skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect a big part of the tragedy of the Challenger was a breaking of the "futuristic utopia" myth that many had in their minds at the time. A lot of it has disappeared in the last 20 years (or at least moved over to the singularity/AI myth), but back then things like the L5 Society [1] were popular, and you couldn't read Popular Mechanics without some sort of story about moon/mars bases.

In short, people wanted to believe that we could just go into space and leave all the problems we had and mistakes we made on earth behind. It was a sort-of "salvation". The Challenger was a poignant reminder that this was not the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Space_Society
I wonder how you would determine this, given that free parking is a substantial sunk cost which would otherwise discourage car ownership in favor of fewer vehicles or other modes?

I grew up in Texas and saw what seemed to be a substantial over-supply of parking.
I have everything in Fidelity which seems like it has the same benefits as Schwab, but also with the trading availability and zero fee index accounts (not sure if Schwab has this too).

I had simple for a while and the UI was great, app is best of the ones I've seen but they never had anything else (they recently created a savings account) and no checks got annoying to deal with.

My Bank of the future would have these features:

- Full brokerage account with available trading and zero fee index funds

- Free checks

- Free wiring/ability to send money to other people's bank accounts

- Really good app (like simple's)

- Decent interest like Robinhood has here without having to separate things into a savings account

- No fees

- Credit card to rival Chase Sapphire Reserve or AMEX Platinum with tightly coupled integration into the existing app software.

- All ATMs are free (rarely use, but nice to have and Fidelity does it).

- Ability to get loans

Fidelity has nearly all of these things with some negatives:

- App is not that great/UI is bad

- Their credit card is bad and not well integrated into their software

- Interest is poor

Haven is a new startup that's has a pretty cool approach to helping people do the optimal thing with their money (like an automated r/personalfinance), but I'd rather just be able to do it directly with the people holding the money.
Not my thing (to live there permanently) but I know people who like the desert Southwest. Outside the fairly uninteresting cities--Vegas is a lot more than the Strip but it's mostly generic sprawl IMO--there are a lot of interesting National Parks, mountains, etc. Also a lot of people like to golf and that's big there. And if you want to travel a lot, there's a major airport.
Pretty much any modern C# editor tooling will do this as well. People want tools to show scope even if they use a brace-y language.
Snapchat Strategy for Affiliate Marketing
Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
My Win10 PC sometimes wakes up in the night to complete an update and reboot. My working sessions are lost as a consequence. And since my PC reboots to Linux it stays up until I wake up due to the humming. Quite annoying.

This morning I researched a way to turn off these forced updates but Win10 wouldn't let me apply the option without entering some obscure credentials that I don't know.
Crazy that people are just finding this out. They've done this to three major groups of people.
> literally every single bank would already be doing it.

Your typical bank has far more than RobinHood's 300 employees, and far greater expenses in general.

This is an example of a disruption.
What lie are you referring to?
So while housing supply versus demand is what people focus on, the social problem here (people feel like you can only live in SF if you work in tech, and high-paying tech at that) is coming from a weird sort of income inequality.

Can you demonstrate that? San Francisco is more distinct from other municipalities for its poor housing policy, than for the presence and density of highly paid professionals.

The rest of your comment flows from this idea, that the presence of certain kind of people and what they make for a living is something under the control of policy makers. This seems like a strange idea in a country with unrestricted freedom of movement and a basically free market economy.

It is striking that you are willing to operate with the idea that policy makers could have that kind of power, while not approaching the problem from areas where they so clearly do have power: public transit and housing policy.
From the article, "The Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China heard evidence in public in London on 8-10 December. A seven strong panel questioned 30 witnesses, including refugees from China, doctors, and investigators.". Clearly, solid and irrefutable conclusions on such a serious matter only need 3 days of hearing from 30 witnesses.
> Access this article for 1 day for: £23 / $37 / €30 (inc. VAT)

That's one pricey paywall. For a PDF that's apparently slightly over one page.
It would definitely be a tough project--but here in the USA we have PACER, so in theory it could be done. I'm not sure about New Zealand, though.
Yes! If you join the F# Software Foundation[0] (100% free, no obligation to donate anything, etc.) you get access to a rather active slack.

[0]: http://foundation.fsharp.org/membership
Rather, why there should be more humanities / liberal arts outreach (and funding), so that STEM majors are more likely to have access to, engage with, and fall in love with them.

I understand the impulse behind such comments, but making something "required" is generally a poor way to get people to love or appreciate something. (Think of all the people who "hate mathematics".) In education, often the system is broken, good instructors are to find, etc. (Consider Lockhart's Lament, and its generalization: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=410.) We see this in politics too (I don't mean just electoral politics, but e.g. open-source communities with codes of conduct etc), where even simple basic human kindness, when made mandatory, often seems to provoke backlash. We can't require people to be nice, and we can't require people to appreciate the humanities. We have to do the hard work of gently persuading.
FYI, before a December 12 edit on Wikipedia, it was listed as a vegetable. Vandalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onion&type=revisi...

