skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he's calling the deaths insignificant. He's only saying it's statistically insignificant given N.
The agency:consumer ~= airbnb:host analogy makes more sense.
Latency is very much a function of how your city is laid out. For my Boston commute, the bike is by far the fastest option (30min) followed by the subway (40min, ~$70 monthly pass) and finally the car (1hr+ and $250 a month to park at work). Boston is more of an Old World city than New: despite the complaints, we have a functioning transit network and it's quite dense.

Self driving cars will lead to a death spiral of congestion. Because driving is even "easier", it will become more prolific and that will greatly increase travel times because cars simply can't scale, autonomous or not. And no, autonomous cars won't be legally allowed to drive bumper-to-bumper to save space.
In los angeles you hit spots that are impossible to pass on foot you cant just walk across the city over on la cienega the side walk cuts off and its cars and trucks only no bikes either. I lost both my front teeth and broke a foot being hit by a car.
You can't pay rent or save for a mortgage downpayment with illiquid stock options.

It takes something like $200-400K to get on the housing ladder in the Bay Area so the idea of putting it off for 8-10 years with no guarantee of success is already unattractive.

To shackle yourself to a single company for the duration? Nuts. When did you last work anywhere for 8 years?
There's a reason for commercial and residential zoning. There's a reason your landlord and HOA do not permit short term rentals.
Are you the same type of person who accuses people of cultural appropriation? Does it exist or not? Is culture something worth cherishing and preserving and experiencing or is it too tribal for the modern era?

I had a great trip overseas recently. I loved being in a different place and in a different culture. I hope the people of that place continue their traditions because I want others to experience it as well.

I want my own culture to continue, as horrible as that might sound. It's not perfect, and its always changing for better or worse, but its my culture and I think there's value in its existence.
I trust public company press releases that commit to concrete numbers: there is a cottage industry of plaintiffs' lawyers that bring securities class actions for material misstatements of financial information.

NY residents didn't invest anything in fiber. Verizon got rate hikes because it has been losing billions of dollars a year in NY. Nationwide, Verizon's wireline profit margin is in the low single digits--it's utterly ridiculous to say they're receiving a "subsidy" in the form of above-market monopoly prices.
We certainly should continue chatting :)

"A dream tool I'd love to have would be a "read-only" IDE for code, that would let me quickly move around the project with semantic commands ("jump to definition", etc.) and annotate stuff. I want to take notes, highlight stuff in colors, even draw on the code. Kind of a combination of a good IDE and annotation facilities of a PDF reader."

Yeah, I spent a few years thinking about a "wikipedia for code" which is almost exactly what you describe. But I eventually gave up on it for 2 reasons:

a) I started learning about the benefits of tests, and I noticed that this idea doesn't really have a good answer to how to make use of tests for reading.

b) I started noticing that in large teams and over time a good tool contains within it the seeds of its own demise. It's a little like creating roads to relieve traffic: for a while things are good, but then people start buying more cars (at least in the US), and eventually traffic is as bad as it used to be. In software, for example, high-level languages make it easier to declare function arguments (compared to say Basic's GOSUB), but now programmers start creating functions with 20 arguments, and that is as bad if not worse than GOSUB. Inheritance makes some kinds of control flow easier but also causes new kinds of spaghetti code. And so on and on..

These are the reasons why I stopped thinking in terms of just a tool. A tool helps existing habits, but loses control of new habits created around the tool. Changing practice, on the other hand, would affect both sides of the feedback loop. Instead of a vicious cycle of new abstractions (language features or tools) that hide details from the user and cause users to abuse them, I'd like to trigger a virtuous cycle where using a tool gradually makes you more likely to understand its internals. Lisp macros have that property: after using them for a few months I was surprised to find when I built a lisp interpreter how easy implementing macroexpansion was. It was as if macros were a (benign) virus that planted themselves in my brain as I used them. I'd like to create more such viruses :) It's a slower approach to changing things than creating a tool, it's true. But I think there's a lot more upside in the long run.
Converting int to enum of smaller size underlying type
Ok, now you are being inconsistent. You think it's wrong for executives to be paid above-market wages, but you think it acceptable for employees to be paid above-market wages.

Nope, perfectly consistent. If one group gets to vote themselves a raise, all groups should get to.

Or, more rigorously: if we're going to introduce artificial legally-blessed structures to allow people to pool their resources in order to accomplish things, or wield power in the market, that they couldn't when acting alone, then... I think we should be consistent about it. The corporation exists as an artificial legally-blessed structure for pooling of capital, and the union exists as an artificial legally-blessed structure for pooling of labor. I don't see a way to argue, from a consistent moral/ethical position, for allowing one to exist while forbidding the other. And similarly, the fewer regulations we place on one of these types of entities, the fewer we should place on the other.
To substitute a p2p car sharing service in place of car rental agency completely changes the meaning...

