skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoning laws came to be because of the classic "tragedy of the commons" - enough people were too greedy and built polluting, noisy or traffic-intensive businesses right adjacent to people's homes.

Letting "the market" do whatever it wants will only lead to one thing, and that is greedy people scalp up the cheapest land they can find (usually, in quarters where poor people live) and build extremely polluting stuff there. Zoning laws exist to guarantee even the poorest of the poor at least a basic standard of protection - although I do admit that there exist a lot of cases where zoning laws are abused to protect the interest of the elites primarily.

Fun fact: Back in early Roman times and for a long time until the 18th century, that also had a public health aspect - burial sites, slaughterhouses and similar businesses were banned from the inner city and, if there was a river, placed on the downstream end so that the risk of pollution was reduced.
You never ever oppose "the current thing."
"Harassing" doesn't seem like the right word to describe asking questions to strangers. But he probably just moved around looking for announcements.
Thank you for sharing. Would love to see anecdotal stories like this, even with different endings.
Businesses charge crazy amounts for running training. I've known significantly less credentialed people who in their 20's were being billed out at comparable rates, admittedly to the largest corps in the world - not a public school district. Also remember its $5000/hr for running a session, not for the development of it. It does seem high though.
Works for me, also in Canada
https://archive.ph/qcxbZ
The Great Medicines Migration
Are there planned advantages to this over what can be done with “ssh -g -R”?

ngrok for instance can be used record and replay (potentially modified) API calls.

> I don't believe there's much potential for abuse here, in terms of distributing illegal content.

I think you are quite wrong there. Any public resource can and will be abused.

> If you wanted to do that, you could just set up port forwarding on your router

That will be easily traced back to the the distributor of the content. By using you as a relay the authorities will hit you first. If you keep accurate logs then you can send them onto the next step (which may well be another open proxy) but you'll have some explaining to do.

Also, if it causes any trouble for your service provider they may kick your account first and ask questions later, especially if the content is something insidious like CP. In any case check your service provider's ToS - they may explicitly disallow running open proxy services.
If these are your concerns, use ngrok.
Look at the attempts to find MH370, a much bigger plane, for comparison.
What are some advantages of Heaps over Godot or Unity? Neither Godot nor Unity are mentioned on Heaps' website, though there are some mentions in Heaps' community forums.
Great job! By the way, the term "bore" (בור) in hebrew means 'pit' :)
Ask HN: What's your predictions for the next few 18 months?
I've seen the previous posts from this year and the previous years.

It seems like there was a lot of unexpected things these past few months that no one really expected. Knowing what we know now, what are you predictions?

I don't really have a prediction, it seems it's easy to predict things when things are going really well, but it seems, like things are hard to predict when there area a lot of uncertainty
The completely 100% ordinary process of certifying the election on Jan 6, 2021 resulted in people storming the capital and multiple people dying; others had mace and restraining cuffs and have been filmed seeking out targets, including Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.

In Michigan, a group of armed men stormed the state capital because they thought asking people to wear masks during a pandemic was tyrannical government overreach. Another group were arrested for plotting to abduct the same governor for the same reason.

Imagine Biden decreed what Nixon did: nobody can raise the price of any goods or services and nobody can get a pay raise until I say so. You really doubt that there wouldn't be an armed rebellion?
Tl; Dr “ Researchers David Dodell-Feder and Diana I. Tamir set out to check the validity of existing research on the topic. They ran a meta-analysis on fourteen studies to check whether fiction reading causally improves social cognition—and they discovered that reading fiction has a small, statistically significant impact on social-cognitive performance. In other words, reading fiction makes you a little nicer and more socially aware.”
> I guess I would have expected a few top Ivies to have significantly lower acceptance rates on the grounds that one could imagine a lot of average-ish students putting one of those schools down just in case they hit the lottery.

There are many, many of these applicants who have roughly a 0% chance of admission.

I am not saying that elite schools are easy to get in (they are not), but someone who is a strong all-around applicant will most likely get into at least one elite school.

Most applicants are challenged by the fact that they only have one or two strong points (like grades and scores), and those “strong points” often aren’t even that strong. Athletics, community involvement, leadership, above-and-beyond academics, etc. go a long way.
Where are you that utilities tripled?
You can ask applicants for grades, but if you get heads up on good candidates, you ask them to work for you before they go looking. So if someone else is getting heads up, you're only getting candidates that didn't pass their filters.
If there is a radar operator here, I want to know if it is at all realistic for an attack on an aircraft to result in it simply disappearing from the scope. Wouldn't the falling debris of the plane still show up for several minutes until it fell below what the radar could see? If this is so, doesn't this story imply the larger object had to have "eaten" the smaller one (the plane, I am assuming)?
Ah, so it made him look uncool. It was something that comedians could make jokes about. Because that's how you judge presidents.
Yes, but the step-by-step guide has eight steps. And the first step cites five papers. But at no point (at whatever depth) does it tell me what to do.
Why can't that problem be something that local governments fix with actual laws? Why do we need organizations that have most of the power of a government, but none of the accountability or checks and balances?
Alternately: there's a high cost to not creating a dedicated bus lane paid by everybody who rides the bus or chooses not to ride the bus because it's too slow.
> I will never trust any history book ever again.

