skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be a resident contrarian and argue that building more houses in the SW is a good thing.

- The desert is probably the best place to build sprawling metropolises with the lowest ecological impact (overall)

- Cooling is more energy efficient than heating.

- Houses in places like AZ are implicitly less wasteful (no lawns, better insulated, etc).

- People like it

But the question is how to get water to these places? Especially knowing now that the Colorado River Compact was designed when rainfall was at historic highs. But I don't think there is any long term solution that doesn't involve California giving up on taking other state's water to grow high-intensity agriculture.
A neutrality "spectrum" does not have sides any more than the autism spectrum has "100% neurotypical".
Imagine a gearbox - neutrality is a Boolean, either in gear or definitively not.
It absolutely blows my mind that people are rallying the pitchforks around Apple for "monopolistic corporate scaremongering"

Meanwhile it blows my mind that on a site called Hacker News, people are not only enthusiastically handing control of their computing environments to a megacorporation, but insisting that everyone else should do the same.
Personally on the fence about the article. The old adage I've always favored is that an insult(/meanness/slur/etc) says a lot more about the person saying it than anything else, including the target. Very, very often the folks who go around putting down other people are the ones trying to fill very bleak holes in their soul or run from something. I have limited sympathy there and hope often that they find a way to work on themselves for healing.
The golden age of the aging actor
The entire point of this program is that it hooks the func inside the libpam.so actively being used by the system for auth...
Question: is surgery hard?

I’m aware you need to be steady. I’m aware it can take a great deal of time and focus and endurance. But how hard is it to figure out a surgery, and execute it?
But Malcom in the Middle was in syndication (151 episodes), so plenty of people knew his face if not his name, because reruns were airing 2x a day in virtually every US television market, and this was back before streaming so syndication was a huge way to get audience awareness.
. The That 70s Show comparison is apt, and while he wasn’t Ashton level of famous from the show, he and the actress that played his wife (Jane Kaczmarek) were both better known than the actors who played the parents on That 70s Show.

Cranston was also the perfect person to cast for Breaking Bad because his character was so different from who audiences expected him to be. It worked brilliantly, the juxtaposition between the kind of zany (if put-upon and long suffering) dad then playing a dramatic role of a high school teacher turned drug-lord.

Having a cast of mostly lesser-knowns and unknowns is one thing. Having zero even recognizable names for a production that costs half a billion dollars is something else.

And Bryan Cranston was a recognizable, if not super famous, name. That’s part of why Breaking Bad worked, it subverted expectations and brought in some character actors that were at least visually familiar to audiences.

Same with the LOTR films. Liv Tyler was actually really huge at the time, having been in a series of high-profile blockbusters and also famous as a pop-culture figure thanks to her dad her music video appearances. Cate Blanchett was already famous, having been nominated for Oscars and BAFTAs. Sir Ian McKellan had been knighted for 20 years and also had nominations and awards out the ass. Sean Astin and Elijah Wood were successful child actors trying to bridge to adult roles. No one was too big of a name to cost too much or detract too much from the story, but you had enough recognizable names to get people excited about the trailer.

The Marvel films followed a similar thing. RDJ, obviously extremely famous already but Iron Man was his ultimate comeback role. ScarJo was also already a huge name (which Marvel used to their advantage for the next decade plus, b/c she was A-list and at the top of her career), and they balanced that with lesser-known names that became big stars.

I don’t think anyone is saying you need a star-studded cast. If anything, that works against you for properties like this, because people have already seen the characters in their mind or in other adaptations. But you usually need one or two recognizable faces, at least with a budget of this size. A smaller-budget show can have a cast of unknowns that hopefully then blow up into superstars, but we’re talking about a budget that eclipses even the largest film properties, where you’re not paying a lot of it towards the above the line expenses.

I think Amazon execs think the power of the LOTR brand can overcome anything else, and maybe they are right. But I don’t know if I would risk $500m of a production with zero recognizable names in front of or behind the camera. Even Stranger Things had Winona Ryder, after all.
I think you are getting confused about what is decentralized by git (et al). It's not that there's a notion of "a canoncial copy". The canonical copy stuff is about user/developer organization. What dvcs distributes is the history - the notion that you can have local commits, branches, etc is a decentralization of a repo's history. In a centralized vcs, that history is always mediated by the server - you want a new revision number, you have to ask the server what it is.

The fact that you keep coming back to github to "prove" it's somehow centralized at the vcs level is clearly you just doing some contrarian trolling.
> a phone call to big blue is not automated. Cloud autoscaling is.

