skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder if technology could help.

Not really. A lot is a function of age, upkeep, how idiosyncratic the house is, the amount of property, etc.

I live in about a 200 year old farmhouse on a few acres with neighbors with more acreage (the best kind :-)). I'm not sure I'd describe it as a full-time job at this point but it has been at various points--the house had very little money put into it for a long time.

You can outsource some things. I have a lawn service for the area around my house that I keep as lawn. My neighbor plows our shared driveway and runs his tractor over my field once a yer or so. But, there's no magic number you can call to just "Make it so" even if you're more than willing to open up a checkbook. Took me about a year to finally get a badly needed bathroom remodel done.

And trees die and need to be dealt with. Painting needs to be done now and then. Finally having some long overdue to be replaced windows done. Had to seal the deck this spring. Etc. Etc. It's hard to avoid spending a fair bit of time if you own a house.
As silly as it sounds, emojis are surprisingly important in how people communicate. It's very hard for most folks to indicate emotions over text and emojis help support that. They've also been an effective way to communicate better across language barriers.
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Do you mind telling what kind of job you do ?
There was no official mention of MacOS running on ARM.
I find these types of articles invigorating and demoralizing at the same time. I think the reason why, and something I've thought about a lot lately, is: what would it actually take to do something like this? It'd probably involve a series of steps like this to do _exactly_ this:

* Decide to run for office

* Raise an enormous amount of money, somehow without indebting yourself to private interests

* Convince a large amount of people to vote you into office

* Bring to bear an enormous amount of political capital to convince other people to enact these changes

That involves no small amount of luck and personal charisma. I probably have none of these things, so that leaves me out.

There are other methods that are potentially easier (the one that comes to mind is effectively paying off an incumbent politician), but I'd roughly guess that there's only a 40-60% chance to get the outcome you want. Even easier actions, like calling your representatives, I'd peg at 2-5% expected value. Voting is <0.1%.

Are these really our only options? Am I thinking about this problem wrong? Is this just the great struggle of human governance we've been trying to solve for millenia?
It's prime clickbait. It's published on a major news site, and they know what many people's first reaction will be.

Definitely funny, definitely dishonest.
they may not be out of malice but you get little power tripping potentates enough to make us question the rules and how they are applied. While many bemoan HOA rules you can just have problems with cities that just increase revenues by fines [1]. For the most part I think just as many states have limits on how much of a budget in a city/county can come from traffic violations that such limits needs to be applied to all fines. these fines tend to hit the poorest the hardest and there is no remedy for them

plus much of zoning still serves to discriminate against "undesirables" but now is masked behind feel good terms related to environment, pollution, quality of life, and historical. politicians and groups simply got the same results but learned how to dodge the courts and sway public opinion

[1] https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/24/georgia-town-brags-about-...
Wow. That's a pretty app description of how bad their products interact and are named.

I worked at one place where we had a girl who called herself a "Sharepoint Evangelist" and was really pissed we were hosting our knowledge base on Confluence. I tried using Sharepoint and it was piss poor terrible. I totally didn't understand her loyalty, or any software loyalty really.
It can also sink individuals. I don't know how many times I have watched people fail to make a living in a dead-end career because "it is what I went to school for".
> never experienced any performance problem that was the result of a join, unless you count cross joins with no filters.

An unindexed join will have major performance problems, and look exactly like an indexed join.

> I have never seen an instance where doing a join was faster in code and I don't see how it could be except perhaps in some unusual edge cases.

Faster to do the same thing? No. Easier to see which things are fast and which things are slow? Yes. Also easier to avoid the deadlocks that traditional databases' overzealous application of ACID can easily lead to.

> Can you go into more detail? In my experience, the "slow" part of writing any analytic query is deciding exactly what you want to know and making sure you understand that the data means what you think it means. Once you have that, the only thing slowing you down is your typing speed, and I don't think a more compact syntax would really make a difference.

I find the pseudo-English syntax of SQL is always very hard to follow - it slips into a kind of uncanny valley - the grammar of what goes where can be backwards from what I'd expect. Tooling is also rather limited compared to a "real" programming language. Just basic things like unit testing your queries are much harder than they should be.
>micromodules are appealing because they offer just want you need and nothing more

But people don't import micromodules, they import entire dependency trees of arbitrary depth full of micromodules. The greater simplicity of the modules ironically leads to greater complexity in practice.
In my experience, the vast majority of scientists would love to have that Ramsey’s Theory conversation with you. Some people might get prickly if you lead with “This is trivial and I can’t believe you don’t know that....” but I suspect the vast majority of my colleagues would hear you out.

