skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author directly addresses this sentiment in the concluding paragraph:

> Although there are physicists who wonder “Why did we even need to do this experiment; we all knew that antimatter has positive mass,” that sentiment is absolutely foolish. We must remember — and I say this as a theoretical physicist myself — that physics is 100% an experimental science. We can be confident in our theory’s predictions only insofar as we can test and measure what it predicts; as soon as we step outside of the realm of what’s been validated by experiment, we run the risk of stepping outside the realm of where our theory is valid. We just learned that Einstein’s general relativity passed another test, the antimatter test, and with it, our greatest science-fiction hope for achieving warp drive has completely evaporated.
>> Very few in the West think critically about whether Israel's actions are proportionate

Why should responses be "proportionate" when an enemy wants to murder you? The proper response it so decapitate them, not to respond "proportionately".

Just FWIW: You are finished. It doesn't matter if the Western media sings your praises now. You know, they still sing the praises of the Lakota Indians. You think they give a shit? The west doesn't care and you'll be forgotten very quickly, steamrolled into the Israel/Saudi detante. This is the end, so leave if you can. Abandon the notion that you will have Israeli houses and land. It's not going to happen. Go to Qatar or Iran and get a job, or else work toward a Palestinian state that does not require the murder of Jews in their homeland.
AI hype is built on flawed test scores
Apple used to be great at developing good accessibility experiences, especially on their iPhones. (I personally cannot say much about accessibility on macOS as I rarely use it)

I think Google and Microsoft are catching up with Android and Windows respectively.
This was my gateway into Linux! I'm grateful to whoever decided to bundle the BSDgames [0] and Frotz [1] packages, for sparking a lifelong love of text adventure games and interactive fiction. Imagine my surprise as a little kid poking around the bin directory, typing "advent" into the prompt expecting a simple advent calendar application, and instead getting dropped into a whole other world [2]...

[0] https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games

[1] https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
Which alternative do you mean? Communism? Anarchism? Socialism? They all want to abolish rent-seeking and not only, but through very different strategies.
Very cool. Even the building-by-building graphics seem to be correct: a boxy version of my house in Yokohama is in the correct location and has the correct height relative to its neighbors. The map also shows—correctly—that it is raining at this moment in Tokyo but not in Yokohama.
So why they are not voting to get it back? It is not like all kinds of Communist/Socialist parties are outlawed in either exUSSR or ex-Ugoslavian countries, it is just that some old people like to reminisce about it but nobody _actually_ wants it back.
Go is not a low-level language. They already have Java which sits at the exact same level.
The accusation is that RealPage allows landlords to indirectly coordinate and fix prices across the industry. If this is true, then it is monopolistic price-fixing rather than supply and demand.

Ironically, regarding property vacancy, an earlier ProPublica article about RealPage has this to say:

> RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

EDIT

The lawsuit against RealPage has a very clear description of the alleged collusion as well: https://www.hausfeld.com/media/550bhzyp/realpage-complaint-f...
He grew up during the Depression. Maybe that's part of the answer. He knew the value of a penny.
I see it on Winforms applications too.
there are a lot of people who need shelter who have not accumulated the wealth needed to purchase a dwelling in the economic framework of today. how will those people be housed? mass public housing (aka the government is an exception to this rule)? who is owning/maintaining/orchestrating that housing operation? and when people can buy, who are they buying from, once everyone has met this rule?

it's a far more complicated problem than "landlord bad". Renting is a valuable option for expensive necessities that often times aren't as useful permanently owned (cars, ski gear, houses).

the problem is that incentives are terribly non-aligned, given majority of people need to rely on renting.

here are some of my ideas (as a long-time renter who owns a co-op unit since the pandemic)

- make "projected housing capacity growth rate guarantee" for every residential-capable zone a policy — every <N> years, evaluate each zone for meeting that growth rate, and slate lowest density housing in that zone for demolition with large bounties for developers to claim the permits to build denser (usually taller) housing than the existing densest housing within the zone. The densest zones of the city can extend N by some factor each time. (that's a rudimentary version of the idea)

- rent payments up to a certain amount per household member should be tax deductible commensurate to market rate in the region, so that home ownership doesn't immediately become tax optimal.

- property taxes should be tied to market rate rent and market rate home values in that region so that home owners are not incentivized to prop up inflated rental prices when they aren't actively renting out, or to inflate home valuations when they aren't actively in the market to sell.

- home ownership beyond primary residence should be taxed more significantly than it is.

