skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that the GP doesn't live in a large metro area and therefore doesn't have access to a good supply of townhomes.
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Here's a map I made of Queens road in Charlotte.

https://danielvf-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/queens_road...

- In driving down five major roads, you can suddenly be on Queens road.

- It intersects itself.

- Following it requires making constant right or left turns at stop lights, or you end up on a different road.
> Do you not want a large, detached house?

No. In most central and southern Europe there are laws to ensure that density stays above a threshold, cities stays walkable and apartments are built with proper walls and corridors to prevent any noise from the neighbors.

This led to much cheaper housing and less need for driving.
Did you read the post? He mentions Chanos was early on Enron right away, as part of his bio, and goes into SolarCity in some depth. I didn't invest in SolarCity, and don't know the specifics of what made it a bad company. Most of the news I read a few years ago was about how solar itself as well as their model specifically was failing, and that clearly hasn't happened.

Is there another reason? Could you enlighten me?
We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms.

Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them?

I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...
Do you think remote work is a 1 to 1 substitution for working in a good office (You have your own office, limited pointless meetings, etc.) Seems that companies might just want to move out to cheaper areas instead of going primarily remote... which seems to be happening already. I suppose I am focused on tech here, as there are plenty of customer support workers for Apple, etc that WFH >99 percent of the time.
I read The Making of the Atomic Bomb as a junior/seniorin high school and it took me forever to get through but I enjoyed it so much that I picked it up again after two years of college. Absolutely fantastic read on both the technical aspect and the literary composition.
iPad has a better resolution and color reproduction than many displays.
I’d love it if airdrop worked. I have had some success iphone to iphone (iphone6). However iphone6 to mid 2014 mbp on the latest stable osx and 9 times out of 10 it fails. I thought staying in the Apple ecosystem would prevent stress from integation issues, but the reality is unless you subscribe to icloud you are in for a rough ride.
Ah, now I want to contribute to open source community just because I might be able to say this to some unappreciative prick. :)
Probably someone from the unleashed project can give a better answer, but my understanding is mostly unhappiness about the illumos contribution process.

The illumos RTI (request to integrate) process is designed to ensure a certain quality of contributions.
The downside of this is that it sometimes takes a long time to contribute a change.

For illumos there is also pretty high expectation of backwards compatibility.
What unleashed now offers is a place to do more radical changes and quickly iterate on new ideas.

While the small illumos community is already pretty fragmented my personal hope is that in the future work done by both projects keeps getting merged from time to time.
Maybe this also serves as a wakeup call to the illumos project to make some improvements to the contribution process itself.
The einstein problem (lower-case E).

Not to be confused with the physicist.
You can't really load giga bytes of data in a web page without that page dying. The issue isn't really what Javascript can or cannot do (though speed is obviously a concern). Even if you manage to stream the data somehow you still need to persist it locally, and I'm pretty sure no browser allows that kind of quota. Photoshop feature complete is not going to run in the browser soon.

If what you said was true we would already have late Xbox 360 and PS3 like games running in the browser...with acceptable performances on high end hardware, which is clearly not the case.
A brief history of remote work
I'm in a similar boat, and these points are spot on. Some additional points:

* You _have_ to work a lot harder to prove your worth to your peers. With networking be so difficult, it's hard to gain advocates (read references) for your career.

* Staying up to date in your industry can be a challenge, as the community around you is often not even remotely in the same industry. You don't get the idle chit-chat about new/exciting/changing thing, exposing you to new ideas. This might make you appear antiquated.

* It's hard to even idly talk with neighbors and friends about work, especially if you're in tech. They often don't have a frame of reference to know that a software engineer doesn't drive a locomotive. Re-explaining that to literally everyone can become tiresome, making it easier to just say "I write computer software". This can lead to an increased feeling of isolation.

* Travel can be more difficult if not near a central airline hub. Think, take an early connection flight to your connection flight to your main flight. This often leads to an entire day of travel to get to/from somewhere relatively close -- slow enough that it may be a faster option to just drive for 16 hours.

I wouldn't recommend moving to the countryside as a career move. You need to have something else pulling you there -- family, a non-work activity, pace of life -- to make it worth the extra work.
> Do you not want a large, detached house? :)

The smiley implies a lot of people want that. That's true, but the flip side of that question is "Do you no want to drive for everything you need?" which, especially in Europe, is going to get a lot of people answering "Hell no".
8 inches of weeds is a pretty solid amount of weeds
You said it. He proposed the model for digital AND analog communication still in use today. Although being a digital software person I admit I've never been motivated to read the part about continuous channels.

