skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. I live in a city with a ton of old freestanding houses that were built around 1900, and they're incredibly sturdy. You can see this all throughout the construction:

The frames are built from really thick wooden beams that can take a beating. I had a large tree fall on my house earlier this year, and the trunk bounced/slid off, doing only superficial damage to the roof and siding; I talked to multiple contractors and insurance people who said a newer house built using modern construction standards would've been flattened, or at least suffered serious structural damage.

Things like windows are built to last too. The original wooden sash cord designs are still functioning 100+ years after they were built, with the exception of a couple windows that needed the cords replaced, but that's relatively cheap and easy. I expect the same windows will continue to work another 100 years as long as they're cared for and maintained.

This isn't about "the democratization of luxury", as another commenter suggested. Cheap construction costs more in the long term. This is about a cultural shift toward favoring short-term over long-term thinking. Long-lasting wood sash cord windows would not be expensive to build in this day and age, and they could be quite energy efficient too with modern glass and weather stripping, but people don't think or care about the long term the way they used to, and so they'd would rather settle for cheap, shiny vinyl windows that yellow and crack and fall apart in a matter of decades.
>Banks are going to have to decide whether they want to raise their rates to compete, or face bleeding customers.

I'm sure the big boy banks are here stay. Most of them are in the category of, "too big to fail" (as the crisis a decade ago highlighted) and upstarts like Robinhood are but a blip-in-the-radar than a real threat to the established players, imo.
I don't doubt it, but that doesn't change the basic analysis. If prices are too low to live on, that means supply is too high. Restaurants try to stave off the inevitable by underpaying their staff, but in the long run, a shortage of staff is not going to save their business.

And honestly, if people can afford to pay sky high San Francisco prices for everything else, they can also afford to pay them in restaurants.
I recall it being 15% 20 years ago, but yes, I never give more than 15% for regular service since it’s already inflation adjusted.
I didn't spend much time looking at it, but to me the code looks more like C than C++ lol

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/incl...
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/kern...

Even things like SpinLock, which I was expecting to use class for RAII, looks like it was implemented using C, then with a C++ wrapper:
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/incl...

So to me (I'm no C/C++/Kernel/etc. expert) it looks like they are writing the kernel mostly in C, with C++ goodies sprinkled in some places, where it's useful (ie: RAII for spinlock guard)
It's hard for humans to understand that people not in their tribe have rich inner lives or can be self-aware, let alone animals. We're wired to believe almost anything if our interest depends on it. We have an interest in pillaging other tribes and eating other animals, so it's easy to convince ourselves that they are non-player characters. It makes doing those things more pleasant.
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Anecdata but now seems relevant after reading this. And this is from 2013/2014. I visited SV on business trips and was boarding in downtown San Jose for a week or two on each trip.

I was always surprised that the waiting staff would actually stand with me and engage in conversation while I queued up to be seated. Travelling from the U.K. I had never experienced this level of "niceness ?"

Later I was educated that they are basically only earning anything meaningful from the tips. The wages were puny and they were increasing their chances of getting relevant tips by being so nice.

Things have gotten worse I believe.
> There is no employee shortage, ever. Just a shortage of businesses owners who are willing to pay market rate for labor.

What business owners are willing to pay IS the market rate.
These crooks are worrying, that with demand for oil dropping in the near future, they'll be left with tons of cheap oil that no one will need. So in their greed they are ramping up efforts to profit from their oil now, before prices will plummet. It's also the same reason they rushed to reverse oil conservation limitations, and drill now more than ever. As usual, their mentality is "rip off everything now, and don't care about any future outcome it will cause".

There should be stronger push back to stop them in their tracks before they do more damage than they already have done.
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Was that them being terrible at math, or them covering their eyes and singing "lalalala" to pretend the math didn't exist?
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What part of "China is introducing Glyphosate MRLs" is pseudoscience, specifically? And for that matter, what part isn't a fact?
Yep, mostly these things get decided in a court where the regulations get interpreted by expert witnesses, scrutinized by lawyers, prosecutors, judges, etc. Those interpretations can change over time, can be challenged in supreme courts, are clarified, etc.

In this case you are interpreting the text of the law against a changed context (computers now exist) and making a judgement that "using a computer to sell stuff does not matter". There are a lot of not quite experts making similar value judgments about crypto stuff lately.

So, this stuff is anything but black and white. Hence there are perfectly legal business operating in the US doing stuff with blockchains, crypto currencies, etc. that are so far not ending up in trouble over what they are doing and seemingly complying with however today's SEC chooses to interpret what they are doing. They might change their mind of course over time.

