skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
O ya, I agree with you that "small" townhouses aren't enough. Low rises helped though nobody wants to build "concrete" low risers (esp with the mandate from govt to set aside rental units, below market rental units, etc).

> I’ve seen zoning fights about even duplexes, let alone anything bigger - not sure if Vancouver is more accepting of that than other places .

Nobody has any issues with duplexes and townhouses.

It's a bunch of patch up jobs really.

I do agree that they should just bulldoze and start developing around Skytrain stations first. That way they have a starting point to sprawl a bit. It should be a give and take from both sides: govt and nimby. Govt needs to give nimby something to keep them happy (sad but what can you do) while telling them to F off when it comes to building towers around skytrain (first).
What kind of container?
Flowdock End of Life
Sparse Sensor Placement Optimization for Classification

A moth has a small number of nerves on its wings that inform its motion. The neuronal circuitry is relatively sparse, and so the location of these nerves is quite important (see [0] at 12:44). This inspired the development of an algorithm to optimize the positioning of a small number of pixel sensors to classify an image. For example, this can be used to train a model for the cat/dog classification problem using only 20 pixels.

[0]: https://youtu.be/zJ2z__5mepA?t=744
It's odd that people still look to Google or Apple by default for management ideas. Stripe is easily the best run tech company at scale, and might be the best run company in any industry ever.

Just emulating the clarity of Stripe's internal and external communications (like this letter), would be a better use of company time than 99% of corporate strategic goals.
When Square published its card processing margins in quarterly reports, they kept about 1% - roughly a 33% margin. They have since stopped publishing this metric.

For instance here, page 7 [1] in Q4 2016, Square reported a 1.04% transaction margin against 2.94% transaction revenue.

[1] https://s29.q4cdn.com/628966176/files/doc_financials/2016/SQ...
> You cant ban cloudflare without blocking half the internet.

Wrong stage of the request. The ISP can block the IP addresses the domain resolves to instead of the domain name itself.

There'd still be fallout if shared hosting is involved, but nowhere near as bad as blocking Cloudflare.
Same thing here friend! The trick is realizing that the federal salary and benefits package is absolutely astronomically generous for the amount of work that the average fed puts in per month.

Then there’s the standard 10% of them that struggle to carry the load, burn themselves out, and leave to double their pay at the same workload. Work hard, deliver more? At best you’ll get a 1000$ yearly bonus.

Slack off, deliver nothing? Same thing, still get promoted.
By its very definition, an implication is something that is not explicitly stated. And since nobody would collect information this specific for no reason, there is definitely some inherent sentiment in tracking this kind of thing. It can be debated exactly what, but come on. Nobody does anything without some intent somehow.
What's wrong with saying "Our detector is 99%+-3% efficient," if they are giving the output of some procedure that constructs valid confidence intervals? The confidence intervals will trap the true value 95% of time (or whatever the confidence level is). If it does what it promises to do, I don't see the problem.
I don't think we even have landfills anymore here in Finland
Canada to Ban Blind Bidding as Part of Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights
I have found an upside to the cookie banners. They make me evaluate how much I care about the content hidden behind them. Especially when there is not a "deny all" button clearly visible. A significant amount of the time, I just close the browser window and go somewhere else.
According to the message headers, this announcement occurred in February 2020.
His audience is first-world readers, who have time to digest the material, and then in the face of the ugly implications upon their own action, respond with snark about how plenty of humans are facing more urgent crises so we shouldn't worry about the destruction of our planet.

Your point isn't what you think it is.
Premature optimization....compared to the energy a single shipping tanker, long-haul truck, car, or even microwave compute energy is microscopic. Might as well worry about how much air you breathe is contributing to global CO2 levels.

That said, I think there's also some gains to be had at the top of the stream: tool-builders and with projects. It's all a numbers game.

Video games and simulators are an incredible waste of energy at every step of the way. New graphics cards require tons of engineers to design, simulate and that's before the silicon's even been bought. Next is creation, boxing, and shipping. Then RUNNING it. I guarantee that playing the simulator for 5 mins uses more energy than a dozen downloads.

But it's all a numbers game. How many people are running high end graphics cards? How many are playing that simulator? etc.

All that said, I'm also thinking about this. I wonder how much I could save by, say, switching from JS/Java to Rust. I don't know the answer. I'm mostly musing and it's probably naive or grasping at what little I can do as an individual to help the climate crisis.

