skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
building underground is much more expensive (developers like to say 10X more, but that's probably a gross exaggeration to make us feel sorry for those poor developers), but i'm all for building parking underground in urban areas, even potentially for single family homes. put a good chunk of powered transportation underground and you could create more green space (for people and pets, to walk, exercise, play, bike, etc.).

to make that happen, cities should price in the cost of street parking (one of the externalities that developers try to take advantage of, in their arguments about the high cost of parking ordinances). for instance, require every car parking on the street to have a neighborhood permit (many municipalities do this, but not widely). price the permits progressively. make each additional permit per household more expensive. use the funds to maintain both roads and public green space.

as LA did in the 50's(?) in downtown bunker hill, on major thoroughfares, you could have two levels of streets, one at ground level and one underground. underground streets could have direct access to underground parking structures.

in higher density areas, you could even build single family homes on top of mixed-use, multi-story buildings. it wouldn't be quite the same, but for many, it would be the best of both worlds.

ps - i saw the japanese zoning article the first time around and thought it was intriguing.
I though he sold the album on ebay?
> Still, the initial sight of Cyrillic alphabet scares off many people.

The only rational explanation I can find for this is cold war propaganda. ;-)

Seriously: About a third of the letters are almost identical to their Latin counterparts. If you study some kind of science you already know the Greek alphabet, to which another third of the Cyrillic alphabet is almost identical. After this the last third is not hard anymore. :-)

Seriously: In Germany they say learning the Cyrillic alphabet is something any slightly intelligent person can do in one afternoon (and I hope I could indeed show this to be true). Unluckily the rest of the Russian language is much harder to learn.
Credible interval or highest posterior density intervals are arguably much closer to what most people think a confidence interval are.

I’m not sure there is a single right way to solve any given problem isn a Bayesian way, but it does force you to think more about the problem at hand and make your assumptions explicit.
On the other hand I spent a lot of time as a data analyst explaining to business folks who "know excel" that their spreadsheets don't match because they used a different definition of week, or revenue.
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>I think what you describe is the main reason for a lack of sympathy for people with BPD. For people with other mental disorders, it's much easier to see how the person is suffering or negatively impacted by their illness. But it's often too difficult to see past one's own anger, frustration and annoyance to recognize that suffering in people with BPD.

It's not just this, but it's the frustration that comes from not being able to, for lack of a better term, fix BPD. You can pour your heart and soul into a relationship with someone who is borderline (as I did), and it will all be for nothing as soon as they split you. You can have a relationship spanning back years, maybe it's even someone you've known since you were a child, and suddenly a switch goes off in their brain and you may as well be someone that they just met yesterday.

There is no parity between Cluster Bs and "normal" people when it comes to things like friendship, loyalty, and obligation, and that has the potential to really hurt people. Some (most?) never figure out what Cluster B personality disorders are -- to them, these people are simply evil.

At best you have some success getting them to change and improve themselves, but then they just discard you and move on without so much as a second thought about you or your feelings. Unless they need you again in the future, that is.
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One hesitates to comment on this sequence of events because it speaks for itself. But here is a stupid user opinion (mine):

I believe users place too much trust in corporations such as Apple, Google or Microsoft to protect them. There is too much debate over which company to choose ("I like ___________'s approach to security") instead of questioning whether delegating security to any of them is truly the wisest course of action.

I hope that this incident causes at least one user to question whether users might benefit from adopting a less trusting and more vigilant approach to protecting their data.

And by "vigilant" I do not mean "choosing the right tech companies to trust", diligently installing updates from these corporations and feeling self-satisfied.

I mean questioning the status quo and thinking seriously about the benefits of free, open source operating systems that are potentially reviewable by millions of developers and users. Systems that can be modified, compiled and installed easily by anyone, not only by small groups of people in corporations with special knowledge. Systems that can, e.g., permit and maybe encourage "safer", more conservative usage patterns.

Under the prevailing laws, I believe this pool of open source developers and users will always contain a larger number of people who care more about protecting user data than any groups within the above companies. It is a matter of self-interest.

Apple is a company with seemingly infinite resources at its disposal. But clearly in this case there were more people seriously interested in fixing this vulnerability outside of the company than within it. And as a dumb, naive user, I question anyone who would suggest that no one except a small group of people at Apple would be competent to do this work.

