skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The primary goals of this project are...

> to have a highly-available home Internet setup, with no SPOF (Single Point of Failure)

> to learn and have fun.
The evidence for it is that there are people poorer than middle-class, with no access to capital or loans, and they manage to survive. If somebody middle-class or above wants to get out of debt or accumulate savings, all they have to do is live like someone who's poor while continuing to earn like somebody who's middle-class, and bank the difference.

While I think the OP's point was a bit of an oversimplification, for the vast, vast majority of people this strategy actually does work. If you live like you're poor but earn like you're middle class, you will get out of debt. The people who remain in debt - again, assuming a middle class or higher salary - are those whose self-image requires a lifestyle where they can tell themselves they're not poor.
To be honest, I'm fine with this. My buddy is a plumber and makes almost as much as me.
I've never broken a guideline here.
Makes me wonder if we could somehow crowdfund an NFL competitor where every team was owned by the fans. Probably not feasible, but I find the idea romantic.
See Jevons paradox, where increasing coal-efficiency counterintuitively increased coal usage and pollution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I must be in a small minority that enjoys open workspaces. I've had my own office before and found it extremely lonely and isolating. I didn't feel like a part of my team at all and I found it very easy to get distracted.

The next job was completely open, pair programming stations without even having our own desks. I LOVED it. I got to know my team better. We got together to solve problems quickly and easily. You always knew what was going on with the rest of the team. It's not an environment for everyone, but I felt like I could thrive in it.
That is absolutely not true. OneTab has never, ever transmitted any information about your tabs outside of your browser, and will never divulge them. I'm the developer. OneTab has never made a penny, and absolutely does and always will deliver on the privacy promise.
> meetings

If the meetings are productive meetings and not hour-long Facebook-browsing snoozefests, then yes, meeting attendance is a form of productivity

> chatty coworkers

Get rid of the open floor plan, allow for remote work, other strategies to promote the proverbial butts-in-seats instead of milling about the water cooler

> meals

Delivered to the office

> Coffee breaks

Why coffee machines of whichever kind (Keurig, Nespresso, superautomatic espresso machines) pay for themselves.

The point is that OP's point is that good management reduces (not eliminate, that's impossible) distractions, to promote higher productivity.
I live and work in Germany but I am not German. I believe the work culture here is: if you are having to work outside core hours, you are ineffective and should have managed your workload better.

Consequently I believe there is greater focus on continuously doing the most important task during work rather than occupying oneself with 'busy work' that is prevalent in many other work cultures.
The lack of statutory minimum annual leave will account for 120 hours or so just on its own.
On the other hand, it's fifty years since we went to Moon and in the meantime we haven't even set-up a tent there. We assume that we'll have the technology for deep space exploration but we tend to forget the logistics nightmare of any such endeavor.
> The tax system will always reward home ownership. By time you are on your third house you will be paying cash, so even mortgage issues will go away. I don't know anyone on their third property who has a huge mortgage...maybe a small supplemental one but that is about it.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Housing prices have risen faster than inflation in California over virtually any period ending today other than cherry picking the top of the housing bubble. Nothing says this will always be the case. Just ask the homeowners in Japan or in parts of the rust belt. I'm a homeowner in California but I also remember the last time everyone said housing prices only go up.

Furthermore, the tax system may not always reward home ownership. New caps on mortgage interest deductions are already affecting California houses although the effect is currently small. It used to be true that homeowners always itemized deductions. For 2018, it'll be about a wash for me as opposed to taking the standard.
Your bank will likely not let you in if you're wearing a hat or sunglasses.

"No shoes, no shirt, no service" has also been a thing for as long as convenience stores have been around.

Not that far of a stretch to think this will ultimately extend to face paint.

If you want true anonymity, just wear a motorcyle helmet everywhere. We still don't know who The Stig is.
I said "not crazy", I didn't say normal. Do the math. 4% a year, compounded over 18 years, is 102.6%. 4% a year in the US is above inflation, but not crazy.
>The O ring was a necessary pressure valve

Do you have a reference for this? Seems very intriguing to me. To me it seems the last thing you would want, under any circumstances would be to have hot gases coming out anywhere near the hydrogen tank and you'd make every effort to contain any overpressure until it exited beyond the hydrogen tank.
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There's only 38 countries on here, a large majority of which would be considered "Western." The only thing this is really useful for having first worlders lust after other first world countries with single digit percent differences in work hours

Also don't forget a standard 40 work week over a year is 2080 hours, significantly higher than the average.
Thanks! I will look into the virtualenv problem, but if you can spare the time could you please open an issue and include the exact steps to reproduce the error?

https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg/issues/new
Sure, but your bank is a private institution, not the government.
A question: Chinese courts rule against Micron...appeal after appeal. Biased or not, doesn't matter, a court ruling is a ruling. What options does Micron have after exhausting their China appeal options? I have a feeling we already know how they'll rule.

