skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought part of the problem is the jurisdiction for the investigating lies with parts of the government and Parliament that are under control of the party in power - there are investigations of Russian influence that has been withheld from the public for more than four years https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51417880
That’s an odd takeaway from an article speaking of a 22+ rent from increase due to COVID bounce-back. Ultra short term trends aren’t particularly relevant compared to long term trends.

One clear the example of the outsized impact is these buildings bought up air rights from multiple properties. So, they reduced the legally available space. When the city makes space for ~100,000 apartments and actually gets less than 1/10th that it’s a problem.

Another is the extreme cost of the associated tax breaks for affordable housing for minimal gain. The city set the tax break based on price while the number of affordable houses was based on the number of apartments. A seemingly obvious problem looking back, but still a problem for city residents.
> since Dec 2021

It goes back way earlier than that. Russia has repeatedly expressed in no uncertain terms that Ukraine is the single one red line that they will never accept joining NATO. A very insightful article on FP on the topic:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/19/ukraine-russia-nato-cri...
1. Pin your dependency versions.

2. Develop inside a containerized environment... it's pretty easy with things like VS Code's remote extensions.

3. Consider looking at Deno as an option over Node for new projects.
Google also keeps a copy of the "entire" web in RAM to search it faster.
No, a jpeg pixel is not "the summation of 64 8 bit coefficients." I've written jpeg codecs (and many other image formats). It works just as I explained above.

Or simply read the libjpeg source.

Don't like that, read this [1]: "JPEG images are always recorded with 8-bit depth. This means the files can record 256 (28) levels of red, green and blue."

Don't like that, here [2] is the JPEG ISO standard, section 4.11, baseline jpeg, "Source image: 8-bit samples within each component".

A DCT takes an 8x8 pixel input, 8 bits per channel, and transforms them into an 8x8 output. It matters not what these are - the information theory content is nothing more than what was put into it. There is not suddenly magically more information content.

More simply, appending zeroes to a number does not mean you can represent more numbers. You simply can represent the exact same numbers, just wasting more space.

None of what you wrote adds more resolution at the output. It simply isn't there.

If I give you 5 possible inputs to a function, then you have 5 possible outputs, not matter how many digits you finagle into representing the output.

Jpeg has 8 bits of resolution per channel. End of story. That is why professional photos are taken and edited in raw - you get more bits of resolution per channel.

I'm not sure why you're still arguing this. It's a longstanding, well known issue, and I explained it all again very simply.

If you think it isn't true, encode one of your magic jepgs with more than 256 levels of gray and post it here. Good luck :)

If you cannot do that, then maybe you should consider that you're wrong.

[1] https://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/editing/bit-depth/

[2] https://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf
Yes, the form this article discusses is not what I would call a list.

To me, a list consists of bullet points, each of which is no more than 1 sentence. It's not prose as such. I'd also assume that the list might be hierarchically nested.

The article seems to be discussing listicles (or list articles): effectively a series of very short essays that parallel each other, making the same point from a different angle each time, or comparing and contrasting a series of subjects. It's a suitable form if that's the over-all point you're trying to make.

Mainly the article extolls the virtues of organising prose into relatively-short sections, each with a clear heading. I agree this makes prose more readable, but I don't think that's an uncommon opinion.
https://b-ok.cc/book/1113376/a93424
It says in the bill-

> (d) "Social media algorithm" means the software used by social media platforms to (1)
prioritize content, and (2) direct the prioritized content to the account holder.
They could just drop something in bashrc or somewhere else for a persistent exploit. The system files contain nothing worth touching on a personal device.
Personally, I dislike sausage links as well. Horizontal scrolling is a pain in the ass on a desktop computer with a mouse. Vertical scrolling is much more natural. Please, try to make use of the ample screen real estate on my system as that's the entire reason I own a 4K monitor.

I'd be less frustrated if I could file bugs that would get to the developers of an app / website / etc and get the issues that drive me nuts fixed. Take Google Maps: it has built in menu options to report data errors, but what about bugs with the software itself? Sometime last year a bug was introduced where if I start typing the address in "too fast" before the page finishes loading, the address characters will appear out-of-order. It's a classic FIFO / LIFO ordering bug. I suppose it's my fault for thinking I could type as soon as the text widget becomes visible on the page.
I don't think this is a new thing (though doing them quarterly probably is) - we called them "internal liquidity events" where I used to work pre-IPO. They provide some liquidity to employees (probably at a price worse than what you'd get after going public since private valuations are mostly bullshit, and these events are only really viable with investors willing to be on the other side of the trade). They can also help with companies private for decades if employee options are approaching 10yr expiration.

They're okay - still imo it's better to be public for employee liquidity in order to get accurate pricing.

