skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally would prefer 120 sqft in solitude to sharing an apartment with 7 other people.
Perhaps someone changed the title...
This is an extremely absurd spin on what I wrote.

What I say is that accidents should not be more expensive the harder you work. Repeat offenses are still covered by jail-time, which is universal for all incomes (we do not have bail up here).
This is definitely one of their better one-day-build stories!

I love seeing the ones where they are doing something practical for some reason. I mean, the non-practical ones can be cool too, but the practical ones have a goal of doing something that will be useful over a long period of time and not just something cool to hang on the wall.
> You'll get significantly more if you work 14 hours a day instead of 8

That's another claim that it would be good to see some citations for.

If you work in salaried position where overtime is unpaid (as many HNers will) then more than 8 hours of work will bring you no financial gain other than in those toxic workplaces where unpaid overtime is seen as a virtue.
DockerSlim will reverse engineer / auto-generate a Dockerfile for you :)
So, in your own words being rich does not imply anything about hard work.

Further if you actually look at the wealthy hard work has almost zero influence on the odds of being wealthy. Generally because you can pass wealth from person to person after it’s gained and the source is often just lucky.

PS: I am in my 30’s and have zero debt and six figure savings. By some standards that’s wealth by others it’s practically poverty. It’s the second version that people are talking about becase having even 7 figures in savings does not generate that much per year income. It’s when you start talking about 8-11 figures of wealth that the scale gets broken.
The grandparent post makes two unrelated claims:

(1) China's recent famine is why it is extremely strict.

(2) Modern famines are man-made.

The parent post seems to be responding to (1).

Sibling posts appear to think the parent post is addressing (2)?
By building something that runs the world, Linux won the debate. Tanenbaum is revealed as an ivory-tower guy with strong opinions, but who only built a toy. By building Linux into what it is, Torvolds proved that a monolithic kernel works just fine.
No, it's part of the local guides program they run. They'll show you pending edits and you just approve or decline. I don't spent too much time on it, only when I notice and am in the app.
This article covered more than I was expecting, but still manages to squeeze a small amount of substance into a relatively large article. Here's a tl;dr:

- Penrose and Hameroff postulate microtubules might have quantum mechanical behavior in their Orch-OR hypothesis. This hypothesis was refuted by Max Tegmark in the 90s. Penrose doesn't care and keeps preaching his hypothesis, and has not put forth any new scientifically compelling arguments in the past 2 decades.

- Photosynthesis is shown to be quantum mechanical. I'm not sure quantum mechanical behavior in plants is the best argument that quantum mechanics are responsible for consciousness.

- Fischer hypothesizes that phosphate ions in biological cells might exhibit distinctly quantum mechanical behavior, but is wary about any link to "quantum consciousness".

This is pretty much all of the substance of the article.

Even if there were a conclusively demonstrated link between quantum mechanical behavior in human cells (there isn't), using that to argue that our brains are quantum computers and that consciousness is a fundamentally quantum phenomenon would be a huge non sequitur.
> Maybe subsidizing kids to be able to sit with their parents should be considered common decency

Honestly, why? I sat alone on long flights as a kid. I learned to talk to strangers, ask for juice when I wanted it, and get out of my seat when I needed to bug my parents. Today, as a single traveler, I don’t want to subsidise families who wish to travel together and not pay for it.
> However, because of how corporations work, once you've demonstrated proficiency at "junior level work" you move up to the next big challenge. Yes, that sounds pejorative, but coding is not hard compared to the next levels of competency: programming is junior level, software architecture is senior level, product roadmap is staff level, corporate direction is above that.

This viewpoint, that those jobs are harder, is just self-justification (either to themselves or to everyone else) for people higher up that list of their higher pay than those below.

I don't believe those skills are actually harder (nor easier, just different), or that you have to be good, e.g., at programming to be good at corporate direction.

What is, IMO, true, is that those skills do have larger impact (or at least, significantly more obvious impact), which is at least a reasonable justification for higher pay.

But don't pretend that being good at software architecture, corporate direction, etc, means that you're actually smarter than that person who's "just" a programmer.
I don’t initially trust anything on he internet without second source verification. The internet is just one big scam pot today and at the same time, since using it before wide spread public use, I’m fascinated with watching it evolve, devolve since then.
only a few more than the classes it inherits from :)
I know a lot more people who make $11 an hour working 60-80 hours a week than I do engineers.
My daughter had a Snap Circuits Jr electronic Set when she was younger. It's much simpler than an Arduino.
As long as Safari remains the default or very popular, sites will probably have to support it anyway regardless of if other browser engines are available.

There's also some conflict of interest if say Chrome were to come to be the dominant browser on iOS since they also control Android. Would battery life, performance etc be prioritized as highly on iOS as their own platform?

