skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An anecdote from Nazi Germany from the town I grew up in.

The Nazis did exactly the same! As part of their program - similar to what Putin wants to do now? - to become self-sufficient, among many other projects, they built a very large chemical fiber factory into the middle of underdeveloped Thuringia. That's the German state just above Bavaria.

https://www.all-neumann.de/rud-zellwolle.html

For the thousands of new workers, only some of which could be sourced from the local population, they build the equivalent to American suburbs, in 1935.

A few pictures, old black and white:

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/H5NXR6CAX2M...

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/2GD55POKL3R...

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/UNFBR42B35M...

The factory, by the way, even back in the 1930s included two olympic-size swimming pools, one heated (by the next door factory coal power plant) and one with waves:

https://www.all-neumann.de/images3/Schwarza_119674.jpg

That suburb still exists, with a lot of kind of equal double-houses surrounded by a lot of garden.

Google maps, you can see how all houses and plots are similar: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.6840376,11.3145743,413m/data...

Until after reunification they could still walk for shopping in little stores, Schwarza, a tiny place at the edge of which the new houses were built, even had a butcher shop. To get to the factory could be done by bike leisurely within ten minutes.

However, in my old hometown (Rudolstadt) industry and houses often were right next to one another. There were quite a few of those, and they were in the city or at the edges, next to houses and villas. There's an x-ray tube factory (https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/history/stor...) and quite a few other industries, beginning early 20th century. I don't know if those various factories were at the edge of town in the 1920s, but even if they were, it can't have been very long that it all got a bit mixed. Today we have zoning too, kind of, "Gewerbegebiet" (industrial park) is where you have to go with your manufacturing business these days.

We now have very similar discussions about more mixing, example (German): "Architect recommends more mixed use areas" -- https://www.nw.de/lokal/bielefeld/mitte/21979129_Architekt-e...
But also the opposite, "Please don't mix" -- https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article518393/Bitte-nicht-mis...
Better market segmentation only benefits those doing the segmenting. I'm already looking forward to paying extra for the "low latency" feature so that my network card stops delaying packets.
Sundials does have forward sensitivities, though the implementation does not SIMD the calculations of the primal with the dual parts like direct AD of the solver does. This makes it a bit worse on forward mode than direct differentiation of a solver (with an optimizing compiler) would do, which was something that took us a few years to really pin down (we had to implement our own to really benchmark it, and got the same phenomena demonstrated in https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01892). The nice thing about the direct forward mode is that it is easier to opt the extra equations out of the linear solver, something that AD systems won't do by default (but it can be done)
If you allow your skin’s good bacteria to flourish then you don’t need deodorant. I wash with soap-free cleansing bars (Seba Med for those interested) that doesn’t disturb your skin’s natural oils and I don’t need deodorant - deodorants with aluminium being particularly bad. They kill good bacteria thereby allowing harmful (and bad smelling) bacteria to proliferate.
Getting the right interfaces/abstractions between teams is kind of what's hinted in the article, no ? It is needed both at the code/architecture level and at the team/org level

In my mind, commodification does not imply getting people who don't know what they are doing. But you need to move away from individual ownership as the main model, which at least in my mind is implied by artisanship. You need to be able to replace almost anyone by somebody else as you grow.
Redistricting made her district more favorable to Democrats and Democrats are expected to take back the seat next year. But the Democratic candidate, Vicente Gonzales, is also pro life: https://sbaprolife.org/representative/vicente-gonzalez

Pro-choice Democrats have painted themselves into a tough spot. After moving left on race and immigration, they lost significant support in the Midwest and Rust Belt. They assumed that pickups among Hispanics in the southwest and south would offset those losses. But Hispanics are more conservative than whites on abortion. (Polling shows that about the same percentage of both, 40%, oppose abortion: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opini.... But abortion views are strongly correlated with age, and the median Hispanic is 14 years younger than the median white. Which means that at any given age range—such as the age ranges that tend to vote—Hispanics are more conservative. Moreover, because Democrats win only a minority of the white vote, they need to win 70%+ of the Hispanic vote.)

Democrats have reframed figures like David Portnoy and Joe Rogan—folks who appeal to white working class folks in the Midwest and Rust Belt—as “right wing” and “racist, sexist, and homophobic.” But note that both strongly sided with liberals on Roe being overturned: https://www.foxnews.com/media/barstools-dave-portnoy-rips-ro.... This group is less religious than the GOP as a whole, and has long been willing to at least go along with keeping Roe even if they were personally pro life.

