skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A circle is harder to build and has more issues regarding sunlight. The sun hitting the building(s) is both a benefit (solar cells) and a problem (heat generation) at the same time. A linear structure will get a much more even energy distribution than a circle.

Also one of the goals of the project is to reduce the energy needs of the population by making ways shorter. If you spread a city out on a circle, you got a much more complicated and expensive transportation problem than just the linear structure presented here.
They don't care about security, they just want proof that they did what they could when disaster happens.
I wear glasses, have ADHD, and take ADHD medication. Glasses make me see perfectly well. Medication, sadly, restores about 40% of my executive activity, I still can’t do many things that come effortlessly to a normal person (thankfully, I also can do some things that are usually difficult for neurotypical people, and the medication doesn’t make it worse).
As weird as it feels, this might actually be one of the very few cases where platforms are willing to throw users under the bus for better ad money...

Youtube demonetizing creators with too aggressive stances is an example of that, but we also had Reddit banning whole subreddits when their sheer existence had a nefarious effect on the platform's ability to negotiate ads.

When the choice comes down to more active users but lower prices offered, vs less users and better ad prices, platform tend to go for the latter I think (4/5/8 chan being exceptions)
I'm sure that I am missing something obvious here, but why are car purchases exempt from the threshold reduction? Dealers/dealerships must come under an awful lot of regulatory scrutiny - or pressure from elements keen to keep transactions private. Or maybe the exception applies to only person-to-person sales, and not buinesses.
Microsoft are trying to enforce a monopoly on hardware, where is the https://www.sec.gov/ on this?
Yeah, the average laypersons idea of crypto seems to be that it's totally anonymous. When I explain that most are pseudonymous not anonymous and that every single transaction being publicly visible forever is a feature, not a bug they seem pretty shocked.
It depends on the person. We've had fans of scientific activity since the first year. Well, I had problems even writing down lectures.

Sooner or later, you just get embarrassed and try harder. Sometimes you even turn to platitudes like: https://custom-writing.org/blog/36-best-websites

I mean, everyone has a limit when people start to act.
This is kind of a romantic view of shamelessness, but really the way the examples provided seem to play out is more like a carnival barker whipping up a mob for short term ends or for a grift. I am sure we can all think of various examples like that.

Where a low level of shame is actually helpful in my own experience is when it is used along with transparency, as a way to get honest feedback early. “I’ve been working on this, and I’m not sure about it, but what do you think?” It works for creative as well as practical ends.
So when there was a black market for banned goods, there now is a black market for banned goods AND banned money. No?
I second that.

I suggest they don’t then them back on. Eventually a startup who can deal with either TAI or leap seconds will take their place.
It's misleading to call something "no rights reserved" when the very problem is that it does explicitly reserve patent rights.
Iirc, there are two approaches to managing your treadmill.

You either use one treadmill with a fixed size abject header/pointer. The “guts” of the object are placed on a heap which gets spaghettified and fragmented pretty fast, especially if your not going to move bodies, because… real time.

The other approach is to use multiple treadmills/rings for different size objects. Different rings are then used for different sizes of objects. In this way, your heap fragmentation/locality improves, but at the added cost of indirecting on object size.
Selling Vertically-Farmed “Omakase” Strawberries, for the Price of a Full Meal
The market never knows when will it oversupply. Especially for something that takes time like housing

That's one of the reasons of past housing bubbles

"Oversupply" is also dependent on the actual target market. Several places lack cheaper housing but have an oversupply of more expensive ones (more bdrs, fancier areas, etc)
What are the practical issues for finance and control systems?
I still don't understand how those supposed money laundering plots work. E.g. if you buy a house with dirty money, wouldn't the tax agency still ask you why you suddenly own a house and how you could afford to buy it?

My tax agency already asks questions if my living costs seem too low...
Isn't this kind of like the old broom and handle thing? Anyway, still interesting.
Google Play Store celebrates 10 years with a new logo
Yeah, but encryption is purposed as a security feature, Lidar is a data collection feature.

https://www.opentopography.org/blog/iphone-lidar-application...
Cash transactions seem to be on the way out in most Indian metros.

However, once you move out of the big cities and into the small towns, cash still rules.
Culturally, Israelis only value privacy in very narrow contexts that are carved out and afforded protection in law (reputational and medical privacy). This is a country where there are security guards who open your bags before you can enter public places like government offices, malls, and public transit terminals, and airport security at Ben Gurion is world-famous for its invasiveness.

Israelis accept this because Ben Franklin's quote about liberty and security falls on deaf ears here. To Israelis, security is a pre-requisite for liberty, not the other way around, and there is wide public support for measures that would be completely DOA in the US, like government identity registries (that now include facial scans and fingerprint databases, with fingerprinting admittedly optional but fingerprinting extends the validity period of issued identification) and extremely strict gun control.

