skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this as someone with a bit more alimony than the $10k frequently cited as the expected figure for basic income who also has portable earned income who was willing to move to almost anywhere in the Western US to get back into housing.

Finding something under $550 almost anywhere I'm the US that isn't senior housing or a trailer is challenging. They exist, but it's not as readily available as many people seem to imagine. There are places for less than that, but if you expect some kind of decent housing on a budget, it's a tough thing to find.

I live without a car and that complicated things. A lot of places don't have walkable neighborhoods or good transit. If you need a car to get around, that substantially increases your real cost of living.

I get really tired of repeating myself on this topic. I also worry that I will get viewed as someone harping on it or with a political agenda for simply trying to rebut the endless statements about how poor people can just move someplace cheap.

I'm poor. I have portable income. I'm a former military wife who doesn't mind moving. And I found it incredibly challenging to find someplace to move that I could afford and where I could readily access basic essentials like groceries and good internet service without a car.

If "just move someplace cheap" was all it took, I would have shut up about my problems years ago and just sat around humming to myself about how slick I am and how all the other poor Americans are just dummies who are doing it wrong. It's really not that simple. Even if you have portable income, finding an affordable, livable place in the US is challenging.
>Uber says it plans to focus more on its electric scooter and bike business, and less on cars, despite the fact it could hurt profits.

I would have written that as "could increase losses" ...
Heh. Rebrandings are often more valuable for the fact of rebranding (press hit for LoC!) than any aesthetic reason. It's rare to find an administrator with any graphic sense.

The current librarian (confirmed in 2016) is a bit of a new broom, and is the first to serve under a term-limit. Previous librarians served for life, and the last one refused to understand computers.
There used to be at least one issue about this, and of course it has been fixed by now: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
Companies hire the candidate they like best, they don't even spend mental energy 'rejecting' the other candidates. If you don't get hired, it says more about the candidate they chose and little about you.
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The upside to solving driverless is so huge that companies feel they can't miss out on it. It's still very early in the game. Uber is a great example, everyone assumed with all their VC money that they were serious contenders to Waymo...then the crash happened and we get a (literal) glimpse under the hood and realize things aint so pretty. These operations are opaque by necessity and from an investor perspective, it's not a guarantee that Waymo won't have their own setback which becomes Uber's saving grace (however unlikely that seems at the moment).
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...

There is a serious homeless problem in the US. Some folks "living somewhere" are living in a tent or an illegal Air BnB etc.
A Longitudinal Study of Resting Heart Rate and Violent Criminality of Men (2015)
Consider the smartphone revolution. Apple came out with a revolutionary design in the iphone. The Android team was already up and working in that area and were able to pivot quickly to mimic the iphone. Both Apple and Android became huge businesses.

Being prepared as a second mover once a trailblazer demonstrates a good path can be good business. It even has some advantages over trying to lead and possibly wasting lots of R&D money on dead ends.
I don't conduct the interviews, you're right that that'd be impossible. I take the notes from our interviewers and turn them into feedback emails.
I live in a very capitalist country (Austria) and here parents get around 200€ per kid per month pretty much unconditionally (until the kid has completed their education). We're not on a path to communism, and people don't die en masse here.
1) longterm gas fuel costs

2) most gas comes from Russia anyway (for Yurop)
The most common size I'm seeing for erase blocks is 128kB. The only drives I found with erase blocks over 1 MB are the Samsung TLC drives like the 840.
Astroturfing is a big problem because it poisons the entire well - people stop trusting the entire system and then eventually move on to something else. Without strong moderation or social mechanisms ("Prove you're not a cop!") all anonymous or near-anonymous social networks eventually run into the problem of getting flooded with bad actors, all the reasonable people leave, and then the network is left with nothing but bad actors playing in the muddy remains.

A well crafted post in HN can make a lot of money, and it is happening every day. Its only because of the strong moderation here that those posts are either taken down, or are already indistinguishable from being a regular post from a well-meaning person.
It's even worse in the examples where they jam an image in the middle of the word LIBRARY. Welcome to the LIBR <jpg> ARY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS! Dear God.
It’s unaffordable because many people are inherently selfish and want to live in desirable locations as opposed to the already afforable areas that the majority land-mass of the USA consititutes.
If cigarette smoke is blown through a paper tissue it will get stained (dark brown spot)[0]. I don't think paper tissue is treated in order to become brown with cigarette smoke. Perhaps it absorbs something?
On the other side, obviously, the cigarette filter (butt) does not seem effective in protecting the lungs from cancer or other smoking generated doseases. From that point of view it has only a "marketing" function.

