skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is it possible that we could be looking at a scenario where people being unable to find another affordable home is linked to lots of other people having affordable homes that they can't afford to leave?"

You can certainly argue that rent-regulation (fun fact: virtually no NYC apartments are rent controlled, but ~50% are rent-regulated, which is very different) disfavors newcomers. This is what the article actually argues, and I don't really dispute the premise (though the magnitude of the impact is certainly up for debate).

Here's the thing: if you're going to argue that this is bad for everyone, you've got to do better than make some hand-wavy assertion that new people can benefit more from slightly cheaper units than the old people benefit from their existing, below-market rents.

Basically, this argument always boils down to new people complaining about old people.
The same is true for the US response to Japan's invasion of Mongolia and Japan's response to the US response. If any step along the way had been different the outcome would have likely been as well.

An important point here is that it's much harder to find a clear starting point of WWII from a Japanese perspective. The whole thing pretty much was a mess starting with Commodore Perry's arrival.
Why mobile developers should pay attention to Flutter in 2019
Some methods but not others. Specifically, I can call built-in methods, but not methods I define. For example:

>>> def f(self):
... return self
...
>>> (3).f
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'f'
We've been using Gobble and we really like it. Usually the 4-year-old can't/won't eat it, but at least my wife and I don't have to worry about what to make for dinner 3 times a week. The food is really tasty, simple to make, one pan and takes around 30 minutes (not the 15 minutes that they advertise, but still ok.)
For better or for worse, a lot of those less-good parts of his public life are public, and made public by him.

That's not accidental.
I'm an academic, actually an applied mathematician. I agree with much of your sentiment -- it is absolutely a privilege, to the extent of being self-indulgent, to be able to spend time thinking about the things I want to. It is in some ways a rather selfish thing to do. Can I take a job that pays more? Absolutely. Would my family benefit from that? Maybe. But I'm fortunate to be paid enough for what I do. And I do hope whatever work I do -- research, teaching, even admin -- leaves the world a little richer in some ways, regardless of whether it's "useful."

(Tangentially, whether a particular piece of knowledge is eventually found to be "useful" or not doesn't seem to have much to do with the intention or motivation of the person pursuing it. Also, I don't know there's much social status that comes from being an academic mathematician these days: other than 1 or 2 of my elderly neighbors, no one seems to think it's a big deal, least of all my students and other academics.)
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Yeah, including rebrandings seems like a way to pad the list. Equating rebrand with kill is a bit much.
because Alexa knows that there a is thing called "peanut butter" and you most probably meant that. I think Humans too behave in a similar fashion. If you are dictating a shopping list to a person who has never heard of "peanut butter" would most likely raise a question and ask you to spell it.
Skylab was 77 tons and launched on a single Saturn V. The ISS is 420 tons and took, among other things, 27 space shuttle launches to put together[1].

So to a first approximation the ISS could have been over 2000 tons if NASA had just stuck with and scaled up the Saturn V architecture, which history has shown was both more capable and cheaper.

So no, the Shuttle isn't what allowed us to construct the ISS. Except in the narrow sense that the better launch vehicle had been cancelled, so it was the only project left to do the job.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_International_...
> https://morningchores.com/free-land/

Even free real-estate has its drawbacks.
On that note, I wonder why no one has tried to do packaging right, like really right, and then make it avaialble as a system for multiple languages. Someone should get on that. And I don't mean yum/apt/etc I mean like a universal package format for programming language packages with all the best bells and whistles, so fledgling languages can have a mature package system at their inception by simply linking with a C API.
That's not the whole picture. Before he learned to be more careful, Silver was calling Trump a troll, doomed to fail, who wasn't even trying to win.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-winning...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-the-wor...
Strong opinions usually come from a lack of experience.
Welcome to the reality. Typically, the criminals are caught with lots of items, and there's theft and possession of stolen property. Or if they are stopped, they are also carrying drugs and they'll get charged with that.

Edit: Also, its not so easy to sell a bunch of random things for the cash. For every iphone that might get you a 100 or so in one transaction, there's a bunch of random things that you might get you $20 if you spend a day trying sell them.
I'm sure most people wouldn't want that of you either, just happens that you have accomplished much less than Musk
That's a long form of what I most often hear: "pass by value of reference"

But in any case, that's the point that made me go wtf while reading through as well. Whatever you want to call it, it's the same as what C (when not passing pointers), Java, PHP, Javascript, and many many other languages use.

Which is why it's so frustrating we don't have a good, easily-understood/well-known name for it.
This is near causing dissonance for me. I'm certain I had seen a version of his where he did use recursion. Rereading, you are definitely correct that he doesn't.

I know he has program in one of his books where he uses recursion to print the contents of a tree. Maybe I was just confusing that. (Don't have my books handy.)