I was motivated however to install an archway for my house from the exact shape in Figure 7 (binary entropy function)
I believe its called dvd.com (A netflix company) now, even though the domain name is dvd.netflix.com
LINQ to DB has always seemed interesting, but I don't like it's use of attributes for POCO properties. It's not clear from the introduction whether non-attribute properties will work if the names and types are compatible, or even if the attributes are custom or come from the standard System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. The attributes aren't discussed at all in the introductory examples actually.
To be fair, driving 20 - 30 minutes for work is not strange, and on a highway with a 65mph speed limit you can go far fast.

If you have some data to correlate low density housing to obesity that would be really interesting though.
St Simons Island, about an hour south of Tybee.
Some of the inaccuracies of this article are being discussed here: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/the-copy-trait-what-does-it-ac...
Most of them. What makes Japanese dense detached housing work is mixing residential and low impact retail. In many US suburbs, you have town house style housing, but vast swaths of it with no retail. So you need to get in a car (and cross a giant parking lot) to pick up milk. It’s a problem even in mixed residential retail areas. I lived in a development in Atlanta that had a Target. But going there meant crossing an enormous, unshaded parking lot. Very different than Japan, where you might walk down some tree lined streets to get to the corner store.
I think they are wrong and actually it's the opposite problem. Some applications and libraries that do their own path mangling on Windows will choke if you give them a /. The win32 file I/O API handles them correctly.
I was actually looking to move from one urban center to another, and switch jobs accordingly. During my job search, my current employer found me on hired.com. They're an entirely remote company. Taking this job has turned out way better than I ever expected, especially considering I wasn't looking for remote work. I was able to move closer to family, get a house with a separate office, and live surrounded by woods, all while staying on track with retirement savings and living comforts.

I was weary of doing remote work initially. I always felt like the remote workers at my last job were a little more disconnected than the office workers. I also turned down the opportunity to work remotely at my last job. Working at a fully remote company has been an eye opener though. I feel more connected to my coworkers now than I did when working in an office. It all depends on the company's culture.

In the future, if I had to look for another remote job, I would look for remote-only companies. Their culture is likely to befit remote work much better, and the people making salary and benefit decisions are able to better sympathise with the employees because they are remote also.
And they stand to lose money if the prices go up.
Force Insomnia to use the system trust store
Sure it does. While Redbox is a physical presence, its overhead is negligible. And for those whom $10/mo isn't an option because, no $150/mo internet to base it on (not everybody can afford expensive internet connections) Redbox is an option.
Getting Downvotes here, but I wonder, aren't custom emojis important to anyones communication culture out there? We use them to signify specific states of acceptance for MRs for instance among other things.
> But is it really far fetched?

Yes, making things upgradeable generally adds weight and size to components. Sockets aren't "free", calling it planned obsolescence is absurd. They've been designed to have wired in components for a reason. You may not agree with that reason, say size constraints, but that is the constraints it was designed under. Weighting any decision is: how much will this cost our design? (note, cost here is not just money, its time, size, weight, manufacturing cost, complexity, etc...)

Upgradeability is a feature, if nobody is willing to pay for it, guess what will happen to the feature? Same thing as happened to our own species tails, they became obsolete.
It’s not always obvious whether you’ve gotten sensible plaintext, especially if the plaintext is a binary file format you weren’t expecting, or if the plaintext has been encrypted multiple times.
The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad was 50 to 100 years ahead of his time. His story of European exploitation of Africa and the underlying racism that empowered that still, sadly has many parallels to our world.

It's a novella so it's quick read, with beautiful pros. Interestingly enough, English was not Conrad's native language. But you couldn't tell that from his prose.

The movie, Apocalypse Now was loosely based and inspired by this this book with some dialogues completely copied over.

There is an audiobook version of it on iTunes [0] by Ralph Cosham. His narrative voice is so soothing that I listen to it sometime to fall asleep when I'm unable to turn off my brain.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/heart-of-darkness-unab...

The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat and translated by D.P. Costello is a great read if you're into Kafka.

I read the book both in original language, Farsi and its translation in English. The translation is excellent.

Hedayat translated the work of Kafka in Farsi. Which might explain some resemblance between Blind Owl and some of Kafka's writings. Ultimately and tragically he committed suicide in his Paris apartment.

Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet is still largely under-discovered in US. There is a recent translation that seems to have done justice to his poetry [1]. A decade ago, I foolishly partnered with a colleague and a poet to translate some of his poems. I translated one poem, it was the most stressful thing I ever did and something, I will never try again [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Oasis-Now-Selected-Translations-Selec...

[2] http://www.caveat-lector.org/1601/html/1601_poetry_sepehri1....
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> Steve Jobs was a cultural engineer.

