skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earlier you were claiming that those 40+ story buildings are too expensive to build. If that's true the problem of getting people to build mid density there will solve itself. Developers that overpaid for those plots will lose out, but whatever they paid initially is a sunk cost; building something you can get paid rent for beats building nothing.

And yeah, if there are sandwich shops or whatever whose business is only viable at skyscraper-level density and not at 4-6 story density then those will go to the wall. But I doubt that's a big segment. Mid density means proportionately more floor space at street level, which should be friendlier to businesses.

We may see a more pronounced downturn in city centers, and we might see a drop in density below skyscraper level (though personally I'm skeptical of even that much). But we won't see a hollowing out of the cities; at the very least, Vienna-like density still makes sense.
"I can't press the back button... hmm, might as well register for an account and become a loyal user."
Sure, but not everyone has to prefer that for there to be enough demand to keep prices up.
>I’m relating things that women have told me directly. It’s not speculative. It’s exhausting when you’re part of a group and constantly mislabeled.

I don't recall any of my female friends ever getting offended by being called a "dude." I imagine they would get annoyed by some random person presuming to "protect" them from people on the internet, as if they were unable to speak up for themselves. Perhaps a bit misogamist when you think about it, no?

>Being friends with a diverse range of people helps with this.

Perhaps you should follow your own advice here if all the women you know get offended by being called "dude."
How can you tell why people downvote?
Eh. That kind of highlights for me how “odd” it is that converting things to electric feels very new, but could probably have been developed out much more much earlier.
did you move for the opportunity you got in particular, for a generally bigger market, or for a completely different reason? To me it seems like both Vancouver and Toronto now have a fair amount of opportunities
70% of Phase 2 trials fail and 50% of Phase 3 trials fail[1]. Why should the default to be to approve drugs in the early stage of human experimentation?

Here are some interesting case studies of drugs graduating from Phase 2 trials only to fail Phase 3 trials on efficacy and safety grounds: https://www.fda.gov/media/102332/download

[1] https://www.parexel.com/application/files_previous/5014/7274...
I think that's indeed the default behavior, but when I go to a certain app permissions, I have an option "remove permissions and free up space", if I untick this I expect the permissions to stay in place, is that not the case?
It may be partly affected by fully random effects such thermal noise, meaning there will be no period.
The author links to a page that describes how the developer password (used in the web interface) is stored in the database in plain text.

Is that still the case? (I sure hope not!)
Try the 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' web browser plug-in.
Also, F2P isn't the only option, we could pay (once) for games like we used to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
I find it odd that you seem rather adamant on the skill that goes into your own music, yet seem to disregard the noise genre as a whole and call it unfair that it gets that much attention. Indeed the world is not fair, but to discredit other peoples work that a lot of others seem to appreciate seems as a moot point.

I listen to a lot of music, mostly noise / ambient / drone and do so mostly during work, so the hours stack up quite rapidly. Per the Spotify model this is quite beneficial for the artist. But I am rather picky in the noise I appreciate so in the end it’s not that many songs I keep. Most I visit once and turn off halfway. So I definitely wouldn’t want to call it easy to create good ambient / noise.

Anyway the other day I saw a YouTube video with 116M views of 9 minutes long that showed hands going into slime. Now compared with a video from say Carfection or PBS EON, that’s quite odd than.
It’s under the “privacy” in account settings. I just disabled marketing notifications
Did you consider Zoom on premises?
This reminded me of another fun programming game called Elevator Saga (https://play.elevatorsaga.com). Essentially, you need to write the code for a system of elevators to transport the maximum number of people in a given time.

It's a problem I've thought about every so often, but never bothered to look up how it was commonly implemented. For example, If you have a large building with multiple elevators, is there an optimal way to arrange the elevators while they're idle to minimize transport time? Or what about accounting for time of day? (e.g. stacking the elevators on the bottom floor in the morning as people arrive at the office). Or what advantages do you gain mathematically from having Up/Down buttons vs. the touchpads where people select the exact floor? Seems like an interesting problem if you work on elevators installed in tall office buildings.
If you think a shepherd fighting off rustlers was (is) a rare event, you know little about shepherds.
What’s the george box reference? Sounds interesting.
Yeah, the author sort-of deforms actual historical data to his own needs.

The Roman empire in the West was rather slow to collapse, even the fact that it survived the crisis of the third century [0] speaks more to its resilience than fragility. As late as 460, Western Roman commanders were able to subdue hostile barbarians and reattach their territories to the Empire proper [1].

The Roman empire in the East, as you notice, survived for another thousand years.

