skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is with considering what the GDP would be if you eliminated most rent-seeking businesses and there was a much broader spread of technical know-how across society (gardening, electrical repairs, plumbing, workshop experience, cooking and other home skills).

If we wasted less and took better care of the environment around us, the costs to society would be less, this could be measured as a decrease in spending and a shrinkage of the GDP. You wouldn’t buy new clothes as often if you could maintain your existing wardrobe, and you wouldn’t buy electronics or appliances as often if you could extend the lifespan of your current electronics. Basically there wouldn’t be as big a drive for consumerist spending patterns and this could be measured, by a decrease in the GDP which would of course cause financial markets to panic.

My thoughts on this are far from complete, but that said, I don’t think our market system is really all that efficient from a tangible resource allocation perspective. It might be highly effective from the perspective of the financial and insurance industries, but the assets they hold are intangible, and the market is probably over-optimized for allocation of intangible resources simply because there is more money to be made there. That is still an optimized market for the allocation of resources with the highest rate of return, but maybe it is time to ask ourselves if that is still to our benefit?
Congratulations. I think it's commendable you are going to spend the next phase of your life writing books for others to learn from.
The problem with this is you (and most people) have no idea what PRISM actually is. It’s not what you think, but unfortunately the ham-fisted government doesn’t understand that is why they need transparency here. Unfortunately, they believe that discussing the nature of PRISM will cause terrorists who plot attacks over Google Hangouts (for example) to go dark, and that is the one and only priority that they have.
Yeah. I meant something along the lines of a low powered scooter, than a proper Vespa.

I'd say anything above 50cc is probably off limits.
If you own a house, you quickly become obsessive about all kinds of maintenance tasks to ward off disaster. And then whoops, one day someone over-pressurizes the gas line and there it all goes in a shower of flames anyway.
Just as a follow up, I had every symptom that the book describes. Last night I couldn’t put the book down, at the end tried its recommendation and lo and behold my pain from “herniated” disks went away. Thanks again for this.
Below -25c° I start to waffle, but it only gets that cold for maybe 10 days out of the year.
Anthony Burgess’s boundless curiosity
I duno, it's not like android devices were known for long warranties and service before apple... many were lucky to get a major firmware update at all...
Are you suggesting that unless retired (or perhaps habitually unemployed), one should not own a dog, or that as soon as any circumstance changes one should give up an already-owned dog?

There are all kinds of reasons one may employ the services of a dog walker: reduced mobility of a previously healthy owner, impaired functioning of an elderly dog's bladder necessitating more frequent bathroom visits, travel, the arrival of a new child allowing less freedom to walk the dog, and about fifty more that spring to mind without even putting much effort into it.

All that said, there is not a chance in hell that I would ever trust a dog to a "valley" startup employing (effectively) randoms vs a local company with prior approved knowledge of who will be performing the service.
Different people enjoy different things. For some people, traveling is fulfilling and exhilarating. For other people being in unfamiliar settings with unfamiliar culture and language is much less fun.

And even within that, some people can enjoy travel up to a certain point. Might be fun to travel for work once a month, but not for 3 out of 4 weeks. I traveling for my first job where I was gone 60-80% of the time and it was fun, but after a year it got old.
I hesitate to engage, but could you explain this one?
That's the problem, isn't it? With office colleagues, you don't have to go out of your way to find people. They're right there, they're obligated to be nice to you, and you're stuck with them for hours every day. That's just the basic recipe for building relationships

With nomad work, the entire impetus falls on you to find a community and build connections. Easy for extroverts perhaps but not so easy for the rest of us
Actually this is not true, I find this article insightful and he does have very valid points. At the end it is up to the individual to decide if remote life is for him or not. No need to bash the author for putting this blog out there
I don't think the CFM56 is a good analogy here. It does not appear to have been designed to fit the bolt pattern of a Cesna 172.

The main thing the x86 instruction set has going for it, is backwards compatibility. (Including the fact that there are a lot of highly optimized CPU designs around that instruction set.)
Discussions that are peripherally related to something you’re working on can be dramatically worse than something random. Hence people who can work in coffee shops but not open-plan offices.
The article identifies a discrepancy where it is much easier to get doctors to introduce a new treatment or practice than it is to get them to stop using or recommending it after it is discredited. I don't see how that could be the case if they're "the same failure mode."
Sorry that was not clear (and this response is late). I know my HSA admin limits use of those funds for medically approved things only. I assume based on rules that the government created. I am just speculating that they may have to start dealing with devices like this which have a dual purpose, mostly not medical.
How we run end-to-end tests in Buildkite CI
And not a dime into lessening the regulatory and compliance burden that causes homelessness in the first place.
Technically true. They do worse than that, in some cases.
I've tried so many styles of keyboard over the years and nothing has ever made me feel as 'at one with the computer' as the HHKB Pro 2.

