skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"old insulin" pre-~1980 was made from grinding up animal (cow, pig) pancreas and extracting a tiny amount of pure insulin through a chemical extraction process. Wikipedia posts a ratio of 2 tons of animal matter to 8 oz of insulin. It was "easy" but didn't scale up very well.
Sure. But the field looked a lot different in 2000 than today, and the weight of each of these have shifted vastly along with different hypes, trends, the introduction of cloud providers etc.

Microservices in particular is often decided at such an early stage and on such loose ground that in many cases it can barely be called an intentional software design, but rather something more akin to picking a perceived one-size-fits-all template. But it does then certainly leak into everything else - completely unnecessary or not. Which is why I'm asking that question.
They didn't need trees to survive, as proven by their survival. The claim is that their population hit a plateau due to the space available for farming, instead of dramatically collapsing as previously claimed.

If survival is the metric for success, then they didn't permanently damage their environment. As much as we love trees that's hard to imagine, but that's my interpretation of the study.
CRIU is 11 years old, don't expect it to be any more usable in the near future.
I suspect they're going to start with a rectangular substrate on which they'll grow Si and then high electron mobility materials.
I'd prefer he get a vasXtomy
Given the scale of people killed by coal every year, I feel relatively confident that had that effort not been undertaken, it would still be true.

And of course that's ignoring the fact that I also feel relatively confident that a Chernobyl scale accident every year is in no way likely, even if the entire world was 100% on nuclear
Is there a recursive computation for logarithms just like subtraction or division ?
> Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats.

What if we let people decide what they should/n't do with their own property instead?
That being said, in the US you can and should absolutely should build more, and basically get rid of most zoning regulations. You'd have a hard time finding anything as touristic and dense as Barcelona in the US.
It is when the government, not the tenants, pay the rent
As an Oregonian, I'm thinking "well, head towards Salem..."
They do, you can still buy it for cheap. It's not the same though, the new stuff works much faster.
Lol. They foreigners are buying homes like mad because there's no protection.

This is a distraction for an easy target. It won't help and it will make the quality of hotels worse.

It will also have a lot of under the table deals.

But hey, instead of fixing the real problems, it's easy to attack things some people don't use. They do the same to electric bikes and scooters. Ban ban ban! Things will surely improve!
Markets have inefficiencies and reflect collective human irrationality (such as underestimating the likelihood you will be in a fatal car crash). But it is trending better - not especially in a modern market. The stuff the FDA prevented when it was first created is much worse than what it has to deal with today because of better information dissemination and a broadly educated population.

I'm not sure who else would be funding pharma research if not people who are giving their money willingly.
Interesting. I built a very primitive prototype for a hosting company a while a back where I wanted to figure out if we could offer something close to a live migration of one Linux account on host x to host y without causing a lot of downtime. The product didn't support containers and isolation was just based on Linux user accounts so we couldn't just use Docker.

Just a few months ago I was talking to a startup founder at KubeCon who built a product based on CRIU. Unfortunately I forgot the company's name. (And I can't find that git repo with the prototype anywhere, even in my backups. Sad.)
They do exist and are increasingly common for new hotel builds, at least where I live. Here is an example of one in Montréal that I stayed in last autumn:

https://griffintownhotel.com/en-us/apartments/
Has it? Keep in mind that there's always been constant inflation, and that people keep earning more money per hour worked even after inflation, and that products tend to get better - even insulin is now better than before.
The locals problem seems easy to follow but why do tourists continue picking the airbnb style offers if they are so over priced?
I would argue that the question as posed is about understanding correlation, not about understanding causation. You don't need to know anything about causation to correctly answer the question.
New features… ? We are on Java 22
Ya listening Canada? This is how it’s done.
The IF archive (IF standing for “interactive fiction”, and the archive containing exclusively text adventures and related content) has existed since 1992. So to answer your question, it is unlikely that a “non-gamer blog” invented the term. In fact, the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup apparently dates back to 1987, well before the concept of blogs, or really “gamer” in its modern sense, had come about.
This is cool, I think an integrated compiler and LSP is a great standard for new languages. I'd go one further though and say that syntax highlighting should also be part of that language core. This way you have a single source of truth wrt to that language: how it should look, what it means and how it runs.

Tree-sitter is widely supported (both in editors and on web) for syntax highlighting as well as making semantic nodes available for external tools to interact with. Is there any chance you'd add a tree-sitter integration to this project? Or conversely, build out a compatible API that can be used with editors/tools that use tree-sitter's library?

