skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, the driver of the car did not have "the right to enter the intersection" if it meant they were going to run a pedestrian over, no matter what color the light was.

I've been in this situation before. I'm the third car in a line going on a green light at a light, and all of a sudden an unhoused neighbor pops in the intersection crossing, I slam on my brakes because I don't have the "right" to hit him, but damn, that was close.
A Language Based on Two Relations Between Symbols [video]
If they've done that, I think the concept of "turning off" a device goes away.

...The OS can just always be loaded and ready to go; when power is restored it checks to see if the hardware has changed and just loads up the 64 MB of CPU cache.

The idea, called “Orthogonal Persistence” way back when, has been around quite awhile. Here’s my (probably spotty) idea of the history:

Researchers wanted instant-on for their early visions of tablets. To make sure security and networking would still work properly, there was an idea to use Capabilities (which were around since the 1960’s) to support this and solve the chicken and egg problems that were thought to arise.

Capabilities later became widely adopted just for better security, but Orthogonal Persistence never took off, because never rebooting would have required much higher levels of reliability, which would have been expensive to achieve. So today’s devices still reboot, but also have a fast "wake from sleep."

So I’m not sure if we will ever have true “Orthogonal Persistence.” We might have much slicker “wake from sleep” instead.

I'd expect the hardware in phones/laptops to become more distributed, with basic vital functions handled by a separate processor.

This is already the case!
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This isn't the US, you can't add shops in residential areas by removing parking spaces.

The only way is to turn houses into shops, which neighbours will be dead against, and those shops will eventually close anyway because people want more choice and lower prices.
Wow you got it working so fast! I'm still stuck in package manager hell trying to debug a million little issues.
Any file system that can implement the Branching trait should be possible to support. The only assumption made is that "snapshots" (or whatever equivalent term applies for that file system) are atomic.
Now that's bureaucracy.
I'm not a fan of Donald Trump at all, but he's never actually been convicted of fraud has he?

I'm not disputing that he's committed fraud, but I think that a lot of his followers can do a lot of mental gymnastics and convince themselves that he never actually did anything illegal, in no small part because he's never directly been convicted.
All the credit cards have a reserved amount they can pre-allocate so that once the final bill is due, you're required to pay at most X dollars (the max that you chose at the pump). It's fraud proof. Like it or not, it'll likely be deployed everywhere eventually because it should be able to cut down on fraudulent purchases significantly.
Is how long it takes to submit your generic CV a valuable statistic? Is there a benefit for companies to make it easy for you to apply to them?

I don't think anyone is sitting around going 'We just have no good candidates, if only people could apply in 71 seconds instead of 160, then we'd finally see the applicant quality increase'
For sure, but business runs on spreadsheets and most of them are places where SQL is clearly a better fit. Complex iteration is faster in SQL as well, though for simple problem sets spreadsheets are faster.
Yep, and I'd imagine if you give prisoners the choice, they'd rather be alive.
Why should Apple have a monopoly on repairing a device you own?
You should generate UUIDs on create requests not for some ideological purity, but for the API to be idempotent. When the network gets unreliable, idempotence + retries gives you effective exactly-once delivery.
You should probably switch, but also, where do you go to school? That matters.

Which do you like more? That also matters.

Would you be willing to get an MBA to advance a finance career? That also matters.
> Now suddenly every person magically has 8 years experience in a weird esoteric requirement that we're looking for.

That's crazy to me. Why would someone put ANYTHING on their resume that is not factually correct? That in the end is a disservice to yourself and to your potential employer, not to mention the pressure it puts on job seekers to push the envelope on embellishment.

What I am on the fence about in my own resume is including a skillset that yes I have done but maybe a couple years in the past. Right or wrong I have decided to keep them on their knowing full well that it might create a bit of a challenge for me during the interview process.
There's a lot of evidence that most people mellow out with age, age-crime curves show this clearly with dramatic peaks in the late teens. Teenagers and young adults are more prone to acting impulsively, with less foresight for the future.

