skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should parts of CA or other earthquake prone areas be labelled uninhabitable?

Major earthquakes happen an order of magnitude less frequently than major storms - but there's merit to reconsidering how much infrastructure we build right next to fault lines. So, possibly?

> What about areas where forest fires are routine?

Without appropriate fire breaks or building construction, possibly - if your house and property isn't constructed to survive a wildfire, then it's _going_ to burn. We can either adapt now or pay much higher costs later.

> Flood prone areas?

Oh jeez, yes, the fact that we build in flood plains is absolutely bonkers.

> Tornado prone areas?

Maybe, but it's a much lower risk than hurricanes. We really need to account for risks during building construction; our current approaches aren't working that well.

> High UV?

High UV is a bummer, not an repeated existential risk to all inhabitants.

> Poor air quality?

Poor air quality is also a bummer but is something we have more control over. Similar to high UV, poor air quality doesn't represent a regular, frequent, unavoidable, catastrophic risk to all of the inhabitants and all property in the vicinity.

> It makes no sense whatsoever to dictate that people cannot live on the coasts due to natural disasters which happen everywhere, all the time.

It makes even less sense to build in areas that are all but guaranteed to be destroyed several times per century. If you can build infrastructure that'll actually last or are willing to accept all liability when the inevitable occurs then by all means, build your house on stilts and cover the cost of reconstruction. But beyond freedom of choice, I don't understand why we think it's okay to assume obvious risk and expect society to provide compensation for a risk that's been known for decades if not centuries.
I don't trust USB ports in the wall.
This thing is so much fun! I love wandering around a new area and filling in the details.

One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new building. I'm currently living in a town that is experiencing massive growth and I'll often see a structure that's still a vacant lot on osm, and I don't think you can add it with StreetComplete.
>My response was to this comment at the top, where it was, explicitly and objectively, supporting a policy that dictates where people should live.

It's clearly not explicit or objective. "If you choose to live here you will not receive aid when your house is knocked down in a hurricane" is so clearly not the same as "You can not legally live here".
> There are other factors.

Like Craigslist. I think loss of classified ad revenue was the first deep wound.
Apalled at the comments here, can we please just have some empathy for a second and put politics aside?
When I was first learning to code, I once told someone that working with SQL felt like trying to wrestle with a mainframe, and I stand by that assertion.
I mean is it irresponsible to live in a hurricane prone area? For example I live in Puerto Rico. Do you want everyone to just leave?
My dad was a mechanical engineer. One of my first memories is playing Hunt the Wumpus on a SYM-1 with him. Later, we had a Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, etc. I taught myself BASIC. It was really cool to be able to create so easily. Just turn the computer on, and start typing.

Then I got a job writing BASIC around the time I was in high school, and by the time I went to college, I was lucky, knew what I wanted to do, and got accepted into the Computer Science program as a freshman.
See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33026638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33023882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33023115
Companies are technology. People invented them to do work.
Yes, you summed it up well. US is the definition of "go big or go home" especially for ambitious people. No country comes close. But if you are looking for "work life balance", Europe in general is better. Of course, every place has their pros and cons and not saying it is all awesome in Europe BUT the argument that US salaries are great cannot be made without comparing against what people give up here. And it's about lifestyle and choices people want to make.
this is just... dead wrong. like factually, you are wrong. FY 2021:

entitlements were $1.18T (social security) + $697B (medicare) + $537B (welfare) + $396B (unemployment) = $3.329T

military was $1.035T.

if it helps, 3.329 / 1.035 = 3.22. that number means we spent over 3 times as much on handouts.

so no, military spending is nowhere close to our handout spending. yeah it's inefficient and wasteful and i favor cutting it at least somewhat combined with efficiency improvements and focusing on spreading defense $ to make the market more competitive. but i get really fed up with people trying to "both sides" our handout and military spending every time someone brings up the cost of the former because they just aren't close.
Shall we apply this moral rule globally then?

Say goodbye to Pakistan.

I'd love to see the HN crowd that is championing the premise stand up and proclaim all the areas of the globe that people should no longer be allowed to live, huge swaths of which will be in hyper impoverished areas of India, China, Pakistan. They won't dare.
You're right, my comment was overblown (night-posting) and I wasn't even reacting to the Figma acquisition but rather to the general implication that entrepreneurs should want money as opposed to wanting to create a good thing (like Figma!) in the world. In the best case they want both.

I wish both Figma and Adobe well, and I hope they do cool stuff together.
If MS have found a compromise they should share it. Making the allegation but not disclosing any reason is just slander.
Not trying to be arch or reductive. I'm not fond of either of these men. But... haven't they pretty much demonstrated that they do the things that would be considered hubris in others?
Being confident/cool is irrelevant if GH legal decides that this isn't a valid use of their ToS.