Though if I was a founder I'd see the draw of doing it this way, running a public company is a much larger pain than remaining private while still providing some internal liquidity to employees.

Related, the current tax of the strike -> FMV spread on exercise above AMT for ISOs hurts employees and I don't understand the USG rationale for this. If you could exercise tax free it'd make things way simpler for employees and they'd just pay tax on future sale. Still a risk, but not nearly as bad in most cases. It also makes it easier to save up, exercise and hold for long term cap gains.

A lot of people end up forced to participate in these liquidity events (at best - if they're not available there are companies that will front your exercise cost for an extortionate cut) when they otherwise wouldn't because they're approaching expiration and can't afford to pay both the strike and the tax cost on this "income" - when a lot of the time you can't even sell the shares.
On my X1 Carbon with the 10th Gen Core i7 processor which also happen to have VP9 hardware decoders, the fans still spin up. They're not very audible but the machine gets warm to the touch. On my M1 MBP? 4K video playback does nothing to it. Absolutely dead quite, no fans spinning, cold to the touch all throughout.
No, it just turns out people are just really bad at numbers once your outside their Dunbar grouping.
>On a related note, I wonder why glorified investors like Michael Burry aren’t instead demonized for contributing to, and profiting from, the near collapse of the American economy in 2008

I think it's the scale. Soros was in 1992 already a billionaire, I believe, and was very, very famous on Wall Street. Burry is a medical doctor who fell into running a small (by Wall Street standards) hedge fund because his personal investing was so successful. While he made a lot of money, had Burry had Soros's resources in 2007-2008 he might have made far, far, far more.

To put another way, had Soros, not Burry, been the public face of those who saw the 2008 crash coming and invested accordingly, he would have received a lot more criticism.
Sure but how were they no-Sales? I used to work for an Atlassian consultancy and Atlassian put a ton of effort into their partner network. We would run Atlassian user groups, answer questions on their forums, etc. It was a community-based strategy, they were just earlier than most to it.
I see your point (and upvoted it).

It depends how you see it, I suppose.

What I mean is this:

Basically all of these oligarchs come here to do legitimate business, just with unexplained wealth. And that's the loophole; unexplained wealth. You have to spend it in a way that brings you attention, before anyone even asks.

So here they are not acting criminally; their wealth is only criminal if someone can prove it was illegally obtained in Russia, and that is quite a high bar, considering the source of the wealth and the system in which it was created.

It's not just for Russian oligarchs, either; unexplained wealth is at least as big a problem from the middle east.

And as you likely know, campaigners even tried to get Donald Trump to explain how he bought a golf course with cash using an unexplained wealth order. I do wonder if that will get revisited, since it was almost certainly cash of dubious, and quite likely Russian, origin.
I've started the process of closing my account last week. I need to download my order history for tax reasons but then I'm clicking on that confirmation email.

I'm not a Prime member and it feels like I'm being tricked into becoming one whenever I've placed an order. I'll probably suffer with higher prices or slower delivery for some things but I can only tolerate these sorts of things for so long.
Context: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/pull/294

So basically they stopped running the older version themselves but don't consider the newer version production-ready yet. What a mess.
Indeed. The entire point of taking the money out of Russia to get away from the lack of rule of law, etc..

How are a bunch of dumb 2nd generation oil pumper warlords going to protect your money longterm?
I didn't upgrade yet, my Firefox version is 96.0 but Yandex has disappeared from search options. So, Mozilla can control something remotely, hm...
If Russia stopped bombing places with "children" written on them, Ukraine would just write "children" on important places that they didn't want to be bombed.
Christopher Alexander actually wrote the Foreward to this book and it's interesting because on the one hand he describes how Gabriel seems to understand his work better than his architect colleagues. But, not being a practioner, he wonders how his ideas will translate into software. It's an interesting read. And the book is too.
I would like to see things as positively as you, but until the 20th century humankind had never before faced the dangers of nuclear destruction. We just don't know the extent of the damage power hungry rulers are willing to unleash on the world when they are cornered and feel they have nothing to lose, while controlling more destructive power than ever before in history.

Your figure of 1/3 deaths, or up to 3 generations to rebound might be too optimistic. We just don't know.