I think it would be nice to be able to load apps from outside the app store especially on devices like the iPad Pro, but I think that's a separate issue from web standards. I think the only practical way to advance web standards is for the major browser vendors to agree and implement them, even if that sometimes takes a while.
What's the problem with a good integrated package manager? I mean, one can choose to not use it. Is it curated single-source libraries ala Boost/Qt you miss, or something else?
Oh no doubt. My magnet school had a graduating class of 40 people. But Bezos didn't go to Exeter.
Windows Tenlemetry
Such a device has been life-changing for my elderly father, who is in constant pain. No malfunctions so far -- don't know the exact product, this is Germany.
Yes, yes it does!
This is neat as long as DC sticks to a policy of open source laws and free access. Github has always done this, but I fear that 50 years from now we could be in a situation like access to case law where you have to pay a third party to read.
This is great, I would also love to see laws have applicable test cases created. For a practical example, in NJ they recently changed gun laws, and they forgot to include an exemption for police officers, so they ended up being restricted by the new laws the same way civilians are. (I really bit my tongue on this, not going to get political, here).

The law should have had a test case created, which would have the equivalent of ensuring that police officers are not in violation of the law, when they are serving active duty, or going home. NJ’s assembly had to rush in some middle of the night legislation to fix this “bug” in the law, that nobody caught.

I would love to see this applied to all laws. As the article states, software and law have a lot in common. Testing should be one of them.
Isn't it more a case that Yahoo! wasn't that discerning?
The game app stores have also driven prices way down from their 'traditional' retail prices. The argument for government remedy has to be based on some kind of actual harm to consumers rather than a feeling that 30% is too damn high.
Unfortunately I think this will only arise if/when we have a major crisis that results in a large amount of Americans being poisoned. We're really, really bad at preventative measures instead opting for short term profit over long term stability and health.

The amount that farms end up poisoning local rivers, streams etc I thought would be enough of a wake up call but I guess I was too optimistic. Organic foods aren't the answer either sadly, since a lot of the time that's the result from unfounded fears.
Posner molecules are not the same as phosphate ions.
> It's called Linux.

It's called GNU/Linux. :-)
It's not just US culture, the Constitution itself prohibits "excessive fines" in the 8th Amendment. The framers were pretty good at predicting future kinds of vigilante justice that people thought up.
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Inferring 3D geometry from 2D data
For anyone interested in the topic, I strongly recommend reading "What Doesn't Kill Us" [1], by Scott Carney. Scott is an investigative journalist who initially planned to debunk Wim Hof's [2] (aka the Iceman) methods, and ended becoming one of Wim's biggest followers, and publishing a NYT best-selling book telling his journey.

It's a fascinating story, and covers a lot of the science behind breathing techniques, how our autoimmune system works, and step-by-step process to take advantage yourself.

ps: if you want a TL;DR, here's an interview [3] with Scott that summarizes the book well.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/What-Doesnt-Kill-Environmental-Condit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof

[3] https://www.dragondoor.com/interview_with_scott_carney_autho...
Introduction to mathematical relations
> Fisher says, if the phosphorus atoms are incorporated into larger objects called "Posner molecules". These are clusters of six phosphate ions, combined with nine calcium ions.
Has anything similar been done for Android phones with google services installed and Chrome browser?
You seem to set income = wealth. The fines are income based, with income scaling with hard work.

That never makes a grocery worker equal a banker, but twice the hours at hourly wage means twice the income, thus twice the fine within income-based systems such as Finland.
That's a colorable argument on a message board, but in court, if intervention is to be premised on harm to consumers through overcharging, Apple's opponents will need to present empirical evidence, not counterfactuals. Be that as it may: all the evidence available to me suggests that mobile app stores have drastically reduced the cost of retail software to consumers.

If anything, what I've seen is the opposite concern, which is that app stores make prices too favorable for consumers, at an untenable cost to the developers.
Apples total lack of PWA support is a real pain. Making a mobile app is 10x the investment of a PWA and most ‘apps’ would be better off as a website. This issue is annoying me more and more lately as Apple simply wants to hold back so many things. All so they can take 30%.
It's a consequence of political collapse, because only a degenerate political system would make the disastrous decision to engage in hyperinflation. But the causality from political collapse to hyperinflation almost always passes through monetary expansion. The only alternative would be for the public to just decide they no longer care about those little pieces of paper, regardless of how many of them there are. But history shows that there is great inertia in this respect, with money continuing to be used even when inflation rates are very high.
Agreed! It's so impressive how hard he worked and what he accomplished by keeping with it for two whole years.
It's entirely possible to never have a life with 3200 sqft. Hobbies needn't be in the home (especially with a social scene like SF), and many have hobbies that never require them to leave their chair. You can cook well with little space (for the past 3 weeks, I've prepared 90+% of my meals in an InstantPot - and they were spectacular).
I’ve a van where I spent months living in it, it felt like heaven! Living room, shower, kitchen, bed and even tiny gym, everything in 6sqm (about 60sqft). I’ve spent quite a lot of time engineering it though.
There are cases in history where records offices were held in rebellion for political purposes. A blockchain would change means of control of records from violence to compute power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Archive_War
That's a nice quote -- I wasn't familiar with Anacharsis, so I read up on him. For what it's worth, considering he came to Athens in 589 BC[0], I think your date of 6 BC is a little off.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacharsis
That's kind of how it landed here.

