skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've raised over $200M

A proper translation of this lingo is "$50m worth of shares were sold at a price that puts all the shares combined at a price of $1.5B"
Facebook's Bikini App Lawsuit Is Getting Really Ugly
> That’s more a value system, or maybe an ideology, than a religion.

The difference is that the social structure which promotes the value system is valuable in and of itself (this said as someone who grew up religious but is not anymore). A lot of people can't "walk the path" without others to walk with them.

The only issue is that sometimes that social structure has downsides like occasionally becoming politically charged, self-serving or abusive.
In addition to making me a better worker, my ADHD meds also make me a better father, allow me to follow through on hobby projects, and other non-"cog" pursuits. I also started and ran my own business for a while. And my current workplace is about as un-factory-like as they come.
Regardless of PHP's warts, Composer is definitely something worth emulating.
Wages:

Houston wages [1].
SF wages [2].

Rents:

Houston rents [3].
SF rents [4].
San Jose rents [5].

Land Area:

Houston wiki [6].
Bay Area wiki [7].

> What is "Land area" defined as

The total geographic area as defined by the city or region's CSA.

> what does it include relating to uninhabitable/unusable space?

Examines land area without regard for zoning or habitability.

> Is average a mean or median wage?

Average means average. Mean.

> What are the rates of poverty in both regions?

Irrelevant.

> What the hell is an "elite of the world" defined as?

Don't know that's why I requested more information from the OP.

1. https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/occupationalemploymentandwages_houston.htm
2. https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/occupationalemploymentandwages_sanfrancisco.htm
3. https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/tx/houston/
4. https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-francisco/
5. https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/santa-clara-county/san-jose/
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston#Metropolitan_Statistical_Area
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
shopping is making material sacrifices on the altar of the Self. How is buying some designer nonsense at 1000% markup to appease your ego much different from sacrificing a prize animal to appease an external God? Neither are likely to actually help you in return.
>> Whose job is it/should it be to get that infrastructure built?

> The new residents

Surely it's not their sole responsibility. New residents boost the local economy, so the old residents benefit.
I just utilized my SMTP-based global communications network.
That would be a pretty wise business move. Offering that as a benefit of migrating to AWS DB services could sway people to make the move.
Market-rate rents are driven by young, above-median workers - a young software engineer in SF probably earns significantly more than a young professional in the energy industry in Houston.
it's funny to see this observation here. HN is one of the worse places for scientism. Having an argument? Drop a citation to NIH. Doesn't matter that neither of you read the paper, the title loosely alludes to your point so you win.
http://rebl.cognitect.com/download.html
Agreed, this really is the last thing holding me back from going all out on Lambda.
I've at times felt resentment towards my baby boomer/hippy parents for spoiling me and failing to teach me discipline, which I've had to learn in adulthood at what I imagine is a steeper opportunity cost than if I had learned discipline as a child.

But on the other hand, I'm sympathetic to their impulse to reject the parenting styles of their parents. My father's father beat him brutally throughout his childhood. My mother's mother would shame her relentlessly for any slight failure to comply to her will, even well past childhood - when she earned her PhD, despite her mother's wishes for her to instead become an MD, after 7 hard years of working on her dissertation her mother's 'congratulatory' card ended with "I'll still pay for you to go to medical school" (and she had not helped her pay for graduate school).

They rejected the cruelty of their parents world, but gained a false optimism from the progressive, high growth times of the 60s through 90s, and failed to prepare me for the real world which is still plenty cruel.
Hillary Clinton Says Europe Must ‘Get a Handle’ on Migration to Thwart Populism
>I would welcome new developments in page rank like algos

PageRank-like algorithms are not the solution, they are the problem. They reward popularity with more popularity, enabling viral content, encouraging stuff like link spam and outrage click-bait. Worst of all, they normalized the idea that what you see in search results (and later - timelines, feeds) shouldn't be based on your query and author's page content, but rather on what everyone else wants to see.
Part of the problem is that while Houston is more "livable" by the metrics you quote, it is much less so by other measures. The climate isn't good. The gulf coast isn't appealing the same way the cali coast is. If you really are in the "global elite", you can choose to live a ton of places with more natural beauty, better climate, more significant cultural and art events, etc. - basically by definition. So why wouldn't you?

I like the city, lots of good stuff there. It has essentially nothing bounding growth, and that helps keep real estate and rent down I suspect.