Congrats, propaganda has accomplished its primary objective. Convincing the population is a secondary objective. Its true goal is simply making the populace apathetic so that the regime can carry on with whatever it wants.
You mind if I crash on your couch for a while?
nail it, then scale it
High-frequency apartment trading. If you don’t submit your application in first 50ms after listing is up - you lose.
When I see historical artefacts like these from Persia, I always wonder about the loss of creativity with modern approach of minimalism and optimisation to cost. Our buildings are boxes, houses white and have minimal squarey furniture, and almost everything in society feels like an exercise in optimisation towards cost and resource efficiency.

Where are our modern equivalent of marvels like Persians from ~500 B.C !
Seems more an issue with what you are reading than with what is happening.
The thing that immediately turned me off about it is the fact that it is a phone app. Mobile apps all just feel like creepy spyware to me lately.

"Send us photos of the things you are working on". Creepy weirdos is all I can think.
All this discussion is moot, since this bill not pass.
This, again, comes to the cars popularity: laws and regulations "prioritize" cars because people who make them drive cars. The anti-car crowd to me looks as same as the anti-shoes types (there are people who insist on walking barefoot, I know a few) if[1] they started to insist that there is a vast conspiracy to prioritize footwear and only that holds off construction of heated sidewalks and prohibition of the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" signage.

1. To clarify: none of the barefoot walkers I know does that, they seem to be pretty content with the status quo and are not militant about propagating their lifestyle to everyone hence "if".
Director is the worst position in a company. You aren’t really a VP working on big plans and you still have nagging line manager duties.
Evicting people for not paying rent has become a political issue. There's no way you'd ever get away with evicting people for not keeping their dog from barking at the wrong times.
There are so many dark corners of the past-WW2 German history... such as the "black suitcases" full of money and other shady donations to the CDU party where the donors were - illegally - never revealed by former chancellor Helmut Kohl and his crony Wolfgang Schäuble (former minister of the interior and of finance under the Kohl governments) [1]. Kohl valued his pledge to the donors not to reveal their identity above German law and took the knowledge about it into his grave. It is assumed that this was money originally stolen from Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

I don't think I am going to see these uncovered in my lifetime... and it will be interesting to see the aftermath of 16 years of the Merkel government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDU_donations_scandal
> I'm a longtime mod in the /r/bicycling subreddit

I was a Reddit mod for a while, but after I reflected on the fact that Reddit pulls in nearly $200MM in yearly revenue thanks part to my unpaid labor where I primarily deleted Youtube video spam posts and idiotic flame wars in comment threads, I decided to spend my time and energy elsewhere. The next logical step was to stop contributing anything at all of value to Reddit. So every once in a while I'll visit a few subreddits to see if anything new or interesting happens (i.e., sort by Top for the last month).

Unfortunately for r/bicycling I find the content to pretty much just be, "Hey everyone check out this picture of my bicycle!" If it's the goal of the sub to advocate for cycling infrastructure, I question how the top posts from just this past month accomplish that.

* Check out this picture of my bike in the Ukraine!

* Check out another picture of my bike in the Ukraine!

* Truck driver slows down and stays behind cyclist going through a rather long tunnel with no shoulder to keep said cyclist from what seems like certain death otherwise

* Cyclists near bike storage in the Netherlands lining up to leave the station

* Cyclist climbing a steep hill

* Cyclist forcing protesting trucks in DC to go slow

* Check out this picture of my bike! (And I'm depressed!)

* Check out this picture of my bike!

* Silly stationary bike that actually moves

* Check out this picture of my bike!

* Cyclist holding up a line of traffic on a remote mountain
road

* Cyclists riding gravel

* Check out this picture of my bike I got for cheap!

* Check out this picture of my bike!

* Calvin and Hobbes comic about bike/car drama

* Video of flying down a remote mountain road

* Picture of a mostly-empty bike storage room

* 50-ish mile bike ride map

* Video of a cyclist riding around for 60 miles

* Tesla crashed into a shop with a sign against bike lanes

* Check out this picture of my bike! And I rode 100 miles

Anyway, you get the idea. r/bicycling could be so much more, but for some reason few visitors there seems to care much about anything except people posting pictures of their bikes, and for a lot of what gets upvoted, I just don't see why it's really even all that novel or interesting.