I would have reached out to GH to ask for permission instead of asking for forgiveness.
Florida is pretty low on federally funding dependency ranking.
I never said that I am in any way representing a majority.

You incredulously ask: Are you going to X?

I say: yes, I am going to X.

I’m not sure what your anecdotes are purporting to say. Clearly neither of us has done the research, I made an observation, you made another. Get over it.
Sorry that's actually my mistake, I was thinking of something else. (Android)

They were both launched the same period, but chromium was the 'trimmed' down open source version.
Indeed, we certainly have an abundance of journalism. Perhaps the point about local journalism still stands, however.
I just made that up for the joke
Where would you say has accurate salary data? They never actually got to discuss it with me so I don’t know for sure.

Would they pay £200k+ base for a data engineering manager though? I don’t think I am senior enough for their director level which might command those salaries, and that’s what I can get in some other places.
This could be the beginning of end of the war and a possibility for peace? Putin gets the demolished republics as a golden bridge, NATO stations nukes in russia's SW border , ukraine joins NATO and becomes sovereign again at the line of ceasefire, possibly accepting autonomy of breakaway lands (but probably not formally ever recognizing them). Germany would be the only loser, losing its access to cheap gas and oil forever.
Of course they do? They are a tool that routes traffic through a third party. That can be anywhere from terrible to fantastic for privacy, with everything in between. There's nothing "of course" about it.
yeah buddy i'm totally aware of the 86 ban but if your family has stuff before then and moved it to a nfa trust then you're cool. cause it wasn't all that expensive before supply was capped. and the cool part is if you got a bunch of full auto AR lowers you can make a shitton of different configurations and they're all still the same thing legally.

literally all you have to do is get a el cheapo thing to screw on the barrel and it cycles fine, sometimes have to tune the gas system but if it's built for the exact model then not much. one guy sometimes brings a m10 and has a closed barrel he fabbed himself for shits and giggles.

and no, we all reload so blanks are actually less expensive than a full round.

we do a shoot too but sometimes it's fun to shoot off in the air? like usually at the end after we finish up fireworks.

why tf are you so pressed about it anyway?

p.s. would have commented separately earlier but i keep getting ratelimited
There's a pretty big difference between doing an FBI fingerprint card to show kids the process and send home vs. submitting that card to a database.

With the advent of live scan, that distinction may have disappeared, though.
Agree with it being a combination of many factors on both supply and demand side, but I feel we can't exclude the unprecedented and massive amounts of financial intervention.

I'm not a wonk here but have heard the argument that QE from 2012-2019 was partially to keep deflation at bay. Meaning, QE and ZIRP _did_ increase inflation, even if the result was reaching the target 2%.

The scale of increasing money supply and QE also was much larger this time. Before 2009 Fed balance sheet was under $1T. Actions taken during and around the GFC increased it to $2.1T. During the last couple years they grew it by $5T, and it maxed out just under $9T.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Vim has had :terminal since version 8.1 [1].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/mahemoff/8967b5de067cffc67cec174cb3a...
You make it seem like some obvious things were recently broken/changed. I have used NeoVim for a couple of years, I haven't noticed any breaking changes. Please elaborate
> Yes, I'm definitely going to audit some giant as hell CPP code base (diffs) every four weeks.

I've had this discussion with other people too, just because you don't want to doesn't mean you can't. So your point of suspecting something nefarious is moot for me until you can back it up.
I found many devices are only configurable with an app. I find that right off the bat a problem. But it may be also another "point of entry" if the app is poorly developed. From what I researched Netgear needs no app. But not 100% sure.
Parent time
I doubt GitHub have the support capacity to handle everyone pinging them to ask permission any time they want to do something interesting with Actions.

I'll take my chances. If they tell me it's not a supported use-case, I'll update the project to tell people they shouldn't use it.
I'm very glad you mentioned the homepage spam. It's increasingly difficult (and valuable) to live without information overload these days; Edge's forced "news" spam has pushed me away as well.
Please continue to give your honest feedback to employers. I don't do leetcode and I won't proceed with an employer that expects me to interview like that.
The only thing I can see working is pollution, pollution of our data. There are some current extensions that do some of that, but they are likely not enough and what we really need is a kind stream of data and requests that your own requests are simply merged into.

The thing is that it would need to be smart enough to prevent pattern recognition, e.g., it cannot just be random data because your specific searches and string of searches or actions will stand out quite obviously.

Yes, it would place a severe tax on the internet and a few things could be done to minimize that, but I currently do not see any other better option.

I could see it implemented where your activities online are merged with and threaded into those of related or similar communities, e.g., be it family and friends, the YC community, or a combination of different groups. The effect would come from the proximity to similar but not exact activities. To use a common example, if your legal free speech activities could make you a target, those online activities are muddled and polluted by being merged with other people's legal free speech activities, and your activities would be merged with those of others.

