skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In addition to paying operating fees, Smith said the city wants the companies to provide multilingual customer service at all times, and to commit to addressing problems quickly. And like Ford GoBike — which currently has an exclusive contract with San Jose to operate a docked bike sharing program in the city — the city says scooter companies should be required to offer discounts to low-income residents and operate in what it calls “communities of concern.”

What a world we live in, where a company cannot operate as it would like to. As long as no one is getting hurt, why can't a company choose its target demographic? Where does it end? Do all movie theaters have to show films in all languages? Are Whole Foods and starbucks required to open discount price stores for the same goods in "communities of concern"?

I lived in San Jose for 5 years. I was flat broke, and living in a rundown 12-people-in-a-5-bedroom apartment, in the most violent and dangerous part of town. San Jose still has an immense amount of issues with drugs, violence, gangs, and a lack of pedestrian friendly streets. The city's priorities, much like San Francisco's, are laughably backwards.
Is there a chance you can point us to a code snippet of said cache algorithm, or elaborate a bit?

If it's simple and elegant in hindsight this insight might be interesting in other CS applications. Not cross sharing and reinventing wheels is a somewhat sad implication from the compartmentalization you mention.
Moving Day is an example of something I thought was normal but only realized was a local custom when I moved to another country.

Frozen thinly-sliced fondue meat (beef, pork, turkey) being available at any grocery store was another one. Fondue in a pot of beef broth is a popular dish for dinner parties in Québec since it scales no matter how many guests you have and each guest can eat however much or little they want. In the US the closest I can find is beef bulgogi from a Korean grocery store.

What are some examples of things you thought were "normal" until you moved elsewhere?
There are settings where LEM is inadmissible. A lot of important mathematics comes from importing some theory into another, e.g. the theory of topological groups. Knowing in fine detail what principles a proof relies on let's you know whether a theorem carries through for free or not.

It might fail if it absolutely must rely on LEM, but a weaker doubly negated version will still work. This might be a deep, important fact in some setting or another.

If anyone thinks constructivism is crackpottery, then they're just ignorant and it's only incidental if it hasn't impoverished their toolkit.
> By far the most typical thing is some potential employer sees your work and is like, "oh wow, he must be good to have made this—I can get him to write LOTS of CODE for me!!" but they'll use their knowledge that you value developing original ideas to lure you in, pretending they also care about your ideas, and then allow the memory to slowly fade as your new role doing totally vanilla software engineering solidifies.

I laughed. While I've never heard employer say that explicitly, it fits with my experience. Many employers seem to think solely about what a candidate can do for them and not in terms of what they can do for the candidate.

When phrased like that, the employer might say something like "But we have generous pay/benefits/whatever!", which just shows that they don't understand their problem. I'd gladly take a reduction in pay and benefits if it gave me more control over my work.

It might be worth asking a potential employer who claims to value your work to state in the employment contract that you can choose X hours per week for your own work. This would be a more formal way to test how serious a potential employer is about your work. Unfortunately few employers seem to be willing to make that deal, but after I finish my PhD I'll be asking.
If I ever rent out my place it will absolutely include the appliances (fridge, stove, dishwasher, washing machine) and probably some bits of furniture like bookcases, because it'd take a whole team of people working for half a day to get it all down 4 extremely tight flights of stairs, and that's half the depreciated value of it all right there anyway.
This is pretty great! This data is usually locked up in individual scraper-unfriendly county websites, sometimes behind a paywall, sometimes only by person, or even only by mail. And the data is often limited to parcel geometry, not building footprints.

The other option is to use 3rd party services to purchase or lease the data. This data can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the entire US dataset.
> The charming village centers and idyllic surrounding farms and forests in four historic towns,” reads the Trust’s statement, “would be permanently altered by a development proposal calling for construction of a new planned community in this rural part of Vermont.”

Disgusting. The proposed development would be so much more ecologically friendly than spreading those same residents around sprawling “idyllic” “villages.” Not to mention that I doubt many of those “idyllic” existing stuctures have modern levels of energy efficiency. I don’t know why the Trust hates the environment so much.
Worth noting that Stefan Bellof's Porsche 956 very probably had some restrictor plates or some such reducing how much air it could breathe in (its successor, the 962, usually did in race trim) when he set the old record. The 917/30 was probably the only Porsche that ever raced without significant technical rules in place designed to slow it down.

> The 919 Evo holds the Spa Record because the F1 record was done under all sorts of homologation restrictions. A sub-5 Ring time would easily be possible with a non-homologated F1 car similar to this unrestricted 919.