Financial security is pretty much the same, for example, most of the Israeli drug trade links back to terrorist organizations and as such a "war on cash" is seen by many as fighting against terrorists as well.
Ha ha, okay you got me. It's a piece of code that is for demonstration only. But I needed a simple piece of code that speaks of shrinking, without making the front page an exercise in design patterns.
I don't know a lot about GC and didn't know about this before I saw this on HN, but I think it is super elegant. One thing I didn't understand: Are all objects assumed to be exactly the same size? Since allocation is just the move of a pointer, that appears to be the case. But how would that work if one would want to implement Treadmill for a language like Java where object sizes vary?
My view is you should pay the cost of removing the carbon you emit. The market forces would then give a very strong incentive to both be much less carbon intensive as well as develop better co2 removal strategies.
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2005) [pdf]
I think it would have regularly spaced tunnels traversing the structure and they would just move sand with machines if necessary.

They could also put nets some kilometers in front of the thing to catch most of it and deposit itself as dunes there, maybe try to fixate is with some vegetation if at all possible.
Avalon feels closely related to Mafia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
Out of respect for the creator, hopefully that code is not valid.

(Content creator here.)
Doesn't matter how large the space is, it will fill up eventually.
As an aside, that’s more of a much later creative reinterpretation of the poem. Since it’s your favorite, you might be interested in knowing a more direct translation of the original poem:

—

Beyond heresy and faith, there's another place,

we yearn for what's in the midst of that desert plain.

When the gnostic arrives there, he prostrates his face,

there's no heresy, faith, or place in that domain.

—

The originals are definitely worth checking out, and to be honest (imho) make those later reinterpretations look a little suspect because they are just so wildly different.
I read Conversationally Speaking by Alan Pease a long time ago, and I can really say it changed my life.

It's a self help book on how to have better conversations. The main point I took away was that its usually pretty cool to acknowledge that you had heard what the other person had said, before you make your response.

So, when I have a conversation, I make sure to restate what the other person is trying to communicate to me as accurately as possible, to make sure that I understood the comment and that my interlocutor can see that I have heard them. Saved my relationship with my brother, improved my relationships with my friends, helped me making many more friends - 10/10 recommend
Besides the complaints of the author, I noticed recently that:

- They stopped displaying the name of the account under the stories circles at the top, so you don't know who's story you're clicking on unless you memorized their profile photo. Since I only want to click on stories of people I know closely, I now choose not to watch any stories at all.

- They moved the activity (heart) from the main bottom icon navigation and up to the top right next to the dm icon, signifying they're giving it less relevance than it's new replacement, the shopping icon!

- They're pushing shopping in seemingly half the posts showing up in the newsfeed now.

The combination of shopping and forced watching of video reels has me ready to cancel my account entirely. I don't use instagram to watch videos or shop, but even if I did decide to do one of those, which I never would, I don't want it forced on me.
Twitter has also been doing this since a few months ago. And there's no way to disable it, no matter how often I tell it to "see this less often". Sometimes half the posts I see on the feed are recommended posts from people I don't follow nor care about. Not to mention the "notifications" bell has been useless for years now because all my notifications are suggested posts from people I follow. It's a total perversion of UX to try to hijack our habits for the sake of engagement. For people with attention deficit that just visit these websites sporadically with specific goals, this trend is really disgusting.
I've always thought that at some point the only "stomachable" version of windows is going to be some hacked offering, by god-knows-who or from where, but it'll still end up being preferable to what MS is requiring.
I suspect this too. As people skill up, they become interesting to more productive companies. Some companies pay more to new hires than old ones, but that’s just counter-productive.
This seems extreme, but it's actually already common in some European countries (e.g. Italy where the limit is 999€).
This article has the right facts, but the wrong conclusion.

Shamelessness by itself won't take you anywhere.

Take the Paris Hilton story for example. It was never about Paris, but always about the public. A certain perception of her made the news, so she just played along and amplified.

Same for the Merlin-as-Percival tactic. Don't try it with a bunch of kids.

Since people here like to start companies: it's never about you, your idea or product. It's always about the others, their feelings, their perceptions, and how you are able to play along an amplify.
Lidar is not military grade. Where did you pull that from?

You can get Lidar on all sorts of civilian applications, from height mapping on drone photography, to driving assistance on cars.
The lidar on phones is over-kill, depth mapping in photos or cheap crappy AR are not great use cases, but that doesn't make it a privacy problem.
Source: https://m.calcalistech.com/Article.aspx?guid=3741791
> Released in 2016, the batteries are now aged and 10s of millions of AirPods cases are ending up in landfills.

Planned obsolescence is dirty. Why is it such a struggle for a companies to be both successful and offer repairable devices?
Part of his one person job is brokering jobs...