Consider it a kind of mutual compromise of society in order to provide protection/obfuscation in numbers ... the zebra in a herd, if you will. They can't arrest/target everyone if everyone has activity data that looks like they defy the ruling powers.
This is a flagrant money grab and no more. Years before social media existed these outlets loved the free traffic from aggregators like the drudge report. They just don't see a huge money pit there that they can go after.

I don't understand why the tech companies haven't fought back harder against this extortion. YouTube even explicitly favors "authoritative" sources which is basically the companies trying to extort them here. Why don't they just drop them from their platform?
Amazing. Thanks so much.
In fact for humans the evolutionary pressure has reversed. We're able to save many people who are too "unfit" to have survived without modern medicine and industrial technology.
One of the reasons SF is so expensive is the building codes. After the 89 earthquake somethings were not rebuilt. When the local Government allow homes to be built with lax standards simply because they want them to be cheap I agree they do not deserve to be rebuilt on the tax payers dime. Might also make the Condo safer.
You are selling SQL way short. SQL has stuck around because, compared to its complexity, it lets you do incredibly powerful things.
Thank you. Although I think the risk of #4 is greatly overblown. We watch the sun constantly now, and detection of an X20+ class flare aimed at us gives us about 10 hours or so to disconnect as much as we can, limiting damage to maybe only a trillion or so.

My personal favorite pet risk is a combination of #1 and #4, though. A few HAEMPs de-orbited and detonated over North America by a collapsing or collapsed Russia gives us no time to disconnect anything. And the fantasy that neither defense.gov, nor mil.ru, have many of these in orbit right now because "OMG it would be a Space Weapons Treaty violation and nobody would ever do that", is as naive as the pre-Snowden "OMG the NSA would never spy on Americans because it's illegal" normie zeitgeist.
Ask HN: Is somewhat high inflation a net good for the U.S. longterm?
I understand that economics is a rather complex subject and this isn't exactly the place for a non-technical discussion, but I greatly enjoy the insights of the HN crowd so thought I'd post this. In July of 2021 I had an interesting conversation with a former investment banker about economics and he made the claim that inflation would be necessary for the U.S. to basically inflate away a good portion of its debt (and of course, erode the savings of dollar holders at the same time). Given U.S. debt levels and still relatively high employment levels domestically, could high(ish) inflation in the U.S. be a net good? I understand the dramatic ramifications on prices for things like homes, but maybe in the end a little pain in that area means that local/state govts will finally engage in permitting reform and help bring down prices in other ways.
Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases
Yes, this makes such good sense to me.

In Europe, rivers are often surrounded by parkland on either side as they flow through cities, such as the Elbe in Dresden. It's gorgeous public space, which benefits everyone, but it also is there for another reason -- the river floods fairly regularly, and so by leaving that as uninhabited park space the floods can happen without causing too much damage.
So, my thought process here was: given a fairly robust selection of certificate authorities, a given user could have a number of different client certs for use in different trust scenarios. Contrast the following:

- A user bearing a client cert with the name "Jonathan Grant", signed by a U.S. government agency which is known to verify that its signees' certs are a citizen of the United States.

- A user bearing a client cert with the name "Michael Black", signed by Alice, who is known to only sign certs after verifying that the real-world identity of the signee matches the name on the cert.

- A user bearing a client cert with the pseudonym "c00ln4m3", signed by Bob, who is known to only sign a single cert for any given real-world person. (To do so, he verifies the person's real-world identity but does not reveal which cert corresponds to which person.)

- A user bearing a client cert with the pseudonym "hunter217", signed by Charlie, who is known to sign certs without verifying the real-world identity of his signees at all, but who is also known to revoke his signature on certificates if a service provider complains about the user bearing that cert.

- A user bearing a client cert with the pseudonym "cypr3ss", signed by David, who is known to charge $1000/year for a cert bearing his signature but performs no other identity verification.

The point of listing out these different scenarios is that the underlying mechanism (client certs) is the same, but the end-user and the service provider don't actually have to trust each other: they only have to agree on a CA with mutually acceptable policies.
ITT: People who don't understand economic loss vs damage.

Economic loss means anything not transacting is counted.

Disney, Universal, Sea World closed for a few days? "economic loss"

Joes house on the beach: "damage"

I don't have access to the article, but I imagine half of this amount is just the first category, since Florida is a tourism state.

That being said the government should stop covering beach front property, either get private insurance at a fair price or don't build at all.
If something beyond individuals voting is absolutely necessary for democracy's health, then it is already dead.

Because however you provide that thing, it will be co-opted and controlled.
You might say that, but multiple political organizations through internal polling have found these independent journalists to have such a large audience that they get candidates to appear on them.