Driving a vehicle (your own or renting someone else's) is an activity requiring a license for the agency to validate.

I'm unaware of any place in the world requiring a license to sleep and eat breakfast.
Well, I doubt that the people who wrote the Commerce Clause would have dreamed up Wickard v. Filburn in their worst nightmare, either, yet here we are. So, at this point, the majority of federal laws are based on an interpretation of the Constitution that strains credulity far more.
"Willingness to opine" is not identical to "self assessment of capability".

I am also not sure any SMBC comic can be reasonably considered to be making a claim of anything...
Driving car requires license for various other reason all of us agree with. I don't see why hosts need a license.

Also there is potential stupidity of passing regulations that people wont respect any ways.
> Blocked a lane of traffic for 40 minutes

Curious on the 40 minutes here. Why'd it take so long to recover?
About this:

"Every article I've read treats those who were pro-Brexit as if they were complete idiots, as if their concerns aren't legitimate."

You are using very strong language there, but it is important to remember that the pro-Brexit people were badly misinformed, and the concerns that drove them were completely illegitimate in a modern Western country. So it is entirely appropriate that the articles give that kind of treatment to the pro-Brexit crowd. Such articles are accurate and we should be grateful for their honesty and reporting.
So the white-shoe Sand Hill Road crowd is averse to having a potentially large long term liability if things go awesome. This is some bold, 19th century robber baron stuff. Wow.
In my perfect world it wouldn't matter to the Iowans whether or not the cities grew because they wouldn't get any subsidies for their crops, which you really can't justify except by saying farm states have out-sized power in our political process.

By the same token, regional and city-wide projects should built by the people who are going to benefit. There's no reason I should have had to pay for Boston's Big Dig, for example.
I linked to Smalltalk-76 because that's the version I found in the Alto filesystem archive.
This is the ideal result if we want more like him to step forward.
Maybe that's how long it took them to realize it was gone?
politicians dictating what you can and cannot do with your property

OK, let's completely legalize Airbnb-style temporary rentals... but make the host bear the full cost of it. Not the small fraction of the cost the host thinks about, but the actual cost with all the externalities factored in.

Because really the only way Airbnb works is if it offloads significant costs onto unconsenting and often unaware third parties. And all those goshdurned gubmint regulations? They bring the cost of running a hotel-like business into line with, well, the actual cost of running a hotel-like business. But we can replace them all with just a single charge if you like.
It is becoming hard to negotiate remote work deals because many bosses have also read the book! lol
This Is What Electric Cars Will Do to the U.S. Gas Demand
Some neighbours are excessively noisy or cause a nuisance in other ways. For a long-term neighbour, you can probably fix the problem within a few weeks, and it stays fixed.

When you have a new 'neighbour' every day, the chance of having that problem in given year increase (as among a large group there will be some bad apples). Moreover, the existing methods of solving the problem won't work because (i) the offender will be replaced (maybe with a new offender, maybe not) by the time any enforcement action can be taken, and (ii) social pressure won't work on someone who knows they will be gone in a day or two.

I'm not advocating a particular solution. But please recognise that laws and processes that were designed for dealing with long term neighbours don't necessarily serve the purpose well when those neighbours are changing every day.
Can see that in UK now, parliamentary labour party is about to go to war with its own general party members because they hate that the general members voted an actual socialist in.
You should watch the talk[1] by Joe Peacock of fark.com about updating the site (the infamous "You'll get over it" incident).

The solution isn't "change nothing". Instead, you involve the people that use the old (current) version in the process, keep them informed, and get some kind of buy-in. Most importantly, you respect that the user has their own schedule and needs with a migration path that allows the user to make the transition at their own pace.

What you don't do is surprise users at random times, revoke any agency they had, and force changes on them without any consideration fo the user's situation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVeysllPDI
Awesome project and impressive demo, but these ambiguous project names are a really bad idea for a number of reasons.
If there was enough interest you could get the Microsoft Python team to support IronPython. There's been talk of a renewed effort.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ihoop.html
Am I misunderstanding you?

SF's legendary rent control creates a clear incentive for landlords to use a service like Airbnb to continually rent at market rate (though lower occupancy rate) while maintaining control to allocate the unit as they see fit. Renting a unit in sf both freezes rental revenue and removes the owners control to reallocate the unit.

Did you mean something else?
I don't think I see the comparison between what I've suggested (though I didn't really give enough detail to infer any real implementation plan for my suggestion, so I can see how there might be room for interpreting my comment in a lot of ways), and what Venezuela did when they socialized some companies and kicked some others out (though I am, by no means, an expert on the Venezuelan economy...perhaps you have a specific corporation in mind that committed some sort of atrocity in Venezuela and was shut down or forced to leave?).