That said, this is definitely going to make me study those programs more. Hilarious how off I was in my memory.

(The use of goto statements like he does in the main routine cracks me up, btw. Curious to know if these made a measured difference. With Knuth, I would assume so.)
> Stop relying on frameworks for your careers sake.

Or Stop relying on HR people for your careers sake

Hint: there are technically better ways to get into company. In my last six jobs/gigs I talked to target team/management guys first. HR was only there to complete the paperwork.
I was also thinking about this. Identifying glitter could be an interesting product, because it's so hard to get rid of all of it. ex, you could embed short DNA plasmid UUIDs in the plastic.
They are there to separate fools from fool's money. Eventually they run out of fools that have money, which is why all of them if they do go public will become penny stocks.
I think Amazon shod follow the law and only sell things which are legal. There are grey areas like "supplements". I imagine they would make a decision based on risk factors.

That said, I think Amazon can decide whether or not to carry a whole category. Sears Catalogs used to sell guns. Congress passed laws and now sales would have to pass muster. But that's altogether different from selling or not selling a service to someone because you think they are "good" or "bad" or you agree or disagree with their point of view.

To me, Patreon is providing financial services, so I think this judgement is not in their purview in the same way Amazon should not judge who is buying or selling on their platform/services. It's none of their business. Is their business legitimate. That's about it.
I do this with a patio box, but added a door sensor that transmits to our alarm/home automation system and triggers a recording from the camera aimed at that area and a push notification to my phone. UPS is good at putting packages in the box. On good days, FedEx might get them in the vicinity of the porch.
Do you have dates for those quotes? I suspect many (if not all of them) refer to pre-nomination model. Silver explicitly addressed how he messed up the primary model by not trusting the numbers in his 18 May 2016 blog post "How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump: Trump’s nomination shows the need for a more rigorous approach."

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pund...
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Love how the "Getting Started" to Wolkenkit doesn't even have any tangible code until page 3. If your quick start guide can't even get to the point until halfway down the page, I'm gonna bet that your framework isn't very user-friendly.

Also, can anyone tell me what this even does? I've been clicking around and besides a bunch of vapid "philosophy" documents I can't figure out what the fuck anyone would use this for...
Wow the video codec just doesn't know what to do with that much glitter, does it.
One of the best kept secrets in the hedge fund/financial industry is that most people really dont have a clue what they are doing. Sure they make bold predictions, appear on CNBC and use industry jargon. But at the end of the day, they arent much better than you or me at managing large amounts of money.
Could it be worth considering that those benefiting from rent-regulation (control or stabilization) might also benefit from being able to find a new place at a similar price? I can see it being useful leverage to get a landlord to fix something, or to move closer to an aging family member, or find additional space at a reasonable rate for a new baby.

It seems to me that having the option to move might benefit a wide variety of people in diverse life situations. I would love to hear if I've overlooked something!
My local trail building and mountain bike advocacy group.
I was going to mention this too. Absurd broker fees in NYC are a major disincentive for me to move to a new apartment. I calculate my rent by amortizing the broker fee across the months I live in the apartment. The longer I live in a place, the cheaper it gets.
Scaling Christmas
Bankruptcy judge grants a 59-year-old debtor partial discharge of student loans
So how are Amazon and Google going to deal with this with their corporate expansions?
I didn't see that on MDN but would be cool. I get 'abc'.reverse() exception that it is not a function.
My guess is that in pre-technological times, you were sticking your neck out when you criticised something.

Saying "XYZ" is great is just an expression of wanting to fit in with the group, and doesn't require explanation.

Saying "XYZ" is awful is probably hurtful to someone nearby, and you're going to have to think about what exactly is bad about it. And not only is it bad, it's so bad you are willing to risk the happy consensus in order to help the group.

Of course things that worked in small, close groups might be gamed in larger, more loose ones...
> An interesting article, but I don't agree with the author's conclusion that rent control is worse than the California-style alternative. Is San Francisco currently better off than New York? No rent control there, and prices are even higher than NYC.

We have rent control on units occupied before Costa-Hawkins went into effect (1995 I believe). SF builds very very few units per year, so this covers a very high percentage of the units in the city.
And even with a rigid structure they only work for common cases. Using Siri in Italian and trying to get an English album playing is night impossible and vice versa.
See, it depends how charitable you want to be to the author, because I read that in a bit of a joking tone.
I don't have a map of the water, but I'd wager they are doing far better than those on land. For a few reasons.

1) radiation is heavy, so it sinks, but slow enough that the water would disperse it quickly.

2) Water is a FANTASTIC radiation shield. See above as well as any nuclear reactor.

