skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a simple math of demand and supply. Density restrictions keep supply in check it keeps it constant, but demand grows exponentially over time, due to immigration and population growth. Thus price grows astronomically high. If you remove restrictions and with the right technology you could create housing that keeps up with the demand growth. SF homelessness is really about incompetence of city politicians, bureaucracy, and the lack of good talent in public service. Why would I want to work for the city to make it a better place when companies inside my city or just further down to the south pays me 3x or 4x what they're offering.
I wondered why this wasn't applied to suitcases to make them lighter and then common sense kicked in regarding just how much actual helium would be required to lift even an empty suitcase...
There are some attempts in the EU. In Germany, they've been waging a PR battle with the government over fake news, nazi propaganda, and other extremism.

It's difficult because it's not something that neatly falls into established categories, and it quite obviously touches on free speech issues. You can be absolutely sure that, if Facebook were to use its power to promote a political agenda, they'd quickly find themselves on the wrong end of a law. But as long as it's incidental damage, and hard to show with statistical significance, it comes down to the fundamental law of laws: that what doesn't do harm is allowed.

What I suspect will emerge rather soon is a DMCA-style notice/takedown/counter-notice protocol for libel and fake news.
As someone who's young and only drank a couple of times it definitely feels permanent.

Your thinking gets very cloudy very fast and then the cloudiness seems to have this exponential decay. Even days afterward I don't feel quite right.
TrueReddit and TrueTrueReddit?
They'd have a hard time selling millions of them to corporate drones "in the enterprise" if it didn't. This and Exchange support are basically unavoidable for those kinds of sales.

Joking aside, iOS has supported VPN connections since as long ago as iPhone OS (feels weird calling it that now) 4 I think?
You're not the only one. I have a Master's and it was hard. I went for my engineering degrees after more than a decade as a technician and programmer in telecom. It's a world of difference. A cert from Microsoft or Cisco or whomever doesn't compare. We earn the title, they enjoy it.
Most restaurants are just microwaving frozen meals these days. I actually found a plastic wrapper in my homemade brownie sundae once. (Won't name the place)
Governments have operated without fiat currency for a long, long, long, long time.
> Amdahl's law applies, what fraction of cooking these recipes is purely serial?

The prep is usually highly parallelize; the cooking is usually pretty serial if you follow the instructions, but often parallelize with only mild invention (they often specify reusing the same pan, without any real need other than reducing cleanup and equipment requirements.)
Benchmarks of emulated x86 code and native ARMv64 code please? Any natively compiled windows apps one can benchmark to get a feel of its speed? Any 3D benchmarks of native code of any type?

While I hope for a great experience I am always scared of scarificing a lot of performance.
variety is incredibly important to us, but I'm curious, do you have resources I could read about improving our efficiency when we do buy? I purchase many raw ingredients but struggle to use them effectively for a 2 person household.
The importance you place on the presence of a p-value suggests that you're probably not the best judge of whether a p-value is correctly interpreted.
I would buy one, if those devices are open enough for dual-boot with Linux and/or boot Linux from USB.
Do you feel like your life is threatened when someone throws a cup of liquid at you?
At the expense of shortchanging an already underfunded social program.

The right kind of incentive would be a grant, just like the earned income tax credit which comes out of the general fund.

It wasn't enough to get rid of pensions, stagnate wages, shift most income to the top 1%. Now we're going to fund innovation out of the piggy bank of the social program that keeps most elderly out of poverty.

That's my point. It's the wrong way to build a business incentive.

No offense intended to Gusto.
On your subtext

What subtext are you imagining my comment as having? Because I strongly suspect you are inferring things that simply are not there.
>would it be easier to create a fusion reactor if we made it bigger?

Absolutely-but only when you approach mass scales on par with small suns. So not in a practical sense.