Democrats traded a less religious, more individualistic part of their coalition, for a more religious, more family oriented one.
What Is a Security Engineer?
This is the only correct answer. Everything else is textbook speculation.

As long as we have modern colonialism and unbalanced currency valuations, the poor will stay poor.

Eg - The irony of mentioning poverty traps, when all Western countries still have massive poor classes that experience them is lost on the author and audience.
indeed, you could do one or the other, and you could fail at both.

in fact for some having a decent place to live is a dream out of reach.
This is victim blaming. Whether or not he could have been more careful is not an excuse for GPT-3. Illegal behaviour still should be (1) illegal even if the victim could have done more.

(1) I seem to remember a court case somewhere on the planet in the last months where lack of resistance was deemed indicative of consensual intercourse. Which is not even remotely acceptable. But I digress.
The questions I ask myself before making a big decision
We tend to think mankind is becoming smarter and effective. But in reality we just started caring about profits in just near future.
Interesting to see the manufacturing similarities between that and another smart bulb I tore apart a few months ago. Same cutout for the antenna, which sticks out the front. Same aluminum backed circuit board for heat dissipation, and same strange through hole socket for connecting the power, data, and lighting boards.
Nope, that’s something totally different. Function point analysis is some handwavy enterprise bullshit that noone takes seriously anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_point
[1] Japan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31881381

[2] Korea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31881497
To be fair, yesteryears' solutions to that for the typical non-rich people were to outsource parenting to grandparents and family friends, which are still applicable now.

... And have the elder siblings help take care of the younger, but I don't know if that's acceptable at all nowadays in the West or if that's one way to get the CPS involved.
Sorry, the repo was private. It should be fixed.
Ask HN: What do you use to document API Contracts?
For example, I work in a big company with many teams responsible for small components. My team has an API contract with our mobile app team and sometimes the mobile app team decides to change something in the API request format without telling us. We use Jira tickets to communicate these requirements. Wondering if anyone else has had this experience, of this other team is just being lazy.
“Hyper-local interests” (your neighborhood) face all the direct negative consequences of the policies that “broader polity” attempts to force upon them.
I'd like to think I'm in a similar position to the author, although that is a huge generalization. But in spite of the similarities, I don't think we'd ever get along if we met in person. I sometimes think that the only people who can empathize with my situation are the same people who won't try to connect further. Everyone else has no clue what I'm on about, and tries to interpret my life with the tools they were given, pressing me to connect with others with elaborate "life is about" platitudes I'm tired of trying to comprehend. It's the nature of the mindset, it's foreign to so many people that don't understand.

I feel the world outside trying to swallow me whole every time I speak up somewhere. If there was a way to know that people were listening to me without the connotations of words such as "like" and the baggage of being obligated to participate in an ensuing conversation, I would take that for what it is and move on. My belief is that that my place in the world, however flawed, and I wish that the fulfillment I get from living that life every day was better understood.
Imagine an author trapped in a little black box who is forced to respond to your request of impersonating Mt. Everest or a squirrel. They'd also not display a consistent personality. Personally I think the argument in your comment shows that LaMDA impersonating a sentient AI does not show us that LaMDA is sentient, but it doesn't prove that LamDA is not sentient.
There are benefits to colocation. The inputs to your business may already exist and are cheaper in a rich city than in a poor city.

You'll see this where everyday shelf stable goods are more expensive in developing nations than in the usa.
God is an asshole if you read a random bit of the Bible in isolation of the theology/tradition that sits around and explains it. The way I’ve heard it explained by people who have lived this for a long time is a slightly different angle; which is that the way humans were created means that the way to be truely happy is to be aligned with God’s will. At the start you don’t really know what that is, which is why we have ‘commandments’/instruction, but as you deepen that relationship it becomes more and more fulfilling.
I wouldn't consider it one.

I was told a bug fix was needed for not stripping them as it was being interpreted audibly, and with great frequency.
Part of the attraction of the suburbs is that most US cities aren't very compelling. Its not like the choice is a Cleveland suburb vs Barcelona; its a Cleveland suburb vs Cleveland. Neither choice is all that great.
Does Biden’s cybersecurity order go far enough?
Arguably a pig farmer isn’t going to want to raise pigs on a suburban lot either. And many places already allow backyard chickens, bees etc.