I think I need you to be more specific, is what I'm trying to say.
I sit in stunned amazement at the foaming-at-the-mouth outrage being expressed on this thread.

There is no way you can pin the death of anybody on VW diesel emissions. It's a statistics game that that's it. You might as well blame Tesla for the extra deaths caused by the increase coal plant emissions created by owners charging their cars. Or make up any other example of any activity that increases some polutant. The only difference is that VW violated an arbitrary number in a government regulation.

There are millions of vehicles on the road today with worse emissions than the violating VW diesels. They are all killing people (statistically) and the government and therefore you and I are complicit in this murder by allowing it to continue. I am sure everone on this thread will endorse punitive tax increases to punish us all for our negligence, and to buy out the owners of these polluting cars so that they can all buy clean-and-green new ones (conveniently ignoring the rather massive environmental impact and attendant premature deaths caused by junking and replacing perfectly serviceable vehicles).
Random observation: On the bookshelf behind Prof. Knuth in the video, Stephen Wolfram's book "A New Kind of Science" is clearly visible.
Actually, the real history of the world is the hidden struggle between YC and the so-called "Paypal Mafia" -- in fact the continuity organization of the Nazi Abwehr.

Both these groups have full access to the alien records and have upgraded leading personnel to a very high level. Apparently there was a full-out psychic duel between Thiel and Altman at Bilderberg this year -- no word on who prevailed, but both seem to have survived. This time. "Brexit" may be a sign, though.
OpenDNS is handy. You

1/ Sign up for an account
2/ Configure your home's router to use their DNS servers
3/ Install an agent on a machine in your home's network, authenticate it with your account credentials. When your router's IP address changes, this agent makes sure to update your account.
4/ Configure the sites or types of site you want to block.

Once you're up and running, If a DNS request from your network matches something that'd be blocked, you'll get re-directed to a "Blocked Content" page.
Actually I didn't know there was a book about that. I remember reading a post of a guy doing that here on HN though. I had some savings and an opportunity arose, after some serious doubts and thinking, I took the leap. But for those who have a startup or do freelance work, I think it's highly probable to be able to do it as well.

I have also a friend who does UI/UX web development who's been doing this for a couple of years too.
The way I've come to see it is "The less you know about a subject, the less you think you don't know."

In other words, you have no solid grasp on the field and so cannot make an effective guess at your ability in the field - so go for middle of the road and that's possibly your best statistical guess...
Orgies and drug dens can have an impact outside the bedroom, and outside the apartment.

Search 'airbnb xxx fest evicted' for details.
And there is still one tribe of people that are canibals. But that's just a cultural issue the rest of the world has with the tribe, but seriously, what's the issue other than they're people in almost the entire world and a protein source in the other?

Just as pretty much everyone has an issue with canibalism, the west has an issue with people eating dogs. It has nothing to do with anthropomorphism. We are not attributing human behaviour or charactaristics to the dogs. The dogs do in fact posses many traits that make them a companion animal and not a food animal.
3DNes emulator released
There's been articles posted to HN that have attempted to explain why textual source code has become the norm, but from what I remember it comes down to simplicity (and with it, efficiency of storage and processing) and portability. It's the same reason why files as plain sequences of arbitrary bytes won over structured/more "rich" formats, and the "everything is a file/stream of bytes" model of Unix dominated; all the complexity involved in handling things like embedded formatting instructions, resource forks and other nuances is a huge obstacle to widespread implementation and interoperability. The phrase I remember reading in reference to this is "text is universal", and I agree completely.

One would naturally wonder how Alto/Mesa managed to have all these features, and the answer is simple: it is effectively a closed proprietary ecosystem, developed by one company with plenty of engineering effort, and with little consideration for interchange with other systems. It also had far more processing power than personal computers of the time.

I don't have the answers to how programs should be written, but the current system just seems wrong, locked into decisions made decades ago. It seems like programming is stuck at a local maximum.

Never underestimate the importance of simplicity and a low "barrier to entry" --- in fact, I'd consider the lack of success of much larger, "fancier", more complex systems like the Alto as a strong evidence that, regardless of how fancy, featureful, and radical your system is, unless it has a low barrier to entry and interoperates with existing ones, it will not endure the test of time.
Guy got fed up with Upwork, and started Downwork
Your parent post is talking about the (already illegal) negative effects that follow from the presence of a transient population.
I think it's more the opposite. Lots of employees just pulling a salary and another chunk on the side from periodic grant refreshes (you often hear folks talk here of, say, $50k of grants per year as part of comp).. versus a very small handful of millionaires.

