skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you prefer that kind of lifestyle (1X00 sq.ft. with a lawn), you’re stuck with housing stock built in the 1980s and earlier.

The problem around the Redmond, WA area is that if you want the lifestyle you describe, despite lots of new houses going up you will still have to have something built in the 80s. Because everything being built is 3200 sq. ft. or more. Now, I understand why, because you get more money from a $1.3MM house than you do a $800K one. But if you don't want some monstrosity with a postage stamp lot (because the house took it all), good luck finding one in Redmond. They're building houses, but nothing I'd personally want to buy.
I'm referring to this Sarah Jeong character and similar overtly anti-white messaging. Whatever the supposed justification, I fail to see how this coarsening of public discourse can be considered constructive.
For most states, no nursing jobs on your site. They're hard to find (none of the aggregators do well) for the reasons I mentioned. Most of us take 6-12 months or more to get our first job and we mostly learn about them through social connections. If you want to know a lot more, send me an email and I can dump everything I know about this on you. Since I was a darn good programmer (and a barely-passable entrepreneur) for over 30 years I'm also glad to share any discussions about how this task might be tackled.
> Programming had become too easy.

what do you meen?
Switch to math-heavy domain, e.g. quant finance. Besides being a fascinating field in its own right, the maturity and depth of thinking and experience that comes with age are actually valued here.
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That's not entirely true. If you're actually emergent and require a same day apptmnt then they've got held appointments for you. However this has led to an extremely strange system where often GP receptionists are essentially gatekeeping services (as a pre requisite to accessing the GPs who gatekeep the other services...)
> The government itself barred Medicare from negotiating drug prices. If it is incapable of overturning such a policy, why should it be entrusted with 10x more patients?

The political faction which opposed and supports the policy you point to does so for precisely the same reason it is opposed to the faction proposing single payer; people voting for the faction that supports single payer would also vote out the faction supporting that policy. So, you are literally conflating two opposing things as the same thing.

> You could have the government give a health-stipend for insurance for all americans, so its government funded, kind of like school vouchers

Yes, and if you also have the government provide a default fully-public-funded option just like with school vouchers, you will have almost exactly recreated what Medicare already does for it's covered population (Medicare Parts A & B are the public option, Medicare Advantage plans are the private options to which public “voucher” subsidies can be applied in place of the default public option.)
Isn't that going to turn into a voting system as soon as those predictions are used for making political decisions?
I have found this to be true with meal delivery kits, as well.

I can get better ingredients mailed to me than what I can purchase locally, and the meals taste better than the area restaurants.

Consistency is key, but seems hard to implement in practice.
Great point!

Except that the population density of the US is almost double that of Norway. (We definitely have our share of rural areas...)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
Not a "Category 5 moron", but a Category 5 PHB (a Dilbert reference). Marketers and clueless boards love them: they glue together buzzwords and fad memes that sounds important, powerful, and modern to the ill-informed.
As a 40+, the first time someone mentioned "the tyranny of the random number generator" it had immediate resonance. It was in a gaming context, but is a useful life metaphor.
So the government just begged bolivar to the government's own cryptocurrency, the petro.

We already know that this does nothing.

Venezuelan government refuses to reduce the government spending to match the government income. In fact they just announced 3,000% wage increase at the same time. No matter what the name of currency, as long as it's Venezuelan government issued currency, it's going to lose value.

There is no way this peg will hold. They just alter the way pedro is calculated or do other shenanigans.

Is there betting market for this? I want to bet several thousands against pedro/bolivar.
Honestly supply chains for food are pretty bad in most of the county. Access to fresh, consistently good produce is difficult to get at the scale and price that a restaurant would need.

That and most of these family owned restaurants just don't have the headroom to try challenging their clientele, so they stick to what's tried and true with their local diners. They have to keep the prices low and the food broadly palatable to unadventurous eaters.
> C/C++

Got it!
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I greatly prefer on-site work over remote work. Being able to walk over and have a conversation, or draw something up on a whiteboard, is a much, much higher bandwidth form of communication than any remote communication that I've seen. I've seen conflicts come up in code reviews and over chat that never would have happened in person, and I always move a conversation to in-person whenever there's any worry of conflict or confusion. I'm also much happier if I spend my day interacting with other people, even if it's about work things.
I don't think addiction or overuse is a problem for regular CBD users. I think this article is referring to addiction to the pyschological effects of THC.
Don't sell yourself short. Everyone works differently and not everyone keeps the same interest in how they work forever. I personally don't mind an office or the clear delineation between work and life if the office and company are set up in such a way as to not crush my spirit and allow flexibility. Otherwise I like being to work however I want. Usually this ends up being coffee shops. Right now this is coffee shops while I'm road tripping and living out of my car. It works for me kind of, certainly wouldn't for everyone. But, I can't work at home. Even if I have a home, I go to a coffee shop or park, partly for the reasons you mention.
The same (shady) things that happen today on non-crypto prediction markets (sports betting, options chains, etc.)
> The Touchpad was only on the market for just over a month before being discontinued. Why do that?

