary focus it would consume a significant portion of our GDP for years on end and be the largest infrastructure project the US has ever engaged in.

It seems almost ludicrous to categorize such a reaction as a "retaliation".
China is estimated to have approximately 100 nuclear warheads and delivery systems that can reach the continental United States, anything over that would not make much sense anyway. Smaller is a relative term, in absolute terms this is a devastatingly powerful set of weapons.
> That is not a bad thing: solar and wind are wholly up to the task

Exactly! If we just used every last drop of fossil fuels we had to build, ship, and constantly replace solar and wind generators (and do the same for the massive battery arrays we'll need), nuclear will be a distant memory.

> fission reactors are today not competitive

...because price =/= cost. Fission is the least costly form of energy generation, but our economy is too worthlessly opaque to realize the true cost of building all those beloved solar panels. If we got price and cost more in parity, nuclear would be the painfully obvious choice.

Markets fail yet again, I suppose.

> The only reliable product of the hot-neutron fusion research industry is dishonesty.

I can agree with you there. Every few months there's a "breakthrough!!" article where Qtotal is still < 0.01...cool, that's helpful...
We should also remember that humans can be perfectly healthy without consuming animals and soy products in moderation aren’t harmful.

We can eat a whole foods, plant-based diets without negative health effects or the environmental damage caused by factory farming.
As I understand it, the evidence for erucic acid being harmful has been called into question more recently. See the footnotes for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid#Health_effects
Not really, and this is in the nature of government programs. Management has no personal incentive to control costs or quality, and many incentives that tend to work against those controls.
They are probably wishing right now that they had secretly kept some
Yes, you're right, but it could be interesting to understand that for the living in order to prevent to be made dead by regular armed forces or intelligence in the future, in fact right now it's mostly the living that are trying to understand what happened/is happening
With tunneling you never open incoming ports. Everything gets tunneled through an outgoing connection from the client to the tunnel server. Maybe we're talking about different things?

Oh p2p apps can and definitely should be sandboxing. That's not a unique feature of tunneling. The exposed IP and trickiness of educating users on opening ports are much bigger issues. That said, if you're willing to accept the risk of exposing your IP, all we really need is wider UPnP support. But just like IPv6 it's been around forever but hasn't taken off.

It's really a chicken-egg problem. We're not going to get IPv6, UPnP, fast upload internet speeds, simple sandboxing on all major OSes, etc, until we can prove that people want p2p apps and there's money to be made by supporting them. But p2p apps are difficult to build without those things, unless you use tunneling...

Note that you can get maybe 90% of the way there by using NAT traversal[0]. But you still need relays (tunneling) for the last 10%. Given the other benefits, I think going straight to tunneling makes sense.

[0]: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
It's too fishy to me.

Part of the text and links, but with different wallet addresses, is also on https://ukhelpukraine.github.io/index.html submitted by yet another two brand new HN accounts.

The links might have originated from https://www.fastcompany.com/90724577/how-to-help-the-people-...
Gas is not more difficult to replace. Gas is impossible to replace. Europe can't satisfy its demand from gas without the Russian pipelines. It might in three years if they start building terminals now. It can't today.
What's stopping Russia from introducing nuclear weapons in that case?
I'm finding myself similarly... Feel free to gloss over this, I'm processing if nothing else.

I made my own decision early on that vaccination wasn't significant for me. I had been exposed [and a very mild case] due to forced travel during that window where we knew COVID existed, but acted like it had not yet entered the country.

Natural immunity plus the fact that I live alone, never go out, and have been remote since before the pandemic... it wasn't a high priority for me. I felt reasonably safe and unlikely to spread it should it find me again.

It was all to comply with federal mandates for contractors - my employer decided that this should apply to all [including remote] employees.

It was more than a little inconvenient going out of my way to get vaccinated for arguably little gain. I might even say added risk in my case.

The reporting process alone made me miss several deadlines. Asinine things like not being able to confirm my vaccination status until it sat in my veins for two weeks.
> they could just use OOP composition to get the same thing and not have to invent a new kind of thing: it would all just be objects referencing objects.

