skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But talk to just one individual who’s gotten stuck (or even chosen to stay) in an expensive home they couldn’t afford, and all that Econ 101 vocabulary starts to fall short. Or at least, you’ll find fairly quickly that no one’s housing decisions are governed neatly by the laws of supply and demand in the housing market alone. And that's because all of us — as consumers and as human beings — are part of infinite markets with infinite feedback loops, not all of which are easily predictable.

I struggle to understand why people who argue for rationality, i.e., people who I know are very very smart and extremely rational, turn around and expect rationality from populations.

I've talked to highly intelligent bankers who are surprised when a market turns volatile/irrational, doctors who can't comprehend why their patients make irrational/poor health decisions, teachers who have difficulty accepting the disconnected nature of students whose very future depends on them doing well in a given class. Politicians who have this expectation that people will not break the law, or pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or whatever other things that require rigid rationality.

Maybe it's a problem with empathy? Of "putting yourself in someone else's shoes?" Maybe it's not even possible for extremely intelligent, relatively rational people, to adopt the mindset of people who (by choice, culture, or means well outside their control) live more emotional, instinctual lives. Even more insidious is when these exact people fail to recognize the irrationality present in themselves, inherent to the fact that they're human.

When I studied Anthropology, I'd even come across professors that didn't necessarily believe that human culture is irrational / arbitrary. There may be traits that continue to exist because natural selection promoted them (a religion that resisted the eating of pork and promoted evangalising happens to survive through dark ages because nobody is getting stomach parasites and because it replicates), but there's nothing inherently rational about that.

TLDR my big word-salad rant -> I strongly believe, and have horded anthropological evidence to support this belief, that humans at scale are completely irrational, and to expect otherwise is foolish and irrational. One should plan for irrationality.

Obviously moving away when rent is too high is the "right" choice, the "rational" choice, but being human is just too messy for something as simple as that. Like the article says, there are just so many reasons that get all tripped up, some rational, some not, all just as powerful an influence on a human "decision tree" (again, too logical a structure to describe human choice-making).

I made such a dumb long post because I want to be challenged on this. If you take the time to reply with why you disagree with me I will be very grateful.
Unless you want to have square footage and not have roommates.
The word game can be extremely broad. Life is complex enough that an individual can select their own rules and conditions. There is no activity involving choice and constraints that I can unsee as being fundamentally a game.
That's what happens when you refuse to be assimilated.
That he's not very good at turning a profit doesn't take away from the fact that he engaged in copyrigth violation as part of business, which tips it into a criminal offence.

I agree that the US system is fucked up when it imprisons people who haven't committed violent crime.
Wrote a cross-exchange arbitrage cryptocurrency trading app looking at hundreds of pairs and 5 exchanges. Dead in the water - transaction times too slow, APIs too unreliable, etc.

EVEN if none of that was an issue, legal transaction limits make it impossible.
Maybe a subtle difference here is that a page doesn't get to block on anything before it gets closed.

So how is creating a nursery that matches the lifetime and visibility of the page different from not using a nursery at all?
Nginx struggles at basic stuff like load balancing to microservice backends because of trivial stuff like DNS caching when running inside container orchestration platforms

https://serverfault.com/questions/240476/how-to-force-nginx-...

With the new ingress in Kubernetes & lets encrypt plugin, you probably do not need nginx anymore, if you're adopting containers. In fact, it can be a hindrance to adopting container orchestration systems.
> UB only licenses the program to do anything if it is reachable.

That's true, but it doesn't help much.

> Do you think this program can "do anything" or "re-write any part of itself"?

Yes. Not for all inputs, but yes.

> this program can only "do anything" if the user enters "y == 0".

Nope. There is at least one other input value that produces UB.

And this is exactly the problem: even on a trivial example that you contrived, you cannot fully enumerate all the circumstances that produce UB. For real programs, the situation is hopeless.
Notice that this article was published in year 02014 (following Long Now's style.)

Has there been any further work on this project?
Depending of where in Milpitas and Sunnyvale there are some nice bike routes. 10 miles isn't a big deal to bike, especially if you go for an e-bike (and with this latter option it should be less than the time it takes to drive and you don't get your anger worked up for being stuck in bumper to bumper traffic).
Apart from a few apps that are App Store exclusive, I install everything on my Mac using Homebrew and Homebrew Cask. I highly recommend it to anyone who has not used them before.
Singapore does this. Their health care costs are significantly lower than the USA.
Wouldn't the unreferenced Future, once fulfilled, be garbage collected?
granted im working with a small sample size, but i live in NYC and everyone know that commutes in, and i mean everyone, drives to a train station and takes a train it, parking in midtown as high as 600/month, it makes no sense to actually compute it.
About taking it to far; there is a good article at ted about the right way of being introspective[0]. I highly recommend it.

The summary of it is ask what questions not why questions.
"Asking “why?” in one study appeared to cause the participants to fixate on their problems instead of moving forward."

[0] https://ideas.ted.com/the-right-way-to-be-introspective-yes-...
> Canadian banking is a protected industry. It is fiendishly difficult to set up a new bank due to Canada's proximity to the United States and the fear that larger international banks will (eventually) swallow up the Canadian banking system.

That said, once you get there, the sorts of things you're allowed to do as a bank are pretty staggering (but this tends to lead to efficiency, and in turn stability).

Added: There is a golden path to becoming a bank under the Federal Bank Act these days, and it generally includes becoming a creditor first. Much of the process is about waiting for nearly inevitable approvals.
Red Hat and Canonical have achieved great success with a lot of remote workers. Heck pretty much the entirety of Linux and its ecosystem is remote.

All I hear is excuses and lack of willingness to work remotely, coped with lack of experience on how to make it work. From all sides.

The secret is following the procedure and working remotely even if the person is sitting next to you. (I don't mean get into a video chat if the person is sitting next to you) but:

- Procedures for idea exchange. You might talk to the person next to you or through a private PVT channel but make the ideas circulate.

- "Oh Slack/IRC/etc is distracting", do you know what else is distracting? My colleague next to me. Deal with those.

- Have good tools and follow procedures.
As a foreigner, Shenzhen is kind of a boring industrial city. That's probably why they chose Beijing which is equally as exciting as Shanghai in my opinion. As for pollution, they might both be pretty bad choices.
Ask HN: How to go from an agoraphobic solo founder to growing and leading a team
Using a throway but I’ve been participating in the HN community since 2010

I lucked out on a recent SaaS venture that hit product/market fit right away. It has been profitable since day one and is consistently growing every month.

Nothing massive but were in the mid 5 digits MRR and My ooperating costs aren’t too high and leave me with a profit margin of ~75% or so.

Despite the successes in some areas, I don’t think I have ever been so anxious and hopeless in my life as I am now. As more users sign up each day, I find myself feeling more burdened by the increased responsibility rather than elated that people are finding value in what I built. Emergency issues seem to be regular events and I find myself working 50+ hour shifts on the regular in order to get them handled. I and am just becoming totally burned out with it all. I find myself dreading checking email / slack / twitter because there is doubtlessly always more work waiting for me there. Equally, if I avoid it, the anxiety of it all backing up into a much larger job later doesn’t allow me to really even rest when I’m taking time away.

I realize that the answer is to figure out how to build out the team and spread the work around more evenly but then that puts me totally outside of where my skillset set and comfort zone are. The crux of the matter is that Im terrible at regular routine and consistency. I can happily work 20 hours a day for weeks on the codebase but then Ill crash and need a week or two of downtime. This doesn jive well with what our service and customers need as well as any future employees.

Is it just time to grow up and change who I am? Anyone been in this situation and found a good strategy for navigating this initial growth phase?

Ps - full-stack js devs who are interested in working at a growing company using bleeding edge tech. Contact me: throwaway_qwert@protonmail.com
Well, you are right, it is not really "formal verification".

But I don't know how to call it, and it is way more checked on some aspects (well, obviously, we are not talking about checking each program against a spec...) that the competition. And by that, I mean that the competition is actually not even trying...
Public school funding per child increased 33% from 1995-2015.

EDIT: This does appear to be inflation adjusted. Here’s a federal source which is definitely inflation adjusted showing funding increasing in real terms by 27% from 1995-2013. [2]

[1] - http://apps.urban.org/features/education-funding-trends/

[2] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_235.10.a...
How does this compare to other popular cities?

Because it seems like it's about as common to have 90+ minute commutes over here in London too. I know people who came from Cambridge to London (and back) every day. People coming in from all over the country is pretty damn common here, and a large percentage of jobs I've had in software engineering have involved commutes of this length.

See also:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38026625

Seems like an unfortunate side effect of a city with far more people than available/affordable housing, and one I'm not sure about the answer to.
My point was, for booting Raspbian, this is not needed.
Yep if I can't overcome the drag of long-term capital gains over several years I will pull the plug.
Sharing an apartment isn't "spartan", it's "normal"

It may be "the new normal" in the Bay Area and other hyperstressed markets.