There are plenty of publicly available data points that present a reasonable case for this that im too lazy to cite on a friday evening, but there are a few in this reddit post that may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/ben0rp/is_joe_big...
Congress and the president have oversight over anything they di. I din't see how "blank check" is relevant.
Is anyone using MongoDB for new projects?
A while ago I made something a bit like this, but it is an animation of all the years between 2007 and now.

https://maps.honeyfox.uk/

It only works in my town in the UK, so don't try scrolling the map too much.
Except police have more than enough funding.
True, but it's pretty rare for hypervisors to be exploited. In that Azure case the node itself maintained a connection to each VM, which kind of defeats the purpose of using VMs for isolation.... It's like having strong memory guarantees in Linux and then having an open socket from a root-owned process to every other process... like, maybe giving them a new attack vector to a SPOF isn't a great idea
Local news has been dead for decades from Craigslist; this howling is because national news is dying, and they will not go quietly into that dark night.
I was looking to move to Fort Myers or Fort Myers Shores with my girlfriend (she’s originally from there), and we looked at five different houses. Based on damage maps/satellite photos/Facebook posts all five of those houses were flooded. But, the problem is only two of them were in any sort of flood zones. The only reason we didn’t buy is because it looked like the market was tanking. I think there is a lot of blaming going on here against homeowners who really didn’t know better. FEMA really needs to update their maps to account for more catastrophic storms like this. It’s also important to keep in mind this storm could have been a lot worse. It was “only” a Category 4.
Sorry you didn't have a smooth start there :-(. Not sure how the behavior you are describing is happening. We'd be happy to help get things going if you want to open an issue [1] or discuss on Slack [2].

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/issues
2 - https://steampipe.io/community/join
Nothing seem to happen when I click "preview my app!"
GeoIP services are trash. My current IP on most GeoIP services gives a location >900 miles away. My last IP had a location in another country. I don't think I've ever had a GeoIP lookup resolve within 100 miles for any IP I've had.
The public voted congress and presidents who run the cia into office so yeah,they did.
it was 8-9ft in that area I think
He’s allowed to believe it without me believing it
That goes for severe blizzards for NYC as well, because I say so.

Public funds must no longer be allocated to clearing snow from roads every year just because selfish people decide to live in NYC.
I forget that they're called em dashes -- but I also love to use them to offset what I say from other people.
In C, with int a, b then a + b is already potential UB. Just depends on the values of the variables. It is remarkable to note this.. but not new! :)
There are a lot of people who will disagree that this is a reasonable result -- especially given that there are other permitted news sources that Fox News viewers consider to be categorically unreliable. (And are encouraged to do so by Fox News itself.)

The process may well be working as intended and producing a result that most people would consider reasonable, but a lot of very prominent and influential people disagree. (That is, not just the fringes who usually object to Wikipedia's sourcing decisions.) That makes a problem for Wikipedia whether they want it or not.
If three users each refresh the page 18 million times, there is your 50 million a month. :)
How are the browsers and the big 5 getting the data? It's not like you can't see what your browser is sending where.
Exactly, they would probably say no since that is the easiest answer.

Now that you're top of HN and they might see more abuse of their systems, it'll just come more quickly.

Great work on the actions though, it is a pleasure to read the source code. Learning a few tricks in there.
Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18
A 13-year-old boy sets up Adsense for his Youtube channel and his father is told that his son is now banned from Adsense/Admob for a lifetime.

This is what you get when you have no humans in the loop.
I'd like to see a "syndicate" system where I have an account, and micro-pay for each article I read in any newspaper that is part of the syndicate. At the end of the month, all my purchases are added up and charged to my credit card in one lump sum. The syndicate adds up all the articles read by all subscribers, and remits the total payment to each newspaper or other news source.

This replaces the onerous subscriptions I would have to maintain for each individual news source I wish to follow. I don't read enough New York Times to justify paying CAD $120/yr, but if fifty people like me consume $5 of articles per year, that's a win-win.

Newspapers will not be forced into this model until they are at death's door.
My account team tried to sell anthos, but they knew nothing beyond “it’s for the dc”. They had no idea what it actually was, or what problems it would solve. They’d get us on the phone with engineers who would just ask if we use VMware and when we said no, it’s like… oh well doesn’t work for you. They failed to educate internally or have any cohesive plans for it. They couldn’t even define what it was
To my primitive brain, NoSQL always sounded like "I am going to makeup data model and integrity on the fly and let the user figure out how to handle it". No Thanks. But may be I don't get it. GraphQL honestly gives me the same vibes. Happy to be corrected.
> This looks like an unneccessary generalization

Just a straightforward projection from events of 2008-2014-2022 - Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine.