skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is that there's some super-intelligent strategy at work here but it must be kept secret in order for it to work.

This is literally baseless nonsense.

America has a single goal that is beyond transparent: prevent the rise of Chinese apex-technological manufacturers. Everything was okay when China was making shoes and Christmas lights but now they're fabricating increasingly sophisticated computer chips [0], producing more electronic cars than the rest of the world combined [1], and kicking out all sorts of fancy 5G telecom equipment that does more but costs significantly less than what Western manufactuers can offer [2].

The "strategy" here is too little and far too late. Trump's only victory here will be, like so many other victories, purely symbolic: his base might get riled up and support him for taking on the "Chinese" who "stole" all their jobs... but China's competitiveness here won't be affected. Cutting off Americans from China's competitive electronics will just drive up prices in America and make American companies less competitive on the global market. The rest of the world (the other 7.3 billion on the planet) absolutely love China's cheap but capable electronic products. The only thing at this point that will actually stop China's growth here is literal bombs and tanks.

[0] http://mckinseychina.com/whats-next-for-chip-makers-in-china...

[1] https://nextshark.com/china-now-makes-electric-cars-every-co...

[2] https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/mobile-net...
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> Also I will deliberately take control when I see that the car will have difficulty because, for instance, the lane markings have disappeared or there is an oncoming vehicle that is straying close to the centre line.

It's as though you're a driver assistance package for Autopilot, to take control before it can make mistakes, or when it's getting into trouble that it doesn't know about.
Yeah... why would you be able to rent a 2BR house on minimum wage. More like a shared room in a house.
From my understanding of cyberpunk, AI isn't really an essential ingredient. Cyberpunk feels very human.

AIs are either of the "weak" kind, like a robot guard being able to recognize and attack intruders but not much more, or the indistinguishable-from-human kind of Blade Runner replicants. The intelligent but definitely not human kind like HAL from 2001. The kind I tend to think of when talking about AI-based stories don't seem to be that common in the cyberpunk genre.

We do see a lot of things like mind uploading, brain augmentation, people losing their humanity to technology, etc... but it is always centered on the human mind.
Baloney, unless you're using corporate resources to get it done, they don't own work you do outside of working hours. No judge would ever uphold that. There are tons of Google / Facebook / whatever employees that build software outside of work.
When two elephants fight, many ants die. There is no precision guided ammo in trade wars. Its brute force!
"so you would end up punishing firms that are otherwise innocent"

That's exactly what the current tariffs do. So I guess if it's too much work to vet individual firms, we just lazily start a trade war? Again, for this administration, sounds about right.
Hey, thats only because I have the long hair and beard everyday. Nobody appreciates the subtlety of the Stallman costume I wear year round.

Joking aside, while I see what the author was getting at I think it's a little unfair considering how prominently her face and brows are featured in her own work. Kahlo CHOSE that as her icon [0].

[0]: https://www.sartle.com/artwork/my-nurse-and-i-frida-kahlo
Yeah because this short concept video surly is the final version.
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If manufacturing moves elsewhere and a few million already disgruntled Chinese are out of jobs, Chinese government has big problems. Their impotent threat towards the US ag industry is also laughable when we produce 40-50% of the worlds soybeans and corn. Increasing food prices for the millions of unemployed workers is surely a winning strategy

Cheap labor is plentiful, there's only one US consumer market. China has no leverage here.
Any chance you could move out of the state? If you have 15 years experience then the valley or Texas would be a better way. Granted 400 usd doesn't net you a shoebox, but if nothing else sleeping in a car in California is a lot nicer than in colorado and it should put you closer to the jobs.
And if you subdivide those places just the right way you can have the top 45 most expensive places also be in the Bay Area.

I mean, it is to be expected so the title of the article doesn’t pack the punch it seems to.

In NYC and other places there are city blocks or neighborhoods that are the most expensive in the country, if you grouped by blocks.

This is called Simpson’s paradox
I'm fairly sure that high rents in Marin County are not driving homelessness up. And why the focus on minimum wage? Most people who are working minimum wage jobs live with another primary earner.
George R. Stewart, The Earth Abides (1949), Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818), On the Beach, John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar (1968) The Shockwave Rider (1975), and The Sheep Look Up (1972). John Christopher (Christopher Samuel Youd)'s Tripod trilogy (1967) and The Sword of the Spirits, George Orwell (Eric Blair) 1984 (1948), Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1931), Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962). Much of the work of Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick.

I'd gotten into this with David Brin a few years back on G+ when he was grousing that modern sci-fi is pessimistic in was the classics never were. He is wrong. Though happy stories do tend to sell better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature
I started this as my 20% project many, many years ago. I since moved on to the Dart and now Polymer teams, but I'm very, very happy to see the project launch.

