skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Very much so.

Profit, while useful in the market, has an upper limit before it can be considered a lack of efficiency, IMO. In some sense, it is the stripping of productive economic value, which is then given to shareholders. It is basically a tax that produces wealth rather than wellbeing.

When shareholders have this money, do they use it wisely in the economy? I don't think that this is an absolute truth. Can the government do better? Yes, if we abandon the conceptual thought that government is always the problem, or by default inefficient, when in fact it can be demonstrated that governments around the world, and here, do many things very well.
You would read the same article about every VC firm then
Awesome, just bought a few hundred TSLA shares this morning. :)
the new CEO, her name eludes me, a Chinese lady, she's very much responsible for AMD's recent success and capitalizing on Intel's mistakes
I wish I did have a good solution. It's absolutely a hard problem to solve, but it does seem like a problem (if not _the_ problem of our times) that we _need_ to solve as systems designers, before things get worse.
AVX(2) definitely had the power-up stall on many chips, including all client Skylake I think.
Using Dapps
Inflow is greater than outflow but it primarily comes from births and international immigration. Additionally domestic migration into California is certainly still happening, but it's very likely the case that it involves the filtering out of the working class. https://lao.ca.gov/laoecontax/article/detail/265
> Don't take any disrespect off of anyone. Push back or walk away at the first insult. Otherwise, it escalates.

Pushing back is a fast way to get arrested. No one questions a cop tackling a "crazy homeless guy" who was having an altercation with a fine, upstanding citizen.
Random white dude here. Nobody cares about my opinion on this. But I thought the opinion of the African-American developer down the hall might be interesting, so I asked him. He saw nothing wrong with master-slave as a term for hot spares for databases and such.

Just one opinion, but he's got more right to be listened to than I do as to whether the term is offensive.
Is this bait?
I've been working on a solution for deploying Rails called Hatchbox. (https://hatchbox.io) Basically wanted to offer something as easy to deploy as Heroku, but on your own servers so you could host on DigitalOcean, AWS, etc. A lot of people have been deploying 50% cheaper than their Heroku bills which is fantastic.

Feel free to email me, chris@gorails.com if you have any questions or want to chat and see if it'd be a good solution for you!
If you can make it work then all the $$ stays in the family
Didn't realize that neuroscience has investigated mindfulness directly like this. Very cool. I've long found that practice useful, to focus as directly on pain as I can; it becomes manageable, even sort of interesting in a way. The alternatives, like attempting to escape via addictions / distractions, don't usually turn out well.
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico

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I'm an experienced software engineer who has been doing entrepreneurship and leadership for the past 6 years.
The claim that people are leaving the Bay Area has been around since the 90s (possibly earlier) and I think it's never been actually true.

Even in 2008 property values didn't decline that much in this area. There's some growth in Washington, Austin, Colorado, LA too - but that doesn't mean the Bay Area is in decline.
In what way would universal income eliminate shortages of generic drugs?
>who still account for >90% of Mozillas income).

You say still, but this will be the first time in a few years that will probably be true. The details of the Google deal aren't public, but I doubt it forced them to spend the past few months secretly hiding Google tracking into the browser.
To be fair, while I stand by my criticism of their lack of oversight, having an App Store model does make a fix much easier to roll out. If this was a piece of malware that was just installed manually, it'd take an OS security update to address, which presumably wouldn't happen in hours (or even days).
From https://duck.co/help/results/sources:

> DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.

Interesting that DuckDuckBot is now relegated to Instant Answers.
> For a while, there will be a lot of fuss and noise in the media. Just ignore them.

Please take your own advice Elon.

Sincerely,
Someone who wants you to succeed
Recently found 1Clipboard which is simple and seems to do the job. I find it amazing how Windows lack quality app for these tiny tasks. It's usually somehow ugly and does more than you need while not easy to do the thing you want to do.

Also wonder how none of the OS has any sort of decent clipboard manager for decades when it should be their default feature.

There are plenty to choose on Mac but Unclutter is great.
The problem is more that we are far better at building housing than we are at improving transportation and other infrastructure that needs to scale with population such as schools. Additionally, adding park space in already crowded neighborhoods is virtually impossible.

Overall I think it's clear that growth can largely be a good thing, we just need to do a better job deploying resources in a rapid when when large numbers of people move in. A good example is Seattle, where the population is booming, and even with massive transportation projects planned and in the pipeline, it's certainly possible that by the time things get built it's insufficient.
And even,

Pain: My head hurts, but that's not going to stop me from having an awesome day.

Suffering: I have a headache, this sucks, let me avoid things that might be fun even with a headache.