Recruiting seems so broken that I've been tempted to do it myself.
There are very few systems that care about second-level time that leapseconds don't cause issues for. They are almost universally mishandled by widespread systems, so much so that we even get multi-million dollar scale internet disruptions due to leapseconds when there hasn't even been a leapsecond.

I doubt anyone talking about the elimination of the leapsecond is unaware of TAI but TAI is not readily available on general purpose computers (and, increasingly, UTC is being silently substituted for leap-smeared UTC). And for specialized systems attempts to make pockets of TAI break down when they have to talk to the outside world (and have consistent times with it) and/or due to hardcoded leapsecond tables in software.
>I've already replaced dimmers to work with LEDs.

While not impossible - the LED driver is a switch mode power supply, most of them would be universal one taking 90V-260V with rather variable frequency. What dimmers do - they chop the sine wave, normally that would not affect too much the driver (aside made them hot or require more bulk capacitance, which they lack) - so they have to know that the sine wave was chopped and react by reducing the duty cycle, reducing the brightness of the LEDs. That complicates the driver, however if you don't keep the LEDs at full brightness and they are not hot on touch - they should last.

The other option would be communicating through the zero cross of the sine wave, but I doubt very much it's the case.

The external dimmer is not a smart feature but more like necessity, unfortunately.
>Maybe this would have gone over better with the community

What community is that, exactly?

Because at least here in 2D land most seem to be accepting censorship and “moderation”
> I also want to add some mounts on the hydraulic lifting bed so my parents can pickup their trash cans and drive them down their country road-like driveway all the way to the public road for trash pickup.

Helpful tip for anyone else with a really long driveway like mine: I hooked a couple of straps to the back of my golf cart with extra large carabiners on the loose end that I can easily clip on to my trash cans. Works great and cost me under $40. Initially I kept trying to think of ways to lift/mount the trash cans to my cart but the cans can get pretty heavy once full. Since they already have wheels, I just tilt them slightly, clip on the carabiners, and off I go.
So is the camera on your phone purely a data collection feature that should be removed?

How about the touch screen/keyboard?
Already reports of the project being unable to retain key executives because of irrational demands by government officials. [0]

This is going to be much harder than anyone realizes.

0: https://www.wsj.com/articles/expatriate-executives-flee-saud...
Of course, the pop-up cookies are annoying, and I could say I don't think about them at all.

Most of the time, I click the first thing that comes up. However, I have noticed that this only happens on trusted sites.

On sites I don't know, I prefer to either close the window or "reject all." But how it pisses me off!
Google is trying to fix mistakes of Google Glasses, Glassholes are coming back
This will continue as long as rising property values is seen as a good thing. That’s why local governments promote price growth through land-use regulations.
If we fail to save the only planet that we have, Our children will never forget us.
That’s bad. However none of the issues they have are unsolvable. Just add EAC and provide an official mod api through a workshop or launcher. Creating a healthy eco system of moderators is doable as well.
If textual communication is about the lowest common denominator of capabilities, no one would be commenting in hacker news comments :)
I think transport would be infinitely worse in a linear city.

In a traditional street network, there are many ways to get from A to B and one link being unavailable is not the end of the world. Forcing everyone onto essentially the same street is guaranteed to cause both high fragility and high congestion, since everyone has to squeeze into the same line.
> It's precompiled into C, creating a native executable.

This reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's original implementation of C++ which was also transpiled to C. That was known as "Cfront" compiler at the time.
How would crypto currencies solve this issue? Crypto transactions above that value are also illegal and traceable. If you wanted to break the law it would be easier to just keep using regular cash.

OR just use your bank account / card to send money, which is kinda like crypto but easier and legal.
UK Amazon Prime subscription price raised by £1 a month
What little kid is going to own multi-hundred dollar VR systems.
When it comes to security someone must always sleep with one eye open - co-owning this responsibility is totally reasonable. Microsoft takes security seriously and is investing heavily in it; if they are already in your orgs trust boundaries I see no reason why they wouldn't be considered good stewards for this as well.

Besides, at enterprise scale, how do you trust internal teams? It could all be security theater and they aren't delivering on their promises as well.
Good, if companies want those features, then they can be the ones to pay the price in privacy. Otherwise, let me set an OTP bit to disable all Management Engine kinds of functionality on the CPU permanently.
Its been always like that.

1982 Victor 9000 / Sirius 1 designed by Chuck Peddle of Commodore/MOS 6502 fame had floppy capacity extended from standard IBM PC 180KB all the way up to 600KB per side. 1.2MB floppy in 1982 using same magnetic medium! How? Software controlled drive with 6502 doing GCR combined with Zoned Constant Linear Velocity and Zone bit recording. There were still hard drives being manufactured not using ZBR 8 years later (Seagate ST-157A)!

