skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the trend of reclassifying popular commodities or opportunities as "rights" is pretty tacky, and ultimately counterproductive.

What you should really want, if you like reparability, is a market for reparable goods. In general, it will be more costly than mass-produced integrated goods, but foisting repair opportunities onto every consumer product will ultimately make people less satisfied with the products on the market, and it will make those products less accessible (and more expensive).

As for cars, I think there's a real market opportunity to make your cars exceptionally open to repair, but I don't think mandating it is a good idea. Especially as powertrain designs become more and more complex, the likelihood that you will be able to correctly reassemble them dwindles. The onus must remain on the customers and technicians to meet the technical demands of repair.

A line in the sand must be drawn between "difficult to repair" and "illegal to repair". The first is at the hands of the customer, the second, the legislature.

As for software, sure, the DMCA is unfair, it should have been struck down long ago. It is being abused constantly, and serves little or no practical purpose except to enable abuse.
> NK nukes, and PRC gov. got angry for some defense-only 'weapon'

This "defense-only" weapon upsets the decade-old nuclear balance of M.A.D. because the THAAD radar is sensitivity and location weaken China's nuclear retaliatory ability.
Hosthatch has a 1 TB hdd vps plan for $20. I’ve used them before and they were ok. They had a network outage but fixed it.
So what? Beef up infrastructure by fifteen times as well. What's the problem? Are we running out of concrete? Have we lost the technology needed to build sewage treatment plants? Has actually building stuff become offensive?

I also want increased density. In the Bay Area, zoning regulations keep density artificially low and prices obscenely high. Stop the self-inflicted pain.
Just adding another plug for Econtalk. They cover a lot of different topics and invite people that really know how things work. I remember listening to a podcast on the housing crisis and walked away with a great understanding of how it all fit together.

The Hoover Institute and Russ Roberts have a neoliberal/libertarian slant, but he does a great job in inviting people to his program that he doesn't agree with, but he asks great questions and gives them an open forum.
Sell a pack of 5 cartridges that last MAYBE a week each (pushing it, you suck it up because they’re so expensive even though they’ve already lost their edge after a single use) for $5-10, or a box of 500 blades that you can change for every shave for over a year for $5. Yeah, retailers love this garbage
It's not exactly the first article to discuss issues with the show though (e.g http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11597925/Why-d... from 2015).
A large plurality of the local population can afford these units; the discount is for people well below the median.
Digital Ocean is $105USD for 1TB, not sure how this compares to others?
window washers?
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I want the CEO of my mutual fund company to be focused on how to index better, not on cryptocurrencies.
How did this article just get written? Consensus happened in May...
Money shapes this world. It's not the voting booth where we voice our will, but where we spend our money.

Many companies don't consider libre and open components economically relevant. If that changed, they would cater to that segment.

If a company that offers more open devices than others is economically successful, then that is proof that there is economic relevance to this aspect.

Now, is the Librem5 a step into the right direction? If it is, I think it should be supported by all those that want a RYF-certified device.
>I like "really useful engine" complement

That's fine, but in Thomas it's presented as : be really useful or else...

I find it mildly sinister, I have a visceral dislike for the show. The moralising does not sit well with me at all.
You're not... he has a point.
Yup. There is another project trying to get approved that will replace a parking lot and a laundromat (the owner owns the land and says his business has been going down for year).

Jesus Christ, you wouldn't believe the opposition to it. The preschool next door will be shaded for 2 more hours! The proposed mural doesn't align with the community.

Unbelievable! This would bring another 90 units to the Mission with 15 of them for low income residents.
NASA Delays Hubble Successor Launch
a trebuchet can launch a 90kg stone up to 300m making it far more superior to the catapult and the ultimate medieval siege weapon.
This article taught me about Liam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc
"It is also investing in technology that makes it easier to recycle its products, such as Liam, a robot for disassembling iPhones."

Very cool!
You could try a tip jar (not a donate button) and Patreon.
But that's not what the blog post is about. Every other explanation of floating point numbers describes how bits are allocated. The visual part of this article is a drawing of the window and offset thing. Which in this case, is exactly what the expression is saying.
Help Vampires: A Spotter's Guide
Whole Foods suffers data breach in some stores
"He" (and "men" rather than "people" or "humanity" or other substitutes) was the "neutral" or "collective" or "universal" pronoun of the English language until very recently. My recollection is that the academic debate began sometime in the 70s during the rise of feminism (when I was a teenager) and the popular debate began sometime during the 80s. I suspect that it was not common to suggest substituting pronouns for extant writings until the 90s or maybe 00s.

For a time, some used "he or she" (perhaps some still do) to avoid offending activists, and others tried the use of "one," though most attempts were awkward.