If the author wanted an example of an empire that collapsed really fast, it would be the USSR. That was indeed rather fast. In 1985, Moscow controlled not just the USSR itself, but several important European satellite states east of the Elbe, plus it held a lot of sway in the developing world. Six years later, the empire was gone. Not even Western Kremlinologists expected such a fast unraveling of the Soviet system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorian
It is true.

I shred those bulk mailings, but I was referencing the many Junk but non-bulk class letters I receive. It makes no sense to write return to sender on a bulk-mailer.

While much Junk mail is sent via bulk rate, Junk in this context refers to the content not to the mailing class of bulk.
The key thing is the same as in the coronavirus pandemic, it's exponential growth - think of Facebook as the virus, Myspace as the immune system and word-of-mouth being the infection way.

The problem with all the cases you mentioned (and the current fight of Facebook/Meta vs Tiktok) is that the established entity has become entrenched in its ways and too unflexible to adapt, so competitors exploit the weakness and eventually take over.
The problem with the term "woke", is that it's almost an entirely subjective term. Not everyone shares the same moral tenets, let alone opinions, and there are many kinds of injustices in the world. The more it gets used, the more confusing it is to identify what kind of "wokeism" people are talking about. It's as if it's used to express political outrage, without expressing what people are particularly outraged about...
There's a fundamental problem, that we're all having a tough time navigating. That is-- various subgroups have a much lower rate of participation in advanced sectors of the economy. Some of this is almost certainly related to discrimination and lingering aftereffects of past discrimination.

* Naively picking who appears most capable, especially based on metrics that are strongly influenced by class, may instead just be perpetuating these biases. Further, people who have had fewer resources dedicated to their development may have more opportunity for growth.

* Conversely, trying to spread things out for equality-of-outcome and completely ignoring many measurements of ability is likely to be problematic, too, by not getting the strongest people in seats.

In the end, allowing the entire pool of the population meaningful economic and cultural participation can be expected to bend up the arc of progress, but it is hard to figure out how to get there.
> It is infuriating to read about “unpaid internship”. Why is this still a thing, in 2022?

Because the demand for training is high and the demand for entry level staff low. See also acting, the arts in general, publishing. One alternative is the system the US uses for union work in the building trades where you can get trainee work if you are related to someone in the union.
I wonder what the server feature gives you. I've been using fossil for a decade or so, always over ssh. Definitely don't need to do that setup part.

Fossil doesn't do rewriting history. I think that rules it out for large team efforts. As an immutable distributed log of everything I write by myself it's essentially perfect.
Yeah, and their ultimate pricing is bananas.

We're on the premium tier and like some of the security related stuff that's only available in ultimate - but the price jump is so insane it's just not even remotely going to happen.
IIRC Cubensis
I hear the sound of elevator engineers cracking their knuckles.
Ask HN: Order preserving hashes for learned Indexes
https://github.com/rodgarrison/PGM-index was previously posted to HN. However, to leverage PGM for keys that are strings or blobs (arrays of unsigned bytes) one needs a map from the key as an array of bytes to some integral type. What are the options here?

An order preserving hash is such that if keys k0<=k1 then hash(k0)<=hash(k1).

As far as I can tell the broad outline of options include:

* naive options like put all strings in a std map and give the index to the entry as the hash value

* Some variation of converting the key into a bitstream, maybe with compression hoping to get into a 64-256 bit range.

* Putting the keys into a trie or BST and converting the path through the structure to the key into a bitstream which becomes an int.

* An actual order preserving hash e.g. something like this: https://github.com/DominikHorn/exotic-hashing/tree/main/include/omphf

Does anybody know better? An important property (and relaxation) is that all the strings need may not be known ahead of time. So the hash need not be minimal.
Go to account -> settings -> privacy -> notifications and you can turn off all the marketing notifications on iOS too for Uber / Uber Eats.
Life is the ultimate cancer.
Good question. I'm not sure which would be faster and fairer. Police
and courts have enough to do dealing with reality, without getting
involved in our messy hacker games. So long as the law is clear, we
should want people to help themselves first and foremost. The key is
really dismantling protectionist laws that enable powerful aggressors,
not arming the people with more protectors. On what the law cannot
speak it should remain silent, and I do believe that vast tracts of
so-called "cyber-law" are absolute rubbish - utterly unfair, bought by
lobbyists and written by incompetents to defend the barons' castles.
Take this down and let nature run its course to restore the proper
balance.
How does this compare to Telepresence? https://www.telepresence.io/
I was somewhat expecting this argument when I wrote the comment.

The thing is that argument only works at the policy and governance level of EA. If I'm an individual who is convinced on the philosophy behind EA, and I'm willing to place it before anything else, then it doesn't matter what's optimal to “ensure commitment” because I'm already committed.

