skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they just don't want the traffic and (perhaps) crime that goes along with density.

Something I've been trying to think through recently is that people clearly have some kind of proximity theory of crime. If there is a murder in the building next door to me, then that's going to make me uncomfortable, whether there is one family living in that building or 10. The obvious urbanist (or generic intellectual) response to this is to say, you know, obviously there will be more crimes in a neighborhood with more families, but you should only care about the per capita numbers, not absolute totals.

And increasingly I just think, yeah, obviously that's right, but that answer isn't good enough. Fear of interpersonal violence is lodged deep in our brains and I just don't think you can talk people out of it. You could make everybody in the city attend a class on crime statistics and quiz them at the end to make sure they understand per capita rates, but when those people get home that night they're still going to be worried about the murder that happened next door. And I don't think it's because they're dumb.
Lasers and other energy weapons may become practical in this century as an answer to artillery and hypersonic missiles. They will change the balance dramatically.

In addition to that we will see more robotic warfare and probably more information warfare.
One of the things I'm immensely curious about is how you handle security/networking/firewalls when working with Hetzner or other bare metal providers? It seems they don't provide network gear for firewalls and to protect against DDOS attacks?

Do you just use iptables? Or do you build out more complex solutions like software routers running on Linux/BSD?

I work in online gaming, and we're constantly seeing attacks on our infra.
> And 30% making decisions for all of Canada is being argued as a good thing and fair, that my framing is unfair?

I'm not claiming it's a good thing, just that your headline figure of 20% makes it sound like coalition governments are somehow less good and less fair than single-party governments.

Anyway, yes, you'll be glad to know that I'm against permanent "emergency" powers, and concerned about Canada's internet censorship bill, which seems to be an attempt to control social media as tightly as (government-approved) broadcast media[0].

[0] https://reclaimthenet.org/canadas-internet-censorship-bill-i...
John Wanamaker died in 1922 long before the age of internet advertising where it became much easier to figure out which half it is.
Is this the weaponry that the US are giving to the Ukraine?
Old-fashioned rice cookers are clever [video]
>If all schools had the same curve and the same curriculum and same everything except selectivity then, selectivity influences the curve. I've said it a thousand times. If you disagree you have to counter the logic of the curve which you haven't.

I already have. Different 'curves' for different school. Or even uniform objective standards so that cohort performance is irrelevant to grade outcome. You can create a 'virtual' objective standard by creating curves that are compensated -- i.e. the 'selective' school has a curve where the median score receives a C while the non-selective is curved such that like-performer parity is present and the median receives an F. In practice this is how the non-selective school manages to give F, D, or incomplete/drop-out to the majority of students in a course.

Again the school doesn't give a shit when people complain about this, there is a suicide by a 3rd world national who fails out almost every few years because the school will allow the parent to spend their last dime sending their kid to college and the kid ends up killing himself out of honor when they find out the non-selective university will actually take anyone and happily fail out most of them. The media doesn't give a shit, the judge doesn't give a shit, and the jury of your peers (in this city, basically working-class midwesterners who very well may relish putting a snobby complaining rich kid in his place) don't give a shit. The jury will probably laugh as they go home and have a toast to their wife that their competition for rental housing are falling after eliminating the competition.

>You're the one crossing the line with insults. I think you have a chip on your shoulder.

How original, you'd make a nice parrot.

>99.9% is not a rough estimate. It's clearly a really exact number with a decimal point.

You indicated that selectivity doesn't always mean that the school is more difficult. You failed to designated a bound other than your school wasn't included amongst those whom your were claiming were more difficult on basis of selectivity (in fact you go so far as to say you SPECIFICALLY did not include your school), so threw out a number that COULD be the case based on your own argument.

>Your best bet is to find someone who did undergrad stuff at both MIT and Georgia Tech. That persons anecdotal experience is far more accurate.

Pretty much agree except I would do UC Berkeley (#3) vs Purdue (#4) since those are the most near peer selective vs non-selective I could find on 2023 engineering top 10 rankings. MIT is #1 vs GIT at tie #7 is a bit wider. As number 1 MIT is probably a class of its own vs 2-10, since they have 'winner-take-all' advantage in anything where only number one will do.
I have never thought of “justice is blind” as relating to race specifically, until recently when race became the central theme of all public discourse. I had previously thought of it as being rational (scales) and impartial (blindfold) in their execution of the law. That concept hardly makes sense now in the era of judicial “interpretation”.
Twitter is functionally a giant group chat of all your follows.