Incidentally, "gender" referred to words, and "sex" referred to people and animals. In other words, forms used to collect personal information always requested "sex" (M or F), never "gender." I don't recall when that change occurred, but probably sometime in the 90s.

I'm not trying to incite anyone, just observing that using "gender" to refer to living beings and substituting "he or she" or "she" or "one" or other constructions for the "universal he / men" are very recent phenomena, forty years or less.
South Korea seems to be doing just fine, and the US seems to be honest about the contempt with which it views the North Korean regime, so I don't really see the purpose of the equivocation you're trying to set, here.
$x is a rent controlled price? By rebuilding, she loses the requirement to keep the rent low? You're right, that's not a subsidy since it's the landlord that pays for it.
People opposing the tower at MacArthur BART claimed it would block views. Of what? The lovely highway and classic BART station architecture?
I think infastructure as code is mostly overrated. I can't tell you the amount of startups wasting time cargo culting best practices without knowing why or how. Most people would be better off just launching shit and keeping it simple
There is not a single thing a completely and perfectly innocent person can say to a cop in their own defense which would not almost certainly harm them for saying it. Other than your name, that you are excercising your right to remain silent (important to state this explicitly), and you would like to speak to a lawyer.

Please watch this if you haven't, it's very entertaining and absolutely true: "Don't Talk to the Police" https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
Just like people used to run SETI@home on their work networks after hours
Where do you get the new episode feed from?
From the linked "Residential Nexus Analysis":

http://sf-planning.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Docume...

>The prototype rental unit, also drawn from the Sensitivity Analysis work program is also 800 square feet and rents for $2,500 per month or a little under $3.20 per square foot per month. New rental units are not feasible in today’s market; however, the inclusionary program will be in place beyond the current market cycle and must anticipate development of rental units in the future. The assumed rental rate is higher than is achievable in the current market except under extraordinary circumstances (luxury projects in
premier locations, etc.).
The rental rate has been estimated as the required minimum level for a project to be feasible, given total development costs, conventional financing terms, and typical operating expenses. The household living in this unit is likely to be paying approximately 30% of income on rent (not including utilities). This translates to a household with a gross income of $102,000 per year.

This is a rather interesting claim that I haven't heard come up in this debate before. I'm not sure if it's just because it made more sense to sell condos in 2007 (before November) or because construction costs are actually so high you can't build apartments that cost less than $2500/month and/or $3.20/sf.

It seems that research into cheaper building types, and regulatory initiatives to permit those, ought to be part of a solution. Although since the majority of the value of a property in SF is often the land, a land tax might be called for as well.
Operation Snow White
> Don't denormal numbers prevent simply sorting this way? I could use a diagram like the OP's to remind myself how they work...

No, there is nothing really special about subnormal numbers other than that they have a smaller than normal precision.

For example 0x00000001 < 0x00400000 in both floating point and normal integer arithmetic. The only weird bit about sorting floats as integers is that the order is reversed; eg -0f is represented by the smallest integer (0x80000000) and -Inf is represented by 0xFF800000.
Would you link to this analysis please? I hope you will support your claim that new housing is replacing old housing.
> People who really wanted an hardware floating point unit in 1991 could buy one. The only people who could possibly want one back then would have been scientists (as per Intel understanding of the market). They were marketed as "Math CoProcessor". Performance were average and price was outrageous (200 USD in 1993 equivalent to 350 USD in 2016.). As a result, sales were mediocre.

Actually, that's only partly true. My father owned a company that outfitted large manufacturing shops (MI company, you can imagine who his customers were). As a result, he used AutoCAD. The version of AutoCAD he used had a hard requirement on the so-called "Math Co-processor", so he ended up having to purchase one and install it himself. That was my first taste of taking a computer apart and upgrading it and I credit that small move with my becoming interested in building PCs, which led to my dad and I starting a business in the 90s doing that for individuals and businesses. There were definitely more reasons for that kind of add-on than just scientific fields; anyone in the computer aided drafting world at that time needed one as well.
In most cases, when you improve a property, you then charge more because it is improved. It isn't unreasonable on an individual basis, but the end result is that affordable units disappear and do not get replaced. Rinse and repeat and pretty soon there simply aren't any affordable units.
When do the patents expire?
You’re redefining the term “rational” to mean “honorable”. A rational actor is someone who acts in their own self-interest.

North Korea acting unpredictably and dishonestly has little inherently to do with the rationality of those actions, and there are strong arguments to be made that those actions are rational from the perspective of the North Korean ruling class.
Any idea why? I've never seen a store add them and then remove them.
Japanese Animals Are Still Washing Up in America After the 2011 Tsunami
Ha, I was just reading a couple of Thomas books to my son the other day and thought, “man, the class politics of Sodor are... really weird.”
I've watched all the bus episode (from the 6:30 mark), and I don't think it was that bad. He just complained for 10 seconds that he wanted to ride the school bus.