IMO, this mistake had nothing to do with what makes Apple valuable, namely their hardware. A UNIX-like OS running on Apple hardware does not need to be proprietary and, IMO, users have a compelling interest for software, that can expose their data and pose other security issues, to be open.
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So my previous comment about how if Apple was smart they'd have a unit test for this seems to be confirmed. Apple is not smart. RIP.
Also, how sure are we that space-time is continuous?
Canada is still more capitalist than socialist. It has a few socialist Bells and whistles like socialized medicine, but really not that close to socialism over all.
The Bell Curve is a famous case of quasi-science. You are putting statistical speculation up against centuries of well-documented explicit discrimination policies.
From what I have read people are using Bitcoin more and more for purchases.

https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/
Just saying it’s not acceptable is meaningless. Sure it’s not acceptable. Now what?
Its the primary public facing function of a consumer-facing business. Its really a lot more difficult to argue that they shouldn't be judged on for it, when its specifically the main thing a business is trying to be judged on. The only immediate argument I can think of is that

A) mass marketing is, and should be, frowned upon as a field, due to their use of extremely abusive strategies

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't appreciate those who advertise well, and that all of marketing should be frowned upon

B) marketing doesn't imply anything about the business

But in a lot of cases, it does, because they're either in a market where they should (most consumer products), or they're in a market where there's no need to (free software, extremely cheap retailers. business to business, non-finalized products, middlemen like amazon, monoprice, etc). And if they're in the former, and they pull off a shitshow, I don't see how its reasonable to not judge them for it.

There's a reason a large chunk of silicon valley puts such a massive strain on look&feel, UX, and all the shitty css frameworks, despite tech having the history of not giving the slightest shit.

They've moved into a market where marketing does play a major role, and their success at it should be indicative of other successes. The backend stuff might not have to care (but, it turns out, they still do; just a different fashion), but any final product landing on your phone as an "app" certainly does care, and they should be judged for trying, and failing.
The format is really good.
Tired of paying ~$5 for a 300 page self-help book, when a 2 page summary like this can do just as well.
I just want to say that I've literally done this and it was awesome. Granted it was when I was at university and it was a "part time" job, but I've often thought about going back. Now this is going back 30 years and academia in NA has probably changed a lot, but at least at that time most of the top research groups had enough money to hire full time "technicians". At my university it was a union position, so the pay and benefits were not bad compared to the rest of society. Of course compared to the high tech industry, the pay was not even close :-) Probably for that reason, every body I worked with was passionate, brilliant and more than a bit quirky. Anyway, I ended up working in a chemistry group doing crystallography, a physics group doing high energy physics and an astronomy group that was working on community education programs. Each team had really interesting challenges.

One thing I would caution (from my experience) is that the attitude was very much "get it to work" vs "do it properly". I was writing software and had quite a bit of freedom, but the hardware guys were often tasked with, "We have this problem and there is nothing that we can buy/afford that will solve it. Could you please invent something? You have that mountain of spare parts from previous projects to work with". They would be wandering around the department saying things like, "Do you need that <whatever piece of electronics> any more?", and then would steadfastly break it down to get the parts/components that they needed. Probably less reusable stuff in electronics these days, but I remember being pretty awestruck at the time by what they could scavenge and then build.

I remember in the physics lab, my supervisor/boss had bought a laser printer from Europe. Because it was 240 volt, they built a voltage doubler so that they could use it. One day they accidentally plugged it into 2 voltage doublers and... well, predictably it no longer worked. But my buddy quite happily pounced on the dead carcass and I don't think it lasted more than a couple of hours before the working parts were repurposed for something else.

Like I said, this was a long time ago, but I imagine things still mostly work the same. Awesome place to work.
“vigilant” spelling error, not too late to edit a great comment
I’m all for confiscating the wealth of the rich. But even I have to admit that this is one problem that it won’t solve. The issue at play here is land— raw acreage— and the density thereof. While the rich may own big houses it doesn’t even come close to the total acreage of all the single-family housing in an area.
How is learning how to run a hotel not an education? Are all the Agriculture and Mechanical universities not education?
I like to imagine they didn't; Sussman had an idea about the book he liked, someone drew up a decent image (or even found it somewhere), and they slapped it on. My favorite kind of marketing is the ones where they don't have to do much work to get it good; or at least don't show it.
Sure, but the relationship I'm claiming is one way:

bad marketing implies bad product

Good marketing implies nothing

Its just a first-level filter
needs more Aho books

also no physics or maths ?

oh and Loomis is everywhere in the drawing list, pretty cool
>Before you write off BPD people or assume you know how this disorder works or what the prognosis is, take the time to read up on more recent work in this field.