Impossible to get into until the algo kicks in for me.
Not yet – I’ve been posting some of the content in other places, but there’s not one concise spot for this. Will think about this in the future.
Ground Zero for Personal Computers: 1977's West Coast Computer Faire
I think it’s intentional on Twitter’s part. It’s FOMO: you see a hot take out of context and now your brain ~~wants~~ needs to know what the hell is going on, so you reward Twitter’s algorithm with lots of tasty engagement in your effort to figure out who pissed everyone off.
> Stop lying. I haven't posted any misinformation. You can literally listen to Dr. Gandhi's own words at the link I posted above.

Again, google it up. You can't fake this one. You do not need to take my word for it. Just have a shred of honesty and stop cherry-picking stale and debunked myths.
The requirements to be in the Federalist Society are relevant to how you'll do your job as a Supreme Court justice, and also aren't based on protected classes.
AFAICT among non-academics it's mostly rooted in pop sci story telling. Same genre as “Godel went insane because of his impossibility result” and nonsense like that.

Among academics (esp. mathematicians) this impression comes from the fact that if you look at almost any mathematics department, there aren't many people working in/on formal logic. But that's mostly because all of the mathematicians working on/in formal logic suffer the humiliation of sitting in the fancy new CS building with higher salaries and lower teaching loads ;)
>I bet you could have bought a nice San Francisco row house in the mission or other hot area for $100k back then.

To be honest, the idea of even getting a down payment of 100K for a house like that in SF is insanity. Crazy how prices skyrocketed in 30 years (I'm guessing 2008 didn't help much).
It's entirely possible it wasn't in /etc but somewhere else. This was a case of "I need to fix this urgently" and the first workaround I could find on stackoverflow suggested changing it in one place. After the problem came up again after an update I did a bit more digging to figure out where I could change it and apt would not overwrite it.
Because my boss who paid money for this crap can't follow it when I point out they're doing it wrong. I have had more meetings than ever before and priority changes pretty much every day. Also they don't understand the concept of a story point at all and everything surrounding them becomes bogus busywork nonsense.
Fellow Hamiltonian here...

Council wasn't for intensification until they got the results of the poll back (and even then, the likes of Ferguson continue to be aghast at the idea of not being in the pockets of suburban developers).

We can see that with the kneejerk response to Bill 109, and the fact that only one Secondary Housing Unit has been approved by the city so far, the rest denied for what seem like vague reasons that won't hold up at OLT.
Can WSL 2 interact with files outside itself yet? For example, can it run imagemagick commands on a file in C:/Users/name/Downloads? The last time I used it you couldn't do this and all the mounting workarounds had a chance to break the file.
Nobody wants to be a level 1. So the real level 1 was probably L4.
Another issue is that aluminum cans and food packaging is lined with a plastic residue.

It's almost impossible to get away from it. Also plastic bags, clothes shed into the environment and get eaten by fish and animals.

So maybe we all need to be vegetarian.
Thanks for acknowledging how much harder this is when you use a cloud-specific feature. Modifying your codebase to migrate off some cloud specific service seems like it would be by far the hardest part of switching clouds.
Hah, now you say it, I realize the distribution must look really funny. Wow whole lotta people born on jan 01! And stranger yet, no curve.
Second on John Williams quotes as his novels were my favorite.

I just want to mention that in Williams original narratives he is far from being sarcastic/playing wits or suggesting life meaninglessness. Instead, it is in the sense of indifference (neither positive nor negative).

If you plan to read his novels, I suggest reading both Stoner and Augustus and explore their interlacing
Cardiac problems with the vaccines are being discovered and cause sudden issues. I would prefer following written rules or changing the rules, instead of ignoring rules.
Looks great! sorry to see that the API isn't quite working with all the traffic though.

I actually build the same thing a few weeks back: https://searchbettr.com but it redirects instantly to a Google search so you don't have to deal with the API.
The Australians might want to buy F-22s, but Congress banned exports. Much like the F-15, the previous air superiority fighter, for which external sales were very limited.
Thanks @preek. I mentioned you guys in [3] above. BTW I'm actually using this parser: https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs for my product (https://braintool.org), so there are other choices. I guess the key thing is a single well defined grammar.