I don't know how to fix that, or whether it's even really worth trying to fix. Like I said, I'm a jaded former mod on Reddit who just doesn't see much anything virtuous coming out of that platform.
The subset of numbers for which you can compute successively better approximations, such as pi and e, is countable. It’s called the set of computable numbers and contains everything that we could even in theory ever describe or “use” somehow. The actually uncountable subset of reals is by definition forever out of our reach, which is what makes uncountable sets… rather ontologically suspicious.
I wonder how much of the warehoused data[1] being sat on by security agencies will be decrypted in any meaningful timeframe.

[1]: E.g. the exabytes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center, but there's lots of these agencies in the world
I don’t get it. How does it work?
> If she ever needs to make any decisions that require differential equations, she'll have plenty of friends she can ask for help on that.

Beautifully put. Thank you.
I mean, do you really get anything out of hiring more people?
> The thought of remote work being a thing now is funny as I was doing remote work when I was 12 - 17 years old

+1. Companies were surprised that remote work "works". But many of us were basically doing remote work as hobbies during the 90s (or earlier). Not to mention the countless amazing open source projects done entirely remotely.

I feel like the same logic could apply to doing work without meetings. Somehow open source and hobby projects produce amazing work without constant pointless meetings, and yet managers think work would grind to a halt without them.
Same thing in Moscow, Russia. 25-story apartment buildings with little to no parking.

People live like ants.
Yeah instead you have probability theory baked right in, real numbers and all!
$400/hour of public money is pretty corrupt.
In just guessing, but I bet its connected to the fact that you are measuring American English against the other languages. Its tightly connected to the fact that the dollar is the de-facto monetary standard to trade in the world. Other countries have to speak English to get involved but since we already do, there isnt a real reason besides intellectual curiosity to do the reverse.So we are uni-lingual while other countries have to be able to buy sugar in their native tongue and speak English when they want it shipped to their country. The truth of the matter is that virtually every modern immigrant -leaving out the Europization of America- is multi-lingual. If it were the basis of intelligence Americans would be behind the scholarship. So not an mysterious situation. Its because trade starts in many ways with the dollar, so no need to be multilingual.
Remember that she's only a child, and has talents that are different than yours.

Don't expect her to live up to who you are, because she's not you.

Try to remember what it was like to be a kid.

Make time to organize playdates and discuss behavior and development with her peers' parents. You'll find that it's easy to normalize her behavior when you realize that everyone struggles with their kids.
I left directv because of this some years ago. Every month the bill was just slightly different. The person who called me begging me to come back insisted that wasn't true. lol
The size of the country is irrelevant. The vast majority of personal car trips are within a metropolitan area.
I thought we'd gotten rid of indentured servitude, but grad students are locked into years of absurdly low pay[1] and an extremely asymmetric power relationship with their supervisors. Add in the increased risk for depression and suicide and it really doesn't seem like a great gig.

[1] Engineering students at least. Humanities students are paid just a bit less than the minimum wage they'll be earning after graduation.
Once there is a tingle it’ll happen they’ll reissue keys and reencrypt. Nobody is going go “oh well out of business time was a good run”
Algebraic reals are the easy part, as are the few familiar classes of transcendentals that include numbers like pi and e. There’s only countably many of those. The set of all reals that can be described is countable. It’s the literally undescribable ones that are the problem, ontologically speaking
That’s part of it. The place was far below market.
You are ashamed your child is pretty much like every other child? Am I reading that right? That seems really strange.

My tip would be to just let the child be average. Do you think your higher IQ has made you happier throughout your life? Nothing bad about being average.
Why blame the algorithms rather than the spammers who reverse engineer them to get their affiliate link littered ai generated "reviews" to the top of the search results.

In the arms race between Google and spammers, honest websites sometimes get caught in the crossfire. For some reason lately lots of people want to blame google for this and not the spammers.
It's almost like universities are intentionally trying to become even more irrelevant than they already are.

I'm looking forward to when this asinine paternal nonsense backfires.
Is there a sofa in your kitchen? Because I want to hang out on a sofa or loveseat. Ideal is a kitchen within earshot of where the sofa is, so I can talk to whomever is in the kitchen without getting up.
Not seeing it mentioned in the other replies, so I'll mention that (at least the way I read it) "our massive car addiction" should be taken as a societal addiction to cars rather than addiction of any individual. If someone lives in a place where a car is the only feasible way to meet their day-to-day needs, it's not fair to say they're addicted to their cars; however we might question why they find themselves in that situation in the first place. Often this comes down to societal pressures (zoning, lack of funding for other modes of transportation, etc.) which are largely outside the control of individuals. The challenge is to change the cultural mindset from "I need a car today, so cars are a necessity for life" to acknowledge that other options can be viable if we, as a society, are willing to recognize and seriously consider them.