The "elites" like demonstrating that fact by collecting scarcity. There really isn't much to be had in Houston from a real estate point of view; there isn't even much in the way of fancy neighborhoods. I mean, they exist but they aren't anything special. Partially perhaps because the whole area is pretty homogeneous, there isn't a part of it that is clearly advantageous in the same way, say, NYC, SF, LA, Chicago has. I suspect this is self fulfilling .
While the rich own multiple houses in the same street or zipcode.
Only with Javascript can a project that's a scant three years old from its first ever commit be called a "relic". :-)
it is quite possible that some differences in neurodevelopment between boys and girls can be accounted for by differences in how others interact with them as boys and girls, e.g. what they are punished or not punished for doing, how much self control or aggression they are expected or permitted to express, and so on. those are hypotheses, of course, but the brain is plastic, and environmental inputs really do matter.
this is what I like to do too.... it's quite nice for learning languages.

Not quite sure what language I'm going to do this year though
I can't speak for others, but my family history is full of people who ran from the law, got knocked up too young (or knocked someone else up at a young age), got involved in the use and/or selling of drugs, and faced difficulties because of impulsive behaviors that were probably related to undiagnosed to ADHD.

None of my generation, many of who have been treated for ADHD since childhood have had problems with the law or been/got anyone teen pregnant so far. I don't think they do hard drugs either. Progress!
I appreciate your reply, but starting a message with advice instead of understanding leaves me wondering if you're more interested in being an advice dispenser than understanding where I'm coming from and then giving advice.

Forgive my reaction, my family is adept at that very thing: pretending to listen then dispensing the advice they think will fix you and your problems; I've now realized that empathy means simply listening actively, and generally the complainer will come to the correct conclusion on their own, they just need a willful listening ear.

At least, I've never been genuinely convinced I was in the wrong unless someone first recognized my pains then gave advice or I noticed someone else's example. My entire life has constituted shame-based discipline, and not even the direct "you're stupid for doing x thing" but "she's your mother, she brought you into this world." Like, yeah, but that doesn't help me not be upset, and I may have even agreed at the time but the point is my emotions are high and ignoring my feelings leaves me subconsciously believing that my emotional being is wrong or unimportant.

tl;dr I'm a big boy, I can get over it but understand me before giving advice
Yes, but in addition to that are impact fees for development. That's specifically designed to cover the build up of additional infrastructure necessary to support the buildings being added. But there are loopholes that developers like to use to avoid them, and cities willing to look the other way. I don't blame the developers for wanting to avoid the fees, that's just good business sense.

I do blame the city for being willing to look the other way and enabling it.
Thats what I have heard the Chinese companies do, just drive around with a van full of batteries.
I took a mini-bus while I was in Bangkok to go to a nearby beach area and the driver was literally doing both. He had his headphones on and was simul-watching YouTube videos and talking about them over the phone with what we guessed was his girlfriend. I was almost equal parts horrified/afraid for my life and amazed that he was able to successfully weave through traffic while doing it.
Oliver Twist's England, surely, where children are pressed into service in dangerous factories that can severe limbs and kill, for mere pennies a day?

Otherwise, we definitely agree. We are fallen creatures and will drive earth to hell, regardless of which car we decide to drive there in. Only external help can save us from ourselves.
Why would they line up for them, though? The only time I can remember that was for Windows XP. Most companies use O365, which keeps the office desktop clients up to date, and when people buy a laptop it has Windows 10 on it.
Why didn't they just run EventBus storage and serving layers on the same machine if they wanted to get better resource utilization?
Are there “unexpected benefits”?
Then you can lose precision that you might actually need - a bug that's even more annoying to track down than straight overflow.
Like you I was schooled at a time when ADHD wasn't something teachers were trained to look for, which meant I wasn't diagnosed until I was well into adulthood. Once I actually got treatment it turned my entire life around. I mourn for the years that I lost. I'm certain that there are times when it is over-diagnosed but ADHD is absolutely a real thing. No amount of stimulation, schooling, or parenting can fix a person who has it.
Ignoring the basic int type and using a zoo of preprocessor defines instead is what has worked for C all that time.

But I still think that native types have their place. It can often be quite reasonable to accept serious limitations on narrow machines where the performance gains won by the trade-off are desperately needed, lift those limitations on wider machines and grant an enormous safety margin on the widest architectures. When you dive deeper, the values where this makes sense still tend to be "index-like", as GP stated, but they don't have to strictly be indexes (e.g. IDs, a wider machine will be capable of working on bigger datasets and therefore be more likely to exhaust a given width of IDs, all indexes are identifiers but not all identifiers are indexes)
From my comment:

> But these stats don't capture how many of the 97% hated commuting by car but had to
I vaguely remember something from last year or the year before one of them was pretty quick because I could just ask wolfram alpha to solve it:)
>made miserable by the conflict between her desire for an exciting life and her desire for a stable life.