There may be some people who are irreparably 'genetically damaged' from birth and will never improve, but this isn't the general case.
> Yeah and on the flipside the price of rent will go down.

Would you like to set up a bet on this? We can use the average 1 br rent in NYC as the target. To protect against seasonal effects we'll take the min and max over a 1 y period before this occurs and after this occurs. You win if both are lower over 1 y than they are now. I win if both are higher over 1 y. If there's a mix, we call it a tie.

https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/new-york... can be our source
honestly, I don't really understand the point about the difference between the two. I didn't make it all the way through the article, but even on the surface it didn't seem like it made much sense.
> > The problem is that it’s essentially illegal to build new hotels in NYC.

Let's build a cruise ship in China or the Netherlands and then use it as a floating hotel in NYC
> That seems contrived and kind of stupid?

So do most bugs and seemingly safe assumptions that lead to privilege escalation.

In practice, it's unlikely an untrusted user would have access to calling logrotate directly, but would instead call it through a chain of mechanisms that each individually seem innocuous, but become dangerous when combined together. Maybe they've got a foothold through parameter pollution allowing them to execute shell scripts as the apache user, which has sudo privileges for logrotate. Combine that with the ability to write relatively arbitrary data to logs, and you can see how things might begin to fall apart.

For example, here's a HackTheBox writeup [0] that exploits a race condition in logrotate on the path to getting root. It's not the exact same scenario as in OP, but it's a similar idea.

[0] https://0xdf.gitlab.io/2020/07/11/htb-book.html
Depending on the geometry of the scene its entirely possible the pedestrian was not visible to the self driving car until after they were struck by the first car.
The code has an internal analogue, and the tooling lets you choose whether to export the entire git history or squash it. They may have chosen the former, in which case it could just be 2 years to migrate and rework the code to be ready for open sourcing. In that time I imagine there were four reorgs and countless priority shifts :)
Two-Fault Earthquake May Have Struck the Pacific Northwest 1K Years Ago
Another pgroll author here :)

I'm not very familiar with pg-osc, but migrations with pgroll are a two phase process - an 'in progress' phase, during which both old and new versions of the schema are accessible to client applications, and a 'complete' phase after which only the latest version of the schema is available.

To support the 'in progress' phase, some migrations (such as adding a constraint) require creating a new column and backfilling data into it. Triggers are also created to keep both old and new columns in sync. So during this phase there is 'bloat' in the table in the sense that this extra column and the triggers are present.

Once completed however, the old version of this column is dropped from the table along with any triggers so there there is no bloat left behind after the migration is done.
Where are you staying? That has not been my experience with any Airbnb in the last 5 years. I’ve stayed in airbnbs in New York City, San Francisco, Berkeley and Corvallis. It costs as much as a hotel, often misleading about having a “whole house” (they also rent the basement), and having a list of check out chores in addition to a cleaning fee.
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NYC recently passed a zoning amendment which requires special permits and additional construction rules for new hotels https://www.hvs.com/article/9578-new-york-citys-2018-2021-ho...

Unfortunately, I do believe the extra burden will lead to less construction and I worry that short-term stays will indeed become more expensive because of the lower supply of rooms.
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One could write a very small custom binary in C/C++/Rust that runs the command, and then give that binary setuid permissions. That binary can simply run a subprocess, and nothing else.
I can check off the boxes in the "Is building prestige worthwhile for you?" list for the segment of companies that I care about. (Not huge ones.)

I've done a lot of "public prestige building." But the things that actually got me to this point, quickly, were:

1. Being close to the money within the companies I worked at

2. Keeping up a habit of meeting and talking to people 1-1

I realized about five years ago that I enjoy meeting people 1-1 much more than publicly writing and speaking. You can say things a lot more honestly 1-1 without worrying about who might see it one day, and it makes me feel better than trying to turn myself into a public spectacle.

With folks getting much more comfortable meeting remotely, this has become even easier. I've met some great folks who I now have outside-of-work relationships with as well. Usually all it takes is asking someone if they'd like to meet again in three months or so; and, after a couple of these, asking them if there's someone they wouldn't mind introducing on a no-agenda basis.

