skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It tends to work well enough over broad stretches, including the end points.

Since the model for the last couple generations was expanding in to the "green field" suburbs and that model is now breaking down due to the distances finally becoming too insane / growth boundaries being enforced, there has now been a building pressure that is finally being re-directed in to other areas.

Unfortunately civic codes are focused more on preventing the loss of life than on making life a quality affair. I would really love to have actual peace and quiet at home; being completely unable to hear those on the other side of the walls, and requiring that build in appliances be similarly quiet instead of the cheapest possible and least effective exhaust fans.
Agreed. Funny that everyone is focusing on that point, which probably won't have much affect. I expect other policies such as below, will likely have more affect. Encouraging more housing at the lower end of the market seems like a good idea. Rather than pushing low income earners into the exurbs.

"LABOUR WILL PARTNER WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO BUILD 100,000 AFFORDABLE HOMES

KiwiBuild will deliver 100,000 affordable houses over ten years for first home buyers. Half of these will be built in Auckland. That is a ten-fold increase in the number of affordable houses being built in Auckland each year, from 500 to 5,000."

http://www.labour.org.nz/kiwibuild
Why are computer models not forecasts? Why would it be a terrible state of affairs not to have human forecasters?

More specifically, what role do humans play in digesting the output of the computer model and producing the forecast? What adjustments or corrections are made to what the model says is going to happen, and based on what reasoning? "My gut tells me the tornado is going to move east, even though the computer says it will move west with an estimated 98% likelihood"?

Are the humans doing more than creating a human-consumable verbal summary of what the computer model says will happen -- explaining the severity and location of the predicted weather in human terms?
When I was 19 I messed my back up very badly on the job. The company tried very hard not to take responsibility for it, going so far as court with dueling doctors.

The fact I refused opiods for my pain was used against me, "If it's so bad why aren't you taking the pain medications?"

My lawyer told me that if I had taken them I likely would have gotten 50% more int he settlement. I don't regret it though. Addiction is a major problem in my family.
Pervasive in the German automotive industry.
For whatever reason this reminded me of Zork. I tried several things without success:

open mailbox
go house
open window
get lamp

nothing worked. You might consider adding a game too. That way people could play a game while looking up stuff.
They're not wrong. There will be more people moving there if prices are lowered, and over the long run unless Portland can absorb the entire movable population whatever it is, it will be helping to lower rent everywhere in the country. So thanks!
All American cities have huge amounts of unbuilt land dedicated to surface parking, usually required by law. This land can be redeveloped with parking underground, or on rooftops.
>Getting the data into and out of compute services is the most difficult part financially, at least in my experience.

You can never forget that this is entirely because of compute services ripping you off, not because they're providing a valuable service in return for the transfer pricing.
Yes, and the exact true story is only know by the ones involved :-)
A lot of people want to make that legal! But those people are not able to vote in SF, because it's not legal yet.
That threading style potentially fits OK with the JS "Web Worker" / "isolate" model, as long as you can pass messages around between threads/isolates very efficiently (probably not the case in current JS implementations).
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I think it's a nice project. I like the output format and the simplicity of it. But I too find the trend of describing one's own work as "beautiful" rather grating.
Stavros from TileDB, Inc. here: We have elevated the Python/NumPy bindings as our top priority and have already started development. We will try to ship them asap. :)
Mob programming is one of those beautiful counter-intuitives you run into in technology development. It solves many problems, the main one being that it's extremely easy in technology to seem to have agreement on something, only for there to be tons of various ways of interpreting stuff when you actually execute. When you mob, you force the team not only to come to agreements on working patterns in general, but to come to agreement on them at the lowest level of detail. And that's just one of the things it does.

It's not a panacea, but it manages to do a lot of various things that might take a long time and do them immediately.
Nono, wait.

The housing being built in Portland over the past handful of years is of a specific type and a certain price range. I regularly check the rental rates for units in these new complexes as they come on line and I have yet to find units that I can afford.

Portland is very lax with it's high density zoning, or strict depending on how you look at it. They promoted high density housing by disincentivizing alternative zoning types (making it extremely difficult to find non retail commercial spaces).

The lack of rent control combined with the proliferation of high-end retail + housing spaces contributes to housing as an investment opportunity which in turn makes low end rent unstable and rare. This past year over half of the renters on my block were kicked out of their homes when owner decided to sell.

Sure, there's a glut of $1,500 studios and one bedroom units available, but there's a real lack of rooms or units below $1,000.
Am I missing the part where they show how increasing supply lowered rent?