It's so big, we have to do something, but at the same time, there's nothing we can do? Attempts could have negative consequences? Hell, even typing this on my giant monitor probably spent more energy than I could ever hope to save in my life.
The "low level" way is - you can use a web3 library like web3.js or ethers.js to let the user connect their MetaMask wallet. You would have to expose your wallet address and make a call to `sendTransaction`.
I don’t see this as a problem that can be solved by markets. Energy is a very asymmetric utility - its cost may define whether people can heat og cool their homes, pump water or uphold other essential functions. That cheap power can be misused for crypto mining does not make raising prices the answer. That is what legislation is for, ban or tax antisocial use of a shared resource.
Having multiple mega constellations in low earth orbit is an excellent example of how we misuse scarce resources in the name of free markets.
> AWS lambda has a bunch of python specific optimisations that make python the best candidate for lambdas (...)

I don't believe there is any truth to this statement.

The general guidelines for AWS lambda is that a) if you seek performance then Go is the way to go, b) for everything else nodejs (i.e., JavaScript/typescript) is by far the best runtime, specially given lambda's single-threaded nature and nodejs's support for concurrency.

All other options are only relevant if you have very specific non-technical constraints, such as wanting to reuse code (JDK) or just leveraging whatever language your team already uses somewhere else.
Apparently dosing was enough of a difference at some point that this mechanism evolved (assuming the stated reason is accurate).

Perhaps our distant ancestors also tended to eat a small bite first, then proceed with other foods, before consuming the remainder? For that matter the drug wouldn't be absorbed all at once. If it is toxic better to eject whatever hasn't been digested than continue absorbing it. There's a bonus psychological side-effect: vomiting is not pleasant and the individual (if they survive) will be more likely to remember what they ate and how sick it made them to avoid it in the future.
> Because filter bubbles and liking Europe[1] is very fashionable in filter bubbles that are demographically similar to HN and most of HN has a social circle full of similar demographics that they get their food opinions from.

I don't think that's the case. Demographics for cooking and pop nutritionist shows are not comparable to the demographics of HN. The audience of the former is dominated by married, middle-aged women in metro-suburban areas across the United States while the audience of the latter is dominated by unmarried, late-20s, bicoastal, urban-dwelling men. Outside of family relations or significant others, I see little overlap between the two at the individual or social level.

> There are plenty of people who hold middle America in high culinary regard. The rest of the things those people tend to have to say are generally not welcome around here so those people don't hang out here and don't hang out with the kind of people who hang out here so there's little discussion going on between these groups of people.

My complaint is not about a lack of high regard, but lack of objective assessment. Sure, association or lack thereof might have something to do with a lack of commentary on American diets. But it has nothing to do with unqualified undermining of those diets. Such an opinion must have first come out of someone's mouth before becoming an oft-repeated factoid.

If you know of any, what middle American diets are associated with height, longevity, increased musculature, or better overall health and by what standard is this proven?
so far i went to the first result on the page and it's SHAQ and he changed his name from SHAQ.ETH to SHAQ.SOL (ethereum to solana) so i'm not sure the first assumption everyone's jumping to in the comments that crypto is dead is so valid
One doesn't need new features to "support" and older platform. You simply assure that code paths have fall back logic to deal with missing GPU functionality/etc and as you mention emulate it. The fact that this has worked for decades on lots of other OS's is proof of this. Iphone6's don't have facial recognition cameras but you can still unlock your phone/etc.

Oh, and btw there are soft TPMs, which are the defaults on most new machines, and is probably part of the reason MS made it a requirement. But as others have shown by getting win11 to run without a TPM, it is entirely artificial, like when they decide not to ship IE/directX/whatever on an older OS. If a random hacker type can get it to work in a reasonable timeframe, there isn't really an excuse for MS not to just add the functionality with a little "your machine doesn't have a TPM so your not secure as you could be" notice somewhere.

Its mostly laziness and market segmentation.
No I think that's a perfect example of why this doesn't work. Once you remove the build tool from the assumed-impenetrable GitHub, where are your guarantees of non-tamperability for it? How is what you have now not "just" another build tool?
IIRC ext4 does this already. Saved me a couple of times.
> ETH appears to be accurately valued compared to payment processing companies like Visa.

How does that even make sense? ETH is valued based on tokens in circulation. Visa is valued based on money made from transactions. They aren't really related at all.

It's not like ETH is doing proof-of-stake, owning ETH doesn't in any way entitle you to ongoing dividends like VISA stock would.
Hi Greg, that's the first thing I tried to do. Alas they have issues disabled on the github repo; https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/issues redirects to /pulls.

So I cloned the repo to start looking more closely at the code in a real editor with an eye towards making a PR.

Fortunately the nature of the bug I've found seems unlikely to be a security issue, it's a busy-loop CPU-burning bug in clientloop.c's poll() integration.
> Maybe if somebody looks deep enough they can find something similar in ancient Greek/Egyptian/Chinese literatures as well.

The ancient greek culture is well known to have a decent prevalence of homosexuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greec...
Help me out here - how does being 50 feet above sea level make a difference?
The good news is that most are not worth a follow :)
From my experience, GS14 and above roles are allocated in limited numbers to each program/branch/division. Of course, many other companies do this to some degree, and one obviously can rotate in the government. However, not every program will have GS14, nevermind GS15 opportunities.