On the other hand....Ramsey’s theorem applies to compelete (undirected) graphs. Friendship is not necessarily symmetric: Alice could consider Bob a friend, but not vice versa. It could also be context-dependent, especially with kids: Alice and Charlie get along, but not when Bob is around.

The thousands of pages that you don’t want to read probably address some of these “details” that your spherical cow model totally ignores. I think it’s totally fair for someone to say “That’s interesting, but have you read X,Y, and Z? They show that your model doesn’t apply because....”
It also makes changing your DB a lot easier since APIs using the DAL don't need to be updated since they're DB agnostic -- you "only" need to update the DAL API.
You're right. I wish more startup CEOs agreed with you.
Hell of an article, I think it is clear that Tesla has had serious production problems with the model 3, but, then again, Tesla has never met their production goals on time, and only recently(ish) are we seeing shorts at the magnitude.
> We live in concentrated environments because walking down the street is a higher quality of life than needing to travel tens of kilometers to buy necessities. A smaller house is easier to maintain and clean.

I see this sentiment often on HN, but so far I have not seen strong evidence to support it other than anecdotes. Have there been studies that show that most people would prefer to live in dense cities if employment wasn't a major deciding factor?
Dapper is a great tool for getting an app started and up to speed, and even later once the app gets bigger if sometimes it makes sense to bypass the ORM and hit the DB straight-on.
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Yep, I recently learned that Daniel Burnham designed them that way. The Great Fire of 1871 cleared out legacy street systems, so things could start anew. The diagonal transporters like Ogden, Milwaukee etc. mess me up though.

Chicago grid

https://www.domu.com/blog/decoding-the-chicago-street-grid-s...
Unfortunately, the IBC specifies a maximum height of grass, and while I live in the country my county enforces grass height. The country is not a panacea for freedom.
For new readers, the HN title has changed. Since the majority of comments do point out the title specifically do know that it was for a previous title.

I can not understand why HN mods do this. Doesn't matter if X is a better title than Y, changing it is by far worse than either - at least once it has hit the front page. And everyone that has already clicked on the discussion will click on it again with the new title because naturally one would believe it was another related article spawned by the first one.
There already was a community edition[0]. And it was replaced by a "developer" edition that can no longer be used in production. It seems it didn't pan out as a marketing strategy and I don't think it's coming back.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577663
Yeah I have to go through this at work every day:
>Install the TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control), wait or is that VSOVC (Visual Studio Online Version Control)? on the SCVMM VM

MS is super bad at naming things.
Please don't react to a bad comment by posting a bad comment of your own. That just makes this place worse.

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You’d be wrong. I’m not all that impressed with macroeconomics and it’s far from a mud moat. Microeconomics is making more progress and is on much sounder footing, hardly surprising given how many more empirical observations there are.

If you’re only going to read one microeconomics textbook read Varian’s Intermediate Microeconomics if you can do calculus. If you can’t Cowen and Tabarrok’s Principles is pretty good and has a load of wonderful accompanying videos.

Comparative Advantage

https://www.mruniversity.com/courses/development-economics/c...
>For the land of the free, some US rules are a shock to me.

A few things.

1. We are the Land of Liberty, and liberty is described by our founders as "Freedom from onerous government intrusion", not anarchy. People get hung-up on 'freedom' and don't understand that Liberty is the core American value, which is called "freedom" but which is really Liberty.

2. US Freedom is misinterpreted to mean individual freedom at all costs. US Freedom is not just individual freedom, it's local rule and local soverignity. People often don't realize that the US has a dual-sovereign system where States and the Federal government share soverignity. This is a critical factor in "freedom".

Going further, counties, towns and local governments have a lot more freedom to rule as they please than you might think. You'd think, it should all be top down federal law to ensure equity, but in reality, every county is it's own fiefdom, especially in more lax states, as it is states that reign in local governments, not the feds.

So, when you consider American liberty to mean respecting individual, local, state and federal authority, and not just individual total freedom, you can see a system designed to put lots of power in the hands of local governments, which actually creates localized zones of not-so-freedom!

After all, the US is free enough where counties and cities can enforce a lot of silly things!
Typically, even for the most valuable engineers, the company will just say “see ya” at that point.

Finding another remote job with acceptable pay / benefits / work responsibilities / etc., is very hard and takes a long time.

Honestly, I think you’d have to get another job offer (either also remote or in the location you want) to use as leverage for your existing employer to let you move without decreasing your pay.

I just think almost every employer would force a pay decrease in that case, no matter how unfair or unrelated to your value-add, and unless you already had another offer lined up, you’d never be in a position to give them an ultimatum in which you’ll quit if they decrease your pay.