It's so close to perfect. Typing feels amazing, it has a really pleasing 'thunk' if you bottom out, the CTRL key is in the correct position, it's almost symmetrical and everything's within reach. When used with a suitable wrist rest I can type for hours on end without complaint.

Worth every penny.

Additionally, I've seen "pimped" versions of the HHKB and it's honestly ridiculous. Why take something beautiful and minimalist and have weird-shaped keys?
I think a big issue is how quickly things are changing in terms of what vehicles are used. There is an explosion in commuter vehicles now, both of the rentable and privately owned variety. I think the rentable ones are probably experiencing the most rapid change.

Motorized scooters, semi-motorized bikes (the ones that "flatten hills"), "hoverboards," motorized skateboards along with those one-wheeled self-balancing things that I want so badly. :) Haven't seen motorized roller skates in the real world but I'm betting on them arriving soon.

And then there are the self driving cabs that we know are coming soon. Combined with the rentable scooters and bikes, these can allow mixing it up in interesting and practical ways.

It seems like thinking of cars, bikes and pedestrians as 3 distinct categories is not going to work for long. Maybe a bit fanciful, but I could almost imagine rainbow stripes drawn on the roads, with red being for cars, purple being for pedestrians, and if you're using a motorized skateboard or a bike, you'd tend to ride in the greenish area.
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I always meant to use hjson somewhere, but never managed to. YAML is so complicated, and JSON is almost fine, except for: no comments, no multiline strings. Quoting keys is tedious but not terrible. Personally I don't mind quoting string values at all.

There are places with slightly relaxed JSON, like JSON + comments (e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...). But it's often not well documented, and because these relaxations lack a name there's no commonly accepted set of relaxations.

But I guess we should just accept YAML, as it seems to be the standard-that-isn't-json.
I understand why you don't like the conclusion of the article; I don't understand why you up voted it!

As for cross-cultural competency it is a matter of the being competent for the cultures you actually cross.
One of my fiancee's professors at Kellogg was all about performing a nightly reflection on his day, and the example questionnaire on your website reminds me substantially of the ideas he was preaching. I think his name was Harry Kraemer, you might find some inspiration in the stuff he's talking about.
Open source only provides slightly more protection over closed source. The real issue is that if you're paranoid, there really is no way to verify that the device is doing what you want it to do: sure, maybe the OS is open source and you've verified that, but how do you know what you have on your device matches the source code (fun fact: the source code posted online for macOS and iOS differs from what's on the device, since Apple strips out references to unreleased products). Even if you're looking at the machine code itself pulled from the device, you have no guarantee that the processor is executing them faithfully.
Firebase seems to be pretty integrated with Google's GCP strategy, as well as Android push notifications with FCM.

Not saying concern over Google's commitment to various tools is unfounded, but it seems that generally things that are tied into their core goals are pretty safe.

GCP is very important to Google, Inbox was an interesting UI built on top of Gmail.
I don't agree that using the OECD employment rate is bullshit. The argument is not that at a single point, the fact that this other measure of unemployment is much higher than the standard measure shows that the economy is not healthy, the argument is that the divergence between the OECD employment rate and the standard measure indicates that the economy is unwell. If you deny this, then you're forced to argue that somehow the number of "disabled, stay-at-home-parents, the leisure class, those enrolled in education, and anyone else who is not working but has no desire to do so" has increased within the same demographic (25-55 males, so generally post-school), while wages have remained flat.
> Increase your productivity by never leaving the home row.

I can't possibly be the only one who read "Increase your productivity by never leaving home.", But awww I'm so much more productive in the office though =)
The problem with the story "they had to be revoked" is that er, they weren't revoked. Comodo's roots from that era are still in use today. That's because though you've said so twice now, those keys weren't "on their forum servers" and remained in Comodo's hands.

I think you're conflating two incidents, one from 2008 when ZF0 broke into a poorly secured web forum on Comodo's systems and one in 2011 where "ComodoHacker" gained access to Comodo's issuance system because they used a single factor password login system, and was able to create a bunch of certificates for themselves using the account credentials they had.

You might even be further conflating problems at DigiNotar, which "ComodoHacker" also claimed responsibility for, where Iran was using certs DigiNotar had no record of to MITM its citizens. DigiNotar is gone, the company is defunct, that entire hierarchy was distrusted seven years ago.
Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
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I use caps as my modifier. Then I can CAPS+HJKL for arrow keys. I'm a vim user though so this already feels pretty natural to me.
Room/LiveData are abstractions over the persistent store but by default/in practice they abstract over SQLite.
We weren’t always so lucky. One year, before we’d even finished setting up the booth, a cadre of MIT undergraduate physicists stumped us with ‘Soap bubbles physically solve minimal surface problems. Are there any other physical phenomena that quickly solve NP-type problems?’