Given how reliant we are on existing supply chains, their complete breakdown could send us back into the stone age. We've certainly seen how even a relatively mild pandemic can disrupt our lives for years. The effects of something far worse would be difficult to predict. Us measly tax payers can only hope for the best.
I always use numbered lists when sending questions to customer support because otherwise they respond with some irrelevant quote from the documentation.
Thank you for sharing. My post was insensitive and missed the human connection where real people are hurt. I wish nothing but bad tidings on those that wish to exploit human vulnerability for selfish gain.
Yeah, let's take the obvious choice and say this survey's methods might not stand up to scrutiny. Pew, a reputable outfit, says that most Americans report having never met someone who is transgender. That obviously can't be reconciled in any sensible way with a belief that 21% of Americans are transgender.
Is that true? I thought ADA compliance is like building code compliance. It is only enforced during changes. I would guess a lot the restaurants failed because lots of restaurants fail.
When talking about keyboard layout, I'd like to see more experimentation in the physical layout beyond the 4 rows with 13 staggered columns, etc etc

I understand "keyboard layout" often means just changing the position of the keys on existing hardware, but perhaps we shouldn't be so limited, particularly when we can experiment with alternative layouts on touch devices.
Afaik mongodb licensed to be free as in beer, and is not actually FLOSS.

Doesn’t seem like the argument holds for open source as a whole, especially looking at gpl and apache2 licensed projects.
Sending money to Russia as remittances, by anyone, should be banned, end of story.

No need to harm 'ethnic or cultural' Russians

Just Russian citizens with wealth or those insidevthe legal jurisdiction of Russia.
Look how tightly the data is clustered around 50%. There are almost no questions for which people did not guess closer to 50% than the correct answer. Did they give people sliders with 50% as the default value? There's a maximum amount I'm willing to fuck with your ui to answer 50 questions. 1 percent is pretty difficult to hit on a slider.

If correct answers take more work to enter, then I expect there to be fewer correct answers.

There was a deepfake experiment on the site recently asking people to use a slider to estimate their confidence that a particular video, audio or text clip was faked. That used a slider between -100 confidence and 100 confidence, and I really sincerely doubt that anyone spend any amount of time thinking about what number they entered. It was just a way to introduce noise.
> Maybe people can't believe so much legislative hate is directed at a group of people that barely even registers in the census.

More likely they think "this is all over the news all the time; these groups must be fairly large."
Targeted missile strikes on the homes of the leadership and military executives would be a way to do so, while minimizing direct harm to the population.

Of course, actually targeting elites in power isn't something elites in power want to promote.
I work with a group that's widely distributed around the planet. Prior to March 2020, meetings would always be in conference rooms with buggy videoconferencing gear. Now we're all remote, nobody has to commute to a local office to videoconference, and until we switched to MSFT Teams the experience was at least as good as it had been pre-pandemic. The food is way better at home, too. I might see myself going into the office again to conduct an interview, but otherwise, I'm completely sold on permanent WFH.
Timezones are the big one. Beware end of day meetings in California. Also US style RSU grants seem to be taxed as income when they vest in the UK.
it's a distinct system in which they have to give a substantial share of their take to the supreme leader, and that leader sort of dictates the lines of their territory and doesn't allow them to engage in politics, and all of this exists completely outside the legal system
> UN should just demand from Russian system of power that they delivered suspected war criminal mr Putin

I don't know if your proposal was supposed to be realistic, but it is just idealistically naive at best. Putin is the Russian system of power. Unless you believe that he is going to willingly turn himself in as soon as the UN makes that demand, I don't see any good coming out of such demand by the UN.

Also, don't forget that Russia is one of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council, and there is nothing stopping them from vetoing any such statement from being made in the first place (which is one of the major perks of being the permanent member).
Send yourself an email/note taking apps/Google sheets to SMS/Pushover/iOS shortcuts. Automation FTW! https://pipedream.com
I think it's just generally a bad idea to make victims out of those whose minds you most need on your side.
What we're seeing is a return to the long-term trend. Vacancies in Manhattan have hovered around 2% for a long time.

See: https://www.millersamuel.com/files/2022/02/Feb22QNSrent-nyVA...
The many exist not in one huge mass, but in generation after generation- and the author is right to assume there interests more worthy then short-term comforts of the few and those whose who disguise laziness as a ideology or law of nature.

What he fails to accurately represent is the structure of the future. Cause this its not accurate to depict it like the past as one line of history, of sequential events and scenarios. The future is the sum of all possible scenarios, and that includes short-term disasters and recoverys. Its a scenario-tree with overlapping forests in the branches.

Its a tree, that deforms as one moves on it, gains capability and gathers risks to return to a scenario that is similar in ways to the past. Branches thicken as the fruit of research thicken the likelihoods. And its not explored by one tribe on leader, one people, its explored simultaneously by all of humanity, even the dead branches leading nowhere, not even into the past and diminished trees. On some planet we might one day have a nuclear exchange.

With this tree of chances in mind, some recent developments also make more sense- as long as humanity has no behavioral self-control, developing ever more advanced exponential technology and hand it to the individual, reduces the thickness of the probability branches higher up in the future. Exploring one self, social engineering, social implants and protect against disaster by root-hardening (investing in technology that allows for easier, faster recovery) is more important sequentially then having next level tech (like fusion, flying cars and space travel for everyone).