I think this perennial human conflict raises its head in this post and discussion. It seems that how it presents itself in peoples lives depends on personality, upbringing, culture of influence etc. However, I get the sense that its a real thing in most cultures but with varying degrees of mutuality between 'adventure' and 'stability'.
Being a cop in NYC is statistically not very dangerous. Sanitation workers also put their lives on the line. And have more deaths.
Xilinx FPGAs: The Chip Behind Alibaba's Singles Day
It's ironic from a language that invented gofmt...
Battery Park City was built on landfill using material from the World Trade Center.
I was actually serious.
I'd go a step further and say that we've replaced traditional religion with consumption, or more specifically consumerism. Most of the art produced in antiquity existed within the framework of religion, now it's advertising.

I think it's important to subscribe to some kind of overall framework with a worldview and community. We're hard wired for it and if you don't choose it, then consumerism will fill that vacuum and you will find yourself ensnared in mindless consumption.

I have an 80 year old aunt who is a nun who I consider to be one of the wisest people I know. I'm not religious and I have frank and honest discussions with her about religion and philosophy, completely free from judgement. Once we were sharing a drink at a family event and I asked her something to the extent of "at what point did you find yourself?". She replied that she's still finding herself will continue as long as she's alive.
7:40 in that stretch, which is the only place that slows down. Hopefully they'll be done with Willow and the bike bridge soon.
Vajont Dam
Burned bottles of bleach? This seems like a bit of an over reaction, no? Bleach is relatively benign and decomposes pretty quickly with heat.

I'd say the burnt plastic is probably more a risk, but there is plenty of that all over the US.
It took me all of two hours to get suspend, the only missing feature out of the box, working for me.

Whereas no amount of effort can decrapify the adware in Windows.
This is a path one can choose. Another is to rediscover the childlike wonderment by becoming a keen observer of nature. It strips away the ego.

We do not really invent anything. We mimic nature. All our Mathematics, Science and Technology already exists. Our egos are unjustified.

Just pay attention to who is actually driving your car or riding your motorcycle. You will realise that it is not the conscious you. There certainly is an autonomous supercomputer in our brains. Can we control it?

The best data storage mechanism known to us is the DNA. No SSD comes close. We haven't even really figured out how our brains really store "videos" and "images".

Also pay attention to things like premonition. I have had it. Most of us have had these experiences. Talk to people about these. There is no scientific explanation for these experiences.

We are connected to everything else. Our lives in isolation have no meaning.
CloudWatch is an awful tool to have to use
Uh, despite what you have heard about the ACA (obamacare) it actually did do a number of good things. One of which is limit total yearly out of pocket. So if you have insurance (no matter how bad) your max out of pocket is capped.

For 2018 the individual limit was $7350,

https://obamacarefacts.com/health-insurance/out-of-pocket-ma...

Which granted is a _LOT_ if your making $30k a year, but its not the instant bankruptcy many people discovered themselves in after situations like yours where the out of pocket for "good insurance" could easily go over $100k for fairly limited hospital says.
> Sometimes your kid will only eat sugary cereals for breakfast

Present healthy food. Vary it day over day in case they really do have some strong dislike for something. If they don't eat it, they weren't very hungry. They will eat cereal every time you give it to them, no matter how hungry they are, which is part of the problem. Do not feed them crap because "that's all they'll eat".
I don't blame you, that's a really long drive to do twice a day, any way you slice it.

I was trying to come up with analogous commutes in other areas, but even Everett to Seattle is "only" 34 miles.

I wouldn't recommend a >40mi car commute in any populated area, frankly. If you're not coming from a busy area or going to a busy area, you're at least traversing a busy area, and in this case you're talking about all 3. I'm not sure what you're expecting out of that kind of distance. Even at 2am you're probably talking at least 45 minutes by the time you get out of the city and get off the freeway into your destination.

When I think "bad traffic", I think of low average speeds, not just long commutes with a few bottlenecks.
IBM was acquired by a consulting firm (effectively, the other way around technically) and began to optimize for short term gain over long term gain. IBM still has developed a lot of technology (they can coast on old patents), but their ability to develop new technology is quickly eroding as they realize they can’t insource everything to India.
I have heard nothing but horror stories trying to get XCode, or a real Unix-like environment, or Docker, actually running in a way that kinda-sorta emulates production environments
The Complete and Utter History of Britain
I think the exciting thing is the datafy protocol, not necessarily this particular viewer. What he demoed seemed much more like a proof-of-concept. Like he said, he's excited to see what the Clojurescript community comes up with, and so am I. I might take a shot at building a browser in Emacs, though that takes away some more dynamic display opportunities.
Marsh, 7:35, to Winchester in SJ.
Honestly, for everything we are currently running on Lambda. At the moment we are using the Node.js runtime with Typescript.

We use both Lambda for data processing on incoming IoT events, and also for API interactions with our user, along with services to send mails and SMS, etc.

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I would just want to use the robustness and correctness that I'm able to ensure with Haskell, compare to TypeScript, and especially bundling quirks with Webpack and NPM.