[0]source: personal experience
At a company I worked for we just blacklisted bootcamp grads. It wasn't worth sifting through the dregs to find the few with potential.

I would say a take-home test for bootcamp grads is the bare minimum.
The blockch... I mean it’s a difficult problem :)
What kind of whiskey?
For Prince 2, the magic word was "makinit". Does anyone know if there is any meaning behind it?
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In Freenode's #mercurial, sjl said this about common lisp:

<sjl_>	CL code from the early 90's runs just fine on SBCL from a month ago
<sjl_>	But trying to run five-year-old python/ruby/scala makes me hate life.

This echoes his earlier blog post, volatile software:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/

I kind of have the feeling that fighting bitrot is sjl's main motivation for CL.
> BMI just hits the tare button on what it means to be broke

> It doesn't level the playing field, it just elevates it.

Raising the lower bounds of poverty sounds like a good outcome!
Out of curiosity, could some of that write load be shifted over to a temporary RAM drive?

What did the server do?
HolaVPN (luminati) is suing NordVPN (Tesonet) for stealing p2p proxy patents
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> a single childless person cannot live on $1000/month in many places.

Is this really the demographic that should be optimized for? Seems there's a nice financial incentive to find a partner and split the cost of rent. As a single childless person myself (who has shared rental houses with a friend for several years now to lower costs of rent and keep it "affordable") I've been led to believe that the cost of having children amortizes (especially as you add more children) with incentives, and really pays off as you get into old age. If it were up to me I'd rather optimize for the family unit rather than singles.
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Some clarifications:
Minimum SSD write is much less than the erase block. Erase block is the minimum block size that can be erased.
For SSDS, there are 2 key concepts:
1. Read granularity < write granularity < erase granularity
2. Cells that have been written to must be erased before writing again.

Most SSD vendors will buffer write contents to collect a `write granularity` worth of data to avoid wasting bytes writing padding. This can be hard to do on drives without capacitors to supply backup power in the event of power loss.
> people live somewhere don't they?

They live together when they prefer to have their own base (like 4 workers sharing the same 2 bed-rooms). They also live with their parents, as inconvenient as it is.

No there is a housing problem.
Because sometimes understanding the base concept is important. I cannot possibly ask you to solve 1,000 scenarios in 45 minutes. But if you get the basic idea of how the concept works, I can be sure that when you encounter scenario #945, you'll have the basic grasp on the concept to at least know where to look, and when scenario #487 comes up, you'll know the basic idea of how to handle it.

Asking you just to do one thing in an interview risks accidentally hitting one of the ten-twenty things you do know how to do, leaving me with no proof that you can solve the other 980-ish possible problems.
Oh I agree with this entirely. Market competition can be fantastic, but is only really possible in domains where consumers are A.) able to make choices (eg., not fire or ambulance or life-saving medical services), based on B.) sufficiently good-enough information (doesn't need to be perfect, just good-enough), where the suppliers are C.) sufficiently well-regulated so as to prevent the formation of monopolies or cartels.

This isn't theoretical; it can and does happen -- just not for every type of good or service, and rarely by accident. A well-functioning market has to be designed.

Analogy: the freest roads of all would have no lane markings or regulations. This would give you "freedom from" regulation, but wouldn't give you the "freedom to" do very much. Roads with rules and regulations aren't "un-free"; they just prioritize "freedom to" over "freedom from".

And in some places, of course, mass transit just works better. Markets, too, aren't for everything. But when government is going to intervene to control prices, without actually taking any responsibility for the provision of said goods and services themselves, then those price controls quickly become divorced from reality, and do little besides create deadweight losses in some places and black markets in the rest. That's a lose-lose proposition.
I graduated from a school that I think was #40 when I was there and got a job at one of the top tier companies but each person has their own experiences. Now people couldn't care less about where I went to college (also fun fact my GPA was 3.2 so it wasn't even that good but luckily no one cares about that either).
Show HN: Krypton – make your phone a U2F Authenticator
I wonder how much this design costed taxpayers.
Have you seen the prices people pay on this? They'd throw the money out of the window without second thoughts. They do with deposit cans already.
I'd settle for "do you at least send a rejection email of any kind to the candidate?" vs. the "dropping someone on the floor and not responding for weeks/months/ever". Even without detailed or personalized feedback, it's a huge improvement. Also if an internal person refers someone, you should let the internal person know if you're passing, I think (depends on other factors, though.)
Isn't a lot of the job of software engineering to quickly and concisely communicate complicated concepts? Might this actually be an accurate work sample? How else might you measure something like this?

