skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that enforced saving is one of the biggest advantages.

Separately, where I live in Australia, there are transactional costs (mostly stamp duty) that make getting in and out of a house a bit of an extra imposition. I remember about 20 years ago, it was suggested that (generally speaking) if you were likely to stay put for about 5+ years, you were better off buying than renting. Otherwise, typically blue chip buys on the stock market with the discipline to keep investing was a better bet.
Learn from it and move on.

Next time, get it in writing, and keep great records.
Where I live in Southern California the problem is that supply is kept down by people renting out their first home and buying a 2nd. The houses appreciate at 4% per year and the rent increases at nearly 8% so it's win win for owners. On the flip side renters continue to spend their money renting and paying the mortgage of their landlords. The 2010 census reported Irvine was nearly 50% rentals [1].. In one of the largest planned communities in the US that is a problem.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California
(see census data for 2010)
Who arrived with no money, poor language skills... and were not pushed into redlined neighborhoods, were not denied credit, and were not rewarded with dropping property values around them as soon as they bought a house and the white folks left.

Immigrants (especially non-White) faced their own challenges, but not those ones.
In LA, I would say its 100 to 1 that I meet that are building a business that requires outside capital. You make a good point on the industry that surrounds venture-backed companies, and the accompanying noise, but it just feels like there is a massive segment of the market that is getting overlooked.
Yes! And the list goes on and on.

Science can't seem to tie its mistakes to lack of credibility.

Imagine that. Even Science, like CNN, doesn't know correlation from cause.

That's. Just. Sad.
I wonder what the long term impact will be on their societies. If brides are scarce, would it lead to the betterment of social conditions for women in these (traditionally) chauvinistic societies?
Out of curiosity... forgetting rates for a moment and just checking on numbers of people, aren't there more white people in abject poverty than black people entirely in the USA?

Seems if the argument is that white wealth propagates - that there should be few poor white people anywhere. There has been no racism towards them, and lots of time to build up the "subsidized wealth".

I'm not crazy about all this generalization based on skin color.
You're thinking of the lower-level details of the computer but the issue is the low-level details of the problem you're trying to solve. The amount of detail necessary to solve even the most basic business problem is far more than the average client can ever describe on their own.

All the computer abstractions help solve computer problems and in turn make it easier to implementation solutions but doesn't make the business problems any smaller.
Frankly I'm not sure I'm good enough to get those deals. Whether it's technical skills, negotiating skills, or plain luck I have not been able to get a job that good for me
>[the north is] dominated by patriarchal religions like...

Perhaps not so curious after all.
RSS & DAT could be the foundation of a wonderful decentralized social platform.
Absolutely, RSS feeds rock! They're much less "noisy", and best of all - untouched by algorithmic sorting.

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Absolutely. A clothes folding and sorting robot would be #1 in terms of time saving, as that feels like 80% of the housework I do.
It exists but you're either delusional or a shill if you think "both sides" are the same on this.
Island in crisis
emojicrypt.com – encrypt messages into emoji using scrypt and aes-gcm!

https://aurorabbit.github.io/emojicrypt.com/

Unfortunately hackernews doesn't seem to support emoji properly, so I've put my message here:

https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/fdab58373cb7a57bfc621c2f4...

The passphrase is the Ask HN submission id :)
Is there currently any country with too many women? I've heard interesting things about Paraguay, which lost like 90% of their men after some really bad wars, and how it changed their society.
Those are intentional jamming devices, I hope unintentional sideband interference wouldn't be treated remotely as harshly? The kind of power to achieve this kind of jamming would be pretty large too -- I'd judge at least 50W (depending on the jamming bandwidth I guess). A few miliwatts from an SDR transmitter isn't going to do much disruption. Not to mention there are pretty significant interference sources from defective devices mentioned elsewhere -- cheap usb power supplies, defective lightning, and more.

That said, anyone should indeed be filtering their output unless transmitting more than extremely low amounts of power (perhaps someone with radio experience could give a hand of thumb? Up to hundreds of microwatts sounds quite safe) as a matter of civility. Besides, you get to learn basic electronics by building a simple passive filter!
What about fake photos?
That's not really true (something that land value tax advocates will gladly point out) because supply of housing is fixed in the short term. Landlords charge what the market will bear for housing; rent isn't anchored to their actual costs. They bear the burden of increasing costs.

There is a risk that property tax could suppress supply of housing in the long term, since it makes rentals as investment vehicles less profitable, and therefore indirectly contribute to increasing rents.
I have it in writing.
Yeah, not nearly enough for that top few percentage points.
As a frequent RSS user, I don't mind when feeds use links back to the main site. I personally use RSS to notify me when a new article is posted.
I have often considered trying to reverse: using high resolution VGA ADC's to digitize for a cheap scope, but the effort involved seemed to high
Groupon founder's tour app Detour goes to Bose, needs a lot more to survive
Yea, his owning real estate should be a huge asterisk. Financial advice: Step 1: Own your home free and clear. Yea, I’ll get right on that.