It’s why this idea of earning a SF or NYC salary while living in some nice Midwestern suburb is still nearly 100% myth.
Please don't post this sort of flamebait to Hacker News.
Which research lab was that?
Are there practical applications for cellular automata?
I suspect this is limited to economics and the social sciences. There is absolutely no way this holds up in the natural sciences like math, physics, etc.

People forget the original name for what we call economics was "political economy". That alone should tell you all you need to know about the dangers of treating that field like a science. If you ever want to know why expert economists can't seem to agree on things that happened 50-100 years ago or make accurate predictions for the future, the original name is very telling. Wouldn't it be ridiculous if we were still debating the validity of f=ma or e=mc^2? Wouldn't it be crazy for someone to claim general relativity is just flat out wrong, even though GPS systems would not work properly without humans accepting it?

Why is nothing remotely approaching reasonable standards used in the social sciences before acceptance?
U.S. says the 'reckoning' over China trade is too big for WTO
I don’t think it has to be dense cities like Tokyo. Plenty of suburbia in US. God I love suburbia.
If you are into horology, an interest podcast to listen to is S-Town. It's about a amateur horologist who lived in a shit-town. He made a lot of money restoring clocks.
Cognitive Shift
Where I grew up (rural Southern US) weeds could shoot up to 8 inches within 3 days with the right mix of sun, rain, and warm weather.
I feel like this is just going to apply to a small subset of people and is primarily focused on the first world. The vast majority of people in Africa are not going to be sitting in a cabin in the countryside working on a laptop.
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I did it about 5 years ago. I grew up in a rural area and gave city living a go in the bay area for a decade. At the end of it I came to the conclusion that cities aren't good for my mental or physical health and moved back to the middle of nowhere. I spend more time with my family and people in general than I did living in a crowded city. More exercise, fresh air, nature, etc.

There are downsides. The 100+ year old Victorian house I now live in is impossible to pest proof. Rats and bats make an occasional appearance. The insulation is old and ineffective. Work is harder to come by. Resources, such an cars and mechanics, are harder to find. I don't travel much, but when I do, I always wish I lived closer to the airport.

I'm looking at relocating to a rural area that's still out in the woods, but closer to a smaller city than I am now.
Please don't do programming language flamewars here.
the nice way to do this is to pass the chef role to the user data template in the autoscale group

vars {
ROLE = "bastion"

Then append this to the user_data.tpl file

chef-client --audit-mode enabled -R -E ${chef_environment} -r role[${ROLE}]

Allows you to use the same user_data.tpl file for multiple autoscale groups
Does anyone have a recommendation on a good book around the DotCom era? I was too young and too far removed from the tech world at the time to know much about it, and I've had a hard time finding anything that could transport me back to that era. What were the offices like, what was everyone doing, what languages/tooling were they using, what was the feel? There are plenty of books I see recommended that talk about SV today but what was it like 20 years ago?
If you want local-only collaborative drawing with iPads and Apple TV, Inko costs $20, https://medium.com/@creaceed/drawing-together-behind-the-sce... & https://creaceed.com/inko
To me, there was nothing obvious about the double bracket syntax, e.g.:

[[designers]]
name = Guido
lang = Python

[[designers]]
name = Larry
lang = Perl
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A small yard, garden, and one car garage is reasonable. Not sure you need both a shed and garage. I am picturing a 1920's style home. Sadly many of the newer homes built on 1/2 acre lots have these huge yards that are rarely if ever used for anything. It just gives people an extra two hours of yard work per week.
It's not really a matter of money. In fact, the bigger the house and the bigger the property, the more work it tends to be to keep things up. A newer well-built smaller house should be less upkeep than some old, rambling farmhouse would be.

A big problem is that it's hard to outsource things that aren't repeatable regular tasks like lawn mowing and housecleaning. Of course you can outsource anything. But before you know it, you're spending a lot of money somewhere like the US for a reliable property manager and, as my neighbor was reminding me just yesterday, managing people then brings its own set of issues.
Ignore these haters mate, I'm greybeard sysadmin type who did his time in the helpdesk trenches, and it's a fact despite the many protestations of the others here. Prost!

ps. I would correct though and say some people are dumb. I've met others on the other end of the spectrum too. Also, something something, the difference between ignorance and stupidity, etc.
Are women not subject to these same requirements?
Unfortunately most "conspiracy theorist" I come across refuse to actually engage in a respectful conversation about what they believe. Hopefully you'll be different. My question to you would be "Why do you accept the science that states that the temperature rose unexpectedly, but reject the science that shows why?"
I think the gain is in footprint size and noise levels. I have a Sonnet eGPU box, and it is pretty massive, nearly the size of a microATX case. It also has a fan on the box and the fan of the GPU cooler itself.

