skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of copy-paste condo farms here in the Minnesota suburbs. You can easily wander into a neighborhood full of a few hundred physically identical duplexes.

Ugly as sin, but they're cheap housing.

edit: I'll go farther than this. My own house is over 100 years old, in a "bungalow neighborhood" of Minneapolis. Most of the houses were built over a period of a few decades, with more or less the same design. There's a T structure, leading to three sections on the first floor. The entrance is a living/dining area separated by an arch, on the other side of the back wall is the kitchen, and on the other side of the interior side wall is a hallway leading to two bedrooms and a bathroom. They're all like this. And these were built by hand, with the most sophisticated factory parts being two-by-fours and hinges. They might have a porch, or an extension (my house has a back extension built in the 1950s), and the attic might be finished into a single room, or even expanded into multiple rooms with a large dormer. Many/most have been modified over the years. But the basic form? Consistent as a pup tent.

These things are the result of available technology. The bungalows are a product of factory-made nails, which made balloon frame construction viable. In the South, you'll find shotgun shacks, which are what happens when you build a bungalow but don't need or want a basement.

This is nothing new. My neighborhood might look varigaeted, but it's not.
> The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society

Aside from my debilitating addiction to HN, I don't use social media. I have a job, family, large circle of friends, and all the usual attachments to society. I vote and love to debate politics with pretty much anyone interested. How exactly would my attachment to society be improved by more social media? If HN went away tomorrow, would I no longer be a part of society?

I have found fruitful, enjoyable political discussion and social media to be more or less incompatible. Twitter and Facebook work great for the purpose of "rallying the base." Tweeting or sharing the latest polemic showing all your friends how truly liberal or conservative you are doesn't do much to bring in converts. But the political bases in the US are quickly approaching max rallied-ness. From here on out is the actually difficult tasks of changing hearts and minds, and that doesn't happen on social media.

If you care about politics, the further you get from social media the better.
Calm your horses (sorry, couldn't resist).

I made no argument comparing Amazon to Cognizant, or anything else. My only comment was on how Prime is not a "high-profile" project at Amazon.

You brush aside the issues I mention as "all software has issues". My point was to show the quality of the product, unlike the actually good technical products that Amazon has, not that the product has issues.

You seem to be emphasizing the distinction between the backend service and the frontend players. Given that Amazon owns AWS, I'd go out on a limb here and say building the backend they already have is not a challenge. I'd also like to point out that a poor technical product built by the Amazon Bangalore doesn't reflect well on Amazon Bangalore, and the frontends are indeed poor technical products.

> AJAX-based chat application that does not work on anything other than IE in Cognizant?

I think your claim that the likes of Cognizant cannot build things beyond IE-only AJAX-based chat apps hyperbole.

> Why do you think Amazon pays 4 times the salary Cognizant pays its employees?

Making no claims about the relative skill-levels of Amazon and Cognizant employees, I must argue, from first-hand experience with clients' tech teams, the notion of 'higher pay must mean higher skill' is wrong, especially in the Indian IT sector.
Hi Rand, thanks for sharing this post, and thanks for the transparency!
Predictable levels of organic material then.

I understand why they are doing it I just don’t think this one was very appropriate title, especially considering the content and the average “layman” who will read a NASA press release directly.
You appear to be suggesting that the government should be able to compel corporations (and thus their employees, ie. normal people) to work on military technology.

That sounds antithetical to a lot of freedoms that we hold dear as Americans.

>I would argue that the public should be especially wary of 'global' corporations such as these (Facebook is another one) that suddenly grow a conscience when it suits them.

How do you mean? To paint this in a very cynical light, the sequence of events here was

Google does a thing. Then, many Google employees threaten to quit over that thing (among a bunch of other potential downsides). So, Google agrees to stop doing the thing

Is "Google changes its policy to maintain its workforce" something that you should be wary of? That seems like reasonable corporate governance.

On the other hand, you can paint this in a much less cynical light, where the sequence was

Google does something that is potentially antithetical to its values. Employees object to this thing, claiming that it really is antithetical to those values. As a result, Google reaffirms its values and makes them more explicit, promising not to do the thing.

In other words, a very anti-google view sees this as a move for retention, and a pro-google view sees this as a reaffirmation of the "conscience" (read: values) that Google already had. I don't see how your worries apply here.

(Am a Googler, but that isn't particularly relevant to this post)
Pay someone from another country to do KYC for your address.
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> All that pouring and sawing and drilling and slathering of raw materials to do one-off designs for houses that are then filled with standardized ikea furniture which fits the custom room shape poorly.

Well, IKEA does have a joint venture with a construction company to make prefab apartments.

https://www.boklok.com/about-the-BoKlok-concept/
https://medium.com/@bartholomewhearn/the-flat-pack-taken-to-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwvvcgoHC9w

> Manual labor is too costly for such a bespoke approach.

