skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Case in point: remote work. If the environment was our biggest concern, remote work wouldn't be a discussion.

You'd think so, but the evidence is less than clear with some pre-corona studies suggesting WFH resulting in more emissions: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13762-014-0556-5

And some people involved in the transit space think that corona didn't change that: https://twitter.com/alon_levy/status/1538697382958968834

The basic gist is, the best way to reduce carbon emissions from transport is to drive less. This is most easily accomplished by being poor/expensive fuel (slightly unpopular) or living somewhere central with short distances and good alternatives (like walking, biking or transit). People switching to remote work tend to move out of dense locations, increasing the distance they need to drive for non-work activities and to the time they do drive for work.
Summary:

- US-based meditation app Calm has axed 20% of its workforce which affect about 90 people from its 400-person staff. The firm did not elaborate on the reason for the cuts.

- Peloton also announced another round of job cuts, affecting 800 people. Peloton axed roughly 3,000 jobs in February. The company has been wrestling with falling sales, as demand for its tech-connected exercise equipment drops.
I find it sticks like glue and then I end up pulling of the seared coat and leaving the tasty bits burned on to the pan.

A well seasoned cast iron pan lets me move the steak or burger round and build up a nice coat on it.
The US housing market is regulated and subsidised…the American dream of owning a home is socialist…US mortgages are guaranteed by federal government.. this doesn’t happen in most other countries..
Any commodization of a necessary resource for living is inherently unethical. I know this isn't a popular opinion on HN, but I need you to think about this not as the property owner but as the tenant
Speed is relative. What you want is the right speed of getting things done, not just being faster by default. It is as important to slow down in operations as it is to speed up as it is to just run things stable. The true art of good ops management is knowing to do those things, in parallel depending on the subject at hand, and to judge which approach to choose. The article didn't even hint at that.
It's definitely a section on the Toden Arakawa Line, the last surviving streetcar line in Tokyo. The catenaries look like them, especially the 3rd one in with the tower-like structures. Those are likely the ones built over 100 years ago when the line opened.

My best guess is this crossing that's just a little bit south of the Shin-Koshinzuka station:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.740949,139.7302377,43m
https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-food/question...

>Some PFAS are approved for use in the manufacture of non-stick cookware coatings. These coatings are made of molecules that are polymerized (i.e., joined together to form large molecules) and applied to the cookware through a heating process that tightly binds the polymer coating to the cookware. Studies show that this coating contains a negligible amount of PFAS capable of migrating to food
i could never bring myself to trust the app, so i made a browser extension to make using the web version less painful (skips the dark pattern page where the "join from browser" link is often hidden).

its open source so if ya dont trust this installer either, grab it from GitHub, its only a few lines of code :) hopefully others find it useful:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-web-launcher/...
Glad you found it useful. You don't have to use unicode if you don't want to, of course. Spartan uses the same gemtext format that Gemini does. A big appeal to me is that it's easier to write gemtext files that gophermaps. Gophermaps feel like a kludge in comparison.

The cool thing about something like Spartan is that you could implement a browser on a microcontroller. HTML would be a lost cause. Imagine something like an ESP32 with a touch-screen. You could create a complete browsing device for less than 25 quid, say. Likewise for gopher.

If I may be permitted a small plug, I have a forked version of the bombadillo browser here:
https://gitlab.com/mcturra2000/bombadillo
You can use it on a terminal. It allows you to browse Spartan, which the original does not. It also allows a printing facility, so that you can pipe output to another process.
This must be relatively new. There was a period of at least several years prior to Windows 11 where I don’t believe it was possible to download without logging into the website.
Railways are practical to go fast from a transportation hub to another transportation hub, without much stops in the middle. Local railways are fading away because last miles transportation needs to be more flexible that what railways can offer.
Well, it's that and iron. If I understand correctly, cat iron cookware is sometimes recommended for people who are anemic.
How do you propose we would — systematically — provide housing to people who, for whatever reason, are not in a position to buy? Should housing be bifurcated into government-provided housing for renters and privately-owned housing for those fortunate enough to have the money and stability to buy? Would you like to live in government housing, or would you prefer to keep the investor-owned rental option, but have them pass a bunch of new taxes onto their customers? Or maybe, just maybe, realize that property rentals are a necessary service that is handled pretty well by the private markets and that landlords are no more or less deserving of earning a profit for the service they provide and risk they take on?
> and don't arse around on the internet all day

I feel personally attacked!
arguing against owning your home is arguing in favor of rent-seeking
I have experienced violent muggings myself, witnessed violence/assaults, sometimes even without reason or purpose, in Brazil, specifically Rio/Sao Paolo, Oakland/South Berkeley(during the early/mid 2000s before the tech hit), Bogota, and Medellin. I lived years in Mexico(CDMX/tlalnapantla) and experienced all but the most opportunist crimes, like pickpockets, and nonviolent crimes.

