skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Density implies noise, pollution, traffic, people, and a certain type of urban lifestyle... all of which decrease attractiveness.

Prices in big dense cities say otherwise, there is plenty of demand to be where all the economic action is, many people also prefer urban lifestyles.

The lack of zoning doesn't encourage density at all, if there is land to build out instead of up, everyone will prefer the former because its cheaper and can provide amenities like free parking. Zoning can prevent that, it can also discourage vertical growth but at the same time discouraging horizontal growth as well.
You might be interested to learn that there is a community of people creating unconventional cabinets. What they do is known as “case modding”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_modding

As for why most cabinets look so similar outside of that, I’d say it is probably at least in part thanks to such designs being the best we have in terms of airflow and ease of access to components within.
That’s true for the astronomers who will use the results of the telescopes. But there have to be engineers, technicians and physicists on-site to ensure that the telescope is working well and producing the data that can be used by astronomers downstream.
The real problem is that there hasn’t been any attempt at policy changes to correct this. In order to do so, society needs to chip away at the problem in steps.

Right now, real estate is simply a good investment regardless of everything else because of the tax benefits of transferring properties to heirs. Depreciation and tax bases are reset, essentially making real estate a double whammy of tax benefits for the current owners as well as their heirs. Depreciation means tens of thousands of dollars saved in taxes per year per property. Transfer benefits means never having to pay that back due to generational reset. Take away the transfer and estate benefits first.

Once that first dent is made, the wealthy/NIMBYs will naturally vote for the next correct move, which is to take away policies that make housing unaffordable to their own children. As the law is right now, there is no incentive for land owners to be altruistic to society because their children are sheltered from affordability problems due to transfer benefits.

My wager is that all it would take is removing transfer benefits on commercial properties (e.g. like kind exchange, or enforcing depreciation recapture upon transfers, including 1031) to see the first domino fall on the way to an eventual partial rollback of laws like prop 13 and more property development due to fewer NIMBY incentives. That’s a very small bite to chew that leads to much greater changes down the road because it realigns incentives tremendously.

I say this as someone who has Bay Area real-estate. The strategy to reverse things doesn’t exist at the moment.
It sounds suspiciously as if you're drawing a direct comparison between the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2 and Gab getting kicked off GoDaddy. That can't possibly be an argument you really want to make.
Sidebar:

Are we about to venture into a trans-humanist discussion, or a spiritual one?

I’m open to either, but I’d like to set the preliminary scope to narrow the available attack surface.
I think what you'll find is that industries that use knowledge workers tend to have higher variance than those that don't; industries that have a high percentage of wages come from incentive pay will have a greater variance than industries that don't use incentive pay; and industries that are heavily regulated or unionized will have lower variance than industries that are lightly regulated or unionized.

Incentive pay: for example, sales people and wait staff have a highly variant distribution based on commission and tips respectively.

Knowledge workers: software engineers have an extremely high variance wage distribution.

High-regulation industries: mining is highly regulated and is unionized, leading to a very low degree of variance in wages between miners.

There are exceptions to this and the categories can interact in interesting ways:
For example, medicine is highly regulated but they are knowledge workers, so there is reasonably high variance in wages, particularly for doctors (relative to other health professionals).

Another interesting effect is that highly unionized industries can see significant variance, but it is controlled almost exclusively by seniority within the union. Controlling for seniority, the variance in these industries tends to disappear.

This is an interesting paper on the subject that provides some pretty compelling evidence for the regulation and incentive pay claims: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1981/04/art5full.pdf
The worst part of all this is that so many super smart people actually want to work in a company like this.
'Human brain' supercomputer switched on to unlock secrets of the mind
This morning I watched two non-technical Apple users be amazed by something automatic - WiFi credential sharing.

User 1 wanted to connect her MacBook Pro to the Wifi. User 2 picked up her phone and was prompted to share her WiFi credentials with the MacBook - it was almost like magic and it worked.
> There tends to be a flip tax

But that can take the form of 90% of any increase over the purchase price if you sell within the first five years, which effectively removes any economic reason to purchase for short term speculation.
I'm so disappointingly late to this thread, but NixCon just happened and they were publishing the videos in real-time on YouTube (major props for doing it that way): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqkNrQ8F3OhKSCfCgagWLg. Might be a bit out of context if unfamiliar with Nix, but it was exciting for me to watch. It feels like momentum is picking up and folks are interested in improving UX and evangelism!
In the software dev world--but outside of BSD--I would argue that containerization is extremely immature. Outside the software dev world, it is not easy to use.
Wanting to live in your house is not (just, or even primarily) an economic interest.