Not in the US were there are always people willing to swing a nail gun to feed thier family.
Give them a break. Based on how much it cost to buy a house in the Bay Area, I don't blame them. /s
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I still don't understand how roughly the same people can do so well at the GDPR and at the same time screw up so badly on this copyright stuff.

I mean, sure, GDPR isn't perfect but at its core it's a pro-citizen thing that has some decent vision behind it and had to resist a lot of corporate lobbying to make it through. This copyright bill seems to be the opposite in every respect.

If anyone can explain to me how the same organizations can do both these things at about the same time then I'd love to learn :-)
Or https://opencollective.com/
Probably because "machine learning" is a more accurate naming while "artificial intelligence" is the buzzword for non-tech people. There’s nothing "intelligent" in machine learning.
You don't understand, the body that enacts these regulations enacts them on the basis of cost savings. It's the California Electricity Commission:

http://www.energy.ca.gov/efficiency/savings.html

There is no net new cost, overall, this is all win, and if it were not, the standards would not be allowed to be set. In particular, on average, the CEC found $80 of savings on $40 of finance cost:

http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2018_releases/2018-05-09_b...

Now, you seem to be implicitly assuming that if this cost savings were true, it would already be done by builders and consumers. However, human behavior is sticky. Even though this is a good idea now, it takes people a long time to realize that.

Witness all the people in this thread that seem to doubt it's not a cost saving measure. Even taking a small peak at the cost of solar should reveal how much of a cost saving measure solar is in California. Even residential, which has high labor costs, and where 30% of the cost of an install goes to customer acquisition costs. For new large builds, that customer acquisition cost goes away, so it becomes an even better deal. And you've already got people on roofs, building them, so it becomes yet an even better idea.
The majority of the houses in my neighborhood are older than 50-80 years. Mine is close to 80 and doing just fine.

A house should last 150 years at least, provided it's maintained.
> It's a public standard that they're setting for themselves.

They already had a public standard that people actually believed in for a good many years: *Don't be evil."

They've been palpably moving away from that each year, and it's been obvious in their statements, documents, as well as actions.
That's only because its a crime striking those laws down and removing them from the military system - would reduce the attack surface for bad actors trying to suborn people in to betraying the USA.

Likewise having a spiff 18 months ago at burning man or glasto isn't really a huge risk to security if its not a crime - would also help with recruitment for TLA's
I work in a Climate and Energy R&D group, so while I agree it would be great if nuclear power was resurrected (being safer and cleaner than any other form of power, solar included, despite its representation in the media), it very likely will never happen--purely for economic reasons.

Ironically, it's wind and solar that finished off nuclear power. Renewable energy has high variability in supply, but sells power at zero marginal cost. That means grid demand becomes highly variable during the day.

Nuclear (and coal) are both systems with high capital costs and very low marginal cost. To be cost competitive, they both need to produce power 90%+ of the time to amortize the initial capital. However, with the current variability in demand, they can't get anywhere close to 90% demand from the grid.

This leaves a market opening for peaker plants with very low capital costs, notably natural gas and hydro in the US. Hydro is saturated, and combined with low-cost fuel due to the fracking boom, natural gas is exploding.

Basically, the net result of wind/solar is actually a wash, from an environmental standpoint. That will get better with HVDC interconnects (reduces variability of wind), but in general it is not happy outcome.
Great, another piece of "Don't be evil" with a new coat, and they can ditch it whenever they feel powerful enough to ignore society's feedback.

Such statement absolutely relieves the pressure came from the public, hence law makers. Can we make sure big companies are legally accountable for what they claim to the public? Otherwise they can say just whatever persuades people to be less vigilant about what they are doing, which is so deceptive and irresponsible.
I think you were trying to distinguish 'Facebook' (the company / management at / powerful rogue agents in / whatever) and 'SWEs at Facebook', without actually calling them different things. Those are very different things, and your parent was rightly referring to the former.
This is exactly the issue that should be stressed repeatedly. When a firm advertises itself as such, that values customers' privacy,etc etc. There should not be any logs, espeically if they make it their number one selling-point.

Regarding illegle activities, if there is a will strong enough that warrents Powers that be to track down something, one way or another, it will happen. No matter, how much one deludes himself into a sense of security. The idiot in the article shoudln't have been posting shit in a fucking irc channel to begin with.

Pardon my english, am very tired and not my mother-language.
In developments where they build many identical houses, there is some re-use - the concrete forms used to build one slab are hauled down the block for the next one. Also, preformed wall framing is sometimes trucked in, as are roof trusses and other pieces.