But it's not a living standard most people aspire to.
Perhaps it is rooted in the role of fitness in biological evolution.
I don't know, Wikipedia might not be using the correct words. But if a life sentence is really always "without parole", then there cannot be parole hearings as such. Maybe "probation" would be another term that goes in the right direction...
We nowadays seem to bound very common and natural feelings under the term 'depression' that it's now become very ambiguous to actually reflect about the core issue.

Psychodynamic therapy look at the human mind has a very complex thing and take a holistic approach in order to help people gain insight about themselves (or, their-self's).

In contrast to CBT or other therapeutic interventions that are mostly about un-learning maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns, mastering new 'techniques' or repeating affirmations, psychodynamic therapy tries to help people gain self-awareness about the things that we usually never see but are always there. It's developed upon the work of Freud on psychoanalysis, but further advancing his core-ideas and take a more modern and refined approach.

Freud once said that the goal of therapy is to "transform neurotic misery into common unhappiness." What he meant by that is that there is a very basic truth that we all humans share - it's hard to be human. It involves a lot of suffering. Mostly what causes the suffering is hidden and we're unaware of it.

I highly recommend the book "Why Do I Do That?" by Joseph Burgo. It's a psychodynamic-based self-help book. Reading it was probably one of the best things I've done in my life. It allowed me to gain insight about myself, increased my self-awareness about the things I do and why I do them, allowed me to look into what motivates me in life and what holds me back.

One caveat: it's hard. I procrastinated on reading this book for months. It probably took me 8 months to read through all of it (and it's just about 200 pages, I think). But at the end I made myself read into it and really take in and follow the exercises, which I highly recommend to put yourself fully.

The author is highly empathetic, I almost developed father-like affection toward him while reading it. He guides you through it, and make sure to tell you that you're all right and help you through all the hard stuff. He makes a point that you might get procrastinated reading it and invite you to become aware of it and still keep on. You also gain an incredibly valuable knowledge about human nature, our human needs, and what happens when they're not met. I also started to see other people, in general, much more beautifully, how we are all complex animals that long for love and affection, and how our past is remarkably influential and shaped our lives.

All in all, whatever you do, I just want reassure you that you're alright.
I'm not worried with the competition from abroad.

Culture is an issue (both from the contractor and the hiring sides), quality is another (in some places).
"Machine Learning" by Andrew Ng, Standford

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
It's not off topic at all. YC is now literally working with the authoritarian dictatorship committing the above atrocities as well as committing more executions than any country on the planet. More than the rest of the top 10 combined. This is news.

As is the fact that you're suppressing comments on these atrocities, which are far more extreme and less frequently discussed here than very tired US political wedge issues you disable flags on. This behaviour is a gross abuse of power.

You and your fellow VCs will make a fortune in the next few years. But blood will be on your hands, and it will harder to live with than you imagine. You already realize it on some level, albeit a deeply buried one.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/92884/which-country-executes-the-mo...
This is called a Thinkpad.

I'm running Debian on a Thinkpad at work, this work great... except for a few points.

It's always a bit harder to integrate with the rest of the internal infrastructure:
* AD integration in your favorite email client to have auto-completion on emails is a bit tedious
* Exchange calendars are also annoying
* Mounting (and, first, finding) the windows shares can a bit tedious
* Password renewal is not integrated that well

It works, but it takes a few hours to figure out and configure.

And sometimes you are just stuck with Windows/OS X because of a specific piece of software (for example in my case, the video conferencing tool we are using). I never used a truly Linux only environment in professional context, I always had a Windows VM also.
Browsing the featured added by SQL standards on Wikipedia:

SQL:2003 added XML functions

SQL:2006 more XML!

SQL:2008 XQuery!

SQL:2016 JSON!

My guess it's not so much "willy-nilly" but more a sign of "what was popular."
CA is the most desirable geography in the USA. The homelessness problem isn't because CA is trendy. CA has been the destination for the USA's disenfranchised and opportunity-seekers for decades because it's the best place to start a new life and not die over the winter. That might be ending now that CA is "full".
You're likely correct, they probably did some a/b-like testing to see how high they could raise concession prices before profits from concessions began to drop.

What I think they failed to look at was the long-term effects overpriced concessions had on the ticket sales. Concession prices have absolutely contributed to the long-term decline in ticket sales. I know lots of people that stopped going to movies because they knew their kids/SO would want that $15 drink and popcorn.

I only started going back when a theater that offered real food opened up. I won't pay $10 for a bucket of popcorn, but I'll definitely spend $15 on a decent burger.
We started Clockwise to address this problem, and this PG article was a major point of inspiration. (Looking through the comments, that seems to be a trend!)