To elaborate, plasma in stellar bodies is essentially contained by gravity, as opposed to complex electroomagnetic fields that have to be painstakingly engineered and tend to be unstable.
Awk one-liners don't depend on cryptic combinations of one-letter option flags to change the behavior of something in the language.
What software would you suggest for subcortical reconstruction then? What do you think of FreeSurfer v6's?
Function Secret Sharing Library
Well a block chain is inherently auditable isn't it ? I thought it was an open tech, not a closed system.
The time I tried Blue Apron, one of the dishes was a gourmet hamburger which took some ridiculous amount of time to prep and I didn't even think it was that good. And PeachDish has Grass-fed Beef hot dogs with ketchup and mustard on its menu--which sort of blew my mind.

So you'd be surprised. But, for the most part, these services justify their relatively high prices with recipes that may look a bit intimidating for many people to pull together on their own.
I recall Eric Lippert's article series on the topic to be well written and well explained.

It starts here:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2007/10/16/cova...

You can follow along further through the tag:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/tag/covariance-...
I fail to see how showing links to search results pages from other companies is better for the consumer either. So why does Google do it?

Google is really smart, right? They've done some amazing things with search. Do we believe that Google doesn't know how to display those comparison search results page in a carousel like their own? Or is it that they don't want to?

Think about it for a second. What if Google did that, and they subjected their own comparison search results page to the same generic algorithm that they subjected everyone else's too?

Maybe it's too hard for Google. But they like standards: see AMP. So why not create some standard tags so everyone has a fair chance?

I don't know, it certainly looks like Google was exploiting its market dominance in general internet search to get a leg up in another industry without actually competing. That's not fair.
My wife and I fall under the "using your cool kitchen gadgets.." category. We used Platejoy for this but we stopped after a month or so. The reason wasn't Platejoy, it was us. The habit of cooking food on such a regular basis just didn't stick. Unless we made it regular, forever, we didn't see the benefit of being a member of this service.

I think this is a big challenge for all these companies. They aren't selling to existing frequent cooks. Those people don't mind going to the grocery store to pickup ingredients (at least most). They are selling to the aspirational people who want to make the habit of cooking at home every night stick, and thats really hard. There are lots of other options.
The discussion seems to ignore that such a bill would (if I understand correctly) be unconstitutional. States pick their representatives with little federal control.

Were each state to adopt an independent approach to redistricting and a ranked choice approach to each election, it would achieve essentially the same effect as the proposal in the article.

Seems there should just be an open source library (libredistrict or something) that implements standard redistricting algorithms. Each state could specify which parameters to use, and there you go, a reproducible, auditable, fairer redistricting strategy, out of the box.

[Googles...]

http://autoredistrict.org/

http://www.districtbuilder.org/
InternStreet review – How mentoring helps in learning digital marketing
Port cities didn't need the workers (though they are important), they needed the foreign ships.

As a result whatever background your dock workers are, they have to get along with the crews of all those ships coming in.
Think about how much weight a party balloon with helium can support. Not a lot. It could definitely not carry a camera, for example.

Hot air balloons adjust altitude by heating the helium inside the balloon and letting it cool back down as appropriate. You would need a similar mechanism, but in much smaller format.
They are used to solve extended air time. That's what a weather balloon is.

If what's bugging you is why lighter-than-air vehicles aren't used for commercial transportation, that's an entirely different issue.
You also forgot synthesizing diamonds, which, pulling it out of my butt, I imagine is on similar energy budget with dumping it on Mars.
Windows on x86 doesn't feel fully unlocked.

Where's my windows x86 buildroot? How can I read through the equivalent of the IP-xfrm source? (something I had to do the other week to realize that the user-space program I was using was, in fact, behaving correctly)
Credit Karma touts $500M in revenues
>and this was one of NSA's most potent zero-days.

Says who? We have no idea what they're sitting on, even our guesses come from terrible data.
When you have a base style sheet (it can be a framework or a base style sheet for your main application and sections overwriting them or custom style sheets for some tenants of your application or whatever) that you want to customize?

