skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect. The parent cited housing law quite specifically. The first link at the top of the comment has the word "housing" right in the title.
> Anything done deep underwater costs at least an order of magnitude more

They don’t need to do much underwater, only install. But I agree capital costs might be higher because of this.

> all the same concrete requirements because they need ballast

Depends on the geology of the sea bed. Where I live, the sea bottom is mostly solid rock, it’s possible to attach stuff to the bottom without putting much ballast.

> use that same mass on land with a crane.

The idea’s nice I just worry about disasters. I read in local news about falling construction cranes every couple of years, because stormy weather for a few months each year. It’s possible to make cranes strong enough even for bad weather (like bridges), but such weather proof cranes will become more expensive than regular ones.
The catcher and the rye.
"things they didn't want to do (such as menial jobs) " -- I didn't say anything of the sort, there was nothing to interpret, that's pure projection on your part, so you're calling the British arrogant and lazy. Patronising, yes, I thought you needed it.
It's interesting that one of the brightest cities of the world can't be bothered to tackle and fix the problem of homelessness.
My unpopular opinion is that Uber is one of the better things to happen to the economy. So many regulations and corporate/government giants stomping out growing businesses basically means that you can align everything perfectly in your startup and still fail. Uber found a loophole and now I get to travel to work without buying a $60k vehicle.

Your wish for Uber to die is elitist and comes from a place of misunderstanding why Uber is a good thing to many, many people, startups and workers alike. Just because you dread the idea of being driven by a taxi driver without a permit doesn't mean I have to as well.
They're not containers, they're structural. They need to be stackable dozens tall. You're basically limited to the kinds of materials you can build tall buildings out of -- concrete or steel. And concrete is much cheaper.
It looks slightly off center to the left https://www.lenovo.com/medias/Thinkpad-p1-hero.png?context=b...
So apparently it depends on the type of cement - non-hydraulic cement hardens as you described, while hydraulic cement does not absorb CO2 but instead hardens in the presence of water. I guess they wouldn't have a reason to use hydraulic cement for this though, so it seems you're right.
Well they could be transparent (Red/Green/Blue filter) glass blocks stacked in front of a reflective screen...

One question is... visible from the sides, from above, or both?
Unfortunately we lost the entire first floor when we dropped a block and filled it in.
The one sure thing about humans in terms of diet is opportunistic omnivorousness. We were never herbivore or carnivores, and the fact that we would gladly chew leaves, eat fruit in season, and suck the marrow from a bone we found all contributed to our lasting success. We’re definitely not, and have never been dietary specialists.

Eat meat or don’t (I do), but don’t kid yourself about some historical or dietary imperitive, and don’t ignore a couple of million years of our and our ancestors’ omnivorous history. It’s also unwise to argue from a historical precedent that has little or no relevance unless you’re cranking out kids in your teens, hunting and gathering, and dying young. We’ve spent a lot of time and energy removing ourselves from the demanding lives of our distant ancestors, and plenty of them ate mostly plants and thrived. Remember gladiators? https://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.htm...

Yeah, eating meat is a choice we make, and only one some of us are lucky to be able to make. History is full of us eating meat, and full of us (especially the poor in all ages) eating mostly or exclusively grain, pulses, and vegetables with some diary I’d they were lucky.
By subsidizing cheap cab fares? There is a reason Uber gained popularity, because the fees are cheap comparatively.
I should clarify, I was responding to your statement that "people are generally good". I'm not so sure of that. People are good and bad in ways I highlighted above (e.g. look at Milgram Experiments and Stanford Prison Experiment).
It’s not even that deep or complicated. You can target however you want to except when it comes to housing. They can’t claim ignorance. When I use to run ads as a landlord in the paper, the paper had specific guidelines in their real estate section and would deny any ad that broke the guideline.

https://www.ajc.com/visitor_agreement_mobile_old/

Equal Housing Opportunity. Any real estate advertising on this website is subject to the Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." Georgia state law also forbids discrimination based on these factors, except that it forbids discrimination based on "disability" rather than "handicap." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians; pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. To complain of discrimination call the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at 800-669-9777.
Is mastodon a one man show? I was interested but I had doubts when I saw those posts on their discourse about the project governance.
Sort of like preppers who teach themselves to identify exits in any venue they enter and how to spot someone that looks out of place. With time you can teach yourself to identify details everyone else ignores, if you have good reason to.
Desktop Linux has a few problems for a power user IMO.

Docking support is pretty awkward IME.

Multimonitor support is also "rough" to say the least.

They're pretty bad with touch/styluses.

Multi-GPU (while I'm against multiple system GPUs) support is problematic.

Power usage is also inferior, which bothers me as I prefer things greener than not, if possible. Not to mention the inconvenience.