- tax developers constructing and/or operating luxury housing at different tiers (factoring sq. footage/room, amenities, starting lease prices)
To quote ch.ch:

> Your landlord must give you a clear explanation for raising your rent. Justifiable reasons could be an increase in the reference interest rate, inflation, increased maintenance costs or an investment that increases the value of the property e.g. the installation of additional kitchen appliances.

It is interesting that there is no hard cap mentioned. Inflation, interest rate and maintenance cost all skyrocketed last year, would a 5 percent rent increase be possible? Or could that be refuted?

For comparison, The Netherlands has set a max rent increase of 4.1 percent for 2023. In 2022 this was 2.3 percent.
It sounds like you are thinking of publicly listed companies which have to adhere to strict regulation, much different from privately held companies.

Even then, there are no guarantees. A company can simply be mismanaged and overvalued as we saw recently with this Danish airline: https://apnews.com/article/scandinavian-airlines-air-francek...
> Why do you say that isn't reasoning, and what do you think human reasoning is?

One worthwhile definition would be the ability to recognise patterns in knowledge and apply them to new context to generate new knowledge. There is none of this kind of processing happening despite how believable some of the words sometimes are.
I'd go with Singapore as an example and suggest government-managed Skyscrapers. Lots of units and everything is standardized so you get the best possible bang for your buck. It also makes moving around pretty easy if both houses have the same landlord and similar units and similar prices.

"In Singapore, nearly 80% of the population resides in housing that is developed and managed by the Housing and Development Board. Units are owned, however, by tenants. The government, following a land-lease system common in other city-states, owns the land and leases it out for 99 years to these unit owners."

https://catalyst.independent.org/2021/09/17/singapore-housin...
I thought he was talking about land value tax
> "A single neural net policy operating directly from a camera image, trained in simulation with large scale RL, [...]

> So that's what it takes. That's so much simpler than the way Boston Dynamics does it, working out all the dynamics in simulation first.

I mean, it sounds like they have had to work out all the dynamics, and simulate them.

Admittedly they don't have to do it on-robot in real time any more.
Just to add: OCaml also recently introduced a new memory model which promises that data races can only corrupt a bounded part of the program (basically, even stronger guarantees than Java does). It comes with some runtime overhead, but quite interesting development, you might find worthwhile to check out.
The YouTube channel Alex (FrenchGuyCooking) made some nice flakey salt in this video:
https://youtu.be/eN6U58LzyHg
It's a similar process, but he uses coarse sea salt without any alum or other additives. The results are less uniform, but probably better for human consumption.
Albatross movement suggests sensitivity to infrasound cues at sea
Well done.

I always appreciate numbers and the differentiation between relative and absolute numbers in this case.

"We doubled our workforce in one week!" - CEO's first hire... ;)
Better to have quirky and amusing oddities in a system, than a system that doesn't exist at all. There was another HN posting some months ago, about a Central American country that had a fully functioning nationwide street-address system ... which disintegrated because it was not maintained. Now it is almost impossible to mail anything to the country, because every address is some variant of "thirty steps from the grocery store".

Take nothing for granted. Everything requires upkeep, maintenance, and renewal. This applies to buildings, ethics, cultures, laws, borders, militaries, and constitutions.
Yeah I’ve read the 3-body-problem books, didn’t enjoy them, but I’m well aware of the mechanic you’re speaking of.
Yes, and i586 to i686 was a big generational thing. As was 386 and 486 jumps before. The old generations fell to undesirable category pretty fast. Not so much with Pii to Piii and the few following years.

Those were often easy to get and repurpose into servers and gateways for things.

Bad times.
>> After the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government in 1959, under the excuse of pan-Arabism, Egypt continued to occupy the Gaza Strip until 1967. Egypt never annexed the Gaza Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor.

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

Gee, why don't they want it, or its citizens, or to open the border now? The border was open a couple years ago.

Oh, wait. Gaza elected Hamas, who backed the Muslim Brotherhood, who sent terrorists to overthrow the Egyptian government.

Hey - how come the "Palestinian refugee camps" in Jordan and Lebanon are full of the grandchildren of people who can never and will never be allowed visas or allowed to work in those countries? The "Palestinians" exist only as a bullshit made-up group of Arabic people who the countries all around Israel refuse to accept into their population, and instead preferred to use as a lever for international support.