Is GDrive syncing working in Organice these days? I've wanted to demonstrate interop with BrainTool (which syncs to GDrive files) but last I checked there was some bug.
A land value tax that is set based on basic income needs actually would curb land-owners from raising rents.

If they're taxed based on say average rents, if that goes up their taxes goes up as much as the difference and it goes down and gives them a bonus drop-off IF they are below averages, then I think it could even out more.

LVT's a great way to fund UBI, many great articles on it.
>Or y'know...maybe homeowners don't want to have their neighborhood become overcrowded.

Nothing I said here is specific to neighborhoods. It also applies at the city, state/province, and national level. A homeowner in San Diego likely doesn't care about the density of various neighborhood in San Francisco. But they might still vote for Prop 13 which put harsh limitations on property taxes in the state and in turn increased the value of homeownership and the cost of housing. That decision has nothing to do with personal preferences of what type of neighborhood in which people want to live. It is purely homeowners being powerful enough to vote themselves tax breaks which makes homeownership more attractive which makes homeowners more powerful...
And also can't be played on said ipods.
You’re in luck in that the development of Quake is pretty well documented. Both through a book and Carmack’s plan files

https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
Tool Useful for New Coders
I started coding a few months ago and I found out this tool that has been helping me a lot! I would like to share it with more people and also ask any of you guys know any similar tool with the same function!
The tool I have been using is https://metabob.com/

Please let me know if you all like it and if there is another similar tool out there!
If something helps everyone, it's a good thing even if it helps rich people more than poor people.
If most voters are homeowners then what exactly do we expect? Of course they're going to push for lower property taxes...maybe homeowners feel that their money already gets taxed 5+ times before they can spend it on their literal shelter. Most folks effectively work for the government 4 months/yr AND owning property requires another annual fee to the tax man.

High property taxes hurt renters too. Rent prices increase to cover the difference.
Would this change due to climate change? I’ve been looking at the climate trends in major cities and there are some drastic temperature changes in the coming decades.
No, I looked all the way to the bottom. That's just adwaita dark with the accent color changed. And I suppose the GTK2 themes (not the GTK3 ones) are tinted? That's still not the same as what recoloring is. Some of the colors in that are also visibly wrong even in those screenshots, like the selected menu and the disabled text and the icons. But I don't think you can expect much from GTK2 themes these days.

That script is also fairly ridiculous to me, it's a shell script that is literally copying the CSS wholesale and running sed on them. So again that's rewriting the whole CSS file and expecting the app to use that stylesheet, it's not the same as doing a dynamic recoloring at runtime.
Yes - part of the $300 lethal aid package.

"Lethal Aid".. hmmm

https://anti-empire.com/us-is-transferring-large-suicide-dro...
I find it ironic that Apple, which is now infamous for 700 dollar computer wheels and 999 dollar display stand, etc, was the party to swiftly ban such an experiment.
So I hate driving and actually moved to DC for work and also partly for the transit. Here's what I found:

1) Taking the metro many places (for example, from my apartment in an urban "luxury" apartment building a couple blocks from the initial station to my boat near the waterfront in downtown DC) doubled the time it took to get there. It was actually faster to drive there even during rush hour where you'll sit motionless on the 395 bridge. Yes I can redeem a lot of that time with my above average personal mobile computing set up but a: most people have a pretty mediocre personal mobile computing setup and b: now I can't use that time for anything other than programming projects.

2) I couldn't get rid of the car entirely because I still needed it to move bulky things that I really can't take on transit. It's bad enough not having a truck but losing the car entirely would create some serious logistical problems on a regular basis. So while I saved some money I couldn't save as much as I wanted.

3) Most wealthy people (many of my friends) start families^ and people who can afford it buy detached housing for that. You're not going to be taking transit to these places. It might not ever be economical. Like it or not transit will probably always lower property values in the US too. For whatever reason the more violent people here tend to take it and anywhere it goes becomes more violent so building it into suburbs like these is always going to be unpopular.

4) Bringing me to the fact that I've been accosted multiple times on transit by people who were high, drunk, or just belligerent. I have an extremely high tolerance for this sort of thing (I've wandered around some of the more violent cities early in the morning just to see what the fuss is about) but I can absolutely see why most people here would give up after that happening once at a maximum.

I'm a huge fan of transit but pretending it isn't a large sacrifice to give up a car is just going to get people to ignore you, because it is and for most people it isn't worth it.

