skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is obviously all wonderfully modern and the wave of the future and all that. Yeah Sweden!!! Totally lagom :-)

What the article fails to mention is that the swedish central bank has been able to implement an extremely aggressive negative interest rates policy thanks to The Cashless.

So if you like your savings eaten away by government mandated fiat (see what I just did there?) then of course be all plasticky and virtual.

This ends in hyperinflation as well as taxation cat-and-mouse games between governments and alternative currencies.
The tolerant philosopher: Pierre Bayle, forgotten figure of the Enlightenment
There are plenty of "mcmansions" in the U.K. as well. Just take a look around some areas of Bucks, such as Beaconsfield, and other commuter belt areas. The plots of land are tiny as well. It really ruins the natural beauty of those areas.
Cats use their tail for balance. Not sure it's better than arms, but the fact remains that cats run much faster than humans (or apes).
I live in an area (East Sacramento) with many homes in the 3k sq/ft range built on 10,000 foot or smaller lots, and it is lovely. Mid-town sacramento has even larger victorian buildings on even smaller lots, also lovely.

The problem with todays building is not building-to-lot ratios.
A class on moral philosophy screwed me up for a while early in college. All the critical thinking and fancy vocabulary about the topic made me think morality was in some way real - I was all concerned about violating "moral laws." It's amazing how smart people can be so grossly deluded and incorrect about things like this.

"Am I wasting my potential?! Is this action maximizing my contribution to general welfare?! Is Famous Person better than me because he helped more people?!" Totally neurotic.

This kicked off an era of serious philosophizing, and I began to see countless contradictions and paradoxes with utilitarianism, etc.

For example, I started to see that the notion of "selfhood" was just a social invention or cognitive construct, because I reasoned that we're just perpetually changing aspects of nature, and our separateness is just opinion. So then I wondered how the hell anyone could be deserving of blame or credit if they don't actually exist, or if it was their "former self" who committed the crime, etc.

It's kind of annoying but cute to see some popular "thinkers" and writers -- fancy-smarty-pants _neuroscientists_ and _atheists_, even -- who actually think morality is real, as though there are actual objective problems out there somewhere. As though you could actually do a "bad thing" or a "good thing." That grinds my gears a little because it's very hypocritical: They'll write an entire book disparaging religious people who believe things without evidence, and they'll write another book on why, according to their pseudoscientific-philosophical horse shit, morality can be "derived from science" [vomit].

But it's easy for smart people to cling to morality as an existential anchor point when they don't have religion to fall back on. It's hard to accept that you're in free fall. But it's nice once you come around and accept reality for what it is.
I look at consultants like home improvement, if you can spend $100 and improve the value of your home by $70, you've basically won.

As an aside, there should be a JP Power rankings for consultancies. Is there?
It heavily depends on the company and area I'd say.

At my company, an IT-Consultancy in Germany, the junior-position-baseline is a solid understanding of HTML and CSS, and at least a basic grasp of Javascript.
For mid-level-positions I expect "fluency" in all of those areas, plus a good knowledge of standard-tools and accessibility.
I also look for a good foundation in either design or CS, depending on the interviewees background.

The interview is the same for every level, though we look for different things of course. We ask the applicants to set up a basic front-end-file-structure and to start coding a design we created specifically for interviews. During that we ask them to think aloud and talk about the reasons they do things the way they do.

The second exercise is a palindrome-function in JS (or on the whiteboard for juniors).

They seem like simple tasks, but you wouldn't believe how many interviews we had where the person couldn't even code an img-tag from mind.

I understand that at Valley-Companies/Start-Ups, Frontend-Development includes many more advanced topics than in our case.
My garage is too small, it's hard to maneuver tools around the car. Worse, the ceiling isn't high enough to have a lift installed. I regret that every time I have to work under the car.
Yes, skyPlux desktop [1]. It was a Traditional Astrology application that I was developing in Python/PySide for sale. Unfortunately it didn't got anywhere as I was mostly working for my PhD thesis and never got the timing right. It was pretty ugly by my current standards..

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC7jCWm6EC4
> so what do we use it for? Play cs: simulate approximately tribal warfare, and hunting for food. Genetically this is what millions of years of evolution programmed us to enjoy.