Perhaps a better example is the stoicism, Steve Prefontaine famously won an Olympic qualifier with the stitches on his toe ripping; "Yes, my toe hurts, but I want to win, I can fix my toe after I finish."
Those are all things a standard hot desking company provides though, not unique to WeWork.
Lisa Su!
Hey, wow, you still used the term incorrectly the first time. And continue to do so even now.

Did I say it's not possible to do something like that? No. No, I didn't. I did not say that anything is prevented by anything.

I'm saying you used a word incorrectly. What you just said you're trying to talk about? That word doesn't mean what you just said.
What about having a "black box" in the vehicle that records audio and deletes itself within an hour of the ride if either party doesn't flag the ride to Uber/Didi?
Thank you. Basically I was looking for the functional-programming equivalent to the OOP factory-equipment analogy, or asking if such an analogy does/can exist (if it can't, the why might also be a valuable explanation). That analogy can be used to explain the main ideas behind encapsulation, interfaces, and internal state, and why they are valuable, before having any understanding of how those are implemented in practice, and even without any programming knowledge at all. So far everything I've found on functional programming starts with implementation details and provides no initial framework for understanding the broad-strokes of organisation and value proposition.
Have you looked at the GitHub profile? Don't want to be harsh, but it looks like he never really learned how to code either, which is kind-of sad.
I'm not a stickler for education, but there's something to be said for at least finishing highschool; you learn how to learn if nothing else.
Small question:

In the readme (first section) you use, as an example, the command:

"Run adduser bob 2>/dev/null"

why do you add the "2>/dev/null" part? I see a lot of tutorial/guide/example/etc... do that! I understand what it does (send the stderr to devnull) but i don't understand why would i want to do that?
In the US, different government departments define homelessness different ways [1]. How and why they came to do that would be a very interesting read. I had looked into this to see what it would take to legally check the "I'm homeless" box on the ACA exemption form, which I believe was under the HHS rule you posted. But that's different from what it would take to get housing assistance from HUD, and that's probably even different than how the average person would define "homeless".

[1] https://www.nhchc.org/faq/official-definition-homelessness/
There was a PDF I saw many years ago, posted to craigslist, that was written by a homeless man, but consciously choosing to be homeless.

It had an interesting description of various strategies used.

I think he lived in Hawaii and would eat "free" Burger King by rummaging through the trash during a sweepstakes and finding the coupons for free food.

He also rented a small storage unit to keep his possessions (including a laptop), and had a gym membership for showering.

Anybody else come across this?
Its done in Holland for a while.
https://www.rtlz.nl/algemeen/artikel/4140131/amsterdams-ziek...
I was homeless for a while and I can confirm, if you want a job, you will get one. Period. Employers are permanently desperate for good help.

I know felons with difficult histories that find work, if they can then anyone can.
What's amazing (to me anyway, as I learn more about the fab game) is how Zen could suffer the exact same defects per wafer as Intel and produce considerably more viable CPUs per wafer. The "Core Complex" or chiplet architecture was such a brilliant longterm play by AMD—it still blows my mind.
Tax benefits for female owners?
I am currently building microshelters for the homeless in my spare time. The idea is to fill the city with them and piss rich people off.
Thanks, didn't know this feature. More info: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi
Unintended consequences. There are plenty of them in healthcare. Look at what the 340b program is doing to low cost physician cancer practices - moving them all to higher cost hospitals!
Showering is an incredibly wasteful form of bathing, most of the water just goes down the drain doing absolutely nothing.
You could have just purchased a UK phone number, couldn’t you?
>"what does THINK_TANK believe will happen to the economy under Trumps tax plan" (as opposed to "what is likely to happen under Trumps tax plan", so there would be no political disagreements)

You're giving people too much credit. When showed the controversial comparison photos of Obama's and Trump's inauguration crowds and asked which photo depicted a larger crowd, some Trump supporters indicated the Trump inauguration simply because they recognized the controversy and refused to give any credence to the perceived insult, even going so far as to give an obviously false answer on an ostensibly objective poll.
Cry me a river. The more I've learned about it, the more it seems like hospitals are the ones making the majority of the profit in the US's strange and byzantine healthcare system. The cost of their services are generally absurd, and not adequately balanced by customers and competition because 'insurance will pay for it'.
How many direct reports does Musk have? Looks like he just got a few more, which might not be so great for a (reportedly) overworked schedule.
"I know I've been really busy trying to get myself embroiled in a defamation lawsuit, and when presented an opportunity to back down I doubled down instead, and I know our plants are constantly catching on fire because of our unsustainable approach to manufacturing, but everything's fine!"
Another method is to declare at a nation-state level that you're going to ignore patents on certain pricey medicines, such as in India.

https://www.google.com/search?q=india+drug+price+patents&oq=...

India is big enough that it can push back against big pharma.
Space Races: Settling the Universe Fast [pdf]
Of course, I put the "`" to indicate the interpreter command. The compiler is called with `ocamlc`.