Many component-based designs also prefer repeating styles for each component because of maintainability but I guess they wouldn't be counted in the article as they use generated root names.

My point is, not repeating styles should not be the target, but it may of course be the side-effect.
Yup. This is par-for-the-course for science journalism.
The study linked in the article says "Information was collected in face-to-face computer-assisted interviews conducted in the participants’ homes." [1]

It seems like this is a study where people might be likely to lie about their consumption, or even earnestly estimate it incorrectly. Is there any way to control for that? The distribution feels too extreme, like a significant number of people underestimated and overestimated at either end of the spectrum.

[1]https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA70/AA70.htm
I created a Perl script called anyconnector which allows me to jump around between different Cisco Anyconnect VPN's using details stored in KeePass entries.

e.g.

To connect: anyconnector -c env-name
Disconnect: anyconnector -d
Get status: anyconnector -s

It gets used by my team all day, every day.
TXR Lisp Awk macro:

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-012F3A2C

POSIX standard's Awk examples, translated:

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-03D16283
"Petya Ransomware Attack – What’s Known"

https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/06/petya-ransomware-attack-...

Kill Switch

Although some companies have claimed to have found a kill
switch, this is nothing more than PR as the so called “kill
switch” is only activated by modifying files on your own
system (which can be done to stop most malware) and is not
doable remotely like the WannaCry was. Furthermore, as
stated above it’s unlikely the Perya ransomware is still
spreading and the damage has already been done, thus a
kill-switch would be futile.
Scientists come up with neural mechanism–and possible fix–for chronic pain
Petya Ransomware Attack – What’s Known
> TBH, I'm slightly disturbed by these "young people" who have completely no idea how machines actually work.

I agree with you here, but I would like to think if I were interviewing someone and they told me such, I would then ask something like "How would you go about finding this information out?", and continue down that line (I wouldn't just accept "I'd google it", I'd want something more in depth, even though that would technically be correct).
Disrupt the Citizen
Your post is also featured on one of Germany’s largest tech blogs, btw. Seems like everyone is suddenly interested in this :)
Thorough, short, and simple explanation of 'this' in JavaScript
https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/patrick-collison... is a great take on this.

From the transcript, and yes, this is a long quote, but I really love Tyler, and what he says always is considered and interesting, and the full quote is deserved:

COLLISON: Restrictive urban construction and land use regulations.

COWEN: They’re terrible. We should allow much more building. Much more of this country should be like Houston and parts of Texas. But that said, I’ve become a slight contrarian on this lately. I wonder if the Bay Area isn’t the one place in the world where building restrictions might make some sense because most of you want the restrictions. Even if not you in the room, you out there in this area. So removing the restrictions would be a tax. It would be great for the people who moved in.

But if you’re all producing these amazing global public goods, and the federal government is going to raise taxes on you anyway, I promise this. I don’t care who wins the next five elections, your taxes are going up. State, city, local, whatever. And then we put this new tax on you and you all are the Atlases out there. I don’t know if loosening building here would tax your productivity or increase it. But I’d at least consider the notion. This is the one place in the world where we shouldn’t loosen building restrictions.

COLLISON: Can you apply that argument in reverse? Do you think Silicon Valley would be better off if it had half the population?

COWEN: I don’t live here. I don’t know how bad the traffic is, and I suspect the people who are the most productive have workarounds. They can afford to live where they want, for instance.

COLLISON: I think a lot of us spend a lot of time in traffic.

COWEN: But it seems to me, it’s a pretty finely honed structure. It’s evolved the way it has and to cut it in half or shrink it, it’s probably a big mistake.

COLLISON: Just to make sure I understand, you’re saying the tax would be the other people around us? Our personal experiences of the area would somehow be diminished?