Also the next few lines kinda address what you are saying:

> It also might be that they know them inside-and-out but aren’t used to answering questions on the fly, or that our question didn’t use the vocabulary they’re familiar with, or that they misheard the question and answered a different one. It made quite a difference just to phrase the feedback in a way which acknowledged all those possibilities.
My very fuzzy recollection is there's long-ago work compiling user-defined mixfix operator precedence parsing down to recursive descent, but yes, opp implementation is pretty for large complex user-defined operator sets.
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I mean its absurd to think you could find what you're looking for. The US is very obviously not built for cars, so if you want to go against that you'll need to pay more. Or just find a place for $450 that isn't walkable, and pay $100/mo for a car.
Ask HN: Based on what criterias do you pick a conference?
While working for startups I liked to attend technical conferences. However now that I'm creating my own products I feel like I don't have time and money to go, but I still think it's important.

Based on what criterias do you pick a conference to go?
>> ... Honestly, I don't see the point of this 'fork'.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana

https://bigthink.com/the-proverbial-skeptic/those-who-do-not...
less applicants ? more customers ? error in judgement ?
I didn't look at the raw data, but no awk in the top 50?
>> What companies actually have a reasonable chance at developing a usable autonomous driving system that won't kill me while I cross a street and won't kill the driver while on the highway?

What chances does a regular human driver have in killing someone else while they cross the street? Its pretty high, given the number of casualties per day. All the people on their phones while driving and being otherwise distracted it's an enormous risk... Chances will never be 0, but autonomous cars have the potential to be safer then majority of human drivers.
They traded what was "just a logo" for an entire design system. This is the branding equivalent of Google’s “Material Design.” Also for what it’s worth Pentagram — and Paula Scher — are very prestigious, considered top-of-their-field.

But I agree they phoned this in. Unnecessary and uninspired.
> It also took time to work with California state agencies and the IRS to make sure that no study participants lost existing benefits.

So, same family working for the $1,000 will have to pay more overall taxes than the one receiving the $1,000 from the YC program? It doesn't seem really fair.
I agree, but that's actually quite difficult. In many poor areas, high school attendance is low and truancy is high. Teachers are underpaid, not allowed to discipline students, and a host of other problems that make "providing education" not as simple as it sounds.
With the cheat mode enabled, you can see this in-game by pressing Shift + B. Static parts of the level go dark, only the animated characters and their surroundings are rendered.
What’s Really Happening with the National Prison Strike?
What ills do you speak of? The negative media narrative is not a full reflection of reality, rather what will attract the most eyeballs to monetize in this current media cycle.
That is before quite amplification which can be pretty high.

Real value depends on block size and write algorithms employed.
This happens in the US too, though not quite the same way. Here, you get substantial tax breaks for each "dependent" (i.e. kid, disabled person, elderly, etc. that you are financially responsible for). This basically translates into the government giving money to families that otherwise they would not have had. The only difference is that it is money simply not taken from the citizen, rather than a monthly stipend given to the citizen, which leads to people treating it differently.
I've struggled with the same thing all my life, sleepless nights and foggy days. I once thought about it and determined that there were years where I DIDN'T have this issue and came to the realization that was when I was involved in high school sports or college athletics. If I don't get a 5-7 mile run into my day or 45mins of swimming or weightlifting, etc.. why should I be tired? If all I've done all day is breathe and walk around there's no way I'm going to be able to sleep until like 2-3am. So perhaps absent hard exercise I'd fall into the 25-27 hour day cycle that others have described here in tis thread. but If I want to be on the same clock as most others I'd better make strenuous exercise a priority.
Ask HN: How many HNers are happy?
I wish to know how many of you are actually happy and content with where they are.

It does not mean that you do not desire more, but more like you are extremely satisfied with what you have right now.
I want mandatory drug tests. I prefer sending taxpayer money to handicapped and medically incapacitated as opposed to self-inflicted drug addicts.
I don't think the suggestions are bad per se. The reason they come across as condescending is because they're obviously very generic and they're sent to people who, in the current market, can be picky about who they want to work with.

Ultimately your whole business model is competing with tech recruiters, and my recruiters will call me to give me feedback from a role application, you have reduced that human touch aspect to an email with a few links to hackerrank.
It is kind of amazing how inappropriate a slab typeface feels for a library.
> Isn't what you saying exactly the problem mmaunder talked about?

I was trying to make a distinction between perceptions of character and perceptions of attitude.

Though not everyone agrees, many people see waking up early as a valuable part of being self-disciplined and hardworking. That's a perception about character.

But that can't account for perceptions people have around events that happen in the afternoon or evening, and yet people still read things into arrival time for those events too. So there is a second factor in perception.

> This has nothing to do with me being unable to do a job or being not intersted in it.