It’s like Ryan Gosling‘s dating advice: Step 1: Be as handsome as Ryan Gosling. Well no shit!
It's like quoting a wikipedia article, but there was an episode about this in a LastWeekTonight type show[0]. Two takeaways:

1. One of the southern states (that I'm from) ranks super-high in killing baby girls, despite what one would think intuitively.

2. Doctors offer Levi's style buy 1, get 2nd 50% off style packages for sex-determination test + abortions (both of which are banned). To ensure that parents-to-be get both, they lie that the foetus is a girl.

[0] http://www.satyamevjayate.in/female-foeticide/femalefoeticid..., scroll down for the episode
That's an uncharitable read of my comment. (Or more likely my comment was clear as mud.) As you said, the above theory was that the current wealth gap can be explained by generations of discrimination. But if another non-white group can enter at a similar "difficulty" level and attain higher results, maybe the explanation is more complicated. I think then the focus would need to be on current (possibly discriminatory) policies and factors, rather than historical ones. Education, family unit, cultural factors, etc.
I found the WISP discussion interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8eccqb/im_dane_jasper...
I must be missing something in this article. It seems to say that older generations have more net worth than younger generations. Its graph depicting net worth by age scales almost linearly. Isn't this how it's supposed to work?

If I encounter someone who has spent a year digging a hole, another person who has spent two years digging a hole, and another person who has spent ten years digging a hole, I suspect that each respective hole's depth would be roughly proportional to the length of time spent digging it. The same concept applies to years making income. Clearly this isn't ubiquitous, since it's only possible to gain wealth if you make enough money to save wealth, but one could argue using this data that it's actually the norm.

What am I missing?
I had to know the answer, so I wrote a quick script to test it. It appears that incognito windows can't read cookies from normal windows. I've linked to the source code there. If I've missed anything, let me know.

https://cookiechecker.netlify.com/
Or abandoning, also happens a lot, as I learned when someone in my family adopted a girl.
I guess nobody knows, but what is the explanation for people's reaction? If the town only had women bike thieves, do you think the experiment would have gone the same?
This isn’t predicted by classical economics. This is the result of the housing supply being artificially constrained by zoning laws. If developers could build a 40-story high rise next to a single family home, housing would be dirt cheap. On top of this, rent control further disincentives developers from constructing new properties.

AirBnB and Uber aren’t “bypassing the market”, they’re bypassing local laws and ordinances. The reason why AirBnB is cheaper than hotels and Uber is cheaper than taxis is because they don’t incur the cost of regulatory compliance. Real estate would also be cheaper if developers didn’t have to comply with zoning regulations.
That’s a really good question and it shows how little has really been fleshed out at this point (at least in my mind).
I think the state still has a role to play making purchasing decisions for some; for example, incapacitated people should probably be purchasing healthcare that revives them in most cases, and the state should make the decision there that hospitals should just do so.
Where you draw the line where the person isn’t capable of make the decision? I would favor very far into the personal responsibility myself, but I bet there are really good humanitarian and efficiency arguments for a different line that has the state interviene at an earlier point.
Netflix to issue $1.5B of junk bonds to finance its massive spending plans
> The most general data structure is a directed graph. Is a formal textual description as good as shapes connected by arrows?

Oh yes. My company used a "visual" programming language for a workflow project and it's pretty much a directed graph with nodes -- the whole thing takes 50 printed pages to see the whole thing and is pretty much impossible to understand. And it's not even that complicated of a workflow.

> Finite state machines. Again, shapes connected by arrows is clearer.

Only for mostly trivial state machines.
Downloaded it and ordered the paper copy, thanks :)
I think the idea is, poor whites don't need to pass through institutional racism like poor/rich black do. Of course poor whites have it worse than rich whites but they have more/easier opportunities to break through.
To be fair, that's also what they said for the other services before they changed their minds.
Maybe you did, maybe you're just a greedy asshole who doesn't want to pay for society. Who knows.

I certainly didn't need a tax cut. You say you needed a cut, so maybe you did and maybe we should cut your taxes, leave mine alone, and tax raise taxes on people making a lot more.
The Modern Mini Cooper’s Designer Is Now Working on Flying Cars
Part of that is simply population growth.

The creation of the automobile opened up a ton of land for new, cheap housing. That lasted for a few decades, but the land is now developed and the population is much larger and evermore urban, so the gold rush is over.

There may be a chance to develop our way to cheaper housing, but you'll be getting less land and less space for more money.
Anecdotally, they are the voters who keep preventing housing from being built.
I think every single person has biases, even you.