The online version is basically a top-level exucuted by the js engine of your browser, and it is more performant than its equivalent executed natively.
Nice, they must have added that since launch. I tried providing feedback years ago when it was still new and the feedback seemed to go into a black hole.
"There are 150 million orphans in the world, but we want to solve this problem and give them a new family: the WeWork family."

...what?

Oh, I see, it's because WeWork is launching a private elementary school for budding entrepreneurs.

...what?
That is definitely what I thought the strategy was. OTOH, a lot of people thought that the Google Chrome strategy was just to spur other browser to advance. In the end, they've gained tremendous market share with the product.
Authorea is acquired by Atypon and joins the Wiley family
Last quarter, they produced 53,339 https://electrek.co/2018/07/02/tesla-official-model-3-produc...

⇒ If they pull that of, they will have produced over 106,000 cars in the quarter, or over 8,000 per week (across all models). That’s about 1,000 more than in last quarters last week sprint. I hadn’t expected that.

And if they don’t, the SEC probably will have more to talk about with them, but I would think that, after the last few weeks, they wouldn’t be that stupid.
We do teach kids not to talk to strangers in the street and consider it quite important, I think. What's so much different about teaching them how not to get robbed on-line? It's not about being a good consumer, but about minding your own feet.
Curious. Where is that?
I think that statement is better viewed in lights of refactoring or changing existing code.
If the code worked/compiled before, and I made a change that still compiles, I can be reasonably confident it didn't break something else accidentally (assuming the program was reasonably well designed to begin with).
It makes reviewing pull-requests much easier.

Doing so in other programming languages always makes me nervous, in C an innocuous change could introduce some memory corruption bug because you broke an implicit invariant of the code, in Python it could raise a type error when called in an unexpected way.
To review a pull-request you have to look usually at the entire file (or sometimes the entire project), and even then you can't be sure.

As for the logic bugs: that is what tests are for.
Many months ago I listened to a podcast about WeWork that summarised the problem as: renting office space is a very traditional business. It's demonstrably true that the cost of these rental spaces is cyclical with the business cycle, and companies like WeWork are basically taking on long term leases at the height of the boom. These leases are 10-15 years, and realistically the value of those spaces are going to dip at some point over that time, at which point the business goes bankrupt because it's massively leveraged.

Everything I've seen about WeWork indicates that this is exactly right -they've got a very traditional, poor business strategy, alongside full on insanity scale silicon valley optimism. Does anyone know why WeWork is valued at close to 10x competitor Regus?
This and trust, which... derives from good law and good courts.

Everywhere else in the world everything must be in triplicate at the very least.
> The same is true with Android, as they were under threat of locked out of a smartphone boom by Apple.

Nice theory, except that Google bought Android Inc. in 2005, years before the iPhone was announced.
The government can afford to invest in things with no immediate commercial benefit, but which over time can pay off in huge ways.

Nuclear power. Highways. Satellite communication. The internet itself. These are all products of long-term thinking, not short term profit.

If you want lower taxes there's one thing you can do to cut them by half: Dramatically shrink the US military and stop building new nuclear weapons.

The amount of money put into programs like pharma is a drop in the bucket.
The implication is that the majority of homeless are just lazy, yea? Just pick apples!

I've been exactly there. You're not making minimum wage when you show up to the farm to pick apricots all day.

Bars - need a bartender license. Yes, you do, nobody is risking it in 2018.

Restaurants, sure, but again, you're not making minimum wage, and if you whiff of hobo you're not working front of house and getting tips.

Cleaning jobs are usually cornered by some immigrant class . If you're an immigrant and have friends/family with the hookup or maybe can speak their language, congrats, you're in (not making minimum wage). If not, move on.

Roofing - you need to bring your own tools. Speaking from experience. Also, this isn't just a "show up and do it job," the shysters that manage to sell shit crews to homeowners never last long, so you'll have to get on with a crew that know what they're doing, and they're not going to want to bring someone on that wants to just do it long enough to "get their feet under them" and then bail. Decent pay, sure, but it's a "career."

Painting - this means standing outside of home depot, just like OP said. Not minimum wage.

Other forms of low skill construction - like what? It's not "low skill," the immigrants you see doing it get trained up by their cousins on the job, and once again, it's bring your own tools.

Landscaping/yard work - market cornered by immigrants and highschoolers. Nobody wants a random hobo mowing their lawn. Maybe you can get on with an immigrant crew. Non-minimum wage.

>unemployment rate so low

Yea, because people are being paid like it's still 1991 (the 2009 raise was putting a finger into a ten meter diameter hole in a dam).

This guy didn't have a family to support him. That's how the immigrants do it, in case anybody is wondering - they stay with families, get jobs due to families, and afford life here because they're all supporting eachother. Random hobo programmer dude is going to have a MUCH harder time scrabbling out of the hole.