The Googles and Apples and Facebooks of the Valley employ a lot of people vs the (granted, numerous) small moonshot startups.
I know no developers using dynamically and statically typed languages that would deny the benefits of static typing per se.

I guess technically you're right here, because what I would do is deny that you have the ability to define "static typing" (or "dynamic typing") in a meaningful way.

It's just a matter of fact that you get rid of a certain class of bugs that you have to otherwise cover with (unit) testing.

Well, I do occasionally see static-type refugees coming to Python and writing code littered with "assert isinstance(..." checks and the like. But sooner or later they either learn to stop doing that, or go back to their safe space with horror stories about how they had to do all that manual checking. People who stick around have learned you don't need to do that stuff, and I can't think of any code I've personally written in, say, the past five years which used tests or runtime type checks to try to catch type-related bugs. In fact over the past ten years I can only think of one time when a static type checker would've caught a bug that got as far as being committed.
Decoupling the language support from the tool will be great if it gets wider support. This would give new editors a big leg up, as they only need to support the protocol and handle editing, and can lean on other parties to provide cross tooling language support. The same applies for new languages, write the server once, and get support from many tools.

The most interesting part of this announcement was who they didn't mention: JetBrains. It will be interesting to see if they come on board with this.
Yes, renter so, far. And I am vaguely aware of the control/ordinances, etc. government impose on property owners --many for the greater and one's own good. But at some point it becomes too much. My favorite is the old window tax they used to collect in France, among other places, centuries? ago. People boarded up their windows.

I also am very wary of the Chavezist instinct to blame property owners and businesses for the faults and failings of bad government planning and policies.
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I don't know that it can be reconciled, at least not without roughly defining a boundary between what "everyone coders" are supposed to do, versus what "real programmers" do.
This is a deceiving comparison.

It'd be like saying "more people now own bicycles than cars".

Sure, both cars and bicycles address the "transportation" marketplace. But one can be sold to 5 year old kids, where the other requires you to have state license and age requirements.

Is not really a fair comparison.
I believe that https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-3248.20.55/ is the kernel source for the current version of of Mac OS X 'El Capitan,' and I believe that https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-3248.20.55/bsd/h... is the source for the current HFS+ filesystem. Is that not correct?

Much of the operating system is proprietary, but I didn't think the kernel or HFS+ filesystem were included in that.
Why does teaching programming have to result in a programming-only job? That's like saying the end goal of teaching literacy is for students to become professional writers. Or that children should be taught to touch-type so that they are eligible to work as transcribers.
Citation? Why wouldn't the experts who studied this have accounted for that? I tend to want to trust the science, if it comes from reputable sources.

Anyway, CO2 is not comparable to NOx in terms of danger to human health; CO2 is a real problem, of course, but as I understand it, this was an environmental and human health trade-off that is not at all well-balanced. It produced out-sized harm in exchange for small reductions on the CO2 side. Even if the amount of NOx produced only increased by the same amount that CO2 decreased (which is not the case, if I understand it correctly), it would still be a bad trade. I'm no expert, but the experts I've read on the subject haven't been saying, "oh, it's really no big deal because CO2 went down."
If I recall correctly, you'd have to be at least a lvl 4 wizard to cast freedom of movement.
Weather is similar to Portland, but as you get closer to the coast you get less temperature extremes. The coastal mountains do get snow in the winter, though, due to elevation. There's probably more rain.

I think in general people don't build there because it's harder/more expensive to build on hilly terrain, there aren't many jobs in the area, roads are relatively sparse, and though the landscape is beautiful in general, the way it's logged means there's little species diversity and the land always looks like it has a bad haircut.

I'm sure there are hundreds of other plausible sites we could find by spending a little time with Google Maps. Most of them will have something wrong with them, otherwise cities would have been built there already. However, some of the problems may be features in the right context. For instance, hilly terrain might deter real-estate developers from trying to build 100-houses-at-a-time developments and encourage the kind of people who are willing to make the effort to use the geography to their advantage.
Do we want to go down the externalities rabbit hole? Do we tax people who cannot knowingly fiscally responsibly afford to have kids more because their kids cause tax externalities that people who don't have kids have to bear (school, food, health subsidies, quality of life impact, etc.)?
If you read the paper, the study was performed on Ph.d students and the language was Ansi C. >.>

Make of that what you will.
From a technical perspective, could a social network be built with acceptable privacy policies and still have all the features users want (assuming no ads and no profit motive necessary)?
The left is currently identified with Hillary Clinton, for obvious reasons. The right is identified with Donald Trump, for the same reason.

It's not going to be a good year for either of their images.
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Please put a link when you get them scanned and hosted!