My old school district has one middle school and one high school, and pushed out the one of the best teachers I've ever had. That said, an organic chemistry class was offered, thanks entirely to the efforts of another great teacher.

I never had any real choices in my grades 6-12 education so, to me, being in a position to choose a school with a curriculum catering to one's interests and talents does seem to be a privilege many people take for granted.
From what I'm reading on Wikipedia it isn't equivalent to being able to memorize information. The skill is limited to being able to recall autobiographical details...so what you had for lunch in 1992 but not what you read in this CS textbook.
How do you disallow ownership of means of production without totalitarianism? Imagine a person has a small auto repair or sewing shop. They will not give up on profit unless you raid them, rinse, repeat.

That's what communism is about and you have to confiscate a lot of pre-existing stuff. Yes you can have hybrid model where you leave a lot of small business around, which is no longer communism as we know it since there's a lot of bourgeois people feeling great compared to workers.
> I wonder if this partly explains why so many people have "gluten intolerance" (many being self-diagnosed). It may not be something inherent to gluten, but rather the way wheat is grown and harvested.

There's a class of carbohydrates called "FODMAP" (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols) that are conjectured to be responsible for a lot of "gluten intolerance". There is some evidence that lower FODMAP intake reduces symptom severity in people with irritable bowel syndrome, and measures taken to cut gluten out of a diet can lead to dramatically lower FODMAP intake. So the basic idea is that a lot of people are successfully self-treating their undiagnosed IBS with a "gluten-free diet" and thus misattributing the problem to gluten.
A Jonathan Lynn irregular verb.
From June/July
Testing requires laws to be defined in a language understandable to machines and to be unambiguous. That’s not gonna happen anytime soon.
Also see the updated text

42 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data

> https://www.karlrupp.net/2018/02/42-years-of-microprocessor-...

from 2018-02.
I think that's even easier to shoulder surf.

Android allows pattern unlocks without showing the pattern as you type it, only on error. That's a good trade off.
Speaking as someone who checks in other kinds of generated code. The tool, like any software, can have bugs/changes in behavior across versions. You don't want to introduce the chance of that happening without being audited in version control if you can easily avoid it.
You have to pay to be in the yellow pages, so that both discourages scammers and provides identity confirmation (bank account or credit card number)
Ask HN: Is HackerNews asking for my location? Why?
I wonder if future famines driven by climate change will be considered "man-made" or not?
When something is useful (even tangentially useful) and free, people tend to claim they love it, often with overly excited statements.

Add a price and then the relationship changes.

Let me put an example:

It is like you go to a restaurant, you like a lot the food, which costed you $20 each for dinner. The value/price ratio is so outstanding and you recommend it to all your friends. Each time you see them.

Now go to the same cozy restaurant and have the exact same food, same service. But this time it costs $60 each. Your value/price ratio worsens a lot, and although the food is still as good, you do not see it the same way. Perhaps the service should be better at this price. Perhaps the food could be better presented. You start questioning. You do not recommend it to all your friends even when everything is equal except price.

With donations you are asking people to willingly change their value/price ratio just for the sake of it, without any kind of coercion such as impending interruption of service (such as an end of trial).

It does not work. It will never work.

Remove donations from your site asap, grow your users and once grown toa sizeable level think about which monetization model makes most sense for your users (i.e. consumers->advertising, businesses->paid subscriptions).
I'm hoping for a single solid study establishing either
A) alternative farming practices that are reasonably efficient and profitable to highlight a way for smaller scale farmers to thrive.
B) the negative health effects of some of these choices in our food supply that causes people to actually get up in arms about it and force some regulation with real teeth.

I can only hope you're wrong and that we don't hit a point of mass poisonings before we do anything but I can very easily see that coming to fruition.
Income does not imply wealth, but wealth does imply income.

Eventually, wealth results in income even for lazy bums. So, you can’t defend income by saying they must work hard as many of the largest incomes have nothing to do with hard work.
I've never seen that. What makes you think it's asking for your location?
Ahhh the old fallacy of "two things we don't understand must be related because we don't understand them!"

