skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone looked into his argument that zero percent interest rates destroy business models that underpin our economy (I.e. insurance)?
Homelessness is on the rise. There are a lot of people who would be better off in a favela than sleeping under a bridge or behind a dumpster.

But, surely, America can find some happy medium where we build actually affordable housing that is decent as well. I see no reason why it has to be slum housing.
It's getting there, but it's not ideal yet. At a glance means I don't have to do anything but glance. To see the widgets now, you have to wake up the phone and then swipe right.
Perhaps the same reasoning applies to the developer who can't afford to build suitable parking for the residents of their new building? Can't afford to build suitable parking? Then you really can't afford to build it at all. Business also needs to learn to live within its means, as blunt as that is.
> Sources with a serious political bone to pick around an election can too easily plant or modify data in these "dumps" to craft an artificial narrative.

I disagree. That would disqualify too many things, including Trump's 1995 tax return, the Snowden documents, and so on.

We should be aware of the potential bias the leaker has, but that shouldn't stop us from objectively looking at the data.
In most of the places where operators are required, the law is so fluid that there is little recourse save a select few. It is almost guaranteed It is not going to be some random Canadian on holiday and if they are out on contract themselves well then those are the risks. Contractors and operators outside of diplomatic channels have little protection or recourse for when stuff goes bad. Many times the laws of a particular town change when the next local gang takes power and short of major genocide once the peace is restored no one is really interested in digging up a missing person her and there. Unless you carry a charter or are flagged, you are pretty much on your own in most of these zones.
That's exactly the point. A hertz is abstract, a dollar is not. A gold coin wasn't. Just like an apple is not abstract, money isn't also.

(Unless you're talking about the general concept of "money", which is of course abstract, but the general concept of "apple" is abstract also.)
Are you implying that the primary use-case for those silly snapchat glasses will be something other than making amateur porn?
This is an insightful response! I'm curious, what AI application are you working on?
I think one answer might be that unstable regions tend to be relatively lawless, so there's no worry about prosecution (particularly crossborder), and any risks that do attach in that situation may be manageable via other means.
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> The Romans were barbarians, in a sense, I suppose, just compared to Greece. They didn't do anything that could compare to the Greeks in math or philosophy, for example.

The Greeks never had a lasting widespread empire, and warred amongst themselves a lot in their golden period. Yes, Alexander conquered all the way to the Indus, but as soon as he died, his empire splintered. The Romans, on the other hand, built an empire that lasted for centuries, and their culture as we see it is not defined by a mere handful of names.

Maybe the Romans didn't exceed the Greeks at philosophy, but they certainly and uncontestably exceeded them at statecraft, which is why it's odd to hear them called 'barbarians' in comparison.
While interesting, the conclusions just aren't true. Here's one more in favor of in-house.

Integrating the vendor solution will be more complex for the sake of unused feature over a simpler solution developed in-house.

Another: The solution to our problem doesn't use the other pieces we want/need to integrate, or doesn't exist. There's several solutions to manage docker clusters now, and effort has been made, but when they all started (some originally in-house) those solutions weren't widely available.

Another: the existing vendor solutions are sub-par for our needs (and/or the needs of our customers). Could you imagine if Joyent had just used VMWare as it's virtualization solution instead of the Jails from their OS based on Solaris? They have the only solution with really locked down Docker.

Sometimes creating a new trail really is the better solution. I wrote a test LMS a bit over a decade ago, that worked well enough for a lot of integrations before being replaced by a big vendor's LMS and it cost more for the integration alone than the customizations to the one I built... 10 years of service cost less than the 1 year of integration.
I never said gentrification was horrible.
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It sounds like you've done the oh-so-human thing of deciding with your gut, and shoring it up with things that support that decision.

That's too bad.
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It's an hybrid; it keeps a fairly dense grid system while providing tiny cul-de-sac (which aren't really, since the road starts and ends in different spots), which do have some advantages.

More importantly, in my opinion, it's not a cul-de-sac for pedestrians, which avoids the terrible result of taking the car to go to the supermarket 300m away simply because there's no way to walk from A-to-B.
The battery-conserving mechanisms of Android are not particularly hardware-specific on most devices.

Ideally, Android (or their patched version of the Linux kernel) would expose an API for each different kind of device. An general API for cameras, an API for audio, etc. The manufacturers would then write device drivers that implement / fulfill the functionality of these open/generic APIs. (This is how things are done on PCs.)

Some phones have two CPUs or SoCs, one being energy-efficient and the other highly-performant, and the system switches between them based on the workload. But an update of the OS could simply add & expose an additional new API for dual-SoC systems.