That's why I mean when I say that sustainability isn't a good general argument: it can help you in some cases, but not all. Examining EA as a system of values, that either suggests that EA is insufficient or that self-care shouldn't be that important.
Well, you can always leave a review of an app if it does pukes such marketing notification, after you uninstall

I tend to sort apps reviews by worst and look what people don't like about - that gives more information than mindless praising and chaffy purchased reviews.
How the heck is the “stage” system legal? Working, unpaid, for full time hours for three months? That’s disgusting beyond measure.
I deleted the Uber app and stopped using their service specifically because there was no way to turn off only their spammy marketing push notifications, and I didn't want to turn off all push and miss a ride, so there was no way for me to meaningfully use their service. It's ok, I have other options to get a ride.
As my friend says about salary, it's only a negotiation if you're prepared to walk away.
Never came across this before today somehow, also Ward Cunningham is awesome apparently.
It’s a word whose origins are in mid-20th century American Black culture, so it’s an instinctively effective boogeyman to a certain generation of white Americans who subconsciously want things to be back a certain way.
Despite popular belief, not everything is a (web) server. I can imagine many threads to be appealing in e.g. simulations.
https://archive.org/details/500yeardeltawhat0000tayl Archive link
The Entrepreneur Remains Stuck in the 19th and 20th Centuries
> asked YouTube for help and gotten nothing from them

What a surprise...

Starting to think this is intentional, not just in the obvious cost saving way, but rather to filter support requests through the social graph so to speak.

If it creates enough sympathy with kind hearted souls (and enough media noise) then it must be real
It’s at least partially to deal with the trauma that their work inflicts on them, at least if my friends were anything to go by. It’s not a nice industry for most. Plenty of sexual assault.
The Code: Story of GNU and Linux (2001) Complete Documentary
While I agree with your general premise, I disagree about the "not necessarily" part: whenever "relevant ad" is mentioned, it's pretty much always in the context of "ad relevant to the viewer" (they just don't say it like that), instead of what "relevant" should really mean (relevant to the content being viewed, as you indicated).

Let's take FB for example, under the hypothetical situation where they're showing what they would call a "relevant ad":

A single mother, that has 2 kids, often talks/chats with other mothers about daycare, school activities, knitting, etc. One day out of the blue, she visits a FB group dedicated to electronics (say, assembling electronics, etc.). I can guarantee you that the first "relevant ad" she'd see on that group would NOT be about electronics, but rather something related to her interests, as tracked from her previous behaviours.

If it were truly a "relevant ad", it'd be something about electronics, and everyone else that visited that group for the first time would also see this same ad, regardless of their past behaviour (much like your podcast ad example).

Calling it "relevant ad" just means "ad relevant to the viewer", which simply translates to "targeted ad".
> This "uncircumcised" group is described in several passages as coming from the "Land of Caphtor" (modern-day Crete) before taking control of the coastal region of what is now southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.

This is interesting because the appellation “Adonai” appears likely to have been an import via Phoenician colonization of Crete, where there was a god (Adonis) who could not be referred to by name but only by epithet.
I don't know where you are from, but here (country in Europe) no-one does that. If they buy it new, pretty sure most things are covered by warranty and even small user fault issues brands tend to fix.

I bought a 120k Porsche and didn't go and get it inspected. If I had any kind of problem with the car, I would just call ahead to secure a time slot and they would look over it/try to fix it. Once they diassembled the entire back seat system because of a rattling issue. Found out it was a metal ball from my kid's toy that went through the seatbelt hole and got under the seat. Took them a few hours to do so. Cost? zero. They replaced small parts for free also. Needed a bit of oil? not even a call, just stop by the shop and someone would do it in 10 minutes.

The fact that are documented cases, over and over again of bad QC on Tesla, and they refuse to fix it or tell the buyer of a brand new car it will take months to fix because they don't have the parts is just shitty behaviour, which I understand may fly in the USA, but in Europe they are running into troubles (already are with marketing issues re auto pilot and even Musk 'get back into the office' memos and shit)
Can prime numbers be used as lengths/periods so that there is no perceptible repetitions.

I saw this trick and used it to animate different parts of an animation (each part every p frames, where p is a prime) and it works very well.
Unless there’s an official statement about unofficial clients being allowed, then that single example can and must be extrapolated: it’s the only factual evidence.
So it's just coroutines on top of n:m scheduling, similar to what SysV offered a while ago?
Another: https://simecatlantis.com/tidal-stream/
>the demand for entry level staff low

But what about the red hot jobs market and the workers' shortage, everyone's been talking about?
Network-bound disk encryption on Arch Linux
Fascinating that there is no way to read the flagged comment. What did it say?
Not trolling, genuine question: I saw something that said that they had found the first case of human-to-human infection of monkeypox. If it doesn't normally spread that way, how is it spreading? Or was that just the first confirmed case of what everybody knew was going on?
What large team workflows require rewriting history? I’m genuinely curious as someone who is always looking for a better team git workflow.
The book is not too different from the language, ahem.
OTOH, C is not my favorite language, but the K&R C book is the best technical writing I remember reading.
I never trusted signal.

