skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principal issue, full stop, in the Bay Area and most of California is housing.

There are two solutions to this:

1) Build more. But this is outrageously difficult due to a well-meaning political view of safety / fairness / etc. These restrictions employ an awful lot of bureaucrats for enforcement but add $10s of thousands in fees and delays for builders, that are IRR driven and would rather concentrate their efforts in more favorable markets (1)

2) Prop 13. For those unfamiliar this essentially locks in property taxes at the owner's basis (with a maximum 2% adjustment for inflation). Meaning if in Silicon Valley you bought a house for $250,000 in the 1990s that's now worth $2,000,000 you're paying about $3,000 a year on taxes instead of $30,000 a year in taxes your next door neighbor is paying that just bought in. Oh and if you sell your house, and then buy a new house that's less than you sold your old house for, you get to transfer the low tax basis! This was put into law due to the "sentiment that older Californians should not be priced out of their homes through high taxes" which I think is noble, but it's also not realistic or fair. In many Bay Area neighborhoods you have a bizarre composition of young families hanging by their fingernails to pay for these "entitlements" for the retirees, and then the retirees that have a gigantic financial incentive to stay put which minimizes inventory and inflates home prices.

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1 - http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/hou...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
Nonsense. It’s a complicated set of information that people try and reduce to a single number. If you want to actually discuss it you need to start by learning that there are multiple official unemployment rates.
Social isolation is a risk factor for early death, so even staying in your house is dangerous.
This is not censorship. We just don't want the #guix IRC channel or the project's mailing lists to recommend ways to use proprietary software. People are welcome to use non-project channels to discuss proprietary software.
"DNNs are nothing more than a huge set of NNs"

As in deep neural networks are nothing more than a huge set of shallow neural networks? That's directly contradicted by tons of evidence. See for example the visualizations in https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/

Your claim 2 is of course correct, supported by the phenomenon of transfer learning.
Yup, you also want to look at macroeconomic conditions around the world, tech trends, demographics, etc.

For example, 10 years ago we had quantitative easing done by US/Europe, which led to subprime loans. Now, all of the major economies around the world is tapped out with QE, so deflation is the theme going forward

Also, 10 years ago the dollar prime rate was 0%. Now it's close to 2%. That drives the emerging market capital outflow back to United States, since there is a great need to pay back dollar-denominated loans before rates go up even higher . This means as opposed to 10 years ago where there was capital diffusion from US into the emerging markets, now there's capital consolidation back into US, leading to great FDI for US.

10 years ago, US had the dual threat of energy crisis and offshore/globalization. today, US is the major oil/energy exporter, and robotics/automation/tariffs is bringing factories back to US.
Thanks jbronn and sibling commenters. Lots to look into. I have the e-fund in my local credit union's money market and always just assumed that would be the best I could get. I-bonds seem to be a good compromise for non-emergency savings that don't have to be liquid.
No, it isn't. Throwing darts is probably actually a better way to make predictions about a stochastic process than naive chartism.
The naming conventions are all very sensible, but I can see how it looks funny if you aren't fluent in Julia.
TellMe 2.0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme_Networks
E-2 and acquisition

What options are there for a startup founder in E-2 status (or on an E-2 visa) when the startup is acquired?

Thanks a lot for doing this AMA!
It's a really nice computer. You go buy Dell if you want American stuff, but this machine looks like its beating them.

How much innovation has Dell done lately? Or Intel? Or Microsoft? Or Apple?

We get maybe 10% faster cpus, maybe 10% better batteries, maybe a few less ports from Apple, maybe a few more guides in Windows... Its all pretty stagnated.

I welcome our new Chinese overlords. :)
When Jeff Foxworthy does his (incredibly unfunny) "You might be a redneck, if..." bits, the crowd is not laughing and nodding and saying "That's so true, I too am a bigoted and loutish ultra-conservative!"

To many people, redneck simply describes a particular rural lifestyle. If the OP wanted to call out bigotry, they should have called out bigots.

(This, admittedly, might have been a difficult sell given that it was immediately followed up an attack on a religious group)
I think you may be thinking more about typeful programming? (Aka. type-driven design.)

At least to me type-level programming is just a mechanism to achieve more at compile time. Another mechanism would be e.g. C++ constexpr or dependent types as in e.g. Idris.
I guess my default answer is: because I have to solve some business problem to get paid, and I never have enough information or time to do it right - or phrased differently: If I took enough time to do it right, someone else would have already done it wrong and moved on.

Is there a "better" answer than worse is better?
This is one of the most insightful comments I’ve seen for awhile. Perhaps this is why low wages tend to create recessions as inefficient businesses start to fail. One could argue that these system stressors act as a cleansing agent.
Not much point increasing wages if you are just going to erode them with inflation.
Hi - Can I transfer my Green card processing to another employer given the below?
1. My I 140 is approved.
2. I do not have the I 140 physically in my hand from the current employer.
Someone wake me up when Julia reaches 1.0
Democracy requires authority.
Since Apple hasn’t really lowered the price of those old models, buying them new isn’t exactly a viable option anymore IMHO.