Gamers, broadly speaking, are a specific subset of the population, with very specific interests, and this self-reinforces to create a culture of making games about killing, sports, driving, etc. It's hard to sell a game without killing, so such games get less funding, which alienates the part of the market who is turned off by killing, and they stop playing games, which makes it harder to fund games that aren't about killing. The history of killing games also means that any game designers who are following in the tradition of games will more likely make a game about killing.

Your claim that this situation is the result of genetic programming is a very old claim. "We are doing barbaric thing X because our ancestors were barbarians" is a very common argument which has never been substantiated by solid research, and probably never will be. Not because it's false, but because it's unfalsifiable.

There is lots of very good, repeatable science showing cultural expectations reinforcing short-sighted thinking.
Entire neighborhoods are built in this style because people like these houses and buy them. You might not, but don't assume that everyone else shares your taste in housing. Sure, if one house is built in this style amid a neighborhood with a different aesthetic the complaint might be warranted, but complaining about the design in general being inflicted upon neighbors in all cases is not.
This makes sense because only music that makes money matters.
We have a graph editing and display component, which is primarily built on SVG (canvas rendering available, too). Performance is rarely a problem. Admittedly, we do remove elements that are not visible from the DOM, for very large graphs those have to be tweaked a bit (same goes for WPF). Generally usability suffers before performance does, and most techniques of improving usability also improve performance.
To me a McMansion is built like a suburban tract house, but has façade features that make it look vaguely mansion-like. The architectural equivalent of Imari Stevenson's "Lamborghini", which is a fiberglass shell on a Pontiac Fiero chassis and powertrain.
> I would never care about these if I was specifically hiring a front-end dev.

I would find these things very relevant if you were working on apps that deal with large datasets as picking the wrong data structure can lead to slow execution. It's also good to know what the limits of the candidate's knowledge is.
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I'm not sure this is true. I know of several communities without strong regulations on what can be built (beyond perhaps size limits), and they tend to be pretty interesting. They also tend to develop their own individual character, due either to engineering limitations or social mimesis.

For example, Japanese houses are pretty disposable, but you can build more or less anything you like. (Here's a great article on it. https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm... ) If you combine this with the fact that Japanese depreciation rules promote 30-year disposable housing, you get a lot of very interesting homes. The result is that a ridiculous fraction of the interesting houses you see on archdaily are Japanese.

Or if you look at modern wealthy residential areas in north Delhi, you get a lot of interesting buildings. The neighborhoods again have their own unique character; it's a lot more heterogeneous than typical US suburbs, but it's clearly got it's own character. I can't find many pictures online, but I'll try to take a few next time I go.
The author uses a very specific style of houses, and that's fine. But for example none of the houses listed as great design have a garage upfront (and some look like they don't have a garage at all). A front facing garage is a huge convenience but it makes it much harder to have the symmetry the author wants. When it comes to houses form should follow function and that seems to be completely ignored in this critique.
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Most of my employment experience is within startups, so I am just making claims about what I know.
Nothing's stopping them even now (at least in most theoretical sciences). Almost all books and papers are freely if not always legally available in the internet. If they discover something they can write up a paper and submit it to an appropriate journal.
But, as the article explains, returning to its normal mode of operation is a good thing, since the reactor had been previously shut down for a long time:

"The reactor resumed operations five years and three months after it went offline in April 2011 for routine checkups.

The Ikata No. 3 unit became the fifth reactor brought back online under the country’s stricter safety standards introduced in July 2013 based on the lessons from the triple meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 plant, which was damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami."
Carrying a weapon while running, too. I imagine it would be quite awkward running on all fours while holding on to your spear.

Of course, bipedal might have evolved before spear carrying, rather than being driven by it.
I guess what would happen is that people will invent new cash as needed. Cigarettes being the classic example.
'Clean up academia' sounds vaguely Stalinist to me.
Sounds very like an excuse to me.
Maybe the question can be reversed—anime/manga/video game fans are usually drawn to technology because of the content in the media and also because these people tend to spend a lot of time online and may see tech as a "natural" thing to do.
I know others have replied already, but I don't think anyone has outright said it - Yes. This is a realistic benchmark, but only if you remove the many years of "optimizations" we've been baking into web apps.

e.g. Remind me why I should be concatenating all my JS/CSS files into one again? and why exactly do I have 6 hostnames for that 1 static server?

200 resource fetches really isn't that many once you, and your framework authors, remove these and other HTTP/1 workarounds.
This seems to be a case of you have to learn the rules like the back of your hand before you can break them.