You mean like P. T. Barnum?
So the linked article doesn't directly cite any work but does provide highlighted notes for an article, which I followed... which also doesn't actually cite anything. So I went down a rabbit hole of researching early zoning laws to evaluate a very specific claim: that the origin of zoning laws is racist.

In 1917 Buchanan v Warley mades directly racist zoning illegal... which affected a single city in Kentucky and otherwise had very little effect. In addition, the very first zoning laws didn't get passed until 1910 in the US and zoning didn't exist much until the 1920s [1] so that seems to undermine that claim as an emotional, not a factual one.

Everyone seems to suggest that the fix for high housing prices is to simply build more densely (more supply, same demand, therefore prices should go down right?). Yet that appears to not be the case either - as buildings get taller and more dense, costs seem to increase outside the direct supply/demand system [3] and those units which are built are typically more expensive then low density options.

[1] - https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/02-03.pdf

[3] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2017/08/31/high-rise...

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[2] - http://marketurbanism.com/2017/11/01/does-density-raise-hous...
Partially this is social engineering. Progressives at the time zoning became popular thought that if you isolated people with their families and made it less convenient to get to, e.g., taverns then they would become more responsible. This was considered particularly important when the people affected were Irish, Italians, Poles, etc who were considered in need of becoming more responsible at the time.
James Mickens is doing a bad job of going incognito. Tanquam ex ungue leonem.
"Do you not want a large, detached house? :) I think part of it has to do with the fact that that is what people want... "

I don't want one. They also say that people want SUVs but I don't want that either. I think there is a lot of cultural conditioning in what people want.
It's not. People buy Thinkpads all the time, with their actual screws, separate drive bay, and swappable RAM. Half an inch and a pound is right - such a low price to pay.
Yes adobe is pretty open in that respect. Our team was also planning to present this in google io, but somehow that did not materalize and autodesk beat us to the punch by demoing something very similar!
I am sure harvests are still improving, due to automation, prediction and genetic engineering. Just not very visibly to outsiders. While the farms you know might superficially stagnate, same people running it, and so on, the total number of farms might decrease, and/or the population feeding on those harvests is increasing.
Same here, using Mongo helped us a lot to iterate fast, JSON is much more agile than SQL.

We now migrate to PG using 'core' attributes in tables and 'flexible' attributes in JSONB to get the best of two worlds.

I agree to the API problem, JDBC and PG/SQL is not as nice as a interace compared to Mongo libs.
Are you referring to housing demand in and around high population areas? Well, I'm not making a claim people don't want to live close to these areas, but as someone who isn't buying a million dollar house, I don't even consider it as an option.
I enjoyed Win Bigly. The part I found intriguing was one where he describes a three-act-movie structure.

What is the controversy about 12 rules for life? I enjoyed the book, but it did not move me much. I found it a repetition of viewpoints in other books.
Thanks for the response. I always thought that the point of "making everything symbolic" is that you can differentiate a symbolic expression and thus implement backpropagation automatically. No? How do you handle this in Spiral?
Indeed.

There's a real risk that a layoff will upend things and there won't be another remote job in the offing, let alone anything local. I recently had that experience and I was fortunate that I have a spouse who works and we put away a savings cushion (which we depleted) for just such an event. I also encountered a prospective employer who dickered over pay scale for remote outside their area vs remote based in one of their metropolitan areas. No thank you, best of luck, I'll commute and work for someone who doesn't discriminate based on my zip code. I also note that a well-known source code control company actually formalizes this practice and offers a calculator to see how hard they intend to screw you, which is at least up front rather than late in the hiring process.
This is a nice followup to the web architecture post yesterday
Yes, my partner and I do this. We work part of the year in a very rural area near a national park and part of the year in a small beachtown. Both areas are near family, so rather than being isolated, we are more connected. We're in our 30's so don't really miss the big city social scene at this point in our lives.

Two pieces of advice:
Rural internet can be crappy, but LTE has made getting high-speed internet in the sticks much easier. We generally have 2 LTE networks running at once for extra reliability. External antennas and stationary LTE-modems can help boost marginal signal. We're looking forward to 5G availability/SpaceX satellite internet.

Choose places that put your hobbies very close at hand. In both our locations, hikes, sports and nature are just a short walk away. This helps keep you from just spending a lot more time at home.
Rama is a great read and shows off Clarke's skill in merging science and fiction into a believable narrative. Its been years since I last read it but I still can remember the anticipation I felt, waiting for the story to explain things.
Also, in the developing world, farming is a much, much more unpleasant job than working in the city.
It's yours after your first few billion. I wonder if you had the money could you pull this off?
As a loose metric, obesity rates are definitely higher in rural areas vs cities.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26851...