COWEN: The general culture would change; it would be less intense. It would be like taking Florentine Renaissance and injecting into it 50,000 people from Naples. Nothing against Naples. I love Naples, in fact, more than Florence. But I suspect that would have been a mistake back then. So I worry, if you have too many people move into this uniquely weird, diverse monoculture, you could wreck it. Just a cautionary note, I’m agnostic, but I’ve started having this worry lately.
If only the supermarket could resell eggs at a 1000% markup! That would mean a dozen of eggs only cost them 3 cents.
Doing large-scale prep work occasionally, combined with some smart tricks in the morning, really helps as well.

E.g. peel, cut and sautée 10 onions, let it cool, divide into 10 bags and freeze. 15 minutes time spent, 10x5 minutes saved on subsequent dinners. Peel, cut and freeze bags of carrot, celery, cabbage, chilies, etc. Another 5 minutes off.

Buy canned lentils, chickpeas and beans rather than dry, and you save 10-15 minutes cooking time on each meal. Always keep cans of peeled plum tomatoes at hand, never buy store-made pasta or pizza sauce - especially the latter, just blitz a can of tomatoes with salt and the herbs and spices of your choice, done!

Keep chicken, beef and fish stock in your pantry, preferrably the liquid stuff. Also keep soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame seed oil, all the vinegars you like (rice, balsamico, apple cider, sherry, etc.), some nice olive oil, green and red curry paste, coconut milk, teriyaki, hot sauce, all the flavors you like! Then you can improvise, which is the best part. Jars of tamarind paste keep well in the fridge, and can replace fresh lemon/lime in most Asian cuisine.

Buy big bags of proper basmati or jasmine rice at Asian stores, put in cold water to soak in the morning, boil for 10 minutes, perfect rice that mops the floor with Uncle Ben's.

Homemade pizza every Friday, just spend four minutes to make the dough before going to work, twenty minutes after we come home to shape and dress the pies while the oven heats up to 750 F (use Heston Blumenthal's cast-iron-plate-under-the-grill trick), perfect Neapolitan style pizzas for all the family that cook in 6-7 minutes.

Making your dinners from scratch in a family with small kids, both parents working full time, is far from impossible. We do it every day, plus bake all the bread we eat.

But no-one is going to sell you this as a solution in a box, it takes a little bit of effort and a little bit of passion for food. Just Say No to frozen pizza and ready-made lasagne, roll up your sleeves and start cooking.
Problem is, there isn't any oversight that any person outside of those companies could look at to ensure that it isn't attempting to influence. We know about various studies they've done at Facebook but there is no way, beyond trust, to know if they or any inner groups are attempting to do any influence. Even an accidental bug could influence a startling amount of people and no one would ever know.

When a single platform has the eyes and attention of a third of the world's population each day, even the smallest things, purposeful or not, could cause a ripple of change.

I would argue Coke, Samsung, Frito-Lay, etc are different. They can't make instant changes or do AB testing on a scale that Facebook can. Facebook could give a single page over to an algorithm that runs millions of experiments a day to learn how best to influence a person in a certain way, iterate on that and continue. A single engineer, with their scale and data, could set this up given the proper permissions.
Yeah, I hate when they do leave that out.

If I'm reading Table 3 in the study correctly, when accounting for a bunch of possible variables (sex, age, exercise, etc), for every 10 units of alcohol consumed per week over 30 years you'd expect to see .19% decrease in hippocampal volume (0.08%
to 0.30% decrease at 95% CI)
expected that one https://xkcd.com/1205/
> Study finds correlation. Article mentions caveat that correlation is not causation. Headline explicitly states causation.

Welcome to the Washington Post. In cases like this it's fairly obvious but across the board there is such a low standard for journalism that I can't bring myself to pay the $1 to subscribe.

When Bezos bought it I had hoped we'd see a new era of high quality American journalism, but the opposite trend has occurred.
This is brilliant; I think I'll start doing this.

