skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or events.
The problem is, I've been hearing about these problems since I lived there in 1995.

1995 would have given an intelligent species enough time to build a money-losing, poor-people housing skyscraper or two. Yes building vertically in crowded places is a challenge and expensive but those are just excuses.

Since 1995 they could have figured out a way to get the job done, so now we have to examine what the problems are.
WW II and the Vitamin Sea: Navy Propaganda Posters of the FL Citrus Commission
Their pricing has a lot to be desired. It sounds simple with their plans, but lately they've been very nickel and dimey.
Ask HN: Does preversion shunts growth?
Hypothesis: Preversion shunts growth.

Did you've dirty thoughts when you were growing and you feel effect of that on your growth?
That’s the range. So definitely a test of some sort. Possibly the MIRACH system as detailed here
https://aberporth.qinetiq.com/faq/index.aspx
> I’m not saying you’re wrong, but saying there’s no benefit to building new housing because there’s not a fortune to be made, well that just seems like capitalist-apologizing.

It's just math. The land costs a million dollars, the construction costs $500K, therefore the net present value of the future rents (less property taxes, insurance, etc.) has to be $1.5M, or the construction does not occur. Rent control puts the marginal construction project below the break-even point.

> We’ve built a system where humans are expected to somehow accrue interest at the whim of the capitalist overlord. The soul of rent control is pretty important, so maybe rent control needs to evolve?

The soul of rent control is bad math. If you want lower rents, adopt policies that encourage housing construction until rents are suitably low. At which point, who needs rent control?
Perhaps not!

Also when it comes to private persons, I find many examples of the currently wealthy 1% having done things that elevated and cemented their status that are no longer legal today. I dare say most.

Its not just that the laws changed and they coincidentally were a common practice at the time, its that those were the particular nuanced laws they were using.

Everything from selling securities door to door 100 years ago, to self-benefitting charities using overlooked and accidental combinations of tax code.
Or you could think NYC could have negotiated more because it was a likely choice anyways, having already major offices for other tech offices, for example. I don’t have a horse in this race but I don’t think this math is the comprehensive picture.
I've a fair bit of experience with both GAs and LAHC and in my opinion the results are mixed. LAHC wins for fewer hyperparameters (1 versus a minimum of, say, 3), but in terms of implementation simplicity there isn't that big a difference -- say, 6 lines of Python against 12. People might get a false impression from big EA implementations like ECJ being compared against bare-bones LAHC implementations.
i think there is something to this but we shouldn't
forget that big cities depend on a lot of goods being transported there. So a lot of the emissions of rural areas should be counted towards big cities.
> This is not how rent control works

That's not how it works in theory...

That's how it works in reality.

That's the problem with most "progressive" theories like rent control... the theory doesn't match reality.
Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2015)
I think you're wrong. In Prague, they started removing rent controls several years ago, and we have seen highest increase in property values in maybe three decades.

Also, if I owned some property, I am not sure I would want to invest in building new one and have to decrease rent rather than enjoy the fact that the rent is high.

All in all, I suspect that rent control might be quite insignificant factor in housing scarcity. More important is probably lack of actual housing construction financed by government.
Cycle State looks great! I had checked out onionify, but it didn't have anything like the makeCollection() API at that point.

As an aside, thank you for all your work on Cycle! The project I was working on was a visual reactive programming and design tool, inspired by Bret Victor's on direct manipulation and abstraction and by your work on reactive programming and Cycle itself! I remember seeing something like that on the long-term Cycle roadmap as well, but I couldn't find it when writing that comment.
Don't give them any information you don't want them to have.

They buy data direct from airlines and credit cards now.
> If you exclude the guns that kill, guns are safe.

There are indeed guns which are ridiculously unsafe to use and if you just count all guns in the world and average their failure rates, then "on average" guns are less safe. The kind of gun you can legally buy, properly handled, is quite safe - as far as guns go anyway.

The point I am making is that if you just average stuff out (like with the graph) it does not reflect reality. The computers systems that work in reality have very high reliability. Those that don't work > 99% of the time are simply not deployed.

> If you exclude all security vulnerabilities of the last decade, all mainstream software is secure.

All mainstream software is "secure enough", just like all mainstream software is "reliable enough". Otherwise, we obviously couldn't use mainstream software, we would all be forced to use provably correct software that is far more expensive to develop. In practice, the biggest security problem sits at the other end of the screen and no piece of software can fix it.

> I think you are overlooking how pervasive is computing in your life.

> But I can see how a user that have no programming experience could refuse to accept the sad state of today computing.

Believe it or not, I'm an experienced programmer and that has taught me pragmatism, above all things. I could complain about the state of computing all day, but the reality is that it works. It really does. You just have to admit that. Could it be better in practice? Maybe, maybe not. There's only so much effort in the world that can be spent on improving software and actually deploying it (which is the difficult part when comes to new software).