If you are running a business doing this kind of stuff, the SEC is just one of many authorities you have to deal with. We've had some fun navigating the legal jungle that is the EU where each state has its own regulatory bodies, rules, practices, and politicians. The thinking on how to apply their laws is highly fluid. Right now, if you talk to two lawyers about anything crypto, you can get two completely different interpretations. Mostly they have a hard time understanding this stuff period.
There are many places that I didn’t mention. And I did forget HN, to be honest. But you’re right — what I said applies to any long form and/or thoughtful/useful content, even on HN.
San Fransisco is the most shocking city I've visited, in the world, in terms of wealth inequality. It felt a few small steps from being a distopia. Homeless people and drug addicts staggering around and shitting in the street a few hundred meters from high end boutiques with armed guards that 99% of the population could never afford to buy anything from.
As a small business owner, I'm sometime feel emotionally paralyzed to raise prices.
> Romania is probably the only country in EU that is moving back

Poland and Hungary are teetering while Austria, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France grapple with varieties of fascist and neo-Nazi ascdendancy.
Nevertheless, topologically superior to having the parking surrounding the building as a surface lot.
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It is obviously each person's preference, but I especially hate non-reproducible, context dependent bugs. I think having a reproducible, consistent runs is key to having nice software that everyone enjoys developing.

In this light, I find the tty decision particularly bad, as it is very prone to introducing subtle changes -- for example, do you need the special flag for "git log"? what about "git for-each-ref"? what about "ls"? what about "gcc"?

For this reason, I find it way easier to just ban "sh" outright altogether. Our organization policy say "do not use sh module". When new member joins, and they way to shell stuff out, they will find out that they need to use subprocess module, grumble a bit, search the web, but then produce a working, if verbose, code.

An alternative would be to say: You can use sh, but never use it as sh's own front page recommends. If you find an article on the web which mentions sh, be aware that you cannot just copy-paste code from it, as it can be broken depending on which command you run. You need to audit which command you run to see if it cares about tty. Currently, you have to include the flag for many (but not all) git subcommands, "ls", "apt", ... but that list can change at anytime.

> i know i've been happy it's there and used it in a few projects with good success, particularly projects that need exactly that: replace a shell and have the terminal passed down correctly.

You have been lucky so far, but every time you use "sh" you are walking on landmines. I can give you a ton of plausible examples where sh breaks. Here is a shell replacement gone wrong:

$ git show HEAD | wc
49 273 2202
$ python3 -c 'import sh; print(sh.wc(sh.git.show("HEAD")))'
19 97 812

edit: have you seen "subprocess.run" in python 3.5 [0]? It gives nice all-in-one API, with readable options like `check=True' or `capture_stdout=True`

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess...
can you give a inside view into whats going on?
GDPR’s investigation and mediation sections were broadly written. Whenever I brought this up, it was thrown down with variants of “you’re American; European governments can be trusted to be nice.”
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> I don't remember last time the airport didn't provide a unlimited free wifi.

I think you’re finally right.

The NYC airports finally rolled it out.... 2 months ago
> "A judge just blocked another effort to raise wages for restaurant workers in DC"

What a dishonest article. It's not an effort to raise wages - it's an effort to raise minimum wage. You may have different opinions about how it will affect actual wages, whether it will actually increase them or not - because being put out of a job is a 0$ wage.

But either way, even if you think that raising minimum wage WILL result in higher wages, you still have to admit that these things are still different and require some arguments to link them together. Silently misplacing one for the other, as if this assumption is so self-evident, is nothing but propaganda.
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Restaurants already run on extremely thin margins. Raising waiter's pay would mean raising meal prices, as you say. That raises the cost of living for everyone who eats out. Maybe service staff shouldn't ever eat out, but what happens when the same issue hits grocery store workers, and the stores either raise food costs or shut down?

It is not a viable policy to legislate raised wages, and then legislate even higher wages when the cost of living increases in turn. The money actually has to come from somewhere. Businesses will raise prices to the point the market will bear, for both the lower and upper class. This is the fundamental issue with wage hikes. $15 is not more than $10 if everything costs 1.5x more after wage increases. Deregulated markets are able to (and have in the US up to this point) create more material wealth for everyone even as wages stay stagnant in dollar value.

The problem is not greedy businesses. They want workers who they can hire for wages they can afford. Due to inflated housing prices, the cost of living is too high for workers to live in the city, and thus the "living wage" is unaffordable for businesses. Why are the housing costs so high? There's a lot of evidence that zoning laws and regulated markets play a large role[0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/09/30/the-verdi...
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As someone with limited investment experience, what's a more normal strategy? Highest cost basis first? What are the pros/cons?
...which is appropriate when "risk-free" government bonds hover near zero percent.