Contrast that with living in a very poor neighborhood in Chisinau, in Moldova. Iasi, in Romania, Kiev, and Saint petersburg. I never really felt in danger at all, I could walk home at whatever hour, go on a walk, take out my cellphone. The closest to being dangerous was desperate drug addicts in St. Petersburg.

These places/slums in eastern europe are just as poor, have the same problems with the same drugs. But the level of random violence in 'diverse' places just doesn't exist. I know it sounds fucked up like I am a fox news anchor, or something, but it is just something I have noticed.

It seems the more monoculture a society is the more safe it is in the poor areas. Specifically Europe, Asia, and the middle east. I don't know how to explain it without sounding like a racist so I wont.
No, it doesn't bother me because it's a self-inflicted problem.

Low interest rates, zoning laws limiting supply, a shift into urban centers. It's really a perfect storm that pushed housing prices up and just encourage people to speculate.
It could have been avoided. More housing could have been built. Government incentives to "get people owning their own homes" could have been better structured to avoid just goosing prices.

People treat houses like investments because, well, they produce returns like investments. If they didn't, people wouldn't look at them that way. You can't blame people for responding to incentives.

The best way to get people to stop buying houses houses as investments is to make them less attractive investments. Everything else will fail. Higher taxes, vacancy taxes, foreigner taxes - it all just encourages fraud, gaming the system, bending the rules. Take a look at Singapore's mess of public housing with built in profits. Every year they roll out some new rule to try and stay on top of it and every year Singaporean's get around the rule because it's just too lucrative not to.

But if you've been around long enough you'll realize it's a problem that will solve itself. Markets correct. People will move where houses are cheaper. Interest rates eventually rise. New houses will get built. New cities will become "desirable" and some old ones won't.

I remember back in 2008 when houses went from "you're a sucker if you don't buy now" to "I'm never owning a house again". It flipped like a light switch when suddenly the gravy train halted. Condo developers in Miami were selling units for $30k and had no buyers.

All this talk of "houses are being treated like a commodity" is just an observation, at a single point of time, at the top of the boom bust cycle. If you take a step back, you realize it's just a blip in time.

It reminds me of the quote from the movie Margin Call: "And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react. And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same."
> My town is famous for being a city that feels like a bunch of neighborhoods.

Ha, I think everywhere I've lived has described itself like this.

Maybe it's less common in the US because you don't have cities swallowing up villages.
100 hours a week is no life.

If you can eliminate the average 90 minutes a day commuting Americans do, along with the average 20 hours a week spent cooking and cleaning et cetera by hiring people to do that for you, a rich person can have more life working 60 hours a week than a poor person has working 40.

Carmack is a high level martial artist. That would have required a significant time commitment.
https://github.com/pbatard/Fido/issues/41 and https://github.com/pbatard/Fido/pull/42
I think a trick might be to:

- Go with geographic rather than political regions where possible

- For political regions, have an alternative motive (e.g. traditional versus simplified characters for Taiwan versus Mainland China), and expressing that in a non-political way. Potentially, add a disclaimer.
- "A number of local legends surround the pillar. One of them has it that the top of the rock was connected by a long iron chain to the dome of the Katskhi church, located at a distance of around 1.5 km from the pillar.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katskhi_pillar

Is that plausible, for medieval engineering? Are there other examples like this?
Do yourself, friends and family a favour and stop trying on different computers. You're installing spyware on all those machines.
Geological History of Oxygen
Works fine for me. Can you give an example?

One thing I have issues with is autocomplete and using . to repeat the last edit (which includes the autocomplete). Other than that, all fine.

Edit: all the vim commands give me a huge advantage on productivity when editing. All the GUI with plugins gives me a huge advantage on project navigation. Would love to see anyone do better using either one or the other.
We did it with browsers, didn't we? And we rightfully complain when MS is defaulting back to Edge after an update. Sure, LinkedIn, ask me once if I want ro use the app. Accept that I stick to the browser / website and don't make the website experience arbitarily worse on mobile just to nudge me into using your app. Same principle, and honestly a lilegit use case for cookies so that LinkedIn can remember my decision.
In the United States, we call that “property tax”.
This is part of what I'm choosing to call the Tyranny of Austrian Economists [1]. There is an irrational belief, particularly in the US, that the market will somehow magically solve everything.