I’m on the same path as GP, terrified that my MBP 2015 breaks. However, it will be my last mac. I’m fed up with apple’s bs when it comes to their pro laptops.

(edit: spelling)
True, I just don't know if random CEO is that guy... a military group would seem to be more likely.
I just paid off my 720k mortgage in four years.
Also the US federal government has been spending an extra $1 trillion in stimulus into the economy since 2009. We've had continuing budget resolutions since the ARRA was passed, and those always continue spending at the prior year's level. This is why the deficit went up $10 trillion. Or, if you're a half full kind of person, it's why private sector and foreign savings have gone up $10 trillion. Unfortunately it doesn't appear much of those new financial assets ended up in the hands of the so-called middle class.
It explains a lot around how the terms "racist" and "sexist" are now applied to a much larger (and more subtle) range of behaviors and speech.
Oh, was your point that the things you take for granted, like the existence of firearms, are only possible because of a civilization that runs on taxes? You're welcome :)
Karl Pilkington addressed this a decade or two ago with his "problem hole" theory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZHl0yqP6M
I disagree. I think that when it comes to a service like this, the onus should be on them to prove that they've thought about the abuse situation, and have taken steps to prevent it.
They can also do things like re-zoning, or ending absurd and antiquated setback rules which require me to keep 700 sqft of dead grass in front of my house instead of more home.
The US government still has credibility with you? I guess that is nationalism because it's not rational. You can't trust people who lie repeatedly.
I have it on a few older laptops that I keep around for traveling - I don't care if they're stolen, and I only need them for SSH and a browser.

Haiku runs circles around Ubuntu MATE on these devices; it may seem equivalent on benchmarks, but the UI just _feels_ much zippier and apps load quickly.
I really hope he doesn't fall into the trap I did when starting out with rust. I came into it with the perspective of an application programmer and I quickly became salty when my knowledge didn't translate smoothly into rust code. "Fighting the borrow checker", for me, was simply a clash of philosophies. My way of thinking versus the rust way of thinking.

The central issue, for me, is that with rust you MUST understand the memory model completely in order to be productive. You cannot wing this, you cannot assume anything. I was not used to this being an application programmer and this lead to the root of all my suffering. Once I wrote down all the borrowing rules and deeply thought about it, I finally became productive in the language.

I see the author shows symptoms of not understanding the memory model. His code proves it. Instead of being angry, he should try to view rust with an open mind and ask "why did they design it this way?". Be curious, create experiments, probe the rust semantics, master the borrow checker. There are rewards to be had for those willing to push through the pain of integrating new knowledge.
You might be interested in https://markojs.com

I used it a few years ago and one of my favorite aspects was using primarily for generating templates server side, and only upgrading to a client component when things became more complex. Out-of-order async rendering was pretty nifty too.
Recognize, hide, and automatically post to /iamverysmart.
The author doesn't get it that punishment is asymmetric. You only need a few exemplary punishments for the rest to fall in line.

Having said that I'm not a supporter of hyper regulation. It only helps entrench the big companies.
Maybe off-topic but the website is noticeably faster than the Svelte guide (https://svelte.technology/). Is it built on Sapper itself? Or is it just a static site?
I am currently studying a language so long flights are just the perfect time to "quiz myself" in that language. Either by flash-card videos or un-subtitled dubs of a movie in that language
One of the advantages of the Svelte approach is that you can theoretically make those determinations at compile time - if there's no interactivity on a page, don't serve any JavaScript. We're not quite there yet but it's very much on our radar. You should be able to use a consistent programming model whether you're building an app that makes most sense as a purely server-rendered app, an SPA, or something in between - especially since your requirements can change unexpectedly - and if the framework is designed correctly, it shouldn't even require configuration.
Distilling the smell of Earth to provide nostalgia for interplanetary astronauts
> You're going out of your way to interpret this small thing in the worst, flame-inviting way.

Which supposes a different way to interpret this. Feel free to provide a different interpretation or this very short and straightforward sentence, and I'll definitely consider it.

Also, to be clear, I'm not positing that the author intends to cause the stated effect, I'm stating that the meme does this by it's nature, and the meme is also self-propagating by its nature and this same effect. The wording I used (that you quote) can be interpreted assigning intent to the author, which was not my goal, so I've changed them slightly.

(I would note the change with a note on the original, but I think these comments are sufficient to document it).
The benefit would be the ability to cherry pick only the most desktop-beneficial features rooted in non-desktop domains while also leaving behind the rest. One example would be the window server and compositor — on Linux/BSD, these services, being desktop oriented on a multipurpose system, must be wholly decoupled from the rest of the system introducing a ton of opportunities for latency, stutter, and other issues to find their way into the user experience. It’s not impossible to minimize these issues, but it’s much more difficult.