This design looks a lot smaller, and I'm sure it is a lot quieter as well. If you don't want those things and do want upgradability there are plenty of other options available already.
>Cups for cold drinks still entirely made of plastic

>Bans a straw

Bravo, SBUX
This is an uncharacteristically deep discussion of R. I also agree strongly with the "making R a 'real programming language' almost killed it" supposition. I feel like a lot of the genuine warts on R come from trying to take it from something that could be (and originally was?) a set of macros on top of Scheme, and turn it into the OOP language du jour.

R was my introduction to functional programming. About the time I was learning R for statistics in a masters program, I also discovered the book "How to Design Programs." The combination of HtDP plus the fact that you could (and perhaps should) mostly ignore the OOP parts of R made this a winning combination.

Today, I would like to see a slightly better general purpose language with first class statistics and graphics DSLs, however. To me, the obvious choice for all that is something like Racket, which already builds a sound base for pedagogy.

I'd also say that the starting point for such an endeavor should more or less start with the idea that it's cloning the Tidyverse. For me, the killer feature of the Tidyverse is that so many components started with a reasonable review of prior art in other languages.

Ggplot started with an academic understanding of the Grammar of Graphics, but also mapped that conceptual framework onto the significantly well-researched foundation that was R's Grid graphics. When I see people try and clone the syntax of Ggplot, I often find myself cringing that they've missed the extensibility of the underlying Grid Graphics system.

Given Racket's focus on building DSLs and purpose-specific languages, I think excelling at creating a user-friendly set of stats and data DSLs could be the killer demonstration for the Racket community. I just wish I had more time and expertise in Racket to make that dream a reality.
I think I've heard short and distort before.
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Ask HN: What apps/tweaks to get to maximize Touchbar usefulness?
I'm finally moving to a Touchbar MBP, and I bet a lot of other people are too. I've followed discussion about the TB but haven't paid much attention to how to improve it.

I'd love to hear what people are doing to make it as useful as possible. FWIW I'm a developer, but I'm interested in anything and everything.
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What I want to know is how it is possible that we have comments claiming the title is misleading/overblown, or that this is a matter of definitions and no big deal. I'm sorry, but what article have you read exactly?

Current estimates puts urbanisation at 55% of all humans, and it's expected to grow to 70% by 2050, more than thirty years from now. And these researchers now claim the current level of urbanisation is already over 84%.

In which field would an error of more than half the current estimate not be a huge deal? Or already being 14% over the projected number of a generation away?

As the article mentions, these numbers matted a whole lot to policy makers and international decision making. It may feel abstract and uninteresting to the average nerd but this stuff has serious consequences.
It wasn't at all obvious to me that koliber knew that naked shorting was, in fact, suspected (at least initially) in the Overstock situation. Documents were sealed, but partially leaked, which is why I asked. And while I enjoyed reading koliber's very clear explanation, I am confused as to whether or not it applies specifically to Overstock, which is what the thread parent was addressing.
I order necessities from Amazon and they show up the next day. If I walk to the grocery store, I can only bring back what I can carry. If I drive to the store or have groceries delivered by Instacart, I can bring comfortably get lots of groceries.
Just FYI, this is a link to a Reason article, which has a very specific partisan leaning.

The mistake in this article is that the tops are recyclable plastic, and straws are not. While straws are 0.2-0.5g lighter, the plastic is worse.
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I'm a hobbyist too. I was in China and Korea earlier this year for a couple of weeks and took 270GB of photographs. Do you think this would scale for me?
The original proposal, which is not by Caplan, tries to optimize time spent reading, which is crucial as a researcher.

> And why would anyone need criteria for that? What kind of person would need to justify to themselves or others that they prefer to study topology instead of, say, financial mathematics?

We need criteria to assess the value to papers, because generally the whole assumed point of writing a paper is to add value.

> Caplan apparently needs some criterion to be able to be dismissive about someone else's work or discipline rather than pursuing his own scientific goals and interests. Yes, I find that kind of anti-intellectual, or at least small-minded.

Ad hominem much. Also, Caplan doesn't say that, and you are talking about the original proposal. You don't seem to have read the article further than the title and the premise, though interestingly you seem able to judge the author itself and convict him with bad thinking. This very much contradicts your own previous piece of advice

> 1. Never dismiss a book or paper quickly because you believe you've found a mistake. Read them until the end and take the authors seriously!

which, to me, seem rather like virtue signaling than a real advice; all the more when you don't apply it thoroughly in reality.
There's a huge range, and "smaller towns" does not necessarily mean places where you are tens of kilometers away from essentials.