Anyone have more resources on this? I could only find a brief overview by Scott Aaronson [1].

[1]. https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
What makes you think drunk people will have the clarity of mind to configure and engage their autonomous system?

These cars will still have steering wheels... drunk people already don't have the clarity of mind to recognize they're too drunk to drive safely...
Will power is a capability most people are lacking in, so I guess you are right. Most people have the physical ability, though few realize it.
ini is an underrated config format.
I also find the recent notion of "pet parents" rather offensive.

To each their own. Of probably equal or greater offense to me is the idea that one treat living, sentient beings to be owned and treated as property.

As to your other point, I have no idea other than changing circumstances. I find that having a dog saves me from being a lazy slob and forces me to drag my arse out the door for an hour when I otherwise wouldn't.
I think the Ping Pong table is a good idea. You should take a break from time to time and do something physical.
> It could be argued that private companies censoring you violates your first amendment rights.

No, it can't First Amendment rights apply only to federal government action.

Equivalent rights are interpreted as applying to State government action under the incorporation doctrine tied to the 14th Amendment.

You could possibly make an argument that the 14th Amendment applies to corporate (or LLC, but not sole proprietorship) action based on a theory that a state-chartered corporation’s actions are, ipso facto, state actions, but that's very out of line with basically all US legal precedent.
Further, to progress beyond quaestor (tax collector) in Roman politics a politician had to put on public games and such to win popularity (as an aedile). Where did those funds come from? Yep, excess taxes collected.

It's not unlike winning friends and donors for campaign funds by playing nice with wealthy special interests as a modern politician in order to progress up the ladder to national office and then continue to win re-election.
Unfortunately your only option is to pay Apple, since you cannot develop VPN extensions on a free account.
Tesla Model 3 Stolen from Mall of America Using Smartphone
Interesting, what motivated you to do this project?

Some news sites would probably interested in this website/project at the moment...
As a recent grad I spend two grand of my company’s money every week traveling to new and interesting places all around the country to solve interesting problems. I don’t pay rent and everything I need is free Monday to Friday. On the weekends I fly for free to all sorts of fun places around the country where my friends live.

Having only a suitcase of possessions is very freeing, and I’m saving tremendous amounts of money.

For me, it is a fancy perk.
Which is why the section in the article continues:

> We understand that this textual representation is not ideal for talking about the project and searching about it.

> We have decided to hold off on change to the name for the beta release. Along with the v1 stable version, we will introduce a new name for the mobile system that will be easy to remember and to adopt.

So: They are aware and have a plan.
My response, which could have been written better, was not to attack you, but to raise a point:

Everybody compares themselves to others. Some people are more lucky than others and do have better status, in real life. So you don't feel the need to get it from other means, like you commented. Which is a good way to behave, i agree.

But what about people living with low status ? Comparing yourself to others and feeling bad upon the result is a deep biological reaction. Afaik, it's not something you can turn off, unless we're talking medications(and side effects), or maybe meditating for decades. Not practical.

The other thing is of course, build a society for humans, egalitarian, possibly in small tribes, like humans intend to be. Maybe a dream for the next generation. Not practical.

So a useful discussion would be: what could people with low status do, to lower their status anxiety ?
Because it's a tad easier to configure the UHK via Agent than QMK keyboards. http://ultimatehackingkeyboard.github.io/agent/
Middlemanning the dogwalking trade is as scalable, if not more so, than ecommerce. Gig-economy work is the creation of value through organization and communication.

$600M in VC money is $2/US citizen. If half of households have a dog, that's ~$8/dog-house. If 10% of them want a dog-walker (the biggest "if"), that's ~$80/customer. At $30/walk, $600M in investment doesn't seem entirely crazy.
Code is just phenomenal.

For those who haven't read it, the book is essentially about how computers work, from first principles up to integrated circuits and high-level programming languages. What makes the book special is the excellent writing: it has an engaging, conversational style, and is accessible to a non-technical audience.

If he's taking more time for himself (and hopefully, to write more books, as indicated in the post), that's awesome.
>Where's the good in the world, and how can we spread it?

You can start by treating your workers like human beings. You know: good healthcare benefits, actual breaks, good compensation, keeping them safe...

Or do you prefer to vaguely distribute funds to charitable entities in hopes that money will actually get to the intended recipients and not get pocketed by whatever executive team is leading the so called charities?
Jokes aside, I think that's exactly it. Mathematicians aren't tempted in the way that others may be in connecting what they do to humanity. Not being in it to cure a disease, build a better mousetrap, or create a triumphant explanation for existence does wonders to keep the ego in check.
I know the article says Airware attempted to go into hardware, but did its operating system (ostensibly its main product) have users?
> [...] totally want, just with ortholinear keys [...]

