skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you got to experience, smart phones aren't mainly phones, they're mobile computers with a phone app. They have Bluetooth that let's them connect to bikes close by, biometrics that let's them be used for relatively secure payment, modems that allows them to communicate with servers, GPS that makes it easy to see that you're not riding or parking the bike where you're not allowed, etc. If one person was able to unlock multiple bikes who is responsible for how the bike is used? A while back someone on a rented scooter hit an elderly man and then left the scene. He was found and convicted, because the scooter was personally rented by him.

Don't expect to be able to use modern services if you don't want to meet the providers where they operate. It's like refusing to use a card and demanding everyone to use cash, you're going to limit yourself and it's your choice if you think it's worth it.

I think limiting your goods and services to people with devices that have been available for more than two decades and are basically ubiquitous is a reasonable thing to do, considering the benefits that comes with it.

Personally i very rarely talk on the phone, that's never been why I've used mobile phones. I listen to music and use offline maps with GPS far more, but I also use it for payment, camera, text messages, etc.
The big and bad error that caused European bad reaction to the financial crisis was the introduction of common currency. Eurozone does not form Optimum Currency Area, under Mundell's definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area), so any significant crisis is made worse by "asymmetric shocks".
You should have used the example of the fats and sugar lies peddled by the fats and sugar lobbies as the cause of fatness.
One has to wonder if this is a plan for these “investors” to find a better way to keep affordable housing people on the other side of town vs their backyard. ie the current NIMBY fighting going on in Atherton with the forced affordable housing projects residents are griping about.

Most of the investors in the article are the ones pushing back against the affordable housing project in Atherton. Atherton is roughly five square miles so affordable housing in the middle of that has residents “worried” about what affordable housing brings to their oasis.

With this new town they’re proposing I can envision investors on one side, state mandated affordable housing on the opposite side, and city services, retail, etc., separating the two residential zones.
Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania (ongoing experiment, I guess), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia, Soviet Union
There's a ton of information on DIY VST sites like KVR. https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33

Most VSTs are written in C++ rather than pure C to be compatible with VST wrappers, and also because a bit of class management simplifies some parts of the coding.

There's no particular advantage to using pure C.

The basics - oscillators, filters, envelopes, and such - are all solved problems, although you'll need to get up to speed on basic DSP concepts like aliasing, IIR vs FIR filter designs, and such.

More sophisticated filter types use numerical approximation to solve the filter equations. That gets a little more complicated.

And of course you can look at the source code of Csound and Supercollider.
I presume it’s mostly on Android, on iOS apps seem to not be approved if they don’t run without clearly optional permissions. One of my bank apps absolutely refused to run without having scanned the full filesystem of an Android phone, yet on iOS it requires nothing for all operations.

Walled gardens with their HOA-like behaviors are bad in theory, but sometimes the gangsters in the streets are much worse.
It’s value that you created for your employer by your work and that you didn’t receive after taxation.

The fact that it was taxed above some line rather than below it doesn’t matter. (Of course that means it needs to be added to both the numerator and denominator when calculating the total tax burden, something that is often skipped.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_City,_Arizona
If you are interested in domain specific languages for audio, definitely check out cmajor (https://github.com/SoundStacks/cmajor)
It is still in development but already very capable and the devs are working hard to make this the industry standard for audio plugin development.
What they don't show in the concept art is the massive wall/fence they'll build around it.
Could you instead show me some value which was not produced by labour please?
Really? Nobody has gone bankrupt due to health issues?

Because in Canada, which has universal health insurance, medical bankruptcies are 25% of all bankruptcies for those over 55.

Why? Because if you're sick enough, you can't work. You can go on unemployment, but it's capped and doesn't replace 100% of your income. So if you're living paycheck to paycheck, it's not that hard to go bankrupt if you don't have the income to pay your mortgage, car loan, etc.
Sometimes I just wish that it were possible to do something akin to "pub(crate) impl Trait for Type", that would a) only make the trait implemented for the type in the current crate b) possibly override any other impl of the trait for said type.
I didn't say personal income wasn't taxed, and I also put "income" in quotes because capital gains aren't taxed as income, and there are various schemes one can engage in to shield value from, or reduce, taxes like income tax.
This was definitely a meme going around during covid as more places were going cashless

In real life there's not a lot of cases where someone gives you goods before you pay, and anywhere i've been to that don't accept cash clearly posts "this is a cashless business" (sweetgreen and the like, SF/NYC, YMMV) so good luck making the argument that you're entitled to your free salad
How does that work in countries where it is common (like in the Netherlands)? I imagine software handles it by pattern matching as when sorting artists as “Beatles, The”? To just match some known “de”, “van” or “van der”!