What you have with institutional investment in real estate, NIMBYism and the treatment of housing as an asset where it becomes a political goal to increase its value (and thus, by definition, reduce its accessibility) is an example of the exploitation of inelastic demand.

People need housing. There are other things they need like food, which has also been commoditized [2]. How about insulin? By having super-expensive insulin in the US you are quite literally profiting off something that people will die without.

Government is what's required here to protect people from predatory hyper-capitalism. It's also why any ideas like anarchism and libertarianism are so stupid.

Debt is built into your existence. Thing slike the commoditization and profit-seeking of inelastic demand are designed to keep you in debt, at work and compliant. It is a systemic problem.

On a personal level, yeah this isn't something I'd want to work on. You also have to live in the world so I don't really blame individuals for doing what they have to go to get by. For those of us who are fortunate to have choices on what not wo work on, yeah I'd hope you'd choose something that isn't designed to profit from human misery.

My one piece of advice is this: if you do choose to do something morally questionable, for your own sake, don't try and rationalize it. Be prepared to say "yeah this thing sucks but a few years of this will make life-changing money" or something like that. Personally, agree or not, I'll respect that as honest (FWIW). Just don't create some contorted rationalization for how it's actually ethical.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School

[2]: https://theweek.com/articles/492432/did-goldman-sachs-provok...
Up until rencently I didn't like gdb much, but this was mainly for one thing I got wrong all the time: Make a code change, recompile, restart gdb and start again debugging.

Then I learned: you never need to stop gdb! Just enter "r" and it will restart the program with the fresh changes leaving all breakpoints and setup intact.

Game changer to me.
It happens if you try to flip things too early. Once you have a seared crust, it's easy to release.
Georgism is the idea that, although the improvements built on land can be owned by a private person, land itself cannot, being a part of the natural world which is by right the common property of all humankind. By this idea, anyone claiming exclusive use of a piece of land owes to the community a rent equal to the value of the unimproved land. This idea extends to all that is (or ought to be) the commons: natural resources, pollution, the EM spectrum, etc.

If you think about it this makes perfect sense: why is a small lot in a city (say central Paris) worth millions while a 10ha estate in the Australian outback worth a few thousand? Because of the community that throughout the generations built the city into a place with value where people want to live. It is therefore to the community that this economic value belongs.

Beyond the moral dimension of this proposal, there is also a surprising economic depth: this rent/"tax" would discourage unproductive use of land, as speculators cannot afford to sit in a property, wait for its value to go up, and collect the income from the hard work of the community around it.

I'll leave you with some quotes:

The tax upon land values is, therefore, the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive. It is the takingby the community, for the use of the community, of that value which is thecreation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of thecommunity, then will the equality ordained by Nature be attained. No citizen will have an advantage over any other citizen save as is given by his industry, skill, and intelligence; and each will obtain what he fairly earns. Then, but not till then, will labor get its full reward, and capital its natural return.

—Henry George

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

—John Stuart Mill

The underlying problem is the whole structure of our economy which has become more oriented at increasing rents than increasing productivity and real economic growth that would be widely shared in our society... but a tax on land rents would actually address some of the underlying problems. This is an idea that Henry George had more than 100 years ago but the analysis that I have done says it would actually go one step beyond Henry George. Henry George argued for a land tax because it was non-distortionary but this analysis says that a land tax actually improves the productivity of the economy because you encourage people to invest in productive capital rather than into rent generating wealth and the result of that shift in the composition of savings toward more productive investment leads to a more productive economy and leads to a more equal society.

—Milton Friedman (and believe me, I don't often quote Milton Friedman!)
Small electric 1/2 person transport devices (bikes, motorbikes, scooters, micro-cars, ...) are the future for high density. Everyone needs to go to a different place. Then for longer rides, regrouping those small rides in "trains", as I was saying "composition", should be the way to go.
Yep!

Being 100% remote, in theory we could all be digital nomads and still operate.

In reality we mostly work from home and get together every 3 or so months for a regional meet up.

Most of the bonding happens during the company meet ups, random conversations while you are working together on the beach or whatever.

