skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know much about their long term business strategy but what bothers me is that they’re vague about how they intend to achieve the flight mission objectives. This is very different than SpaceX which focused on reusable rockets and landing them.

As for materials, the main advantage of composites is the strength to weight ratio but they’re more challenging to work with compared to aluminum and titanium. Heat is one aspect but there are many more challenges. It’s been done though for example B787 and A350 are mostly composite. So Boom has a genuine advance here over Concorde. But supersonic flight is inherently fuel inefficient due to wave drag so the economy doesn’t make sense.
That's very kind of you. I've noticed that people are more likely to post thankyous, compliments, and other nice things when I've been complaining. Bit of a...dangerous incentive!
First of all, let’s give a round of applause to Charles. Few thought he would be king. Many assumed Liz was holding on just to spite him. You did it, Chucky!

Second, now is a good time to figure out if Reptoids can hold their shape when dead. I’ve never seen a definitive answer in the literature.
That makes this even more hilarious. Thanks for sharing.

tl;dr: don't bother leaving reviews, it's an apparently risky activity. Leave it for the scammers, exclusively :(
NIMBY absolutists exist, and in fact are pretty common. There really are people who will oppose any new construction at all, even at the cost of destroying the livability of their city.

But do what you describe as “YIMBY absolutists” actually exist? Maybe they do, but from my perspective I don’t really see anyone arguing that everything should be buildable everywhere.
Oh THANK YOU. The extension I’d been using before has been having bugs recently and stopped showing “next page” buttons.
I'm late to this but just wanted to mention - I'm checking out the extension and like it quite a lot.

Only feedback I have right now (that I haven't seen anyone else mention) is that I'm finding it hard to jump to the next "top-level" comment. If I'm half way down a comment thread and decide I just want to skip the rest of this thread, I'm used to just scrolling down a bit until I see the next top-level comment and I'll read from there. It's easy enough to do in non-skinned HN because the everything is left-aligned, but with the extension I haven't been able to intuit a left 'border' yet and am not sure if it'll ever come to me.
Is signing-in necessary?
I'm scratching my head that someone who does security and privacy as their job puts this out on Twitter. Aside from the messed up ethics, it's not a good look while job hunting.
Psilocybin chocolates are a great way to consume the substance, but they are a bad f'n idea in my opinion. A lot of the people that get a hold of them are not always in a vigilant state, and one of these could easily get into the hands of a child. They just look like a normal chocolate.
That’s not unheard of, could be just prepping with the security team lay off. But it’s mere speculation at this point
You say "special moderation treatment", as if it is something sinister. Have you considered that it may just be the fact that she was so broadly loved, that this happens naturally?
Mmmm... "Two-Lane Blacktop" ending.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that a large majority of the LSD/MDMA sold on the streets is not at all pure, and frequently is not even LSD/MDMA at all!

Yes, there are research chemicals that are tasteless, and feel sort of like LSD. They are not LSD, and they could fuck you up.

You can't easily lace shrooms
Why do you want a wobbly picture and extra background noise? Those sound like negatives.
Then I would use that as a convincing point ;)

Either way, good luck!
I find it odd they would use tents that disappear into the night
for their honored guests.

I do not say that lightly.

Did they set it up or someone else?

I have had the honor of being on the receiving end of their hospitality
twice and it humbled me. I never spent the night with them though.

I have since tried to return the favor
Not to mention wall-to-wall propaganda in any coverage that mentions them across the complete political spectrum of media.

Arsenic-laced baby-food would be tolerated, if not vaguely enjoyed, if it received that kind of positive coverage.

Mainstream UK press are regularly making North-Korea style calls for people who personally dislike the royals to be excluded from the media, eve when they are making even-handed reportage about them, just on the off-chance that their subconscious biases might seep through in to their work (or something? lol): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10267447/Amol-Rajan...

Edit: to indicate irony..
Local to the area and yes, there are a lot of NIMBYs, however this is not the best case to illustrate the battle for affordable and accessible housing. This is a power couple wanting to butcher their slope (19 heritage trees) to build a mansion unbefitting of the neighborhood, and then trying to use the HDP law to force the county to let them do it, despite obviously not fitting the spirit of the law.
People question why startups are so focused on getting into YC. They ask the reasonable question "Why care so much about getting into YC? How about focusing on building a great product instead of optimising for YC?"

I think the answer is that YC is a significant success factor, and if your company is a member of YC then many future objectives and challenges will become easier.

People who have attended certain universities gain many ongoing benefits from the recognition of the university. "Oh, you went to Harvard/Standford/Melbourne University? Yes please come talk to us."

People who have worked at certain companies many ongoing benefits from the recognition of the company. "Oh, you worked at Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Netflix/Apple? Yes please come talk to us."

