jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Further away from jobs.." You just complained that they wouldn't get jobs at trader joes, yet apparently they already have jobs. As far as "affordable housing." I'm tired of that excuse for letting neighborhoods turn into poverty factories. As far as them having no place to go, many of the working poor in those neighborhoods own their homes or they have a mortgage on their home which, due to the 2008 housing crash is likely worth less than they owe and due to likely bad credit is probably at an interest rate that's killing them. I'm studying a neighborhood in San Antonio called Denver Heights which is a really poor east-side neighborhood -- 40% of those homes have been foreclosed on. So that's telling me that those homes were owned by poor people and not some evil rich investors. If Trader Joe's had been built in that neighborhood, perhaps many of those families would still have a home because the equity increase would result in them being able to favorably refinance rather than losing the home to the bank. Now when you drive through there, it's almost a rotting ghost town.

This could provide a huge benefit to those people. But I guess we can just ignore the positive benefit to those people. Instead let's kill the development in the interest of "saving" the bottom 1% at the expense of other people in the neighborhood, many of whom are the working poor. This Trader Joe's deal could have make them fairly rich. If they own a $40K home that's now worth $150K, they just made $110K. They could refinance their home, cash out the equity and use that money to start a business, pay debt or buy more property. With one deal, they wouldn't be poor anymore. These "community groups" rather than trying to keep people victims ought to be out there teaching about real estate, investing and starting businesses, but alas, they only teach about how oppressed they are.

You're suggesting that if someone is poor in a neighborhood, we should ensure that everyone else gets fucked just to look after them? You are aware of something called Section 8, I presume? Do you know anything about how it works? Apparently not. If we followed your logic, then there would be no such thing as neighborhood revitalization, because a revitalized neighborhood necessarily results in higher property values. Interestingly, neighborhood revitalization has a positive effect on schools, especially in reducing de facto segregation. But of course, we can't have the schools improving because then the poor kids wouldn't have any more excuses and the poverty pimp business would dry up within a generation.

An empty lot benefits nobody.
>It's hard to imagine recession come when everyone expects it.

Especially when those in power are doing everything they can to prevent it. The Federal reserve has a trading floor and participates as a proxy for the government in the markets. There is also the rumored Plunge Protection Team. We actually have markets pricing in the likelihood of further quantitative easing 11 years after it was first done to address a prior crash. And for it all, we have only really accomplished concentrating wealth and increasing income inequality.

None of the above really appears sound. I expect things to change, mainly because I think the above cannot continue indefinitely.
> there is no way to prevent the recording of data for some future brute-force attack

Ideally, your encryption would be resistant to a brute-force attack…
Can you explain your comment? I'm having a hard time understanding how giving someone something without conditinos benefits the giver more than the receiver (or, as you say, _only_ the giver)
We shouldn't really buy any of them until basic repairability is addressed with screws and removable components instead of solder, rivets and glue.

This is a company that could pioneer socketed CPUs in laptops instead they are productizing $1000+ repairs and hoping they don't get hit with the bill themselves this time as with their butterfly keyboard replacements. Repairing these computers shouldn't be a future billion dollar industry.
People worship success. Turns out to be better than other hard working people you need to work extremely hard.
I agree with his theory, but what I find particularly interesting is that I think most people do not have an obsessive interest in anything at all. And as someone who has obsessive interests in a lot of things (some “useful”, some not), that seems really odd to me: how can you just be satisfied to go to work, come home, watch TV, and go to bed each day? (Not saying that’s the wrong way to live, just saying it is surprising to someone who isn’t that way). But I guess the obsessive ones are really the weird ones in society, in terms of the fraction of the population they constitute.

My problem lately has been acquiring enough free time to be obsessive. I really miss the days of playing piano for 12 hours straight or tinkering around with reverse engineering the OS of some MP3 player. And my wife is pregnant for the first time, so like PG mentions, I wonder (but suspect) how that is going to change things. I have a very intense dread of losing myself in the necessary mundanity of life; I am more financially comfortable than ever, but I also feel less like myself than I ever have. Going to meetings, making dinner, creating to-do lists — these don’t fit my personality at all, but I have to do them because they need to be done.
> Expensive and remote repair, lots of gadgets to break, difficult to remotely fuel, very likely costly compared to the cheapest alternatives.

I really don't understand this argument. Ford/GM/FCA 1/2 ton trucks are in a gadget/gimmick arms race and pretty terrible at executing it. The new 2019 Dodge Ram has been a disaster for new owners. I won't provide references because it is a simple google search. (For bonus points research the ongoing 2020 Ford Explorer debacle). Objective observers give Ford the nod for reliability of the big 3, and that's why Ford can charge about a 10% premium.