I see bad times...China wants the tech and they'll get it. Stealing is much faster and cheaper than spending tens of billions and decades in R&D
The best I could come up with involved some repetition, because of the double-comprehension boilerplate

found_nodes = (node.find(SOME_XPATH) for node in tree)
[found_node.get("value") for found_node in found_nodes
if found_node is not None]

or as a one-liner:

[found_node.get("value") for found_node in (
node.find(SOME_XPATH) for node in tree) if found_node is not None]

It's 15 characters longer than your := version, at 110 characters instead of 95.
Sure, but the same applies to factories. I'd seriously question the OP's numbers of a certain 60-70% capital recovery rate for factories. Maybe in Shenzhen where you have tax policy, exchange rates, and labor costs all in your favor. All you have to do is drive through the Midwest to see examples of factories that didn't survive either, though.
> But there are other considerations at play, too, aren't there?

Oh god, yes. The housing crisis is extremely complicated, what we see now in Sweden is the result of a perfect storm.

In the 90s Sweden had a surplus of houses from the 80s building craze and municipalities completely stopped building rentals. The municipalities in Sweden are extremely strong too and have a monopoly on what gets built on their land, and they don't want rentals they want expensive homes because expensive homes are inhabited by people paying good income taxes. So, they never took those plans for building new housing complexes off the shelves till very recently (but the municipalities still want expensive homes, especially in the bed communities outside Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö).

We've also had the start of the fourth baby boom very recently, that's put a lot of strain on our housing market. The kids from the third baby boom in the early 90s grew up to move out and they started getting their own babies. This is what happened in the mid to late 60s too with the people from the first baby boom during WWII grew up and Sweden launched the million program to cope (which the national government can't do this time with the current laws in place, it's up to the municipalities alone to predict this and solve it and they failed or didn't want to solve it).

In Sweden getting building permits is a very time consuming ordeal and can cost a lot in legal fees. Building in Stockholm is about twice the price of building in Berlin and will take about twice as long to negotiate with the local regulators.

We've had record immigration to the cities in recent years, some from foreign migrants but by far most of it has been internal migrants (since during most of this crisis municipalities could just say no to refugees and cite the housing crisis as a reason for it, which the big cities have taken advantage of multiple times. I grew up in one of the wealthiest parts of Sweden just outside Gothenburg, they've taken in a few hundred refugees since 2008 while tens of thousands of people have moved in from other parts of Sweden). This is also consistent with our previous history; in the 90s we had a very large immigration of refugees but the housing prices still took a dive.

And finally, this is just how Swedish culture has evolved and it's happened faster than we've had time to react. Compared to the rest of Europe, Sweden has an unusual amount of people living alone. We move out very early from our parents and divorce is uncomplicated here which instantly creates new demand for housing; where there was previously only demand for one home, now there is a demand for two.
You should differentiate between active noise cancelling and passive noise cancelling.

Active noise cancelling is what fancy Bose and Sony and (simply put) it involves cancelling outside sound out by playing the opposite sound. This shouldn't cause hearing damage because the opposite sound waves actually sum to 0, but I'm unaware of any studies about this so who knows.

Passive noise cancelling is when your headphones block out outside sounds the same way that typical ear protection does - by physically preventing it from getting inside the ears. Most headphones (excluding open-back headphones) will have some degree of passive noise cancelling just because they need to cover your ear.

You can buy headphones designed to passively block as much noise as possible. They are typically called IEMs (in ear monitors) because they are commonly used by musicians on stage to hear their instruments and what not.

This kind of noise cancelling will absolutely not damage your hearing or cause pain. In fact, because of the lower ambient noise while listening, you will be able to listen at lower levels. That will cause even less hearing loss and pain.

I've got a pair of these [1] Etymotic IEM's. I also use Etymotic's musicians earplugs and the IEM's block out pretty much the same amount of sound and fit in the ear the exact same way. Other notable brands are Shure and Westone.

If you want, you can go the extra mile and have custom molds made of your ears. Those will be far more comfortable than universal IEM's and will block more noise, too.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Research-Noise-Isolating-Ear...
> I would suggest that if you can express the exact same semantics with a "few" more lines then it's just sugar.