Preferred being the key word here. Now that it is no longer to their benefit, they have no more interest in the Palestinian "cause". But they can't integrate and make citizens the Palestinians or else they would be admitting a large group of terrorists [strike that; Extremely angry and misled people] to their already fractious / fragile societies. The Palestinians are left as a permanently used sub-class in all other Arab countries.
I definitely don't have the budget for a Mk3 but I can see a number of original Launchpad Pros and Mk2s for sale on local websites for not much money. Count me in as another person interested!
I like the name, it reminds me of Lensman - the classic sci-fi series that inspired the first video game Spacewar!
Regarding Java, it also helped that big Smalltalk players like IBM, decided to fully pivot into Java, and many Oracle haters might not realise that alongside IBM, they were the first ones to have alternative JVMs and were together with Sun in the Network Computer effort.

Smalltalk had a .NET like role in OS/2, one of the reasons SOM even supported metaclasses, just imagine the alternative universe.
Limiting immigration is one way to control demand.
I've never heard a credible explanation of free will or what someone means by that. Can you offer a description of what free will means, within known science?

I think it through several layers. At a personality layer most of the time you make decisions that are consistent with your personality. But occasionally you do something out of character.

At a lower level, a mind logic level, your mind / brain makes decisions based on weights. Should I have a coffee now - do I want one, do I enjoy it, am I trying to avoid caffeine because I felt a bit fuzzy yesterday etc. The bigger the decision the more weights go into it, but if you re-ran the same mind with the same weights then it makes the same decision every time, and if it didn't then er why? So where is the freedom there? To make a free choice at this level is to make a choice inconsistent with the experience + inputs of the mind.

Then at the lowest level, the brain is processes in the physical universe. Quantum probabilistic effects, as I understand it, don't have much effect on outcomes. And where they do, it's not like your brain controls that, it just happens. We have a physical state, time goes forward and we have a new state. And that's all there is, no concept of will, free or otherwise.

And you know, I think it's perfectly fine to feel like you have free will and not consider it often. Live your life as if you do. It's only if you focus on it that you can be like "ah, probably not then" but does it matter?
I had to look that up. A 747's max fuel capacity was 63,705 US gal according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747] and jet fuel is around 3.25kg per gallon, so ballpark of 207,000 kg or 207 metric tons could go into the biggest 747s. 7 metric tonnes is about 2,150 gallons.

Interesting stat. Isn't a lot, but it sorta is, too.
I fail to see the similarity between a land value tax and communism
This is great, however on first load I didn't get the trains moving. After a refresh they showed up again.
Well the former is the end goal in both cases. It's just lefists can't answer the following question in a single unified voice: what goes away first? The State, or Capitalism?
From our experience running Codeanywhere we understand the hesitation around being "forced" into specific tools. Developers should be able to code how they want, on their own terms. We're optimizing Daytona.io to integrate seamlessly with tools developers already love. The focus should be on empowering developers, not restricting them.
Technology use and subjective cognitive concerns in older adults
I would if they backported the fix to a version that runs in Windows 98.
> Even over 100s of thousands

* number of languages, no?
At the same time, GUIs really don’t work nicely/as idiomatically without a GC. Most Rust GUIs do immediate mode only, which is a much more easier problem, and you won’t have to “argue” with the borrow checker constantly. But it would drain the battery of a phone in an hour (it would be the equivalent of running a proper 3D game as your notes app or whatever).
you may now predict when old bugs are going to be fixed. any bug at least 20 years old is eligible. nearest prediction wins.

if you want to play the long game you may also predict if younger bugs get fixed more than 20 years after reporting. (if the bug gets fixed earlier than 20 years then the prediction becomes void)

place your bets!

*terms and conditions apply. firefox developers are not eligible.
Nightcap: Run Windows screensavers under xscreensaver, using copious quantities
Prolific Counterfeiting
"not so bad" is relative: It's two flights of a spacex dragon 2 launcher: 3,307 kg (7,291 lb) to ISS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2
> random thug with a bit of technical skills?

Did you actually read the wikipedia page? This is a highly intelligent person with no morals who orchestrated drug and arms smuggling cartel business on the entire planet for 15 years, murder, fraud and money laundering, of which some part is known, a big part of which he admitted to himself.
just over 100 years ago we didn't know other galaxies existed
I think the core concepts of BASIC have been overlooked and then forgotten in the shift to Unix and Unix-like systems.

The very axiom is an important point:

If you type a valid command, the computer does it _now_. If you prefix it with a number, the computer remembers it and does it later.

That is huge. With this very simple distinction, which can be adapted to any human language or alphabet, suddenly, you have a simple model for building up programs in small steps, without needing to know about
"files" or "folders" or "text editors" or any of that arcane stuff that learners need to handle Python or any other so-called beginners language.