Respectfully, the hell you say. Cloud 'autoscaling' is something that has to be tenderly maintained by software engineers, who expect to be paid salaries and benefits and so on. It's not like FedEx can just rsync their data into the cloud and have all their software run forever. Instead, they need the engineering team that manages their existing data workflows, and now they also need cloud engineers to translate that into something that won't bankrupt the company, since they're moving from the mainframe world (where you keep your system loaded to an efficient price point) to the cloud world (where you are billed by the second).

Moving your compute spend from capex to opex is a perfectly valid move, but pretending the reason is that someone has to make a phone call once in a while is kind of bizarre, when the alternative is having to hire a whole new cadre of techincal talent.
Sysinternal's "pskill csrss" used to be my last resort to reboot remote or local desktops and VMs. Saved my ass many times.
A few thoughts...

Video here shows the parking pad...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/sf-couple-fined-1500-parking...

1- City asked for photo proof to grand-father them in. They provided it and were denied. To me, that's (almost) worse than the initial ban.

2- Their entire front "yard" is concrete parking pad/walkway. I'm surprised this is allowed. But, it appears common on the street.

3- I'm amazed that parking in a driveway/parking pad is illegal. The rule should be something like "a home may have a 10' wide drive/parking pad made of concrete; this pad may be used for the storage a single (1) vehicle. The vehicle must remain licensed/registered and operable."

It's super weird that the city said they can put up an awning and then park - that seems like a bigger eye-sore than just the car.
> Pay property taxes and still told what to do with YOUR property?

Yes, of course. There are plenty of things I'm not allowed to do on my property; that's part of living in an orderly society.

Where I live, for example: it's fine for me to build a shed in my back yard, but I'd need special permission (and probably couldn't get it) to build one in the front. And that's fine, in my opinion.

So while the SF case here does seem unreasonable, so does your apparent expectation that "your property" should mean a complete absence of rules.
Oh no, I saw that you described the fanservice in that series as "some pandering".

I don't appreciate that the "pandering" is sexualisation of 14 year old girls.
There are CORS bypass techniques, CSRF exploitation via methods which are not checked by CORS such as img tags, and common exploitable misconfigurations (and maybe you can race the preflight check with dns rebinding attack?) - but the question of local address handling playing a part was the main point of my response.

Here's some typical cases of csrf based vulnerabilities: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/49 https://www.ciscozine.com/cisco-linksys-wag54gs-csrf-change-... https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2021-01...

Remember, the S in IoT stands for security!
Yes, in one of Morgan Everett's secret rooms
Interesting article highlighting the relevance of a having a good mentor on early stages. However, I feel there is a slight issue with the "he is a genius and geniuses don't have to work hard" tone.
> San Francisco ended up waiving the fines after the couple agreed to stop parking on the pavement. If the Craines build a cover for the paved property or a garage, officials said they can resume parking on it — in compliance with city code.

So they didn't have to pay the fine, and building the simplest garage would prevent them from being fined again. Seems like a good compromise.
Anyone who recommends desalination and pipelines hasn't looked at how cheap the water on a municipal water bill is, let alone agricultural users: Approx a dollar or two per cubic meter supplied to my doorstep, depending what my consumption rate is. Other cities would be similar range. That's in the range of 0.1 cents per litre
Build static website, run httpd from busybox and call it a day?
My understanding is the state of the law before Dobbs was that late term abortions couldn't be legally prevented if continuing the pregnancy put the woman's physical or mental health at risk. I think depending on how late the abortion is and how grave the danger is a lot of people will flip their position between permitting it and not permitting it.
The number one issue is hardware; particularly memory latency. Unless you have a lot of compute that excels on GPU (like a gorillion matrix multiplications) or a lot of memory that you want to execute, then the execution time is dominated by memory transfer.

Recently I had a task where I wanted to compute just cosine similarities between two vectors. For a couple hundred thousand floats my code spent something like ~1ms on CPU and ~25ms on the GPU. The GPU didn't start winning until I got to the millions of floats. For my use case a better solution was just taking advantage of a SIMD library.
El Ojo – The circular island that moves by itself
In summary "San Francisco ended up waiving the fines after the couple agreed to stop parking on the pavement. If the Craines build a cover for the paved property or a garage, officials said they can resume parking on it — in compliance with city code."
Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives (2013)
uhhh, hate to break it to you bub but a $1M home in the bay area which does not buy you much is going to cost close to $15k a year in property taxes (source: owner of said property in the bay area)
Most HOAs have rules about parking cars on your property if they are visible from the street.
Most places don’t let you park cars on your lawn. But more to the point, why should paying property taxes make you exempt from all laws?
I wonder if they’re more expensive though?
Their car was not entirely on their own property, it was blocking the public right of way.
Can you expand on what disappointed you about Haskell. I’m not looking to convert you or anything, just curious.
The reasoning is to prevent "amassing cars", not to prevent "having a car".