"Oh, you're a YC company? Yes please come talk to us."

It's instant credibility and that really helps open alot of doors.

Dress well, be kind to people, go to a recognised elite university, start your career working at one or two of the top tech companies, get your startup into YC and you're likely to be able to pay your bills into the future.

I should say I did not go to an elite university, did not work at a top tier tech company and have not been through YC :-)
I will add the Lautaro Lodge, known before as Lodge of Rational Knights, from where the revolutionary movements to free Latin American territory from Spain started.
Fun fact but english monarchy is an asset rather than a cost for britain, there's massive business and tourism around it. Seeing castles where real nobles live is different to empty castle-museums.

Also the royal family pays taxes and lease lots of stuff to the government at no cost.
> reverse engineer their passwords

Elaborate?
They did not decide “arbitrarily”. If you read it you’d have read the neighborhood got involved and were calling out the size, ecological impact.

Current residents have private property rights too. Both sides arguing in defense of their rights under the law is exactly how our “rule of law” works.

Rule of law does not give you special say over these proceedings. Clearly for good reason; you seem keen to rush ahead without considering the rights of others with an established investment under law. When you can’t you’ll call everyone else arbitrary even though an established process and precedent were utilized.
Moving the baseline like this would certainly help. It's also helpful to think about areas that are already a little denser than SFH. Replacing duplexes with small apartment buildings and medium apartment buildings with high-rises would have a much bigger impact and this proposal would make that possible as well.

The part I wonder about are provisions for mixed use. At some point some business should be allowed. I think Japanese zoning has a linear system that covers this: https://www.rahulshankar.com/zoning-in-japan/
Introducing a towering pile of dependencies is _introducing_ a business problem; there is a cost of ownership to a dependency tree that only grows as it grows.

Grabbing a library from somewhere and saying "problem solved, onto the next one" isn't a sustainable development practice; there has to be some assessment of "is this library popular/the maintainer trustworthy/what risk do we carry if it gets abandoned/will someone pick it up/_does it solve a big enough problem to warrant the effort_" that goes with every choice to pick one. Further, every single 3rd party dependency carries security risks, and every time you add one, you make it more likely one of them will get compromised.

I used to be a "just grab the libraries and move on" guy, but we're currently working on getting $currentEmployer off some old major versions of React, CRA and Spring Boot because a previous developer was of the same mindset and half the stuff he grabbed has died and isn't forwards compatible. It's not a fun process, and many problems the libraries solve could've been solved in-house for less total effort.
When I was about 20, I went to the local Barnes and Noble to find a book about programming.

Picked up the O'Reilly Javascript book from around 2000. Had no idea what javascript was, just wanted to learn how to program and trying to pick the most popular language.

$40 later, I got home and started reading! Very confusing, the first half of the book covered the language runtime (I think?) and the second half covered the browser sandbox, and it took me 200 pages to realize that I can't easily read or write to files on my machine with this language. Not what I was hoping for!

Back to Barnes and Noble, another $40 and I came home with the O'Reilly camel book, Beginning Perl I think? Cover to cover read, probably the last time I did that with a programming manual.

Decades have passed, I'm in the same camp as those that prefer Ruby now, but man what a breath of fresh air Perl was back in 2000.
For folks in the comments who didn't bother to read the first 5 pages (the summary)

The judge interpreted the HAA as only applying to units that expand housing beyond single family homes.

The proposed project would be a 4000 square foot single family home in a neighborhood of roughly 1500-1600 square foot homes.

Either way I think the law is absurd here, but it's actually having the INTENDED affect.

Rather than building a luxurious single family home, the developer is encouraged to build a multi family home and actually expand the amount of housing available in the area.

This seems like a "win" if your goal is to increase housing supply.
There's also some mention of the original plans calling for an ADU that was removed when the plan was scaled down at the request of the city, so the plaintiff was arguing they should have been covered because it was multi-unit. (If I skimmed it right.)
Ending single family zoning in Minneapolis resulted in something to the tune of 100 permitted duplex projects.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-happened-when-m...

> Minneapolis had 425,336 residents as of mid-2021, the Census Bureau estimates, and 199,143 housing units as of April 2020. By my count the end of single-family zoning has so far allowed for the permitting of at most 97 new units (the above table shows numbers of buildings, not units), some of which haven’t been built yet. If things continue at this pace, ending single-family zoning will have increased the city’s housing supply by just 1% by 2040.
My understanding is that the late 70s and early 80s in England was a hopeless place. As evidence I submit Alan Moore's introduction to V for Vendetta and Ghost Town by the Specials.