"Do it now" versus "remember this" without using files is massive.

A second point, and a pain point for me with C and things built in C such as Python...

In BASIC, if output is in quotes, the language prints it. Other stuff is outside the quotes. Dead easy, simple, memorable.

PRINT "My name is "; name$

That's it.

C is much more complicated, with magic happening inside the quotes.

printf ("My name is %n", n);

Some of the weird stuff is inside the quotes but then it's repeated again outside them, and the stuff inside sort of affects the stuff outside, so some of what's inside is printed, and some is kinda processed somehow...

It's complicated and it's unnecessary and it's wrong to expect kids and beginners to learn this arcane 1970s junk.

Python does the same sort of weird processing...

print(f"My name is {}" name)

... or something. It's messy and it's unnecessary. It's exposing the beginner to implementation details and it's a bad idea.
As the Co-founder of both Codeanywhere and Daytona.io, I appreciate the mention in your comprehensive article.

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We see huge potential for cloud development platforms to optimize productivity and security.
Immediate mode vs retained mode. It is not a hard requirement, but the borrow checker definitely makes the latter more complex.
There are layers to this. At the simplest level, you only have K8s people (and aren't willing to use cloud services). So you install the RabbitMQ Helm chart, hope for the best, and fix any issues that come up.

Then you get a bit worried that the Postgres Helm chart, while good, doesn't do what you want. So you update to use a dedicated clustered Postgres, using some Postgres clustering tech.

Finally, you're at so much scale you can throw giant wads of advertising cash at the problem, and you can use anything you like and it'll work. You just need to choose the best thing for your particular problem.
What a foolish and unnecessarily vivid comparison. Thanks for your response.
You can't vote yourself out of capitalism the same way you can't vote yourself out of slavery.
Huawei P30, Firefox for Android 118.1.1
> Anybody can invent random problems ad nauseam

I agree; I was replying to this invented problem:

> What happens in the article infra when the rabbitmq or database nodes fail?

It makes sense if you read the reply as a reply.
Show HN: Open-Source Feature Flags for Next.js
Three Years of Phoenix Liveview and Elixir (2022)
We are a small business with big customers. We alleviate their source code concerns by making source available in a git repository that is always accessible to them. The contract basically says that if our business stops operating that they have a license to the source to continue doing whatever they need. They can in theory, but may not, access the code in disputes. They have no day-to-day rights to the source, and they ensure that their own developers don't have general access.

Customers are happy with this arrangement, especially if you offer to make use an escrow service provided that they cover the costs. This way, it is 'free' because lawyers are only involved during the initial contracts. After that, their are only two parties, no lawyer trying to get ongoing fees.
Again, I was replying to:

> What happens in the article infra when the rabbitmq or database nodes fail?
In germany, to avoid rent caps, many landlords moved to so called index rent, which is bound to inflation/deflation and there is no cap and can not be refuted.

Though, politics is everywhere, and they want to cap the index rents as well. Make sense, because why can everyone raise prices, while salaries do not automatically rise. There is no balance.
Efficient Automatic Design of Robots
ProPublica article from a year ago which I think kicked off the interest in the YieldStar algorithm: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
We always think that will be the outcome, but it never is. Except for one particularly bad small system I managed to replace with a slightly less bad one!
So it seems that Buffet, ironically, does not follow his own advice of simply buying an ETF and holding it.

Also, I know some "celebrity traders" in Poland who advertise their IKE (think of it like a Polish version of Roth IRA account), where out of 170,000 PLN cash savings over 10-12 years they can get 1,800,000 PLN (for the average return of 37% per year) - how's that for beating the market?
C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'
`Sad Prime noises`
You can (most likely!) thank the OSM project for the building footprint and height data (along with pretty much all the street data in this map).

I've recently been playing with shademap.app and it's pretty incredible for planning a solar panel install. Google Earth has always been able to show you shadows for any given time of day, but only for natural features (mountains, hills, generally the shape of the earth), but doesn't take into account buildings. Shademap is using OSM building data to calculate buildings as well.
Ok got it now, thanks!
Or it simply suggests that this is advantageous behaviour and that different learning methodologies would result in the same behaviour.
I can't recall encountering this bug in all my years of using Firefox. I can't seem to reproduce it while using i3 window manager.
Can you name some prior work that you think should be required reading here? I honestly don't think there's much if anything in the philosophy of consciousness that would be worth it. But maybe in cognition, not very familiar with it.