EDIT: clarification
Trump proudly came out as a nationalist a few weeks ago and is visibly salivating at the prospect of pitting thousands of troops against a migrant caravan. Unlike the Communists, these people are already in positions of power and are fighting to gain legitimacy by any means necessary.
There are millions of empty houses. We need remote work more than anything.
I leave it plugged in almost all day, so I can't answer that.
Would agree with that. Just used Ubuntu gnome for a product demo and its a usability nightmare.

- How to create a shortcut for a command -> use the command line.

- Modify group permission in nautilus? -> No use the command line.

- Switching users -> bug, doesn't work half of the time

- Functionality is hidden in the window title bar (debatable)

- Window close button is too close to the logout button

Is Gnome so simple to use because you don't have any option to do something? :-p

The Ubuntu theme is especially bad:

- No window borders -> overlapping terminals become indistinguishable.

- Window title bars and top menu bar are almost indistinguishable...

In contrast, we used an KDE app in the demo and a couple of times we thought, can you configure xy? would simplify things. Yes! you can do xy. Is there a keyboard shortcut for xy? no but you can configure one, Great!
I would gladly buy a house that cost it's value in parts and labor and sold for the same amount + inflation decades later.

I just don't need or want an investment like that.
Again, it only looks like a steal if you look at unit costs and not per square feet/meter costs. This puts Tokyo on par with Seattle. See https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.js...
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> That's just as silly as if someone had said, "Certain people losing their 1st Amendment rights is simply the natural consequence of the operation of the marketplace of ideas."

Only if you equate exercise of first amendment rights with loss of first amendment rights. Choosing to relay content or not is a first amendment right, compelling other people to do so on your behalf is not.

While there might be a legitimate debate that some positive rights exist, the rights enshrined in the first amendment are negative, not positive.

> There is a lawsuit where a company owned this mining company town, including all of its roads and sidewalks. A Jehova's witness won a lawsuit on the basis of the First Amendment, enabling her to walk about that town and distribute her pamphlets.

But no one entity is positioned the way Gulf Shipbuilding was in Marsh v. Alabama, so as to exercise the power to control the expressive rights of an entire community. Were there a single internet monopoly that did this at any level of the stack, perhaps the situation would be comparable (the fact that broadband ISPs are often local monopolies or in very narrow oligopoly and can essentially gatekeep all internet usage is, in fact, the basis of a common first amendment argument for net neutrality), but this is not the case, which is why Cyber Promotions v. America Online decided that spam filters did not violate the First Amendment.
So the major issues listed are a) passenger exit/entry crowding and b) passengers too close to the cars.

Why not look at the amusement park industry- they have bypassed these by having strict controls on ingress/egress for the ride - you get on one side and exit the other. Also they have guardrails or sliding doors preventing any suicides or dangerous behavior from interfering with the ride (trains in HK/Shenzhen had that years ago).

I fail to see why AI or a panopticon is needed to solve these problems.
They have the right to organize and speak on the Internet. Not only can they, they can even do it on Twitter! The whole premise behind Gab is kind of a grift. Twitter is choc-a-bloc with white nationalists, many of them with blue checkmarks. The things that get people kicked off Twitter (most notably: targeted harassment) are ostensibly things that also get you kicked off Gab. Gab doesn't want you thinking too carefully about that, of course.

Also: beware the subtexts of brief statements about the rights of white nationalists that begin with "we must".
I think what you should try out depends on what you want to accomplish and what language you think is most likely to be useful to you again.

With that said, I would cast my vote with Python 3 and the latest Django. I've found that if I go with a lighter framework, eventually I just end up writing out big chunks of the missing functionality myself and I end up with a poor-man's Django.
Load balancing between doors is an interesting problem.

Sometimes, people have reasons for picking a particular door. They may be able to see inside and tell that there's fewer people in that part of the carriage, or they might intend to disembark at a station where that door's placement will confer an advantage: this is especially common in grade-separated rapid transit systems, where the placement of paths towards exits varies from station to station.

But at other times, people will try to board wherever they are able. This is likely the case if they try to board after the 'scheduled departure', which is the situation the article points to as a source of delays. And herein lies the problem: presumably, the passengers' concern about catching the train at all outweighs their desire to pick the best door. This solution is least likely to solve the situations that cause the most disruption, and is most likely to improve boarding at times when passengers have time and ability to make a discretionary choice anyway.