I also genuinely don't have an agenda for this, other than that I like meeting people.

However, I also find this opening statement telling:

> Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known.

Most of us are bad at self-introspecting about our careers. I suspect a lot of the folks thinking this way need more than brand recognition, because this perspective (to me) would be a potential sign of lack of maturity that I would want in a senior leader. (This is a complex topic, and one that I think needs to be handled on case-by-case basis rather than recommending general approaches.)
Well, it would increase detection. Increased detection does not always mean increased crime levels. It could lead to a feedback cycle. More crime (even rather small common crime like j-walking) goes up, increases statistics, causes more funding..
It's so weird to me that people can claim to fully understand the concept of inflation and still expect prices to go down rather than the rate of growth to decrease.

Rents will go down vs. where it would be otherwise. Almost nothing deflates in nominal dollars ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory

It's interesting and deceptively simple at first.
The last one. But I think I overreacted a bit. Your thoughtful response made me realise that - thanks.

It just surprised me how disconnected the crime 20 years ago was to the current situation. But maybe it really is the best solution.
There are going to be many unanticipated social costs to the criminal overreaction to Covid-19 that we're all going to be paying for for decades. This is just one of them.
A lynch mob is also democratic.
From his showreel, it seems Erik also created the animation of the final moments of the Cassini mission to Saturn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGAQCq9BMU

Showreel: https://erikwernquist.com/showreel
I've looked into Arc in the past and it feels like such a fundamental departure from how browsers are normally used. How do you use it and how does it feel better to use than your previous browser?
There’s high turnover and I would imagine that NYC is less seasonal than other tourist destinations relying on sun and fun; a fair amount of travel is business, a fair amount of destinations are indoors, and New York also has notable things to do during the fall and winter period, which is the slow season for most other destinations.

Vegas and Orlando have a lot of rooms but are also highly seasonal, and there are definitely off periods with lots of deals. Also unlike Vegas or Orlando New York has a lot of hotels in surrounding areas as well; hotels in New Jersey are not included in this number, but there are a bunch between EWR and Manhattan.
Went through a few pages - it's quite weak argumentation, to just state without support that animals don't have rights or that they historically have them, when it's trivial to show laws on the book giving animals rights or looking up trials in which animals were involved, especially historically.

Edit0: it's also very weak in that it doesn't name the rights that are to be "pushed by activists", simple things like the right to life and the right to freedom (cannot be sequestered), which have little to do with animals capacities.

Edit1: This philosopher is also against contraception and fights against it, for the rights of sperm and egg it seems.
Only if it's standardized somehow! 1, 2, or 4 slides per page? What margins? Letter or A4?

If we're doing inch to inch conversions, we may as well just go unitless!
Except it's easy to verify:

> At the end of 2019, New York City ended the year with 703 hotels operating in the city and 138,000 available rooms. A year earlier, New York City had 672 hotels operating with 122,000 rooms.

And that was before Covid took tons of inventory offline, though guessing a lot of that has rebounded.

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2020/06/17/nyc-may-...
Indeed. Which is why (and also that I think this is a minor factor in present rental prices) I think I'll make money off your claim that "Yeah and on the flipside the price of rent will go down."
A quick search show plenty of solid hotel choices under $350 during the week, in fact plenty of good choices around the $250 mark you mentioned.
This is already a feature and has been for a long time. Instagram allows you to only see posts from people you follow and will tell you when you've seen all new content from the past X days.
Would you even need to distribute the models that way? How would anyone know what you trained them on? Being able to occasionally emit a direct quote from a literary work doesn't tell you whether it was trained on the work itself or on various internet posts that have quoted from it, nor how the work was obtained. Is it illegal to train a model on a copy of a book that you own?
Is an ignition a lock? How about the wiring to the ignition…?