"Minor" character flaws that I'd point out were that Caillou had to be told by his mother to say thank you to the bus driver, and that he gifted the bus driver with a drawing of himself riding the bus (what an egomaniac that Caillou).

But yeah, I don't have kids, so is normal that I never thought of supervising what tv cartoons would they watch, and now is something important that I'll pay attention in the future.
"I never signed up for this." Privacy implications of email tracking
Even 100% affordable housing gets objected to: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/6/13189882/1296-shotwell-affor...

To be honest, people like to extol the virtues of Bay Area liberalism, but to me the housing policy in the Bay is one of the most systematic (and regulated) form of prejudice. Cities like SF are losing their minorities, their middle class, all to fatten the paycheck of existing landowners. Almost the entire black population has emptied out of SF. It's one of the most pervasive form of class discrimination I've seen.
Did we live in a "corporate-totalitarian dystopia" in the 1940s - 70s? Because that's when the stories this show is based on were written.

Simply considering all culture to be propaganda as you appear to be doing is intellectually lazy.
Tensorflow's advantage is that once you build your model, you can run on everything from a massive cluster to a mobile GPU without significant modification. Because you're just writing a description of a computation graph, it's easy for backend systems to process that description and optimize the execution of your model.

PyTorch's imperative semantics (where the computation graph is implicitly defined at runtime by the execution of your Python code) definitely make it cleaner to do research prototyping. But AFAIK most PyTorch models need be reimplemented in lower-level code, or maybe something like Caffe2, before they can be used in production. That's a fairly significant tradeoff, which makes it hard to see PyTorch totally replacing Tensorflow anytime in the near future. That said PyTorch is obviously a great tool and it's exciting to see how it will develop and be used.

(disclaimer: I work for Google, opinions are my own)
Paper (PDF) at [1]

[1] [ https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf ]
This is patently untrue, especially weighted by number of units. There may be a lot of small rebuilds of single family homes into duplexes, but the projects that add the great bulk of housing units to the city are usually built on empty lots, parking, or small-scale commercial/industrial. 1515 Van Ness, 1 Oak, the 16th St. BART project, etc.
I recently saw it in NYTimes and two major Canadian papers (Toronto Star and National Post). Each was about the new iPhones and mentioned "Essential" in the context of new pressure from competition (among other brands such as Samsung).

It was mentioned in passing as if it was a known competitor.

Note: I never complain about downvotes, but I'm confused why it's -4, do people think I'm lying? Although my comment is not yet grey, which means they were all newbie members.

I didn't say see it in any particular Tech blogs such as Ars, maybe I should have made that clear...
No they’re not. The only reason they are still there is because China wants them there. And they are being very dumb by making China angry.

Secondly treating your people like dirt is also a very bad idea. Singapore remains a monarchy while not being anything like NK. The man drives his country into the dirt for bombs when they are completely unnecessary. He could either a) treat his people better then wouldn’t need bombs, or b) keep China happy and still wouldn’t need bombs.
You absolutely can, but it's currently not cost-effective. On the other hand it looks like it's cheap enough that making it mandatory or putting a recycling deposit on batteries would be viable.
Correcting an assumption can hardly be termed as 'lashing out', maybe a 'robust' response.

Rather have founders like wtarreau speak their mind than adopt some fake passive aggressive tone or have a 'dev relations manager' spinning, at least here.
>100% of the land that can pass the community review process is profitable to build on.

The thing to look at isn't the after-the-fact windfall profits of successfully getting through community review, but the forward-looking expected profits of trying to get through community review. You don't know ahead of time what will work - the profits from the ones that do have to fund the losses from trying and failing to get through community review, else the whole thing will consistently lose you money.

Here's an advance prediction: the average profit from a successful project that gets through community review times the probability of success is roughly equivalent to the average loss from failing times the probability of failure.
Nothing is being "reclassified." Look at John Deere tractors - thanks to the licensing of the software running on those tractors, combined with the DMCA, people do not have the right to repair them. Yes, they bought the tractor, but they will be breaking the law if they fix the tractor themselves.

Being able to work on a machine you own sounds much more like a "right" than an "opportunity" to me.
It's not clear to me that the added complexity aka risk of bugs is worth it in your case for any reasonable game design.

In the chess example, knowing it's possible to lose from X positions is almost meaningless most of the time. The issue is search space sizes are either to large to be useful or small enough for brute force.
The complement of being " really useful" never bothered me.