And that Ford/GM/FCA builds gadget-full and reliable pickup trucks seems to be a collective delusion of the truck enthusiasts. Toyota Tundra hasn't been meaningfully updated in 10 years and still sells like crazy. Toyota hasn't had to update it with gadgets because it is reliable like all Toyotas. It correspondingly has significantly higher new price (for given features) and resale value than any of the other 3 brands.

Tesla's electric motor drivetrain formula is already proving to be lower total cost of ownership [1].

As for the Tesla truck, airbag suspension is a notorious reliability item from any mfg, they all source from similar Tier 1 suppliers. So maybe Tesla decides to insource this?
And that retractable bedcover looks prone to breaking. But besides those, everything else are things Tesla has already proven to be more reliable than ICE alternatives.

As for difficulty to remotely fuel, are there more power outlets or gas stations in the world? Motivated people find solutions to EV logistics and it is getting easier every year.

Tesla has also said the Cybertruck will come with a solar panel option that can add 10-30 miles per day given configuration.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-math-shows-teslas-mod...
> Is NordVPN being defamed?

Any article on the internet that uses a question mark in the headline is either clickbait or dealing in suppositions, not facts.
Do you think the risk profiles are different or the same because they contain the word vaccine?

I can show you the longterm studies of those you mentioned. But the first long term study for these new vaccines are due in 2024.

In the end these kids are part of an experiment that we all hope goes well.

Most of anti-abortion activists are vaxxed. They are promoting the idea that your body society's choice. Do you stand with that crowd?
One might wish for a strict requirement for date formats for better interoperability, but at least I-JSON recommends something: ISO 8601 [per RFC3339] (with additional restrictions - see section 4.3 which I've quoted elsewhere on this page).
It's not his conversion kit. It's white Apple parts directly from Foxconn (i.e. they are official Apple parts) that a friend of his who works at Foxconn is able to procure. More bluntly, they are stolen Apple parts.
The bill is HR 2200. It passed the House on 6/4/09 by a vote of 397-25. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR02200:@@@R
Actually, the real benefit to using anti-matter in munitions is that it's a hell of a cash cow. Nobody expects it to actually work or ever be used, but you get paid a fortune anyways. Everyone wins -- the air force general gets a staff of 40 to manage the project, and the defense contractor gets several hundred million dollars.
Ron Paul's intent, as he describes, is to say that TSA employees shouldn't be allowed to do anything anyone else can't do. If you or I (or Ron) are not allowed to grope people the TSA employee shouldn't be allowed to grope people. If you and I are not allowed to expose people to X-rays, the TSA employee shouldn't be allowed to expose people to X-rays. Etc.

In other words, it's not about outlawing "misbehavior" by TSA employees, it's about outlawing the bulk of their job, as performed recently.
Not to mention the fact that 'the masses' spend days on end playing farmville, mobster games, etc etc which are all flash. That doesn't seem likely to change any time soon.
I totally agree with your first step (say no).

Like you say though, with the range idea I suppose you have to balance the likelihood of getting low offers. Personally, giving a range like this just gives them a range to make their offers in, which will result in a lower offer than my current salary every time (as my salary has always increased, so the current is always the peak).

If I'm going to give a range, I'd rather give a range from current+x% - current+y%

Of course, that suffers from the same problem as most other ideas, which is they may have been prepared to offer far more, but reduce because they know you'll accept current+x%.
Provides no competition to the back arrow. Made me stare at the form, and flick my eyes around vaguely for any mention of purpose or benefit. Very poorly done originally.
Like others I assumed this was something like a VPN - so the term "network" needs some work.

Also the three icons and text for Post/Share/Chat look like they should be links - I spent a while clicking on them trying to find out what kind of features are supported, which was a bit annoying.

I did eventually find the sample network - no idea why that button is next to the register button it should be far more obvious!

Looks quite nice actually - I might use this to share stuff with immediate family members.....
My uneducated two cents:

1) The USA's economy is "financialized" to a much greater extent than Europe's.

2) Lots of "phantom" GDP in USA which makes US "productivity" and per-capita GDP look higher than corresponding Europe figures (it's not an "apples to apples comparison"), thereby hiding US economy's weaknesses (e.g., high college tuition costs, health insurance costs, high healthcare costs (paid out by insurance companies to hospitals), doctor liability insurance etc all inflate the GDP but the corresponding figures for Europe are smaller).
I should start charging N ounces of gold per hour.
Nice pivot guys. But shame on the mentor that provided you all your features.
Guess NDA's are worthless and integrity isn't coded into the tech world.
Worst timing ever: final year exams.