(^ and for those that don't start families, many have lots of intense DIY projects that don't fit in apartment buildings and actually need either detached housing or industrial space with similar density.)
You don't need administrative permissions to install many tools, including Visual Studio Code, or even xcopy-able emacs clones if that's more your jam.

If you mean you're not allowed to run any executables at all unless in a whitelist then WTH, what kind of company expects developers to use such an environment, and what for?
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that's enterprise support obviously, but yes it's more legwork to host nextcloud than using dropbox
Hmmmm. Well, as someone who sees the best of us destroyed because of an educational system that constantly fails them...I can't honestly say that I think your connections are worth their lives and happiness.
I've done startup engineering for a while. I've seen exactly 1 issue that we couldn't solve easily (N+1) or with simply turning our server count up (often way cheaper than putting an engineer to a problem).

Basically, to move development velocity faster we "load everything". Seems like a really bad idea on the surface. In practice, we only ran into an issue with a single customer that was literally 1000x as large as the other customers. It took about two weeks by 1 engineer to rework a select few calls that were egregiously slow and we were back at it.

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In other words, even with some arguably inefficient technical decisions, I've rarely if ever seen performance issues at early stage startups.
Likewise! Every time I accidentally follow a twitter.com link, I find myself lost in an incoherent crazyland of intense emotions. Threadreader is OK, but I prefer to interact with Twitter in the same way that I used to enjoy Eve Online: wait for someone involved to write up a summary of whatever it was that just happened, then read it at a distance from all the shouting.
> You've sorted people who disagree with you into the category of "not adults". Should they be able to vote?

No, I'm the kind of person who is well aware that reaching adulthood is not a magic elixir that automatically grants everyone the ability to act responsibly or rationally, let alone a sense of common good.

Throwing adulthood around as if it implies everyone will do the right thing is blatantly unrealistic.
That’s an absolutely meaningless story/analogue when it comes to international treaties. As mentioned, they were not between two parties who would even have a “right” to enforce it (it’s like your friend offered a house he didn’t even owned), and it simply doesn’t work like that at this scale. Is “make America great again” a binding offer?
>Having to hit 'see more replies' over and over.

I don't know if I'm just suffering from confirmation bias but it seems like this feature is used as a form of soft censorship, to discourage users from reading certain threads, as it appears to disproportionately pop up on "controversial" topics where right of center opinions are likely to be expressed.
of note, fertility issues were also one of the main symptoms of evil witchcraft, back in the days when witchcraft was considered a valid health concern.
Hey, I am working on a marketplace called SkillShack. It is a small-cohort learning platform for lifelong learning focusing on 'skills school should have taught you'.

Your dream job might not exist yet but maybe we can create it together
It is rare to find curious polymaths like you. Trying to assemble a team of us.
If slightly curious, DM me on Twitter: @productnerd

Power to you man. Don't stop
> Heck, why not have a metadata "db" (ala plex) instead of insisting that stuff be bundled on the media itself?

Because that isn't portable and then a different faction will be screaming "vendor lock-in". The metadata inside the media file itself is in a standard format that anybody can read, and storing it inside the file also ensures that it cannot become separated from the file it's belonging to.

Besides, any reasonable kind of software involving any kind of media library will already be keeping its own metadata database (and that includes iTunes/Apple Music), because rescanning the whole library on each program startup would be ridiculously inefficient (all the more so historically when hard disks were more common). But it can't be the sole source of truth because see above – people who still keep a local library of music around might want their media file collection to be interoperable with other software, too.
How do I square this supposed prowess with the Ukrainian Air Force still operating? Even worse, drone footage (so flying things) of S-300 being destroyed? Or indeed NATO or Israel regularly making mincemeat out of Soviet-equipped opponents?

I’m not denying Russians can achieve technological brilliance, often bypassing budgetary constraints in novel ways, equally their military technology seems to regularly come up top trumps on paper and not in the battlefield.
And good luck if a dam fails:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure
I prefix with the "project/directory name" for [my dotfiles](https://github.com/YodaEmbedding/dotfiles), e.g. nvim:, zsh:, tmux:, i3:.

Nearly everything is a feat or fix, but it's much more useful to know which project it applies to.
Hi sorry I don’t know
Why would you pay cash? I made a cash offer on mine but still took out a loan since interest rates are so low.

Homes are priced based on what people who want to live in a place are willing to pay per month. The interest rate, property tax rate, and home price determine that. As rates go down prices go up.