Decoupling device drivers and OS releases would be a huge win for everyone. We'd get the security update swith newer OSes, and even driver updates would be simpler.

PC peripheral manufacturers often release updates to their device drivers, and for a Linux and Windows users its relatively straightforward to update a device driver. E.g., I just updated my Nvidia graphics driver on Linux to the latest version two days ago. I have several kernel modules installed, and apt-get handled everything seamlessly, and built a new kernel image in a jiffy.

How often do you see device drivers updated on Android? Especially if there's a bug, how long before it's fixed? All of the drivers on Android are baked into this giant system image, and the system image contains so many disparate components, that shouldn't all be locked together. The Android system image release process is so broken. The Google -> Manufacturer -> Carrier approval & release is slow and dysfunctional.

The best way to go would be to adopt standard Linux distro practices, use a good package manager (like NixOS) that'll manage and assemble all the disparate system components, instead of shipping one giant frozen-in-time system image.
MotionStack tackles tough technical challenges
Ok, maybe I overreacted, but it is because I saw the other two submissions, coincidentally, then I thought it was maybe submitted more (perhaps because it was flagged at the first time I saw it).

I've seen other cases of overposting in the recent past, so I became suspicious of everything.
You are forgetting taxes which puts it to $981AUD, and the cost of customer protection requirements (warranty periods etc) which are more onerous in Australia than US.
Affordable housing solutions. We are increasingly pushing people out into the street. If you can really solve this, there is a huge market for it.
Mexico City.
Here's how things would play out in a relatively free market:

If you build housing with no parking attached to it, you won't be able to sell it for as much money. If people really care a lot about parking, that housing will have to be a lot cheaper to attract buyers. Perhaps so cheap that the developers won't make a profit on it and no one will build that kind of housing.

As elsewhere "what is the correct amount of parking for a given unit of housing" is basically impossible to solve at a citywide level and is a perfect example of this, posted elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

Most likely there are different kinds of people - some who care a lot about parking, and others who ride their bikes all the time or something. By providing diverse amounts of parking, people will sort out into different places that most suit their needs.
Given that this is your response, and you've chosen not to shed some light on the subject yourself, the options left to describe your motives are not positive.
I would have thought they enjoy the feeling of power and control as they engage in violence and there is more chance for it
it's only a fundamental problem if you already decided that the obvious solution (policing the illegally parked cars) is impossible. New residents owning cars which they cannot park on the street without being towed would not affect current permit holders at all.
Sure, policing might not be done now. But is that because it's not worth doing/nobody cares enough, or because there is some law of physics which makes it impossible? Even a street sweep every few days immediately after most people arrive home from work would massively change the risks of parking illegally.
Exactly. This is why the fight to maintain gun rights is a never ending battle as well. Arming yourself with a gun is the best defense against a violent attacker. Legally enshrining that right is important. But even if we didn't have that right, we could still defend ourselves clandestinely via illegal means and home made weapons.

Similarly when it comes to security, privacy, and anonymity the best defense is to arm yourself with mathematical security.And to enshrine our right to those defenses in law. A subpoena only works if there is information that can be handed over in the first place. If strong and private encryption is made illegal then the best defense is still to use that technology clandestinely.
What kind of information do they gather, and can that be automated?
No. It's cable cars that don't exist being torn out for cars all over again. Suburban/exurban mass transit is pretty much non-existent other than commuter rail (in many areas).

My adjacent city just spent something like 2 years and who knows how much money putting in a new parking garage for one of the MBTA stations that have been notorious for insufficient parking for pretty much forever. With no parking at all during the construction. Assuming the numbers and logistics worked out, something like this would have been very interesting.
I know it is in the fact, I just thought this one was posted more times than it actually was (if it was actually only posted 3 times, one flagged).

Thank you for all the clarifications anyway. I actually complained knowing that achieving the correct mix of fairness, having-good-stories, and overposting prevention is a kind of impossible task (and HN seems to be doing well), so I was a kind of a troll, we may say. I'm sorry.
Lack of parking is not a problem for the developer unless it makes it harder to rent out the units. There is nothing about living within one's means involved here.
This appears to be based on the stellar open-source code-editor used by VSCode. Looking at the network traffic, it looks like you are also using the language server protocol [1] to provide context-aware code intelligence.

As far as I know this is the only use of the language server protocol in a web browser. Have you documented anywhere how you made this work?

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
I'm skeptical about the flux capacitation feature they list. The rest looks neat.
I use the Echo/Alexa for calling an uber (because my last step for getting ready to leave is usually 'find my phone').