Anywhere I know van der Whatever would just be sorted on “v” but that only works because almost no one has such a last name.
Isn’t the point that Antarctic sea ice is at a record low extent?
Tuition is subsidized. But I don't know about you, but living expenses for 1 year are often as much or more than public college tuition in the US.
Knowing some facts and knowing the truth are different things. I'd say "factual but not truthful" is rigorous enough for a quip.
Speculation: they did a trial on random accounts from all over the world and found out so much illegal content that it will make them do enormous amount of policing on scale and lose troves of customers.
Well, most of those public health care systems in EU countries are working at least since WW2. So I am not quite sure why now is the time they suddenly cannot work anymore, in principle. Sure, governments can ruin any public health care system. But eventually voters could notice (or at least one would hope that).
No. Europe without the taxes.

There aren't crackhead zombies shuffling through Dutch cities and the roads are immaculately paved. And that takes a ton of taxation. Utopia- or trying to get to it- takes money. And I question American elites willingness to pay for it or they would have voted for Sanders.
I disagree with that, the policy errors where far more direct (and well analyzed). For example: poor bank recapitalisation, wrong incentives about balance optimization, ECB even raising rates in the beginning of the GFC
Yes. What I’m talking about is of course a system where 100% use the same alphabet and 99.99% the same name format.
India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
Cortex only has Grey from Hello Internet, no Brady, and the co-host is Myke.
It's that easy? Thanks.
> Generally, I would say standard addresses are better, because streets are already a form of information compression, since you always indicate a position on a street, you almost never indicate a position in the middle on a forest of a field.

> GPS has a military use because the military go off-road, but citizens really don't (99.999% of the time)

This is true for most of the world but not true for a lot of Africa - which does not have a real address system and relies on describing where a person lives and then doing a pin drop (websites will just accept pin drop).
> I did not mean to imply that no professionals use Supercollider to make music and sounds.

Thanks for clarifying! That was really a misunderstanding then.

> All that being said, do you have any links or descriptions on how you use Supercollider (or any other system)?

Sure! I'm currently AFK, but I'll try to post some links in the evening.
Not a single human survived in parts of NYC is technically true.

Everyone is a billionaire in parts of SF.
I'm not going to engage in the eternal atheists vs believers debate, but I'm trusting here that my experience is based upon reality (i.e. I've found convincing evidence). I don't expect what convinces me will convince everyone else, but you and I will die some day and then we'll know (or if it turns out we no longer exist, at least we won't care :P)
Conceptually yes.

Practically speaking it’s easier to grasp. The article in question makes a good point of playing around with the concepts to dispel the magic.

Asnyc/await is just syntactic sugar for promises.

Promises are just wrappers around callbacks.

Callbacks are used to hook functions into an event loop. The dispatching/scheduling is handled there.

So really when you use async/await, you’re just writing pseudo-sequential code that gets turned into callback code.

This is also why a function can only await if it’s marked as async. It’s callbacks, function coloring leaking out so to speak.
I’m not sure that straightforward, the value of the land will only really increase if the project is somewhat successful and the landowners (not necessarily part of the “local community”) expect to be paid the already inflated price without having to take on any risk.

Both sides are just trying to maximize/minimize their gain/cost, introducing some moral angle just seems weird to me.

Especially when any attempt to significantly expand the housing supply (considering the current situation) should surely be viewed as a net positive for the society as a whole?
A 'gated community' on a much larger scale. Not open to the public. Few entrances/exits. Big walls/fences. Private security force. Residents booted out when they lose their big tech jobs.

Suddenly the utopian vision looks pretty bleak.
I still do not understand. WxWidgets should rely on native controls rather then rendering them right? Does it mean that there is a branch of WxWidgets that renders the controls?
Reading the comments here and elsewhere about this project is so vindicating for me.

In cities, NIMBYs will say "why should we build anything here, just move away and build your dream city somewhere else". I knew that there was no way that "somewhere else" would welcome construction of a new city, because there's people living out in the boonies everywhere. Those people moved to the middle of nowhere because they want to be far away from others - they're the last people who'd support new construction nearby.

So here's a new city proposal, paid for by private money, that won't take away anything from anyone, and even people who live far from the area seem to oppose it, just because it changes things.

Where are people supposed to live? There are not enough homes in cities, not enough homes in suburbs, and rural areas don't want new construction either. So where are the new homes for a growing population supposed to go? Or do y'all just want to keep increasing the homeless population indefinitely?
Evolution is more of a long live the king thing. Evolution producing hardier species relies on death and loss of other species. It is pretty much replication based, and nothing more.
I believe wireless charging still has communication between the pad and the device, so you still have an attack vector
Well supposedly after all the rich people move into this “utopian” willing there will be more housing left for everyone else?
"We don't have to accept that."