But I'll look at it during June, as a set of exercises.
AFAIK all disc-based titles that have a single-player mode must be playable offline in order to be licenced for manufacture. If it tells you that you need to download anything to continue, try detatching the network cable and restarting the device so that it's purely offline.
Python:

Pyramid (http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/1.0/)

Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/)

TurboGears (http://turbogears.org/)

Web.py (http://webpy.org/)

flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/)

Ruby:

rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org/)

sinatra (http://www.sinatrarb.com)

I highly recommend Pyramid using Python, but it is a subjective thing. First is decide the language you like better than compare the frameworks and find the best on for you.
I went through several posts on the site and they all seem to be fairly content free. Specifically I read through the linked post and the one on modular design, and it reads like more of a sales pitch than an informative article.
Articles like this make we wonder how awesome I must be. I don't feel awesome. But apparently there are people out there who need telling that sometimes things are obvious, and sometimes you need to think.
Outside of the United States, there are test standards called the GC(S)E "A" and "O" levels which are roughly equivalent to entrance exams for college/senior high respectively. Because these exams have been going on for DECADES, the examining body has basically given up on guarding these questions i.e. they are regarded to be in the "public domain". Enterprising publishers have called these collections of questions the "10 year series", which are exam questions from the previous decade. There is not a single person in this part of the world who does not own a copy when preparing for those exams.
Yes, Statsheet was denied putting 345 apps in the store for each college basketball team. If we are only allowed to have one app, then the user could choose which team is theirs, and then the front Icon would change to represent their team.
Not a commune, exactly, but you can go live on a tropical beach with other American hackers with CocoVivo --
http://www.cocovivo.com/
AFAIK, this "petty argument" started with Facebook blocking Google Friend Connect, ironically, for permanently caching data from the Facebook API (effectively what Facebook were doing in return with Gmail's address book).
oh, i see now it has been stroked trough! =]
People have been parroting this nonsense for years. You have WebGL etc in the browser now. Web "pages" aren't pages anymore, and there is no way to enforce semantically meaningful markup. All that's been accomplished by fighting against the future is to ensure that all these low level services were implemented poorly. You can have all your high-level, common concepts but they need to be built onto a layered system. What we have now is a laughable mess, and it proves that the browser vendors have no idea what they're doing.
I don’t see the appeal of yet another anti-social media app. I don’t know, maybe it’s me, but I’m thinking even if I was a lonely cat lady/guy I’d not need yet another crappy app on top of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat or TikTok to not feel like a lonely depressed human. If I really need to take my mind off my lonely miserable life then I can already listen to a million podcasts or literally turn myself into a binge watching zombie staring at Netflix all day so I don’t have to realise what a fucking loser I am that I need an app to meet and talk to random people. Even if I was that person, I’d probably lose interest in Clubhouse as soon as the pandemic is over and I can see my shrink again.
> It is percent of population that matters not absolute number of vaccinated people. Israel is near 70%, while India is only 0.5% [1].

Which is more commendable considering the vastness of the land itself. Israel == Delhi and surrounding reasons.

Given the economic parameters of the country, it has better CFR than US, Italy, Germany and UK. Thats pretty amazing considering the health expenditure and wealth of US, Italy, Germany, UK is enormously high than India.

As when number fudging that is not happening.You can look at data from independent foreign houses stationed in India.
How about some full disclosure here? Spreading that opinion is a main part of your job (Developer Advocate at Embarcadero/Idera).
> Let's don't forget the obligatory: "Can he invert a binary tree on a whiteboard though?"

Probably yes.
if you go to the "documentary" section on Netflix or another streaming service, there are dozens and dozens of really low-quality documentaries. Some are on conspiracy topics (UFOs, ancient aliens) or stupid and sensationalist. They all seem to treat the audience like they are not very smart.

I think most were produced on small budgets to run during the daytime on cable channels like History or Discovery, and then sold to Netflix as well.

These could definitely give someone a bad impression of what counts for documentary film in America, and in terms of raw numbers there are way more of them than anything else.

However, the documentaries produced for American public television (like those of Ken Burns) tend to be very good. And there are also high-quality American documentaries that go on the festival circuit.
But the NYT article really put an emphasis on that Silicon Valley is far from "classic" US conservatism when it talks about Red vs Blue vs Gray tribes. There is no need to argue that most of tech elite are hardly Trump voters, especially in terms of identity politics.

But in terms of economy I think the SV discourse is maybe already much closer to what Scott Alexander had outlined in his Left Libertarianism article. [0]
I feel that this ideology which combines unregulated capitalism with social safety net is very far from socialism, progressivism, social democracy etc.
What I do not understand - why is it such a shame in not being a leftist for educated middle-class coastal Americans?

[0} https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/08/a-something-sort-of-li...
Powerful people will still be held in check by public opinion, market forces, and other powerful people. We don't need a centralized MiniTrue gatekeeping with its own agenda.
Instead, they'll do like Basecamp and get people together a couple times a year.