An example of an easy thing to let through is missing an _await_ on a call (might be for logging or something else), which means it'll go out-of-band, and can then easily not be run during the execution, if you have disabled waiting for the event loop to be done (which is necessary in many cases for global setup optimizations).

The call might then finish when the lambda function is thawed, but it might also never run, because the function gets collected.

Now, admittedly, this is not a big issue in any way, but it's the death by a thousand papercuts that I'd like to avoid.
I fundamentally agree with your message (and, as an atheist, try to live it as well as I can), but I don't see why you need religion to propagate it.

Then again, perhaps religion is just helpful here in the sense that people -- especially those going through emotional/existential crises -- might find it easier to climb out of a hole with dogma as a guide rather than rational thought.
Probably more dangerous than the software developers.
> if you're fighting over peoples' minds, and using factually true information, then what is the problem? That sounds like logical persuasion to me.

The problem is that facts are almost entirely irrelevant in this fight. For most humans, truth only matters where the impact of being wrong is immediately and painfully visible. In all other cases, beliefs are primarily social objects - means for maintaining relationships with people, participating in groups, and signalling values[0]. Beyond false information, a lot of words are put on-line to mess up with people's epistemology - the framework we use to determine what beliefs are accurate. The most visible result is people ignoring facts staring them in the face, having a million excuses to believe what they want to believe.

You can't win a war with facts, when people don't agree on the most basic concept that facts should determine their beliefs.

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[0] - If you don't believe this, consider all the many little things that you know your family & friends are wrong about, but that you deemed not important enough to correct those people on.
Relevant Dustin Moskovitz tweet about valuation vs revenue https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1068184742762229761
Maybe just use a real IDE? Not sure why so many developers insist on hampering themselves for no good reason.
There's definitely something to this. We HN readers see the occasional article about the crisis of reproducibility in science, which leads to some thoughtful discussion about the trustworthiness of the phrase "studies have shown," especially when it conflicts with one's own common sense.

Sadly, this reflection is quickly forgotten.
I work in SJ, so I take 85 and 280.
The implication that all people of a certain group behave and desire a certain thing is obviously false, especially when the group is as large as half the population.

Furthermore, even if it is true for a wide swath of the group, that does not mean it should not be criticized and torn apart for the assumptions that it rests on. A lot of people of both genders internalize negative messages about themselves and operate as though they are more fundamental truths.

Often, seeing them successfully challenged is what allows a person to grow and live a happier life.

The person in the original article believes, at least on some level, that her value as a person is tied to her attractiveness and thus her age. Clearly a lot of others in society believe that too. It's still harmful to her and often them as well and it is a misogynist belief. Simply because a lot of people believe it and operate on that assumption does not mean everyone does, and it does not mean that doing so is beneficial.
But how, how? I wouldn't be able to bring myself to say something that I knew to be strictly inaccurate. Even if you are talking to beginners, don't you owe it to them to say only things that you believe to be true? There are lots of ways to put it differently so that it wouldn't be so outrageously inaccurate and so that, if you are a beginner, more senior developers don't laugh at you if you repeat those things.
On a personal level I find detachment and neutrality to be helpful for reducing anxiety and stress, but on a societal level it sounds like a recipe for mass complacency in the face of oppression.
There's a perverse incentive in that, considering that the people who want houses with gardens have them already, and the developers are making a request to build apartments, i.e. if you destroy local public transportation, you will make it more expensive to build apartments in the neighborhood.
yes, yes they do.
French tobacco shops will sell Bitcoin and Ethereum starting January 2019
There have been 1,543,530,695,158 milliseconds since epoch.
32 bit ARM is still very common.
> $150 less per month

Are you considering the $.50 average cost per mile from car travel -- gasoline, maintenance, insurance?
Mom: Airline agent mocked 5-year-old girl’s ‘Abcde’ name
>Sometimes they are actively used against you

Absolutely. I've termed this emotional gaslighting, where I'm frustrated about something and bring it up and the family member I'm frustrated with deflects or points the finger right back at me as if they're the ones that were frustrated all along. This leaves me doubting my frustration as if my feelings weren't ever valid at all, which I suspect had a huge hand in my intense anxiety that I've fortunately largely overcome.
When I saw the word Kafka in relation to Twitter, I immediately thought about Twitter's recent changes to their terms of service [0] which polices language used on the platform.

"Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-language writer whose surreal fiction vividly expressed the anxiety, alienation, and powerlessness of the individual in the 20th century. Kafka's work is characterized by nightmarish settings in which characters are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority. Thus, the word Kafkaesque is often applied to bizarre and impersonal administrative situations where the individual feels powerless to understand or control what is happening." [1]

[0] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kafkaesque