The US 10-year is on the other hand is near 3%.
I never implied that. Stupidity has nothing to do with the inertia that comes with big organizations and institutions.

Of course they're greedy, but sometimes it's easier and more "natural" to make more money by rising fees, as opposed to deeply changing a modus operandi.
While that is a valid concern about the abuse of such technology, I couldn't see that ever happening if just because it would generate far too many false positives to render the technology useful (not to mention that most police forces in the world are under funded so they're not going to be the slightest bit interested in people walking past a house).

This kind of alerting is a bit like any of the automated alarms we have in IT (be it Nagios, CloudWatch, or whatever). They're necessary to tell us when things have gone wrong if they go off too frequently then they'll just get ignored.

In fact there was a parable about this as well, called "The boy who cried wolf".
Not necessarily: prices can rise. I've seen first hand how many things increased prices in the last few years, and is all most likely a consequence of rent.

All in all, for a city that has an annual budget of 11 billion dollars, the city is a mess, and times of plenty beget times of crisis. At some point even people with RC will leave the city, and the downturn will not be negotiable.
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PDF is an unusual format in the sense that it had a rather specific thing it tried to do and then it achieved that goal, so that it could be considered "done", but the product it was most associated with, Acrobat, tried to expand still.

PDF has the semantics of a digital print that is resolution-independent and supports copypaste and search (mostly by mapping glyphs back to text).

In addition to resolution independence being something that's higher-level than strictly "digital print", being able to capture transparency is such a higher-level feature.

From the above perspective, PDF peaked in 1.4 when it got transparency support. Supporting roughly the PDF 1.4 feature set was that allowed the Mac Preview app be good enough for Mac users so that Apple could stop bundling Acrobat Reader with Macs.

After 1.4, PDF has gotten better compression algorithms that don't really change what the format is about. PDF/A and PDF/X fit well the notion of PDF as "digital print".

But Adobe has been trying to leverage Acrobat/PDF to other areas that don't fit the notion of "digital print". These include pre-Macromedia acquisition attempts to make PDFs a more dynamic platform and later inclusion of 3D models in PDFs. Other PDF viewers still work for users most of the time without this stuff, which is a signal of what PDF really is to users ("digital print").

(Filling in paper-like forms, while not true to the notion that PDF is a final-form format sort of make sense from the point of view of digital paper, though.)
So you're perfectly willing to shit on service industry workers - what happens when the service industry is priced out? Are you ok with what happens then?
Is the effect of this limited to domestic industry, or does it affect Australians working abroad? Can the Australian government ask a citizen working abroad to spy on their foreign employer, and threaten them with imprisonment if they return without doing so?
You can't just make a central decision about it and pretend that people will follow. How tip works is a custom, and it's a product of tradition, game theory and human psychology. There are no laws that require customers to leave tips.
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It's slightly above the best nationally available current rates (2.5% APY -- https://www.fragiledeal.com/t/best-nationally-available-high... ).

It will be interesting to see if they

* maintain a 0.5% spread above the best nationally available rate as rates rise elsewhere as an ongoing customer-acquisition cost

* just stick to 3% even as other banks raise their rates higher over time, assuming that 3% is good enough and their product is sticky enough that people won't move
That distinction is irrelevant to the current discussion if the outcome of both scenarios is 'unmathy'
Businesses can always raise prices to cover higher costs. If they can’t, they’re not viable in the first place.

Individuals on the other hand can’t generally just will more money into existence to cover higher housing costs.
I’m not sure how old you are or where you’re from, but I haven’t heard of 10% being an acceptable tip since maybe the 80s (70s) anywhere except rural areas.

20 years ago, it was definitely 15% minimum, but somewhere between 15% and 20% was very common (mandatory large party tip was usually 18%).

Regardless, you are correct that the expected percentage has gone up over time, and that a non-tipper or low-tipper is hurting the wait staff when they don’t leave a standard tip.
Sometimes it’s free for their “diamond members” or whatever, but not for random consumers.
You can't really have a discussion by everyone posting on a separate site.