If you're just utilizing a laptop like one would in the 80s or 90s, no problem at all, I agree. If you're trying to push the limits, hook up 3 monitors and expect it to "just work" or worse, "keep working" once you set it up.. dock/undock, use a stylus on the screen. Anything beyond firing up a terminal and a browser? Hasn't ever worked well for me. I prefer Windows10 from everything else, but also don't mind macOS (though it's similarly limited like desktop Linux is) and for a distro to just reach for and install, Linux Mint was impressive for usability. Antergos was my rolling distro goto but I prefer Mint's model of Ubuntu LTS but with continual updates to fix bugs. Constant rolling updates is not good IMO and neither is a (largely) code-frozen Ubuntu LTS release. Linux Mint nails the sweet spot there.

But yeah, other than Linux Mint, I can't really use it with how much I demand out of my machines. I consider myself a power user but I don't want to dig into the X11 codebase ever again when I have other things to take care of, some of that code hasn't been touched in 20 years (and that's a bad thing, because much needs updated).
It was just the list of offenses mentioned in the article.
As do I - it's helpful to point out to students that at steady state, the replacement rate for a tenured professor is one. If the field is doubling in size over their lifetime...it's two.

But I'm also in a field where "alternative" careers don't carry quite the same stigma.
Doesn't seem to have worked out so well for Lightsail Energy... http://energystoragesense.com/uncategorized/lightsail-anothe...
Not for me. I've tried and it's...well, it's not bad, but I don't find it meaty or burger-like in anyway.
It's certainly been considered:

https://www.gravitricity.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8646787

http://gravitybattery.info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739349
You're never going to run Arch in production, so developing against "current" software means "hire a team of sysadmins to package all of these future-versions in to the conservative distro that we have in prod".

With luck it will be less than $1M/yr.

This is why people don't use homebrew anymore, either. If you're running a Mac you dev in a Docker container that reflects your production environment.
Auto makers are figuring out how to monetize drivers’ data
I always assumed the unpopular meat parts got turned into hot dogs, sausages or something like that. Am I wrong?
I’m not an expert, but I know that soy is used as a nitrogen replacing plant during crop rotation. So it’s possible that the cost of soy is lower than rice or corn, as it’s an off cycle replenishing plant.

Jan 2018 cost per ton:
Soy: 405
Corn: 155
Rice: 442

Well! There goes that idea! Is the US corn subsidy the reason it’s so much cheaper?
The fact that this was doable doesn’t surprise me. A spectrometer essentially outputs an intensity as a function of wavelength. The output is a combination of the signal plus a background from the star plus mostly additive noise. The researchers knew what signal they wanted to find, and standard statistical techniques are very good at this.

The data used in this paper came from an instrument called HARPS North. This is an amazing spectrometer. Forget finding a signature from iron — HARPS North can detect a Doppler shift of a bright spectral line or less than 1 cm/s. This lets it detect planets by measuring the degree to which they wiggle their star.

(For an old classic example, there’s a device called a lock-in amplifier that looks for a specific sine wave modulation of a noisy signal. They are extremely sensitive.)
I have a few U2F Zero's, they're really cool!
The installation process dominates overall effort, so if that's a lot harder then it ends up being a lot more expensive and thus a lot less cost competitive. It is absolutely insane how expensive an underwater oil well costs to tap compared to one on land, for example.

> Depends on the geology of the sea bed. Where I live, the sea bottom is mostly solid rock, it’s possible to attach stuff to the bottom without putting much ballast.

It's likely to be more expensive to attempt to attach to the sea floor than it is to just sink large weights. In fact, I'm not aware of any large structures that are anchored to the sea floor in a way that resists an upward force rather than a downwards one. It might be a wholly unsolved problem.

> The idea’s nice I just worry about disasters.

Falling construction cranes are dangerous because they tend to happen in inhabited areas, adjacent to other buildings. The energy storage cranes, on the other hand, would likely be in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap, so even if they do fall there's nothing to damage beyond the energy storage installation.
If you build it on site won't you still have to haul in all of the materials to produce it which will weigh more than the final product?
Once flew with a guy in the now defunct CAF of NZ (redubbed Black Sheep Wing) from Auckland to Nelson and the general landscape resembled a beautiful stylized golf course (with a zillion sheep) . If you want a spooky sensation try flying from Dunedin to Christchurch, low (not too low) over the Banks Peninsula around sunset in October when the advection fog starts oozing down the mountain slopes. Reminds you of the old Steve McQueen grade B SF movie 'The Crawling Eye'.
I am not following, the parenthetical part of the OPs comment was "Kind of General American thing." The myth of the welfare queen was very much a Ronald Regan invention, as the then Governor of California [1] and has pretty much endured in the GOP right up through the present day[2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/15/archives/welfare-queen-be...

[2] https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/06/trumps-work-require...
Facebook is the publisher of the ads and is responsible for obeying the law.