This. I was actually pretty hyped about the UHK, but seeing the delivery schedule, opted for an ergodox. After a week or two I really started noticing how annoying that shift between the key rows is on a normal keyboard.
Apple very rarely does things out of spite. And usually when that happens, it's a mistake rather than a conscious, malicious decision.
> The most recent estimate for how many genes are involved in complex traits like height or intelligence is approximately “all of them” – by the latest count, about twenty thousand. From this side of the veil, it all seems so obvious. It’s hard to remember back a mere twenty or thirty years ago, when people earnestly awaited “the gene for depression”.

I wonder how much that's just a technicality, in the same way you could say the inverse square law for gravitation is wrong because really every massive particle has some influence on every other particle, etc.

So maybe it's the case that every gene is involved in every trait, but maybe there's a handful that account for 99% of what we care about in that trait? (Then again, I can imagine for something like intelligence that most of the genome is really involved—height though?)

EDIT: I had some remarks about the term 'gene' here that were incorrect and turned into a useless diversion.
But Google does. The first link on Google explains what they are.
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I picked up a mechanical keyboard, because it looked cool. I liked the idea of a higher quality keyboard, programmable functionality looked potentially useful, and I liked the looks of some custom key cap sets.

Unfortunately I was not happy with it at all. For some reason I ended up getting hand fatigue. It's probably a combination of usually typing with my wrists on my desk and a habit of bottoming out, and switch type. But I ended up boxing the keyboard back up.
I'm pro-universal health care for the US. Hell, I pay over $28,800 in health care premiums a year for my family. Not real happy with the status-quo.

What I'm saying is people are not able to afford healthcare and defaulting to Medicaid at a high rate. I think this is an interesting measurement of people who are falling outside of the planned economy. In the US, you "should" be able to afford heathcare, that's what is planned for. But, now we have almost 20% of citizens relying on Medicaid.
Both are great reads. Fire Upon the Deep had some cooler concepts, but narrative-wise I prefer Deepness in the sky. The emotional response I had to the memory-control-slavery aspects made my blood boil.
What do you mean by well-designed? API, UI, performance or the internal structure?
Not sure why the author thinks it “deserved” to be more successful? Do they know something that everyone else does not?
There are "low profile mechanical" switches now that are more chiclet-like, but I'm not sure if they've been put into an ergo design yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lAokeiYbzo

I personally like Matias Quiet Click switches for a good feeling, quiet switch. But the keys and keyboards from Matias have a deserved reputation for being finicky.

I have a Matias Ergo Pro - which I otherwise like - but once in a while keys on the left half will chatter until the board is unplugged. https://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/
I use CAPS+IJKL on my pok3r (the defaults) and I love it.
It does sound like a particularly "Silicon Valley" style of silly, but it doesn't seem outrageous.

There are around 80 million pet dogs in the United States. Let's say the success case for one of these companies is to capture 10% of that market -- 8 million dogs in need of walking every day or two or three. Let's say they can take in $5/month in revenue from 10-30 walks (it's probably more than this).

That's almost half a billion in revenue per year.
I'm typing on one right now.

I'm a fan of split keyboards and like it more than my ergodox.
Redis and Postgresql.
Not sure how to correctly wind down a project. I just don't think it's worth to continue.

It's too bad I cannot suggest an alternative other than to say that I learned to live with YAML :|
Me, for background: "Non-traditional" worker since ~2005, including stints as employee, as freelancer, as business owner. Some in a co-working space, some in home office, some as road warrior.

I don't really recognize the issues the author is describing. Obviously exercise, activities apart from work, and being cognizant of one's mental / physical / emotional needs are all good things. But, I can't say I've ever felt loneliness or any kind of existential dread over any of it. If it weren't for my kids (school, activities) we would go nomad for big chunks of the year too.
Possibly, though I imagine the complication there is getting a good enough base geometry to be happy with your simulation.

You could cut some corners by starting from the national floodplain data, which has a lot of engineering hours already in estimating the floodable area for a region, based on water height (and is what your area's flood insurance rates are based on).
Here. Top of the page.

https://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/tax-re...

I look forward to hearing what’s missing from this extremely detailed, 98 citation article.
Sure, these things can happen, such feelings can come up. But these pale IMO next to the disastrous effect of forced interaction for one third of your day every day of your life.

Yet very rarely do we see an article complaining about such things (besides the occasional mildly damning article on open office arrangements).
> In the US, you "should" be able to afford heathcare, that's what is planned for.

No, it's not. Medicaid (both the original design and the ACA expansion) is exactly a recognition that everyone being able to afford healthcare is simply unrealistic.
^ This is precisely why I think biking is crazy.