App Maker has been a huge force multiplier internally at Google. Hundreds of smaller internal apps, many catering to very specific business and HR tasks were created by non-engineers, often times by the owners of the process themselves. This self-determinism in custom software - not having to find and convince engineers to build something for you - is really important as software becomes critical to the long tail of business processes that have still been powered by paper, spreadsheets, emails, chat, etc...
I can't afford as many lawyers as Google can. Do you have examples of cases where a Google-style IP agreement was ruled unenforceable when someone was moonlighting on something that was in the same field of business as some other part of the company (but unrelated to their own day job)?
I'm suggesting the whole reason behind this "better admission system" is because they want to reduce the amount of Asians there. If you keep changing the rules for admission, you'll eventually find one which xyz undesired demographic can't compete in as well.

It's not the first time they've been discriminated against.

See : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-15/harvard-a...
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Any idea what the minimum RAM requirements of something like Open or NetBSD is?

I know that modern FreeBSD can boot to a single user process with something like 32M RAM on 32-bit systems with a very stripped down kernel configuration. 64M gives a little more breathing room. But those are both many orders of magnitude larger than 128kB.

It wouldn't surprise me if OBSD or NBSD can fit in a little less RAM, but it also wouldn't surprise me if they still need at least a handful of MB, i.e., 32-64x Retro's 128 kB.
Sure, I didn't mean it that way. I was referring to what I assume the down voters were thinking, but I wasn't very clear.
You don't get any bark without the real smoke.
What do you think makes iOS not Unix-like?

This isn't even a debate, iOS is widely recognized as being a Unix-like in the BSD family with Darwin (its base) and macOS (which it is essentially a stripped down version of) both being Unixes.
Part of why I don't use the Toronto UP link is:

- I didn't know it was completed and operating.

- Bulk of residential population is 30-45min+ subway ride from Union Station anyway, might have assumed people travel from their offices.

- If due to a subway delay I miss a flight because I only paid $15 and wanted to save $30, the savings doesn't justify the risk. The independent probabilities of unavoidable delays on each leg of journey add up, where in car there are alternate routes.

- Would consider taking train if it came with flight insurance.

- There is no clear signage at arrivals of where the UP line is, as signage favors limousines, then taxis, then pickup, etc.

- Any signage would need to include scheduling information as walking to train to find it's not running means never going back.

I supported the UP line in principle when they were talking about building it, but can see why their numbers aren't up yet.
Why does that seem unreasonable to you? Seems to me that there should be tons of places in this country where anyone would be able to afford to rent a small house. That literally none exist is pretty damning.
0% of world cup end up without any surprising game result. Which takes the probability of this prediction being right down to ... 0%. No AI can ever be useful here until it doesn't take into account the movement of the wings of the butterflies flying around the stadiums.
My boss asked me if I'd played around with VS Code the other day. I said "are you thinking about switching us to Macs?"

grumble
https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/fact-s...

"The 284 product lines being proposed will now undergo further review in a public notice and comment process, including a hearing. After completion of this process, USTR will issue a final determination on the products that would be subject to the additional duties.

USTR will provide an opportunity for the public to request exclusion of a particular product from the additional 25 percent duty. USTR will publish the details of this product exclusion process in a subsequent Federal Register notice."
>> he's honest with potential partners about being in an existing open relationship then the pool of women willing to date him evaporates

> I believe already having one or more lovers makes you much more attractive since the fact that those people chose you (among others) means you are probably a good choice.

Attractive to steal or attractive to share? That's an important and relevant difference.
I wonder if the processes are created for that purpose, or if that is just how they end up getting used.
> On google maps, UP is the only option shown when going from union to pearson.

I guess other people must be different, or maybe not since ridership is low, but I don't check google maps unless I'm the driver (renting a car). If I'm planning on taking a cab I won't even open google maps at the airport, so I don't believe that is the right place to count on raising awareness of UP (for out-of-towners at least).

But I do agree with your other point about why people who live in Toronto would rarely use UP... that explains that part of it.
There was a time when one could. The minimum wage was originally put in place to make sure a single wage earner could support a family.
I will watch the talk later.

However I can say yes, we are returning to those days.

Thanks to the thin razor margins you see OEMs now selling un-upgradable phones, laptops, tablets, 2-1, leaving the old desktop PC for a niche market that gets smaller every year, mostly targeted at gamers.