Léo Apotheker.
Well how much is developed palates, and how much is just different palates/different expectations? It's widely known that American Chinese food is different from traditional Chinese food. Do Japanese/Korean/Thai/Vietnamese also change their dishes?
That's an excellent example of how even government provision of healthcare can be more or less regulated. The law doesn't allow the agency running Medicare to not buy certain drugs which is the other side of the coin in terms of them not negotiating. By contrast the NIH is legally allowed not to buy a drug and uses that fact to negotiate lower prices.
> Except for some reason it's hard to find good pizza outside the Northeast. What's with that!?!

Well, it's not true for one thing.
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What does it cost in labour-hours rather than dollars? According to Google, minimum wage in Vietnam was $166/month last year.
This seems like a historical list of major bugs... are those really "design errors"? Or are we expecting perfect code on v0.1?
Yes, the law is great at reaching decisions. Not always good ones, but one is sure to be reached. If that is all that matters to you, you're thinking like a legal academic, not a security researcher.

The point I am making is about uncertainty before you get to a formal legal setting. Or is everything else you do in business do-first, hope you don't get busted later?

Legal uncertainty about edge cases is real, and a thing that dissuades people from doing thing things. Saying the law will figure it out is how we got here with the CFAA, not a solution to it.
As someone who has to sit next to a team that does that, it's annoying as fuck to listen to people have a meeting like that.

EDIT: I don't know why this is downvoted. It's incredibly rude to have meetings at your desk like that in an open plan office.
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So? Is reading books the only way to grow?
I was watching some NASA scientists ask the federal government for money on C-SPAN and the NASA people said that they decide what research to fund by surveying the scientific community. I forget what they call the system exactly.

EDIT: I found it. They use something called a "decadal survey"

https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-surveys
Yes, doctors here (as, indeed, in most countries) can take cases to court when they believe the best interests of their patients are not being looked after by the legal guardians. And these are not mediocre doctors, nor was this being done lightly.

The treatments not covered were not even approved for use in the UK privately afaik - it was entirely unrelated to the NHS budgets.
At what odds?
There's much more than avionics if you navigate up the path:

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/
As someone who went from development to management and then recently back, I strongly recommend that you avoid seeing management as a pull, or as a natural progression for your career. Management is 100% a different skill set, and going there from an engineering position is a career change, not evolution. It's not a promotion, either.

If you do decide to go into management, jump with both feet and give it 100%. And don't weep for your technical chops, because you just can't keep them up at the same level if you are committed to being a leader.
As a felon myself working in tech, I find this attitude refreshing. It could work in IT...but would require significant changes to how things currently work. I can't say for sure whether it would be worth it to restructure entire organizations to benefit the disenfranchised, but my instincts are telling me that it would add a reddish hue to the bottom line and thus is unlikely to be adopted.

I do think that this sort of attitude could add value and blacken the bottom line if applied to many other types of industries (eg. construction, manufacturing, machining, food service and much more).
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"Rent an office near home, walk there."

Why should I have to be the one to pay extra?
I noticed this yesterday at dinner. The lowest suggested tip on the receipt was 20%! So psychologically I kind of felt bad for "only" giving 15%.
>And as for the "layers" argument - if there are too many layers of dependencies to keep track of, something is very, very wrong with the technology you are using. (And yes, I do consider modern web tech completely insane.)

So you were basically being glib about the salaries, since you know a lot of us are in that position? What do you suggest we do?

When I list the dependency tree of our project at work I get ~5500 unique packages (many are different versions of the same ones). Does the fact that I don't know them by heart mean that I'm being paid too much?
Typing this on a new HP EliteDesk (corporate shitbox) that came with a frigg'n chiclet keyboard. Yes a POS chiclet keyboard, with stickey keys, that probably cost $1 to manufacture. This is how far HP has sunk.

Fortunately my Unicomp keyboard will be here soon.
I never denigrated Firefox as a product. It still performs adequately for many users and the source code model is a bit more friendly to FOSS distributions compared to Chrome. I called Mozilla an irrelevant vendor due to their disconnected leadership, diminished browser marketshare and now-fractured community, that makes all such shouty blogposts seem desperate.
I mean, principle of charity- we're talking about ethnic meaning ethnic non-American.