I agree. The important question is what we mean by "the exact same semantics". I would say that observational equivalence is the most appropriate; i.e. that no other code can tell that there's a difference (without performing unpredictable side-effects like parsing the contents of the source file). Python is a really difficult language for this, since it provides so many hooks for redefining behaviour. For example in many languages we could say that 'x + x' and 'x * 2' and 'x << 1' are semantically the same (they double 'x'), but in Python those are very different expressions, which can each invoke distinct, arbitrary code (a `__mul__` method, an `__add__` method, etc.). The fact they often do the same thing is purely a coincidence (engineered by developers who wish to remain sane).

It's fine if we only care about the 'black box' input/output behaviour, but at that point it no longer matters which language we're using; we could have something more akin to a compiler rather than desugaring into expressions from the same language.

> it's always possible to rewrite the program

There's an important distinction here too. Are we saying that "a semantically equivalent program exists"? That's a trivial consequence of Turing completeness (e.g. there's always an equivalent turing machine; and an equivalent lambda calculus expression; and an equivalent Java program; etc.)

Are we saying that an algorithm exists to perform this rewriting? That would be more useful, since it tells us that Rice's theorem doesn't apply for this case (otherwise it might be impossible to tell if two programs are equivalent or not, due to the halting problem).

Are we saying that we know an algorithm which will perform this rewriting? This is the only answer which lets us actually run something (whether we call that an "elaborator", a "compiler", etc.). Yet in this case I don't know of any algorithm which is capable of rewriting Python involving `:=` into Python which avoids it. I think such an algorithm might exist, but I wouldn't be surprised if Python's dynamic 'hooks' actually make such rewriting impossible in general.

I certainly don't think that a local rewrite is possible, i.e. where we can swap out any expression of the form `x := y` without changing any other code, and keep the same semantics. If it is possible, I would say that such a local, observational equivalence preserving rewrite rule would qualify for the name "syntactic sugar".

> It's just combining the assignment and expose operations.

I'm not sure what you mean by "expose", and a search for "python expose" didn't come up with anything. It would be nice to know if I've missed out on some Python functionality!
Longest trains are under five miles so you could use that or whatever the limit for that line is as a safe baseline. Unless you're worried about trains separating.
That only shows that you should not give averages, but means. What we can extrapolate from this is that there is some very big factor pushing this up as it occurs with average household income.
> How many other businesses are going to open branches, if not headquarters, in Des Moines to be close to the Apple data center?

Probably none? Almost everything that a Data Center needs to regularly purchase in volume is produced overseas. Micron and Seagate certainly aren't going to relocate to bumfuck Iowa.

What business are you picturing that would possibly gain anything from opening new headquarters in Des Moines to service a single data center?
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It baffles me why anyone lets their municipal and county governments even touch the building of stadiums in the first place. It seems to me that this is entirely not the concern of the authorities.
And if they don't follow through then, uh, is there any sort of enforcement on this? I've heard this story before. 20 years down the road the few people who remember the deal and try to find numbers on it discover that the company did almost nothing to hold up their end of the bargain once it was out of the spotlight.
It's not a very liquid market however. Because the lawyers ensure that the deals are legally binding. It's not like a city can declare bankruptcy and reset the no-tax deals.
It's also absolutely real and has been fairly common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_syndrome

It's hard to understand why Snopes has this marked as a myth. The specific anecdote structure with the wife showing up is clearly a meme but that doesn't make it a mythical type of event.

We're much better at dealing with this situation in developed countries now. It's still a serious hazard. Around the turn of the 20th century it was very difficult to handle.
"life’s too goddamn short to not give up a book the moment you stop giving any fucks about it."

I read a lot, but have a lot less time for it since I started biking to work instead of taking the train. This is best viewed IMHO as making the best/most efficient use of a scarce resource. If you are really just dragging through a book because you don't enjoy it, or its tedious, just drop it. When I read a truly great book, it sticks with me forever, its a shame that I hadn't read it earlier.

FWIW, Wheel of Time is actually what made me ok with dropping books/series. That series was just an enormous drain of my time, and personally, I thought it was really poorly written and excessively long- I stopped caring for the characters and secretly hoping even my "favorite" characters would die just so we could get on with things. After the end of Book 7 I just said enough is enough, I am accumulating a pile of books I actually want to read and just dragging through these 1000+ page slogfests because of stubbornness about finishing what I started. Tugs Braid Smooths Skirt
Great links. I've been using cake for a while but without the advanced options.

One random question: Does it ever make sense to add SQM to a tap_soft interface? I have two locations and both have SQM set up to minimize bufferbloat, but when I VPN from one to the other there is some bufferbloat on the VPN connection.
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This ex-Google engineer let a computer randomly choose his first tattoo
People require road maintenance, unless your population is completely immobile. Cars need more of it than other modes of transportation, but roads are necessary either way, to the point that there are a bunch do special cases in real estate laws dealing with access to roads.