It would be one thing if Kia and Hyundai advertised “anti theft” via an immobilizer then didn’t actually put one in. They just left it out because the company is being cheap. The cars being sold with this vuln are cheap. You get what you pay for.
> old German alphabets with tz, ch, ss (I only know how to type the last one, ß, because the others have died out over the last hundred years)

They still ꜩ on some German street signs. I can't find ch in Unicode though (could just be my old eyes).
"in mice."

Or rather, the silicon "in mice" equivalent: in a test sample 1000x the scale, with only hopes and wishes that things won't change too much when they scale down.

All the cool mice these days are running around with memristor-based brain implants. This will be a huge upgrade for them. They'll be able to spend a small fraction of their usual daily time running in the hamster wheel, charging up their symbiote brains.
Sure, tailoring your resume for a specific job is pretty standard. Perhaps an LLM that has access to your resume, along with loads of documentation on what you have previously done would provide for a much better automation process.

It could read the job spec, then tailor your application with information that is actually true. Starting off with a company with information that is false is not a great way to start a (hopefully) long relationship.

FWIW, we review every application we receive on the freelancer sites and do not use automated filters.
What was Airbnb occupancy?
> The problem is that it’s essentially illegal to build new hotels in NYC.

I really wouldn't classify this as a problem. It's completely possible today to book a hotel room in NY at all manner of price points. The prices are not noticeably different than anytime in the past few years.

There is a ton of hotel inventory in NYC. If I was a resident, I wouldn't even want more hotels built because the city is already full to the brim with tourists and lacking space for affordable residential property.
We have the same issue's in cities across Europe. And then some dim people blame refugees when they would rather be living in apartment or house.. but can't because those are on AirBNB.

Hotels aren't blameless either. in my city they cancelled a ton of reservations and blamed a technical fault.. when really they wanted to charge more after a concert was announced.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/taylor-swift-book...
I would imagine theres a body of research on this. But I would be surprised if Air BNB didn't put downward pressure on hotel prices - as more supply creates greater competition. I'm thinking of the "southwest effect" where entry of a low cost airline to a market leads to overall lower ticket prices across airlines serving that market. (even though incumbent airlines were already competing).

If your'e curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_low-cost_airlines_on...
They're not the same markets so not comparable in that sense. Even if it equalizes eventually, price will increase temporarily.
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The city is already the sixth largest tourist destination in the world.

If you actually ask the average resident they would probably shrug or have a negative opinion of lowering the barrier to tourism. This also isn’t uncommon, major destinations like Barcelona and Venice are trying to limit arrivals outright.
It's different, and it's not like it's without its problems. Of course there are still depressed neighborhoods, but there are a ton of development projects going up, lots of new restaurants, bars, nightlife venues, and arts and sports programming. By "coming up" I mean on the upswing, and you can definitely see the difference from a few years back.
Job openings top 9.6M, more than expected as labor market remains strong
Murder rate in the UK is roughly the same.
It's lowest in countries with low immigration rates per capita.
Considering the lax immigration process in the US the crime rate is exceptionally low.
> Hotel prices are the same today in NY as they were when Airbnb was going full blast

New York hotel prices are up double digits year over year [1].

[1] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/consumer-markets/hospit...
Most cities have Hotels in very specifically zoned neighborhoods. Sometimes these are in neighborhoods you actually want to be in sometimes not.

AirBnBs allows you to stay in neighborhoods where people actually live. This is a huge difference for a lot of folks.
> This pathetic slap on the wrist isn't going to cause Dish to think twice

Only if they assume the punishment never change. A slap on the wrist is a warning.
that's an awesome idea, do you have a link to more information?
O365 Excel and Word both work pretty darn well in a browser and there are native Android versions as well. Fully capable of opening/editing random documents.

But yeah if you're doing Hardcore Excel Stuff you are pretty much required to run it in Windows. Even the Mac version isn't close enough.

In addition to employees sometimes needing a native app like Photoshop, we also ran into some issues with build quality of some of the devices. Solvable by buying higher end chromebooks, but then you undercut some of the cost savings.

Provisioning, backup, device replacement, security were all a breeze though.