Note: the previous title was worded to imply that rents were falling.
So just `host -a whatever.com` with the addition that you're tracking me with Google Tag Manager and God knows what else in the backend?
Good to hear! A couple years ago, it wasn't unusual to see friends getting 25 or 30% increases in their rent in Portland.
Language X runs on platform A, it offers little innovative but merely re-expresses what you're already used to doing on platform A in another language.

Language Y has some really innovative features that no other languages are currently doing. There is currently no reference implementation.

Which of these is the more interesting one to a language geek? The former might be more interesting to a "platform A" geek. Or someone who uses platform A in production.

The perspective is being interested in language design rather than "the next big thing". A language that doesn't change the way you think about programming is not worth learning, because you're only re-learning what you already know. In fact, learning such language is trivial and all you really need is a grammar reference from which you can deduce the rest. If it runs on platform A which you're familiar with, you can take advantage of platform A's libraries and become productive in X in no time.
What if the VW Beetle had never existed?
More pain is coming for overpriced technology startups
- "But if you build more housing then even MORE people will want to move here"

Isn't this actually true?

I would love to pay less rent, and don't mind having higher density. But I can also see why someone doesn't want those.
You can almost always build more housing on a given lot though. My detached single family home uses 1/5 or less of the land on my lot. You could build four town homes of the same size as my house on the same lot. If you went to four stories, eight units of 2,000 square feet each.

This isn't rocket science. It's about density of units per amount of land.
It's super depressing in December and January when you get up to go to work in the dark, and by the time you get out at 5, it is pitch dark again.

I do wish we'd fallen back earlier, like we used to. I'd much rather have that extra hour of daylight in the morning when I could maybe use it, rather than on my commute home.
Would you like this new kind of aspirin? Its totally worry-free as several neutral studies will tell you? Its relative cheap and has a cool name- PuffThePinkDragon.
Maybe you could put the whole city on a barge and migrate south for the winter?
Continuous delivery: Software craftsmanship is not enough
As a complete aside, some people (in an IRC channel) and I just spent 20+ minutes trying to figure out why https://sub.god.jp/f/JmiFHE9S.txt was displaying in a non-default font in Firefox. Turns out it was being treated as encoded as Shift JIS, because the encoding wasn't explicitly specified in the headers and the TLD is .jp .[1]

[1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/encoding/...
>This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab.

Only tangentially. In my engineering department, the expectations on the professor who ran a lab with heavy and expensive equipment were no greater than the one whose work was all computational and just needed a bunch of PC's to run simulations on.
As a parent of young children, we dread changing the clocks & curse the evil people who came up with this terrible idea.

If Dante's Inferno were to be written today, their would be a 10th Circle for those who came up with daylight savings time. It would involve the sound of screaming children, important appointments & clocks that change at random.
Happen to know that is the work of the eBay team in New York. Really great engineers in that lab.
Humans need not apply.
Some areas have geographic or legal limits to constructions (maximum building hight, water, etc). There is simply no way to build more building without first demolishing existing buildings, which is costly.

But not as costly as sticking to the status quo - if you account for opportunity costs.

Most people want to live close to work, and work tends to be close to the centre. A house that is an hour commute away will not influence the price in the immediate vicinity.

that's not true at all. Look at commuter suburbs and exurbs that get developed.

If space was infinite, it would be Econ 101, but given that space is not, elected officials need to protect the voting population from inflation, through whatever means possible.

Space is not the issue - space utilization absolutely is and zoning laws produce suboptimal space utilization. There should be a lot more residental sky scrapers in the bay area than there currently are. If San Fran adopted the zoning of say Dallas, things would be different and probably more affordable.
Article doesn't mention that flu shots are always against previous year virus, not current. Developing a vaccine is a time consuming process (even one year is already a huge achievement).

So I'm still not convinced about flu shots. Other vaccines, like measles, are clear win, of course.
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Typeface designed for doctors
For my neighborhood, I believe it's because the neighborhood didn't exist 3 years ago. So I agree I think it's a huge opportunity. The first HEB (grocery chain in TX) to open up in the neighborhood is going to make a killing.

For others that have existed for longer, sometimes the zoning seems to just be residential forever so sometimes you have to drive for a bit to get to the nearest "stuff". I think that's pretty standard for suburbia.