True if we took action, but look at what we've already accepted that's questionable. Just take how we've accepted how the internet has deteriorated and rotted over the past 20 or so years because we as a society have done nothing to stop the rot. Individually we don't like what's happened, collectively we're now powerless to do anything about it because it's too late.

The fact that Amazon has the irresponsible hide to sell books of this kind is proof enough. Amazon doesn't have to worry if someone dies, Bezos won't be charged. Things have changed.
The UK has had a bunch of news stories about using the app, as it "could save your life". For example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-49319760

But if you need internet access anyway I'm sure that GPS would be a better thing to use, and there are also stories about the use being questioned for accuracy reasons:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57156797

Really though I think it's a cute hack to use such a small number of words to define points - but as a closed source, and sue-happy company, there's really nothign to recommend it. Sure the average Joe might not be familiar with reading/writing GPS coordinates, but over a phone I'm sure an emergency dispatcher could walk them through it.
Wait a few more years and you will see that the effort to formalize this knowledge was not in vain. We will certainly see systems which make use of this data. Cycorp is a different company with a different approach than OpenAI; but the data produced by Cycorp will likely be useful for companies like OpenAI on their way to truly intelligent systems.
Yes, if you look at survival as one instance, it does become difficult to say anything about the likelihood based on the outcome.

But I think it's too easy to dismiss this as survivorship bias. There are also other selection biases, which might explain the higher chances of survival of a species if an alive species is selected.

There's also the multiverse theory, or more locally, something we could call "multi-environment". It does make sense that if we were here at all, we would most likely be in an environment where we were most likely to survive. Imagine 20 planets, or 20 timelines, where some make our survival nearly impossible, some - very difficult, and some - relatively easy and likely. We'd probably find ourselves alive on a planet or in a timeline where it was relatively easy and likely.

I just read a bit more on this and it looks like the debate for whether human survival implies the low risk of extinction in the past is ongoing with good arguments on each sides. So I think I'll leave it up to more academic people than me to debate this, but thanks for your thoughts.
> also I don't see it very similar to insurance, since insurance is withholding wealth in order to distribute it occasionally when needed because it's zero-sum. But if distributing it all the time everywhere is a net positive gain, that's entirely different than the insurance game.

Insurance is zero-sum (negative-sum, actually) when it comes to money. It is not zero-sum overall, because reducing risk is valuable. A 50/50 shot at either 10 million dollars or nothing is significantly less valuable (to anyone who isn't already very rich) than a guaranteed 5 million.
Slow charging etc. is nice for laptops, but for phones I wouldn't even bother. If you use your phone for navigation in summer, it's very likely your phone's battery will degrade rapidly anyway due to the heat.
Lots of us probably come to rely too much on our smartphones. I still carry a little cash (and a few other things in a small wallet) and usually do things like print out trip itineraries but, even so, But, even so, I know if I lost/had stolen my smartphone on a trip there's still a lot more information I probably would wish I had with me.
bro this may shock you but there's a whole contingent of people out there who still pick up the phone when their friends call

and IME cats don't self organize into a herd, it's usually one person figuring out a time and place that works for everyone, unless you're one of those insufferable people who sends out a "when are you free" survey of checkboxes ;P
On a related note, I cannot believe how many ads YT are showing nowadays. I know the word “unuseable” is thrown around a lot but its really become that way for me. I got 5 ads in the first 3 minutes of a video yesterday. I know people say “just pay for it” but I don’t think that the alternative to not paying should be ads every minutes. My usage has gone way down recently as a result. I use an adblocker on desktop but can’t elsewhere.
Paris “city” is just the most heavily urbanized central core of a massive metropolitan area. The urban part of which is 1,101.7 sq mi.

I’m not sure about Barcelona but San Francisco is pretty much like Paris in that way (just way leas dense).

It’s really not a fair comparison.
Side note: the display of this thread is completely broken on mobile: https://ibb.co/cLJS6pX

How can I notify someone to take a look at it?
> The best search terms were not road names, they were people's names.

Demonstrating once again that it's not what you know, it's who you know.
Using the app is not the only problem. But the lack of freedom and privacy in obtaining the app.
Use them wherever you need an iterable or lazy-loading. You can build pipelines of generators to interleave work, too.
It's a Britishism for stocky with an implication of fat, so probably intended as-is.
I have a great temperature control kettle (Sage Smart Kettle) which is both fast (3kW) and reasonably precise, to within a couple of deg C.

I’ll give the Stagg EKG some credit for looking very cool, however.
Did he have an outlet installed in the closet (or a closet built around an outlet) just to use that device, though?