Aren't decorators just syntactic sugar for composition?
Their homepage says #1 on HN but it is showing as #36 for me with zero comments.
This article was written by one of the developers of the "Newer" ROM hack series for New Super Mario Bros Wii. It goes into detail about how the C++ symbol mangling map in the Nvidia Shield port of the game is identified by hashes and the tricks used to brute force symbol names from those hashes and filter out invalid duplicates from hash colisions. There's also a lot of detail about how the game engine works, which I personally found pretty interesting.
We get it, your socioeconomic status makes you confident that you'll never be affected by this problem, and you have no interest in improving the world for the people who are.
"some time later" I could see a MS dev specifying that in a requirements document somewhere XD
A lot of organizations may behave that way, but open source itself is not hostile to free software. Keep in mind that basically everything that qualifies as free software also qualifies as open source.
The veto power of the Lords is almost entirely non-existent. Essentially its only power of veto is over laws that the Commons might try to pass to extend the lifetime of a parliament. Literally it can stop the Commons unilaterally extending its power to govern; that's it. Otherwise it can only hold up legislation so as to make it endure more scrutiny, and then only for a year.

https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/administrative-la...

I think people outside the UK don't really understand the value of the Lords or the way it works, which is remarkably restrained and serious even given various governments' attempts to stack it, and your comment is giving a crucial wrong impression.

With a handful of exceptions, I'll take the UK House of Lords over a dysfunctional elected senate. There's very little bad-faith use of powers there and far less obstructionism, compared to, just say for example, the US Senate, which is almost totally dysfunctional.
I think apps still worked but I'm not sure. I know I couldn't create a privatelink to our AWS environment because the CLI kept failing, so we were locked out of a dev database. Not too bad.
If us-east-1 is up I have a heard time believing ANYTHING aws is down
The invasion of Poland by Hitler was not the UK and France's "problem" either.

Assume the worst case with Putin. From Ukraine, Putin might attempt to annex* all other countries that belonged to the former Russian empire. In his recent speech, Putin lamented Russia's loss of the territory it had in 1916. He considers the whole former Russian empire to be his birthright. The man is extremely calculating, ambitious, and doesn't blunder easily. Look ahead.

* - Or establish a "hegemony", as opposed to a classic empire.
I know how to enable it, but that's not the point. Google will always be able to take it away as long as it's only accessible to the handful of people who even think about this. It's come and gone before. This latest edition of the feature has been an "experiment" for years at this point. There's no good reason for that.

Defaults matter, and Google knows this. Every other browser has a button clearly visible in the default configuration and advertises it as a feature. There's no reason every Chrome-based browser has it except Chrome other than Google is afraid people will stop seeing ads.
Value investors usually look at PE ratio (among others).

For most companies it would be between 10-20. In which 10 or under would be an indicator to buy and 20 to sell.

Intel is at 9.xx now

So basically Intel just needs to retain this level of performance, and the market price could get closer to 20 at some point - as it's within "market price"

( Startups have higher ratio due to high expectations of growth )
Coda 3.0
I experienced that too
Ukraine is not owned by Russia. If Ukraine invites NATO troops in, that is their right to do so. Ukraine does not want to be part of Russia, which is why Putin just had to launch an attack against the whole of the nation. Kharkiv is Russian-speaking majority and right next to the border, why didn't it voluntarily join Russia 5, 10, 20 years ago? It didn't want to is the correct answer.

Remember how the Russian government was recently talking about how what goes on inside of their borders is only their business? That they may move their troops anywhere they like inside of their borders (the obvious lie by Putin & Co that was obvious at the time)? Yeah, that's the same principle.
what does this have to do with Heroku? why would it be targeted? especially given that they're running on AWS?
Like Google AMP?
I'm glad that this study was published -- it seems interesting -- but I hate the controls chosen. Coconut is a weird oil. It contains a lot of lauric acid, a fatty acid found in high amounts in coconut, palm kernel oil, and pretty much nothing else. You should also compare soybean to a normal oil, like olive oil, palm oil, duck fat, butter, lard, canola, or something else.

Imagine you want to evaluate the effect of switching to [insert your favorite language here] on programmer productivity, so as a control language for comparison, you choose Haskell. Doesn't that sound just a little weird?
>Multiple studies exist showing that men and women have very very different views on pornography and in particular women's views on it are significantly more negative than men's views

Can you cite some of these studies?

IIRC there is a difference in consumption rates between genders, but not negative attitudes.