> You are misreading the intent here: as artifacts built from fallible humans, no software can be perfect.

> But if you don't even try to keep complexity low, it will soon become unmanageable and expensive.

I'm not arguing against that, I'm arguing against what that particular graph insinuates. The idea that nothing works anymore when the sum of all unreliable parts creates a completely unreliable result. That doesn't happen in practice with the actual operating systems (and other systems) that we use.

Keeping things simple is of course desirable, but it's also not easy at all and it requires a great level of skill and care. We don't have that kind of skill to work with, at least not for the vast majority of software out there.

> Still, as Gabriel said in his essays, you are right that users can be manipulated to accept and even pay for crap.

> It's called marketing.

That's just naive. It's not like users always have a choice between expertly crafted high quality software and crap software, but then they choose crap because of marketing. They have a choice between Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, both of which are crap. They pay for Microsoft Office because it works better with what everyone already uses (Microsoft Office) or they choose LibreOffice to save money. That's just one example, but there are countless others.
Yup! https://cycle.js.org/getting-started.html#getting-started-co...

If you're just starting out though (or even if you're not) I'd recommend checking out create-cycle-app, the Cycle analogue to create-cycle-app that will set up things like that for you: https://github.com/cyclejs-community/create-cycle-app
The thing that seems the most interesting to me is the control over the financial narrative.

Here's a bunch of numbers, and if they add up to more than zero, we should do the deal.

There seems to be very little questioning of wether the accounting given is appropriate. What's the chance that Amazon would put staff in NYC even with no money? I'd say reasonable. Is anyone concerned about rising prices when 25k new high income people show up? Will they show up, or are they already there?

Plenty of things in the details can be challenged, I'm not saying I know the answer to any of these things.

But the narrative seems to be that there's these numbers, and they point to "we should do it".

Normally the only tax/subsidy I'm in favour of is externality related, eg Pigouvian. And I'm not seeing a lot of that argumentation here, though admittedly I'm not the keenest observer on this one.
The five quick rules don't mesh well with the rest of the book's points. The chapters urge tailoring the style to the content, but the quick rules don't mention this at all. They just recommend ranges for basic font measures.

The chapters are short, so if you only have 10 minutes, you'd get more out of reading the first few.
XFS wasn't able to handle a lot of extents well (which occur with sparse images). The problem was only recently fixed, I think.

That said, it should only cause memory allocation deadlocks, not corruptions.
Nah. This conflagratory term "fake news" deliberately muddles "things that aren't very important" with "lies told by officials".

I think the second needs to be a condition of public office. You deliberately lie, or show a pattern of not giving a shit about the truth, pack your bags and get a private sector job.

Conversely and perversely, the varied institutions of public office seem to protect politicians' speech. This seems deeply wrong.

And obviously this seems partisan at the moment because there's currrently a 200lb orangutan as POTUS who can't keep his story straight about anything... But this is a standard we should all want, for all out politicians, worldwide.

Just to be clear, I think you have to be allowed to say this stuff, I just think that ends at the point where you're a public official. You can still say it, but you'll lose your job.
Welcome to modern, boring chess. I wish we still had hyper-aggressive grandmasters like Mikhail Tal.
Time is Partial: distributed consistency models and weak memory models
There’s no denying that building is a hell of a lot easier in a place like Houston without zoning than anywhere else though.
And ironically, Push/Clojush don't actually use trees! I quite like Push, and also Linear GP, the DAG-based system used by Schmidt and Lipson, and grammatical GP, depending on the application.
The only proven use of blockchain is to transfer value from one person to another over the internet without relying on a central bank account. Doesn’t that validate the tech to some degree?
Maybe APFS was mainly developed for iOS?
When it's close to 0, it means the engine thinks the position is equal. But usually when it's exactly 0, the machine thinks the best move to play next must lead to a draw. As, in the next best move will lead to a worse position for the player making the move.
I built https://alchemist.camp. It started as a screencast YouTube channel focused 100% on the Elixir language and after a some initial positive feedback, I created the site and added some premium content for paying subscribers.

At first I only charged $12/month or $96/year. As the library of screencasts grew, I raised prices to $15/month or $135/year and I'll probably raise prices again pretty soon. So far, it's been slow, steady growth and nobody has unsubscribed.

I think a key thing that helped me is that I made very different content from the other Elixir screencasters. They all focused on short, highly-edited content that taught specific language features or small libraries and I chose a project-based approach where I introduced language features as needed and videos sometimes reached nearly an hour. It made my service a bit less of a rival good to the others and instead something that people might buy in addition to one of my competitors.