- https://slendertroll.tumblr.com/post/66114152363
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Town_(Specials_song)

"Naivete can also be detected in my supposition that it would take something as melodramatic as a near-miss nuclear conflict to nudge England toward fascism. Although in fairness to myself and David, there were no better or more accurate predictions of our country’s future available in comic form at that time. The simple fact that much of the historical background of the story proceeds from a predicted Conservative defeat in the 1982 General Election should tell you how reliable we were in our role as Cassandras.
It’s 1988 now. Margaret Thatcher is entering her third term of office and talking confidently of an unbroken Conservative leadership well into the next century. My youngest daughter is seven and the tabloid press are circulating the idea of concentration camps for persons with AIDS. The new riot police wear black visors, as do their horses, and their vans have rotating video cameras mounted on top. The government has expressed a desire to eradicate homosexuality, even as an abstract concept, and one can only speculate as to which minority will be the next legislated against. I’m thinking of taking my family and getting out of this country soon, sometime over the next couple of years. It’s cold and it’s mean-spirited and I don’t like it here anymore."
>misinformation and disinformation

Nobody has spread more misinformation and disinformation than the government and the intelligence agencies. They are the last people on earth who should be trusted to "regulate" the speech of others, much less determine what qualifies as "misinformation and disinformation".
Patreon has raised hundreds of millions (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/patreon/company_fina... - according to this $414M in 10 rounds) in venture capital.

Meanwhile in January they said they had taken in a total of $3.5 billion in creator lifetime funding. At lets say 8% average cut that means they've made a total of $280M in their whole history, although earlier accounts got grandfathered at the original 5% rate I think. We'll go with 8% to be generous. Even at 12% that means total lifetime income for patreon is $420M, around the same as their VC funding.

Then they have to pay all the processing fees, their own development and operational staff (~300 employees in 4 offices), etc. Then they have to actually make money as profit to satisfy investors.

VC funding killed patreon.
Twitter reached $7M settlement with whistle-blower
So, public housing is also a thing in the US. It has just never taken off at a large scale:

- The state does not own much land in US cities. So that means buying existing properties at great expense and demolishing/rebuilding at even greater expense.

- The "veto" ability for existing residents to oppose new projects in the US is incredibly strong. Even existing public housing residents will oppose new ones built near them.

- Construction costs are unnaturally high in the US for a variety of factors - municipal governments can't seem to get out of their own way when it comes to zoning requirements and etc.

For California, they ended up paying $1 million dollars per unit! Much more than they would have just buying existing properties for individuals.

I don't think it's a problem of "market ideology". I think it's easier to prescribe it as a general policy failure. Vienna has a set of favorable circumstances that are not easily duplicated to other urban areas, and places like China can just ignore legal rights of their citizens to build whatever they want.
Microsoft Unveils Linux SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate
Next they're going to tell me that putting out my recycling isn't operating a recycling facility, and I was depending on that tax break.
More people turning to things like Stable Diffusion instead of commissioning artists likely has an effect too.
If it is economical to build a 30 story condo then you can be assured the area is either a very dense city or an extremely rich suburb. I don't think either areas deserves special protection.

I suppose I would take the above proposal over the status quo if it truly eliminated local control - but otherwise seems like a very long time for a neighborhood to upzone. Its almost never going to be economical to tear down a SFH and build a triplex unless the SFH is in disrepair - which may be after 50 years from initial construction in most cases.
TL;DR:

"... these statutes do not resolve the meaning of the unhyphenated phrase “housing development project.” As their broad definitions suggest, the phrase could use development as a verbal adjective and mean a project to develop housing (a housing “development project”). On the other hand, the phrase could use development as a concrete noun and mean a project to build a housing development (a “housing-development” project), a concept these statutes do not define. Under the first interpretation, a project to build a single home would seemingly qualify as a housing development project, because it is a “project undertaken for the purpose of development” (§ 65928) and the development activity consists of constructing housing. Under the second interpretation, the same project would seemingly not qualify as a housing development project, since an individual single-family home is not a “housing development,” a term that generally refers to a group of housing units. ... Given the statutory context in which the definition of “housing development project” appears and the legislative history, we hold that the HAA does not apply to projects to build individual single-family homes."
There one type of tyranny the role of a hereditary constitutional monarch with purely symbolic powers protects against is the tyranny of a [hereditary] monarch with significant or unlimited power...

(As well as the constitutional role of the monarch being designed to protect the British public from monarchs, the continued existence of crown-wearing, palace-dwelling hereditary heads of state probably has a little bit of actual positive influence overseas by reminding some hereditary rulers with actual power that keeping fancy titles and wealth is entirely compatible with allow people to elect representatives to do mundane stuff like passing legislation and running the country)

There's certainly no basis for assuming that protecting minorities has ever been part of the role of the British monarchy though. On the contrary, last time we had a monarch with a deep personal interest in protecting a particular minority (James II, Catholics) we got rid of him.
Problems have solutions, predicaments have outcomes. SF has put themselves into a predicament.