We just launched a private beta of Clockwise for Chrome, which helps automatically put more maker time on your team's calendar. It's free and we'd love everyone's thoughts. Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to hop the line: matt@getclockwise.com

https://www.getclockwise.com/product
I would have preferred a word.

const my_arrow_function = arrow_function(){}

arrow_function my_arrow_function(){}

arrow_function(){}
A key part of how options premiums are priced is the expected, or implied volatility (IV) of the underlying (the stock/future/whatever). Therefore you can be an options seller (selling calls and puts) to get high premium, expecting that before the options expire, the IV of the underlying will decrease, making it more likely you can keep the credit received from selling those high-IV priced options. It can also be historically shown that the IV for any underlying is about 75%-80% of the time overestimated, in which the price of the underlying turns out to not be as volatile as what was suggested by the IV.
I agree with all your points.

But consider the costs of that colocated time. 3 hours out of a worker's day is a lot - they could either do more work (boo) or be less stressed while they work (yay) without that commute. They'd also have fewer sick days (colds don't do TCP).

And the flip side of serendipitous conversations is distracting chatter. Which one affects productivity more?

Oh yeah, and office space costs a lot.

Remote work isn't all roses. But colocation is extremely expensive. The question is whether it's worth it.
From a language design perspective, fat arrows make parsing unnecessarily complicated because you cannot distinguish "(a, b, c)" from "(a, b, c) => ..." without looking ahead or backtracking. Certainly not difficult to solve, but this choice makes extending arrow syntax more difficult and the fact that a production called `CoverParenthesizedExpressionAndArrowParameterList` exists in the language grammar is a pretty ugly IMO
I love pattern matching, but find libraries with sugar or unintuitive APIs hard to navigate. I built Rematch[1], which I hope avoids those two issues.

[1] https://github.com/jiaweihli/rematch
"cars' lives"

Every car at the moment contains a person. Objectifying people so it is easier to hate on them is not nice. People should realize by now that it is not just privileged rich assholes that drive cars. A well working personalized point-to-point transport system (cars plus roads) can save the person working 70 hours a week at two low paying jobs much precious time.
https://twitter.com/_manishshahi_
I'd also argue none are as important as JS. People can choose to not use Ruby, Python or C++, but if you're doing web atm you're pretty much stuck with JavaScript.
Is there demand for a tricorder app? Sounds like a cool weekend project
> When people talk about religious tolerance in the US as an issue, they usually are referring to letting white evangelicals get their way politically and culturally.

It's more that people are concerned that they will have to be closeted in polite society. I think there's anecdotal evidence to support that concern. See the recent New Yorker piece about Chic-Fil-A "infiltrating" NYC. Infiltrating it with what? Sandwiches? No, it's about the conservative Christian owners setting up shop in NYC.

It's analogous to a scare piece about Chinese investors buying up American companies or Muslims converting a church into a mosque. Nothing in the article describes is outright objectionable, other than them.
I feel like if you were to build a skyscraper full of condos and apartments in downtown SF, you could get massive rents from it. Especially if you were the only one doing it. The only problem would be if everyone was doing it. I guess nobody has the money to buy a building in downtown SF, and anybody that owns a building in downtown SF doesn't want to tear it down and lose the cashflow for a whole year or so.
It's probably all because of PHP. Over 90% of PHP apps were built on Mysql (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla). And you know, WP alone powers like half the websites on the internet. Sad reality.
Some people are actively working on formal verification for Rust. The RustBelt project is the first that jumps to mind. A paper and some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16302530
Perhaps, but then there is no reason to bring up what other countries are doing except to say that they are doing something. But again we are back to trying to figure out how to make healthcare more affordable.

I think that both we and everyone in this discussion can agree that what we are doing now is not working and is unsustainable. We are just arguing over the best way to fix it. I personally believe that easy (cheap) money makes things unaffordable where is seems everyone else wants to spend or devote more tax dollars to an already broken system. I would just like to fix the root problem and not the symptoms.
Could you elaborate ? I think the only difference is readability, where I favor if-statements over expressions.
It is much easier to compare airline tickets than hospitals/medical procedures. The worst case scenario for choosing wrong in the first case is a flight you're uncomfortable on and overpaid for.
Agreed. For example: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/chick...
The people that used to hang around /r/incel are now spending their time elsewhere on the net.

https://twitter.com/ArshyMann/status/988818797086871558
Towards Secure System Graphics: Arcan and OpenBSD
Ilya Sutskever Talk on Neural Networks, Meta-Learning and Self-Play
Would you be willing to "split the difference" on your commute if they allowed working at home? Instead of driving 2 hours a day, you'd work an extra hour every day?

Maybe if it was structured like this then it would be more win/win.