GS is also (like all companies, etc, etc) adjusted per locality, so not every GS13 step 4 will be the same.
That a ratio of 85 billion to 1, ouch
Notepad++ works like a classical Windows application, with minimal learning curve for existing Windows users.

It's mainly a preference thing.
It uses CUA keybindings which everyone should know. If you're already invested in vim, there's not much benefit, other than not having to use different keybindings in different windows.
Those are really good answers, especially the points about nested JSON structures and generalization.

Not sure I understand point #3 -- not familiar with global vs contextual optimum. The idea is that a global optimum is the aggregate optimum across all users, versus a contextual optimum which is the optimum for just the current user/device?

Couldn't you do this by doing regressions on a per-user-id basis or similar if that was the case? (I really don't know)
Sweden buys Norway's trash and sometimes Norway buy trash back to burn in central heating systems. Burn baby burn.
There is a solid BBC documentary covering the same, currently available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6veeTrdEyek
On iPhone SE (2nd gen) the bottom is cut off and I can’t see the goal image. Neither the bottom two buttons. Also can’t scroll.
0x in and of itself is not necessarily a reference to crypto.

In many programming languages 0x at the start of a number means the number is encoded in base 16 (0123456789ABCDEF) instead of base 10 (0-9).

see 0xDEADBEEF, 0xCAFEBABE, and for the eternal NFT crowd 0xFACEDEED.
Notepadqq already does this!

https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq
Was going to say the sam thing, almost sounds like more of a positiv thing for ETH. Maturity phase.
Can you imagine the monstrosity that is iTunes on Windows? Far worse than any Electron app.
It's really interesting to have been on the internet for decades and have watched fads like this come and die so often. Like the one where everyone made their avatars be simpson-style, or the one where everyone started putting their pronouns in their profile, or that time when half the internet switched to ICQ and I'm still not sure how it was better than AIM but I was convinced it was. It's such an odd feeling to be outside these fads and seeing them so objectively.
One of the best decisions of my career was avoiding a body shop like IBM consulting right out of college.
Geany drove me insane when I tried it. The horrific font rendering that turned underscores into spaces, the obtuse as hell format for custom syntax highlighting... No thanks man.
The "privacy banners" have become a clear signal to me that the given web site is (at best) too lazy to fix their site or (at worst) deliberately hostile to my privacy. The banner's presence is an easy up-front filter: I just click away and go to a different site. I usually don't care enough about your content to go through and click off a bunch of switches. Switches that you only have to show because you won't fix your web site and remove the tracking yourself.

Imagine if the government passed a law that said restaurants had to warn you upfront that there might be poison in your food and you had to opt-out of it. I think I would just avoid restaurants with that sign altogether.
We were making an educational CD-ROM at the BBC in London back in the mid 90s and it had a section about planes. It included some facts about MIG and their jets, which we needed to verify.

We had a russian programmer on staff and he said "Oh, my cousin works for MIG, I'll just ask him.". So he uses his desk phone to call his cousin who designs planes or something at the MIG factory, they have a short conversation in russian, and he gets the info we need.

Later that day, MI5 phones our boss to ask what the hell is going on, having intercepted the call. Apparently it looks really bad to make an international phone call to a secret russian military facility and talk in russian!
We tell the MI5 guy on the phone the story, which luckily he believes, so it all turned out OK.
Does that count as a "business relationship" per the CAN-SPAM Act?
I have no problem cycling through my other old stuff, but my DEC Celebris GL 5133 will NEVER go away.
I've seen a few of those where you reject all and it causes a page reload, hence putting you in a loop where the banner comes back.
I wonder if BCG had anything to do with bleeding this company dry. Giving them bad advice to make their SHF buddies money.......
What are they gonna make? I feel out of the loop reading this thread
Bacon-wrapped dates, under the name of "devils on horseback", are documented (by the OED, no less) in an American magazine of 1885. So... not that recent. They certainly were a thing by the 1970s, then faded, then came back.
No, "X just dropped a new track/album" is something I hear all the time in a music context.
> Heck, I may not even be on my desk for hours when others are working, but I may work at night to compensate for that when it's usually peaceful.

Check your employee handbook. Chances are pretty good you're not allowed to actually do this.
While this may be better in retrospect, it doesn't mean it's how Rust should have been. Rust was designed to replace C++, so using more C++ was probably the right call to get people to consider it more.

I do disagree on the syntax for the references though. I prefer they be easier to type than the owned versions (eg &[u8] vs Vec<u8>) as this can promote the usual better choice (this is a weak argument, I acknowledge).