So I guess it boils down to whether things you type on HN are discussion or 'content'.
Digg was just a copy of Fark with a better UI.
The city could start by eliminating the sales tax and pile it on property taxes: it immediately increases worker wages, and lowers the value of properties in one go, affecting mostly those that do not consume in the city at all.
I always loved the "Watercolor" theme from the beta. I was a Mac user and installed the Kaleidoscope knockoff of it
For anyone wanting to build their own blog and start publishing content, what do you think is the best way to gain traffic? Just share it everywhere and hope it grows or perhaps use a dual Medium+self-hosted thing? (for a time being)

I'm in the process of doing that, and oh man the amount of minute details that I have had to solve just to get things running. Granted, I did it the hard way building everything from scratch with Gatsby but I guess it was sort of an experiment too, so the time wasn't necessarily wasted. Recently I started fiddling with the OG tags, JSON-LD etc, and that was a quite tedious task. Hope it's all good now.
What does clang do?
what does your data look like? say, i looking for journalists about 'fish' or something similar, can you provide a sample of what the output might look like? it can be blury or whatever
Thank you for calling this out for what it is. This isn't free wifi. People may believe it should be free or may feel that it's unethical to charge additional fees for access (or even to ever charge for Internet access)—I won't wade into that argument—but taking something by force (whether physical or virtual) isn't the same as it being free.

Edit: Hell, just call it "liberated" wifi ;-)
No, according to this the fire broke out in the coal storage. It's not referring to the furnace.
Yes! I'm pretty sure it was based off of Sitchin's translations of the tablets, and David was looking for the alien race that created the human hybrids (us). It's actually very close to the Adam and Eve story, like how the flood tale in the tablets mirror the Great Flood in the Bible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin
I agree. Tipping is now approaching 20-25% in my Canadian city, it's adding on so much cost to going out. It's about time to rationalize this space and get some better models.
Yeah, they got bought by Sony to become a first party developer and share their code with other devs, necessitating the switch to C++.
That makes no sense. "We have a perennial shortage of workers. Our pay is fair though."

No, a market needs two sides and equilibrium, no different to a business owner having a hard time reselling Apple computers at say 30% over retail.

It's not a unilateral decree, fiat. If people are available and not willing to work for you for what you offer, it is inherently NOT the market rate.
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I don't disagree with you. However, though I've always been a die-hard Windows fan I thought OS X had much more beautiful icons that were essentially high-res images of what they represented.

Of course, the difference is that these are illustrations so I still have an appreciation for these.
So what does that mean here? Are you saying that the part of your money that the bank uses to invest, is not insured? If so, then what does the insurance for the remainder even mean? Money that the bank doesn't touch doesn't need to be insured, because it's always there. The whole point of such an insurance is to reimburse you in case the bank loses your money due to their bad investment. If that's not covered but only the part that they never touch, then the whole insurance becomes meaningless.

I still suspect that the securities mentioned are your own securities rather than the bank's, which makes it totally sensible that they're not covered by the insurance.
Prop 13. They can't just increase property taxes.
Can Medium function as a funnel to your CMS? I assume there's nothing preventing a company or individual publishing on more than one place. Post to Medium with links back to your CMS. Blurbs, teasers, full articles - whatever suits your content and goals.

My point: it doesn't have to be an XOR choice.
Because HN is learning some bad habits from its mother site with regards to the purpose of votes.
I went from drinking 2-3 cups of coffee everyday to stopping cold turkey 3 weeks ago. Big headache for ~48 hours but now feel fine. Biggest benefit for me is just feeling much less dehydrated - I don't think I was drinking nearly enough water to counter the diuretic effects of caffeine.
The last 10 years of seeing Academia decide what is a valid has convinced me Academia has limited weight in the real world.

Don't sweat their opinion, Industry drives the world.
I don’t think anyone has designed a pure cargo craft and then tacked on crew capability. The requirements for a crew are so big (you need a substantial pressurized volume, life support, the ability to renter and land, etc.) that I don’t think it would be practical.
I agree that science is more than just making falsifiable claims, but I don't think that's a fair characterization of Popper. From what I understand of Popper's philosophy (not having read his work first-hand), science is the development and refinement of theories that produce falsifiable claims. That already disqualifies astrology, and we could certainly add more criteria. But I don't think "shown to be correct" should be one because it's impossible in general, which is what inspired the falsifiability criterion in the first place.
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I remember using custom themes for XP back in the day. I think tornado5 was my favorite themer, his "Luna Element" and "Ambient" themes were pretty kickass. Unfortunately it looks like his deviantart account is deactivated, but there is plenty of screenshots around the web still.
I have some idea. I think the force of impact would be between 1 Newton and 10 Newton. That's saying the mass involved is between 0.001 g (typical mass of an ant) and 0.0001 g (because I don't know how much of the ant's actual mass is involved). The paper cites 10^6 g as roughly the top acceleration, which yields roughly between 1 N and 10 N of force. That's roughly between the weight of an apple and a 1 kg object. So, not much.