It doesn't look like you can correlate directly on city density though: https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-cities-in-america/10532/

Feels like obesity rates are a large part culturally driven - the foods and lifestyle you and your relatives/those around you encourage. That's sorta why the South is "winning" the game.
I agree. We moved from NYC to suburban Philadelphia (walk score of almost zero). We both work from home, which is great. But the house has been one project after another, and although there are ebbs and flows, there's likely always something going on. We're financially better off (our house is like 1/3 the price of our small 2 bdr rent in LIC) but the never-ending trickle of work is mentally taxing.

We needed to replace our washing machine when we bought the house, so I did the research and got the best front-loader we could afford. Turns out, due to $reasons, it vibrates throughout the whole house (it's on the second floor) and although it's working fine, every time we do the laundry we shudder at the annoyance. Now, we eventually will have to settle for a lower-performing top loader but I'm still not 100% certain that it won't cause the same problem, so we feel stuck. Keep the good, but frustrating, washer, or take a risk that another almost thousand dollar washer will have the same problem. Outsourcing these decisions and annoyances to a landlord is appealing.

Fighting entropy is a great way to put it - we had things come up that resulted in our inability to tend to the garden, and in a month, it's overwhelmed with weeds. That's my weekend project. Could we pay someone to clear it? Sorta. Service providers don't like (for obvious reasons) small projects, so nobody will return our calls when we say "It's like 2-3 hours of weeding". Could we find someone (say, a college student or something?) to do it? Probably, but it'd be almost more work to find and vet someone to do the work than it is to just do it ourselves. And, there goes a weekend. A weekend that, if we were still in the City, would be spent doing anything else.

I wouldn't trade it for almost anything, but it's not clearly the best solution for everyone. I would totally pay the equivalent of a "condo fee" for someone to manage all this nonsense.
But in that case you don't want more than a white board. There are many cases, especially in the corporate world, where you want a single-purpose device that isn't going to need maintenance, group policies, etc etc.
It's GREAT.. We're working through the plans to build a chicken coup. I have 4 kids, so we go through 9 eggs every morning. Some of the locals around here keep giving us their home-grown, free-range (REAL free range, not the nonsense they define that by out on the West Coast) eggs and we LOVE them!

Homemade smoked sausage too! People here are SOOOOOO much more friendly than any city I ever lived in. It's such a breath of fresh air.
Corporations and governments are both capable of screwing you over in different ways and often overlap. Corporations made the arms that shot the students of Kent State University and the government failed to protect people poisoned by pollution of Superfund sites. Hold them both accountable or they will be used by nefarious entities in the other as enablers for a workaround.

That said persistently refusing like many conscientious objectors will land you in jail though. It isn't a ridiculous argument but the literal truth. It also isn't a very effective tactic of protest but more a matter of fanaticism of principle.
Show companies how their customers feel, UX testing
In fact, many Scheme implementations allocate their frames on the heap, because it makes it easier to support continuations.
So are you disputing the claim that there was in fact naked shorting of Overstock? Or just that having more short positions than stocks existing requires naked shorting?
It's fascinating to me that Marjorie Rice, a housewife in her 50s, essentially taught herself, created her own mathematical notation, and found four pentagons on her own. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Rice). I'm astonished and encouraged by her work.
Remove your effects and retry it. What if you were the only one in your city with a large detached house, and everyone else wasn't. Suddenly you could have the best of both worlds, the advantages of a large detached house, and everything in walking distance including good public transit.

Yes you have to be ultra rich for this to be possible, but what if you actually were that rich? Would you still live as you do?

There are advantages and disadvantages to everything.
https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/no-agenda-putin-yell
The older the building, the more maintenance will be required, and the more idiosyncratic the problems will be. And outsourcing maintenance, especially in remote areas, nearly always drives up the price a lot.

But there is an answer commonly used by people who holiday in the country for only part of the year, and therefore aren't around to do their own maintenance: the shared cabin / "static caravan" / "trailer".
The Myth of Artistic Freedom (2017)
I have to be honest, "an algorithm did it" is a pretty poor excuse, and it gets harder and harder to swallow. People need to take responsibility for the algorithms they create and they need to be ready to step in when they fail.
The rules are a bit crazy but they're not born out of malice -- they basically exist to control negative externalities and protect the property values of the neighborhood.

It's a very real fear that one of your neighbors will drive people away from your neighborhood, tank property values, and suddenly you have 20 families underwater on their mortgage. These rules are kinda dumb and often go way far because HoA members get a little drunk with power but they're essential for mobility in suburbia.