So there's still a lot of pre-built components that are used when building multiple houses.
No numbers have been provided, so it just sounds like spin.
I'd be interested in hearing more about why Mars would be a bad place to find fossils?

We have found fossils from 3.5 billion year ago on Earth [0]. Assuming life formed and lived from Noachian - Hesperian periods what would prevent the conditions for fossilization happening at least one place over this very long period of time. I don't know much about Mars geology so what might be obvious to others may not be obvious to me.

[0]: https://news.wisc.edu/oldest-fossils-found-show-life-began-b...
So the only way for society to function is to keep the majority chasing after illusions? Seems pretty dystopian. Is there no way to have realistic expectations from life?
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> I'm a Java+Python fan boy in all their incarnations.

Yet not mention of jython :)
Do you mean the paper work concerned with the days business or being able to look up information quickly before they speak in a debate?
I don't really think that this is the end of cracking. It is more of just the start of a new era of preservation. There is still a good amount of hardware out there like the CFFA3000 that doesn't support .WOZ images. Those will still require the cracked DSK files.
have you tried just tracking the her sleeps on a spreadsheet or similar? You might see a pattern emerge.

Had friends that did this. We never did, but after 3 kids and ~7 years of pretty consistently broken nights from one or other of the kids, I sometimes wish we did.

My only other advice would be to take turns with the other parent to give each other a break. Whether it be week on/week off or night on/night off, and may involve someone sleeping in another room to get away from the disruption.

I optimistically think a good night's sleep is just around the corner. Cultivating feelings of love and patience is well worth the effort.

Having kids that don't sleep well is a special kind of torture, I can see how it would break some people.
It can if you rebuild it afterwards, but obviously that is not the intent of the current administration.
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Yup. Most studs and beams were made of far better would than the short growth wood we have now. Heck, there are firms that specialize in recovering old wood from barns and factories since the wood is so much denser, and the size is simply unavailable elsewhere.
I've always been surprised by how expensive Princeton is even though short drives in any direction can be much cheaper

AAA estimates the TCO of a car to be $8,500/yr: https://newsroom.aaa.com/auto/your-driving-costs.

Even if you're only "a short drive away," you then have to pay for parking on or near campus, which is likely dear: https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/19/15993936/high-cost-of-f....

Finally, commuting sucks: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/there-and-back... from a social and psychological perspective. People love living around other people who can they chat with and befriend; that's why current zoning laws prohibiting such developments are so pernicious.
Yes, I'm not disputing that at all. I'm just saying, in response to the parent, this kind of photography isn't really portraying how you look in reality
google has no moral or principles. how could it possibly have those things? how can a global advertisement corp. not be evil? it doesn't make any sense!
Im surprised she didn’t bought one herself it’s fairly easy usually to use an iPhone/Mac in a non-Apple environment the other way around is impossible because the native or exclusive solutions are quite good or at least entrenched enoguh to be used nearly exclusively.
>Imagine I wanted to have somebody killed and I hired a hitman to kill them and when I go to pay the hitman I accidentally wire the money to the wrong place and inadvertantly pay off the victims mortgage instead of paying the hitman. Now the victim doesn't die and gets their mortgage paid off. I'm not a good guy what I did is not a good thing, I just fucked up, that's all.

That's an odd analogy considering the the would-be conspirator didn't make a decision to not go through with it. Do you believe Google published this article by accident? And really; comparing Google's actions to murder... c'mon.
Off topic, is there a way to tag all the stakeholders of the main company/government mentioned in title/article?
How long ago did you interview with them? I have just started to get a first reply from them today (after submitting my resume).
Indigenous people in the Amazon are using drones to save their land
that’s already a giant number. if that’s the strategy they shouldn’t start the bidding with a giant number.
On this side of the Atlantic, we successfully blocked SOPA from becoming reality (so far).

Looks like it's your turn, EU techies.
> I legit feel as if some sort of new conception of government, nations, states, rights, is really needed. I don't know what but I'm all ears.

I think it's 'natural' that we need new social-tech. Taking an incredibly coarse view of history: Hunter-gather > agriculture > industrial > today (bio_genetic-digital-AI-climate_change). At each stage we had new social structures form, why should today be any different? If anything, this fill me with hope and wonder. I've no idea what the new stage is going to look like, but I know that I am going to see it. That's really cool. Hell, I'm privileged enough to maybe have a hand in making the new paradigm. Again, I feel really lucky.
Seems that you believe you possess the authority to judge the worthiness of someone else's metric...? Curious.
I don't understand, are you saying that writing a language parser is a litmus test that that only real programmers can pass?

What makes it so special compared to other tasks of similar difficulty?
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I can't imagine a world where anyone would care about their Reddit account karma. I periodically destroy any Reddit account I have to use as a matter of online hygiene.