3) The main concern are the bone seekers (isotopes that deposit within bones). Which have short half lives and aren't absorbed well. A rough number (towards upper bound) is that a fish eating it (directly it) would absorb 10% of it. A fish eating that fish would absorb 10% of that, and so on. And there wasn't much of those isotopes released in the disaster in the first place. So combine that with the good mixing from ocean currents and I'd say fine.

I would happily eat tuna caught in Japan.

Side note: short half-lives generally equate to more danger. That's because they are releasing their energy at a much faster rate (typically). Long half lives generally means they are decaying slowly (otherwise it'd be gone). I know this makes sense, but we frequently think the opposite. That isn't to say that you shouldn't be wary of long half life materials, but that the dangers are different. Radiation is a fairly complicated subject (unsurprisingly).
For me, the siren call of Python was the supposed "elegance" (executable pseudo code!). But then you have these horrible non-composing list comprehensions (compared to say Ruby where the chain just flows from left to right instead of getting more and more nested), and that god awful "self" and "__init__" cruft. It just seems like a poorly designed (and/or evolved?) language.

It'd be nice if something else would carry the torch for nice AI library wrapper language...that alone is the only thing that can tempt me touch it.
> Why should a private company be required to support a cause they dissagree with?

You mean like making a cake for a same-sex wedding?
This is one of the psychology results that failed to replicate [1] in the replication crisis [2].

[1]: Artificial surveillance cues do not increase generosity: two meta-analyses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Yup, and after that, he issued a complete mea culpa and made it a point to look at the actual data.
FWIW, I was paying $1900 for a studio in SF in 2010. You've got to go back quite a bit farther than 6 years for $1500 to be a typical price for a decent 1 bedroom.
They don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the porch, where it was placed. The criminal act which they performed caused themselves to be recorded in a place where they might expect privacy, so I don't think they would have a valid complaint against the package owner.
Not OP but I think the intent here was something analogous to credit card churning but for the bank accounts, e.g. join for 60 days, get the sign-up bonus, immediately move the money elsewhere, rinse and repeat.
This is why I don't insure my personal property. The probability of theft * the amount of payout will unlikely exceed the cost of insurance.

Generally, unless you know more then the insurer about your risk factors, and can afford to eat the loss, you should be self-insuring your stuff.
I don't see how. An editor can help you get indentations that are syntactically valid, but can't possibly know if the programmer intends the program below to print plain "foo" or both "foo" and "bar".

print("foo")
# x is false for the problem
if x:
do_something()

print("bar")

And to the parent who has written a lot of code but never had this problem, well, some people do.
Yes, a lot of people won't see your comments since the default is NOT to show the dead ones, and I have to "vouch" for your comments to be able to reply.
As others have said, there's the pluralization of "peanut[s]" to distinguish between the two. This is a useful feature of English: the adjective-like role of a noun in a complex noun phrase is (almost?) always singular.

- Computer engineer
- NOT computers* engineer

- Toothbrush
- NOT teethbrush*

- Foot doctor
- NOT feet* doctor

- Alarm clock
- NOT alarms* clock, even when it supports multiple alarms!

Additionally, there's phrasal intonation. If the intonation and stress decrease throughout the phrase, it's a single item. If the intonation and stress reset for "butter," then it's a new item.

- 'PEA ,Nut but ter
- 'PEA nut 'BUT ter
From what I read when the firm launched, I thought this operation would behave like a traditional market making desk, profiting from spreads and hedging aggressively. If anything volatility would help P&L, but I guess there just isn’t enough volume or liquid crypto derivatives to hedge effectively.
All of the things you named have the same effect: Making the rental market less dynamic. They all probably have a synergistic effect on making it harder to move, which adds to the vicious cycle.
I think the issue is that the article is called "Reasons Python Sucks" rather than "Things I Hate About Python". It comes off as the author saying that these things are objectively bad about python even though many of them are clearly subjective.
Great point. You do definitely ingest water when surfing. Weighting still applies, but you get a high weighting (because everything is now soft tissue). But also, you are right about the water mixing (and also being a good rad shield). To make any accurate statements we'd need a map similar to the land one that I posted, but in the ocean. I have yet to find such a good map.
Yes, "useless" seems the wrong sort of term. Memorizing stats regarding my favorite videogame is pretty useless. But, certain sources of knowledge that do not directly translate to food and shelter turn out be greatly advance the human race, such as the presocratics positing an unchanging law governing reality which eventually led to modern science.

What is actually meant is trying to understand useful phenomena at a higher abstract level, or asking significant questions, i.e. what is the largest number? that lead to deeper insights into reality.
Ask the DA to charge the package thief for wiretapping if they move the package to a private area and record a third party :-P
>Stable communities and households with deep roots in communities are, in many ways, desirable.