It's all about how much money you are willing to spend and how far you're willing to deviate from the tested racing formula, right? The 919 Evo is very fast but there are a few really obvious ways they could spend more to make it faster. I don't think they even re-geared the transmission for this track (he was hitting the rev limiter), and while they've changed some of the aero I think the powertrain was using retuned, existing stuff. It could be a much more powerful car. I mean, the gasoline side of the powertrain is a 2-liter four cylinder...
Very few people are really able to spot people with even quite blatant sociopathic/anti-social behaviours, they just fit too well into the stereotype of the able, charismatic, and successful.

In general, you will be the one in ten, or even a hundred that tend to pick up on these things.

It appears to be better to not call them out in public immediately, but build a trusted base of people who compare notes of their interactions, so that you can clearly expose the lies and all that comes with it. At least that is what has worked out in the few cases of really destructive/power hungry of this particular kind of bent I've heard about.

The way to avoid them seems to point in the direction of having all decisions and all dialogue regarding decisions within an organisation completely open. Not because it necessarily would reveal them, but because it's less fertile ground.
This doesn't surprise me, from the same stupid state that shut down a startup just for putting more buses on the road
Fuck off, you didn't even read the article.
Stop caring about the company and find a new job.
Ask HN: VC funded startup downsides?
I'm starting to question the whole thought process behind VC funded startups : take money -> grow fast -> get to a liquidity event so investors can make returns. VC funded startups are all about growth growth growth. I feel like there are serious downsides to this mentality :

- encourages failing quickly hence is a wasteful process

- almost always companies do desperate things to keep growing and changing, hurting users eg- reddit

- a steady state i.e zero growth but profitable existence is not encouraged. Such a state of existence is actively discouraged so it becomes : keep growing or die already. A lot of companies that could exist, make a profit and keep users happy instead just die.

- It's likely you give up some control over the direction of the company having to balance stakeholders, getting to a liquidity event, growing a business.

What are your thoughts? Here's a crazy idea : YC but for bootstrappers. Give each startup $120k and ask them to pay back 5X that once they become profitable. The most valuable thing about YC is the people, network and fellow founders. I think removing the VC factor should be considered, at least for a parallel program.
even compared to MuPDF? PDF.js is well known to be very slow, and even poppler is pretty slow compared to MuPDF.
> Technically you've started a trade war with everyone

That's incorrect. The US is in meaningful trade confict with only a few nations:

China, Germany, France, Canada, and Mexico.

While the EU operates as a whole for the most part on these matters, the conflict is overwhelmingly with Germany's extreme trade surplus.

Canada and Mexico are about NAFTA positioning primarily.

For one example, the US runs a vast trade deficit with Vietnam. So far this year there is a five to one ratio between imports and exports with Vietnam (in favor of Vietnam). For 2017, the trade deficit with Vietnam was so large it's equal to about 20% of their entire economy. The US is not starting a trade war with Vietnam, and isn't going after Vietnam as eg the EU. Do you know why? Strategic positioning. Vietnam is a valuable future and present offset to China on offshore manufacturing; to be used to debase some of China's regional economic hegemony and to build up more regional powers that the US can work with against China in the future.

Pursuing tariffs on steel and aluminum is legitimately about US national security. It's stupid to allow those industries to erode any further given their importance. You don't want to be dependent on Japan (5%) and South Korea (11%) for steel imports in the middle of a conflict with China and or North Korea. You don't want to be asking for steel from Russia (7% of steel imports) during a conflict with Russia.

Going after Canada is primarily about positioning for the NAFTA talks. Canada does in fact have some substantial barriers in their dairy and agriculture markets. The US by contrast has nearly the lowest agriculture tariffs of any nation. The trade conflict with Canada will ultimately be trivial and will be over shortly.

All other nations are universally allowed to shelter and protect all sorts of pet domestic industries, whether it's dairy or maple syrup in Canada or energy in Mexico, or practically everything in China. The US the only nation held to an entirely different standard.
Which other businesses will be forced to operate multilingually? Will mine?
They can work either way. One can have local clients/wallets, and cloud wallets. Local clients/wallets can be online or offline, and full (directly processing the full blockchain) or lite (relying on servers to work with the blockchain). One can also have exchange accounts, holding both cash and cryptocurrencies.
Try canceling your NYT account :)
But this is an entirely hypothetical weakness. Without at least one example of it happening in the wild, it may as well not exist.
It doesn't make any sense at all. It's not like we are living in Vienna or Paris. It's freaking California with Stucco walls and cheaply made buildings.
The market hasn't failed, it's perfectly possible to sell adult content online, it's just relatively more expensive.

"From the outside, it looks like this is a market failure that has no reason to exist other than institutional bias that is no longer grounded in reality."

I think you're being a bit naive there. Surely those companies would have no objection to tasteful nudity or educational content, but if you want to process actual porn you'll have accept a lot of seriously offensive content that you definitely don't want to directly associate with your brand.
Before submitting comments you really should stop and ask ... "Is this HN worthy?"

No, it is not.
Strictly weaker in a weak sense, every classically true proof can be translated into a correct constructive proof of a similar theorem that is classically equivalent. So is it weaker or is it more fine-grained? That's a philosophical question.
This sort of thing happens when people try to build large amounts of housing in the US pretty much anywhere. It's a strategic ploy to drive up housing prices, enriching landlords and homeowners at the expense of renters and young people.
Probably for a couple of reasons. One, an outsider, two Mormons, three it's different and upsets the local idea of how to live amongst nature.

Anyway, looks like a similar development experiment is still on schedule near Brigham Young in UT.
Game theoretical, I don't have a solution, but for the scoundrels they tend to have a different set of truths for everyone they talk to.

I think it should be possible to use this to at least limit the space the scoundrels can act within, maybe even limit it enough that the actions they inevitably does take become a net positive.

Would probably need a very tolerant user-base though, especially in the bug fixing phase!
The world operates on value judgements with scant information. I'm not sure why this is being dismissed as inferior.
This is what it means to oppose inequality. If we cannot all have something, no one can.
the story isn't as simple as "shut down a startup just for putting more buses on the road". it's that the local transit authority has a monopoly on public transport, so no other companies can compete. the logic for that is that otherwise, for-profit entities would only operate profitable routes, leaving distant/poor/low density areas unserved. by operating as a monopoly, the transit authority can subsidize the less profitable routes with the more profitable routes, ensuring everybody has service, not just the people who live near the profitable routes. a similar logic exists applies to the USPS, which has a monopoly on letter mail (except for express services).
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Uhhh, 'more homes' is absolutely the last thing any landlords want as it does the exact opposite of 'driving up home prices'. Especially given this is a new development, there's no erstwhile 'home prices' to drive up ...
Cra-universal 3.0.0 released, Zero config create-react-app and SSR without eject
There are exceptions to this rule, e.g you obviously can't ask the bank to delete what it knows about your debts.
I'm not sure - but it's clear that having talented developers is not sufficient.

What are the advantages to starting a startup in France vs joining an established company?
No, call it an ICO.
It is interesting that someone who works at the forefront of startups which thrive on adoption and change makes an argument that if you read between the lines, it's essentially an argument for Nature in the good ol' Nature vs Nurture debate.
If CRTs did generate thrust, though, it would give an entirely new meaning to "our TVs are flying off the shelves!".
Fun anecdata: I have ADHD, and aphantasia.

Regular stimulant-class drugs make the aphantasia a bit less—I become able to picture things for about a second at a time before the image “flickers away.”

The tyrosine-hydroxylase promoter Bromantane (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromantane) completely fixes the aphantasia for as long as I’m taking it.

(As well, the equivalent happens for music—I go from being unable to improvise even two notes of pleasant melody, to being able to hum decent songs, and also “rap”—i.e. improvise poetry with correct rhyme and meter. All in a flow state where I’m not really providing any conscious executive control to direct the results, only to constrain them.)
So they are always going to make some people unhappy and the question is who.

What happens when these large companies start making people unhappy just because they have the wrong politics? What happens when groups of people within companies like Google start looking the other way when people start to manipulate/SEO page rankings to bury facts and promote their own interpretations of documented facts and science?

It's already happened.
That's interesting, because I have a jacket that was cheap and is generally durable but the zipper has jammed and derailed sometimes, so I went to look at it, and guess what - it's stamped with CMZ, and indeed, that is a zipper manufacturer that is not YKK.
People like to say using DjVu gives you a 10x space saving over PDF for scanned documents. That's not exactly true. If you are comparing djvu to your scanner's default PDF output then yeah maybe the PDF is 10x bigger. But I've scanned enough documents to know how to properly optimize and tune the resulting PDFs. Things like JBIG2 are a huge improvement over default scanner output for text. And the result PDF is no more than 2x the djvu file. The portability gain is well worth it.
So what if mechanical turk is involved?

You are unlikely to arrest someone based on a mechanical turk results, since unsurprisingly you can look at photos yourself to double check.

It's also pretty common to get data rated by multiple people to cross-check how certain they are, and to keep track of individuals' accuracy and exclude inaccurate raters from your tasks.
Polls Give Justin Trudeau’s Liberals Little to Celebrate This Canada Day
Because of course it's a good idea to chase off extremely low crime demographics. What a smart move! /ssssss

I'm sure this ain't breaking the hearts of most Mormons anyways. Utah will take them with open arms.
Nintendo 64 VR with WebAssembly and Three.js
For me, large datasets used for analytics. I don’t want to use a desktop, I want to do this stuff in a coffee shop, and in my hotel. The difference between in-memory and disk based operations is, understandably, very significant.
One day, I said to myself, why is it hot dog buns come in packages of 8, but hot dogs come in packages of...8?