My kids are a bit too old for Thomas now, but we still say people are "causing confusion and delay" when they derail the rest of the family.
This is exactly the thought I had. Applets were always a crashy mess. Who knew Java would eventually get into the browser via transpiler (if that's what this is...)

Anyone have a thought on how one might pronounce CheerpJ?
Here's a not-even-half-baked idea I've had for a while: would it be useful to have partial application of AWS Lambdas? Such that if you don't "call" an AWS Lambda with all its "arguments" it will create a new AWS Lambda that's just waiting for the remaining arguments, and return an ARN for the new Lambda?

Again, I can't imagine why this would be useful, but it's a certain kind of fun to take Amazon's metaphor and run with it.

(It's also very hard to Google for "aws lambda partial application" and get results that match what I'm describing here.)
I read it as Page saying it was a net negative. Levandowski's positives are outweighed by his flaws/actions.
If people cared about affordable housing, why are there protests again projects which are 100% affordable housing? You can see the hypocrisy here:

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/6/13189882/1296-shotwell-affor...
>Everyone is a visual learner but everyone can also understand a simple arithmetic expression. Everyone thinks almost completely in images.

I think it is hard to separate your experience from the collective here. Much of the time I am working on math or programming, I don't think in images; I am just manipulating symbols in a patterned fashion that I have already convinced myself is sound (in a logic sense).

I definitely have never thought about floating point as anything other than binary scientific notation. I am quite comfortable with the understanding of exponent, significand, and sign.
That's exactly what's happened and what will happen - setting goalposts and then moving them. In Europe, specifically Germany and France, it's common for people to go for a Bachelor's and Master's back-to-back since there aren't any student loans to worry about.

While the lack of student debt from studying so much sounds all nice, the reality is you get a bunch of 26-28 year olds graduating with Master's degrees and ZERO working experience, bar some internships which may or may not be useful.

There are two sub-problems here: "Free" education (not actually free when you see how much taxes are) allows Europeans to take their sweet time in graduating, so it's common for people to be done with their Bachelor's at 24 or 25, while their American counterparts graduate at 22/23 because of the (financial) pressure to finish on time. A combination of high taxes, encouragement from peers/uni to "study abroad" instead of work and from companies to keep their student status to stay interns, means there's also not much motivation to transition to full-time work.

Make no mistake about education quality here, it's not better than America, in fact it might be worse. The population here complains a lot on their local education quality (though you'll rarely ever hear it on the Internet - see last paragraph on why). A lot of memorization from books for things you'll rarely, if ever, use after graduating, lots of partying and bumming around. "Study abroad semester" is nothing more than a proxy term for "4 month vacation for sex, drinking, parties and roadtrips while the taxpayer takes care of the host country's evil out-of-state tuition (usually US, Canada or Australia)" - see for yourself with those "Erasmus" (exchange) students from Europe doing their exchange program in America.

There's a misconception commonly spread in Germany that staying as a student to work means you pay less taxes - kinda true, but technically it's because you get paid so little, you stay in the non-taxable <9000 EUR/year bracket - so you have people postponing graduation or enrolling in a new university without taking any courses after graduating to keep their student status.

Student/internship wage exploitation is turning into an epidemic because of the large student population that remain students for such a long time paired with legal loopholes that allow many companies to get away with hiring a bunch of cheap students instead of one full-time employee.

I've been living in Europe for a few years and they are not immune to the problems that Americans complain about. They do a good job complaining about America on the Internet while downplaying their own problems and spreading positive vibes (cough propaganda cough) on how Europe is superior/more human/ethical than America though.
And that's why I think resume based hiring is shit, cause my resume isn't great, but my github and skills are stellar. But people like you would chuck my resume in the trash without thinking twice cause I'm not currently working as a programmer.
Protocol Independent Switch Architecture
Precisely. While I happen to enjoy building IKEA furniture (in small doses), I would be pleased never to pick it up from a store ever again.
God forbid they do both.
I haven't, I'll check it out!
The “simulation” is garbage. I’ve pointed out one limitation, but there are many others. For example: rental markets are not auctions. Landlords set prices, and renters pay them, or do not.

What happens when you replace 150 SROs with market rate condos? You make 150 of the poorest people in the city homeless, and you remove a tiny bit of competition (maybe) at the higher end of the market. (You’ll note that this post doesn’t discuss who is evicted.)

At a minimum, it is the responsibility of the simulator to show that their simulation reconstitutes reality before it is to be trusted for any form
of prediction.

The only “powerful message” here is that Sonja Trauss is running for office on a pro-development agenda.
Let's rephrase it. When people can't buy necessities, they aren't doing well.
Yes, when the small railway was closed down Duke was left behind in a shed where he stayed until urban explorers found him and restored him.