If someone asks Facebook to publish an illegal ad, Facebook should not do it.

This is not a free speech issue, or a political speech issue. Nobody is censoring progressive or conservative positions in this case. It's an issue of legality in real estate advertising under a framework of laws that were written decades ago.
Further proof you can make money literally doing anything if you are persistent and able to learn along the way.
Because it’s the law. Newspapers also take steps to make sure they are compliant with the Fair Housing Act.
In my experience, hours of distance always means "by car under typical traffic/weather conditions" unless otherwise specified.
Thank you :)

We wrote our own JavaScript framework called alive.js. We're going to open source it once we've got it documented properly. It's similar to Vue, but without the virtual DOM. Instead we keep track of "update" functions. It also has some nice async lazy loading capabilities which helps keep the experience fast.

Development time was about 4 months to an MVP. 2 developers, but one was an absolute rockstar. Maintained by 2 guys now (1 of whom is an original developer). Also have a small sales team, composed of 5 contractors.
> I do understand why Facebook would allow ad display filtering by race and other demographic categorizations since they are a media organization who sells advertising. Whether or not that practice is morally qualified or agreeable it makes sense from a business perspective (oh how I do detest advertising).
Furthermore, Facebook has already tried this. After the first ProPublica article (last year, I think) they added a “I’m not breaking the law” checkbox.
Dick Cheney and Tony Blair don't seem to belong in that same list. Not saying they are good guys, but I don't see how they can be even close to on the same level as the others.

But I agree with your main point. There is real evil out there and we have a moral prerogative to stop/fight/kill those people.

The USA is hardly spotless, but they have a good reputation of standing up to real evil in the world.
Totally agree with you anecdotally. When I am heavily downvoted on any site, I instantly believe my own dogma more, whether it is right or wrong, because now it is "mine" and it's under attack like a poor little defenseless puppy.
> Nobody hates them for their identity theft, shell companies, and lies to the court.

Actually that's not true. If you followed the case through Techdirt's coverage you'd see plenty of people, and the courts, outraged by all sorts of their behavior including before they extended their activities to trolling with video they owned.

Yes, that's right: while they were in legal trouble for their earlier frauds they launched this particular effort.

Basically scumbags top to bottom.
Because it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of having kids?

https://www.thebalance.com/fair-housing-act-violation-179889...
> 21.7 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS

Looks like 8.3 of that is "Secondary market", which, IIUC, is old investors selling to new ones. This would explain why there are two Dec 28, 2017 rounds listed with different dollar amounts and the same lead investor. In fact, SoftBank is listed as the only investor for the non-secondary round on that date.

Still, that's 13.4 billion dollars of actual new cash (and 3 very recent line items have no dollar values attached, meaning it could be significantly more), so your point stands.
It doesn't really make a difference, because when housing companies use Facebook's targeting options it is still Facebook who accepts the ad and publishes it on facebook.com.

If you do something illegal because someone asked you to do it, it's still illegal.
You don't even need evolution at all. We know that an animals behaviour is a combination of their genes and their environmnet. It is reasonable to propose that growing up in an urban environment would cause an animal to be smarter than it would have been if that same animal grew up in a more traditional natural environment.
I didn't consider that; it's quite possible. Luckily the reaction is pretty mild.
That's them agreeing with you that it's not illegal in the general case, and makes sense, even.

But the very start of the post says it's illegal for housing.
I read a story, wish I could find the link but can't, that at the same time as these "attacks" were appearing there was an ongoing special program at the CIA involving agents taking some kind of experimental nootropic. I guess the idea was to create some kind of super agents. The story suggested a link to the reported attacks, that the symptoms were actually an unintended result of the nootropics. I see no mention of that theory in the comments here. Anyone else see that story?
SF needs to deploy the Motocrotte. They used to drive down my street in Paris and were surprisingly effective. Perhaps we could upgrade to an automated one.

(actually what spurred me to write was the surprise that the Guardian, a UK newspaper/web site used the American spelling for faeces).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motocrotte
From sources familiar with Uber finances, I have heard they are indeed profitable in many established markets, but in all of these markets the only reason they are profitable is high-margin products like Uber Black. If governments start requiring a certain amount of Uber's business to be carpooling to reduce traffic etc., Uber will not be profitable anywhere.
One could take it a step further and figure out to use this for excavations.
> and the little piece that may enjoy it is incidental, the only 4 hardwired desires are food, sleep, sex and offspring/family protectionism.

I enjoy music and programming, where does that fit into that narrative? I also dream about a lot more varied things than those you list. Including flying, when I have a lucid dream.

Controlling what you do during a dream makes it a lucid dream. Saying there is an issue with them because nobody talks about satisfying their sexual desires is an odd argument to make, and may show your biases more than anything.
It's not just the U.S. I'm from Australia and it's the same here. I would imagine it's also like that in other countries.