One slight modification: name the build and run scripts something that you will never expect to be in that repo (maybe like run-xyz.sh where xyz are my initials, 10 random characters, etc.).

Then, the filename can be excluded in a global gitignore file.
Not relevant to the parent comment but in places like the UK where acid attacks aren't uncommon, that can be a concern.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-worm
I run an AHK script with a little over 2000 abbreviations (e.g. typing 'abbn' expands to 'abbreviation'). It helps me type 100+ WPM without too much strain.
Ruby does not have $_ which you happen not to see in perl one liners because of its implicit nature, and that makes those one liners very clear and terse.
The Bay area is royally fucked by zoning, full stop. You can drive around suburbs like the one you reside in and see the (high priced) slum, where taller & larger buildings have effectively been banned.

Dezoning California so appropriate development can take place would allow for much of that homeless population that your police dept. chases into SF to actually be housed and perhaps take an active role in society. Housing First should be our priority, not chasing the poorest members of our society out of the ghettos that surround the average city in the US.
There are developers (https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/storemapper) who are making a significant amount of money from apps like these.

For some people 'copy pasting' is hard. Most people don't know how to code and don't want to deal with it.
The Economist
Dangerously approaching 2,147,483,647. Let's hope their user ID's are not 32-bit integers :-)
I'll concede that it does indeed sound like "shipping the poor away". Historically, it meant making it someone else's problem (1-way ticket to SF) which I agree is indeed problematic, and is not what I'm advocating for.

I do want to treat more than just the symptoms, but I don't think handwaving for socioeconomic restructures is a realistic way get anything done. I'm advocating for a way to make the ~30K/person go farther by not being in one of the most expensive areas of the country.

Many of these people need long term mental healthcare, and is the main reason they are homeless. Our current system is not well suited at helping people with mental disorders.

Perhaps I'm ill-informed and I don't pretend to have the answer, but evidenced by the fact that homelessness is a growing problem despite throwing more and more money at it. I do think we need to try another approach.
For comparison, it was August 2008 when they hit 100 million users:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/our-first-100-millio...

It was October 2012 when they hit 1 billion (active) users:

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2012/10/one-billion-people-on-f...
Can't speak for professional photographers (only assume), but a raw photo from my drone will by default look a lot flatter than the real scene, and get fixed afterwards when editing.
Verizon locking out people from other carriers from Tumblr
On a slight tangent, I find it interesting the contrast the author paints between poetry and math. Perhaps it was unintentional, but it saddens me to hear or read people discuss math as if it were some polar opposite of the arts (or in this article, poetry).

Math, physics, biology, the 'hard' sciences, all have so much more in common with the arts than we give credit. Is a math proof not poetic in its own right? Does a well structured musical composition not engage with our most innate neurology on a microscopic level?

What's sad to me is that we seem to silo people into one of the two camps, which is like locking someone in a room in search of a key that's in the room next door. Businesses do this too - how many engineers get brought on to learn marketing? How many chefs learn the chemistry which serves as a foundation for every recipe they cook?

I say this as a former political-science-major-turned-accountant. I loved tax policy, but struggled to understand the law and treatment of certain issues, so I switched to accounting and found that the same logical, rational work that goes into formulating a political argument can be applied to rationalize control processes or budgeting in businesses. I've tried to un-learn my bias against people who majored in the "soft" sciences and strive to make more of an effort to understand how they think and what drives them.
Why not use some OpenCL in some form either raw or Aparapi?
hot air balloons use hot air (which is less dense than cool air) not helium.

they are open by design, unlike dirigibles. hot air balloons increase altitude by adding more hot air via a burner, and decrease altitude by letting the air diffuse out through holes in the top of the balloon.
Or, on this flipside, this creates a much bigger market for high performance ARM machines.
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The general rule of thumb of competing with any juggernaut is to identify some subset of their users that you can create a specialized product for (that meets their needs better) and then expanding your reach outward after gaining a strong foothold.