I don’t like how much my neighbour’s dog barks, but can you imagine if zoning prevented dog ownership? Why allow yappy dogs but not pigs? Is it just the number of animals or is it truly the type?
Why are none of the examples you mention remotely close to being indie games? Those are clearly not what a Long Tail business model looks like in video games. That Infinity Blade novella was written by Brandon Sanderson.
No one. Nerds/geeks do not need one.

BTW, all nerds/geeks note that Google is not exclusively for you. Just walk to a cafe (not the one near FAANG campus). See those people with smartphone? They use Google. There are 100000x more such people compared to people that use substack.

> is impossible to contact a human

TBH, no one cares. I had friend that lost google account due to 2FA. But did they regret. No. It is only geeks/nerds that want to preserve their first email, photo for ever.
I disagree. There’s actually lots of cases. One simpler example: https://ktenaslaw.com/forced-blood-draw/

And in the inverse, a few months ago I saw a lot users here arguing in favor of forcing Covid vaccinations against the person’s will to protect immunocompromised. Where do you stand on that?
two of my uncles did this - plumbers until 50, then RV life for 20 years, then built houses. as a kid they were my heroes. older, I am not so sure it worked out, but they had a good time for a while.
As Microsoft is showing, workers may never come back to the office
> Who is going to replace Google for us?

No one.

The only thing that could happen is Google is broken up like Standard Oil.

And frankly, Google over the last decade has made moves under the assumption they will be broken up (i.e., making each division a standalone business and Alphabet as a holding company - when structured this way, it makes a forced breakup much easier).
HN reminds me a lot of the old web.
https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it regularly on shady sites.
Were you diagnosed with ADHD before TVs were invented?

As it stands, psychiatrists do not know what causes ADHD (or any psychiatric disorder in the DSM), so its certainly possible that social and environmental factors which induce ADHD like behaviors could be contributing factors. This is in accordance with the biopsychosocial theory.

As for brain scans, those are not considered medically or scientifically reliable ways of diagnosing psychiatric conditions.

You'll notice that every study which suggests it is, does not control for the fact that the psychiatrically diagnosed in their study are already under the influence of psychiatric medications which have tangible effects on brain chemistry; of course a brain on drugs will look different than a brain not on drugs...

"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests"

-Allen Francis, Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, chair of the American Psychiatric Association task force overseeing the development and revision of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
> As for a 'fracturing',everyone's talking about stranger things and obi-wan. Kate Bush is top of the charts because of stranger things. Remember everyone talking about Tiger King or GoT? Certainly doesn't feel fractured to me.

It's also losing sight of books. There's so, so many books out there, it could be called even more fractured than modern TV/streaming, and yet big hits happened. When I was in school in the late 90s/early 2000s, everyone at least knew of (if not was a fan of) Animorphs, Goosebumps, Redwall, Harry Potter (before the movies), etc.
The Kelly criterion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion) is one possible way to decide on the amount to bet, in order to "maximiz[e] the expected value of the logarithm of wealth".

For a fixed probability of winning a fixed proportion of the bet, the amount turns out to depend on the size of your bankroll. However, as your example fixes the payoff but allows a variable buy-in, I don't see how to directly apply the formula from that article.

But, long story short, it is almost sure to depend on the size of your current bankroll, if you accept a Kelly-like criterion.
Is it really pissing time away if you're enjoying your time spent playing video games? While it's great that you found an opportunity to go RVing with your wife. Because such a feat is not really possible for everyone to do, less people do it so less congestion and you can make it enjoyable. Imagine if 100 million people in the US decided to all at once go RVing around the country. All the areas would be full of RVs and I bet it would not be as enjoyable anymore.
Or if the identity is tied up with a marketplace that you bought your game library from.
All of these things: "the worst apartments get put right next to the highway, industrial facilities can be co-located with your residence, and transport and sidewalks are a nightmare" happen in places with zoning. Houston is not perfect and certainly their transportation policy is not great, but zoning doesn't solve any of those. Lines on a map designating an industrial area and such seems so orderly, but in practice those zones have to butt against each other. Meaning it happens often that 'incompatible uses' go near each other. Zoning solves nothing about the real problems that zoning is supposed to solve, which is negative externalities like noise, traffic, etc. Those are best fixed with purpose built rules such as noise ordinances. Someone in a 'residential' neighborhood can have a car louder than an industrial plant. Zoning doesn't address that at all.
This essay is 21 years old today, so nice piece of history but hardly up to date to be relevant.