I was raised by a BPD mother (who actually did an incredible job coping with it as an adult, but she wasn't perfect), and I have dated multiple women with BPD (an all-too-common scenario apparently). I found Stop Walking on Eggshells and similar sources (e.g. the BPD articles on http://gettinbetter.com/articles.html) extremely helpful when it came to recovering from my relationships.

The first one had all sorts of red flags, but I was inexperienced and desperate. The one after that completely caught me off guard. She had done some DBT, but that only taught her how to conceal and restrain her symptoms.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing off BPD people. Being in any sort of relationship with one is stressful, draining, and traumatic.
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If you're going to criticize it you need to propose something better.

Marxism demonstrably isn't it.
This was beautiful to read, well written and very helpful, thank you very much! :)
That probably isn't going to make a huge difference - English speakers don't get much of a leg-up on French despite the gobs of shared vocabulary.
I think so, yes. For example: You can browse BigQuery tables you have access to in a tab, but have to open a new tab to your project where you have billing attached to actually query those tables. So if you're part of a large organization with multiple divisions with their own billing, there is no way to see your tables and query them in the same view.

Most of the console feels to me like the people who build it don't actually use it.
Thank you so much for the detailed advice, that was very helpful! :)
I really enjoyed the first volume of Kotkin’s Stalin biography, if you’re looking for something in a similar vein: https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Paradoxes-1878-1928-Stephen-Ko...
Looking at the Author, Reviews and the Table of Contents is probably a better heuristic.

That said, for things that aren't books, a marketing department that is complete dogshit might point to an opportunity. Berkshire Hathaway doesn't have great marketing. It doesn't need to.

If you go on Alibaba and find a merchant that has a great prospectus and a broad range of products, that's most likely a reseller. That means they take their share of the pie, and if you try to get something manufactured, you'll be working through a proxy. Better to find their manufacturer instead.
I don’t think Tesla will fail. I don’t think they can justify their premium valuation. They don’t have Apple margins.
Wow, those apps are super useful! Thank you very much :)
The problem is that if the housing supply is already too small there is little incentive to build anything other than luxury homes, since the margin is inevitably highest on those.
I used DSSSL straight out of college. It wasn't the parens. Scheme just takes time to wrap your mind around and it seems so opaque when you are coming from the world of C and Java as I was. I was incredibly intimidated by it, and so were my fellow programmers. We used it and it worked, but no one felt that they fully understood it under the hood.

CSS is just so dead simple in comparison. Classic example of worse is better IMO.
"Director of Operations" is valley speak for office manager
Yeah, I feel you. But I also feel for people who have worked their whole lives to build towards a comfortable retirement, put their lives' worth of sweat and tears into that, and then had it pulled out from under them.

There's a hyperbole to express on both sides, but I can understand why people who are worth $1-5 million and are past their 50s might feel threatened by this sort of development.

They aren't in a particularly marginalized position, but they are probably frightened about the rapid change and possibly out hundreds of thousands of dollars plus time they don't have.

I agree, build those homes and reduce the power of small groups to put up large barriers, but I also understand where the residents are coming from to some degree.
Looking for recommendations on a "best" one or two books to read on SQL / PostgreSQL.

Have any of you read Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development[+]? I'm aware it's a fairly recent title, but I'm in need of something like that and am wondering if it's worth the money. The free sample chapter looks promising, I'll give it that.

I'm working my way through the official PostgreSQL docs, and they're really good, but I find myself struggling a bit (a lot). I'm fluent in a handful of programming languages (dabbled in many), and appreciate abstractions like HOFs and monads, but I'm finding it difficult to express myself in SQL, and that tells me some underlying concepts haven't quite clicked.

[+] https://masteringpostgresql.com/
No, assuming the author pays taxes, the author is not a free rider on the law enforcement infrastructure.

The act of publishing the book has positive externalities (people derive benefit from reading it). Copyright is an attempt to allow creators to capture some of those positive externalities to promote more production of books.

Your position that the creator should not have a mechanism to capture any of those benefits is rather extreme, as is the position of the copyright maximalists that assert they should capture all of the benefits.
The conditional effect of conspiracy thinking on attitudes toward climate change
It is actually not correct that homeowners in SF outnumbers renters. 65% of the population are renters.