In any case, even just considering the US market, it's clearly a very large and important one for any software system. And, what a word means there has nothing to do with Americans imposing things on others.
You need enough cranes to smooth the dips in power generation as each crane finishes dropping one weight and has to go fetch another. The number needed would be proportional to the desired power output of the system (holding the size of the weights constant).
Have they pursued a relationship with Spencer's Gifts? Because that's where I would have expected to find this product.
I would think HUD would be very concerned about the fact you can run a housing ad and choose “don’t show the black people“.

Yes it’s blatant discrimination, and that’s exactly the problem.

The ability to say “don’t show to fans of Soulja Boy“ could certainly be a big problem, and I’m sure they might look into that too, but the first one is still there.
It's true that hydraulic cements (eg Portland cement) harden by a different mechanism, but they too will fully carbonatate over time.

https://www.astm.org/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/STP/PAGES/STP39460S.htm

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/60/jresv60n5p441_A1b....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonatation
Does that make them “Professional Dicks”?
Also, you basically never need to go to the cinema to see a movie. On an almost daily basis, you need transportation in the same way that you need food and shelter.
Unfortunately this is true. I think this is a textbook example of where conflating interests are able to effectively push through regressive ideas without some dark room conspiracy.

It's actually quite brilliant: An innovative looking Silicon Valley startup that provides a concrete lifestyle improvement for the upper middle-class under a thin veil of inevitable technological progress.

1. Seems innovative, progressive, and aligned with currents of the time.

2. Got influential supporters through concrete life-style improvements for them.

3. Got a cover story that carries an unspoken threat of being a technophobe.

Not to mention the blatant euphemism "the sharing economy".

An example of where 2. becomes extra visible is when ex-employees of Uber rightfully criticizes the toxic leadership that's spread throughout the company, but is at the same time seemingly oblivious to the fact that Uber's business model is fundamentally reactionary for the working class and that this has been called out, albeit without an audience, for a long time.
> I think the issue will be that either your Mac will be unsupported

What precedent do you have for believing that to be true? The only time Apple has done that in the past is major platform changes (aka PowerPC and later 32bit CoreDuos). Unless Apple shifts to ARM (which is easily a couple years out at best) or Intel comes out with a 128bit processor (which isn’t even remotely on the roadmap), I’d say you are safe for at least another five years, even if those shifts do happen.
Additionally, in older English grammar books, "his" is the default gender neutral pronoun. "They/their" is a modern invention with disputed acceptance. I personally prefer "they/their" over even "his or her"

EDIT: Please don't downvote statements of fact. My karma score pays the price for your momentary burst of dopamine.
> I highly highly doubt they pumped 21.7 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS

There's the legend about the Texas oilman who, wanting to distract his competitors, started a rumor that oil'd been found in hell. This worked for a bit, but eventually he heard the rumor enough times himself that he had to go check out hell for himself.

I personally wouldn't be shocked to find out Uber never ends up really working as a business. Investors are herd animals, and hate missing out on a hot deal. By your logic, nobody would have given Theranos $1.4 billion fucking dollars without making sure their shit worked. But we now know it was a fraud, and not even a very good one.

It's very hard to know if the unit economics for Uber work because there are a lot of things muddying the picture. Uber doesn't own the cars or employ the drivers, so capital costs and expenses are mostly on other people's books. Uber is getting a massive subsidy from investors, but it could also be argued that it's getting a massive subsidy from desperate and/or optimistic drivers who aren't properly valuing their cars, their time, their sanity, or their health. Uber is definitely getting a subsidy from society: they're creating large externalities in terms of pollution, congestion, and carbon emissions. And probably also in terms of short- and long-term draws on the social safety net. Over time, things tend to be properly priced, so Uber's unit economics will likely get worse. We just don't know how much worse.

And even if the unit economics end up being positive, Uber has a lot of investors who expect a return. Given that they have a very shallow moat, will they be able to throw off enough profit to satisfy shareholders without competitors coming in and undercutting them? If they're going to give the same kind of return on capital as Apple, I'd guess that will take $1-2/ride on its own. That could be quite an advantage for a scrappy competitor.
Why was the harangueing ok when Adrienne was doing it? Was it because it was done with the proper political bent?
A good analogy, but drive out to the Central Valley and you'll see a feudal divide that makes SF seem positively egalitarian.

For example all the farm owners' houses are on hills or birds and the workers' housing is in the flood planes. Think I'm exaggerating? Just drive through the Altamont pass and head down 205 towards Tracy. Get off the highway and the divide becomes even more extreme.
Ubuntu runs great on my 2013 15" Macbook Pro. It does mess with the boot manager, and can become unstable if you install it simultaneously with boot camp.

The only issue is that the trackpad drivers aren't so good. Stick to OS X if you're a trackpad gesture power user.
Rational and have perfect knowledge of consequences.