And then for yet others sometimes they're just too far out and too small of developments to make building a supermarket just for them financially viable.
Agreed. I block ANY queries using iptables string filters. I also block anything other than NOERROR responses from myself. Their site doesn't work with any of my domains.
So glad the Android Monitor tool is finally replaced. Recently had to do some profiling, and the whole experience was really bad.
Build near mass transit and in walkable neighborhoods and restrict the number of parking spaces. Make streets safer to walk and bike. Adding more housing units doesn't need to mean a linear increase in cars as well.
Detatched homes, or HUDS, have a really aggressive tax policy in Portland making them very expensive to rent out as apartments. The policy promotes using these units as airBnB rentals in place of longer term housing for residents.
Does Monsanto add any value to the world? Everything I read about them for several years now makes me wish the company would just die.
Another way of phrasing that is that if Warren Buffet walks into a baseball stadium, on average everyone there is a millionaire.
If there's a glut, I wonder if it would work to look for apartments that have been on the market for a while and see if they'll make a deal?
I never had a good time setting up databases, mapping them to the GraphQL resolvers then implementing auth login, file handling, PubSubs, and soo on! And it'd lack a lot in terms of security, performance and etc.
Here it is! I loved the Graphcool cloud from the beginning, now everything is open sourced and ready to be used even offline or on your own servers. It's a huge change in how our future backends would look like, just how React, GraphQL, micro services and docker changed how we develope. Surprisingly it has/involves all of the above under the hood!

With this route, we just have to wait for the framework to be developed and evolved by the awesome community (which supported the initial graph.cool before)
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand what actually was done to stop rents to grow from reading the article?

Seems like this one sentence may be the key:

prompted the City to adopt an ill-advised
inclusionary zoning ordinance, and
led the state to flirt with authorizing rent control

But it’s unclear whether that was just a flirt or some control was actually implemented? Did the “prompting” result in “city adopting”? What’s “ill-advised” in this context?

Lots is unclear
First, you have to sell your home, which is not always a reality. Then, a construction company has to buy your expensive house and build enough stories to make up for the difference of buying, demolishing and building again. Finally, the municipality has to allow a building of that height. That's why in many areas you see townhouses that go up in price, but no developer wants to turn them into 4+ storey buildings.
What is Graph Database?
Welcome to the 19th century: divide up the $1500 studio and live like tenants, you know, as in people in tenements.
In deferred rendering the cost of lighting is still dependent on the number of lights. In forward rendering it is dependent on both the number of lights as well as the scene geometry. You can apply various additional techniques to make each light much cheaper though.
yeah and the entire FDA group that allowed this and maybe the pain center doctors who ran pill mills all over the midwest and south? Nah, they are all rich, easier to find a scapegoat, pretend your doing something, and gloat. The life of politics. Maybe declare a war on drugs!
The melting pot of JavaScript
#![feature(link_args)]
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-s TOTAL_MEMORY=268435456 \
-s NO_EXIT_RUNTIME=1 \
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extern {}
Pinterest does have something similar and has a few blog posts about how they did it
so the earth is twice as big, but the same mass? seems like there are some detectable changes there. but maybe you're increasing mass in a really tricky way. it'll need to be more than double to have the same effect. at a given distance.

The other one that seems like it would be tough is strength of a magnetic field. inverse cube law, rather than inverse square. seems really hard to do something and get the same answers.
Doesn't Uniqlo manufacture their products in the same Chinese (and Bangladesh) factories as American brands?
Slightly OT.
I am a big Fan of the hypothesis that Siegfried (the main character of a major old German story) is Armenius.
E.G. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27701032?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
(PDF is free)
I suppose when you support and promote a fascist to run the country, it's only logical that you'd then turn around and predict the country's tech economy will fail and that people should look elsewhere. That's one helluva long play, Mr. Thiel. Well done...well done.
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Depends on your definition of “valuable”
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle and ignoring our request not to do this.

Would you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with?

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It would not surprise me if the math actually worked out that it would be best to pay people $5 or something to get the shot.

It's be especially good if the payout was perhaps $2 to get it but $5 if more than 50% of the pop in an area got the shot. Maybe manageable with an Etherium contract?
If anything, the laws demands everyone subsidize parking through higher prices / rents. London recently got rid of parking laws and to no one's surprise, developers built a lot less parking.

Parking is a perfect example of bad zoning manifesting in the misallocation of resources - we simply have more parking than we want to pay for.
It's a database that uses graph structures for data access as opposed to, say, a more relational model as RDBMSs do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database
Gender Pay Gap
> The housing being built in Portland over the past handful of years is of a specific type and a certain price range.

This is true for every city. Developers don't really build low-end units. They build high-end units and rely on the age/deterioration of other buildings to eventually turn them into lower-end buildings.

This is sort of working out because people are generally moving back into cities and are willing to pay a premium for it.

The reason why I think this article about Portland is interesting is either their influx of people into the city has slowed/stopped, or they've built so many units that its outpaced the influx. A common narrative in cities is "we're building so many units yet prices are still high!!!" But clearly the equation should be rate of new units coming into the market vs rate of change of city population.