A low-tech strategy to try is to designate one door per carriage as an exit door, and the rest as entry doors. At a station, open the exit door first, and the volume of exiting people will curtail attempts to embark. Then after a few-second delay, open the rest of the doors and allow people to enter. This is made more effective with physical separation between embarkation doors and exit doors, such that the two streams of people don't interfere. Some newer airport people mover stations have two tracks and 3 platforms: trains discharge passengers to the outer platforms, while people wait on the center platform until the entry doors open a few seconds later. This setup is also common in amusement parks.
One of the reasons why these photos look so convincingly realistic is the same reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling is done --- the human eye has less sensitivity to colour resolution, and so even relatively vague blobs of colour can evoke the right perception as long as there is sufficient luma detail (provided by the original monochrome image); but if you inspect the photos closely, you'll see there are plenty of unnatural gradients in clothes and such, and the colours of objects blend into each other.
I disagree with some of these. Padded envelopes and plastic bags can be reused. There are also those who reuse and recycle plastic cups and egg cartons, and as gross as it sounds, there are poor people who "recycle" foods, even the ones that you can already find in the dumpster. It's called "pagpag" in the Philippines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gDBVmgIRA
Older generations have always made those same complaints about younger generations since humans first evolved. We like to think that we'll act better than our parents, but in the end it's just human nature.
People are surprisingly easy to reprogram. You can read countless stories of once-liberal parents turning into hateful conspiracy nuts in their old age out of prolonged exposure to right-wing media.

If you see people around you saying “white males are undergoing a genocide” or “brown people are criminals” every day, chances are you’ll eventually start to internalize some of those talking points. Without tremendous effort, we’re nothing more than a rough aggregation of the opinions we surround ourselves with.
When people complain about being deplatformed, they're just saying "the platforms that accept me aren't popular enough".

This is perfect.
That’s brilliant. Can I count you in as a de-anonymized co-founder of the all-important, infinitely-divisible “Strategic Water Purification Tablet Reserves”-backed cryptotoken ICO?

Edit for clarity:
You’re probably right. I thought it would be an apropos time to slip in a blockchain joke. :)
Not totalitarian (neither of us is in a position of power over the other, and neither of us is advocating for government intervention), and not concocted (these questions belong to a long tradition in Western political thought). If by "conditioned" you mean that public sentiments are changing, sure. But I don't think that demands such a negative description.

The company town case is interesting, but it's just a case. I don't buy that (1) it's sufficiently similarl to the challenges of hate speech on private online venues, or (2) that it constitutes a sufficient body of jurisprudence to make the general subject "historical fact."

Speaking of historical fact: it is not historical fact that the First Amendment was "originally widely recognized by US jurisprudence." In fact, the free expression clauses of the First Amendment barely showed up in America's highest courts until the turn of the 20th century[1]. The first FA case with any modern significance is Eugene v. United States, in 1919.

To be clear: the fact that something's been around for longer than another thing is not a good argument, in my book, for its value. But, in this case, it isn't even factual: both US common law and the judicial canon reflect a far greater emphasis on property rights (and, tangentially, the fleshing out of the federal system) than they do free expression.

[1]: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/page/first-amendment-timeli...
I don't play games and have both a Linux desktop and an iMac. When you are doing a lot of distributed systems and large datasets the beefier machines help a lot.

I also have two laptops obviously but my main workhorses are the desktop computers. I'll even to shell into them when I'm on my laptop.

I don't have any data on it but I feel like the desktop market is getting bigger as datasets are growing and software is becoming more distributed. My 2015 macbook sounds like an airplane taking off when I code on it. The fan is at full throttle 100% of the time.
Well you still own the house after 25 years....
> There is a lawsuit where a company owned this mining company town, including all of its roads and sidewalks

And when a single company has similar control over the internet, even for a particular group of people such that they are otherwise unreachable (as AT&T once did nationalky over telephone communications), Marsh v. Alabama might be relevant (It might not, since active relaying is not the same of not denying access to property, and is itself an issue of the first amendment rights of the party who would be compelled to relay the speech.) That's not the case now, and the Marsh v. Alabama doctrine does not compel internet companies to relay content they don't want to, see Cyber Promotions v. America Online.

> Originally, it was widely recognized by US jurisprudence, though property rights and freedom of association are important, the First Amendment was even more important.