Also, reservations are pretty easy to do over voice. "Book me a table for 2 at Hakkasan this Friday at 7" is enough for an app to get right, clocking in at only 11 words.
The Olympics and the NCAA.

EDIT: I'm not saying its right, I'm saying it happens far more often than it should (as long as people decide not to opt out of being exploited).
There are calculators that can operate directly in hex.
I am probably one of those comments below "justifying it in terms of the minimum wage". Quite honestly, a big part is that I read it as $2,400 USD a month originally (not yearly!). Even if that had been the case, I wouldn't have faulted developers for feeling underpaid in the particular case of KSP (given how big of a success the game ended up being).

As yearly salary it is indeed atrocious. Still, worth saying, not an illegal salary. But yeah, I don't see many people enticed to work for that amount for a for-profit company they don't have significant ownership of. The point is not on whether or not it is advisable to resign in those conditions (of course it is), but on whether it is viable to sue (I doubt it is).

And... many people in Mexico do make minimum wage (around 13% of the country does), but usually not anyone in a specialized profession in a city.
Sure! You're absolutely, completely, 100% correct in every way, shape, form, and manner. Fortunately, in city centers well-served by public transit the real parking requirements are low. Perhaps you're thinking of arbitrary legislative minimums?

The other answer is that if you're asking me to weigh a place for someone to live against someone else's privileged ability to conveniently have everyone else pay for them to park a car, I'm going to favor living space every time. I think cities favor cars too strongly.
I ironically only ever use the amazon ordering feature on the Echo to buy catfood.
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Sony provides official AOSP builds for a number of their Xperia phones, I'm very close to getting one because of that.

http://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/

https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/
Dang and other HN staff have said before that they like making readers have to work a bit for the information, and not just be spoonfed in the headlines. I understand it to be about fostering curiosity and wonder. I assume it's also about discouraging people from dismissing an article based on headline alone. ("Kerbal Space Program? I don't know what that is and don't care about it"). Really great HN articles are often an unexpected discovery on a topic I didn't expect to be as interesting as it was.

Dan could probably explain better than I. I don't have any information about whether this title was changed or why, but the current title strikes me as lining up with that approach. See also "I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words."
Sure, agreed: I think the point is that "what is the right level of density for which areas?" is probably not something that should come from federal government loan regulations.
Yep—as you point out, the first paragraph of the article cites the same 1979 MYCIN accuracy results you did. My criteria for success is enduring impact on the way medicine is practiced, so the the rest of the article tries to answer the "What's different today?" question about adoption you raise in your second-to-last sentence.
Especially given that Rome was the largest city in the world from maybe 100 BCE to in the neighborhood of 400 CE.
Look under the title of the comment thread. There is a link that literally says "web".
My understanding is that KSP is a bit like Minecraft - the value was never in the technical competence of the code. I don't know that you can just throw either team at a new product and be guaranteed a success.
The entire finance industry has been saying this is a systemic risk since ZIRP was instituted in 2008 if the economy didn't achieve "takeoff velocity". Here we are eight years later still under ZIRP and even NIRP (which is completely unprecedented) so the systemic risk is only bigger.
this is always a top one for me, he presents so well and kind of nails down the concepts.

but even more so, he sounds like the architect in the matrix having dialogue with some critics.
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I'm waiting for more people to discover the next level - the "no slides at all" style of presentation. Cory Doctorow did a nice keynote at 28C3 completely without slides, and it worked very well ("The coming war on general computation", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc). Not suitable for every type of talk, of course, but certainly there are many where the slides are a useless crutch or slides-for-the-sake-of-slides. If you're a good enough speaker you can hold people's attention without pointing at large words behind you.

(See Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" for good arguments about why slides are a bad idea most of the time)
Bleh. I just tried it in three different browsers and hit the paywall each time. It's too bad, I've had this condition for years. I guess I'll have to do my own reading on the side.
Accounting for the possibility of conflicts of interest is entirely different from a priori taking an ethically bankrupt stance based on nothing but your own superiority. If an advanced species wants to kill humans, that's obviously just as unethical as the other way around.

Why would a generic AI respect your code of ethics? My claim is that most AIs won't and we need to ensure that whatever AI is created does.

This is not about sexual kinks or individual lifestyle choices. It's also worth noting that at no point did anyone say people with specific traits should not exist, ...

On the contrary, we are discussing "AIs with fully competent minds that are somehow hardwired to serve us". You specifically said such AI should not be created.

Even if historical slaves did want to be slaves, and I suspect a good number were indeed fine with it, it was still wrong to exploit that.

So people who want to be slaves can't satisfy their desires? What other harmless desires should people be unable to satisfy? A desire for gay sex or drugs (to borrow two examples that go against the zeitgeist)?