Homes are relatively unique in being something you own and still have to pay taxes on. They’re also unique in being something whose ownership and location determines so much about your life, such as where you vote and who you vote for, whose taxes you pay (far beyond property taxes), where your children can go to school, which police department serves you, whose laws you have to follow... it seems reasonable that they would have a special tax status too.
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> Taxes for corporations are not very high at all. Fortune 500 companies routinely pay a less than 0 income tax at the federal level[0], and state level income taxes max out at 12% [1].

The way you quoted that Investopedia article is a bit misleading -- it says it identified 18 companies in the Fortune 500 that paid zero tax, and that 258 companies paid an average of 21.2%.

18 out of 500 companies paying zero tax is a pretty low bar for saying that paying zero tax is routine.

Here's the quote from the article:

> The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), in a recent study, found that over the eight-year period from 2008 to 2015, 258 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid an average effective federal income tax rate of 21.2%. Over that same period, exactly 18 companies, including General Electric, International Paper, Priceline.com and PG&E Corp., avoided paying a single penny of federal income tax.
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Sorry old timer, servers are cattle now. Actually more like Shmoos: so abundant as to be almost free. And if a server is 90% reliable, each additional server adds an additional 9 of reliability. So it always makes sense to plan for more than one, or even two, servers.
That's not true. You can sell a software product and provide the source code as part of the product and/or sell the source code at a premium price to those that need/want it in order to make modifications/customizations or just to have for security/auditing purposes. However, the general stipulation is that you cannot just share that source code with everyone else, only to other customers that have also purchased, or have access to, the source code.
> Not all crypto ads are investment oriented.

They overwhelmingly are, even by clear implication as in this example.

It is possible they could do fine gradations of regulation, but how would you not catch a case like this?
Reminded me of this, by JP Lewis in 2001

Lifting Detail from Darkness

http://www.scribblethink.org/Work/Talks/dalmatian.pdf

This application sketch describes a high quality method for separating detail from overall image region intensity. This intensity-detail decomposition can be used to automate some specialized image alteration tasks. Our work was motivated by the movie 102 Dalmatians, which featured a dalmatian puppy without spots. Animal
handlers determined that the obvious idea of applying makeup to the dog was not possible – evidently there was no suitable makeup that was both safe to the dogs and that would stay in place during
normal dog activity (including licking). This left Disney TSL with the task of painting out all the spots on the dog every few frames (the paintings were carried for a few frames with a simple scheme).
The spot removal task was larger than anyone guessed, and ultimately required a large number of artists (up to 40) working for eight months. The problem also proved to be more difficult than
expected from an algorithmic point of view. As the spots often had visible fur texture, initially it was believed that there must be some simple compositing technique that could lighten these spots.
"Don't romanticize the past. The average professional in Silicon Valley enjoys a standard of living much, much higher than the average factory worker in Shenzhen, or in Cleveland for that matter."

Sure, but at what cost? Focusing specifically on San Francisco, you're talking about a standard of living that primarily benefits recent skilled migrants, and punishes nearly everyone else (I exclude "silicon valley" only because silicon valley was farmland until the 1960s).

High-tech job growth is a false idol for economic development, caused by a myopic fixation on wage growth as an economic indicator. Also, the choice isn't "silicon valley" or "industrial wasteland". There's a middle ground.

Cities should pay far more attention than they do to churn, net migration, and economic indicators for long-term residents. One side of this debate ends up relying on hand-wavy arguments about trickle-down benefits, but provides essentially no data to back their claims.
That doesn’t mean they can’t be expected to support a meaningful subset. Honestly I don’t even know what they’re thinking here: they have no real alternative.
I am amazed that such a subreddit exists, and yet cannot bring myself to watch it.
But what if the other vendors do have an implementation?
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You can use block signalling with in-cab signals.
In short: yes, many businesses facilitate this.

Ironically, Dutch paternity leave is only 2 days (paid), but you’re legally allowed to take something like 26 weeks unpaid in the first few years as parental leave. (Vs e.g. Sweden with 6-9 months). The law is changing to a few weeks next year I believe.

I think it differs by employer. Mine gives extra days paid leave for parents as they consider the 2 days too short (but this is uncommon) and proactively asked if I was considering 90% or 80% for the coming year, and shared how others have done this.

At my wife’s workplace there are many people with children, and the large majority works either 3 or 4 days per week.
Could it be that the route divers explored != the route the group has taken? So they might have descended using much more difficult route than the one the group took?
You are worried about trains separating.
Keep in mind that the owners (shareholders) of Fortune 500 companies then pay an additional tax on distribution of profits (dividends).
>What big, reputable players are selling Bitcoin put options at the moment?

https://ledgerx.com/
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