But also, I think that it wouldn't matter the race or sex, if someone was in your home who you did not invite, or know them. And based on their behavior, skin color, clothing, would determine if you said "hi, you must be my daughter's friend?" or "What are you doing in my house, I am calling the police!"

But no one wants to admit they make judgements about anything, because that's sexist/racist/something-ist.
> “[It] in effect forces MCNs to either watch every video uploaded by their partners, or at least be reasonably confident none of the videos they are uploading could possibly either in the present or in the future violate or even come close to violating a YouTube guideline/terms,” Urgo said.

Its funny how a lot of people think its totally reasonable to expect YouTube to pay people to watch every video, and yet the people bundling the video think thats unworkable.

To some extent, if you're bundling content and you want all your content to be treated equally, there is a shared responsibility to not upload things advertisers don't like.
I think you're being downvoted as there is both wordpress.com (which you correctly state is a blogging platform) and then wordpress.org (the open source PHP application anyone can freely install on anything from shared hosting on up).

At even a cursory glance, independent Wordpress installs vastly outnumber the number of domains hosted on wordpress.com
Ah didn’t realize it was dropping. However, it’s clear there’s a large discrepancy between average employee income and average revenue per employee.
Sure, start by taking a machete to military funding.
>Have the large projects maintain their own dependencies? i.e. React, Webpack, Typescript, Express...
>Create and maintain your own packages?
>Review each package and save a copy in your own repo for re-use?

Yes? It is possible for things to be too convenient, IMHO.

>Upgrading would be a pain.

Upgrading should be at least a bit painful. Upgrading without pain means you don't really know what changes you're making to your codebase, and you don't care to know, you just want the magic black box to work and not bother you with the details. There should be at least more effort put into upgrades than the least amount possible.
Thanks, I'll take a look. Funny that the stories have changed so much. I feel like its never been easier to start a company. Perhaps comp is so high that most folks have no incentive to leave BigTechCo.
It sounds pretty good to me if it inspires them to write a manual that answers the questions support gets. Most products come with a "manual" that's useless for troubleshooting.
CodePen really shows how specialized we've become, compared to the days when CSS Zen Garden was huge.
I think you hit it head on with this. It seems to be a control thing first and foremost. The worst nightmare is that you will grab their content in a text only format with no ads.
Well, supposedly it is end-to-end encrypted, so they don't get that information unless they are lying. Even if, it is still better than "anyone how cares to listen". SMS is not secure at all.
I wish there was more transparency here from both the MCNs and especially YouTube, but I'm also leery about some complaints from channel owners. Specifically the ones that sound like they feel entitled to the services YouTube provides them (free distribution, tooling, outsourced ad sales, audience, cross promotion, etc) at zero "cost" (not necessarily monetary costs) to themselves.

Creators should feel free to try and lobby YouTube to make things better for themselves (YouTube depends on creators), but please try and steer clear of things that look like entitlement. It's a bad look.

And if things really are so bad, don't distribute via YouTube if the downsides of their policies outweight the benefits. If your content is good and a larger movement starts, that's the strongest message you can send to YT.
Per Wikipedia, Russia has about 4 million more in the 15-64 demographic. 48m men and 52m women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

This article seems to have a little more background on why. Wars and alcohol are harder on men than women.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/08/14/why-the-form...
> "Why can’t you curse on broadcast tv or radio in the US"

Because SV has had a holier than thou attitude. SV has promised us it is beyond tradition.

Those previous enemies are obvious. But SV said it would be __less__ of the same.

Where are the jet packs we were promised?? Or was that (empthy) promise just a press release?
This industry already exists (search for “photo forensics”) and I'm certain you're right to suspect it'll be booming soon. ML should also be good at faking some of the characteristics which current tools use so we must be looking at an arms race for years.

One of the big challenges I'm expecting will be the categories of attack: it seems plausible that we'd be able to limit abuse in the case where the original image is made by someone who isn't malicious by making it easy for viewers to find the originals (perceptual hashing with some sort of distributed ledger or signature system, and getting major services like Facebook to use it) but I haven't seen a convincing suggestion for how to deal with the case where the original is created by the attacker and thus any validation system would only show what they submitted it with. It seems like that'd fall back on much more failure-prone techniques — e.g. you could rely on public information to convince most people that, for example, Barack Obama didn't pledge allegiance to ISIS at a public rally but most people aren't going to have enough rock-solid documentation to prove a negative. If an attacker said that politician X was having an affair in hotel room it'd probably seem convincing to many people unless they screwed up and left proof of e.g. using stock footage, landmarks from a different city, wrong time of year, etc.
Still predicted by classical economics. Zoning laws change the elasticity of supply. Housing in a completely free market should have relatively high elasticity; if the price is too high, build more! Zoning laws artificially constrain the supply and so create a monopoly/oligopoly situation, which is what allows owners to charge economic rents beyond the marginal cost of producing more housing.