Because of prop 13 property taxes are also fixed and decreases to nothing as the property depreciates over 29 years. Prop 13 in effect removed much of homeowners incentive to support policies that promote development.
This argument is silly and people should feel silly for repeating it over and over. The same is true of almost any traditional investment, and yet people obviously liquidate such investments to purchase things. The only reason people don’t directly trade in appreciative assets all the time is that they’re bulky and infungible.
Well I guess we just need to figure out how to geographically distribute the world's human population once and for all and never do anything that will ever require that to change, then.
Well, there's lots of definitions - I'd include anything that generally has:

- single cycle ops
- easy to decode ops (fixed size)
- load/store architecture
- lots of registers to reduce pressure on memory
It is 32 States to infinity

and hence the question shall be 16 to and 64 to.
Agreed, but adding that in Dutch a shift was even made to always designate with the male form, regardless of gender. So a "directrice" (Dutch, which would mean something like "directress" in English, a female director) then overnight became a "directeur" ("director"), with no sex change.

Myself, I saw the familiar m/f designations here, and wondered whether that is still desirable, given the emerging use of additional designations?
If discovered, and colonized, then sure! ;-)
But many renters are opposed to increasing housing stock, no?
As someone who has been following this case very closely since the beginning and is familiar with everyone involved:

The way this man has been treated is a disgrace to our judicial system and society.
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Walmart is exactly the kind of company that we need anti-trust legislation for. Walmart comes to rural areas, extracts massive amount of money, and doesn't replace all the workers that were displaced. The fact that they happen to sell things a bit cheaper doesn't offset the local economic damage they do.
Boomers have wrecked our nation.
I went through my entire 20s thinking this, and I have strong opinions about it so sorry for this long post...

Back when I quit my 9-5 job in 2006 my favorite quote was by the creator of Winamp... "For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave."

No company deserved me because I was a creative innovator, and even though working retail for $10/hr wasn't using my CS degree, I'd rather do that than make $70k getting someone else rich. I thought I deserved $250k since I was obviously going to get them rich - so taking the $10/hr job doing mindless work was less of a sell-out.

The next 8 years I tried a lot of things, and went $20k in debt. When I reached my 30s, I realized a few things:

1. You can be a mercenary and get the skills you need for your own business while working for someone else. You learn and get faster while doing tasks for your employer, so even though the code you wrote is owned by them... the code you write for your own business will be better and done faster.

2. If you're worried about getting them rich... just do what they say instead of innovating. Most companies don't innovate, they just maintain the status-quo and have you build systems that meet existing needs and save a little bit of money. You aren't making the next Snapchat at a 9-5... and if you are, you should have equity.

3. Freedom is not just about having the time to do things.... I had all the time in the world in my twenties but no money. Being broke basically put me in a prison. I couldn't go on trips with friends, couldn't take girls out, couldn't do what I wanted because I'd have no money for it. Now that I have a full-time job and work on side projects, I have the opposite problem where I have money but no time.

Overall I think having a 9-5 job works better for my lifestyle. Maybe I just needed more discipline and I could have succeeded as an Indie developer making games, marketing software, apps... and whatever other shiny thing caught my eye... but now I do that stuff on the side. I still hope I succeed as an entrepreneur and reach a point where I have complete freedom (time & money)... but now that I'm older I realize that was always a long-shot.
Good point; but if it's only that, why not simply cash out of the urban core once it starts to expand, and buy a larger property further out? You might deal with a longer commute, but that's just down to money; if you could afford the same square footage in the city center...but alas.
> I feel like this country owes blacks (as a group) probably a few billion dollars in some sense.

This might come as a surprise to you...but this country has exploited many people (immigrants, non-whites, etc.) over the course of history - if the country had to pay for all the wrongs, we'd be bankrupt.
> But they also don't really have a good alternative that wouldn't lose them a lot of money in a time where, if they're not in the class that owns multiple houses, they're already struggling.

That's not true at all. They could sell their homes for their mindbogglingly inflated values to condo developers in exchange for multiple units in the new buildings. They wouldn't have to move at all (except temporarily, while construction is going on), and would even gain an asset that they can rent out or sell later.

What they're fighting for is the right to keep their low-density suburb, single-family home, lifestyle. Which would be fine except that their insistence on doing this is impoverishing everyone else.
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