Regardless, I've also been to Memphis, and I had some really good BBQ there, and I had a lot of really average BBQ. I think another problem is that a lot of regions coast on the reputation of their "regional" food, and there's a lot of people that aren't great chefs or aren't dedicated to the art of food that ride the coattails of the region's reputation.
40+ embedded engineer here. Still yearning for working on a start up of something significant. Feel like I have the experience and skill to contribute significantly better than the young engineers I have had a chance to work with. Just hoping that the right opportunity will knock on the door some day.
Isn't the main drawback that there is a lot of maintenance needed on old houses? I worked many hours on a fixer upper built around 1900 by an amateur homebuilder. It's incredibly frustrating that every single change you want to make to windows, doors, or anything is complicated by non-right angles. It increased the time required for basic repairs by 2-fold, so much re-doing needed to get even a mediocre fit, never mind a great fit.
"...By that logic performing surgery is illegal, should Apple remove an app that helps operate surgical equipment?..."

???

A medical device of that nature would definitely be regulated. The FDA is gonna want to talk to you about that.
There was an HP operating system, HP-UX that ran on all of their workstations. They even made their own line of CPUs for a while, until Microsoft and Intel gutted the whole RISC/UNIX workstation market by massively undercutting their prices.
But if they scale that up to 1 billion users, their company will be worth 9000 trillion dollars. Sign me up!11!
I say this with no sarcasm: I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I'm pretty sure this very much is just razzle-dazzle, hoping to fool people for just a little while longer.

Contrary to popular belief, even trotted out here on HN in about half our discussions on BitCoin, currencies are not just something that some government said somewhere is worth whatever. They need to back to something. US currency backs to the fact that the US law enforcement and potentially military (if you're big enough) will come after you if you fail to pay taxes, which, while perhaps a bit brutalist and in violation of some of our more delicate follow-citizen's tastes, turns out to be enough to keep an economy humming along.

If the Venezuelan government is incompetent enough to have that same delusional view of how currency valuation works... well... behold its results.
What do you mean? Switching the app store region was alway trivial (just click on a different region). What is difficult about switching the region is paying for apps. You need a region-specific payment method.
I built a web-hosting site when I was 17, but I did not go to college for computer science, instead I studied physics. Then I went into scientific research in graduate school.

Now in the early 30s I am finally starting a career in software development. I am still excited to learn new things all the time, and I really enjoy the process. Just wondering what will be different if I started a software job 8 years ago instead of now, moneywise or not...
You pay your insurance against cancer before you get it.

That’s not how things worked pre ACA. The insurance company could drop you after a certain point even if you had paid for coverage.

Also, before the ACA, if your cancer was in remission and then five years later, even if you had continuing coverage, and you tried to get insurance on your own, you couldn’t get it.

A more complicated pre-existing condition would be maybe for kids, young adults whose parents didnt give coverage for , etc.

That’s also not how things worked pre ACA. If you had insurance that you bought yourself and not through your employer and you had a kid who was born with a birth defect, the insurance company wouldn’t cover you.
That's going to play well during a PCI-DSS audit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
Don't know about this particular incident, but in general gambling is very culturally integrated in Asia is found in many contexts you wouldn't see gambling in other countries.

The weirdest I've seen:

http://www.motorscooterguide.net/Kymco/Bet-Win/Bet-Win.html
A motorcycle whose model name is "Bet & win"
I agree, I think you would see a lot more renovations vs. new homes. Where I live in Chicago (not the trendiest part of town), the cheapest single family fixer-uppers are $350-450K. Not many people queuing up to drop at least $1 million on new homes here.
Then those who can make actual realistic predictions can simply predict the truth and exploit them
tl;dr: homebuildling activity is still depressed from its 2008 high.
I would add: resist getting sidetracked at all costs. In smaller businesses it's easy to be pushed into work that's contributing nothing to your CV. This is the one thing I would change if I could go back.
They seem to have solved the snow problem, at least having a viable solution for it.

https://youtu.be/ogfYd705cRs?t=5936
I've done it once, converting about 15 lines of python to rust. It was completely painless and resulted in a large speedup (changed a hotspot that was taking approximately 90% of execution time in a scientific simulation to approximately 0%).

Type system and expressive macros seems like a big win over c to me.
However, all those people moving into the 3200 sq ft homes have to move from somewhere. That opens up smaller homes, large apartments, etc.
>"I think "the people who adopt a low-card diet" would do well to pay attention to a study that reports increased mortality for people who reduced their carbohydrate intake less than they have."

You think the low carb diet people would be mistaken if they dont pay attention to this study that contains no data for low carb diet people at all.
>Maybe they say the same thing about "classical French" (i.e. Lyon/Paris) cuisine's reliance on cream, shallots and bacon :)

My Indian family often complains about Western cuisine's penchant for slathering butter, cream, and cheese on absolutely everything.