The Strong Towns approach is not really a solution for SF -- it's an approach to prevent the predicament from forming in the first place. Cities that are on the verge of becoming the next SF (Seattle, Portland, Austin) should take heed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7woEXovruc
Whether they can push Russia out I don't know, that probably depends more on Russia than Ukraine. Russian people aren't exactly signing up in droves to push this invasion - a little probably, but stories coming out from the Russian soldiers now are on the side of "we didn't know what we were doing, we didn't want to be doing it." Ukraine, on the other hand, has had more recruits than they could handle, because people want to defend their country. Putin's view was that the people of Ukraine wouldn't stand up, didn't see themselves as a country, didn't like their own leadership, would revolt etc. and he was wrong. Ukraine is now making counter offensives. Whether those succeed or not, it's remarkably different from the predictions of many analysts that Ukraine would be taken over in days or weeks.

I disagree with your line about independence. America funded the rebuilding of Europe and Japan after WWII. It is way more in the interests of us in the west to have independent states rather than vassal states. This is where Russia is failing - if they make Ukraine a vassal state and install a government the people there will forever agitate and cause trouble, it will always be a thorn in their side. They'd have to attempt Russification once again, and how well has that worked out?

Small states are never independent completely, but internally independent and being rebuilt by western allies is surely a lot better than vassal state of Russia. Especially as the majority of Ukraine wanted to loosen ties with Russian and join the EU - thus why we're where we are.

China has a worse demographic problem than Europe. Fastest ageing country. Yes Europe has some similar problems, but the worst place in Europe for that is Russia.
On Oct. 24 I'll be publishing my Substack article about the Google Cinema Club. It is still going even with the pandemic, but when I did it, up to July 2017, it was in-person with a DVD in a big conference room on the Mountain View campus.

I still had a "projectionist." Getting the video and sound right in a room that was built for meetings and not for movies was an art in itself, and I hope I can get Craig to write about how he did it.

But yeah: not the same as real 35mm.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32773032
Archive link: https://archive.ph/BympL

https://web.archive.org/web/20220908211042/https://www.nytim...
We May Never Know How Vast the Cosmos Are
So because your neighbours have small houses, you can’t build a big house? What absolutely inane reasoning.
"arguably a 30 story condo tower is better than a housing crisis"

This. It means, if you don't want your precious quality of life messed up, be nicer to all those other people you normally think you don't have to give a shit about.

If there wasn't a mass of people with no good jobs or housing, then there wouldn't be an ugly tower being built in your back yard. If your neighbor had his own food, he wouldn't need to steal yours, and you wouldn't have to live within your own private prison.
> you can request to receive your ballot and voting materials by email, fax, or mail, and vote for contests in all federal, state, and local elections held in the precinct where you last lived, or where your parent/legal guardian last lived if you have never lived in the U.S.

What part of that is unclear?
There's also BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anybody) which is perhaps a bit more tongue in cheek. It also sounds like the "YIMBY absolutists" mentioned in the GP.
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Isn't that a chicken and egg problem ?

Perhaps you'd authorize that kind of development under condition of adding sime more infra to support the additional residents, but in itself getting a tower of residents doesn't look like an issue.
With widespread mail-in voting an abusive spouse could just fill in the ballot and drop it in the mailbox. No need to verify your spouse’s actions if you can just do it yourself.
Badly-written Perl code from the 1990s is not the fault of the language.

It's the fault of the non-programmers who read "Learn Perl in 2 hours and become a millionaire" books, had a massive s*t on a keyboard and started a business with it
Everyone was actually more worried about Edward VIII not abdicating.
One of my criteria for good tools is that they scale well from the smallest possible use case to absolutely massive. Git meets this criterion for example.

Anyway I manage a 250kline code base written over 20 years which is in surprisingly good shape consider it's age and how many people have touched it. Last time we upgraded the perl for the first time in a decade - going through the addition of many features and major internal changes (e.g. unicode, optimisation) the total number of lines of code we needed to change was at most 50. And very little having to fiddle with underlying cpan libraries.

Back to the point. Throwaway script - perfect candidate. Code capable of running the money pump for a billion dollar company. Also just as fine as any other similarly capable environment, better than some, trickier to manage the team than others.
Strongly disagree. "The antifascists are actually the facists because they won't tolerate my facism!" Strong paradox of tolerance vibes you've got there.
Tell that to Parler and the aftermath of their disastrous data leak. There needs to be more respect for the effort that goes into making well built online services. Turns out its much harder than a lot of people realize.