Yea, you can scrabble a life, but you're not building a ladder out of the hole for yourself. I'd argue, if you can program, the 3.75/hr you'd make for 3 months is meaningless if you can instead spend that 3 months homeless but then pull a programming job for even a month.
Ask HN: Programmers with kids, how are you teaching your kids programming?
Portland in no way kept up with adding new housing at the same rate it added jobs.
Can you think of a place that became more affordable after the fact and created more value, because I struggle to think of one. Virtually every city in America that is considered affordable has either experienced large amounts of population loss, or is in a region that is still on it's rise in popularity and happened to have tons of open land that it continues to subdivide.

All over the world, central urban real estate is very expensive, often because it has access to transportation infrastructure such as highways and trains that allow it to attract workers over a larger population boundary.
Why? The US can't find uses for all the recycled paper after China stopped taking it.
What a great bargaining chip to have if one were complaining to various telecom companies about how they well they carry Google data across their networks.
If problems "a" and "b" above have been addressed, this doesn't matter. Developers can simply delegate part of the decision process to some UI expert they already know and trust.

Compare

"Your UI improvement sounds interesting but it's too risky to trust a random UI expert. Sorry."

To

"I ran the idea by X and they mentioned that accessibility would become a problem with your approach. How do you plan to address that?"

IMO one sounds more likely to attract quality contributions than the other.
The evolution of the smartphone market was obvious even in 2001/2002, if you saw a Handspring Treo 180 and used one on a GPRS/EDGE network. I had one. When I saw the first info about Android, it seemed to me like a logical technological advancement in the same field. At the time in 2004/2005, the iPhone OS was a total unknown, maybe a tiny bit of info had leaked from Apple about their secret project, WinCE/Windows Mobile was a joke, palmos was a dead end.
FiOS was winding down expanding to new markets, but was squarely in the middle of the overall build out. The initial plan was to cover 18 million homes. Of that, about 13 million were complete by 2008. In 2009, Verizon was already in negotiations with New York. After Fiber came out in 2010, Verizon continued the planned build out at a slower pace, ultimately passing 20 million houses. What was the measurable impact of Fiber on that deployment? It probably did spur the gigabit tier, which required more oversubscription than Verizon planned for originally.
Whilst that's true, narratives at some point do have to meet reality. If rental prices drop by 10%, it doesn't matter what you believe, WeWork will be underwater.
The people who are badass and awesome are the engineers, not the VPs.
Why is their definition of "mindful" (being aware of the present moment without too much emotional reaction or judgment) different from the dictionary (conscious or aware of something)? Is it because this article is hogwash?
$50 for 100 Mbps is still bordering on expensive. Comcast undercuts that, at least in the promo period. They jack it up after the period, but that's the usual thing with Comcast. You need to renegotiate or change accounts. So the less informed as well as cheapskates would still go with Comcast. What you get with GF is symmetric 100Mbps and better quality, but hardly anyone would know that.
Thank you! It was the whole point to be simple and beautiful
hospitals are simply the PoS of many other overpriced goods and services, so that’s where you notice the bloat
Believe it or not, the last tech bubble had a company doing exactly the same thing. They were called Regus, they ended up in bankruptcy and sold off their US division to avoid shutting down entirely. They are still running, they are significantly larger than WeWork (they have offices everywhere from New York to Mongolia)...somehow they are only 10% as valuable. Seems legit...

And the CEO of Regus is still a bit crazy about tech btw. They actually have an R&D arm that is trying to build self-driving office cars...or something. I never worked it out.
Air Force is looking into Elon Musk's pot smoking: Source
Op First thing, I dont think I can ever understand the pain you are going through. I just wish you the best , remember you are in one of the high demand field and it would be very easy for you to bounce back.

Next I would suggest you stop looking for remote jobs and temporary gigs. Those things are only useful when you already have roof over your head and food to eat. Based on maslow hierarchy of needs, your number one focus should be to get roof/food etc. I see you are creating side projects but I would ask you to focus on getting a full time job which can give you reliable salary. This may require mind shift but its not written in stone.

Third thing I would say is that past is gone. Its literally gone, it only exist now in your memory so hopefully you can let go and create path forward. Seems like you are already step ahead because you are taking responsibility for all that has happened. I would also suggest you try to change your environment and get to a bigger city where you can find more jobs and some better city resources.

Good luck
This only works if you can get private businesses in other parts of the world to do your R&D for you. Not a viable strategy for all of the world, tragedy of the commons, etc.
Ehh not sure I agree, the media has tied both up inextricably

"Musk calls diver pedophile - what does the board of Tesla have to say about it?"

"Musk smokes weed on Joe Rogan podcast, Tesla stock goes down!"
Cheat sheet: Keras losses and optimizers