In 11 months of 5-10 hours a week, Alchemist Camp is covering the rent and it's also lead to me meeting a few famous Elixir devs, including José Valim! Definitely a fun indiehack and I'm glad I'm doing it.
We should ban these kinds of deals at the national level. They're rational for companies, and rational for regions, but overall they allow extremely large companies to avoid paying their share of taxes.
> I was also quite surprised to hear that my community wants to take away rights from black people, which I heard in a radio ad not so long ago

Have you checked this? What's their opinion on, for example, Black Lives matter?
I think the greater context here misses the trauma behind being forced to move out of a home. Being separated from your social network, familiar surroundings, into a new and unknown environment can be highly traumatizing to the people who move and the community which loses its members. Children have their educations interrupted, elders lose a family of support, adults need to forge new friendships in a time where we know the majority of friendships occur in childhood.

The greater question is if it's okay for someone to undergo the trauma of being moved because they can no longer afford the geographic location that they didn't choose to be born and raised into.
An intelligent species would not have fallen into a number of traps that we are in today.

Defense spending, arms races, nuclear stockpiles, tobacco companies paying out settlements from past harm by inflicting future harm, races to the bottom, etc.

All of these are, when you take a step back, insane.
I Purchased a $2 Article and How I Dealt with It
If it is bad policy, then can someone help explain why unaffordable housing is currently a world-wide issue?
YouTube now streams free ad-supported movies, including Terminator and 'Hackers'
Shelby Stanger had a great interview with her on the most recent episode of the "Wild Ideas Worth Living" REI podcast.

https://wildideasworthliving.com/samin-nosrat-the-adventure-...
When you build more appartments, more people come to the city. It’s a positive feedback loop. The result is a city with terrible quality of life. The city no one wants to live in. Only then it will stop growing.
The computer age has unfortunately sort of crushed that style of play :(
It's hard to play sacrificially when the engine refutes your attacks
Grischuk makes those amazing draws bearable. Svidler and him make a surprisingly funny and informative team.
University students are legally adults and we’re considered so until recently. I don’t thin infantalizing young adults is healthy.
She's amazing. So humble and accessible.
Much appreciated!

This actually has me rethinking the architecture on a project I'm working on right now. It looks like Kinesis would be a little bit cheaper at the volume of data I'm looking at... But the SNS/SQS method will let me sidestep some potential future scale-up concerns I had with the 5 reads per second limit without making a Rube Goldberg machine of Kinesis Analytics feeding into additional Kinesis Streams, which would drive the cost up higher than an SNS/SQS fanout.
> Why aren't there developers that are willing to make 17% margins instead of 20% margins?

Because the margins in a different city are 19%, or some entirely different class of investment now has better risk-adjusted returns so the funding falls through.
Yet there is public housing in Chelsea NYC.

We can argue about how to do ‘inclusive housing’ but the idea that it immediately precludes high home prices doesn’t hold up to basic inspection.
Grew up in Houston and now live in Austin and your statement is 100% accurate. Housing in Houston means you can get an 1800 ft house for 90k 15 miles from downtown. In Northwest Austin, let’s say 20 miles from the city center, such a house would cost 300k plus.
Huh, never thought of it that way but that makes sense
And market rents are the idea that people with more money then you have the right to live in your apartment then you do.

Neither is fair, but both are unfair in different ways. Your preference for market distribution, as opposed to lottery distribution (which is what rent control essentially is) is largely an ideological one.
Very good question. I would recommend doing both I suppose. On Stacks, we match you up with buddies based on all of the courses you are interested in rather than just one. So our algorithm may recommend that you match up with someone who is interested in Computer Science, Literature, and Psychology; rather than just matching you up with someone in your Computer Science class.
Dispute arises among pilots on Boeing 737 MAX system linked to Lion Air crash
I’m honestly not sure that time ever really existed. Ads were as much a part of print before the web as they are part of the web today.

You could maybe make this argument about popups before browser vendors killed that behaviour off, but ad banners where still a thing even with those.

The idea that they were ever even close to “outright illegal” is almost certainly a stretch in the vast majority of legal systems.
well okay guys, after a cumulative -2 on the above, I want to disclose that I'm open to counterpoints if you have a compelling one!

Just because an ego is bruised or you want a better world doesn't mean you need to project that through downvoting, it is effectively censorship when you do that
I love Tokyo and HK. They are wonderful cities to live in and have terrific public services. Have you been to the cities you named?
Carlsen-Karjakin 2016 began with 7 draws.
No sources, no proof. "He's a trader" is your argument. I"ll live with my "dissonance", best of luck with yours.
There is no agency, governmental or private, in existence that subsequently measures or keeps tracks of these "job creation" promises. And in the very unlikely event that their broken promises do come to light, it will be explained away in the usual manner as to deflect (e.g. circumstances change, etc.).
Just remember one thing: At the end of the day Amazon is a private enterprise and it can and will do whatever they want and are accountable to no one.
He wasn’t offering to make the developer a cofounder or give them equity. He was just trying to hire someone.