I agree that it's absolutely possible for this to be the case. But perception doesn't always reflect reality.

Often people really do understand and just like to tease others who don't fit the mold. But sometimes people make assumptions, so basically I'm trying to be aware of what assumptions they might make and why just in case it happens.
why not just use a text file?? or... paper
China already tried this and this is the outcome: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/25/chinas-bike-...
US cities are predominantly designed around cars. More so than China. Don't see how Uber can succeed with this initiative.
Lots of companies are a mess internally.

If in 2-3 weeks you haven't heard from the recruiter, you should ping them back, if no response don't was further time and move along.

Interviews often seem like hit and miss. I would recommend training at geeksforgeeks.org just to refresh dynamic programming, etc. But beyond that you're better off applying multiple places.
FYI there is also a different "automl" suite of libraries maintained by Frank Hutters lab at the University of Freiburg - [1]. His group has been leading a lot of research in the area of hyperparameter tuning.

[1] https://www.automl.org/
Some feedback:

* Awesome job, here are some feature suggestions:

* The ability to rate the mix/mashup as the author

* The ability to rate as an audience

* visual of the algo's understanding of the songs sound profile and how its lining them up

* The ability to select the time-range of the song which must be included/excluded from the mix

* ability to ask it to weight a repeating frequency of a song

* name of the artist/track/video playing displayed

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Where are you guys located?
Haha I did a startup based on SGX. I will never trust Intel again.
Uber’s history outside of self-driving cars is hardly clean either.

My only guess would be Toyota is hoping that when Uber goes full self-driving they would use Toyota vehicles to do it.
I used to like the idea of Basic Income, but now I think that all the money would go into rents and property owners would absorb all the value.

the problem of affordable housing is actually very simple and the solution is obvious; too many people are moving to big cities; so everyone ends up competing for increasingly limited real estate (in a desperate bid to cut their commute times to less than 2 hours per day).

One of the main reasons why so many people are moving to urban centers is because that's where all the jobs are; it's a direct result of the centralization of capital in the hands of corporations. Corporate HQs are in big cities because they want to get access to the best talent and corporations are more likely to find talent in places where there are lots of people to choose from.

One solution would be for the government to introduce legislation to encourage companies to hire remote workers. Another solution would be for the government to introduce legislation to make the economy less focused on corporate growth.

Due in a large part to corporate lobbying, whenever a politician is presented a choice between a free solution and an expensive one; they tend to pick the expensive one.
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Most of the reality-based world calls them a "transportation network service". That's the phrase to google if you want to find, e.g., various city and state information about regulation, etc.
If anything the amount of money they were able to raise and resources they were able to throw at the problem proves that its at minimum 10 years away, barring some ground-shaking advances in displays and sensors. With billions of dollars they ended up with a clip-on computer, a 50 degree FOV "lens", no compelling demo and the same judder the hololens had. It seems much closer to being at the VirualBoy stage than the Oculus/Vive.
A compression of income distribution (raising the floor/median without changing mean) means that low-income residents are more likely able to afford to rent units at a tier higher if the price for value not of low-income apartments gets worse.

Unless each tier goes up in value by an amount proportionate to what landlords expect the wind-fall to be. The effect of increased rent isn't just going to be at the lowest income but will happen as each landlord acts accordingly.

Landlord don't have to play by some fair rules of economics or something. Instead they optimize their income in the obvious fashion. Rents would rise in unit up to the level where taxes begin reduce total incomes (those would be mostly home and condo owners at that point I assume).
We have been optimizing for the nuclear family since the 1950s. Meanwhile, our demographics have diverged from that. This is part of the problem.

We have more singles, more childless couples and more single parents. Their housing needs are not being met. We expect young single people to rent an apartment designed for a family and get roommates.

If that works for you, that's already available. The assumption that someone with basic income should get a roommate is an assumption that they really aren't allowed to aspire to the same things as middle class people, like a space of their own.

A lot of women currently de facto use a romantic partner as a means to cover rent and it causes all kinds of problems. Expecting people to pair off to have a decent place is essentially expecting a polite form of prostitution.
As a percentage what are talking about? There are homes and apartments aplenty, the biggest issue is the economics of it. What would cause rents to go down? An oversupply? What would cause an oversupply? Barring some regional crash it would have to be overbuilding. People aren't dumb and they won't overbuild. They will build as demand increases but they certainly won't lower prices. If anything they will raise them. It's obvious.
You can't outright move to Thailand at least. You'd need to do visa runs in neighboring countries but couldn't live there 365 days a year.
I don't know that I'd go so far as to call it my main motivation, but it is absolutely one of the strongest motivators, yes.
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