You figure out “oh hey such a person likes that hobby or is into this genre of music e.g.”
Depends to what level they are raised, of course. Making something prohibitively expensive and then saying "hey look you can still technically do it, it's just not worth your time and you have to really execute everything perfectly" is not super different from just saying you can't do it.
I'd argue some modern hardware e.g. NVME SSDs already expose a hardware interface that would let a new transactional storage API be faster than what we have right now. Unfortunately it is a rare example in a see full of specs that do their best to avoid providing clear semantics and guarantees like atomic sector writes.

I guess the next study would need to look into what manufacturers actually fully adhere to the spec. They've not exactly shown best behaviour in that regard in the past (lying about fsync etc) :(
I even saw the phrase "natural disaster" being used in another article. Perhaps it's mis-translated, and they mean "man-made ecological disaster".

But there's someone out there who is responsible, who made the decision to dump huge amounts of toxic industrial waste into the water, and that is a serious crime of massive scale. (EDIT: On second thought, this could have been an accident.)

It permanently poisoned the river for its surrounding ecosystem and communities.
But that’s the problem. The housing market is becoming what the food production market would be without the pressure and government involvement.

Right now the supply of those two good and their general dynamics are totally different. Landlords can effectively extract maximum profit from a property without doing anything to improve it or remain competitive thanks to zoning restrictions and other things that make increasing supply difficult. Thanks to this set up, landlords effectively wind up capturing the capital gains that arise out of public improvements (like adding a new neighborhood park) as well since it makes the area more desirable without increasing supply.

In the most desirable areas you can literally do nothing as a landlord and raise rents almost perpetually.

Worse once these landlords raise rents it causes negative effects downstream. Producers of other goods that rent their land need to start charging more to pay the landlords.

The number of people that try to justify some kind of late pseudo-feudalist system like this is legitimately insane.
> EDIT: Assume that the object to be contained in the list is non-Assignable as is the case with any non-trivial objects, for example those holding large memory buffers, file descriptors, threads etc.

In C++11 this is solved with move semantics resp. std::list::emplace_*. Also, nothing prevents you from using intrusive lists in C++.
And people who own more valuable land benefit proportionally more from state services.
I suppose it's so the dev/mod can read what's written. Otherwise there could be tons of bad stuff that he might be liable for, and not be able to read to remove.
We actually do this in our internal framework. All secrets (passwords, key material, etc) that we have in documentation and example projects are blacklisted for production in the framework itself and applications refuse to start.
Sorry but it's likely something is messed up with your computer or your internet connection. It works for billions of people, something is off. Google meets is not some inherently not-working piece of software.
Well the issue can be even more profound than that: areas that actually physically cannot be walked at all (excluding technicalities like walking on busy roads). On the bright side, you can't be arrested for walking somewhere that doesn't even let you walk there.
This is a useful nuts-and-bolts discussion of the academic routine, but I'd disagree with this conclusion:

> "It’s your company. Mathematicians each run a small business. We work in
malls called math departments. Your company sells theorems. Your advisor is a free
consultant for your company, not your boss, not your employee. Ultimately YOU are
responsible for the success of your company..."

The adoption of corporate entrepreneur model of academic research is one of the worst, if not the worst, things about the current American academic system. Why?

First of all, who is funding this 'company'? Not you, in all likelihood - it's the tax-paying public who finances the majority of the funding train that keeps academic institutions afloat. What does the public expect in return, ideally?

Well, how about producing highly skilled teachers, that seems important in a technological society, where mathematical skills are in general critically important. Hence, a critical part of the PhD student's job (and the professor's) is the instruction of the undergraduate population. This article doesn't even mention the importance of that role.

Secondly, corporate research is highly secretive and non-collaborative in nature, as the goal is creation of intellectual property that can be sold on for a profit. This attitude is entirely at odds with the most successful acadamic model for making scientific progress, i.e. collaboration and rapid sharing of results. If you spend your time in academia worrying about people stealing your work and not trusting anyone, it's going to be a fairly miserable experience.

My advice is to toss the corporate enterpreneur model in the garbage bin.
Heap Overflows on iOS ARM64
The implication of the ancient Roman theatre is that the person is trying to make a public space (theatre) private (their own use / enjoyment).

The implication being that the only rent seeker will be the state i assume
i don't have 'personal freedom' because i rent ?
It is! I drink one 300ml mug of strong coffee (or two of thin coffee) a day and that feels like enough for sure.