You keep trying to turn a discussion of AI into an opportunity to express your conformity with the modern zeitgeist. Does that make you happy?
I just wish Orbiter was available on non-Windows. KSP is available on all of Windows, Mac, and Linux.
And on and on:

http://quotingislam.blogspot.co.at/2011/06/muhammad-orders-t...
No argument. It's a matter for local voters--although I suspect many here don't agree with that either.
But it also would be insane to make a provably false statement, leaving you open to lawsuits and probably enraging any would be whistle blowers. It would be even more insane to make your false statement more false than it needs to be.
I know. But the boxes, they must be checked. You can't do nothing.
> I am not a fan of policy advocacy and I wonder why you are putting so much time and energy into this argument.

Well, for starters, policy (and politics in general) is a big deal.

For instance, the city I'm in is spending about $50 per person in the metro on homelessness every year (which works out to about 1% of the budget). So not only does politicking shape how they spend my $50 yearly "contribution", it shapes how they spend everyone else's $50, which adds up pretty quickly in a major metro. It works out to about $13k per year per person currently on the streets, so programs with a 3 year duration would have about $4k per person per year to work with from the city.

That's, perhaps, not enough to just outright solve the problem -- but we're within an order of magnitude. And helping steer something within that kind of striking range of the problem is way more than I could do through other channels.

That being said, the next most important thing I do is tutor in poor areas. I charge a lot to teach privileged children math (and not to brag too much, but my students usually go on to do well in their future math classes), but offer those services at a steeply discounted or free rate for people who can't afford it. It'll only directly impact a few lives and only to a limited extent, but at some level, that's all it really takes. That if we really want to break things like cyclic poverty, we need everyone to put in a couple hours of professional effort a week/month, and sustain the adjustment for a generation or two. Again, advocacy is important -- we have to convince our peers that it's worth it to put that effort in. But that's how the world really changes, with the waxes and wanes of small, every-day social trends.

And I've been known to make the occasional spur of the moment donation or buy random meals, but I don't really count that. I mean, I'm sure it helps in small ways -- a good meal counts for a lot, and being acknowledged or treated as a person can mean as much -- but it's not really moving the ball forward on the problem. (Though, again, if everyone just did a little bit of that, it probably would make a big difference, cumulatively.)

But let me ask you this: when we live in a land and time of plenty, when we have enough food, wealth, and homes for everyone with margins left over, what makes you think homelessness is anything besides a policy and advocacy issue?

Homelessness (in the US) is an artificial outcome of our economic model, it's existence a choice we're making (as a society), and we should never forget that.
That helped when the web+google workaround didn't. Thank you!
My 2013 Moto X, bought in early 2014, got left by Google/Moto/Verizon on the 5.whatever that doesn't fix Stagefright.

Until I switch away from Verizon, I stuck my already activated SIM into a Nexus 5x -- the first Nexus to work on Verizon's network.

That Nexus 5x just got the upgrade to Android 7. Because the update is shipped directly from Google and Verizon has no control over it with respect to my independently acquired Nexus 5x.

At the time I bought the Moto X, from a Motorola then owned by Google, Google/Motorola/Verizon was promising that this new ownership/alliance would ensure timely updates. Yeah... so much for that. Updates came slower, and all too soon choked out.
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Wikipedia suggests that this is not the case(1). And really, you wouldn't expect it to be. The population of Italy was over 5 million around the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and how many Ostrogoths were there? Maybe some hundreds of thousands?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_Italy#Migra...
I've just lost interest in installing silly apps for everything all together. My phone is basically a phone/email/imessage device at this point.
Well, the reason why I'm using a high-level programming language is there are a bunch of mechanical things that the computer will do better and more reliably than me. Otherwise I'd just write assembly.

What sorts of things fall into this category, and what tradeoffs you're willing to make to have the computer do things for you, is a matter of application (and taste), and so we reasonably have many different programming languages. But it's entirely defensible to want, in the abstract, your language to do repetitive and important work for you. That's what computers are good at.
The Romans were great at politics, engineering and warfare. The Greeks were great at all the stuff that doesn't help you keep an empire together.
Compared to UML Activity Diagrams, DRAKON-Foo (where Foo can be Python, C, C++, Erlang, or any of a bunch of others):

(1) Is constrained in a way designed to enhance understanding of the visual flow, and

(2) Directly includes code (in language Foo) in the boxes, rather than text; that is, its a programming environment, not a diagramming language with text that gets converted to program code somewhere else that is maintained separately.

The first item is also a feature of DRAKON by itself.