Sure if a new company was trying to get off the ground and they needed investors, I would be much more willing to invest my time for an equity stake than I would be to invest the equivalent amount of money to hire a good developer.

But, a net of $6000 with no upside is not exciting to me I don’t even own the code so I could throw it out in a private [1] repo that I could use as part of my portfolio to show at an interview.

[1] I wouldn’t just put it out in the open but I would want it to be something I could optionally give read access to show off my work.
> many people just think that business logic for sanitization and validation "just happens." The barrier to wireframing, for them, is too high so they don't

Maybe the barrier is where it should be. Or maybe it should be even higher! People who can't understand the logic of an interface have no business creating or suggesting interfaces. An UI is meant to be used, not looked at like a pretty picture in a frame. It should feel good and feel smooth and increase productivity... not look good. Some of the best looking UIs I've ever seem were also the most utterly user-hostile, unituitive and productivity lowering.

Sure, if you can afford to pay someone 500/hour or smth "outrageous" like that (hint: you need a word-class artist, with advanced knowledge of user psychology, that also has the brain of a business logic analist or of programmer involved in product design) you could get something that both looks goorgeous and feels smooth and increases user productivity 10x. But usually you need to make sacrifices, and the ones the user will hate you for are those that make his life harder despite seeming nice and slick at first.
Amazingly, years later IBM made the same mistake with OS/2, but more so.

Some well known computer columnist, I think it was Jerry Pournelle in his BYTE column, wrote of attending a trade show when Windows 3 was still king where IBM was showing OS/2 Warp and Microsoft was showing Windows 95. OS/2 was out at the point, but Windows 95 was still in beta.

He went to the IBM booth, told them he was interested in programming for OS/2 Warp, and asked what he had to do. They gave him a bunch of forms to fill out to apply for the developer program. The forms asked for details of his business and analysis of why he thinks it will make money with OS/2. If they were satisfied with this, they would allow him to buy the SDK.

Then he went to the Microsoft booth and asked the same question about Windows 95. They handed him the SDK right there, no charge and no strings attached.

That was when, he said in his column, he knew Windows 95 would be the successor to Windows 3, and OS/2 Warp would be at best a niche OS.

I said IBM made the same mistake as TI, but more so. The more so is because IBM also neglected promoting OS/2 to consumers, and they neglected hardware support, so even if it had all the software that you cared about, it was hard to discover that OS/2 was an option, and if you did it could be a nightmare getting it to work with readily available hardware. By 1996, Linux was easier to get working than OS/2 with most hardware sold at the major retail computer stores (CompUSA, Computer City).
"And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy."

Why? Can someone explain this?
>Coleco's Adam, which will sell for $600, includes 80,000 characters of internal memory, a daisy-wheel printer, a tape storage device, game joysticks, a word-processing program and a game. The package will allow people at home to use the computer in place of a typewriter as well as for playing games.

$600 in 1983 = $1,520.72 in 2018. iPhone XS Max w 512GB: $1,449.
Nonsense. If you assume a fixed level of theft, then any anti-theft device must be zero sum. But that's obviously an absurd assumption.
Routing Internet connections over Starlink, SpaceX's LEO satellite constellation
> "Don't code your UI"

Do code your UI.
He’s the exception that proved the rule. The FBI never repeated that hiring process on anyone else.
Does it have to be a trauma? After all, most people don't live with their parents forever. Finding your own place is a rite of passage.

Most college students graduate and move somewhere else.

One way of preventing trauma would be to make sure people don't have to move. Another way would be to make moving something to look forward to, rather than a trauma.
I'd say the main problem is that there isn't a fsck for ZFS. If important metadata gets damaged you'll have to re-create the whole file system.

W.r.t. to btrfs they are at least working on a fsck tool, even though it can't repair much yet (what it can repair is e.g. some bitflips caused by bad RAM: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4116411/ ).

And stuff like ext4 or ntfs can get back to a state where one can write to it again in most cases.

Another problem is that many applications don't handle EIO well, i.e. they don't give you an option like "Continue with corrupt data", e.g. if a video file gets damaged it doesn't matter much, it'll just be a few damaged pixels, but the whole video player stops playback because it doesn't handle the IO error.
But again, you're starting at the point of assuming failure, when in fact these cities are the most dense. Feel free to examine but the core assumption that this is obviously the wrong way to do it is baseless.
I like how easily you separate groups of men in "government" from groups of men in "corporations"
We do, they just don't qualify for the world championship.

If Mikhail Tal was alive today, he would play boring chess, too. Otherwise modern GMs would just accept his sacrifices, not make any mistakes, and win.