Even most of the cheap Indian food served in America is way, way too loaded with cream for most Indians' palates.
Ask HN: Skills required for AI Music
What are the skills required to build good music from a collection of organized audio loops?

For example, suppose there are two directories that contain audio loops for a particular genre, one contains melodies and the other contains accompaniments.

Assuming all loops are in the same key and BPM, what skills are required to determine that some melodies will work well with some accompaniments, and some melodies do not work well?
Regardless of cuisine, most kitchen staff in Houston are Hispanic and we have some damn good food including Thai. Is it authentic enough to pass muster with a native? Not sure about that. But it's good enough to be popular. :-)

Having said that my favorite Thai place is still Morningside Thai and I'm pretty sure it's native run.
In a world where "illegal hacking" can mean "making a document you legally own on a device you legally own usable with other software", there is most definitely a problem.

Further, how does one discover weaknesses without doing things? Are any and all discussions of security to be confined to the purely hypothetical?
I am 53 and I started to learn BASIC at the age of 15. I started writing assembly code about 2 years later to speed up the games I wrote in BASIC. I write a small amount of code almost every day (maybe 30 or so lines of Mathematica code), but only rarely do I write 1000 lines a week. When I do have a busy programming week, it is rather fun. I really enjoy writing code in Haskell. It reawakened my love for coding. I still don't understand it well, but I know it well enough to be able to convert almost any of my C++ code to Haskell.
That's your list of priorities: great! I understand your decision. However I accept all of these inconveniences since my list is different: Privacy

Tom Cook's words:
> If you look at our model, if we can convince you to buy an iPhone or an iPad, we'll make a little bit of money. You're not our product.

Not to mention that I love the years long consistent updates of all my iPhones / Macs.
We use a few Dash buttons and a macOS app (with Node.js backend) as our doorbell solution.

https://github.com/calltracking/doorbell

It's not the most beautiful thing, but it gets the job done of letting us know when someone is at any of our 3 doors.
Tipping and bribes goes hand in hand...

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/h...
I'm doing this now, actually. It keeps my attention :-)
The application I worked on was quite popular, and I can guarantee our customers used every printer that was out there. The HP was the only one that exhibited this bug.
Modesty by the creator is not due to lack of foresight, it is due to the exact nature of their understanding.
It's matrix multiplication.

Has been in Python since version 3.5

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0465/
I don't know if you're expert, but I'm curious: What's the push/pull balance between destruction/abandonment of old homes vs. construction of new homes vs. constant habitation of the existing homes? I guess I'm asking is the effective amount of houses on the market stable, decreasing, or increasing? Also, relative to number of people looking for homes, what's the situation?
I think you took that claim out of context:

"By "perfect MT programs", I mean code that's easy to write and understand, that works with the same design approach in any programming language, and on any operating system, and that scales across any number of CPUs with zero wait states and no point of diminishing returns."

That doesn't mean to say its "perfect" or "solves" multithreading, just that its easy to write and understand and portable across architectures.
That says nothing of how optimal it is for concurrency or parallelism ease-of-use wise or performance-wise, just that its 'easy'.
So the government just pegged USD to the government's own cryptocurrency, the petrodollar.

We already know that this does everything.

US government refuses to reduce the government spending to match the government income. In fact they just announced 3,000% tax decrease at the same time. No matter what the name of currency, as long as it's US government issued currency, it's going to gain value.

There is no way this peg will fail. They just alter the way petrodollar is calculated or start other revolutions.

Is there betting market for this? I want to bet several thousands on USD/petrodollar.
So this buys the economy somewhere between 1-3 months while everyone figures out how to game the new system effectively. Then they'll change it all up again!
The CLI wasn't terribly intuitive for app discovery, and to be honest until I googled around I couldn't even find the flatpak command to update already-installed apps.
What a question! If you don't like what you're doing, do something else. Life is short.

I'm 57. I've been programming since I was 14 in 1974.

Engineering is an exciting profession that applies creativity to complicated technical domains. So it uses your whole brain: you have to master a technical area, and then be creative and build things. What's not to like?

I am always learning. I am now learning elixir, a functional language build on erlang. I have lost count of the number of languages I've learned over the years. I am comfortable on Windows, OSX, and Linux.

Honestly, if you're burned out I get it. But to 'keep the fire' just requires you to have some imagination and remind yourself how cool this profession is.

And by the way, I love being challenged by my younger colleagues. They are a conduit for new approaches and ideas and are essential to grow an org. But yes, I have experience about what is likely to work and what won't - based on many failed projects where I learned what not to do the next time.