Moving to a city involves some tradeoffs and concessions to public safety & general decorum, but generally giving up arbitrary rights shouldn't be one of those.

Having one car in what is effectively a driveway should not be an offense. In this case, it looks like you wouldn't be able to park on the street there anyway, so if you prevent them from keeping their car there, then there isn't really a better place to keep it. I am a big advocate of mass transit and cycling, but randomly taking people's cars away isn't a good idea.

Besides, even "amassing cars" probably isn't that bad as long as they aren't derelict and you're not setting up a commercial parking lot. One person in my neighborhood has at least 4 interesting ("classic"?) cars in their driveway that they keep covered and/or sparkling clean. I think it's silly to own so many cars, but it's hardly an eyesore or damaging to the local character.

Also don't forget to blame whatever jerk reported the family for this violation. Did they piss off a neighbor?
One could say that giving somebody money without a detailed plan is completely bonkers. US has quite a unique perspective on financial risk-taking.
The point I’m making is that the argument “Well they built it, shouldn’t they benefit” would make sense if these regulations posed any sort of existential threat to their success. But Apple is already so entrenched that regulation like this won’t. The “doing something you right” you speak of is apple making a great product, and they can make a great product without their monopolistic practices.

Furthermore, I don’t think these regulations apply to new/non-entrenched players either, so I don’t think they will stifle innovation.
Given the number of people I see that park their car on their property, without a roof or anything, I wonder if that neighbor has some pull in sf government...
I have strong suspicions that the data doesn't hold up if examined closely, because "suburbs" are just low density towns, and small towns continue to exist nearly everywhere.

Sure maintenance comes around, but it always seems to work out, somehow.
Actually until relatively recently it was perfectly legal to be fully nude in public in San Francisco. They only passed a law when a few aggressive flashers became a problem and public nudity is still mostly tolerated.
This is incorrect. Paypal DOES issue virtual cards that can do NFC through your phone, the same as Google Pay.
> written by someone who has never experienced it

I didn't feel it was a dismissive account.. Plenty of useful writing
on psychology/psychoanalysis is written by practitioners who don't
themselves experience symptoms they study and research.

However, trained psychotherapists are likely to be more sensitive than
clinical psychologists because they must first go through intensive
therapy themselves.

It seems an incredibly complex phenomenon. Just below the surface I
sense there is a very delicate and potentially explosive force of
feelings of the same depth as race and gender issues. I don't think
anyone should be dismissive of it. That said, I am not sure "imposter
syndrome" is the most helpful term, or that there's a single
phenomenon at play, or exactly what's normative or pathological.

After all it's hardly debatable that we live in a "fake society" of
"fake news" and "fake leaders" running things. As Marcuse and Fromm
both said in different ways, such feelings would be a sane reaction to
an insane world. Maybe people with "imposter syndrome" are taking
ownership of a societal projection and are the only ones around smart
enough to know we're all kidding ourselves :)
They're being fined by the city, not a HOA.
> Allow developers to integrate their apps and digital services directly with those belonging to a gatekeeper. This includes making messaging, voice-calling, and video-calling services interoperable with third-party services upon request.

I would think this requirement is satisfied merely by providing a public API / protocol documentation for your protocol, to allow for third-party access and integration, not some weird backend integration that everyone has to support. This would have effects on business models of running chat services for free and it would have an effect on how they handle spam and abuse, but I honestly think both of these changes are likely to be for the better...

Now, I (importantly) have NOT read the actual law text yet, but given the high-level summaries I feel like a lot of people have been worried about this over nothing: having the ability to write a third-party iMessage client would ALLOW someone to build a server-mediated client for it, but I think that SHOULD be allowed, I don't think that in any way destroys the ability to create or use end-to-end clients and services, it would also allow people to build alternative e2e clients and even integrations (imagine a Samsung Android device shipping with iMessage support in their local client) without hurting the existence of end-to-end encryption.
Seems the law was intended to stop people from parking several cars in their yard, like the ones who buy and refit cars for private resale. Maybe the law should be limited to one car per yard? Two? There's always the street.
Prominence is a weird property. Consider Grays and Torreys in Colorado, two 14,000ft mountains that are very close to each other. Both are some of the tallest mountains in the country and almost the same height, but because Grays is about 3ft taller than Torreys it ends up having 5 times the prominence (2750 vs 560).
It's great for pirating mobile video games. My Android-using friends' only use of this feature is to turn their phone into a Gameboy Advance.

Which is pretty great, to be fair, but nowhere near enough to tempt me back to putting up with Android the entire rest of the time I'm using my phone.
If you have not paid everything upfront for 7 years, tell them flat that you cannot continue for 7 years like this so they should address this matter. Don't give them solutions. Ask them for it. For example, don't say "Can we have rebates". Your issue is not that. Your issue is "Need better customer service". So ask them to address that and provide solutions. If they cannot, tell them you will not be able to continue paying them. No need to take an actual action at this point. Wait for their response and go from there.