Haiku doesn’t have to worry about this problem at all. It can simply implement the most effective and good-experience-conducive end to end design possible for its window management and compositing since it’ll never ever be a headless server.
Great explanation.

Other than daemon implementation and design ideas that migrated from/to Nix/Guix, is there a way to write a package in Nix and use that derivation in Guix or vice-versa?

I ask thinking if it would be possible to somehow leverage the work on packages from on project to the other.
"Strong fences make good neighbors"

I disagree that internal conflict would become external as you say. I think that the reverse would happen, we could coexist more peacefully as no groups feel controlled or exploited by the other.

Also I'm not sure what the reason you insist that people you clearly hate must continue to live with you. There is the obvious fact that you can continue to control them and demographically dominate them at the polls (thanks to immigration). If they separate from you then you cannot do that, also you would become a very tiny minority in the multicultural society that remained, I think that doesn't sit well with you. My assumption is that you are white.

I suspect the opposite, the trend is getting worse and relations are becoming a powderkeg. I suppose time will tell who is correct.
MaiInt – Profiling China Based Employees
I assume these stats are cumulative in terms of PT, FT, or a shared arrangement?

Still, feels odd to see the metrics begin at 16. While some people I know (myself included) had part time jobs at that point, most didn't. 21-22 seems like a more reasonable starting point, given time off for people who went to college - or 18 for people who didn't.

Seems like they should isolate these such that when they say "The unemployment rate is X and the participation rate is Y" they acknowledge most 16 y/o are not primary breadwinners.
Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People
That only holds if accepting the higher risk actually comes with the savings and if you are aware of the higher risk you're accepting.

Mostly people don't do safety comparisons of different planes when booking trips overseas and, TBH, pushing that sort of investigation off on consumers creates huge inefficiencies in our economy. It's simply better for the government to hold all options to a certain safety level then try and rely on market forces to balance it out.
From what you've seen, which TN visa categories have the highest approval rates and which have the lowest?
I like to play and code video games.
Intrinsically, nothing. However, it seems incongruent with how they're positioning the product. Presumably a low-skilled and low-educated work force can fit into a sales pipeline, but the same could be said for doing software QA, yet we still essentially hire for the edge cases.
Not with taxes, but providers have had rate plans like that.
Both sites are written in Sapper. The difference is that the Sapper site can take advantage of Sapper's `export` feature, which generates a static site from your codebase, Gatsby-style (except with much less JS). That's probably why it's faster for you (though there'd be less of a difference if I was better at devops)
America is still paying the price of Robert Moses' folly.
Your words speak for me.
I never finished my undergrad. Just got my EB-1 GC after having an O-1, didn't seem to be a problem at all.

Also had some help with Peter in the process - thanks!
Some extra color on Prop 13; a more sinister view is that it was a time bomb designed to "starve the beast" and limit tax revenues in the future.
Just wanted to add to your argument an inverse argument (for JSX, instead of against Vue):

JSX is actually just JavaScript with this one special rule:

<foo bar={baz}>child1 {child2}</foo>

becomes

transform("foo", { bar: baz, children: ["child1 ", child2] })

That's it. All the rules of JSX can be inferred from that one transformation.
I was aware that Ruby On Rails had suffered a slow decline, and it was good to see some actual evidence of that.
Rapidoid <3

These are exactly the reasons why JVM is the primary platform for us and Clojure/Java are the primary languages to use. If you compare languages by performance, library availability and developer popularity it is extremely hard to beat Java/JVM
Meh, to look outside your filter bubble you can just open google in an incognito window. I do that from time to time, and for web search, filter bubbles don't have much of an impact imho. I mostly search for technical things though.
Tell me again how WWII didn't end the Depression because of the massive demand for workers and the associated economic activity they generated?

Confused...
Fixed now thanks to njb in our Discord chatroom! God I love open source (and Travis CI) - was able to deploy this fix from my mobile phone while watching the brazil-belgium game
The same question would have been valid during the creation of React, or Webpack. People create new frameworks and tools to try to solve pain points, sometimes they're runaway successes like React or Angular 1, sometimes they're good complimentary tools like Vue.js, and sometimes they fall completely flat, like perhaps Batman.js. Either way, the question of whether we need a new JS framework is not very productive. The right question would be, what can a new JS framework offer that would be worth switching to it for? The answer will differ per team and application.
I find contracts interesting, but it seems to me that they're only useful for transformations that are easier to check than to implement, no?
If it can happen to us, it can happen to you. Please keep abreast of what's happening in Ontario.