The licensing is a bit confusing - for example, what happens with open-source projects that use this that are then used in commercial projects?
> Since everyone is treating containers as cattle CRIU doesn't seem to get much attention

Nah, it's more like "I don't trust that thing to not cause weird behavior in production".

VM-level snapshots are standard practice[1] because the abstraction there is right-sized for being able to do that reliably. CRIU isn't, because it's trying to solve a much harder problem.

[1]: And even there, beware cloning running memory state, you can get weird interactions from two identical parties trying to talk to the same 3rd service, separated by time. Cloning disk snapshots is much safer, and even there you can screw up because of duplicate machine IDs, crypto keys, nonces, etc.
Aren’t there obd2 readers that will dump this information?

And if the representations form is empty why don’t you just write down all the things the dealer told you and then offer to buy the car? At least you’d know which sellers are knowingly lying to you.
I honestly think we need:

1. To outlaw AirBnB. Except if people are staying in your house while you're there. Other than that, it should be illegal;

2. 80% Capital Gains Tax on property sales other than your primary residence, withheld at source.

3. Withold 40% of rent income at source, which can only be credited against taxable income in the state and country; and

4. Tax non-primary residences at 2% of their market value every year in addition to any property taxes; and

5. If landlords want out, let the state buy them out and use those properties for affordable housing for all citizens. The UK previously came "dangerously" close to eliminating landlords this way last century [1].

EDIT: another big one:

6. Ban HOAs. Entirely. They are anachronism invented to enforce segregation. Any function they perform (eg picking up trash, tending communal parks) is and should be the function of local government, which is democratic. HOAs are not.

Lastly, the one exception I would carve out is for multi-families and ADUs (accessory dwelling units). These were once commonplace but are now prohibited in most of the US.

Just like renting out a room in your house while you're there, ADUs mean the landlord is also affected by any potential misdeeds or abuse by the tenant so is invested in that not happening.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-...
What do you do when the customer locks themselves out? We have a good reputation for support so suddenly throwing up “sorry, no” will tank that.

This still doesn’t override positioning. Companies can make more money by charging more money for it, so they do.
Why would that help? Where I work we have a central server with some phones connected that act as the 2FA devices for every service where not all employees have their own account, with an internally developed browser extension that grabs the access code from this server upon login.
This is an article about going from Java 8 to 17. Generics and annotations are from Java 5.

Java's implementation of generics isn't great, but there are some professional coders out there who were born after generics and annotations were added, so it's probably time to let that one go.
Yes, C# is better by every measure and has had everything we can only dream of for decades. You can stop coming to every discussion of Java with the same old story.
Java is a good, fun language that gets the job done.
A rarely discussed negative to Waymo is that they drive slower than human drivers. Anecdotally they can be 10-25% slower than the rest of traffic, and it's not uncommon to see human drivers do unsafe moves to pass a Waymo.
next LTS is 11, which I believe is already out of support, so 17 would be the next logical LTS.
Great. Pick hotels. Why do you need to ban airbnbs? As a user of both the presence of airbnbs gives people a choice and sometimes one is clearly better than the other.

Problem is those who don't use certain services love banning them and pretend they're fixing some unrelated problem.
I'm curious why they can't pick up and drop off at exact locations, as long as the location is in their operating boundaries.
Yeah, you're right on all of that. I think there have been recent breakthroughs on quadratic (I think at ARITH 23? Yep, just looked, it's the best paper: https://arith2023.arithsymposium.org/program.html) so hopefully this will become more accessible with time. Though OTOH RLibM-style techniques can get you very short polynomials, to the point that it's hard to imagine beating them by much given the high cost of division operations (like 3x a multiplication).
Politicians being politicians. Seems like each Mayor recently likes to distract everyone and blame the city's housing problem mostly on tourism. Which is easy to do as the city gets a huge number of visitors
Better to be alive, though, than simply never born in order to protect airbnb, as you would prefer.
Yes, obviously everyone wants to be the last person allowed to move in somewhere, that's why they support these sorts of policies that foment resentment. NIMBYism also stifles most development in the US. But I don't see how it's not authoritarian.

Giving these 10k flats to locals isn't going to put a dent in the housing economy.
No it's not. Phrasal verbs in English are literally multiple words joined together, with a new meaning derived from those constituent words. Granted, the Wiktionary page I linked is not direct evidence because that is a list of terms, not words, but you can find many polysyllabic words in it if you look.

Many Vietnamese words are indivisible. E.g. "chuẩn bị", which comes from Chinese "zhǔnbèi". It was borrowed as a complete 2-syllable word. Any further division would cause it to lose all meaning.