If you hired people on the basis of being remote and they're all over the place, if at the end of 2021 you tell them they all have to relocate to San Francisco, expect to hear a whole lot of big "Nope"s.
I also own a reMarkable 2

Considering how small the company behind it is compared to Apple, I was positively surprised how well it is designed and made - in some aspects I consider it superior to the iPad. Apple can fund a lot or R&D thanks to the volume of iPad sales, a small company has much more problems to do so. And probably the reMarkable sales numbers are small compared to the iPad. At least they were able to bring down prices quite a bit with the second generation. To be honest, I wouldn't have paid much more than the 400€ for the device.
Well then I think the only thing for me to do is to get myself EU4 and do some "research" to figure this out. :)
> Facebook has implemented an algorithm that shows me new content based on what I have interacted with in the past... but Facebook could do some really egregious things before people would stop using it.

Did the author miss Facebook experimenting on users with the news feed by putting 'harder' new items to see if they could alter users' emotional state?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/furor-erupts-over-facebook-exper...
So instead of

boolean needToUninstall() {
if now > EXPIRATION_TIME
return true
else
return false
}

we need to

boolean needToUninstall(givenTime) {
if givenTime > EXPIRATION_TIME
return true
else
return false
}

needToUninstall(now) && doUninstall()

so the code is now testable. Or simply use dependency injection to change the value of `now`

Is it hard to pass time as parameter?
You want I should email back and forth during an incident rather than using instant messaging?
"While having a firearm may be handy, in the majority of cases it was not used, and probably not even "needed"."

That was my point, I was being ironic.
Hmm. It reminds me of how Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan sued Gawker into the ground. The whole thing, from Gawker outing Thiel onwards, was sordid, but I feel that it was made much worse by Thiel acting in secret.

Maybe, if everything the powerful do is just as watched as the little people, that balances things out a bit.

I'm not postulating some utopia: I think what we'll get is what I call the "Tyranny of Mrs. Grundy":

> Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety. A tendency to be overly fearful of what others might think is sometimes referred to as grundyism.

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

E.g. the Chinese "social credit" system. If that applies to the powerful communists as well as the masses then it might actually work, if not, it's the genesis of Morlocks and Eloi.
I had a similar idea about green roofs and how they could have a net positive effect on happiness, liveability and energy efficiency in cities.
How do I follow people?
> you do not need to fit a curve to see that

You haven't proven this statement. It's possible within your own brain is nothing more than a rudimentary curve fitting algorithm that allowed you to see this pattern.
For physical products, it’s doesn’t make sense. You get chargebacks and high churn. You also get people who cheat the system with throw away emails. The business has to focus on catching these people and making it hard to cancel. These are things that don’t actually drive value for both the company and customer.

Best decision we made at a subscription CPG startup was cut our 1st month free promo and instead focus on creating a brand through marketing and high quality products. This allowed the company to successfully exit after only 5 years.

Companies that take the approach free trial approach burn their customers and get nailed by the government. A good example is a diapers subscription company that got nailed by the FTC ultimately leading to down round and giving up their subscription bundle.
My exposure to these subjects has been limited, but the thing that I liked about Dan Dennets rebuttal to Chalmers is that it does away with the special-ness of consciousness.

It is more likely that consciousness is just a property of brains inside bodies. The interesting question to me is the level of complexity of brain and body required to produce something like what we experience and what is it like in other arrangements of brains and bodies.

I also don't know that intelligence is the great thing that we think it is. It's an adaptation. It's an adaptation that lots of other organisms survive just fine without.
Most forums on the internet are like that and it’s not exactly unexpected because people who care about writing something in an Internet forum will also be pedantic about what they want. This forum is no exception (you can pretty much see this in action whenever electron is mentioned)

Many people try to reduce complex multi-variate situations into simple variable situations and then lambast people on other forums if their chosen variable turns out to be different.

I just saw an example of this last week in mobilereads forum. Unhappy with iBooks and the kindle apps I’ve been reliant on Marvin for quite a time. But the dev has vanished from the scene for last 2 years. I just investigated if creating a commercial replacement would be a good idea but good god, the one forum where people have been talking about Marvin can have extremely ultra specific needs for a very unreasonable price expectation. After reading that forum I’m not exactly surprised that the dev chose to abandon the goal post.
That's not the point. It means they are delivering the same amount of food (2 X half a portion), for pretty much the same price, minus the enjoyment of eating out. And apparently, they take about as much to make as a regular meal from the store.

EDIT: I think we are talking at cross purposes - I meant restaurant meals are usually plenty for two people.
It is down for me, I wonder if .dev domain is filtered for me? Anyone has issues accesing this?
It is novel because in the case of IP of this GAI, it would be like owning the DNA of someone. Imagine it being a copyright violation to have babies.