Similarly, the local sublet/taxi regulations that AirBnB/Uber bypass artificially constrain supply, allowing owners of properties or taxi medallions to charge economic rents. Bypass them and you get a competitive market, where owners of houses & cars can charge only the marginal cost of use (and instead, AirBnB and Uber get to charge monopoly rents).
I am Hindu, and I have no idea how you got this off track. See https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/2001_Cen... for religion, and this map for GDP per capita https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Indian_s... . The first map seems to have zero correlation, while second at least a little.
I was under the impression that gender equality in Chinese society is much better than the west in some respects, espescially the amount of women in STEM.
I don't think it's doable on a Dom/css in a meaningful way as the semantics are too different.

But a webgl canvas id doable and I think what they are aiming for. Which would be great for QML.
As I understand it, the grandparent's argument is that earlier on in history, wars (and violence in general) would cause a reduction in the percentage of males. For example[0], in Soviet Russia following WW2, the ratio of young men/women dropped to 0.7. And that given that the China and India are more peaceful now (for various reasons), this violent force does not come into effect.

I don't understand how your response is relevant to the above argument.

[0] https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/2007_820-4g_Brainerd1.pdf
Yes, but theoretically Electron apps could use the browser. (I think Google killed that option though.)
You posted a link to gender gap index (access to health, jobs etc), not birth rate.
That's a great question, and I'm going to sidestep it a bit by saying I think the limiting factor isn't technology.

95% of the projects I've worked on have been some fairly simple permutation of ETLs, CMSs, and ops -- all of which are sufficiently constrained problem spaces that we've got good systems for them which work well without the need for Turing-complete programming languages.

But as long as we're constrained by legacy codebases, overly complex third-party APIs, and the need to maintain business models, we're not going to be able to make things as simple as we know they should be. It's not just services: I've got 100 legacy file formats on my disk, and they mostly are completely different and require different tools for no good reason.

I've wasted many months (years?) of my life figuring out how to plug the API from service X into the API for service Y and put the results on a simple webpage, with some CSS that a designer gave me. That's not the sort of thing that ought to require a Turing-complete programming language. It's almost all accidental complexity.

Someday we'll sort this all out, and then maybe we'll go on to discover some other unexplored area where we need lots of (Turing) programmers, or maybe we won't, but that's beyond the inflection point. Our next 50% barrier isn't technical, and as long as we've got artificial socioeconomic barriers in the way, I can't guess what's after that.
>There's no simple way to determine what foobarfrobblizer does, where it's actually used in the app, what side effects it may perform when called, what dependencies it pulls, why it was included, and whether it could be replaced with something else that offers a similar API.

Isn't this an application issue? The manifest for each project should tell you that, it should be possible to build the dependency tree as a preview and see all of the metadata in aggregate.
Or maybe LabVIEW needs a better editor/IDE. I very quickly gave up with Franz Lisp on a VAX running Berkeley Unix not because of any deficiency in the language but because I had to use vi to edit it.

There have been only two languages (Prograph and Max) with any similarity to LabVIEW which have gained significant numbers of users, so the space of visual dataflow languages hasn't been explored enough to write them all off.

LabVIEW was designed in the 1980s when nothing similar to base it on existed, and various design choices were committed to which didn't work out well. In the following decades, many advances in language design took place or were widely adopted and would be difficult to retrofit to an language of that era.

I've only read about LabVIEW, but I have a fair amount of experience designing another visual dataflow language, Full Metal Jacket (http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/FMJ.html).

In Full Metal Jacket's IDE, opening a function definition is done by right-clicking on its vertex (rectangle); connecting an output of one vertex to an input of a second vertex by dragging the mouse cursor in its general direction and releasing or, if the the second vertex is absent, right clicking on the output and dragging the vertex from another window. Hovering over a vertex displays its documentation string, hovering over inputs or outputs displays their types.

I adopted some ideas from functional programming languages - simple syntax from Lisp along with Gabriel's MIT approach, strong static typing with type inference from Haskell and ML, tagged data and a few other ideas from experimental dataflow hardware (I knew the people involved in this both at Cumbernauld and Manchester); and some vocabulary from graph theory. It was obvious to me very early on that there was no way anyone could honestly market dataflow languages at people who don't consider themselves programmers. Not only do you still need to design algorithms, you have to think in a completely new way.
That link shows Laotians and Cambodians at a significant disadvantage.
I don’t think that chart means what you think it means. In any case can you clarify your comment? 550 females per male?
You mean too few women?
Well for one thing, they aren't the primary source.

For another, reinvesting into the business lowers your tax burden.