Also OEMs got envious of Apple as the surviving icon of those days, all of them want to be Apple of their market and sell experiences.
Probably not by choice though.
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Ya, I never use them for city driving. It is just that once a year cross country western trip where it comes in really handy.
you do realize that across the US there is nearly a hundred billion dollars of deferred maintenance to light rail lines used in most cities? Look at all the maintenance issues just with NYC subway system which is considered the best in the US. Plus they have the ability to provide rides for less than cost and recoup it by other means, taxes on unrelated activities.

I find this idea really odd that a private company is going to cut corners. The fact is it has been the public projects that have cut corners. A private company always has the incentive to stay profitable and cutting corners is not how you play the long term game. Unlike the public held transport agencies they cannot just ask for a bailout or tax increase
Sorry to hear you're getting hit by this! I wrote the Verge piece, and would love to talk to you about how this is affecting your business plans. Drop me a line at russell@theverge.com.
According to this: https://raesene.github.io/blog/2016/03/06/The-Dangers-Of-Doc...

mounting the socket readonly doesn't help.
For sharing code (even view code) between React Native and React web projects, also consider Microsoft's ReactXP project[1]. It is very actively developed and might be what you're looking for.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp
Now, some managers will come to you after their time constant elapses and say "I have an idea!" and recite your idea. You have to accept this.

LOL
There are signs all over the airport, there are signs and digital boards on the airports local shuttle showing which stop to get off for the UP Express etc... If you goto the airport website (www.torontopearson.com) it is displayed on the front page.

The reason it's receiving slow adoption is because of the price. Even after they reduced the fare you can still get a taxi or Uber directly to your door for a little more than the fare price (Uber and Lyft were recently granted permission for pickups directly from the airport).

Additionally because of the lumpy nature of air travel and the multiple commuting stops the UP Express can be packed during peak times. The last time I got off a flight from London and took the UP Express downtown there was standing room only and no space in the luggage racks for my bags.
The price of the rental is derived:

==========

Fair Market Rent (FMR) is typically the 40th
percentile of gross rents for standard rental
units.

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A. If you are at minimum wage, look for apartments in the 5th percentile, not a mid-range priced apartment.

B. Most minimum wage, one-income households only need one-bedroom apartment.

C. Or, get a roommate, rent drops in half.
Sure, but I don't think that's a practical solution. Also, tariffs like this aren't intended to harm individual businesses; the intent is to pressure the Chinese government, a government which directly supports and plays a role in IP theft and market manipulation. Why would the US spend an insane amount of resources to lessen the effect when the effect is exactly what they're after?
If, Else, or not
"We don't ever see video in the iPod's future. Nobody wants to watch movies on that small a screen."

"If you see a tablet, and it has a stylus, then somebody did it wrong."

Fairly strong statements, too.
only thing I don't like about Ruby is the "symbols". if there was a new language that copied everything about Ruby minus the symbols, I'd be all over it.

what is the reasoning for a language like Crystal to support symbols? i am under the impression that is just a relic of the past due to performance reasons but it is not the case anymore.
So the record companies got the same treatment as they gave their artists? Delicious.
Thanks for the share. I enjoyed this article and may be able to put some of it to work. I don't quite understand all of the negative responses.
> punishment for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of IP

I feel like its more the other way round...the American IP system is overly expensive and outdated, and should be reformed instead. The repercussions of this are felt most heavily on domestic industries too.
Playing with adaptive cruise's following distance can keep a driver engaged with driving situations while retaining the benefits of adaptive cruise. Not sure if there is an analogy for lanekeeping.
How do we know that

def fac(n): n < 2 ? n : n * fac(n - 1)

is the whole function? Maybe someone snipped

def fac(n): n < 2 ? n : n * fac(n - 1)
+ more stuff

One of the parentheses you have there come from having an unambiguous, complete, top-level form. We know nothing has been cut off; any characters after the last closing parenthesis are not part of this form. Curly-brace languages agree with this and do the same.

One level of parentheses comes from using a dialect which uses a variable definition and lambda to define a function, instead of having function-defining syntax like defun.

n < 2 ? n : n * fac(n - 1)

requires knowledge of the ternary operator and its precedence. Someone who has no clue about the ternary operator will not make heads or tails out of this. The Lisp is impossible to mis-parse, even by a programmer who doesn't know Lisp. You might not know how if works, but you can't miss the fact that (if ...) is a unit, which is enclosing four things: if, (= n 0), 1, and (* n ...).