See also: eclipses and human sacrifices; planetary orbits and the radii regular polyhedra; even Graham crackers and masturbation.
Fact: A completely coal-fired Tesla releases less emissions than an ICE car.
Lifelong sufferer of various addictions here.
I've kicked most but one thing I want to say is most addicts I've known. (myself included) are so worried about " how they feel"
It's very helpful to an addict to just put those " feelings" aside and get on with your life.
Not trying to sound like Nancy Reagan but stop being such a pussycat and grab ahold of life
Just say no
Edit, your feelings aren't that important.
Get a life,
Without an addiction
> By that standard you could also propose that the poor should be fined even heavier because they are the lazy ones and should get punished for that.

I hope that you also understand how that is absurd on its own, and that I certainly wasn't suggesting this.

However, yes, if we're seeing the entire system (including fining speeding) as a way to adjusting bad behavior, then yes, you could theoretically think of a system that directly punishes laziness.

But, wouldn't such a system already be covered by your salary, which does scale as a result of your work (i.e. you can't improve and risk losing your income entirely if you're lazy, and you're rewarded for productivity)?

> There is no actual reasoning in your arguments why the fines should be the same for everybody,

I stated... somewhere, that the magnitude of your crime does not scale with your income, so scaling the fine that way does not seem logical.

It does serve to make punishments clearer, but it still does not seem logical nor fair to me.

> Some people do not mind a 25€ fine for bad parking because of their wealth so the fine doesn't work on them, while it works on other people.

I will try to put this into a different perspective then:

A person who is 20 years old has more years to spare than one that is 50. Should they therefore get longer jail sentences?

I think that punishment should only consider the crime. Anything else is discrimination. Those with less wealth can buy fewer apples, fewer burgers, and pay for fewer speeding tickets. Such is life.

Fixing differences between wealth becomes an anti-capitalist discussion (which is fun, but a subject for another day).
I don't know how that would work but it's interesting to think about.

I don't think it would be possible if you're depending on a single entity? I don't see a way a provider would be able to prove they are not logging connections, for example.
That’s one of the biggest misconception I’ve experienced with developers. No one cares about whether you ship or not, unless it brings values. Shipping just for the sake of shipping is a fundamental misunderstanding of how a business works.
This seems to be a problem in general when it comes to tutorials/books/lecture material in software engineering.

A large portion of learning material (feels like >95%) caters to beginner or junior level people. Very rarely do you find books or tutorials or material meant for those beyond the junior level.

Even the "advanced" or "intermediate" videos on places like Pluralsight, Lynda, etc feel like it's barely a step above beginner. I don't have much experience with Udacity but I'm guessing it's the same?

It seems, IME, like the only way to learn the intimate/advanced knowledge is to talk to core developers or others who have a similar problem domain.
Hi all, I'm a co-founder of Open Law Library, the non-profit that built the platform DC uses to codify and publish their laws. We were so excited when we saw a member of the public make a PR. I'm happy to answer any questions.
They'll know whether you're using a VPN or tor
There's also the reason of not wanting to generate all the code every single time someone new retrieves the repo or needs to revert back to a previous commit.
Just asked on my PC, I'm on Google Chrome. Never saw that as well, made me curious.
The very first plan, and the one clearly worst-suited for a city with pricy land, needs a $420k/acre.

The next proposal, "low rise" apartment block:

> Let's assume a 6000sf building footprint. This would contain twenty 250sf units per floor, with some shared space. Four stories means eighty units. With 80 units, we have 80 x $10,000=$800,000 budget for land. Our 6000sf building footprint sits on a quarter-acre (10,500sf) of land, so the land costs could be as much as $800,000 X 4=$3.2 million per acre.

And next, the "medium-rise" plan:

> Next, we have a six-story structure, which is about the upper end of the Traditional City or "low-rise" format. We will step up here to a better standard of construction, such as brick or steel-frame, with a cost of $200/sf. This reduces our unit size to a fairly tiny 120 square feet, plus some common areas. Our footprint is still 6000sf, but since the unit size is smaller, we can get 40 units per floor, or 240 units for a six-story building. At $10,000/unit for land, that gives us a budget of $2.4 million for land. We will use more of an "attached" format here, with a little space in the back, or a 7000sf (sixth of an acre) plot. This translates into $2.4m x 6=$14.4 million per acre land and other costs.

The author is saying something about the density required to support affordable housing in San Francisco.
I live comfortably 6 months of the year in a cab-over camper (about 90 square feet). True, I lounge outside a lot reading and working on the computer, but that's still practical in a balcony overlooking a pedestrian street. The other 6 months I live in a 3000 square foot house, and I'm constantly dealing with maintenance and other hassles. A small studio apartment within walking distance to shopping and public transportation would work for me, but not for everyone. Actually, I'd pay $100,000 for such a studio if it were within walking distance of a university.

You don't have to please everyone for this to be viable.
Things I learned from working at Shopify
my recent comments about how important having some systems like this open with self-hosting options for webmasters and user's privacy issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525758

Glad to see this was released and hope some kind of cloud efforts can be used to make it better.