Once you know the rules, you know how to break them
Personally, I dodge the bullet by simply going for Bauhaus. Farnsworth > McMansion.
Could it be the case that people actually want large garages that can fit their cars, a second fridge, their bikes, strollers, and other items? Could the oversize entryways provide an easy way to move furniture into the house? Might it be the case that people enjoy large rooms with tall ceilings? Or is everyone buying all of these houses despite all of these "negatives"? If you prefer to live in a small house with low ceilings and a tiny garage, that's great. But don't assume that everyone else has the same preferences.
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What if the tap water was poisonous, or perhaps more realistically—the government was in habit of adding mind controlling substances to it?

Your analogy just doesn't work if you don't allow for any actual (not optic) deficiency in tap water. And if you do, it actually works against your point.

From the perspective of liberty and freedom giving government a monopoly on education (a powerful propaganda device) seems like a terrible idea. It already has monopoly on violence.

Every social justice initiative nowadays seems to involve sacrificing liberty in some way. That's why Trump's doing so well.
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Since the thesis is full of handwritten equations I doubt there exists a digitized version at all.
Over time, UUID has been massaged and adapted to fit many different applications, with the actual similarities between different versions whittling down to 2:

- data types used in binary representation (in order: u32, u16, u16, u8, u8, u16, u32)

- canonical string representation (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Mxxx-Nxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)

I am of the opinion that this has diluted the usefulness of UUID, especially in specific circumstances. With this in mind, ULID was designed for applications that require the following:

- distributed ID generation amongst loosely coordinated servers (ie. those that don't have incentives to maliciously manipulate timestamps)

- sortability of items with assigned ID without any additional information (ex. no additional db joins/requests)

Finally, ULID was designed with the explicit intent of being as character efficient as possible, for use in URLs and such. By using the Base32 alphabet, it uses fewer characters than UUIDs, optimizes for human readability/clarity (Crockford's modifications) and remains case-insensitive.

For any API driven web-app where both the client and server can generate new data, ULIDs can be ideal. A lot of people are already using something similar. I thought it would be nice to standardize it as a drop-in replacement.
Depending on local zoning and "offset" rules, McMansions can be built on very small plots.

Rows of McMansion-style houses have been built with very little offset by abusing rules intended for townhouses. In the cases I've seen, a single shared wall -- often just a token wall made of brick connecting two structures on the outside -- allows the McMansions to qualify as a multiple-family dwellings and obtain higher density, dramatically increasing profit.
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> What would be the purpose of such a simpler vector format?

To allow simpler implementation for both consumer and creator software. To achieve better performance (lower size, faster parsing and drawing).

> The only use case I can think of is for standalone vector graphics images, but PDF or SVG is often good enough for that.

SVG has some problems as a graphics format, which are highlighted in this thread. I'm not sure about PDF, I never saw it used as a vector image format, so can't judge much about it.
The author explains what good design principles are, but not why they are important. So what if a house had too many 'secondary masses'? Why exactly is that such a bad thing? The author fails to answer such basic questions.
This looks better:

http://lcm.csa.iisc.ernet.in/gametheory/Classics/NCG.pdf
It should remind you of A Beautiful Mind. It's John Nash's doctoral thesis.
Tastes in design change over time. I have seen plenty very ugly houses, but some of those examples actually look great to me. Not everyone wants to live in a symmetrical box without a garage.
True, but this is a small price to pay to setup a mail server in EC2. My reverse DNS request was answered in 48 hours. It took me far longer than that to configure the server. Most spammers won't bother with rdns, dkim, and spf, which is why you should. It's at least a first level signal that you intend to run a clean mail server and that others should trust you.
https://niklasbuschmann.github.io/zenreader/

Feedreader, not yet ready, currently lacking a backend.

If someone would be interested in maintaining / finishing the project, I could transfer the ownership, the source is already on github.
east sac is beautiful.
Oh please learn some economics. Bank loans are not new money.
Some TBTF banks have a problem of under-capitalization and may be bailed out with new money, but banks are government's strawmen on this racket.
> but what to actually see/do/eat/drink when you're there

I assume this would be high-end, correct? As in, it's based on the client's preferences - someone who's willing to pay for that kind of attention to detail. I would also assume the information is delivered by some sort of tour guide (though a thorough-enough app could work here, too).