Apparently a fruit is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds--not a bulb like an onion.
The costly journey of returned goods means big business for some
Lyft is becoming a one-stop transportation app in 3 cities
Physical retailers can thrive again by using AI
China is losing its taste for nuclear power
Yeah, I kind of conflated my anecdote with the reference in support of my anecdote. I'll have to see if I can dig up more data on this.

As for population, you have to be careful with the statistics on this because, while the area did lose population since the 70s, there was also a lot of flight from the city to the suburbs over the same time period. So, it is often more instructive to look at the total population of western NY instead of just the city of Buffalo.
I really like the EDX Harvard CS50 course. It takes someone from near-zero computer knowledge up through algorithms, C-weirdness, through basic web-application development.

16ish weeks of content (It's an actual college class) but completely free. It has a high production value and tons of support/ease of use too, with it's own custom in-browser IDE.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/
What enrages me most is the fact that they ask us to f* pay for it!

The implicit deal with Facebook, Google and other free services is that you pay them with their data. Fine.

But paying for being spied on? This is scam pure and simple.
Underground parking structures cost something on the order of 5x as much as aboveground parking structures.

And aboveground parking structures are already ungodly expensive. One example given from The High Cost Of Free Parking (which is an amazing book that everyone should read, or at least read a summary of) looked at a study of parking facilities and found that the amortized per-parking spot cost of building an above-ground parking facility, including construction, maintenance, and staffing, was $120,000 per spot. 5x that and you're looking at half a mil per spot for undergrounding it.

Would you, personally, pay an additional $400,000 to put that parking underground? Do you think you could convince every single person in that housing complex to do that? I highly doubt it. If that apartment complex was condos, eg, it's likely in that case that each condo unit would be cheaper than the parking spot for it (keeping in mind that, given it's Texas, most units would probably have 2 or maybe even 3 parking spots).

Even if you could actually get everyone on board to spend so much, you'd be so dramatically increasing the unit cost of housing in that facility that you'd start getting all the typical gentrification problems. Your typical middle class family can't afford an extra 1/2 million dollars on their mortgage, so if you add that extra 1/2 mil the only way you're getting paying customers is to target the luxury top of the market.

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Pre-emptive rebuttal: one might say "well, if each parking spot already costs $120k, that argument applies just as well to the existing parking facility". I agree! Mandatory parking minima are an ungodly expensive tax on our society. If parking costs could be fully internalized and then each individual resident was presented with the option to forego the parking spot in exchange for taking that much off of their mortgage, I suspect that a _lot_ of them would forego the parking spot. But, by law, they are not allowed that option.

This is doubly perverse when you realize that the cost of providing 2 marginal parking spots at an apartment complex is significantly _more_ expensive than the cost of providing 2 marginal parking spots at (eg) a suburban single family home, and yet the people who live in an apartment complex are significantly more likely to have good access to mass transit and so they're being made to pay much much more for something that they need somewhat less than the average perosn
Yep that's a good play, but their page says that the 3% can change depending on the market. So if that percent changes a few months after you create an account, I would bet many people would leave cause of the bait and switch.
The FCC is legally required to pay attention to the public comments before enacting a major policy change. It's essentially identity fraud to an official government entity.

To quote the dissenting opinion - "roughly half a million comments were filed from Russian e-mail addresses.
Something here is rotten".

If this happened in an election, there would be rioting in the streets. This is blatant interference.
Hm, come to think of it, I guess I was programming in python at the time. The internets say that wget doesn't support range requests and while curl's manpage says --range works, it doesn't work for me.
Yea. My thinking on it is that you would just mark it for paying to sequester CO2 at the tax rate and any leftover goes as a straight per adult tax credit (i.e. you can lower the tax you pay with it).
ah the good ol reddi.. err HN hug of death
I don't see a problem with the 1+5 style. I think the street level retail is important for making the area seem lively especially if they are built near the caltrain station "downtowns" like Palo Alto, Mountain View or Sunnyvale. I certainly prefer this style to gated or enclosed apartment communities style.

The best style I saw was in Northern Virginia where around every DC metro station was a cluster of high rise apartments, high rise offices and malls with regular suburb once you walk a couple of blocks away.
U.S. perspective, writing this.

I find this is an area where a "moral decision" is rather clear-cut.

And it highlights the... "amorality", at best, of much of our relationship (whether speaking at the personal level or the state/economy level) with contemporary China.