Consider the inverse: if you decided to create a new spelling convention where every syllable in English were written spaced apart, then a word like "tomorrow" would become "to mo rrow". Does that mean that "mo" is now a separate word? What does it mean? If I looked up "mo" in a dictionary, what would I find?

If you're still unconvinced, the second paragraph on the Wikipedia page for Vietnamese directly addresses this: "Although it is often mistakenly thought as being an monosyllabic language, Vietnamese words typically consist of from one to many as ten morphemes or syllables; the majority of Vietnamese vocabulary are disyllabic and trisyllabic words."
You need to compare against the alternative, not just look at whether or not prices reduce YoY.

Objectively, this policy should be good for what it purports to do: reduce housing prices for permanent residents. This policy actually impacts both supply, forcing these 10k units to either languish unproductive or return to market as rental units or for sale, and demand, reducing sales demand for conversion to short term rentals.

Now, will this actually make a huge difference? Probably not. It’s only 10k units at most that return to the market in a city of 1.6M that likely has a lot of demand.
> He and Hunt concluded that the people of Rapa Nui continued to thrive well after 1600, which would warrant a rethinking of the popular narrative that the island was destitute when Europeans arrived in 1722.

Wait, so the thesis here is that they never actually collapsed, that the 3,000 person population noted by Europeans was always the stable population of the island?

It also suggests that they did cut down all their trees, but they did so not to build Moai statues, but to sort of kickstart their lithic agriculture.

I don't know enough to know whether cutting all your trees down and not being able to grow them back counts as an ecological collapse, or whether that was the only way they could sustain even three thousand people.

I'd love to hear the other side of this argument. I'm no expert, but this sounds weird to me.
It's demagogy and it works.
Because you’re wrong, that’s why. Generics really aren’t that bad. And people forget that Java generics came before many other languages.
1Password and LastPass both offer this feature, too.

Don’t use LastPass though.
being a tourist destination seems to me almost like a resource curse, like oil wealth can be in certain countries.

tourism can be so lucrative that it is actually profitable to force out normal people and completely reorient the economy away from all other productive activities. eventually large parts of the city will become totally stagnant, but this doesn't seem to stop tourists from coming. there's often a constituency of people who are really benefiting from tourism (property owners, tour operators, restaurants) and who form a powerful bloc opposed to any restrictions or taxes.

it really seems quite similar to an economy where natural resource profits drive everything, it's impossible to get any other industries off the ground or make enough money to live in any other way.
They recognize it exists. I'm even hearing podcast ads from Marriot or similar touting how much more reliable they are.

AirBnBs I've stayed in the past few years have all been janky, weird, and not really any cheaper than hotels. I don't have to do chores at hotels, and I can always get (and return) the key promptly. I've also been told on several occasions not to let anyone else in the building know I was an AirBnB guest. AirBnB used to be better, but the advent of "professional hosts" with many properties really degraded things. They often have the typical landlord mentality of expecting a lot of reward with little work or risk.
I have

font-variant-ligatures: none !important;
font-feature-settings: "liga" off !important;

in my userContent.css, so I had to stare at the three examples for too long because the second and third looked identical to me. After disabling the rules, I can see what they're going for.

I have those rules in my userContent.css because I get livid when I see ligatures in a fixed-width font (often, but not always, code blocks) where for instance the 'fi' ligature takes up one horizontal space. I don't know enough about css, maybe there is a way to specify that I want to disable them only in contexts where the font is fixed-width?

edit: [0] seems to say that this is not possible with plain CSS / userContent.css

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/77367843
I argue AirBnB should be banned anywhere building cannot be done at a rate which ensures affordable housing can exist for locals. Whether that is due to construction labor shortages, density, zoning, whatever, it does not matter. AirBnB can exist where there is surplus housing capacity, but should be banned anywhere else.

Locals get votes, tourists and AirBnB do not. The harm of not being able to afford housing is far worse than harm incurred by not being able to book a vacation rental you prefer.
That’s not how it works. There are already some laws that don’t allow owners to do certain things in/with their property (for example, you cannot just convert your flat into a disco for obvious reasons).
It's really quite simple. Guns are protected by the constitution so citizens have a fighting chance to overthrow a tyrannical government, porn is not. Whether or not guns are a net positive to society is a different discussion, but the reasoning is clear and simple.
The Martin Shkreli example is perfect for you because it shows someone raising drugs but we don't have the timeframe to see someone quickly ramping up cheaper generic production because of how quickly he was jailed. His company went bankrupt due to generic competition.