> ... the only real option that exists is reorganizing housing across the whole society to massively increase density and to mix commerce zoning with homes in a way currently unheard of.

Places like this already exist (ie. basically any major urban center), but I don't think the intent is that every place needs to be like that. Small steps toward better options (eg. allowing limited commercial redevelopment in residential-only areas, improving the safety/speed/accessibility of alternate transit options) should be the short-term goal, and we can work slowly towards them. But societal pressure (eg. from NIMBYs and zero-sum car-first people) often makes even small improvements glacially slow or impossible.
Thanks for clarifying.
Carter was dealt a bad hand and his re-election prospects were never good. But one could easily imagine that if Operation Eagle Claw had succeeded and the American Hostages had been rescued, then he would have been re-elected inspite of stagflation. My point is that it is not always so simple.
That makes sense, since it'll flatten the curve on social media platforms. /s

This seems like they are acknowledging the addictive potential of certain web services and are using it to force compliance among their students. I think that is despicable, if that is what is going on.

PS: I'm fully vaccinated. Sadly it seems necessary to make such a disclaimer, lest the hatemob will destroy you and not even consider your argument.

edit: Always interesting to have a controversial comment. I counted -11 +9 so far. I'm seeing very little engagement for that. I don't think my comment was particularly inflammatory, merely poking a little fun at the authoritarian political plays we've seen during this pandemic. So I'm wondering why people are so motivated to vote on my post.
Shouldn't the date be the date of when the article was written (i.e. 2020)?
>Living rooms have TVs as the center of attention

This seems like a big part of the problem, and much more so if you have a single huge, open room that combines all living areas.

Having said that, proper use of a living room requires a lot of prep work so that you don't need to be up doing other stuff (like if you're in a kitchen) and can actually relax with company. The use of a living room would have been more straightforward when servants were present.
Is it? Can you measure it? Do distances with arbitrary precision even exist?
UK potentially
Here are some judgmental British skinheads laughing their asses off about it and carrying water for racists, viewer discretion is advised:

https://youtu.be/gwgzTsO46yc?t=26
It's not helping Putin, it's about "encouraging" one particular country to stop its negative behavior, so indeed the war could be concluded faster and we wouldn't need to go into the same shit again few years later.
In my experience, attitude trumps IQ in pretty much all situations.

Most humans are average in what they do. Potential doesn't matter, only reality does. Focusing on potential is what arrogant people that are lazy like to do, but mostly no one else cares.

You are the perfect example:
> I am now a below-average performer at an elite company

Teach her to have mentality of curiosity, lifelong learning and humility and everything will be just fine.
Ask HN: Why add sound to a mobile game given that most players turn it off?
The fact that most players expect sound effects and music in a mobile game is particularly problematic given that most indie game devs don't have this expertise.
Dnstwister showing how to build something people want
At other franchises, this is a solved problem. Hot Donuts Now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+donuts+now&client=safari...
How would one write tests for a complex, mission-critical Excel spreadsheet? Or use version control?

Spreadsheets often mix the data and code/formulas and the formulas are hidden behind the sheet view and sprinkled across many cells. At least Python scripts separate the code from the data so you can write tests using known good or fuzzing data. And you can use version control to track and review code changes.
I've been saying this for a while but I think we're about to see a ton of tech jobs disappear or see dramatically lower wages. With modern DevOps practices, managed services, etc I just don't see how a lot of these job roles can continue to exist. One of the reasons I got out of network engineering was I realized one day a decent algorithm would be able do 95% of my job better than I could.
Carter is a deeply moral man who successfully fought off a killer rabbit. While his presidency was unsuccessful, he is my favorite president in my lifetime. Didn’t Willie Nelson smoke dope at the white house during the Carter admin?
Because the people who would decide to actually reply there are likely either annoyed, trolls or idiots as it looks like obvious flamebait. In no way this helps to resolve any actual problems in any meaningful ways.
Excel is by far the most successful programming language and IDE. People love to hate it (and the people using it), which is somewhat misguided: there is simply no way to change people (and they keep making new ones), so telling them that what works for them is somehow wrong is both wrong and doesn't work.

Instead, the spreadsheet paradigm has the promise of being far more powerful. Jupyter notebooks are one example of adapting it to a different realm, and it also ended up being used everywhere and looked down upon by the snobs.
This post makes me really sad. I wonder if my parents thought this about me when I was growing up. My dad's pretty smart,and probably knew I was dumb when I couldn't beat him at chess/mental math when I was younger. My mom and sister were voracious readers but I never was.

Like your daughter, I'm average. I didn't go to an elite university. I make average pay and don't own a Mercedes. What's bad about that? Do you have pity on average people like me, who make up the vast majority of the population?