I do wish that history had chosen a different symbol for references though. But there's only so much we can do now
CRISPR gene editing reveals biological mechanism behind common blood disorder
Methane Emissions Soared to a Record in 2021
at least we have crypto and libertarianism
Breakthrough in faster-than-sound jet engines
The problem with social media is that it enables bad behaviors formerly limited to crowds, mobs, parliaments, etc.

Gustav Le Bon's book "The Crowd" explains the source of internet misbehaviors (and worse). The context may be, say, the French Revolution, but the behavior is the same.

Thanks to improved communications people can exhibit some of these behaviors w/o taking a single step.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind : Gustave Le Bon
https://archive.org/details/crowdastudypopu00bongoog
I don't think it's impossible for humans to provide a reasonable quality of life at this population, but I think it might be impossible to sustain the current growth rate without ever-increasing environmental destruction.
People disagree very easily in political matters. And when I am trying to focus on work or my personal projects I don't need to be roped into some pointless ideological discussion or metal state. For that we can go to HN

It works like advertisement for ideology

Imagine you are installing Chrome and the installer shows a banner saying: we support Trump, Biden, Ukraine, Russia, China, invading Iraq... You might then feel uncomfortable using/contributing to software that has nothing to do with politics, because of a developer founded/random/misguided opinion
Nonsense.

There's hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of places to live in Canada, it's primarily a humid temperate climate (in Ontario and southwestern Quebec) no different than the midwest or other parts more like the US northeast and with huge sections that are prairie or poplar "parkland" like the Dakotas etc. You have to go really far north to find anything "uninhabitable."

Southern Ontario (where almost half of Canadians live) alone is 139,931 km² -- about the size of all of England (130,279 km²), or half of all of Germany -- and almost all highly arable land with copious fresh water and developed highway and rail networks. And it's further south than most northern US states, sitting at about the same latitude as southern Oregon.

There's lots of room to build. Stereotypes of Canada as a barren northern land are laughable products of American ignorance or Toronto-centric myopia.
They also have a GeoJSON visualizer.

https://github.com/leaflet-maps-course/resources/blob/33fef0...
Was actually methanol, very dangerous: https://warontherocks.com/2015/09/boozing-through-the-soviet...
Here's a job on budgeting with a secret clearance and no drug test requirement: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/646472000
Seems relevant to me, as I am not so familiar with all of the details of the Ethereum ecosystem, and the link that parent commenter posted provides some background info.
There is probably a business here. Pay X person to rep Y person and bid on house in person at scale.
It sounds like sshfs on steroids?
You tell me. Every time we have a thread where people say median compensation is $300k I seriously wonder where those jobs are and how to get them.
Would be surprised if you would still be using that server actively after 10 years.

I wonder how you build such a hardware with just $2k (3990x alone seems to cost $3.5k), but with €94/mon you can get 16C32T, 128Gb, 8TB server from Hetzner[1]. It has Zen 3 5950X which has better single core performance than your 64 core assuming that you refer to 3990X, and often single core perf is more important than total perf because you don't use all cores all the time.

I estimate such a configuration to be $2.5k. With $2.5k you can keep the server for 2 years, with network and electricity provided by Hetzner. Also you can terminate it and rent another, better server at any time.

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax
I feel your pain! I was furious when I learned that Slack disallowed running their iOS app on M1 Macs. They specifically opted out of this, so everyone would continue suffering their "desktop" client.
Thanks that’s handy to know! At their volume they can obviously get better rates from the bank. I do wonder knowing that what the actual revenue is and perceived IPO valuation. I can’t see it being $100B unless they doing crazy numbers on their other products
Ahh sorry, I was thinking of the United States Digital Service. I assumed they were related or maybe the same thing rebranded.
>Invalidating a box could result in up to a thousand votes being discarded indeed, which is quite small though for a national election.

I don't know what are the typical margins of victory for French Elections. In the 2000 US Presidential Election, George W. Bush won the Presidency by a margin of 537 votes in Florida. If the US had implemented French style balloting, a single attack of this kind in a heavily Republican district of Florida could have easily swayed the election to Gore.
Same in IL, which until recently issued permanent laminated licenses on the spot.
Wait wait wait. What do you think the A and the S in WASP stand for?

Sorry it felt uncouth to add the race and religion letters...
It's quite hard to identify the best words that describe what the solution does. Indeed this aspect needs to be improved.

Will consider removing the "small" word. However, if a business has 3 shops & 3 employees, it's still small, right? Medium would be somewhere higher than 10 shops and usually administrating such a business can't be done properly without using some good software...

I didn't actually expected someone to ever see my submission so at least that's happened which is nice. Thanks for the feedback!
Oh, come on. That would ruin their marketing
It's kind of you to say that, and people at Stripe certainly try very hard, but there's plenty that's broken or that we're trying to figure out at scale... I don't think those claims are true.
Cofounder here. See my reply(ies) to the first comment in this thread: We are emphatically not building an always-on surveillance tool.