One sentence ascribed to the intangible quality of life benefits of a stable community. A single sentence, with not even an attempt to quantify the positive effects of stability on living standards, even life expectancy.

https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-...
“Remember, bubbles happen around things that fundamentally change the way we live,” he said.

Ah yes, I remember how beanie babies changed the way we all lived. And tulips, of course. And rhodium?

Hmm.
Till they grab a asteroid made of diamonds
Java primitives (short, float, double, etc...) are copied to the calling function, but arrays and objects are passed by reference. This is easier to explain in a language like C++, which can do either:

// Java always does these:
void f(Object& o) { ... } // passes objects by reference
void g(double x) { ... } // primitives are copied

// Java can not do these:
void p(Object o) { ... } // copy of the object
void q(double& x) { ... } // reference to primitive

CPython always passes by reference (pointer), and a C extension can break the rules and modify the otherwise immutable types (int, float, complex, string, etc...).

You can squint and say everything is pass-by-value because you can always pass pointers, but then we're really losing any meaningful definitions for what semantics we're describing. I mean, it's all pass-be-electron if you dive deeply enough.
Another symptom of the old media death spiral is an unrelenting stream of attacks on the “enemy”, mostly Facebook and other platforms that remove their gatekeeper status and push the value of data (articles) to zero.

For instance right now on HN there is a NYT article about a journalist quitting Facebook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706254

Definitely a non-story but old media will use any chance it can get to tarnish internet brands.
The thieves are the ones bringing the camera into their privacy zone, not the person who made the package. The thief, in committing the theft, explicitly consented to taking an unknown item into their possession.
You have no expectation of privacy in your actions on someone else’s porch where you’re visible from the street.
>I have personally struggled with domain complexity in C# that i was able to model precisely in F# and have it work perfectly on the first try.

If you're willing to provide a (simplified) example I would be very interested.
This is the sort of binary differentiation that has led to countless services being discounted on virtually identical criteria. AWS, for instance.

But it isn't so simple. I live in Canada and have used a couples of services and currently and semi-regular with makegoodfood (which I assume is very similar to Blue Apron). I'm a pretty decent cook and baker, have all of the cookware, and go to the grocery store relatively regularly, but still I make use of it because it isn't simply that they give me ingredients.

I like their menu. They constantly surprise me with good meals with great ingredients. Things that I would have never, in a million years, have chosen on my own. And the recipes (and thus, the meted out ingredients) have been almost perfect. This is a far cry from finding recipes online and replicating them -- this food vendor has been completely incentivized to make their creations perfect, versus recipe sites like AllRecipe where it's just user contributions, often with shockingly bad errors in some top recipes (pancakes with 3 1/2 tablespoons of baking powder to 1 1/2 cups of flour? Give me a break... 4.5 stars)

Cost wise there is no way I could go to the grocery store and buy the ingredients for less. I should say that I get the 4 meal versions (so the shipping is less a component of the price), but to get all of the often odd spices, small amounts of various things like odd ciders, vinegar, etc, it would be very pricey to replicate. Cooking interesting meals is expensive because you can't buy exactly what you need for most things. Not to mention that it wouldn't just be time consuming trying to find every oddball ingredient, it's stressful too. But every couple of weeks I get a box with very, very high quality meats, fish, perfectly portioned out spices and ingredients. It's so much nicer.

This is a bit like the "cloud server" versus "your own raw metal" discussions. In the end many underestimate the advantages of the former, and grossly underestimate the cost and inconvenience of the latter.
Really cool! If you enjoy this sort of thing then I'd recommend looking at https://microcorruption.com.
I've, frankly, done that many times at this point... when your merge request gets too wonky, it's just easier. I do try to remember to squash, then rebase generally, though there are times I just forget or mess up.
I can't seem to do anything for fun anymore
To be frank, I had to read it a couple times before parsing "Place in Bench - Code 1234" as "Delivery person, please put this parcel inside the bench, using the code 1234". We expect addresses to be data, not executable code.
Asking the right questions however is a matter of technical skill and no discipline will teach you how to better dissect a problem in smaller problems than math and a scientist will always be better at asking questions than non-technical folks ;-)

My experience from leading both engineering and product teams is that this is mostly wrong.

If it's product/market fit you're worried about, then the problem of asking the right questions is not a hard-skills problem. It's domain expertise and communication skill. Knowing what an S-expression is or POSIX internals won't make you better at any of those things. Working on your soft skills will.
Plus, if you are going to bring the BFR online with much lower launch costs, you want people to start thinking about that reality sooner rather that later. SpaceX will have lots of their own satellites to launch, but if they are hoping to do a launch or more a day they will need to have a lot more people putting things into space. A lower price now can jumpstart lots of money into building businesses that with need those lower prices.