No unofficial clients + us-based? Smells fishy.

I’d rather run Telegram and/or Matrix (ideally Matrix).
Meh, lol. From my spaghetti factory you would never have guessed i was a software dev by day.
> I just get this vibe that people don't think through their stance these days. They just want what they want, and use ethics to support their point when they don't really have a consistent sense of morality to speak of.

I thought it through and my stance is I do think there's a very big difference between p2w and cosmetic only cash shops from a moral stand point in the context of Diablo Immortal and PoE.

I never felt like PoE was trying to push me into buying something. The purchases I've made (0 cosmetic btw, it's been all quality of life things) were on my own terms, I didn't feel manipulated in the slightest. There was no gambling mechanic, it was a straight "I give them money and they give me stash tabs" transaction, there's no catch. I don't need to login every day to keep them, they exist until PoE decides not to run PoE anymore.

The above is a lot different than Diablo Immortal trying its hardest to convince you to buy something because it directly alters the core mechanics of an ARPG which is to make your character stronger by trying to get you to purchase items that make your character stronger. The whole system is set up to make you constantly evaluate "well, should I grind this out 8 hours a day for 4 months or spend $50 to have it in a few days?", and it's painfully obvious.

These elements are also pushed into the game's UI so it's in your face all the time. They also took it 1 step further and introduced a lot of randomness into your real money purchases and they self destruct if you stop logging into the game. I was trying to compare this to a "real life company" like a casino or car salesman but somehow even they seem better from a morality standpoint when compared directly to Diablo Immortal.

So yes, in my mind there is a big morality difference between these 2 games in how they operate their cash shop. One of them feels like inconceivably high pressure sales tactics designed to maximize profits at no cost while the other feels like a game that does everything in its power to kill you with kindness by providing value through entertainment in the game so you end up making purchases because you like the game and want to support the developers, what you get out of that is more like warm fuzzies and some quality of life enhancements (or cosmetic things if that's what you like).
> some things, like terrorism, loomed much larger then than they do today

I'm not sure about that. The article is from 1997, after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, but before the bombing of the USS Cole (2000) or, especially, the destruction of the World Trade Center and the partial destruction of the U.S. Pentagon (2001).
Very cool. Note that RobotWar was developed first on the Plato system circa 1970s. I don't know the exact year. Loved playing that as a kid on the Apple II
I cannot find any information on what Eisenhower grease is, or how it helped witn the invasion of Sicily. Can anyone comment?
> western economies ... exploiting desperate immigrants

No, you are thinking rich countries in general.

> open borders ... inviting refugees ... fancy workers' rights ... instructed by business lobby groups

You paint it like EU was supposed to have an unified and consistent policy.

Could it be that some political entities are actually supporting both open borders and workers rights, while other side with the business others?

What if there were different political entities with opposing values?
Presumably, labor cost is a large part of the cost of a ride.
Medicaid will force you to sell your house once that happens.
>I have a hard time understanding how some people care so deeply for certain groups but then seem to have no empathy at all for others.

This is the inevitable result of viewing society as a collection of arbitrarily-created groups instead of individuals.
If you are not replying to ICMP you let everyone know that you are there. If you we're not there, the error would be 'no route to host', but there is a route, so you must bei there
"Reality is that which doesn't cease to exist when you stop thinking about it", they say.

Or, to elaborate, these things have a cost whether people are aware of it (and care about it) or not. Maybe it's not so high now, but eventually it's likely to manifest itself, especially when the codebase needs to run in a new environment or be modified to follow a new paradigm. Those situations are where things tend to either "make the jump" and continue to be used or end up in the (already vast) graveyard of abandoned software because the cost of maintaining it became higher than the return it yielded.
My bank's android app has more control over my account than any other way of interacting with them, including going into branches and posting forms. That's not strictly a monopoly but I'm on my fifth bank and they've all been similarly rubbish.
You are spot on with the collapse of the USSR.

See https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121178/ev...
Building an Alternative Supply Chain for Shiitake Mushroom Growers
Technocommunism is the word.
You can earn a lot of respect by accepting people on their terms. People get defensive when you start attacking the words they use and disputing the life they’re telling you that they lived. It cuts both ways at that point and people quickly retreat to their corners.

You don’t have to treat them as anything other than fellow human beings and ends unto themselves. Every person out there has always used language a little differently from you, has grown up in a different place and circumstance, and generally arrived at the shared present a different way than you. The trick is to agree to treat people like people and that you’re there to be an additive good and not a detractor.