With our technology, we've enabled and empowered a political and economic structure that has not... "sorted its shit" as part of achieving same. Simultaneously, we've hollowed out our own system -- the checks and balances, as well as raw job counts.

The U.S. is far from perfect. Nonetheless, literally, physically "ripping the life" from one person, as a judgement, to benefit another. That is some symbolism. And a hallmark of what our own society has at least publicly considered to be "dystopia".

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P.S. I responded to a reply with the following, but the child comment was deleted before I finished. It was a more than fair point about what happens (over here), and the opportunity for response allowed me to better qualify the... "us versus them" -- or perhaps lack of a "versus" -- present in my original comment. So, copy/pasta of that reply of mine:

My "the U.S. is far from perfect" is an understatement -- one I worried about. I agree with your point, and I find the behaviors you point out abhorrent. Prison for profit; Econ. 101 teaches you what you're going to get from that.

The U.S. has, however, been pretty aggressive in regulating organ transplants. When they happen. How limited, hopefully ethical, supplies are distributed.

Of course, over this hangs the spectre of economic disparity, corresponding health insurance disparity and health care access...

Yes, the U.S. is making plenty of life-altering, life-destroying decisions. The "death panels" that actually exist but don't make it into the political discussion (i.e. not the ginned up political phantoms).

And, some of those disparities seem to have been severely exacerbated, domestically -- progress actively reversed -- through off-shoring, outsourcing, and the winner-take-all, short-term reward.

As I grow more depressed writing this, well, at least we aren't ripping out "prisoners'" organs -- yet.

(We go overseas and buy nice foreigners' kidneys, for that.)
Maybe my standards are just very low, but I have had a fairly consistent experience of getting decent second infusions out of fairly pedestrian teas. Maybe the timing has an impact on this, I rarely let my tea sit for more than 60-90 seconds, unless it's Oolong.
AFAIK, PDF is mostly a container for PS with compression and better handling of fonts (BTW, can fonts be embedded in PS? How fonts are sent to printer?).

Still, both formats are too much printing-oriented. Reading documentation in PDF on computer screen is not especially pleasant, and unbearable on phones.
That's one thing I don't understand.

I can get 3000+ views pretty easily on a blog I haven't put much work in. (More like 30,000 or 50,000 if the post connects with people)

Somebody pushed me to put a post on Medium where it got 20 views.

I hear from people who are excited that they post to Medium and they get 60 views -- they think that is a lot but I think they are ignorant about what is possible.

So far as I can tell, Medium has tried to create a brand for blog posts that are a little bit better an average but really the posts there are a little bit worse than average. It seems like a ghetto for clickbait headlines that would appeal to HN readers but when you read the articles they are at best thinly sliced salami which doesn't satisfy.
That's higher than index funds returns as of late.
I imagine that the demographic they are supposedly going after for debit cards is the same demographic that takes advantage of great credit card deals. I don't see debit cards becoming fashionable as the go-to charge card for reasonably well-off millennials that are eligible for great credit cards. Those that aren't eligible for these credit cards likely have inconsequential amounts of savings anyway...
Not rumors, judging by the contents of this article.
My experience with Azure and AWS is that it takes quite a bit longer than 2 seconds before a new server is up.
The GP was talking about going to grad school after finishing an undergrad in a different country; you're discussing getting a job without a degree.

All either of these anecdotes illustrate is it really depends on the circumstances.
Thomas Sowell's book Discrimination and Disparities discusses discrimination and has made me reconsider what is actually happening in the type of scenario you describe.

I highly recommend it.
> The stock market is a closed system that currencies feed into

Currencies feed into the stock market, but it's not a closed system. If you think a company is undervalued in the stock market, and you buy shares, that raises the price of shares for that company. With a higher share price, that company can borrow money (by issuing shares) at better terms, and spend that money on growing more than they could have if they had not borrowed that money.

If the stock price is too low, the company may buy back shares of its own stock (thus enabling future borrowing). Alternatively, investors may buy up a majority of the stock of that company, thus acquiring control of that company, and either try to force the company to do a thing they expect to be profitable, or liquidate the assets of the company (which will then be distributed to shareholders in proportion to how many shares they hold).

So basically the stock market moves money to the companies based on how effectively they could spend borrowed money / how valuable they would be if liquidated.
Google copied blocked headlines across Geos (UK->NZ) they have no journalists to inform.

They could fight the politics of GEO blocking, but that has nothing to do with detecting it and honoring it (while hopefully disclosing the blocking is happening.)

(They did not have to understand why UK news was blocking NZ users, they just had to either decide how they would detect it or to only serve NZ content.)
> "Dollars are created via lending...."

while this is somewhat true, i really dislike this perspective. dollars are created from--and first and foremost, represents--labor. whenever i work, i create something of value, and to trade that value for something else of value, i use money to abstract my labor into a uniform medium that is universally recognized and easily tradeable.

it is not some central bank granting me value via a loan, it's my labor granting value to the money.
I registered for this and I am in line. To get prior access. I am asked to refer my friends.