https://ricochet.media/en/2217/why-canadas-white-supremacist...
Relative to income, it may be true that most people can now buy cheaper, better TVs (for example). This is small consolation if most people are also paying more for less in terms of housing, healthcare, and education. These costs also dwarf what most people spend on consumer goods. The quality of housing, healthcare, and education also, I would argue, has a much greater impact on quality of life than the size of your TV.
No, they don’t have any institutionalized backdoors.
Git branch in vanilla zsh
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

"Everybody wants to believe they are a good person, if you try to convince them otherwise they will attack you and refuse to listen" - tmpz22
Which is why you, as a business, would not accept those robocalls.
"You libertarians are insufferable" is not exactly a critique of an argument.
You don't need to get on pmarca's radar. The point is that there are tertiary personalities, who are much more accessible, that can bootstrap you to the higher social tiers. If you're serious about it, it just takes concerted effort and the right attitude (i.e. not sarcastic defeatism).
To answer your question, Jordan Peterson's video lectures series, "Maps of Meaning" (You would need internet access to YouTube).

For long flights, I buy magazines in the airport shop (Wired and Scientific American). I also have my music collection on Spotify on my phone with wireless Bose headphones to listen to. Also, several books on Kindle on my phone (now reading "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"). Don't forget a spare battery. Or, sometimes I check the plane's movie list for a new release I haven't seen and watch that.
It is true the TOR does not solve the problem. But I don't think discussing how to solve it here would do anything for Uganda.

But if anybody from Uganda does find this. It's time to stand up and fight for your rights as a people and not let the corrupt politicians push you around.
In the meantime, if you want to know how to use TOR here is a great tutorial:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2686467/privacy/how-to-use-t...

And here is the Facebook site for TOR: https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/

Good Luck!
My friend has one and it's really nice. I haven't used the new Macbook Pro yet, but the Matebook is one of the best laptop I ever tried for sure.
That's a much better link!
There's a third option which is encouraging people to move elsewhere.
What Is a Software {{Insert Your Profession}}
Hi Peter,

I'm currently a remote freelancer and have spent the last 5 years on the move and working in different countries. My main client base is in the UK (where I'm originally from). I would love to move to the States, however I would obviously need to get a work visa. My research has only really lead me having to stop freelancing and get sponsorship with an US company.

So, I was wondering if there are any other routes you might know? I'd rather not give up the freedom of remote freelancing just for the US.

Cheers,
M
And, to add insult to injury: the ones paying 3000 a year in taxes rather than 30k, are the ones who made millions of dollars in equity off the gain. That's extremely Regressive and completely the opposite of what CA supposedly stands for: Progressive income taxes.
I think you might be overestimating the consistency and reliability of how hiring is done. (For reference, I've worked as a hiring manager of software engineers for a few years.) I've seen departments just use the same description over and over for years, and share it between teams -- even when it's not even really correct at some point.

Practices vary wildly between company, and even between hiring managers.
I'll take Rails + turbolinks over this tangled mess any day.
Large memory blocks of same size, mostly zero, nonzero bytes withpattern
Well I don't know if it's a "better" answer, but in my case, I didn't know about Eiffel. I had heard the name, nothing else. Maybe I'll try writing something with it now.
Google Voice Assistant will be a true success when can talk its way to Google's own support for a user who has lost access to an account!
You might find Pluralsight's "Paths" of value - https://www.pluralsight.com/product/paths

They have a few C# & .Net related paths. They offer free trials as well. Here's a 10 day affiliate link one. Not sure if there are better ones out there. https://pluralsight.pxf.io/c/1197267/424552/7490
What is Cardinality in a Database?
One wonders about the extent to which this correlation is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If everyone gets skittish when indicators look too good and reduce investment, they end up causing the recession that they predict!
The broader truth is that inequality as such is not an indication of injustice or, as it seems to be presented, an injustice itself. There's a huge difference in wealthy between Bill Gates and a member of the upper middle class, but few people worry about that, expect the envious.

Poverty is a problem, and corrupt uses of enormous wealth to hijack politics and exert power in unjust and immoral ways are problems, but not the wealth as such.
This. Curiosity should be the driving factor, not a moral injunction on oneself.
I'm mildly surprised this discussion hasn't brought up the artificiality
of daylight savings time, summer time, and whatever other names it might
be called by around the world. Certainly the concept is prevalent
enough.

Leaving aside the arguments about saving energy (I am not knowledgeable
enough to speak to that in any event), daylight savings time seems to be
an enormous confusion factor, especially since (as one example) Europe
and North America have different start and end dates.

On one level it seems that DST is a way of patching a system that is
fundamentally flawed, hence some of the very interesting suggestions in
these discussions about alternative methods of timekeeping. But changing
such an entrenched and widespread standard might be next to impossible.
How did they manage to get so deep just by themselves? Maybe easier to get down than to go back? :(
The need for references.