(and yes, I destroyed the account I did an AMA on a while back as well.)
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I just made them up, off the cuff, which is what I meant to imply by "whatever."

The average estimated numbers are $80 of savings for $40 of finance cost:

http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2018_releases/2018-05-09_b...

If you consider it an "awful investment" then you simply not make the investment, let a solar company make the investment and do it through a lease instead, with zero upfront cost:

http://www.residentialsolar101.org/solar-lease

In any case it's absolutely clear that this move decreases the cost of a new house after 2020.
I just noticed the arm, and now it makes sense.
What a wonderful photo of it and Mars. Now my desktop.
on this one. 90% of desktop PCs are running Windows.
I can see how reading my comment in isolation would be confusing.

Specifically, I was answering the question "Why not just use a USB drive"
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Two years ago there was an Autopark accident that made the news. Tesla blamed the driver -- very effectively.[1] But if you look closely, it likely was due to an unexpected OTA change in behavior combined with poor UI design.

In the accident, the driver double-tapped the Park button which activated the Autopark feature, exited the car and walked away. The car proceeded to move forward into an object. The driver claimed he merely put it in park and never activated the auto-park feature. Tesla responded with logs proving he double-tapped and there were audible and visual warnings.

Well, I looked more closely. Turns out Tesla pushed an OTA update that added this "double-tap Park to Autopark" shortcut. And it's one bad design decision after another.

First, let's note the most obvious design flaw here: The difference between instructing your car to immobilize itself (park) and instructing it to move forward even if the driver was absent (Autopark) was the difference between a single and double tap on the same button. A button that you might be in the habit of tapping a couple times to make sure you've parked. So it's terrible accident-prone design from the start.

Second issue is user awareness. Normally Tesla makes you confirm terms before activating new behavior, and technically they did here, but they did it in a horribly confusing way. They buried the mere mention of the Autopark shortcut under the dialog for "Require Continuous Press".[2] So if you went to turn that off -- that's the setting for requiring you to hold down a FOB button during Summon -- and you didn't read that dialog closely, you would not know that you'd also get this handy-dandy double-tap Autopark shortcut.

Third is those warnings. Useless. They did not require any kind of confirmation. So if you "hit park" and then quickly exited your vehicle, you might never hear the warning or see it on the screen that, by the way, that shortcut that you didn't know existed just got triggered and is about to make the car start moving forward while you walk away.

So I think it's quite plausible that the driver was not at fault here -- or at least that it was a reasonable mistake facilitated by poor design. It's unfortunate that Tesla was able to convince so many with a "data dump" that the driver was clearly at fault.

I still recall that poor NYT journalist that Tesla "caught driving in circles"[3] -- while looking for a hard-to-find charger at night. Now I hope we are developing a healthier skepticism to this (now standard) response from Tesla and look more deeply at potential root causes.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/11/11658226/tesla-model-s-su...

[2] https://youtu.be/Cg7V0gnW1Us?t=2m10s

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/02/14/teslas-g...
You raise an interesting point. What makes Google the corporation better than males under 26?

If you believe in corporate personhood, then Google, Facebook are definitely villains --- avoiding taxes, running ads from enemy states etc, while maintaining a shroud of secrecy and non-accountability --- positively treasonous acts if committed by a person. If you do not, then what right is violated by making corporations subject to the Selective Service Act?
That was the kind of thing I was thinking of. One video stream someone encrypted so any one of X people could decode it.
Well, what's wrong with that? Knowing I walked passed the governor of new york doesn't even register. What should I feel?
> They aren't going to go after retail investors

I work in the securities business. We once had someone send in a suspected altered document. Their state AG was notified, the U.S. Treasury and Homeland Security were notified, the SEC and FINRA were notified, and then we got some questions from Interpol, in Europe, and the UK's financial crimes investigator (through federal law enforcement). Fraudulently opening a securities account rings red-hot alarm bells because the automatic suspicion is nobody would be that brazenly stupid unless their expected pay-off was huge, i.e. terrorism or large-scale money laundering.
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Liquid Haskell is probably the closest to Idris in its goals:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Liquid_Haskell
3 antitrust cases in the EU (Shopping, Android, and Adsense), and a couple of FTC antitrust cases im the US (one of which Eric Schmidt lobbied away through Obama) say otherwise.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/18/google_had_obamas_e...

If that's supposed to be "our best", we're in trouble.
Both GDPR and this new proposal are pro big internet businesses, and anti small businesses & community run organizations. Both increase consumer annoyance. And both will likely in the end not help consumers with privacy or otherwise.

It seems like the same group could definitely be responsible. I see no contradiction.
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I loved the classes at first, but as I've got more in to it I've found that classes and prototypes are redundant. Closures let me maintain all of the state that I need without the extra boilerplate.