Just wondering how robinhood shows all my friends though I have not connected robinhood to any of my social network. I feel this as a big privacy issue and it’s concerning a lot.
Presentation slides (pdf) from Hot Chips 2018 (tape out): http://www.hotchips.org/hc30/1conf/1.03_Berkeley_BROOM_HC30....
Cover your windows with 60" 4K monitors.
Well, this does require copying-and-pasting the entire GUI script, so I wouldn't exactly say this takes less than 5 minutes if you're writing that stuff from scratch
Wow, I couldnt imagine more than 3 stories without an elevator. Just think of groceries, wet shoes, heading outside then realizing you forgot your sunglasses, etc.
I feel like I haven't seen appreciably high interest rates from the fed since the 90s. It feels like we're in a boom right now like in the dot com era, so I'd like to see rates in the 3-5%+ range so they have room to take the brakes off in a recession.

The real problem to me though is that the fed interest rate no longer reflect reality. Who cares if it's 2% when people are paying 15-30% on their credit cards. If we really wanted to help the middle class, we should tie bank and credit card interest rates to a maximum multiplier, say no greater than 2:1 or something for secured debt, and 4:1 or something for unsecured debt. So a mortgage could only be 5% if the fed rate is 2.5% and a credit card could only be 20% if the fed rate is 5%.
Spelling corrections, factual accuracy corrections that kinda thing needs the ability to be edited.

Using HN to publish "lasting value" content isn't the same as publishing a book where likely you'd work with an editor to reach the final error free imprint. Even an e-book can be updated to allow corrections, and future print editions can be published with corrections or an errata.

After a certain time limit you can't even add a new reply to your own "lasting value" post that could contain these types of changes.
The word "substantial" is very vague and a bad sign for any scientific and evidence-based publication.

Then, when such news show up while Trump is trying to make his deal with the Chinese and (it seems) even got a hostage recently, this makes me feel a bit suspicious of this article, especially since its content is pay-walled.

(I'm not defending organ-harvesting, which was already reported in the past, but the article must be specific about what has or has not happened, and should not use such vague statements.)
Why you're not losing weight
Being local can be the best selling point. There's 1000s of lawyers in the country, but only those living nearby will come to your office on short notice in an emergency.

I know a single-person IT company. He does helpdesk and server work. And has to drive by his customers' office to fix a printer or install a replacement part. His website is more or less a business card. Content marketing, or advertising outside his city makes no sense for him. Instead calling up companies locally and word-of-month.
There is also libui: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
> "According to the reports, political prisoners, mainly Falun Gong practitioners, are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients."

Wild... I had no idea this was going on. There are a lot of things about China that I disagree with, but this might be the worst thing I've heard so far.
I would be happy to see some Verizon executives land in the pokey, among other things.

Unfortunately, one of them is on course to be the next Attorney General.

Enough to give pause for a moment of thought.
It sounds like they've got a plan up their sleeves for their own grocery delivery system.
wow...

“During the 2000s, analysis of various sources of emerging
evidence led to the conclusion that people who practised Falun
Gong were being killed to provide the organs fuelling China’s
transplant boom.
“It is common for Chinese transplant professionals to parrot the
Communist Party line saying that those who have been speaking
out . . . have a ‘political agenda.’”
In 2006 a whistleblower claimed that more than 4000 Falun
Gong practitioners had been killed for their organs at the hospital
in China where she worked. Subsequent independent
investigators, including David Kilgour, former Canadian
secretary of state for the Asia-Pacific, David Matas, an
international human rights lawyer, and the investigative
journalist Ethan Gutmann, have concluded that such practices
occurred
Ask HN: Has Facebook 'Download your information' become very slow?
I requested a copy of my facebook data to be downloaded on December 2nd. The status page still says my download is pending. Did anyone else face this issue?

I downloaded my information previously in a couple of instances and it was very fast then.
Come on, it’s not just a “tool.” It radically changes privacy because of the scale. A human can only scan and accurately identify so many pictures manually with their eyes. I don’t necessarily disagree with the use of technology, but let’s be honest, it’s a dramatic shift.
‘Ask me anything’ with Scott Guthrie [video]
Me: Presses doorbell button

Ring: Please provide a valid email address to continue.

Me: Turns to leave

Ring: Sorry we missed you! Please state your reason for visit and someone will reach out to you. Please provide a valid email address to continue.

Ring: Warning! This entry attempt have been recorded. An unauthorized entry attempt will be reported to the cloud and local law enforcment.
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