I was just in Italy and during the Roman part, I divided my time into sightseeing (75%) for the first week and relaxation (25%) for a few days after. The former, while beautiful, was monotonous and tiresome, and the latter was a slice of heaven. My enjoyment of the two, percentage-wise, was the inverse of how much time I spent on each. Which is to say, the relaxation part (which consisted of hiding away in a Roman neighborhood and only interacting with Italians, in Italian) was way nicer than the sightseeing.
Exactly. Taken to its extreme, this is the argument in favor of the seeming paradox that we'll never run out of oil, despite the Earth having an obviously finite supply.
From the parent's point of view their interaction with the school system is very transactional - they have a limited number of years to interact with any given school (elementary, middle, high) and they would like the best experience for their child. Changing the school system in its entirety requires a mainly lifelong commitment and mainly suits activist organizations, such as NAACP, who has time for these multi-decade battles.

Think about other limited-time transactions, such as car ownership. Yes, one can spend countless years petitioning Dodge and Kia to improve its quality standards, or just buy a Toyota and call it a day.

I agree with you on water, as it's not a limited-time engagement, and therefore the attitude people have towards it is not transactional.
Do you have a link to e.g. a Github repo?
Thanks for that. I didn't see the previous posting, but it seemed important.
Just as well, "Pick 3 points comprising a line (in the four dimensional space over the three element field)"
That's a great blog. I don't like the term MacMansion. Everyone seems to have their own definition and sometimes it's applied to anything new and big that someone is envious of.
True. Visually they might look the same but one is built from cheap wood, cardboard and gypsum with some faux brick panels glued on the front, while other would be built with brick for example.

But just like people who can't afford a Lamborghini would buy a car that has a similar shape and look, so someone who can't afford a $10M mansion would be buy a $2M McMansion just feel like they live in a mansion.

No amount of architects of HN-ers guilting them with practicalities of construction materials, or aesthetic debates is going to change that market.
More readable version:

http://lcm.csa.iisc.ernet.in/gametheory/Classics/NCG.pdf
What words would you use to tell your friends and family about why someone shouldn't stick a gun in your face and take anything they want?

And if the complicated and often contradictory paths through considerations of ethics are 'annoying' to you, why? Are they 'wrong' on some moral plane that 'doesn't exist?'.

Ethics, life, and why we are all here is hard stuff. But if you think there's no point, then please don't vote in the rest of our elections this fall!
Bank loans are new money according to The Bank of England
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
The reason banks get into trouble is because they cannot meet even their tiniest obligations in actual currency. In a cashless society this will not be a problem, just unlimited digital money creation.
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>Enough crypto is used to keep out ordinary criminals and snoops, but not enough is used to keep out determined governments with jurisdiction.

So not enough crypto to prevent absolute centralization of power by the institution with a monopoly on violence.
I agree. We always put the little 'for loop that creates a list of functions that spit out the current number of the iteration' exercise first in all of our interviews.
Generally, when people solved that one fast, they also did well in the rest of the interview and if they struggled there, they also had a hard time coming up with an elegant solution for most of the other tasks.

What I also like about it is that a closure isn't the only way to solve it. You can use `let` for example to make sure the variables are block scoped, or use `bind` to partially apply a function with the number.

So in the end it's a conceptually very simple exercise that can give you a very good insight into how much the candidate knows about how JS actually works.
The author needs to test this page on an iPad.
I get what the author is saying. But as a home owner, I'll be spending 98% of my time in the house, not staring at the exterior. I'd like to see criticisms of the experience of living in a McMansion.
I should have known what was coming when the article kicked off with, essentially, "If your tastes differ from mine, don't worry! You're not stupid, just uneducated."

But even then I was expecting him to list things like shoddy construction, or dull featurelessness, or cookie-cutter tract construction. No, his #1 issue is houses that are (gasp) not perfectly rectangular. #2 is houses that are are asymmetrical, but not in a cool way. He actually calls out one house specifically for having too many windows. I thought windows were for letting sunlight in, but apparently they're actually intended for class signalling.

And class signalling is all this is. He gives the game away when he specifies that these rules are very important unless you're using a cool, [m/M]odern style where rule-breaking is socially approved. This is no different than the byzantine fashion codes manufactured by society matrons around the turn of the last century to exclude the vulgar nouveau riche. Never wear white after Labor Day; never have too many windows on your house.
This phenomenon is just a facet of having a robust, shared vocabulary. Words can be shorthand for complex ideas. Knowing more words allows you to express intricate matters with ease. This fact is why in 1984 the regime is trying to shrink the dictionary and simplify the language.