Stories like these fascinate me. On one hand, you have companies like these that get away with such poor service while our own B2B SMB SAAS company goes above and beyond for customers for almost a tenth of the cost and we still sometimes get the short end of the stick. Guess we should charge more :)
I don't want to be defeatist, but it seems like we can't build magaprojects in the US anymore.
> The cost of the da Vinci robot was obtained from Intuitive Surgical. This analysis utilized the $1.5 million da Vinci-S robot. The cost of the robot was amortized over 5 years; thus, the robot costs $300,000 per year and the service contract is $112,000 per year.

So it adds the cost of one extra surgeon, for the same outcomes, but slower?

Here's a list of advantages. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016020
LGBTQ+ Diversity Builds Better Companies
> cloud computing costs keep going down.

For now.

I also have to keep reminding my coworkers that AWS gives us faster cores every few years but so far they always have the exact same amount of memory. So caching things (especially in process, but also on loop back) to save computation isn’t really a winning long term strategy. It’s never going to get better than what it does for you in the beginning. It will only decline in value.
It's open on Saturdays and Mondays, eh?
Something that is long lasting can be a bit dated by the time it's ten years old, given how fast tech can move.
Were they a tide of untouchable murder ghosts though? Or were they more of a conventional zombie force that could be killed?
I'm curious to learn more about the main advantages of the da Vinci machines in certain contexts, over 'straight-stick' surgery.

The article's author, who is a roboticist rather than a surgeon, paints a picture where robotic surgery does not have a clear advantage over straight-stick surgery due to a lack of training: "In fact, a recent survey of 50 randomized control trials that compared robotic surgery to conventional and laparoscopic surgeries found that outcomes were comparable, and robotic surgeries were actually a bit slower. From my perspective, focusing on education, it’s something of a miracle that outcomes aren’t worse, given that residents are going to their first jobs without the necessary experience. "

To learn from an alternative perspective, what might be an example of a patient condition or objective where robotic surgery may have a meaningful advantage over conventional surgery?
I don't have a game to answer with, but want to share some related sentiments.

"Risk tolerance" is a trait you acquire only when you've never known hunger. Only when you've never been faced with homelessness. Only when you've never been so poor that you can't afford to throw something away, less you may one day need it.

When the worst thing that can come of your failure is going home to a supportive and connected family, a hot meal, and a feather pillow to rest your head, of course you'll be "risk tolerant".

I don't think any game can give you this trait. The only way to acquire it is to be born and raised in a house of abundance.

...though at the same time, the threat of destitution could be a great way to really push one to succeed. "Burn the ships", "necessity is the mother of invention", and all that.
Developers are end users too
I wonder why microsoft never implemented the Magic SysRq keys like linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

It'd let you safely shutdown when the computer is locked up otherwise.
I think the whole concept of having HOAs in many neighborhoods is a very regional thing. I live in upstate NY and pretty much every single-family homes neighborhood around me does not have an HOA. The only neighborhoods which have HOAs are those with large numbers of multi-family homes, like townhomes.

In some ways it's nice to not have an HOA, no one bugs me if my lawn is looking sad. But in other ways it would be nice to have a unified group to take care of some neighborhood things, like unifying garbage pickup since we have private garbage companies here: there's probably 6 different companies who service my neighborhood on all 5 days of the week, it would be nice if we all just had 1 and probably we could all save some money this way too.
"Increased expectations" from consumers (due to increased prices), can account for all of these extra problems that didn't exist before.

Since the survey used and the methodology aren't presented, it's anybody's guess.
The optimum is very likely near one of the extrema. Either 0% or 100%.

Anything in between will just mix all the problems of a cloud with all the problems of running a datacenter.
There were recommended portion sizes based on our weight, but we didn't have to weigh anything or count calories etc, it was more important that we ate the right ratios and certain types of food every week.

We also were given sample meal recipes.
Yeah I’m not doing that thanks
30% is an insane amount.
With sideloading, developers with market power will be able to force iOS users into worse conditions than the standard App Store. You can bet that FB will get everyone onto their sideloaded version ASAP, and I doubt it will respect the "Ask App Not to Track Me". Then, once everyone has figured out sideloading with FB, the bar will be lower for other apps and suddenly the consumer protections of the App Store are weaker for everyone.
IBM i on modern Power machines is fine as far as performance goes.

The hideous frontend of greenscreen RPG programs is optional, you could replace them with Java if anyone cared enough about UX for internal tools (they don't).

The hard part with that stack is getting RPG devs - most of them are 50+ and expensive.