At least the hinges should make it clear they were trying to keep someone out, not keep someone in...
These are the situations where I restrict myself to 7-bit ASCII (and before the torches and pitchforks arrive, I'm not a native English speaker).
It has nothing to do with Marxism, it's just hyped-up mutual insurance.
Ha, someone got cold feet. Forgot to change the <title>.

When I submit I pick up the title tag, but I always compare with the text title.
In my experience, short-term pay for contracting is great. Long-term you start to run into problems because clients come and go, you always need to be on your feet looking for a new set of leads. Sometimes you have a bad project which sets you back. Being a salaried developer definitely shields you more from unpredictability.
Worse, due to regulations on security, this is the case for banking in EU.

A lot of banks don't even have web interface and those they still do require you to install and link smartphone app to be able to log in or to pay with card online.

While there might in theory be many second factors with different pros and cons, most bank only allow their own app and nothing else. The few stragglers that still allow text messages make it increasingly user hostile, e.g. rewrite 12 number code and enter special PIN, different from your normal PIN or just click a button in app!

And of course, none of the banking apps will work without Google or Apple account, because if you try to run them on deGoogled Android they just refuse to work.

It will soon be impossible to be part of society without having Google or Apple account. Maybe it is already the case.
Yeah US really has the worst of it all, very high taxes and not much to show for it.
The difference is that Apple has a much higher dev budget and a clear economic incentive to promote mobile apps.

I think Audacity devs should instead focus their limited resources on desktop (mouse+keyboard+big screen) use. Also because if you just need some simple audio editing, you can be served by other simple mobile apps.
> GPS has a military use because the military go off-road, but citizens really don't (99.999% of the time).

Lots of people do go off-road as a hobby. It's still probably something like 90% or more, but alternatives to addresses do have some utility. W3W happens to be an extremely bad solution to somewhat legitimate problem.
It's worth noting that some huge limitations/risks of W3W are there because of the flaws in their word list choice, so if you're analyzing a different wordlist, you explicitly aren't looking at a big source of problems.
Was one of the cars called inferno? Did you have to press alt to hit nitrous?
Odd that there’s no mention at all in the article of Carl Jung’s perspective on dreams - being one of Freud’s more prominent students and having spent an inordinate amount of his life analyzing his own and others’ dreams.

EDIT: The reason I bring this up is that it seems as though the prevailing reductionist perspective on dreaming is that it’s “random noise” created by the brain. This article effectively says the same thing, but says that the noise is created by arbitrary muscle twitches during sleep while the brain “learns the body”.

Jung and his students spent a huge amount of their time looking for patterns in that “random noise”.

It’s entirely possible that there are layers to the purpose of dreams. Yes, they could help the brain “learn the body” better. But why those specific dream characters and not others? Why those specific scenes and not others? How do those scenes and characters relate to what’s going on in a person’s life right now?

It seems unlikely that evolution would produce very wasteful complex processes - it seems far more likely to me that they also serve a use in a certain type of psychological (and therefore ultimately physical) energy dissipation or tension resolution - an idea that seems to come up through Jung’s insights.

Jung and his students then analyzed out common themes in the symbols in people’s dreams and discovered themes that were common across cultures, implying connections to common biological and sociological patterns (e.g. the fact that each of us grows older facing different kinds of challenges along the way).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae

this says jamaica so ?????
> But there's a postulate that only rest mass can make a black hole, and relativistic mass doesn't count.

That's news to me. Could you provide a reference? "Relativistic mass" is just rest mass + kinetic energy, and so yes, it should influence the energy-momentum tensor like everything else.

> (Because otherwise you could travel fast and see inside the black hole.)

How so?
What I don't quite get is how government of this city is being planned. Right now, it's basically Disney world, a huge privately owned development project. Will this eventually become a municipality of its own or are they planning to build a completely privately-owned city?

(Not from the US though, so I might be missing some details on how local government works in California)

Also yes, social housing, walkable neighborhoods and all that sound nice, but promises (and renderings) are cheap. It's not clear if this has any resemblance to what will actually be built.
Reading other people's code helps a lot! Browse Github topics like "synth", "synthesizer", you can also narrow it down by language (C, C++, D, Rust, and Go are all fairly easy to translate between one another). I haven't looked at any of the theory stuff, which would've probably helped too.

I kind-of abandoned the project before I could figure out what went wrong when rewriting it to keep track of the phase. I understand what needs to be done, I just have a stupid bug somewhere down there and it kinda demotivated me.
Physical activity and exercise is a good point and I think it's safe to say that exercise is a good, or at worst, a neutral pastime for kids. Probably good, as it would be for adults as well.

What about getting them involved in a physical hobby like a sport, and not restricting screen time? Would that be more beneficial for the kid?