Which also feels like common sense. But maybe its more like, this article is interesting because it shows there's light at the end of the tunnel.
I live in Portland and MANY of those signs are left out constantly and have been out for YEARS.

American Property Management leaves them out front of all units and just funnels you to wherever they have an opening.
"trivial"
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Perhaps but now we can document it better, and he seems to be taking the MSM down with him so that's a plus.
I hope this fixes the emulator on linux. I tried everything I could to get the emulator working, but there were numerous issues.
it doesn't seem that arrogant to me to imagine yourself being able to turn a profit at a tech company bringing in 2+ billion dollars a year
Is Elm going stale?
> While the “ceiling” for the total number of positions is 4,890 per the National Weather Service Table of Organization, the official said the number of positions is 4,453 people under the 2017 fiscal year appropriations act. “We believe this level is adequate to achieve National Weather Service core functions,” the official said.

I would've recommended starting with this quote, then, if that's the point you were trying to make.

But still, "adequate to achieve core functions" isn't the same as "just fine".
Please share your Dockerfile
For the kinds of systems that are built with Erlang, which is a niche that Pony seems to want to occupy, I would argue it's inherently better to have preemptive scheduling. A cooperative scheduler will always be an open invitation for bugs relating to CPU hogging. Not having to worry about these things is priceless.
Plus, ninjas DO work for selfish gain. As mercenaries, they only care about pay day in the end, and they're not loyal to a faction.
Silicon Valley has not been about the raw production of silicon chips for over 30 years now.

It's been about software and design of hardware for at least that long.

You're also ignoring the networking advantages (personal, career, and business) that proximity provides. They are not trivial. It's why SV has stuck around post dot-com.
UnrealIRCd 4.0.15 released
Wanting your whippin' arm lined up center makes sense, but it doesn't explain swapping both the side the driver sits on and the side of the road used by the vehicle. If you had free reign on street side, you'd sit on the side opposite your whipping arm because you could pick people up on either side (no safety preference) and would have more control over the whip. These probably changed at different times.

If you're on the left side of the street, picking passengers up on the left sidewalk, you'd want to sit on the left side to watch your whip. But, the driver is always on the side furthest from the curb, which makes me think it's more about making sure you don't hit oncoming traffic and picking up passengers.

Still doesn't explain the side of the street used. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a royal mannerism edict that said something like, "Gentlemen ambling in opposite directions should always pass one another on the left to ensure they may unsheathe their weapon, should the other engage in dishonorable combat."
> that's not true at all. Look at commuter suburbs and exurbs that get developed

It's only through the construction of highways that suburbs can be accessible. There was a great study done to show that the cost of highways is mostly subsidized by the inner city, not the suburbs themselves.

This is what I mean about keeping inflation low through use of the government: only the resources of a centralized government can undertake the construction of highways that keep the cost of downtown areas "low". In effect, this is one of the strategies to reduce inflation: infrastructure.

For the space issue, see my answer below to bmcusick
We can apply Kant's categorical imperative to lots of stuff. Some people don't want to have children. If everyone chose to not have children the human race would face extinction.

This does not imply that we must (or more importantly, can from a moral perspective) force people who do not want children to have them anymore that it implies that forcing people who do not want flu shots is the right thing to do.
Why are Air Purifiers so expensive? Does there need to be something inside them except a prefilter, a HEPA filter and a fan?
Why should we have density? The US is a huge country with vast empty lands. The new economy with air travel and internet means jobs require no specific geography like easy access to ports, waterways, or railroads. Why should people be packed into a few places living like rats? Keep the rent high and let economics take care of jobs going elsewhere to new, livable settlements and perhaps cities. Whatever happened to the pioneering spirit?
Yeah sure, but it's far from the work environment in the states or even in other countries in europe. Require people to do some extra hours sometimes is often part of every contract but I have never been required to do so.

Once I had a boss that wanted me to work overtime "unofficially" but I refused. Needless to say, I left that place pretty quickly.

I don't work in the game industry, but I know some people who do and they never work overtime.
In that case however we have other data than just the model to suggest that geocentrism is false, whereas the topic of this thread is models in physics mathematics that merely differ in complexity, with no apparent difference in "truth".
I can easily accept it in some European country where government pays for it all. I have much harder time to accept this paradigm in USA, where 19 years old are paying a lot of money or going into debt just so they can study at the university.

Yes, college graduates do better then non college graduates which is why those people still do it. But since they are paying a lot of money, university literally owns them more then just "you are a distraction".