I botched this post, but the truth is in it.
How much of the nation’s wealth has been invested in this, and where has it not been invested? Make sure you count lawsuits, paperwork, planning, construction, maintenance, and enforcement. And try not to respond without pointing out something more wasteful, rather than something productive. Let’s pretend you took that money and invested it in advanced education for young black women in Chicago instead. What did we forgo?
> donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party

And somehow none to the liberal party? This kind of bias throws the rest of the article into suspicion.
The best distinction I’ve read between a million and a billion came from Bill Bryson. He noted that there are 1 million seconds in 11 days. There are 1 billion seconds in 32 years.
Thanks for the clarification. I did wonder about that.

Our citizenship systems are similar but not completely identical.
The point of sanctions is to make doing nothing worse that doing something. If the USA was economically isolated as a result of it's invasion, I'd be willing to bet the iraq war would've finished much sooner
It could also become a competitive / marketing advantage for the card that implements it first, so I don’t even think it’s needs to be made into a profit source.
Yes, you should be extremely happy you are not a US citizen trying to do this. Your arrangement is extremely simple and easy to do legally. IRS taxation of Americans abroad is vexatious and obdurate. Don't even get me started about taxation of Americans owning shares in foreign corporations.
I really don’t understand the appeal of Dubai unless the only thing you care about is living in a resort
False advertising to call software open source when it's not, says court
Perfect segue to that famous Clausewitz quote!

The premise behind your position is clearly that "politics" is some kind of meaningless distraction to the "real" business of shipping software. But... isn't that backwards? It's a war. People picked a side.

The idea that unilateral military invasion is merely "politics"[1] is... very strange to lots of people.

[1] In the sense of triviality you clearly intended, c.f. Clausewitz again.
Why are those the poster children for American businesses?

Wouldn't it be some combination of JPMorgan, Google, Boeing, Berkshire Hathaway, McDonalds, Wal-Mart, and Cardinal Health or something (you can mix in whatever Fortune 500 companies you want)?

The rent-seeking companies appear to me to be a far smaller portion of the economy than others that inarguably produce economic value.
Terrible results for "minecraft any% world record"
> What about people who hold opinions you disagree with?

I don't understand the question you're asking here. Can you ask it more directly?

> The SIDE of INCLUSIVITY?

Seeking to include as many people as want to be included; as opposed to deliberately excluding people.

> LMFAO

A subtle point, eloquently expressed.
I'm not surprised because I learned this myself. It's not just the uneducated 'can't find America on a map' people that you are picturing. My highly educated, policymaking friends, when asked responded with an estimated '30%' of people who are gay and protested that 'it must be' that high because that was their experience of the demographics in their offices at government and NGO sectors.
So much this. Shelter is a basic necessity. If someone told you they were supporting a policy because it would cause food and water to outpace the rate of inflation, you would call them a greedy asshole.

Yet when people do this for housing, its accepted as normal.
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/global-surface-summary-of-t...

There are other sources as well, just one of the first ones I came across.
Look, they say that the sample is representative, but is it really?
Let me try this:

"According to the survey (the sample is representative) around 20% Russians support the war"

You won't trust me, but why do you trust the quoted resource without verification? The two countries are at war and while Russian propaganda is horrible, it doesn't mean that everything else is 100% true. Note that I'm not blaming the victim, the situation is close to black and white. I'm only asking whether you really believe that 75% people support the ongoing war and support starting war with multiple other countries?

There's one more aspect. Even if the sample is representative by sex/age/income/education level etc, some people may be scared to tell their opinion to a stranger over the phone. The government labeled those against the war as traitors and who knows what's the real intent of people asking such questions over the phone.

How do you think, if the war was so popular, would there be a need for stricter laws and calling people traitors?
Incidentally, all three of those are achievable for most people reading the comment.
I call it wasting time trying to fit square pegs in round holes. Many things and approaches have their virtues and their place, be it top-down, bottom-up or tests. Silver bullet techniques and dogma have absolutely none.
There is an element of scale here. The individuals you are talking about have a limited impact. But the oligarchs aren't just individuals, they are billion dollar institutions that are directly tied to the government in question.

Or to put it another way, Osama bin Laden didn't get much due process. But that is the difference between (allegedly) committing a crime and being a threat to a government.

Alleged criminals get due process, threats get "dealt with", for some given value of "dealt with".

Of course then the danger is that governments will see threats that aren't really there and try to turn people into threats rather than criminals to "deal" with them. But to my mind that is an argument for better oversight of the use of the tools that governments have, rather than just removing the "threat" toolkit and leaving only the "criminal" toolkit.