Not sure choosing the “wrong” programming language can kill a startup just like the lack of traction and sales.
Exactly 1 cent. I maximize the gain and minimize the risk.
> In short, I don't want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous.

You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket?
This is known as Universal approximation theorem[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
When I wanted to make jokes around astrology and horoscopes, that's also what I highlighted to anyone highly invested in it: Sun, Moon and planets can surely influence an organism of a few cells significantly more than they can a full sized baby at birth.

I was actually also curious if anyone would notice that this doesn't invalidate any astrology since it only means they missed their mark on causality by roughly 9 months (ofc, there's plenty more evidence to invalidate astrology without that :), but nobody came up with that.

As for full person-entitlements at conception, for anyone who's ever gone through IVF, not all early embryos are "viable": in other words, they wouldn't ever result in an actual human baby developing (I also found this to be a helpful way to look at inseminated eggs to reduce the psychological toll of failed embryo transfers; my wife didn't find anything helpful though, so your mileage may vary). Most of these "die" out (actually, stop their cell division and proper cell differentiation) by 8 weeks, though some only do that later in the cycle.

Anyway, all this to say that it's ridiculous to consider an embryo a person, at least until it's clear it will develop into one (finding a biological age where that happens is hard though, but it's not for a number of weeks). Should people whose embryos die out by that point be taken to court for murder (negligence or intentional): embryos are persons, right?

If you want to go there, I am not sure why stop at embryos, when you could treat all human eggs and sperm the same way: they are on their way to becoming a person, and we need to make sure that all the eggs are inseminated, and all the millions of sperm cells get their job done (otherwise, you are killing those cells by not letting them fulfill their destiny). I hope the absurdity of the stance is clear. So if life exists right after conception, it exists just as well before that as eggs and sperm are living cells.

Finally, a legal matter, especially the one that does not even concern itself with the particular question, does not decide when "life begins". It's decided by people agreeing on scientific conditions of what constitutes a new live being, and in particular, a new human being. Science is objective, but people still need to agree on particular terms.

As far as I understood it, reversing this decision on a federal level will simply put existing anti-abortion laws back into validity in a number of states. They can still change those laws.
Is this true? This fact isn't obvious to me.
I’ve seen one Bay Area use of zoning that I like. In Palo Alto, there are areas zoned for retail (which I think means retail or restaurant, but must be things that interact with customers who walk in). This helps for a somewhat odd reason: retail space is quite a bit less expensive than office space or housing, and property owners would often like to convert to office space. But doing so at scale would introduce a tragedy of the commons: office space is desirable in part because of the presence of retail!

(I’m not saying the economics have to work this way — I can easily imagine that more relaxed zoning and development rules would equalize the values of different types of space. But in the mean time, this policy at least appears to benefit people who live or work in the area.)
I'm curious, what is a "credible" news source these days?

I don't think any of the major news networks have much credibility any more, it's just that some may seem better than others simply because they align more with your particular personal opinions and biases.
In the case of China, the answer would be - fight off the Japanese, then fight the US backed KMT, launching speak bitterness rallies against large landlords along the way, pour troops into North Korea in the 1950s, start a great leap forward campaign and then a Cultural Revolution. Then Mao and Zhou Enlai make some peace with the US and we carry on until Xi Jinping where you have the largest gdp-ppp in the world and the second largest nominal gdp in the world. Not in this prescription, and of course Deng Xiaoping aligned the economy to the changing world situation, but it was a different road, and other countries industrialized on this road as well.
Not the OP, but I did something very similar with my wife and daughter a few years ago. Each day was more enjoyable than the last, especially with the RV. That was the most enjoyable time, and that enjoyment came from just existing and taking things as they come. There was never any monotony.
That works well amongst equals. It fails when some have more power than others and can use that to hurt those others for things they disagree with.

E.g., this is why true democracy needs secret ballots. Perhaps you and I aren't afraid to vote in public. But a democracy needs everyone to give their honest vote, not only those who have nothing to fear.