The issue with regard to relaying is neither a free association nor a property issue, but a free speech/press issue—whether the state can compel a party to actively participate in relaying ideas that they do not wish to participate in.
It's a tricky thing. There is a lot of high quality science. There is some lower quality science -- outright fraud even, unfortunately. And then there is science reporting, which is all over the map, and can easily be misinterpreted.

Humanity has built up an enormous amount of legitimate scientific knowledge and understanding. There has been much difficulty, confusion, and dead-ends along the way -- and it seems this continues to be the case. But it really is an incredible thing, how much we know at this point. It took me a long time and a lot of self-learning to develop a rich appreciation for this.

Of course, there is still much for us to figure out. And we should keep doing so, difficulties be damned (and hopefully mitigated over time).
they should hire prisoners because they live rent free and have all the time in the world to do internships.
How about making the iPhone better. Has anyone noticed that Safari has become the worst browser around? How could this happen? Apple should throw a hundred developers more on the development of Safari, because the Web will not go away and websites will get more complex. Did you check SVG performance on an Apple? That will make you understand why you need such a fast machine.
Man, Apple, get the basic stuff right and you can report sales figures again.
> Also, you only needed to put down $40,000 and the bank paid the other $160k for the house purchase.

In this scenario the bank just creates the money out of thin air. And then they get to keep all of the interest payments.

So, yeah, it's good for the home owner, but it's great for the bank -- so long as most people keep paying back their loans.
STM32 has the ART accelerator for it's internal flash. 180 MHz F4 can run at full speed without any wait states most of the time.
Do grad students have any leverage over their advisors? Surely there must be some incentive to root out professors that degrade the reputation of the school. Public shame? Accusations of fraud? There are more options here than students admit, and some other school would have loved to have you.
Has anyone had any success migrating from MongoDB over to Postgres? My team and I decided to try out MongoDB for a new app we wrote because the data model seemed to fit the idea of a schema-less document quite well. But many months later, Mongo has caused a few more headaches than its been worth and we are slowly leaning towards using a more traditional data model.

I was thinking that one approach might be first to just keep the schema-less data model and move over to using Postgres JSON. Once that is stable, then think about how we would move over to using schemas. Any thoughts on whether that is a plausible approach?
> One day people will realize that this was the beginning of humanity.

It's important, but let's not engage in hyperbole.
I was just trying to make a general point in terms of the ID thought process that you start from functional/engineering needs and work outwards from it.

In the case of System76, they had to bend wood vaneer (poor bend radius) which probably added additional expense to the manufacturing process.
Okay that's a fair point. In the housing case, you aren't simply not participating; your money is exposed to the housing market in the form of rent. I buy that.
> You absolutely can purchase $125K in stocks for $12.5K cash [...]

This isn't quite right. You can only get 2x leverage on your margin account for overnight holds (i.e. long-term investment.) The maximum leverage federally allowed is 4x, and you have to liquidate half before the end of the trading day (to go back to 2x) otherwise your broker will automatically liquidate half of your position.

http://www.finra.org/investors/day-trading-margin-requiremen...
Goodbye, Kepler Space Telescope
This employer is living in the 19th century. Cheap and despicable employers getting rich off the back of naive hard working people.
We need some big strokes to fix this. Personally I think the long-term solution, at least in CA, is for the state to buy out owners in critical areas, taking land with eminent domain as a last resort, then selling the land back to developers on the condition that density is tripled or quadrupled. That's the only way to move the needle. Doesn't everyone ask you, when visiting from out of state, "why don't you guys just build up?"
You are advocating isolating, deplatforming, etc.. These are tactics that hurt. Hurt people hurt people. If people are allowed to be heard and socialize, they gain happiness and are less likely to hurt people.
I mean they could accept my cash instead of offering a service paid for with your information.

Oh that’s right, they’ll never give the consumer power over their data because that’s google’s entire value proposition.
> The person I'm replying to is advocating for the practical loss of free speech

No, I'm arguing that your free speech rights do not give you the right to compel me to repeat your speech for you, and that the idea that they do negates my free speech rights.
Good point - housing doesn't need to be a good investment. If we increase the supply of housing it will make the economy more efficient and that will mean improved returns in other investment categories.
You’re being downvoted, but I agree with you. Having a system where the old benefit at the expense of the young is a shit way to organize things.
Your analogy fails for me because the rotting meat you refer to are free people. You speak of these people as if they should be controlled. Where is the room for their inalienable rights?
I remember seeing screenshots of wc3 alpha during development, and the graphics looked similar. Maybe this stuff has been sitting around, unused all this time.
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