It also did 25x80 text using 10x16 font or 800x400 bitmap graphics at 76Hz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Systems_Technology http://oldcomputers.net/victor9000.html

There was also an IBM PC 8088 clone in ~1984 with "dedicated Video DMA" implemented by Intel MCS-48 microcontroller (8042/8048, same chip as keyboard controllers at the time), sadly I cant remember the name and google fails me :( I do remember nobody used it for anything and the only coding example I could find at the time was a singular YT video where someone reverse engineered manufacturer demo and reused it for its own sprite engine.
> Barycentric Dynamic Time

This named after bary Centre?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter
Anti-vax dating site advertising ‘mRNA FREE’ semen left all user data exposed
Millions of people already live in manufactured blocks of some sort of other under worse conditions than presented here.

This is not a space habitat. It is climate controlled, it has access to the surroundings and there actually isn't that much building around you at any time. The major difference is that it is more thought out and uniform over a large area. It's not going to be built, ever, but it's a nice idea and some of the counter arguments aren't valid.
"breaking the law" is the only entry in the "what is bitcoin good for" discussion that everyone already agrees on. I thought the point was getting away from that image though.
If kids are banned from the service then people shouldn't bother trying to protect them on the service. That's the responsibility of their parents not the owners of the service.
Nop because the authorities will consider the value of your barter (equivalent in cash of your good, gold, silver, gas, ...)
I am a teenager at heart I guess, because + anything and I was cracking up. I needed the laugh, thanks a lot, this is fantastic.
People had agreed on GMT before that. Because we kept getting hit with bugs related to day light saving people invented UTC instead.

We have IAT if you want a monotonic measure of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

Use the right tool for the right job. UTC is what it is. Trying to redefine it is as stupid as redefining a foot so 3 feet are a meter exactly.
For me if I type two emojis it starts showing suggestions for other emojis, and the first one is always the kitchen combo if it exists.
Like technology, cities of the future are slowly built. Just dig into what New York city is doing in alternate/green energy. This doesn't happen overnight, unless you're a magical Middle-Eastern YouTube video.
Franklin’s quote was about liberty (of the legislature) to tax so it is even more apposite here
When I was deciding on where to immigrate to in 2006, I had job offers from the UK, Canada and the USA.

I ruled out the USA because of the CFAA. I do not like second guessing everything I do online whether it violates a badly written federal law. Of course, United States v. Elcom Ltd. didn't make me much happier. Three Felonies A Day came out later and it just strengthens all this. We also should mention the almost complete lack of social net and the insane health care system.

There are numerous arguments that by now the United States is a failed state https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-usa-election/ https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-wo... etc.
Most modern rabbinical authorities forbid them. Source: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4624319/jewis...
The really rich often have too much political influence on elections, they push to get their taxes reduced effectively. This happens in the us where the terrible supreme court ruling said money was speech, basically making it so rich people could give all they want towards political causes. This is very destructive.

The rich then get tax cuts for themselves that aren't applicable to regular people (like most all of us). Example of something we should address - bezos and musk get loans on their vast stock holdings. The loans aren't taxable. If their holdings slowly get higher in value, they never have to sell their stock to get that value (or they have so much they never get a margin call). They can pass on those stocks to their heirs which can reset the price. I wish we all had a billion in stock and we could get a few tens of millions in loans to live off of, never triggering a capital gains tax.

Another example is wealth taxes, which would be something along the line of Steve Ballmer has to pay 1/2 % of his wealth over 100 million or something every year. But what if he doesn't have ready available cash for that, people say, it's hard to value things. Somehow we could do it. And we never think about it, but everyone who owns a house has to pay a wealth tax every year! We normal people pay wealth taxes, the really rich should probably have to do it too. All the same arguments about changing values and not have ready money from an expensive asset applies to every home own in america who pays property tax.
Isn't the idea that you'd get paid for use of a LoRaWAN access point pretty much the same thing as money. Sure, earning HNT for mining/proof of coverage is nice, but I see the long term game is pretty much earning money (via crypto) for use of your home internet connection. Otherwise why the hell are you building a wireless network in the first place?
I'm so confused... What are you two getting on about?

Is it just me or is it like two GPT-3 bots having a conversation?
The European Central Bank decided to discontinue issuing the €500 note back in 2019[0], "due to concerns of widespread use for illegal purposes"[1].

It wouldn't surprise me if other central banks/governments were to take this approach in a future crackdown on cash, step by step getting rid of the largest denomination.

It would get pretty hard to use cash for large payments if there weren't any large banknotes available.

(Full disclosure: the largest cash payment I've ever made was in fact made in those very €500 notes, pre-2019...)

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/html/index.en.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_euro_note