You've loaded the readability dice by writing it on one line. To help with the readability issues in both languages, we can use multiple lines and indentation:

def fac(n):
n < 2
? n
: n * fac(n - 1)

(defun fac (n)
(if (< n 2)
n
(* n (fac (- n 1)))))
That is an acceptable answer, even if not a self-consistent one. Truly pleasant people would not have problems with the less socially adept ones.
Have fixed this, not sure what I was thinking.
“Asian horde”? Really?
> This seems like an unreasonably high standard for a single minimum wage income

Why should it be though?
A computer program that learns to “imagine” the world
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297472 elsewhere in this thread for why.
Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Q relevant?
Some Mac keyboards have two USB ports on them.
Waking up a couple of hours before starting my day, instead of just 1.
> Studies have shown grades and test scores are predictive of college graduation rates and grades.

College grades and graduation rates don't matter either though. Given that society has limited resources, we should be trying to give the best educations to those most likely to do stuff that contributes positively to society, not those who are most likely to spend their four years maximizing their GPA and those most likely to graduate.
Don't know about racial differences but there are absolutely cultural differences that probably correspond with race.
>The reason you don't want to do that is because the private enterprise wants to maximize its profits. There is nothing wrong with that but in order to do so they will cut corners where ever possible and do the absolute minimum for upkeep.

Government does this and when they do it it's much, much harder to hold them accountable. Look at the Big Dig or anything the MTA touches.

When a private company acts like this and the public notices there's at least the risk that some politicians will latch on to the issue (no politician ever lost public support by being tough on a company that was mistreating the public). When government is the wrongdoer it's needs to get incredibly bad before the other parts of government hold them accountable.
I have said this before in other topics when someone is getting fed up with their job and want to try their hand at making a company. Get the business started, running, profitable and automated (with humans, bots, or scripts) and then quit. Do not remove your major source of income which also happens to be your major source of investment and start the clock that runs until your bank account empties and you need to look for work again. It is not a good idea to kill your company's lifeblood.

The added pressure and energy drain from working on your own machinations while working a full time job pales in comparison to the added pressure and energy drain from working against the clock. In my case it became a source of depression and a constant demotivator when I realized I was running into roadblocks. You cannot foresee all of the difficulties you will run into, you cannot rely on stories of other entrepreneurs doing so. They are half truths and tell only the triumphant side of it, ignoring the failures of the hundreds or thousands of others who's companies made it only to the paper stage then died with a whimper, much less being in the spotlight of the medium and techcrunch and online news articles and forums. You're hearing about certain entrepreneurs solely because they're outliers, not the norm - they're a good narrative.

Keep your job. Make the product. Make connections. Get Customers. Then make the company. Not the other way around. If you're the one in a million already has the connections and skills to make it happen then more power to you but statistically speaking, you probably don't. You should acquire those qualities with gusto but also with prudence.

Good luck.
That's true but they aren't arbitrary decisions designed to make one area look bad for the purposes of an article. They are well-defined areas [1] [2].

> Q10. What does the term "HMFA" mean?

> HUD Metro FMR Area. This term indicates that only a portion of the OMB-defined metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is in the area to which the income limits (or FMRs) apply. HUD is required by OMB to alter the name of metropolitan geographic entities it derives from the MSAs when the geography is not the same as that established by OMB.

Specifically the top 3 are:

San Francisco, CA HMFA
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA HMFA
Oakland-Fremont, CA HMFA

[1] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il18/FAQs-18r.pdf

[2] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il18/area-definit...
Hyperloop-related Arrivo chooses Denver, but tickets to ride far off
Amazon, Microsoft, Uber paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative
The employee count is huge because of part-time store employees, not developers in engineering, which is a small fraction of total employees. [ disclaimer: was engineer at Apple for years ]
Well, more likely the companies making them will just move production elsewhere or go out of business. Components are big part of the cost of your average consumer device, and margins mostly aren't high.
I can't really speak for the rest of the state but, in the late 50's / early 60's, Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal army base ended up as the home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as many of the post WW2 German rocket scientists. I think that over the decades, the focus on aerospace & defense has simply snowballed as more employers and workers are attracted to the area.
Yes — rocket is still needed for circularizing burn (i.e, achieving orbital velocity).

(Which makes sense — if you managed to accelerate something to orbital velocity at sea level, it would (1) shed much of that speed before it actually reached a near-zero-atmosphere altitude and (2) burn up.)
So I wonder what the endgame is for Apple. Apple has for many years positioned itself as a maker of premium products. This strategy has worked well for them, as the margins tend to be a bit better at the upper end. The desktop market is drying up, the margins on laptops have deflated. What's the next step? What computer hardware can best make Apple money in the next five years?
I cannot remember a time when one minimum wage job was enough to rent a two-bedroom. I rented my first apartment, with roommates, in the 80's.
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