> Sure more money in, but that does not equate to better meaningful and better results out.

I believe that spending more on R&D will cause more drugs to be developed. If you disagree, we can agree to disagree - I'm not sure it would be a productive conversation.
> get rid of most zoning regulations

"most" is doing a lot of work here. don't forget you probably don't want to live next to an airport, railroad, chemical plant
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> OIDC or SAML should not be "taxed" extra.

But it costs extra. That cost is passed on to the consumer.

The major hurdle is that it's expensive!

Take a typical small business SaaS - providing SSO instead of standard passwords can take more time and effort to purchase or develop and to roll out than the actual SaaS software.

Okay, lets say you buy SSO: offloading to a service is going to cost a minimum of an extra $20/month/user.

Building it? That's going to take months of developer time, not to mention that this is a high-touch/high-feedback feature, which is going to eat up the service employees time.

And then the rollout, which almost always needs a month of external consultants getting everything working correctly.

I'm doing a small SaaS, $15/user/month; if anyone has any good recommendations that aren't going to to cost me a quarter of my current sale price, I'm all ears.

Even if it's DIY, as long as I don't burn a month of dev-time just for integration/deployment.
An expression of disapproval is shitting now?
It's not even poor people, in some "advanced economies" we're getting to a point where income means very little, and inheriting means a lot. I've only seen such a lack of empathy in teenagers or silver spoons.
I have no data, but experience from many other cases shows that economics will take what it wants.
Scenarios I can imagine:
1. Black market, which will hurt tourists and locals alike
2. These flats rented to digital nomads instead
3. These flats sold instead, and will be bought buy some hedge funds who will just wait for price appreciation and still asking hight rent

But most plausible scenario is mix of the above plus something unexpected and bad
For what it’s worth, it’s a little closer than your numbers imply. The city averages 2.51 people per household, so now they just need 75k more houses.

https://www.barcelona.cat/infobarcelona/en/tema/city-council...
Nice kitchens, laundry machines in the apartment, comfortable living rooms, access to attached outdoor space, and accommodations for larger parties traveling together are very difficult for hotels to compete with.
Many organizations are stuck on Java 8 because Java 9 made breaking changes. (Java 11 also made breaking changes.) Many of these changes also broke some popular libraries at the time that hacked into the JDK internals, so it meant a significant refactor for software that might be in maintenance mode already.
This is a good one, but I think the most impressive is the cornfield bomber.

The pilot ejected due to a flat spin (just like what happened in Top Gun, RIP Goose). Now a flat spin is a kind of spin and stall that tends to happen when the center of mass and center of lift are in the same place. This can make planes very unstable. So the pilot can't recover and ejects. But this changes the center of mass on the plane, and the plane recovers on its own, and eventually lands itself in a corn field.

The plane was eventually returned to service after repairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
> Flagged for what?

Flagged for being NSFW and devoid of interesting content. The average user, like you, is unaware that the content they are seeing is different from the content you submitted.
I see this is tailored toward crypto exchanges -- what, if any, are the major differences between crypto based trading and more traditional stock/future/option exchanges?
It's about votes, not math. The only solution is for people who can math to learn how to also get votes.
Only if you require text message based two factor. Password managers like 1Password allow you to store your OTP within them and share that + the password internally within your team
As far as I'm aware, the only officially supported way of shipping Java applications is by building custom runtimes with jlink. So if you want to play by the rules, it doesn't matter what the distributions ship.

Ubuntu ships multiple runtimes for every supported distribution and does backports FWIW.
Being able to do laundry makes Airbnb worth it almost every time.

If I have a multi leg journey I'll make sure every other stop is at an Airbnb with a washing machine.
I don't think that's true. Even a cursory search turns up, as the first response, this:

NIH has received almost $4.9 billion to date to fund important COVID-19 research on diagnostic tests, vaccines, and treatments. More than $940 million came from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020, with supplemental funding coming from the U.S. Congress .

Edit: I guess that you could argue that it wasn't all for a single drug
Try Kotlin. It's what modern Java should be, and might eventually slowly (slowly) develop into. It's a joy, and can use the entire JVM ecosystem (frameworks, libraries, tooling, etc).

The C# folks can't even knock it... it's less verbose and more functional.

Kotlin + Spring Boot for backend work is the way...
Google Sign-In is locking people to using Google's infrastructure. If an SMB has already deployed using Azure you don't get access using SSO, instead you have to fall back to username/password?

Adding support for OIDC is not that difficult. I prefer OIDC over SAML anyway, but neither is that difficult.