I guess it depends on the brand.
Huge number of answers, but I'll give mine. At work I would use a Ubiquity or untangle or Mikrotik or something, but for home use yeah, for less than the cost of one of those that will do gigabit you can get an old server (small), put PfSense on it, and have something far more flexible than an Asus or Netgear. For instance:. Try setting port 80 only coming IN from certain IP with one of those? Not even sure you can do that on a Ubiquity. Try to find something that can do that AND do UPNP so you kid can play Black Ops 3...
California is a socialist hellhole
This was convincing at first. But this logic problem is predicated on the notion judges do not conceal their intentions (iow that his initial statement is True). There is just no point in even considering the question if the prisoner isn't actually going to be executed.
Very well explained — I wish this was the top comment on this entire page. These things are perhaps not entirely intuitive, but once you understand how an exchange really works they are quite obvious.

It's disappointing that Bloomberg, an ordinarily reputable news source when it comes to financial writing, missed the mark by so much on this topic.
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Not really, because raw land is valuable for three things: agriculture, real estate, and natural resource extraction, and the first two are virtually worthless in deserts which is most of Australia’s land.
ha! I was a software developer at The Palace ..my first Internet startup :) I did tech support for The Palace server then went on to coding in next generation projects ..like an ICQ-like instant messenger called Little Buddy.
Call it Bitcoin.
Written by a mop that thinks hes a fanatic and that was likely exploited by a sociopath.
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The only reasonable part of that question was in specifying low income, which seems the main influencer on students across the spectrum. I'm not saying those cultures don't have unique negatives (even though we Americans pretend as if there's no such thing as diversity of weaknesses), but keeping "us" from "them", whether that's racial or economic terms, seems truly unamerican in terms of ideals and what we try to sell to the world.

It's not as if the poor white are blowing away their contemporaries with over achievement.
It's a pretty consistent pattern, and one we can have some influence on both through the state and personally.

Also, maybe instead of looking at other cultures and only pinpointing any negatives we see, we can look at our own.
What does it say about us culturally that we are totally fine with exploiting the poor by preying on their weaker position, but the second someone mentions preventing it, half of our country throws a fit?

I'm not stating that it always needs a governmental solution, but your response indicates a general disdain for the poor, especially those who have very little control (the kids) over their previous experiences, and don't always get the opportunity to learn how to make better choices in the future.

I think as a society we function better when we address poverty as a "we" problem, not just a "you" problem.

Edit: Spelling. Thanks Gboard :P
With the 200 square foot apartments idea I'm really not sure this was going to go far....
Hehe, yeah, it's been surprising how common that pattern is. I fell for it once when a prospective employer found a demo video of mine on the front page here and sent me an email saying, "I can offer you the opportunity to continue and extend your work here at <company>"—but since then I can smell the trap coming and have been able to avoid it.
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> The proposed development would be so much more ecologically friendly than spreading those same residents around sprawling “idyllic” “villages.”

Per Wikipedia, the four towns the land is drawn from have a total population of 6,629 people, so a development of 15-20k isn't just accommodating "those same residents", but increasing the area's population several times over.
There are plenty of us laowai who were in China and didn’t think the internet was fine. My entire foreigner social circle at Microsoft China were unhappy with it, and no one could keep a VPN going reliably (unless they used free Azure credits).

However, most left because of the apocalyptic pollution, not because of the bad internet.
You don't need ML/AI, you need SQL
Good article worth your time to read, but I am not sure there is much for comments to discuss. From the title I expected the article to be preachy, but rather I found it informative and nuanced.
> My question would be- did you have a good sense of how many of your peers did in fact do the homework ahead of class- my instinctual fear is that due to this ‘different approach’ many students may not be bothered to do this?

I took part in an online course where you had to answer 3/5 quick questions correctly before you were admitted to the lecture room.

I think it resulted in an engaged and knowledgeable class.

I've also taken a course where you can't proceed to the next lecture unless you get more than 70% grade on homework from the previous lecture (which you could submit multiple times but it was not multiple choice). This also worked really well.
I even quoted it...and I'm speaking toward a trend across the U.S.

Even where I went to school, after Katrina, our peaceful hallways were suddenly breaking out in racial brawls between Hispanic and African American children. How was that good for anyone? The kids who didn't give a shit about school continued to not give a shit about school, meanwhile the rest of us had to suffer a reduction in the quality of our education.

There is a problem, but what we've been attempting to do to solve it for decades clearly isn't working.

I'd appreciate a more substantiative rebuttal.